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Michael Collins demos award-winning demo production voice actor websites dot com where your voiceover website won't be a pain in the butt and voiceover extra your daily resource for Vio success and Now live from their super secret multimedia studio in Sherman Oats, California Here are George Wittem and Dan Leonard Hey Guess what time for voiceover body shop great to have everybody here Laurie Allen will join us in a in a couple of minutes and Be exciting talking to her got lots of stuff coming up tonight But first need to pay tribute to a friend of mine who passed away this morning. I think he could you there? She is all tank. She was a great little dog, but yeah unfortunate accident this week And oh Sad it's always sad losing your pets, but she was a favorite around the studio here absolutely now She's got a nice open field to run in and run and run and run but thanks for being with us all those great years tank Anyway tonight where you know if you've got a question for Laurie Allen Throw it in the chat room because we want to we want you to ask questions You do it in Facebook live if you're watching us there or if you're on v obs.tv You can do it over there that two of them going there both being monitored live By Mike here in the studio. Yeah, yeah, and it's great to be back because we've been off for a couple of weeks But you guys are watching the replays and we really appreciate that but let's introduce our guest because she's the one We really want to talk to Laurie Allen is a She is a well-known voice in in a lot of different things and with with live Screen action and stuff, but let's take a look at what you're probably really familiar with Okay, you you can read the next one No, you can't know you okay? Okay? Okay? Well, let's let's read it both together. Okay? Okay?  Nothing I do is working sure it is girl. Look at all the hip young people eating salads No, don't you get it? I've been trying to get fired since day one if I can't have you back here Are those my daughter's toys? Come on buddy, let's go. We're leaving I feel so strange But hey, you're not gonna throw up by it. What is it? What was wrong? Oh Read read well as far as to love your color guarantee if I don't love it. I get another color free. I'm thinking for this You're real.    This is proof that I was once a mother. I Gave up my body in my child for my country There is nothing left inside me now Nothing at all Oh, I think so, but I've never seen this part before. I don't even know which way to go I'm welling up with tears Now get off Let's welcome Lori Ellen Thank you so much Thank you. It's so good to be right. Love being here Spray tan.  I was like, oh, yeah You got to do what you got to do right got to do what you got to do. You're a busy lady these days It's good to hear thanks and out of trouble. Well, that's good got to keep working. That's the most important. Yeah, yeah So I was watching the Tony Awards last night, which a lot of people turn Randy Thomas by the way did a great job Well, I mean, I was like she was she was carrying the whole thing cuz Gordon was out there for five minutes at it You know every 20 minutes and say something silly, but she was really working great But while watching that I mean I'm always thinking about how me I was all that was I'm always I'm always thinking about you. I'm just kidding No, but I was thinking a lot of live announced so make sure your question is no It has nothing to do with that It was it was the fact that it was the Tony Awards and that just thinking about what it takes to be an actor and what All of these people especially the ones like it was and the theme seemed to be take your time and And work hard.  It'll be so easy and You have to really um, you have to want it. You have to like I don't why Scott Park and said something so great on this panel last week like I don't know what else I would do I think I might be a makeup, you know artist cuz I like doing that. I might spray tan people I don't know, but I can't imagine doing anything else, you know, right? And so it's who you are. When did you discover that was really your bliss that was like this is what I'm gonna I know exactly when it was.  I love Ella so much So anyway, I got to do this and I got to play and all the sudden I was like I get to be bossy and play and but it was just so much fun I got to play and my mom and my dad are both actors and singers and jingle writers and singers and all this kind Of stuff so they were like yay They were so encouraging of me being creative and then I did a musical I was Annie's little sister in any get your gun in this community theater production And I would fall on stage while they were singing like this. There's a lullaby and I was like I was like, it's 930. I should probably be of a sleep. So that was so much fun I got to be in the dressing room with like all these ladies like having a cocktail putting on their eyeliner And I was like, I love the theater And then my dad your parents were real supportive Absolutely, absolutely. So I say to anybody who's supporting or loving somebody who's in the arts like support them That's what they need and there are people like me who's proof positive that if you work hard and you stick around long enough Like just the other day. I was like changing in the card. I was like, I'm still at it, you know at 30 years With the cigarette, of course. Yeah, my phone cigarette because smoking is bad for you But yeah, and then my dad I think it was my dad I'm not sure if it was my dad's advertising agency, but I did a archway cookie spot and And that was my first voiceover I think I was like five and I was like archway cookies are the best or whatever So do you remember that as work though? Or do you remember that as play like when did I mean this is not fair I knew it was but how well of course it's I knew it was going right to my pension George. No, I'm kidding I I I knew it was something different like I got I think I got you know out of school early Yeah, and I did it during a work day and I got to go to the studio and it was amazing And so I knew that it was something special and I just knew that I got to act and I got to be in this this world And and I just I just fell in love you think like I'm doing what mommy and daddy do or no no a little bit Yeah, for sure. Absolutely great influences for me both of them. Yeah, so what does it take to really break into professional? Obviously you were working I guess in the professional circuit there when you were young But what does it take to be in the circus? Yeah, my family. Yeah, well, so it was your parents were supportive And your parent your parents were actors and yeah I always say if I'd come home and said that if I wanted to be a lawyer or doctor They would have thought it was crazy. So I have juggling and you know tap dancing is backup skills What I think it takes to break in now is like a lot of Patience and perseverance wherever you are whatever part of town state union non-union to take improv You have to be fast especially for animation and commercial because the commercial read is is such that you need to be able to Be fast on your feet as well. You got to be able to do improv. You have to that makes the client happy. It makes you happy You're able to take a drug the other day. I got a direction like just give me something different It was an on-camera thing and I I had to on my feet with the producers in the room Just do something totally different just like that. So improv I think is invaluable and I coach and teach So that's always what I recommend and being in a group class if you can with other people or start a workout group And then do some one-on-one coaching. There's someone at the door. Maybe maybe not. I think it's just heat Yeah, I think the heat is blowing the door open But to do some improv and to take class Is invaluable especially in a group setting because you get to see what other folks are how they're doing and where they get Feedback and you learn to be fast. You learn to be funny fabulous quickly Right, and you got to be able to kind of perform like that and then to good old-fashioned acting class We're having a lot of people ringing and dingy. It's exciting Yes, there's people coming and going. Yeah. Yeah, so the improv is really really important because What they're looking for is what are you gonna do that's different, right? You know and all you can do is you be you and you may as well be authentically you because there's no You can't do anybody else So if I'm trying to compare myself to my dear friends like eg or Tara strong or Cree summer who I just love, right? I'm gonna fail miserably a and b I'm gonna be like out of my body and not having any fun and then it's not gonna be any kind of authenticity So, you know if it's like a witch or crazy witch I could play a kind of drunk and make her sound like Liza Manelli or I could play like a crackly old lady Or I could make her like really dingy and older It doesn't matter But whatever it is that if it tickles me and it makes me happy then most likely It's going to resonate with someone else that I'm just having fun And it's either my part or it's somebody else's yeah Hey, if you're just joining us here on voiceover body shop our guest is Laurie Allen Voice extraordinaire great screen actress does all sorts of cool stuff if you've got a question for her throw it in our chat room Right now don't throw up in the chat room. That would be no We do have paper towels in there just in case But if you've got a question throw it in there and Mike Merlino our social media Will be very Mike get in that question to straw strawberries all over hi Even Ari is here tonight. Hi Ari. That's a good. Look at the baby. Who's a good boy? I know sweet Anyway, so again if you got a question throw it in the chat room that would be great One of the things you did I can't remember if we talked about this last time you were here But you were on that original Peewee's Playhouse not the original theater's the the the redo of the at no key alive It was 2009. So it was a redo remake of the yeah of the of the first So that he did it there at the Roxbury try to do it as true to the original show as he could yeah Yeah, but it was a little more adult Yeah, and it was based on a show that he had done Yeah, and they sold out all the seats at another venue and somebody will chime in and correct me I'm sure and then once it's sold out so quickly we moved to no key alive down downtown LA But auditioning to what he's and like I was watching Soul Train and like Peewee Herman when I was though I wasn't watching the like normal kid shows and my mom was like whatever and so so I remember going into audition and I was also to be the understudy for a Lin-Marie who Lin-Marie Stewart to do Miss Yvonne and I remember I had so much fun shopping for the outfit It was like this crazy dress and like a princess tiara and like this crazy wig and yellow heels and everything And so I had so much fun. I was like hi Peewee and he went hello miss Yvonne, and I was like oh my god It's it's hard not to get starstruck by him because I love him so much And he has a cornerstone for why it is okay talk about somebody authentically him. Oh My gosh. He is still he's just wonderful. Yeah, and then we got to Just a bunch of other amazing talent and half the original cast was there and it was right We started where we got cast and we that's a great like you got to commit to your auditions That's a that's one thing for sure because there was girls in there that were like in a suit I'm like you're auditioning to play the understudy for miss Yvonne So anyway, we did the show with a lot of the the series regulars and that was just amazing. I was like Now we're the yeah, that's cool. It mixed cast of like yeah to work with. Yeah originals in there It's amazing. I know And I got to hang on afterwards and listen to him Yeah, the audience he took questions every single night I just whatever was thrown at every single night not one performance. Did he not speak to folks afterwards amazing? Yeah, yeah, I remember he's to be nice. I think it was channel-surfing. I'm like, oh And I remember watching that yeah, it catches well And it was really fun because it took to be like oh, I'm gonna do my version of cherry And we had this fun song like you can sit on me. It was this really inappropriate Then I got to be like I think that Phil Lamar would know I got to be cowboy Curtis's horse I think it was Georgia. What was her name? I don't remember ginger and it was with a G and she was like hi cowboy Curtis Get on me. So everything was just with Paul's a little crazy Yeah stuff they never would have led on CBS. Yeah, once again, we're talking with Laurie Allen through her question Because I know you got lots of them Doing animation you because you know you you did such Bob and we were just watching a lot of the other stuff that you've been doing Now I was taught and trying to do animation It's you got to really go over the top, but that's not necessarily the case but what what does animation really require as opposed to Just acting or doing just voiceover. Well, I think for voice acting and acting acting It's you know, Keith Farley my dear friend who we were just doing a fun improv thing at we talk funny and We were talking about he was helping me with an audition I had and we were talking about raising the stakes So, you know with animation, of course, it's usually life or death Somebody's gonna fall off a mountain or you know what I mean or trying to save the princess or whatever But it's not about being like loud and fast and fun. I mean some of the you have to know the genres, right? So like Nickelodeon Is always gonna be like crazy and over the top and weird and funny, you know what I mean And same with maybe cartoon network, but like you listen to like Steven Universe You listen to some stuff like that and it's even Disney and Disney Junior has gotten to where it's a little bit more real It's not necessarily like just crazy loud that kind of voices So it's really like so when I'm coaching when I'm doing somebody's demo I want to hear him like and Bob Bergen always taught me this too Like can I hear how you feel about that person place thing event in the scene? What are the stakes, you know, so you're being asked stuff now that maybe it's 10 15 years ago Would not have ever come up in that context. Yeah, what do you think that's happening? Is it because it's kids are maturing more quickly or is it because of the type of media? They're consuming all the time. You have any idea why that wasn't in the real the real read if you will Well, I think I know I mean I feel like I know why it happened in with commercials Yeah, because the world of you know, the housing market was just tanking and nobody wanted to be like on sale now Like it was just like no one wanted to hear. Yeah, nobody wanted to hear or could tolerate kind of like how it is now Allowed hard sell and I think that just kind of moved that so it was more storytelling and more intimate and calm and hopeful giving hope inspiring hope And I think that just kind of moved over into into animation. Hmm. That's just my my sense of things Yeah, you've also gotten to do some really great TV commercials that you know, it's like wait I know that voice the chameleon ones for for the paint company. Yeah for valspar. Thank you valspar They're so fun. They got to write for us and one character one or one of the spots I had too much coffee and I was like a chameleon who drinks coffee, of course But I could totally relate to the character because when you're repainting your house, it's like right and the woman's like We're doing a character like that because I hear that like when it's you know The higher the stakes with commercials the more of the script is absolutely and yeah locked Was there any improv at all? Oh, yeah, we got to improvise But the stakes they started to write for us, which was really great really because my husband Brandon eels is in Chicago And we're divorced now, and I'm just kidding But yeah, the stakes were high But they definitely let us throw a line at her too, especially because we knew we were lucky enough Thank You universe to know those characters and know what their relationship was at that point But yeah, that's a good point the stakes were high in the commercial He was like, oh my god, you're painting the the the room, you know, chartreuse and it's supposed to be purple So yeah, so this takes a heart and just like in regular acting. It doesn't necessarily mean faster louder frontier, right? You know, especially for someone like me as I talk fast. Yeah, I remember to slow down Yeah, we were we were talking a little earlier about you know when you broke into acting and stuff like that But and even you know well developed into your career here There's still disappointments.  Like we're going in another direction I called George. I'm like, oh my god, bring over some vegan ice cream, which that's actually happened quite a bit, but I think I think to have well first of all It was so funny because you were like doing to talk about New York I went to New York to do a musical and I was replaced on like the third day that I was there Yeah, and that was really gut-wrenching and that was not fun But it turned out for the best for everyone. I learned a lot about myself I'm sure the woman who took over was absolutely adorable and I learned what I do and don't like about You know the craft of musical theater that I still love it But it just to move that fast sometimes just wasn't the thing for me and I realized like oh if I wanted to move back To New York I could I think that was sort of the experience that I was meant to have My hallmark movies and mysteries promo job went away at the same time I called George. I think wrong about that too. They decided to go with a lovely guy for The Christmas time and then the job went away for six or seven months, and then it came back Thank You universe. Yeah So what I think about that guy was a client of mine. Oh, okay. I never forget. I'm reading He's like, oh, I gotta do this. You never told me that it's just like oh really, you know But there's another there's there's a piece for everybody everybody's gotta have a wraps once in a while I'll just tell everyone then it's a weird thing. It's a weird thing. It's a weird thing But the weird thing the perseverance I think is do you have good friends? Are you making time to see them like what I love about George's? He'll be like, hey, I'm in the neighborhood working on so-and-so studio. Do you want to grab a bite?   Sorry or has got to stay out This is a of the booth right unless you're using it and of course if you're having a really grumpy day You're doing some fine animated character. Then it's gonna come in handy But in in terms of the longevity like guys, I was changing in the car the other day And I was like guys these of 30 years. I know where the equity office like in New York I'd know exactly where the SAG office was where I could go change in the hallway there And I had my knapsack full of stuff and fruit tea and you just you know You got to have you got it. You got to also celebrate yourself like I did thus and such really well Like my mom texted me last night She's like are you gonna have fun at the toy story premiere because this is probably it's a once in a lifetime thing like enjoy yourself What role do you have in the new toy store Bonnie's mom? Ah, so when the toys Andy went off to college, right? They got donated to a Children's what what am I thinking a leg up a day so preschool and so then Bonnie is the one that got them Which is wonderful. I play her mom and so we have the toys and we're taking a road trip And it's an absolutely beautiful story and beautiful movie and I've heard it's gotten good reviews And it's supposed to be really good. Can't wait to see they do not skimp on the writing at Pixar No, the writing is so beautiful. It looks really extraordinary and you know normally and talk about like celebrities with voiceover like you know These uber celebrities and stuff. Everyone is just So phenomenal and I can't wait to hear some of the new characters I can't wait to hear Tony Hale and a little I get to finally meet my daughter so that's exciting the girl plays Bonnie Madeline and So but yeah in terms of like longevity, it's like are you seeing your friends?    It lives out in my backyard Really once again if you got a question for L'Oreal and Aaron nobody has a question for me Strawberry, what's up? What are my questions? Yeah? Yeah, but we're gonna take a break right now And we'll be right back with L'Oreal and right here on voiceover body shop. So don't go away This is Ariana Ratner and you're enjoying voiceover body shop with Dan Leonard and George Whidham VOBS dot TV Well, hello there. 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S It's getting hot in here All right, we're back here on voice over body shop with Laurie Allen who's been gracious enough to grace us with your presence Always great having you here when we got lots of questions from yeah, our our vast worldwide audience And they're everywhere. Let's do it. I know George who we got here first one comes in from good luck. Sheena Shayna put him Shayne hint and the question is how does Laurie feel knowing gears later? She's the voice of such an icon Which is the boss? From MSG MGS3 Metal Gear Solid 3 Do you like doing adult voice over voice actor roles? Hey, that's awesome. I'm so glad my phone chose to do that Right. Thanks a lot. I'll explain to you later why that happened Doing adult voice professionals or children voice actor roles there. They're so I love Metal Gear Solid I wish the boss could be president Right wouldn't that be amazing because she kicks ass and she's a strong woman loyalty to the end and she does nothing But want to protect her country That role is an iconic role that I I Could not be more blessed to to play that and to have that experience in the game the trilogy and the other actors and the Writing in the animation forget it. It is I remember seeing some of it out of session and just sobbing because it was so beautiful So I feel very fortunate and same with Pearl like We're going into your 20, you know, we're having like a party don't I'm not gonna tell you where it is But we're like parting that we're gonna just take ourselves out and be like, yeah Any voice that any character again being authentic any voice that That has come from such an organic place, especially if you can see the drool ring. It's always fun Sometimes you don't get to see your drool ring But it's just been a huge honor and a ride of a lifetime is an understatement. I'm very very grateful So when you realize a role like that and I mean he's saying iconic and I don't even know what the acronym means because I feel I feel really metal you're solid. I feel really all right. I played half life. Okay, everybody. Yeah That's life was the bomb Yeah, how did you know when that boss was was an iconic role? Was it a couple years later spot? I mean, I think so I think because there were a couple of games and I was like, oh and then Right, I'm getting in my no I'm not a gamer. They'd like you to be a gamer when you're doing those but you're getting stuff thrown at you Like people mentioning you they're at right and they're right Well, I think people relate to her because of her strength and her vulnerabilities and that That she is able to to just be a strong female role model before that's like now We're all sort of refocusing on that in a new and more meaningful way But she's been that badass for from the beginning. So I think that's why people really relate to her and Get lots of fan mail for that one. I do I get a lot of Interesting folks coming up and saying hi at conventions and stuff. So that's lovely fun stuff. Yeah, next one from Schmuckl Schmuckl Schmuckl, what's up? Schmuckl says hi Laurie. Hi I just wanted to say before my question is your voice or My question is your voice has been a your voice has been a huge part of my life For you know, I was four when SpongeBob came out My question for you is what is the most memorable voice role you've done and I love you as the boss, too Thanks you guys. Um, I would have to say that Pearl being in the gosh No, okay. So starting with Fantastic Four to play Sue Richards the invisible woman to be in that cast to have met Stanley But to be in that cast with Quentin Flynn, Chuck McKenna, Bo Weaver is my husband That was amazing because at first, you know that Marvel stuff right when you first moved to LA is like what? Um, I had an amazing time with um the sort of pre-family guy Which was Larry and Steve that Chris Emerman cast and I met her during a class That's why it's so important to do a class and she was she was amazing And she also cast me in SWAT cats and I remember that was my first series and I was like Frank Welker Mark Hamill Jim Cummings Candy Milo's like, huh? It was it was amazing and then and then family guy in SpongeBob I think we're the same year and I was like, huh? And I had met Seth when he got out of school and he won this great competition to do Larry and Steve So I knew that and I I had a feeling something very special once the show got canceled And the fans brought it back on for family guy and I just found out recently a bill Foggerback He just told me to session. He's like, you know that's my SpongeBob We were off the air after like season three or something and I was like we were so I had no idea that that came back too So it's like yes fans rule. Yeah So and and the the whole family guy thing was so wonderful. It was the best I don't know 12 years. I mean I started off doing all the utility voices and Diane and so you guys can tweet at Seth With the hashtag bring Diane back Because she just fell into the water, right? It's really not a big deal. Yeah, that's right I demonstrated and that's right. So there's this lovely gal on Twitter Kelly Then her and she's got a great site for for me and bring Diane back So go follow her and tweet that back out. That'd be really fun. Wouldn't it? Yeah. Oh, yeah, and you got to working on SpongeBob. It wasn't just that it was working on SpongeBob. You were working, you know, I just did it last week Clancy Brown who's you know, his career is doing really well right now and the two of us talk shop. I'm always like hi daddy Well, you know, he passed yeah, I know so we got to we were lucky enough to he was like the captain of our ship, you know So I miss him so much. He was the most humble kind thoughtful Creative genius that I think I've ever met just the night one of the nicest human beings that I've had the the honor to know and So miss him terribly and we just try to honor his his his work and his vision still every episode Mm-hmm. I think Polar has the next question Do you know from Miami for the time suggestions? Oh for improv classes in LA I need to talk to my friends Susan Pally about voice tracks West because I always forget I almost wish I could grab my phone, but I think my phone died so Groundlings is always great It's expensive and they have a tiered system to go up, but there is nothing like the groundlings I did the groundlings in New York Got them city East so the groundlings is a great Acme is really good I oh West was great, but I think they just closed if I'm not right Does there's somebody in the audience that might know about that here in our home studio? There's something on the West side, but I really find that Acme and the groundlings and of course UCB which makes you really smart like that that UCB terrifies me because yeah, I was like I don't know if I know the capital of Uruguay off the top of my head Not today. Oh, see you'd be great at UCB not me So those are the three off the top of my head and there's one on the West side And I can't recall, but I will try to find out at our break Monica the one that's in Santa Monica I don't know. I'm gonna find out the break and we'll yeah, well you guys will tell that's a good word information Yeah, yeah, yeah really wants to know yes. I'm sorry. I'll get it for you Okay, let's try that name again George I'm just gonna read it like it's two words probably it is Shane Hennett says if asked or offered Would you reprise your role as the boss for an mgs3 remake or remaster? And then which role would you consider the most rewarding? I'd love to know what your favorite novel you ever read was So there's three questions Let's start with The boss has come back in other iterations as you know, so the boss can come back at any time Which is great. I don't mean to lead anybody on but that's a that's a great thing to know and absolutely I think there should be a prequel that would explain a lot of things about the game Which if you knew the game so If there's a prequel then wouldn't that be amazing? And what was the other question? What which role would you consider the most rewarding? I think I kind of they're all different so differently challenge They're so challenging like when you do a game you have to be in it like sometimes I would record with David Hader Sometimes I would record with Vanessa Marshall. Sometimes you're by yourself. I was gonna ask you that yeah How often in the gaming world do you get to record your often times by yourself? Yeah, and it's vocally challenging So you really have to like hydrate the night before hydrate the day of take your tea That's what I have to do because I don't have those vocal chords of steel So I have to really Mind my vocal hygiene and work out before and do a warm up and do a warm down and be quiet that night That's just for me and it's all separate lines with you know Yes, so there's the impact line. So there's like, you know loyalty to my country and then there's all the fight Running in the field and all that stuff and all the battle I got get down from there So there's a lot of that that's involved And then of course when you're doing spongebob and you're like oh my god So that's a whole other kind of crazy funny I can't really say SpongeBob is two to six we record two to six if I'm in the whole episode I'll be there the whole time if I'm just like in part of the episode, but generally we're there the whole time and That is done on song. Well, yes, and that's what's so fun And like usually I was like we're punishing Bill but Bill Fogger rocky will go into his own booth just for sound reasons or sometimes Clancy and And I like I have so many pictures of me just with like tears streaming down my face because it's so fun I leave there. I'm like because it's just it's just such a pleasure to work with them And it's so happy the writers are so good and Spongebob has taken this wonderful twist and there's so many more There's so much more like girl power on the show So like the girls are in so many more episodes. So stay tuned for watching season 12 because it's so twisted and fun I don't know my favorite novel I Can't think of something right now. I have to think I'm not I'm not as well read as I should be It's something probably from school. I don't know.  I'm just kidding I don't know. I can't think I'll get back to you for admitting you don't yeah much because neither do I right Which is terrible, but you know my favorite my favorite author of all times though, which is neither here nor there is well, too David Sedaris and Carrie Fisher their memoirs are so funny. That's a great thing to practice for voiceover Find your rights. You gotta have a point of view So if I'm playing a queen and I'm trying to seduce you do I kind of hate it or do I kind of love it? Am I drunk or again? I keep going back to my drunk But what is your feeling about that person place thing situation, right? It's always tell a lot of my coaching clients like read something from Fox if you're that way or from Huffington Post or Carrie Fisher Or David Sedaris somebody that has a definite point of view about how they write right and that gives you that like Oh, I'm just talking like how I talk and it really helps you practice like what's your point of view? So that when you get behind a mic, you're not like You know, you're used to talking To someone even if it's out loud and record yourself and then you can hear like oh wow I really thought about my point of view with this one And who I was talking to and it makes such a difference I know when I was just playing around with trying to read voiceover. I would I would technically do a fine job Yeah, but if it sounds like a robot reading paper, right, you know, and I didn't have a point of view It's just yeah, like I put it's a top of my script like who am I talking to where did I just come from? How do I feel about this person place thing event? Like I said, um, what am I trying what quality am I trying to like probably restraint or have some restraint on and then You know, I'll sometimes like I always give a plug like we were saying to Mary Lynn Whistner about adding on an emotion So if I'm like this evil queen, everyone's gonna read the evil queen So I'm gonna add in flirtatious or I'm gonna add in like exasperated, right? So I'm gonna add in some other emotion and Mary Lynn's App is called self-direction. So it's Mary Lynn Whistner. W-I-S-S-N-E-R voices voice casting I take that into the booth with me all the time. It helps for commercial reads It helps for promo reads add on an emotion, you know, especially for commercial Like if it's supposed to be a mom and you're watching the baby, you know, you could just have like a doring That's a great, you know Adding on an emotion for a commercial spot. That's like where everyone else is gonna be You know, you could just have that twinkle in your eye and that lovely feeling towards your new baby or grand baby or whatever Super all right You teach a lot and I've seen I see the workshops when you're on Facebook Oh, Gloria was teaching this one really solid piece of advice to this massive audience We have voice actors who are like, what can I do to really break it out? What would what do you think is a real key important thing? The real key things that helped me still and that I would encourage other people is to just Not compare yourself to anybody else. It's so hard. I do it. I have to work on that And it's to just play be fearless You can always pull your read back if it doesn't if it doesn't sound authentic But to give yourself this crazy permission to play to absolutely be just completely free of any inhibitions Because that is going to be the most authentic thing and producers and casting folks They don't necessarily know what they want they have an idea But all of a sudden they'll put on this thing and they hear kind of a drunk queen who's got a you know a crush on the Prince and that's going to be like, oh my god. I didn't know I wanted that so do you do you do you boo? I often tell people this is one of the things I learned from Charlie Adler my mentor who I adore Which is to keep a keep a cast of characters, right? Like, you know relatives in-laws old roommates old boyfriends girlfriends You know accents you do poorly, you know accents you do well, you know my stepmother's Good friend. Hope is from Philadelphia. So I'm like obsessed with like the Philadelphia. How are you doing? You know, so I'll put her in there little sprinkle hope in there just a little bit. I love that accent He's from Philly so much, right Nice to see you George. He's gonna have some hoagies. Yeah, you've gotten so thin. I don't believe it You're such an outdoorsy kind of guy now. So using like, you know, or like if you find somebody's cadence like kind of weird Like if there was some kid you went to school who's like Has a weird laugh like I used a little bit of that for Pearl. So that's why there's that Right so a celebrity impression you do poorly, we're not gonna know like Goldie Han from Laughin I'm obsessed with her all those old school like in the 70s back in my day Those character actors are just spot-on with making big choices and committing to it. That's the other thing Make a choice stick to it a thousand percent the hugamonster show Henry hugamonster, I love Goldie Han and it said she was a very earthy, but dingy mom So I love doing Goldie Han and so I made her very warm and hopefully very dingy at the same time And like I love you Henry monster hug Right, so use the celebrity impressions that you do well or not well Accents that you do like Miranda Park and is really good. And so it's a day at it like doing Australian I think that's like South African, but I went to school with the girl who's from South Africa So like I can do that really well. I can't do a good New Zealand, but I can do a good South African But he's hiring yeah, absolutely. Yeah, Laurie. Thank you so much for coming on today. Thank you for having me to see you Thank you and All right Well, we'll be right back right after this You're watching VOBS dot TV. 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Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and I did put up a video yesterday, but I put it up earlier and I decided to do a second Video to talk about my last two full days in San Diego where I still am. I'm still at the Manchester Grand Hyatt and Geez what time is it? It is 956 which means it's almost 10 o'clock which means it'd be 1 a.m.. At home if I was at home But I've already done my little trek for the night and I'm in the room for the rest of the night I go home tomorrow, and I'm ready to go home, but I thought I would at least talk a little bit about You know my kind of impressions of the bits of San Diego that I've seen and this conference and Unfortunately, this is the best light. I'm getting in here yesterday. The Sun was still out So I it was a little brighter, but it's nighttime now I got this little light that's just enough so that I can see the keys if I want to use the keyboard on the laptop And I've got a light over here in the corner that's kind of muted But without that light you couldn't see me at all and let's face the fact here Why would a black man need to do a video if you can't see them at all? Don't even answer So I When last we talked I think I mentioned that I had gone down and I had had this ice cream And I had some shepherd's pie and whatever so let's pick this up with Wednesday morning then Wednesday morning I basically went to the board meeting. I'm an organization we call it a ham, but it's the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management and This is our annual Institute National Institute and you get anywhere between 450 and 500 people who show up And we always have it in kind of a large hotel because we have the vendors who sponsor it They get to set up their booths and you walk around and this year we had 73 a couple years ago we actually had over a hundred but this time we had 73 and So, you know, you have to have it in a place that has a room big enough to do that as well as a room big enough to handle 450 people if they all show up for That we do some presentations and we have some speakers You know some keynote speakers. So anyway, we started out with the board board room and The board meeting and that went okay.   I've never drank coffee Okay, I did for maybe a week when I was 16 years old ended up hating it But I don't drink coffee. I drink soda. They never have soda So I went back down to the lobby and I bought two bottles of soda It was 750 for two lousy bottles of soda at home. That would have been two 12 packs So what are you gonna do? But you know so I had that and the meeting went pretty well I'd have to say but it turned out there was one guy in the room Who supposedly had a Fitbit on and I had a chance at getting a charger So I thought he left the meeting early. He was on the phone I was gonna wait till after the meeting he left early and I didn't notice that he had left And I've never seen him again. I know he's in this town somewhere, but I haven't seen him in anything I haven't seen him at either of the keynote conferences. I've not seen him down in the vendors boot nothing I didn't even see him at the dinner tonight So so much for that I'll get to go home and charge it when I get home and I also have to buy medication because I ran out of my Medication, I don't know if I mentioned that I actually still have my insulin But I don't have much left, but this is enough that you can't really see it But this is enough to get me tonight shot and my two shots tomorrow, and I'll have to buy more on Saturday But my pills I'd run out of my pills Actually Sunday So it is what it is. So anyway, then we had The luncheon well actually they had a luncheon and I didn't get to go to that one because it's for a specific group of people So I ate in the hotel because I wanted to stay close enough so that I could go to see the Award ceremony as well as the first keynote speaker. So I ate in the hotel lounge They have kind of like a sports pub if you will and all they had was some hamburgers, but they had something called short ribs I'm not necessarily a big fan, but you know what? I didn't want a hamburger. So I had the short ribs That was twenty one dollars worth of something that shouldn't have been twenty one dollars worth. I mean just say that Yeah, it's tasty enough. I guess but you know it really wasn't a whole lot of food, but that was twenty one dollars Keep your hands on your hats because there will be more stuff. So anyway We I go to the thing they give out chapter awards and a couple of individual visual words And then we had a speaker named dr. Jack Singer and he's kind of a sports psychologist I'd never heard of the guy, but he was pretty good. I have to give him credit for that But I got distracted at one point. This is my fault and I think this is kind of intriguing I got into of all things a Twitter battle and I got into this battle that I didn't even know was going to be a battle one of my You know online friends from home from Syracuse had put something up talking about this thing called Gamergate Now I've heard some people talk mention it But no one has ever said what it was and she had put up a link saying what it was So I'm reading this thing and one of the things that it was talking about was how There's a couple of women who have objected to some of these gamer things because you know They say that they're against women or whatever and you know what they gotta tell these truth There's some of them that are I don't know about all of them But I've seen some of the things on TV. I'm not a gamer I don't play the games and I think you know some of them are pretty rough about women But I've also seen the other side which says well the game is geared towards these younger men or whatever I don't know that that that's an excuse, but it is what it is So they talked about how these women have been harassed and there's been death threats And this followed up a story that I had read earlier in the day or maybe Tuesday night Talking about some woman who was going to speak at some university and the university got these letters from some nut casing And he was gonna basically kill everybody around as many people as he could if they let her talk What is that?  So anyway, my friend put this thing up. I read the story. I Basically skipped most of the stuff. I got a little insight But you know didn't care about that but I didn't care about the thing about women being threatened with their lives So I resured the thing and then a couple of people got on there And they just wanted to correct about the story And so I said the only thing I cared about was women being attacked. Well, they didn't believe it And so they start trying to attack me Well, you know, I don't back down from a lot of stuff.  So I kind of went after them and then There was two of them and one of them said no one called you anything I'm sorry. I said go back and look at what the person said and so the person went back So, okay. Yes, you're right that person did say something but you said something. Okay What did I say? Tell me what I said point to something I said And he said would you ignored what I said? No, I didn't if you read what I said I said that you can't excuse any of the violence that's being directed towards women who are saying something You cannot have death threats going against people because they disagree with you. That's just stupid Well, we actually ended up having a conversation Doesn't happen often on Twitter, but it turned into a full conversation and by the end of the thing We have resolved the difference. I said, okay Understand, I'm not a gamer But I read this story because I wanted to find out what this was and it talked about women being threatened with death And I said that's really the only thing I care about. I'm not a gamer and then they got around They thought I was just Dismissing everything else and saying that they were the ones causing it which I didn't say so by the end One of them apologized the other one said yes I can actually see where it is and said thank you for at least talking to us about this because people don't always Want to talk to us That's the point of communications and it worked out. Well, so, you know, basically two young people and myself How I got into it, you know, it's really odd But that's how how it happens people sometimes react to things They think you said that you didn't say and I could have just kind of let it go and whatever But you know what they were angry and I got a little angry, but I handled it in a different way So really it was great communication.  This is what we're gonna be raising money for make-a-wish Foundation I'm a charitable kind of guy. So it's okay fine.  They said this is your ticket to get in if you're wearing this then the guy will let you in So It was supposed to be at the hard rock. This is what they said. It's at the hard rock I know where that is cuz I passed it the night before when I was walking looking for something to eat So add a little while I go and I walk all the way to the hard rock now Let me mention this glad I didn't mention this before that. I Was late getting to the new members reception because I had some time to kill and I wanted to go see the Midway They have a Aircraft carrier actually out here on the bay. It's the Midway It's not the original Midway because that got sunk in the war But they created another one and they put this thing together It's the Midway and now it's been decommissioned and sitting out there and they've got a couple of planes on and I said Oh, I gotta go see this it's so cool So I walked over there and it wasn't a long walk and I walked over there And I saw the aircraft carrier and have you ever seen that picture of the soldier kissing the woman in the streets of New York? You know where they come up and turns out they didn't know each other Today that would be harassment But you know it was an iconic picture what turns out they name that unconditional surrender and they have a statue like a 30-foot statue of that They're next to the aircraft carrier, which is really cool And they also had in this exhibit of Bob Hope talking to the soldiers You know some of you young people have no idea who Bob Hope was but Bob Hope Basically went to all the wars Entertaining soldiers he would take these movie starlets with him and singers and dancers and whatever and they would just put on shows for soldiers Who are on the front lines? It was just amazing bravery for this guy So anyway, they had a tribute to him and they had some of his routines being played out And I thought that was kind of cool, too. I mentioned that because when I went back to the hotel I did what most guys do which is I decided to take a different route because I thought it would be quicker Got lost So I made it back to the hotel 15 minutes later Then I was supposed to had to come up to the room wash up quickly So I was a little late, but who cares so I throw that in because now it's later I'm ready to go to the hard rock So I get out there and I start walking and my legs are killing me. They just hurt really really bad and So God I gotta make it there So I make it to the hard rock cafe and I look in and I don't see hardly anybody So I go in guys. Oh, welcome. I said, yeah, hi. I've got my little purple thing here I'm looking for my party of people. He says no not here. Maybe you mean the hard rock hotel There's a hard rock hotel. It's yeah, so how far is that? He says a little maybe 10 to 15 minute walk Oh, no What are you gonna do? So I walked more Luckily, it was just a straight walk. I had to stop at a whole bunch of lights and you know, once I get going I'm usually pretty good. I'm listening to my Harry Potter book. Yeah, I'm listening to my Harry Potter book Don't judge me I'm listening to my Harry Potter book while I'm walking and you know people just getting on my nerve And I finally make it to the hard rock hotel I go inside the guy tells me up your it's up on the fourth floor. I go up to the fourth floor I get out. There's a party going on. Hey, I Said, okay, you guys have food, right? No, we only have dessert Okay, I haven't eaten since noon. I need food So they said well go downstairs the cafe is still open. I said what cafe said what is a hard rock cafe? It's right downstairs Turns out there's a cafe. They don't call it hard rock cafe. It's called MJs. I don't know why But they were playing music from the 70s and 80s. I was fine. There was nobody in there But they were still serving food. So I went in bought an omelette, you know soda ate most of the omelette Didn't eat it all because I said, well, there's dessert upstairs So now I go back to the party and a guy guy who calls himself a performance artist performance artist And what he basically is he's an artist. He's Not quite a painter But he's an artist and what he's got is he's got his well He's got paints, but he's not really like painting with a brush or whatever and he did these paintings He did one of the Rolling Stones Oh, it was like four corners of Rolling Stones, which is really really cool And I took a picture of it and then he did one of the Beatles and he did the Rolling Stones in about 22 minutes And he did the Beatles in about the same length of time and they auctioned them off For people and you you bought tickets and They were looking for at least $20 donations. You got 20 tickets So I bought 20 tickets didn't come close to winning anything. So anyhow, I'm up there and I go over to Their desserts and these little petty four things.  They're just always nasty I got one. I did taste it. It was nasty. I'm thinking Really, this is dessert. I Went downstairs ate a omelet that wasn't necessarily great. It was okay, but you know, it wasn't great So that I could come up and try to eat this Still it was a party I talked to a couple of people But in general I basically went over and I sat down and I just kind of chilled because you know what my feet hurt My legs hurt and I was tired because at home By the time it was time to leave it would have been 2 30 in the morning. Oh Here's the thing There's a lot of homeless in the area downtown area of San Diego It's it's very interesting in the fact that you got these super high-class hotels You have these buildings where people are paying in essence a million dollars a year to rent These super huge apartments downtown They have all these downtown stores and restaurants the gaslight area and supposedly 125 restaurants There's tons of restaurants and little parties and little bar things or whatever things that overall it's not my style But still, you know, they have all this stuff, but they also have all these homeless people Some of them were begging for money. Some of them were just sleeping right in the middle of a sidewalk Just wherever you can get it I'm not really used to kind of seeing that kind of thing And it's just so odd once again that you've got this kind of wealth and you've got this kind of poverty Right next to each other. I had to deal with that back in 2009 when I was working in Manhattan And it sounds odd to say that half a block away from Madison Square Garden and 7th Avenue where you've got all this Richness you had this mission where you have all the poor people who come and basically sleep wherever they can find a spot In front of the mission because when it opens at 6 30 in the morning, they get food What a weird contrast I think So anyway go to the party it's time to leave. I'm thinking oh god I'm gonna have to walk all the way back everything's hurting these two other ladies are living at the same time And there's this guy out there with a bike and they got these lights all on these bikes and they give people rides And so I asked the guy, okay, how much is he says for all three of you 20 bucks We decided to ride back so we all rode back on this thing and the guy was talking to us and my god Their leg muscles must be something strange because I'm not a small guy and one of the ladies with me wasn't small at all But there you go. He got us all back. He told us a few tales and stuff whatever fine and dandy we make it back and By 12 30 in the morning because I had to get on the computer to do something but now I'm ready to go to bed So now we get to this morning and I'm gonna try to tell this part quicker because this has already been 18 minutes we get to this morning and I know that the first keynote speaker is gonna be at 915 and I met the lady tonight the day before and she seemed really nice and I said, okay, you know, I want to see this So I said, you know what I'm gonna eat breakfast here in the hotel now, I'm gonna tell you something Don't do this.  So I go over there So it's just one actually the lady says, so how many of you are there and I Just I just stared at her just oh is it just you and other two people looked at her said Yeah, we don't see the others and she said I gotta stop asking people that when it's only one person showing up So She sits me down and I go over to the buffet and I get my little bit of something I had to make me an omelet and I'm eating another omelet and I got a one of those little half of those little waffle wedges like a quarter of a waffle and it was tasty and everything It was okay And now it's like I don't eat big breakfasts anymore I shouldn't have paid for a breakfast buffet, but truthfully, I thought that's all they had So I tell the guy, you know, that's it. I'm done. Whatever. So he brings me the check It is $29 and of course I had to tip the guy I didn't tip them tons, but I had to tip him. So basically breakfast cost me $35 for an omelet and a waffle wedge What are you gonna do at least this time? I didn't have to buy extra soda because they had soda in there But still $35 So we had the second keynote presentation Nate lady named Cheryl Roush R-O-U-S-H and she was very good and I spelled it because her website is Cheryl Roush dot com very good very inspirational talking, you know about about mood and positivity and working with other people and such and Of course, she picked on me a little bit now, but it's fine because you know, this is what I do and she asked me Point blank. She says what helps you stay positive and I said and I've written this I put it in videos So y'all know I've said this I said that I figured we all get the choice To decide whether we want to be negative or positive and if I can be positive Then a lot of other people seem to be positive towards me and you know, it helps me feel better And it helps other people feel better as well So there you go Then the next presentation was this guy named der vell the devel dee veerl. I can't pronounce it He was from Franklin Covey and he did something talking about trust and you know how sometimes You can do certain things to get trust and how sometimes just never gonna get that trust back no matter what it is but maybe you can Keep it from getting worse than it is and we talked about Anthony Weiner He was a former congressman from New York who did some stupid stuff and then he ran for mayor and then when he people decided to look at him found that he was still doing the same stupid stuff and There you go. Probably won't ever hear from this guy again And unless we hear he's getting divorced or went to jail for being stupid So we had that presentation then it was time for lunch and lunch was just passable, you know more hotel food and then I decided to skip the next thing because I was just tired So I came up to the room and I just chilled after printing my ticket so I could go home in a while and then the final Presentation later named Judy vieze the easy ie and I've known her for years. I've seen her quite a few times She's spoken to my group in Syracuse and her son lives in Buffalo. So, you know, we she gave a presentation talking about conversations these days of what they call the small bite communications and it's talking basically about how Boomers and Millennials and Gen X all these people try to communicate with each other and you know, whether it's email or text messaging or even Video conferences and how things can get messed up or whatever and she gave some tips for how people can try to communicate some And what was funny is that her computer went down during the presentation and she says here I am talking about technology and the computer goes down I don't know how to fix it. And so they got someone in there and he fixed it. She said what happened. He says absolutely no idea So that's funny So then that was finally over. I got to come upstairs again and relax a little bit more and We had the what they call the president reception Which is still with all the vendors and I'm talking to these people.  I found out last year that some of the companies actually just do that They hire some women just train them enough so that they can talk to someone But they don't really know anything about the company in this case It seemed that all the pretty women that I did talk to along with everyone else They all actually work for the company in some fashion and they all knew what they were talking about There you go Then we have the big dinner now my problem with the dinners has always been that they Redo the award ceremony that they do on the Wednesday before the first keynote speaker So this time I ate some food. It was okay. Not bad, but once again, they had those pedophores then they called this dessert I'm sorry, San Diego dessert is not pedophores dessert is cake or brownies maybe even ice cream Cobbler dessert is not pedophores. I got one. Anyway, it was nasty. I knew better So I ate my food. I was talking to this woman about blogging. She wants to be a blogger. All right This is what I talk about. So we were talking about blogging They start this awards thing a couple other people who are at our table wanted to hear their awards I'm thinking burnt you at the keynote yesterday. Did you miss this?  I wrote a blog about that long time ago.  So I said I'm not going back in matter of fact with what they put in there I'm going back and I'm getting ice cream at Giordelli again. So I came back to the room Didn't have my card key went back down to the lobby had them give me a new key came back up got in got my phone got my earphones and I walked once again all the way to Fifth Avenue just to get ice cream and Walk past some homeless people But it's a Thursday night Which means there's a lot more people out there a lot more the short black dresses and short white dresses and a whole lot of Legs and a whole lot of pretty and a whole lot of noise But I wanted ice cream and I got my ice cream and I enjoyed my ice cream and now I'm back in the room and There you go tomorrow morning. I will wake up. I will shower I will go downstairs and say get me a taxi and I will go to the airport and in Basically, 11 hours.  I mean, I really have to tell you it's been fun It's interesting flying a different airline than what you used to it's interesting seeing how people interact with each other It's interesting how people interact with me I gotta tell you the truth one thing that happened that I thought was so cool is that when I was down there with the vendors One of this lady comes over to me and I don't know who she is she comes over to me and she says Mitch I just got to tell you I see your post sometimes show up on LinkedIn and every time I see your post I think they're absolutely wonderful And I always make sure I read everything you say and I agree with so much of what you say And I just think you're brilliant and I hope you continue writing and I just well Thank you and you love hearing that it's always a surprise but it's nice and That happens sometimes when I come down to conferences, you know, I gotta tell you the truth I've been coming. This is my 14th year out of 15 years and the powers that be Pretty much ignore me pretty much. There's one lady who's been nothing but nice to me And that's happened here in there, but in general, I'm I don't fit. I'm not a conformist I don't play the fake game and I hear that all the time and it sounds terrible, but y'all know what I mean I don't play that game But it's always interesting that someone has seen something that I've written on my blog or that has shown up in a magazine Or every once in a while someone has actually seen one of my videos and they say these nice things to me and That always makes me happy and it's surprising because sometimes you do these things and you don't think anyone is paying any attention whatsoever and it just shows you that there's always someone out there who appreciates something that you do and All it takes is a few fans a few people to come up to you and say I appreciate that and You know what one of these days I'm gonna do a video of appreciation And we'll see if any of those people watch it Okay, almost half hour. It's time to end it so I can get myself ready to go to bed I gotta pack all my stuff the rest of my stuff. I did some packing earlier But I'm ready to go home ready to go home. So this is Mitch Mitchell. This has been long It's been a story but two days in San Diego. I'm done ready to come home See y'all later Thanks for watching if you're watching if you didn't watch then I just talked to myself But at least I can watch it later on maybe 10 years from now. I real old and say Yes, I really made those videos right back then didn't yeah Bye


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Remember, some companies may not be interested in renewing your health card because you know I remember what I told you about health cards is that whatever medical insurance you get to get it's supposed to be your sponsor to pay it up that bill. So what is your responsibility as the person who is holding that health card is to know that that health card is valid that in case you get a problem or you get a medical emergency, you can still access the service without even being inconvenient or without being delayed in one way or the other. This is exactly what I want to show you. We are going to go through some of the few steps, very easy steps for you to access, for you to apply for a health card online. You can renew yourself after renewing for any payment that is accrued or for any payment that you make.  Remember, some of these services are done online so meaning that your card or the payment system that you have that is your bank card should have some amount of money for it to be deducted for the payment. Remember, step one, you have to go to what you call the go to the health card e-service page on the kata government portal that is called hukumi. Then you will enter what you call your kata ID, select renew, update the expiry date and click next. Step three, fill up the application form, then check and confirm the details, then enter the payment details. The payment details we are talking about you are going to pay using your card, your bank card. Let us try to see how best we can try to do it out. Okay, we shall go to our desktop, then we shall open. Then I will try, let us try to see how we can go here, you go, then you can type in www, okay, yeah it will just come automatic www.government to renew your health card. So this is what is going to give you when you go to the Google, it will say request a renew health card hukumi, then it will say renew health card, application form, payment details, complication, completion, request health card information. This will take approximately 20 seconds to complete the information, then everything will be done. Let us just go straight to this and see what it brings for us. This is what comes. This is what you call the hukumi, the government e-government service. It will bring you that, the digital projects, the open data, the e-passion. Remember, what is written there is what you call the health card e-service. And step one, it will tell you, give the card information. Then two is the application form. Then three is the payment details. Then part four is the completion part. And remember, request health card information. This will take approximately 20 seconds only to complete. And let's try to click down here. You see the information will tell you, enter your katarahidi number. After you entering your katarahidi number, then it will tell you what type of the health card, what do you want to do with the health card. The transaction type, we have one. Are you renewing your health card? Are you reprinting the lost damage health card? Or, you want to check your expiry katarahidi or health card. So they give you three options that you choose from. And remember, after putting in all your information in any one of the other, then it will tell you next. Let me try to try out one person's card and see whether it will work out. We can say eight, eight five, eight zero zero zero three one nine. Okay. Then we can say, let us check the expiry because I think this is a valid card. All right. So we go and check expiry. Then we can say click next, you know. So you see the information will give you that your health card has not expired. Your health card expires on first of 12 of 2021, meaning that this one's health card is, his health card is valid, is updated. So we go back and we can say finish. All right. It will take you finish. So you can go and put in another entries. Let's try to see another entries which say two eight five eight zero zero. Oh, I thought he's not giving me a wrong number. Okay. We go. Then we can say renew. Then you come down and scroll here. You say next. All right. Let's say what he's going to say. Let's once say you are. You see, it still tells you that Ella 1114, it will give you the code number. Then it will tell you your health card is active and will expire on this date, meaning that this one health card is on. So still the same steps that you need to take, then you'll complete and print out. After all your payment, your health card will be renewed automatic. Remember your health card number and your category number are all written out the same. 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