{"id":13813,"date":"2010-06-03T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/06\/03\/the-voice-of-carl-kasell-emerges-from-the-loudspeaker-as-some-old-guy-stands-there-and-moves-his-mouth\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:00:01","slug":"the-voice-of-carl-kasell-emerges-from-the-loudspeaker-as-some-old-guy-stands-there-and-moves-his-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100603-01\/?p=13813","title":{"rendered":"The voice of Carl Kasell emerges from the loudspeaker as some old guy stands there and moves his mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, the NPR news quiz <a href=\"http:\/\/waitwait.npr.org\/\"><i>Wait Wait&#8230; Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/i><\/a> taped a show in Seattle. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stgpresents.org\/artists\/?artist=1064\">They&#8217;re back in town tonight<\/a>.) I was fortunate to score tickets to that show, in part because I ordered them nearly a full year before taping. Watching the taping of the show is quite a treat, and I recommend it for any fan of the program. You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about\/people\/bios\/psagal.html\"> Peter Sagal<\/a> pace back and forth as he talks and contrast it to old-school radio man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2100708\"> Carl Kasell<\/a>, who stands perfectly still as he delivers his lines.\n The strangest part of the experience was putting the face to the voice. When Carl Kasell started talking, my reaction was, &#8220;Hey, I hear the voice of Carl Kasell, and that old guy on stage is doing a really good job of lip-synching.&#8221;\n After the show, the on-air talent hung around on stage, and enthusiastic audience members approached the stage to chat, get autographs, and generally be adoring fans. Most of the talent hung around in a group at one end of the stage, but not Carl Kasell. He stood at the other end of the stage, because Carl is special. Whereas the others dealt with a small crowd, the people waiting to see Carl stood patiently in a line. And he also had a bodyguard to facilitate the process.<\/p>\n<p> You don&#8217;t expect a public radio news announcer to have a security detail, but that&#8217;s the level of fame Carl Kasell has risen to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, the NPR news quiz Wait Wait&#8230; Don&#8217;t Tell Me taped a show in Seattle. (They&#8217;re back in town tonight.) I was fortunate to score tickets to that show, in part because I ordered them nearly a full year before taping. Watching the taping of the show is quite a treat, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-13813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some time ago, the NPR news quiz Wait Wait&#8230; Don&#8217;t Tell Me taped a show in Seattle. (They&#8217;re back in town tonight.) I was fortunate to score tickets to that show, in part because I ordered them nearly a full year before taping. Watching the taping of the show is quite a treat, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}