VOA – CONNECT
EPISODE  104 
AIR DATE  01 10 2020   
TRANSCRIPT 


OPEN  ((VO/NAT)) 
((Banner)) 
Tasting Good
((SOT)) 
((Jennifer Smith, Ecologist, Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography))  
Seaweeds basically contain more vitamins and minerals 
than any leafy green vegetable that you can eat, including 
kale and while they’re incredibly low in calories, they 
represent a type of nutritional resource that we really should 
be taking more advantage of.   
((Animation Transition)) 
((Banner)) 
Feeling Good
((SOT)) 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
Many peoples want to know if you do healings but when you 
give people some creative thoughts and it bring inspiration 
into their soul, that takes on toward healing.  
((Animation Transition))
((Banner)) 
Looking Good
((NATS))  
((SOT)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything.  It's just 
an art house.   
((NATS)) 
 
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BLOCK A 
 
 
((PKG))  FARMING SEAWEED  
((VOA Persian)) 
((Banner:  Farming Seaweed)) 
((Reporter:  Crystal Dilworth)) 
((Camera:  Austin Harris, Cody Troxell))  
((Adapted by:  Martin Secrest)) 
((Map:  Thimble Islands, Connecticut)) 

((NATS:  Various))  
((Locater:  Thimble Islands, Long Island Sound, off the 
coast of Connecticut))  
((Popup Banner:  GreenWave Company is developing 
techniques for seaweed and other ocean farming)) 
((NATS:  Various))  
((Popup Banner:  Seaweed is started in a hatchery and 
moved to ocean farms))  
((NATS:  Various))  
((Bren Smith, Co-Founder, GreenWave)) 
OK, so these are the spools that we took from the hatchery 
and what we’re going to do now is we’re going to take out 
the spools.  We have to be really careful with them because 
they’re sensitive and we’re going to seed the lines.  So here 
we go. 
((NATS:  Boat))  
((Bren Smith, Co-Founder, GreenWave))  
We’ve got floating long lines and from there we grow our 
mussels, our scallops and our seaweeds.  And then below 
that we’ve got cages where we have our oysters and clams. 
((NATS:  Lab))  
((Locater:  Seaweed Lab, Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography, La Jolla, California))  
((Jennifer Smith, Ecologist, Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography))  
One of the more popular things that seaweeds have become 
known for is their use as a super food.  And when I say 
super food, that basically means that they have a really high 
concentration of vitamins and minerals.  They have very low 
digestible carbohydrates.  So, seaweeds basically contain an 
order of magnitude more vitamins and minerals than any 
leafy green vegetable that you can eat, including kale and 
you know, any other super food.  While they’re incredibly low 
in calories and incredibly healthy, they also produce omega-
3 fatty acids, which is something a lot of people are trying to 
increase in their diets.  And so, they just represent a type of 
nutritional resource we really should be taking more 
advantage of.  The uses for seaweeds are kind of 
insurmountable in terms of the things that they can do.  A lot 
of people don’t realize that you probably consumed 
something that has seaweed in it today.  Most of the non-
dairy or low-fat, non-fat products ranging from yogurt to ice 
cream to alternative dairy milk, you know, rice milk, almond 
milk, coconut milk - anything that has kind of creamy 
consistency that’s silky.  Even toothpaste, shaving cream, 
whipped cream, all of those things have some sort of 
emulsifier in them and one of the most common types of 
emulsifiers is a group of compounds produced by red 
seaweeds known as carrageenan. 
((NATS:  Boat))  
((Popup Banner:  Ocean seaweed farming could hold 
potential environmental benefits)) 
((Professor Matthew Edwards, Biologist, San Diego 
State University)) 
We can use farms in the ocean to clean polluted waters.  We 
can clean carbon out of the water to help with ocean 
acidification, but we can also clean pollutants out of the 
water and heavy metals out of the water, using farming in 
the ocean to help as a natural way of cleaning the water 
without having to spend tens or hundreds of millions of 
dollars to invent new machinery, new chemistry, to go out 
there and to try to do this with us, you know.  The seaweeds 
are out there 24/7 doing their job.
((NATS))  


((PKG))  ZERO WASTE LIVING  
((Banner:  Zero Waste)) 
((Reporter:  Nina Vishneva)) 
((Camera:  Alexander Barash, Vladimir Badikov))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  New York City, New York))    
 
((Popup Banner:  New York City is leading a campaign to 
contribute zero waste to landfills by 2030)) 
((NATS)) 
((Nicole Grossberg, Co-Founder, Zero Waste NYC 
Workshop Series))   
Start with small things: changing over your water bottle to 
reusable, then do maybe your coffee cup, then work on 
weaning yourself off paper towels.  And there’s different 
ways, you know.  Then maybe you want to start buying local 
food and eating less meat.  I mean, don't think that you have 
to do everything at one time, to take one step at a time and 
then it's not as insurmountable or scary.   
((NATS))  
((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance)) 
This is our semi-annual textile drive.  So, we run two a year. 
We also run two e-waste drives, so electronic waste drives, 
four drives a year.  And this one, for this one we partner with 
Wearable Collections to properly recycle all of the unwanted 
textiles so that they don't wind up in the waste stream.   
The goal is that 50 percent of it will be reused, so it will be 
upcycled and worn again either here in the United States or 
in other countries where it may be needed.   
((NATS))  
((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s 
Strongest))
It's one of our zero waste workshops.  It's part of a new 
series that we're partnering with as you met Nicole and 
Sandra who lead the New York City Zero Waste Meetup. 
And it's basically a workshop for everyday New Yorkers to 
come and learn how they can live a more, as we call it, zero 
waste but a lifestyle in which they're throwing fewer things 
into landfill and doing more recycling, composting and 
actually being mindful of the products they purchase so that 
they can purchase items that have a beneficial reuse.   
((NATS))  
((Joann Lee, Tourist))  
Hi, people.  I don't need my coat.  Is this OK to leave it here 
with you people?  Thank you very much!  I'm from Australia 
and I've had the coat for too long.  It's summer over there. 
We're already swimming.  
((NATS))  
((Erica Sweany, Actress))  
Everybody brings in all of the clothes that they’re not using 
anymore, a lot of their partners' clothes, kids' clothes.  And 
we all trade and switch and people end up with new items 
and then everything else gets donated.  
((NATS))  
((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance)) 
We've had a huge number of people coming from all 
different Broadway shows and from the neighborhood and 
offices in the community to bring their textiles.  So, we've 
had people coming from Wicked, from Aladdin, from Harry 
Potter.   
((NATS))  
((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s 
Strongest)) 
I think the more we bring the public into our work and the 
more efficient it will be, the more kind of amicable that 
relationship and just the larger strides we can make.  You 
know, the more people that participate in our compost and 
recycling, that builds on itself.  We can expand the program.  
We can start to do kind of the next big thing. 
((NATS)) 

 
TEASE  ((VO/NAT))  
Coming up….. 
((Banner)) 
American Voodoo
((SOT)) 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
You don’t find Voodoo.  Voodoo finds you.  The word 
Voodoo is God.     


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BLOCK B   

((PKG))  NEW ORLEANS VOODOO   
((Banner:  American Voodoo)) 
((Reporter/Camera:  Jeff Swicord)) 
((Producer:  Jacquelyn DePhillips)) 
((Map:  New Orleans, Louisiana))    
 
((MUSIC))  
((NATS:  Shots around New Orleans, exterior of Voodoo 
Spiritual Temple, Miriam putting sign out in front))  
((Popup Banner:  Mississippi Valley Voodoo is a spiritual 
practice with roots in West and Central Africa)) 
((NATS))   
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
I have been a Voodoo priestess for thirty years in New 
Orleans.  I was born in the countryside of Mississippi.  I was 
baptized under the Baptist order and I was ordained in my 
ministry in Chicago in 1982.     
((NATS:  Inside Miriam’s shop, tourists looking at things for 
sale))  
((SOTs:  Miriam talks to customers))  
((Man))   
How long have you been here?  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
In this spot, three years.   
((Man))  
Oh really? 
     ((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
     Yeah, but in New Orleans, 30 years. 
     ((Man))  
     Wow! 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
You don’t find Voodoo.  Voodoo finds you.  The word 
Voodoo is God.   
((SOTs:  Gina and Miriam in shop)) 
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))    
Yeah, I’m getting ready to write a book now. 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Gina was born in New Orleans.  Her family is native New 
Orleans.  The curator at the Voodoo Museum brought her to 
me.   
((SOTs:  Gina and Miriam in shop)) 
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))   
     This is a story.  
     ((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
     He thought I could be a conduit for her to ground herself.  
((SOT:  Looking at cat gift))  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
     Oh my God, look it there.  Pharaoh.  
((SOT:  Priestess Miriam and Gina Talk about the false 
perceptions of Voodoo)) 
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))   
I noticed that every time they come here, the first question 
people have when they walk through the door is ‘what is 
Voodoo?’  So, I can't imagine what that's like trying to 
answer that every single day, all day.   
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Well, it's a word that is somewhere with a lot of distraction or 
an abstract synonym floating in the air today.  It’s like this 
word just keeps floating.  Voodoo is like this big ship with a 
lot of sails but no foundation to anchor the sails on.  
     ((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))   
     With the wind.   
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
Yeah.  
     ((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))   
     I want your opinion on something.  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Yeah. 
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))    
You see people dancing.  They hear Voodoo.  They hear 
party.  They want…it’s very hedonistic.  It’s drumming and all 
of that.  What could we do or what needs to take place for 
people to become more aware of the medicinal and the 
healing aspect of it?   
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Voodoo is empowering yourself to become more of an 
enhanceable person, to rise beyond an impoverished 
situation. The Voodoo God is the will of every man and if 
your willpower is searched, then you're not going come 
suppressed to those circumstance.  You see ways to work 
beyond it.    
((SOTs:  Nancy and her husband shopping and talking to 
Miriam))  
((Nancy))  
Have you been making your dolls?  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
No, I keep dreaming that I would.  
((Nancy))  
Yeah, I’ll take this too.   
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Nancy has been coming to me for over what 20 years.  She 
were interested in getting a private consultation just to get 
some clarity with her experience in life.  I provide counseling 
and guidance.  That is the base of what you can do.   
((NATS, SOTs:  Bone reading; Tosses bones on table))  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
Okay, young lady.  So, as Clint Eastwood said, ‘There's 
sometimes always a little unsettled things get into the good 
of things’ and that mean that there could have been 
someone in your family that went through some health 
issues or…..   
((Nancy)) 
     Just recently, yeah.   
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Some losses or… 
     ((Nancy)) 
Um, not major, but she was ill.  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
The bones is a tool that you have to offset the client that he 
can hear clear.  
((SOT:  Bone reading))  
((Nancy)) 
That’s a great feeling.    
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
It’s helped me to see the person and the person's thoughts 
his emotion and that helped me to bring thoughts, ideas to 
help bring the person over his situation.  
     ((NATS, SOTs:  Bone toss, bone reading)) 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
So now, I’ll let you ask the questions. 
((Nancy))  
I guess, most importantly is health for the coming year.  
     ((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
Oh, yeah, health.  You're not a victim of circumstance. 
((NATS:  Bone toss))  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
Many peoples want to know if you do healings but when you 
give people some creative thoughts and it bring inspiration 
into their soul, that takes on toward healing.  
((SOTs:  Bone reading))  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
And created opportunities for you and David.  And he’s going 
to make enough money for the two of you.  
((Nancy)) 
That’s great.  
((NATS, MUSIC:  Mariam holding python))  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
There's a really diverse measurement of humanity that 
comes through my shop.  People who really is in dire 
struggle for their well-being.  I have different tour guides that 
bring peoples that come from every country pretty much.  
     ((SOT:  Mariam talking to tour group)) 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
You get back to the personal insight, maybe that’s what God 
is.  So, if you don’t have that personal insight, to see how to 
create a wellness in the human body….  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Voodoo called me to New Orleans to have an establishment, 
a house to assemble the greater thought-pattern in.   
((SOT:  Mariam talking to tour group)) 
     ((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple)) 
I graduated and I worked 11 years in surgery.  
((Priestess Miriam Chamani. Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
I don't have any set thing that I would want a person to learn. 
I want them to be more observant of what has come to be.  I 
want peoples to see a soul that has risen from the cotton 
fields of Mississippi with my families.  And that through all of 
that time that people look back and say, ‘it’s inferior.’  Inferior 
energy brings about a more greater complexity of a mind to 
rise and become more assimilated.  And never to sit and feel 
years of drifting in complaints and weariness of their self. 
Whatever I have obtained over my years is to be a legacy to 
the humanity that can find it, not so much about me.     
((SOT:  Mariam talking to tour group)) 
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))  
Bye.  Okay, bye bye.
((NATS))

 
TEASE  ((VO/NAT)) 
Coming up….. 
((Banner)) 
Creator of Voices 
((SOT)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a 
voice-over artist. 
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do 
voice-overs?   
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.   
What do I say, I’m so silly. 
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with 
them.   
Uh…..yeah. 


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BLOCK C  

 
((PKG))  SCRAP HOUSE ART     
((VOA Russian)) 
((Banner:  House Made of Scraps)) 
((Reporter:  Maxim Moskalkov))
((Camera:  Andrey Degtyarev))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  Hyattsville, Maryland))
 
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
Find something you like, and it's usually because of the 
shapes and the age, and eventually that thing will be 
something.  It's like the object tells you what to do with it.   
((NATS)) 
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
Oh my gosh, they're beautiful.  I'm going to pull up and look 
at the other one too.  I might get out and take pictures.  Is 
that OK?  
((NATS)) 
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
This is amazing.  And somebody just takes time and put all 
this together like this.  
((Man))  
That man right there.    
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
Him?  
((Man)) 
Yeah.  
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
Are you the artist?  
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
I’m the old man now. 
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))  
Oh, the old woman is impressed.  
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
A really good question, an interesting question that can't be 
answered is, why somebody is drawn to a certain form?  But 
for whatever reason, this is the thing that I want to do.  It's 
sort of Victorian.  It's the little towers and spires.  It's junk 
which I like. 
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
This front is put together from probably a 40s sled and this 
part is a 30s truck front, cut way down.  These are 1940s 
headlamps from a Buick.  It’s got moose horns and more 
statues and another helmet over here and a deer and all this 
stuff.  This used to be a lamp.  It has a bunch of these 
statues.  This is Middle Eastern, a lamp.  This is a bird cage 
holder.  
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
Cars can't go into the back.  There is no access.  So, they're 
on the street which means they all are legal.  They all can be 
driven.  They're all licensed.  They're all insured.  It's 
incredibly expensive to keep them on the road but that's how 
it is.   
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
Police have never said, you know, “What do you think you're 
doing?” because it has legal plates.  I've been pulled over by 
police who wanted to talk, like, “Oh, what made you do 
that?”  You know, because they were bored.  
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
I mean, it's just my house.  I mean, it's not formal in any kind 
of way.  So, I've actually been asleep in the living room and 
had the door open and people say, “Hello, are you open?”. 
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything.  It's just 
an art house.  It's an art house, you know.  Art cars and an 
art house.
((NATS)) 
 
 
((PKG))  ANIMATION CONTENT CREATOR AND VOICE-
PUPPETEER 
((Banner:  Giving Voice to All)) 
((Reporter/Camera:  Lisa Vohra)) 
((Map:  Silver Spring, Maryland)) 
 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Siggy and the Bullies)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Hink felt very sad.  He thought to himself: That sure looks 
like fun.  Maybe, if I ask again, everyone will let me help. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a 
voice-over artist. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do 
voice-overs?   
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.   
What do I say, I’m so silly.   
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with 
them. 
Uh…..yeah. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I thought it was just the most fun thing you could possibly do, 
to give voices to characters, to commercials, to anything.  I 
would take out the spices in my house after dinner and I 
would do commercials with them.  I thought that all cars 
looked like characters.  I thought that the mirrors looked like 
ears and I thought the front of the car looked like a nose.  I 
would call up the local radio stations and I would ask them if 
I could be on their show.  They pretty much hung up on me.   
((Courtesy:  Marci Heit)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I ended up moving out to California.  I was able to get an 
agent and they started sending me on auditions.  So really, a 
lifetime of giving voices to cars and inanimate objects really 
paid off. 
((NATS, SOT:  Marci in recording booth)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
We have a reservation but we’re a little early.   
Our bridge is being remodeled and we couldn’t stay another 
minute with all the racket.   
Aww.....has anyone ever told you that you have a very nice 
smile? 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
So I started doing voice-overs for commercials and some 
film shorts.  My favorite thing to really do was animated 
characters though.  
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Kids on the Block)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Siggy said, “Uh, Hink’s right.  It’s not fair to like shut him out.”   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I was a volunteer for a puppet show program called “Kids on 
the Block”, which is a disability awareness puppet show 
program.  And the puppets were big and colorful and the 
message of the puppet show program was that kids are 
different but inside they’re the same.  And the message was 
so wonderful that I actually contacted the people who 
created the “Kids on the Bloc” program, to see if they wanted 
to do something for television.  I ended up writing a show. 
The “Kids on the Block” people wanted to keep their show 
exactly the way it was, but it, sort of, sent me on a path to 
create content. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  It’s Real Entertainment))   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Is that the right design for your financial reporting? 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
And so, I ended up creating a company called, “It’s Real 
Entertainment”, which creates and develops original 
animated content.  I created a character for a show called, 
“Q.D. Foodie”, which is about a girl named Quinn Daisy 
who’s blind and loves to make things with food. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  It’s Real Entertainment))   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
My friends call me Q.D.  We’re foodies and we have so 
much fun because of our web show. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
When I was involved in this puppet show program, “Kids on 
the Block”, there was a rotation of disabled speakers that 
would come and speak to the kids after every performance.  
I had the privilege of getting to know one of the disabled 
speakers really well because she lived not that far from me.   
((Courtesy:  Marci Heit)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Her name was Elda and Elda lost her sight at age 70.  I met 
Elda when she was 90.  One of the things that Elda loved to 
do was to bake.  Elda took me into her home and she 
showed me how she made grocery lists and how she cooked 
and her personality was infectious and I was inspired by her.  
Quinn Daisy is loosely based on Elda.   
((Courtesy:  Q.D. Foodie))   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
So, we were creating some props for the characters in Q.D. 
Foodie to use and we designed these kitchen tools that were 
really just supposed to be fun for the characters.  I decided 
that they should be real. 
((NATS)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
So, I set out to make kitchen tools and we created these 
fabulous kitchen tools that are designed to be inclusive.  
Because our character Quinn Daisy is blind, we included 
Braille in the measuring cups, Braille in the measuring 
spoon.  The tools have easy grip handles.  They’re very 
sensory friendly.  The idea is that we really just want to get 
kids excited and engaged. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
From the time I was a kid, I really enjoyed spending time in 
the kitchen.  So, that’s really something that I’m enjoying 
passing along to my child as well.  We cook together, we 
bake together and just have lots of fun and learn so many 
other life skills.   
((NATS:  Marci and her daughter)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
What’s Braille for one teaspoon?   
One dot.   
It’s that one dot and you know the Braille is in, there’s six..... 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I never wanted to make my shows about the differences. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  It’s Real Entertainment)) 
Hi there.  I’m Lulu Square. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I just wanted to make them about different kids who have all 
different parts of their personalities and they come together 
and are able to use their strengths.  And that idea has 
filtered into every property that I’ve created, every show that 
I’ve created, every character, ensemble that I’ve created.  
The message of the puppet show was that kids are different 
but inside they’re the same.  And that is true universally. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Siggy and the Bullies)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Being a friend is a lot more fun than being a bully.....anyday! 
((NATS))
 
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((NATS)) 
((Popup captions over B Roll)) 
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((PKG))  FREE PRESS MATTERS 
((NATS)) 
((Popup captions over B Roll)) 
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Washington, D.C. 
May 16, 2017 
President Erdogan’s bodyguard attacks peaceful protesters  
“Those terrorists deserved to be beaten” 
“They should not be protesting our president” 
“They got what they asked for” 
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We cover it  
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