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Al Kessel: How An Audio Book Offer Changed His Career To Voice Actor

Voice Actor, Al Kessel

Al Kessel is a voice actor who turned a request into a career in voice acting
and audio books. Today we talk about how Al went about building his first
recording booth, as well as the challenges of recording in Arizona.
Let me say, I am absolutely ecstatic to finally be launching the first episode
of Dreamers Podcast! I really feel like this is a huge milestone, and the
beginning of a totally new direction for my creative energy! I hope you all
enjoy and are as inspired by this as I am!
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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yeah

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yeah

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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe part and today I’m interviewing

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al castle was living his dream through
voice acting

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welcome to the show out thanks Joe good
to be here thank you for coming on and I

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appreciate it

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al why don’t you tell the listeners a
little bit about yourself well I

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currently live in Phoenix while the
phoenix arizona area also actually a

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small suburb to the north of Phoenix
with my lovely wife Joyce in our our

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six-year-old dog Kate who is my studio
engineer and i’ve been i’ve been doing

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that I’ve been doing voiceovers full
time now for about a year so that’s not

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really not much to tell I i love i love
to read which is which is a plus in my

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line of work and when it gets hot
outside like it’s getting ready to hear

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now I become a bear i stay inside

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well how did you get started in voice
acting

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well that’s that’s actually kind of a
funny answer sort of my wife and I are

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avid podcasters we’ve been podcasting
since 2010 we have quite a few podcasts

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out there for people to enjoy and you
know for several years now people have

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been complimenting on my boys saying you
know that that that I should be on radio

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or something and I always thought they
meant i have a face for radio but you

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know what they were talking about my
face and if you know me you know I’m

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kind of a humble person i I don’t I
don’t like compliments because it kind

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of makes me uncomfortable so I never
really never really listened to them I

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just enjoy doing the podcast with my
wife and then one day on our disneyland

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podcast we interviewed a former
disneyland cast member now he was a cast

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member back in the seventies the the
late seventies possibly and he wrote a

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book all about his his time as a cast
member there and we interviewed him

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about that and then after the interview
he sent me a private message through

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facebook and asked me if I had ever
narrated audio books before I told him

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