00:00Of course. That's why you have the best podcast. That's a wonderful question.
00:03All right. Let me answer the first part for you. Mentors. So many.
00:07But if I have to give your audience some homework, and I'm not giving boring homework, I'm giving fun homework,
00:12I want you to watch three different things. The first thing is The A-Team. Remember that show back in the 80s?
00:18Yes.
00:19That's right. Besides Mr. T, who was the best, there was also a character called Templeton Peck.
00:25He was the face man played by the amazing actor Dirk Benedict.
00:30Study his rhetoric and skills. Now, a second actor was Pierce Brosnan as Remington Steele.
00:37Oh, what a show that was with Stephanie Zimbalist. So study that rhetoric.
00:41And then the best mentor that I ever had was a gentleman by the name of Basil Rathbone.
00:46Back in the 30s and 40s, he did Sherlock Holmes with Nigel Bruce.
00:50Now, listen, Catherine, if I spoke like him, you'd be like, what's wrong with you?
00:53I don't speak Queen's English. But I tell you what, that was the sharpest knife in the sharpest tongue.
00:59And I would look up some vocabulary words and rewind the VCR. And I was like, this is incredible.
01:05I gravitated towards that advanced speech. And I realized there are people out there much more polished and clever than I.
01:10And so there's nothing wrong with borrowing a color. I mean, I didn't invent it, but I can use it through my medium.
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