. - [voiceover] after teaching high school for seven years, a relative mentioned that the national advisory committee for aeronautics, later to become nasa, was looking for new people. johnson was offered a job in 1953 and she immediately accepted. - i felt most proud of the success of the apollo mission. the hot computers, the paths that will get you there. you determined where you were on earth when you started out and where the moon would be at a given time. otaled how fast they would be going and the moon will be there by the time you got there. - [voiceover] beautiful. just beautiful. - we were really concerned when they were leaving the moon going back that they should be exactly correct on that. (mumbling) you miss a train, you wait for the next train and there were no more trains. it took me a day and a half to compute what the computer had given them. turned out to be the exact numbers that they had. it was my job. and i did my job correctly and well. - i'm sylvia earle. i'm explorer in residence at the national geographic, founder of mission blue. i'm also founder of the place whe

- [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by: mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy. and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. - i'm evan smith, he's a four time academy award nominee, twice an actor and twice as a screenwriter, who's new film is born to be blue, about the life of the jazz trumpeter chet baker. he's ethan hawke, this is overheard. - [voiceover] let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly. how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa... you could say that he made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and overtime took it on... let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak, are you going to run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. this is overheard. (applause) - ethan hawke, welcome. - thank you. - nice to see you again. - yeah, nice to see you. - i'm inclined to ask you why chet baker, but it t

- [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also, by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy. and, by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. - i'm evan smith, he's a former mayor of charlotte, north carolina, now in year three as the united states secretary of transportation. he's the honorable anthony foxx, this is overheard. let's be honest, so is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa and-- you could say that he'd made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you know, you saw a problem and over time took it on and-- let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. this is over. (audience cheering and applause) mister secretary, welcome. - thank you very much evan. - [evan] an honor to have you here. - it's great to be here. - let me ask you to grade the na

(applause) - [voiceover] we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q&a's with our audience of guests, and an archive of past episodes. - it's fun to take a subject that maybe you have mixed feelings about, and try to figure out what you, what you really feel, or by experiencing it through the making of a film, you do. whatever cathartic elements there are to art, i've definitely felt in a lot of different areas in my life. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by: mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also, by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy, and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation.

(applause) - [voiceover] we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q and as with our audience and guests, and an archive of past episodes. - beyond country music which is coming out in 2019, and in addition to those five or six films that i've set in motion where i'm serving as executive producer and i'm trying to help other filmmakers help them with fundraising and help them with guidance and stuff like that. my own stuff that we are already started working our project on ernest hemmingway. we wanna do a history of crime and punishment. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy, and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation.

he's ethan hawke, this is overheard. - [voiceover] let's be honest, is this about the ability to learnbout the experience of not having been taught properly. how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa... you could say that he made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and overtime took it on... let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak, are you going to run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually.

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. >> the voiceover studio sure looked fun.made sure he spent extra recording time with blake shelton's lady who also voices a character there. >> is a song on the soundtrack that i wrote that will be gwen stefani featuring moi. >> it's amazing. >> so i'm pretty excited. i basically was looking for an excuse to do a song with gwen stefani, and this came up. and i'm going to check that off the list. ♪ ♪ keep dancing, can't stop the feeling ♪ >> i love the song. were you listening to it getting ready today? >> i've heard it enough. it's also i don't wake up and just play my own voice. >> right. >> that's weird. i do. i just record myself at night and listen in the morning. >> you advance -- >> motivational speaking. you're beautiful. today is going to be great. and in the morning, play. >> can you do one of those for me? >> for you? yes. >> thank you. >> "trolls" don't come out until november 4. man, they start the promotions early. >> well waiting for. >>> let's talk about this. this week nearly 10 million people tuned in to see

to the women who know - [voiceover] ons are, why do we explore outer space?of that hill. - [voiceover] and why should we? - because we're completely open to annihilation. - [voiceover] from great riches. - are there more ways to make money in space? lots. - [voiceover] to solving the worlds problems. - political decisionmakers couldn't make the same decisions if they saw what we saw. (whooshing tones) - human beings have been exploring since the dawn of our existence beyond great plains, over towering mountains and across the dangerous seas. when early 20th century mountaineer george mallory was asked, "why climb mt. everest?" he famously declared, "because it's there."

singh, voiceover: in some countries, we think that we can make 300 years of change over night.e recipe right. what we need to look at is in the event that we have to come in, we should be talking to the community leaders in advance. man: yes. we need to ask them, do they need anything from us? singh, voice-over: i think the misunderstood piece is that the military comes in firing our weapons, and that's not every single unit in the military. our first mission is to really win the hearts and minds of the people. we're there to serve our community. we have to ensure that we're not trying to impart what we think their community should look like. we need them telling us what do they want to see their community be. if it wasn't right yesterday, change it today. you're going to make me proud. whoa? cadets: whoa! and i guarantee you, i'll hug every single one of you when you come across the stage. whoa? cadets: whoa! singh, voice-over: just as much as baltimore has to heal, my soldiers have to heal because they're also a part of those communities. i'm just asking them to do more commu

. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also, by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy. and, by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. - i'm evan smith, he's a former mayor of charlotte, north carolina, now in year three as the united states secretary of transportation. he's the honorable anthony foxx, this is overheard. let's be honest, so is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa and-- you could say that he'd made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you know, you saw a problem and over time took it on and-- let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. this is over.

captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also, by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy, and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. - i'm evan smith. he's an independent film icon, and five time academy award nominee, whose credits include boyhood, slacker, dazed and confused, bernie, and school of rock. his latest film, everybody wants some, has just opened. he's richard linklater. this is overheard. (exciting music) (applause) (evan talking) (people laughing) (exciting music)

(upbeat music) - [voiceover] our planet is both magnificent and mysterious.ps to better understand this place we call earth. - we are talking very real impacts on people's lives. - [voiceover] join me, philippe cousteau as we look at our world from a whole new perspective on xploration awesome planet. - welcome to awesome planet, i'm philippe cousteau. we're gonna kick it off here are nasa's goddard space flight center, to catch a glimpse of how satellites hundreds of miles away in space are giving us a more complete picture about what's happening on the surface of planet earth. - [voiceover] goddard is nasa's first and oldest space center.

. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy, and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. - i'm evan smith. he's an iconic emmy award winning and academy award nominated documentary filmmaker whose credits include the civil war, baseball, and jazz. his latest film for pbs is jackie robinson. he's ken burns. this is overheard. let's me honest. this is about the ability to learn about the experience of not having been taught properly. how would you avoid it? what has befallen other nations in africa? and you could say he made his own bed, but you cause him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time took it on. let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak.

now they are planning a show with no voiceover and a three-hour museum tour. so is less more? he is drinking coffee and now going back to painting. i am charmed by this. panel? can you believe this? >> i watched the whole thing. i understand the trans fixation. he is about to tell you it is a one-coat paint. he just need one coat because it says so on the tin. >> he says so at the end. >> that was the one thing. at the end he pitched the product. >> i thought it was better if it was just the paint. >> i didn't even watch it. >> this is the extented version. >> there is a web only 11-minute version. >> if there were an hour long show i would turn it on. when i have guests there is a white wall and a white room and it looks ugly. >> you have to turn it on. >> but then people interact with me. this would be perfect. >> i am waiting for mexicans to start scaling the wall and jumping over the wall. that's the only reason i would watch it. >> tim, do you understand that this is the future of marketing? people are tired of being told what to do. >> death is a quiet experience. if you

customers could keep the landline if the bill passes, but they would utilize alternative technology like voiceoverol. the opponents say that the alternative services are not reliable in an emergency like an earthquake, and they say the real motive behind it is money. >> this is very small and the landline business. >> how much is atp spending in support of the bill in california?>> i don't know. we don't spend money in support of legislation. >> the investigation reveals that the references filed with the secretary of state says that at&t has invested more than $750,000 in lobbying at the capitol on these recent bills.>> one of the bills that you mentioned that they were lobbying on is the bill that they said they did not spend the money on. basically at&t is defending its saying that they are not necessarily taking the lines of the ground, and you can have a landline but with different technology, and the concern is whether the technology will hold up in case of an emergency. >> what makes the difference between a cell phone and landline in an earthquake situation?>> look at katrina or any natura

of possibilities. - about one out of five stars has a planet around it that could harbor life. - [voiceoveret hunters and see the technology bringing us closer to new worlds. super earths, hot jupiters and more on xploration outer space. - welcome to xploration outer space. i'm emily calandrelli. as long as we've been looking up at the stars, people have wondered are there other planets out there like the earth? but because of the vast distances involved until recently we had no way of finding out. now with new technology, scientists are discovering new worlds outside our solar system called exoplanets

his voiceover says this is the greatest man-made wave ever made. turns out it is his wave.t 10 years, he has been working with a company and a team of scientists on a wave that looks like an ocean wave. the surf world immediately celebrated this thing and said , oh, my god, kelly slater has done it. carol: has racked up millions of using comments. where is this wave, where did he do it? he did it under secrecy. >> it is exactly were you wouldn't expect. carroll: is it landlocked? >> it is in california, but it is in the san joaquin valley. fresno would be the nearest thing you would've heard of. it is in farm country. there are a couple reasons for that. a lot of people said this is for secrecy reasons. they wanted to do it where no one was looking for it. that was true, but it is a 20 acre lot with seven hundred acre -- 700 yard long pool, an artificial lake. if you were to buy that around san diego, that would cost $30 million. really financial reasons had as much to do with it as secrecy. they found a plot they could afford. carol: how complicated was it? there is scienc

to provide the same services to customers as traditional phone companies and say the alternative voiceover internet protocol or voip aren't reliable in emergencies. they say the real motive is money. >> profit margin is very small in the land line business. >> reporter: how much money has at&t spent in support of this bill in california? >> i don't know. >> reporter: a lot? >> i don't know -- we don't spend money in support of legislation. >> reporter: but according to records filed about the secretary of state, at&t has invested more than $750,000 in lobbying at the capital for a series of recent bills including his a b2395 and at&t lobbying disclosure list him among the politicians that received lodging food and beverages. though convincing people like ruthann to dump her land line could cost more. >> if it ain't broken, don't fix it. >> reporter: at&t says customers could still keep their land lines if the bill passes but they would likely have to use alternative technology like voip. state regulators say the bill is not necessary for phone companies to modernize which is what they say

i think his voiceover says this is the greatest man-made wave ever made. turns out it is his wave.ast 10 years, has been working with a company and a team of scientists on a wave that looks like an ocean wave. and the surf world immediately sort of celebrated this thing and said, oh, my god, kelly slater has done it. carol: he has racked up millions of views and comments. where is this wave, where did he do it? he did it under secrecy, didn't he? josh: right, it is exactly were you wouldn't expect. carroll: is it landlocked? jos'h: it is in california, but it is in the san joaquin valley. fresno would be the nearest thing you would've heard of. it is in farm country. there are a couple reasons for that. a lot of people said this is for secrecy reasons. they wanted to do it where no one was looking for it. that was true, but it is a 20 acre lot with 700 yard long pool, an artificial lake, basically. if you wanted to buy that around san diego, l.a., that would cost $30 million. so, really, financial reasons had as much to do with it as secrecy. right? they found a plot they could aff

tracking, too, is tricky where you are trying to voiceover the script somewhere quiet.ll, our colleague, has great tracking stories. we should have her come on and tell us. >> i've been i think it was an airport in greece maybe, or maybe an airport somewhere in france. and my producer out there she was covering me in her coat and another coat and i'm trying to track into a makeshift recording device because we didn't have a tracking mike. and the airport announcements were going off and people were walking by in heels. and it was a complete and utter disaster. and they were looking at my, like, what is this american doing yelling into her jacket in an airport. >> that's actually a very good point. airports are the toughest thing because everyone's looking at you like you are a crazy person and you typically have jackets over your head. >> post-9/11 world. >> once i went into a sports shop and said i have to track and they were looking at me what is tracking. i need to voice my script. do you mind if i do this kind of into your jackets so that there's not, you know, a lo

>> the voiceover? the oversight for committee. well, i did not know that before just now and i am sorry i did not -- i do not want to raise any more objections then have already been raised here this morning, bitit seemed a little unusual that this was a tape that you did not identify who it was before it started playing. is what i am concerned with -- are we talking about issues in irs which is under usual -- the usual criticism and these recent circumstances, even more than the normal criticism that they usually receive -- are we , we do not like the way they are doing business and we think they made some mistakes and that they may have made even a misstatement or the present commissioner have made --tements that should be that we should be questioning or challenging as we normally do in that seems to and me to be the just of that -- the gist of the comments i have received from my two learned colleagues on the committee that have testified here today. we do not like what happened. only -- and i put some color on that a little b

the voiceover was alex, i'll introduce her to you if you like. >> okay. and now, what -- was that congressional -- was that video produced by those congressional employees while they were on congressional time -- >> yes, absolutely. >> okay. was any of it produced outside of congressional time? >> i don't believe so. >> and what equipment was used to produce that video? >> we have a lot of apple products. i can show them to you. i can't name them off the top of my head. >> were they all congressally owned equipment? >> yes. >> and how has that video been used outside of congress? >> we have made it public a few months ago. it's available on our website. we tweeted it out, facebook, instagram, it's out there pretty far and wide. we have over 9,000 hits on that. >> all of that is on congressional social media is that correct? >> i believe so. i'd like to get it out there more. go to oversight.house.gov and see it. >> has the congressional employees ever been used for a non-congressional purpose? to your knowledge? >> i couldn't testify about that. i have --

do you mean the voiceover? >> yes. >> she was a staff person for the oversight committee. >> well, i didn't know that before just now and i'm sorry, don't want to raise anymore objections that have already been raised this morning but it seems a little bit unusual that this was a tape that you didn't identify who it was before it started playing. so what i'm concerned with is are we talking about issues in the irs which is under the usual criticism and in these recent circumstances even more than normal criticism than they usually receive? are we talking about, we don't like the way they are doing business and we think that they have made some mistakes and they may have made misstatements or the prison commissioner have made statements that should be be -- we should be questioning or challenging as we normally do in this committee and that seems to me to be the just of the comments that i have received from my too learned colleagues on the committee that have testified here today. we don't like what happened. >

the voiceover was alex, and i'll introduce you to her if you like. >> ok. -- now, was that congressional -- was that video produced by those congressional employees while they were on congressional time or -- >> oh, yes, absolutely. >> ok. was any of it produced outside of congressional time? >> i don't believe so. >> and what equipment was used to produce that video? >> we have a lot of apple products. and i can show them to you. i can't name them off the top of my head. >> were they all congressionally owned? >> yes. >> equipment? >> yeah. >> and how has that video been used outside of congress? >> we have made it public a few months ago. it's available on our website. we tweeted out, facebook, instagram. it's out there pretty far and wide. just over 9,000 hits on it. >> all of that is on congressional social media, is that correct? >> i believe so. i would like to get it out more. i'm glad you're talking about it. go to oversight.house.gov and go see it yourself. >> has the video under the direction of congressional employees ever been used for a oncongr

the voiceover was alex, and i'll introduce her u2 or if you would like. >> okay. now, was that congressional, was that video produced by those congressional employees while they were on congressional time speak was yes, absolutely. >> was any of it produced outside of congressional time? >> i don't believe so. >> and what equipment was used to produce that video speak with we have a lot of apple products and i can show them to you. i can't name them on the top of my head. .. >> that is on congressional social media. >> i would like to get it out there. go to oversight.house.gov and you can see it your self. >> has the video under the direction of congressional employees ever been used for a non-congressional purpose to your knowledge? >> i couldn't testify about that. wanted is in the public and on the website there are untold number of people who can cite that link. >> was any of the footage that was edited and used in this production derived from congressional sources? or was it solely noncongressional sources? >> there are clips at the beginning of the news med

that's the voiceover on camera.emergency till july. that means the military is going to crack down, there's fears of a news blackout. maduro and the venezuela government will not accept help from the outside. so that's the fear there. the debt problem in venezuela is twice as bad when argentina defaulted in 2001. the question is where is bernie sanders and michael moore. maria: let me ask you about bernie sanders socialism. why are people putting, connecting the dots in terms of socialism and this is the direct result? >> to pay for brand of socialism it would cost estimated, some people says 8 trillion in debt. that's what they're talking about in venezuela. that's what they were hit with. in other words, why work, why have business if the government is going to take 90% of the tax? maria: talk about taxes and 92% tax rate. you're not thinking about the impact on business. talk to us judy about this. >> the problem is we have known about venezuela for so long and it's finally come to the crisis point. maduro just m

i think he made 5, 6,000 for a ten-minute voiceover. still, jublia. >> those three athletes -- >> i've been fascinated with the relationship between charlie, warren and bill. you know, bill likes to compare himself-to-favorably to warren. he goes out every year to some out there in omaha. >> right. >> they do this whole thing and yet you have -- >> you don't sound -- >> no, no, charlie and warren will very rarely say anything negative in particular about bill ackman personally. in fact, becky tried i think to elicit an answer specifically about bill. warren said praised by name and category. >> so he could have said the category. it's clear what his intention was. if i were bill ackman i would have taken it personally. >> warren has made a living out of being the evunkular -- >> uncle -- >> i guarantee you over the years, he's taken advantage of pricing flexibility. >> that's what the business with a motive. >> and there were times not to raise insurance premiums and he was fine for that. which i'm not faulting him for that. not faultin

. >> is it hard to do these animated voiceovers?ardest part of it. it's not teaching english to kids that don't want to be there, so i haven't lost that much perspective yet. part of the reason i got into this, acting and what not, is because of across the street, sketch comedy. group, the ensemble. i like this. when you're in a booth by yourself, you, a microphone and your imagination, that's the only part that's hard. it's like solitary confinement. >> you improv some of the lines. >> come on it, yeah. then they have to animate it. i don't even remember. it takes two or three years to do this. anything i would have improvised, i would have forgotten by this point. >> you don't remember anything about this project, do you? >> i don't know anything about it. it's delightful to be reminded of it. >> i heard you took your little boy to see this movie. >> yeah. >> he's about 2. >> just turned 2, yeah. >> did he sit still? >> yeah. we can't get him to sit down and watch anything other than beyonce videos. he sat on my lap in a screening