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The Spokesman
Attention listeners. In the Internet version of Act One of this show, we have left one curse word un-bleeped at a critical moment.

An 18-year-old in foster care—Anthony Pico, pictured with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom—gives speeches to the big and powerful all over California. Public speaking changed his life. But being a spokeskid, he's found, is complicated. And when David Iserson was a teenager, he starred in this commercial (Quicktime, 2.4 MB), which basically ruined his life. Plus, other stories of what happens when you go from private person to public face.

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