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On those lines, while both of you have done on-air segments on your shows, you were both primarily producers. You know about the presenter’s role but it hadn’t been your main responsibility, but now it is. What is it like to become the voices of this program, as opposed to being the occasional voices for the others? Alix: That’s an interesting question, but I don’t know how interesting an answer I have. I can say that Lulu and I did a lot of experimenting with what would work for us as hosts - what the right position for us was. In the beginning we talked about it a lot and even did stuff like - we both took a comedy improv class together - which was really fun, but who knows how it’s affected the end product? But after a while I think we just kind of forgot about it and just focused on trying to be ourselves, and do things that we found funny or interesting, and that’s when I think that it started to work. What kind of pitch did you have to make to get NPR on board? The Next Generation of Rock Radio Listen online at 90.5thenight.org Read each issue at www.NJArtsMag.com pg 117