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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hello friends and welcome to the way I heard it episode number 223. This

one is called, Would You Care to Have Your Head Red? Care to have your head red? That was

a question you might expect to have heard 150 years ago, back when fronologists would routinely

charge money to explain your personality and predict your future by analyzing the bumps

on your head. This was not a question I expected to hear during my conversation with today's

guest, a most unusual actor named David Keltz. But nevertheless, I heard it. What makes David so

unusual is not the fact that he's familiar with fronology, or the fact that people today

are willing to pay him in a roundabout way to evaluate the bumps on their head. What makes

him interesting and unusual is the fact that unlike most working actors, David Keltz stopped

auditioning for theatrical roles many years ago and decided to cast himself instead in just

one role for the rest of his life, the role of Edgar Allan Poe. Now I know what you're

thinking, you're thinking, but Mike Edgar Allan Poe, that's not a role because he's

not a character. Poe was a real person who wrote spooky stories and died in Baltimore

over 150 years ago. And you would be correct. Nevertheless, David Keltz, an actor by trade,

has committed his career and his life to keeping the memory of Edgar Allan Poe alive. And

he has done so just like an actor would by dressing like Poe and talking like Poe and

acting like Poe. And maybe most importantly, by memorizing virtually everything that Edgar

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