How to pronounce “brenda” in English

whether that's seeing a stick person get run over by a runaway train or a rescued Admiral Korris try in vain to contact his doomed crew.Brenda Romero is a veteran video designer who has recently been working on a series of analog games, called "The Mechanic is the Message."She knows that the way games involve the player can make them feel far more complicit than the reader of a book or the watcher of a film.

Her typical patient was a woman who was thrown by a horse, instantly became a quadriplegic.Brenda's patient meets with doctors and nurses has some surgeries, mourns with friends and family.Then she meets Brenda.

Then she meets Brenda.Brenda's job is the rest of the patient's life.So Brenda assesses the patient's capabilities, surveys the myriad tools and technologies that are available to supplement those capabilities.

Male Presenter: So I wanna talk a little bit about the star of the movie.Brenda Chapman, my fellow director, who started the project, it was her original idea and concept.

Brenda Marshall: Thank you so much for being here. And thank you so much for inviting me.This is a great opportunity to talk about 'Dakota Or What's a Heaven for?' And this

I think that if you are a Dakotan and you are writing, it's a given that you have to write about land. >>Male Audience Member #1: Uh huh.Brenda Marshall: That it is so much a part of our psyche and they know there are lots of sociologists, psychologists who sort of argue against this notion of a regional psyche.But I think absolutely there are different regional identities.

kind of fit together. Good question. >>Female Audience Member #2: How do you go about getting your book published? Like did you say that the North Dakota,..Brenda Marshall: The North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies.Thank you. I got it.

You have to have a literary agent >>Female Audience Member #2: Right.Brenda Marshall: in New York. And for this type of book, but my agent wasn't able to sell it to one of the New York houses. And I kept getting this thing over and over again,which was: 'Love the story. Great writing. Great characters. We've never read this story before but we don't know how we would market it to a wide audience.'

What did you say?BRENDAN O'BYRNE: She was our best camerawoman.I was just going to say, she was an excellent camerawoman.

That's right. I want that cookbooks.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: It's called "Manifold Destiny." No, it's not a joke.It is called "Manifold Destiny." I tracked it down.

Oh my gosh. I feel like we should get everybody in this audience a copy of that.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Imagine the sales.I mean, they just haven't been sold for years.

We know what you think of the Army poncho.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Most Army products.That's real? Yeah. They are very bad.

And Brendan, it sounds like you liked it so much that it was hard for you to leave.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Yeah. I was going through a really rough time in my life, also.It was really me breaking up all my wife, was the starts of that.

OK. It wasn't actually about combat.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: I wasn't trying to heal.Different kind of combat.

Meeting people who are so disconnected from the experience that you went through in the war.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Yeah. Meeting America was great for me, because it really showed me what I fought for, really.And it's really sad to see what state our country's actually in.

Maybe for them was something different.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Yeah. For me, it's the idea that in society, like Sebastian was saying, it's a group of I's.Everyone is I, me.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Guillermo, did they pull pranks on you, also?

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Or anything.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Or your mother's name.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Important information.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: He's good.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: He's back.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: No way!

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: One of things I found is that when you're actually giving of to a group, that feels really good.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.Brendan, I want to really applaud you for what you just said about giving back.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: I've never been in a movie.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Thank you very much.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: It's Vietnam.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: And that didn't actually correct the problem later.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Next week we didn't-- No.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: I didn't have any clean shirts.

And I tell people all the time, look, we're all brothers.BRENDAN O'BYRNE: Yeah.

Brendan: So, everyone, you know these two people.Mike Birbiglia is a famous stand-up comedian who has turned filmmaker.

Ira: Thanks. Wow, thanks you guys.Brendan: No problem. How are you?Mike: Thanks, Brendan. Yeah, no.

Mike: OK. I guess so.Brendan: But you're both here and featured.So, it's OK. Mike: Thanks for having us here.

Like, the word "evil" just pops to my mind when I'm here.Brendan: Oh, man. There are no lawyers here, right?OK. I see a few in the back.

Is your hands in the "stick the landing" gymnast pose.Brendan: It's more of a bi-pod than a tripod.Mike: Yeah, it's a bi-pod.

Mike: Yeah, it's a bi-pod.Brendan: But the show ran for eight months.Sold out Bleecker Street Theater Was produced by Nathan Lane.

So I guess two years later we shot the film.Brendan: And just sort of a back story, Mike-- Ira: Awesome.Brendan: Mike had appeared on "This American Life" a few times leading up to when you guys started making the movie.

Brendan: And just sort of a back story, Mike-- Ira: Awesome.Brendan: Mike had appeared on "This American Life" a few times leading up to when you guys started making the movie.How did you guys meet each other originally, or start working with each other?

And then at the end, have a piece that we'll then record full-fidelity and very prettily and put on the radio.Brendan: So, Mike. You said you were, went for college and you studied screen-writing.Ira, have you been a film buff?

I enjoy it. I'm a completely civilian movie consumer in every way.Brendan: You have an IMDB entry now.So now you're a filmmaker.

We're gonna start to just make up answers to stuff.Brendan: Yeah. After a week, people just won't want to see you live anymore.Mike: Just wait till we go electric.

Ira: God bless you.Brendan: Alright. So Mike, you mentioned when the one-man show was a success.Mike: Uh-huh. Brendan: And people were pressuring you saying, "Hey, this could be a movie." Mike: Yeah.

Mike: Uh-huh. Brendan: And people were pressuring you saying, "Hey, this could be a movie." Mike: Yeah.Brendan: When did it occur to you to say, "Hey, this might actually work as a movie" instead of my friends just saying, "Hey, you should make a movie?"Mike: Just let Ira answer this one.

The question was when did we think it could be a movie?Brendan: Yeah, versus people just saying, "Hey, you have a show.It could be a movie." Ira: I actually know, I actually know when I thought it could be a movie.

I could answer for me.Brendan: Mike, is that OK?Mike: Yeah, go ahead.

Like, if I can see the structure, but I feel like, OK, then it can be real.Brendan: Yeah. Like a sentence diagram.You can see the little parts where--.

Ira: Why? Wait, why?Brendan: Is it when you're a writer for a different contract?Mike: Usually it's actresses who make that decision, but in this case, I'm just so self-conscious that I was like, "Oh, I could be an actor, but I would never take my shirt off and certainly