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78 F A L L 2 0 1 8 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Jim Fitzpatrick CAS has moved from Formosa Stage E at Picture Head to Formosa on the Lot Stage F. He continues with Season 13 of American Dad and Season 16 of Family Guy. Jim is looking forward to another epic chicken fight with a twist later this season. Stay tuned! Jim also recently completed the mix on the independent feature film Burning Dog, directed by Trey Batchelor, soon to invade the festival circuit. In March-April, George A. Flores CAS, Colin Campbell, and Alexis Schafer worked a TV pilot with me until a joyful return to Season 13 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, after a year hiatus for them. With me on that was boom op Daniel Quintana, utility/2nd boom Alexis Schafer, and 2nd utility/3rd boom/sound cart design-extraordinaire Kraig Kishi. We also had help on the show from Lena Alkatib, R. Steve Evans, and Matt Taylor. In July, I had the honor and pleasure to take over the mixer's chair on CBS's NCIS from Steve Bowerman CAS. Wishing Steve and his wife the best on their retirement! I also retained the awesome team of boom op Mike Reardon and utility Jeffrey Hefner. My smooth transition couldn't have been completed without the help of Devon Golub, Thomas Popp, Roger Stevenson, Steven Grothe, and boom ops & utility Dean Thomas, Ross Deane, R. Steve Evans, and Janna Lopez. Onward to 2019! Production mixer Scott D. Smith CAS, with able assistance from his crew of Jason Johnston (boom) and Michael Capulli (utility), began the sixth season of production on Chicago P.D. for NBC/Universal in July. September saw first preview of the film Widows at the Toronto Film Festival. Directed through all-night Agua Dulce dust parties. It's always a joy to be having this much fun while working. Glenn Berkovitz CAS has been keeping busy with a variety of double-ups, 2nd units & sitting in to finish other mixers' seasons … and it's been in the very fine company of boom operators Paul Miller, Tekk Calderon, Steve Evans & Victor Bouzi (among others). Major shoutout and many thanks to Doug Schulman CAS, Kriky Krikorian CAS, Scott Harber CAS, Jamie Gambell, John Bauman CAS, and Ed Novick for your support and ongoing harassment—it takes a dialogue-driven village! Devendra Cleary CAS here. After finishing up Season 1 of Mayans M.C. for FX, utility sound technician Tanya Peel and I jumped right onto Schooled for ABC at Sony Studios. Richard Bullock is booming with us and we're happy to be on a nice stage show for a while. I've been spending my hiatuses writing for the CAS Quarterly, as well as building a small run of sound carts for sale. Headed to Finland for the third year in a row to spend the holidays! Schooled runs until late January, just in time for pilot season! Jay Patterson CAS, with Rob Scott and Kris Manning, are boppin' back and forth from Beverly Hills to Crenshaw on All American for The CW. Andy Wiskes CAS has recently completed a run of 47 radio shows with Julene Bair for High Plains Radio. Also finished sound design and mixing for #3 Normandie Lane, a film by Brenda Strong and John Farmenesh-Bocca. Nice aspect of working post on that film was that it was mixed on location by Louis Wiskes, a future CAS mixer. Currently working on 14 soundscapes for a museum project in Hawaii. The hardest part of that project is trying to figure out how to get the producer to fly me over for a site survey. Currently on the set of Greta Gerwig's second feature film Little Women. Sound team Pud Cusack CAS, Kelly Doran, and Dia Donnelly is hitting it with full force. Little Women is a project that Greta Gerwig has been writing and working on since before Lady Bird. The sound team has brought on Greta's passion in the development and recording of the show. Additionally, Pud Cusack, Alex Miles Burstein, and Nick Ronzio are the sound team of Jordan Peele's second film since Get Out, called Us! Mostly filmed in the Los Angeles area with two weeks in Santa Cruz, CA, and one week in Big Bear, CA, the sophisticated thriller was filled with sound challenges. We tackled it with enthusiasm. Karol Urban CAS MPSE mixed with Marti D. Humphrey CAS, Hulu's Into the Dark: The Body, the first movie in the developing film anthology. Karol is also mixing Season 15 of Grey's Anatomy and Season 2 of Station 19 for ABC with Kurt Kassulke. Additionally, Karol is mixing Single Parents with Ross Davis CAS for ABC. Finally, Karol just completed the mix for a series for CryptTV called Troubled Youth with Steve Urban MPSE as her sound designer and additional re-recording mixer. Scott Harber CAS and Patrick Martens have been basking in the high gloss riches and aftermath of Ballers for HBO. Folks everywhere keep asking us, "How did you do that?" Well, we'd love to tell you but that NDA is sooooo laden with legalese that we may never be able to tell the tale. But it may have involved alien abduction and waking up in a thong. These days, we're doing Bosch for Amazon with Bob "Nice" Arredondo playing drums and sousaphone. We laugh, we cry, we lived