Gilbert Gottfried’s insensitive tweets about Japan may have been a (briefly, probably) career-derailing move, but they’ve led to something of a Cinderella story for a Minnesota father Daniel McKeague, insofar as being hired to voice a duck for insurance commercials can be considered a “Cinderella story.” After a nationwide hunt, McKeague has been selected to replace Gottfried as the Aflac duck, whose adenoidal honk of the insurer’s name reminds people that they are suitably responsible businesses with whom to invest money they might later need in case of accident or death. McKeague, who works at Minneapolis radio station KQRS, recorded an audition clip and posted it to the KQRS site, and found himself selected for the job after he proved he was “able to convey a range of emotion within the single word ‘Aflac’” and also passed “an extensive background check.”