May 8, 2026 • 27 mins
Yvette Nicole Brown is back to give Danielle a piece of life changing advice that could forever alter your expectations of other people.
She also takes us into the world of Zootopia and we find out if Yvette would ever hit the ballroom for Dancing with the Stars!
Plus, as always, a listener chimes in! This time to explain how a poor talent show song choice can lead to a lifetime of stage fright.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
That's okay, becaus no one here is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So yvet.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We asked our listeners to send in their own embarrassing
teenage stories so that we've now all shared secrets about
each other. That way, any chance of blackmail has been
totally eliminated. This week, we are hearing from Penelope, who
had some issues with a musical performance at.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
School fifth grade talent show. I'm already trying to get
past the new kid ways of being bullied.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I think it was a lip syncing contest.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Actually it was a weird Al Yankovic song, the White Stuff,
which if you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Remember, was about Oreo cookies.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And for whatever reason, my tape wasn't pre screened, so
while I'm on stage dancing like weird Al Yankovic, the
tape stops dead in the middle. Oh yeah, And by
the way, the kid that's like running the play and
stop button on the side of the stage, he's the
like the boy, the one I have the crush on,
the boy that every kid gets up and goes to
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school for. It makes this even worse. So I look
over at him like what the heck is going on?
And he looks over at me, like, you know. The
principal said to stop, so I'm laughed off of stage.
I have no idea why. I don't come to find
out until later that they were stop.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
They stopped me.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Because they thought it was not an oreo and it
was something inappropriate for a fifth grader to be singing about,
though I was still at the age where I had
no idea what that even was. So to this day,
thirty years later, I still have a good amount of
stage right that I still try to get over. So anyways, awkward, weird,
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a little traumatic. Thanks for letting me tell you my story.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh, Penelope plope that you were nodding your head, did
you suspect that.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
They would think it was cocaine?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, cocaine?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You were thinking the other white stuff?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, I didn't know until she got to that point,
and then I was like, oh, they think bodily fluids.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Oh, I see, that's the second one I thought. But
I thought white stuff would be creaky, but it could be.
Oh that's even worse. If they thought that that baby
was talking about body fluids.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That's way worse.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, way worse.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
It's way worse.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh my gosh, how do they not vet performances? That
feels like, yes, absolutely We're gonna have to screen all
of these.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I mean, I hate that it lingered though, like we
all have a story that's you know, like my situation.
It didn't stop me from liking guys and telling guys
I liked him.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I didn't. It didn't. I was an atrophied it wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
So the idea that she still has stage fright breaks
my heart because that's that you shouldn't carry that thirty
years later.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I hate that she still has that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How did you get over that that seventh grade feeling
where you looked evil in the eyes and you had
just been made fun of by what felt like the
entire class.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It was it was the entire class? How did that
eventually pass?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
My mom was may she rest in peace? Was amazing,
and she was a realist, and she's kind of the
one that said to me, this is life event like,
there's always going to be someone that you think is
your friend that's not. It's going to be someone who
does not move like. This is the one thing she
said to me at the time that has stayed with
me in my whole life. She says, stop expecting you
from other people.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
See. I had the same response.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Stop expecting other people to treat you the way you
would treat them, to move through life the way you
move through life, because a lot of times were hurt
because someone does something to us that we would never
have done to someone. Yeah, you wouldn't even enter our
mind to do that, right, but it does enter the
minds of some people. There's some really dark things that
people do. So when you move through life thinking that
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every if you're kind and you think everyone's kind, that's
a recipe for disaster. It doesn't mean that you become unkind,
but you keep your head on the swivel, as they say,
and you pay attention to people's actions and their patterns
and protect yourself. So that stayed with me. So when
I realized that's life, I got hurt because I would
never have done that to someone, and I didn't even
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imagine that she would do something like that, and I
needed to then go, well, then that's her karma. That's
something that she's going to have to deal with because
I would never harm anyone like that, And so the
understanding of it not being in me was enough for
me to go, I feel sorry for the people that
perpetrated this harm towards me, I would keep the same
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right and I'm going to get back in there. And
I now know that he's not the right guy for me.
He's not a choice. I need to watch her as
a friend, and I'm going to keep moving through life
the way I moved through life.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And did the memory of the Was it as quick
as a turnover as it is now? You know, like our
attention span is so short. It's like you were the
topic of conversation for a day. Had they just moved
on the next day.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh no, I was.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I was that girl who did that thing for the
rest of the school year, I believe, you know. But thankfully,
you know, because I had my own group of friends
and I wasn't trying to be one of the cool kids.
They had their conversations about me where they had their conversations.
It wasn't like me trying to get to them to
find out what they had to say about me. I
just went on with my life. I worked in the library,
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I still had my friends, I still listened to the
music I liked, like it just was not Yeah, I
knew that they weren't I knew that they weren't kind,
So I don't covet being around people that aren't kind
or I don't care what unkind people say.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You know what else I love about what your mom
told you is that it even works on like a
much simpler level of just It's almost like when in
a marriage or in a friendship, where you you what
you would do in that situation, they don't, And so
you think it's obviously a sign that you don't care
about me, because I would have right, I would have X,
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Y and Z if you said that, I would have
done this, and you didn't do that for me, So
it must mean you don't care. Well it's like, well no,
not everyone thinks the way you do the way you
do or see you know, and so it works on
so many levels. Your mom sounds like an incredibly wise woman.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
She really was. She really was.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So do you have any embarrassing memories from the days
of performing in the New Jack Swing era?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I mean, just everything we wore is it really cool?
It's cool in retross like it's cool if you went
through it. Anyone looking at those now is not. But
that was my thing. I just wanting to dress nice
and sound good, and you know, all the things, and
there's so many things you just can't control. Yeah, performing,
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you know, is the mic right on? Is the monitor on?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Can you like?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
So anytime I see someone doing an amazing performance, I'm like,
way to go tea because it takes a lot. It
takes a lot. So yeah, I don't have any any
real embarrassing moments from then.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Did you have a mean running Man? Roger Rabbit, a
pretty good Kidden play?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, I had a good Kidden play with the kick kick,
and yeah I had that running Man was okay. There
was a dance called the wop Okay, yeah, pretty good,
little running Man.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
There were a couple.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I'm not the most coordinated. I have rhythm, but I'm
not the most coordinated. So there's some things when it
involves your legs and your arms move at the same time.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You know, I got a good two step. Okay.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I could never do Dancing with the Stars. You will
if you see me on Dancing with the Stars. Ever,
something has shifted in my life in a way that
it was the only choice for me. I need you
to know that because I literally really I am so
afraid of ever doing that. I never wanted to do
mass singer either, but I don't like competition shows.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, you don't like competition shows because I mean, mass
singer is made for you, someone with a killer voice.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
No, it's the competition. I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
And even when I did this show, I said, you
guys got to get me out of here quickly, like
I don't want to. I don't want to stay long.
I'm a stop in but I don't want to stay long.
And the year I was on, which I wish, I
wish I hadn't said that now because the year I
was on Boys to Men one, So the next set
of if I'd made it one more week, the next
set of clues would have been me talking about my.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
My shared relationship with the Buffalos.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
So we never got to do that, and I never
got to do my last song, So that part I
wish I would have been more like, yeah, stay, but
they knew they had to get me out of there.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, you tried to control it instead of just let
it be.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I know, I know it was for you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
It was also an interesting time because I was caring
for my dad. I'm still caring for my dad, but
it was right after my dad it had his fall,
and so I was going back and forth to his
nursing rehab every day, like it was a very stressful time. Yeah,
so I just wasn't you know, if I got a
chance to do mass Sinker again, I would really do
it the way I should have done it the first time.
But I just kind of was like, let me just
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phone this in right quick and get to my dad.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It was really it did was tough.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It was a tough time.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
So the fact that anything came out, well, like, I'm
so happy I'm friends now with Denise Williams and I
sang Let's here for the Boy and I became friends
with her because her son reached out and said, my
mom doesn't always love everybody that sings her song. Yes, yeah,
but she did enjoy your rendition. And I was like,
oh my god, Denise Williams, who I grew up loving
because of my mom.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
It was just really nice. So a lot of good
came out of it. But I did not win.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I would like to tell you I all doing Dancing
with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I came in eighth's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I did not win either, but let me tell you,
it was the most incredible experience everyone I've ever had.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Everyone says that why what is it? What is it
What am I missing you?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The fear that you have going into it is very real,
and I had it too. I had never even taken
a dance class.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Wow, so I knew.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Nothing and I was very scared, but I knew that
it just felt very right. So unlike the situation for
you with Messing or where you were like, oh man,
the timing of this isn't perfect, it felt like it
was perfect timing for me to be doing Dancing with
the Stars. I have two small kids, I had.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Just had cancer the year before. I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I had just made a commitment to myself to say
yes to things that felt risky and scary, but I
also knew had the potential to bring me a lot
of joy. It was the most like you push yourself
and challenge yourself and see yourself grow in so many
different ways every single day, from the time you start
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to the time you end, you are truly amazed with
what you're able to do in spite of the fear,
in regardless of the nerves. And then once you do it,
once you know you know what it's like to perform live,
you get to do it every Tuesday, and it just
it's really incredible, and the bond you form with your
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partner is something that, assuming you're both wonderful people, which
you are, and I know all those dancers and know
now the ones that are on the show currently all
are It's a bond and a friendship that you have forever,
and it's a real it's a family. You're rooting for
each other. And so one of the things that surprised
me is I do enjoy competition. You do?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I do.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I enjoy competition. I really like competition against myself. Yeah,
so like every week I'm gonna get better, I'm gonna
push myself and then to put to put my best
up against your best and let other people decide.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It doesn't bother me. Competition doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I forgot all about the fact that it was a
competition until those five horrible minutes at the end of
a Tuesday night where someone has to go home and
then you're like, oh man, this part stinks because you
are just rooting for each other the whole time, and
it's you all feel we all feel that way, and
so it doesn't ever have that competitive Never once did
I look at my fellow Dancing with the Stars competitors
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and think they're hoping I don't do well.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Ah see, that's that's the thing too, I think, you know,
I don't know what can we say the other thing
about it?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Okay, I liked it.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I'm fully covered, Like just a little bit of my
shoulder showing through this low hole makes.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Me feel scandalous. Ooh, look, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So I'm always fully covered, And so everybody seemed really naked.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's really leg and arms. It's a lot of legs.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And I was also a very fully covered person almost
right up until basically the day I did Dancing with
the Stars, and then I was like, let's take it off.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No idea why.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But something about dancing just makes you go, do I
need to wear all these clothes? But that's the other thing,
is that the wardrobe, the styling, the costume department, you
have full say, they will never push you to wear
something you're not comfortable with. If you want to wear
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a beautiful long sleeve, if you want to wear a
crop neck, if you want to and you pick and choose.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Your little moments.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
If you want to wear a fish net under a
high slit, so anything.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Time, Okay, that helps you helps me.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
If you do it, and.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Even the you know, we've done reality TV stuff, you
know what it can how produced it can feel.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Never did I feel like they were trying.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
To to force it to go.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
They would ask me questions, trying to come up with
the storyline for the week.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But if I would say, like no, I don't, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Not what I'm it's great, then what are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
It was?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's just the most beautiful from top to bottom. The people,
the camera people, they've all been there for decades.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They are all looting for you.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's beautiful. I really think you I will.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I will if it comes around again.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay, I will, you will, I will consider it. Yes,
I love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You are in a new movie written and directed by
one of the most exciting musicians around today, Anderson Park.
It's called k Pops. Do you ever feel a connection
to musicians looking to branch out to Hollywood?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Anderson first of all is just when I think, if
I think of Sunshine, have you ever met him?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I never have, so freaking delightful, like he's one of
the most joyous, playful, fun humans on the planet.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
And uh when he reached out to Uh. It was
during COVID.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
This movie's long time, just dating long, been in the
can for a couple of years and just coming out now.
But he asked me to meet in a zoom for
COVID and during COVID and we talked and he said,
I want you to play my mom. And I said,
how could I play your mom? I'm so youthful, yes,
but you know, but you know Hollywood, So I said, yes,
I'd love to.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And we got to just create something so sweet and wonderful.
It's airing. It's called k Pops. It's airing exclusively at
AMC theaters right now. Please go see it.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
It's a story of Anderson and his son, soul Rashid,
finding each other in the film, and it was a
way for him to spend more time with his son.
They spent a lot of time during COVID and they
wanted to he wanted to reconnect with him, and he
created a movie along with this wonderful writer named Kayla
Amazon and it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
It's really wonderful. So yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I do love a multitasking artist, you know, a Donald
Glover Anderson pack, like somebody that can do a thousand
different things and is not afraid to fail because I'm
realizing now I think Phineas Billie Eilish's brother said something
today on Threads that stuck with me. He said, I'm
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leaning more towards failing over never trying. I didn't saying
as eloquently as he said it, but he said, in
this season of his life, he wants to He'd rather
have more stories of failure than stories of things that.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
He never tried.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
And as I look at my life, I'm fifty four
fifty five this year.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
If not now, when you know I want to direct?
When we direct? Event?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
When are you gonna direct? If I wanted to do
a Christmas EP and sing? When you when you gonna sing?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Event?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Like?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What do you? What am I waiting on?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Like?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Why world don't fire?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
You?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
What the world is on the fire?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And the other thing too, is that now more than ever,
if you wait for someone to knock on your door,
it just may never happen.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
We are the creators absolutely of the things that we
want to do.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You want to do a Christmas EP? You you're gonna
do it?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And do it?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
What do you do?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
It's just it's I feel like we keep waiting for
permission and what I know for sure?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
And I know you know this as well.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
In this industry, nobody knows huh and knows what they're doing.
Every doing the best they can and hoping for the best.
And if it's lightning in a bottle and it takes off,
they didn't know it was gonna take off.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
They wanted it to, but they didn't know.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
So if none of us know how to craft the
perfect widget, you're in a perfect sprocket. If we don't
know how to do it, then that means anybody can
do it. So that means anybody could be shot out
of like a cannon. So don't count yourself out. Always
go for what you want to go for. And there's
nothing wrong with failing. Everyone that does something great they
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failed first, Yeah, every everything, this this might come talking
on the hair tie, hold my hair up. Whoever made
this failed a few times before they made it. Whoever
looped this, loomed this sweater made some mistakes before they
learned how to loom this sweater.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's it's that's part of it. You gotta fail to
get to the to the good.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Good exactly you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Do you want to direct? Do you see yourself directing
single camera? Multi camera?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
What do you want to start with multiicam? Because I
know it's so well and you know, this is the thing.
I know for sure that I know how to speak
to actors. That part does not bother me at all.
I love that part. It's where the camera goes and
being able to tell these amazing crew members that are
great at what they do. I want a two shot
coming to the door, but I want you to catch
him before, Like, I need to know how to say
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that in a way that is respectful to them, because
I don't know. Give me the two lens and I
want them. I don't know those technical terms. Ye, so
that's why I feel ill equipped.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
So but I have friends that the directors.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
They are like, that's what your DP is for correct
cinematographers for they.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Know that's the associate director.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So I don't know, if you know, my full time
job outside of podcasting is directory idea and.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yes, that is it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Those are the conversations that you have with your associate director.
You walk through some of those things with them first,
and then it is absolutely your floor. If you want
to be the person to deliver those shots to the
camera people, or being the associate producer is the person
who's there week in and week out, knows the crew members,
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has the dialogue, has the shorthand they can do it
for you, but you give your wishes to the associate
director so that he is delivering your wishes and the
collaboration really comes between you and the associate director to
decide what's best in this moment. And the other thing
I'll say is that as a multiicam director, your best
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friend is getting to know what your show runner wants,
because at the end of the day, the TV multiicam
is not the director's medium.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's not and so you're trying to bring their vision
to life.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And if you keep bringing your vision and it's not
their vision life, they're not.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Going to bring you back.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So I now on all the shows I've worked on,
it is my first week is all about figuring out
based on the way they write the notes they give
me for blocking, do they like two shots, do they
like clots?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Do they like things that are raked? Do they what
are they? What are they vibing with?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And how can I do more of that and find
more of that and highlight that in their writing and
in their shots, and so you the most important part
of being a director is what you said, knowing how
to communicate two actors, making them feel safe and scene,
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and giving them the space and freedom to play and
to come to you if something doesn't feel right. I
always come in with a full plan, and I say listen,
I'm coming in because I want to save us all time.
None of us want to be here all day finding
it together. I have found something. You are the expert
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in your character.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
This is yours.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
If if I suggest something that feels inauthentic, I don't
want to do it. I don't want you to do it,
So just say no, I wouldn't do that, and then
tell me what you want to do instead, and let's
go from there.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I am literally like I feel like I just went
to film school, multicam director of film school, because you
literally have plugged in so many holes that I had
in my mind. And this is I know that you
can do this so well because you've done this your
entire life, right, And I think that's the same reason.
There's a shorthand that you have if you've worked in sitcoms,
there's a shorthand that we have that we understand, we
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know what it feels like when we know we wouldn't
go to the door and do that. Our character would
never have gone to that door. And something's forcing us
to go to the door, and we can't say I
don't go to that door. So there's something beautiful about
you saying I'm here visiting. Yeah, what doesn't feel good?
Oh girl, I want to shadow you. You're the director.
I want to shadow I want to show I would
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love I would love that.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Okay, great, well, let's I'll make sure you have information.
We will we will do that.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Thank you for that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
This year, you also voiced characters in Zutopia Too, now
the highest grossing animated Disney film of all time.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I mean that has to be mind blowing, right it is.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I really feel like my career I feel like Forrest Gump.
If I had to tell anyone who I am in
the world, I am forced Gump. I literally end up
places I never I wouldn't know to dream of, had
I wouldn't know to ask the.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Lord for that. Yeah, you know, everything.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
That's been most amazing. You know, it's been like a
call and someone saying would you consider, do you would
you like to do this or I do something. I
had no idea community or Drake and Josh would become
what they became, Like, there's just no way of knowing.
I'm having the best time with the Utopia two crew
we have. We went to the Golden Globes together. I'm
going to the Oscars for the first time because of
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that film, Like it literally is the gift that keeps
on giving. And what makes me so proud is that,
just like Inside Out Too, I was blessed to be
in that film as well. There's some stories that matter,
Like We're Inside Out Too. We're talking about the importance
of understanding that your emotions, though they matter, you can't
let them control how you move. And you have to,
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you know, work to make sure your anxiety doesn't overtake you.
You know it's not a bad thing, but you have
to make sure you keep it in check so that
you can do everything you put on this earth to do.
And then Utopia's teaching you and Zutopia one, it teaches
you don't let someone else declare what your trajectory is.
No one else gets to decide who you can be
and what you can do.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
And how far you can go.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
And Utopia too is teaching us that there is power
and diversity, equity and inclusion, and everyone deserves to have
a space that fits them and we all can work
together and live together in harmony. These are lessons that
we need told through little animals and little motions.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
So the fact that those two movies in particular made
so much money tells me that we're getting the word
out about these things that matter. So I couldn't be
more honored to be a part of those films.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That is so exciting. I have one more question, another
work question for you. I am yet to appear on
any game show, but I love them. Yes, which one
is the most fun?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And why?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Oh gosh, I've done so many Hollywood Game Night with
Jane Lynch.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I pray they bring that show back. That show is
a vibe. First of all, the games are insane. You
never know what you're gonna get. They bring you a
lot of alcohol. And now, I personally do not drink
on the show.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I don't drink.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
No, no, no, no, I don't know. I don't drink really
in life either. I drink drink on my birthday. I
have a little mohito on my birthday. I'm not a
big drinker, but I definitely would not drink on that
show because I want people to win money, yes, and
so if you're not mentally there, you're gonna miss something
and they're not gonna win money. So everybody else is sloshed,
and I'm just like, next question. Yeah, so that's a
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fun one. Hollywood Squares is fun. I think you'd be
great on Hollywood Squares. What's another one that's really great? Oh,
pyramid is fun. One hundred thousand dollars pyramid. If you
can make those connections quickly.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I think you'd believe. I haven't done games, so she'd
be so great on game shows.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I love game shows, and never I've never done one.
Would you ever do Traders?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
I have not heard enough. I haven't watched an episode
fully seen the clips.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah it feels is it mean?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's how I feel. I'm like, I couldn't. First of all,
I could never be a trader.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I couldn't be a trader.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I'd have to be a faithful I could be one
of the people trying to figure out who the traders are.
But if they made me a trader, I'd be dead
that night.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Just let's be dead.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
I can't, Like I said, going back to my child,
I don't have cruelty in me, not even cruelty for
television or cruelty for fun. That's why I really haven't
played a lot of villains, if any, in my career,
because I just think my joy or my kindness would
sneak through. I don't know that I'm a good enough
factor to do it, so I don't know if I
would do traders.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, I feel like I've accomplished something by just having
you agree to consider dancing with the stars. The next
time it comes back up. I'm not getting gonna USh anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Absolutely, Yvette, thank you so.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Much for such a beautiful conversation. It was so lovely
seeing you and all of you, my dear listeners. You
can see Yvette in the movie k Pops, currently in
theaters and directed by Anderson Pack and honestly, just turn
on your TV at any point of any day and
you will catch her at some point. So thank you
again so much for being here. I'll make sure you
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have my information. Please stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You know there's not a whole lot of things direct
to direct right now.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I know, but when it comes back, baby, I'm be
right there next to you. Learn.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I want to say one more thing before I go,
because my friend book, I mean, we talked about longtime friends.
My oldest friend is named Janine Attewood Baines. I've been
friends with her since I was ten years old.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
She adores you.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Oh and if I came on this podcast, we and
I'm with you, and I don't tell you that Jeanine
Attwood Baines loves you.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I will he marry Janine Atwood bains That means so much.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
That's very sweet, awesome. Well there's for special shout out.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Thank you, thank you. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
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Speaker 3 (27:03):
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Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production
Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Subasch. The theme song
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That's okay, becaus no one here is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So yvet.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We asked our listeners to send in their own embarrassing
teenage stories so that we've now all shared secrets about
each other. That way, any chance of blackmail has been
totally eliminated. This week, we are hearing from Penelope, who
had some issues with a musical performance at.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
School fifth grade talent show. I'm already trying to get
past the new kid ways of being bullied.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I think it was a lip syncing contest.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Actually it was a weird Al Yankovic song, the White Stuff,
which if you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Remember, was about Oreo cookies.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And for whatever reason, my tape wasn't pre screened, so
while I'm on stage dancing like weird Al Yankovic, the
tape stops dead in the middle. Oh yeah, And by
the way, the kid that's like running the play and
stop button on the side of the stage, he's the
like the boy, the one I have the crush on,
the boy that every kid gets up and goes to
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school for. It makes this even worse. So I look
over at him like what the heck is going on?
And he looks over at me, like, you know. The
principal said to stop, so I'm laughed off of stage.
I have no idea why. I don't come to find
out until later that they were stop.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
They stopped me.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Because they thought it was not an oreo and it
was something inappropriate for a fifth grader to be singing about,
though I was still at the age where I had
no idea what that even was. So to this day,
thirty years later, I still have a good amount of
stage right that I still try to get over. So anyways, awkward, weird,
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a little traumatic. Thanks for letting me tell you my story.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh, Penelope plope that you were nodding your head, did
you suspect that.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
They would think it was cocaine?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, cocaine?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You were thinking the other white stuff?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, I didn't know until she got to that point,
and then I was like, oh, they think bodily fluids.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Oh, I see, that's the second one I thought. But
I thought white stuff would be creaky, but it could be.
Oh that's even worse. If they thought that that baby
was talking about body fluids.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That's way worse.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, way worse.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
It's way worse.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh my gosh, how do they not vet performances? That
feels like, yes, absolutely We're gonna have to screen all
of these.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I mean, I hate that it lingered though, like we
all have a story that's you know, like my situation.
It didn't stop me from liking guys and telling guys
I liked him.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I didn't. It didn't. I was an atrophied it wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
So the idea that she still has stage fright breaks
my heart because that's that you shouldn't carry that thirty
years later.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I hate that she still has that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How did you get over that that seventh grade feeling
where you looked evil in the eyes and you had
just been made fun of by what felt like the
entire class.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It was it was the entire class? How did that
eventually pass?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
My mom was may she rest in peace? Was amazing,
and she was a realist, and she's kind of the
one that said to me, this is life event like,
there's always going to be someone that you think is
your friend that's not. It's going to be someone who
does not move like. This is the one thing she
said to me at the time that has stayed with
me in my whole life. She says, stop expecting you
from other people.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
See. I had the same response.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Stop expecting other people to treat you the way you
would treat them, to move through life the way you
move through life, because a lot of times were hurt
because someone does something to us that we would never
have done to someone. Yeah, you wouldn't even enter our
mind to do that, right, but it does enter the
minds of some people. There's some really dark things that
people do. So when you move through life thinking that
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every if you're kind and you think everyone's kind, that's
a recipe for disaster. It doesn't mean that you become unkind,
but you keep your head on the swivel, as they say,
and you pay attention to people's actions and their patterns
and protect yourself. So that stayed with me. So when
I realized that's life, I got hurt because I would
never have done that to someone, and I didn't even
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imagine that she would do something like that, and I
needed to then go, well, then that's her karma. That's
something that she's going to have to deal with because
I would never harm anyone like that, And so the
understanding of it not being in me was enough for
me to go, I feel sorry for the people that
perpetrated this harm towards me, I would keep the same
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right and I'm going to get back in there. And
I now know that he's not the right guy for me.
He's not a choice. I need to watch her as
a friend, and I'm going to keep moving through life
the way I moved through life.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And did the memory of the Was it as quick
as a turnover as it is now? You know, like our
attention span is so short. It's like you were the
topic of conversation for a day. Had they just moved
on the next day.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh no, I was.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I was that girl who did that thing for the
rest of the school year, I believe, you know. But thankfully,
you know, because I had my own group of friends
and I wasn't trying to be one of the cool kids.
They had their conversations about me where they had their conversations.
It wasn't like me trying to get to them to
find out what they had to say about me. I
just went on with my life. I worked in the library,
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I still had my friends, I still listened to the
music I liked, like it just was not Yeah, I
knew that they weren't I knew that they weren't kind,
So I don't covet being around people that aren't kind
or I don't care what unkind people say.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You know what else I love about what your mom
told you is that it even works on like a
much simpler level of just It's almost like when in
a marriage or in a friendship, where you you what
you would do in that situation, they don't, And so
you think it's obviously a sign that you don't care
about me, because I would have right, I would have X,
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Y and Z if you said that, I would have
done this, and you didn't do that for me, So
it must mean you don't care. Well it's like, well no,
not everyone thinks the way you do the way you
do or see you know, and so it works on
so many levels. Your mom sounds like an incredibly wise woman.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
She really was. She really was.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So do you have any embarrassing memories from the days
of performing in the New Jack Swing era?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I mean, just everything we wore is it really cool?
It's cool in retross like it's cool if you went
through it. Anyone looking at those now is not. But
that was my thing. I just wanting to dress nice
and sound good, and you know, all the things, and
there's so many things you just can't control. Yeah, performing,
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you know, is the mic right on? Is the monitor on?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Can you like?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
So anytime I see someone doing an amazing performance, I'm like,
way to go tea because it takes a lot. It
takes a lot. So yeah, I don't have any any
real embarrassing moments from then.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Did you have a mean running Man? Roger Rabbit, a
pretty good Kidden play?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, I had a good Kidden play with the kick kick,
and yeah I had that running Man was okay. There
was a dance called the wop Okay, yeah, pretty good,
little running Man.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
There were a couple.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I'm not the most coordinated. I have rhythm, but I'm
not the most coordinated. So there's some things when it
involves your legs and your arms move at the same time.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You know, I got a good two step. Okay.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I could never do Dancing with the Stars. You will
if you see me on Dancing with the Stars. Ever,
something has shifted in my life in a way that
it was the only choice for me. I need you
to know that because I literally really I am so
afraid of ever doing that. I never wanted to do
mass singer either, but I don't like competition shows.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, you don't like competition shows because I mean, mass
singer is made for you, someone with a killer voice.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
No, it's the competition. I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
And even when I did this show, I said, you
guys got to get me out of here quickly, like
I don't want to. I don't want to stay long.
I'm a stop in but I don't want to stay long.
And the year I was on, which I wish, I
wish I hadn't said that now because the year I
was on Boys to Men one, So the next set
of if I'd made it one more week, the next
set of clues would have been me talking about my.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
My shared relationship with the Buffalos.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
So we never got to do that, and I never
got to do my last song, So that part I
wish I would have been more like, yeah, stay, but
they knew they had to get me out of there.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, you tried to control it instead of just let
it be.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I know, I know it was for you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
It was also an interesting time because I was caring
for my dad. I'm still caring for my dad, but
it was right after my dad it had his fall,
and so I was going back and forth to his
nursing rehab every day, like it was a very stressful time. Yeah,
so I just wasn't you know, if I got a
chance to do mass Sinker again, I would really do
it the way I should have done it the first time.
But I just kind of was like, let me just
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phone this in right quick and get to my dad.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It was really it did was tough.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It was a tough time.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
So the fact that anything came out, well, like, I'm
so happy I'm friends now with Denise Williams and I
sang Let's here for the Boy and I became friends
with her because her son reached out and said, my
mom doesn't always love everybody that sings her song. Yes, yeah,
but she did enjoy your rendition. And I was like,
oh my god, Denise Williams, who I grew up loving
because of my mom.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
It was just really nice. So a lot of good
came out of it. But I did not win.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I would like to tell you I all doing Dancing
with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I came in eighth's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I did not win either, but let me tell you,
it was the most incredible experience everyone I've ever had.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Everyone says that why what is it? What is it
What am I missing you?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The fear that you have going into it is very real,
and I had it too. I had never even taken
a dance class.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Wow, so I knew.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Nothing and I was very scared, but I knew that
it just felt very right. So unlike the situation for
you with Messing or where you were like, oh man,
the timing of this isn't perfect, it felt like it
was perfect timing for me to be doing Dancing with
the Stars. I have two small kids, I had.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Just had cancer the year before. I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I had just made a commitment to myself to say
yes to things that felt risky and scary, but I
also knew had the potential to bring me a lot
of joy. It was the most like you push yourself
and challenge yourself and see yourself grow in so many
different ways every single day, from the time you start
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to the time you end, you are truly amazed with
what you're able to do in spite of the fear,
in regardless of the nerves. And then once you do it,
once you know you know what it's like to perform live,
you get to do it every Tuesday, and it just
it's really incredible, and the bond you form with your
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partner is something that, assuming you're both wonderful people, which
you are, and I know all those dancers and know
now the ones that are on the show currently all
are It's a bond and a friendship that you have forever,
and it's a real it's a family. You're rooting for
each other. And so one of the things that surprised
me is I do enjoy competition. You do?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I do.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I enjoy competition. I really like competition against myself. Yeah,
so like every week I'm gonna get better, I'm gonna
push myself and then to put to put my best
up against your best and let other people decide.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It doesn't bother me. Competition doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I forgot all about the fact that it was a
competition until those five horrible minutes at the end of
a Tuesday night where someone has to go home and
then you're like, oh man, this part stinks because you
are just rooting for each other the whole time, and
it's you all feel we all feel that way, and
so it doesn't ever have that competitive Never once did
I look at my fellow Dancing with the Stars competitors
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and think they're hoping I don't do well.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Ah see, that's that's the thing too, I think, you know,
I don't know what can we say the other thing
about it?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Okay, I liked it.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I'm fully covered, Like just a little bit of my
shoulder showing through this low hole makes.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Me feel scandalous. Ooh, look, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So I'm always fully covered, And so everybody seemed really naked.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's really leg and arms. It's a lot of legs.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And I was also a very fully covered person almost
right up until basically the day I did Dancing with
the Stars, and then I was like, let's take it off.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No idea why.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But something about dancing just makes you go, do I
need to wear all these clothes? But that's the other thing,
is that the wardrobe, the styling, the costume department, you
have full say, they will never push you to wear
something you're not comfortable with. If you want to wear
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a beautiful long sleeve, if you want to wear a
crop neck, if you want to and you pick and choose.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Your little moments.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
If you want to wear a fish net under a
high slit, so anything.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Time, Okay, that helps you helps me.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
If you do it, and.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Even the you know, we've done reality TV stuff, you
know what it can how produced it can feel.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Never did I feel like they were trying.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
To to force it to go.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
They would ask me questions, trying to come up with
the storyline for the week.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But if I would say, like no, I don't, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Not what I'm it's great, then what are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
It was?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's just the most beautiful from top to bottom. The people,
the camera people, they've all been there for decades.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They are all looting for you.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's beautiful. I really think you I will.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I will if it comes around again.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay, I will, you will, I will consider it. Yes,
I love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You are in a new movie written and directed by
one of the most exciting musicians around today, Anderson Park.
It's called k Pops. Do you ever feel a connection
to musicians looking to branch out to Hollywood?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Anderson first of all is just when I think, if
I think of Sunshine, have you ever met him?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I never have, so freaking delightful, like he's one of
the most joyous, playful, fun humans on the planet.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
And uh when he reached out to Uh. It was
during COVID.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
This movie's long time, just dating long, been in the
can for a couple of years and just coming out now.
But he asked me to meet in a zoom for
COVID and during COVID and we talked and he said,
I want you to play my mom. And I said,
how could I play your mom? I'm so youthful, yes,
but you know, but you know Hollywood, So I said, yes,
I'd love to.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And we got to just create something so sweet and wonderful.
It's airing. It's called k Pops. It's airing exclusively at
AMC theaters right now. Please go see it.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
It's a story of Anderson and his son, soul Rashid,
finding each other in the film, and it was a
way for him to spend more time with his son.
They spent a lot of time during COVID and they
wanted to he wanted to reconnect with him, and he
created a movie along with this wonderful writer named Kayla
Amazon and it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
It's really wonderful. So yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I do love a multitasking artist, you know, a Donald
Glover Anderson pack, like somebody that can do a thousand
different things and is not afraid to fail because I'm
realizing now I think Phineas Billie Eilish's brother said something
today on Threads that stuck with me. He said, I'm
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leaning more towards failing over never trying. I didn't saying
as eloquently as he said it, but he said, in
this season of his life, he wants to He'd rather
have more stories of failure than stories of things that.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
He never tried.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
And as I look at my life, I'm fifty four
fifty five this year.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
If not now, when you know I want to direct?
When we direct? Event?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
When are you gonna direct? If I wanted to do
a Christmas EP and sing? When you when you gonna sing?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Event?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Like?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What do you? What am I waiting on?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Like?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Why world don't fire?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
You?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
What the world is on the fire?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And the other thing too, is that now more than ever,
if you wait for someone to knock on your door,
it just may never happen.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
We are the creators absolutely of the things that we
want to do.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You want to do a Christmas EP? You you're gonna
do it?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And do it?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
What do you do?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
It's just it's I feel like we keep waiting for
permission and what I know for sure?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
And I know you know this as well.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
In this industry, nobody knows huh and knows what they're doing.
Every doing the best they can and hoping for the best.
And if it's lightning in a bottle and it takes off,
they didn't know it was gonna take off.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
They wanted it to, but they didn't know.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
So if none of us know how to craft the
perfect widget, you're in a perfect sprocket. If we don't
know how to do it, then that means anybody can
do it. So that means anybody could be shot out
of like a cannon. So don't count yourself out. Always
go for what you want to go for. And there's
nothing wrong with failing. Everyone that does something great they
(17:31):
failed first, Yeah, every everything, this this might come talking
on the hair tie, hold my hair up. Whoever made
this failed a few times before they made it. Whoever
looped this, loomed this sweater made some mistakes before they
learned how to loom this sweater.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's it's that's part of it. You gotta fail to
get to the to the good.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Good exactly you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Do you want to direct? Do you see yourself directing
single camera? Multi camera?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
What do you want to start with multiicam? Because I
know it's so well and you know, this is the thing.
I know for sure that I know how to speak
to actors. That part does not bother me at all.
I love that part. It's where the camera goes and
being able to tell these amazing crew members that are
great at what they do. I want a two shot
coming to the door, but I want you to catch
him before, Like, I need to know how to say
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that in a way that is respectful to them, because
I don't know. Give me the two lens and I
want them. I don't know those technical terms. Ye, so
that's why I feel ill equipped.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
So but I have friends that the directors.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
They are like, that's what your DP is for correct
cinematographers for they.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Know that's the associate director.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So I don't know, if you know, my full time
job outside of podcasting is directory idea and.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yes, that is it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Those are the conversations that you have with your associate director.
You walk through some of those things with them first,
and then it is absolutely your floor. If you want
to be the person to deliver those shots to the
camera people, or being the associate producer is the person
who's there week in and week out, knows the crew members,
(19:14):
has the dialogue, has the shorthand they can do it
for you, but you give your wishes to the associate
director so that he is delivering your wishes and the
collaboration really comes between you and the associate director to
decide what's best in this moment. And the other thing
I'll say is that as a multiicam director, your best
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friend is getting to know what your show runner wants,
because at the end of the day, the TV multiicam
is not the director's medium.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's not and so you're trying to bring their vision
to life.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And if you keep bringing your vision and it's not
their vision life, they're not.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Going to bring you back.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So I now on all the shows I've worked on,
it is my first week is all about figuring out
based on the way they write the notes they give
me for blocking, do they like two shots, do they
like clots?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Do they like things that are raked? Do they what
are they? What are they vibing with?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And how can I do more of that and find
more of that and highlight that in their writing and
in their shots, and so you the most important part
of being a director is what you said, knowing how
to communicate two actors, making them feel safe and scene,
(20:35):
and giving them the space and freedom to play and
to come to you if something doesn't feel right. I
always come in with a full plan, and I say listen,
I'm coming in because I want to save us all time.
None of us want to be here all day finding
it together. I have found something. You are the expert
(20:58):
in your character.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
This is yours.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
If if I suggest something that feels inauthentic, I don't
want to do it. I don't want you to do it,
So just say no, I wouldn't do that, and then
tell me what you want to do instead, and let's
go from there.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I am literally like I feel like I just went
to film school, multicam director of film school, because you
literally have plugged in so many holes that I had
in my mind. And this is I know that you
can do this so well because you've done this your
entire life, right, And I think that's the same reason.
There's a shorthand that you have if you've worked in sitcoms,
there's a shorthand that we have that we understand, we
(21:36):
know what it feels like when we know we wouldn't
go to the door and do that. Our character would
never have gone to that door. And something's forcing us
to go to the door, and we can't say I
don't go to that door. So there's something beautiful about
you saying I'm here visiting. Yeah, what doesn't feel good?
Oh girl, I want to shadow you. You're the director.
I want to shadow I want to show I would
(21:57):
love I would love that.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Okay, great, well, let's I'll make sure you have information.
We will we will do that.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Thank you for that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
This year, you also voiced characters in Zutopia Too, now
the highest grossing animated Disney film of all time.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I mean that has to be mind blowing, right it is.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I really feel like my career I feel like Forrest Gump.
If I had to tell anyone who I am in
the world, I am forced Gump. I literally end up
places I never I wouldn't know to dream of, had
I wouldn't know to ask the.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Lord for that. Yeah, you know, everything.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
That's been most amazing. You know, it's been like a
call and someone saying would you consider, do you would
you like to do this or I do something. I
had no idea community or Drake and Josh would become
what they became, Like, there's just no way of knowing.
I'm having the best time with the Utopia two crew
we have. We went to the Golden Globes together. I'm
going to the Oscars for the first time because of
(22:51):
that film, Like it literally is the gift that keeps
on giving. And what makes me so proud is that,
just like Inside Out Too, I was blessed to be
in that film as well. There's some stories that matter,
Like We're Inside Out Too. We're talking about the importance
of understanding that your emotions, though they matter, you can't
let them control how you move. And you have to,
(23:12):
you know, work to make sure your anxiety doesn't overtake you.
You know it's not a bad thing, but you have
to make sure you keep it in check so that
you can do everything you put on this earth to do.
And then Utopia's teaching you and Zutopia one, it teaches
you don't let someone else declare what your trajectory is.
No one else gets to decide who you can be
and what you can do.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
And how far you can go.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
And Utopia too is teaching us that there is power
and diversity, equity and inclusion, and everyone deserves to have
a space that fits them and we all can work
together and live together in harmony. These are lessons that
we need told through little animals and little motions.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
So the fact that those two movies in particular made
so much money tells me that we're getting the word
out about these things that matter. So I couldn't be
more honored to be a part of those films.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That is so exciting. I have one more question, another
work question for you. I am yet to appear on
any game show, but I love them. Yes, which one
is the most fun?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And why?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Oh gosh, I've done so many Hollywood Game Night with
Jane Lynch.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I pray they bring that show back. That show is
a vibe. First of all, the games are insane. You
never know what you're gonna get. They bring you a
lot of alcohol. And now, I personally do not drink
on the show.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I don't drink.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
No, no, no, no, I don't know. I don't drink really
in life either. I drink drink on my birthday. I
have a little mohito on my birthday. I'm not a
big drinker, but I definitely would not drink on that
show because I want people to win money, yes, and
so if you're not mentally there, you're gonna miss something
and they're not gonna win money. So everybody else is sloshed,
and I'm just like, next question. Yeah, so that's a
(24:48):
fun one. Hollywood Squares is fun. I think you'd be
great on Hollywood Squares. What's another one that's really great? Oh,
pyramid is fun. One hundred thousand dollars pyramid. If you
can make those connections quickly.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I think you'd believe. I haven't done games, so she'd
be so great on game shows.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I love game shows, and never I've never done one.
Would you ever do Traders?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
I have not heard enough. I haven't watched an episode
fully seen the clips.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah it feels is it mean?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's how I feel. I'm like, I couldn't. First of all,
I could never be a trader.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I couldn't be a trader.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I'd have to be a faithful I could be one
of the people trying to figure out who the traders are.
But if they made me a trader, I'd be dead
that night.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Just let's be dead.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
I can't, Like I said, going back to my child,
I don't have cruelty in me, not even cruelty for
television or cruelty for fun. That's why I really haven't
played a lot of villains, if any, in my career,
because I just think my joy or my kindness would
sneak through. I don't know that I'm a good enough
factor to do it, so I don't know if I
would do traders.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, I feel like I've accomplished something by just having
you agree to consider dancing with the stars. The next
time it comes back up. I'm not getting gonna USh anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Absolutely, Yvette, thank you so.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Much for such a beautiful conversation. It was so lovely
seeing you and all of you, my dear listeners. You
can see Yvette in the movie k Pops, currently in
theaters and directed by Anderson Pack and honestly, just turn
on your TV at any point of any day and
you will catch her at some point. So thank you
again so much for being here. I'll make sure you
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have my information. Please stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You know there's not a whole lot of things direct
to direct right now.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I know, but when it comes back, baby, I'm be
right there next to you. Learn.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I want to say one more thing before I go,
because my friend book, I mean, we talked about longtime friends.
My oldest friend is named Janine Attewood Baines. I've been
friends with her since I was ten years old.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
She adores you.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Oh and if I came on this podcast, we and
I'm with you, and I don't tell you that Jeanine
Attwood Baines loves you.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I will he marry Janine Atwood bains That means so much.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
That's very sweet, awesome. Well there's for special shout out.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Thank you, thank you. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Team Beat is an.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Executive producers
Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production
Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Subasch. The theme song
is by mar Coppus. Yes that Mark Coppus. Follow us
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