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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, ladies and gentlemen, boys and
girls and everybody in between,welcome to NOLA.
Film Scene with TJ and PlatoLivestream, livestream,
livestream.
I really liked Rob Paulson'sepisode from last week.
He was a blast.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Wasn't Rob, it was Paul Rugg.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Man, I'm still woozy from my birthday.
But you're correct, I guess Ijust imagined Rob he was.
Last year we were able to use aclip around my birthday, so
yeah, that's right, I turned 55last week.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It says it's live.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're live, and so am I Just a year older.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Man, I can't believe it's been a year since we shared
that clip with Rob Paulson foryour birthday Time has flown
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We've got to be getting close on our two-year
anniversary.
That's like August or September.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We started talking about it late, july and August,
I think.
We started building everythingup and then we did the first
episode, yeah, and I think wedropped the first episode with a
guest, with Hick, I wonder.
First week of.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
September.
I was thinking September 19th,but you know he was a two-parter
so we might still have itcovered it might have been that
late, I don't know.
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I mean we're at I don't know 75 episodes.
I think I lost track, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Plus with our little winter break, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Another anniversary or another thing is coming up.
The 48-hour film project is ina couple weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, sir, I can't believe it.
We're on different teams thistime.
Dun dun dun.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Dun, dun dun.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I am working with the great AJ.
Is it Littell?
I never said his name out loud,I've just typed it.
If I've pronounced it wrong, AJ, I'm sorry, you can just cut my
scenes.
He and I are Comic-Con buddies,plus you know background.
And then we've been trying tofind something to work on
together for at least a year.
He had plans for a short film,which I'm sure it's still
planning, but like everything wedo without major funding, it's
(02:08):
a pain in the butt.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, that's the nice thing about this.
So I'm on Michelle Busquet'steam this year.
Busquet always say her namewrong.
I don't know what's wrong withme, busquet.
I'm on Michelle's team for the48 this year.
Ej Lytel and I met on Olivia'sproject Todd's almost three
(02:29):
years ago, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He was doing video.
They were doing a lot ofhandheld stuff to make it feel
like a documentary.
So I met him the night that weshot the big scene for the
convention at the end of themovie and it's weird, I also met
Carlos Jimenez on that projectand he reached out to me today
Me too Interesting.
Yeah, yeah Things are startingto come back around.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah Well, you know we're always going to have that
slowdown.
Everybody's ready to work.
So I just did Matt Carroll's LAFilm Prize short called the
Nova Experiment, and the posterlooks really good.
I didn't have to travel toShreveport, though I did mine
remotely.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, you did some voiceover work.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we did a video too.
He hasn't said I'm a news guy.
I'll be on the TV.
Don't tell nobody.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So we did a few takes and then he changed the
dialogue after I had finishedwhich I don't want to go into
specifics I was like, but that,that makes sense.
And then the team was like, no,if we say it like this, ok,
which wasn't hard, it just Ineed to get a teleprompter set
up here, you know what I mean.
And I need a big one, because Ican't see without my glasses.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, so you can can make the font bigger on a
prompter.
My prompter is, I don't know,maybe 12 inches across, but you
can make the font big and youdon't want the font real wide
because then you see your eyesmoving back and forth across it.
That's a good point, so if youkeep it tight.
So the Elgato brand prompterhas a voice activation feature
(04:08):
in it where it detects yourvoice and it will scroll based
on that.
It won't move until you talk.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think the Coldread app could do a teleprompter
thing like that too.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yep, I can help you with that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You can help me with tech stuff.
I don't know, yeah, yeah, don'tbelieve it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know, yeah, I wouldn't believe it either.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I didn't mean to shut you down.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, no, no it's all good.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I insulted your tech skills and you started boiling
on the inside.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, it doesn't even faze me.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's what my wife says when I say stupid stuff.
Well, like I was saying, Iturned 55 and I didn't really
party.
You know I party.
You know I had the day off so Iwas on my phone.
I try to answer everybody'sFacebook posts.
I'm kind of obsessed with that.
Just a thank you or a gif, gifof thank you, you know.
So I had a good amount and thatwas relaxing and fun.
(05:04):
And then Saturday, marie and Iwent to the new Buc-ee's in
Pasco, shian, mississippi.
That was my second time at aBuc-ee's and ooh, buc-ee's is
amazing.
Who would have thought I'd belike convenience store?
I know it's a travel center,but it's a truck stop.
It's 75,000 square feet.
I think it's 50 pumps Cleanestbathrooms.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, it's like a mall with gas.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It is.
Not only is the bathroom clean,each stall has a red and green
light over it, so when you lockit you never have that fumble of
is this one open?
And the mascot Bucky was therephoto up.
So you know I'm like a pig andshit.
I was happy as a clam.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So we did one, we did thumbs up and then I told
Cherie and Bucky saying that weput our heads on his shoulders.
If I can't be stupid, I'm notgoing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, that's a good, good philosophy.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Is it?
Well, I don't consider itstupid, but everybody else does
and I'm fine with that.
I got a lot of compliments, no,like a couple of Facebook posts
.
You know, happy birthday.
I admire that.
You're always how do they putit Everything you are, or
something like I'm just me.
I don't try to hide it, I'll begoofy.
(06:10):
You know, riding Falcor at theMississippi Comic Con, that was
great.
I'm going to do goofy stuff.
Maybe I'm a little embarrassedabout it.
Not much, but right there I waslike ah, nah.
I hear you, and we have anotherComic Con coming this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh, I didn't.
I don't know about that one.
When is it when or where is it?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It's in the New Orleans Convention Center, ada
Gould, who we may have postedbecause through GalaxyCon Live
he and I had a conversation, andhe's another celebrity.
I bug on Twitter and post insocial media, but he does Dr
Zayas from Planet of the Apes,so his YouTube show is Hanging
with Dr Z.
So instead of like me talkingto you, it's this orangutan
(06:54):
talking to you and he'shilarious.
You know, I'm a writer for theSimpsons.
He was a stand-up.
So now he's going to have abooth.
I think just autographs.
He's not doing photo ops.
Maybe he can take one there.
I'll see what I can do.
But he's going to have a talkshow Brian O'Halloran, barry
Boswick and I forgot the thirdguest and I don't think they're
charging extra for that.
So that's unusual.
(07:14):
And he's got to put on all thatmakeup too.
You know what I mean?
I was looking for the tickets.
I was like where do I find it?
Where do I find it?
Oh, it's free.
Well, his Patreon is $5 a month.
He just needs a little support.
He's like you know I'm notgoing to come do another level
and come wash your car.
It's five bucks a month.
He gets some extra pictures inthe ad-free version of his
podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, giancarlo Esposito is going to be there.
That's his third trip to NewOrleans, so I'm going to have to
get a picture with him.
Yeah, even if it's tail, I justI put it off.
Put A lot of other stars too,and I can't think of one Emily
Swallow, she was also in StarWars, and then next month we
have Nola Khan at thePontchartrain Center in Kenner,
(07:55):
and Anne Mahoney and BillySlough are both going to be
there, and that's really in myneck of the woods, so I think
I'm going to have to take alittle trip down the road.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, might as well.
Yep, I may go to that one tootoo.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think that's a little smaller, so it's it won't
be as crowded, kind of likeMississippi con when you go on
Friday any con really on aFriday.
Maybe they don't have everystar, but they have smaller
crowds usually and that can payoff.
We don't have to fight throughthe crowd and you know, get your
stuff done.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yep, yep, anything good for you, you, I got the 48
and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I did the seven and seven with Matt last month.
Yeah, yeah, and that's about it.
Well, we just wanted to drop infolks.
Drop a quick episode, catch upon a few things and be back on
schedule next week.
I'll get back to editing, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
See you folks, see you folks.
Hello everyone, ladies and gentlemen, boys and
girls and everybody in between,welcome to NOLA.
Film Scene with TJ and PlatoLivestream, livestream,
livestream.
I really liked Rob Paulson'sepisode from last week.
He was a blast.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Wasn't Rob, it was Paul Rugg.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Man, I'm still woozy from my birthday.
But you're correct, I guess Ijust imagined Rob he was.
Last year we were able to use aclip around my birthday, so
yeah, that's right, I turned 55last week.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It says it's live.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're live, and so am I Just a year older.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Man, I can't believe it's been a year since we shared
that clip with Rob Paulson foryour birthday Time has flown
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We've got to be getting close on our two-year
anniversary.
That's like August or September.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We started talking about it late, july and August,
I think.
We started building everythingup and then we did the first
episode, yeah, and I think wedropped the first episode with a
guest, with Hick, I wonder.
First week of.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
September.
I was thinking September 19th,but you know he was a two-parter
so we might still have itcovered it might have been that
late, I don't know.
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I mean we're at I don't know 75 episodes.
I think I lost track, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Plus with our little winter break, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Another anniversary or another thing is coming up.
The 48-hour film project is ina couple weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, sir, I can't believe it.
We're on different teams thistime.
Dun dun dun.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Dun, dun dun.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I am working with the great AJ.
Is it Littell?
I never said his name out loud,I've just typed it.
If I've pronounced it wrong, AJ, I'm sorry, you can just cut my
scenes.
He and I are Comic-Con buddies,plus you know background.
And then we've been trying tofind something to work on
together for at least a year.
He had plans for a short film,which I'm sure it's still
planning, but like everything wedo without major funding, it's
(02:08):
a pain in the butt.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, that's the nice thing about this.
So I'm on Michelle Busquet'steam this year.
Busquet always say her namewrong.
I don't know what's wrong withme, busquet.
I'm on Michelle's team for the48 this year.
Ej Lytel and I met on Olivia'sproject Todd's almost three
(02:29):
years ago, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He was doing video.
They were doing a lot ofhandheld stuff to make it feel
like a documentary.
So I met him the night that weshot the big scene for the
convention at the end of themovie and it's weird, I also met
Carlos Jimenez on that projectand he reached out to me today
Me too Interesting.
Yeah, yeah Things are startingto come back around.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah Well, you know we're always going to have that
slowdown.
Everybody's ready to work.
So I just did Matt Carroll's LAFilm Prize short called the
Nova Experiment, and the posterlooks really good.
I didn't have to travel toShreveport, though I did mine
remotely.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, you did some voiceover work.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we did a video too.
He hasn't said I'm a news guy.
I'll be on the TV.
Don't tell nobody.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So we did a few takes and then he changed the
dialogue after I had finishedwhich I don't want to go into
specifics I was like, but that,that makes sense.
And then the team was like, no,if we say it like this, ok,
which wasn't hard, it just Ineed to get a teleprompter set
up here, you know what I mean.
And I need a big one, because Ican't see without my glasses.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, so you can can make the font bigger on a
prompter.
My prompter is, I don't know,maybe 12 inches across, but you
can make the font big and youdon't want the font real wide
because then you see your eyesmoving back and forth across it.
That's a good point, so if youkeep it tight.
So the Elgato brand prompterhas a voice activation feature
(04:08):
in it where it detects yourvoice and it will scroll based
on that.
It won't move until you talk.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think the Coldread app could do a teleprompter
thing like that too.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yep, I can help you with that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You can help me with tech stuff.
I don't know, yeah, yeah, don'tbelieve it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know, yeah, I wouldn't believe it either.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I didn't mean to shut you down.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, no, no it's all good.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I insulted your tech skills and you started boiling
on the inside.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, it doesn't even faze me.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's what my wife says when I say stupid stuff.
Well, like I was saying, Iturned 55 and I didn't really
party.
You know I party.
You know I had the day off so Iwas on my phone.
I try to answer everybody'sFacebook posts.
I'm kind of obsessed with that.
Just a thank you or a gif, gifof thank you, you know.
So I had a good amount and thatwas relaxing and fun.
(05:04):
And then Saturday, marie and Iwent to the new Buc-ee's in
Pasco, shian, mississippi.
That was my second time at aBuc-ee's and ooh, buc-ee's is
amazing.
Who would have thought I'd belike convenience store?
I know it's a travel center,but it's a truck stop.
It's 75,000 square feet.
I think it's 50 pumps Cleanestbathrooms.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, it's like a mall with gas.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It is.
Not only is the bathroom clean,each stall has a red and green
light over it, so when you lockit you never have that fumble of
is this one open?
And the mascot Bucky was therephoto up.
So you know I'm like a pig andshit.
I was happy as a clam.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So we did one, we did thumbs up and then I told
Cherie and Bucky saying that weput our heads on his shoulders.
If I can't be stupid, I'm notgoing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, that's a good, good philosophy.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Is it?
Well, I don't consider itstupid, but everybody else does
and I'm fine with that.
I got a lot of compliments, no,like a couple of Facebook posts
.
You know, happy birthday.
I admire that.
You're always how do they putit Everything you are, or
something like I'm just me.
I don't try to hide it, I'll begoofy.
(06:10):
You know, riding Falcor at theMississippi Comic Con, that was
great.
I'm going to do goofy stuff.
Maybe I'm a little embarrassedabout it.
Not much, but right there I waslike ah, nah.
I hear you, and we have anotherComic Con coming this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh, I didn't.
I don't know about that one.
When is it when or where is it?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It's in the New Orleans Convention Center, ada
Gould, who we may have postedbecause through GalaxyCon Live
he and I had a conversation, andhe's another celebrity.
I bug on Twitter and post insocial media, but he does Dr
Zayas from Planet of the Apes,so his YouTube show is Hanging
with Dr Z.
So instead of like me talkingto you, it's this orangutan
(06:54):
talking to you and he'shilarious.
You know, I'm a writer for theSimpsons.
He was a stand-up.
So now he's going to have abooth.
I think just autographs.
He's not doing photo ops.
Maybe he can take one there.
I'll see what I can do.
But he's going to have a talkshow Brian O'Halloran, barry
Boswick and I forgot the thirdguest and I don't think they're
charging extra for that.
So that's unusual.
(07:14):
And he's got to put on all thatmakeup too.
You know what I mean?
I was looking for the tickets.
I was like where do I find it?
Where do I find it?
Oh, it's free.
Well, his Patreon is $5 a month.
He just needs a little support.
He's like you know I'm notgoing to come do another level
and come wash your car.
It's five bucks a month.
He gets some extra pictures inthe ad-free version of his
podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, giancarlo Esposito is going to be there.
That's his third trip to NewOrleans, so I'm going to have to
get a picture with him.
Yeah, even if it's tail, I justI put it off.
Put A lot of other stars too,and I can't think of one Emily
Swallow, she was also in StarWars, and then next month we
have Nola Khan at thePontchartrain Center in Kenner,
(07:55):
and Anne Mahoney and BillySlough are both going to be
there, and that's really in myneck of the woods, so I think
I'm going to have to take alittle trip down the road.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, might as well.
Yep, I may go to that one tootoo.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think that's a little smaller, so it's it won't
be as crowded, kind of likeMississippi con when you go on
Friday any con really on aFriday.
Maybe they don't have everystar, but they have smaller
crowds usually and that can payoff.
We don't have to fight throughthe crowd and you know, get your
stuff done.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yep, yep, anything good for you, you, I got the 48
and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I did the seven and seven with Matt last month.
Yeah, yeah, and that's about it.
Well, we just wanted to drop infolks.
Drop a quick episode, catch upon a few things and be back on
schedule next week.
I'll get back to editing, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
See you folks, see you folks.
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