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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Bridget Rose, aka Miss Ooh La La in the
cosplay scene.
I'm a cosplayer, radio host andaudio editor and I am ecstatic
to be on NOLA Film Scene.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We are back and, ladies and gentlemen, I am so
pleased to welcome Miss Ooh LaLa, my friend Bridget Rose,
cosplayer extraordinaire to thepodcast.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hi, friend, I don't know about all that, but thank
you for the introduction.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, you don't know about the extraordinaire, but
the friend part's still good,right.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, absolutely, the extraordinaire part makes me
feel I don't know like I shouldbe famous or something.
But thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You're definitely famous in the cosplay circles.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm just your neighborhood friendly cosplayer.
I don't know how Harley Quinn'dthere, but that's not a problem
.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It bubbles up in all of us.
And that leads me to thequestion because you're so into
that when did you start cosplay?
What inspired you to get intothat lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, so originally, before I had ever been to a
convention in my life, I didn'teven know anime cons existed,
like I had no idea, comic-con's,nothing, because Lafayette,
louisiana, didn't have anythinglike that.
I didn't really have anyfriends that were in bigger
cities, you know, just smalltown Lafayette girl.
So in 2004, I mean, I hadn'ttimeline this I was working at
(01:29):
GameStop in the Acadiana Malland there were these guys that
came in Some of them arerecognized as customers.
I didn't know them very welland they approached me at the
counter and were like, hey, wethink you would make a great
live action anime girl.
And I was like, wow, I loveanime, of course, yes, tell me
more.
And they're like have you everbeen to an anime convention?
I'm like, no, what's that?
And they gave me the rundown ofwhat it was and I was like, yes
(01:49):
, I'll do what.
No, I didn't say that, I waslike yeah, I'm totally
interested and they're like,yeah, so our idea is to start a
convention in Lafayette,louisiana.
There's plenty of them inbigger cities and we really want
to grow it and we want to havea live action anime girl.
We'd ideally like to have twoas our cosplay mascots, our
representatives, the face of theconvention, because, as John
(02:11):
Roos put it so eloquently, thedraw is not going to be two
dudes with beards or not beardsor whatever.
I'm insulted I know right, and Iwas like I like you guys and
they're like, yeah, but you know, our target demo are people who
are looking at these charactersand you look like that.
We don't look like that, so I'mlike I gotcha.
So they had this idea of doingspace pilots and it was going to
(02:33):
be sci-fi themed.
Mecha, in particular, was sortof their theme MechaCon.
So for that first year,actually before the first
MechaCon I started passing outflyers.
I wore this cute little spandexsuit.
At the time I thought it wasgreat, but like now that I've
learned how to sew and do more,I almost wish I could revisit
those years and make somethingtruly spectacular, Although in
(03:00):
later years they had somebeautiful costumes commissioned
for the mascots.
And as I grew with thecharacters, so did the costumes.
And as I grew with thecharacters, so did the costumes.
And eventually I wanted tostart making my own not my own
characters, but makingcharacters from shows that
weren't the original mascotcharacter, and I wanted to start
competing.
So I worked with them for yearsand years and years and kind of
grew my own cosplay brand off,of that sort of just by all the
people I met, and I startedlearning about new events and a
(03:22):
lot of New Orleans stuff, a lotof Texas.
Texas was at the time boomingthey still are, but booming with
conventions and wow, yeah, 2004.
That puts an age marker on therethat I don't want to comment on
, but yeah, that's how it allstarted was working at GameStop
in the mall and having people go.
(03:42):
You look like an animecharacter.
Look at this idea.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I heard Harley Quinn when you did that a minute ago.
By the way it came through.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, it did.
Oh, I'm just your neighborhoodfriendly.
Yeah, I like combined likeSpider-Man and Harley Quinn.
Actually, I do have a cosplayof Spider Quinn that I did like
a long time ago at Wizard World.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Back in the day.
Moment of silence for WizardWorld.
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Moment of silence for Wizard World.
Oh, I know, I love Wizard World.
I love when I first found outabout Wizard World, I was like,
oh wow, like Wizards of theCoast, it's like no, it's Wizard
.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
World From the magazine.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, stop trying to associate it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
From the magazine before your time Right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So yeah, like you know, oh, before my oh, I don't
know, I feel like my time is,but yeah, maybe, maybe, so.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It was the 90s, mostly by the year 2000,.
It was coming down.
You know, magazines were on theway out.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I was here in the 90s Like a teenager.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, but you were just a baby.
You're just such a tiny littleinfant.
I know, yeah, I am a 90s kid.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I am a 90s kid, oh yeah, I got to see all of the
90s, Right, but that was beforeyou know anime conventions and
things like that.
There was no streaming and itwas a lot harder to get into it.
You had to either, you know, berich and buy stuff at Suncoast
like DVDs, or have a friend thatalready owned anime titles, or
you watched Toonami after schoolWow yeah, so this one kind of
(05:06):
got me into.
It was Dragon Ball Z.
I know that sounds like such abasic answer, but back then that
was what there was.
It was Sailor Moon and I wasn'treally like super girly,
although I appreciate theoutfits and stuff like it's
beautiful.
But Dragon Ball Z is actuallywhat kind of got me in there.
And then of course it was likeYu Yu Hakusho, which was a huge
one for me.
I love that.
(05:26):
Got into Bleach, oh, cowboyBebop, like Cowboy Bebop.
Then I always loved comics too,so it was like the best of both
worlds was you have theseevents full of all this stuff.
You know I grew up watchingBatman cartoon, like huge fan of
that original batman animation,and then, of course, the x-men,
(05:47):
you know waking up in themorning.
You know I wanted to be mystique, so yes, yes oh yeah, like
that's where it all began, so tospeak very cool.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How many conventions do you go to a year?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
it varies, so I would say before 2021, like two or
three, two a year, but now it'ssomewhere north of oh, I don't
know.
I try to do one a month.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Obviously, I would have to be like super loaded to
afford to go to every con juston my own accord.
Most of the cons that I go toI'll call them work-a-cons are
work-cations, so I hear my catin the background.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I'm so sorry, that's okay.
We love all the guests.
We can get Her name is Sabine.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She's fantastic, but she probably knocked down
everything when she came in here.
I try to do one a month.
I work for a voice actress,leah Clark, who voices
characters such as Hiniko Togafrom my Hero Academia, blair
from Soul Eater, mavis fromFairy Tail and a whole bunch of
other characters.
So I work for her.
I help work for tables.
So a lot of times I'll do one amonth, and they're mostly her
(06:53):
conventions, but I do also doguesting, which I'll present
panels.
I'll judge cosplay contests.
In fact, earlier, earlier thisyear in January, I was a guest
for Fan Expo New Orleans and Iwas part of that one.
I will be going this year tothat one.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We are too 12 a year.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's a lot, maybe 13.
I don't know, it depends.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think Brian's jealous.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh, don't be jealous, my time will come.
I will be like our buddy CreekWilson People will start paying
me for photo ops one dayAbsolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You know that's the thing People have this
misconception of like, oh, wow,you go to all these cons, you're
like this, I'm like no, I'mworking at table and it's not
always for pleasure and noteverybody's going to come
pouring it.
Like you know, it's a labor oflove, but it is nice to be
recognized for doing somethingthat you really enjoy and so it
feels like fun, even thoughyou're also being paid to be
(07:46):
there too.
Then that helps fund thecompetitions, like, for instance
, fan Expo, the upcoming one inNOLA.
I won't be guesting therebecause I already did that the
previous one, so I'll becompeting, and my friend, lady
Luna Loveless and I like to doduo characters.
I will be entering something.
I don't want to spoil it, but welike to do those competitions
(08:06):
as well, and we just made itinto master level recently.
Actually, everybody's like, oh,you've been on master.
No, actually I've beencompeting on intermediate level
for years and I just got myfirst best intermediate, which
in the cosplay world means oh,now you compete on master level.
So now you're up against thesecrazy costumes that kind of
terrify me.
They're full of lights and likestilts.
(08:27):
sometimes I'm like can I competewith that?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's.
It's hardcore when you get tomaster level.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, it is.
Can you break that down for us?
Sure, absolutely.
Tell us how difficult thedifferent levels are and what
they entail.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Not that the rest isn't oh and what they entail.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Okay, not that the rest isn't.
Oh well, I know, I know whatyou mean.
Yeah, because a lot of timespeople are like on what?
There's levels, you know youthink, oh, it's just a costume
contest, right?
Yes, and no, there'scraftsmanship, like
craftsmanship cup style, whereit is very much about the craft
you have to have made, either100%, 90%, 75%, depending on
your skill levels.
(09:05):
A lot of times on craftsmanshipcosplay contests you'll have a
beginner level, which is callednovice or beginner, and you've
got your second tier, which ispeople who have already won best
beginner or maybe won a bunchof awards in beginner already
and they feel they're ready tomove up.
Then you enter what's calledintermediate or journeyman
that's the nickname for thatclass, I guess and that's once
you've won, like I said, a fewawards in beginner or your skill
(09:27):
level is higher than that of abeginner.
It's kind of at your discretion.
Once you get to master level,it's not good to just say I
think I'm a master, because thenyou're up against the best of
the best of the best.
It's a lot harder.
So it's best to earn your wayinto master.
That way you're not sellingyourself short.
It's not really so much like oh, you're not good enough, it's
(09:49):
more like, do you really want tocompete on that level right now
, when you haven't earned the?
You know feels good to win anaward and to know that you're
ready.
So once you've gotten bestintermediate, they kind of say,
okay, look, unless you'reentering a competition that's
way bigger than the one you won,that best intermediate at, it
is courtesy, to move up tomaster level to let other
(10:10):
intermediates get thoseintermediate awards.
And once you're on master level,it gets pretty crazy from there
.
So, and that's once you've won,like I said, a best
intermediate award, or have lotsof judges awards and maybe a
best intermediate or something.
And for me I want to say I havelike 10 judges awards which are
a lower level award, one bestintermediate and two best groups
.
So essentially, me notcompeting on master until now
makes a lot of sense, eventhough some people like but you
(10:32):
judge all the time Judging, evenif you are intermediate level,
you know what master level lookslike at that point.
So, and then there's also what'scalled exhibition or
non-craftsmanship, and that'slike you don't go before the
judges early in the morning toshow all your stitches off.
You know like these are forpeople who don't make their
cosplays, and they can at leastgo up and present it, and not
(10:53):
every cosplay contest has acategory for people who don't
create, which in my opinion.
Those people deserve a chancein the spotlight too.
So I always like whenever I seea contest has craftsmanship cup
and then runway or whateverthey choose to call their
non-craftsmanship ones, and thenof course there's skits, which
are all performance based, andthose are judged very
(11:14):
differently.
The costume if you make ityourself, that is, of course,
bonus points for your skit, butultimately those are judged
based on performance.
So lots of different levels anddifferent things you can do in
contests.
I hope that was a goodexplanation.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That was great.
That was great, thank you.
I'm formulating a couple ofquestions.
I watch Big Bang Theory, youknow, sometimes when I need
something in the background todo other things, and there's one
episode in particular wherethey're talking about wearing
costumes and one of them saysgentlemen to the sewing machines
and they all go run off to maketheir costumes.
(11:49):
Tell me the difference of whereyou have to make your own.
Do you have to be making yourown to move up to the highest
level?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, absolutely.
That's another part where therules are really important.
So anytime anyone would like toenter a contest, it's important
to read the rules, because I'vebeen to contests that are
smaller conventions and they'relike oh, we only have beginner
and advanced, so there'll belike two categories, if they
know they're not going to get aton of signups.
But it'll say in the rules likeyou have to have handmade 30
(12:19):
percent for beginner, forexample.
So that's like OK, okay, if youmade some of your cosplay but
not half of it, you can stillenter.
On beginner.
Intermediate is going to be 50usually, or more depending,
sometimes less.
It really depends on the con ifit's as big as fan expo.
So they are very craftsmanshipdriven.
If you don't know, they hostthe grand prix, not the new
(12:41):
orleans one but the dallas one,and also mega con, which is
basically Fan Expo, orlandoSuperCon.
Yeah, MegaCon, Technically it isa Fan Expo and it's under their
umbrella, but they do hold theGrand Prix, which is a summit
style.
I've competed, for instance, inthe World Cosplay Summit way
before I was ready, so I didn'tplan anything.
(13:02):
The Fan Expos are going to bethe ones where it's going to be
the larger percentage ofsomething you built.
But if you go to something alittle smaller than that like,
well, cypher con has a prettyprestigious contest as well,
even though they are smallerthan the fan expos.
Trying to think of somethingsmall, you know, it really just
depends on the size of the con.
But it'll say in the rules andonce you get to master, though,
if you didn't make least 90,like, they don't expect you to
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cobble your own shoes, but ifyou can cobble shoes, that is
going to impress the judges.
I actually do a whole panelabout how to impress the judges
in prejudging, and that's one ofthe things where we had this
girl.
She forged a crown out of metaland I don't mean she 3D printed
it, because we had a PrincessPeach and a Princess Rosalina
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and they had these beautiful 3Dprinted crowns and these
beautifully sewn dresses andthey were so amazing and we
thought they were going to bethe best in show.
And then the last person walksin and it's this queen of hearts
that, like, she literally canforge metal and forge it well,
(14:04):
and she cast a crown from silveror nickel or something and like
hand-bezzled gemstones and Iwas like all right, so you're
just as good as these people,except you forged metal.
So you know, no one expects youto cobble shoes or forge metal,
but if you can, that can bewhat tips the scale in your
favor.
We've had entries where we gottwo characters with these
beautiful wings you know twodifferent characters even and
one has wings that articulateand move and the other one's
(14:27):
stagnant and we're like allright.
Well, you know, like sometimesit does come down to those
little fine details.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Right.
It seems like it levels theplaying field too to keep
somebody that's wealthy fromgoing out and spending thousands
of dollars on a you know, astormtrooper outfit or an Iron
man suit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Where you have to make your own.
I don't know.
It seems like it keeps.
It would keep it more level.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It does and it's great.
That's why I love when theyhave categories for people who
aren't crafters If they want tocommission something beautiful
and enter it.
You know there should be aplace for that, because that's
sort of the presentation of thecharacter.
You enter it, you know thereshould be a place for that,
because that's sort of thepresentation of the character.
You know, how well do youembody that character on stage?
And that comes into performanceand your ability to wear
something on stage and presentit.
And so you know you're judgedagainst people who have also
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done the same thing, wherethey've purchased something and
they've put a lot into how itfits or how they walk with it or
what they do on stage.
And that is very much a big partof cosplay to me too, because
not everything I wear issomething I made.
I do have a lot of those cheap,quick Amazon cosplays that I
love that look phenomenal andpeople oh, how did you make that
?
I'm like, oh, I didn't.
(15:35):
But then that's also why I lovewearing stuff I made is because
then I get to rattle off andtalk someone's ear off until
they're sick of me and tell themabout what glue I used to join
my EVA foam to you know, andthen by that time they're like
okay, thanks.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Thanks, I just wanted a picture.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I just wanted it and I was just like, but you asked
me a question.
Yeah, I know, I get excited.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I wanted to jump in here.
We're kind of talking aboutcosplay competitions and you
being a featured cosplayer atthe cons and that's fantastic.
But I don't want people to beput off by all this yeah go
jargon.
So like when I go, I don'treally get into a full
stormtrooper costume.
I might have a helmet.
My thing is for photo ops and Iplus the photo, like I brought
ring props to meet the hobbitsfrom lord of the rings oh yeah
(16:20):
the ring pop.
Well, it's small.
You may have oh, I'm sorry gotsomething out of the bag.
No, no, because that It'll alsolead us into we're going to
drop this episode right beforethe next Fan Expo, new Orleans,
january 2025.
Bridget will be there, I willbe there, and basically all this
is getting me to.
I found my people, I found mytribe in Enola Comic-Con Because
(16:43):
I can talk to regular NewOrleans people and make a Saints
joke, make a New Orleans joke,and they laugh, but they don't
always get the comic bookreferences.
And then there's comic bookpeople who you meet who don't
understand Enola, so you kind ofhave to work and explain, but
when I walked into Comic-Con andI said something and people
started falling out, I was likeI'm home, these are my people.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, people started falling out and I was like I'm
home, these are my people.
Yeah, tribe is a very accurateword.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So if you've ever thought about this, it doesn't
have to be New Orleans, ofcourse you love Spider-Man.
You don't even have to dress up.
I urge people to go check itout at least once, maybe twice,
and it's a lot of fun.
You'll find things to do.
I love taking pictures andselfies.
Bridget can say that becauseI'm bugging her every day
because she wears a differentcostume every day.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And we do silly poses .
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You're going to have fun at these things, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Absolutely, I'll be there too.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, and I'll be there on stage.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Brian and I got invited to be on a panel.
Another podcaster has a panelon Friday, so that's the first.
That's a first for me, so we'regoing to be on a panel.
Yeah, talking about movies.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Awesome, kicking off the con the right way.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, it's our first con.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm going to go with that.
I'm totally going to check outthe panel.
Like I'm excited for you guys.
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And last year I got my first press pass, but I
didn't show up early.
If you see my videos.
I like throwing voices with thevoice actors.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Oh, awesome.
I'm a huge horror fan too, bythe way.
I don't know if you're intoTerrifier, but I'm still like.
This happened, like you know,now, like this summer, I made
the cosplay from Terrifier 2 ofSienna Shaw.
She's the final girl and she'sgot this armor, so she's like a
cosplayer in the movie, likeshe's making her cosplay.
I need to make that.
(18:30):
And I got invited to a horrorconvention, which never happens
for me, it's always anime orcomic cons, because horror
cosplay is a little bitdifferent, because a lot of
times it's clothes and it's alot of blood, but it's not, you
know like, oh, you built thisthing because there's not as
many opportunities for that.
So I made this cosplay and whenI put it on my, my Instagram,
david Howard Thornton, aka Artthe Clown, shared it, and so did
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Lauren Lavera, the actress whoplays the character that I made
the costume of, and I'm stilllike, and I want to meet them so
badly.
I found out they're going to beat a horror convention in Texas
coming up, so I will meet thatone and I want to meet them so
bad very cool.
Wow, that's cool that isexciting meeting all the people
that inspire us.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, so I have a couple of questions.
You mentioned audio editing.
I don't want to completelyleave the cosplay stuff behind.
We'll circle back to it.
I wanted to ask about yourradio work.
How did you get into that andwhat's that like, and is it
challenging to balance that withthe cosplay and conventions?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's a fun question .
I like that.
Yeah, I always hesitate to eventalk about radio because, like,
people that are in radio likethat are only like that's their
focus.
You know, like they just thinkit's like the whole world and
I'm like that's cool, but like,don't be one of those like DJs,
you know like, don't be that guyor girl or whatever.
So I was like, yeah, do radio,but if no one's interested I
(19:50):
don't go.
So I'm on this format and I'veworked in this format.
Gosh, I started radio in.
It was in the early after 2010.
It was after college.
I went oh my God, I changed myconcentration in college so much
.
I was a visual arts major,which I should tell you.
That makes sense.
I went from so animation butthen, like rigging the polyons
(20:12):
to the skeletons, I was bad atthat because math, and from
there I went print media andphotography and didn't see any
job opportunities with that andmy advisor was like you should
try media.
At the time that's what it wascalled and it's basically audio,
video editing and lighting andbasically not really like radio,
but working well with TV andother broadcasts.
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So I had a background in that Iwas great with audio and video
editing.
It's just part of what I do nowtoo, aside from the radio
station.
Around 2012-ish they had amodel search and it was for a
gun shop like a no, a shootingrange, just Barney's Gun Range,
and I was.
I was like, oh, they want kindof like alt models.
Okay, I can do that, becauseI'm not like you know.
I don't know I'm not sure whatto call that, but I'm working a
(20:56):
little alti.
Like I'm not good at being likea princess necessarily, unless
it's a cosplay princess.
I was like, okay, yeah, I canmodel guns.
I like guns.
I've been to a gun range before.
It's fine.
I didn't get picked as like thetop three that they chose, but
I gave the best interview.
They loved my interview so much.
It was the radio station thatwas hosting it.
They were partnered with thatgun range.
(21:16):
The morning show guy was likeyou gave a great interview.
Have you ever done broadcast?
I was like no, but I mean maybeI mean I could.
He's like I have a show in mindfor you.
It's that I have another, thisintern that we're about to hire.
We're going to do a show.
It's kind of raunchy, are youokay with raunchy?
And I'm like yeah, I don't care.
It's like, yeah, it's calledTwo Hot Chicks on a Saturday
night and it's going to be atnight on Saturdays and so we're
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going to talk about sex, exceptin a way that's like you can get
by with the FCC rules.
So we're going to have creativelanguage.
I was like I can do that,because I guess he saw that I
played with language a lot inour interviews that we had with
the models.
So he was like I think you'd begreat.
I did that for a while.
I was Miss Ooh La La.
That was where the name he saidchoose a radio name Can't be
(22:00):
Bridget, because it's a raunchyshow.
I don't want to do that to you.
So I chose Miss Ooh, thecharacter Ooh La La from Space
Channel 5 on the Dreamcast.
It's super obscure, no one willknow, and I spelled it
differently so it would beunique.
But ultimately I stole her namebecause she was a forgotten
Sega character.
We did things like the superfreaky shot of the night.
(22:21):
We would pretend to mix shotsor drinks in the studio and give
the recipes out.
We talked about relationshipadvice but it was usually like
oh, relationship advice.
Anyway, from there I ended upon middays.
For a while I was the morningshow co-host, board op.
I excelled with audio and thenI became production assistant
and they were like wow, you makegreat commercials.
(22:41):
I started getting reallycreative with that.
I submitted to the Addies,which is submit a commercial and
you might win something kind ofthing, kind of like a LAB award
, like a broadcaster award typething.
I didn't win.
But from there I just worked atdifferent radio stations.
I was a brand manager for a fewdifferent stations, mostly in
rock format.
I guess it goes without sayingthat format for two hot chicks
on a Saturday night was activerock, like rock and metal.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know, I did pop for a while but like when you
don't know the differencebetween Britney Spears and like
Christina Aguilera, people startto notice.
So I was like please put meback where we have Mudvayne or
something.
I need Pantera, Like we got tofix this.
So I ended up working in rockagain, which currently I'm on
Planet Radio 6.7 in Lafayetteand I also do freelance
(23:27):
commercials.
Like I do voiceover, I doproduction.
Even when it's not my voice,I'll produce commercials for
companies.
I do podcast editing, audiopodcast editing and like hosted
on like Buzzsprout and Scheduleand do the little you know,
stuff like that I love mix.
One of these days I'd like tobe an audio engineer mix at
maybe Crunchyroll, hey Crunchy,if you're listening.
(23:47):
No, I'm just kidding, heyCrunchyroll, hey Crunchy, if
you're listening.
No, just kidding.
Hey Crunchy, hey Crunchy.
Come over here.
I just love the world of audioand being a host.
I'm afternoons For the mostpart.
My career in radio has taken methrough afternoons.
Most people don't understand iswhen you have an on-air shift
nowadays and like it's not the90s anymore, so nobody's really
live, Like sometimes they'relive, they say they're live,
they're live, but a lot of stuffhas gone remote.
(24:09):
The radio industry has turnedinto a bunch of people like me
who have, yeah, like aRodecaster Pro 2 and an XLR mic.
I've got Shure.
I love Shure.
They are bae.
I broadcast from home.
I do my afternoon show fromhome, actually Kind of cool, I
don't have to go anywhere forthat.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
That was going to be the next question I had.
Did that go remote?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, I kind of thought maybe it did.
I'd heard some people do that.
That's cool In larger marketslike Dallas and New York.
I mean, there's a lot of muchbigger markets where they do
have live hosts and thensometimes they'll do like
radiothons where they will golive that day and they'll be
live the whole time.
I used to do simulated livewhere I would record some of it.
I'd be live for an hour.
(24:50):
It takes from requests.
Back when I worked at KSMB inLafayette it was the pop station
I was talking about we had thisall live.
It was just like one continuousmix of music by a DJ and we
would just pop in and out andyou'd have to just watch the
time and know how much time youhad to talk and know how much
time you had to talk.
And I'd take callers on the airand early air them back over
the air.
She can't put them live Likethat's dangerous.
(25:12):
People say some crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So yeah, and it kind of works out with cosplay in a
way.
We host a lot of things.
A lot of times they'll put uson stage to announce bands and
things like that, and it'sreally helped with, I find, my
stage presence.
When you have to announce atFestival International in front
of a son of people, when you getup on stage for cosplay, it
just seems like whatever at thatpoint, because you've been
through the scary part and thenalso without my cosplay, cosplay
(25:38):
for me is sort of like wearinga mask.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Like when.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I have to be Bridget Rose on the stage and be me and
do it.
It feels weird, but it's almostlike the persona takes over.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Miss Ooh La La is the character of her own.
When I host cosplay things,bridget Rose is even a character
.
Bridget is the character.
Like I'm always kind of acharacter.
Once I got into radio I realizedhow cosplay could help me
become a character on the air.
So it do kind of work out.
I've even hosted things incosplay for the radio station
because people were like, oh,you should cosplay for that.
Like when you're in a smallermarket, people get to know you
(26:12):
and they know what you dooutside of it.
Like they'll know what stationsI was on before and they'll be
like oh, if it isn't Miss RadioLafayette over here, and I'm
like, nope, I'm on planet now Alot of times, it brings
something special to it.
They had a band who did aHalloween show that Planet Radio
hosted and the band and I weretalking and I was like do you
want me to help host the costumecontest?
(26:32):
I use quote fingers becauseit's not a cosplay contest where
you're making things but maybepeople will you know.
And I was like, hey, I canpromote it through my cosplay
socials because I have a lot oflocal people that might go oh,
there's costume things happeningand maybe it'll pull some
people and of course the bandwas like, yes, now like, oh,
(26:54):
we've seen all your cosplays, oh, can you wear the Terrifier one
?
And I was like, absolutely, itdoes enhance.
It helps me stand out, I guessfrom the other broadcasters you
know the other DJs that don't doit I feel like female
broadcasters, especially in rock, are just not as common.
In fact, I was a productiondirector for a long time, which
is the person that makes all thecommercials for the cluster.
I felt like there were nofemales.
Hardly that did that either.
So it's an interestingcombination, but it has helped
me to both stand out and getcomfortable with being Bridget
(27:17):
in front of people, cause I'mactually kind of shy, like
outside of personas.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, I'm totally shy , can you tell?
I can relate Cause I am big, Iam out there, I'm talking to
everybody and I'll shut down andnot be able to control it yeah
yeah, even our social batteriesdrain yeah, after a while notice
I'll be like I need to hide,yeah, or like if I have to leave
, like a party, or like if Iwant to leave a party early.
(27:45):
So that's part of my likesocial, like I've run out and I
don't want to hug everyone onthe way out because at this,
point I've I've reached my maxsocial battery limit and it's it
is depleted, so I have to gorecharge and then come back.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Totally.
I have a compunction to shakehands and say goodbye to
everybody which has gotten me introuble with my wife when she
was ready to go a few times Likeokay.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Hour later I'm still saying goodbye like oh crap, I
didn't realize that's a cajun.
Goodbye man, yeah, yeah.
And for me, since I'm not cajun, that's a yak.
Goodbye a yak, yeah.
Y-a-t like that's a new orleansthing.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Like people that are real loud, they're yats hey
where?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
yeah, oh, and that's new orleans, where yeah okay
y-a-t where yet yet, oh, where,yet, where yet where you mama
name yeah, how's your?
Mama how they doing people sayoh, cajuns in new orleans.
I'm like I mean no but ifyou're not from here.
(28:42):
You just think that's wherecajun right you know, like remy
laboe, they're like oh, cajun,I'm like.
Well, that's the south of Nola,accent specifically.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And they're like what ?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's Cajun.
I'm like no, no, no, south ofLafayette is Cajun.
That's like Vermilion Parish,you know Parish, yeah, gotta
have that rice, and well, I trymy best.
The yatch, yatch, you're ayatch Bullshatter, nothing wrong
(29:12):
with that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We all love the Cajun , we love the Bayou.
Oh yeah, I just had some gatorlast night.
It was Chinese gator, can youbelieve?
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Ooh bah.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
This much gator, that much jalapeno.
Who go, who know?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh, y'all, don't even put all that seasoning in there
.
Yeah, we eat spicy food here.
It's like you go to New Orleans.
I'm like, oh yeah, that's right, I'm going to give me some of
that Tony's in there.
I can't, I can't do that.
I am.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I do know somebody.
His friends said oh, you'regoing back to New Orleans, Can
you pick me up some of thattunica cherry?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
And he goes Tony Sachery's Tony Sachery.
That's how badly theymispronounced it Tunica Cherry.
Yeah, and it's funny like inNew Orleans, like there's even
different pronunciations forthings too.
But like Tunica Cherry, I don'tthink I've ever where was your
friend from?
I'm curious now.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's a friend of a friend and I think they were a
little bit up north.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Up north.
Oh no, let's bit up north upnorth oh no, let's say midwest,
I'm dying I'm dying.
It took me a second to realizewhat you were saying and once it
hit me, oh my god, yeah oh manit's like I'm sorry it's like
whenever, like we would get likelike a teacher, like growing up
you get a teacher from likesomewhere totally different, and
they come down here and they'relike where's justin cy?
(30:28):
Bodiacs.
And I was like huh, yeah, okay,oh, tibeto, okay yeah.
Or like trahan trahan, oh traha, okay.
Well, y'all might say, I thinky'all say do y'all say trahan
Trahan?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
or Trahan.
Trahan sounds more familiar,but I don't think I've known
many Trahans.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
We are A-H-A-N.
Here is Trahan.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It's definitely not that for me, but also I'm not
pure New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Gotcha I'm suburbs.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
My dad was uptown when he was growing up and my
mother was from Maine.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So I'm all kind of mixed.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh wow, my parents are from here for all, from
saint landry parish, like thisarea cajun-ish cajun enough
cajun.
Yeah, like, and country toolike, from the, the deep country
, the bayou specifically.
My dad grew up on the bayou.
So, yeah, get all that goodbayou speak.
And yeah, and our gumbo doesnot have okra, sir, I'm just
(31:27):
letting you know, don't put thatdon't put tomatoes in my gumbo
I'm with you on tomatoes, but Ilike the okra.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I don't like okra by itself.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I don't I got you oh yeah, oh yeah and uh, I never
put that other stuff in it.
I forget.
No, just just just raw.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Just have it raw, not really you don't mix your
seafood and your meats in yourgumbo do you?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No, no, if it is chicken and sausage, it's
chicken and sausage.
If it's seafood, then it's craband shrimp.
I don't know what else peoplemight put in there, but that's
the two, I don't even think theyput crawfish in it.
No, no, we don't do.
No, that's not.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Crawfish is for others, that's for etouffee and
the last gumbo question yeah,where does the potato salad go?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Where does the potato ?
Oh ooh?
So yeah, you get some potatosalad and you spoon it.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Now you don't just throw it in the gumbo, because
that's weird.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You take it in the spoon and it's cold now.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And then you dip it in.
Good, that's how you'resupposed to do it.
Yeah, there's a debate, folks,if you're listening, not from
around here.
Like we say gumbo, tomatoes ornot, I don't even know who puts
the tomato in, so I don't knowwhere the divide is.
But there's a new thing ofscoop a potato salad and you
leave it in the gumbo, and to meit's on the side.
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You want to flavor it a little bit, but it'll
dissolve kind of a after thing,yeah I like, when you get that
kind of cold with the hot aroundit, kind of like getting an
iced coffee, you know how it'sgot that oh, cold but hot
sensation, like the sameprinciple I think.
I mean, I at least that's howwe do it here.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I could be wrong somebody might be like no,
you're away.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Your grandma didn't make it Idon't want it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
My mom didn't do it like that.
No, I don't want it like that.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Oh, and dirty rice.
I don't forget about the dirtyrice.
I've got some relatives thatare from over over that way that
were cajun, cajun, cajun, andthey would do the whole spread
dirty rice and yeah I thoughtyou were against it.
I'm for it, so I didn't knowwhich way you were going my mom
would walk through the kitchenand she knew there were some
things that I just wouldn't doif I knew what was in it and
(33:30):
she'd say, ok, that pot, thatpot, that pot is OK, stay away
from that one, because theywould.
They would put everything in it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh, wow, yeah, I wish I had that kind of warning.
Sometimes, girl, I'll be like,I guess.
I don't know.
I think a real yam, like whatpeople call yams, isn't even
yams.
But that, like I thought it wasorange, I thought it was
carrots and I still don't likesweet potatoes.
It was traumatized.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I was going to hit us with one.
Have you seen?
They put the seasoning on theoutside.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well, you're not going to eat the shell, you're
not?
I guess you're supposed to lickit off or something, it's like
lick a crawfish.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I don't know what they mean, what they want to do
with it?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Who's doing that?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I saw it for a fancy restaurant in New York like they
were on the social media thatexplains it.
There are people who dust theircrawfish.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, but no, you got to boil it in the seasonings,
in the crab boil.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Crab boil yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Zatarain's makes a great one, so liquid just pour
it in there.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Pour it right in.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
The big bags of it too, like Zatarain's.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
You know, yeah, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, no, we don't just dust unflavored crawfish
with flavorings.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
All right, all right, so circle back To cosplay, to
cosplay Fan Expo New Orleans,january 10th, 11th and 12th.
Yeah, yeah, but do you knowwhere your booth, your table, is
going to be?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Actually I will not have a booth this time.
So Fan Expo, they're very goodabout not doing repeat cosplay
guests and it kind of doesn'treally serve the convention if
you think about it so like theyhad these five guests in 2024.
2025, the convention, if youthink about it so like they had
these five guests in 2024, 2025,they're gonna have five
different guests.
Not only does it keep it fairfor competitors so you're not
getting judged by the sameperson over and over or same
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group of people but also youknow you're not bringing in new
viewers.
Well, you will from otherpeople, but your cosplayers
aren't.
You're not changing your reach,I guess I should say.
As far as people who like, forinstance, this year, my good
friend Astro Lens, that's withlike three Zs, they are a
cosplay guest this year.
They had guested two years ago,so like you can do
non-consegative years.
(35:35):
So I'm not guesting this time,but that gives me an opportunity
to compete.
So I will not have a table, butI will probably be showing up
at Astro Lens' table quite a bitbecause that's my friend and
I'm so proud of them.
They actually run a lot ofthings behind the scenes at
other conventions, like runningcosplay contests and organizing
the awards and guests and stuff.
I love that they still taketime out for an opportunity to
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shine as a cosplayer, not justan organizer.
So shout out Astro Lens.
If you're looking at thecosplay tables, go pay them a
visit.
Check out their prints.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And Kettlebriar Workshop and.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Kettlebriar.
I love Jon.
Oh my God, that's right,because, like he just guested at
EATCon I saw him there.
I was so excited he's like Ican't tell anybody, but I'm
going to be getting you know.
It's like I knew beforehandshows and like master awards,
and it's going to be reallyexciting.
I will be bugging him at histable too.
(36:28):
So, yeah, astro Lens,kettlebriar's Workshop.
I don't remember the othercosplay guests there, but I feel
like there's some people thatI'm not familiar with.
So I'm pretty excited to get infront of them for the judging
process, because I love acombination of people that I
know and respect in thecommunity judging my outfits, my
cosplays that I've put together, and vice versa.
For example, wheneverKettlebriar John had won that
(36:52):
was Louisiana Comic Con inLafayette I was one of the
judges for that and then so nowI'm entering one that he'll be
judging as well.
It's kind of this fun likecircle of life thing where, just
like I respect you and I amglad that you're judging,
because I know that you knowwhat to look for, because that's
what I live for it's an honorto be judged by those that you
respect and that you admiretheir work.
(37:12):
And the mayor of Halloween town.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I was going to bring it up.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
I was going to say you've seen that right,
everyone's seen that.
I want to say it was shared byum Chris Sarandon.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, he saw him at two geek cons ago and last fan
Expo Danny Trejo's people.
Danny's at his table and thepeople come running up to John
and say you need to stop.
Somebody wants to take apicture.
Danny Trejo came over and ohman, I love it To describe it to
people I made before Christmasthe mayor of Halloweentown with
the two faces.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
It's not a costume.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's almost like John's inside of a float it.
It's almost like Jon's insideof a float.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
It's a structure Like it's a giant prop is what it is
.
It's impressive.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
In the Star Wars world, the bad guys, the Sith,
are Darth something.
So Jon had a Darth and I can'tremember the name, but he's
walking around with his redlightsaber and he had a case and
it was baby Grogu inCorviknight, corviknight, ow
Carbonite, oh Carbonite, like itwas, because the baby's like oh
, that's the best, why did?
You carbonite the baby heescaped after the con, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But yeah, true, true yeah.
John's got that good, mind hedoes he does, speaking of, like
one of the really cool thingsabout guesting and like John and
Lynn and all, they're going tohave access to that green room
and you will run into the mostexciting people Danny Trejo, for
example, in the green room.
I think it was at Fan Expo.
It was one of the guesting oneswhere I had green room access
and you go in there and it's notjust cosplay, it's all the
(38:35):
guests can go.
Actually, I have a rapport withJason Mewes at this point
because I always end up in thegreen room with him.
Yeah, at New York Comic Conactually I kept running into him
in the bathroom and he was likewe're on the same bathroom
schedule.
You know, we talked about hislittle like motorized suitcase
that he had and the Danny Trejo.
(38:56):
It was like we were both goingfor the same thing in the green
room for food and I was like no,no you.
And he's like no, no you.
And I'm like but you're.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Danny Trejo and he's like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Ladies, first I was like okay, okay, fine, but I
felt like so awkward.
I was like don't perceive me,oh God.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
TJ would have to have his hand clamped around my
mouth like don't give out thepodcast card, Don't.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Don't do it.
I'm going to tell everybody.
It's like don't be weird, Don'tbe weird.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I'll be weird, I'll be weird.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Right, it gets easier the more that I do because,
working with Leah Clark circlingback to that, she's a voice
actor.
She always has access to thegreen room, so a lot of times me
and her assistant haven't beenin that part of it as long and
we're like oh my God, do you seeit?
Don't look, don't look.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
It's Elizabeth.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Olsen, you know, and stuff like that.
I just have to.
Yeah, she was in the same roomas me and I, just with myself,
same thing with Matt Berry fromwhat we Do in the Shadows.
I was like, don't look too hard, sometimes they come up to you.
John Boyega Finn from Star Warswas like, oh my God, can I get
a picture with you?
And I was like, absolutely, Iwas excited because I thought he
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knew the character.
I was Himiko Toga from my Hero,which, if you don't know, she's
got buns, like blonde buns, butthey're spiky, and she's got
fangs in and she does wear aschoolgirl outfit under her
accessories yeah when he saw me,I didn't have all the
accessories, it was just aschoolgirl outfit and you know,
and he's like.
I got a picture with sailor moonand I was like, yeah, it's your
dicks.
He's like your sailor moon'sawesome.
(40:16):
And I was like thank you.
And I was like, oh well, it'sfine, I don't I'm sailor moon or
it's john boyega, that's fine,he'd call me whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, he wants to call me.
I mean, like you can have one,if I can have one and I can post
it.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, I did.
Mine came out blurry, so Idon't know.
I think I posted it in my story, but yeah, I was like oh man, I
was like, can I have one too?
Sometimes it's exciting whenthey get excited.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Very cool.
I believe we we're out of time,okay, I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I know I can talk people's ear off Like I'm a
motor mouth.
I'm undiagnosed ADHD.
I only know that because I havefriends that work in mental
health and they're like you needto get me.
They're like this is what youis.
They're on ADHD and I take thistest and I'm like oh, it says I
am, let me take it again.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
They're like stop, just stop, just just admit it.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I think I'm in the same boat.
Yeah, it's fine, it's a, it's achoice, a life choice.
It's a new term for an artist.
You just you gotta be flighty.
I'm just artistic, that's rightinclined.
Artistically inclined, it meansI have time blindness.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
So that's why I was late well, I wasn't gonna bring
that up, but we're all good, weunderstand.
Yeah, no, do you have anysocials that?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
you want to share absolutely why I was late?
Well, I wasn't going to bringthat up.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
but we're all good, we understand.
Do you have any socials?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
that you want to share?
Absolutely Okay.
So I'm on Instagram for themost part.
That's my favorite.
You can find me at missoolala.
That's M-I-S-S period,o-o-l-a-l-a.
You can pretty much type thatin on Facebook and it'll pop up.
Um, I think it's Miss Ooh La LaCosplay, with some spaces in
the ooh and la la's, becauseFacebook I don't know it made me
(41:53):
do it that way.
I forget why I have a TikTokand I'll use it.
I think that's all my socials.
Yeah, pretty much Instagram isis my fave, though, so that's my
fave too, because it's picturesit's so easy and there's not
group pages and fan pages andevent pages.
Just give me a page.
Yeah, Simple, please.
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Very cool.
Thank you for joining us, thankyou, miss Ulala, for joining us
, and we'll see everyone thisweekend at Fan Expo, new Orleans
.
Come find us, y'all.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Come find us.
Hi, I'm Bridget Rose, aka Miss Ooh La La in the
cosplay scene.
I'm a cosplayer, radio host andaudio editor and I am ecstatic
to be on NOLA Film Scene.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We are back and, ladies and gentlemen, I am so
pleased to welcome Miss Ooh LaLa, my friend Bridget Rose,
cosplayer extraordinaire to thepodcast.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hi, friend, I don't know about all that, but thank
you for the introduction.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, you don't know about the extraordinaire, but
the friend part's still good,right.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, absolutely, the extraordinaire part makes me
feel I don't know like I shouldbe famous or something.
But thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You're definitely famous in the cosplay circles.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm just your neighborhood friendly cosplayer.
I don't know how Harley Quinn'dthere, but that's not a problem
.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It bubbles up in all of us.
And that leads me to thequestion because you're so into
that when did you start cosplay?
What inspired you to get intothat lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, so originally, before I had ever been to a
convention in my life, I didn'teven know anime cons existed,
like I had no idea, comic-con's,nothing, because Lafayette,
louisiana, didn't have anythinglike that.
I didn't really have anyfriends that were in bigger
cities, you know, just smalltown Lafayette girl.
So in 2004, I mean, I hadn'ttimeline this I was working at
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GameStop in the Acadiana Malland there were these guys that
came in Some of them arerecognized as customers.
I didn't know them very welland they approached me at the
counter and were like, hey, wethink you would make a great
live action anime girl.
And I was like, wow, I loveanime, of course, yes, tell me
more.
And they're like have you everbeen to an anime convention?
I'm like, no, what's that?
And they gave me the rundown ofwhat it was and I was like, yes
(01:49):
, I'll do what.
No, I didn't say that, I waslike yeah, I'm totally
interested and they're like,yeah, so our idea is to start a
convention in Lafayette,louisiana.
There's plenty of them inbigger cities and we really want
to grow it and we want to havea live action anime girl.
We'd ideally like to have twoas our cosplay mascots, our
representatives, the face of theconvention, because, as John
(02:11):
Roos put it so eloquently, thedraw is not going to be two
dudes with beards or not beardsor whatever.
I'm insulted I know right, and Iwas like I like you guys and
they're like, yeah, but you know, our target demo are people who
are looking at these charactersand you look like that.
We don't look like that, so I'mlike I gotcha.
So they had this idea of doingspace pilots and it was going to
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be sci-fi themed.
Mecha, in particular, was sortof their theme MechaCon.
So for that first year,actually before the first
MechaCon I started passing outflyers.
I wore this cute little spandexsuit.
At the time I thought it wasgreat, but like now that I've
learned how to sew and do more,I almost wish I could revisit
those years and make somethingtruly spectacular, Although in
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later years they had somebeautiful costumes commissioned
for the mascots.
And as I grew with thecharacters, so did the costumes.
And as I grew with thecharacters, so did the costumes.
And eventually I wanted tostart making my own not my own
characters, but makingcharacters from shows that
weren't the original mascotcharacter, and I wanted to start
competing.
So I worked with them for yearsand years and years and kind of
grew my own cosplay brand off,of that sort of just by all the
people I met, and I startedlearning about new events and a
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lot of New Orleans stuff, a lotof Texas.
Texas was at the time boomingthey still are, but booming with
conventions and wow, yeah, 2004.
That puts an age marker on therethat I don't want to comment on
, but yeah, that's how it allstarted was working at GameStop
in the mall and having people go.
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You look like an animecharacter.
Look at this idea.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I heard Harley Quinn when you did that a minute ago.
By the way it came through.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, it did.
Oh, I'm just your neighborhoodfriendly.
Yeah, I like combined likeSpider-Man and Harley Quinn.
Actually, I do have a cosplayof Spider Quinn that I did like
a long time ago at Wizard World.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Back in the day.
Moment of silence for WizardWorld.
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Moment of silence for Wizard World.
Oh, I know, I love Wizard World.
I love when I first found outabout Wizard World, I was like,
oh wow, like Wizards of theCoast, it's like no, it's Wizard
.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
World From the magazine.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, stop trying to associate it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
From the magazine before your time Right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So yeah, like you know, oh, before my oh, I don't
know, I feel like my time is,but yeah, maybe, maybe, so.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It was the 90s, mostly by the year 2000,.
It was coming down.
You know, magazines were on theway out.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I was here in the 90s Like a teenager.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, but you were just a baby.
You're just such a tiny littleinfant.
I know, yeah, I am a 90s kid.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I am a 90s kid, oh yeah, I got to see all of the
90s, Right, but that was beforeyou know anime conventions and
things like that.
There was no streaming and itwas a lot harder to get into it.
You had to either, you know, berich and buy stuff at Suncoast
like DVDs, or have a friend thatalready owned anime titles, or
you watched Toonami after schoolWow yeah, so this one kind of
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got me into.
It was Dragon Ball Z.
I know that sounds like such abasic answer, but back then that
was what there was.
It was Sailor Moon and I wasn'treally like super girly,
although I appreciate theoutfits and stuff like it's
beautiful.
But Dragon Ball Z is actuallywhat kind of got me in there.
And then of course it was likeYu Yu Hakusho, which was a huge
one for me.
I love that.
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Got into Bleach, oh, cowboyBebop, like Cowboy Bebop.
Then I always loved comics too,so it was like the best of both
worlds was you have theseevents full of all this stuff.
You know I grew up watchingBatman cartoon, like huge fan of
that original batman animation,and then, of course, the x-men,
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you know waking up in themorning.
You know I wanted to be mystique, so yes, yes oh yeah, like
that's where it all began, so tospeak very cool.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How many conventions do you go to a year?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
it varies, so I would say before 2021, like two or
three, two a year, but now it'ssomewhere north of oh, I don't
know.
I try to do one a month.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Obviously, I would have to be like super loaded to
afford to go to every con juston my own accord.
Most of the cons that I go toI'll call them work-a-cons are
work-cations, so I hear my catin the background.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I'm so sorry, that's okay.
We love all the guests.
We can get Her name is Sabine.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She's fantastic, but she probably knocked down
everything when she came in here.
I try to do one a month.
I work for a voice actress,leah Clark, who voices
characters such as Hiniko Togafrom my Hero Academia, blair
from Soul Eater, mavis fromFairy Tail and a whole bunch of
other characters.
So I work for her.
I help work for tables.
So a lot of times I'll do one amonth, and they're mostly her
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conventions, but I do also doguesting, which I'll present
panels.
I'll judge cosplay contests.
In fact, earlier, earlier thisyear in January, I was a guest
for Fan Expo New Orleans and Iwas part of that one.
I will be going this year tothat one.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We are too 12 a year.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's a lot, maybe 13.
I don't know, it depends.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think Brian's jealous.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh, don't be jealous, my time will come.
I will be like our buddy CreekWilson People will start paying
me for photo ops one dayAbsolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You know that's the thing People have this
misconception of like, oh, wow,you go to all these cons, you're
like this, I'm like no, I'mworking at table and it's not
always for pleasure and noteverybody's going to come
pouring it.
Like you know, it's a labor oflove, but it is nice to be
recognized for doing somethingthat you really enjoy and so it
feels like fun, even thoughyou're also being paid to be
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there too.
Then that helps fund thecompetitions, like, for instance
, fan Expo, the upcoming one inNOLA.
I won't be guesting therebecause I already did that the
previous one, so I'll becompeting, and my friend, lady
Luna Loveless and I like to doduo characters.
I will be entering something.
I don't want to spoil it, but welike to do those competitions
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as well, and we just made itinto master level recently.
Actually, everybody's like, oh,you've been on master.
No, actually I've beencompeting on intermediate level
for years and I just got myfirst best intermediate, which
in the cosplay world means oh,now you compete on master level.
So now you're up against thesecrazy costumes that kind of
terrify me.
They're full of lights and likestilts.
(08:27):
sometimes I'm like can I competewith that?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's.
It's hardcore when you get tomaster level.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, it is.
Can you break that down for us?
Sure, absolutely.
Tell us how difficult thedifferent levels are and what
they entail.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Not that the rest isn't oh and what they entail.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Okay, not that the rest isn't.
Oh well, I know, I know whatyou mean.
Yeah, because a lot of timespeople are like on what?
There's levels, you know youthink, oh, it's just a costume
contest, right?
Yes, and no, there'scraftsmanship, like
craftsmanship cup style, whereit is very much about the craft
you have to have made, either100%, 90%, 75%, depending on
your skill levels.
(09:05):
A lot of times on craftsmanshipcosplay contests you'll have a
beginner level, which is callednovice or beginner, and you've
got your second tier, which ispeople who have already won best
beginner or maybe won a bunchof awards in beginner already
and they feel they're ready tomove up.
Then you enter what's calledintermediate or journeyman
that's the nickname for thatclass, I guess and that's once
you've won, like I said, a fewawards in beginner or your skill
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level is higher than that of abeginner.
It's kind of at your discretion.
Once you get to master level,it's not good to just say I
think I'm a master, because thenyou're up against the best of
the best of the best.
It's a lot harder.
So it's best to earn your wayinto master.
That way you're not sellingyourself short.
It's not really so much like oh, you're not good enough, it's
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more like, do you really want tocompete on that level right now
, when you haven't earned the?
You know feels good to win anaward and to know that you're
ready.
So once you've gotten bestintermediate, they kind of say,
okay, look, unless you'reentering a competition that's
way bigger than the one you won,that best intermediate at, it
is courtesy, to move up tomaster level to let other
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intermediates get thoseintermediate awards.
And once you're on master level,it gets pretty crazy from there
.
So, and that's once you've won,like I said, a best
intermediate award, or have lotsof judges awards and maybe a
best intermediate or something.
And for me I want to say I havelike 10 judges awards which are
a lower level award, one bestintermediate and two best groups
.
So essentially, me notcompeting on master until now
makes a lot of sense, eventhough some people like but you
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judge all the time Judging, evenif you are intermediate level,
you know what master level lookslike at that point.
So, and then there's also what'scalled exhibition or
non-craftsmanship, and that'slike you don't go before the
judges early in the morning toshow all your stitches off.
You know like these are forpeople who don't make their
cosplays, and they can at leastgo up and present it, and not
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every cosplay contest has acategory for people who don't
create, which in my opinion.
Those people deserve a chancein the spotlight too.
So I always like whenever I seea contest has craftsmanship cup
and then runway or whateverthey choose to call their
non-craftsmanship ones, and thenof course there's skits, which
are all performance based, andthose are judged very
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differently.
The costume if you make ityourself, that is, of course,
bonus points for your skit, butultimately those are judged
based on performance.
So lots of different levels anddifferent things you can do in
contests.
I hope that was a goodexplanation.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That was great.
That was great, thank you.
I'm formulating a couple ofquestions.
I watch Big Bang Theory, youknow, sometimes when I need
something in the background todo other things, and there's one
episode in particular wherethey're talking about wearing
costumes and one of them saysgentlemen to the sewing machines
and they all go run off to maketheir costumes.
(11:49):
Tell me the difference of whereyou have to make your own.
Do you have to be making yourown to move up to the highest
level?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, absolutely.
That's another part where therules are really important.
So anytime anyone would like toenter a contest, it's important
to read the rules, because I'vebeen to contests that are
smaller conventions and they'relike oh, we only have beginner
and advanced, so there'll belike two categories, if they
know they're not going to get aton of signups.
But it'll say in the rules likeyou have to have handmade 30
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percent for beginner, forexample.
So that's like OK, okay, if youmade some of your cosplay but
not half of it, you can stillenter.
On beginner.
Intermediate is going to be 50usually, or more depending,
sometimes less.
It really depends on the con ifit's as big as fan expo.
So they are very craftsmanshipdriven.
If you don't know, they hostthe grand prix, not the new
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orleans one but the dallas one,and also mega con, which is
basically Fan Expo, orlandoSuperCon.
Yeah, MegaCon, Technically it isa Fan Expo and it's under their
umbrella, but they do hold theGrand Prix, which is a summit
style.
I've competed, for instance, inthe World Cosplay Summit way
before I was ready, so I didn'tplan anything.
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The Fan Expos are going to bethe ones where it's going to be
the larger percentage ofsomething you built.
But if you go to something alittle smaller than that like,
well, cypher con has a prettyprestigious contest as well,
even though they are smallerthan the fan expos.
Trying to think of somethingsmall, you know, it really just
depends on the size of the con.
But it'll say in the rules andonce you get to master, though,
if you didn't make least 90,like, they don't expect you to
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cobble your own shoes, but ifyou can cobble shoes, that is
going to impress the judges.
I actually do a whole panelabout how to impress the judges
in prejudging, and that's one ofthe things where we had this
girl.
She forged a crown out of metaland I don't mean she 3D printed
it, because we had a PrincessPeach and a Princess Rosalina
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and they had these beautiful 3Dprinted crowns and these
beautifully sewn dresses andthey were so amazing and we
thought they were going to bethe best in show.
And then the last person walksin and it's this queen of hearts
that, like, she literally canforge metal and forge it well,
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and she cast a crown from silveror nickel or something and like
hand-bezzled gemstones and Iwas like all right, so you're
just as good as these people,except you forged metal.
So you know, no one expects youto cobble shoes or forge metal,
but if you can, that can bewhat tips the scale in your
favor.
We've had entries where we gottwo characters with these
beautiful wings you know twodifferent characters even and
one has wings that articulateand move and the other one's
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stagnant and we're like allright.
Well, you know, like sometimesit does come down to those
little fine details.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Right.
It seems like it levels theplaying field too to keep
somebody that's wealthy fromgoing out and spending thousands
of dollars on a you know, astormtrooper outfit or an Iron
man suit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Where you have to make your own.
I don't know.
It seems like it keeps.
It would keep it more level.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It does and it's great.
That's why I love when theyhave categories for people who
aren't crafters If they want tocommission something beautiful
and enter it.
You know there should be aplace for that, because that's
sort of the presentation of thecharacter.
You enter it, you know thereshould be a place for that,
because that's sort of thepresentation of the character.
You know, how well do youembody that character on stage?
And that comes into performanceand your ability to wear
something on stage and presentit.
And so you know you're judgedagainst people who have also
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done the same thing, wherethey've purchased something and
they've put a lot into how itfits or how they walk with it or
what they do on stage.
And that is very much a big partof cosplay to me too, because
not everything I wear issomething I made.
I do have a lot of those cheap,quick Amazon cosplays that I
love that look phenomenal andpeople oh, how did you make that
?
I'm like, oh, I didn't.
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But then that's also why I lovewearing stuff I made is because
then I get to rattle off andtalk someone's ear off until
they're sick of me and tell themabout what glue I used to join
my EVA foam to you know, andthen by that time they're like
okay, thanks.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Thanks, I just wanted a picture.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I just wanted it and I was just like, but you asked
me a question.
Yeah, I know, I get excited.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I wanted to jump in here.
We're kind of talking aboutcosplay competitions and you
being a featured cosplayer atthe cons and that's fantastic.
But I don't want people to beput off by all this yeah go
jargon.
So like when I go, I don'treally get into a full
stormtrooper costume.
I might have a helmet.
My thing is for photo ops and Iplus the photo, like I brought
ring props to meet the hobbitsfrom lord of the rings oh yeah
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the ring pop.
Well, it's small.
You may have oh, I'm sorry gotsomething out of the bag.
No, no, because that It'll alsolead us into we're going to
drop this episode right beforethe next Fan Expo, new Orleans,
january 2025.
Bridget will be there, I willbe there, and basically all this
is getting me to.
I found my people, I found mytribe in Enola Comic-Con Because
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I can talk to regular NewOrleans people and make a Saints
joke, make a New Orleans joke,and they laugh, but they don't
always get the comic bookreferences.
And then there's comic bookpeople who you meet who don't
understand Enola, so you kind ofhave to work and explain, but
when I walked into Comic-Con andI said something and people
started falling out, I was likeI'm home, these are my people.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, people started falling out and I was like I'm
home, these are my people.
Yeah, tribe is a very accurateword.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So if you've ever thought about this, it doesn't
have to be New Orleans, ofcourse you love Spider-Man.
You don't even have to dress up.
I urge people to go check itout at least once, maybe twice,
and it's a lot of fun.
You'll find things to do.
I love taking pictures andselfies.
Bridget can say that becauseI'm bugging her every day
because she wears a differentcostume every day.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And we do silly poses .
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You're going to have fun at these things, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Absolutely, I'll be there too.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, and I'll be there on stage.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Brian and I got invited to be on a panel.
Another podcaster has a panelon Friday, so that's the first.
That's a first for me, so we'regoing to be on a panel.
Yeah, talking about movies.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Awesome, kicking off the con the right way.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, it's our first con.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm going to go with that.
I'm totally going to check outthe panel.
Like I'm excited for you guys.
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And last year I got my first press pass, but I
didn't show up early.
If you see my videos.
I like throwing voices with thevoice actors.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Oh, awesome.
I'm a huge horror fan too, bythe way.
I don't know if you're intoTerrifier, but I'm still like.
This happened, like you know,now, like this summer, I made
the cosplay from Terrifier 2 ofSienna Shaw.
She's the final girl and she'sgot this armor, so she's like a
cosplayer in the movie, likeshe's making her cosplay.
I need to make that.
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And I got invited to a horrorconvention, which never happens
for me, it's always anime orcomic cons, because horror
cosplay is a little bitdifferent, because a lot of
times it's clothes and it's alot of blood, but it's not, you
know like, oh, you built thisthing because there's not as
many opportunities for that.
So I made this cosplay and whenI put it on my, my Instagram,
david Howard Thornton, aka Artthe Clown, shared it, and so did
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Lauren Lavera, the actress whoplays the character that I made
the costume of, and I'm stilllike, and I want to meet them so
badly.
I found out they're going to beat a horror convention in Texas
coming up, so I will meet thatone and I want to meet them so
bad very cool.
Wow, that's cool that isexciting meeting all the people
that inspire us.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, so I have a couple of questions.
You mentioned audio editing.
I don't want to completelyleave the cosplay stuff behind.
We'll circle back to it.
I wanted to ask about yourradio work.
How did you get into that andwhat's that like, and is it
challenging to balance that withthe cosplay and conventions?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's a fun question .
I like that.
Yeah, I always hesitate to eventalk about radio because, like,
people that are in radio likethat are only like that's their
focus.
You know, like they just thinkit's like the whole world and
I'm like that's cool, but like,don't be one of those like DJs,
you know like, don't be that guyor girl or whatever.
So I was like, yeah, do radio,but if no one's interested I
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don't go.
So I'm on this format and I'veworked in this format.
Gosh, I started radio in.
It was in the early after 2010.
It was after college.
I went oh my God, I changed myconcentration in college so much
.
I was a visual arts major,which I should tell you.
That makes sense.
I went from so animation butthen, like rigging the polyons
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to the skeletons, I was bad atthat because math, and from
there I went print media andphotography and didn't see any
job opportunities with that andmy advisor was like you should
try media.
At the time that's what it wascalled and it's basically audio,
video editing and lighting andbasically not really like radio,
but working well with TV andother broadcasts.
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So I had a background in that Iwas great with audio and video
editing.
It's just part of what I do nowtoo, aside from the radio
station.
Around 2012-ish they had amodel search and it was for a
gun shop like a no, a shootingrange, just Barney's Gun Range,
and I was.
I was like, oh, they want kindof like alt models.
Okay, I can do that, becauseI'm not like you know.
I don't know I'm not sure whatto call that, but I'm working a
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little alti.
Like I'm not good at being likea princess necessarily, unless
it's a cosplay princess.
I was like, okay, yeah, I canmodel guns.
I like guns.
I've been to a gun range before.
It's fine.
I didn't get picked as like thetop three that they chose, but
I gave the best interview.
They loved my interview so much.
It was the radio station thatwas hosting it.
They were partnered with thatgun range.
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The morning show guy was likeyou gave a great interview.
Have you ever done broadcast?
I was like no, but I mean maybeI mean I could.
He's like I have a show in mindfor you.
It's that I have another, thisintern that we're about to hire.
We're going to do a show.
It's kind of raunchy, are youokay with raunchy?
And I'm like yeah, I don't care.
It's like, yeah, it's calledTwo Hot Chicks on a Saturday
night and it's going to be atnight on Saturdays and so we're
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going to talk about sex, exceptin a way that's like you can get
by with the FCC rules.
So we're going to have creativelanguage.
I was like I can do that,because I guess he saw that I
played with language a lot inour interviews that we had with
the models.
So he was like I think you'd begreat.
I did that for a while.
I was Miss Ooh La La.
That was where the name he saidchoose a radio name Can't be
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Bridget, because it's a raunchyshow.
I don't want to do that to you.
So I chose Miss Ooh, thecharacter Ooh La La from Space
Channel 5 on the Dreamcast.
It's super obscure, no one willknow, and I spelled it
differently so it would beunique.
But ultimately I stole her namebecause she was a forgotten
Sega character.
We did things like the superfreaky shot of the night.
(22:21):
We would pretend to mix shotsor drinks in the studio and give
the recipes out.
We talked about relationshipadvice but it was usually like
oh, relationship advice.
Anyway, from there I ended upon middays.
For a while I was the morningshow co-host, board op.
I excelled with audio and thenI became production assistant
and they were like wow, you makegreat commercials.
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I started getting reallycreative with that.
I submitted to the Addies,which is submit a commercial and
you might win something kind ofthing, kind of like a LAB award
, like a broadcaster award typething.
I didn't win.
But from there I just worked atdifferent radio stations.
I was a brand manager for a fewdifferent stations, mostly in
rock format.
I guess it goes without sayingthat format for two hot chicks
on a Saturday night was activerock, like rock and metal.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know, I did pop for a while but like when you
don't know the differencebetween Britney Spears and like
Christina Aguilera, people startto notice.
So I was like please put meback where we have Mudvayne or
something.
I need Pantera, Like we got tofix this.
So I ended up working in rockagain, which currently I'm on
Planet Radio 6.7 in Lafayetteand I also do freelance
(23:27):
commercials.
Like I do voiceover, I doproduction.
Even when it's not my voice,I'll produce commercials for
companies.
I do podcast editing, audiopodcast editing and like hosted
on like Buzzsprout and Scheduleand do the little you know,
stuff like that I love mix.
One of these days I'd like tobe an audio engineer mix at
maybe Crunchyroll, hey Crunchy,if you're listening.
(23:47):
No, I'm just kidding, heyCrunchyroll, hey Crunchy, if
you're listening.
No, just kidding.
Hey Crunchy, hey Crunchy.
Come over here.
I just love the world of audioand being a host.
I'm afternoons For the mostpart.
My career in radio has taken methrough afternoons.
Most people don't understand iswhen you have an on-air shift
nowadays and like it's not the90s anymore, so nobody's really
live, Like sometimes they'relive, they say they're live,
they're live, but a lot of stuffhas gone remote.
(24:09):
The radio industry has turnedinto a bunch of people like me
who have, yeah, like aRodecaster Pro 2 and an XLR mic.
I've got Shure.
I love Shure.
They are bae.
I broadcast from home.
I do my afternoon show fromhome, actually Kind of cool, I
don't have to go anywhere forthat.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
That was going to be the next question I had.
Did that go remote?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, I kind of thought maybe it did.
I'd heard some people do that.
That's cool In larger marketslike Dallas and New York.
I mean, there's a lot of muchbigger markets where they do
have live hosts and thensometimes they'll do like
radiothons where they will golive that day and they'll be
live the whole time.
I used to do simulated livewhere I would record some of it.
I'd be live for an hour.
(24:50):
It takes from requests.
Back when I worked at KSMB inLafayette it was the pop station
I was talking about we had thisall live.
It was just like one continuousmix of music by a DJ and we
would just pop in and out andyou'd have to just watch the
time and know how much time youhad to talk and know how much
time you had to talk.
And I'd take callers on the airand early air them back over
the air.
She can't put them live Likethat's dangerous.
(25:12):
People say some crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So yeah, and it kind of works out with cosplay in a
way.
We host a lot of things.
A lot of times they'll put uson stage to announce bands and
things like that, and it'sreally helped with, I find, my
stage presence.
When you have to announce atFestival International in front
of a son of people, when you getup on stage for cosplay, it
just seems like whatever at thatpoint, because you've been
through the scary part and thenalso without my cosplay, cosplay
(25:38):
for me is sort of like wearinga mask.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Like when.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I have to be Bridget Rose on the stage and be me and
do it.
It feels weird, but it's almostlike the persona takes over.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Miss Ooh La La is the character of her own.
When I host cosplay things,bridget Rose is even a character
.
Bridget is the character.
Like I'm always kind of acharacter.
Once I got into radio I realizedhow cosplay could help me
become a character on the air.
So it do kind of work out.
I've even hosted things incosplay for the radio station
because people were like, oh,you should cosplay for that.
Like when you're in a smallermarket, people get to know you
(26:12):
and they know what you dooutside of it.
Like they'll know what stationsI was on before and they'll be
like oh, if it isn't Miss RadioLafayette over here, and I'm
like, nope, I'm on planet now Alot of times, it brings
something special to it.
They had a band who did aHalloween show that Planet Radio
hosted and the band and I weretalking and I was like do you
want me to help host the costumecontest?
(26:32):
I use quote fingers becauseit's not a cosplay contest where
you're making things but maybepeople will you know.
And I was like, hey, I canpromote it through my cosplay
socials because I have a lot oflocal people that might go oh,
there's costume things happeningand maybe it'll pull some
people and of course the bandwas like, yes, now like, oh,
(26:54):
we've seen all your cosplays, oh, can you wear the Terrifier one
?
And I was like, absolutely, itdoes enhance.
It helps me stand out, I guessfrom the other broadcasters you
know the other DJs that don't doit I feel like female
broadcasters, especially in rock, are just not as common.
In fact, I was a productiondirector for a long time, which
is the person that makes all thecommercials for the cluster.
I felt like there were nofemales.
Hardly that did that either.
So it's an interestingcombination, but it has helped
me to both stand out and getcomfortable with being Bridget
(27:17):
in front of people, cause I'mactually kind of shy, like
outside of personas.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, I'm totally shy , can you tell?
I can relate Cause I am big, Iam out there, I'm talking to
everybody and I'll shut down andnot be able to control it yeah
yeah, even our social batteriesdrain yeah, after a while notice
I'll be like I need to hide,yeah, or like if I have to leave
, like a party, or like if Iwant to leave a party early.
(27:45):
So that's part of my likesocial, like I've run out and I
don't want to hug everyone onthe way out because at this,
point I've I've reached my maxsocial battery limit and it's it
is depleted, so I have to gorecharge and then come back.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Totally.
I have a compunction to shakehands and say goodbye to
everybody which has gotten me introuble with my wife when she
was ready to go a few times Likeokay.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Hour later I'm still saying goodbye like oh crap, I
didn't realize that's a cajun.
Goodbye man, yeah, yeah.
And for me, since I'm not cajun, that's a yak.
Goodbye a yak, yeah.
Y-a-t like that's a new orleansthing.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Like people that are real loud, they're yats hey
where?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
yeah, oh, and that's new orleans, where yeah okay
y-a-t where yet yet, oh, where,yet, where yet where you mama
name yeah, how's your?
Mama how they doing people sayoh, cajuns in new orleans.
I'm like I mean no but ifyou're not from here.
(28:42):
You just think that's wherecajun right you know, like remy
laboe, they're like oh, cajun,I'm like.
Well, that's the south of Nola,accent specifically.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And they're like what ?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's Cajun.
I'm like no, no, no, south ofLafayette is Cajun.
That's like Vermilion Parish,you know Parish, yeah, gotta
have that rice, and well, I trymy best.
The yatch, yatch, you're ayatch Bullshatter, nothing wrong
(29:12):
with that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We all love the Cajun , we love the Bayou.
Oh yeah, I just had some gatorlast night.
It was Chinese gator, can youbelieve?
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Ooh bah.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
This much gator, that much jalapeno.
Who go, who know?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh, y'all, don't even put all that seasoning in there
.
Yeah, we eat spicy food here.
It's like you go to New Orleans.
I'm like, oh yeah, that's right, I'm going to give me some of
that Tony's in there.
I can't, I can't do that.
I am.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I do know somebody.
His friends said oh, you'regoing back to New Orleans, Can
you pick me up some of thattunica cherry?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
And he goes Tony Sachery's Tony Sachery.
That's how badly theymispronounced it Tunica Cherry.
Yeah, and it's funny like inNew Orleans, like there's even
different pronunciations forthings too.
But like Tunica Cherry, I don'tthink I've ever where was your
friend from?
I'm curious now.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's a friend of a friend and I think they were a
little bit up north.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Up north.
Oh no, let's bit up north upnorth oh no, let's say midwest,
I'm dying I'm dying.
It took me a second to realizewhat you were saying and once it
hit me, oh my god, yeah oh manit's like I'm sorry it's like
whenever, like we would get likelike a teacher, like growing up
you get a teacher from likesomewhere totally different, and
they come down here and they'relike where's justin cy?
(30:28):
Bodiacs.
And I was like huh, yeah, okay,oh, tibeto, okay yeah.
Or like trahan trahan, oh traha, okay.
Well, y'all might say, I thinky'all say do y'all say trahan
Trahan?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
or Trahan.
Trahan sounds more familiar,but I don't think I've known
many Trahans.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
We are A-H-A-N.
Here is Trahan.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It's definitely not that for me, but also I'm not
pure New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Gotcha I'm suburbs.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
My dad was uptown when he was growing up and my
mother was from Maine.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So I'm all kind of mixed.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh wow, my parents are from here for all, from
saint landry parish, like thisarea cajun-ish cajun enough
cajun.
Yeah, like, and country toolike, from the, the deep country
, the bayou specifically.
My dad grew up on the bayou.
So, yeah, get all that goodbayou speak.
And yeah, and our gumbo doesnot have okra, sir, I'm just
(31:27):
letting you know, don't put thatdon't put tomatoes in my gumbo
I'm with you on tomatoes, but Ilike the okra.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I don't like okra by itself.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I don't I got you oh yeah, oh yeah and uh, I never
put that other stuff in it.
I forget.
No, just just just raw.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Just have it raw, not really you don't mix your
seafood and your meats in yourgumbo do you?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No, no, if it is chicken and sausage, it's
chicken and sausage.
If it's seafood, then it's craband shrimp.
I don't know what else peoplemight put in there, but that's
the two, I don't even think theyput crawfish in it.
No, no, we don't do.
No, that's not.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Crawfish is for others, that's for etouffee and
the last gumbo question yeah,where does the potato salad go?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Where does the potato ?
Oh ooh?
So yeah, you get some potatosalad and you spoon it.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Now you don't just throw it in the gumbo, because
that's weird.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You take it in the spoon and it's cold now.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And then you dip it in.
Good, that's how you'resupposed to do it.
Yeah, there's a debate, folks,if you're listening, not from
around here.
Like we say gumbo, tomatoes ornot, I don't even know who puts
the tomato in, so I don't knowwhere the divide is.
But there's a new thing ofscoop a potato salad and you
leave it in the gumbo, and to meit's on the side.
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You want to flavor it a little bit, but it'll
dissolve kind of a after thing,yeah I like, when you get that
kind of cold with the hot aroundit, kind of like getting an
iced coffee, you know how it'sgot that oh, cold but hot
sensation, like the sameprinciple I think.
I mean, I at least that's howwe do it here.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I could be wrong somebody might be like no,
you're away.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Your grandma didn't make it Idon't want it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
My mom didn't do it like that.
No, I don't want it like that.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Oh, and dirty rice.
I don't forget about the dirtyrice.
I've got some relatives thatare from over over that way that
were cajun, cajun, cajun, andthey would do the whole spread
dirty rice and yeah I thoughtyou were against it.
I'm for it, so I didn't knowwhich way you were going my mom
would walk through the kitchenand she knew there were some
things that I just wouldn't doif I knew what was in it and
(33:30):
she'd say, ok, that pot, thatpot, that pot is OK, stay away
from that one, because theywould.
They would put everything in it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh, wow, yeah, I wish I had that kind of warning.
Sometimes, girl, I'll be like,I guess.
I don't know.
I think a real yam, like whatpeople call yams, isn't even
yams.
But that, like I thought it wasorange, I thought it was
carrots and I still don't likesweet potatoes.
It was traumatized.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I was going to hit us with one.
Have you seen?
They put the seasoning on theoutside.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well, you're not going to eat the shell, you're
not?
I guess you're supposed to lickit off or something, it's like
lick a crawfish.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I don't know what they mean, what they want to do
with it?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Who's doing that?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I saw it for a fancy restaurant in New York like they
were on the social media thatexplains it.
There are people who dust theircrawfish.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, but no, you got to boil it in the seasonings,
in the crab boil.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Crab boil yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Zatarain's makes a great one, so liquid just pour
it in there.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Pour it right in.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
The big bags of it too, like Zatarain's.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
You know, yeah, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, no, we don't just dust unflavored crawfish
with flavorings.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
All right, all right, so circle back To cosplay, to
cosplay Fan Expo New Orleans,january 10th, 11th and 12th.
Yeah, yeah, but do you knowwhere your booth, your table, is
going to be?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Actually I will not have a booth this time.
So Fan Expo, they're very goodabout not doing repeat cosplay
guests and it kind of doesn'treally serve the convention if
you think about it so like theyhad these five guests in 2024.
2025, the convention, if youthink about it so like they had
these five guests in 2024, 2025,they're gonna have five
different guests.
Not only does it keep it fairfor competitors so you're not
getting judged by the sameperson over and over or same
(35:14):
group of people but also youknow you're not bringing in new
viewers.
Well, you will from otherpeople, but your cosplayers
aren't.
You're not changing your reach,I guess I should say.
As far as people who like, forinstance, this year, my good
friend Astro Lens, that's withlike three Zs, they are a
cosplay guest this year.
They had guested two years ago,so like you can do
non-consegative years.
(35:35):
So I'm not guesting this time,but that gives me an opportunity
to compete.
So I will not have a table, butI will probably be showing up
at Astro Lens' table quite a bitbecause that's my friend and
I'm so proud of them.
They actually run a lot ofthings behind the scenes at
other conventions, like runningcosplay contests and organizing
the awards and guests and stuff.
I love that they still taketime out for an opportunity to
(35:57):
shine as a cosplayer, not justan organizer.
So shout out Astro Lens.
If you're looking at thecosplay tables, go pay them a
visit.
Check out their prints.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And Kettlebriar Workshop and.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Kettlebriar.
I love Jon.
Oh my God, that's right,because, like he just guested at
EATCon I saw him there.
I was so excited he's like Ican't tell anybody, but I'm
going to be getting you know.
It's like I knew beforehandshows and like master awards,
and it's going to be reallyexciting.
I will be bugging him at histable too.
(36:28):
So, yeah, astro Lens,kettlebriar's Workshop.
I don't remember the othercosplay guests there, but I feel
like there's some people thatI'm not familiar with.
So I'm pretty excited to get infront of them for the judging
process, because I love acombination of people that I
know and respect in thecommunity judging my outfits, my
cosplays that I've put together, and vice versa.
For example, wheneverKettlebriar John had won that
(36:52):
was Louisiana Comic Con inLafayette I was one of the
judges for that and then so nowI'm entering one that he'll be
judging as well.
It's kind of this fun likecircle of life thing where, just
like I respect you and I amglad that you're judging,
because I know that you knowwhat to look for, because that's
what I live for it's an honorto be judged by those that you
respect and that you admiretheir work.
(37:12):
And the mayor of Halloween town.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I was going to bring it up.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
I was going to say you've seen that right,
everyone's seen that.
I want to say it was shared byum Chris Sarandon.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, he saw him at two geek cons ago and last fan
Expo Danny Trejo's people.
Danny's at his table and thepeople come running up to John
and say you need to stop.
Somebody wants to take apicture.
Danny Trejo came over and ohman, I love it To describe it to
people I made before Christmasthe mayor of Halloweentown with
the two faces.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
It's not a costume.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's almost like John's inside of a float it.
It's almost like Jon's insideof a float.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
It's a structure Like it's a giant prop is what it is
.
It's impressive.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
In the Star Wars world, the bad guys, the Sith,
are Darth something.
So Jon had a Darth and I can'tremember the name, but he's
walking around with his redlightsaber and he had a case and
it was baby Grogu inCorviknight, corviknight, ow
Carbonite, oh Carbonite, like itwas, because the baby's like oh
, that's the best, why did?
You carbonite the baby heescaped after the con, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But yeah, true, true yeah.
John's got that good, mind hedoes he does, speaking of, like
one of the really cool thingsabout guesting and like John and
Lynn and all, they're going tohave access to that green room
and you will run into the mostexciting people Danny Trejo, for
example, in the green room.
I think it was at Fan Expo.
It was one of the guesting oneswhere I had green room access
and you go in there and it's notjust cosplay, it's all the
(38:35):
guests can go.
Actually, I have a rapport withJason Mewes at this point
because I always end up in thegreen room with him.
Yeah, at New York Comic Conactually I kept running into him
in the bathroom and he was likewe're on the same bathroom
schedule.
You know, we talked about hislittle like motorized suitcase
that he had and the Danny Trejo.
(38:56):
It was like we were both goingfor the same thing in the green
room for food and I was like no,no you.
And he's like no, no you.
And I'm like but you're.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Danny Trejo and he's like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Ladies, first I was like okay, okay, fine, but I
felt like so awkward.
I was like don't perceive me,oh God.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
TJ would have to have his hand clamped around my
mouth like don't give out thepodcast card, Don't.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Don't do it.
I'm going to tell everybody.
It's like don't be weird, Don'tbe weird.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I'll be weird, I'll be weird.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Right, it gets easier the more that I do because,
working with Leah Clark circlingback to that, she's a voice
actor.
She always has access to thegreen room, so a lot of times me
and her assistant haven't beenin that part of it as long and
we're like oh my God, do you seeit?
Don't look, don't look.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
It's Elizabeth.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Olsen, you know, and stuff like that.
I just have to.
Yeah, she was in the same roomas me and I, just with myself,
same thing with Matt Berry fromwhat we Do in the Shadows.
I was like, don't look too hard, sometimes they come up to you.
John Boyega Finn from Star Warswas like, oh my God, can I get
a picture with you?
And I was like, absolutely, Iwas excited because I thought he
(39:56):
knew the character.
I was Himiko Toga from my Hero,which, if you don't know, she's
got buns, like blonde buns, butthey're spiky, and she's got
fangs in and she does wear aschoolgirl outfit under her
accessories yeah when he saw me,I didn't have all the
accessories, it was just aschoolgirl outfit and you know,
and he's like.
I got a picture with sailor moonand I was like, yeah, it's your
dicks.
He's like your sailor moon'sawesome.
(40:16):
And I was like thank you.
And I was like, oh well, it'sfine, I don't I'm sailor moon or
it's john boyega, that's fine,he'd call me whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, he wants to call me.
I mean, like you can have one,if I can have one and I can post
it.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, I did.
Mine came out blurry, so Idon't know.
I think I posted it in my story, but yeah, I was like oh man, I
was like, can I have one too?
Sometimes it's exciting whenthey get excited.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Very cool.
I believe we we're out of time,okay, I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I know I can talk people's ear off Like I'm a
motor mouth.
I'm undiagnosed ADHD.
I only know that because I havefriends that work in mental
health and they're like you needto get me.
They're like this is what youis.
They're on ADHD and I take thistest and I'm like oh, it says I
am, let me take it again.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
They're like stop, just stop, just just admit it.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I think I'm in the same boat.
Yeah, it's fine, it's a, it's achoice, a life choice.
It's a new term for an artist.
You just you gotta be flighty.
I'm just artistic, that's rightinclined.
Artistically inclined, it meansI have time blindness.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
So that's why I was late well, I wasn't gonna bring
that up, but we're all good, weunderstand.
Yeah, no, do you have anysocials that?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
you want to share absolutely why I was late?
Well, I wasn't going to bringthat up.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
but we're all good, we understand.
Do you have any socials?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
that you want to share?
Absolutely Okay.
So I'm on Instagram for themost part.
That's my favorite.
You can find me at missoolala.
That's M-I-S-S period,o-o-l-a-l-a.
You can pretty much type thatin on Facebook and it'll pop up.
Um, I think it's Miss Ooh La LaCosplay, with some spaces in
the ooh and la la's, becauseFacebook I don't know it made me
(41:53):
do it that way.
I forget why I have a TikTokand I'll use it.
I think that's all my socials.
Yeah, pretty much Instagram isis my fave, though, so that's my
fave too, because it's picturesit's so easy and there's not
group pages and fan pages andevent pages.
Just give me a page.
Yeah, Simple, please.
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Very cool.
Thank you for joining us, thankyou, miss Ulala, for joining us
, and we'll see everyone thisweekend at Fan Expo, new Orleans
.
Come find us, y'all.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Come find us.
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