September 3, 2025 • 45 mins
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When we hit record on our very first NOLA Film Scene episode two years ago, we never imagined the incredible journey ahead. From upgrading our recording setup (goodbye, dark sound booth!) to forming meaningful connections with talented creators across Louisiana, this anniversary livestream captures the heart of what we've built together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
and we're back.
Nola film scene is in the house?
Live two year anniversary livestream who the thunk we'd make
it this long?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
streaming on youtube and facebook.
And here comes our sponsor ourfirst guest.
We've never done a live guestwe've never done a live guest,
and how fitting that it is, infact, our sponsor that way she
won't sue us.
Hey, jana, we are live.
Hi Hi, how are you?
(00:29):
Where do I?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
look.
Wait, do I look at Brian?
Do I look at TJ?
Do I look at the camera?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Where do I look?
You can look at whoever youwant baby.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hey, look at the camera.
I see the camper in thebackground.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yes, we're in the RV.
We're up in Shipshawana,Indiana.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Can you say that in public?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Shipshawana, shipshawana I can say it three
times Shipshawana, Shipshawana,Shipshawana.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's three times fast.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So you are our first guest and I just said how
fitting that our first guest forour two-year anniversary live
stream sponsor.
Right, I'm your first sponsor.
Jana McCaffrey, attorney at law.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's me, that's me, that's me.
30% contingency fee for anybodyin the film industry, from
beginning to start.
That's better than anybody cando for personal injury cases.
Okay, moving on.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But also clarify for people in the entertainment
industry that you're notcounseling on entertainment
industry things only on injurystuff, industry.
That you're not counseling onentertainment industry things
only on injury stuff, right,you're not counseling people on
contract law or anything alongthose lines.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Right Now I will qualify with this.
I do free consultations all thetime on everything.
I'm not saying that I'mqualified in everything, but if
I don't know it, I have a friendwho does.
So I talk to people all thetime on all kinds of issues that
they're having and I don't minddoing that.
I don't mind giving my timeaway for free, but in terms of,
yeah, representing and fees thatI take, it's injury, it's motor
(01:59):
vehicle accidents, it's slipand falls, it's dog bites, that
kind of thing.
So, yeah, that's what I'moffering, but I do.
I talk to anybody, anytime,anywhere.
I'm kind of a sucker.
I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So at a minimum, you'll at least get them to the
right person.
If it's not something that youspecialize in, I should be able
to?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I should be able to.
Is my camera the worst?
I'm just.
I'm looking at myself for asecond.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm looking at you guys and you're in Technicolor
and I'm like there's lightsflashing off of stuff behind my
head.
No, the platform that we usereduces the video quality during
the call.
Okay, but the live version onYouTube will be better quality
and what we post after the factwill be better quality.
It just does that to savebandwidth for everybody involved
.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Sounds good.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And also I don't know if you wanted to point this out
, but you're not limiting yourservices to people in the
entertainment industry to onlythings that happen in the
entertainment industry, right?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Actually not at all.
It's kind of the opposite,Because if you get hurt while
you're on the job in theentertainment industry, I can
get you to a work comp attorney.
But I don't really do work comp.
I'm just talking about peoplein life who have car accidents
and slip and falls or otherthings.
Yeah, so I'm just saying but ifyou're, if you're in the
(03:23):
entertainment industry and somejackhole rear ends you, I'm your
girl, I'll handle it, and I'llhandle it for less money than
the other attorneys out there.
Less money and more time.
I give my time away.
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And that's and that's what we've been telling people
is that you're you're extendinga discount, a really good
discount, to fellow industrypeople.
It doesn't matter what theirposition is in the industry.
It's just a favor that you'redoing to people in the industry
and we think that that'sfantastic and thank you for
(04:00):
sponsoring the show.
We're very grateful for thatopportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You're welcome.
Well, it's a great show andhopefully it'll get more out
there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah we hope so too.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We can't thank you enough for sponsoring us, and it
was so fortuitous, soserendipitous.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I was going to say it was.
It was very organic the waythat it came out.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, but we had just reached out to Cajun Con and I
said, well, because I thoughtthat'd be a very good way to
advertise.
And he quoted a surprise.
I said, OK, let me think aboutit, I'll talk to TJ.
And minutes later you called mehey, you think I could sponsor
an Ola film scene?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I was like yeah, it really worked out that way.
It's crazy, I know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But you know, that's kind of how the best things in
life tend to happen, right, yeah?
And you know, we just startedout a little rough with this
live stream.
We're getting polished with it,but I like this we're going to
have a few other guests come in,cool, and I like this energy,
great.
So maybe we'll do this moreoften.
It's fun.
I even think maybe a little.
Yeah, once in a while we recordit offline, edit it polish.
Yeah, once in a while we recordit offline, edit it polish, it
send it.
It's fun, but this just feelslike more of a party.
(05:07):
I was maybe even give you alittle five-minute corner like
Law Talk with Janet.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, I mean, unless people are asking me direct
questions, I'm not sure howexciting that would be.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, it would only be five minutes of the show.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I used to do this networking group and it would
circle around however many.
I used to do this networkinggroup and every it would circle
around However many of us therewas in the group.
You know you would have to dothis like 10 minute, just a
little 10 minute talk on whatyou did.
And I was like, oh, I don'teven know, I'm willing to tap
dance for your business, andthen I do a little quick time
step.
Um, yeah, I don't, I don't evenknow.
(05:41):
It's been so long since I'vedone that.
I do fairly basic personalinjury, except that I can say
fairly basic personal injurygets extraordinarily complicated
sometimes.
So I'm going to say to anybodythat might be listening to us
right now if you get in a caraccident, please don't try to
handle it yourself.
Insurance companies arehorrible and I have handled I
don't know thousands of cases.
(06:03):
In the last could you tell thatmy elbow just went right off
the edge of the table that I wasleaning on, sorry, in the last
15 years I've handled so manycases.
So when people call me up andthey're like I've never done
this, I'm not sure what to do.
I'm like I've done it so manytimes I can.
I got you and I can, I canhandle that.
So people get hurt and peopleget scared and people make
(06:25):
decisions very quickly and thatis I'm sorry.
I'm getting distracted becauseI'm looking out the front of my
RV and my husband is climbing ona ladder cleaning the bugs off
Front windshield.
Anyway, it's very confusing.
It's very upsetting to try tohandle issues of money and
especially issues of doctorswhen you're injured and I've
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done it so many times that I cando it rolling off a log.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's like you're trained to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Weirdly, it's like I'm trained to do it yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm always trying to think of content.
Maybe we'll start doing extrathings, maybe one day behind a
paywall.
But what if we did a scene Oncea month?
We do a law scene.
We'll write it up.
We can write it.
You can't handle the truth.
Okay, oh, yeah, sure we canhandle that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
One of my first first paid gigs was an industrial for
a law firm.
Early early on I had done maybeone other paid thing and then I
got asked to do that industrial.
That was really cool.
Think brian might have done onefor the same lawyer around the
same time.
Oh yeah, oh that's like a micbrian you're.
(07:32):
Yeah, I'm not gonna ask you alawyer without what?
don't tell me, don't say it youmight need to come down just a
little bit.
Your mic's just a little bithot, just a tick okay, I'll push
back a little just a little nota competitor, not even in the
same state, and it was familylaw.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But yeah, you know I actually and this is 100 true I
got an audition for a personalinjury attorney in new orleans,
for a commercial, for how it'slike decline directly that's
funny, this is me typing, ifpeople didn't catch that was
that going to be in yoursubmission notes?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm janna.
I'm this tall.
I'm based in new orleans.
I'm a lawyer.
I ain't working for you.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, I did not.
I have an agent, actually, andshe submitted me and and so I
was like hi, in case you forgot,I'm a personal injury attorney
in real life.
That's me, more me typing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So I had to decline this audition.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh that's what typing looks like.
Well, when you can see myfingers, I should do it like
this it looks professional.
This is more.
I'm creeping around.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You got to keep it on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm a happy secretary Anyway yeah.
So I had to decline that one.
I couldn't really do that, buthey, you know they requested me.
They like my face, right?
yeah, it's a good day I meanthat's, I mean that's a good
sign, at least you know Irecently the most recent
audition that I got, I had toturn down because I thought it
would be a.
It seemed like a really funnyrole.
(09:02):
And then the first lines, likethe first hi, I'm so-and-so and
my husband is so-and-so ofsuch-and-such.
Come on, I'm trying not to giveanything away.
All I'm going to say is thatthey use the word douchebag
unironically in the paragraphand I was like I don't think
that.
I don't think people use thatphrase medically anymore and
(09:23):
it's just kind of become acolloquial insult.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And so it was weird.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's weird.
I was going to say my doctor'snever used it, but he never
would, Right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, I'm just going to say I was like decline time
conflict, time conflict, andthat was yeah, I didn't want to
say your script freaked me outand hopefully the casting
director for that particularproject isn't watching right now
that is kind of the catch-all,though right time conflict yeah,
it can be, yeah, definitely,especially when you travel yes
(09:55):
luckily my husband is very open.
He's like what are we doing?
Where are we going?
And if I was, if I were to belike wait, I got a great role
and instead of going to shipshaw, we need to go over here.
He'd probably be like, cool,that'll be good.
But but yeah, time conflict.
I mean I don't know.
You know it's not like I'mgetting offered so many roles
that they're conflicting witheach other.
That hasn't happened yet.
(10:16):
Case any?
You know directors are watchingthis.
That would be good if thatwould start happening.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, we've been talking a little bit about how
much things have slowed down andI remember early on talking to
James.
He was talking about when hewould travel, he would take his
lights.
He had a bag for his lights andcamera and stuff and I remember
packing stuff when I would goon a trip, just in case I got an
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audition when I was in a hotelso I could do it.
These days they've been so fewand far between that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't know if I want to lug a whole bunch of
stuff on a trip.
I know, I know I have somedoors behind me that well y'all
can't see.
I could pick the laptop up andbe real energetic about this,
but I'm not.
But there's like sliding doorsthat separate the living room
from the bedroom and I can closethem and kind of make a
reasonable background and thenmy husband will take me on the
(11:13):
phone and that that works Okay.
But it's so difficult when Iget an audition when I'm on the
road.
But I do it there.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
There's ways you can make it.
I mean you can make it happen.
I got one one time when I wastraveling for a film and it was
a voiceover audition.
So I packed the little recorderthat I was going to use and I
had just watched a video from aguy on how he sets up to do
voiceover auditions on the roadand I built a little tent.
(11:42):
I got some pillows off thecouch and I built a little tent
with the blanket and I mean itsounded okay.
I took my microphone.
I had my microphone and mylittle recorder and with it
being a voiceover and no video,it's a lot easier, a lot faster
to prepare for that and itturned out okay.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I always have a little bit of a panic attack.
Yeah, yeah, if it's good enough, it's good enough.
Bailey, it's just been so dry,I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I assume everybody's going kind of through what we're
going through.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It kind of.
It certainly feels like it.
I'm hoping things are going topick back up, but you know I
know.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So that's where we are.
So that's where we are.
So things suck in the industry,so I still need to be a lawyer.
So if anyone gets in a caraccident, call me.
No, I still have a law officethat I still need to run.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, janitor like you said the other day, you hope
people don't need you.
I do.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I always say I do hope people don't need me,
because money is not as good asas health and well-being.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's that's true on any day of the week.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So it's a weird thing when I put my card in someone's
hand and say call me, and in myheart I'm definitely hoping
they don't have to, because Idon't wish that bad things
happen to people.
But I still need to make aliving, so people still need to
have my card.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I want you to be well , but I want your cash.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Kind of it's a weird.
It's a weird place to exist,but I think weird place to exist
, but I think I do a good job ofit because a lot of people do
end up meeting me and I think Ido take good care of them.
But it sucks, yeah, it sucksthat there are a lot of people
driving around like lunaticshurting people, you know.
And speaking of being up herein amish country just two days
ago, yeah, it was on labor daythere was an accident up in new
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york and a lady rear-ended, um,an amish family was.
It was like eight of them in abuggy.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh, no, it was terrible.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
The buggy overturned, Eight passengers ejected oh no.
Non-life-threatening injuriesto the people in the buggy, but
the lady's car rolled over soshe had to hit them hard and she
had also injuries, butnon-life-threatening.
A horse died, which breaks myheart every day and, yeah, can
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you imagine being so insane thatyou high speed rear end a horse
and buggy?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's insane.
Yeah, I just read about that,googling things about the Irish,
because it's a fascinatinglifestyle and I'm loving it up
here.
But yeah, so yeah, there arecrazy people on the roads and
that's not new for anyone in thenew orleans greater
metropolitan area.
They know that, yeah.
So I'm out here and my basicslogan is it's not just business
(14:34):
, it's's personal.
I know, right, cool.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Bring us back a quilt , right I?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
know I should.
I've been enjoying.
They have great food up here.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
They have really great food.
Oh, I bet they do yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
So, so it's good.
So I'll be back in a few days,but but thanks for visiting with
me up here.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, thanks for stopping in.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
All right.
Well, you guys have a greatnight.
Say hello to your next guest.
For me we will.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We will.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Thanks, Jenna.
Thank you for jumping onYouTube and watching that I know
right.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
All right, have a great night.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Was that in the frame Bye.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I can't tell if it was in the frame or not.
Okay, Bye guys.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Cool, okay, so we got the next guest.
If you're able to text him ormessage him.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I told him to come on .
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Wait, here it is, here he is.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I was going to say we might get multiple guests
because we're kind of.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, I'm stacking.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We can have more than one person jump in.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So you'd be the timekeeper on that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And Facebook Live is not happening.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's okay For the second time.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
For some reason it just I was logged in.
I had it toggled on, but itdidn't go live.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I shared the YouTube link through my page and through
one of the NOLA film scenes.
Or maybe he stepped away fromhis computer.
We'll just keep talking untilwe see him.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Ladies and gentlemen, the Invisible man cool.
So, Yusef, if you couldintroduce yourself, because you
have not been on NOLA Film Sceneyet.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
No, I have not.
First, congratulations on twoyears.
That's a very big milestone,thank you.
So yeah, my name is Yusef.
I'm a writer directororiginally from Brooklyn.
Yusef, I'm a writer-directororiginally from Brooklyn, new
York.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I moved to St Bernard Parish with my wife about four
years ago.
Nice, Not a big stretch.
On the accent People down inChalmette.
Their accents always remind meof people from New York.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, I noticed that.
They call them Yat.
They call them Yat.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Where.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yat From the parish.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
They're from the parish.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They're from out in the parish, yeah it's similar.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
It's very similar.
My daughter's starting todevelop a little one and I can't
tell if it's the Brooklyn andme or the Chalmette and my wife.
I heard.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
At least she won't lose it altogether.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
you know, y'all being down there, Someone described
it Brooklyn is the fast versionof a parish accent.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you take the.
Brooklyn accent.
You got that thing going andthen you just relax, you go oh
for the parish, I'm out here,you know.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah, it's like I say down here, it's like less
uptight version of the Brooklynaccent.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, and for those who don't know, if you look at a
map of New Orleans and thenlook to the east, that's and
then look to the east, that'swhere St Bernard Parish is, St
Bernard and Chalmette, andthere's no place like it
anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, it's kind of like the little brother to New
Orleans, which in that senseit's just like Brooklyn, because
Brooklyn's kind of the littlebrother to Manhattan.
So it kind of makes sense forme to be here, my name, so Yusuf
.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We met on your podcast.
You and I did yes, along withyour co-host will blank yes,
will blank.
And y'all had me on as a guestand it was fun.
And then something happened aswe met, and I'll let you tell
the story of what that inspiredyou, yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
so you know, obviously I'm relatively new to
the film scene here.
I've been making movies forseven years or so, but that was
mostly in brooklyn, and when wewere talking to you I I kept
thinking to myself man, I got towork with this guy.
Something about your attitudeand just how game.
You seemed to like just go allin on whatever you were doing.
(18:07):
I was just like, I don't knowhow or when, but I got to try to
work with this guy, and so Iwas at that time developing a
script and I was like, oh, maybeI can get Brian in this.
And I just kind of redid thewhole script and actually wrote
a role with you in mind and Ifloated it to you and, like I
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was fantasizing about youimmediately were like, yeah,
let's do it.
You know, like just just likethe sense I got from you when we
spoke on the podcast, that youwere just like down to do
whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So what you said was you wrote it and then you were
tentative, you were a littlescared to show it to me, which
saying it is like I'm scared toshow something weird to Brian
what?
And so earlier this year I wasposting collages.
I like taking pictures andthat's what I use on my
Instagram and my Facebook andI've had makeup and contacts and
all these different roles ofmonsters and death and all this
(19:00):
good stuff and I'd put ittogether and put it out.
And so I just happened, withoutknowing that you were doing
that, put together a collage andit says director colon, this is
going to get weird me, colon,I'm in.
And you went, let me show it tohim.
And I read the script and wentyeah, and that was, it's great.
We just had a table read forthe movie this past weekend I
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think you had him at.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
This is gonna get weird I think, we were both
without a doubt at that point.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, I saw that post and I was like, yeah, I'm
pretty sure that's a sign uhfrom the universe that it's time
to uh float this to brian hedidn't tell me anything about it
.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
But if it's got anything with makeup or monsters
or prosthetics or anything likethat, that, just that, that's
even more so he's in.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, and I think it.
You know it's really like, inmy opinion, the the most badass
character in the whole film,like he's essentially playing
like a cajun jedi, like a, likea mystic cajun sorcerer guy.
I really sort of saw a crossbetween tony satchere and
obi-wan kenobi, basically so,and I was like, yeah, that's not
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that I'm trying to say that,that's brian, but I I thought it
might be a character that wouldtickle you a little bit, so I'm
down it's gonna sound weird,but now, if I can, I made a
little tagline description ofmovie.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's people looking for self-help find themselves at
a retreat center in the bayou.
A little mix of new age, maybesome swamp magic, just some
self-help and some strangecharacters and then, yep, that's
basically it.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, um, you know, it's a psychedelic retreat
down the road down in the bayouand it's run by two girls who
are like the world's worstshamans.
They do everything that you'renot supposed to do to people who
are on these types ofsubstances, and throughout one
of their retreats theyaccidentally summon a mystical
creature.
I'll keep it there, and Brian'scharacter may or may not help
(20:54):
in vanquishing this beast.
They accidentally summon amystical creature.
I'll keep it there and andBrian's character may or may not
help in vanquishing this beast.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm kind of like a hermit you know yes.
The old man down the road.
Yep, knowledgeable battle wornin the middle of the guards,
maybe, and I think that's a goodplace to stop that.
Yeah, yeah, but I get to playwith a Cajun accent.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh boy, good place to stop that.
Yeah, yeah, but I get to playwith a cajun accent show boy, oh
yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
So is this a feature or is this a short?
Yeah, it's a.
It's, I guess, kind of both.
It's a short feature.
It's going to run somewherearound the 60 minute mark.
Yeah, my wife and Iself-produce all our own films,
so we're kind of limitedbudgetarily.
In a perfect world this wouldbe a 90 minute full blown insane
special effects, all that stuff.
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But we're just kind of workingwith our limitations.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, understood, that's cool though Evil dead did
a smaller film, and evil dead,too, was basically evil dead,
one with more money, right,right.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
You know, and 2 was basically Evil Dead 1 with more
money, right, right, yeah,that's a good point, and horror
is great.
I don't know if I'd call itpure horror, psychedelic horror,
like you said.
So it's always going to be lowbudget and has the potential to
take off and make more money.
You know what I mean.
Not that we want just money.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Is you?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh no, there's a voice.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Hi, here's another one of my actors, our third
guest.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Who we got here.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Can you say hi?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
What's her name?
Violet.
Hi Violet, can you say hi,brian and tj, we're being, we're
being shy that's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Brian is shy too we're on the same mental level.
So it's okay, she's.
She's actually the monster inour movie.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
We just won't say anymore in the movie and in real
life brian finally foundsomebody that'll make faces back
at him.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I found someone on my mental level.
Don't tell sheree here.
You want to hear him yeah canyou hear?
Hello hi violet.
Can you hear violet?
Can you hear us?
We're getting silly.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
She's pressing all sorts of stuff here.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Don't do that chaos did we get anybody in the
waiting room?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
no, not yet I'm mama.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I'm going to mute, I'm going to give that person a
text.
Do you have a question forYusuf?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yeah, Yusuf what.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
She doesn't have.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Sorry, I think I might have lost you guys for a
second.
Hi, hi, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh, we're just hanging out, stop playing with
that.
So was Brian teasing or is shegoing to be involved in your
project?
She is going to have a cameo.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, she's not the monster.
No, no, no, she's going to bein it.
You have to put your kids inyour movies, otherwise what's
the point you can have in them,right?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
so that's right.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
So yeah, I'm gonna say hi, yeah, yeah, uh, my goal
is to like.
Ultimately, my dream is to makea movie with her, but until
she's ready for that, we'll haveto stick to cameos yeah, of
course she's not very good attaking direction that'll come in
time, though how many guys are?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
good at that I think I've got a I've got a teenage
daughter and she acts and I'vebrought her into a couple
projects with me shorts and hada blast doing it.
She loves being on set.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
She actually played my daughter.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's right.
That's right.
She played Brian's daughter inone of our shorts.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
I forgot about the specifics ofthat.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm sorry she was so traumatized.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
She wasn't the film where I have a stepchildren
which is coming out this Friday.
It she wasn't the film where Ihave a stepchildren which is
coming out this Friday.
It's called Impunity.
It's a short and I play astepdad dealing with an angsty
teenagers.
Dot dot dot.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah, it's always nice when you could kind of keep
it a family thing.
Like I said, my wife's myfilmmaking partner.
She's also an actor.
She's also going to be in thismovie that we're making.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So you know that's a nice layer of um, I don't know.
Just fun when you can do itwith family, so I want to.
I just want to nerd out for asecond what do you shoot on?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
so typically I I've been using a black magic pocket
cinema 6k yeah go ahead.
I'll get you some in a minute.
That's what we've shot with inthe past.
But we are hiring, hiring out aDP for this one, and he's going
to be using I can't rememberthe name of it it's a Sony
camera.
It's a.
Really what's going on?
(25:22):
Come here, come here.
He's going to be using a Sonycamera.
I can't remember the name of it, but it's it's better than my
6k, so that's why we're goingwith it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I got you.
It's been great talking to you.
I think you need to step awayand deal with that.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Yeah, it's bedtime.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Lead actress, but it's good practice for when we
shoot in November.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah and again, congratulations on two
years, and I wish you 20 more,or however many more you guys
want.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Thank you, appreciate you coming on Great meeting.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
you Thanks for hiring me.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Thanks for booking me , of course.
Of course, thanks for takingthe job, man.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, see you later.
Cool, can we do a whole episodewith?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
her.
So I mean I don't see, why not.
We've talked about having childactors on before.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Certainly made things .
It's different and lively.
It's energetic.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I think it's really cool that he's getting her
involved in projects early on.
I was at that age and even mucholder, painfully shy, and I
think it's.
I don't know, I think it'sreally cool I've enjoyed having
my daughter be able to work withsome of our projects.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It would have been incredible to do this as a child
, as a teen or young adult, butyou know nothing I can do about
that until they invent timetravel yeah, for sure who we got
.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Maybe stephanie could be done.
Done, I wanted to see thatyou're not dark in your booth
anymore.
I don't think I told, unlessyou watched the video we shared
to announce this yeah, that'strue, because we haven't really
I haven't started sharing videosof stuff that we've recorded
since we started upping the gamea little bit yeah everything's
pretty's pretty much been audio,but I'm ready to start moving
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forward.
I think getting some of thosepublished.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, it's while we wait for her and we talked a
little bit about this on thepromo episode, but it's to us a
joy to do this.
It's not always easy.
It can be a struggle gettingthe editing done, getting guests
involved, equipment failure,getting the lighting right yeah
you know, but all that's worthit.
(27:22):
We have not only people whoview, but friends who we've had.
A couple of people say thatthis was important to the acting
community and that means a lotto me.
We have a friend who's also oneof our teachers and he pushes
us and does promotions for us inhis class.
Hey, you guys should listen tothis.
There's good advice during this.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And it's really touching.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It really means a lot .
It means a lot that he doesthat.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're both running out of words.
We had a couple peoplescheduled and we announced Hicks
Jeremy was coming, but we haveto sadly say his day job that he
had to work late, so he's notable to join us.
We'll have him, you know.
Maybe do another live and we'llhave him on.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, sometimes, you know, sometimes life happens.
Hick was our first guest.
We did one episode solo just tokind of announce the launch of
the podcast and talk about it alittle bit.
And then we had Hick on, wetalked beards, we talked just
acting stuff and I can't believeit was two years ago today.
Time really has flown.
(28:21):
But you know, life happens,things come up, things happen.
We've had there were a coupleother people that were
potentially going to come hangout with us.
I know there was a power outagethat happened.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So there's been, there's been some difficulties
happening and it's okay yeah,that's what the live's gonna be
gonna have to just roll with thepunches.
I do like the energy ofbringing multiple guests in yeah
you know, changing it up.
Not that I don't like talkingto you as much as a joke about
it.
Yeah, you know, it is what itis I can see this on a live as
it expands.
(28:54):
We could possibly get peopleasking questions live to us and
the guests Get some interactiongoing.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And I love your backdrop now.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh, you do, Thank you .
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It looks very cool I appreciate that.
I'm going to have to projectsomething on mine and change up.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
If you were with us at the beginning and saw some of
those promos.
I was in a sound booth so I wasalmost pitch black and I liked
that better than being out inthe light.
It just felt more comfortable.
So we changed, had my softboxlights same ones I use for
auditions, very bright.
Even this is a little bright,but we worked on some
composition with the lights Coolblue light on this side, just
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my key light behind me, changesthe whole thing up, changing,
always evolving.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Got to improve on it.
I'm just looking to see.
I saw something flash.
Somebody was trying to come in.
Well, we're going to have toget him back on for a longer
conversation at some point.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
For Hick.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No, for your director that was just on yeah.
So I like seeing people doingthese projects, keeping things
going.
There's just been really notmuch happening.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm notseeing a whole lot of stuff
happening right now.
So I think we need to be making, doing some of our own projects
and expand that.
I mean we've done some 48s,we've done some seven and sevens
(30:09):
, we've done a few smallerprojects here and there, so we
got to keep that ball rolling alittle bit.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well, we do have a couple of things in the work.
We, of course, can't talk aboutthem.
Things are moving.
And then I met a director on my48, pardon me and I believe his
film.
Well, I won't say the name,I'll wait.
I want to have him on and youand I discuss because I like
discussing how people wereinspired to get into the biz
that we can start a little morefocused on how did you make your
(30:39):
film, how'd you get yourfunding, not to lose the
original question, but to startexpanding and inspire us and
hopefully, other people to maketheir own movies and film.
So I've got a couple ofdirectors.
One I worked with the movie'scalled Death Trip.
My first line was Saturday,march 14th 2020.
It might be being released thisyear, we think it is.
So I'd like to get him on.
You know, not that we want tolose actors, but talking to
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directors would be really cool.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree, a lot of peopledo their own 48s or get on teams
to do 48s and there are someteams that are really well
funded and have really-endequipment.
But you don't have to havehigh-end equipment to make a
film.
Use what you have and you knowcreate.
But we are going to startdigging in a little bit more on
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raising fundraising to dobudgets for projects and maybe
try to get a couple of biggerthings going.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Is anyone showing?
No One of our guests saysthey've been there waiting, but
it's have a little technicalproblem.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Did they maybe click the link for the as a viewer?
Because there's nobody, I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Okay, this is where we could use a producer.
So within the next year, bydoing lives, we're going to see
if we can add a person.
You won't see them, but they'llbe able to handle all this
business and we can keep goingand just entertaining and
talking.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You're going to have to entertain people.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
What this person says .
They've tapped the Join button.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Let's see if we can get them in.
While you're doing that and I'mreading messages from them, I'm
going to tell them to go allthe way out the app and come
back in.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Are they on a mobile device or a computer?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
That I don't know.
This app, riverside, ladies andgentlemen, is better working on
a computer.
It's very data hungry.
Can be used, you know, on amobile device, but blah, blah,
blah, technical stuff, yeah.
So I was thinking, while we'rewaiting, what will be something
that I'd like to achieve in thenext year?
And we are starting down theroad of sponsorship.
(32:32):
We've talked to Jana.
She sponsored us and we aresponsors of Cajun Con, so that's
a brand new Louisiana.
Comic Con run by Scott Ennis,who used to voice Scooby-Doo,
and they've got some greatguests.
This will be in December.
Hey, there she is there you are.
Hey, we'll get back to CajunCon later.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Hi Hi.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I'm good now how are?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
you doing doing good we're great.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
We wanted to show you our new setups oh yeah, brian's
not not in the dark boothanymore no, you can like move
your arm.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
That was last time we lost her yeah, maybe that was
the problem.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well, at least you made it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
So Cajun Con.
So we're sponsoring Cajun Con.
Scott Ennis is putting on CajunCon voice of Scooby-Doo.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, and he's been working on this for at least a
year.
I'm seeing a few cons promotingit.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
There are a lot of people involved in that.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
There's going to be a lot of really really huh.
Over 80 celebrities appearing.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, it's going to be huge.
It's going to be at the LamarDixon Convention Center over in
Gonzales.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And the place is big, really big.
I haven't been there yet, butthe kids from Willy Wonka are
going to be there all grown up.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's right, pippi.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Longstocking.
We've got the Terrifier.
I know Art is his first name.
I don't know his last name.
You know the clown.
Do you know what I'm?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
talking about.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I don't do clowns.
Well, he's going to be at thecon and a lot of times he'll do
normal and then he'll getpainted up.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Don't do clowns.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay, I'll keep him away from you and when we watch
Death Trip, I'll tell you whento close your eyes, because I
was a clown in that, one of mysix roles oh yeah, no sort of.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm a shriner and I mean there's a there's a clown
unit and I knew the guys thatwere dressed up as clowns.
I could be around them becauseI knew them, but it didn't creep
me out any less.
I could stand close to them andI could even talk to them, but
it wasn't my favorite yeah, alot of people have that.
Stephanie having a connectionissue.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
She is.
Yeah, she's on her iPad.
Sometimes it works with amobile device, sometimes it
doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
If she's connected to Wi-Fi and she can get a good
Wi-Fi signal, she should be okay.
If she's trying to do itthrough the cellular signal of
the iPad, she's going to havetrouble, that's what I'm finding
out.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So I'm trying to think while we're talking, gray
delisle is going to be at cajuncon, she is daphne.
And I had to stop and thinkbecause I always want to say, uh
, thelma, but that's not wrongand I don't want her to hurt me,
I'm not that she also do it,she voices someone in avatar.
I love going to cons as a youknow, just a visitor, so, and we
have a booth, which also meanswe have a place to sit for the
entire con, which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
No more joy than doing that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And we'll have some swag.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
We've been working on some items to give away.
I bought these giant dice.
I think we might have a littlegame All right, here comes
Stephanie hey we're back, let'slet's just thank Stephanie for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'll tell her on the phone, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Thank you, we should have one more guest coming up.
Tries and tribulations.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, growing pains.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, Show me that smile.
Oh, different growing pains.
So I was saying I'd like to doother cons.
We've gotten some press passesin the past but to be more
involved with cons, definitelybe invited as guests.
People coming up to us to takepictures, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
That'd be a great thing to happen in the next year
.
We did get one invite that westill are talking through and
need to follow up a little bitmore on.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I don't know which one.
I think I know who that is.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Not going to say it just yet, just in case.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Tell me after I probably already know.
Oh, there she is.
Yes, I am, hey.
Hey, it's probably too much foryour iPad for the live, so
we're going to start off bythanking you for coming and if
it drops off again, we'll saybye and we'll talk later.
We'll have you back, but we'renot.
We'll try this one last time.
Well, congratulations, thankyou, and it's we loved having
(36:33):
you on.
I love that.
We have made a friendship.
I made a friendship withsomeone I watched years stand up
in sitcoms and, if you know, Ihave business cards now with QR
codes to promote the podcast.
And anytime I hand it out shegoes anytime I hand it out, I
always tell everyone to watchStephanie's episode.
So we got a little bit out.
She says congratulations, wegot a little bit of talk, we got
(36:54):
something out of our guest.
You might be muted.
I don't hear you.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
She's coming back in, so just tell her we'll.
We'll follow up with her andwe'll do one offline.
It's probably too much data.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Okay, thank you for coming on, stephanie.
Even it's been disrupted.
I'm going to stop talking, butif it cuts out again, we'll.
We'll pull you back anothertime, but like we did last time.
But you talk now, I'll be quiet.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I just want to wish you great congratulations, and
it's been just the best thing inthe world to see you two do all
the things you've been doing inthe last couple of years.
Thank you.
You do the work and youprogress and you get better, and
it just tickles me to death.
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I'm so happy for you?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
You have no right to be proud of me.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
That means a lot coming from her.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
She was our second guest, and that means a lot
coming from her.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
She was our second guest and she is the one that
left me in stitches during thatepisode.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, and that's what I was saying.
Whenever I put out the card,hand somebody a card that's got
a QR code to listen to ourpodcast.
She's one of the episodes Imentioned and I always say that
she and I hit it off so wellthat we made TJ's ribs hurt from
laughing.
That's right, she's a trip andshe's so supportive.
I can send her an audition.
Hey, check this out, what doyou think?
And she'll give me notes andtips and just so much
(38:07):
encouragement.
We can't thank you enough,stephanie.
We love you and I'm going totell her that while you talk.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah, stephanie was a fun episode and she's genuinely
a kind person and has kept intouch with us and is always so
encouraging.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, and we have potentially one last guest and
I'm going to see if they're ableto come on.
This person hasn't been on ourshow yet but I thought it'd be
fun to we try to get people whohave been on, like Hick and then
this person who kind of like alittle taste, like hey, how you
doing, I'll be on in the future.
Right, I did that with theChristmas cards that year.
You remember those.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
That was fun, but a little work intensive.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, but now you've gotten a lot more proficient
with doing overlays and doingsome of the did was have a few
of our guests and a couple ofextra people that were going to
come on record.
Just a little soundbite, littlevideo clip soundbite for us,
and we posted those likeChristmas cards, like live video
(39:15):
Christmas cards, and that waskind of fun.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
It was, and then we put them all together for a one
christmas episode yeah we canreveal, doing the sound balance
on it was probably verystressful for you.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I don't even think I have to say probably, just
because it's different sourcematerial yeah, recorded it, yep,
but I've gotten a lot better, alot more experience with
editing and it's not as, not aschallenging as it was right at
that time learn progress, domore.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I liked matching because I took stock christmas
pictures and then stockchristmas music and I and I put
some text on the screen so Imade it look like a christmas
card and then matching the soundand the picture to the person.
So, like creek wilson did forone, did one for us and he's
going to be a cajun con I I justremembered, but he's very
country, pure Alabama accent,real thick, real great.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
And so I took almost like a cabin and put it behind
it and almost like a littletwang, a little country
Christmas song, and so itmatched the character.
Hicks was great.
First he did one for us in hiscar and then you can't do it Too
much that you can't do it toomuch background noise, so he
generously did another one andmade it look like an audition.
Yeah, that, yeah.
(40:24):
His first word was line and heasked his.
He asked carolyn um, do I haveto do a full body?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
no, you don't, because you know brian's, all
that was yeah, oh, that's right,because he recorded the first
one in the car.
So what's funny?
Something that I learned when Iwas taking some voiceover
classes is that if you don'thave a booth, if you don't have
access to anything, or you're onthe road and you need to record
an audition or whatever,recording inside a car when it's
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parked is actually a reallygood place to do it.
Because of the way cars aretreated, the way cars are
treated they're designed to keepoutside noise to a minimum and
just the way they are, the waythe seats absorb the sound and
the headliner and all the stuffthat's in the car you can get
really good sound quality,assuming it's not 100 degrees in
(41:11):
the south and you're sittingthere.
You can't have the car runningand have air conditioning going,
but if you can sit for a fewminutes in your driveway or in a
parking lot or whatever andrecord, it's a good alternative
to having a booth or going in acloset or whatever, and the one
that you referenced was beingrecorded during driving.
(41:31):
Then there's a little bit ofwind noise and maybe air
conditioning noise introduced.
That's a little harder to workwith, but just a little tidbit.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
A little lesson we learned.
I don't think our last guest isgoing to make it.
I haven't heard any response.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
That's okay.
I think we probably could wrapit up.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
We've had a pretty good two-year anniversary live
stream.
It's been a fun two years.
One of the milestones and oneof the marks that I saw early on
was I don't remember thepercentage of podcasts that fail
and by fail I mean people justgive up and stop doing them is
(42:11):
10.
The first 10 episodes if youmake it past that, you're likely
to make it a little bit further.
And then after that it's thecentury mark and we're
approaching that.
We're getting.
We're not quite there.
I think we've got maybe 20 moreepisodes to go and we don't
have that many published yet.
We've got a few recorded thatwe haven't published, but that's
(42:32):
kind of.
The next milestone is 100episodes, and then after that
then the sky's the limit.
You know Joe Rogan recordsthree and a half hour episodes
and publishes them.
You know four or five days aweek, right, and has thousands
of episodes.
So I don't know if we'll havethousands of episodes in our
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future.
Could, but why not?
If we're still growing andhaving fun with it and providing
valuable content, I don't seewhy we couldn't.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Totally and we've talked about you know it's kind
of a dream but, like, maybedoing this live Not only live
stream, but live at a place, ata facility, at a theater, and
having guests and having anaudience.
Won't be anytime soon, but it'sa dream.
Yeah, it won't be anytime soon,but it's a dream, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I mean similar to when we were on the panel at the
comic book convention that wedid, I guess, January this year,
but that room wasn't reallytreated for audio and the
conditions weren't reallyconducive to doing a good
recording, a good broadcast.
But a theater that's treatedfor sound, that might be a
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different animal.
It ended up sounding okay, wejust had to do a little work on
it, but for a live broadcast itwouldn't have been ideal.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
But afterwards I think it sounded okay.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I think it sounded good.
You know those they're almostegg carton things that you put
around the microphones, mm-hmm,like sound dampeners, mm-hmm.
That might be something to putin front of us where people
could still see us, but the mic,might, you know, dampen the
sound coming into it.
If we had to do that again,yeah.
Inevitably All pipe dreams, butthat's how you get started.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
You dream it, that's right.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
All right, folks.
Well, thanks for being with usfor two years, and here's to two
more.
And two more after that, andtwo more after that, and two
more after that.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
See you later.
See you the next time.
and we're back.
Nola film scene is in the house?
Live two year anniversary livestream who the thunk we'd make
it this long?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
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And here comes our sponsor ourfirst guest.
We've never done a live guestwe've never done a live guest,
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
look.
Wait, do I look at Brian?
Do I look at TJ?
Do I look at the camera?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Where do I look?
You can look at whoever youwant baby.
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That's three times fast.
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I know.
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So you are our first guest and I just said how
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stream sponsor.
Right, I'm your first sponsor.
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Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's me, that's me, that's me.
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That's better than anybody cando for personal injury cases.
Okay, moving on.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But also clarify for people in the entertainment
industry that you're notcounseling on entertainment
industry things only on injurystuff, industry.
That you're not counseling onentertainment industry things
only on injury stuff, right,you're not counseling people on
contract law or anything alongthose lines.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Right Now I will qualify with this.
I do free consultations all thetime on everything.
I'm not saying that I'mqualified in everything, but if
I don't know it, I have a friendwho does.
So I talk to people all thetime on all kinds of issues that
they're having and I don't minddoing that.
I don't mind giving my timeaway for free, but in terms of,
yeah, representing and fees thatI take, it's injury, it's motor
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vehicle accidents, it's slipand falls, it's dog bites, that
kind of thing.
So, yeah, that's what I'moffering, but I do.
I talk to anybody, anytime,anywhere.
I'm kind of a sucker.
I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So at a minimum, you'll at least get them to the
right person.
If it's not something that youspecialize in, I should be able
to?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I should be able to.
Is my camera the worst?
I'm just.
I'm looking at myself for asecond.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm looking at you guys and you're in Technicolor
and I'm like there's lightsflashing off of stuff behind my
head.
No, the platform that we usereduces the video quality during
the call.
Okay, but the live version onYouTube will be better quality
and what we post after the factwill be better quality.
It just does that to savebandwidth for everybody involved
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Speaker 3 (02:47):
Sounds good.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And also I don't know if you wanted to point this out
, but you're not limiting yourservices to people in the
entertainment industry to onlythings that happen in the
entertainment industry, right?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Actually not at all.
It's kind of the opposite,Because if you get hurt while
you're on the job in theentertainment industry, I can
get you to a work comp attorney.
But I don't really do work comp.
I'm just talking about peoplein life who have car accidents
and slip and falls or otherthings.
Yeah, so I'm just saying but ifyou're, if you're in the
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entertainment industry and somejackhole rear ends you, I'm your
girl, I'll handle it, and I'llhandle it for less money than
the other attorneys out there.
Less money and more time.
I give my time away.
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And that's and that's what we've been telling people
is that you're you're extendinga discount, a really good
discount, to fellow industrypeople.
It doesn't matter what theirposition is in the industry.
It's just a favor that you'redoing to people in the industry
and we think that that'sfantastic and thank you for
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sponsoring the show.
We're very grateful for thatopportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You're welcome.
Well, it's a great show andhopefully it'll get more out
there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah we hope so too.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We can't thank you enough for sponsoring us, and it
was so fortuitous, soserendipitous.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I was going to say it was.
It was very organic the waythat it came out.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, but we had just reached out to Cajun Con and I
said, well, because I thoughtthat'd be a very good way to
advertise.
And he quoted a surprise.
I said, OK, let me think aboutit, I'll talk to TJ.
And minutes later you called mehey, you think I could sponsor
an Ola film scene?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I was like yeah, it really worked out that way.
It's crazy, I know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But you know, that's kind of how the best things in
life tend to happen, right, yeah?
And you know, we just startedout a little rough with this
live stream.
We're getting polished with it,but I like this we're going to
have a few other guests come in,cool, and I like this energy,
great.
So maybe we'll do this moreoften.
It's fun.
I even think maybe a little.
Yeah, once in a while we recordit offline, edit it polish.
Yeah, once in a while we recordit offline, edit it polish, it
send it.
It's fun, but this just feelslike more of a party.
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I was maybe even give you alittle five-minute corner like
Law Talk with Janet.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, I mean, unless people are asking me direct
questions, I'm not sure howexciting that would be.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, it would only be five minutes of the show.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I used to do this networking group and it would
circle around however many.
I used to do this networkinggroup and every it would circle
around However many of us therewas in the group.
You know you would have to dothis like 10 minute, just a
little 10 minute talk on whatyou did.
And I was like, oh, I don'teven know, I'm willing to tap
dance for your business, andthen I do a little quick time
step.
Um, yeah, I don't, I don't evenknow.
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It's been so long since I'vedone that.
I do fairly basic personalinjury, except that I can say
fairly basic personal injurygets extraordinarily complicated
sometimes.
So I'm going to say to anybodythat might be listening to us
right now if you get in a caraccident, please don't try to
handle it yourself.
Insurance companies arehorrible and I have handled I
don't know thousands of cases.
(06:03):
In the last could you tell thatmy elbow just went right off
the edge of the table that I wasleaning on, sorry, in the last
15 years I've handled so manycases.
So when people call me up andthey're like I've never done
this, I'm not sure what to do.
I'm like I've done it so manytimes I can.
I got you and I can, I canhandle that.
So people get hurt and peopleget scared and people make
(06:25):
decisions very quickly and thatis I'm sorry.
I'm getting distracted becauseI'm looking out the front of my
RV and my husband is climbing ona ladder cleaning the bugs off
Front windshield.
Anyway, it's very confusing.
It's very upsetting to try tohandle issues of money and
especially issues of doctorswhen you're injured and I've
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done it so many times that I cando it rolling off a log.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's like you're trained to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Weirdly, it's like I'm trained to do it yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm always trying to think of content.
Maybe we'll start doing extrathings, maybe one day behind a
paywall.
But what if we did a scene Oncea month?
We do a law scene.
We'll write it up.
We can write it.
You can't handle the truth.
Okay, oh, yeah, sure we canhandle that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
One of my first first paid gigs was an industrial for
a law firm.
Early early on I had done maybeone other paid thing and then I
got asked to do that industrial.
That was really cool.
Think brian might have done onefor the same lawyer around the
same time.
Oh yeah, oh that's like a micbrian you're.
(07:32):
Yeah, I'm not gonna ask you alawyer without what?
don't tell me, don't say it youmight need to come down just a
little bit.
Your mic's just a little bithot, just a tick okay, I'll push
back a little just a little nota competitor, not even in the
same state, and it was familylaw.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But yeah, you know I actually and this is 100 true I
got an audition for a personalinjury attorney in new orleans,
for a commercial, for how it'slike decline directly that's
funny, this is me typing, ifpeople didn't catch that was
that going to be in yoursubmission notes?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm janna.
I'm this tall.
I'm based in new orleans.
I'm a lawyer.
I ain't working for you.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, I did not.
I have an agent, actually, andshe submitted me and and so I
was like hi, in case you forgot,I'm a personal injury attorney
in real life.
That's me, more me typing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So I had to decline this audition.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh that's what typing looks like.
Well, when you can see myfingers, I should do it like
this it looks professional.
This is more.
I'm creeping around.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You got to keep it on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm a happy secretary Anyway yeah.
So I had to decline that one.
I couldn't really do that, buthey, you know they requested me.
They like my face, right?
yeah, it's a good day I meanthat's, I mean that's a good
sign, at least you know Irecently the most recent
audition that I got, I had toturn down because I thought it
would be a.
It seemed like a really funnyrole.
(09:02):
And then the first lines, likethe first hi, I'm so-and-so and
my husband is so-and-so ofsuch-and-such.
Come on, I'm trying not to giveanything away.
All I'm going to say is thatthey use the word douchebag
unironically in the paragraphand I was like I don't think
that.
I don't think people use thatphrase medically anymore and
(09:23):
it's just kind of become acolloquial insult.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And so it was weird.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's weird.
I was going to say my doctor'snever used it, but he never
would, Right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, I'm just going to say I was like decline time
conflict, time conflict, andthat was yeah, I didn't want to
say your script freaked me outand hopefully the casting
director for that particularproject isn't watching right now
that is kind of the catch-all,though right time conflict yeah,
it can be, yeah, definitely,especially when you travel yes
(09:55):
luckily my husband is very open.
He's like what are we doing?
Where are we going?
And if I was, if I were to belike wait, I got a great role
and instead of going to shipshaw, we need to go over here.
He'd probably be like, cool,that'll be good.
But but yeah, time conflict.
I mean I don't know.
You know it's not like I'mgetting offered so many roles
that they're conflicting witheach other.
That hasn't happened yet.
(10:16):
Case any?
You know directors are watchingthis.
That would be good if thatwould start happening.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, we've been talking a little bit about how
much things have slowed down andI remember early on talking to
James.
He was talking about when hewould travel, he would take his
lights.
He had a bag for his lights andcamera and stuff and I remember
packing stuff when I would goon a trip, just in case I got an
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audition when I was in a hotelso I could do it.
These days they've been so fewand far between that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't know if I want to lug a whole bunch of
stuff on a trip.
I know, I know I have somedoors behind me that well y'all
can't see.
I could pick the laptop up andbe real energetic about this,
but I'm not.
But there's like sliding doorsthat separate the living room
from the bedroom and I can closethem and kind of make a
reasonable background and thenmy husband will take me on the
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phone and that that works Okay.
But it's so difficult when Iget an audition when I'm on the
road.
But I do it there.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
There's ways you can make it.
I mean you can make it happen.
I got one one time when I wastraveling for a film and it was
a voiceover audition.
So I packed the little recorderthat I was going to use and I
had just watched a video from aguy on how he sets up to do
voiceover auditions on the roadand I built a little tent.
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I got some pillows off thecouch and I built a little tent
with the blanket and I mean itsounded okay.
I took my microphone.
I had my microphone and mylittle recorder and with it
being a voiceover and no video,it's a lot easier, a lot faster
to prepare for that and itturned out okay.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I always have a little bit of a panic attack.
Yeah, yeah, if it's good enough, it's good enough.
Bailey, it's just been so dry,I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I assume everybody's going kind of through what we're
going through.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It kind of.
It certainly feels like it.
I'm hoping things are going topick back up, but you know I
know.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So that's where we are.
So that's where we are.
So things suck in the industry,so I still need to be a lawyer.
So if anyone gets in a caraccident, call me.
No, I still have a law officethat I still need to run.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, janitor like you said the other day, you hope
people don't need you.
I do.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I always say I do hope people don't need me,
because money is not as good asas health and well-being.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's that's true on any day of the week.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So it's a weird thing when I put my card in someone's
hand and say call me, and in myheart I'm definitely hoping
they don't have to, because Idon't wish that bad things
happen to people.
But I still need to make aliving, so people still need to
have my card.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I want you to be well , but I want your cash.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Kind of it's a weird.
It's a weird place to exist,but I think weird place to exist
, but I think I do a good job ofit because a lot of people do
end up meeting me and I think Ido take good care of them.
But it sucks, yeah, it sucksthat there are a lot of people
driving around like lunaticshurting people, you know.
And speaking of being up herein amish country just two days
ago, yeah, it was on labor daythere was an accident up in new
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york and a lady rear-ended, um,an amish family was.
It was like eight of them in abuggy.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh, no, it was terrible.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
The buggy overturned, Eight passengers ejected oh no.
Non-life-threatening injuriesto the people in the buggy, but
the lady's car rolled over soshe had to hit them hard and she
had also injuries, butnon-life-threatening.
A horse died, which breaks myheart every day and, yeah, can
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you imagine being so insane thatyou high speed rear end a horse
and buggy?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's insane.
Yeah, I just read about that,googling things about the Irish,
because it's a fascinatinglifestyle and I'm loving it up
here.
But yeah, so yeah, there arecrazy people on the roads and
that's not new for anyone in thenew orleans greater
metropolitan area.
They know that, yeah.
So I'm out here and my basicslogan is it's not just business
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, it's's personal.
I know, right, cool.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Bring us back a quilt , right I?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
know I should.
I've been enjoying.
They have great food up here.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
They have really great food.
Oh, I bet they do yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
So, so it's good.
So I'll be back in a few days,but but thanks for visiting with
me up here.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, thanks for stopping in.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
All right.
Well, you guys have a greatnight.
Say hello to your next guest.
For me we will.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We will.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Thanks, Jenna.
Thank you for jumping onYouTube and watching that I know
right.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
All right, have a great night.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Was that in the frame Bye.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I can't tell if it was in the frame or not.
Okay, Bye guys.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Cool, okay, so we got the next guest.
If you're able to text him ormessage him.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I told him to come on .
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Wait, here it is, here he is.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I was going to say we might get multiple guests
because we're kind of.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, I'm stacking.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We can have more than one person jump in.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So you'd be the timekeeper on that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And Facebook Live is not happening.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's okay For the second time.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
For some reason it just I was logged in.
I had it toggled on, but itdidn't go live.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I shared the YouTube link through my page and through
one of the NOLA film scenes.
Or maybe he stepped away fromhis computer.
We'll just keep talking untilwe see him.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Ladies and gentlemen, the Invisible man cool.
So, Yusef, if you couldintroduce yourself, because you
have not been on NOLA Film Sceneyet.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
No, I have not.
First, congratulations on twoyears.
That's a very big milestone,thank you.
So yeah, my name is Yusef.
I'm a writer directororiginally from Brooklyn.
Yusef, I'm a writer-directororiginally from Brooklyn, new
York.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I moved to St Bernard Parish with my wife about four
years ago.
Nice, Not a big stretch.
On the accent People down inChalmette.
Their accents always remind meof people from New York.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, I noticed that.
They call them Yat.
They call them Yat.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Where.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yat From the parish.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
They're from the parish.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They're from out in the parish, yeah it's similar.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
It's very similar.
My daughter's starting todevelop a little one and I can't
tell if it's the Brooklyn andme or the Chalmette and my wife.
I heard.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
At least she won't lose it altogether.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
you know, y'all being down there, Someone described
it Brooklyn is the fast versionof a parish accent.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you take the.
Brooklyn accent.
You got that thing going andthen you just relax, you go oh
for the parish, I'm out here,you know.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah, it's like I say down here, it's like less
uptight version of the Brooklynaccent.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, and for those who don't know, if you look at a
map of New Orleans and thenlook to the east, that's and
then look to the east, that'swhere St Bernard Parish is, St
Bernard and Chalmette, andthere's no place like it
anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, it's kind of like the little brother to New
Orleans, which in that senseit's just like Brooklyn, because
Brooklyn's kind of the littlebrother to Manhattan.
So it kind of makes sense forme to be here, my name, so Yusuf
.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We met on your podcast.
You and I did yes, along withyour co-host will blank yes,
will blank.
And y'all had me on as a guestand it was fun.
And then something happened aswe met, and I'll let you tell
the story of what that inspiredyou, yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
so you know, obviously I'm relatively new to
the film scene here.
I've been making movies forseven years or so, but that was
mostly in brooklyn, and when wewere talking to you I I kept
thinking to myself man, I got towork with this guy.
Something about your attitudeand just how game.
You seemed to like just go allin on whatever you were doing.
(18:07):
I was just like, I don't knowhow or when, but I got to try to
work with this guy, and so Iwas at that time developing a
script and I was like, oh, maybeI can get Brian in this.
And I just kind of redid thewhole script and actually wrote
a role with you in mind and Ifloated it to you and, like I
(18:27):
was fantasizing about youimmediately were like, yeah,
let's do it.
You know, like just just likethe sense I got from you when we
spoke on the podcast, that youwere just like down to do
whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So what you said was you wrote it and then you were
tentative, you were a littlescared to show it to me, which
saying it is like I'm scared toshow something weird to Brian
what?
And so earlier this year I wasposting collages.
I like taking pictures andthat's what I use on my
Instagram and my Facebook andI've had makeup and contacts and
all these different roles ofmonsters and death and all this
(19:00):
good stuff and I'd put ittogether and put it out.
And so I just happened, withoutknowing that you were doing
that, put together a collage andit says director colon, this is
going to get weird me, colon,I'm in.
And you went, let me show it tohim.
And I read the script and wentyeah, and that was, it's great.
We just had a table read forthe movie this past weekend I
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think you had him at.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
This is gonna get weird I think, we were both
without a doubt at that point.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, I saw that post and I was like, yeah, I'm
pretty sure that's a sign uhfrom the universe that it's time
to uh float this to brian hedidn't tell me anything about it
.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
But if it's got anything with makeup or monsters
or prosthetics or anything likethat, that, just that, that's
even more so he's in.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, and I think it.
You know it's really like, inmy opinion, the the most badass
character in the whole film,like he's essentially playing
like a cajun jedi, like a, likea mystic cajun sorcerer guy.
I really sort of saw a crossbetween tony satchere and
obi-wan kenobi, basically so,and I was like, yeah, that's not
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that I'm trying to say that,that's brian, but I I thought it
might be a character that wouldtickle you a little bit, so I'm
down it's gonna sound weird,but now, if I can, I made a
little tagline description ofmovie.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's people looking for self-help find themselves at
a retreat center in the bayou.
A little mix of new age, maybesome swamp magic, just some
self-help and some strangecharacters and then, yep, that's
basically it.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, um, you know, it's a psychedelic retreat
down the road down in the bayouand it's run by two girls who
are like the world's worstshamans.
They do everything that you'renot supposed to do to people who
are on these types ofsubstances, and throughout one
of their retreats theyaccidentally summon a mystical
creature.
I'll keep it there, and Brian'scharacter may or may not help
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in vanquishing this beast.
They accidentally summon amystical creature.
I'll keep it there and andBrian's character may or may not
help in vanquishing this beast.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm kind of like a hermit you know yes.
The old man down the road.
Yep, knowledgeable battle wornin the middle of the guards,
maybe, and I think that's a goodplace to stop that.
Yeah, yeah, but I get to playwith a Cajun accent.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh boy, good place to stop that.
Yeah, yeah, but I get to playwith a cajun accent show boy, oh
yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
So is this a feature or is this a short?
Yeah, it's a.
It's, I guess, kind of both.
It's a short feature.
It's going to run somewherearound the 60 minute mark.
Yeah, my wife and Iself-produce all our own films,
so we're kind of limitedbudgetarily.
In a perfect world this wouldbe a 90 minute full blown insane
special effects, all that stuff.
(21:43):
But we're just kind of workingwith our limitations.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, understood, that's cool though Evil dead did
a smaller film, and evil dead,too, was basically evil dead,
one with more money, right,right.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
You know, and 2 was basically Evil Dead 1 with more
money, right, right, yeah,that's a good point, and horror
is great.
I don't know if I'd call itpure horror, psychedelic horror,
like you said.
So it's always going to be lowbudget and has the potential to
take off and make more money.
You know what I mean.
Not that we want just money.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Is you?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh no, there's a voice.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Hi, here's another one of my actors, our third
guest.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Who we got here.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Can you say hi?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
What's her name?
Violet.
Hi Violet, can you say hi,brian and tj, we're being, we're
being shy that's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Brian is shy too we're on the same mental level.
So it's okay, she's.
She's actually the monster inour movie.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
We just won't say anymore in the movie and in real
life brian finally foundsomebody that'll make faces back
at him.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I found someone on my mental level.
Don't tell sheree here.
You want to hear him yeah canyou hear?
Hello hi violet.
Can you hear violet?
Can you hear us?
We're getting silly.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
She's pressing all sorts of stuff here.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Don't do that chaos did we get anybody in the
waiting room?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
no, not yet I'm mama.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I'm going to mute, I'm going to give that person a
text.
Do you have a question forYusuf?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yeah, Yusuf what.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
She doesn't have.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Sorry, I think I might have lost you guys for a
second.
Hi, hi, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh, we're just hanging out, stop playing with
that.
So was Brian teasing or is shegoing to be involved in your
project?
She is going to have a cameo.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, she's not the monster.
No, no, no, she's going to bein it.
You have to put your kids inyour movies, otherwise what's
the point you can have in them,right?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
so that's right.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
So yeah, I'm gonna say hi, yeah, yeah, uh, my goal
is to like.
Ultimately, my dream is to makea movie with her, but until
she's ready for that, we'll haveto stick to cameos yeah, of
course she's not very good attaking direction that'll come in
time, though how many guys are?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
good at that I think I've got a I've got a teenage
daughter and she acts and I'vebrought her into a couple
projects with me shorts and hada blast doing it.
She loves being on set.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
She actually played my daughter.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's right.
That's right.
She played Brian's daughter inone of our shorts.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
I forgot about the specifics ofthat.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm sorry she was so traumatized.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
She wasn't the film where I have a stepchildren
which is coming out this Friday.
It she wasn't the film where Ihave a stepchildren which is
coming out this Friday.
It's called Impunity.
It's a short and I play astepdad dealing with an angsty
teenagers.
Dot dot dot.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah, it's always nice when you could kind of keep
it a family thing.
Like I said, my wife's myfilmmaking partner.
She's also an actor.
She's also going to be in thismovie that we're making.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So you know that's a nice layer of um, I don't know.
Just fun when you can do itwith family, so I want to.
I just want to nerd out for asecond what do you shoot on?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
so typically I I've been using a black magic pocket
cinema 6k yeah go ahead.
I'll get you some in a minute.
That's what we've shot with inthe past.
But we are hiring, hiring out aDP for this one, and he's going
to be using I can't rememberthe name of it it's a Sony
camera.
It's a.
Really what's going on?
(25:22):
Come here, come here.
He's going to be using a Sonycamera.
I can't remember the name of it, but it's it's better than my
6k, so that's why we're goingwith it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I got you.
It's been great talking to you.
I think you need to step awayand deal with that.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Yeah, it's bedtime.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Lead actress, but it's good practice for when we
shoot in November.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah and again, congratulations on two
years, and I wish you 20 more,or however many more you guys
want.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Thank you, appreciate you coming on Great meeting.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
you Thanks for hiring me.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Thanks for booking me , of course.
Of course, thanks for takingthe job, man.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, see you later.
Cool, can we do a whole episodewith?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
her.
So I mean I don't see, why not.
We've talked about having childactors on before.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Certainly made things .
It's different and lively.
It's energetic.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I think it's really cool that he's getting her
involved in projects early on.
I was at that age and even mucholder, painfully shy, and I
think it's.
I don't know, I think it'sreally cool I've enjoyed having
my daughter be able to work withsome of our projects.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It would have been incredible to do this as a child
, as a teen or young adult, butyou know nothing I can do about
that until they invent timetravel yeah, for sure who we got
.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Maybe stephanie could be done.
Done, I wanted to see thatyou're not dark in your booth
anymore.
I don't think I told, unlessyou watched the video we shared
to announce this yeah, that'strue, because we haven't really
I haven't started sharing videosof stuff that we've recorded
since we started upping the gamea little bit yeah everything's
pretty's pretty much been audio,but I'm ready to start moving
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forward.
I think getting some of thosepublished.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, it's while we wait for her and we talked a
little bit about this on thepromo episode, but it's to us a
joy to do this.
It's not always easy.
It can be a struggle gettingthe editing done, getting guests
involved, equipment failure,getting the lighting right yeah
you know, but all that's worthit.
(27:22):
We have not only people whoview, but friends who we've had.
A couple of people say thatthis was important to the acting
community and that means a lotto me.
We have a friend who's also oneof our teachers and he pushes
us and does promotions for us inhis class.
Hey, you guys should listen tothis.
There's good advice during this.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And it's really touching.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It really means a lot .
It means a lot that he doesthat.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're both running out of words.
We had a couple peoplescheduled and we announced Hicks
Jeremy was coming, but we haveto sadly say his day job that he
had to work late, so he's notable to join us.
We'll have him, you know.
Maybe do another live and we'llhave him on.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, sometimes, you know, sometimes life happens.
Hick was our first guest.
We did one episode solo just tokind of announce the launch of
the podcast and talk about it alittle bit.
And then we had Hick on, wetalked beards, we talked just
acting stuff and I can't believeit was two years ago today.
Time really has flown.
(28:21):
But you know, life happens,things come up, things happen.
We've had there were a coupleother people that were
potentially going to come hangout with us.
I know there was a power outagethat happened.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So there's been, there's been some difficulties
happening and it's okay yeah,that's what the live's gonna be
gonna have to just roll with thepunches.
I do like the energy ofbringing multiple guests in yeah
you know, changing it up.
Not that I don't like talkingto you as much as a joke about
it.
Yeah, you know, it is what itis I can see this on a live as
it expands.
(28:54):
We could possibly get peopleasking questions live to us and
the guests Get some interactiongoing.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And I love your backdrop now.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh, you do, Thank you .
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It looks very cool I appreciate that.
I'm going to have to projectsomething on mine and change up.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
If you were with us at the beginning and saw some of
those promos.
I was in a sound booth so I wasalmost pitch black and I liked
that better than being out inthe light.
It just felt more comfortable.
So we changed, had my softboxlights same ones I use for
auditions, very bright.
Even this is a little bright,but we worked on some
composition with the lights Coolblue light on this side, just
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my key light behind me, changesthe whole thing up, changing,
always evolving.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Got to improve on it.
I'm just looking to see.
I saw something flash.
Somebody was trying to come in.
Well, we're going to have toget him back on for a longer
conversation at some point.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
For Hick.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No, for your director that was just on yeah.
So I like seeing people doingthese projects, keeping things
going.
There's just been really notmuch happening.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm notseeing a whole lot of stuff
happening right now.
So I think we need to be making, doing some of our own projects
and expand that.
I mean we've done some 48s,we've done some seven and sevens
(30:09):
, we've done a few smallerprojects here and there, so we
got to keep that ball rolling alittle bit.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well, we do have a couple of things in the work.
We, of course, can't talk aboutthem.
Things are moving.
And then I met a director on my48, pardon me and I believe his
film.
Well, I won't say the name,I'll wait.
I want to have him on and youand I discuss because I like
discussing how people wereinspired to get into the biz
that we can start a little morefocused on how did you make your
(30:39):
film, how'd you get yourfunding, not to lose the
original question, but to startexpanding and inspire us and
hopefully, other people to maketheir own movies and film.
So I've got a couple ofdirectors.
One I worked with the movie'scalled Death Trip.
My first line was Saturday,march 14th 2020.
It might be being released thisyear, we think it is.
So I'd like to get him on.
You know, not that we want tolose actors, but talking to
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directors would be really cool.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree, a lot of peopledo their own 48s or get on teams
to do 48s and there are someteams that are really well
funded and have really-endequipment.
But you don't have to havehigh-end equipment to make a
film.
Use what you have and you knowcreate.
But we are going to startdigging in a little bit more on
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raising fundraising to dobudgets for projects and maybe
try to get a couple of biggerthings going.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Is anyone showing?
No One of our guests saysthey've been there waiting, but
it's have a little technicalproblem.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Did they maybe click the link for the as a viewer?
Because there's nobody, I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Okay, this is where we could use a producer.
So within the next year, bydoing lives, we're going to see
if we can add a person.
You won't see them, but they'llbe able to handle all this
business and we can keep goingand just entertaining and
talking.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You're going to have to entertain people.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
What this person says .
They've tapped the Join button.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Let's see if we can get them in.
While you're doing that and I'mreading messages from them, I'm
going to tell them to go allthe way out the app and come
back in.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Are they on a mobile device or a computer?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
That I don't know.
This app, riverside, ladies andgentlemen, is better working on
a computer.
It's very data hungry.
Can be used, you know, on amobile device, but blah, blah,
blah, technical stuff, yeah.
So I was thinking, while we'rewaiting, what will be something
that I'd like to achieve in thenext year?
And we are starting down theroad of sponsorship.
(32:32):
We've talked to Jana.
She sponsored us and we aresponsors of Cajun Con, so that's
a brand new Louisiana.
Comic Con run by Scott Ennis,who used to voice Scooby-Doo,
and they've got some greatguests.
This will be in December.
Hey, there she is there you are.
Hey, we'll get back to CajunCon later.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Hi Hi.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I'm good now how are?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
you doing doing good we're great.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
We wanted to show you our new setups oh yeah, brian's
not not in the dark boothanymore no, you can like move
your arm.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
That was last time we lost her yeah, maybe that was
the problem.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well, at least you made it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
So Cajun Con.
So we're sponsoring Cajun Con.
Scott Ennis is putting on CajunCon voice of Scooby-Doo.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, and he's been working on this for at least a
year.
I'm seeing a few cons promotingit.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
There are a lot of people involved in that.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
There's going to be a lot of really really huh.
Over 80 celebrities appearing.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, it's going to be huge.
It's going to be at the LamarDixon Convention Center over in
Gonzales.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And the place is big, really big.
I haven't been there yet, butthe kids from Willy Wonka are
going to be there all grown up.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's right, pippi.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Longstocking.
We've got the Terrifier.
I know Art is his first name.
I don't know his last name.
You know the clown.
Do you know what I'm?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
talking about.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I don't do clowns.
Well, he's going to be at thecon and a lot of times he'll do
normal and then he'll getpainted up.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Don't do clowns.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay, I'll keep him away from you and when we watch
Death Trip, I'll tell you whento close your eyes, because I
was a clown in that, one of mysix roles oh yeah, no sort of.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm a shriner and I mean there's a there's a clown
unit and I knew the guys thatwere dressed up as clowns.
I could be around them becauseI knew them, but it didn't creep
me out any less.
I could stand close to them andI could even talk to them, but
it wasn't my favorite yeah, alot of people have that.
Stephanie having a connectionissue.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
She is.
Yeah, she's on her iPad.
Sometimes it works with amobile device, sometimes it
doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
If she's connected to Wi-Fi and she can get a good
Wi-Fi signal, she should be okay.
If she's trying to do itthrough the cellular signal of
the iPad, she's going to havetrouble, that's what I'm finding
out.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So I'm trying to think while we're talking, gray
delisle is going to be at cajuncon, she is daphne.
And I had to stop and thinkbecause I always want to say, uh
, thelma, but that's not wrongand I don't want her to hurt me,
I'm not that she also do it,she voices someone in avatar.
I love going to cons as a youknow, just a visitor, so, and we
have a booth, which also meanswe have a place to sit for the
entire con, which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
No more joy than doing that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And we'll have some swag.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
We've been working on some items to give away.
I bought these giant dice.
I think we might have a littlegame All right, here comes
Stephanie hey we're back, let'slet's just thank Stephanie for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'll tell her on the phone, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Thank you, we should have one more guest coming up.
Tries and tribulations.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, growing pains.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, Show me that smile.
Oh, different growing pains.
So I was saying I'd like to doother cons.
We've gotten some press passesin the past but to be more
involved with cons, definitelybe invited as guests.
People coming up to us to takepictures, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
That'd be a great thing to happen in the next year
.
We did get one invite that westill are talking through and
need to follow up a little bitmore on.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I don't know which one.
I think I know who that is.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Not going to say it just yet, just in case.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Tell me after I probably already know.
Oh, there she is.
Yes, I am, hey.
Hey, it's probably too much foryour iPad for the live, so
we're going to start off bythanking you for coming and if
it drops off again, we'll saybye and we'll talk later.
We'll have you back, but we'renot.
We'll try this one last time.
Well, congratulations, thankyou, and it's we loved having
(36:33):
you on.
I love that.
We have made a friendship.
I made a friendship withsomeone I watched years stand up
in sitcoms and, if you know, Ihave business cards now with QR
codes to promote the podcast.
And anytime I hand it out shegoes anytime I hand it out, I
always tell everyone to watchStephanie's episode.
So we got a little bit out.
She says congratulations, wegot a little bit of talk, we got
(36:54):
something out of our guest.
You might be muted.
I don't hear you.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
She's coming back in, so just tell her we'll.
We'll follow up with her andwe'll do one offline.
It's probably too much data.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Okay, thank you for coming on, stephanie.
Even it's been disrupted.
I'm going to stop talking, butif it cuts out again, we'll.
We'll pull you back anothertime, but like we did last time.
But you talk now, I'll be quiet.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I just want to wish you great congratulations, and
it's been just the best thing inthe world to see you two do all
the things you've been doing inthe last couple of years.
Thank you.
You do the work and youprogress and you get better, and
it just tickles me to death.
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I'm so happy for you?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
You have no right to be proud of me.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
That means a lot coming from her.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
She was our second guest, and that means a lot
coming from her.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
She was our second guest and she is the one that
left me in stitches during thatepisode.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, and that's what I was saying.
Whenever I put out the card,hand somebody a card that's got
a QR code to listen to ourpodcast.
She's one of the episodes Imentioned and I always say that
she and I hit it off so wellthat we made TJ's ribs hurt from
laughing.
That's right, she's a trip andshe's so supportive.
I can send her an audition.
Hey, check this out, what doyou think?
And she'll give me notes andtips and just so much
(38:07):
encouragement.
We can't thank you enough,stephanie.
We love you and I'm going totell her that while you talk.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah, stephanie was a fun episode and she's genuinely
a kind person and has kept intouch with us and is always so
encouraging.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, and we have potentially one last guest and
I'm going to see if they're ableto come on.
This person hasn't been on ourshow yet but I thought it'd be
fun to we try to get people whohave been on, like Hick and then
this person who kind of like alittle taste, like hey, how you
doing, I'll be on in the future.
Right, I did that with theChristmas cards that year.
You remember those.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
That was fun, but a little work intensive.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, but now you've gotten a lot more proficient
with doing overlays and doingsome of the did was have a few
of our guests and a couple ofextra people that were going to
come on record.
Just a little soundbite, littlevideo clip soundbite for us,
and we posted those likeChristmas cards, like live video
(39:15):
Christmas cards, and that waskind of fun.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
It was, and then we put them all together for a one
christmas episode yeah we canreveal, doing the sound balance
on it was probably verystressful for you.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I don't even think I have to say probably, just
because it's different sourcematerial yeah, recorded it, yep,
but I've gotten a lot better, alot more experience with
editing and it's not as, not aschallenging as it was right at
that time learn progress, domore.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I liked matching because I took stock christmas
pictures and then stockchristmas music and I and I put
some text on the screen so Imade it look like a christmas
card and then matching the soundand the picture to the person.
So, like creek wilson did forone, did one for us and he's
going to be a cajun con I I justremembered, but he's very
country, pure Alabama accent,real thick, real great.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
And so I took almost like a cabin and put it behind
it and almost like a littletwang, a little country
Christmas song, and so itmatched the character.
Hicks was great.
First he did one for us in hiscar and then you can't do it Too
much that you can't do it toomuch background noise, so he
generously did another one andmade it look like an audition.
Yeah, that, yeah.
(40:24):
His first word was line and heasked his.
He asked carolyn um, do I haveto do a full body?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
no, you don't, because you know brian's, all
that was yeah, oh, that's right,because he recorded the first
one in the car.
So what's funny?
Something that I learned when Iwas taking some voiceover
classes is that if you don'thave a booth, if you don't have
access to anything, or you're onthe road and you need to record
an audition or whatever,recording inside a car when it's
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parked is actually a reallygood place to do it.
Because of the way cars aretreated, the way cars are
treated they're designed to keepoutside noise to a minimum and
just the way they are, the waythe seats absorb the sound and
the headliner and all the stuffthat's in the car you can get
really good sound quality,assuming it's not 100 degrees in
(41:11):
the south and you're sittingthere.
You can't have the car runningand have air conditioning going,
but if you can sit for a fewminutes in your driveway or in a
parking lot or whatever andrecord, it's a good alternative
to having a booth or going in acloset or whatever, and the one
that you referenced was beingrecorded during driving.
(41:31):
Then there's a little bit ofwind noise and maybe air
conditioning noise introduced.
That's a little harder to workwith, but just a little tidbit.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
A little lesson we learned.
I don't think our last guest isgoing to make it.
I haven't heard any response.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
That's okay.
I think we probably could wrapit up.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
We've had a pretty good two-year anniversary live
stream.
It's been a fun two years.
One of the milestones and oneof the marks that I saw early on
was I don't remember thepercentage of podcasts that fail
and by fail I mean people justgive up and stop doing them is
(42:11):
10.
The first 10 episodes if youmake it past that, you're likely
to make it a little bit further.
And then after that it's thecentury mark and we're
approaching that.
We're getting.
We're not quite there.
I think we've got maybe 20 moreepisodes to go and we don't
have that many published yet.
We've got a few recorded thatwe haven't published, but that's
(42:32):
kind of.
The next milestone is 100episodes, and then after that
then the sky's the limit.
You know Joe Rogan recordsthree and a half hour episodes
and publishes them.
You know four or five days aweek, right, and has thousands
of episodes.
So I don't know if we'll havethousands of episodes in our
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future.
Could, but why not?
If we're still growing andhaving fun with it and providing
valuable content, I don't seewhy we couldn't.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Totally and we've talked about you know it's kind
of a dream but, like, maybedoing this live Not only live
stream, but live at a place, ata facility, at a theater, and
having guests and having anaudience.
Won't be anytime soon, but it'sa dream.
Yeah, it won't be anytime soon,but it's a dream, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I mean similar to when we were on the panel at the
comic book convention that wedid, I guess, January this year,
but that room wasn't reallytreated for audio and the
conditions weren't reallyconducive to doing a good
recording, a good broadcast.
But a theater that's treatedfor sound, that might be a
(43:43):
different animal.
It ended up sounding okay, wejust had to do a little work on
it, but for a live broadcast itwouldn't have been ideal.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
But afterwards I think it sounded okay.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I think it sounded good.
You know those they're almostegg carton things that you put
around the microphones, mm-hmm,like sound dampeners, mm-hmm.
That might be something to putin front of us where people
could still see us, but the mic,might, you know, dampen the
sound coming into it.
If we had to do that again,yeah.
Inevitably All pipe dreams, butthat's how you get started.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
You dream it, that's right.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
All right, folks.
Well, thanks for being with usfor two years, and here's to two
more.
And two more after that, andtwo more after that, and two
more after that.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
See you later.
See you the next time.
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