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The duo announces an exciting crossover with "Anecdotes from Bob Krieger," featuring fellow creatives Michelle Bousquet and Dave Burdick. This special collaboration will unfold across two episodes—first on Bob's podcast, then with the tables turned as TJ and Plaideau interview Bob on a special Thursday release of NOLA Film Scene.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to NOLA.
Film Scene with TJ.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Plato.

Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm TJ and, as always , I'm Plato.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, children of all ages and
everyone in between, how you,doing NOLA Film Scene is live on
the air and we're coming to youwith some announcements.
We have a really cool thinghappening this week and some
cool projects we've done in ourdaily lives to share with you.

(00:26):
And you know we like talking,and that's it.
Goodbye, good night folks.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
And good night.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, what we have going on this week.
We've crossed over with anotherpodcast and it's anecdotes from
Bob Krieger, and we'll besharing the links all on our
social media.
You can find them on YouTubeunder LA film school, although
there might be a couple ofpeople with that name, so it's.
I had trouble searching, I hadto go to straight to links and

(01:01):
he wanted to interview us andour friends.
Michelle bouquet, if Ipronounce that right, and Dave
Burdick Burdick, thank you,getting lost in those last names
, and your TJ, sebastian, had tospread it out fair.
Today, yeah, yeah, so onThursday, that's when he drops

(01:23):
his podcast and we drop ours onWednesday.
So part one of this crossoverThursday on his and you'll see
all five of us talking.
It's a YouTube video, you'lllove it.
But for part two, we're movingour usual Wednesday drop to
Thursday and we're going to turnthe tables on him and interview
him alone.
Going to turn the tables on himand interview him alone, but it

(01:45):
was a lot of fun.
He asked us to talk about our48 experience from the 48
international or the 48 kickoffthat we did party at the end of
the universe where TJ danced.
I did dance.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Probably never see it again, folks, but actually I
danced in another project just aweek later.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
What so I danced.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's right.
So I mean, I think Fiona wouldbe proud of me that I danced,
because you know we talked aboutthat inhibition when we
interviewed her.
Right, she, you know she was aprofessional dancer and I'm sure
that's a weird thing to hearsomebody say that they're not

(02:27):
comfortable with it.
But yeah, I got to dance in twoprojects congratulations.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm proud of you and I don't think there's anything
weird about that at all.
I have two left feet, if I'mlucky.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, to say I'm a spaz on thedance floor is a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, I mean, I guess , if you can't be good, be a
spaz right.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yep, we had this scene.
It got cut.
It was a movie, Come on, comeon, and that was Joaquin Phoenix
and it's all in black and whiteand this was like a dream
sequence that they actually cut.
They had one in the beginning,one at the end, and then it's a
white room, floor to ceiling.

(03:10):
So, coming from outside, you hadto wash your shoes and then put
those booties on them and thenwalk in and take those booties
off to go onto the set and sopicture like a line like getting
on at an airport, like gettingon an airplane and the camera's
on a dolly and what they'regoing to do is pass by you
standing.
And then they come back andthey had two or three cameras so

(03:33):
they would catch angles thatthey didn't have to move the
camera and they said first, pass, stand there.
When we come back, then startdancing.
I'm not a real big dancer, butit's supposed to be hit your
slow and let it grow to the.
You know it'll get weirder asthey keep going back and forth.
The first time it was kind oflike all right, I got my hand up

(03:57):
and then I just pretended I hada glass in my hand and was
drunk dancing.
One guy two feet away from mewent from zero to 60 in two
seconds.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
He went how'd that go ?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm not saying that's why that sequence got cut, but
that's another thing I've done.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I've never seen like oh but that's probably why it
got cut I don't know they endedup.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
they ended up not using it.
Uh either one Cause, I guess,cause the rest of it was so
grounded, and that was duringthe we filmed right before the
pandemic.
So then get it.
It even into the editing booths.
Still had to deal with thequarantine, you know.
So I think it was.
I can't say it was a rush toget it out, but it was.
It seemed like it was astruggle because it took a long

(04:47):
time, but it was fun.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, did everything that you did in that film get
cut, or just that one scene?
That's all I had was that onescene.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
And it wasn't bad.
The director was really cool.
My brain wants to say MikeNichols, and that's not right
because that's a totallydifferent director.
But you can look up, come on.
Come on, see which director.
We were talking about my Memorybefore.
I don't want to hear it, tj.
I didn't know I was going totalk about this, but there's a
thing called extras holding andyou might have heard us talk

(05:18):
about that before.
It's just a room where theextras sit, actors have their
thing, the crew's doing theirstuff.
There's on set and a lot ofdirectors.
You don't exist to them,sometimes barely on set.
As an extra, as a background.
You barely exist to them.
Not, this guy Came in becausewe had been waiting there all
day, shook hands I don't know ifhe took pictures with people,

(05:40):
but it was real gracious, realwarm guy.
And then when we finished we'rewalking out, he and the crew
clapped for us, so he made surewe were appreciated in that
class.
That's all I can say, is class,yeah, yeah, that's cool.
So what have you been up tolately, sir?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
cool.
So what have you been up tolately, sir?
You know it's actually been apretty busy couple of months
with film projects.
Fortunately I did a dramathrough the church.
I helped the director, theyouth director put on the Easter
drama and I had a monologue.
I played the demon-possessedman.

(06:24):
Now that's, you know, I'm sureit's probably hard to picture me
as a Typecasting, I understand.
Yeah, a desolate, you know,homeless guy anyway, homeless

(06:46):
guy anyway, and just a few othersmall film projects.
We did the kickoff 48 withmichelle.
I did a project with armandoleduc film project.
He's got going on and I foundout that I won an award, so
thank you Bravo bravo yeah thankyou.
There's that.
It was for Mr Headcase, whichwas my first ever lead role, and

(07:10):
I won.
It was for the Georgia Shorts,southern Shorts Awards and the
award was an award of merit foracting.
Several people from thatproject won awards the director,
the producers, other castmembers nine awards.

(07:33):
It looks like that film wonSweet so and it's good I've seen
it, thank you.
I believe you as a crazyhomeless person that.
That was an eye-openingexperience for me on set.
I learned a ton being on setwith that project.
Everybody was really welcomingand there was varying degrees of

(07:56):
experience between people onthat set.
A lot of them had a good bit ofexperience, so there was a lot,
a lot to glean from that.
So I'm I'm really excited aboutthat.
It was really kind of a coolthing for me.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
I can't wait for that to just go public.
I think you're going throughthe festivals with that too, or
they are.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, there's.
There's another festival.
It got accepted into anotherone.
I don't remember off the top ofmy head what it is, but yeah, I
think pretty soon it'll be ableto be viewed publicly yeah, I
think, other than getting thejob.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
I guess it classifies under waiting.
Waiting is the hardest part ofthis business for us.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Hurry up and wait right.
Wait to post pictures, wait totalk about it, wait to yeah,
Rush there to get to the set.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Go wait, but I've got .
We talked about it before.
Indigo the Last Days was amovie I did and that's on Amazon
Prime, that's huge.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's huge.
Thank you, justin.
Hear me with last name, kamush,and.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Kayla Walker.
Sorry, that's huge.
Yeah, thank you, Justin, Hearme.
We'll ask Camush and KaylaWalker.
Sorry, Moochie, if I pronouncedthat wrong.
Forget my old brain.
We're so sorry, Wheel of Heavenwhere I played Death has a
distributor.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Ah, congratulations.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Thank you.
But the director said we got adistributor, but with indie
films it could take six to ninemonths to come out and it's like
we filmed ours in like 2021.
Like my scenes in October,November, it's like yeah.
And then Death Trip, the onewhere I played like six
different parts and you know itwas my first speaking line.
Yeah, almost finished withpost-production, but because

(09:33):
it's no budget and it's notgoing to like a house, to a
production house, it's wheneverthe people are off from their
real jobs of you know, workingin the film industry, to edit
the sound.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
And it's like a black hole, as the closer you get to
the event horizon, time juststretches out.
So it's, it's a lot Impunity.
We went to a second festival.
That's one where I so, it's,it's a lot Impunity.
We went to a second festival.
That's one where I played astepdad.
Yeah, and uh, I love thatlittle film.
It's a short film, it's astudent film.
I got to play a stepdad and Iwon't say whether he's good,

(10:09):
evil or indifferent, but anytimeyou step into a family yeah,
step into a family you're goingto have to deal with it.
You'll have to deal with theangst of the teenager.
So there's going to be frictionand I'll leave it at that.
But I can say it this way theaudience sometimes gassed at
what I said.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I definitely saw a different side of you and
it was really cool to see youuse your range for that project.
I think people are used toseeing you play the the jovial
funny guy and to see I I don'tthink it's a secret that it's

(10:49):
not a comedy movie, right?
Yeah, so to see a differentside of you was really something
.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, I'm going to quote you to you.
You said I gave you chills andwe won't go into the why, but it
a project.
But we sat down with Tony.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Gibson.
We had some technicaldifficulties.
We actually had it planned fora live stream with him, but when
we planned that it was rightafter some pretty heavy

(11:27):
thunderstorms around here.
I had some equipment in my homethat was damaged and they were
working on the internet in thearea and I just I didn't have a
good stable connection for alittle while there in my home.
That was damaged and they wereworking on the internet in the
area and I just I didn't have agood stable connection for a
little while there.
So there were, there were someissues.
We tried two different timesand we just could not make it
happen.
Things finally calmed down andI went and sat down in person

(11:50):
with Tony and we talked andcovered things.
Sat down in person with Tonyand we talked and covered things
.
So he's got a film that he'sgoing to be producing called
Immortal Invitations and out ofthat film script he developed
with another writer a book.
So he turned the screenplayinto a book.

(12:12):
Usually, the other way aroundand that book is out, so it's
available on Amazon, uh, Barnesand Noble and a few other areas.
We'll have it linked in hispodcast episode and we're
planning to release that nextweek.
So if you haven't gotten it yet, go out and check out his book

(12:36):
immortal inv and look for theepisode with him next week.
He talks about the book andwhat inspired it and, of course,
how he got into the filmindustry to begin with.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
So be on the lookout for that.
That's Anec anecdotes thisThursday.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yep With Bob.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Kreeger and we'll direct you to it if you can't
find it.
And then that's part one.
Part two, our podcast NOLA FilmScene, which you already know
since you're watching this.
Well, we talked to Bob Kreegerand then the following week, on
Wednesday, back to the normaldrop Tony Gibson.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Right, yeah, so yeah, we normally really release our
episodes on Wednesdays, but tostay in sync with Bob, as part
two to his episode, we'repushing it a day.
So we're going to release thislive stream tomorrow in our
normal slot as a teaser forThursday, and Thursday part two

(13:34):
of Bob's podcast will come outand then next week we'll be back
.
Be back to our regular schedule.
Easy for you to say that was,that was a mouthful.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
It happens, it happens.
Good talking to you folks.
We'll see you on the boards.
See y' all next time.
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