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Speaker 1 (00:07):
welcome back tj and plato and we are recovering from
a busy weekend we are.
Yeah, we're going to recap ourweekend.
We went to fan expo new orleans.
Tj went to the abita springsinternational film festival.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I slept a lot, as you said, it was a very busy but
productive weekend.
There's a lot.
As you said, it was a very busy, but productive weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
There's a lot of cold .
There's a witch's here in NewOrleans.
I like the cold.
I can deal with cold when Ihave some snow to make it happy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You know how much.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I love snow and we didn't get it.
And we're going to get coldernext week.
Yeah, so it's going to feellike it's 14 is the last thing I
saw.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
My family will be traveling soon to a swim meet
out of town and it's supposed tosnow while they're there, how
are you going to swim in thecold that pond going to be
frozen over Indoor heated pool,oh nice.
Let's talk about the weekend FanExpo, new Orleans.
Nola Film Scene got invited todo a panel at Fan Expo, and
(01:06):
doing a panel at a convention issomething we've been talking
about since we started thispodcast.
Yeah, and it's definitely astep in the right direction.
Maybe, maybe in the in the nearfuture, we'll have our own
table or even run our own panel.
Yeah, and we both.
We also ran into a bunch offriends while we were there.
We'll talk about the panelfirst, though.
Yeah, we were invited by RussStevens.
(01:27):
He goes by CatBuzzRussCatBuzzRuss, and his show is a
mouthful, but let me read it.
Okay, his show is I Did CrazyFlicks Presents 90 for Chill the
podcast, so we did the paneland we talked about crazy films.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
His premise is films should be 70 to 90 to 100
minutes, should be short films.
Cut out the fluff.
There are films that expand andthey're trying to make their
time limit Get to the story,tell the point, entertain the
people, keep them thrilled, keepthem invigorated.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, there are some films that I think need longer
lengths.
I couldn't imagine Gone withthe Wind being shorter than what
it is.
You know, some of these classicmovies I just couldn't.
I couldn't imagine them tellingthe story shorter than that.
That said, I think there is alot of fluff in some movies and
(02:30):
doing these film festivalcompetitions that we've been
doing where the films have to bebetween four and seven minutes,
it's kind of opened my eyes upto the fact that you've got to
be succinct when you're tellingyour story, and if you can tell
a whole story in seven minutes,you can tell a whole story in an
hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it's all about the writing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's right.
That's right.
It comes down to the writingand, of course, the editing and
the pacing of it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So this is like oh, I don't know, my 10th convention
going.
I've been going since like 2010.
How, like?
Oh, I don't know, my 10thconvention going.
I've been going since like 2010.
Oh, maybe that's 14 now, Wow,but anyway, New Orleans has a
convention every January and Igot to meet Greta Lyle, the
voice of Daphne, among so manyother things, and that's a
thrill for me, and I actuallydid a couple of interviews.
(03:21):
But I think my mic was cuttingout.
I don't think I'll be able touse it and it's breaking my
heart.
But I did get a cool picturebecause I wore this Scooby-Doo
shirt that's a mashup withDungeons, Dragons, you know and
I had a Scooby hat and I broughther Scooby snacks and she was
thrilled.
I met Scott Ennis, who's beenthe voice of Scooby-Doo for
(03:43):
years.
Right now I think it's FrankWelker, but still, it's awesome.
A couple of Supermen Tim Dalyand George Newbern, and who else
have you seen my picture withGollum himself.
Yes, last year for the Lord ofthe Rings, three of the Hobbits
came and I brought ring pops,just like we had when we were
(04:04):
kids, although they don't fit onmy finger anymore and so we all
there was like three, threeguests and then three of us and
we're all holding ring pops.
There was a fun picture.
So when andy circus was comingto town, I did a little research
and that's where I bought this.
It's like a half a foot bigring pop, one ring pop to rule
them all.
He, he loved it, he was verythrilled.
(04:26):
He even took the podcast card.
So you never know.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You never know.
It would be pretty cool if wecould sit down and talk to him.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, and I asked Gray , I asked Scott, I was asking a
few other people.
My friend, jim Vess and I whichyou know, jim, he and I worked
together and did the four-personBack to Future Cast photo and,
like bringing the ring pop, Ialways bring a prop to plus the
picture.
So, jim, when he's on set hefolds origami dollars and people
(04:53):
love him.
He saw Giancarlo Esposito againand Giancarlo remembered his
name Because not only did hework on a show with him, he
talked to him at another fanexpo and the dude just loves him
and Jim, of course, wasthrilled by that.
But we couldn't hand anything tothe Back to the Future cast,
which makes a lot of sense, youknow, I was thinking one for
speed.
(05:13):
But also, if I have a germ on Ihand to Michael J Fox and his
system is, you know, compromised, I wouldn't want to be the guy
to hurt him.
I did get to just lean in.
I did get to just lean in.
I said my dad had Parkinson's.
I appreciate everything you do,thank you.
And he turned.
He struggled a little bit toturn because we were standing
behind him, they were all inchairs.
He said, okay, thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So I had my tiny, tiny moment with Michael J Fox
was my wife's first movie, starcrush, you know, when she was a
teenager.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And it was exciting for her to walk by and see his
booth.
She saw him just briefly, sothat was pretty cool Seeing the
DeLorean.
I don't think it was the actualDeLorean, but it was certainly
set up just like it was reallycool.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Years ago I took a picture in the DeLorean P Beard.
So you can pay, you get yourphoto with that.
This was your first convention,wasn't it?
I've been to comic bookconventions before.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Uh-huh, I lived in San Diego for a long time, but
it's been a long time, nice,long, long time since I've been
to one and I had a good time.
I only went Friday, I had kindof a full weekend Before we did
our panel.
I got to walk around a good bit, ran into our good friend Josh
Young, mc Popsicle, mc PopsicleYep, Need to go check him out,
(06:32):
check out his comic books.
Who else did we run into?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, we ran into another podcaster who we finally
all met in person Jennifer,valerie and A-Ron the
misadventures of Team AJ.
Yeah, and while they wereinterviewing me, because we
didn't see you come up, I pulledyou in, so we both got on
screen for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It was fun, but it was you dragging me into it.
Yeah, can't wait to see that.
I don't know, have they postedit yet?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
They have posted it.
They have posted it.
No-transcript.
I'll make sure you get it.
They said I could use a clip inour social medias, so I'll be
releasing that soon.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's cool.
We need to circle back withthem and talk about doing a
collaboration.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and they can help us with the live events too
.
you know I think that's 2025,we've got to get out there.
Yeah, there are two moreconventions coming to New
Orleans.
Well, new Orleans area areadjacent Econ will be in July
and that's the same place in NewOrleans Convention Center, and
then Scott Ennis is throwingCajun Con in Gonzales in
(07:37):
December, so we're going to havesome more chances to get out
there.
Maybe we need to just make aNOLA film scene convention.
That's what I want to do for atable.
Not only NOLA film scene, usthe podcast, but have other
actors who don't go to cons andwe can promote it there.
How to get to these classes.
How to work background you knowwhat I mean.
You're locally.
(07:57):
How to work background.
You know what I mean.
You're locally.
You like watching?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Now start doing how many people have we heard say
that they would like to get intoacting, but they just they
don't even know where to start.
And I was in the same boat andif it wasn't for people like you
and other friends that I've metalong the way to show me the
(08:20):
way, I don't know I don't knowthat I would have gotten here.
You know exactly, exactly thepanel.
I'm trying to remember who elsewe ran into that night.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You, of course, every five feet, somebody else knew
you and stopped us and talkingand neither one of us saw miss
ooh la la, she was theresaturday.
I bailed early saturday.
It was like 2 pm, theconvention went to like 7 or 8,
and there's after events and Iwas dog tired, skipped Sunday
completely, was totally tired,but she was getting her costume
(08:48):
inspected and then I nevercircled back.
You know, gotcha, that would beanother advantage of a table so
people would know where to findyou.
Yeah, table, so people wouldknow where to find you.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
I wouldn't mind if there's.
I thought of an app.
It would be weird.
So you and I are friends, we'reon this app.
When we enter the convention itcan tell us how far apart we
(09:10):
are.
So if you want to like you'dhave a checklist.
I want to see TJ.
Hey, I saw TJ, you know, butit'd be like find your phone.
But maybe a little bit too much.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll talk about it offline.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I got a couple ideas.
We'll make it sell it just afew bucks, just enough so we can
quit our day job.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's all I need.
Yeah, and did you do anythingelse this weekend?
I?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
did, yeah, yeah.
So I wasn't able to make itback to Fan Expo on Saturday,
sunday.
The whole weekend Friday,saturday, sunday the Abita
Springs International FilmFestival was going on, of course
, over in Abita and they put ona great, great festival.
I didn't make it to the otherdays.
It just too much packed intothe weekend.
(09:53):
I went to the afternoon blockon Sunday and the film that we
were in that you won Best Actorfor A man from Bandera by Matt
Carroll was shown in that block.
It was really cool to have afilm that I was in in that
festival.
In that block there were somereally really good films.
(10:16):
There was a documentary aboutthe French Quarter and I'm going
to read this, so I don't bookerup the title.
It was called Wasted OverTourism in the French Quarter
and it was by local actor, lauraCaillouette Very, very
incredible film.
It talked about all the tourism, how tourists come in and don't
(10:41):
respect the French Quarter.
They leave trash.
And one of the things they saidif you're a local and you fall
down drunk and lay there, that'sone thing, but if you're an
out-of-towner, don't come andpuke on our sidewalks and pass
out in the street or use it as abathroom.
(11:01):
But they talked about theinfrastructure and all of those
buildings are incredibly old andthey're not made to support
modern infrastructure and allthe traffic that goes through
there is literally shaking themortar loose from the bricks of
some of these buildings, shakingthe mortar loose from the
bricks of some of thesebuildings.
And they touched on thecollapse of the Hard Rock Cafe
(11:22):
or Hard Rock Casino Hotel thatwas being built and it was too
big of a building for the smallspace that they were trying to
build it in.
They, I guess they got anabeyance and they were trying to
go up and out and it it justwasn't stable.
But that was a very, very goodfilm.
(11:43):
And then another local film wasa touch of magic, by Shane
LeCocq, our friend, and we had alot of friends, a lot of
friends that were in that film,and Lance Nichols, of course,
one best actor for the festival,our friend and Mahoney, one
best actress, and and a touch ofmagic, that was the first time
(12:03):
I've seen it.
It was really really good, verywell done, very well written,
very well directed, very wellacted.
I really enjoyed that film.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Shane's been touring the circuit.
He's been getting a lot ofawards.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, it's a good film, Really good film.
I got to see him briefly onSunday and talk to him.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Let me pause you.
It might even be our secondchat, but our first for today.
Hey, Andrew, how you doing?
Thanks for joining us.
We got a chat person.
We got a panel.
We got a chat.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, there it is.
Hey, Andrew, I forgot what Iwas saying.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You were talking about how Touch of Magic was.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It won an award.
That was the weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It doesn't sound like much, but it was a lot going on
Like I said, I bailed about2.30 in the afternoon, got home
at 3, and I slept for like 12hours.
Yeah, I think it was, and Ididn't really do a lot.
I did walk around and take aselfie, took a ton of selfies.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But the whole thing didn't sell.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Huh, I said no.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Say it isn't.
So I was taking one, like Ipaid for, with the Superman, tim
Daly, george Newbern,separately, and somebody goes,
you want me to hold the cameraand I was like, okay, other
people are like that's somethingyou pay for, the full body shot
, but mostly it's like I doselfies.
What are you talking about?
You know, and the cold air, Ithink because of my asthma it
(13:27):
wasn't bad, but it saps yourstrength and I was just.
I was laid out.
You know what I mean.
Also, if my cosplay had come in, I had ordered some pieces to
bring back dr huda.
I have well, instead of goingfor one of the new ones, because
I had a fez with a lightedfleur de lis, thelis, the Tom
Baker hat, a Saint scarf, a newjacket, and then I bought these
(13:48):
tights that look like the solarsystem, but in my shape I'm not
going to just wear those.
So I bought these shorts thatlook like the TARDIS.
It's so cool and it's probablygoing to arrive sometime later
this week.
Oh yeah, well, maybe for GalaxyQuest, then Maybe Galaxy Con.
Maybe for Galaxy Quest, thenMaybe Galaxy Con.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, galaxy.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Quest I'm there.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
What'd I say?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So I had come up, you told me you didn't watch the
newer stuff, but I had anepisode with adiposes.
So you would take this pill andyour fat would become creature.
That's how you lost weight.
And I found a it was a littlesqueeze one, so I called him
Tuesday the Adipose, tuesday theFat Fat, tuesday the Companion
to Dr Huda.
Okay, so for this one.
(14:34):
I found a plush version of anAdipose.
I lightly decorated them.
I haven't sewn this into it.
So this is the new Tuesday,yeah, and the smaller one will
be Monday Fat Tuesday and FatMonday, lundie-graw and
Mardi-Graw, yeah, you know.
So they should make theirappearance at GalaxyCon, but
stay tuned and find out.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I mean, you could always test-fire them at
Mardi-Graw, like Mardi-Grawproper, where you know when
you're out on the street.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, when you're out on the street, you would have
to get me out of the house formoney, carlos.
I tell you what?
Because I clean bars and one ofthem, wrong Island, on the
Greenway, is right near theEndemion route.
So cleaning up that Sunday islike a 12-hour job if I'm by
myself.
Yeah, and like last year, Ijust took a picture of the trash
.
Hey, it's my job, and I clickedit, I posted it.
(15:24):
I said man, people can bedisgusted.
And somebody jumped on my feed.
He was like well, at least yougot a job, you shouldn't you
know?
I'm like I'm doing my job, I'mjust having kind of fun with it
and it's like click, block, goaway.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You can't even make a little stupid joke.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, I, it is what it is.
So basically, by the time mardigras comes around, I have to be
motivated to go, otherwise I'mlike I'm probably gonna stay in.
I'm getting a little old forshunning, hey.
But if I have a place andthere's a bathroom, close that's
a plus.
You know?
I mean, ain't no place to peeon mardi gras, that's a fact
(16:04):
that's a fact, wait.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So I think I've told you.
Before parade, you knowdowntown New Orleans and then
(16:28):
have to rush to the West Bankfor one, or from the West Bank
over to Metairie, yeah, slidellto New Orleans.
We were all over the place, butnot on Mardi Gras Day, and
that's hours, because you haveto get there a couple of hours
before the parade starts and ofcourse they never start on time
because the one before it gotdelayed and some of those routes
(16:51):
.
There's no bathroom, there's noporta potties along the routes.
In New Orleans they may do itnow At least.
Back then there wasn't Right.
So if you had to go, we'd justride up ahead of the parade and
find people partying.
Hey, can I use your bathroom?
Yeah, of the parade and findpeople partying?
Hey, you should bathroom.
Yeah, man, come on in.
You want.
You want a beer?
You want to?
What's the drink at pato'brien's hurricane?
(17:12):
Yeah, you want a hurricane, youwant a daiquiri, like?
Uh, riding motorcycle not thebest idea, but thank you.
Oh, you got popeyes.
I'm staying, because then I'dhave to stop 16 more times if
I've had a beer, but metairieparades, metairie parades.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
They have porta potties out so you could ride up
and stop and run in well, whenI was in high school I was in
the archbishop remote band in myfirst parade.
We were the first band.
So we stepped out of clear viewparking lot for a seven mile
parade and the urge to use thebathroom hit me, and not the
(17:51):
easy one.
And we had the full suits.
So I'm marching, I'm okay, andI kind of know the parade route.
And I said, okay, theport-a-potty's here, when we
stop I'll jump out and I'll turnhere.
We never stopped because wewere the first parade, first
band, excuse me.
And then we had to do paraderest where you kick your leg out
.
That's a test of your strengthand I'm going to leave it at
(18:11):
that to your imagination.
And when we got to one nearBurger King on, it was right
past Causeway, which a lot ofpeople don't live.
You know they don't care aboutthat.
But anyway, I saw it, I knew itand they were kicking off and I
was like I got five minutes, Ican go in there, but I'd have to
unrobe in a porta potty withthe tails.
Try, nothing Wasn't worth it.
(18:33):
So, boom, got through the wholeparade.
I was fine.
Well, I wasn't fine, but I wasin control.
We get back there we got abathroom and all the girls were
in line to change to go out thatnight, son of a.
And then my dad was there forthe ride home.
I'm pleased to say I made it incontrol all the way home.
(18:56):
Photo finish that might've beenwhen everything broke after
that.
The the other thing you'retalking about not having to ride
on Mardi Gras day.
We didn't March on Mardi GrasDay.
We didn't march on Mardi GrasDay, and you could tell the
out-of-town bands because theirtubers aren't covered with
sheets to keep the beats fromgoing in.
(19:17):
Everybody's throwing.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You see, them turning .
Speaker 1 (19:19):
they're shaking it out, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So I'd be lying if I said I never tried as a kid.
I never did that.
So I would.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I'd be lying if I said I never tried as a kid.
I never did that.
Oh, we had a great time thisweekend.
Folks, you know we look to doit forward.
I can speak for a living right.
Look forward to doing moreevents like that and bringing
you special talks like this.
And I guess I'm out of speak.
I can't talk no more.
Take us out.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Well, thanks for joining us.
This episode will be uptomorrow and then next week
we'll I think next week we'regoing to post the panel that we
did at Fan Expo New Orleans andthen after that we'll be back to
our regular guests that we'verecorded with.
So thanks for joining us andwe'll see you next time.
Thanks, folks.
welcome back tj and plato and we are recovering from
a busy weekend we are.
Yeah, we're going to recap ourweekend.
We went to fan expo new orleans.
Tj went to the abita springsinternational film festival.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I slept a lot, as you said, it was a very busy but
productive weekend.
There's a lot.
As you said, it was a very busy, but productive weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
There's a lot of cold .
There's a witch's here in NewOrleans.
I like the cold.
I can deal with cold when Ihave some snow to make it happy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You know how much.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I love snow and we didn't get it.
And we're going to get coldernext week.
Yeah, so it's going to feellike it's 14 is the last thing I
saw.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
My family will be traveling soon to a swim meet
out of town and it's supposed tosnow while they're there, how
are you going to swim in thecold that pond going to be
frozen over Indoor heated pool,oh nice.
Let's talk about the weekend FanExpo, new Orleans.
Nola Film Scene got invited todo a panel at Fan Expo, and
(01:06):
doing a panel at a convention issomething we've been talking
about since we started thispodcast.
Yeah, and it's definitely astep in the right direction.
Maybe, maybe in the in the nearfuture, we'll have our own
table or even run our own panel.
Yeah, and we both.
We also ran into a bunch offriends while we were there.
We'll talk about the panelfirst, though.
Yeah, we were invited by RussStevens.
(01:27):
He goes by CatBuzzRussCatBuzzRuss, and his show is a
mouthful, but let me read it.
Okay, his show is I Did CrazyFlicks Presents 90 for Chill the
podcast, so we did the paneland we talked about crazy films.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
His premise is films should be 70 to 90 to 100
minutes, should be short films.
Cut out the fluff.
There are films that expand andthey're trying to make their
time limit Get to the story,tell the point, entertain the
people, keep them thrilled, keepthem invigorated.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, there are some films that I think need longer
lengths.
I couldn't imagine Gone withthe Wind being shorter than what
it is.
You know, some of these classicmovies I just couldn't.
I couldn't imagine them tellingthe story shorter than that.
That said, I think there is alot of fluff in some movies and
(02:30):
doing these film festivalcompetitions that we've been
doing where the films have to bebetween four and seven minutes,
it's kind of opened my eyes upto the fact that you've got to
be succinct when you're tellingyour story, and if you can tell
a whole story in seven minutes,you can tell a whole story in an
hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it's all about the writing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's right.
That's right.
It comes down to the writingand, of course, the editing and
the pacing of it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So this is like oh, I don't know, my 10th convention
going.
I've been going since like 2010.
How, like?
Oh, I don't know, my 10thconvention going.
I've been going since like 2010.
Oh, maybe that's 14 now, Wow,but anyway, New Orleans has a
convention every January and Igot to meet Greta Lyle, the
voice of Daphne, among so manyother things, and that's a
thrill for me, and I actuallydid a couple of interviews.
(03:21):
But I think my mic was cuttingout.
I don't think I'll be able touse it and it's breaking my
heart.
But I did get a cool picturebecause I wore this Scooby-Doo
shirt that's a mashup withDungeons, Dragons, you know and
I had a Scooby hat and I broughther Scooby snacks and she was
thrilled.
I met Scott Ennis, who's beenthe voice of Scooby-Doo for
(03:43):
years.
Right now I think it's FrankWelker, but still, it's awesome.
A couple of Supermen Tim Dalyand George Newbern, and who else
have you seen my picture withGollum himself.
Yes, last year for the Lord ofthe Rings, three of the Hobbits
came and I brought ring pops,just like we had when we were
(04:04):
kids, although they don't fit onmy finger anymore and so we all
there was like three, threeguests and then three of us and
we're all holding ring pops.
There was a fun picture.
So when andy circus was comingto town, I did a little research
and that's where I bought this.
It's like a half a foot bigring pop, one ring pop to rule
them all.
He, he loved it, he was verythrilled.
(04:26):
He even took the podcast card.
So you never know.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You never know.
It would be pretty cool if wecould sit down and talk to him.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, and I asked Gray , I asked Scott, I was asking a
few other people.
My friend, jim Vess and I whichyou know, jim, he and I worked
together and did the four-personBack to Future Cast photo and,
like bringing the ring pop, Ialways bring a prop to plus the
picture.
So, jim, when he's on set hefolds origami dollars and people
(04:53):
love him.
He saw Giancarlo Esposito againand Giancarlo remembered his
name Because not only did hework on a show with him, he
talked to him at another fanexpo and the dude just loves him
and Jim, of course, wasthrilled by that.
But we couldn't hand anything tothe Back to the Future cast,
which makes a lot of sense, youknow, I was thinking one for
speed.
(05:13):
But also, if I have a germ on Ihand to Michael J Fox and his
system is, you know, compromised, I wouldn't want to be the guy
to hurt him.
I did get to just lean in.
I did get to just lean in.
I said my dad had Parkinson's.
I appreciate everything you do,thank you.
And he turned.
He struggled a little bit toturn because we were standing
behind him, they were all inchairs.
He said, okay, thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So I had my tiny, tiny moment with Michael J Fox
was my wife's first movie, starcrush, you know, when she was a
teenager.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And it was exciting for her to walk by and see his
booth.
She saw him just briefly, sothat was pretty cool Seeing the
DeLorean.
I don't think it was the actualDeLorean, but it was certainly
set up just like it was reallycool.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Years ago I took a picture in the DeLorean P Beard.
So you can pay, you get yourphoto with that.
This was your first convention,wasn't it?
I've been to comic bookconventions before.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Uh-huh, I lived in San Diego for a long time, but
it's been a long time, nice,long, long time since I've been
to one and I had a good time.
I only went Friday, I had kindof a full weekend Before we did
our panel.
I got to walk around a good bit, ran into our good friend Josh
Young, mc Popsicle, mc PopsicleYep, Need to go check him out,
(06:32):
check out his comic books.
Who else did we run into?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, we ran into another podcaster who we finally
all met in person Jennifer,valerie and A-Ron the
misadventures of Team AJ.
Yeah, and while they wereinterviewing me, because we
didn't see you come up, I pulledyou in, so we both got on
screen for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It was fun, but it was you dragging me into it.
Yeah, can't wait to see that.
I don't know, have they postedit yet?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
They have posted it.
They have posted it.
No-transcript.
I'll make sure you get it.
They said I could use a clip inour social medias, so I'll be
releasing that soon.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's cool.
We need to circle back withthem and talk about doing a
collaboration.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and they can help us with the live events too
.
you know I think that's 2025,we've got to get out there.
Yeah, there are two moreconventions coming to New
Orleans.
Well, new Orleans area areadjacent Econ will be in July
and that's the same place in NewOrleans Convention Center, and
then Scott Ennis is throwingCajun Con in Gonzales in
(07:37):
December, so we're going to havesome more chances to get out
there.
Maybe we need to just make aNOLA film scene convention.
That's what I want to do for atable.
Not only NOLA film scene, usthe podcast, but have other
actors who don't go to cons andwe can promote it there.
How to get to these classes.
How to work background you knowwhat I mean.
You're locally.
(07:57):
How to work background.
You know what I mean.
You're locally.
You like watching?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Now start doing how many people have we heard say
that they would like to get intoacting, but they just they
don't even know where to start.
And I was in the same boat andif it wasn't for people like you
and other friends that I've metalong the way to show me the
(08:20):
way, I don't know I don't knowthat I would have gotten here.
You know exactly, exactly thepanel.
I'm trying to remember who elsewe ran into that night.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You, of course, every five feet, somebody else knew
you and stopped us and talkingand neither one of us saw miss
ooh la la, she was theresaturday.
I bailed early saturday.
It was like 2 pm, theconvention went to like 7 or 8,
and there's after events and Iwas dog tired, skipped Sunday
completely, was totally tired,but she was getting her costume
(08:48):
inspected and then I nevercircled back.
You know, gotcha, that would beanother advantage of a table so
people would know where to findyou.
Yeah, table, so people wouldknow where to find you.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
I wouldn't mind if there's.
I thought of an app.
It would be weird.
So you and I are friends, we'reon this app.
When we enter the convention itcan tell us how far apart we
(09:10):
are.
So if you want to like you'dhave a checklist.
I want to see TJ.
Hey, I saw TJ, you know, butit'd be like find your phone.
But maybe a little bit too much.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll talk about it offline.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I got a couple ideas.
We'll make it sell it just afew bucks, just enough so we can
quit our day job.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's all I need.
Yeah, and did you do anythingelse this weekend?
I?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
did, yeah, yeah.
So I wasn't able to make itback to Fan Expo on Saturday,
sunday.
The whole weekend Friday,saturday, sunday the Abita
Springs International FilmFestival was going on, of course
, over in Abita and they put ona great, great festival.
I didn't make it to the otherdays.
It just too much packed intothe weekend.
(09:53):
I went to the afternoon blockon Sunday and the film that we
were in that you won Best Actorfor A man from Bandera by Matt
Carroll was shown in that block.
It was really cool to have afilm that I was in in that
festival.
In that block there were somereally really good films.
(10:16):
There was a documentary aboutthe French Quarter and I'm going
to read this, so I don't bookerup the title.
It was called Wasted OverTourism in the French Quarter
and it was by local actor, lauraCaillouette Very, very
incredible film.
It talked about all the tourism, how tourists come in and don't
(10:41):
respect the French Quarter.
They leave trash.
And one of the things they saidif you're a local and you fall
down drunk and lay there, that'sone thing, but if you're an
out-of-towner, don't come andpuke on our sidewalks and pass
out in the street or use it as abathroom.
(11:01):
But they talked about theinfrastructure and all of those
buildings are incredibly old andthey're not made to support
modern infrastructure and allthe traffic that goes through
there is literally shaking themortar loose from the bricks of
some of these buildings, shakingthe mortar loose from the
bricks of some of thesebuildings.
And they touched on thecollapse of the Hard Rock Cafe
(11:22):
or Hard Rock Casino Hotel thatwas being built and it was too
big of a building for the smallspace that they were trying to
build it in.
They, I guess they got anabeyance and they were trying to
go up and out and it it justwasn't stable.
But that was a very, very goodfilm.
(11:43):
And then another local film wasa touch of magic, by Shane
LeCocq, our friend, and we had alot of friends, a lot of
friends that were in that film,and Lance Nichols, of course,
one best actor for the festival,our friend and Mahoney, one
best actress, and and a touch ofmagic, that was the first time
(12:03):
I've seen it.
It was really really good, verywell done, very well written,
very well directed, very wellacted.
I really enjoyed that film.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Shane's been touring the circuit.
He's been getting a lot ofawards.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, it's a good film, Really good film.
I got to see him briefly onSunday and talk to him.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Let me pause you.
It might even be our secondchat, but our first for today.
Hey, Andrew, how you doing?
Thanks for joining us.
We got a chat person.
We got a panel.
We got a chat.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, there it is.
Hey, Andrew, I forgot what Iwas saying.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You were talking about how Touch of Magic was.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It won an award.
That was the weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It doesn't sound like much, but it was a lot going on
Like I said, I bailed about2.30 in the afternoon, got home
at 3, and I slept for like 12hours.
Yeah, I think it was, and Ididn't really do a lot.
I did walk around and take aselfie, took a ton of selfies.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But the whole thing didn't sell.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Huh, I said no.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Say it isn't.
So I was taking one, like Ipaid for, with the Superman, tim
Daly, george Newbern,separately, and somebody goes,
you want me to hold the cameraand I was like, okay, other
people are like that's somethingyou pay for, the full body shot
, but mostly it's like I doselfies.
What are you talking about?
You know, and the cold air, Ithink because of my asthma it
(13:27):
wasn't bad, but it saps yourstrength and I was just.
I was laid out.
You know what I mean.
Also, if my cosplay had come in, I had ordered some pieces to
bring back dr huda.
I have well, instead of goingfor one of the new ones, because
I had a fez with a lightedfleur de lis, thelis, the Tom
Baker hat, a Saint scarf, a newjacket, and then I bought these
(13:48):
tights that look like the solarsystem, but in my shape I'm not
going to just wear those.
So I bought these shorts thatlook like the TARDIS.
It's so cool and it's probablygoing to arrive sometime later
this week.
Oh yeah, well, maybe for GalaxyQuest, then Maybe Galaxy Con.
Maybe for Galaxy Quest, thenMaybe Galaxy Con.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, galaxy.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Quest I'm there.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
What'd I say?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So I had come up, you told me you didn't watch the
newer stuff, but I had anepisode with adiposes.
So you would take this pill andyour fat would become creature.
That's how you lost weight.
And I found a it was a littlesqueeze one, so I called him
Tuesday the Adipose, tuesday theFat Fat, tuesday the Companion
to Dr Huda.
Okay, so for this one.
(14:34):
I found a plush version of anAdipose.
I lightly decorated them.
I haven't sewn this into it.
So this is the new Tuesday,yeah, and the smaller one will
be Monday Fat Tuesday and FatMonday, lundie-graw and
Mardi-Graw, yeah, you know.
So they should make theirappearance at GalaxyCon, but
stay tuned and find out.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I mean, you could always test-fire them at
Mardi-Graw, like Mardi-Grawproper, where you know when
you're out on the street.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, when you're out on the street, you would have
to get me out of the house formoney, carlos.
I tell you what?
Because I clean bars and one ofthem, wrong Island, on the
Greenway, is right near theEndemion route.
So cleaning up that Sunday islike a 12-hour job if I'm by
myself.
Yeah, and like last year, Ijust took a picture of the trash
.
Hey, it's my job, and I clickedit, I posted it.
(15:24):
I said man, people can bedisgusted.
And somebody jumped on my feed.
He was like well, at least yougot a job, you shouldn't you
know?
I'm like I'm doing my job, I'mjust having kind of fun with it
and it's like click, block, goaway.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You can't even make a little stupid joke.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, I, it is what it is.
So basically, by the time mardigras comes around, I have to be
motivated to go, otherwise I'mlike I'm probably gonna stay in.
I'm getting a little old forshunning, hey.
But if I have a place andthere's a bathroom, close that's
a plus.
You know?
I mean, ain't no place to peeon mardi gras, that's a fact
(16:04):
that's a fact, wait.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So I think I've told you.
Before parade, you knowdowntown New Orleans and then
(16:28):
have to rush to the West Bankfor one, or from the West Bank
over to Metairie, yeah, slidellto New Orleans.
We were all over the place, butnot on Mardi Gras Day, and
that's hours, because you haveto get there a couple of hours
before the parade starts and ofcourse they never start on time
because the one before it gotdelayed and some of those routes
(16:51):
.
There's no bathroom, there's noporta potties along the routes.
In New Orleans they may do itnow At least.
Back then there wasn't Right.
So if you had to go, we'd justride up ahead of the parade and
find people partying.
Hey, can I use your bathroom?
Yeah, of the parade and findpeople partying?
Hey, you should bathroom.
Yeah, man, come on in.
You want.
You want a beer?
You want to?
What's the drink at pato'brien's hurricane?
(17:12):
Yeah, you want a hurricane, youwant a daiquiri, like?
Uh, riding motorcycle not thebest idea, but thank you.
Oh, you got popeyes.
I'm staying, because then I'dhave to stop 16 more times if
I've had a beer, but metairieparades, metairie parades.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
They have porta potties out so you could ride up
and stop and run in well, whenI was in high school I was in
the archbishop remote band in myfirst parade.
We were the first band.
So we stepped out of clear viewparking lot for a seven mile
parade and the urge to use thebathroom hit me, and not the
(17:51):
easy one.
And we had the full suits.
So I'm marching, I'm okay, andI kind of know the parade route.
And I said, okay, theport-a-potty's here, when we
stop I'll jump out and I'll turnhere.
We never stopped because wewere the first parade, first
band, excuse me.
And then we had to do paraderest where you kick your leg out
.
That's a test of your strengthand I'm going to leave it at
(18:11):
that to your imagination.
And when we got to one nearBurger King on, it was right
past Causeway, which a lot ofpeople don't live.
You know they don't care aboutthat.
But anyway, I saw it, I knew itand they were kicking off and I
was like I got five minutes, Ican go in there, but I'd have to
unrobe in a porta potty withthe tails.
Try, nothing Wasn't worth it.
(18:33):
So, boom, got through the wholeparade.
I was fine.
Well, I wasn't fine, but I wasin control.
We get back there we got abathroom and all the girls were
in line to change to go out thatnight, son of a.
And then my dad was there forthe ride home.
I'm pleased to say I made it incontrol all the way home.
(18:56):
Photo finish that might've beenwhen everything broke after
that.
The the other thing you'retalking about not having to ride
on Mardi Gras day.
We didn't March on Mardi GrasDay.
We didn't march on Mardi GrasDay, and you could tell the
out-of-town bands because theirtubers aren't covered with
sheets to keep the beats fromgoing in.
(19:17):
Everybody's throwing.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You see, them turning .
Speaker 1 (19:19):
they're shaking it out, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So I'd be lying if I said I never tried as a kid.
I never did that.
So I would.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I'd be lying if I said I never tried as a kid.
I never did that.
Oh, we had a great time thisweekend.
Folks, you know we look to doit forward.
I can speak for a living right.
Look forward to doing moreevents like that and bringing
you special talks like this.
And I guess I'm out of speak.
I can't talk no more.
Take us out.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Well, thanks for joining us.
This episode will be uptomorrow and then next week
we'll I think next week we'regoing to post the panel that we
did at Fan Expo New Orleans andthen after that we'll be back to
our regular guests that we'verecorded with.
So thanks for joining us andwe'll see you next time.
Thanks, folks.
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