May 10, 2025 • 17 mins
SLT the TALK - Featuring Mia Musa
Interviewed by MrsMelaninReigns & RudeBoyArtist
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to houselt you to talk. I'm your co host
Rule but artists alongside.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Missus Melan and Rains and we are here today with
mia Yah.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How are you here? Thank God? You're doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay. You wanna give us a little brief introduction about.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Who you are what you do? Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I am a lucid I am a uh generator, a writer, producer,
educator and self it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, did I get a do do a lot. I
wear a lot of that. I work with a lot
of people community over that montyc accident. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So ma'am, why don't you tell our podcast a little
bit about your light and journey and how long you've
been writing for and what it's lives your life?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I I was that kid that was always median writer.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So I started with like short stories right when I
was in like the first or second grade, and then
as I got older, like middle school, I think it
is when I was introducing to poetry, and then by
high school more so like essays and stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And also when I first learned like screenwriting, like playwriting.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And I went to several university for.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Every record studies were off of media studies, so did
some string right in there and so here and there,
you know, like I've written the articles here and there
together be a collage of like singing papers like run
pick stuff complications like that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But you know what I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Working on now by actually working on like a a
TV pilot that started around probably just time last year actually,
and and I mean Moni Network. He just started his
own network there in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He was in Las Vegas for a.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
While uh as a professional editor or producer, when he
decided to move back to Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sat to go network. I started seeing his stuff. I
thought it was really cool, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The type of person that if I like what I see,
I wanna see how I can be of service.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So I just reached out.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And said, this is something I always wanted to see,
like how can I help? And I showed up a
couple of times to volunteer and then see the bigger house.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Media was there, and you know, he found out I
did comedy, and he was interested in working on more
comedians and doing skits and sketches.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
From there, we ended up like producing little skits and
from one of those skits, we were just like we
should try like a sitcong concept.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When we went back to Amani see I who was.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Interested in it, and I was just saying, like, you
know what, I've been working with this idea in my
head protect like the last decade, not exactly, so I
wanted to come together, but this is what I wanted
to see. And then we were working pretty much weekly
to shape.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
The show and get it together. And then obviously it's
filmed it and then right now, like I said, we
just kind of been running it through like the film
Custle was such. So it's called My Little Gig.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And so it it's in the lead name is Lauren
and she is about to use to her apartment because
we're kind of like post COVID time where like they
have a great morator him and then it goes away
and then you can stay would have to all that money,
and so her surround and doing different gigs in order
to make the money.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So it's sexplore like the gig economy, explore like what
people are going through right now with like the housing
crisis and just like the.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Changing political landscape, but honestly and with the constant changes,
and it's you know, it's since that's it, well, it's
been doing well, people think it's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's the whole point.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But yeah, so tell us more about my little gig.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
How long did it take you to actually write that?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like throughout the process, how did you continue to move
forward and complete your body and work to be able
to execute it?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Right? So I never actually wrote like a conditionist for
I wrote an outline, and I wrote some dialogue, and
I wrote some points where they could be some infro.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Most of the actors in it are comicsome self commison
to be really good at.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Then get on that be in from and I.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Asked certain people to be involved based on what and
who the character was or I could trust to execute it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But before getting to that point, you know, me and
the team and we had weekly meetings. We had a.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Structure and we just put different scenarios out and we
thought was funny. Then we shape the scenarios and say, okay,
episode one.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Should be what before we e ended, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
We figured out where we wanted to story the start,
when we wanted to story the end, and what like
peacepoint in the middle, we'll have us guessing whether or
not you know.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's gonna be her goal.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
And then from there the different scenarios that were put
in place, the different elements that we know that we
wanna have. We put it in an outline and put
it together to shape the episode.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So episode per episode we go back do the.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Outline, do like the shot list, you know, you know,
the editors and the other.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Producers work on me to.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
To really try to figure out like, Okay, what is
it that's in your head that you wanna.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Do, How do you wanna do this? How are we
gonna do this? And so the first episode we were
able to shoot it in two days. We had few
four days. One was in the.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Studio, one was just like out of my house and
you know, the nearby line, and.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It just came together. It came together. I think it
took a couple of months after that to have it edited.
And that's where we are now. So again, I wanna
get the rest of that. So it's fun.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
We just trying to raise money for it, you know,
so we can actually compensate everyone from participating.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So yeah, in the middle of kind of running the
campaign for that and like seeking sponsorsition, writing brands and
those type of things, so the whole other products.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, yeah, So what has been your biggest inspiration behind
the Doctor of Other Bad. So what is you know,
what expires you the most about it? Like currently aspires
the current scene too, And how did you chreate that all?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Like I like like TV shows that really inspire me, uh,
the ones that to have familiar characters that you don't
usually see on TV.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Especially when it's like lack leading. And so a lot
of what's in it.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Is inspired by when I was maybe in my twenties
and on the underground scene go a, you know, being
a part of this party, this open mic, uh between here.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
New York whatever, Philly, you know, different parts.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Of the country and different parts of the world, and
I'm just like, this movement is happening across.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
The country and across the world, and you don't.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Really see a play out with TV like that. Now,
now with the popularization of like Afrocung and just other
things hoboralizing like underground movements, you start to see the
esthetic but still just like the reality of just kind
of how people move, like the inner workings of relationships
and that. So that's ultimately kind of what I wanted
to bring the screen. But it was just like, Okay,
(07:37):
what story is driving in and one thing about like
that scene is that most people are artists of some sort,
and a lot of people are seeking this level of
freedom and not wanting.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
To just have this traditional job.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But it could just because they like a m adad
or because of like whatever political you know, uh leaning,
And so you might a painter, but you're also a
babysitter and a photographer and you drop bouber sometimes.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And you do or dada uber eat.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And when you're in that lifestyle where it's like constantly digging,
you end up in the most unique scenarios.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So one day you might literally be.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Like in the trenches in the hood, you know what
I mean, even if like you're just a part of
the underground market, you know what I mean? You and
then the next day you end up in the mansion.
And so I thought, one, that's a cool way to
explore like these different scenarios, but a fool way they
explore Baltimore, because Baltimore on screen has been very like
one way.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And that's the only story that we keep telling when
it comes out of Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And I'm and I'm not trying to stray away from
that because that's all that's a part of our reality,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But there's so much more to it than that.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And I felt like using gigs as a like a
driver as a catalyst, will be able to show like
the uniqueness of Baltimore's the campus tree, the absurdity, like
I really like of certain things, like my.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
My shows that I'm watching to like hearing.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Me up for this is like Atlanta, the Air from Detroit.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I just discovered Detroiters, you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Know, south Side some of these again like purpy but urban,
you know, shows that just kind of show a different
side of diggies like Chicago, Deploy, Atlanta and now Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's kind of the style you could say.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Okay, and out of all the things that you do,
which of those things or what other things do you
do to find like a peace, an element of piece,
an element of pond, a break from all of the
different hotseets you there?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Mm, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I think I think taking time to just like sit
re late in gratitude, you know what I mean, whatever
you're gracious about, Like if I'm feeling overwhelmed, you know,
I look.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
At it from the opposite side, or look at it
from like.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
How people are looking at me. Cause people come to
me and feel inspired and just.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Like I don't know how you doing it and all that,
and just like I'm losing my mind. That's how I'm
feeling it, cause I see.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
These great as in my head. But then I'm just like, Okay.
Instead of looking at it like, oh, you got.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Too much going on, so overwhelmed, look at it like, wow,
look at what you've been.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Able to accomplish even with all the challenges.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know. Then I think about who is.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Around me to make that happen and make over pumpers
and now I'm showing gratitude for them.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know, it's a simful day.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Today is a nice day, actually, like it being freezing,
being really appreciated said, not.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Focused on well tomorrow won't be cold, to getting on
tomorrow gonna be ringing and Claudie. I'm focused on them
right now.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And the fact that right now it's sunny. It's a
nice little day and worked out for what it worked
out for, you know what I mean. So I just
take those I I try to take those moments and
if I need extra help, you know, i'm'a end up
at aspa some well, like.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
In the woods. But you know, I sit in res
you know myself, and try to do that gratitude. I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I just have one more questions for you as far
as inspiration.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What it's your pot on on? What can I say?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What message do you get to those who are you know,
do you who are inspiring to be a film film
right or film creator or anything involved in the arts.
What words of encouragement can you give to them?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
You know, at this point, the way that industry is,
there's a expectation for you to just get.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It done and showing thro something.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And at this point we all have the basic pools
to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Most people have come to the small you know, I
was working with students on the Skeedu comedy class.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We use our phone at a little cambra to put together,
you know, their film, and it's okay to start like that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And there's major people that are using some of the
same tools.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
So it's just like stigging in creating, not trying to
make it look like something else, not trying to count
it out. You know, this is what I tell any
type of artists, whether they do music, films or whatever.
Allow the industry later and managers later to tell you
how and what you should do.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Don't do that to yourself on an independent level. You
just starting out and you worried about you know.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Metrics and audience, Like that's not your job right now.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Your job is to create.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And find your artistic voice and to do what you
want to do. You never know what the thing is
that's gonna hit you know, you never know what somebody
else from the outside.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Looking at is gonna try to crack you too. So
you want to make sure that you has a strong
sense of self.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Fer and don't overthink and you know, try to limit
yourself and stop yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Don't be worried about what recourses you don't have, like
we did. This project went for two thousand dollars budget,
just us putting our money together.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
And you know, I just went to the LA Comedy
Film Fest and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Just amazing because I'm watching projects.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
From all over the world, you know, from Australia. You know,
I was in West Hollywood. It was step from Hollywood
and stuff from New York. They had these long lists
of credits.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We had a three person crew. They had all of
these people that sponsored it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
You could tell that a lot of these films ut
at least fifty came.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
The one filmmaker on the panel.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Was talking about, like how the deposit for something that
he rented with twenty thousand dollars And here we are
in the mid middle of them, in the midst with
these people that had.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
These much larger budgets something that caused two thousand dollars
to make, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So it's like it really is about you know, you
being creative.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You uh, attracting the resources.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
That you need, you built in the community that you need.
You know, everybody has this one little.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Thing and not worrying about it being perfect on the end.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Like I was watching and of course he Sirai's inspiration too,
and like Adventures of Unpropect Girl. So I was watching
those episodes and I was watching how like the first
two episodes looked like somebody probably made it on the phone,
and then by the tenth episode it had much higher
production value, you know what I mean. So just think
if they would have waited to get to that much
(14:39):
higher production value. And honestly, as a fan of it,
ud I didn't say this on Garral, but a lot
of when it got to that, a lot of the
audience go on so It's like they weren't looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
All those extra bells and whistens. They were looking for
that genuine story of again a familiar cacc that you
didn't really see on TV at that time, you know.
And that's the reason why I hit. And that's the
reason why it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Took both her and Tracy Aliger, who did Girls Trip
and Harlem and all these other shows and movies, both
of them where the producers and writer going at and
that's why that took them through that next level.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Say so, it's been absolutely absolutely great in talking to you.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Highlighted a lot of the speak like for feeds, authenticity, creativity,
and your vent your.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Ability to execute is inspiring to me.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I've been to a few different things in a few
different areas that you work on, So thank you for
being here with us. Please share with us where we
can find you, and highlight my Lord gig for us.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Thank you, Thank you for having me. Y'all. Then go
to my website and moved to comedy dot com. But
if we by time to see that, I actually.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Updated and instagram me and Moosa Comedy and.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Then my Little gig.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
And y L O R G I G on Instagram
and also the Babe only money Networks and you go
that money network dot go.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And you can find more information.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
On that and do you but definitely please look that
up and uh see how you can continue to support
it as well as seeing the next screening we have.
We're gonna be showing at some local capoos here in Baltimore.
So we say tay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
We want to thank y'all for tuning in. I sell
to you the talk podcast. I'm your co host group
or artists alongside.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It's missus Melan and Rain and then it's been honored
since Sis
Welcome to houselt you to talk. I'm your co host
Rule but artists alongside.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Missus Melan and Rains and we are here today with
mia Yah.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How are you here? Thank God? You're doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay. You wanna give us a little brief introduction about.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Who you are what you do? Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I am a lucid I am a uh generator, a writer, producer,
educator and self it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, did I get a do do a lot. I
wear a lot of that. I work with a lot
of people community over that montyc accident. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So ma'am, why don't you tell our podcast a little
bit about your light and journey and how long you've
been writing for and what it's lives your life?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I I was that kid that was always median writer.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So I started with like short stories right when I
was in like the first or second grade, and then
as I got older, like middle school, I think it
is when I was introducing to poetry, and then by
high school more so like essays and stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And also when I first learned like screenwriting, like playwriting.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And I went to several university for.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Every record studies were off of media studies, so did
some string right in there and so here and there,
you know, like I've written the articles here and there
together be a collage of like singing papers like run
pick stuff complications like that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But you know what I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Working on now by actually working on like a a
TV pilot that started around probably just time last year actually,
and and I mean Moni Network. He just started his
own network there in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He was in Las Vegas for a.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
While uh as a professional editor or producer, when he
decided to move back to Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sat to go network. I started seeing his stuff. I
thought it was really cool, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The type of person that if I like what I see,
I wanna see how I can be of service.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So I just reached out.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And said, this is something I always wanted to see,
like how can I help? And I showed up a
couple of times to volunteer and then see the bigger house.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Media was there, and you know, he found out I
did comedy, and he was interested in working on more
comedians and doing skits and sketches.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
From there, we ended up like producing little skits and
from one of those skits, we were just like we
should try like a sitcong concept.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When we went back to Amani see I who was.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Interested in it, and I was just saying, like, you
know what, I've been working with this idea in my
head protect like the last decade, not exactly, so I
wanted to come together, but this is what I wanted
to see. And then we were working pretty much weekly
to shape.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
The show and get it together. And then obviously it's
filmed it and then right now, like I said, we
just kind of been running it through like the film
Custle was such. So it's called My Little Gig.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And so it it's in the lead name is Lauren
and she is about to use to her apartment because
we're kind of like post COVID time where like they
have a great morator him and then it goes away
and then you can stay would have to all that money,
and so her surround and doing different gigs in order
to make the money.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So it's sexplore like the gig economy, explore like what
people are going through right now with like the housing
crisis and just like the.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Changing political landscape, but honestly and with the constant changes,
and it's you know, it's since that's it, well, it's
been doing well, people think it's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's the whole point.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But yeah, so tell us more about my little gig.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
How long did it take you to actually write that?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like throughout the process, how did you continue to move
forward and complete your body and work to be able
to execute it?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Right? So I never actually wrote like a conditionist for
I wrote an outline, and I wrote some dialogue, and
I wrote some points where they could be some infro.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Most of the actors in it are comicsome self commison
to be really good at.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Then get on that be in from and I.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Asked certain people to be involved based on what and
who the character was or I could trust to execute it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But before getting to that point, you know, me and
the team and we had weekly meetings. We had a.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Structure and we just put different scenarios out and we
thought was funny. Then we shape the scenarios and say, okay,
episode one.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Should be what before we e ended, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
We figured out where we wanted to story the start,
when we wanted to story the end, and what like
peacepoint in the middle, we'll have us guessing whether or
not you know.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's gonna be her goal.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
And then from there the different scenarios that were put
in place, the different elements that we know that we
wanna have. We put it in an outline and put
it together to shape the episode.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So episode per episode we go back do the.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Outline, do like the shot list, you know, you know,
the editors and the other.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Producers work on me to.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
To really try to figure out like, Okay, what is
it that's in your head that you wanna.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Do, How do you wanna do this? How are we
gonna do this? And so the first episode we were
able to shoot it in two days. We had few
four days. One was in the.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Studio, one was just like out of my house and
you know, the nearby line, and.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It just came together. It came together. I think it
took a couple of months after that to have it edited.
And that's where we are now. So again, I wanna
get the rest of that. So it's fun.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
We just trying to raise money for it, you know,
so we can actually compensate everyone from participating.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So yeah, in the middle of kind of running the
campaign for that and like seeking sponsorsition, writing brands and
those type of things, so the whole other products.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, yeah, So what has been your biggest inspiration behind
the Doctor of Other Bad. So what is you know,
what expires you the most about it? Like currently aspires
the current scene too, And how did you chreate that all?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Like I like like TV shows that really inspire me, uh,
the ones that to have familiar characters that you don't
usually see on TV.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Especially when it's like lack leading. And so a lot
of what's in it.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Is inspired by when I was maybe in my twenties
and on the underground scene go a, you know, being
a part of this party, this open mic, uh between here.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
New York whatever, Philly, you know, different parts.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Of the country and different parts of the world, and
I'm just like, this movement is happening across.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
The country and across the world, and you don't.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Really see a play out with TV like that. Now,
now with the popularization of like Afrocung and just other
things hoboralizing like underground movements, you start to see the
esthetic but still just like the reality of just kind
of how people move, like the inner workings of relationships
and that. So that's ultimately kind of what I wanted
to bring the screen. But it was just like, Okay,
(07:37):
what story is driving in and one thing about like
that scene is that most people are artists of some sort,
and a lot of people are seeking this level of
freedom and not wanting.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
To just have this traditional job.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But it could just because they like a m adad
or because of like whatever political you know, uh leaning,
And so you might a painter, but you're also a
babysitter and a photographer and you drop bouber sometimes.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And you do or dada uber eat.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And when you're in that lifestyle where it's like constantly digging,
you end up in the most unique scenarios.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So one day you might literally be.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Like in the trenches in the hood, you know what
I mean, even if like you're just a part of
the underground market, you know what I mean? You and
then the next day you end up in the mansion.
And so I thought, one, that's a cool way to
explore like these different scenarios, but a fool way they
explore Baltimore, because Baltimore on screen has been very like
one way.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And that's the only story that we keep telling when
it comes out of Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And I'm and I'm not trying to stray away from
that because that's all that's a part of our reality,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But there's so much more to it than that.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And I felt like using gigs as a like a
driver as a catalyst, will be able to show like
the uniqueness of Baltimore's the campus tree, the absurdity, like
I really like of certain things, like my.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
My shows that I'm watching to like hearing.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Me up for this is like Atlanta, the Air from Detroit.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I just discovered Detroiters, you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Know, south Side some of these again like purpy but urban,
you know, shows that just kind of show a different
side of diggies like Chicago, Deploy, Atlanta and now Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's kind of the style you could say.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Okay, and out of all the things that you do,
which of those things or what other things do you
do to find like a peace, an element of piece,
an element of pond, a break from all of the
different hotseets you there?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Mm, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I think I think taking time to just like sit
re late in gratitude, you know what I mean, whatever
you're gracious about, Like if I'm feeling overwhelmed, you know,
I look.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
At it from the opposite side, or look at it
from like.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
How people are looking at me. Cause people come to
me and feel inspired and just.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Like I don't know how you doing it and all that,
and just like I'm losing my mind. That's how I'm
feeling it, cause I see.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
These great as in my head. But then I'm just like, Okay.
Instead of looking at it like, oh, you got.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Too much going on, so overwhelmed, look at it like, wow,
look at what you've been.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Able to accomplish even with all the challenges.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know. Then I think about who is.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Around me to make that happen and make over pumpers
and now I'm showing gratitude for them.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know, it's a simful day.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Today is a nice day, actually, like it being freezing,
being really appreciated said, not.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Focused on well tomorrow won't be cold, to getting on
tomorrow gonna be ringing and Claudie. I'm focused on them
right now.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And the fact that right now it's sunny. It's a
nice little day and worked out for what it worked
out for, you know what I mean. So I just
take those I I try to take those moments and
if I need extra help, you know, i'm'a end up
at aspa some well, like.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
In the woods. But you know, I sit in res
you know myself, and try to do that gratitude. I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I just have one more questions for you as far
as inspiration.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What it's your pot on on? What can I say?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What message do you get to those who are you know,
do you who are inspiring to be a film film
right or film creator or anything involved in the arts.
What words of encouragement can you give to them?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
You know, at this point, the way that industry is,
there's a expectation for you to just get.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It done and showing thro something.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And at this point we all have the basic pools
to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Most people have come to the small you know, I
was working with students on the Skeedu comedy class.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We use our phone at a little cambra to put together,
you know, their film, and it's okay to start like that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And there's major people that are using some of the
same tools.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
So it's just like stigging in creating, not trying to
make it look like something else, not trying to count
it out. You know, this is what I tell any
type of artists, whether they do music, films or whatever.
Allow the industry later and managers later to tell you
how and what you should do.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Don't do that to yourself on an independent level. You
just starting out and you worried about you know.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Metrics and audience, Like that's not your job right now.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Your job is to create.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And find your artistic voice and to do what you
want to do. You never know what the thing is
that's gonna hit you know, you never know what somebody
else from the outside.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Looking at is gonna try to crack you too. So
you want to make sure that you has a strong
sense of self.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Fer and don't overthink and you know, try to limit
yourself and stop yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Don't be worried about what recourses you don't have, like
we did. This project went for two thousand dollars budget,
just us putting our money together.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
And you know, I just went to the LA Comedy
Film Fest and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Just amazing because I'm watching projects.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
From all over the world, you know, from Australia. You know,
I was in West Hollywood. It was step from Hollywood
and stuff from New York. They had these long lists
of credits.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We had a three person crew. They had all of
these people that sponsored it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
You could tell that a lot of these films ut
at least fifty came.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
The one filmmaker on the panel.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Was talking about, like how the deposit for something that
he rented with twenty thousand dollars And here we are
in the mid middle of them, in the midst with
these people that had.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
These much larger budgets something that caused two thousand dollars
to make, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So it's like it really is about you know, you
being creative.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You uh, attracting the resources.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
That you need, you built in the community that you need.
You know, everybody has this one little.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Thing and not worrying about it being perfect on the end.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Like I was watching and of course he Sirai's inspiration too,
and like Adventures of Unpropect Girl. So I was watching
those episodes and I was watching how like the first
two episodes looked like somebody probably made it on the phone,
and then by the tenth episode it had much higher
production value, you know what I mean. So just think
if they would have waited to get to that much
(14:39):
higher production value. And honestly, as a fan of it,
ud I didn't say this on Garral, but a lot
of when it got to that, a lot of the
audience go on so It's like they weren't looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
All those extra bells and whistens. They were looking for
that genuine story of again a familiar cacc that you
didn't really see on TV at that time, you know.
And that's the reason why I hit. And that's the
reason why it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Took both her and Tracy Aliger, who did Girls Trip
and Harlem and all these other shows and movies, both
of them where the producers and writer going at and
that's why that took them through that next level.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Say so, it's been absolutely absolutely great in talking to you.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Highlighted a lot of the speak like for feeds, authenticity, creativity,
and your vent your.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Ability to execute is inspiring to me.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I've been to a few different things in a few
different areas that you work on, So thank you for
being here with us. Please share with us where we
can find you, and highlight my Lord gig for us.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Thank you, Thank you for having me. Y'all. Then go
to my website and moved to comedy dot com. But
if we by time to see that, I actually.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Updated and instagram me and Moosa Comedy and.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Then my Little gig.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
And y L O R G I G on Instagram
and also the Babe only money Networks and you go
that money network dot go.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And you can find more information.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
On that and do you but definitely please look that
up and uh see how you can continue to support
it as well as seeing the next screening we have.
We're gonna be showing at some local capoos here in Baltimore.
So we say tay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
We want to thank y'all for tuning in. I sell
to you the talk podcast. I'm your co host group
or artists alongside.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It's missus Melan and Rain and then it's been honored
since Sis
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