September 9, 2025 • 27 mins
Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis calls the show! (2016) Plus, Michael gets a enormous phone (2015) and finds a lost Beagle (2006). Get more show at MZNOW
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is a best of MZ. It was weird playing
the greenish moments in MZ history since two thousand and six,
two fifty did somebody ask what time it is?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh, I thought somebody asked what time it was? So
to have my new Apple Watch. So if you guys
even know the time.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
To let me know, that's as bad as like if
you need to make a call. I've got a phone.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I have a new phone too. Christy and I were
up here on Wednesday night and I went into the
gas station to get a red Bull and he's, Uh,
these little Mexican kids were in this truck and I
had some bars sticking out of their truck in the
front bumper, and I was walking by and I ran
into it with my leg and it cracked my phone.
Oh ouchie dude, And maybe it saved my leg. I
don't know. Maybe who knows?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know what? We were speaking of red Buol the
other day. I drank two of them and they put
me to fleep.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, because you're hyperactive.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know it's supposed to like help you get energy.
I knocked out.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's really weird.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know, I've been really tired lately, I got this
over compensating phone. Uh, the iPhone six plus. It's ridiculously
huge in your pocket, Yes it does, but my hands barely.
I have very tiny hands.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I thought about getting the six plus when I was
getting my six and I really I was holding them
both in my hand, and then I realized that there's
no way that I could hold a drink and text
right on the sixth plus.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Your biggest can reach over to the key.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, So when I realized that I couldn't do.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, you have pretty big hands. Yeah, I know, I
do hands bigger than mine. Here hold on to you
look like, oh yeah, like a basketball play. You like
a basketball player. You like Lebron, Hey, Lebron. So this
is me putting This is me putting down the phone.
Oh that's how big it is. Shakes, shakes the room.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
My hands are so big and my feet are so big.
When I was young.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So I don't know if this is the phone dropping
or if this is Jessie walking.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
When I was really young, I looked looked like a puppy.
Yeah you really, Yeah, because I was really skinny, and
I I played basketball, so I had these really big
like white basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Fun I want to see pictures of this. You looks
like bugs buddy, basically because bugs money has huge feet.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Feet and like skinny arms and skinny legs.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Your limbs are very very thad. But then you have
these huge Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That sounded, it is everything.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm going to get text. It's how big this phone?
And you know, I'm compensating for something. It's a little
man's syndrome for sure. If I've got a six plus,
just it's obnoxiously huge, look at it. Just obnoxious sorts,
just because you're not Now it's just even I see
I see like big guys having this phone and they're
holding it up to their head and it just looks obnoxious.
(02:42):
The whole thing. I like very small and sleek stuff
like the eye watch or whatever, the Apple Watch or whatever.
I like all that. I don't need anything huge. I
have an hypad.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But you get used to having these big phones that
now when you get a small one, you're like, it's
too small.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Because you can't see anything. I know, but's the only
reason why you got it because somebody told me one
the battery life was great, and they said, wigre you're
not getting any younger. Your eyes are gonna start giving
out pretty soon? You need something big, And I'm like, yeah,
but I don't need like a jitterbug, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like twenty one? I wish your eyes are giving out on.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Two fifteen. You know it's going to be a good
birthday when you have Marina service on the phone. How
are you doing, Marina?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, when we hang on a second, is it your birthday?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, it's not necessarily today, but it's this weekend. I'm celebrating.
It's a week long birthday. I'm celebrating.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Okay, well, you know it was my birthday last week.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I know, Happy birthday, Aries.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Happy birthday to you too. We're aries twins.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That's right. I'm very depressed. How about this birthday? Because
I'm starting a new decade and I feel like the
thirties and I feel like.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Uh, the world. I just.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
They do say thirties are the best decade though, Is
that correct? Did you like your thirties?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No? No, Actually I can't even remember my thirties.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I guess when I was doing Star Trek. I was
doing Star Trek in my thirties.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You're in your thirties were Star Treks?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I was, Oh Wow, in my thirties,
my whole thirties were taken up with Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Wow, that's unfortunate, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Good, it's a good decade.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah it is. Which deecade do you remember being your
best though the twenties?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
You know what, I think I peaked And all you
women out there, you know who get a little down
in the dumps when you look in the mirror and
you think you're getting older. I feel that I peaked
at forty. Really yeah, I felt I felt, you know.
I mean I was so insecure when I was young,
and I had body issues and you know all that
(04:47):
rubbish goes along with being a young woman, you know
this day and age, right, And it wasn't until I
was forty I kind of went, okay, this is good.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, I look good.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I feel good. You know, I like who I am.
I've kind of settled into my skin. So forty for
me was forty is was a great decade for me
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So you got better with time, got better with time
like wine.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Like wine. But now I'm going to bit off.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, I mean you still look great. I saw it.
You came to Dallas, I don't know, like two years
ago or so when we saw you there and you
look great. Do you work out or is it just genetics?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I do I work out, But next time, bring your
sea a night dog around the tree.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now a lot of people talk about Star Trek, and
I know you've been asked the same quest. There's no
question you can ask about Star Trek that hasn't been asked.
So what I want to know?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
There are four?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, well name one.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
No, no, every now and then you get a question.
I mean I got one recently in New Zealand. Don't
asked me what it was. I'm way past my so
I don't know what it was, but I had never
been asked it before. And it was from a child.
Oh wow, you know the kids come up with the stuff. Yet.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, I want to know what happened to go ahead
after Star Trek because here you had you're in your
thirties and you had a steady income. You're supposed to
go back to England and then you got this job
and then you got stuck here for seven years doing
the show and it was a hit, it was already
getting syndication and then now this steady paycheck is gone.
(06:22):
Are you freaking out of this brine or are you
need a break?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, freaking out? You were majorly freaking out. Yeah, because
I hadn't auditioned for anything. That was the main thing
with me that I hadn't auditioned for anything for seven years.
You know, basically, come the hiatus every summer, I would
either go I would go on vacation. I mean, I
wouldn't be like those sensible actresses could do a movie
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of the week right in their hiatus. I'll go off
and do something else because I was away from home.
I wanted to see my family and my friends. When
I had two months off in summer off, I went
to Europe to see my brother and you know, his family,
and see my friends in England, and so yeah, I
had an auditioned for anything, and so suddenly I was like,
(07:11):
oh my god, I can't do this anything. I really
felt I couldn't do it anymore. And I'm I'm quite
a funny person. But because I've been this serious actress
for seven years, and we did the first movie immediately
after the series, I mean I had three days off
I think in between the series.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, they literally back to back, so it wasn't actual
until the movie was done that. I suddenly realized I
was unemployed, and I totally freaked out and thought actually
called my agent one day and said, do you know what,
don't put me up for any comedies because I can't
do comedy anymore. I can't be funny anymore because I've
played this serious character for so long, and it kind
of it's kind of kind of backwards in a way,
(07:54):
because you think, oh, you've done this job for seven years.
You should be full of confidence, right, you know, in
your career going forward with me, it was kind of
the opposite. I kind of went, oh, my god, I've
only played one character in seven years. Can I do
anything else? You know? So there was that I had.
There was a kind of a process for me to
go through until I worked together.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Were you getting a lot of offers for serious work
or were you getting a misi?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah? I got offers and I turned a lot of
stuff down, which looking back, you know, I actually don't
live my life in regret because I think that's pointless.
I do too, But looking back, let's just say I
could have made some better decisions.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, I see. You came out on the grudge
three excited about the grudge three.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I was stopping. Actually, that was just one of those things.
I was in Europe. I was in England and they
cast The Grudge, that movie particularly, they cast it out
of England, and I was in England and the movie
shot in Bulgaria, where I have worked a lot, so
I know pretty much everybody in the film business in Bulgaria.
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And it was just one of those things. It was
just like, you're in England, they're casting it here, do
you fancy doing it? It's like you get a trip
to Bulgaria, see your friends. I'm like, sure, sure, I have.
I have to say I've never seen it. I can't.
I hate I actually don't like horror. You've done horror?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Do you watch your watch? You can? Can you watch
yourself on TV? No, in horror movie? But can you
watch like The Next Generations or anything like that or
the movies?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Do you watch clicking through? Well, if I'm flicking through
the channels and the song, I'll stop for a nano
second and just get really depressed at how skinny I
was and I'm not anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's like watching home videos.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Back to the football. See what I watch is sports?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Right, AM a big, big football fan.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'm the big football fan. The real football, the one
that when they actually kicks ball with their feet.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That football, Hi me, the real football, not American football rugby.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
No, exactly, that's what I call it. I call it
football and American football, right, because you know, hang on
a second, I'm not just being obstreperous. We invented the
game in England, right, We invented football. And when you
invent something, you are allowed to name it. And just
because this new country comes along two hundred years ago,
(10:17):
and you know, this new country comes along and has
a game where it's closer to rugby than it is
to football and they decided to call it football, doesn't
mean you have to change the name of the original.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thing, exactly. I agree with you on that. I agree,
thank you. So would you ever play another character in
a full time series, Like if it's a series that
you have been picked up for four five years, you
would do it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
In a nanosecond. I love television, I'm not you know,
back when we did start it on Star Trek, we're
going back to the Middle Ages now virtually, But when
we started on TNG, there was a real differential between
TV actors and movie actors. And movie actors. They would
tell their agent, I don't do television, you know, I
(11:03):
need going to be a movie star, right so, and
that's fine. But now and that was the way it was,
and it was almost like you were kind of a
B B class, you know, actor, if you were a
TV actor as opposed to a movie star. But now
it's not anymore. So I think personally we're in a
(11:23):
golden age of television right now. I really I've getting
some really fantastic TV and I have been in some
really rubbish movies. So I would rather be in a
good TV show any day of the week than be
in a movie just to say, you know, it's a
feature film. And I love television. Brent and Brent Spiner
(11:45):
and I joke about this. We both say, you know,
when we're not on television, we're watching television.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What are you watching? Now? Watch your shows?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Oh well, I got very excited today. I was at
a girlies. I was at a girly lunch that was
honoring a producer friend of mine, Cindy cow and she
was being honored by variety of women women empowerment thing.
It was fantastic and I met some of the girls
from Vikings and totally fangs. I fan girled out. I
(12:14):
love Vikings. I love the series that are like twelve,
you know, ten twelve episodes, right, So Vikings down, nab
anything anything English on PBS. I watch all of that
stuff because it just I get homesick and it just
reminds me of home. And plus I'm sorry, but the
English do do the best costume dramas. They just do.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They really do. Just do you don't watch the.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Walk well, and you know I'm dying for Game of
Thrones to come back.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, that's a great job front.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, So what I tend to do is like because
the girls from Vikings were asking me to say, what
did I think of the new season? And I said, well,
actually I haven't watched yet because I I DVR the
whole season.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And then watch it. Yeah, it's the best way to
watch anything nowadays. So if somebody ever came up to
you and they had great script, would you ever reprise
the role as a counsel Troy if it was if
it was in the script and it felt right.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You know, I loved playing her. I really did love
playing her because, as you can probably tell from talking
to me, I'm nothing like her. You know, it was
a real challenge to play that part. And as an actor,
you really that's what draws you to a part, is
the challenge of playing that part. And so you know,
for me, the biggest challenge of playing Deanna Troy was
(13:26):
pretty much keeping Marina out of her right, you know,
and making her true to who she was. And I
would it would be interesting to me to go back now,
you know, twenty years later and kind of go who
did she become? You know, who is she now?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Challenge? Yes, a challenge.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, I would find that very interesting and actually, yeah,
I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, we're working on an animated series. While I'm working
on it. Yeah, we're pitching ideas. We're trying to redo
like Full we're doing like Star Trek next Generation, but
like fullor House Did, we're like a sitcom based deal.
So I'll let you know when we have everything together,
but it's in the work. We're talking to Amazon.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Michael Jonathan Freaks and I have been saying for years
that we want to do the half hour of Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That would be great.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Half hour sitcom and it would be the Rikers in
Space and we'd have and we'd have our friends come
visit and geest star on the show, and there'd be
you know, wacky Uncle Data, our little dog Warf.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
No one, no one's biting those well.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You know, with all these online like Netflix and Amazon
and Cracked and all, somebody's got to pick it up.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Would that be great? I would watch it, actually said,
you know what, Yeah, everyone we've pitched, every every fan
that we've ever suggested it to, would watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Maybe one day.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
If we watch four House and watch that for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Full Houses Okay, I'm pleading the fifth on this. Fellow Thespians, No, I.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Think they did agree. I enjoyed it, but it was
it wasn't like a show I would watch if it
wasn't Full House.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, you see, we didn't really get it in England,
so I wasn't really a fan. You know, I didn't
really know the show that well, except the fact that
my fellow Greek John samu.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh yeah, so absolutely we give the ageless face. Yeah,
he looks great, doesn't he. I Mean he's what fifty
and early fifties, mid fifties right.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Now, he looks amazing. Now it's actually Greek skin. It's
all the olive all that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Some people do a show and you know, they work
together for all these years and then they disband and
then never talk to each other again. But you guys
really seem to have a very close bond, like a
family bond.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We're best friends, best best best best friends. I mean,
we don't see each other all the time. Like obviously
we were working together, so we saw each other every day,
you know, So we don't see each other every day,
but and we don't see Patrick as much as we'd
like to because he's never in Los Angeles. He's jet
bedding all over the world. But the rest of us, yeah,
the rest of us who are based in Los Angeles,
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we're all still best friends. And you're right, it's very
unusual in Hollywood. There's probably you know, a handful of
shark that can honestly say and without casting aspersions on
my other star Trek friends, we really were the only
show of all the incarnations that the whole cast absolutely
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adored each other from day one.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I mean we had a director in the first season
who directed two shows and then refused to ever come
back because we were too rowdy.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I read somewhere that Patrick got mad at you guys
because you were too rowdy, and they.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Began, Yeah, we were, yeah, we were. We kind of
we kind of set off, took off light and it
stayed that way, and it was amazing. It was serendipity
that we just all clicked. But Patrick was from the
Raw Shape Right company, and I had heard from friends
who had worked with him that he was very serious
and it was all about the work, and so I
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don't think he was a happy camper when we started that.
He will tell you now when you interview him, that
we changed him for the better.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I've seen clips now, behind the scenes stuff, and he's,
you know, dancing and singing all over the place, and.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He's a very man. Yeah, and his wife can thank
us for it, because she wouldn't have never married him
if he stayed the way he was. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I heard him on Howard Stern actually, and he was great.
He was joking around and having to get no.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
He's fantastic. It was like he just needed you know what.
I think he just needed permission, right, and because of
our behavior, he got permission. Biles mosive to be, you know,
to let go and just be freer and have a laugh,
because I mean, at the end of the day, we're
making a TV show, We're not curing cancer exactly. So yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Think you're the only person out of the rest of
the cast. And I've talked to quite a few of
you guys, but I think you're the only person. He
just straight up on us on this. I'm putting myself
in your shoes. If I did a show twenty years
ago and then I came and did you know, conventions,
I think the worst part would be, you know, talking
to these people and asking answering questions that have been
asked for twenty years, and it just seems like a beating.
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I go to these conventions from time to time and
I can't even be there for an hour, and you
guys are sitting there all day synontographs, answering the same
question over and over. Is the money really that good?
Or do you just enjoy it that much? I mean,
it's like, I don't know how you do it. I
ran into Michael Dorn this is a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Ago, and he gets a little grumpy.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh he was, he looked. I ran into this was
like after a convention somewhere like I ran into aroundtown
and he was just beat down. I'm like, did you
just come from a convention?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
And he was like, yes, well I enjoy it, and
I'm not bsing you. I truly enjoy it. Yes, it
can get a little tedious, you know, sitting there hour
after hour if there's no one coming up to get
your autograph and you're sitting there and there's no one
coming up to you, Yeah, you can get a little boring.
But then I go off and I find friends, you know,
I just go off and catch up with the people
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that I haven't seen in a while. Which is another
lovely thing about the convention is that you have these
convention friends that you've made on the convention circuit that
you pretty much own me see at conventions. But you're
good chumps, you know. That's always fun time and the
Q and A part to me is that is that
is the cherry on top of the ice cream Sunday.
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Because I'm a stage actress, I came from the stage.
I can't remember the last time I did a play, really,
and so for me to get up in front of
a live audience, whether it's thirty people or thirty thousand people,
it's the same thing because I because I do get
asked the same questions over and over. It's kind of
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evolved into this stand up routine. And what I say
to the fans who come and see me over and
over and over again, I'm like, you've heard all the
jokes before. Why do you still come? You know, because
it ain't cheap. It ain't cheap us, you know, I know,
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it's not cheap to love us, and we really appreciate,
you know what, the fans, you know, they work hard
for their money and they come and spend it on us,
and we appreciate them so much. But no, I always like,
I say, why are you here? And they say to me.
And what I hear time after time is Marina. It's
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like going to your favorite musical and hearing your favorite song.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I get that. I understand that.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right, So that's I kind of go. God bless them, really,
God bless them. These fans are the most loyal fans
ever in the history of shows. It's the fiftieth well
it's the fiftieth anniversary this year and we're still on
the phone in twenty sixteen talking about Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Is that incredible?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
It's pretty it's pretty unique in pop culture.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It really is, you know, it really is.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
And actually, the older I get and the longer, you know,
the longer it's been since we did the show, the
more I get to appreciate. I think what my position
or our position as a cast, I should say, well,
our position as a cast has in the history of
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pop culture in America and the history of the move
of the you know, show business, because I think we
were very important. I really do think we were important.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, you have to look back and just be like, wow,
am I am? I blessed? I mean come on, I
mean you were away from in the country and look
what happened.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
If you if you had said to the ugly little
girl that I was at thirteen, and trust me, I
have the pictures to prove it. If you had said
to me when I was thirteen and you know, really ugly,
you know, one day, Marina, you're going to be an
icon and people are going to look up to you
and say, and you're going to be a sex symbol.
(21:44):
I would have said, what are you smoking? I mean,
really it was. It was absolutely not going to happen
to me. And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's incredible. You couldn't rune.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean, I showed a picture if no one believes me.
But I showed a picture to Michael Dawn and he said,
I recognize your mom and your brothers. Who's the chimpanzee? No? Really?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Oh who gets the most autographs at these conventions? Who
do you get jealous of? You're like, why is his
line so long?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Anybody from The Walking Dead at the moment?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Really? Yeah, that's a big show.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Oh man, they are just so popular. Yeah, and you
know quite rightly too. But I mean they are like
the big ticket.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You can't watch that show, right, You can't watch hit
super long?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I can. I don't do zombies. Yeah, now, I've been
in a zombie movie and I haven't seen it. Yeah,
that's just a vampire. I've done all of that stuff.
I just have never seen it. I have to sleep
with the lights on for the rest of my line.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's how I am. I do enjoy the show, but
that's about as far as I go. All Right, I
could ask one last question and I'll let you go
since it's election season, if you had a pick one
of the cast members from The Walking to other characters
from The Walking Dad from the Next Generation who would
you vote for to be president? Me?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I make it great.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I think you would. I think you would?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You would? I really, you know, because I'll tell you why.
There's a reason behind this. I'm the only one who speaks,
really speaks my mind. Yeah, I am totally honest. And
actually I had a young man come up to me
at a convention once. He had aspergers. And he said
to me, Miss Surtis, and I have aspergers. Do you
(23:15):
know what that is? And I said yes, absolutely. He said, well,
I want to thank you, And I said for what?
And he said, I understand you because you say what
you mean. Yeah, And I am that person who says
what I mean. And so and as I said, you
can't offend me. I have such thick skin. It's just
(23:38):
water off a ducts back. So they could run all
the negative campaigns, they could do all that stuff. I
wouldn't care. That's what I like about going into politics.
I have thought about it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Did you really?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I'm very I'm very interested in politics.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
What stopped you?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Well, there's just too many naked pictures of me out there?
You know what happened.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'm in Google that I don't. I don't, I haven't
seen this yet.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You haven't already?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, all right, Marina, thank you somebody. We'll be there
this Saturday, I think, so we'll see we will, all right,
Thank you very much. Happy birthday, by the way, you
birthday to thank you very much. All around my neighborhood
there's pictures of our signs about somebody losing a beatle,
(24:23):
a beagle and a beatle. Hey here it is here
under no So there's a beagle. So I was leaving
yesterday morning.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
You met one of the members of the band, because they're.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Pretty much and so anyway, I would give me, give
me that. What do you want to laugh? He made
a joke. Thanks, okay, there's signs all over the place
of this beagle being lost, right, And so I was
walking out about to leave for the day, and a
beagle shows up in my yard. So I spent twenty
to thirty minutes trying to catch it, and I finally
(24:56):
caught it and I put it in a cage. And
let me tell you what's happening on. Hi, sir, how
are you doing? Are good? This is Michael Zavalla. I
called you the other day about it. The possibility of
me having your dog.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Oh yeah, let me let you talk to my watch.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Okay, all right, Hello, hi, ma'am. How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Do you still have the dog?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, let me tell you what happened. I saw the
signs around the yard around the neighborhood, right, and I
found a beagle in my yard and I captured it
within about twenty to thirty minutes and I locked it up,
but it was there in a cage all day. I
was so proud of myself. I left you a message
and I found out that I had locked up the
neighbor's dog.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Oh crap. Well, our dog had a green collar anyway, Okay,
so I was kind of thinking it probably wasn't it,
but I thought maybe somebody out of founding whitch collars.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well, I am definitely dedicated to finding your bagle because
I spent thirty minutes on that.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
And uh hi, Well, somebody in that corn called and
said that they saw a beagle. Huh and so, and
then I drove over there, you know, right after they
called and some little boy said they saw a beagle
and pointed which direction it went, and I drove over there.
I had got for an hour and never did see it,
and so we took flyers over there, and so he
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may still be somewhere, So keep looking.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I will. I'll definitely do that. I'll track him down.
I'm like the crocodile.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Well, we adopted him this summer. My husband found him
on the side of the road going in and out
of traffic theret rigger springs on two eighty seven, and
so we brought him home. And just you know, we've
only had him since the summer. We've gotten him figed,
got he had heartworms, but got him treated for that,
you know, ever, and he just turned out to be
the best dog.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
He's here.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
And one day we came home.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Wow, that's wow.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
That is I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Good luck and I hope you find him.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Well, thank you for calling me back, and you keep looking.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I will. You have a good dank you.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
This is the best of m Z
This is a best of MZ. It was weird playing
the greenish moments in MZ history since two thousand and six,
two fifty did somebody ask what time it is?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh, I thought somebody asked what time it was? So
to have my new Apple Watch. So if you guys
even know the time.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
To let me know, that's as bad as like if
you need to make a call. I've got a phone.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I have a new phone too. Christy and I were
up here on Wednesday night and I went into the
gas station to get a red Bull and he's, Uh,
these little Mexican kids were in this truck and I
had some bars sticking out of their truck in the
front bumper, and I was walking by and I ran
into it with my leg and it cracked my phone.
Oh ouchie dude, And maybe it saved my leg. I
don't know. Maybe who knows?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know what? We were speaking of red Buol the
other day. I drank two of them and they put
me to fleep.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, because you're hyperactive.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know it's supposed to like help you get energy.
I knocked out.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's really weird.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know, I've been really tired lately, I got this
over compensating phone. Uh, the iPhone six plus. It's ridiculously
huge in your pocket, Yes it does, but my hands barely.
I have very tiny hands.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I thought about getting the six plus when I was
getting my six and I really I was holding them
both in my hand, and then I realized that there's
no way that I could hold a drink and text
right on the sixth plus.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Your biggest can reach over to the key.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, So when I realized that I couldn't do.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, you have pretty big hands. Yeah, I know, I
do hands bigger than mine. Here hold on to you
look like, oh yeah, like a basketball play. You like
a basketball player. You like Lebron, Hey, Lebron. So this
is me putting This is me putting down the phone.
Oh that's how big it is. Shakes, shakes the room.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
My hands are so big and my feet are so big.
When I was young.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So I don't know if this is the phone dropping
or if this is Jessie walking.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
When I was really young, I looked looked like a puppy.
Yeah you really, Yeah, because I was really skinny, and
I I played basketball, so I had these really big
like white basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Fun I want to see pictures of this. You looks
like bugs buddy, basically because bugs money has huge feet.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Feet and like skinny arms and skinny legs.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Your limbs are very very thad. But then you have
these huge Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That sounded, it is everything.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm going to get text. It's how big this phone?
And you know, I'm compensating for something. It's a little
man's syndrome for sure. If I've got a six plus,
just it's obnoxiously huge, look at it. Just obnoxious sorts,
just because you're not Now it's just even I see
I see like big guys having this phone and they're
holding it up to their head and it just looks obnoxious.
(02:42):
The whole thing. I like very small and sleek stuff
like the eye watch or whatever, the Apple Watch or whatever.
I like all that. I don't need anything huge. I
have an hypad.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But you get used to having these big phones that
now when you get a small one, you're like, it's
too small.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Because you can't see anything. I know, but's the only
reason why you got it because somebody told me one
the battery life was great, and they said, wigre you're
not getting any younger. Your eyes are gonna start giving
out pretty soon? You need something big, And I'm like, yeah,
but I don't need like a jitterbug, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like twenty one? I wish your eyes are giving out on.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Two fifteen. You know it's going to be a good
birthday when you have Marina service on the phone. How
are you doing, Marina?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, when we hang on a second, is it your birthday?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, it's not necessarily today, but it's this weekend. I'm celebrating.
It's a week long birthday. I'm celebrating.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Okay, well, you know it was my birthday last week.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I know, Happy birthday, Aries.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Happy birthday to you too. We're aries twins.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That's right. I'm very depressed. How about this birthday? Because
I'm starting a new decade and I feel like the
thirties and I feel like.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Uh, the world. I just.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
They do say thirties are the best decade though, Is
that correct? Did you like your thirties?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No? No, Actually I can't even remember my thirties.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I guess when I was doing Star Trek. I was
doing Star Trek in my thirties.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You're in your thirties were Star Treks?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I was, Oh Wow, in my thirties,
my whole thirties were taken up with Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Wow, that's unfortunate, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Good, it's a good decade.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah it is. Which deecade do you remember being your
best though the twenties?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
You know what, I think I peaked And all you
women out there, you know who get a little down
in the dumps when you look in the mirror and
you think you're getting older. I feel that I peaked
at forty. Really yeah, I felt I felt, you know.
I mean I was so insecure when I was young,
and I had body issues and you know all that
(04:47):
rubbish goes along with being a young woman, you know
this day and age, right, And it wasn't until I
was forty I kind of went, okay, this is good.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, I look good.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I feel good. You know, I like who I am.
I've kind of settled into my skin. So forty for
me was forty is was a great decade for me
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So you got better with time, got better with time
like wine.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Like wine. But now I'm going to bit off.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, I mean you still look great. I saw it.
You came to Dallas, I don't know, like two years
ago or so when we saw you there and you
look great. Do you work out or is it just genetics?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I do I work out, But next time, bring your
sea a night dog around the tree.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now a lot of people talk about Star Trek, and
I know you've been asked the same quest. There's no
question you can ask about Star Trek that hasn't been asked.
So what I want to know?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
There are four?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, well name one.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
No, no, every now and then you get a question.
I mean I got one recently in New Zealand. Don't
asked me what it was. I'm way past my so
I don't know what it was, but I had never
been asked it before. And it was from a child.
Oh wow, you know the kids come up with the stuff. Yet.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, I want to know what happened to go ahead
after Star Trek because here you had you're in your
thirties and you had a steady income. You're supposed to
go back to England and then you got this job
and then you got stuck here for seven years doing
the show and it was a hit, it was already
getting syndication and then now this steady paycheck is gone.
(06:22):
Are you freaking out of this brine or are you
need a break?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, freaking out? You were majorly freaking out. Yeah, because
I hadn't auditioned for anything. That was the main thing
with me that I hadn't auditioned for anything for seven years.
You know, basically, come the hiatus every summer, I would
either go I would go on vacation. I mean, I
wouldn't be like those sensible actresses could do a movie
(06:48):
of the week right in their hiatus. I'll go off
and do something else because I was away from home.
I wanted to see my family and my friends. When
I had two months off in summer off, I went
to Europe to see my brother and you know, his family,
and see my friends in England, and so yeah, I
had an auditioned for anything, and so suddenly I was like,
(07:11):
oh my god, I can't do this anything. I really
felt I couldn't do it anymore. And I'm I'm quite
a funny person. But because I've been this serious actress
for seven years, and we did the first movie immediately
after the series, I mean I had three days off
I think in between the series.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, they literally back to back, so it wasn't actual
until the movie was done that. I suddenly realized I
was unemployed, and I totally freaked out and thought actually
called my agent one day and said, do you know what,
don't put me up for any comedies because I can't
do comedy anymore. I can't be funny anymore because I've
played this serious character for so long, and it kind
of it's kind of kind of backwards in a way,
(07:54):
because you think, oh, you've done this job for seven years.
You should be full of confidence, right, you know, in
your career going forward with me, it was kind of
the opposite. I kind of went, oh, my god, I've
only played one character in seven years. Can I do
anything else? You know? So there was that I had.
There was a kind of a process for me to
go through until I worked together.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Were you getting a lot of offers for serious work
or were you getting a misi?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah? I got offers and I turned a lot of
stuff down, which looking back, you know, I actually don't
live my life in regret because I think that's pointless.
I do too, But looking back, let's just say I
could have made some better decisions.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, I see. You came out on the grudge
three excited about the grudge three.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I was stopping. Actually, that was just one of those things.
I was in Europe. I was in England and they
cast The Grudge, that movie particularly, they cast it out
of England, and I was in England and the movie
shot in Bulgaria, where I have worked a lot, so
I know pretty much everybody in the film business in Bulgaria.
(09:01):
And it was just one of those things. It was
just like, you're in England, they're casting it here, do
you fancy doing it? It's like you get a trip
to Bulgaria, see your friends. I'm like, sure, sure, I have.
I have to say I've never seen it. I can't.
I hate I actually don't like horror. You've done horror?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Do you watch your watch? You can? Can you watch
yourself on TV? No, in horror movie? But can you
watch like The Next Generations or anything like that or
the movies?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Do you watch clicking through? Well, if I'm flicking through
the channels and the song, I'll stop for a nano
second and just get really depressed at how skinny I
was and I'm not anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's like watching home videos.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Back to the football. See what I watch is sports?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Right, AM a big, big football fan.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'm the big football fan. The real football, the one
that when they actually kicks ball with their feet.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That football, Hi me, the real football, not American football rugby.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
No, exactly, that's what I call it. I call it
football and American football, right, because you know, hang on
a second, I'm not just being obstreperous. We invented the
game in England, right, We invented football. And when you
invent something, you are allowed to name it. And just
because this new country comes along two hundred years ago,
(10:17):
and you know, this new country comes along and has
a game where it's closer to rugby than it is
to football and they decided to call it football, doesn't
mean you have to change the name of the original.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thing, exactly. I agree with you on that. I agree,
thank you. So would you ever play another character in
a full time series, Like if it's a series that
you have been picked up for four five years, you
would do it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
In a nanosecond. I love television, I'm not you know,
back when we did start it on Star Trek, we're
going back to the Middle Ages now virtually, But when
we started on TNG, there was a real differential between
TV actors and movie actors. And movie actors. They would
tell their agent, I don't do television, you know, I
(11:03):
need going to be a movie star, right so, and
that's fine. But now and that was the way it was,
and it was almost like you were kind of a
B B class, you know, actor, if you were a
TV actor as opposed to a movie star. But now
it's not anymore. So I think personally we're in a
(11:23):
golden age of television right now. I really I've getting
some really fantastic TV and I have been in some
really rubbish movies. So I would rather be in a
good TV show any day of the week than be
in a movie just to say, you know, it's a
feature film. And I love television. Brent and Brent Spiner
(11:45):
and I joke about this. We both say, you know,
when we're not on television, we're watching television.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What are you watching? Now? Watch your shows?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Oh well, I got very excited today. I was at
a girlies. I was at a girly lunch that was
honoring a producer friend of mine, Cindy cow and she
was being honored by variety of women women empowerment thing.
It was fantastic and I met some of the girls
from Vikings and totally fangs. I fan girled out. I
(12:14):
love Vikings. I love the series that are like twelve,
you know, ten twelve episodes, right, So Vikings down, nab
anything anything English on PBS. I watch all of that
stuff because it just I get homesick and it just
reminds me of home. And plus I'm sorry, but the
English do do the best costume dramas. They just do.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They really do. Just do you don't watch the.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Walk well, and you know I'm dying for Game of
Thrones to come back.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, that's a great job front.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, So what I tend to do is like because
the girls from Vikings were asking me to say, what
did I think of the new season? And I said, well,
actually I haven't watched yet because I I DVR the
whole season.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And then watch it. Yeah, it's the best way to
watch anything nowadays. So if somebody ever came up to
you and they had great script, would you ever reprise
the role as a counsel Troy if it was if
it was in the script and it felt right.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You know, I loved playing her. I really did love
playing her because, as you can probably tell from talking
to me, I'm nothing like her. You know, it was
a real challenge to play that part. And as an actor,
you really that's what draws you to a part, is
the challenge of playing that part. And so you know,
for me, the biggest challenge of playing Deanna Troy was
(13:26):
pretty much keeping Marina out of her right, you know,
and making her true to who she was. And I
would it would be interesting to me to go back now,
you know, twenty years later and kind of go who
did she become? You know, who is she now?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Challenge? Yes, a challenge.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, I would find that very interesting and actually, yeah,
I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, we're working on an animated series. While I'm working
on it. Yeah, we're pitching ideas. We're trying to redo
like Full we're doing like Star Trek next Generation, but
like fullor House Did, we're like a sitcom based deal.
So I'll let you know when we have everything together,
but it's in the work. We're talking to Amazon.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Michael Jonathan Freaks and I have been saying for years
that we want to do the half hour of Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That would be great.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Half hour sitcom and it would be the Rikers in
Space and we'd have and we'd have our friends come
visit and geest star on the show, and there'd be
you know, wacky Uncle Data, our little dog Warf.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
No one, no one's biting those well.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You know, with all these online like Netflix and Amazon
and Cracked and all, somebody's got to pick it up.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Would that be great? I would watch it, actually said,
you know what, Yeah, everyone we've pitched, every every fan
that we've ever suggested it to, would watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Maybe one day.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
If we watch four House and watch that for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Full Houses Okay, I'm pleading the fifth on this. Fellow Thespians, No, I.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Think they did agree. I enjoyed it, but it was
it wasn't like a show I would watch if it
wasn't Full House.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, you see, we didn't really get it in England,
so I wasn't really a fan. You know, I didn't
really know the show that well, except the fact that
my fellow Greek John samu.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh yeah, so absolutely we give the ageless face. Yeah,
he looks great, doesn't he. I Mean he's what fifty
and early fifties, mid fifties right.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Now, he looks amazing. Now it's actually Greek skin. It's
all the olive all that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Some people do a show and you know, they work
together for all these years and then they disband and
then never talk to each other again. But you guys
really seem to have a very close bond, like a
family bond.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We're best friends, best best best best friends. I mean,
we don't see each other all the time. Like obviously
we were working together, so we saw each other every day,
you know, So we don't see each other every day,
but and we don't see Patrick as much as we'd
like to because he's never in Los Angeles. He's jet
bedding all over the world. But the rest of us, yeah,
the rest of us who are based in Los Angeles,
(15:52):
we're all still best friends. And you're right, it's very
unusual in Hollywood. There's probably you know, a handful of
shark that can honestly say and without casting aspersions on
my other star Trek friends, we really were the only
show of all the incarnations that the whole cast absolutely
(16:15):
adored each other from day one.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I mean we had a director in the first season
who directed two shows and then refused to ever come
back because we were too rowdy.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I read somewhere that Patrick got mad at you guys
because you were too rowdy, and they.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Began, Yeah, we were, yeah, we were. We kind of
we kind of set off, took off light and it
stayed that way, and it was amazing. It was serendipity
that we just all clicked. But Patrick was from the
Raw Shape Right company, and I had heard from friends
who had worked with him that he was very serious
and it was all about the work, and so I
(16:52):
don't think he was a happy camper when we started that.
He will tell you now when you interview him, that
we changed him for the better.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I've seen clips now, behind the scenes stuff, and he's,
you know, dancing and singing all over the place, and.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He's a very man. Yeah, and his wife can thank
us for it, because she wouldn't have never married him
if he stayed the way he was. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I heard him on Howard Stern actually, and he was great.
He was joking around and having to get no.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
He's fantastic. It was like he just needed you know what.
I think he just needed permission, right, and because of
our behavior, he got permission. Biles mosive to be, you know,
to let go and just be freer and have a laugh,
because I mean, at the end of the day, we're
making a TV show, We're not curing cancer exactly. So yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Think you're the only person out of the rest of
the cast. And I've talked to quite a few of
you guys, but I think you're the only person. He
just straight up on us on this. I'm putting myself
in your shoes. If I did a show twenty years
ago and then I came and did you know, conventions,
I think the worst part would be, you know, talking
to these people and asking answering questions that have been
asked for twenty years, and it just seems like a beating.
(18:03):
I go to these conventions from time to time and
I can't even be there for an hour, and you
guys are sitting there all day synontographs, answering the same
question over and over. Is the money really that good?
Or do you just enjoy it that much? I mean,
it's like, I don't know how you do it. I
ran into Michael Dorn this is a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Ago, and he gets a little grumpy.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh he was, he looked. I ran into this was
like after a convention somewhere like I ran into aroundtown
and he was just beat down. I'm like, did you
just come from a convention?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
And he was like, yes, well I enjoy it, and
I'm not bsing you. I truly enjoy it. Yes, it
can get a little tedious, you know, sitting there hour
after hour if there's no one coming up to get
your autograph and you're sitting there and there's no one
coming up to you, Yeah, you can get a little boring.
But then I go off and I find friends, you know,
I just go off and catch up with the people
(18:50):
that I haven't seen in a while. Which is another
lovely thing about the convention is that you have these
convention friends that you've made on the convention circuit that
you pretty much own me see at conventions. But you're
good chumps, you know. That's always fun time and the
Q and A part to me is that is that
is the cherry on top of the ice cream Sunday.
(19:12):
Because I'm a stage actress, I came from the stage.
I can't remember the last time I did a play, really,
and so for me to get up in front of
a live audience, whether it's thirty people or thirty thousand people,
it's the same thing because I because I do get
asked the same questions over and over. It's kind of
(19:34):
evolved into this stand up routine. And what I say
to the fans who come and see me over and
over and over again, I'm like, you've heard all the
jokes before. Why do you still come? You know, because
it ain't cheap. It ain't cheap us, you know, I know,
(19:55):
it's not cheap to love us, and we really appreciate,
you know what, the fans, you know, they work hard
for their money and they come and spend it on us,
and we appreciate them so much. But no, I always like,
I say, why are you here? And they say to me.
And what I hear time after time is Marina. It's
(20:15):
like going to your favorite musical and hearing your favorite song.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I get that. I understand that.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right, So that's I kind of go. God bless them, really,
God bless them. These fans are the most loyal fans
ever in the history of shows. It's the fiftieth well
it's the fiftieth anniversary this year and we're still on
the phone in twenty sixteen talking about Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Is that incredible?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
It's pretty it's pretty unique in pop culture.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It really is, you know, it really is.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
And actually, the older I get and the longer, you know,
the longer it's been since we did the show, the
more I get to appreciate. I think what my position
or our position as a cast, I should say, well,
our position as a cast has in the history of
(21:07):
pop culture in America and the history of the move
of the you know, show business, because I think we
were very important. I really do think we were important.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, you have to look back and just be like, wow,
am I am? I blessed? I mean come on, I
mean you were away from in the country and look
what happened.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
If you if you had said to the ugly little
girl that I was at thirteen, and trust me, I
have the pictures to prove it. If you had said
to me when I was thirteen and you know, really ugly,
you know, one day, Marina, you're going to be an
icon and people are going to look up to you
and say, and you're going to be a sex symbol.
(21:44):
I would have said, what are you smoking? I mean,
really it was. It was absolutely not going to happen
to me. And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's incredible. You couldn't rune.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean, I showed a picture if no one believes me.
But I showed a picture to Michael Dawn and he said,
I recognize your mom and your brothers. Who's the chimpanzee? No? Really?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Oh who gets the most autographs at these conventions? Who
do you get jealous of? You're like, why is his
line so long?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Anybody from The Walking Dead at the moment?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Really? Yeah, that's a big show.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Oh man, they are just so popular. Yeah, and you
know quite rightly too. But I mean they are like
the big ticket.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You can't watch that show, right, You can't watch hit
super long?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I can. I don't do zombies. Yeah, now, I've been
in a zombie movie and I haven't seen it. Yeah,
that's just a vampire. I've done all of that stuff.
I just have never seen it. I have to sleep
with the lights on for the rest of my line.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's how I am. I do enjoy the show, but
that's about as far as I go. All Right, I
could ask one last question and I'll let you go
since it's election season, if you had a pick one
of the cast members from The Walking to other characters
from The Walking Dad from the Next Generation who would
you vote for to be president? Me?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I make it great.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I think you would. I think you would?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You would? I really, you know, because I'll tell you why.
There's a reason behind this. I'm the only one who speaks,
really speaks my mind. Yeah, I am totally honest. And
actually I had a young man come up to me
at a convention once. He had aspergers. And he said
to me, Miss Surtis, and I have aspergers. Do you
(23:15):
know what that is? And I said yes, absolutely. He said, well,
I want to thank you, And I said for what?
And he said, I understand you because you say what
you mean. Yeah, And I am that person who says
what I mean. And so and as I said, you
can't offend me. I have such thick skin. It's just
(23:38):
water off a ducts back. So they could run all
the negative campaigns, they could do all that stuff. I
wouldn't care. That's what I like about going into politics.
I have thought about it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Did you really?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I'm very I'm very interested in politics.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
What stopped you?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Well, there's just too many naked pictures of me out there?
You know what happened.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'm in Google that I don't. I don't, I haven't
seen this yet.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You haven't already?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, all right, Marina, thank you somebody. We'll be there
this Saturday, I think, so we'll see we will, all right,
Thank you very much. Happy birthday, by the way, you
birthday to thank you very much. All around my neighborhood
there's pictures of our signs about somebody losing a beatle,
(24:23):
a beagle and a beatle. Hey here it is here
under no So there's a beagle. So I was leaving
yesterday morning.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
You met one of the members of the band, because they're.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Pretty much and so anyway, I would give me, give
me that. What do you want to laugh? He made
a joke. Thanks, okay, there's signs all over the place
of this beagle being lost, right, And so I was
walking out about to leave for the day, and a
beagle shows up in my yard. So I spent twenty
to thirty minutes trying to catch it, and I finally
(24:56):
caught it and I put it in a cage. And
let me tell you what's happening on. Hi, sir, how
are you doing? Are good? This is Michael Zavalla. I
called you the other day about it. The possibility of
me having your dog.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Oh yeah, let me let you talk to my watch.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Okay, all right, Hello, hi, ma'am. How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Do you still have the dog?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, let me tell you what happened. I saw the
signs around the yard around the neighborhood, right, and I
found a beagle in my yard and I captured it
within about twenty to thirty minutes and I locked it up,
but it was there in a cage all day. I
was so proud of myself. I left you a message
and I found out that I had locked up the
neighbor's dog.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Oh crap. Well, our dog had a green collar anyway, Okay,
so I was kind of thinking it probably wasn't it,
but I thought maybe somebody out of founding whitch collars.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well, I am definitely dedicated to finding your bagle because
I spent thirty minutes on that.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
And uh hi, Well, somebody in that corn called and
said that they saw a beagle. Huh and so, and
then I drove over there, you know, right after they
called and some little boy said they saw a beagle
and pointed which direction it went, and I drove over there.
I had got for an hour and never did see it,
and so we took flyers over there, and so he
(26:18):
may still be somewhere, So keep looking.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I will. I'll definitely do that. I'll track him down.
I'm like the crocodile.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Well, we adopted him this summer. My husband found him
on the side of the road going in and out
of traffic theret rigger springs on two eighty seven, and
so we brought him home. And just you know, we've
only had him since the summer. We've gotten him figed,
got he had heartworms, but got him treated for that,
you know, ever, and he just turned out to be
the best dog.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
He's here.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
And one day we came home.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Wow, that's wow.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
That is I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Good luck and I hope you find him.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Well, thank you for calling me back, and you keep looking.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I will. You have a good dank you.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
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