Rachel Galvin: Actress, Writer, and More

Scott interviews Rachel Galvin, an Actress and Writer. They talk about her career and more. #losangeles #universalstudios #tramtourguide #halloweenh20 #babylon5 #joshhert #jaws #lucilleball #alfredhitchcock #montepython #backtothefuture #powerrangers #ellen #cluelessthetvshow #serialkiller #ourfamilypride #sistersofvengeance #newsanchor #independentfilms #santaclaus #theatrecritic #almostfamous #talentmagazine #voiceovers #basicsofthebiz #animalhouse #burtreynolds #lonnieanderson #jimlusk #wonderwoman #tampabay#raidersofthelostark #bandits #karenallen #duffys #detroitlions #hooters #deerfieldbeachobserver #peterwein

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:22):
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(00:43):
Hello everybody, I'm glad to i'ven stopped working out No Limits.
I'm glad to have my colleague Rachel Delvin on the program.
There she is, boy, I'll tell you she's made for
the camera, made for audio. I have a radio voice
and a radio face. But look at you, guys. Can't
go out there and get excited at watching this woman

(01:04):
and save James jam in the eyes of Domor. We've
been talking about doing this a while and guess what
the time is here, Rachel, glad to have you on
the big show.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm glad to be here. Thank you, Scott, Oh, You're
very very welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Good evenings, Server Roski. He's one of those guys gonna
get warmed up before long, and hopefully you can get
the rest of joshing the guys on No Hockeys, Got
no chees not come on the program. We're gonna talk
about Rachel's acting career when we and our time as colleagues,
and and he don't address any questions in the chat room,
I'm gonna go over her story and then I have
a few other things. And let me tell you, folks,

(01:38):
this will be the past of forty five to fifty
five minutes in programming. And for those of you out
there to think I'm a one check tony with sports,
you are. I like to do it all, but I
have to have the right content material And I got
her right, Oh, I mean darning. Oh can you tell
what the programming the vibes are gonna be like, Rach really.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Terry's well, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
What to say? Well, I tell you right now in
order to avoid saying bad language on there, I like
really and seriously because that way that's in the dictionary.
The other stuff forget about it. All right, let's get
to it with Rachel Dalvin. And she is an actor's
writer and more. All right, Rachel's talking about you starting

(02:26):
acting in theater in nineteen ninety six. You talk about
writing your own pieces and performing them and taking me classes,
give it to me.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, Yeah, I had something big happen in my life
that was not good, and it led me into acting.
I decided to completely change my life, and I started
out doing acting classes in Colorado, where I lived, and
just dove straight into anything I could find theater wise,

(02:58):
did a lot of auditions, I did a lot of plays,
and I was in a group of women that we
wrote our own material, so we did kind of like
one woman performances as a group. So I did all kinds.
I didn't think I had four or five performances with them,
which was great because I could do both my writing
chops and my acting chops at once and people could

(03:21):
really see something that I wrote and created. And I
was in a great on film acting class. And at
some point I decided I'm going to move to LA
and go into that.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Already we are now in nineteen ninety seven, take it
from there. In Los Angeles, quiet.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
And everybody said you're crazy. You know, I was still
fairly new in the business. My acting coach is like,
no way, and my family said no way. I basically
ran away and went out to LA and I didn't
know anybody. I was forbidden to go and it just happened,

(04:09):
and I don't believe in like coincidences. But my friend said, Hey,
I'm going to LA next week. Do you want to
come with me? So I said sure, and I told
my family I'm going with my friend to LA, and
I packed enough for a week and I went, knowing

(04:30):
full well that I wasn't coming back, and I didn't
know anyone. I lived in a hostile. It was very
dangerous that it was a co ed hostile with no
air conditioning and stuff was getting stolen every day until

(04:50):
I met some people and I finally moved away from that,
and I just audited acting classes like crazy and just
kind of of acclimated to being in LA. So I
ended up working for a talent management company, so I
had access to the breakdowns, which is amazing. Now anybody

(05:15):
can addition now for pretty much anything on their own
with casting networks and different things, but at the time
it was a lot more isolated. It was just really
agents that were getting access to the breakdowns and managers.
So I had access and could submit myself to things,
which was great. And I also worked for Universal Studios
on the weekend as a prem tour guide, which I'd

(05:37):
always wanted to do, so I hadn't really jam packed
life there, and I was doing dance classes and acting classes,
and I was performing with a group called First Stage
where we did theater workshops and acting workshops, and I
directed some of my own stuff. I wrote my own stuff.

(06:01):
I was in a lot of other people's stuff. It
was a lot. It was really a good experience, but
I mostly did a lot of extra work at the time.
And I don't know if you have any specific questions.
I'm just rambling on here.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh, you're doing great. You're telling your story because I
got somewhere to add there. So you're telling me that
you're talking about being well known in Hollywood H twenty.
You can see me a lot that was also Bablon body,
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well? I was in among my extra work. The thing
that I'm known best for is Halloween H two oh,
and you can see me. A lot of people are like,
oh my god, I saw you on a Halloween H
twoo because I was a student, and you can see
me about five times. There is a scene with Heeley
Curtis talking to all the students before they go on

(06:53):
a field trip, and all the main people, Josh Hartnett
and everybody our city there and right across from them
you can see me very obviously. And also when they're
running to the bus, I'm the first person running for
the bus. And then if you really look carefully, I'm elsewhere.

(07:14):
But that was my best experience as an extra. I
was face to face with Jamie Lee Curtis. I met
her mother, who of course gently was in Psycho. I
got to meet everybody on the set. They actually threw
me a birthday party. It was actually around this time
because it was my birthday and my birthday's next week,

(07:37):
and they bought me a birthday cake and everybody saying
Happy Birthday to me. Like it wasn't the main people,
but all the extras, all the crew sang Happy Birthday,
and it was amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I have a great story for a universal, but go
ahead and finish your thoughts ready for it.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, So that was my best experience. I also was
in Babylon five, which is also something I was really
featured in. I was the wife of the anfiely refugee
king so to speak, so I was an alien and
I was all made up in prosthetics, which took three
hours at five point thirty in the morning and I

(08:17):
was unrecognizable, and we got extra money for like sand
falling on us because we're supposed to be bombed, so
we're like, you know, hiding from the bombing and the
sands coming down, and there was fire on the set
because they had a bonfire, so we got paid extra
for that. And then after everybody was done, they asked
me to stay late and work with Bruce box Lightner,

(08:42):
the lead and do a photoshoot to promote the episode,
which I think was in TV Guide. So I got
to do that with me my husband and the scene.
I think his name is Tony Avid Tamarco. I think
Bruce Boxlightner. So those are like the two big things

(09:03):
that I did. But I can go into bar but
I know you have a story.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Oh that's it all. I have a really good story. Okay,
So I go out to Universal Studios LA. I know
they got one in Orlando. I don't care about going
to Orlando. I like to know the original ones. Those
are the best ones. Hers Studios Ollywood is where you
got to go. Nothing against some people in Orlando. Anyways,
the park is get ready to close. Of course, they
have those things like Lucille Ball's really well known over there,

(09:29):
and of course you have to go there to see
the Jaws exhibit. And the two guys are saying that
if you can go out there and we collect everything
on the planet, we don't throw any thing away. That
would make Sampor and Son definitely make them look like
nothing with a job cared because they take everything. But
here's the story that Paul Harvey would say. The rest
of the story. Sure you've heard of Paul Harvey, right,

(09:50):
everybody in the media usually have. So I'm flying through
the park because I know I have to get out
a certain time, and I mean, I'm running faster than
Oja Simpson, my good, And of course I was wait
younger than that and a lot heavier, and I get
you know, de sis. Then putting in a nice kind
of way hurts, you know that kind of stuff. Run
it through airports, don't running through Universal studios. What do

(10:11):
you think happens along the way? I see a mascot
barreled into this guy and he landed on the floor,
laying all over the place. And see it it bolted. Man,
Now I all like to do season mascot going out
there looking at it? What did you do to me,
frighten me. Back then I was fast man, I wouldn't
run for track. But it was a fun story. Felt

(10:32):
bad for the guy. But when you're right, when you're
flying like I was back then, that stuff. I don't
know if what you think of that crazy story, but
bu Boris things that your story is cool, so go ahead.
I mean, that's my Universal story. I enjoy Universal Studios.
You know he ended up going to the Lucille Ball

(10:53):
and everything else. I can't remember it so far back.
I'd love to go back there again down the line
when Universal Studios is the one place in LA that
I really thoroughly enjoyed. And everybody have been to La
knows you can go on the studio tours and all
that and just go wherever I can go and see
what I have and see as much as possible. But
that's my Universal Studios.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well, I can tell you a little bit about Universal Studios.
The process to work there was very difficult, and it was,
like I said, I was a dream. When I was
like ten years old. I went on the tour and
I was like, I want to do that one day.
And I had to audition three times with a lot
of other people, so you go through. If you get picked,

(11:36):
then they go through another audition, another audition. It was
very difficult to get in, and then it was like
a training of I think it was a week training,
like intense training, and we got this big three ring
binder of information that not only included the script, but
also all this extra information. Because if the tram stop,

(12:00):
which it often did because there was another tram in
front of us, or something broke down, we couldn't say, oh,
we're broken down, or you know, this person in front
of us is stalling us. We had to automatically segue
into another story to make it seem seamless, like we're
stopping for a reason. So if I stopped near Alfred
Hitchcock's offices, I could just say speaking of directors and

(12:24):
then go into Alfred Hitchcock and a nice anecdote about him.
Or if I stopped at Jaws, I could talk about
Steven Spielberg or you know, different things like that. And
then sometimes there was an area that was just bushes,
so it's like, look, it's shrubbery, and I would go
into the Monty Python. You know, night's the same meat.

(12:44):
Then some people would get that some people would be
like what, But you know, sometimes you're really grasping at
straws to come up with something because maybe you were
stalled several times and you're running out of material. But
they also had a little music box you could hit
and I'd be like remember this one, and I'd hit
the button and it would be like Back to the

(13:04):
Future themes something like that. So it could be a
lot of fun. And I had a lot of celebrities,
not a lot, but some celebrities on my tour, which
was neat. I think Michael Stipe was on my tour
and what's her name, medicine Jane, medicine woman, what is
her name? I can't think her name right now, she

(13:26):
was on my tour. So but it was a forty
five minute tour, five times a day, so it was
really hard on the voice, and that's why I only
did it on the weekends. You know, they would you'd
be in the break room, which was not the best
and just waiting for to get asked to come on board.
So it was a little tedious, but I really liked

(13:49):
the job itself quite a bit, and I wish I
would have kept that binder. I was like, I'll never
forget the tour, well I forgot it, and that had
so much great information in it.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Wow, Okay, great story. So I'll talked about the fact
that you were in Power Rangers Ellen, Clueless TV show.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, back to the extra work. I also was on
the Clueless TV show, which was also another great experience.
You can see me in that too.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I was.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
A nerd, a science nerd, so as the science fair
and I was doing one of those famous volcanos that
you always see kids doing, and you can see me
just you know, bumbling around the science fair in the background.
But all of the cast was so nice and we
all kind of hung out afterward. And Donald Faison I'm

(14:40):
not sure if I spill pronouncing his last name right.
I actually saw him later on at an ice cream
place in La and he still was nice to me,
talk to me. Great cast. Ellen was another great experience.
I was in the episode after Ellen came out This
is not her her you know, most recent show, it's
the fictional show and she had just come out and

(15:03):
she was dating for the first time and being introduced
to her date's daughter. And I was in the movie
theater scene. You could see me in the background walk
by and buying popcorn, and then they kept me later again.
They kept me to stay later than everybody else, and
they said, we want you to be a different character.

(15:25):
And I changed my clothes and I was in the
elevator with Ellen and like two to three other people.
So that was great. And I was hanging out with
Ellen at craft Service eating whatever we're eating, and I
think it was Joebeth Williams was her girlfriend, and both
so nice, so funny, like naturally funny. So it was

(15:48):
a really good experience. And the food was great. They
had that was like the best lunch that they had
for us.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah. Power Rangers, that one was not as fun of
an experience. I it was another five point thirty in
the morning, if I remember right. I was really tired.
Everybody was grumpy. I was chosen to be one of
the few people in the opening scene for the episode,

(16:18):
sitting like a cute girl sitting on the on our
top there, and then later you can see me walking
with someone in the gym. It was Power Rangers Turbo.
So the episode was called Little Big Man. And I
think I was there two days, if I remember right.
So that was one day. The second day, what was

(16:38):
was the most difficult. It was outside all day in
like a hundred degree heat, and we're sitting on metal
bleachers in the sun for hours, and I we're just waiting,
you know, watching like kind of like a limp, like
what is it called field day? Just out there all day.

(16:59):
So that was really difficult. We were getting a little dehydrated.
So you know, you never know what you're gonna get,
and a lot of times extra work can be really tedious,
which is why I don't do it anymore. But he
did get like I was on the practice a lot.
They all knew me on the practice, and that was
also a good experience.

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Speaker 1 (19:09):
Thank you Katie. What a great transition. So we're going
to La. Now we're going to Florida. So let's talk
about the roles that you amassed when you were in Florida.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Okay, So when I ended up moving out here with
someone originally, and that didn't work out, but I ended
up staying. And when I first got here, I didn't
know anybody. Again, I was clueless. I had no idea
how to get into acting. So it took me quite
a while to get going, a couple of years to

(19:40):
really fortify that. And I started out in film school
films here, and you know, getting I was a lot
in a lot of lead roles, and I got lucky
with that. And then just independent films. You know, a
lot of stuff people are not going to know, necessarily films.

(20:01):
But I've been in more films than I can fit
on a resume on a page. I mean I should
have counted them, but I mean a ton of films.
And I've done a little bit of everything from the
girl next door, to a teacher, to a reporter to
a serial killer, which was my favorite because people don't
expect it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I was looking at that serial killer and you have
criminal minds. Okay, and I see that a lot of series.
I don't watch that much because that's a little dark
for my taste. But yeah, imagine a serious killer, really seriously.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay. I was in a couple things as a serial killer.
The one that I'll talk about first. It was called
lock Box, and it's kind of a little hard to explain,
but basically, this psychologist is talking to me and I'm
in a box, so I'm really aggressive back to her,

(21:00):
explaining about why kind of why I'm a serial killer
and that I was abused as a child, and it
gets pretty graphic. I can't even watch it, that's how
graphic it is, so I've only shown people parts of
it because it's too much for me to watch. But
I had to be in the scene. We're kind of

(21:21):
matched up so that we have to be the same height.
So I was wearing stilettos to try to get taller,
and that still wasn't tall enough, so they had me
on top of a sand bag in stilettos to be
the same height as her instead of I don't think
they had an apple box. I was on a sandbag
and it wasn't quite the same height. So they're like, okay, now,

(21:44):
squat down, squat up, you know, go up and down
in stilettos. It was really difficult, and they to make
me look kind of, you know, greasy and dark. They
sprayed so much junk in my hair and it was
a very difficult from that aspect, but I loved it.
And when I when the film was shown, someone was

(22:07):
really scared of me. She's like backing away from me.
She was She's like, that was you. I said yeah,
So that was kind of great. And then I was
in another.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Movie that.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Was kind of interesting where the whole thing was done
in my voice over, so I'm acting it out, but
the voice is like separate, so it was a little
bit off, but it won awards. And my character was
a nerd that is in love with her boss and

(22:39):
the boss takes her out to say, hey, you should
get a little more social with everybody. But I think
it's a date, so you know, it gets it kind
of goes downhill from there, and I'm like, are you
gonna call me? And he said, yeah, I'm gonna call you.
And then I'm in my house like pacing, you know,
why didn't we call? And then I it turns that

(23:00):
I killed them, that's why. So that's why I wasn't
calling me because I had killed them. So that was
pretty pretty good. It had a lot of extra flashback
fantasy scenes where we got married where we were on
the beach, so it used different venues for that, so

(23:21):
it was a little bit more interesting. So I like
to play something more out of the box like that.
Right now, lately, I've gotten a lot of like reporter
roles because people see me I'm a host, which we
can talk about, and so that's natural for them to
see me as that. So I recently was in Sisters

(23:43):
of Vengeance, the short film and the feature film, and
I was in news anchor for that. The short is
done and it's been to con. It's been like they're
promoting it all over the place. This show this movie
because it has to do with human trafficking and it's
a dark comedy, which is an interesting twist. But it's

(24:03):
getting a lot of reaction and they're working on the
feature now. So the feature's not done. But we shot
that one down in Miami. We closed down the whole
road for that day that I was there, and they
had kind of a parade down the street and I
was in that and then I was interviewing people. So
I did that, and I just was in from Brooklyn

(24:24):
to Boca as a news anchor, which is I was
originally in the pilot as the girl next door, a
Jewish New Yorka, and they decided when they did the
play instead of the film for now that they didn't
want me in that role. They chose a different person.

(24:44):
But then they ended up kind of creating a role
for me as a news anchor with a strong Brooklyn accent,
and they projected it on the screen within the play,
which was really interesting. So I just did that just happened,
and I was just cast in something else that I
don't know all the details about yet. So lately I've

(25:06):
gotten a lot of character roles because people know I
do accents, I do New York, I do different types
of New York. I do different types of Southern. I've
done English, which I'm not as thrilled with. But yeah,
so I get a lot of character stuff, but I'd
like to do more regular. In fact, I did something
else that I'm very proud of recently, called Our Family Pride,

(25:31):
where I was a businesswoman and they're working on that
and that just We just showed the sizzle reel at
the Savoir Faire Film Festival, which happened just this last weekend.
So Saturday night they showed the sizzle reel and it's
going to be a series now, it looks like. So

(25:52):
I'm extremely excited about that. That's still in the works
as far as post production and distribution. So it's LGBTQ.
It's about a guy that comes out of the closet
and how it affects his family, his friends, everything, and
I play this business person that deals with him. So yeah,

(26:13):
I've got all kinds of stuff going on.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
I got a great story for you on Miami back
in the eighties when I was a lot lighter. He
talked about having to me lifted up a certain with
some of the things. Can you imagine this me Back
in the nineteen eighties, my late aunt and uncle had
a fla market down there and needed somebody to be
Santa Claus. They called on me to do it. Minding rage,

(26:36):
I was like, one hundred and five hundred and ten pounds,
How can you have a skinny Santa Clause like that?
And I think it was little Haiti. You know what
they ended up doing with me. They stuck a couple
of pillows in me just to make me look like one,
and of course they have feeve o'clock back to twenty five.
I wasn't after pillows. I got the gray haired, I
got the beard or you know, depending when I shave

(26:58):
it again. But then I had to be in pillows
in Miami just to look like Santa Claus. Looked like
there's a little bit of meat on there. In fact,
another interesting story back in the eighties with my uncle
had to lay me off from a roofing job because
it was too skinny. They had to fat me up
a little bit, and then I came back two weeks later.
That's how skinny I was. But think about a Santa

(27:20):
Claus having to have pillows to make the part. That's
what you said. They kind of mentioned it a little
bit trigger things, which is brought back a nice memory.
So what we're gonna do now is we're going to
talk about your writing, your film festivals, and then what
I'm gonna do is take over the conversation and question
formatt I just want to make sure that everybody knows
that we want to make sure that Rachel Galvin has

(27:41):
an opportunity to tell her story, and she's doing it
so eloquently. Thank you. You're very welcome. No, it's pretty interesting.
We have a lot to work with here. So you
say you've been a writers in nineteen ninety seven and
an editor for many years in addition to doing some screenplays,
and now we're going to talk about your book. Go
over the crona of all.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Okay, I actually started writing in when I was in La.
Again coincidence that kind of fell into it, right, I was.
I won't get into the whole story, but basically I
was working as a salesperson as like another side job
in LA for Talent Magazine, and I was doing cold

(28:24):
call sales. And as soon as I started, the publisher
said you can do sales, but I want you to
be my writer. And I out of the blue. I
don't know what he saw in me, but he said,
I want you to be my theater critic, and because

(28:44):
he knew I was an actor, So I actually was
a theater critic for Talent Magazine, which was actually a
newspaper even though it was called a magazine, and I
did some really great theater reviews. I have to say,
there were some of my best I think, and so
I got a little taste of writing for him. And
then I worked also with Creative Child magazine and the

(29:05):
person that was involved with that, her daughter was an
actress in our Talent magazine and are in the management
company I worked with, and her husband was a big
time producer, if I remember right. So I worked with
their magazine, I wrote something for them. So I just
did a little taste in LA And then when I
moved to Florida, like I said, I didn't know what

(29:25):
to do with myself. I was helping my boyfriend at
the time with his business running his cell phone company,
whole other thing that I was doing, and I was
starting to act. But I watched a movie called Almost Famous,
which you probably know, which is about a guy that
ends up on a tour bus writing about the band.

(29:48):
And after watching that by myself because nobody a certain
person wouldn't go with me, I came out of that
and I said, that's what I want to do. I
want to be a writer. And I took those like
three clips or whatever that I had from Talent Magazine
and I decided I was going to write. So we

(30:10):
used to get a lot of salespeople knocking on our
door at the cell phone company asking us to advertise
with them. And one of them was a guy that
a lot of locals will know named Bill Heaton. And
Bill Heaton is famous for being very unfortunately not with
us anymore, but very persistent, and he was asking us

(30:30):
to advertise and I said, you know what, we will
do an ad with you if you can get me
into the Forum newspaper and as a writer, so he
helped me do one of my I think it was
my first article or one of my first articles was
with the Forum. I also did our town news and
it just kind of went from there. I was getting
paid like twenty five bucks an article, like nothing, and

(30:53):
I started doing a lot of I work with Neighborhood News,
doing a lot of restaurant reviews I have. It went
from all these little local papers to the Sun Sentinel.
I wrote for all the forums, which is like Deerfield
Beach had one del Rey. They all were different names,
Boyton Beach, lake Worth, Coral Springs Forum, Parkland Gazette like

(31:15):
all of them. I wrote for Palm Beach Illustrated many times.
I wrote for Bookwortone Observer, Capture Life, magazine which isn't
around anymore, which is a beautiful magazine. And then so
after doing all that, I wanted to write for City
Smart magazine and it was a new magazine in Coral Springs,

(31:37):
and I said, I want to write for you, and
she said, well, you know, do you know how to
write about wine? Do you know anything about wine? Because
we need a wine writer. And I was like absolutely,
I had no clue anything about wine. So I went
out to like four different liquor stores, grilled the people there.
I got all these books from the library, I did

(31:58):
all this research. I wrote one of the best articles
I've ever written about wine.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
She loved it.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
She hired me and I wrote for her for years.
And then I was working for another company doing menial
sales and stuff. And then I had a conflict there
and I said I need to do something more than
just writing. Do you have anything else? The next day,
the editor and the advertising coordinator both quit and I

(32:28):
ended up taking both their positions. So I had this
big position with them, and I did that for many
years until I decided to move on. And that's when
I found The Observer. So now we can talk about that.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well in a moment. Now, I have an interesting writing
story out in Tampa. I'm or the Detroit. I'm not covering.
I'm with some friends at University of South Florida, and
you know Wayne Fonce as a coach. I went to
school with Mike Fonts's son, so I was working for
the Observer. I'm not the Observer. Well, actually, i'll tap

(33:05):
the trivium. Go back to nineteen eighty five. Eighty six
Lions lost the game to the Bunks, and a bunch
of us went over to Hooters and we got hammered
a bit of course of losing to the box back then,
you do get hammered. It stinks. But I had a
deadline that night. What do you think happens? I wrote

(33:27):
one of my best stories ever, and I told my
editor I was over there, said you did to write
like this? He said, said, that's one of the best
stories you've ever written. As Rick. Can I tell you something,
my friends? What's that? I had a few beers after
the Lions lost, Scott, I ain't going to give you
a hard time about pat it all. If you're that
creative when you write and you drink a double beer,
you can do it all you want. This guy one

(33:47):
of the best editors I've ever worked with. I can
tell you another story out because Simmy Florida where I
had a situation where it when they were the Astros
had trained where it was a brand new stadium and
I couldn't go ahead and transmit the story five times, seriously,
really five times. It stinks. And then I had to
dictate two of them over the phone. And Rick was great.

(34:10):
And you talked about the adversity of thriving because writers
definitely are growing accustomed to deadlines and observer. So when
you tell me about that, I think it's pretty good.
It's really cool stuff about you being in a line
of meat drinking bear had a great story and then
you know in some line story to leader where you're
gonna go, but before you're gonna go to the observer.
We're going to talk about some of the screenplays you

(34:31):
did and the book that you wrote called Basics of
the Biz.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Go ahead, okay, yeah, Well, for a while I was
writing screenplays for people. People would give me their the
book and want me to convert it into a screenplay.
I wrote something called Gaze of Our Lives, which I
don't even remember what that was. But I guess it aired.
And I wrote a great TV show that I don't

(34:59):
think the guy ever did anything with that. He had
the idea. I came up with the dialogue and everything,
so I got paid for you know what I did.
And I wrote someone else's life story. I started it,
he never finished it. I wrote a cookbook for somebody,
started doing that I did. I started doing a psychological
book for someone again, like usually, like managers for writers

(35:25):
or publishers want let's say, three chapters to start out with.
So he did three chapters and then he didn't want
to continue. So I did a I started doing something
for a very famous cook that I had a problem
with and that didn't finish. So I did a lot

(35:46):
of little random things. And then I ended up remembering
all the stuff I learned as a talent manager, you know,
back in the day working in LA And I also
became a talent manager on my own here, so I
had my own clients when I was in Florida also,
and I decided just to download all that information I

(36:08):
had into a book. So Basics of the Biz this
is my book. It's like one hundred and I forgot
how many pages. This is one hundred and eighty something pages,
and the first half of it is my experiences in
Los Angeles and a little bit in Florida, kind of
what we just went over, but more in detail. And

(36:31):
then the second half is about how to become an actor,
So Headshots resumes acting classes, unions, that type of thing.
Why do you want to do it? It has some
like goal sheets in the back, so it has a
little bit of everything. And I actually wrote this before
I really became really too much into the profession of writing,

(36:56):
and then I redid it. It was like two thousand
and one, I think when I originally wrote this and
then and I didn't do anything with it. I left
it on the shelf. Wasn't until two thousand and nine
that I published it, so of course I had to
revamp it at that time. And it's on Amazon, so
you can find it on Amazon Basics of the biz.

(37:17):
And I took it to you know, local authors events
and Miami Book Fair and things like that. So I
forgot what else you asked after that?

Speaker 1 (37:28):
It's okay you talk about screenplay if you did someone.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Those right, Yeah, Like I said, I wrote some stuff
for different people. I wrote a lot of my own
too that I performed some of them as well. Some
of them I workshopped in that first stage group that
I was in. And in fact, I have one that's
a short, could be a play or a film that

(37:50):
I thought about maybe making it into a film, but
I starred in it back then and it wouldn't be
right for me now, so I'd have to find someone.
It was kind of like, you know, Phoebe Buffet on Friends.
It was kind of a ditsy character that I played,
so I'd have to find someone like that if I
actually end up doing it. And then there's like two
other people in the film. And it was based on

(38:12):
a true story. And I did a great film that
I wrote that was this woman's story. It was about
her father who had come from Poland during World War
two and ended up in Cuba and then New York
and it was a great story that I just you know,

(38:33):
did the dialogue for her, and again she never finished it,
and I don't know, I lost touch with her. I
have all her original notes, which I can't throw out,
you know, Hopefully I can find her someday or her
family to give it to them, because I can't bring
myself to get rid of them. That was years ago.
I don't know if she's still alive. So yes, I

(38:53):
did quite a bit of different aspects of writing, and
I can transit from that to what I'm doing now,
which is the last ten years. I've been doing my
own magazine online, which is much Independent Streak Magazine, which
I'm very proud of and thank you, and I do

(39:15):
that all on my own the graphics. I go to
the events, I take pictures, celebrity photos. I just went
to the Film Festival, took pictures of that, did video
and photos of film panel on film grants, for example,
so I'll be writing about that in the next issue.
I did video of Sebastian Stan who was down at

(39:37):
the Miami Beach Film Festival, so I'm going to be
writing about him in the next issue. I've written about
a ton of people that have come to Florida from
all over and you can find that if you go
to Independentstreakmagazine dot com. It's kind of a bare bones
website that has all of the magazines and it's a
flipbook magazine that you can go through and see everything.

(40:01):
And I also have a blog, so I get invited
to a ton of events so if I don't, if
it's not a film based event, then it goes in
the blog. Like I just went to Ignite Broward a
special preview before it was even finished. There was like
four of us with Philip Dunlap from the County Commission.

(40:22):
And that's like an interactive art event that's still happening
right now at mad Arts and Dania Beach. It's also
at the Esplanade Park and rever Walk and Young Circle
in Hollywood, so they have all this public art. So
I did an article about that, and I, you know,

(40:43):
anything like food and wine, art also sometimes film. So
any event that I get invited to, I write about
it on Let's Talk magazine dot com. Two different things.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
I'm gonna go over a couple of little things and
then I'm gonna take over the questioning. I just want
to say, you've been a jurist for many film festivals
including silvar Fair, Film Fast, What just Happened, and others
coming up, and then you also used to help from
film festivals, so I whyted to put those sit together

(41:17):
and then they are giving you some questions and we're
being ready for rapid fire.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Oh so yes, like I said, I just did sa Fair,
which I always am involved, like taking photos at Fort
Lauderdale International Film Festival, which takes place either late October
early November. Well, uh, Gregory van Housch that was in
charge of that is no longer with them, so this
things are a little different now. They decided to change

(41:44):
it and take the short films out of the programming
and make a separate festival, which is sav Fair. So
this is the first time of them doing this, and
they asked me to be a jurist, so I just
did that. So I got to watch some of the
films that wasn't all of them, and select them and
pick out a winner. But the final winners are not

(42:06):
just about me. It's like a group of us. But
I also have been a jurist in the past, I
think twice for Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. I was
a jurist for the Boyton Beach Film Festival, Flow Film
Festival I'm always involved in, which is coming up next weekend.
I Unfortunately, I am going to be out of town,
so I won't be able to attend. But Wednesday night

(42:27):
at Rhythm and Vine they're going to have a kickoff
which I might be able to go to that it's
my birthday. So that's in Fort Lauderdale and they always
have a networking event on going there and she has
a whole bunch of programming happening, so I was on.
I was kind of like one of the main people
for the Flow Film Festival selection committee and jurist as well.

(42:50):
And as far as running film festivals, I helped to
run the super Con Film Festival that was happening for
like six years I think, my friend Kurt and I,
so that was all like sci fi, some different types
of films, superhero it was a mix. And then we

(43:12):
left there and we went to Spooky Empire in Orlando
and ran that for I think four years, which was
a horror film festival, so I'm kind of known in
the horror realm because of that, and just he and
I helped select whatever was shown. I was out there
talking to the people every year. And then when he

(43:33):
decided he didn't want to do it anymore, so we
gave it to this great couple Aleia and Brendan who
took it over, who were amazing, and they kept me
on because I used to always do moderate a panel
of female filmmakers, so they kept me on.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
It was one year or two to do that and
still do the moderation of the panel. This year they
decided that I think she probably did it. I'm not
positive what they did win a different direction this year.
So yeah, I did all that as well. So any things.
I'm exhausted.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Well, I'm sorry. It's my turn now Rage Fire by
the South Florida w and then my book. Listen from
the microphone. And by the way, when there's a second one,
I'm looking at my editor right in front of me.
I'm gonna peeed you with a lot of hay and
we're gonna both eat it real well, and we're gonna

(44:29):
be meeting and doing a lot of other things. This
was just beginning, all right. Question number one, You ever
been offered an opportunity to do voiceovers.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I've done a lot of voiceovers.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Actually, yeah, okay, I have.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yes, movie called seventy three Minutes. I was in Haunting
of hillt was Haunting, Oh God, Haunting of Whalley House
with Jose Apprentice as the nine one one operator. I
was in a movie called Trap. I was several others
that I was in and I did it right with

(45:01):
my laptop in my closet because I have so much
chunk in my closet. It's like a sound barrier, it's
like a sound room. But I'm definitely open for more voiceovers,
and that's something that I would I would love to do.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Well. At the end of the broadcast, they're going to
everybody on how do you get a hold of you
have the voiceover? So right, I'm not done yet. Now
with my turn, I just want to hear your story.
I still can't believe you did Cereal killing. That's somebody
like you doing sah. I look at you as a
nice it is a woman doing that. Really, seriously, tell

(45:37):
me some of your in your mentors that you've had
along the way that have helped you get to where
you are now. There had to be a few special people,
but we're going to leave one of them to the end,
and you know who I'm talking about, so I don't
mention that individual's name at the moment. Please.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Well, when I first started out, I did an acting
class with Bill Smith. He's no longer with us also,
but he was he was my best teacher. He was
a great acting teacher and he was in Colorado and
that class was wonderful because we kind of became a
family where we would go to everybody's performances and we

(46:16):
would film whatever the scene was. He gave us a
lot of background material on Stanislavsky and Meisner and and
different acting gurus, and we would do the scene a
scene studied class basically is what it was, and he
would film it and then we would watch them and
he would give us critiques and then redo it. So

(46:38):
that was really great, and I've had a lot of
other acting, great acting classes since then. Gosh, it put
me on the spot here with with mentors. Oh what
you do.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Five ws in one age better than the two of us?

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Right, Yeah, that's right. I'm blanking out. This is terrible.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
You mentioned the key ones. I don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I want to mention Breck White. He's the person that
gave me my first gig at Talent Magazine. You know,
he really was instrumental with helping me get started and writing,
and of course Bill Heaton and I kind of want
to jump into who you want to talk about?

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well, you will give me a second couple of other
simple things. I know we both do. That's why I'm
saving the best for last. In the eyes of Vanessa Williams.
I always talk about time Tearfield Beach Observer. That's where
we met. You know, obviously were numerous roles. Wanted to
talk about each and everyone, but leave the Observer TV
for Natural Lead. That's a separate situation there.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
So when I started out at the Observer, which is
a local Deerfield Beach news, it was the newspaper in
Deerfield Beach which everybody still really misses, including mostly myself.
I started out as an assistant editor and I moved
my way up to editor and I worked there in
total eleven years, and basically I wrote a lot of

(48:18):
the content, but I also had a lot of columnists
and writers, including you in the sports realm, and I
was getting all the content, editing everything in addition to
writing my own, getting photos, putting all that together with
the graphic designer, you know, going over where I want

(48:39):
everything place, doing the layouts, all of that good stuff.
And then I would you know, run out and do
events all the time. And that brings me to the
being the Observer TV host, which was amazing. And I'm
going to mention his name now.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Was inevitable. Before you do that, Jay can't he put
his comments up? We have somebody really seriously, this is
what I'm known for a rate. So he loves that
the observers go back twelve camp and state. I couldn't
hold you back all away without mentioning this guy, but
I had to. But I do want to ask a
little bit about the Observer TV. What was so great
about it? I envy you for doing it, And I'll

(49:21):
say a little something about the Observer TV is when
I saw that management there. I won't mention names. I
just want to keep the idea of Observer TV and
his proper perspective. That's what gave me the idea to
take the online digital publication that we have here at
the at the Tribune and incorporate the podcast element, both

(49:41):
visual and audio. So that idea, which is in my book,
by the way, the one not the one you're gonna work.
We're going to both work on together. And that's where
I got the idea from the Deserver to do a
format that we do audio first and that visual and
of course the writing. So I got a lot of
Observer and I credit my time so elaborate a little

(50:02):
bit more where it was like doing the Observer TV
and then you can go ahead.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
We can. We actually have like two people that are
special mentions actually, and one of them that I'll mention
now is the person that was instrumental and basically everything
I have become, you know in more recent years, and
that was my boss and kind of one of my
best friends, Jim Lusk Okay, And unfortunately he's passed away

(50:29):
now and we still honor him once a year. That's
that's where I saw you last. At Christmas time, we
do a little cheers to Jim because he loved Duffy's
in Deerfield Beach, so we go there for his benefit.
But Jim and I would run out the door. He
was crazy, say breaking news, and he'd take his We

(50:52):
had this huge I still have the camera, this huge camera.
I can drag it over here. It's this big. I
could barely lift it. That he had several of them
and it was from like the nineties. And he'd run
out the door and I'd follow him with the cord
and everything, and we'd go to a fire or we did.

(51:12):
There was a pill mill that he actually was instrumental
in taking down the pill mill in Deerfield Beach because
we did investigative reporting with Diane when in there as
a customer or whatever she did, I don't know. And boy,
we did like food and wine events where I interviewed
all the chefs. Of course we did the parade. They

(51:34):
just had this last weekend Pioneer Day in Deerfield, and
I had to be there. It was tradition for me
to go and take pictures just for myself now pictures
and video. And every two seconds I was running out
in the middle of the street to hug the mayor
and the commissioners and and somebody from Deerfield Elementary and
you know, I know everybody. So but I used to

(51:55):
do that with Jim every year, and it's kind of
bittersweet because and I miss him every day. And we
had so much fun. He was nuts, but we had
a lot of fun. And there's actually a gem Lusk Award,
I don't know if they gave it out this year
for floats, because he really made that parade what it was.

(52:16):
He got somebody from Back to the Future, like you know,
one of those cars Delorian and somebody dressed up as
Marty McFly and Doc to come out. He got stormtroopers
like he would make all these calls and get all
these people to come to the parade, tons of people.
And he actually built many of the floats himself. And

(52:38):
every year he sponsored the Deerful Beach Little League and
he would build them afloat and all the kids would
pile on it and he would have breakfast for them.
It was really his baby, that parade. So and then
he would go and you know, film me, and it
was broadcast on live stream. Unfortunately, he did not pay,

(53:01):
like he didn't know he was supposed to pay a
bill or I don't know what happened, but almost all
of our everything got deleted, So like two hundred and
forty episodes got deleted. Except for the few things that
I had saved, it was all gone. Everything I did
for all those years is gone. So I have his

(53:22):
now that he passed away. I have his big cameras
and all the little tapes, but I don't have We
couldn't find the machine that translates the tapes, so it's
very difficult. If anyone has one, let me know. But
you know, I'm thinking maybe some of that stuff is
raw on those little tapes. So I have everything to

(53:44):
try to maybe save something from it. But a lot
of it's him, like skiing, going on vacation and stuff
with his family. But yeah, like he really again saw
something in me, and I became a host, you know,
because of him, And I went on to host many

(54:05):
events where I was interviewing filmmakers and I was I
had another show I was on that I was the
host that was Arts and Entertainment and I interviewed Burt
Reynolds and different people. So it all started with Jim.
And then, of course, can we transfer into the next

(54:26):
person we're going to talk about.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Yeah, you can't, but we have to go to the chatroom.
That's our obligation of the people that are supporting this program.
So okay, so let's go. Look, Candy ran at the
top will start here, and then you can go, yeah,
I know you too. I want to talk about him too.
I love the guy. When I just bought bought my
book there and talk about Jim, I'll put him up, Candy,
don't worry about it. I like that honor and the

(54:50):
inspiration post units say, without a doubt, I worked with
Jim for a while and he's certainly we worked well together,
no doubt about that. What is a pill mill?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
A pill mill Is. It was like pain pills that
people were coming from all over the place, Tennessee, different places,
and it was basically they were just handing out all
these pain medications kind of like a drug. It was
bad news and it was bringing a lot of bad
people into Deerfield and Jim busted. It was you know,

(55:20):
supposed to be like up, up and up, but it wasn't.
And they had, you know, crime tape in the middle
of Hillsborough and Jim had like a flat jacket type
thing that he I forgot what he was wearing was like,
you know, something saying media something. And they weren't going
to let him come to the crime scene. And the

(55:42):
chief in Deerfield said he's allowed in. It's because of
him that were here and this happened.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
So was there a BW bus of the Iranian terrorists?

Speaker 2 (55:54):
No, not in the parade.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
That's funny, Yeah, don't worry. That's what we got a
dress right, Oh no you didn't. Yeah, that's I don't
imagine how much stuff you would have had there. But
what it is, let's keep going for a chance you
can pay to have it done. There are places, Okay,
good to know. Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson. There's a name,
a couple of names out there for you.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I can tell you a story about that.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Yeah, go ahead, but you want to talk to him, Wait, Peter,
just go ahead and talk about.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Well I was at I think it was I think
it might have been Spooky Empire that I think could
have been super gone with Lonnie Anderson. I was hanging
out with Lonnie Anderson in the bathroom and just asking
her to know, how's your day going? And we had
a nice conversation. And I didn't know really the ins
and outs of her relationship with Bert that things had
kind of gotten really bad with them. I didn't know that,

(56:47):
so I said, oh, I'm seeing Burt next weekend. Well,
she didn't like that, and very shortly after she's like,
I have to go. And that was the end of that.
And then I told someone and they're like, oh, oh
my god, you know, why would you bring that up?
And I said, I didn't know. So that was kind
of funny. But I saw Bert right before he passed away.

(57:09):
A lot of people that I know were very good
friends with him, and I wish I would have done
acting classes with him, because he did them in Jupiter
for many years and I didn't why I get I
didn't want to drive. It was really ridiculous. But I
did get to interview him and I just asked him,
you know, what his something like, what his favorite movie was,
and he said this one or something. So I saw

(57:32):
the last movie that he did and it was it
was very difficult to watch because he was crying and
it was pretty sad.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Actually, did you once know that he owned a professional
team in Tampa called the Tampa Bay Bandits.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
I might have heard that before.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
I covered the band and Bandit ball in Tampa's a
good stuff. Now you can talk about Peter Ween, Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
I don't even know when I first met Peter. Peter,
like you, has had a show like you do on
w EI network and he was broadcasting day and night,
and he would show up at a lot of events
that I was at, and I was kind of his
go to person. If somebody didn't show up, he would

(58:18):
call me and I would be there. So I was
on his show. I don't know how many times that
I was on his show, and he used to call
me Supergirl. I liked myself as a wonder woman but
he called me supergirl, and you know, he was Peter
was the best. You know, we we were, like I said,

(58:43):
we're a lot of events together, and unfortunately he's no
longer with us, and we had a chance to interview
some big people and all the red carpets that we
were on and you know, hung out together. So it
was it's pretty sad to lose him.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Yeah, I want ahead and met him through a friend
named Lisa Bartolo, and you know her at all, and
then I met him. We talked a little bit and
we became partners the South Florida Tribune and Peter joined
forces at the WEI network, which is great, and we
started doing the sports Exchange and he helped me revive

(59:23):
my on air career. You know, it was hard to
get anything with local radio stations. But when I saw
internet radio that struck me. I had other thing about
the cameras, and we struck a partnership that was good,
but more importantly at the friendship and he's listed in
my book Lessons on the Microphone And you want to
talk about the greatest guys on the planet. I visited
him when he was sick and went to his funeral,

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and you want to talk about a one of a
kind individual. Peter Ween is definitely it. So we'll share this.
I'm going to share this show over to Rachel Wien
to let her know that we're going to dedicate the
show to Peter Ween because he's something that's really amazing.
And let me tell you, he spoke highly of you
a lot. I said, Yeah, I worked with Rachel over

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at the Deerfield Bicho, sirnal if he ever mentioned me
to you, but at all?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Really no kidding, Yeah, he told me that he was
working with you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
One of one of the big highlights was we got
to interview. It was me, him, Alan Darnay, who's also
no longer with us, and I think my buddy Cinema Dave.
It was four of us at on the patio at
Saber Cinema Fort Lauderdale, interviewing Karen Allen. Of course was
an animal house Indiana Jones, a lot of but great

(01:00:41):
mouse starman and that was really a thrill. Unfortunately, the
audio he taped it, the audio was so bad. I
have it and I was gonna post it, but it's
really crackly the audio. But I did put her in
my magazine. She was on my cover, and I did
keep in touch with her for quite a while. I

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haven't heard from her for a bit. But they had
a great animal house party that at a mansion that
we that Peter and Karen and all of us went
to that was really great where they showed animal house
That was really fun. But he and I went to
the Museum of Discovery and Science together and to an

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event there. He was just a great guy, really down
to earth and like me, he knew a lot of
a lot of big people and he would just talk
about anything and everything for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Let me tell you. We went to an event in Boca.
And what Peter is when I he has like a son, noed,
I get a couple of daughters. I believe. He ended
up getting me to wear this real goofy hat that
we took a picture of. And I'm thinking, you know what,
I'm only doing this for you because I don't wear
this thing. Yeah, come on, this bought because I love
the New York as bass bought all right, put it

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up and we took a pin that was applied. It
was a really great photo in every sense of the word.
And you know, look, as I do anything for him,
and I always did. I stayed in touch on all right.
So Jay's the question, what did you write Basics of
the Biz And what was your business biggest mistake or
risk that you took early in your career.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Again, like I said, I wrote Basics of the Biz
back in two thousand and one, and then I revamped
it and published it in two thousand and nine. I
made a lot of mistakes, and that's one of the
reasons why I wrote the book, because that way other
people won't make my mistakes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Hopefully.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I I really did make a lot of mistakes, and
I still do make mistakes, you know, I'm human. But
I was in a casting director workshop and I did
quite a few of those, and the person got up
and she shared this script. I've got this script for
you guys. I read one of the parts and I

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didn't think much of the script, but she liked me
in it, and if I remem recalling this correctly, she
was interested in me being in this part. And I
was supposed to go read, you know, like a callback
with her for it, and I didn't go.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
That ended up being the Katie Holmes part in Dawson Creek.
So that was a big mistake. Also, I saw a
script for another project that I thought, this is never
going to go anywhere, and I didn't go That was Scrubs,
which had what ten seasons, So I did a lot

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of that where I was like, ah, you know, this
is not going to go anywhere, and I didn't go
to it. That was some of the stuff I still
think about and kind of wonder what if I had
done that. Those are the things that come to my
mind off the bat that I did. I know I
made a lot of other mistakes, but definitely not for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
All right, Jay, you wants me no, where's that picture Scott?
Somewhere in my Facebook? I don't know. I'll see it
and I dig it up. I'll think about you and
try to get it to you have your email. This guy,
Jay's probably bought a few of my books. If that
was the nicest heart she'll ever meet. And I'll tell
you one thing, but he gets into a show, he
doesn't hesitate to go ahead and get into it, and
he's doing an awesome job tonight. He talks about Dawson's

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creaking Burt Reynolds. So anything you want to add to that, well,
that's kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
Like what I said, and I can't think of anything
else off the bat that was like a mistake that
I made. It Probably if I read my own book,
I'll probably find some more. And there's a couple of
things that have changed since I wrote the book, like,
for instance, like I have pictures of myself in here.
Back in those days, back in the day, headshots were

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black and white. These days their color. The unions SAG
and after were separate, now they're merged. So those are
two of the main things that have changed since I
wrote the book. Also, of course, there's the Internet now,
so there's a lot of casting opportunities online that weren't
available back then. In fact, when I was working for
the talent management company, we didn't have We barely got

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a computer around the time I was leaving. So if
an agent called us and said, you know, this is
the part I've got, This is you know what we're
looking for, I would go through the filing cabinet and
pull out it was a kid's talent management company, pull
out you know, headshots for whoever was you know, blonde,
you know, certain age group, whatever they were looking for,

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let's say, and then I'd put together a package in
an envelope, address it and mail it to the casting
director or the agent, whatever it was. And then we
had like agent workshops. We did a lot of parents seminars,
educating parents on the business. In fact, this is really funny.
Our office was across the hallway from Brett Ratner, who

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is a big time director who did Rush Hour and
a bunch of ton of other stuff. And one of
my I had two bosses. One of my bosses had
two little kids, and I was I was young, and
I was kind of the babysitter, so I was pushing
the baby down the hall back and forth and sorry,
Brett the baby. And I'd had all of these kids

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that would come in and we lined up waiting for
an agent, like we help them get an agent. We'd
have all the agents come in and I'd be like,
you know, you're gonna just sturb Brett Ratner, you know.
So that was kind of funny. There was a lot
of casting directors and directors and stuff in that building.
So it was right on Santa Monica Boulevard, and.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
I remember Santa Monica Boulevard all too. All right, let's
go back to Jay. I'm going to acknowledge some of
his comments. I'll read them to you a comment if
you feel free to do so, says you miss some
huge opportunities. Darn well was like, you don't have a
you didn't have a crystal ball. I appreciate you sharing
those though. All right, we'll keep it rolling. Let's take

(01:07:08):
it from mistakes for success as any movement in video
game voice acting things leveraging technology. I was shocked at
the acting in some of the recent video games. I
think you want to say about that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
I was in a video game actually as an Indian woman,
which probably would be frowned upon now, but they put
me and I god, I think it was called deos X,
possibly as a long time ago, but they didn't in
my whole makeup and they put you know, is it
called a bindi the little dot here? I'm not positive

(01:07:44):
I should know that. But yeah, I was an Indian
woman and my husband was known as Yogi and he's
actually famous now. He was yoga instructor also and I
took his class. Well now he is laughing Yogi and
he's famous on the internet and he's quite funny to watch.

(01:08:05):
But he was my husband back in that video game
or whatever that we did back in the day. I
also was in I was supposed to be at a
cartoon as a shark, so I was doing like a
New York accent shark, and it was this really interesting
technology from someone that did I'm not gonna I don't

(01:08:28):
think I can name too much, but he did a
really big popular shark movie that he was working on
I think is still in the works, this cartoon that
had to do with sharks, and there was a lot
of technology involved with everything that he was doing. So
those are two projects I can think of that involved technology.
And I also talked about some of the voiceover work

(01:08:50):
that I've done in the past.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Lest came moving through the comments, I have a policy.
I put everything up Sports Exchange will follow us. After
we get done. We're going to continue rolling with the
chat the top business. I don't care. I always sold
you that as long as this thing's rolling, that's exactly
what we're doing. We do not stop. No whine standing though, right,
hopefully not.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
You know, I got really lucky as far as acting.
I didn't have any problems with that yet, hopefully, but
I did. I was also a model, and I did
have some problems with modeling, and I've done like acting
seminars for kids and for everybody. And I've talked about

(01:09:36):
without giving too much detail, that if you're a parent
and you have a child, kind of warn them of
the dangers. I've done a lot of things that are
probably not the most safe, Like going to a casting
director or a director's house for an audition is a
little tricky, you know, probably not the best idea to

(01:09:59):
go by yourself as far as modeling, Going to someone's
going somewhere with someone and doing pictures by yourself is
not the smartest thing to do. I had some problems
with that. So yeah, well you have.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
Another fan here. You have another fan here named Brian Pettitt.
Like to you spell it? My middle name is that Wayne.
Thanks for joining us, Brian. There you go, Rachel. That's
how this show rolls. We keep rolling as the comments
come in, and that's when they go. And he reciprocates too, Jay,
it's great stuff. This is what we have here. No limits.

(01:10:38):
I don't put time limits on show until we know
that we're done. Great show tonight. Here leads to be
joined by Rachel Galvin, renowned actress and writer and of
course a very great colleague of mine and a very
good friend. Could be more than delighted to have Rachel
on and looking forward to doing more and more projects.
This you know sports Exchange will be will conclude no limits.

(01:10:59):
Rachel's been so great, have you on, But Candy goes
for a little more sprint Nation breaking in Rachel's going on,
everybody know how they get older and purchase her book.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Go ahead, Candy, you are listening to the South Florida
Tribunes YouTube channel with the South Florida Tribune Publishing Company
published a.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Book, Excuse Me.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
It's called Lessons from the Microphone, Tuning into the Enduring Wisdom.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
Of Visionary Leaders.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
It is written by your host, Scott the MotorCity Madmouth
Morgan Roth. It talks about his forty plus years in
the industry and how media has changed over that time.
There's actually a picture of Scott, a young Scott with
a young Muhammad Ali, and there's a couple other.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
Pictures in there too.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
You'll have to buy the book to see the other pictures.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
And they hear all kinds of stories.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
It is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, Google
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(01:12:15):
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Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
Back to you, Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Two more comments. Want to put off your Rach It
was du sex. That was a big time game, wasn't
it Damn Sex?

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Yeah, yeah, I told you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
My pronunciation on that was good. It is a good
Rachel is great here in the stories, and thank you
for taking to questions. And of course he talks about
having the book and Candy is a show, three Chicks
in a Pod and Chicks and Salsa my Dad or
with that said, Rachel want you to everybody know how
they can get hold of you by your book and
whatever else. They all want to know. You've made a
bunch of fans here on tonight, on all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Okay, I was gonna say. Also, I used to have
an audio podcast called Indie Streak on Blocktop Radio, which
is still available if people want to tune into that,
where I interviewed filmmakers. It wasn't video like yours, but
there was pictures and audio and I had like two
hundred some episodes and won an award for that too.

(01:13:40):
So that's Indie Streak, I N d I E Streak.
My magazine again is Independent Streak S t R e
a K Magazine dot com and my blog is Let's
Talk Magazine dot com. You have to put the whole web,
you know, uh website up there. There's another Let's Talk

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magazine in England, so sometimes that pops up on Google,
so you have to be careful. I'm on Facebook all
the time. You can't get me on Facebook. I also
have an in an Instagram where I post everything I'm doing,
Like everywhere every event that I go to, I do
a video. So if you really want to know day
to day what I'm up to. My Instagram is probably

(01:14:26):
the way to see everything, and that is writer Rachel
w R I T E R R A c h
E L nine six nine Okay, and you can friend me,
you know, like like the Instagram, that would be great,
and feel free to comment and message me there. I'm

(01:14:46):
on Facebook under my name as well. I don't put
as much on Facebook that as I do on Instagram,
but I do put a lot on there. And again,
my Basics of the Biz is under the time title
on Amazon Basics of the Biz, so you can check
that out and if you want signed copy, maybe we
can talk and I can send that to you or

(01:15:10):
however we do that so otherwise you can order from Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Rachel, It's okay. I'll give you all the time you
want to promote everything you are. That's what it's all about.
That's what great friends are for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
And let me just say that I'm really open to
acting work right now. I really want to do more acting.
So if there's any producers directors out there that are
looking for an actress, I'm looking to expand myself and
do different types of roles and voiceover acting. Of course,
I'm always available for writing work as well and hosting.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
So let me know, well, I would encourage you to
download this and let everybody know that you came on
this show no limits and what we've talked about what
your background is, because what you pretty much did tonight
is you had a audio visual resume about your impressive background.
So if you want to downloa all this, share it
on our YouTube channel, please do it in FN you needer,

(01:16:04):
they need a recommendation. They don't have to look any
farther than me. I'll be weren't happy because of our
our association with the Observer, and of course we've been
friends for a while and so forth. I couldn't be
happier than to have you on the show tonight. It's
been great in them and I hope it will have
an opportunity to bring on again. And one thing Jay

(01:16:24):
wants to ask, have you ever done any short films?

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
I do mostly short films. I've also done feature films,
so I've done a little bit of everything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
You know, Jay, But I'd like to cover the book
and look sharp, just you know. Penglin and Candy and J.
D Wyatt will be on the Sports Exchange tonight following
our broadcast. So, Rachel, thank you very much for being
on No Let hope you share it to everybody. But
I'm going to tell you it's been a very memorable
night being able to speak to one of my favorite

(01:16:54):
people of all time and more importantly a great friend.
And I always look forward to seeing the Observer. But
you and I need to get together way before the
Observer party, and we will. I will. I know your number,
you know my number. We message each other like brother
and sisters.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
What we do.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
So you to be Rachel, Well you're you're like a
You're a piece of my family. Is that you are,
and I'm so proud to have you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
All right, thank you so much, and thank you Candy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
All right, Well, anyways, that concludes this edition of No Limits,
So on behalf of Rachel Galvin. My name is Scott Morgan,
Rotomotive City, mad Mouth. Thank you for joining us, and
we will sports exchanges following No Limits. Take care, everybody,
have a good night. I hope you enjoyed this episode.
I have a lot of more things on my back
of tricks when it comes out out of the box shows,
and I was and we got a good one tonight.

(01:17:42):
Thank you very much, Rachel, thank you, Bye guys.