May 6, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 28 "Gerry!". Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor, Writer and Director Gerry Glennon. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening, and welcome to Titime. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea
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time joining me. That's right,it is Monday night. It is May.
We're in May, and yesterday itfelt like March. But it's May
sixth, and I'm so glad you'rejoining me tonight. And I'm gonna talk
about a couple of things on myweekend and get to my guests. I'm
so excited. Okay, So,first, happy eighty sixth birthday to my
mother, Jean Canistracy. That's rightthere. She is my beautiful mommy.
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She turned eighty six. She isin West Palm, Florida. She just
had her second eve replacement. Thiswoman is the bionic woman. She had
both shoulders replaced, both these bothhips. Is anything left to replace?
So happy birthday to my mom andshe'll be home God willing next month in
June. I also want to sayhappy, happy, happy birthday to Ronan.
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That is Look how cute this kidis. Look at this That was
his cake. He dismashed the cake. So Ronan is Raina Groene's grandson.
And I was there yesterday in abeautiful Babylon for his birthday, and we
were under this tent with heaters,thank god, cause it was so cold
and we're by the water, Sohappy first birthday. And the next picture
on my bat boy peepes who werethere, Diaz, Ralph Brocco is there,
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and we have Nick Singh was there, who I'm hoping to have on
the show soon, and our veryown Larry Davis was there and Calmine who
also helps Bobby out here and I'veworked with him a number of times.
So that was my That was mySaturday. Actually that's what I did Saturday.
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No, that was yesterday. I'msorry, that was yesterday. I'm
gonna work backwards. So that wasSunday, and then I came here Filemo
talk with Graz and Bobby and Ritchie. Saturday, my friend Charlie called me
up and he said, Hey,there's a place in Lindbrook that does piano
karaoke. And I was like,oh cool. He says, yay,
you get to sing with the piano. So it's at a place called Ground
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Central in Linbrook and they do itonce a month on a Saturday early from
four to seven. So we wentthere and then we went next door to
Taco Joe's had dinner. I loveimpromptu stuff because you just have so much
fun. And Friday night, Ireally just stayed home chilled and I was
studying lines because I have a fewrolls coming up that I'm very very excited
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about. All Right, that's it. Oh, and Murdered by the Mob.
Just to let you know, goto Murder by Theemob dot com.
We're doing two shows every month throughoutAugust, so we're actually doing one this
Saturday night on the eleventh. Ifyou're not doing anything, come on down
to the Audien Bar and say hello. It's like going to an Italian wedding.
Someone gets whacked and you got tofigure it out. You eat,
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seeing you danty drink. It's veryinto active. I'm really excited because I
have a friend who's here and we'vebeen wanting to do this for a while.
But she's an actor, she's adirector, she's a writer. Jerry's
here, Jerry Glenny, Hello,Hello, thank you, I'm good.
I'm good. How you doing becausewe work together, which we're going to
talk about a little later. Butyou know, I've been having people on,
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you know, from the cast,and and I'm glad this worked out.
So I want everyone to get toknow you and your story. And
you're not originally from the States.No, no, no, I immigrated.
I'm from Ireland, Ireland. Iwant to get there one day,
I really do. I'm from atown called Nina in County Tipperary, and
I immigrated back in eighty eighty three. Uh huh. I came here for
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a year as an no pair reallyyeah, yeah, and steady for a
year it's an no pair and livedhere, yes, yeah, flew in
on the Jet Plaine and I livedhere for a year and loved it and
knew. I as a kid,I always wanted to come to America as
yeah. Always, I remember,how did your family feel about that?
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About you leaving? And you werecame by yourself. I came by myself.
I graduated the equivalent to high schoolin June and I was on a
plane in October. But like Isaid, I knew as I knew at
a very very early age, Iwanted to come to America. I had
cousins who lived here and they'd cometo Irena to visit, and I was
fascinated by everything America. I alwayswanted to act. So do you remember
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the show Fame? Oh? Yeah, that was my show. I'd watch
that I'm like, that's the schoolI want to go to. Taxi.
I wanted to go over the fiftyninth Street bridge. Everything about America I
loved, so I remember telling mymother. I can still remember it.
I was I would say eleven ish, saying Mom, I'm going to go
to America. One day, you'llsee my name in lights. So they
encouraged it. They knew this iswhat she wants to do. My mom
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and my dad and they were verysupportive. And when it was time for
me to come, it was hardto leave. I mean it was I'm
one of two and I'm the oldest, yeah, and my daddy's girl,
and it was time for me togo, and I knew and they supported
it. They literally gave me thewings to fly. That's beautiful because my
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parents weren't that supportive. I wantedto go to high school performing arts also,
and they're like, you're not travelingto the city. What are you
crazy? And I was like,okay, but so obviously you stayed with
family. When family. That wasfor a year and I went back,
and then in eighty six I cameback and that's when I was like I
came back to live here to pursuemy acting to go to fame if I
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could find of which turned out tobe HB Studios. Yes, Yes,
I found HB Studios, and Istudied with the great William Hicky and I
again it's funny wings. I hadcredit Bill. His class was every Friday
night and we'd go in on thetrain and just live in it. And
I was living my dream. Butwhere were you actually living? And I
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was living then. I was livingin Queen's, Okay. I came back
in eighty six. I came backfrom Okay, and I was landed in
Queen I landed in Queen's and standin Queens and I studied in HB with
Bill. And he was an amazingteacher, amazing actor, amazing teacher.
And we had a connection because heis Irish connections, and of course,
being Irish, I reminded him ofhis relations. He just became very good
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friends. You keep him my mentorand my friend. I worked with him
on an off Broadway reading like hegot me in Wow, And I met
him one day one of the firsttimes, after a few classes, I
met him on the stairway in HB. I was going up to the office
and he was coming down and hejust went, Jerry, you're acting.
You're as free as a bird.And I carried that with me to this
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day. Yeah, he gave methat confidence. But you are an amazing
and I'm blessed to have worked withyou. We had a we had a
very funny scene which, like Isaid, we're going to talk about later,
but you're you're you, you knowyou really you really lose yourself and
your character and and and it's youtake us on a journey, you know.
Yeah, I like, I lovestorytelling and it's in my genes being
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Irish, and I love to tella story, and I love the backstory
and I love the process. Wehad so much fun leading up to the
Graveyard Medium Like all our rehearsals everytime, we had so much one our
scene, we had so much fun. We developed a backstory that only we
knew, and that's what it's allabout. And then you just you take
all you do, all the homework, and then you just yeah, release
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it, release it, let itgo. Yeah. You know, no
matter what character you get to play, whether it's you know, an evil
person, an old there's a partof me in every character and there has
to be right. Yeah, yeah, I say, even if it's down,
you find it. You have toeven if it's down to just if
like I've played, you know someone'sreally mean, a nasty Well we have
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the same color eyes, you knowsomething, just the connection, just the
connection. And you also again Ithink you told me this when we work
together, you do you pick one? You pick one color? Tell me
about that. Yeah. I pickedmy character, like I don't know,
she will have a favorite color andmaybe a favorite song, and so I
would wear something or a piece ofjewelry. Like for Lady Cat, I
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had a very special sunflower that wasvery very subtle. Yeah, and I
knew I had it on me andI didn't know if it's showed opened the
camera, but it meant something tomy character. And her favorite color was
yellow, right, and she woreyellow dress and I wore the yellow dress.
And so I always picked something personablefor my character. Yeah. But
color is color especially yeah yeah,yeah, yeah, she likes this color.
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So you studied and then you dida number of plays at Manhattan Repertory
Theater. Yes, and you've actuallywritten a few plays that you performed as
well. So let's talk about whichone because I have I have I have
two here, which one was thefirst one? You're the first one.
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It's so funny because in Manhattan RepertoryTheater is amazing and I'm so grateful to
have Well, there's nothing like lifetheater. No, there's not. And
it was great to be a partof that. And I did a lot
of plays with at there, andthere was one in particular that I was
like, I wasn't feeling it.To be honest with you, I knew
I met her, okay, shehad a connection with her, but I
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wasn't feeling it. But I metthe commitment and I you know, I
did it. Yeah, But itwas then I realized, wait a minute,
I have stories I can tell.So I wrote this story about called
Forget Me Not, Forget Me Not, and it was about a mother and
son and the relationship between you andyou have a son and I have a
son, Jack. I wrote it, I wrote, and did it and
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you directed it. Yes, Yes, I did all three wow. And
I wrote it with my friend JosephAnthony Smith. In mind, I knew
Joe. I'd worked with Joe beforein the stage theater in Merrick. We'd
done dance and at Lunasa, whichis one of my favorite plays. And
he was Tinker and I was Kateand me and Joe just connected. So
when I wrote Forget Me Not aboutmother and son, I had Joe in
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mind, and thank god he wasable to do it. It was a
short. It started out it wasa short. We started into a competition
we won. Me and Joe putour heart and soul into it. So
over the pandemic we meet both togetherwe developed into a full length. Yeah,
so I'm trying to shop that around. Okay, I really want to
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tell the rest of the story,and so does Joe, so we're working
on that. Yeah. Yeah,How long did it take you to write
that? Forget the short? Was? I want to say, a few
days, but I kind of knew, like it was the bond between a
mother and a son, but themother had Alzheimer's, but the bond is
so strong that the son and theycould they could connect. Yeah, and
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it was very I'm very proud ofit, very beautifully. Don't like when
when Jack would talk, I wasin that mode and then kind world,
my own world, but I knewwhat you're saying, and then when I
spoke, I came out of myworld. But he was in freeze mode,
so the audience could write, ohI love that, yeah love,
I'm extremely proud of this one.And yeah, so that the short took
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me a few days because I knewexactly again the story, the beginning short
short. It was about ten twelvepages, and then me and Joe over
the pandemic. We developed it forweeks on zoom obviously. Yeah, yeah,
and we have a full n Yeah. Well that's what I was going
to ask you what you did overthe pandemic, but you're answering it now.
That and my poetry. That's whenI started poetry as well, because
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I was like you right, you'rewe were like I need, I need
to perform. I need, andas an artist, it's like it was
brutal. It was brutal. Itwas horrible, you know, not being
able to go out there. SoI started writing poetry and I started putting
it up on Facebook, and Istarted doing skits, you know. So
yeah, wow, all right,listen, we're going to take my first
break, but don't go away morewith Jerry and when we come back after
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this wonder Woman was everything to littlegirls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
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renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home, a self
care routine makes me feel my best. I'm very proud of the difference that
we're making. It. To seethat impact in my community inspires me to
work even harder for everyone around me. All right, is everybody having your
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time? That's what I thought.All right, So we are live Paradise
Studios from New York give you selfingrounds with clus coming out tonight. Well,
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Hi there, Teresa, It's jianYorke from General Hospital. I am
just checking in because apparently you havea great talk show called Tea Time on
Strong Island TV. I want youto have continued great success and have a
lot of fun. It sounds likeyou're having a lot of fun, and
that's pretty much the key to everything, isn't it. So continued success.
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I'm proud of you. Have agreat day, Teresa. Bye, Hey
everybody, welcome back to Tea Time. I'm giving you some shout outs people
who watch them, So shout outto Greg d Philippa watching in Florida.
Hello, my friends and Ann andBruno and Carmel and Maria is watching good
to way too, girl. SoI'm with Jerry Glennon and she's an actor,
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a director, a writer. Andbefore the break, when we're talking
about how she immigrated here from Irelandand stayed a year, then went back
and came back permanently and studied atHB Studios, and she wrote and directed
and performed a beautiful play between motherand son call Forget Me. Now she's
gonna make it to a feature hopefully. Yeah, hopefully, hey girl,
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we'll go make it happen. Ithappen. Then you also did My Moment,
okay, which is a one womanshow that you also wrote and started.
Tell me about that, okay,I again, I had to get
my moment? Is I love thetitle? Yeah? Me too? Right.
My Moment is literally about this womanwho is struggling broken marriage, trying
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to get her well we've won't beenright, right right, trying to get
her life back into some kind oforder. And it's again it's a short,
okay, and it's it starts withthe woman me in the bathroom,
sobbing and like trying to hold itin, and she literally looks in the
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mirror and goes, how did Iget here? And then and knock comes
at it we all have and notcomes at the door, and it's her
son saying, Mom, I needbatteries and you have to pull it together.
So it's about a woman struggling butbeing strong. You know. That's
saying you don't know how strong youare till you have to be. And
it's all about her struggles. Butshe reflects back on how she got here,
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her her relationship, how it ended, what emotionally, how it's you
know, really messed her up withit. So I did that again at
Manhattan Rep. Thank you Manhattan Rep. And I got a lot of great
feedback. But ironically, one ortwo nights I performed it like over I
think two weekends, and like Isaid, and I'm curled up in a
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ball on stage, very minimal stagesetting, just me, and I say,
like what I want, Like I'mhere now, but this is where
I want to be. I wantto be out at this rut. I
want my moment. I want mymoment. Yeah, and my moment would
be someone hold my hand, someonesomeone to take care of, you know.
So ironically, once or twice mencame up to me and said,
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I know exactly what that feels like, and I'm like, so you don't
know. That's the beauty of it. You're telling a story, but you
don't know how. And I waslike, oh, wow, thank you
for telling me. He goes I'vebeen in that situation and another man told
me my wife. You're you're talkingabout my wife? Wow. Yeah.
So you're like, well, Ithink we've all been there in that moment.
Well, yeah, one way orthe other. Where you're going how
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did I writ How did I gethere? And how did I get out
of here? And where am Igoing at? Yeah? Where am I
going to end up? Yeah?Yeah, I know it's crazy. You
also did something called Past Perfect,which I am I correct. It was
written by Rita Lewis, and youplayed Susie again Manhattan Rap. That was
a great piece. That was anamazing play. And we did it for
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a year, every every month.That's a commitment, yeah, but it
was. And again it was aboutSusie and her girlfriend, her long lost
girlfriend, and she has a daughterand the long lost girlfriend shows up at
her door after many many years,and again the connection between these two women,
the push and pull, the daughter. It was a beautiful piece.
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I would have loved to do iteven more we did it for like I
said, a year long run.I mean every month, we do it
right, and it was an amazingpiece of theater and it was beautifully written.
Yeah, so how you know doinga character that long? How attached
did you get to? Susan veryvery and and Jen Perrera Perrero who played
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my girlfriend, We became very veryclose. And you know, and Erica
who played my daughter. We werejust but we were family. It's like
a family. And then in thedressing room you get all, you know,
so excited to just go back outtell it again. And then every
night again, you know, livetheater. Every night, Yeah, something
different or again, so the audiencewill react to something in a different spot
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that they didn't last night. Andit's just it's true. That's like when
we do Murdered by the Mob.Yes, it's fun and it's yeah,
you never know, you know,it's life, it's life. We had
a scene where me and Jen,the two characters, got high on pot.
And this was the funnest thing todo because you just let go,
you know, because the audience arewatching you no matter what you do.
They're already like, she's hot,you know, right, so they're only
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they're in the moment, they're inthe moment with you, and you can
write when you feel that, youfeel that you're bringing them in that great
Yeah, you just so every nightthat that's particular scene would change from like
you know, we'd bring it high, we'd bring it low. Yeah.
Yeah, but that was a greatThat was a great play. I love
that play. That's great. Andthen you've you know, you've done a
lot of short films. Yeah,back in twenty sixteen. And before I
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start reading this, do you haveany any things that you've done as far
as maybe commercials or any kind ofbackground extra work before you jumped into this.
No, I started, I startedjust a short film late, like
I loved it. It was twentysixteen, sixteen. It was my Community
Immunity and it was a short.You played Marta. Yeah, and she
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was a capital in Auschwitz. Yes, we have a picture of that.
Actually, you know what, Let'sgo through. Let's go through some of
the picks. I think that's theWell, that's your first headshot. Wow,
look at that. Yeah, thatis your first headshot. Now let
me ask a question. Did youtake that in Ireland or did you take
that when you were in New York? That was here in New York.
But that was me like fresh offyou know when I first came over.
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That was yet sure you haven't changedthem? Yeah? Yan okay, And
that was this was another character.This is a funny story. This play
was three characters, two women anda psychiatrist. And my characters believe that
my husband was cheating on me withthis other woman. Long story short.
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The actress who played the other womanleft very the week before opening. What
and again, So my director Dennissaid, Jerry, you can do this.
Wow. So I had to playtwo characters. Oh I've done that.
Yeah that boy. Yeah. Soso again I was like, okay,
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I had to make a connection.So I believe that was Skiitzo.
So when I went to him asthe real Christine, you know, and
he's cheating on me by this woman. And then I came in as the
woman, so I was like,you know, and I'd be like chim.
So it was again, it wasgreat, but it was like live
theater. I'm like, yeah,but a week before opening, he's like,
Jerry, you instead of getting someoneelse because I knew the parts.
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I'm like yeah, but it isfunny, but it's challenging. It's very
challenging, but it's very very funbecause I did. I played two parts
in bat Boy. I played raisedPuerto Rican Aunt. In the beginning where
I find my son shot dead.It's very dramatic and traumatic. And then
in the and then I come outas this ditsy blonde and I leave everyone
laughing, which is great. Andthen one night he needed someone to play
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the the woman that raised Dad cheatedon, and he's like, you need
to play the other woman, andI'm like what So I was like okay.
And then, like you said,you get you get thrown in it.
You just you just go with it, just go with I did years
ago, real quick, I didit. I was part of thirteen repertories.
Yeah yeah, and I was inthe Children Show every Saturday. My
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favorite, all time favorite actor isGabriel Byrne. I love him, love
him. Met him on the streetUnusual Suspects, Yello, Oh my god,
I love him. I love himlike he used to be in a
soap in Ireland when I was akid, Like you know, I grew
okay, so real long story short, I met him on the street and
he had his son Jack likewise,and he was bringing Jack to see the
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children's show on Saturday. Oh wow, and I'm like, okay, I
called my mother because I'm like,Mom, I guess who coming to see
you? Gabriel Wards, so hewas in the audience. I used to
play the scarecrow. It was ascarecrow who was throwing a birthday party for
the pig. The kids would bringimprov that morning. They're like, Jerry,
the Foxes in here. You haveto do Celia as the fox and
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the Foxes part because it was improp. But I'm like, that's right.
My goal was to get his sonup. Okay, and you did.
Yeah, but like stepping into anotherrole, it's exciting. It exist.
And then what's the next picture wehave? Oh, this is enchanted April,
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and this is Rose. And againwe did this with Bare Bones Theater
in Northport a couple of years back, and I loved her. And again
another grave production and another great character, and she evolved. She was like
a caterpillar. He played which itlooks like sisters. That was mother,
reverend Mother in nonsense. And againthis this was at Merrick Theater. The
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stage that it was called the stage, yes, the stage. But again
last minute they called me and they'relike sure, we need the mother,
but she had a solo and I'mlike, sure, I'll do it for
you, but I can sing,But I'm like, I don't go from
you. I can sing, butI'm not karaoke hear people. Yeah,
that's but this rever mother has thisbeautiful so again I'm like, Okay,
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let me connect with I'm like,she thinks she's a great singer, so
I come out every night in thespot. Rightly, she thinks she's a
great It worked, but it wasShe was fun to play and it was
fun to wear the habit because youdon't have to worry about your hair.
This this this is a character thatmy friend Mike Pharaoh, sorry Mike,
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Mike developed. Her name is Colleen, and I've worked with Mike continuously for
a couple of years. We havethree films together and we're currently worked on
another one. That's it. That'sthe last one. Yeah, oh that
one. The nurse that is that'sthe last one. Nurse Ratchet. Oh
you did one full over with theCuckoos. Yes her again at Marray Theater.
What a great can she? She? The beauty about this woman is
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I got booed every night. Acurtain call isn't that great? Every night,
I don't like if I don't getbooed, I didn't do it right,
Oh my god. And people willcome up to me afterwards and go,
we're sorry, we booted. I'mlike, no, no, no,
no, no, no, thankyou. Yes, yeah, that's
I love that. But I lovedher. I loved playing her. And
again that play was lightning in abottle of the cast. We did it
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at Merry Theater again back in thatwould be twenty fifteen as well. Like,
that's a long time. Actually tenyears ago we had her tenure,
like on Facebook, you know,ten years ago. Yeah, yeah,
wow, that's great. Oh mygosh. You know what else, we
gotta take my up. We gottatake my next break. We gotta take
my next break. All right,don't go away because it's so much more.
We're gonna talk about all her shorts, the film that you worked on
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together. So we'll be back rightafter this. Don't go away. Wonder
Woman was everything to little girls,especially that looked like me. She stands
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for being a voice for people thatneed a voice. My organization renovates homes
for people with disabilities, and whenI come home, a self care routine
makes me feel my best. I'mvery proud of the difference that we're making,
and to see that impact in mycommunity inspires me to work even harder
for everyone around me. Hi,I'm Georgia Rose, founder of Zankuda.
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You can watch me on the soulSpace podcast every Friday at noon on Channel
twenty for spiritual guidance. And asyou all know, that is how I
first opened into my own psychond guesswas through the angelic realm astrology. Because
we've got Mars and the Sun togetherin Scorpio, which creates a lot of
combustion. In the astrological world,we call it a Kazini and taro.
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When the four cups right tide up, it means we have a lot of
choices to make, and we're notlooking at what's really being divinely given to
us. We're too busy in thebusyness of the choices to really see the
divine intervention of divine timing and finddied where the place. Watch the soul
Space podcast. I ain't doing Souththe Voice today. Why are you watching
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me? You should be watching TeresaKindistracy Tee Time with Teresa Kinda Stracy Farrel.
It makes sure you follow Teresa onFacebook. Tee Time with Teresa kind
of Stracy fowl. We'll see youthere the way you say my name.
Hey, everybody, welcome back toT Town. So glad you're joining me.
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My good friend Jerry Glennon is here. She's a writer, a director,
and an actor and we work together. And I'm just so excited that
she's finally doing this. Shout outto Sherry, Sherry, who's watching.
And I also wanted to say RescuingFamilies. That's that's Gina and the Dove
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commercial, And unfortunately they won't lether mention her organization. But Gina and
her husband Vinnie run Rescuing Families,which is a nonprofit organization which renovates homes
for people with disabilities. Oh wow, they are beautiful people and they both
have people on both sides of thefamily with disabilities. And they started Rescuing
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Families years ago. And they doa big like yard sale which is coming
up, which I'll promote and I'lllet you know what day that is.
And they do bingo and they doall these fundraisers for this great, great
cause. When you get a chanceto look them up, they're beautiful people.
I love them deally, So Jerryyou can find on Facebook under Jerry
Glennon McKeever on Facebook and on Instafind her It's Jerry It's g E R
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R Y twelve ninety six on Instaand also check out her website. She's
got a beautiful website which is Jerryglennon dot com. Lovely, thank you.
It's great. So I also readon Facebook you have a favorite saying
called do what you love and lovewhat you did. That's like your favorite
saying. It is and you'll alwaysfeel like you're never working like a day
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in your life, and you're you'reyou're you know, you always have a
smile on your face. We knowwhat I'm happy? Our happy happy,
you know, performing and doing whatwe do. That's where we were happy
and we shine people. We shine. And I have to say, are
you Are you okay? If Itell them how well we're gonna be?
Yes, okay? So I likelisten to it, but did everyone hear?
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I'm like, is it okay?O? If I tell them how
well we're gonna We were born innineteen sixty four, girl, we look
damn good. Something you're going tobe sixty next month, yeah, June.
What June fourteenth? June fourth?Oh, bro, we're doing something
(30:19):
about sixty es together. Yeah,definitely. When I turned fifty, like
Lenny Cravis is the same age asus, and he's good. He lets
good too, But when he turnedfifty, he went he was on something.
He goes, fifty never looks sogood, and I'm like, I
am carrying that with me, andthat was my whole thing right now,
(30:41):
and sixty never looks so going tobe sixty September sixth. I'm a virgo
anyway, So what am? AndI was watching QVC because I have a
problem, you know, And QBChas this one show. It's called Over
fifty and Fabulous. Okay, Ithink I've heard of it right, and
it's it's gets towards women over fifty. So they have these shirts over fifty
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and Fabulous. So my daughter makest shirts and I said to her,
I'm gonna I'm gonna order one ofthese shirts. I said, unless you
want to make one for me.She goes, Ma, you're only gonna
be fifty for like another yeah whatthree four months? No? No,
no, So she goes, I'mgonna make one that says six over sixty,
Well because technically sixty in one daywhatever, over sixty and sensational.
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Oh I love that. Okay,that's not sexy. She goes, no,
sensational, it's not like all right, so yeah, she we're gonna
one get one form go out inthem. So yeah, I just want
to mention that, yeah, becausewe can never looks so good. I'm
telling you we are getting better aswe get over one. I smell god.
I look at my picture when Iwas like forty, and I'm like,
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wow, I do. I thinkwe're both aging beautifully, but also
with mentally we're twenty five. Mentallywe're definitely twenty foe. Definitely. I
loved being twenty seven for whatever reason. Twenty seven was my age. I
love twenty seven, so twenty fivetwenty seven will stay there. So,
yes, we have the birthdays comingup. I'm very excited about that.
So getting run to you, toyou I was a great house to that.
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And we're both in blue tonight.Yeah, my set is blue.
Everything's blue. So anyway, solet's get back to your short films that
you went in. Okay, sotwenty sixteen you did Immunity, which was
a short you played Marta. Iplayed. You know, we were showing
you picks. I got the hairchopped, yes, popped off, and
I thought I had that. Wellwhatever we did. Twenty seventeen, you
did Bloom, which was a shortyou played Miss Prescott. Yes. Bloom
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was my friend Mary Beth, wholives directly lived directly across the street from
me. Her Son was still studyingcinematography and okay, that was one of
the short film and I'm driving homeand Mary Beth like, Jerry, can
I can I help him with short? And I did. And then when
he did Bloom, he invited meon as the teacher and I loved it.
(32:52):
Yeah, so that was and itwas a great Yeah. I hear
that picture you're at the talk board. Yeah, it's the truck. Yeah.
And that was right after Immunity.So you see my hair, I
asked, really, really true,because I had to. My hair was
chopped pure. You're brave because youknow when they were doing maisl you know,
I kept putting in for it,but they kept saying, be prepared
to get your hair cut. Theywanted your hair above your shoulders in a
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certain way for the period. AndI'm going no, now, I don't
want to cut my hair. Mygirlfriend who Danielle. Shout out to Danielle,
I'm hoping to have her on theshow. She was actually in season
two, episode one, and sheplayed the mobster's wife. Now she didn't
have any lines, but she wasa featured extra. She was in that
entire scene the whole time, goingback and forth from the husband to the
kitchen sink and whatever. She pinnedher own hair up. Yeah, you
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can do that, and I waslike, you see, you don't have
to chop it all. But inyour case, I know you need a
certain certain Yeah. And I meanthey literally because I was, you know,
in the concentration gap there. Sowhen it grew out, that's why
I to to do something. Iwent to my Yeah, I'm helping the
bond came in to play it justbecause it was it was yeah, no,
(34:00):
I know you kind of what hairgrows, It grows? No,
thank god. Yeah. All twentyeighteen you did Staying Ahead, which was
a short and you played Pageant Flannery. Yeah Flannery. Yes. That was
a great one too with h LeeKwinski wrote it and it was a great
cast. And again a wife whoher husband was a gambler and he gambled,
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wow, yeah, relate to thatand yeah. So we filmed that
in two days. My scene wasin a day and it was a great
It was great, awesome, greatpiece twenty twenty. Okay, this I
wish I got to see which switch? Okay, Okay, you played Roxanne,
(34:50):
Yes, you wrote it and youdirected it. Yes, and with
Jennifer Pierre, Yeah, from Anhattanrab and that was under the girlfriend's started
product. We formed a girl,So tell me about that. Okay.
So Switch again was about two women, and again you'll see the common theme
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this one. Roxanne was struggling andagain broken marriage, what have you,
and was going to her therapist.But this particular day she went to turn
on the bathroom light switch and theelectricity was cut off, so she knew
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in that moment she had to makea switch. So there's a double.
Yeah. So me and Jen wroteit together, and it's like it's like
this, because you know, whenyou're making your own movie, location is
important, lighting, lighting, SoI knew I wanted it to be a
certain well and very you know,tight, like like tight foxy and me
(35:53):
and Jen rote it and again,peace, I'm very very proud of and
ironically Dan, who you mentioned BloomYes, yes, So it shows you
that I knew I wanted to workwith Dan. Dan had since graduated from
half Stress. I knew it comesfull circle, full circle. So I
contacted Dan and he said yes,and he and Jeff Kim unseen and it
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was the four of us and wedid it in I think we did it
in two days. And it wasbeautiful. It had a beautiful right.
It had a few beautiful write upsyes, yes by some critics. Yeah,
very proud of it, very veryproud of it. That's great.
I think you're gonna maybe resurrect it. We talked about like, yeah,
(36:38):
we have an idea for like thetwo characters because because when Roxanne comes to
say, you know, I can'tcome anymore. I can't afford it.
This is my last session. I'mcoming to tell you. Right, It's
like we've talked about this, youneed to make a change, and I'm
like, I know, but rightnow, you know, right, So
we talked about how we would seethe characters a couple of years from out,
(37:00):
like did rock Sande make a switch? I like that, you know,
stuff like that. So we havetalked about and we'd love. Yeah,
very cool, okay, And thenhere we go, Maria. We
did the Graveyard Medium together. Yes, written and directed by Maria, and
we have a pick of the poster. There's a poster Graveyard. I love
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that poster. I love it too. And then the next pick is actually
there were you and I. Idon't want to happy with you. And
I played Jeane and you played Ladycan Lady Ken. Yeah, I'm not
happy with you. It's a greatscene. I actually I should have shown
during my last commercial break. Ithink I might send Bobby the video the
(37:45):
clip of our scene because we reallyshould. We really should show it.
We really should. But Graveyard Mediumwas a beautiful short written by Maria,
and uh Maria. Maria said tome, I want you to play this
character Jeane, and we need youknow she she knows that I do stand
up. Maria's come to see medo stand up. And she wanted me
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as the comic relief in the film. And it was a great cast and
we had so much fun. Likeyou said, we had rehearsals at Frank
Fayela's house. Shout out to Frankand and and and Michael and just everyone
and everyone involved involved beauty. Sojust yeah, just everyone was just so
beautiful. And we filmed that AlmongIsland and we had a great time doing
(38:30):
it. Yeah, we really did. And I remember me and Maria scouted
out the graveyard. Yes, andit's like you're thinking, oh, I'm
gonna film in a graveyard, Andwe scouted out the graveyard. We scouted
out where Lady Cat would sit andright, we looked for certain like we
really did research me and Maria forthe location. And you know when we
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filmed in the graveyard, there wassuch a sensus yes, yes, yeah,
peace very peaceful, peaceful and whatI love is like until the landscapers
yeah yeah. And in the backgroundlike, oh my gosh, where we
placed I do this beautiful that Mariawrote beautiful mom monologue, Oh my god,
(39:13):
I love it. And I'm talkingabout my my husband Joe. And
in the film, we didn't know. Me and Ray didn't notice till we
watched it on screen. Behind methere's a gravestone with Joseph Oh really yeah,
oh wow, and we were interesting. I didn't pick that up.
No, we didn't either. Wedidn't see it till we saw it.
Well, speaking on screen, weactually we actually showed that it Nilift and
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we have a pick of you andI, You and I yep at Nilift.
I don't know Bobby back there?Hello, we got a pick of
you and I at nilif there weare Jerry Fareddy's. And you were nominated
yes, correct, yes, forBest Actress. And why don't I just
remember if the cast was nominated tofor best on Sign. Remember I can't
(40:00):
nominated. I know you nominated.We were very very excited, but you
actually have one in the past bestActress, So tell me about that.
Okay. Well, like I said, the character earlier, Colleen who developed
into the MA was with Mike forher. I've worked with Mike. I've collaborated
with Mike for years, and we'vedone McLean Avenue, We've done Love Letters,
(40:22):
we've done Last Temptation of Mary,and now we're working on the latest
project is called wake Up. Butin Keen Avenue I won, and Love
Letters I won, and for Switch. How exciting is that? Though?
And Mike, Mike won a coupleof awards for his writing and for so
you won for Switch, for Roxanne, I won for Switch, Okay?
(40:43):
Cool? So yeah, so thatwas something that that is great and I
think, actually, if I'm thatmistake and Maria has put it into I
think another film festival, so wemight be there's one coming up in May,
there's one, there's one in Ithink it's June. There's one in
too, is there. Yeah,it's coming up. Maria's okay, Oh
that's some Kathina Michio's. I thinkthe Venus, Yes, yes, yes,
(41:06):
yes, And I think we're nominatedas an ensemble. I think,
yeah, so it's coming up.It is I think nineteenth. Eh,
it's all. We'll have it onFacebook. Yeah, yeah, yah,
we'll be putting stuff up. Andthen twenty twenty three, were you in
Designated? Which was designated? Theradio play? That is the radio play.
(41:28):
Yeah, it was performed at ComicCon again with Leek wrote it and
Mark Turrow it's his comic book.And that was an experience, first of
all, to do a radio play. It's a lot of fun. Yes,
it's a lot of but it's verydifferent, but it's so much fun.
And we did it. We startedat it at we did it at
the library here out in here onLong Island, and then we cut into
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Comic Con in New York and thatwas amazing. Wow. To be part
of that. Yeah, it wasreally fun. I went there once.
I was there once and that wasmy first time. Yeah, I like
in another world. Yeah, butit was yeah, so that people take
it very seriously, very yeah.Yeah, Oh my goodness. It's like
I know right, it's like whatokay, all right, listen, we're
gonna take my last break. Butyou have to say there because when we
(42:14):
come back, we're gonna watch aclip Hiveyard Media. All right, let's
do it. Okay, So,uh, don't go away. We'll be
back right after this. It's notwill we inacting? I'm gonna find it.
(42:39):
Wonder woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
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making, and to see that impactin my community inspires me to work even
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What's my show about? I interviewpeople in the entertainment industry, producers,
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know? Tersa Barrow? And whoyou know? And who Jia BARROWO Terresa
Barrow? Who's Teresa Barrow? Yeah? I love you sending it. Hey,
(44:07):
Hey, hey, we're back.We're back. I'm still looking for
that video. I'm here with JerryGlennon and here it is messages. I'm
sending it to Bobby right now andhopefully this is going to go through and
work. Now. We cannot sendit's too big, it's two minutes.
I don't know. We're gonna tryit. We're gonna try to find it.
We'll try to find it. I'veshowed it in the past. I
forgot who was here, and itwas probably I showed it all right,
(44:32):
anyway, it's it's somewhere. Butanyway, I'm with my my beautiful friend
and she's an actor and a writerand a director. And so you know,
you mentioned during COVID how you wrotepoetry. So I want to know
how many poems have you written andwhat inspires you? Okay, I have
(44:53):
over twenty nice yeah, throughout thepandemic for two years, and it's hit
me from a photograph to uh,I thought I thought I had. Oh
yeah, I call it again.It's something that's back here that I really
(45:15):
want to bring to here as aperformance piece. But poetry is like you
know you have I'm trying to there'spoems about grief, about loss. Yeah,
it's about mine. It's all aboutlife and what we got through,
the crap that we face on sometimeson a daily basis, and then the
joys and the sorrow. Yeah,and then pandemic and like I also wrote
(45:37):
about like the isolation, So that'swhere poems and isolation came from. Yeah.
So I have twenty poems right.Some of them are longer than others,
some of them are really short.I wrote one recently called Hope.
I just put it up on Facebook. I put my poems up on Facebook,
so if anybody knows my poems,they'll know, oh, that's what
she's talking about. But I wroteone for my dad who passed, and
(45:59):
it just like, you know,he's always near to me. I want
one for my mom across the sea. How often do you get back to
your homeland? Yeah, well,I you when my kids were smaller,
every summer gone, I'm gone,summer's here, I'm in island, and
it would be two weeks or three. And if one year I was lucky
enough to get five weeks, youknow, wow, But I always three
weeks is a nice lands because becauseI mean, how long is that flight?
(46:22):
It's five hours. That's it's nottoo bad. It's not too bad.
And then there's the time difference,but none, it doesn't matter.
But it's fine. Yeah, it'snot that why so I stand corrected,
Maria wrote Graveyard Medium. I'm sorry, Maria, I'm I'm I I'm announcing
it. Graveyard Medium has been nominatedat least five times. Yes, and
we just won Best Indie Short.That's right, okay at the International Motion
(46:46):
Picture I can't read the rest SiencesFilm Festival. Okay, so there you
go, you we want. I'mvery excited about it. It was,
it was. It was a greatexperience, it really was. But again
that I know. But you're poetry. So about twenty poems. Twenty poems,
all different, but all like acommon very personal, very very and
(47:10):
sometimes like you said, I've justbecause they're a couple. They are a
couple that you've posted and I've youknow, I've read beautiful and again they're
very profound, thank you, thankyou, And again I get a lot
of lovely comments back or people identify. I mean, everybody knows what it's
like to lose someone. Oh well, that's the whole thing about Braveyard Medium.
It's not it's not made to be. I mean, it's about people
(47:31):
who go to the cemetery to visittheir loved ones and Kat please the psychic
medium, and you're trying to connectwith your husband and instead you're connected with
everybody else, which is frustrating toyou. But you know, everyone can
relate. Like I said, everyonegoes to a cemetery, especially around birthdays
and holidays, and they want toI mean, listen, I listen.
(47:55):
I'm I was very close to mymy mother's mother, my grandmother. I
talk I talked to her every day. And I have a best friend Betsy
Blank, who passed away at fiftyfive, and I talked to them on
a daily basis. I go visit, yeah, on birthdays and special times.
So yes, it is something thateveryone can rel linked. I always
say that the signs if you're opento it, yes, and I'm not
(48:17):
here to tell anyone to be butif you're open to the signs or there.
I feel my dad with me allthe time. Yeah, all the
time. I know he's with me. Yeah, that's near to me,
is what that's about, Betsy.I feel batter my grandmother not so much.
And you'll get a little sign eitheror whether it's a song, feather
or just mine is the cardinal Isee, I know, and you have
(48:37):
that up on your Facebook page asyou're When I came back after my dad's
funeral, I was upstairs in myroom and again I had a sunroom and
I was called down to the sunroomand there was a card I had an
old branches of trees that I broughtin for a birthday party Alice wondered theme
birthday party years ago, and Ikept it. Yeah, and here's this
(48:58):
cardinal on the into the tree inmy son room. And how it got
into my sunroom. The door musthave been cracked, and it just I
knew it was my dad's haying I'mhere with you, yeah, and you're
okay. And it was just afew weeks after. Yeah, So that's
when the cardinals and then I seethem all the time. Yeah. I
for me, it's just it couldbe a song, it could be it
could be anything. For Betsy,but it's it's constant. It's just it's
(49:21):
just constant. She was very verysupportive with me going into She Actually she's
She and my girlfriend Grace with DottieMatrenga actually are the ones that got me
into stand up comedy. They gaveme a birthday card for my thirtieth birthday,
I don't know, and it saidyour birthday fantasy. So I'm thinking
a night with Antonio about ju andinstead the comedy classes at the Learning Annex
(49:45):
in the city. And after threeor four weeks you had to perform five
minutes stand up New York. AndI'm like, I'm not doing this,
Like we paid for it, you'regonna do it. And I was like
all right, because like you're funny. I'm like, yeah, I'm funny
around my friend. I'm not funnydoing But what a cand up? What
a gift? I know, wasn'tit? Yeah? It was the kick.
(50:05):
It was the cat. That's thekick that I needed. Oh oh,
we've got the graveyard medium, We'regonna what all right, He's gonna
tell me when. All right,good because we have five minutes left and
it's two minutes. So he's gonnatell me when. But oh, here
we go. Are you playing it? Oh, he's gonna give us one
more second? All right, solisten, we're gonna play House scene from
(50:28):
Uh you let me know. Okay, he's gonna let me know. I'm
so excited if people are gonna watchHouse because it's sound. Thank you,
Bobby, Bobby La Sarah is thebest here at Paradise Studios. Come on
down on a Friday night, wedo an open mikear Okay, you can
get up. You could do amonologue. All right. We've had an
author come and read a chapter fromhis books. I've done improv here my
(50:51):
eighty eight year old neighbor to twowomen, two old ladies on the stage
talking about how she's getting laid duringCOVID and I'm not. It was hysterical.
People. Oh that's awesome. EveryFriday night, Every Friday night open
mic. And then we went toHarryoki seven o'clock, right, Bobby,
all right, do us open sixthirty seven o'clock and then nine o'clock karaoke.
(51:13):
We have some you gotta call mall right, so listen to people.
Here we are two minutes. Thankyou, medium enjoy enjoy. No,
that's a Licilla, that's her name. Dude, that's impossible. I
(51:37):
mean, how could you even knowthat I didn't put your wife today?
We all missed someone? Oh no, not again? Whoa That never happened
(51:58):
to me before. She just jumpedinto my body then out that was my
Haley. Bring her back. I'mhappy that I can connect for people,
but you're the one I want toconnect with. M Atturney six. See,
(53:00):
I can't remember anything now I hearbeautiful parent all right, so onten.
We have two minutes left, andshe's she WoT me beautiful. We
don't move, don't move, don'tgo. Wait. Look I'm gonna get
up. People. Wait wait,I've never gotten up from the seat before.
Hold on, I'm moving. Look, she brought me beautiful, beautiful
(53:24):
purple. She'll leave them here,all right, So listen again. Jerry
g E R R y Okay,glennon g l E N n O n.
There's her name at the bottle ofthe screen. Thank you, thank
you, thank you. Find heron Facebook. Finds her on Instagram as
(53:45):
Jerry twelve ninety six. Go toher website Jerry Glennon dot com And as
she would say, do what youlove, love what you do. Now
in the last minute and half,do you have anything that's coming up?
I mean other than the short thatyou want to try to turn into a
feature. Is there anything else?Yeah? Like I said, I'm working
with Mike for her on the shortright now in and also want to thank
(54:09):
you, thank you, thank youfor being an educational teacher. Thank you
because when she's not acting, she'steaching at a nursery nursery school. Yeah,
I teach. You want to givea shout out to bore Balmore United
Medadist Nursery School. I teach preK and three, the nursery three year
old programs. They're the best,the best, And again I get to
act every day fresh at that age. Yeah, they're amazing. They're amazing.
(54:34):
Thank you for teaching our children andmy pleasure. Patients and teachers are
so underreaded. Yeah, but asI say, yeah, but as I
say, I learned as much fromthem as they do for me. I'm
sure. And we have so muchfun. I'm sure little ones. Well,
thank you again for doing this.Thank you, and we're going to
be celebrated our birthday. Yes,yes, birthday special. We are we
are yes, yes, September comeback. I'll come back. I so
(54:57):
listen. Thank you everyone for watchingTeacher Fabulous. Sarah is the freaking best.
I said it here, I'm sayingit loud, I'm saying it proud.
Come down to Paradise Studios on aFriday night, just come hang say
hello. Thank you everyone for watchingtea time supporting me. I appreciate it.
Remember tell everyone you love you lovethem. Yeah, and I'll see
you next week. Chew everybody,
Good evening, and welcome to Titime. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea
(01:25):
time joining me. That's right,it is Monday night. It is May.
We're in May, and yesterday itfelt like March. But it's May
sixth, and I'm so glad you'rejoining me tonight. And I'm gonna talk
about a couple of things on myweekend and get to my guests. I'm
so excited. Okay, So,first, happy eighty sixth birthday to my
mother, Jean Canistracy. That's rightthere. She is my beautiful mommy.
(01:49):
She turned eighty six. She isin West Palm, Florida. She just
had her second eve replacement. Thiswoman is the bionic woman. She had
both shoulders replaced, both these bothhips. Is anything left to replace?
So happy birthday to my mom andshe'll be home God willing next month in
June. I also want to sayhappy, happy, happy birthday to Ronan.
(02:09):
That is Look how cute this kidis. Look at this That was
his cake. He dismashed the cake. So Ronan is Raina Groene's grandson.
And I was there yesterday in abeautiful Babylon for his birthday, and we
were under this tent with heaters,thank god, cause it was so cold
and we're by the water, Sohappy first birthday. And the next picture
on my bat boy peepes who werethere, Diaz, Ralph Brocco is there,
(02:32):
and we have Nick Singh was there, who I'm hoping to have on
the show soon, and our veryown Larry Davis was there and Calmine who
also helps Bobby out here and I'veworked with him a number of times.
So that was my That was mySaturday. Actually that's what I did Saturday.
(02:55):
No, that was yesterday. I'msorry, that was yesterday. I'm
gonna work backwards. So that wasSunday, and then I came here Filemo
talk with Graz and Bobby and Ritchie. Saturday, my friend Charlie called me
up and he said, Hey,there's a place in Lindbrook that does piano
karaoke. And I was like,oh cool. He says, yay,
you get to sing with the piano. So it's at a place called Ground
(03:17):
Central in Linbrook and they do itonce a month on a Saturday early from
four to seven. So we wentthere and then we went next door to
Taco Joe's had dinner. I loveimpromptu stuff because you just have so much
fun. And Friday night, Ireally just stayed home chilled and I was
studying lines because I have a fewrolls coming up that I'm very very excited
(03:38):
about. All Right, that's it. Oh, and Murdered by the Mob.
Just to let you know, goto Murder by Theemob dot com.
We're doing two shows every month throughoutAugust, so we're actually doing one this
Saturday night on the eleventh. Ifyou're not doing anything, come on down
to the Audien Bar and say hello. It's like going to an Italian wedding.
Someone gets whacked and you got tofigure it out. You eat,
(04:00):
seeing you danty drink. It's veryinto active. I'm really excited because I
have a friend who's here and we'vebeen wanting to do this for a while.
But she's an actor, she's adirector, she's a writer. Jerry's
here, Jerry Glenny, Hello,Hello, thank you, I'm good.
I'm good. How you doing becausewe work together, which we're going to
talk about a little later. Butyou know, I've been having people on,
(04:21):
you know, from the cast,and and I'm glad this worked out.
So I want everyone to get toknow you and your story. And
you're not originally from the States.No, no, no, I immigrated.
I'm from Ireland, Ireland. Iwant to get there one day,
I really do. I'm from atown called Nina in County Tipperary, and
I immigrated back in eighty eighty three. Uh huh. I came here for
(04:44):
a year as an no pair reallyyeah, yeah, and steady for a
year it's an no pair and livedhere, yes, yeah, flew in
on the Jet Plaine and I livedhere for a year and loved it and
knew. I as a kid,I always wanted to come to America as
yeah. Always, I remember,how did your family feel about that?
(05:05):
About you leaving? And you werecame by yourself. I came by myself.
I graduated the equivalent to high schoolin June and I was on a
plane in October. But like Isaid, I knew as I knew at
a very very early age, Iwanted to come to America. I had
cousins who lived here and they'd cometo Irena to visit, and I was
fascinated by everything America. I alwayswanted to act. So do you remember
(05:27):
the show Fame? Oh? Yeah, that was my show. I'd watch
that I'm like, that's the schoolI want to go to. Taxi.
I wanted to go over the fiftyninth Street bridge. Everything about America I
loved, so I remember telling mymother. I can still remember it.
I was I would say eleven ish, saying Mom, I'm going to go
to America. One day, you'llsee my name in lights. So they
encouraged it. They knew this iswhat she wants to do. My mom
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and my dad and they were verysupportive. And when it was time for
me to come, it was hardto leave. I mean it was I'm
one of two and I'm the oldest, yeah, and my daddy's girl,
and it was time for me togo, and I knew and they supported
it. They literally gave me thewings to fly. That's beautiful because my
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parents weren't that supportive. I wantedto go to high school performing arts also,
and they're like, you're not travelingto the city. What are you
crazy? And I was like,okay, but so obviously you stayed with
family. When family. That wasfor a year and I went back,
and then in eighty six I cameback and that's when I was like I
came back to live here to pursuemy acting to go to fame if I
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could find of which turned out tobe HB Studios. Yes, Yes,
I found HB Studios, and Istudied with the great William Hicky and I
again it's funny wings. I hadcredit Bill. His class was every Friday
night and we'd go in on thetrain and just live in it. And
I was living my dream. Butwhere were you actually living? And I
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was living then. I was livingin Queen's, Okay. I came back
in eighty six. I came backfrom Okay, and I was landed in
Queen I landed in Queen's and standin Queens and I studied in HB with
Bill. And he was an amazingteacher, amazing actor, amazing teacher.
And we had a connection because heis Irish connections, and of course,
being Irish, I reminded him ofhis relations. He just became very good
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friends. You keep him my mentorand my friend. I worked with him
on an off Broadway reading like hegot me in Wow, And I met
him one day one of the firsttimes, after a few classes, I
met him on the stairway in HB. I was going up to the office
and he was coming down and hejust went, Jerry, you're acting.
You're as free as a bird.And I carried that with me to this
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day. Yeah, he gave methat confidence. But you are an amazing
and I'm blessed to have worked withyou. We had a we had a
very funny scene which, like Isaid, we're going to talk about later,
but you're you're you, you knowyou really you really lose yourself and
your character and and and it's youtake us on a journey, you know.
Yeah, I like, I lovestorytelling and it's in my genes being
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Irish, and I love to tella story, and I love the backstory
and I love the process. Wehad so much fun leading up to the
Graveyard Medium Like all our rehearsals everytime, we had so much one our
scene, we had so much fun. We developed a backstory that only we
knew, and that's what it's allabout. And then you just you take
all you do, all the homework, and then you just yeah, release
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it, release it, let itgo. Yeah. You know, no
matter what character you get to play, whether it's you know, an evil
person, an old there's a partof me in every character and there has
to be right. Yeah, yeah, I say, even if it's down,
you find it. You have toeven if it's down to just if
like I've played, you know someone'sreally mean, a nasty Well we have
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the same color eyes, you knowsomething, just the connection, just the
connection. And you also again Ithink you told me this when we work
together, you do you pick one? You pick one color? Tell me
about that. Yeah. I pickedmy character, like I don't know,
she will have a favorite color andmaybe a favorite song, and so I
would wear something or a piece ofjewelry. Like for Lady Cat, I
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had a very special sunflower that wasvery very subtle. Yeah, and I
knew I had it on me andI didn't know if it's showed opened the
camera, but it meant something tomy character. And her favorite color was
yellow, right, and she woreyellow dress and I wore the yellow dress.
And so I always picked something personablefor my character. Yeah. But
color is color especially yeah yeah,yeah, yeah, she likes this color.
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So you studied and then you dida number of plays at Manhattan Repertory
Theater. Yes, and you've actuallywritten a few plays that you performed as
well. So let's talk about whichone because I have I have I have
two here, which one was thefirst one? You're the first one.
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It's so funny because in Manhattan RepertoryTheater is amazing and I'm so grateful to
have Well, there's nothing like lifetheater. No, there's not. And
it was great to be a partof that. And I did a lot
of plays with at there, andthere was one in particular that I was
like, I wasn't feeling it.To be honest with you, I knew
I met her, okay, shehad a connection with her, but I
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wasn't feeling it. But I metthe commitment and I you know, I
did it. Yeah, But itwas then I realized, wait a minute,
I have stories I can tell.So I wrote this story about called
Forget Me Not, Forget Me Not, and it was about a mother and
son and the relationship between you andyou have a son and I have a
son, Jack. I wrote it, I wrote, and did it and
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you directed it. Yes, Yes, I did all three wow. And
I wrote it with my friend JosephAnthony Smith. In mind, I knew
Joe. I'd worked with Joe beforein the stage theater in Merrick. We'd
done dance and at Lunasa, whichis one of my favorite plays. And
he was Tinker and I was Kateand me and Joe just connected. So
when I wrote Forget Me Not aboutmother and son, I had Joe in
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mind, and thank god he wasable to do it. It was a
short. It started out it wasa short. We started into a competition
we won. Me and Joe putour heart and soul into it. So
over the pandemic we meet both togetherwe developed into a full length. Yeah,
so I'm trying to shop that around. Okay, I really want to
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tell the rest of the story,and so does Joe, so we're working
on that. Yeah. Yeah,How long did it take you to write
that? Forget the short? Was? I want to say, a few
days, but I kind of knew, like it was the bond between a
mother and a son, but themother had Alzheimer's, but the bond is
so strong that the son and theycould they could connect. Yeah, and
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it was very I'm very proud ofit, very beautifully. Don't like when
when Jack would talk, I wasin that mode and then kind world,
my own world, but I knewwhat you're saying, and then when I
spoke, I came out of myworld. But he was in freeze mode,
so the audience could write, ohI love that, yeah love,
I'm extremely proud of this one.And yeah, so that the short took
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me a few days because I knewexactly again the story, the beginning short
short. It was about ten twelvepages, and then me and Joe over
the pandemic. We developed it forweeks on zoom obviously. Yeah, yeah,
and we have a full n Yeah. Well that's what I was going
to ask you what you did overthe pandemic, but you're answering it now.
That and my poetry. That's whenI started poetry as well, because
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I was like you right, you'rewe were like I need, I need
to perform. I need, andas an artist, it's like it was
brutal. It was brutal. Itwas horrible, you know, not being
able to go out there. SoI started writing poetry and I started putting
it up on Facebook, and Istarted doing skits, you know. So
yeah, wow, all right,listen, we're going to take my first
break, but don't go away morewith Jerry and when we come back after
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this wonder Woman was everything to littlegirls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
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renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home, a self
care routine makes me feel my best. I'm very proud of the difference that
we're making. It. To seethat impact in my community inspires me to
work even harder for everyone around me. All right, is everybody having your
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time? That's what I thought.All right, So we are live Paradise
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(14:11):
Hi there, Teresa, It's jianYorke from General Hospital. I am
just checking in because apparently you havea great talk show called Tea Time on
Strong Island TV. I want youto have continued great success and have a
lot of fun. It sounds likeyou're having a lot of fun, and
that's pretty much the key to everything, isn't it. So continued success.
(14:33):
I'm proud of you. Have agreat day, Teresa. Bye, Hey
everybody, welcome back to Tea Time. I'm giving you some shout outs people
who watch them, So shout outto Greg d Philippa watching in Florida.
Hello, my friends and Ann andBruno and Carmel and Maria is watching good
to way too, girl. SoI'm with Jerry Glennon and she's an actor,
(14:56):
a director, a writer. Andbefore the break, when we're talking
about how she immigrated here from Irelandand stayed a year, then went back
and came back permanently and studied atHB Studios, and she wrote and directed
and performed a beautiful play between motherand son call Forget Me. Now she's
gonna make it to a feature hopefully. Yeah, hopefully, hey girl,
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we'll go make it happen. Ithappen. Then you also did My Moment,
okay, which is a one womanshow that you also wrote and started.
Tell me about that, okay,I again, I had to get
my moment? Is I love thetitle? Yeah? Me too? Right.
My Moment is literally about this womanwho is struggling broken marriage, trying
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to get her well we've won't beenright, right right, trying to get
her life back into some kind oforder. And it's again it's a short,
okay, and it's it starts withthe woman me in the bathroom,
sobbing and like trying to hold itin, and she literally looks in the
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mirror and goes, how did Iget here? And then and knock comes
at it we all have and notcomes at the door, and it's her
son saying, Mom, I needbatteries and you have to pull it together.
So it's about a woman struggling butbeing strong. You know. That's
saying you don't know how strong youare till you have to be. And
it's all about her struggles. Butshe reflects back on how she got here,
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her her relationship, how it ended, what emotionally, how it's you
know, really messed her up withit. So I did that again at
Manhattan Rep. Thank you Manhattan Rep. And I got a lot of great
feedback. But ironically, one ortwo nights I performed it like over I
think two weekends, and like Isaid, and I'm curled up in a
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ball on stage, very minimal stagesetting, just me, and I say,
like what I want, Like I'mhere now, but this is where
I want to be. I wantto be out at this rut. I
want my moment. I want mymoment. Yeah, and my moment would
be someone hold my hand, someonesomeone to take care of, you know.
So ironically, once or twice mencame up to me and said,
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I know exactly what that feels like, and I'm like, so you don't
know. That's the beauty of it. You're telling a story, but you
don't know how. And I waslike, oh, wow, thank you
for telling me. He goes I'vebeen in that situation and another man told
me my wife. You're you're talkingabout my wife? Wow. Yeah.
So you're like, well, Ithink we've all been there in that moment.
Well, yeah, one way orthe other. Where you're going how
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did I writ How did I gethere? And how did I get out
of here? And where am Igoing at? Yeah? Where am I
going to end up? Yeah?Yeah, I know it's crazy. You
also did something called Past Perfect,which I am I correct. It was
written by Rita Lewis, and youplayed Susie again Manhattan Rap. That was
a great piece. That was anamazing play. And we did it for
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a year, every every month.That's a commitment, yeah, but it
was. And again it was aboutSusie and her girlfriend, her long lost
girlfriend, and she has a daughterand the long lost girlfriend shows up at
her door after many many years,and again the connection between these two women,
the push and pull, the daughter. It was a beautiful piece.
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I would have loved to do iteven more we did it for like I
said, a year long run.I mean every month, we do it
right, and it was an amazingpiece of theater and it was beautifully written.
Yeah, so how you know doinga character that long? How attached
did you get to? Susan veryvery and and Jen Perrera Perrero who played
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my girlfriend, We became very veryclose. And you know, and Erica
who played my daughter. We werejust but we were family. It's like
a family. And then in thedressing room you get all, you know,
so excited to just go back outtell it again. And then every
night again, you know, livetheater. Every night, Yeah, something
different or again, so the audiencewill react to something in a different spot
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that they didn't last night. Andit's just it's true. That's like when
we do Murdered by the Mob.Yes, it's fun and it's yeah,
you never know, you know,it's life, it's life. We had
a scene where me and Jen,the two characters, got high on pot.
And this was the funnest thing todo because you just let go,
you know, because the audience arewatching you no matter what you do.
They're already like, she's hot,you know, right, so they're only
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they're in the moment, they're inthe moment with you, and you can
write when you feel that, youfeel that you're bringing them in that great
Yeah, you just so every nightthat that's particular scene would change from like
you know, we'd bring it high, we'd bring it low. Yeah.
Yeah, but that was a greatThat was a great play. I love
that play. That's great. Andthen you've you know, you've done a
lot of short films. Yeah,back in twenty sixteen. And before I
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start reading this, do you haveany any things that you've done as far
as maybe commercials or any kind ofbackground extra work before you jumped into this.
No, I started, I startedjust a short film late, like
I loved it. It was twentysixteen, sixteen. It was my Community
Immunity and it was a short.You played Marta. Yeah, and she
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was a capital in Auschwitz. Yes, we have a picture of that.
Actually, you know what, Let'sgo through. Let's go through some of
the picks. I think that's theWell, that's your first headshot. Wow,
look at that. Yeah, thatis your first headshot. Now let
me ask a question. Did youtake that in Ireland or did you take
that when you were in New York? That was here in New York.
But that was me like fresh offyou know when I first came over.
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That was yet sure you haven't changedthem? Yeah? Yan okay, And
that was this was another character.This is a funny story. This play
was three characters, two women anda psychiatrist. And my characters believe that
my husband was cheating on me withthis other woman. Long story short.
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The actress who played the other womanleft very the week before opening. What
and again, So my director Dennissaid, Jerry, you can do this.
Wow. So I had to playtwo characters. Oh I've done that.
Yeah that boy. Yeah. Soso again I was like, okay,
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I had to make a connection.So I believe that was Skiitzo.
So when I went to him asthe real Christine, you know, and
he's cheating on me by this woman. And then I came in as the
woman, so I was like,you know, and I'd be like chim.
So it was again, it wasgreat, but it was like live
theater. I'm like, yeah,but a week before opening, he's like,
Jerry, you instead of getting someoneelse because I knew the parts.
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I'm like yeah, but it isfunny, but it's challenging. It's very
challenging, but it's very very funbecause I did. I played two parts
in bat Boy. I played raisedPuerto Rican Aunt. In the beginning where
I find my son shot dead.It's very dramatic and traumatic. And then
in the and then I come outas this ditsy blonde and I leave everyone
laughing, which is great. Andthen one night he needed someone to play
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the the woman that raised Dad cheatedon, and he's like, you need
to play the other woman, andI'm like what So I was like okay.
And then, like you said,you get you get thrown in it.
You just you just go with it, just go with I did years
ago, real quick, I didit. I was part of thirteen repertories.
Yeah yeah, and I was inthe Children Show every Saturday. My
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favorite, all time favorite actor isGabriel Byrne. I love him, love
him. Met him on the streetUnusual Suspects, Yello, Oh my god,
I love him. I love himlike he used to be in a
soap in Ireland when I was akid, Like you know, I grew
okay, so real long story short, I met him on the street and
he had his son Jack likewise,and he was bringing Jack to see the
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children's show on Saturday. Oh wow, and I'm like, okay, I
called my mother because I'm like,Mom, I guess who coming to see
you? Gabriel Wards, so hewas in the audience. I used to
play the scarecrow. It was ascarecrow who was throwing a birthday party for
the pig. The kids would bringimprov that morning. They're like, Jerry,
the Foxes in here. You haveto do Celia as the fox and
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the Foxes part because it was improp. But I'm like, that's right.
My goal was to get his sonup. Okay, and you did.
Yeah, but like stepping into anotherrole, it's exciting. It exist.
And then what's the next picture wehave? Oh, this is enchanted April,
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and this is Rose. And againwe did this with Bare Bones Theater
in Northport a couple of years back, and I loved her. And again
another grave production and another great character, and she evolved. She was like
a caterpillar. He played which itlooks like sisters. That was mother,
reverend Mother in nonsense. And againthis this was at Merrick Theater. The
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stage that it was called the stage, yes, the stage. But again
last minute they called me and they'relike sure, we need the mother,
but she had a solo and I'mlike, sure, I'll do it for
you, but I can sing,But I'm like, I don't go from
you. I can sing, butI'm not karaoke hear people. Yeah,
that's but this rever mother has thisbeautiful so again I'm like, Okay,
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let me connect with I'm like,she thinks she's a great singer, so
I come out every night in thespot. Rightly, she thinks she's a
great It worked, but it wasShe was fun to play and it was
fun to wear the habit because youdon't have to worry about your hair.
This this this is a character thatmy friend Mike Pharaoh, sorry Mike,
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Mike developed. Her name is Colleen, and I've worked with Mike continuously for
a couple of years. We havethree films together and we're currently worked on
another one. That's it. That'sthe last one. Yeah, oh that
one. The nurse that is that'sthe last one. Nurse Ratchet. Oh
you did one full over with theCuckoos. Yes her again at Marray Theater.
What a great can she? She? The beauty about this woman is
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I got booed every night. Acurtain call isn't that great? Every night,
I don't like if I don't getbooed, I didn't do it right,
Oh my god. And people willcome up to me afterwards and go,
we're sorry, we booted. I'mlike, no, no, no,
no, no, no, thankyou. Yes, yeah, that's
I love that. But I lovedher. I loved playing her. And
again that play was lightning in abottle of the cast. We did it
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at Merry Theater again back in thatwould be twenty fifteen as well. Like,
that's a long time. Actually tenyears ago we had her tenure,
like on Facebook, you know,ten years ago. Yeah, yeah,
wow, that's great. Oh mygosh. You know what else, we
gotta take my up. We gottatake my next break. We gotta take
my next break. All right,don't go away because it's so much more.
We're gonna talk about all her shorts, the film that you worked on
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together. So we'll be back rightafter this. Don't go away. Wonder
Woman was everything to little girls,especially that looked like me. She stands
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we've got Mars and the Sun togetherin Scorpio, which creates a lot of
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Hey, everybody, welcome back toT Town. So glad you're joining me.
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My good friend Jerry Glennon is here. She's a writer, a director,
and an actor and we work together. And I'm just so excited that
she's finally doing this. Shout outto Sherry, Sherry, who's watching.
And I also wanted to say RescuingFamilies. That's that's Gina and the Dove
(28:23):
commercial, And unfortunately they won't lether mention her organization. But Gina and
her husband Vinnie run Rescuing Families,which is a nonprofit organization which renovates homes
for people with disabilities. Oh wow, they are beautiful people and they both
have people on both sides of thefamily with disabilities. And they started Rescuing
(28:44):
Families years ago. And they doa big like yard sale which is coming
up, which I'll promote and I'lllet you know what day that is.
And they do bingo and they doall these fundraisers for this great, great
cause. When you get a chanceto look them up, they're beautiful people.
I love them deally, So Jerryyou can find on Facebook under Jerry
Glennon McKeever on Facebook and on Instafind her It's Jerry It's g E R
(29:11):
R Y twelve ninety six on Instaand also check out her website. She's
got a beautiful website which is Jerryglennon dot com. Lovely, thank you.
It's great. So I also readon Facebook you have a favorite saying
called do what you love and lovewhat you did. That's like your favorite
saying. It is and you'll alwaysfeel like you're never working like a day
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in your life, and you're you'reyou're you know, you always have a
smile on your face. We knowwhat I'm happy? Our happy happy,
you know, performing and doing whatwe do. That's where we were happy
and we shine people. We shine. And I have to say, are
you Are you okay? If Itell them how well we're gonna be?
Yes, okay? So I likelisten to it, but did everyone hear?
(29:57):
I'm like, is it okay?O? If I tell them how
well we're gonna We were born innineteen sixty four, girl, we look
damn good. Something you're going tobe sixty next month, yeah, June.
What June fourteenth? June fourth?Oh, bro, we're doing something
(30:19):
about sixty es together. Yeah,definitely. When I turned fifty, like
Lenny Cravis is the same age asus, and he's good. He lets
good too, But when he turnedfifty, he went he was on something.
He goes, fifty never looks sogood, and I'm like, I
am carrying that with me, andthat was my whole thing right now,
(30:41):
and sixty never looks so going tobe sixty September sixth. I'm a virgo
anyway, So what am? AndI was watching QVC because I have a
problem, you know, And QBChas this one show. It's called Over
fifty and Fabulous. Okay, Ithink I've heard of it right, and
it's it's gets towards women over fifty. So they have these shirts over fifty
(31:02):
and Fabulous. So my daughter makest shirts and I said to her,
I'm gonna I'm gonna order one ofthese shirts. I said, unless you
want to make one for me.She goes, Ma, you're only gonna
be fifty for like another yeah whatthree four months? No? No,
no, So she goes, I'mgonna make one that says six over sixty,
Well because technically sixty in one daywhatever, over sixty and sensational.
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Oh I love that. Okay,that's not sexy. She goes, no,
sensational, it's not like all right, so yeah, she we're gonna
one get one form go out inthem. So yeah, I just want
to mention that, yeah, becausewe can never looks so good. I'm
telling you we are getting better aswe get over one. I smell god.
I look at my picture when Iwas like forty, and I'm like,
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wow, I do. I thinkwe're both aging beautifully, but also
with mentally we're twenty five. Mentallywe're definitely twenty foe. Definitely. I
loved being twenty seven for whatever reason. Twenty seven was my age. I
love twenty seven, so twenty fivetwenty seven will stay there. So,
yes, we have the birthdays comingup. I'm very excited about that.
So getting run to you, toyou I was a great house to that.
(32:05):
And we're both in blue tonight.Yeah, my set is blue.
Everything's blue. So anyway, solet's get back to your short films that
you went in. Okay, sotwenty sixteen you did Immunity, which was
a short you played Marta. Iplayed. You know, we were showing
you picks. I got the hairchopped, yes, popped off, and
I thought I had that. Wellwhatever we did. Twenty seventeen, you
did Bloom, which was a shortyou played Miss Prescott. Yes. Bloom
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was my friend Mary Beth, wholives directly lived directly across the street from
me. Her Son was still studyingcinematography and okay, that was one of
the short film and I'm driving homeand Mary Beth like, Jerry, can
I can I help him with short? And I did. And then when
he did Bloom, he invited meon as the teacher and I loved it.
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Yeah, so that was and itwas a great Yeah. I hear
that picture you're at the talk board. Yeah, it's the truck. Yeah.
And that was right after Immunity.So you see my hair, I
asked, really, really true,because I had to. My hair was
chopped pure. You're brave because youknow when they were doing maisl you know,
I kept putting in for it,but they kept saying, be prepared
to get your hair cut. Theywanted your hair above your shoulders in a
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certain way for the period. AndI'm going no, now, I don't
want to cut my hair. Mygirlfriend who Danielle. Shout out to Danielle,
I'm hoping to have her on theshow. She was actually in season
two, episode one, and sheplayed the mobster's wife. Now she didn't
have any lines, but she wasa featured extra. She was in that
entire scene the whole time, goingback and forth from the husband to the
kitchen sink and whatever. She pinnedher own hair up. Yeah, you
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can do that, and I waslike, you see, you don't have
to chop it all. But inyour case, I know you need a
certain certain Yeah. And I meanthey literally because I was, you know,
in the concentration gap there. Sowhen it grew out, that's why
I to to do something. Iwent to my Yeah, I'm helping the
bond came in to play it justbecause it was it was yeah, no,
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I know you kind of what hairgrows, It grows? No,
thank god. Yeah. All twentyeighteen you did Staying Ahead, which was
a short and you played Pageant Flannery. Yeah Flannery. Yes. That was
a great one too with h LeeKwinski wrote it and it was a great
cast. And again a wife whoher husband was a gambler and he gambled,
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wow, yeah, relate to thatand yeah. So we filmed that
in two days. My scene wasin a day and it was a great
It was great, awesome, greatpiece twenty twenty. Okay, this I
wish I got to see which switch? Okay, Okay, you played Roxanne,
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Yes, you wrote it and youdirected it. Yes, and with
Jennifer Pierre, Yeah, from Anhattanrab and that was under the girlfriend's started
product. We formed a girl,So tell me about that. Okay.
So Switch again was about two women, and again you'll see the common theme
(35:10):
this one. Roxanne was struggling andagain broken marriage, what have you,
and was going to her therapist.But this particular day she went to turn
on the bathroom light switch and theelectricity was cut off, so she knew
(35:30):
in that moment she had to makea switch. So there's a double.
Yeah. So me and Jen wroteit together, and it's like it's like
this, because you know, whenyou're making your own movie, location is
important, lighting, lighting, SoI knew I wanted it to be a
certain well and very you know,tight, like like tight foxy and me
(35:53):
and Jen rote it and again,peace, I'm very very proud of and
ironically Dan, who you mentioned BloomYes, yes, So it shows you
that I knew I wanted to workwith Dan. Dan had since graduated from
half Stress. I knew it comesfull circle, full circle. So I
contacted Dan and he said yes,and he and Jeff Kim unseen and it
(36:17):
was the four of us and wedid it in I think we did it
in two days. And it wasbeautiful. It had a beautiful right.
It had a few beautiful write upsyes, yes by some critics. Yeah,
very proud of it, very veryproud of it. That's great.
I think you're gonna maybe resurrect it. We talked about like, yeah,
(36:38):
we have an idea for like thetwo characters because because when Roxanne comes to
say, you know, I can'tcome anymore. I can't afford it.
This is my last session. I'mcoming to tell you. Right, It's
like we've talked about this, youneed to make a change, and I'm
like, I know, but rightnow, you know, right, So
we talked about how we would seethe characters a couple of years from out,
(37:00):
like did rock Sande make a switch? I like that, you know,
stuff like that. So we havetalked about and we'd love. Yeah,
very cool, okay, And thenhere we go, Maria. We
did the Graveyard Medium together. Yes, written and directed by Maria, and
we have a pick of the poster. There's a poster Graveyard. I love
(37:23):
that poster. I love it too. And then the next pick is actually
there were you and I. Idon't want to happy with you. And
I played Jeane and you played Ladycan Lady Ken. Yeah, I'm not
happy with you. It's a greatscene. I actually I should have shown
during my last commercial break. Ithink I might send Bobby the video the
(37:45):
clip of our scene because we reallyshould. We really should show it.
We really should. But Graveyard Mediumwas a beautiful short written by Maria,
and uh Maria. Maria said tome, I want you to play this
character Jeane, and we need youknow she she knows that I do stand
up. Maria's come to see medo stand up. And she wanted me
(38:07):
as the comic relief in the film. And it was a great cast and
we had so much fun. Likeyou said, we had rehearsals at Frank
Fayela's house. Shout out to Frankand and and and Michael and just everyone
and everyone involved involved beauty. Sojust yeah, just everyone was just so
beautiful. And we filmed that AlmongIsland and we had a great time doing
(38:30):
it. Yeah, we really did. And I remember me and Maria scouted
out the graveyard. Yes, andit's like you're thinking, oh, I'm
gonna film in a graveyard, Andwe scouted out the graveyard. We scouted
out where Lady Cat would sit andright, we looked for certain like we
really did research me and Maria forthe location. And you know when we
(38:52):
filmed in the graveyard, there wassuch a sensus yes, yes, yeah,
peace very peaceful, peaceful and whatI love is like until the landscapers
yeah yeah. And in the backgroundlike, oh my gosh, where we
placed I do this beautiful that Mariawrote beautiful mom monologue, Oh my god,
(39:13):
I love it. And I'm talkingabout my my husband Joe. And
in the film, we didn't know. Me and Ray didn't notice till we
watched it on screen. Behind methere's a gravestone with Joseph Oh really yeah,
oh wow, and we were interesting. I didn't pick that up.
No, we didn't either. Wedidn't see it till we saw it.
Well, speaking on screen, weactually we actually showed that it Nilift and
(39:37):
we have a pick of you andI, You and I yep at Nilift.
I don't know Bobby back there?Hello, we got a pick of
you and I at nilif there weare Jerry Fareddy's. And you were nominated
yes, correct, yes, forBest Actress. And why don't I just
remember if the cast was nominated tofor best on Sign. Remember I can't
(40:00):
nominated. I know you nominated.We were very very excited, but you
actually have one in the past bestActress, So tell me about that.
Okay. Well, like I said, the character earlier, Colleen who developed
into the MA was with Mike forher. I've worked with Mike. I've collaborated
with Mike for years, and we'vedone McLean Avenue, We've done Love Letters,
(40:22):
we've done Last Temptation of Mary,and now we're working on the latest
project is called wake Up. Butin Keen Avenue I won, and Love
Letters I won, and for Switch. How exciting is that? Though?
And Mike, Mike won a coupleof awards for his writing and for so
you won for Switch, for Roxanne, I won for Switch, Okay?
(40:43):
Cool? So yeah, so thatwas something that that is great and I
think, actually, if I'm thatmistake and Maria has put it into I
think another film festival, so wemight be there's one coming up in May,
there's one, there's one in Ithink it's June. There's one in
too, is there. Yeah,it's coming up. Maria's okay, Oh
that's some Kathina Michio's. I thinkthe Venus, Yes, yes, yes,
(41:06):
yes, And I think we're nominatedas an ensemble. I think,
yeah, so it's coming up.It is I think nineteenth. Eh,
it's all. We'll have it onFacebook. Yeah, yeah, yah,
we'll be putting stuff up. Andthen twenty twenty three, were you in
Designated? Which was designated? Theradio play? That is the radio play.
(41:28):
Yeah, it was performed at ComicCon again with Leek wrote it and
Mark Turrow it's his comic book.And that was an experience, first of
all, to do a radio play. It's a lot of fun. Yes,
it's a lot of but it's verydifferent, but it's so much fun.
And we did it. We startedat it at we did it at
the library here out in here onLong Island, and then we cut into
(41:49):
Comic Con in New York and thatwas amazing. Wow. To be part
of that. Yeah, it wasreally fun. I went there once.
I was there once and that wasmy first time. Yeah, I like
in another world. Yeah, butit was yeah, so that people take
it very seriously, very yeah.Yeah, Oh my goodness. It's like
I know right, it's like whatokay, all right, listen, we're
gonna take my last break. Butyou have to say there because when we
(42:14):
come back, we're gonna watch aclip Hiveyard Media. All right, let's
do it. Okay, So,uh, don't go away. We'll be
back right after this. It's notwill we inacting? I'm gonna find it.
(42:39):
Wonder woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
(43:00):
making, and to see that impactin my community inspires me to work even
harder for everyone around me. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa from teen Times.
What's my show about? I interviewpeople in the entertainment industry, producers,
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(43:23):
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it's fun, interesting and excited.Noah, who's the best comedian? You
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know? Tersa Barrow? And whoyou know? And who Jia BARROWO Terresa
Barrow? Who's Teresa Barrow? Yeah? I love you sending it. Hey,
(44:07):
Hey, hey, we're back.We're back. I'm still looking for
that video. I'm here with JerryGlennon and here it is messages. I'm
sending it to Bobby right now andhopefully this is going to go through and
work. Now. We cannot sendit's too big, it's two minutes.
I don't know. We're gonna tryit. We're gonna try to find it.
We'll try to find it. I'veshowed it in the past. I
forgot who was here, and itwas probably I showed it all right,
(44:32):
anyway, it's it's somewhere. Butanyway, I'm with my my beautiful friend
and she's an actor and a writerand a director. And so you know,
you mentioned during COVID how you wrotepoetry. So I want to know
how many poems have you written andwhat inspires you? Okay, I have
(44:53):
over twenty nice yeah, throughout thepandemic for two years, and it's hit
me from a photograph to uh,I thought I thought I had. Oh
yeah, I call it again.It's something that's back here that I really
(45:15):
want to bring to here as aperformance piece. But poetry is like you
know you have I'm trying to there'spoems about grief, about loss. Yeah,
it's about mine. It's all aboutlife and what we got through,
the crap that we face on sometimeson a daily basis, and then the
joys and the sorrow. Yeah,and then pandemic and like I also wrote
(45:37):
about like the isolation, So that'swhere poems and isolation came from. Yeah.
So I have twenty poems right.Some of them are longer than others,
some of them are really short.I wrote one recently called Hope.
I just put it up on Facebook. I put my poems up on Facebook,
so if anybody knows my poems,they'll know, oh, that's what
she's talking about. But I wroteone for my dad who passed, and
(45:59):
it just like, you know,he's always near to me. I want
one for my mom across the sea. How often do you get back to
your homeland? Yeah, well,I you when my kids were smaller,
every summer gone, I'm gone,summer's here, I'm in island, and
it would be two weeks or three. And if one year I was lucky
enough to get five weeks, youknow, wow, But I always three
weeks is a nice lands because becauseI mean, how long is that flight?
(46:22):
It's five hours. That's it's nottoo bad. It's not too bad.
And then there's the time difference,but none, it doesn't matter.
But it's fine. Yeah, it'snot that why so I stand corrected,
Maria wrote Graveyard Medium. I'm sorry, Maria, I'm I'm I I'm announcing
it. Graveyard Medium has been nominatedat least five times. Yes, and
we just won Best Indie Short.That's right, okay at the International Motion
(46:46):
Picture I can't read the rest SiencesFilm Festival. Okay, so there you
go, you we want. I'mvery excited about it. It was,
it was. It was a greatexperience, it really was. But again
that I know. But you're poetry. So about twenty poems. Twenty poems,
all different, but all like acommon very personal, very very and
(47:10):
sometimes like you said, I've justbecause they're a couple. They are a
couple that you've posted and I've youknow, I've read beautiful and again they're
very profound, thank you, thankyou, And again I get a lot
of lovely comments back or people identify. I mean, everybody knows what it's
like to lose someone. Oh well, that's the whole thing about Braveyard Medium.
It's not it's not made to be. I mean, it's about people
(47:31):
who go to the cemetery to visittheir loved ones and Kat please the psychic
medium, and you're trying to connectwith your husband and instead you're connected with
everybody else, which is frustrating toyou. But you know, everyone can
relate. Like I said, everyonegoes to a cemetery, especially around birthdays
and holidays, and they want toI mean, listen, I listen.
(47:55):
I'm I was very close to mymy mother's mother, my grandmother. I
talk I talked to her every day. And I have a best friend Betsy
Blank, who passed away at fiftyfive, and I talked to them on
a daily basis. I go visit, yeah, on birthdays and special times.
So yes, it is something thateveryone can rel linked. I always
say that the signs if you're opento it, yes, and I'm not
(48:17):
here to tell anyone to be butif you're open to the signs or there.
I feel my dad with me allthe time. Yeah, all the
time. I know he's with me. Yeah, that's near to me,
is what that's about, Betsy.I feel batter my grandmother not so much.
And you'll get a little sign eitheror whether it's a song, feather
or just mine is the cardinal Isee, I know, and you have
(48:37):
that up on your Facebook page asyou're When I came back after my dad's
funeral, I was upstairs in myroom and again I had a sunroom and
I was called down to the sunroomand there was a card I had an
old branches of trees that I broughtin for a birthday party Alice wondered theme
birthday party years ago, and Ikept it. Yeah, and here's this
(48:58):
cardinal on the into the tree inmy son room. And how it got
into my sunroom. The door musthave been cracked, and it just I
knew it was my dad's haying I'mhere with you, yeah, and you're
okay. And it was just afew weeks after. Yeah, So that's
when the cardinals and then I seethem all the time. Yeah. I
for me, it's just it couldbe a song, it could be it
could be anything. For Betsy,but it's it's constant. It's just it's
(49:21):
just constant. She was very verysupportive with me going into She Actually she's
She and my girlfriend Grace with DottieMatrenga actually are the ones that got me
into stand up comedy. They gaveme a birthday card for my thirtieth birthday,
I don't know, and it saidyour birthday fantasy. So I'm thinking
a night with Antonio about ju andinstead the comedy classes at the Learning Annex
(49:45):
in the city. And after threeor four weeks you had to perform five
minutes stand up New York. AndI'm like, I'm not doing this,
Like we paid for it, you'regonna do it. And I was like
all right, because like you're funny. I'm like, yeah, I'm funny
around my friend. I'm not funnydoing But what a cand up? What
a gift? I know, wasn'tit? Yeah? It was the kick.
(50:05):
It was the cat. That's thekick that I needed. Oh oh,
we've got the graveyard medium, We'regonna what all right, He's gonna
tell me when. All right,good because we have five minutes left and
it's two minutes. So he's gonnatell me when. But oh, here
we go. Are you playing it? Oh, he's gonna give us one
more second? All right, solisten, we're gonna play House scene from
(50:28):
Uh you let me know. Okay, he's gonna let me know. I'm
so excited if people are gonna watchHouse because it's sound. Thank you,
Bobby, Bobby La Sarah is thebest here at Paradise Studios. Come on
down on a Friday night, wedo an open mikear Okay, you can
get up. You could do amonologue. All right. We've had an
author come and read a chapter fromhis books. I've done improv here my
(50:51):
eighty eight year old neighbor to twowomen, two old ladies on the stage
talking about how she's getting laid duringCOVID and I'm not. It was hysterical.
People. Oh that's awesome. EveryFriday night, Every Friday night open
mic. And then we went toHarryoki seven o'clock, right, Bobby,
all right, do us open sixthirty seven o'clock and then nine o'clock karaoke.
(51:13):
We have some you gotta call mall right, so listen to people.
Here we are two minutes. Thankyou, medium enjoy enjoy. No,
that's a Licilla, that's her name. Dude, that's impossible. I
(51:37):
mean, how could you even knowthat I didn't put your wife today?
We all missed someone? Oh no, not again? Whoa That never happened
(51:58):
to me before. She just jumpedinto my body then out that was my
Haley. Bring her back. I'mhappy that I can connect for people,
but you're the one I want toconnect with. M Atturney six. See,
(53:00):
I can't remember anything now I hearbeautiful parent all right, so onten.
We have two minutes left, andshe's she WoT me beautiful. We
don't move, don't move, don'tgo. Wait. Look I'm gonna get
up. People. Wait wait,I've never gotten up from the seat before.
Hold on, I'm moving. Look, she brought me beautiful, beautiful
(53:24):
purple. She'll leave them here,all right, So listen again. Jerry
g E R R y Okay,glennon g l E N n O n.
There's her name at the bottle ofthe screen. Thank you, thank
you, thank you. Find heron Facebook. Finds her on Instagram as
(53:45):
Jerry twelve ninety six. Go toher website Jerry Glennon dot com And as
she would say, do what youlove, love what you do. Now
in the last minute and half,do you have anything that's coming up?
I mean other than the short thatyou want to try to turn into a
feature. Is there anything else?Yeah? Like I said, I'm working
with Mike for her on the shortright now in and also want to thank
(54:09):
you, thank you, thank youfor being an educational teacher. Thank you
because when she's not acting, she'steaching at a nursery nursery school. Yeah,
I teach. You want to givea shout out to bore Balmore United
Medadist Nursery School. I teach preK and three, the nursery three year
old programs. They're the best,the best, And again I get to
act every day fresh at that age. Yeah, they're amazing. They're amazing.
(54:34):
Thank you for teaching our children andmy pleasure. Patients and teachers are
so underreaded. Yeah, but asI say, yeah, but as I
say, I learned as much fromthem as they do for me. I'm
sure. And we have so muchfun. I'm sure little ones. Well,
thank you again for doing this.Thank you, and we're going to
be celebrated our birthday. Yes,yes, birthday special. We are we
are yes, yes, September comeback. I'll come back. I so
(54:57):
listen. Thank you everyone for watchingTeacher Fabulous. Sarah is the freaking best.
I said it here, I'm sayingit loud, I'm saying it proud.
Come down to Paradise Studios on aFriday night, just come hang say
hello. Thank you everyone for watchingtea time supporting me. I appreciate it.
Remember tell everyone you love you lovethem. Yeah, and I'll see
you next week. Chew everybody,
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