NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau
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NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau
NOLA Film Scene: Two Years in the Books
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When we hit record on our very first NOLA Film Scene episode two years ago, we never imagined the incredible journey ahead. From upgrading our recording setup (goodbye, dark sound booth!) to forming meaningful connections with talented creators across Louisiana, this anniversary livestream captures the heart of what we've built together.
Sponsored by Jana McCaffery Attorney at Law. Have you been injured? New Orleans based actor, Jana McCaffery, has been practicing law in Louisiana since 1999 focusing on personal injury since 2008. She takes helping others very seriously and, if you are a fellow member of the Louisiana film industry and have been injured, she is happy to offer you a free consultation and a reduced fee to handle your case from start to finish. She can be reached at Have you been injured? New Orleans based actor, Jana McCaffery, has been practicing law in Louisiana since 1999, specializing in personal injury since 2008. She takes helping others very seriously. If you have been injured, Jana is offering a free consultation AND a reduced fee for fellow members of the Lousiana film industry, and she will handle your case from start to finish. She can be reached at janamccaffery@gmail.com or 504-837-1234. Tell Her NOLA Film Scene sent you
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and we're back. Nola film scene is in the house? Live two year anniversary live stream who the thunk we'd make it this long?
Speaker 2:streaming on youtube and facebook. And here comes our sponsor our first guest. We've never done a live guest we've never done a live guest, and how fitting that it is, in fact, our sponsor that way she won't sue us. Hey, jana, we are live. Hi Hi, how are you? Where do I?
Speaker 3:look. Wait, do I look at Brian? Do I look at TJ? Do I look at the camera?
Speaker 1:Where do I look? You can look at whoever you want baby.
Speaker 2:Hey, look at the camera. I see the camper in the background.
Speaker 3:Yes, we're in the RV. We're up in Shipshawana, Indiana.
Speaker 1:Can you say that in public?
Speaker 3:Shipshawana, shipshawana I can say it three times Shipshawana, Shipshawana, Shipshawana.
Speaker 2:That's three times fast.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 2:So you are our first guest and I just said how fitting that our first guest for our two-year anniversary live stream sponsor. Right, I'm your first sponsor. Jana McCaffrey, attorney at law.
Speaker 3:That's me, that's me, that's me. 30% contingency fee for anybody in the film industry, from beginning to start. That's better than anybody can do for personal injury cases. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 2:But also clarify for people in the entertainment industry that you're not counseling on entertainment industry things only on injury stuff, industry. That you're not counseling on entertainment industry things only on injury stuff, right, you're not counseling people on contract law or anything along those lines.
Speaker 3:Right Now I will qualify with this. I do free consultations all the time on everything. I'm not saying that I'm qualified in everything, but if I don't know it, I have a friend who does. So I talk to people all the time on all kinds of issues that they're having and I don't mind doing that. I don't mind giving my time away for free, but in terms of, yeah, representing and fees that I take, it's injury, it's motor vehicle accidents, it's slip and falls, it's dog bites, that kind of thing. So, yeah, that's what I'm offering, but I do. I talk to anybody, anytime, anywhere. I'm kind of a sucker. I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2:So at a minimum, you'll at least get them to the right person. If it's not something that you specialize in, I should be able to?
Speaker 3:I should be able to. Is my camera the worst? I'm just. I'm looking at myself for a second.
Speaker 2:I'm looking at you guys and you're in Technicolor and I'm like there's lights flashing off of stuff behind my head. No, the platform that we use reduces the video quality during the call. Okay, but the live version on YouTube will be better quality and what we post after the fact will be better quality. It just does that to save bandwidth for everybody involved.
Speaker 3:Sounds good.
Speaker 2:And also I don't know if you wanted to point this out, but you're not limiting your services to people in the entertainment industry to only things that happen in the entertainment industry, right?
Speaker 3:Actually not at all. It's kind of the opposite, Because if you get hurt while you're on the job in the entertainment industry, I can get you to a work comp attorney. But I don't really do work comp. I'm just talking about people in life who have car accidents and slip and falls or other things. Yeah, so I'm just saying but if you're, if you're in the entertainment industry and some jackhole rear ends you, I'm your girl, I'll handle it, and I'll handle it for less money than the other attorneys out there. Less money and more time. I give my time away. I can't help it.
Speaker 2:And that's and that's what we've been telling people is that you're you're extending a discount, a really good discount, to fellow industry people. It doesn't matter what their position is in the industry. It's just a favor that you're doing to people in the industry and we think that that's fantastic and thank you for sponsoring the show. We're very grateful for that opportunity.
Speaker 3:You're welcome. Well, it's a great show and hopefully it'll get more out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah we hope so too.
Speaker 1:We can't thank you enough for sponsoring us, and it was so fortuitous, so serendipitous.
Speaker 3:I was going to say it was. It was very organic the way that it came out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we had just reached out to Cajun Con and I said, well, because I thought that'd be a very good way to advertise. And he quoted a surprise. I said, OK, let me think about it, I'll talk to TJ. And minutes later you called me hey, you think I could sponsor an Ola film scene?
Speaker 3:I was like yeah, it really worked out that way. It's crazy, I know.
Speaker 1:But you know, that's kind of how the best things in life tend to happen, right, yeah? And you know, we just started out a little rough with this live stream. We're getting polished with it, but I like this we're going to have a few other guests come in, cool, and I like this energy, great. So maybe we'll do this more often. It's fun. I even think maybe a little.
Speaker 1:Yeah, once in a while we record it offline, edit it polish. Yeah, once in a while we record it offline, edit it polish, it send it. It's fun, but this just feels like more of a party. I was maybe even give you a little five-minute corner like Law Talk with Janet. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, unless people are asking me direct questions, I'm not sure how exciting that would be.
Speaker 1:Well, it would only be five minutes of the show.
Speaker 3:I used to do this networking group and it would circle around however many. I used to do this networking group and every it would circle around However many of us there was in the group. You know you would have to do this like 10 minute, just a little 10 minute talk on what you did. And I was like, oh, I don't even know, I'm willing to tap dance for your business, and then I do a little quick time step. Um, yeah, I don't, I don't even know. It's been so long since I've done that.
Speaker 3:I do fairly basic personal injury, except that I can say fairly basic personal injury gets extraordinarily complicated sometimes. So I'm going to say to anybody that might be listening to us right now if you get in a car accident, please don't try to handle it yourself. Insurance companies are horrible and I have handled I don't know thousands of cases. In the last could you tell that my elbow just went right off the edge of the table that I was leaning on, sorry, in the last 15 years I've handled so many cases. So when people call me up and they're like I've never done this, I'm not sure what to do.
Speaker 3:I'm like I've done it so many times I can. I got you and I can, I can handle that. So people get hurt and people get scared and people make decisions very quickly and that is I'm sorry. I'm getting distracted because I'm looking out the front of my RV and my husband is climbing on a ladder cleaning the bugs off Front windshield. Anyway, it's very confusing. It's very upsetting to try to handle issues of money and especially issues of doctors when you're injured and I've done it so many times that I can do it rolling off a log.
Speaker 1:It's like you're trained to do it.
Speaker 3:Weirdly, it's like I'm trained to do it yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm always trying to think of content. Maybe we'll start doing extra things, maybe one day behind a paywall. But what if we did a scene Once a month? We do a law scene. We'll write it up. We can write it. You can't handle the truth. Okay, oh, yeah, sure we can handle that.
Speaker 2:One of my first first paid gigs was an industrial for a law firm. Early early on I had done maybe one other paid thing and then I got asked to do that industrial. That was really cool. Think brian might have done one for the same lawyer around the same time. Oh yeah, oh that's like a mic brian you're. Yeah, I'm not gonna ask you a lawyer without what?
Speaker 2:don't tell me, don't say it you might need to come down just a little bit. Your mic's just a little bit hot, just a tick okay, I'll push back a little just a little not a competitor, not even in the same state, and it was family law.
Speaker 3:But yeah, you know I actually and this is 100 true I got an audition for a personal injury attorney in new orleans, for a commercial, for how it's like decline directly that's funny, this is me typing, if people didn't catch that was that going to be in your submission notes?
Speaker 1:I'm janna. I'm this tall. I'm based in new orleans. I'm a lawyer. I ain't working for you.
Speaker 3:Well, I did not. I have an agent, actually, and she submitted me and and so I was like hi, in case you forgot, I'm a personal injury attorney in real life. That's me, more me typing.
Speaker 2:So I had to decline this audition.
Speaker 3:Oh that's what typing looks like. Well, when you can see my fingers, I should do it like this it looks professional. This is more. I'm creeping around.
Speaker 2:You got to keep it on the shelf.
Speaker 3:I'm a happy secretary Anyway yeah. So I had to decline that one. I couldn't really do that, but hey, you know they requested me. They like my face, right?
Speaker 3:yeah, it's a good day I mean that's, I mean that's a good sign, at least you know I recently the most recent audition that I got, I had to turn down because I thought it would be a. It seemed like a really funny role. And then the first lines, like the first hi, I'm so-and-so and my husband is so-and-so of such-and-such. Come on, I'm trying not to give anything away. All I'm going to say is that they use the word douchebag unironically in the paragraph and I was like I don't think that. I don't think people use that phrase medically anymore and it's just kind of become a colloquial insult.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And so it was weird.
Speaker 1:That's weird. I was going to say my doctor's never used it, but he never would, Right.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm just going to say I was like decline time conflict, time conflict, and that was yeah, I didn't want to say your script freaked me out and hopefully the casting director for that particular project isn't watching right now that is kind of the catch-all, though right time conflict yeah, it can be, yeah, definitely, especially when you travel yes luckily my husband is very open.
Speaker 3:He's like what are we doing? Where are we going? And if I was, if I were to be like wait, I got a great role and instead of going to ship shaw, we need to go over here. He'd probably be like, cool, that'll be good. But but yeah, time conflict. I mean I don't know. You know it's not like I'm getting offered so many roles that they're conflicting with each other. That hasn't happened yet. Case any? You know directors are watching this. That would be good if that would start happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've been talking a little bit about how much things have slowed down and I remember early on talking to James. He was talking about when he would travel, he would take his lights. He had a bag for his lights and camera and stuff and I remember packing stuff when I would go on a trip, just in case I got an audition when I was in a hotel so I could do it. These days they've been so few and far between that.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I want to lug a whole bunch of stuff on a trip. I know, I know I have some doors behind me that well y'all can't see. I could pick the laptop up and be real energetic about this, but I'm not. But there's like sliding doors that separate the living room from the bedroom and I can close them and kind of make a reasonable background and then my husband will take me on the phone and that that works Okay. But it's so difficult when I get an audition when I'm on the road. But I do it there.
Speaker 2:There's ways you can make it. I mean you can make it happen. I got one one time when I was traveling for a film and it was a voiceover audition. So I packed the little recorder that I was going to use and I had just watched a video from a guy on how he sets up to do voiceover auditions on the road and I built a little tent. I got some pillows off the couch and I built a little tent with the blanket and I mean it sounded okay. I took my microphone. I had my microphone and my little recorder and with it being a voiceover and no video, it's a lot easier, a lot faster to prepare for that and it turned out okay.
Speaker 3:I always have a little bit of a panic attack. Yeah, yeah, if it's good enough, it's good enough. Bailey, it's just been so dry, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 3:I assume everybody's going kind of through what we're going through.
Speaker 2:It kind of. It certainly feels like it. I'm hoping things are going to pick back up, but you know I know.
Speaker 3:So that's where we are. So that's where we are. So things suck in the industry, so I still need to be a lawyer. So if anyone gets in a car accident, call me. No, I still have a law office that I still need to run.
Speaker 2:Well, janitor like you said the other day, you hope people don't need you. I do.
Speaker 3:I always say I do hope people don't need me, because money is not as good as as health and well-being.
Speaker 1:It's that's true on any day of the week.
Speaker 3:So it's a weird thing when I put my card in someone's hand and say call me, and in my heart I'm definitely hoping they don't have to, because I don't wish that bad things happen to people. But I still need to make a living, so people still need to have my card.
Speaker 1:I want you to be well, but I want your cash.
Speaker 3:Kind of it's a weird. It's a weird place to exist, but I think weird place to exist, but I think I do a good job of it because a lot of people do end up meeting me and I think I do take good care of them. But it sucks, yeah, it sucks that there are a lot of people driving around like lunatics hurting people, you know. And speaking of being up here in amish country just two days ago, yeah, it was on labor day there was an accident up in new york and a lady rear-ended, um, an amish family was. It was like eight of them in a buggy.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, it was terrible.
Speaker 3:The buggy overturned, Eight passengers ejected oh no. Non-life-threatening injuries to the people in the buggy, but the lady's car rolled over so she had to hit them hard and she had also injuries, but non-life-threatening. A horse died, which breaks my heart every day and, yeah, can you imagine being so insane that you high speed rear end a horse and buggy?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's insane. Yeah, I just read about that, googling things about the Irish, because it's a fascinating lifestyle and I'm loving it up here. But yeah, so yeah, there are crazy people on the roads and that's not new for anyone in the new orleans greater metropolitan area. They know that, yeah. So I'm out here and my basic slogan is it's not just business, it's's personal. I know, right, cool.
Speaker 1:Bring us back a quilt, right I?
Speaker 3:know I should. I've been enjoying. They have great food up here.
Speaker 2:They have really great food. Oh, I bet they do yeah.
Speaker 3:So, so it's good. So I'll be back in a few days, but but thanks for visiting with me up here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thanks for stopping in.
Speaker 3:All right. Well, you guys have a great night. Say hello to your next guest. For me we will.
Speaker 1:We will.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:Thanks, Jenna. Thank you for jumping on YouTube and watching that I know right.
Speaker 3:All right, have a great night.
Speaker 4:Was that in the frame Bye.
Speaker 3:I can't tell if it was in the frame or not. Okay, Bye guys.
Speaker 2:Cool, okay, so we got the next guest. If you're able to text him or message him.
Speaker 1:I told him to come on.
Speaker 2:Wait, here it is, here he is.
Speaker 1:I was going to say we might get multiple guests because we're kind of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm stacking.
Speaker 1:We can have more than one person jump in.
Speaker 2:So you'd be the timekeeper on that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And Facebook Live is not happening.
Speaker 1:That's okay For the second time.
Speaker 2:For some reason it just I was logged in. I had it toggled on, but it didn't go live.
Speaker 1:I shared the YouTube link through my page and through one of the NOLA film scenes. Or maybe he stepped away from his computer. We'll just keep talking until we see him.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, the Invisible man cool. So, Yusef, if you could introduce yourself, because you have not been on NOLA Film Scene yet.
Speaker 5:No, I have not. First, congratulations on two years. That's a very big milestone, thank you. So yeah, my name is Yusef. I'm a writer director originally from Brooklyn. Yusef, I'm a writer-director originally from Brooklyn, new York.
Speaker 2:I moved to St Bernard Parish with my wife about four years ago. Nice, Not a big stretch. On the accent People down in Chalmette. Their accents always remind me of people from New York.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I noticed that. They call them Yat. They call them Yat.
Speaker 2:Where.
Speaker 4:Yat From the parish.
Speaker 1:They're from the parish.
Speaker 2:They're from out in the parish, yeah it's similar.
Speaker 5:It's very similar. My daughter's starting to develop a little one and I can't tell if it's the Brooklyn and me or the Chalmette and my wife. I heard.
Speaker 2:At least she won't lose it altogether.
Speaker 1:you know, y'all being down there, Someone described it Brooklyn is the fast version of a parish accent. You know what I mean? Yeah, you take the. Brooklyn accent. You got that thing going and then you just relax, you go oh for the parish, I'm out here, you know.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's like I say down here, it's like less uptight version of the Brooklyn accent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and for those who don't know, if you look at a map of New Orleans and then look to the east, that's and then look to the east, that's where St Bernard Parish is, St Bernard and Chalmette, and there's no place like it anywhere else.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's kind of like the little brother to New Orleans, which in that sense it's just like Brooklyn, because Brooklyn's kind of the little brother to Manhattan. So it kind of makes sense for me to be here, my name, so Yusuf.
Speaker 1:We met on your podcast. You and I did yes, along with your co-host will blank yes, will blank. And y'all had me on as a guest and it was fun. And then something happened as we met, and I'll let you tell the story of what that inspired you, yeah.
Speaker 5:so you know, obviously I'm relatively new to the film scene here. I've been making movies for seven years or so, but that was mostly in brooklyn, and when we were talking to you I I kept thinking to myself man, I got to work with this guy. Something about your attitude and just how game. You seemed to like just go all in on whatever you were doing. I was just like, I don't know how or when, but I got to try to work with this guy, and so I was at that time developing a script and I was like, oh, maybe I can get Brian in this. And I just kind of redid the whole script and actually wrote a role with you in mind and I floated it to you and, like I was fantasizing about you immediately were like, yeah, let's do it. You know, like just just like the sense I got from you when we spoke on the podcast, that you were just like down to do whatever.
Speaker 1:So what you said was you wrote it and then you were tentative, you were a little scared to show it to me, which saying it is like I'm scared to show something weird to Brian what? And so earlier this year I was posting collages. I like taking pictures and that's what I use on my Instagram and my Facebook and I've had makeup and contacts and all these different roles of monsters and death and all this good stuff and I'd put it together and put it out. And so I just happened, without knowing that you were doing that, put together a collage and it says director colon, this is going to get weird me, colon, I'm in. And you went, let me show it to him. And I read the script and went yeah, and that was, it's great. We just had a table read for the movie this past weekend I think you had him at.
Speaker 2:This is gonna get weird I think, we were both without a doubt at that point.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I saw that post and I was like, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a sign uh from the universe that it's time to uh float this to brian he didn't tell me anything about it.
Speaker 2:But if it's got anything with makeup or monsters or prosthetics or anything like that, that, just that, that's even more so he's in.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and I think it. You know it's really like, in my opinion, the the most badass character in the whole film, like he's essentially playing like a cajun jedi, like a, like a mystic cajun sorcerer guy. I really sort of saw a cross between tony satchere and obi-wan kenobi, basically so, and I was like, yeah, that's not that I'm trying to say that, that's brian, but I I thought it might be a character that would tickle you a little bit, so I'm down it's gonna sound weird, but now, if I can, I made a little tagline description of movie.
Speaker 1:It's people looking for self-help find themselves at a retreat center in the bayou. A little mix of new age, maybe some swamp magic, just some self-help and some strange characters and then, yep, that's basically it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, um, you know, it's a psychedelic retreat down the road down in the bayou and it's run by two girls who are like the world's worst shamans. They do everything that you're not supposed to do to people who are on these types of substances, and throughout one of their retreats they accidentally summon a mystical creature. I'll keep it there, and Brian's character may or may not help in vanquishing this beast. They accidentally summon a mystical creature. I'll keep it there and and Brian's character may or may not help in vanquishing this beast.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of like a hermit you know yes. The old man down the road. Yep, knowledgeable battle worn in the middle of the guards, maybe, and I think that's a good place to stop that. Yeah, yeah, but I get to play with a Cajun accent.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, good place to stop that. Yeah, yeah, but I get to play with a cajun accent show boy, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:So is this a feature or is this a short? Yeah, it's a. It's, I guess, kind of both. It's a short feature. It's going to run somewhere around the 60 minute mark. Yeah, my wife and I self-produce all our own films, so we're kind of limited budgetarily. In a perfect world this would be a 90 minute full blown insane special effects, all that stuff. But we're just kind of working with our limitations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, understood, that's cool though Evil dead did a smaller film, and evil dead, too, was basically evil dead, one with more money, right, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1:You know, and 2 was basically Evil Dead 1 with more money, right, right, yeah, that's a good point, and horror is great. I don't know if I'd call it pure horror, psychedelic horror, like you said. So it's always going to be low budget and has the potential to take off and make more money. You know what I mean. Not that we want just money.
Speaker 3:Is you?
Speaker 1:Oh no, there's a voice.
Speaker 5:Hi, here's another one of my actors, our third guest.
Speaker 1:Who we got here.
Speaker 2:Can you say hi?
Speaker 5:What's her name? Violet. Hi Violet, can you say hi, brian and tj, we're being, we're being shy that's okay.
Speaker 1:Brian is shy too we're on the same mental level. So it's okay, she's. She's actually the monster in our movie.
Speaker 5:We just won't say anymore in the movie and in real life brian finally found somebody that'll make faces back at him.
Speaker 1:I found someone on my mental level. Don't tell sheree here. You want to hear him yeah can you hear? Hello hi violet. Can you hear violet? Can you hear us? We're getting silly.
Speaker 5:She's pressing all sorts of stuff here.
Speaker 1:Don't do that chaos did we get anybody in the waiting room?
Speaker 5:no, not yet I'm mama.
Speaker 1:I'm going to mute, I'm going to give that person a text. Do you have a question for Yusuf?
Speaker 5:Yeah, Yusuf what.
Speaker 2:She doesn't have.
Speaker 5:Sorry, I think I might have lost you guys for a second. Hi, hi, what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Oh, we're just hanging out, stop playing with that. So was Brian teasing or is she going to be involved in your project? She is going to have a cameo.
Speaker 5:Yeah, she's not the monster. No, no, no, she's going to be in it. You have to put your kids in your movies, otherwise what's the point you can have in them, right?
Speaker 2:so that's right.
Speaker 5:So yeah, I'm gonna say hi, yeah, yeah, uh, my goal is to like. Ultimately, my dream is to make a movie with her, but until she's ready for that, we'll have to stick to cameos yeah, of course she's not very good at taking direction that'll come in time, though how many guys are?
Speaker 2:good at that I think I've got a I've got a teenage daughter and she acts and I've brought her into a couple projects with me shorts and had a blast doing it. She loves being on set.
Speaker 1:She actually played my daughter.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right. She played Brian's daughter in one of our shorts. Yeah, I forgot about that. I forgot about the specifics of that.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry she was so traumatized.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:She wasn't the film where I have a stepchildren which is coming out this Friday. It she wasn't the film where I have a stepchildren which is coming out this Friday. It's called Impunity. It's a short and I play a stepdad dealing with an angsty teenagers. Dot dot dot.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's always nice when you could kind of keep it a family thing. Like I said, my wife's my filmmaking partner. She's also an actor. She's also going to be in this movie that we're making.
Speaker 2:So you know that's a nice layer of um, I don't know. Just fun when you can do it with family, so I want to. I just want to nerd out for a second what do you shoot on?
Speaker 5:so typically I I've been using a black magic pocket cinema 6k yeah go ahead. I'll get you some in a minute. That's what we've shot with in the past. But we are hiring, hiring out a DP for this one, and he's going to be using I can't remember the name of it it's a Sony camera. It's a. Really what's going on? Come here, come here. He's going to be using a Sony camera. I can't remember the name of it, but it's it's better than my 6k, so that's why we're going with it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got you. It's been great talking to you. I think you need to step away and deal with that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's bedtime.
Speaker 1:Lead actress, but it's good practice for when we shoot in November.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah and again, congratulations on two years, and I wish you 20 more, or however many more you guys want.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 5:Thank you, appreciate you coming on Great meeting.
Speaker 1:you Thanks for hiring me.
Speaker 5:Thanks for booking me, of course. Of course, thanks for taking the job, man.
Speaker 1:All right, see you later. Cool, can we do a whole episode with?
Speaker 2:her. So I mean I don't see, why not. We've talked about having child actors on before.
Speaker 1:Certainly made things. It's different and lively. It's energetic.
Speaker 2:I think it's really cool that he's getting her involved in projects early on. I was at that age and even much older, painfully shy, and I think it's. I don't know, I think it's really cool I've enjoyed having my daughter be able to work with some of our projects.
Speaker 1:It would have been incredible to do this as a child, as a teen or young adult, but you know nothing I can do about that until they invent time travel yeah, for sure who we got.
Speaker 2:Maybe stephanie could be done. Done, I wanted to see that you're not dark in your booth anymore. I don't think I told, unless you watched the video we shared to announce this yeah, that's true, because we haven't really I haven't started sharing videos of stuff that we've recorded since we started upping the game a little bit yeah everything's pretty's pretty much been audio, but I'm ready to start moving forward. I think getting some of those published.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's while we wait for her and we talked a little bit about this on the promo episode, but it's to us a joy to do this. It's not always easy. It can be a struggle getting the editing done, getting guests involved, equipment failure, getting the lighting right yeah you know, but all that's worth it. We have not only people who view, but friends who we've had. A couple of people say that this was important to the acting community and that means a lot to me. We have a friend who's also one of our teachers and he pushes us and does promotions for us in his class. Hey, you guys should listen to this. There's good advice during this.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's really touching.
Speaker 2:It really means a lot. It means a lot that he does that.
Speaker 1:We're both running out of words. We had a couple people scheduled and we announced Hicks Jeremy was coming, but we have to sadly say his day job that he had to work late, so he's not able to join us. We'll have him, you know. Maybe do another live and we'll have him on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sometimes, you know, sometimes life happens. Hick was our first guest. We did one episode solo just to kind of announce the launch of the podcast and talk about it a little bit. And then we had Hick on, we talked beards, we talked just acting stuff and I can't believe it was two years ago today. Time really has flown. But you know, life happens, things come up, things happen. We've had there were a couple other people that were potentially going to come hang out with us. I know there was a power outage that happened.
Speaker 1:So there's been, there's been some difficulties happening and it's okay yeah, that's what the live's gonna be gonna have to just roll with the punches. I do like the energy of bringing multiple guests in yeah you know, changing it up. Not that I don't like talking to you as much as a joke about it. Yeah, you know, it is what it is I can see this on a live as it expands. We could possibly get people asking questions live to us and the guests Get some interaction going.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I love your backdrop now.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do, Thank you.
Speaker 1:It looks very cool I appreciate that. I'm going to have to project something on mine and change up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If you were with us at the beginning and saw some of those promos. I was in a sound booth so I was almost pitch black and I liked that better than being out in the light. It just felt more comfortable. So we changed, had my softbox lights same ones I use for auditions, very bright. Even this is a little bright, but we worked on some composition with the lights Cool blue light on this side, just my key light behind me, changes the whole thing up, changing, always evolving.
Speaker 2:Got to improve on it. I'm just looking to see. I saw something flash. Somebody was trying to come in. Well, we're going to have to get him back on for a longer conversation at some point.
Speaker 1:For Hick.
Speaker 2:No, for your director that was just on yeah. So I like seeing people doing these projects, keeping things going. There's just been really not much happening. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of stuff happening right now. So I think we need to be making, doing some of our own projects and expand that. I mean we've done some 48s, we've done some seven and sevens, we've done a few smaller projects here and there, so we got to keep that ball rolling a little bit.
Speaker 1:Well, we do have a couple of things in the work. We, of course, can't talk about them. Things are moving. And then I met a director on my 48, pardon me and I believe his film. Well, I won't say the name, I'll wait. I want to have him on and you and I discuss because I like discussing how people were inspired to get into the biz that we can start a little more focused on how did you make your film, how'd you get your funding, not to lose the original question, but to start expanding and inspire us and hopefully, other people to make their own movies and film. So I've got a couple of directors. One I worked with the movie's called Death Trip. My first line was Saturday, march 14th 2020. It might be being released this year, we think it is. So I'd like to get him on. You know, not that we want to lose actors, but talking to directors would be really cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, I agree, a lot of people do their own 48s or get on teams to do 48s and there are some teams that are really well funded and have really-end equipment. But you don't have to have high-end equipment to make a film. Use what you have and you know create. But we are going to start digging in a little bit more on raising fundraising to do budgets for projects and maybe try to get a couple of bigger things going.
Speaker 1:Is anyone showing? No One of our guests says they've been there waiting, but it's have a little technical problem.
Speaker 2:Did they maybe click the link for the as a viewer? Because there's nobody, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is where we could use a producer. So within the next year, by doing lives, we're going to see if we can add a person. You won't see them, but they'll be able to handle all this business and we can keep going and just entertaining and talking.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to entertain people.
Speaker 1:What this person says. They've tapped the Join button.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1:Let's see if we can get them in. While you're doing that and I'm reading messages from them, I'm going to tell them to go all the way out the app and come back in.
Speaker 2:Are they on a mobile device or a computer?
Speaker 1:That I don't know. This app, riverside, ladies and gentlemen, is better working on a computer. It's very data hungry. Can be used, you know, on a mobile device, but blah, blah, blah, technical stuff, yeah. So I was thinking, while we're waiting, what will be something that I'd like to achieve in the next year? And we are starting down the road of sponsorship. We've talked to Jana. She sponsored us and we are sponsors of Cajun Con, so that's a brand new Louisiana.
Speaker 1:Comic Con run by Scott Ennis, who used to voice Scooby-Doo, and they've got some great guests. This will be in December. Hey, there she is there you are. Hey, we'll get back to Cajun Con later.
Speaker 4:Hi Hi.
Speaker 2:How are you doing?
Speaker 4:I'm good now how are?
Speaker 1:you doing doing good we're great.
Speaker 2:We wanted to show you our new setups oh yeah, brian's not not in the dark booth anymore no, you can like move your arm.
Speaker 4:That was last time we lost her yeah, maybe that was the problem.
Speaker 1:Well, at least you made it.
Speaker 2:So Cajun Con. So we're sponsoring Cajun Con. Scott Ennis is putting on Cajun Con voice of Scooby-Doo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he's been working on this for at least a year. I'm seeing a few cons promoting it.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of people involved in that.
Speaker 1:There's going to be a lot of really really huh. Over 80 celebrities appearing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going to be huge. It's going to be at the Lamar Dixon Convention Center over in Gonzales. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the place is big, really big. I haven't been there yet, but the kids from Willy Wonka are going to be there all grown up.
Speaker 2:That's right, pippi.
Speaker 1:Longstocking. We've got the Terrifier. I know Art is his first name. I don't know his last name. You know the clown. Do you know what I'm?
Speaker 2:talking about.
Speaker 1:I don't do clowns. Well, he's going to be at the con and a lot of times he'll do normal and then he'll get painted up.
Speaker 2:Don't do clowns.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll keep him away from you and when we watch Death Trip, I'll tell you when to close your eyes, because I was a clown in that, one of my six roles oh yeah, no sort of.
Speaker 2:I'm a shriner and I mean there's a there's a clown unit and I knew the guys that were dressed up as clowns. I could be around them because I knew them, but it didn't creep me out any less. I could stand close to them and I could even talk to them, but it wasn't my favorite yeah, a lot of people have that. Stephanie having a connection issue.
Speaker 1:She is. Yeah, she's on her iPad. Sometimes it works with a mobile device, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2:If she's connected to Wi-Fi and she can get a good Wi-Fi signal, she should be okay. If she's trying to do it through the cellular signal of the iPad, she's going to have trouble, that's what I'm finding out.
Speaker 1:So I'm trying to think while we're talking, gray delisle is going to be at cajun con, she is daphne. And I had to stop and think because I always want to say, uh, thelma, but that's not wrong and I don't want her to hurt me, I'm not that she also do it, she voices someone in avatar. I love going to cons as a you know, just a visitor, so, and we have a booth, which also means we have a place to sit for the entire con, which is awesome.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:No more joy than doing that.
Speaker 2:And we'll have some swag.
Speaker 1:We've been working on some items to give away. I bought these giant dice. I think we might have a little game All right, here comes Stephanie hey we're back, let's let's just thank Stephanie for joining us.
Speaker 2:I'll tell her on the phone, yeah.
Speaker 1:Thank you, we should have one more guest coming up. Tries and tribulations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, growing pains.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Show me that smile. Oh, different growing pains. So I was saying I'd like to do other cons. We've gotten some press passes in the past but to be more involved with cons, definitely be invited as guests. People coming up to us to take pictures, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2:That'd be a great thing to happen in the next year. We did get one invite that we still are talking through and need to follow up a little bit more on.
Speaker 1:I don't know which one. I think I know who that is.
Speaker 2:Not going to say it just yet, just in case.
Speaker 1:Tell me after I probably already know. Oh, there she is. Yes, I am, hey. Hey, it's probably too much for your iPad for the live, so we're going to start off by thanking you for coming and if it drops off again, we'll say bye and we'll talk later. We'll have you back, but we're not. We'll try this one last time. Well, congratulations, thank you, and it's we loved having you on. I love that. We have made a friendship. I made a friendship with someone I watched years stand up in sitcoms and, if you know, I have business cards now with QR codes to promote the podcast.
Speaker 1:And anytime I hand it out she goes anytime I hand it out, I always tell everyone to watch Stephanie's episode. So we got a little bit out. She says congratulations, we got a little bit of talk, we got something out of our guest. You might be muted. I don't hear you.
Speaker 2:She's coming back in, so just tell her we'll. We'll follow up with her and we'll do one offline. It's probably too much data.
Speaker 1:Okay, thank you for coming on, stephanie. Even it's been disrupted. I'm going to stop talking, but if it cuts out again, we'll. We'll pull you back another time, but like we did last time. But you talk now, I'll be quiet.
Speaker 4:I just want to wish you great congratulations, and it's been just the best thing in the world to see you two do all the things you've been doing in the last couple of years. Thank you. You do the work and you progress and you get better, and it just tickles me to death. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy for you?
Speaker 4:You have no right to be proud of me.
Speaker 2:That means a lot coming from her.
Speaker 4:She was our second guest, and that means a lot coming from her.
Speaker 2:She was our second guest and she is the one that left me in stitches during that episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's what I was saying. Whenever I put out the card, hand somebody a card that's got a QR code to listen to our podcast. She's one of the episodes I mentioned and I always say that she and I hit it off so well that we made TJ's ribs hurt from laughing.
Speaker 1:That's right, she's a trip and she's so supportive. I can send her an audition. Hey, check this out, what do you think? And she'll give me notes and tips and just so much encouragement. We can't thank you enough, stephanie. We love you and I'm going to tell her that while you talk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, stephanie was a fun episode and she's genuinely a kind person and has kept in touch with us and is always so encouraging.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we have potentially one last guest and I'm going to see if they're able to come on. This person hasn't been on our show yet but I thought it'd be fun to we try to get people who have been on, like Hick and then this person who kind of like a little taste, like hey, how you doing, I'll be on in the future. Right, I did that with the Christmas cards that year. You remember those.
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:That was fun, but a little work intensive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but now you've gotten a lot more proficient with doing overlays and doing some of the did was have a few of our guests and a couple of extra people that were going to come on record. Just a little soundbite, little video clip soundbite for us, and we posted those like Christmas cards, like live video Christmas cards, and that was kind of fun.
Speaker 1:It was, and then we put them all together for a one christmas episode yeah we can reveal, doing the sound balance on it was probably very stressful for you.
Speaker 2:I don't even think I have to say probably, just because it's different source material yeah, recorded it, yep, but I've gotten a lot better, a lot more experience with editing and it's not as, not as challenging as it was right at that time learn progress, do more.
Speaker 1:I liked matching because I took stock christmas pictures and then stock christmas music and I and I put some text on the screen so I made it look like a christmas card and then matching the sound and the picture to the person. So, like creek wilson did for one, did one for us and he's going to be a cajun con I I just remembered, but he's very country, pure Alabama accent, real thick, real great.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so I took almost like a cabin and put it behind it and almost like a little twang, a little country Christmas song, and so it matched the character. Hicks was great. First he did one for us in his car and then you can't do it Too much that you can't do it too much background noise, so he generously did another one and made it look like an audition. Yeah, that, yeah. His first word was line and he asked his. He asked carolyn um, do I have to do a full body?
Speaker 2:no, you don't, because you know brian's, all that was yeah, oh, that's right, because he recorded the first one in the car.
Speaker 2:So what's funny?
Speaker 2:Something that I learned when I was taking some voiceover classes is that if you don't have a booth, if you don't have access to anything, or you're on the road and you need to record an audition or whatever, recording inside a car when it's parked is actually a really good place to do it.
Speaker 2:Because of the way cars are treated, the way cars are treated they're designed to keep outside noise to a minimum and just the way they are, the way the seats absorb the sound and the headliner and all the stuff that's in the car you can get really good sound quality, assuming it's not 100 degrees in the south and you're sitting there. You can't have the car running and have air conditioning going, but if you can sit for a few minutes in your driveway or in a parking lot or whatever and record, it's a good alternative to having a booth or going in a closet or whatever, and the one that you referenced was being recorded during driving. Then there's a little bit of wind noise and maybe air conditioning noise introduced. That's a little harder to work with, but just a little tidbit.
Speaker 1:A little lesson we learned. I don't think our last guest is going to make it. I haven't heard any response.
Speaker 2:That's okay. I think we probably could wrap it up.
Speaker 1:I think so.
Speaker 2:We've had a pretty good two-year anniversary live stream. It's been a fun two years. One of the milestones and one of the marks that I saw early on was I don't remember the percentage of podcasts that fail and by fail I mean people just give up and stop doing them is 10. The first 10 episodes if you make it past that, you're likely to make it a little bit further. And then after that it's the century mark and we're approaching that. We're getting. We're not quite there. I think we've got maybe 20 more episodes to go and we don't have that many published yet. We've got a few recorded that we haven't published, but that's kind of. The next milestone is 100 episodes, and then after that then the sky's the limit. You know Joe Rogan records three and a half hour episodes and publishes them. You know four or five days a week, right, and has thousands of episodes. So I don't know if we'll have thousands of episodes in our future.
Speaker 2:Could, but why not? If we're still growing and having fun with it and providing valuable content, I don't see why we couldn't.
Speaker 1:Totally and we've talked about you know it's kind of a dream but, like, maybe doing this live Not only live stream, but live at a place, at a facility, at a theater, and having guests and having an audience. Won't be anytime soon, but it's a dream. Yeah, it won't be anytime soon, but it's a dream, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean similar to when we were on the panel at the comic book convention that we did, I guess, January this year, but that room wasn't really treated for audio and the conditions weren't really conducive to doing a good recording, a good broadcast. But a theater that's treated for sound, that might be a different animal. It ended up sounding okay, we just had to do a little work on it, but for a live broadcast it wouldn't have been ideal.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But afterwards I think it sounded okay.
Speaker 1:I think it sounded good. You know those they're almost egg carton things that you put around the microphones, mm-hmm, like sound dampeners, mm-hmm. That might be something to put in front of us where people could still see us, but the mic, might, you know, dampen the sound coming into it. If we had to do that again, yeah. Inevitably All pipe dreams, but that's how you get started.
Speaker 2:You dream it, that's right.
Speaker 1:All right, folks. Well, thanks for being with us for two years, and here's to two more. And two more after that, and two more after that, and two more after that.
Speaker 2:See you later. See you the next time.
