Laugh Until We Fart
Laugh Until We Fart
Erin Elizabeth Cook Takes Us to Church
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Hey, laugh enthusiasts—Shane Harges here, your jester-in-chief, and on the latest uproarious episode of Laugh Until We Fart we're joined by the incomparably versatile Erin Elizabeth Cook. Buckle up for a whirlwind of revelations as Erin peels back the Hollywood veneer, revealing the raw and often hilarious truth of chasing dreams beneath the bright lights. We reminisce about her tantalizing near-miss in "Rain Man," tackle the tough terrain of child stardom, and even dish the dirt on the hilariously contentious 'hot fart theory.'
The candid confessions continue as we slide into the nitty-gritty of life's peculiarities, pinging from the spiritual to the sidesplitting. Ever wondered if GPS tech has ruined the classic Hollywood struggle? Erin and I muse over this, sharing war stories from the labyrinthine streets of Tinseltown pre-smartphone era. We're not all business, though—prepare for a detour through personal anecdotes, complete with night sweats and a spontaneous freestyle rap battle that'll leave you in stitches.
As the curtains close on this cavalcade of chuckles, don't think we've skimped on the heart. From the evolving Oklahoman film scene to the impact of faith on personal and professional journeys, we've packed emotion and inspiration in between our belly laughs. I'll leave you with the thought of a Christmas movie that strays from the sugary sweet norm, a dive into the world of TikTok bachelors, and a rap that's so hot, it might just have you questioning your olfactory senses. Tune in to Laugh Until We Fart for a hearty dose of hilarity and human connection—you won't regret it!
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Speaker 1All right, welcome back to Studio. Toot Scoot with the Laugh Until we Fart podcast, and I'm going to do a round of introductions and this one's a little special, oh boy.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, when he says special, I get very nervous. You should yeah, yeah. I said yes to doing this show before I watched the podcast. That was a poor choice on your part, but it's okay, I took a bath in holy water before I came.
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Speaker 1Scared and your starting lineup for episode two, season four of the Laugh Until we Fart podcast.
Speaker 4We have Wayne in at you. Don't ask no woman that your born again. Virgin and co-host Taylor Lee Woo-hoo, Woo-hoo.
Speaker 1And weighing in at Boy Mind, your Business is actor, writer, producer extraordinaire, erin Elizabeth Cook. Thank you, claire Erin Elizabeth Cook. Wayne Inet Boy watch your mouth. Former, most okayest co-host ever, el Crapitan sidekick, casey Su, that's me.
Speaker 4That's me.
Speaker 1That's me and Wayne Inet he's me and Wayne in it. He's too sexy for a track suit. El Crepe Tan himself. Shane Hargis, there we go. There it is. We love you.
Speaker 5Shane, we love you All, right, jk JK.
Speaker 2How did you stop this music? Make it end.
Speaker 5Yeehaw.
Speaker 1I got to take a break. Now, man, you're out of breath.
Speaker 6I know we're already worn out. You're so zoned, that's a wrap.
Speaker 1I need a can of the oxygen.
Speaker 2You're so sweaty today. I know I'm a sweaty Betty today.
Speaker 1I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5I had to clean a disgusting bathroom menopause, yeah, menopause he is menopausing I've been having night sweats.
Speaker 1I don't know what's going on. My hormones are all fucked up. I need to get on birth control or something this shit under control.
Speaker 6Good luck with that we definitely don't want you to have a child, so the birth control might not be a bad idea, too late. That's right, that's your fault?
Speaker 2That's your fault, oh no, I didn't birth them, oh okay.
Speaker 5Okay.
Speaker 2I am not responsible. She just finds their butt bad.
Speaker 1Let's do a proper introduction of the podcast for Aaron. So if you will watch our little screen over here, I'm going to show a video and this is the kind of shit we're getting into today.
Speaker 4Oh no.
Speaker 1Here we go.
Speaker 4Romantic, romantic oh oh oh boy, what happened?
Speaker 1oh, I just flipped it over. I, I flipped the camera. Flip. Flip, flip. There we go. That's what we're about right there. That's it what was that.
Speaker 2That's it.
Speaker 1Okay, see y'all later. Bye, thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 5Just kidding.
Speaker 1What was that? That was just like an opening video, just like.
Speaker 6Taylor, excuse me.
Speaker 1Just so you know, we're hopping into a Buddy's 4x4. We're going to go cruise around Lake Deadbody or, wait, Stanley Draper Lake.
Speaker 6I thought Overholzer had taken that and we're going to do that I thought it was Stanley Draper.
Speaker 1We're going to go do that.
Speaker 2It could be that too. I'm in go do that. It could be that I'm in.
Speaker 6Let's do it freely like bodies, and like leaks, though is getting so old, like, come on originality, right, I'm sorry, places proper intro, proper intro.
Speaker 1Well, just proper interviewing we got to do some pro. No, not introductions but interviewing. You know, we usually have guests come in and we just the train gets off the track within seconds.
Speaker 2I don't feel like there's even a train. I feel like it's those old school like oh pump handle cars. Yeah, I think that's the whole thing.
Speaker 1But we derail those Like. I don't know how you do that. A paddy wagon, a paddy wagon, a paddy wagon, oh God, case stone cops yeah.
Speaker 2See Damn.
Speaker 1Okay. So, Erin, when did you start getting into acting?
Speaker 6Oh man, that's a fun, fun question. So actually, when I got the bug, do y'all remember a movie called Rain man?
Speaker 1Yes, oh the bug um, do y'all remember a movie called rain man?
Speaker 6yes, oh yeah, I'm a good driver so, yeah, that was actually shot in oklahoma. Uh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I don't know if the entire thing was shot here, but a good portion of it was shot in oklahoma. And uh, actually I was walking in penn square mall with my mom, five years old, you know, looking all cute because I was the first child, and so they put me in all the ridiculous dresses and the curls and, you know, took me everywhere and stuff like that. So it was dramatic, I made it through and it actually landed me in. There was, at that time, the whole thing were like hey, do you want to come audition for something Like it actually kind of existed still then you know a little little bit well, and especially in oklahoma, because like there wasn't a film industry here.
Speaker 6So yeah, uh, they called me in to audition for a role in rain man. Wow and um, that was my first audition, was for one of those like like a huge film and obviously I didn't get it, but I'm grateful, I know right, it's such a shitty movie.
Speaker 1Well, it's not that I didn't get it, it's that they literally cut the part out.
Speaker 6I know we hate that movie.
Speaker 1Now. That's a terrible movie. They didn't cast Aaron.
Speaker 6That's it, we're done. No, they actually they cut the role, which happens often, and so it is what it is, but honestly, I always think everything happens exactly the way it's supposed to. For sure you know what I mean. And yeah, some of these weirdos that were child stars, bless them you know?
Speaker 5Oh yeah, did you watch that Nickelodeon? I mean, I haven't watched that Nickelodeon. Oh, it's sad.
Speaker 6You don't like Corey Feldman's concerts.
Speaker 2He does concerts. I love them. Jinx, you owe me a cider. I got one for you at the bridge.
Speaker 1He's got a whole band.
Speaker 5Yeah, I listen to it all the time. A band, I just feel like every actor that makes it.
Speaker 6And then they start a band. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4They can do it all.
Speaker 6And actually Dennis Quaid's making a comeback, but there was a while where I actually saw him live out when I was living in Los Angeles with his band.
Speaker 1So yeah, when did you move out to LA?
Speaker 6So that was, I want to say, 22, 23-ish and then I was there, and then I went up to Oregon and did a lot of interning, came back down to LA um, yeah, around 20, 22, 23 and then I interned on different films and worked on like 30 different sets and multi-cam shows. I was, you know, a background actor and like over 100 different things, like Las Vegas and the practice and all that stuff and live that extra life in california. Finally got the agent and, uh, this is okay, guys. This is back when, like, you have these black and white headshots right and like there are no cell phones, okay, and los angeles is a freaking nightmare to drive in anywhere. And so there's this thing called the Thomas Guide. I don't know if you guys know about this. Do you remember the telephone book? Yes, okay, so that's the size of this thing, but it's literally a grid of how to get around in Los Angeles. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5I can't do that.
Speaker 4Immediately no. I have so much anxiety right now.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yeah stay away from the red circled areas right you want to get mugged or so, um.
Speaker 6So yeah, like back then, you know you're going door to door to agents back then, like trying to drop off your materials, you know, like it was a little bit a much different way of marketing yourself and trying to get yourself out there, you know.
Speaker 6But yeah, I was super blessed to like have some great mentors that are wonderful producers, and my my God film father, my God film brother, they're anyways doing amazing things and I got to work on a lot of different things in different capacities. Finally got that agent Okay, started landing some good roles, all right, and uh, I actually I actually had a speaking role in Las Vegas and it's a tricky thing because I was just excited to be in it. They didn't realize that I wasn't sacked. So they gave me a line and I didn't know like, oh, it's high, you know. Know, because there's so many things I know now that then and everyone has to go through it, you know, and everyone has to learn it, but like they put me in as a blackjack dealer and it's this scene with, like, james Kahn and Josh Toml and you know, and I'm like blackjack dealing because I can do that, because that's what my family does at Christmas time, where?
Speaker 6that family poker and blackjack. So this game kind of swooped down, and I have this great scene Games are not like that.
Speaker 6I'm sorry, and they give me this one line. You know which is like the thing back then, like it was so hard to get an IMDB credit then Because, like there was no imdb pro, right, like the producer had to give you the credit. And back then, like the, if you were an under five which meant like you had under five lines sometimes they didn't give you credits at all, even for under five lines. Yeah, so, um, so I was super excited and then I was like I can't wait to see myself not realizing they never came and gave me a contract to sign that I got bumped and taft heart lead. You know what I mean.
Speaker 6And then I'm watching the show with my mom and I'm like there's the back of my head. Here comes my line. That's not my freaking voice, bro, oh, no, right. So that's what they did. They AGR'd someone else's voice over that line. So I mean, the studios are shady. Actually had a really great time on that show, though I learned a lot and they asked me to come back a lot and I really did enjoy that show and it and it was a learning lesson like this is a business, you know. It's not like you just stand up and you know what, today I think I'm going to go out and I think I'm going to be an actor. I got this Tomorrow. I mean, hollywood's just been waiting for me.
Speaker 1Amazing. Wait until they get a load of me.
Speaker 5That's right.
Speaker 6We've all been waiting for you.
Speaker 5Did you do theater in school?
Speaker 6So yeah, so, since mom didn't really want me to do the child and it ended up working out that I didn't land that role, um, I would say so and uh. So, like life happened, my family my mom and dad like moved us around and we went to san antonio am I loud?
Speaker 2no, no, my ears are baby ears, I was like I can back away sometimes.
Speaker 6No, no, you're good I'm a baby you're sad. Sometimes I get stage voice because she asked if I did theater and I was like automatically.
Speaker 2Let me put on my theater voice, please.
Speaker 4How did you know?
Speaker 1please do your voice my headphones are cranked because my hearing sucks deep yes, deep, deep and dumb, deep and dumb sorry, carry on, you're fine.
Speaker 2Please use your full voice.
Speaker 6So, um, so you know I uh I was, my parents tried to put me in sports and all this stuff, and like then my parents started going through hard times and you know, I was an angsty teenager living in san antonio and like I just wasn't processing my parents separating very well, and so my mom was like she didn't know what to do, so she enrolled me into an acting class at the Cliff Osmond School of Acting oh nice, yeah, who?
Speaker 6uh, he had a really big tv show for a really long time. He was really popular, um, and he was what was it? No, I can't even remember the name of the show. I'm like, yeah, it's a really big tv show and I can't even remember the name. It's so big Matlock, it's in my freaking bio on IMDb and I don't even remember.
Speaker 2I have a hunch that he probably isn't going to hear this episode. He passed away.
Speaker 6He's listening right now.
Speaker 1Dang it. Sorry, yellow oh my lord, oh my lord.
Learning and Transition in Entertainment
Speaker 6So what happened after that is that I fell in love and they did like this showcase where they had all the actors like, come out, you know, and they gave me the angsty teenager scene oh my gosh did you have to dig deep for that.
Speaker 6So deep, no, but I mean, that's the thing. It was so deep and I didn't even have a method acting class in it at that point, so that the showcase I'm like slamming this thing like a tray, like across the table, and the whole audience is like everyone got silent afterwards. Then I got a standing ovation and then after that my mom was like I'm pretty sure this is what you're supposed to be doing. Yeah, so I took classes, you know, all throughout my teenage years, and then we moved back home here to oklahoma, because I'm originally from yukon. Um, I graduated in 2008. Yeah for sure, yeah, totally that's when he graduated too, I believe that.
Speaker 2I believe that shane graduated shane actually graduated in 2006 mean he's a little bit older.
Speaker 6Old man, no, so I'm way old, but we don't talk about a woman's age, that's right. And so I did theater there, you know, for four years, and I had an amazing, amazing drama teacher that taught me so much about so many things, and let me tell you, she was hardcore. Yeah, I was cast as the queen of the Amazons, ooh, in Midsummer Night's Dream, shakespeare, and, as I am now, I was like, every time I sit down, I was like I am Queen Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, and she was like your posture dude.
Speaker 6But I mean she didn't say dude or bro, but she was like right, come on bro, come on, bro, your posture's off. So in order to fix my posture and sit like an elegant queen, she literally had me strap a two by four to my back. Oh my gosh, she wrapped it around me and so everywhere that I went, I sat with this two by four so that I learned how to train my body to always sit like this and walk like this. And she was also the first person that I learned from that, like how you can use animals to bring in your performances and use them to build a character, you know. And so with that, it was like Hippolyta, what are you? Well, when I walk in the room, I naturally now have, when I'm walking, pretty good posture. When I sit, I still slouch, but when I'm walking or stand up, you guys will see me, I walk in and I'm like oh, erin, you feel so Like. No, sis, you walk like an eagle.
Speaker 4Ooh that's a good one, eagle.
Speaker 5Ooh, that's a good one. I feel like if you did that now though, it would be bad. Like I don't think you can duct tape wood to someone now. Yeah, do you think they do now? I feel like that would cause a problem.
Speaker 6Maybe that was a little. She's probably gonna watch this guys. She's my princess.
Speaker 2I mean it's fine. It's fine, I don't care, I mean I's fine. It's fine, I don't care I mean.
Speaker 4I support it. You do you. That's just right. I just remember the paddle. I never got that in school, anything for the play.
Speaker 6She must have PTSD, because she was like they can't do that anymore, yeah.
Speaker 5You have the paddle.
Speaker 1I'm like that's not even one. What? No, she likes it.
Speaker 2She's sad that it's not there anymore. How do I sign up? What do I do?
Speaker 1can you just volunteer?
Speaker 6I'll do it. So there you have it. That's awesome. So, yeah, we did the high school thing and then you know you're supposed to get the real job, do the real college thing. I tried. I went to broadcasting school at UCO, uco, uco, and I was like the fact that the news is faker than acting bothers me. And this is like in 2009,. Right?
Speaker 2Yeah, absolutely Right after you graduated. Absolutely, I got to keep track in my lives, you guys College. Right after high school. We'll just take notes.
Speaker 6And I was like I can't do this. This is icky, this is not me, I'm not like welcome. And next up we have this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing A family found in a triple homicide. After the weather yes, it will be right back.
Speaker 2Fake news.
Speaker 6Stop it.
Speaker 1Get out of here. That's my best Trump.
Speaker 2That's the only Trump you have. You're gay. Okay, can I be fussy and ask for a little more volume on my home.
Speaker 1Oh my God Jesus, How's that? Check, check, check, check, check. Thank you Meeting. I'm high maintenance. Last time she's on, I think he says that every episode well, this one now is the last one, sure, sure, yeah, we'll see your band.
Speaker 2Uh, what's your favorite? Uh, no, I don't want to say it that way. Which set did you learn the most on?
Speaker 6honestly, the first set is the one that I went all the way from development all the way through post-production, basically, and that was with one of my mentors. I mean, I interned in every single position and you know, I was an actor and that's why I wanted to, like, get on the set in any capacity and I was like I want to be a set PA, whatever my god. He was like no, you're gonna start in the office where it all begins, like after we get the script. So I went through the whole process of you know, I was there when we were calling agents, making deals, watching tapes, watching an actor that literally had an amazing performance and seeing another actor get it because distribution liked the other one better. So all these things that you have to learn. And again, this is a business and I don't think that so many people out there understand what goes into it. I mean, there's very many different ways to make a film. But I learned the most on that set. It was called Yesterday's Dreams.
Creative Ideas and Random Tangents
Speaker 6I worked with the line producer, who was also the UPM. A lot of times, if you have a lower budget feature, a UPM, your unit production manager is going to act as your line producer as well, which, again, we have different types of producers and, for the people that are watching, or, if you maybe don't know, different levels of producers. Um, a line producer is the one that basically has the budget. They're making sure that everything's lined up where it needs to be. If you need to bring more money for a cast member, they've got to figure out where to take it from a different department and if we can so, line by line budgeting is a line producer yes exactly no producer, oh my god like they produce the lines there's no middle ground with her, it's always like.
Speaker 6That's why we love her yeah that's right so, yeah, there's all these different levels of producers, and so I started, you know, with the executive producers in the development phase, which, again, that's another thing I think often people don't understand and we misuse the, the phrases here is, you know, if the money is not in the bank for a film and ready to spend, like you're in development, you know you're not in pre-production for years. Pre-production is when you are ready to set up an office, you have a bank account, you can start cutting checks, hiring people, all that stuff. Yeah, that makes sense. And then when you're actually in production, of course it's usually a month or two or three or a year if you're a Scorsese film and then you have your post-production, which, jeez, sometimes gonna last two years yeah, I can't.
Speaker 6Imagine yeah, do you only do acting no, so I started acting and I interned in the producing stuff because I wanted to learn everything that I possibly could. You know, and I think that's so important for everyone to get on any set. I mean, you don't have to be a master of every single thing, but it's a good idea to work in each department so you can understand their lingo, you know, understand how the camera works. Me becoming a producer and a writer is about what's going to launch my career in this next step, and I didn't know that that was the way that it was going to go, and I mean we can talk about that at some point, but, uh, talk about all of it.
Speaker 2Let's write a movie, let's go. Oh my gosh, can Taylor and I be in a movie? No one wants that.
Speaker 4No one wants to watch.
Speaker 6Let me know. Let me know If you need any actors. Let me know If you need any actors, let me try to act.
Speaker 1I mean, I'm working on two scripts.
Speaker 5Hey, that's awesome For my first time. Okay, but we're talking about us.
Speaker 2But also humble yourself, sir. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 5Hey you still haven't allowed me and taylor to have our true crime podcast, so he gave us a tidbit he just didn't record.
Speaker 2That is not true oh, that is on the episode that didn't get recorded.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, that episode got recorded. The audio crashed and we had no audio. But the video recorded oh, that would have been fun can we?
Speaker 2we pull that out. That'd be funny.
Speaker 1But you have to use cutting room floor.
Speaker 5I always have ideas for movies and books, but I'm just not. I'm not a go getter.
Speaker 2So I'm not a go getter.
Speaker 5Go much further than, like you know, but I have I feel like I have good ideas.
Speaker 6Send my way. You never know. That's kind of what happens.
Speaker 5So what is?
Speaker 1one of them.
Speaker 5We'll have some like dark, like mix it with real life.
Speaker 1What's the premise Like?
Speaker 2Donnie Darko, type dark.
Speaker 5So you're like sexual love gone wrong, murder.
Speaker 2Ooh.
Speaker 5Lifetime.
Speaker 2Like lifetime. Yeah, we like lifetime, okay.
Speaker 1So is it basic instinct.
Speaker 4No, huh no.
Speaker 2I think it's.
Speaker 5I'm not going to give away all my secrets. She's got a big beaver. I'm not going to give away all my secrets.
Speaker 1Somebody might steal it oh well, you say it on the podcast.
Speaker 5We have evidence of it, so yeah, you want me to tell the whole movie like what the fuck? Yes, yeah, you haven't given me a premise I just no, I'm not ready, I wasn't prepared for this.
Speaker 6She's flustered 30 second page 30, second page, you gotta get 30 notes.
Speaker 1She's not a go-getter.
Speaker 4See, that's as far as.
Speaker 2I can go. I have an idea. She went and got. That is her go-get. Here's her movie idea. Want to?
Speaker 1know how to take a shit in a coffee cup Is that it Please let us know when we've offended your sensibility.
Speaker 6It's just that because I'm an actor and a writer. My visuals are just so oh so you saw, you actually saw that you visualize everything.
Speaker 5Do you have an inner monologue? Yes, because I found out people don't I know and it freaks my mind. I have trilogues not just monologues multiple characters all the time maybe I have trilogues too, and that's why I can't focus is that add, feel like it's add multiple personalities I just consider that brilliant. It's just hard to figure out how to apply it.
Speaker 5We'll go with that you're on the spectrum or I was autistic before it was cool, okay, but not out there, before anyone put a label on it. I was autistic when it was an actual disorder, me and her me and her do suffer from fart Tourette's. I just talked about this at work.
Speaker 1If there's no noise and no one's talking, we're just all of a sudden we're getting a.
Speaker 5You have to.
Speaker 6It's so weird to me, guys because I don't ever get gas, like never. Neither does Courtney.
Speaker 2Neither does our sister-in-law.
Speaker 6And I'm a pescatarian, which is even weirder, so I eat lots of veggies.
Speaker 1And fruits and beans and stuff like that.
Speaker 6Salmon makes you Salmon makes me fart.
Speaker 1I thought that was a church.
Speaker 2What Pescatarian?
Speaker 1Shut up Shane.
Speaker 2That's Pentecostal, I have it all wrong.
Speaker 5That's Presbyterian, that makes sense. That's a hospital.
Speaker 1I think it's both right.
Speaker 2A pescatarian she eats the fish and stuff Occasionally, but yeah, are you mostly vegetarian.
Speaker 6I eat eggs. I don't eat beef pork chicken. I don't really either Anything like that you don't like food.
Speaker 5No, I like food.
Speaker 2I don't like weird food, like anything but chicken strips I like gas station food, taylor's a gremlin.
Speaker 5I went to the gas station last night. I liked them. What's your favorite food group?
Speaker 6Chiquito. I went to the gas station last night. I liked them. What's your favorite food group, chiquito? Yeah, actually Super crunchy burritos.
Speaker 5I went to get dinner last night I went to the Valero for dinner and what did? You get at Valero the bean burrito and corn dog.
Speaker 2The bean burrito and the corn dog.
Speaker 1And chewy spruce.
Speaker 2Oh my God, Dr Pepper Party.
Speaker 1Going hard on a saturday. That was my dinner, girl dinner. Wow, what is your we just? What were we talking about? Oh yeah, we just learned that casey's grandma eats hungry man dinners. One pound of food why, she loves
Speaker 2a hungry man dinner well here's the thing graham is 86, maybe easy something, but they're not even good. But here's the thing if she doesn't eat things like hungry man, then she eats like liverwurst and brunch water, what? And things that are, I don't even know, not okay, bean burger, no, no, she would never eat a bean burger ain't nothing wrong with burger.
Speaker 6There's a whole lot of closet hungry man eaters, though I mean it's still in the market.
Speaker 5That's a good point. You know, I'm I'm just eating.
Speaker 2Yes, she's just, she just doesn't like to eat.
Speaker 5I get like that sometimes.
Speaker 2But, thank you, but you're 86. Like I need you to put something other than like I ate four red crackers maybe get her high. Oh, we do. Oh okay, she lives in colorado and we got her on some edibles to take at night and she actually sleeps, which is yeah, my whole life, graham has not been like she would a sleeper.
Speaker 1She would go to bed at like 11, wake up at two and just have have a muffin, some coffee I'll be a feed muffin. Peanut butter cookies be up for the fuck, be up for three hours, go take a nap, is this?
Speaker 6my life. This is what I do seriously I wake up at like three and I'm like, oh, what's going on? And then I have brilliant ideas and I work from three to six or so and then I'm like, wait, I can't hit send on any of these messages because it's awkward that I'm sending messages at four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2What? The hell are you doing so. I'm either awake very early or still up very late, and either way people are going to question it.
Chasing Shadows Film Production Journey
Speaker 5Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2I'm going to start scheduling messages to send to Taylor at random ass times in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5He already sends me weird ass TikToks at 1, 2 in the morning, midnight.
Speaker 2I know because he stays up super late, but I'm going to send him at like 4.13. The things that go on on this thing.
Speaker 1I have to curate the videos that we watch, so you're getting. Actually I'm not complaining about it.
Speaker 5I don't hear it.
Speaker 1You're getting the best of the best.
Speaker 5You know what's actually funny? I've been putting on rain sounds to go to sleep but I wake up to the weirdest podcasts or whatever on Spotify going.
Speaker 1It was something about aliens that was talking and there was something about the nature of science Some dude was just talking, I woke up and was like what if the aliens came in, flipped it to that podcast.
Speaker 5Well, I'm wondering what it's doing to my brain that I'm listening to this subconsciously. Are your dreams weird? I don't dream.
Speaker 6You are a reptilian.
Speaker 5You're a lizard person. That's the problem.
Speaker 6You will take over the world. You will annihilate all humans.
Speaker 5I'm worried and eat corn dogs and taquitos this is why what's wrong?
Speaker 6you will get all black contacts. Oh wait, sorry, that's what they look like to me. They do. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2I thought you made black contacts, like in my phone, like contact no, that's what it's like black people, yeah, who are contacts in your phone. Okay, okay, I not my thing, okay, okay.
Speaker 1Okay, I think I'm going to have to.
Speaker 6You guys are going to edit this part out right, oh shit.
Speaker 4I'm going to have to keep my finger on this button. I would be fine with that.
Speaker 2Talking about.
Speaker 4I just actually like it's not a bad thing, careful.
Speaker 1I like doing it after someone's saying something good and I use it Trying to throw you off now, no.
Speaker 5And then this I'm fast.
Speaker 2See, I'm fast. Oh no, oh no.
Speaker 1So, Erin, you do have some pretty cool news about a little Hollywood premiere thing, Talk about it, can you?
Speaker 5hook me up with any actors.
Speaker 6So yeah.
Speaker 5Casey Ecklund, I won't even go for Ben.
Speaker 6I do have a few actors I could hook you up with.
Speaker 5Do they like crazy?
Speaker 6As long as you're willing to work for free, for me forever.
Speaker 1Kind of work? Yeah, depends.
Speaker 6You know, she's not a goat. She's not a goat.
Speaker 1There was kind of a film joke, but also said that you were willing to consider halfway.
Speaker 2Can the title of the podcast be she's not a go-getter, which is the absolute antithesis of Aaron.
Speaker 1You're not a go-getter, sorry.
Speaker 5No.
Speaker 6I'm a half-layer.
Speaker 5Yeah, so things are bringing it up.
Speaker 6We're like super. I am so excited, you guys, it's the first film that I submitted as a producer, anyways, okay, so basically, this whole thing thing, we did a 48 hour thing or whatever, and like you have to edit it all down to 7 minutes in the 48 hour and like what we did is we did so much prep that like we literally only shot 36 hours and like edited everything. We probably need a little more time on the edit, to be honest, but it needed so much more because the story that we ended up writing on the fly was like super emotional and it needed these moments to breathe. So it was actually a huge blessing that we ended up not qualifying for anything, because we got to go back and do a whole remaster of this thing and add in scenes that you know make more sense and like add all of these beautiful images and like these like like parallel meanings in the universe and all that stuff. So the film's called chasing shadows and, uh, I'm the lead actor, I'm the producer, uh, and one of the writers, um, but this was such an amazing team effort and so everyone that was on the cast also acted as a crew member. Oh, cool, yes, so this thing was just I mean, I'm telling you when I say it was magical, I can't describe it.
Speaker 6The only thing that we really knew was going to happen, and the only thing that you can plan for a 48-hour film festival is you can plan your locations, know, and you can um, get your team together, get a tentative cast together, um, get your insurance, you know, get contract signs, get your music lined up. There's only certain things that you can do. Um, something that we knew that was going to happen on the day of that was that there was going to be an annular solar eclipse. So we knew that that was going to happen. We didn't know if it was going to end up working out in any way into our film.
Speaker 6But Attila, our director, was like, hey, let's just set up a solar cam and let's do a time lapse, like we'll see what happens, you know. So on the day, you know, when we the draw our road, our draw was road movie and um, musical, yes. And so when I was up there, before I went up, I was like, please, dear god, don't give me musical, please, your god, don't give me musical, because all I was doing was like having flashbacks of my chubby little jazz hands from when I was a show choir in high school, you know, and I was like I can't.
Speaker 2I do that now as an adult.
Speaker 6I can't. I don't want to show you the world, I do, we'll show us this, cause I don't want to. So and then I was like road movie and I was like, are you kidding me? Like our locations managers secured like some amazing locations, the filmmakers ranch one of the studios here like that does so much amazing stuff for our local community here in oklahoma, so we were literally able to use multiple sets and I was like, and I get road movie and I have the option of six sets and my number one goal, outside of making a great film and having a good time, was to make sure that each set, as many sets as possible, could get seen. You know? Okay, taylor has a question yeah, what's a road?
Speaker 6movie that's what I was like film it on the road, so yeah. So I mean, I can't you know, without giving too much of the story. So, basically, the story that we ended up coming with on the fly was, you know, I mean Attila and I are like sitting there, you know, at the 48 hour and I'm like, oh crap, what are we going to do? Okay, okay, okay. And we're like this and this and this. And then all of a sudden it just like came to us and I was like like he's dying of liver cancer. And if you were about to die, like what would you want to do and what would you do for your family member if they only had hours to live and they only had one thing to do, what would it be?
Speaker 6oh wow, and my stepdad was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer about this time and my mom was in the movie too and she was on the set as a pa and um, so it was very emotional. So basically the storyline is the family um sneaks him out of the hospital to go fulfill his dying wish. Um, I've seen a solar eclipse, basically that's amazing.
Speaker 6So we actually shot during the solar eclipse, you know, and, uh, it was pretty magical. Um, and the edit that we have, like, you know, when your mom says it's good, it's like okay, mom, yeah, yeah. And then like, but like I'm, I'm, I can tell good art or not, but when you like cry at your own work, like every time you watch, you're like, okay, this is good, it must be all right. You know what I mean like. And then just the smallest little thing can be like a little different.
Speaker 6But the way they went in and I say they atilla, he used some of chase spivey's ideas and pulled in a remaster and did all of these things that just made this thing beautiful. And I was like, well, I'm submitting to my favorite film festival because it's huge. It's in Hollywood, at the Chinese Theater, which is like a huge theater. I mean you have to do all these special things to even have it seen there, a huge theater. I mean you have to do all these special things to even have it seen there. And, um, I, uh, yeah. And then we got the letter and you know they started all somberly, like every year we have over 5 000 submissions and we just want to congratulate you for even finishing a film. It's hard to do that, you know. So I'm like oh, here we go. Well, that's okay, we'll get into some others, I'm sure then you have been officially selected.
Speaker 6That's amazing yay, congrats, I'm excited yeah, and so it's our world's premiere in Hollywood.
Speaker 5There it is yeah, you filming Ida Bell why did you bring it?
Speaker 6oh no, cause that eclipse was in the path of that one. So there's different types of eclipses, right you? An annular eclipse happens once a year, sometimes, to you know. So it's not as unique per se as the eclipse that we had last week, when, or the other day, um, when, the world didn't end Shocking.
Speaker 2Ew. Yeah, that was weird, that was gross. I didn't like that, we did that.
Speaker 5I was ready, though, hat on Take me, take me, alien daddy, take me.
Speaker 6They didn't. I'm sorry. I'm laughing because I'm a Christian and sometimes some of this stuff is really funny to me too.
Speaker 4Please laugh. We think we're funny, so please laugh. No, I was literally just having this conversation with my best friend the other day.
Speaker 6I was like do you really think it happens like that? And I was like I don't really think it's going to happen like that, but it says it's going to happen.
Speaker 1I'm pretty sure if you started all of a sudden floating up into the air, you're not immediately like yes.
Speaker 2Yes, I love it.
Speaker 1No, Like if a Christian never cussed in their life, that's probably the time they would.
Speaker 6Right, yes.
Speaker 1Yes, that'd be kind of weird.
Speaker 6I think so, but it's also weird to me that to me that what happens if you're in your car?
Speaker 1You're just slamming up against the roof of the car. Ow.
Speaker 2Does the car go with? You I don't think it's your physical form.
Speaker 5Huh, I don't think it's your physical form.
Speaker 1Oh, so it just falls to the ground like dirty laundry. Your meat suit, just oh my gosh.
Speaker 2So then everybody that's left after the rapture, it's just a ball of flesh. Well, no, like the ones that are left that don't get taken. No, they got bones. Right, they have bones, but like the rest of the world is just surrounded by empty meat sacks.
Speaker 1Yes, yeah, then you can be someone else, like slip in and hey, look at here, I don't like that, I don't like that is that too far? Yeah, but I do hear a script for a movie that's what I hear, okay, yeah okay, skin people and only if we can pull in the cast from zombie land just reprise all their characters, just in a different end of the world. Why don do we have to use those?
Speaker 2actors why?
Speaker 1can't we use local actors?
Speaker 2No, because Woody Harrelson in a meat suit makes me really happy. A meat suit.
Speaker 1Okay, maybe we'll get a couple of big name actors. Okay.
Speaker 5I just want one. I hope so.
Speaker 1What am I going to?
Speaker 6do, because who doesn't want to have the lead in the zombie rapture?
Speaker 1I don't want that I'll take that today.
Speaker 4I just want to get murdered.
Speaker 5Send me the contract.
Speaker 1Oh, you want to be murdered.
Speaker 2There's a kink for everybody. I didn't say kinky Can.
Speaker 6I pray for you.
Speaker 4Please, it won't help. Please, it won't help.
Speaker 2Say it out loud and she'll start sizzling. I told you I was only going to have one, but I need two. She needs that too Does anybody need a refill.
Speaker 5Does anybody need a refill? Act out getting murdered, I think there's extended no big deal.
Speaker 2I think there's extended family of ours that's been praying for our family for a long time. Would you like a?
Speaker 6cider or a Diet Coke. No, I think I'd like this cider.
Speaker 1Yeah you do, taylor, crack it open for you.
Speaker 5Pop that top, please. Do you need a refill? My old man over here.
Speaker 1I got you baby doll. Karen, what do you do besides acting?
Speaker 5I thought you said Karen.
Speaker 1Besides acting and writing, not a Karen a lot of actors still now, like I, have a full-time job sure, sure lame-o, I don't want it so um, so what happened?
Speaker 6I mean, I have a whole lot of story about how I quit my general management job. I actually came back from los angeles and I uh got a job just to save money and I was going to go back out to California and I ended up getting a job as an assistant manager at a restaurant and that grew very quickly into me being, you know, a general manager over lots of restaurants. And so, you know, I was one of the youngest general managers in the state of Oklahoma and also I was the youngest female general manager, bitch go.
Speaker 5You better work. No, that's not the right one that's not the right one, that's church lady oh maybe that is right.
Speaker 2Maybe it is right, I don't know.
Speaker 5Maybe it is right, I don't know.
Speaker 2Okay, moving on. We need a girl power soundbite. I'm not.
Speaker 5I'm not trying to offend Christian people.
Speaker 6Here's the thing.
Speaker 5You guys are doing good.
Speaker 4You guys are doing good. Good job guys.
Speaker 5I went to church a lot in middle school, just in middle school, casey, yes, I mean, well, not all people that go to church are christians, and uh, I I grew up in the church, really because I I was staying with nanny quite a bit.
Speaker 1My mom went to college and we went to church twice on Sunday twice on Sunday, twice on Sunday, was it a Church of Christ church?
Speaker 2Probably, probably Baptist I don't really remember or Baptist.
Speaker 1No, I don't think it was Baptist. Mom went to college.
Speaker 2Why do you not know that your mom has a degree? No, she doesn't.
Speaker 1I don't know if she finished, I don't know, I think she went to beer college.
Speaker 2She went to beer college.
Speaker 5She went to beer college. She used to fight men in bars.
Speaker 2I don't feel like your mom would have to drink to do that.
Speaker 6You're nothing like her, are you Damn?
Speaker 4it.
Speaker 1We got some stories yeah.
Speaker 5And then she got pregnant, so she had to stop.
Speaker 1I went to church with Nanny, my grandma, our grandma Nanny.
Speaker 2Every time he says that I think you didn't have a name.
Speaker 1We went to morning service. We went to evening service on Sunday, then we went Wednesday night.
Speaker 6You might have been Church of Christ.
Speaker 1It might have been.
Speaker 6No, it sounds like my grandma was, and it was like this old, like, and it was in Texas, right, and so like there's no air conditioning, in this old chapel in the wooden pews, everyone's like. That's where the phrase sweating like a whore in church came from, because you literally Whoa, whoa. Where the phrase sweating like a whore in church came from, because you, literally. I'm sorry Jesus, but I'm being honest do you remember if they played instruments?
Speaker 5oh yeah, church Christ, no instruments.
Speaker 6I don't think so there was no worship or anything like that, no live church yeah, there's no cameras around ain't no band yeah, broadcasted broadcast no but they didn't have a like a worship band, I think a lot of people though they there's a lot of trauma from, from some of the strict churches you know and for sure and that's part of it.
Speaker 6We'll talk about later and kind of what my mission is as a Christian filmmaker, you know. But I mean we can go back to yeah. So I was running stuff and I was living that like normal life and had, like you know, the nice cush job with the 60k and, you know, had the cool relationship and all that stuff and actually I went through a really bad abusive relationship before that happened.
Speaker 6Well, yeah, it led through a really bad abusive relationship before that happened. Well, yeah, it led to me writing a screenplay, though that led to everything else. So, yeah, another one of those everything happens for a reason it gave you a good story.
Speaker 6That's no, that's exactly right. Um, so one day I was like you know what I was like, I can't stand this anymore. Like after eight or nine years I was like I am miserable, am miserable, and you know I don't. Yeah, I felt like it was God telling me and you know, everyone believes in different things and I respect that fully and but for me, like, jesus Christ is my savior, you know, and I truly believe, and I was an atheist for a period of time. I've gone back and forth, I've struggled with it, with my faith, faith and like, if you're a christian that has never struggled with your faith, I call you a liar.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know what I mean like seriously, because if you never question it, that that's when it feels culty absolutely.
Speaker 6You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Absolutely religion, with no questioning, is a cult as far as I'm, as far as I'm concerned. But anyway, ew, I just got philosophical. Let's stop that. Let's play a fart joke. Yeah, but it was really cute, thank you.
Speaker 6You know, I saw Shane look over at you and he was like, hmm, girl, no. What the hell are you saying right now oh, that look was like I'm about to fart. That's what that look was.
Speaker 2Such a sick person. That's my fucking coochie that's hanging out. Oh, he had to reset it.
Speaker 1I'm sorry. That was the button that I hit.
Speaker 6Sorry, it's a gamble on what it's going to play sometimes so I felt like God was literally like you were meant to be in this industry. You know, I mean years ago in 2004, my God film father and family. They were here helping with the legislation meeting with Mary Fallon. They were part of the second round of getting legislation here for the tax rebates and all that stuff. You know, 20 plus years ago, um, and my mom always thought I was going to do this, you know, and to have a mom who encourages that. Well, that's wonderful, because not?
Speaker 6everyone has that you know. So I was like one day I was like I was like you need to quit your job and go back to doing what you love. And I was like, okay, so I quit. And then at that time I was going to church. I don't actually actively attend a church anymore. I, uh, I, my church is on every street corner in the city where there's people without homes and the darkest places. That's where I go to church. Um, but that's so lovely. Um, back to that. So I was going to a very lovely church at the time and, uh, all of a sudden again I was like god was like hey, you need to start like an acting program, like a theater program here and like a filmmaking program here, because there was nothing you know. And I was like and you're gonna do it, and you're not going to make any money, because you're going to do it for free.
Speaker 4And I was like fine, so I did.
Speaker 6So I started a really cool program and we had you know, I live right in the city, so there's a lot of impoverished kids in the area and then there are just church kids. You know that just needed some sort of outlet. A lot of church kids are homeschooled and stuff like that and they need an opportunity to be creative. And so I started a program there and I had probably 180 students go through and one of my kiddos that took classes with me actually has already been on a TV show.
Speaker 1That's so neat, that's cool my kiddos that took classes with me.
Speaker 6actually, it has already been on a TV show. Um, yeah, the videographers that came through those programs. They're going on to do cool things now here and um, again, it's building up the right people and equipping them and then putting them out there. Um, and then the next thing was is like okay, god, again, why am I doing this? And it was like he was like you need to climb that entertainment mountain, but we're not doing it the right way. And then all of a sudden like when I'm getting this thought.
Speaker 6Kurt Cameron pops up on the screen and I'm like, ok, god bless, kurt but he's silly Gosh guys, this acting is terrible. Okay, it's awful. These movies like come on, he's adorable, he is adorable. And again, I am grateful for him for even kind of stepping into that as a Christian, because, like in Hollywood, talking about anything spiritual-wise or anything is a no-no, and like I don't, Unless it's Scientology.
Speaker 6Right, yeah, so you're not allowed to have beliefs, you're not allowed to have an opinion, you can't speak. You learn not to have political beliefs, you don't talk about Fight Club.
Speaker 2Yes, rule number one.
Speaker 6Yeah, dummy. So he was like you need to be making different types of movies. And he was like, just continue doing what you're doing and someday the kingdom will come. And I was like, okay, whatever.
Speaker 6Well, some very troubling things happened in my life, um, and I, I, I just I just continued acting for a while because I, you know, I left the church because, um, just some things happened that I felt like were a little too sensational, I guess, and I wanted to step away from that environment because for me, my relationship is very real, you know. So, anyway, I was like, okay, we'll see what that's like. So I just kind of did acting for a while, and then that's when I started doing houseless outreach, and that's when I started really going out into the streets and doing ministry with them out there and, like you know, just delivering socks, shoes, getting hotel money raised up when I could, and stuff like that. And then I also decided to start writing some of my own material, because as an actor, they're always like create your own content, you know, and I didn't have any good monologues on my reel or the things that I had done, and it's like looking at my nostril, you know, or just.
Speaker 1Is that a nose hair?
Speaker 5Yeah, that's what I do all the time, right.
Speaker 1Like how did I not catch that? That's already submitted you know, yeah, rookie there we go.
Speaker 6R admitted you know, yeah, rookie, there we go, rookie. So um what did I just say?
Speaker 1I was like what was I saying?
Speaker 6I was too busy thinking about your boogers delivering socks and, oh yeah, writing your own material writing your own material yeah.
On Set Adventures and Side Hustles
Speaker 6So I started writing some monologues and different characters and, uh, all of a sudden, those characters developed into the tentville knights and I started the script, actually in a 90 I'm sorry 2016 and I got about 50 pages in and my computer crashed gone. No, no, so I'm freaking out. I'm taking it up there, like you know, like, please find this. This is like, yeah, this is a story I'm supposed to be telling. It's called the tenfold nights. Like, I've been living in tent cities for a week, like living with the houseless people to understand how they function and how they do things in real life. I've actually, I'm like no, like, no, and I was like, why, why? Like, especially because I'm like god, I thought I was supposed to be making movies that are inspiring people to like make good, you know, be good people and you know, like, inspire social change and stuff like that. So why did that happen? And no one, no one, could ever pull it off that hard drive. And I'm telling you with 100 percent honesty, because I am very real, in 2022, after we had gone through the pandemic, during the pandemic, we realized that a lot of the mental stuff that I had been dealing with and not understanding was that I had ptsd from the person that choked me almost to death. I blacked out and his mom came home to get her water cup because she tracked her water drinking and she always remembers it and that one day is the one day. She forgot it. And she drove back 10 minutes to get her water cup and walked in and found me blacked out and called an ambulance. Oh my god damn girl and I and I went through a lot. He shot at at me, he shot at my animals, he used to hold my cats over the sociopath. What a dick. And you know I'm a strong female and I'm also very loyal to a fault, you know.
Speaker 6But, all that being said, I never accepted the fact that I was a victim. You know what I mean? Yeah, I didn't. And then during the pandemic, and when you're with these people and they're seeing all these behaviors, right, and it's like I was literally having flashback, like blackouts, oh my gosh and going into weird rages and like, because you're in such a close environment, people are that we were with at the time you're staying with, or like something's not quite right, like. And so then I sought help and I sought and then we went through it and I got medicated and tried to push alcohol a little bit out of my life because I didn't need that. While we were trying to figure out what was going on and it was like finally I accepted it and they were like, yeah, you have. You have ptsd, you know, from so much trauma, no shock, I mean, you know, damn.
Speaker 2So I'm ready to cut those guys ankles that was like a. That was that's my, that's where I go.
Speaker 6We're unpacking that in therapy every week yeah so long story, not in long story short, because I'm long-winded, I'm just gonna keep being long-winded. Um so 2022? You know we've gone through all that. Things are starting to open up a little bit. You know, the world's crazy at that time. No one knows what's what, what's real, and I was just like I just really want to get on a set, like I don't care in what capacity, like my agency was dissolving during that time and I didn't even know.
Speaker 6Oh, my gosh, but at the same time there weren't that many things that were going on, but there were in Oklahoma, because we actually shot more films in Oklahoma than any other state during the pandemic.
Speaker 2We didn't believe in no.
Speaker 1COVID-19. Whoa, that's another COVID-19. Oh my God man, yeah, you can't believe the government, government.
Speaker 6So no, I mean they could come here and you know. Looking back, yeah, we can all laugh at like both sides.
Speaker 1I feel like oh, for sure you know what I mean. Or not laugh, but be like yeah, no, we can laugh about it, it's okay.
Speaker 6Yeah. But so I came out. I was like I just want to get on. The Irwin brothers were here doing a film called the Unbreakable Boy and then they were going to do the American Underdog right afterwards. And so I was like my partner at the time was like let's submit, let's go do some background work. And so we get selected and we go to set on Unbreakable Boy. And here's the thing If you're going to do background work, it gets you nowhere. If you're hanging out by craft services and talking to each other about how cool you are and how many other shows you were background on.
Speaker 1You want a granola bar.
Speaker 6Yeah, I'm friends with John Travolta. Ooh, he was right. Oh, he's about 100 feet away from me in that scene.
Speaker 1I saw him. Well, I think it was him. I think it was John. I waved at him. I think it was him.
Speaker 6And I tease guys because I know that there's a lot of people here and it's great, it's great to get on set in any capacity, but you have got to treat it as a learning opportunity, not as a social opportunity. Yeah, you know, and you still have to take classes too, but all too. But all that aside, uh, you got to find your second ad in your second second, because those are the ones that are on the walkie right with the first ad. Who's connecting right with the director? Well, I was right there and I zach levi walks by with his dogs, so I'm by his trailer and I'm like I don't get starstruck. Yeah, no, sometimes it does happen.
Speaker 1I have worked with a lot of celebrities and I'm blessed for that but every now and then you do get a little starstruck.
Speaker 6No, sometimes it does happen. I have worked with a lot of celebrities and I'm blessed for that, but every now and then you do get a little starstruck, especially because they just have this presence, right, and I hear body out of COVID-19. We got to send them home. We don't know what to do. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then they come over and I'm standing around right there and I have three other guys standing by me and they're like hey, would you be interested in auditioning for this doctor role? And they're asking all the guys and I'm like can I audition guys? Please let me audition. You know what I mean. Let me audition. They're like no, they really want a guy, whatever.
Speaker 1Women ain't doctors.
Speaker 6Yeah, they're like they really want a guy and I was like, okay, fine. And then they came up 20 minutes later and they're like, hey, come over to the trailer. We're going to go ahead and let you read for that part. Nice, I was like right on. So I'm literally in a honey wagon on the set of Unbreakable Boy. Honey wagon, honey wagon. Honey wagon is like the uh, the trailers. It's a. It's a it's another word for trailers.
Speaker 6okay, you know that we stay in when we have speaking roles we got me a new word yeah, baby come on, so when you when there's a star outside the door and it says like your character name like those. We call them honey wagons or trailers.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, oh honey wagon is way more fun yeah I like honey wagon okay, you're in the honey wagon I know a girl, so I was in there in
Speaker 6the honey wagon, uh, with mark from lion's gate, and, um, one of the other producers and, uh, one of the other producers again, I don't want to say their name because they're very well known, but he was there and there also, and they let me audition. Everyone went and they auditioned. Okay, they come up to me about an hour later and they're like sorry, man, they, they went, they wanted to go with the black doctor and I was like, okay, well, that's the other thing I'd say. They go with the black doctor, because a lot of times that's what casting is about. Like isn't? It's not even about and talent sometimes, yeah, it's like who's the best? And then like what do we need to balance this out? And it's nothing. You know what I mean.
Speaker 6It's just it's just the way it works they have a vision.
Speaker 6They have a yeah, it's an artistic vision, so it was like no worries, that's cool, man, you know. So then we continue to do like background work throughout the day. They ended up setting me up at a table with Zach Levi, so I still got to be in this really cool scene, right. And then we take a break and they send almost everyone home and then they come up to me and they're like hey, you want to roll? And I was like huh, and they're like, yeah, Like didn't you write it?
Speaker 6Oh, the director really liked your audition and we really need someone to come do this and I can't say the scene because it's going to come out in February 2025, and who knows, I could still get cut guys.
Speaker 6But I got to do this really cool scene. They said, you know, based on your audition and everything like that, um, so I gotta do this really cool scene. They taught me the stunt on the fly. I gotta act in a scene like right there with zachary levi and megan fahey. I got you know another, a taft hartley, because I had already, you know, been in a few sack films, so I had been tafted. I would be a must join in a union state, which that's a whole another ball field. I feel like that's a I know so when I say like you guys need to go to school and learn all this stuff, it's like there's so much to it and so like I have people ask me all the time well, how do you do this? Well, how do you do that? It's like just let's go to school just like everything else you know learn, um.
Speaker 6So that happened that day and I got to do that awesome scene. And, uh, the next day you asked me what I do is a side hustle? Well, I'm a massage therapist Nice, yeah, and it's hard on my body. I'm very good at what I do. Um, I can do reflexology. Yes, uh, I went through. I went through a lot of A&P, a&p 5. And then you're seeing us use tests.
Speaker 1Funny you say that I want to know.
Speaker 5I'm barely passing.
Speaker 1I want to know if you do the rattlesnake massage. And let's take a look at the TV.
Speaker 2Only if she gets paid extra. This is called the rattlesnake.
Speaker 5It's a great way to connect with your partner that is the dumbest shit I have ever seen.
Navigating the Acting Industry
Speaker 1In my it's called the rattlesnake and everybody's doing it. Actually, if you look on TikTok, that's it I'm just going to name one of my moves.
Speaker 6If you look on TikTok, that's it. I'm just going to name one of my moves, the rattlesnake, and then that way anyone calls will be like hey, we want that rattlesnake girl.
Speaker 1Get that rattlesnake girl, that rattlesnake girl where is that? Just give the podcast credit when you pull that out Like this yep, we developed this in Studio Toot and Scoot.
Speaker 6Well, this is actually a lot of what we do, but that was just uncomfortable.
Speaker 1In a different spot.
Speaker 6To watch, please do not continue.
Speaker 2I need to use the restroom, so do I Pee-pee play Pee-pee poo-poo.
Speaker 1It's going to turn into a poo-poo over here.
Speaker 6So do we pause now for intermission? Is that what happens? That's what I'm doing right now. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 1I'm on actor shit. Y'all talk actor shit.
Speaker 6Oh, we talk actor shit, we're still rolling.
Speaker 1Yeah, we're still rolling. Yeah, we still go. I don't pause anything, we keep the train rolling. Yeah, yeah, I'll be on set, uh, tuesday nice.
Speaker 6Are you doing a speaking role or?
Speaker 1uh, yeah, uh, cool. Yeah, this is for jurassic games too congratulations.
Speaker 6I auditioned for that too, so, uh, I'll ask you later which role you got, since we can never say anything about anything that we're doing yeah, I'm excited to work with that team again.
Speaker 1I worked with them on, uh, jurassic pet 3. I had a supporting role in that, so that I'm hoping I'll probably find out from them tuesday. But I bet jp3 comes out later this year. It's in post-production right now and we filmed some pickup scenes like maybe a month or two ago.
Speaker 6Right on.
Speaker 1So yeah, I'm excited to see that, so I can finally build my reel Right. Because, most of the stuff I've been in so far, whether it's background, it's been also I just lost the word for it They've been reenactments, so I don't speak at all.
Speaker 6Right, you can't put that on your reel.
Speaker 1But I'm right there in front like, oh yeah, that's me, look I'm doing all this stuff, but there's no speaking.
Speaker 6Right, you know what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1So now, finally, I'll have some footage of speaking roles.
Speaker 6That's awesome so I can finally build my reel. Yeah, I'm pretty excited about that. Well, that's awesome and something you should know, shane and all new actors should know. It's like, well, as long as you're trained, you don't want to put out material there that obviously isn't that great and you can watch your stuff and be like, well, it doesn't seem very realistic. You know, post yourself and put yourself out there, but don't do it until you know you're good enough for lots of people to see it.
Speaker 1Sure, you know yeah.
Speaker 6But you can even just now it's acceptable to find a good piece of material that suits your different characters and even just have self-tapes accessible. You know, yeah, like my agent will do that. Sometimes if it's a role that I don't necessarily have a real material, she'll tell me and then, well, I think we have the same agent, but she'll splice together some monologues of some different things that I'll put together real quick on the fly just so they have an example. But I'm still super proud of you for the Jurassic Game stuff. I love Boiling Point and Ryan and Chris Hoyt, and I have pictures of Ryan when he still had hair, I hope he hears this oh, Ryan, Brian.
Speaker 1Oh, wait a minute, I can't.
Speaker 5Not Ryan, not Ryan, brian, oh not.
Speaker 6Ryan Brian, ryan Bellegarde. Yeah, we drove around in a go-kart on Jurassic Pet 1. So that was one of the teams that I interned with here in Oklahoma. That's cool, they're awesome.
Speaker 1I love working with them. I was so excited when I got this next part. I'm excited, I'll tell you what it is after and you'll go oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 6I love it Because, yeah, you know, when we get auditions through that particular casting director, she sends the whole script, which is quite a delight, but yeah, so I'll know exactly what you're talking about. So, but that's awesome, dude, I'm so proud of you, man, and I'm just so proud of like watching everyone like actually do the work, like the people that are doing the work, and it just makes me really happy so I, um, I uh, when I first got signed by christina real talent studio, um, I had to do a monologue.
Speaker 1So I researched on the internet a good male monologue and I found one that I thought I could connect with and I, I did that, sent that chris, sent that to christina and she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, good to go. And you know, boom, I'm signed. Um, I went to a big open casting audition call in Northwest Arkansas last weekend.
Speaker 5So gassy, unlike someone else.
Speaker 1Yeah, you don't even burp.
Speaker 5Yeah, you don't even burp.
Speaker 1And so.
Speaker 6Only if I've been drinking keg beer. Yeah.
Speaker 1And so I had to have a monologue for that one. So I wasn't truly being lazy by going back to that monologue, I wanted to see the contrast in differences. Yeah, when I first started to win three years experience under my belt with several training and coaching sessions from Cody Mayo Thank God he's great yeah.
Speaker 6Wonderful.
Speaker 1So I did that one again and then played those monologues for Casey. Here's the first one, here's the second one.
Speaker 2Wow, you're like different.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 6Yeah. I mean, it's just like any job right. You got to work your tools, you know, I mean, I wouldn't go into surgery tomorrow, I would.
Speaker 2Shut up.
Speaker 1I think I can figure it out. I can do it Scalpel.
Speaker 5Hatchet.
Speaker 2Does he think that's it?
Speaker 5Too hot, hatchet, I want you guys to oh, it's okay, really all the doctor does is the main thing. There's like a surgeon that cuts, that does anesthesia to the sutures.
Speaker 6Okay, back on track. Yeah, I mean, those x-ray ears Of school are really kind of worthless. I don't even see where they go.
Speaker 5I don't know why the hell they do that, all that debt.
Speaker 1You know they have a YouTube video Playing on a monitor.
Speaker 2I'm watching a play-by-play Bring in the robot Go ten seconds back.
Speaker 1All right, oh man, am I supposed to cut that?
Speaker 2Oops, suture. Yeah, people should lay on these. Where were we at?
Speaker 6Oh, so we were talking about how I did that and I got to have that really awesome scene and I got to have that really awesome scene and I got the bump and that was great experience.
Speaker 6And Zach was a delight to work with and super respectful with. You know I'm not a beginning actor but still I'm not Zachary Levi, so it was really nice and Megan too, you know just to. It was nice. We collaborated as a team. It wasn't like they were like the background that they're making have a line. We were actually improv-ing and doing a thing together which was really really cool?
Speaker 5Is there a lot of people that want to be actors? Is it like? What's the word?
Speaker 6I'm trying to look for there are a lot of people that want to be actors, but only 1%, actually 2% of people, and I'm not just talking the ones that want to be, I'm talking about two percent of the people that actually actively pursued as a career, ever actually make a career out of it.
Speaker 6Wow, oh, and considering how many people have imdb credits, that feels like a lot of people that want to be actors yeah, well, also, a lot of people give themselves imdb credits, and that's something else that you know, like everyone's giving themselves credits for background work, so that's also confusing because it's different well, like you said, I think everyone like doesn't realize how much goes into it yeah, I can go and talk and do that, but like I would shit my pants well, it is hard and me getting that first speaking line was so hard, getting that first IMDB credit to you know, have an actual producer give it to me.
Speaker 6Before there was an IMDb Pro or anything, it was a struggle to get there and I had already done all the background work. So it's like now we have IMDb Pro and it's like, look, background is so important but it's not a credit.
Speaker 2It's not acting in the way that it is. It's not the same level of craft of acting as it is in other positions yeah, it's just.
Speaker 6It's just different and it's again part. I think everyone should do background work and I think everyone should take classes, both for sure definitely needed.
Speaker 1Imagine watching a movie where it's only the speaking actors and no one in the background.
Speaker 6Yeah, this is not to ever lessen the role of the background actor.
Speaker 6It's just that I think there's some confusion about the industry standard, that's all. And the only reason why I bring it up is that those of us that have been doing it for 20 years and finally get those speaking roles, you know that we're adding and getting credits, and then you see someone with 175 and it's like damn, wait a minute. Yeah, so, um, so I just I wouldn't recommend doing that personally. You know, sometimes if the producer gives you a credit as a background actor, that's different. That's their deal. You know. Um, they, they did it. You know, I have a friend who was in so many scenes and killers of the flower moon and they gave him a line. The line didn't make it, but because he still did so many scenes and was there like every day, um, they let. When Marty went ahead and put his name in the credits and gave him an IMDB credit, so you know cool.
Speaker 6Yeah, yeah, Um. So anyways, back to that. Uh, so I told you that I was a massage therapist and that one of the producers that was there that day. I go into work the next day and that producer lands on my table. He's like the executive producer Rattlesnake.
Speaker 5Watch this move.
Speaker 6Yeah, and I was like, oh my gosh, well is, this is. And all I heard was the kingdom is coming. Well, the name of his company has that word in it. And I was like, okay, that's when everything started happening very quickly. Now this, I'm not kidding you okay. So we've gone through the ptsd thing, I've gotten back on set, I got the bump, I do all this stuff and I'm doing the acting thing, auditioning, and I'm like, for some reason, I went to go find a wedding picture on the computer that I thought it was done for, ok, and I, because it was, there was a one that, for whatever submission I was doing, it was just I don't remember why I opened this old computer that was done for and I swear on my life like on my life. I opened the computer, I turn it on and the first thing that comes up on the screen is the tentville nights.
Speaker 4I swear on my life.
Speaker 6Wow, my heart's on my life, wow.
Speaker 2My heart's palpitating On my cat's life Palpitating. That's crazy, yeah, that is crazy. How fortunate though.
Speaker 6But yeah, because I had to go through that struggle to finish the story. There was more that I needed to tell and it was about Claire who you know, was in a domestic abuse situation, had no education, you know, got married way too young small town guy who was abusive and she decides you know she also has PTSD and she decides to run away. But like, what would that look like if you had to leave and you didn't have family, you know? And then the first night you're out on the streets alone, someone steals your backpack and then all your ids are gone. Then you can't even get a job. You go in and they say, yeah, we'll hire you, but you don't even have an id, so I can't even put you to work. And the next thing, you know, it just becomes this endless vicious cycle and hopefully it doesn't get so far that you end up in the darkest of the house situation, which is where you're completely addicted to drugs because you have no hope and that's the only thing that gets you through the day and now sadly, unfortunately, many times kills you because fentanyl's everywhere, yeah. So rose of tintville nights finished it, man, like it was like whoa. Finished it, started submitting. It, started winning all these awards for it. Like I was like what is happening, you know, um.
Faith Forward Christmas Movie Production
Speaker 6And then, as a result of that, like uh, I met a friend and like he started talking to me, to other people, and then I started producing other people's stuff. They asked me to come on as a producer of a proof of concept called XIX, which will be wrapping when I get back from Los Angeles the post production. It's been a nightmare, but we're almost there. And through that, someone was like hey, I need you to meet this gentleman and their family. They're really neat. They own a lot of different businesses in Enid or whatever, but they also they put up this Christ tree that they've been putting up for the past four years and what they do is they bring in this huge Christmas tree. Well, the first two years this is how they do it they go out to the California and they find like the tallest tree that they can. They cut it down and then they like move it in sections across the United States to Oklahoma, and then they hoist it up, put the lights on it, decorate it, and then there's an opening night where they do the lighting of the Christ tree. That's cool and it's supposed to represent that. You know life and living the living. You know tree in christ and all that. But you know, after a couple of years, like that project alone just to do that costs like a quarter of a million dollars just to get that tree.
Speaker 6And also there were some environmentalists that were like, well, and you know, we don't want to. We want to do what's best for everyone. So, um, you know, kyle's like okay, well, let's look into artificial options. So now, uh, this past year they launched an artificial option which is super cool because it has LED lights and everything like that. Um, but so I was introduced to him and they're like, yeah, he wants to like have a film done about his town, hometown of Enid, you know, and kind of around this little Hallmark Christmas town, you know, and this tree called the One.
Speaker 5And then we'll have a murder and I'll make my movie, yeah.
Speaker 6They wanted the Hallmark movie, she wants the Lifetime movie and I was like but God told me not to do the Hallmark movie, he told me to do something different.
Speaker 5I know, I know, oh, probably should listen to him, not me.
Speaker 6So, you know, I started communicating with the family. So, you know, I uh, I started communicating with the family and I uh sent them the ten fill night and then I uh, they invited me out vip, you know, I had a a wonderful evening. Um, another sign for me, like I was like okay, like uh, sometimes even if you might have a bad thought about a politician or something, let's say, and not necessarily see all eye to eye on certain things, anyways, this, but this one particular person helps who's a politician, helps get my stepbrother's body back when he was murdered in Mexico during the pandemic. And he walked into the room and I was like again, wow, this is my chance to say thank you. And so it was a really emotional night. And the next day I sat down at the computer and I wrote a 12 page treatment. This thing came into me and it was all about this you know, native American child, not child a teenager named Hawk who's living in Chicago. He's aged, out of the foster system, and what happens when you age?
Speaker 1out, you're out, you're just out.
Speaker 6You're out. So he takes his one train ticket to Enid Oklahoma to see the tallest Christmas tree in the United States oh, wow. And also because his mom the one thing he does remember about her is that she always said that Oklahoma had the nicest people in the world. We do, that's true. So Hawk travels to Enid Oklahoma to see the one tree and while he's there he crosses paths with Alexis, who comes from, you know, a modern day Christian family, and that's what I think that we need is like we really suffer. We're all broken as Christians. Like I cuss I joke about the cussing and like, oh look, but you know I work with a bunch of dudes. That's why I have the rubber band. I'm like Erin, watch your mouth, because I'm not dropping rev bombs. My mom's like you know what I mean, but like my mom's like she teaches us new ones yeah
Speaker 6yeah so, instead of doing the hallmark love story that I think everyone expected, I incorporated a story about a teenager that aged out and a girl who ends up running away from home because she's trying to deal with the loss, um, of a sibling and she's kind of lost her way, and so she runs away and they cross paths and it's a very inspirational story that will make you cry, laugh, and it all incorporates, you know, jesus Christ, finding family and incorporating that into a Christmas. I like to call it faith forward because I'm like well, of course it's faith based because Christmas. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6So I just say faith forward as opposed to faith based, because it's like yeah, and so, yeah, that's actually the first feature film that I'm going to be producing. Yeah, it was a huge, huge deal. The first feature film that I am going to be producing. Yeah, that's nice, go girl. It was a huge, huge deal. A lot of years working and I'm blessed to be building the team around me that I am. Adam Ropp is a local Oklahoma gentleman from Guthrie who is amazing. He just shot a film called Sovereign with Dennis Quaid out in Arkansas. I got a story about that.
Speaker 5Oh, dennis.
Speaker 2Shade, shade, no, no, shade Listen.
Speaker 1That's a SAG film. Yes, I auditioned for a part.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm, You'll have to tell me that part later too, because I got a message back that said oh God, we love that. Can you read for this part? So I did that. We love that one too. Can you read this part? Okay? So I did that. Didn't hear back. Now I know that's a SAG film. They need to hire SAG actors. So if I'm reading for a part, I'm non-union but a SAG actor, or kind of oh yeah, that SAG actor was good, they're probably going to hire or cast the SAG actor. So that's what I tell myself to make myself feel better.
Speaker 6Why would they do that? Well, no, you should make yourself feel better, because the truth is that they actually used a lot of real people. I also auditioned for three roles and didn't get a part in. My producer is one of the producers on that film, you know. I think everyone's like, oh well, you know so and and so it doesn't work that way. You still have to be good, you still have to do the work, and so I also auditioned multiple times and that casting director is a great guy and I guarantee you're gonna get cast in something else.
Speaker 1Well, like that, it didn't bother me that I really didn't get a part. Of course I wanted to like who wouldn't, right? But they said, hey, that was good read again, yeah, like when does that happen? That's not often that that happens, yeah, but that's when, well, it does start happening. And when it does start happening, that's when you know you are finally coming into your craft you're finally coming into your craft I'm finding something, I'm doing something that these casting directors like, so getting an audition is a win.
Speaker 6Right, that's a win why do they? And that's what I tell people to not whatever well, there's rules when it's a sag film yes, there are, but if you're shooting in a right to work state, those rules do not apply. So arkansas is a right to work state we're a right to work state.
Speaker 6We're a right to work state, so we are able to hire a lot of non-SAG workers here and it's not an issue, because it's just not an issue. But now let's say I got cast in a SAG film that was in New Mexico or New York or California. I have my dues set aside, saved, because if that happens I will have to join. Right then, it's not an option.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 6Until then I can keep writing my right to work state Southeast region, because most of us in the Southeast, except for New Mexico, well, that doesn't even qualify as the Southeast region?
Speaker 6I don't think. But everything in our region Georgia, texas, oklahoma, louisiana, texas all right to work states, so we can all work non-union jobs, you know, and when it comes to commercial work, most of what we're doing out here are non-union. So if you're acting full time which I don't ever recommend, I'm just kidding I recommend acting full time, but time. But don't quit your day job like please don't quit your day job husband yeah, and I think that's just don't.
Film Industry Impact in Oklahoma
Speaker 6The starving artist thing, guys, is like so not cool anymore. You know it really isn't so. That's I actually. I believe again where I'm talking about my god thing y'all. But I feel like I feel like when I um went to massage school because I decided on the whim, like um, after I had quit the other job, to go back into acting, I was like, okay, erin, I was like that's right, you need to have a side hustle, but I had someone that was helping me pay for things at that time, so I had, you know, I didn't necessarily have to have the site right, hustle, yeah, but then I did, and so I was like, well, let me see about this massage thing, see what happens you know, did you traveling myself?
Speaker 6um, I do now. Um, but it's so crazy because I truly feel like I get requested all the time I'm booked out at the spa that I work at down in seoul for the artesian, like the two days I work. Oh yeah, I mean, I literally make enough money in two days a week to pay for all of my bills and still get postmates once a week.
Speaker 5Yeah, right, so dumb, I do the stupidest shit.
Speaker 1I'll show a video. It's not fair. I got a video for you we're going to show later on what Taylor does.
Speaker 2I do the stupidest shit. I need you to turn that into a sound.
Speaker 6But yeah, there's. The a thing is massage therapy really is like there's so many benefits and there's nothing better than being able to heal someone from there.
Speaker 6Well, there are things better for me, but I like being able to heal people's pain she loves it, so you may have like my favorite so that that that job has paid for me to do proof of concepts like put money into things, go to film festivals, you know, submit screenplays, have time five days a week to dedicate to my art, you know, or for, if I have to give one to my family.
Speaker 6Um, so, yeah, it's just, it's been amazing and um, yeah. And so here we are, guys. Not only am I, you know, the CEO of the one Christmas movie, yeah, and bringing on, well, I'm also I've brought on Roger Coode, who was an executive producer of Out of Exile that was an Oklahoma made movie. And then, of course, adam, that I already mentioned, oklahoma boy councilman, and guthrie owns a train depot out there very cool, also produced like we were just talking about the sovereign um and uh, we've been working with the imaginaries and we just we have lots of cool things going and, um, we have a very nice ish budget.
Speaker 6And we'll be applying for that rebate very soon and yeah, yeah, we're going to do this thing and, unless something crazy happens, we're going to be doing it this year. That's awesome, yeah, yay.
Speaker 1It's always good for people that live here to know that this thing is really happening in Oklahoma. Absolutely, the film studios, the film production. It's a real thing and it's bringing a lot of jobs to Oklahomans. Like it's not even Oklahomans that want to act, they're getting people from the town of El Reno to come be background for something. Sure, those people get that experience just to be on a set running from whatever or in an auditorium watching something.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's involving a lot more people than just actors, absolutely actors, absolutely there's crew members that now have regular work doing lighting and sound and wardrobe, all that kind of stuff. It's bringing so much here that so many people in this business are now finding work and and they're able to do something that truly brings them joy.
Speaker 6Absolutely, and and you know it's been kind of a weird year coming off post strikes and everything like that. But the other thing that I just, you know, loved seeing is how many people are stepping into creating their own content. You know, I've been talking about that for years. People may or may not know. You know, I'm the vice president of oklahoma actors one of the vice presidents of oklahoma actors and filmmakers on, you know, and we're always trying to educate people in the right way and stuff like that.
Speaker 6But, um, oh see, I told you guys two ciders and I lose your good.
Speaker 1She's about to be dancing.
Speaker 6The opportunity, the opportunity, because I think that when tulsa king left, I think that we all dancing the opportunity. The opportunity, because I think that when Tulsa King left, I think that we all realized, like you know, what we have got to create it here. We need more Sterling Harjo's here.
Speaker 1Tulsa King.
Speaker 5What does that mean?
Speaker 6Wait, wait, wait. You mean Wait, where did they go? You mean Atlanta King I was about to say Georgia King. You mean Ocrese King. Wait, where did they go?
Speaker 2You mean Atlanta King?
Speaker 6I was about to say Georgia King, you mean Kansas King, no.
Speaker 1Wait, Dallas King, no wait. Where are we at now? Birmingham.
Speaker 2We're in Alaska, but it's too hot to shoot here.
Speaker 1Hey Delaware King.
Speaker 2No, he decided it was too hot to shoot here. So they went to Texas.
Speaker 1There's a lot but they're having the same issues where they're at now shooting supposedly. So who knows? I don't know.
Speaker 6There's a lot of reasons that things happen, in my honest opinion. I think that my honest opinion is that I love what we were doing and trying to get a production of that size here. I just don't think we were quite ready.
Speaker 6I personally feel that we need to do quite a few reservation dogs of that level yeah, you know what I mean and get those types of TV shows going, you know still great shows put a ton of people to work, but it's not like on this NBC kind of studio lot level that you know I worked in and you know that the people on that set came and were expecting yeah, you know what I mean and we just weren't quite ready. So I think Losing King was one of the best. Tulsa King was one of the best things that could have happened, because it made me realize that I'm not supposed to just be an actor, like I was a general manager, for a reason too. I'm supposed to build jobs for people in Oklahoma. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6And yeah, and everyone that I see like making their own short films, just shooting stuff and all that, like that's what you need to do, you know. And then you submit to these film festivals and everyone's like, why do you even submit to film festivals? Or go to film festivals? Like what's the point? Well, you go to your local film festivals for community and to support your local film festival directors. You volunteer for them, you do whatever you can because that's where you're going to meet your up-and-coming filmmakers that are doing short films. But you're also practicing for when you land those big film festivals, like when we go out to California, like that place, they're ready for you to pitch. You better have your pitches down to 30 seconds. And last year I met two different financiers at a film festival out there that are going to be investing in two other projects that I have going. So I have five other projects going.
Speaker 6I'm working with a faith-based writer. We'll be working on his project next year. It's based on a book that he wrote. There was a real life event that happened here, uh, 50 years ago, and the survivors want to tell their story and what really happened. Um, and they've come to me and want me to be the one to do that. Um, so I'm very blessed in that way. That's so cool. I also just finished another script, called second shift, um, which focuses on a Hispanic family that's unable to get insurance and their child has cancer and, as a result, the dad starts selling methamphetamines to try to raise the money and to get the treatment for the child, and so that one's a little deeper and darker. But that's my goal. I want to bring jobs to Oklahomans, you know, even though I lived in California, and I want to eventually be, like, rich enough to have a house in both places um like. I always come back here. It's like the black hole guys it really oklahoma.
Speaker 6So if it keeps sucking me back in like I'm here to help build it up, you know, and that's, that's what I'm gonna be here.
Speaker 1Yeah, let's make it great, I guess.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, this is like the world's butthole right oklahoma not quite well.
Speaker 6We had a positive note and then she's like butthole we don't claim I mean
Speaker 4well okay, maybe we're the shoulder, I don't know. Armpit, no, but Lahoma but.
Speaker 5Lahoma, I mean.
Speaker 1Well, okay.
Speaker 5Maybe where the shoulder, I don't know Armpit.
Speaker 2Armpit no, no, can you do that? That's New Orleans.
Speaker 5I remember when I was a kid and people would do that Hell yeah.
Speaker 6Well, yeah, because I told you I don't fart.
Speaker 5I can do it with my hands.
Speaker 2I don love to not be gassy.
Speaker 5I kind of like it.
Speaker 1I can do it with my hands. I can do it with the back of my knees. I am a talented son of a bitch.
Speaker 6That you are, oh crap.
Speaker 5I wonder what makes you not fart? You must have not a colon or something.
Speaker 2That's what Taylor's going to be fixed on the rest of the show.
Speaker 1Why don't you fart? So I actually Googled this.
Speaker 4Why.
Speaker 1Because our sister-in-law also claims to never fart.
Speaker 2I promise she doesn't. I've known her my whole life.
Speaker 5You've lived with her.
Speaker 1I did my Google research on it.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1And the medical journals do state Okay, you do pass gas, it's just not audible and you just don't. It's not even like. Because it's not explosive, exactly so you're telling me. There is gas escaping somehow, because we.
Speaker 2It just has to build up so non-farters have silent, leaky buttholes? Yes, they do.
Speaker 1So sorry to tell you, aaron, but you have been diagnosed, you know that bicycle that you love, that every time you go to ride there's a flat tire. No, that is the worst. It's got a slow, slow link. You know the last time I fucking rode a bike that you don't know is present.
Speaker 2Could you use something that was a little more relevant to something I don't know like a basketball. Like an e-bike or an e-speeder? What?
Speaker 1When was the last time you rode a bike Yesterday? A BMX bike.
Speaker 2You did Yesterday.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 6And then after that I did 12 miles.
Speaker 1I did bunny hops. I rode 12 miles. I did bunny hops. I rode wheelies. I did an endo. Was this a video game? I did some tail whips.
Speaker 5No, it was a video game bro.
Speaker 2Tail whips on gravel don't count, because you just lost traction.
Speaker 1You don't even know what a tail whip is. It has nothing to do with gravel sister.
Speaker 2I'm saying I know that the house you grew up in had gravel, so there's no way that you did anything but tail whips because you lost control of your bike. You know what You're fired. You're so fired. That's why I'm former bestest co host. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1I knew she'd get fired at some point and she did. Right after she said she quit, I said well, that's okay, because you're fired anyway, hey can I ask a really important question?
Speaker 6it's super deep yeah yeah behind this camera? Yeah, they can't see, no, this amazing collection of teenage mutant ninja turtles indeed, I want to know who's everyone's favorite turtle, this amazing collection of Teenage.
Speaker 4Mutant Ninja Turtles Indeed.
Speaker 6I want to know who's everyone's favorite turtle.
Hobbies, Work, and Pool Chats
Speaker 1Leonardo.
Speaker 2Donatello, me too Donatello, for sure, without question.
Speaker 5Raphael.
Speaker 1The mad one Of course, the one that beats up people in bars, the one that's like screw that, I'm just going to stab you in the eye.
Speaker 6Donatello and I are like we are artists, also sportsmen.
Speaker 5Rafael, I will fuck you.
Speaker 2I'm going to kill you so quick.
Speaker 1There's quite a collection that the viewers don't get to see. That's behind the camera.
Speaker 6He likes toys this is a great collection.
Speaker 1It's fun yeah yeah, there is a gizmo I even have me as a funko pop down there yeah, he does because he has a cool life. Oh my, god yeah, funko, funko, funko contacted me and say hey, can we uh?
Speaker 2can we, can we get your?
Speaker 1license for your likeness.
Speaker 2Why would you take away from the fact that I got you a super cool ass gift?
Speaker 1Because I wanted to sound really important.
Speaker 2You didn't even post that. You're important because you are loved by me.
Speaker 6You're important because you're wearing the hat, dude Crappitan.
Speaker 2Crappitan, you know what.
Speaker 5Ciao baby. Thank you.
Speaker 2On that note, I'm gonna go pee again. Oh my god.
Speaker 5Get a diaper. Get a diaper.
Speaker 1What is wrong with you?
Speaker 5Aaron hasn't had to pee one time.
Speaker 6I was just thinking about it, though, oh.
Speaker 2It's time for a break for everybody.
Speaker 1Well, not me, I can hold it. I just pee my pants over here.
Speaker 5Yeah, your chair's all wet.
Speaker 1It's gross over here.
Speaker 5That's why I lit a candle.
Speaker 1It's still going. It might have blown out.
Speaker 6I told you guys, now I want a third. See, that's why I don't come hang out with you, Shane, because you guys do this to me.
Speaker 1This is why everybody should want to come on this podcast.
Speaker 5We just have a good time.
Speaker 6Sunday, it's a you know, we don't, you know, it's really it's really been a fun, a fun uh day thus far and, honestly, like I've really had an amazing month and it's a whole bunch of tragedy simultaneously, and so you know what, if I have a one?
Speaker 1What was that last message I sent to you? It's Sunday, fun day.
Speaker 5It's Sunday, fun day One for the homies, right, yeah, do you have any hobbies? Yeah?
Speaker 1What's up besides acting?
Speaker 5I envy people that have hobbies, because I don't have hobbies.
Speaker 1She's trying to find something that might no I don't want.
Speaker 5I just like to hear Hear other people's hobbies. And I'm like wow, that sounds really cool. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1You do have a hobby, this right here, bitch. Okay, what One day a month, that's not a hobby, oh God, oh, I'm trying to find it, you know what You're fired. Okay, you didn't follow Kodal.
Speaker 5That's two today Fired man, we're all fired.
Speaker 6Yeah, so it's so weird because, like my what, I have so many career, like I have five of my own businesses, right, because I door dash too occasionally Dang, just because sometimes if I'm sitting around and I'm not making money, I'm one of those weird people.
Speaker 5You don't like to be doing nothing.
Speaker 6And I like to make money too.
Speaker 4Yeah, I get that, I like to, but again go get her.
Speaker 5So I'm like man, I should do that, make money.
Speaker 6And then I'm like I ain't doing it, but man, I should do that and make money. Then I'm like I ain't doing it. I'm also that person who likes to go DoorDash for five hours so that I can get one Postmates delivered to me, okay. So come on, I get a feet finder and then I'm like then I got to get a pedicure, I got to take a picture, not a go-getter, not going to do it.
Speaker 1Some don't want pedicures.
Speaker 6What you don't want pedicures you can have some nasty toes. They talked me into three dude and I didn't even see that my name was on the fridge. And that's so sweet, guys. I'll take another Clacker board. I know, Will you make sure I get pictures of all this stuff? Sure.
Speaker 1We'll take photos after this. It's something we've been wanting to do more of. That's one thing we've kind of done and then mostly not done is get photos afterwards so I can post those.
Speaker 5Heck, yeah, we will be doing that. You're always fucked up with your doseckies.
Speaker 6I love it. I love it. She's not wrong, she is not wrong, she's not wrong. So, yeah, so, most of the things that I do, you know, I adored.
Speaker 5And I consider it exercise too, because I don't like to go to the gym. I don't either at all, but I pay for it but I don't go.
Speaker 1They just gawk at me all the time.
Speaker 6I know they're like look at this dude he don't need to be in here.
Speaker 5I pay $20 a month but I don't go you pay for it and you don't go.
Speaker 2No, we just cancelled that shit and we felt so good and then I think we got cake after but then I'm like, I'm like no, because next week I'm gonna you're gonna go I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 5I'll be like, well, I'm gonna meet that one guy so I actually used to weigh 230 pounds.
Speaker 6In high school. I was that fat, uh fat drama kid that was friends with everyone I told you about them? I was, too, the chubby show queer, yes. So sometimes it's really weird now because, like sometimes, people tell me I'm hot and I'm like I know I get it all the time like who me.
Speaker 2I just became and stayed the funny fat friend.
Speaker 6Well, I don't look at you and think well, of course not but there's a role that people play, so like. We have to be in shape for multiple reasons, and what we do you know, try it out man totally try it out, try it out. So I consider door dashing and massage therapy like my workouts. So I'm making money and also working out staying ton birds.
Speaker 5My workout. I did yard work yesterday. I'm sore today.
Speaker 6Oh my gosh, yard work is really intense Like this time of year. All of my clients are like, oh my god, all I did was plant flowers. No, that's real dude.
Speaker 1That's real talk.
Speaker 4She had to pull toads out of her pool filter 18 of them or something, and they went right back in.
Speaker 5I was so scared and they went right back in.
Speaker 1What's wrong with toads? She works with animals, she's not scared, but toads.
Speaker 5No, I don't like toads, I don't like amphibians.
Speaker 1They're slimy.
Speaker 5I don't like amphibians. I don't like snakes.
Speaker 6Yeah. So if there was one hobby that I do have, I am a cat lady. I do bring cats. Yeah, I major into animal rescue. I mean, you guys know, I help the houseless too, but I actually like animals more than people Me too.
Speaker 5How many animals in your house? I?
Speaker 6love people and I'm like I know, I know, but why do they suck sometimes? Why?
Speaker 1do they suck? How many animals in your house, counting kids or no? They're kind of animals. They're better though.
Speaker 6Do you have a big foot by, like a six foot three, male or female, whichever he's not tall.
Speaker 5I have a male, but he's not tall, okay.
Speaker 6Or you know what I mean.
Speaker 5He's bald, but he's tall. How short is he? Like barely, I'm like barely. Oh, you got a short king, you got a short guy.
Speaker 1he's not very tall oh, I can't wait to meet him.
Speaker 2I don't know if that's gonna happen. It's been like three years months I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 5Anyway, I have three dogs, three cats, two guinea pigs and two kids amazing my house is a thousand square feet. That same girl. I have two bedroom, one bath.
Speaker 6I finally get to buy a house this next year and I'm so excited.
Speaker 1She does have a pool. I can't believe her guinea pigs are still alive.
Speaker 6Everything happens for a reason. I need a friend with a pool.
Speaker 5I'm always looking for friends.
Speaker 1She's got a pool. Her parents have a super nice backyard.
Speaker 6I don't, because I'm not going to school, it's fine.
Speaker 1We don't like to go slumming.
Speaker 5My pool's not a fun pool like theirs.
Speaker 1It's a waiting pool.
Speaker 5Mine's a waiting. You don't want children to be there because it's this big. So anytime they're there, you're going to get splashed.
Speaker 1This room, but it's perfect, but it's nice.
Speaker 2It's perfect for like I just want to get in the pool.
Speaker 5Adult drinking Cool off Like you don't want any chaos.
Speaker 6Yeah Right, I forget that people have human children, because I don't. So I'm like oh yeah, those things.
Speaker 5The small people. I'm very annoying in the pool, the small people I don't get in when they're in the pool.
Speaker 1Yeah, you with me. I'm like there's no spot I can sit and not get splashed. So that's how.
Speaker 5Now we know what our parents felt like when we're at the pool. We're like, oh, dad, get in. They're like dad got in, mom, didn't dad? Let me throw you. I threw pictures. I'm not even wearing a fucking swimsuit, I'm wearing just underwear and they're just letting me go with my titties out. And I'm like I'm a fucking swimsuit, I'm wearing just underwear and they're just letting me go with my titties out.
Speaker 2I'm a fucking baby, how old were you? I was like nine.
Speaker 6Those aren't called titties yet.
Speaker 1dude, I had nothing to do with that, she's like 19.
Speaker 5I saw.
Speaker 1Where Like a holiday inn.
Speaker 5Yeah, I saw slides of it and I was like I'm too old to be, but I think it was normal Back then.
Speaker 1I really do.
Speaker 5Normal for white trash.
Speaker 2Hi, well then still normal.
Speaker 1Still normal who do you think, stays at a holiday inn?
Speaker 2This is not appropriate, was it in Tucumcari and I had you brought it up so, and I had.
Speaker 6Big brothers, you brought it up and I had bad rumors, so we joked before the podcast started.
Speaker 5We wonder what's wrong.
Speaker 1We talked about. For some reason, el Reno came up.
Speaker 4Shut up, shut up, dude.
Speaker 1I spoke it, and then I talked about Poop Lake, El Reno Lake. That's where Dad used to take us all the time. And we were so happy to go to fucking Poop.
Speaker 4Lake El Reno.
Speaker 2It was so gross.
Speaker 1And the reason I call it Poop Lake is I legit pooped in the lake?
Speaker 5Everyone did. We took our pet ducks to set them free and they got raped by other ducks that lived at Fort Reno.
Speaker 6What? Fort El Reno? I have not been back to a lake since I got a floater. We go right past it.
Speaker 1I was like that was probably it, that was probably me.
Speaker 2That was probably Shane I was like, that is it.
Speaker 1Yep, I'm only doing fresh river water from now on, or the ocean. Granted they had no bathrooms anywhere near that swim area.
Speaker 6So it's all our fault.
Speaker 1Yeah it's their fault.
Speaker 5It's the city's fault.
Speaker 2It's their fault. No, people have to poop.
Speaker 1That's when you poop in a bush there ain't no bushes at lake el reno. Have you been there?
Speaker 5no, there's nothing I'm not about the water make sure, yeah, it's called the bacteria.
Speaker 1I figured animals poop in here. I'm an animal, I want to poop in here, you're not a duck. And then I felt it go up my back. That was weird. Again, it went up your back. Yeah, it touched me and I went, ah, and swim away real quick. True story. True story. I got a lot of them lots of true stories are you?
Speaker 6guys from here originally, and so I mean you said you went to El Reno as a kid Grew up in Mustang To the poop lake. Okay, oh, disgusting Mustang, all right.
Speaker 1Puke on Yukon.
Speaker 6Yeah, let's go, dude.
Speaker 1I wasn't going to say that. I wasn't going to say that, but you started it. Well, did you really?
Speaker 6graduate Because, yeah, we went to state championships one time in 175 years when I was going there.
Speaker 1Well, I played basketball in high school and we smoked a Yukon consistently.
Speaker 6So actually one of my friends doing on a spring break trip. I swear my life is so filled with trauma, but I truly believe that all of my trauma is like leading to me being able to create art that can hopefully affect people Right. Like actually just get him to talk about stuff like us talking here and and being like hey, I'm a Christian and I do that. This is what we need right now. We need to be talking, all of us from different ways.
Speaker 6And we're not like oh she's Christian, oh she's not cool, we don't care, and also I'm a cool Christian, that's right.
Speaker 2I mean you're here with us, so you are welcoming and forgiving your status went up.
Speaker 1The three people that watch us.
Speaker 6I'm kidding.
Speaker 1Hey, we're growing. We're growing, that's right, I'm a grower, not a show, so the podcast is growing.
Speaker 4Also true. Hey, what, hey, what, what. Ah, it just plays what it wants to play.
Speaker 1That was about Taylor coming back.
Speaker 6What Really so? Yeah, so you went to discuss, saying so my senior year we talked about this trauma. So my spring break of my senior year, we went to spring break and my friend Natalie Jones was killed and her mom was there. Yeah, that was my trip, that my mom chaperoned and I remember walking by her plaque every day. Let me tell you what a horrible thing to experience as high school teenagers, and also for my mom, who is an amazing mom, who felt like so much responsibility for that you know what I mean.
Speaker 6And it wasn't. It wasn't her. The guy was driving 100 miles an hour he hit her, she's like 10, swerved off the road. She was walking and the off the road and she flew 10 feet and died instantly. He turned around and fled the scene and a guy on a motorbike a little followed him. Oh my god, by the time they actually checked him in his blood alcohol level. When they finally did, it was .31. So that was four hours later.
Speaker 2So when he hit her he was blackout. Oh my gosh, that's awful. I'm so sorry yeah.
Speaker 6It was horrible, but I only bring the Mustang thing up because, again, like that's another something I'll touch on someday in some film.
Judgment vs. Unconditional Love
Speaker 6You know, I just want us all to talk about these things and whether you're Christian, whether you don't have a religion, whether you don't, you know, whatever the situation is is like there's so much hate and it's like let's just focus on the love and like transparency and honesty and like that's how we're going to grow as a community, as a nation, you know, moving forward, and right now it feels kind of icky out there and I hope that together we can, we can change that, you know.
Speaker 1It's really cute. So, with your faith, do you think aliens are real?
Speaker 6I think it was proven scientifically this past year, was it not?
Speaker 1Pretty close right. Crazy. That's more just a silly question, but we like to talk about that you had to start out with your faith. With your faith, didn't you?
Speaker 2just ask her hey, do you believe in aliens? Did you have to make it different?
Speaker 5Yes.
Speaker 1Out. You know me, so yeah, you know I had to do that.
Speaker 6I mean, how long was the Bible written and how many different versions?
Speaker 4do we have.
Speaker 6I mean, like you know, even even myself I'm like, well, I could have. I mean, there's so many different ways that you can look at it and for anyone to read the bible and say this is exactly what was meant, like whatever like again yeah, religion without question is a cult, yes, culty, so let's talk about it. Let's talk about religion. Let's talk about it all like tell me, why you don. Let's talk about it all Like tell me why you don't believe, I'll tell you why I went from believing not believing.
Speaker 5I just think he's very disappointed in me.
Speaker 6Back to believing. You gotta believe in something right. Yeah, and if you do.
Speaker 5Okay, gracias.
Speaker 6I just want to remind everyone, like the guy that is my role model like used to hang out with prostitutes, he turned water into wine, bro yeah, I watched the exorcist last night and I don't know that segway no, for real.
Speaker 5If anything makes me like I, I choose religion over that. Oh, that movie will make me say send you to confessional yeah, I will. I will. I am so sorry. I, the devil and demons scare me a lot because I believe in that shit well, and that's another weird thing that's kind of interesting to get into conversation.
Speaker 6I just don't believe in organizer well, and you know what, neither do I. It's like I have a thing in my script that says it was like we're talking about praying, and he's like here, I'll pray. And she's like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm not religious. And he's like neither am I. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1Like Well, I mean, if you really really look at it, Jesus partied with the bad people.
Speaker 6That's what I'm saying. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1That's who he was hanging out with.
Speaker 6He was going to send the most unassuming people to represent him in the future.
Speaker 5Because nobody else wanted anything to do with him. Right, You're poor, you're gross. Exactly.
Speaker 1He's like I'm not, but you got something to learn.
Speaker 6And it's this thing of the no judgment and the loving unconditionally, and it's like I see people that claim to also be Christians along with me and I see so much hatred and it's just like gross. Yeah, you know what I mean, cause I don't really think that Jesus had a political party.
Speaker 5Yeah, I really, really don't. Hell, no, hell, no, I don't oh hell, no, hell, no, I don't think he also liked children either. So like I don't, that's why I don't go to church. That what you didn't like. Children Like that. Every time you go to church, all they do is touch children.
Speaker 1Okay, I was going to believe you I knew where you were going. I like it and you're right, so that's my thing. You're right.
Speaker 5I do believe in a higher spirit, but I'm not going to go to church because there's some shitty people and they touch children and it's gross. Well, I think that's the thing.
Speaker 6Again. We talk about that trauma, like people are traumatized in churches, but it doesn't just happen in churches, it happens everywhere. That's true, you know, you have some of these people that are like, oh, in Hollywood it's all this evil, yeah there is some of that going on? There really is, but there's some of that going on everywhere, right next door, and you don't even know it.
Speaker 1Some of the most judgmental and awful people I've known in life are super religious.
Speaker 5Are avid church believers and that goes everything against what.
Speaker 1Jesus was trying to get us to understand. Just be a good fucking human.
Speaker 5I can drink beer and cuss and whatever, but I'm not going to go shoot someone. And the other thing that is, You're a good dude man.
Speaker 6I'm being very hardcore in my religion. I'm putting myself in a little bit of a position here because I am a faith-based writer. It's so important to me, so I yeah what you just said. Say it again.
Speaker 5I don't know what the fuck I said.
Speaker 6What'd she say?
Speaker 1She said I can drink.
Speaker 5I can cuss I can drink, I can smoke, I can cuss, but I'm not gonna go shoot someone, I'm not gonna go do bad things. I take care of my life and my children. I go to work.
Speaker 6I pay taxes although I gotta file my taxes tonight sis, can you file mine for the past four years? Cause it's been crazy, I would not trust me with that, but well, let's call my mom, she can handle it, she's so good at taxes.
Speaker 6Let's not call my mom no, I think what I was gonna say is like I think also, it's like you know, it's like, oh well, everyone let's just pray, like you guys, like our jesus didn't want us to just pray without and also acting, like you know, it's like everyone just stop and pray. No, like let's see what we can do to help. Yeah, fix this right now, what is humanly possible to fix it and involve god in that and pray, but just like stopping. Oh, you know what I mean, and I think that's something that the sensationalism that some people are representing in our religion is turning people away from us and making us look, I would agree, like something that a majority of us are not and I don't like the like limelight whatever.
Candid Podcast Banter About Various Topics
Speaker 5Like I went to puerto rico and monkey island and helped rebuild houses and we did way more for the community than we even did for the monkeys. But like, yeah, I felt more religious and close to god, or whatever you want to call it, during that time of like, of course, helping people, and not even like I didn't have much to give other than like my time, like I'll help you rebuild your house and all that amazing giving your time is so much and it and it makes you feel you know that way and that really good feeling and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 5But like I don't have to go to a building to feel like a church, you know, that's my thing you got to you got the true sense of community.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what that was, true sense of community is not always just gathering in a building, because that's what that was. True sense of community is not always just gathering in a building, because that's what you're supposed to do. Yeah, it's actually going out and doing the things he talked about. If you want to get down to right, we have gone to places on this podcast we have never gone before and that's the most wholesome episode you've ever had I like it uh, when the tornado hit.
Speaker 5We're school and community and we came and we helped yeah, it was amazing what that is more of me feeling religious and close to a god, or what you want to call that a higher being it is just call it connected.
Speaker 4Connected connected whether it be you're connected to humanity.
Speaker 6You're connected to the environment. You're connected to mother nature. You're connected to jesus. You're connected to me.
Speaker 5Going to a sunday service, or having somebody say like you have to be this way because you're religious or you believe, and I would rather do those things for people than and there's nothing wrong with going to church, because some people need that sense of organization and that that is okay too.
Speaker 2That's fine, oh for sure.
Speaker 6And that is okay too, but there are some of us that were meant to go out and do the work, and that's the way that we're going to have those connections.
Speaker 1You don't have to be a.
Speaker 6Christian to be a good person.
Speaker 1Exactly Just like we shouldn't judge the people going into a building on a Sunday, on a Saturday, on a Wednesday, whatever it is, they shouldn't judge us either.
Speaker 6Absolutely Right.
Speaker 1Absolutely. That's what should happen.
Speaker 6That's what my Jesus said. I am not to judge anyone, no, anyone. I love all of you, you know. I mean we're pretty darn lovable. And yeah, and if you ever want to have a personal conversation with Jesus, like, let's have it, but I'm never going to like, oh, you must believe, or if you don't, right now, with me, you're going to hell. That's what's pushing people away from knowing the Jesus that I know and love.
Speaker 1And there are people like that, because the people Jesus walked around town with would mean they all went to hell and no Right Exactly.
Speaker 4No, exactly.
Speaker 6That's not what happened.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know who would go there. Don't watch that movie.
Speaker 6All right, we got to eat. Now let's get funny again.
Speaker 2Bring it back. Do it a little too soon, all right. So many feelings.
Speaker 1So I have Casey and I Casey really helped.
Speaker 2Oh, look at him giving me credit today. What is?
Speaker 1happening, since the podcast is now also a video podcast and not just audio. Yes, we've upped our production level. Shut up, it's pretty cool we made a rebate yeah, we made cool graphics.
Speaker 5Graphics okay, do I have a filter?
Speaker 1for our segments, okay, and so now we are gonna do a fun little thing we always do on the podcast is we watch my tiktok videos.
Speaker 2Yeah, not his like not videos, he's not that I've done.
Speaker 1The ones I've curated. That, I think, will bring a laugh or shock people.
Speaker 6The ones that we should judge after just saying it.
Speaker 2So we're not going to judge people, we're not going to judge anyone. We're going to judge these videos. But see, here's the thing If it's published, it's art. Right, it is okay to judge and evaluate art no.
Speaker 6and that's the amazing thing about doing what you know we do is that, like art, it can mean something different to every person you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Clearly he thinks this is art, right I mean I won't, I'll see if I agree.
Speaker 1Yeah I'm sorry, farts can be art okay, oh boy, you can't have here we go fart art
Speaker 5fart.
Speaker 1Yep, greatest shits.
Speaker 2No, that is not the graphic, but I do want to show you this first.
Speaker 1Like, where's this? Let me pull it over here, okay. Oh, non-invasive what do we think about this Non-invasive FDA smart kegel training for men?
Speaker 6So men have kegels.
Speaker 2Yeah, is it your butthole? So you put it in your booty hole. You sit on it.
Speaker 1You sit on it.
Speaker 6What are you kegeling? Your kegels are in your booty.
Speaker 1That's what men do Strengthens the prostate, and I'm sitting on one right now.
Speaker 2You are absolutely not.
Speaker 6I'm not, but I just thought, okay, so it does actually have a health benefit it must.
Speaker 1I don't know if it's real or not. It popped up on my Facebook ads.
Speaker 2I am so concerned about your algorithms. Oh, Taylor's break.
Speaker 5You must have googled something that happens every time I put my mouth in it drops.
Speaker 1Oh my God, Now we're getting ready to go off the rails.
Speaker 6My brain's already way off, but I just can't even say it out loud.
Massage Therapy and Professionalism
Speaker 1It's got 5500 likes 1800 shares and it's got 4.7 out of5 stars. I think I need this, but I don't know what for.
Speaker 6I was thinking about gerbils when we were looking at this they miss an opportunity not calling it the gerbil.
Speaker 1I got one in there too, but you get a smartwatch with it for free.
Speaker 2You get a gerbil in there too. Shut up Chase. All right, I'm interested, I'm interested.
Speaker 1I know we got to do some more research on this fine thing Shop now.
Speaker 5Okay, I need a new chair at work.
Speaker 2Let's do this.
Speaker 1Taylor, you don't have a prostate and I kind of want to move this so you guys can see, because you won't be able to see this.
Speaker 5This is what we look like.
Speaker 2Stick all the things in everybody. Oh, my God, that's when we're like, oh. Wait, what's happening.
Speaker 5Oh, we're just dancing.
Speaker 7Let's go full throttle.
Speaker 2I just super daddied my pants.
Speaker 5Super daddied Wait what Toilet talks?
Speaker 4Oh, look at that.
Speaker 1There we go, toilet talks. A little bit of Inception.
Speaker 5Is there a microphone in the bathroom? Hey?
Speaker 2sweet hey Red Rocket, yeah, yeah. So he's so proud.
Speaker 1This is what Taylor does at work. She works with animals and they are always like this. This is what we get on our Snapchat every day of the week. What?
Speaker 6do you do, I don't know anything about you.
Speaker 5What do you do?
Speaker 2What's your job, Taylor? Come on, you have a cool job. I work in research.
Speaker 6Okay, so like biological.
Speaker 1Do you work?
Speaker 6at the zoo no.
Speaker 4You sound like you're playing a big deal and you're not admitting it.
Speaker 6I work near the zoo. She's a very big deal.
Speaker 1No, I'm not. Yeah, you are Stop it.
Speaker 6No, because animals are my hobby. And she asked what my hobbies are, and so now I'm in love with her.
Speaker 2Animals are also her hobby and her work.
Speaker 1We'll talk more after the podcast if we can get more information.
Speaker 6I love it For now. Let's just look at this large baboon.
Speaker 5What kind of animal is that? A proboscis?
Speaker 1monkey Looks like your nose. Yeah, baboon. What kind of animal is that, proposcus? Monkey looks like a snub nose. So I know a lot of guys watching this are gonna be envious, here we go, oh no oh such a sweet guy such a good guy, look at him it's cool, okay, yeah, okay, a banana, it's cool.
Speaker 2Okay. Yeah it's cool, a banana wiener. Oh, here we go. What in the world, okay?
Speaker 1so Erin? Yes, We've given you the rattlesnake massage.
Speaker 6Yes, okay.
Speaker 1Here is a new thing you can start offering for clients. Okay, just watch. I think, if you think you're making money now, just wait, just wait. You want those two houses, one here and one in California.
Speaker 4That's how you do it Right here.
Speaker 2Okay, no, no.
Speaker 1Oh, just wait.
Speaker 5Oh, my God.
Speaker 6I do that move. Oh what? Crack the egg? What is the face? Oh, just wait, put your teeth away. That's called to potment and massage yeah. That's called murder, murder.
Speaker 4There he is, finish him, he's coming. He's coming and look he's dead. What is that?
Speaker 1face.
Speaker 4And he's happy about it. I drink the blood of my enemies.
Speaker 6He's like looking to the dark forces for.
Speaker 1This is every 80s action movie when they snap a neck right. Is that how they choreograph? Big Trouble, little China?
Speaker 5No, 80s action movie when they snap a neck right?
Speaker 2Yeah, is that how they choreograph? Big Trouble, little China. No, he's got.
Speaker 4I'm gonna.
Speaker 6Well, now I understand why all my clients come to me and they're like I went to this chair massage the other day and I don't know what they did to me and they're like.
Speaker 7I went to this chair massage the other day.
Speaker 1Oh okay, so you bring up chair massage. Yes, we're so. Casey sings in a competing barbershop, chorus. Oh so we were down.
Speaker 4We're a nice place in the world.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 6Linga, linga ling.
Speaker 2We were recently.
Speaker 5Oh, that's it. I thought we were singing. I was excited too.
Speaker 1We were recently down in Texas for her regional competition.
Speaker 6Nice, and they have a chair massage.
Speaker 1Chair massage, yeah, Chair massage. So we sign up. He gets through working on Casey. I get there and I tell him yeah, you know, my shoulders forearms and hands are my like. That's where I carry a lot of my stress and my pain. He ignores that.
Speaker 5Guys, I just burped.
Speaker 1I'm so sorry he ignores that.
Speaker 5guys, I just burped you saw it here first natural expulsion I thought it was you, so I was like that's normal it was number three.
Speaker 2I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 5It was so natural too, too.
Speaker 1This guy goes. Do you trust me?
Speaker 6I just met you, bro, exactly.
Speaker 1But I said yes.
Speaker 5Shane.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 5Yes, master.
Speaker 1He put his finger in my mouth, oh, the TMJ adjustment.
Speaker 6Yeah, oh my gosh, so painful, but when you can get it done right, relief. No, he didn't.
Speaker 2He did he really. They shook you. He like deep fish, like two-finger.
Speaker 1I didn't even gag. I didn't even gag.
Speaker 2No, we actually.
Speaker 6It's an extra course that you take, but it was amazing, it can be. It's then when it like releases like tmj, suffers.
Speaker 1I just allowed him to yak a little bit longer but he was like this might, this might help some of the neck pain, and I went sure, dude yeah, he fingered your mouth and you let it happen. He finger banged my mouth and I watched it and I paid for it. Did he have gloves on?
Speaker 5no.
Speaker 1No, no, I don't think he did, but he washed up and then he did some you know he did, we did wash him, cleanse his hands multiple times. Fingernails were cut and clean. No warts on his hands.
Speaker 2I checked all that His hand looked like a lesbian's hand. So I mean they were definitely safe, they were definitely safe.
Speaker 6Well, now I want to know where you went, because I feel like I'm missing out on something.
Speaker 4Oh no, it was just a dude. I don't know who it was.
Speaker 1I'd like to know he might have just walked in. In fact, it was just a lawn chair.
Speaker 2No, it was part of the vendor fair that we have there's always a chair massage guy, and so he was there. We had downtime.
Speaker 5I'm just going to be like sit down, sis, I'm going to become a massage therapist. Do you trust me?
Speaker 1So the next time you sit in one of those massage chairs, I can't say it. I can't say it.
Speaker 6Don't correct my love.
Speaker 1Don't talk about my disability. I'm going to say I'm going to sit in that chair and go. Can you stick your fingers in my mouth?
Speaker 2I'll pay you extra. Hip you real good.
Speaker 5It was weird, but you know you cannot tell me another man's like a speaker.
Speaker 2His name was Eric. That's his brother's name.
Speaker 6That doesn't make it more awkward.
Speaker 1I've seen that story for the podcast.
Speaker 2Did you suckle.
Speaker 1I did what he instructed me to do. I followed directions.
Speaker 5Did you make that noise?
Speaker 1No, there was no gag reflex at all. I was a natural baby.
Speaker 2And then he, he did something like to release something in my shoulders or something I don't know this is great.
Speaker 1This is great he was you trust me, right, he's like you trust me, right?
Speaker 2no, not, not my diaphragm, it's like all the attachment points like up here. Like looked over at shane and he's I'm not doing anything, weird.
Speaker 5This dude totally just fondled the fuck out of y'all.
Speaker 6This is your boxer muscle right here, and so it wraps around. So if you're doing movements like that, she does all the time.
Speaker 1She boxes a lot. Tybo, all that, billy Blanks, I'm an athlete she boxes a lot, yeah.
Speaker 4Tybo all that. Oh, billy Blanks, I'm an athlete.
Speaker 1Billy, I'm an athlete, I'm an athlete, so that day I kind of was a cuck and I paid a guy to mess around my wife's boobies while I watched and said, yeah, okay, does that feel good, feels good. Good, it really did feel great. Can you put your fingers in my mouth?
Speaker 2Yeah, it was so weird dude it was so weird. I feel like this is the hardest you've ever made Taylor laugh. It was so weird, but I liked it.
Speaker 6Oh man, you watched as a super ethical massage therapist. I just have no words right now.
Speaker 2Wait, was it unethical? Do you trust me?
Speaker 6It's just the way you say it. And let me tell you the crap that I hear in that massage room. Sometimes I'm just like did that really come out of your mouth? Like I know they don't mean it, like weird, but oh yeah, they're like oh, you come home with me and I'm like are you offering?
Speaker 2where's the contract?
Speaker 6and I know, they just mean like I could have you in my house all day because you're amazing at massage therapy, but in the moment it's just like massage therapy, I wouldn't be able to keep a straight.
Speaker 5The other thing is guys like no, okay, look.
Speaker 6So let me just tell you from a massage let's let's talk about a massage therapist from a perspective of a massage therapist some of the things have you fingered a mouth only when they order this time when they order the sinus treatment. I do the finger mouth thing, so wait back up sinus treatment.
Speaker 6Tell me more, I'm so intrigued so if you have a lot of sinus problems, I'm uh. I have over 1200 hours of massage therapy. The average. You only have to have 500 to be a massage therapist in Oklahoma, in addition to passing a national exam. That is upsetting.
Speaker 2That is a low number, so I think a lot of people don't understand like you can actually ask someone if they have a license.
Speaker 6So if you go somewhere and you come out feeling like you've been hurt or anything like that, we have to have licenses. And there are actually active like SWAT teams and people doing undercover raids right now because there's a huge stigma, right like it's actually the number one way to human traffic and Oklahoma is with one of the number one locations in the world for human trafficking. So massage and that unsadly they, they sometimes get associated you each other, but those are actually very few and far between Most of your massage therapists.
Speaker 6They've taken school. They're professional. If you ever have an awkward feeling when you go in to see a massage therapist, always ask to see their license and then you know it's a legitimate thing. That's awesome. I also chose to work for a christian spa an hour and 15 minutes away. That basically says we're a faith-based spa. So super legit, which is all figure of mouth which is weird because I still have guys do weird things and I'm like this is not okay, bro. Like what's a weird thing, dude, to do weird things?
Speaker 5how, how happy boners everywhere ending get that's I mean, can you blame them?
Speaker 2though Forgetting boners. No For rubbing it on her Probably. No, no, no.
Speaker 6For getting the natural biological response. I understand that that is going to happen. Sometimes that does happen, especially if it's your first massage. What's not okay is when I'm rubbing your legs and you literally move your leg out, take your hand and move it right here. You know what happens. Then my fist becomes real hard and you're freaking nuts dude. That's what happens. And then you get kicked off my table. You still get your credit card charged full price plus a 50% tip. And you're never welcome back. They do that. No, they do that.
Speaker 2That's disgusting, they do that Shane Hargis, it was one time, on behalf of all men.
Speaker 1It was one time Daddy bitch.
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Speaker 6So no, here's the thing. Like whatever, Las Vegas is great if you're into all that sort of stuff, but it sucks because what I do is I really feel very good for the body you know what I mean and I think there's a little bit of a stigma. I would like to feel it.
Speaker 1I would like to feel it so when you talk about a guy moving, that's what she does.
Speaker 5We should make a movie where you massage me.
Speaker 6I literally need a fourth Casey. I literally need a fourth casey. I literally need a fourth. Oh no, they only come in a fourth pack. I've done it she's for real.
Speaker 2I'm so excited. This is bad. I am not an enabler everybody. I am not a bad human. She is the number one enabler in our family. You guys got me feisty man, I'm telling you this massage therapy.
Speaker 6It started off as a joke and then it got serious. But let's go back to the weird stuff because you guys got me feisty man. I'm telling you this massage therapy thing I am. It started off as a joke and then it got serious. But let's go back to the weird stuff, because women tell me stuff too Sure, they say things.
Speaker 1Women are creeps too.
Speaker 6They can be Well and they don't even mean to be sometimes Like you know. Yeah, we are.
Speaker 5I just go through this drive-thru.
Speaker 6Okay, so standard like dude mentality. Anytime they come to get a massage it's like oh, you can go as hard as you want. I'll get hard, bennett, you can't hurt me oh.
Speaker 5Just watch, just watch.
Speaker 2I got bony elbows, motherfucker.
Speaker 4I will destroy you.
Speaker 6And then when those guys write reviews that are like they gave me a massage, I couldn't move for two weeks.
Speaker 5You're like your little bitch. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1She did hurt me.
Speaker 4She did. And I liked it oh mommy, I didn't like it, I love it. So, no, we can actually hurt people. She did and I liked it. Oh, mommy, I didn't like it, I love it.
Speaker 6So no, we can actually hurt people as massage therapists oh for sure. No. So people come in with like deep tissue. I'm like I always ask when was your last massage? And they're like five years ago and I'm like you're not getting deep tissue then, dude, I don't want deep tissue Massages where, like the next day, I'm like, oh fuck, like bruised.
Speaker 6Well, that's the thing Deep tissue, you might have soreness for two days, but if you have soreness for a week, that means you did more harm than good. Yeah, absolutely, you know what I mean. There is a way to do deep tissue, the right way and progress, but like it's not beneficial, like, like if you don't get massages regularly.
Speaker 1So I just want to go to a place and lay down, and then they with their finger, do you?
Speaker 6like the scalp massage. You seem like a scalp massage guy. I would like that. Yes, I would like that If you took off your El Capitan hat, I would give him a scalp massage you would be welcome to.
Speaker 2No, that's when he gets boner.
Speaker 1So just be careful. I am no longer giving you scalp massages on this interview, maybe if someone's riding around on a tricycle, but I want them to draw something on my back and I've got to guess what it is.
Speaker 2He's getting it about her.
Speaker 1I want someone to draw something on my back and I've got to guess what it is.
Speaker 5You're so bad at that game, I know the other day with Molly I'm always like. She always draws a flower. Every time I'm like flower, I don't really want a massage.
Speaker 1I want my back tickled.
Speaker 5Yes, exactly, and that's cool if you want to pay me to tickle it.
Speaker 6Yeah, we all want to tickle it, and you want me to pay you to put lotion on. That's what I mean.
Speaker 5I like the hot stones. Oh my God, oh, okay, okay, yeah. What does it mean? Oh God, if you're getting a massage and they your hands? And when they put the stones between your toes that sounds like a kink.
Speaker 6So is there like a sensory or something. So here's the thing Take your shoe off. Come here, take your shoe off. Oh my, feet are gross. I'm not like and that's the other thing you hear all the time is, women are like, my feet are sweaty, I didn't shave my legs. And then I'm like did you see your jewish husband right next to you? He's here I couldn't care less, so okay, so I'm gonna take my hands, hands and we're just going to do this.
Speaker 2That makes me feel certain things, and I don't know how.
Speaker 6She's a tight foot. She's so tight, I'm a tight foot. The reasons why is because there's so many nerve endings right here and in your scalp. So when you even just put your fingers and stretch those toes, those nerves are all being activated right there my toes are all curled on each other right now right, she's getting a foot massage. Listen this is best interview ever no, but that's why the stones feel good in between her toes, because they're stretching a thing that doesn't normally stretch on its own.
Speaker 2I don't know why I'm baffled, right now, oh my Lord, yes, that's exactly what I thought.
Speaker 4I don't know what emotion.
Speaker 6I'm feeling right now. I would just like to remind everyone that Jesus washed people's feet as well.
Speaker 7Try it out. Try it out, man.
Speaker 6I take every moment I can.
Speaker 4She's a disciple, she's a disciple, yeah, yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 6Jesus, what's going on here? So, yeah, so you have so many nerve endings here and there's this amazing move. Okay, thanks, thank you for that. She'll tip you later. No, I really will. Like come give great massages at your house and like make you feel better.
Speaker 1I know there's people that are going to watch that. They're probably craving a cigarette right now.
Speaker 6I don't even smoke anymore and I need a cigarette.
Speaker 5We should charge for that Alright, let's continue what happened.
Speaker 2Where did we go, oh boy?
Speaker 5We're not done. Stop slapping him.
Speaker 1What the fuck is that that's more to the moment I need. Erin to have this face now when she's working.
Speaker 2Yeah, I need you to. That needs to be your massage face. Can I come practice on someone?
Speaker 6Yes, yes, whoever you want that means I can't talk for a second. What about this move?
Speaker 2I don't think he cares. There's an ear.
Speaker 1You see him like.
Speaker 6Okay, that was out of scope of practice. Okay, that was out of scope of practice. Okay, that's a chiropractic move that I learned, but you're not supposed to do that. If it happens accidentally Like it does a lot in massage, if anyone cracks you or pulls you, that's against the law. So if you get hurt, you can file a lawsuit Against the massage therapist. Not that I recommend it. Again, we're talking about smotement. Okay, oh, oh, my god. Not that I recommend it.
Speaker 4Again, we're talking about smotement. Okay, oh.
Speaker 1Oh my God, I'm going to say they're in a country that this is not regulated anyway. I'm just going to say that Because he's doing some crazy shit.
Speaker 2No, he's coming, but they're both done with the end.
Speaker 1No, no, no.
Speaker 3I don't like it. Okay, we gotta stop on that. We gotta finish up on that Fart theory?
Speaker 2Yeah, you can't. How?
Speaker 6uncomfortable were all of you A little.
Speaker 1When.
Speaker 6In that massage thing.
Speaker 2No, that was uncomfortable. I don't like that. I don't like that.
Speaker 6I just want to educate people, yeah, like as massage therapists. I think it's a funny joke Like, ooh, I'm happy. No, we can really hurt people, yeah, and we can also really help the longevity of your life and make your life better you know what I mean.
Speaker 2You know what I mean. It was a massage therapist that found out one leg was longer than the other.
Speaker 1So I look at it and go I can't say that's bad. I had fingers in my mouth, I'm all in for that. Like snap my neck like an American ninja, do that thing on my ear.
Speaker 5I cannot believe you put our fingers in your mouth. They went on. A dick man, oh man.
Speaker 1Sometimes you just gotta experiment Did you salivate, did you salivate?
Speaker 2I think he had cotton mouth.
Speaker 6It's such a weird job, man. There's nothing that makes me happier than someone slobbering on my table, falling asleep on my table or screaming because I hit it so good. It's a weird freaking side hustle bro.
Speaker 1Is it weird when he did that, I said now choke me a little. Yeah, that's weird Deeper. And then I push back against his fingers.
Speaker 2He closes his lips around his fingers. Where's the bathroom?
Speaker 5I gotta go Straight back. I gotta get out now. Get out Run.
Speaker 2We'll watch this video again. We broke her.
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Speaker 5I don't know what's happening ASMR. I don't like it. What happened ASMR? I don't like it. Oh, what happened?
Speaker 1to you. It's so weird.
Speaker 5If a massage therapist put their fingers in my mouth, I would bite. It's so weird, dude. And he rubbed your titties. He didn't touch my titties yeah, no, yeah.
Speaker 2He was all underneath and he did not touch. He didn't touch my titties yeah, no, yeah, underneath and he did not touch. He did not touch my breast tissue, oh, because you didn't touch. Nip, no, nip, okay, no, and not even like meat of boob. No, it was all.
Speaker 1You sounded like Molly.
Speaker 2You did.
Speaker 4You did. Oh that girl, oh my Lord, oh lordy.
Speaker 2So how quickly are we going to hell now that we've broken Aaron?
Speaker 5I mean, I was already there.
Speaker 2Like are we on the express ticket?
Speaker 5I've been there for a minute. Are y'all talking about it?
Speaker 1Yeah, the chicks have been. Oh my god, you know girls. Talking that shit.
Speaker 6Oh god, seriously.
Speaker 5Do you feel them?
Speaker 6knots.
Speaker 5Yes. That's the other thing, everyone always has knots and we gotta cuddle y'all and make y'all feel like you're the only one that's ever had it. I'm the only one that's ever had a knot, my man oh my god, these knots are atrocious.
Speaker 6How do you succeed in life. That's one of my other favorite things. They're like is that a knot?
Speaker 4And I'm like yes, can you just?
Speaker 6feel how stressed I am every day by the knots in my back. How many times a month do you think I should get a massage? What are you going to come back and see me?
Speaker 2Because I tell your husband four, that's right what are you gonna come back and see me? Because I tell your husband four, yeah, that's right, that's what I tell my kids. You're giving me not see, that's, that's the the level of wealthy that I do want to be, oh yeah not like outrageous, but I want to be wealthy enough that not only do I get my nails done regularly and my hair, but I also have a standing appointment with a massage therapist every week. That's the level of wealth that I want.
Speaker 6Yeah, even just every couple of weeks is such a great thing, and I think that that should be something that's attainable for all humans. And that's what's crazy to me. I think there was some research done where it was like we could literally, with the amount of wealth right now, give everyone. I think it's like $3,000 a month, but with the amount of wealth right now, I'll give everyone. I think it's like $3,000 a month. I'm still a capitalist. I'm weird because I still want to make money, but then I want to help the world and give it all away. So I'm so confusing to everyone.
Speaker 2We're called Southern Democrats. That's who we are Right.
Speaker 1Perfect Southern Democrats Hi y'all.
Speaker 6I've never heard that phrase before. Yeah, no, I've never heard that. No, it's like it's uh.
Speaker 2Fiscally responsible, socially liberal, for lack of a better word but like a little bit we're a little bit slutty, a little bit uh, but we save money in the long run. Is really? We're fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
Speaker 6OK, I get that. Yeah, that's a good way of describing it. So I am personally not liberal, I'm personally conservative, for my own personal choices, you know what I mean. But at the same time I and then I just believe, I just believe state and religion personally should be separated.
Speaker 6I just believe state and religion personally should be separated. Yes, please, even though I still pray for a country and even though I would still appreciate a president that prayed for a country in what way they chose to, as long as it's all going towards a positive thing and a better. Yes, you know what I?
Speaker 5mean yeah, I think the world's just too gone. Unfortunately, it's all about power. Yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 6Stupid. So what do you?
Speaker 1think when it comes to power and self.
Speaker 6Yeah, there is so much stuff that how do? How do we change that?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's hard. I think it starts with uh uh, how do we change that? That's hard. I think it starts with for me personally, I think it starts with good parenting.
Speaker 2Yeah, try it again, I can't say it Parenting, thank you, did you say parenting Paddington?
Speaker 1Yes, good, paddington. Y'all on this podcast are learning more and more about my speech impediment that I try to hide every day.
Speaker 6Or are you just taking shots when we're not looking? That's the real question.
Speaker 1Unfortunately no. Five years speech therapy in elementary school.
Speaker 6I think it's adorable. Hello y'all, I like.
Speaker 5Otole.
Speaker 6It's part of what makes you you and the other day at the event. I say the other day. We're about to have our third monthly event and the last one that I will be at publicly, so I hope everyone can come out to the rad bar um, she's going back to la and she's doing all sorts of things, right?
Speaker 6yeah, it's not so much. Don't forget the little people. It's not so much that I'm going to la per se. It takes a lot of time to organize these things and it's coming to a point it's that stupid point in my career where I have to narrow my friends list down. You know what I mean, and I don't mean that in like some bougie way or whatever.
Speaker 1It's just the trajectory after being in this business and going at it for 20 plus years, for sure you literally need to focus on yeah, so you have to lose some things, so you can and also like to protect my mental health.
Speaker 4Because it can become overwhelming.
Speaker 6Because, like I, love everyone in Oklahoma, but sometimes I'm like, why do I feel like a celebrity right now, like I, and I can get overstimulated because I'm still a human, you know what I mean and and sometimes it can get a little overwhelming you know.
Speaker 2So that's why he and I were sitting back in the corner table. We're like we would love to watch this party from about 20 feet away.
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Speaker 5So I'm talking to the bar and I'm like guys stop no.
Speaker 1I'm not going home with you. I know, Well, maybe what kind of house you live in.
Speaker 5Yeah, I'm like okay tonight.
Speaker 6But the other reason is because I am stepping into an executive producer and also producer. We talked about the levels of producers earlier. You have your executive producers. A lot of times they're going to put money in financially and then they may or may not have a designated duty in the film. Tv world is totally different. They have showrunners. Totally different world Executive producers.
Speaker 6In the film world usually they're the ones that are financing films and they'll have like a little bit of responsibility, or they're silent financiers, got it, and then sometimes those executive producers become actual producers. So producers are the ones without the executive word, without the associate, that are the ones that are there basically development all the way through the end, that go up and should accept the awards at the Oscars and stuff like that. So in this case I am going to not only be an executive producer but I'm going to also be an on-set producer, along with Adam Rob. So we're both executive producers but really, at the end of the day, producer is actually the bigger title, because we're the ones that are responsible for putting the entire team together, from top to bottom, to cast, to all of that, the team, if not all the team, will see you Right, Whereas an executive producer a lot of times, yeah, it's that financial and it's like hey.
Speaker 6Big time office. Do your thing business. Yeah, yeah, like. So I'm very blessed to have the williams, who, you know, believe in me and believe in this story and think it's the right thing to do, because they're like, we trust you. After I introduced my team and I went through the whole thing with them and was very transparent, you know, it's like we trust what you're doing, so like we'll keep them in the loop, but at the end of the day, they trust that we are filmmakers that are going to do the best possible thing to not only it's not even just about making money, it's about people seeing right, you know getting the message and the story.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah yeah, well, let talk about.
Speaker 4Let's get back to funny.
Speaker 2Hot fart theory. Hot fart theory.
Speaker 4I don't even have regular cold farts yeah. What did?
Speaker 2you even say Try, to get started over. Hot farts, cold farts, ready to go Farts, jesus Christ.
Speaker 3I have a theory about farts and it's called my hot fart theory. Okay, and I'm pretty sure science will back me up on this.
Speaker 2I am a scientist.
Speaker 3You know what a fart is going to smell based on if it's hot coming out of your butt. That's how you know. Think about this If you are baking cookies or brownies, you can smell that smell permeates the house because it's hot. You're heating them up and heat carries smell. You don't smell ice cream when you're eating it Not until you taste it. Technically, you smell it, so you know a fart's going to smell if it's hot. I hate this. If it's not hot coming out of your butt, then you're in the clear Do you guys really fart that often that you notice the temperature change.
Speaker 6He does, but we don't.
Speaker 5That's a him thing.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's a weird thing. Okay, when in a relationship do you fart?
Speaker 4I'm a fart artist.
Speaker 6Oh, we farted.
Speaker 5This is a new thing for me right now.
Speaker 6No, we farted oh are you new relationship-y?
Speaker 2Yeah, Kind of but it's not going good. What do you mean? It's not going good?
Speaker 4I have questions.
Speaker 2I'm not happy. Oh F that guy.
Speaker 5After the podcast conversation when is that like not weird, but also natural?
Speaker 1Oh, farting in front of each other, yeah.
Speaker 2It might have been first date. At this point I don't really know.
Speaker 1No, it wasn't first, probably third have you ever farted someone.
Speaker 5The first date.
Speaker 2No, we did not fart the first date.
Speaker 5Because I haven't. It's been like five months.
Speaker 6Again, you're talking to the girl that rarely farts.
Speaker 5Oh, that's right I forgot.
Speaker 6No, I have had no, so I rarely do, but every now and then, when it does happen, I'm like oh, I think it's going to happen or you're like that one is far for sure.
Speaker 2I'm going to fart. It's amazing. It's like the first of the year.
Speaker 1Everyone be silent. I would say, like I have an important announcement to make Apparently I do in my sleep by the time, yeah, by the time you have a sleepover.
Speaker 6I feel like if you're sleeping over a couple nights a week at that point, then it's okay.
Speaker 2Then it's no longer weird and it's natural.
Speaker 6But you have had to have had a couple sleepovers.
Speaker 2I would agree.
Speaker 6I think that's fair and always let him do it first, please always let him.
Speaker 2Do it first. What if you're sleeping? Sleep farts don't count.
Speaker 6Don't ever fall asleep before, then't count. Don't ever fall asleep before them. Just don't ever fall asleep before them, or you're doomed dude, don't open your butthole.
Speaker 5You've never seen yourself like when I sleep, I'm so ugly and I'm like no, please don't spend the night start with your fart machine. We're having girl talk, girl talk.
Speaker 3I'm going to continue with the hot farts, hot fart theory. That's how you know in public.
Speaker 2But pause, wait, I agree. I do agree that hot farts are definitely probably going to have a smell, but it doesn't have to be hot to smell.
Speaker 6Hey, but serious talk. Have you guys been around someone who's on keto when they fart? Yes, I have you're on keto you I don't have any sort of sense of smell like very little and even I can smell keto farts.
Speaker 5It is awful.
Speaker 2Meaty farts.
Speaker 5Yeah, I was going to say because it's all meat right, it's protein, farts and fat and like ugh.
Speaker 2Protein farts are a different smell.
Speaker 1Those are protein farts.
Speaker 2Protein farts.
Speaker 1I think I have a sound bite.
Speaker 5Well.
Speaker 1Anyway.
Speaker 2Protein farts.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, let's go into raps. Let's hear some guy rapping.
Speaker 2Failed freestyle three Eric Dunn.
Speaker 6I love.
Speaker 7Eric Yo. My name is Eric Dunn and I live down in the south. When I woke up this morning, I had a bunch of cum in my sack. What?
Speaker 2I had a bunch of cum in my mouth.
Speaker 7Okay, here we go. I still feel sleep Before I brush my teeth. I gotta beat my mom, hey man. I'm a real gangster, you kids.
Speaker 5Is pretending this my side bitch, but he don't know that I'm pregnant and I kill niggas.
Speaker 2Wait, what the fuck. What the fuck. Tim up in the house, what? What? Got a dick up in my mouth? Shit, no.
Speaker 3No man, my name is Eric Dunn and my pussy is wet.
Speaker 7See, I'm a teacher. With this heat, take a seat in my class. The cinema might kill the beat while I'm eating his ass. What?
Speaker 3you mean I can't stop my swag heavy, that's pants off. You keep killing this track, then I'm going to give you a handjob.
Speaker 1There's some music for your movies.
Speaker 6Jesus, I love you.
Speaker 2Please say a prayer in the middle, so we can be.
Speaker 1You can probably license some of that music if you wanted to, you probably licensed it.
Speaker 2Well, that's all I'm saying you told me to be here with Shane today.
Speaker 1You did.
Speaker 2Because he needed a laugh.
Speaker 4Because Lauren needed a chuckle today.
Speaker 1Oh, baby Jesus Sweet baby Jesus in the manger. Did you need to help your soundtrack? There you go, can you?
Speaker 6freestyle. Give me a freestyle, dude, come on, bring it I can't, I can't, I need.
Speaker 5Here wait.
Speaker 6What did you just put in your mouth, dude? Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1We're going to continue you put the long stick, just put in your mouth, dude, nothing, nothing, we're going to continue. You put the long stick, nothing in my mouth, let's go to church.
Speaker 6I worked through the finger in your mouth, and then you got to do this. Look how pretty you is, ooh, with your glasses on.
Speaker 7Just think about it. Look at that Nine years ago you was in my balls.
Speaker 2I need. Years ago you was in my balls, so the next, so apparently we need to add a class in high school on how to explain how the
Speaker 4reproductive process that's not how you explained the birds and the bees.
Speaker 1What happened? That's not the birds and the bees talk. That's not how that should go.
Funny Anecdotes and Parenting Advice
Speaker 2Is Molly's birthday next. No, what? Whose birthday is next? Jay Dan's birthday is next. Well, she can't read. So for Molly's birthday I'm gonna say how old is she gonna be? Seven, eight years ago you were birthday is like. Well, she can't read, so for molly's birthday I'm gonna say how many, how old is she gonna be seven?
Speaker 1eight years ago you were gonna be telling her that eight years ago you were in daddy's balls, let's, let's. Uh, yeah, we need to. Let's reset. Let's, here we go, yeah okay, let's go.
Speaker 5People always ask me what my pronouns are. My pronouns are let me see them titties.
Speaker 2Let me see them titties.
Speaker 1Grandpappy wants. What grandpappy wants.
Speaker 5Oh, pappy, pappy's so funny.
Speaker 1I don't even know what this one is. Let's see. Okay grandpappy wants, oh pappy.
Speaker 6Pappy's so funny I don't even know what this one is. Okay, okay, oh, wait, is this?
Speaker 4Someone got sick yeah.
Speaker 1Either someone got sick or someone came out of someone's balls.
Speaker 5No, I can't. That is a lot of jizz.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 6That is so gross. They had quintuplets. That just didn't make it.
Speaker 1I hate that Of course, but with a man that was a bitch.
Speaker 2Can we replay that again? Do it again. Oh, that's a good pause.
Speaker 6I need to replay, though. Let's go back Back to one a good pause.
Speaker 4Yeah, I need to replay, though let's, let's go back back to one.
Speaker 7Let's hear it. There we go. I used to be in a lesbian relationship not with a woman, of course but with a man that was a bitch oh no, taylor, raise your hand that was me
Speaker 6for the first time in my life I can can say that I'm a proud Christian lesbian. There you go.
Speaker 4There we go.
Speaker 6Like, no doubt For real.
Speaker 2We've all been lesbians. It's a part of our life.
Speaker 1You know what I mean. There's the title of the episode Daniel told me that his mom listened to the last podcast.
Speaker 4Oh my goodness, I'm going to have to block some people from this y'all you will.
Speaker 6I'm going to have to block some people from this.
Speaker 5y'all you will and I said let's not do that can we not have her.
Speaker 2Listen, I can't look at her now well, you know what did we talk about?
Speaker 6flavors, yeah, we'll talk about that later there's so much we have to talk about later. What are we going to talk about now?
Speaker 1We're going to talk about birds. She likes watching birds.
Speaker 6Here you go. You like watching birds?
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 6What's happening?
Speaker 1There's eggs in the nest.
Speaker 5Why are there balls? That's a dog ball, bad man butt.
Speaker 2Oh, it's dog balls. It's a chihuahua.
Speaker 4It's a chihuahua balls. I love your chihuahua. Why you gotta run into?
Speaker 5dog balls man, god damn, because I can see this going on in your house.
Speaker 2What's that you wake up in the morning, let me use my pet to go viral.
Speaker 1Molly and Sawyer are like look, mom, the bird laid eggs.
Speaker 2It's a robin.
Speaker 4I didn't know eggs were hairy.
Speaker 1Here we go.
Speaker 6All right.
Speaker 4What are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 5What are you doing? What are you doing, oh, what are you doing? What?
Speaker 2are you doing? Oh Boom.
Speaker 6Did you just fart what? Oh, no, no, no why, would you do that to your child I?
Speaker 4have a story I have a story. This is funny as shit. I have a story.
Speaker 2Seriously, I was that child. This Pokemon's going crazy. I think little Asian babies are my favorite. I know that haircut.
Speaker 5Oh my God, run, run, run, run Run.
Speaker 4Oh.
Speaker 1Sam's finger, oh my God, oh God, oh Sam's finger, oh my God.
Speaker 4I'm so excited, the fuck, I'm so excited, oh my God.
Speaker 2Baby, why you dumb?
Speaker 1That's not a karate kid.
Speaker 4Okay, baby, why?
Speaker 6you dumb, that's not a karate kid. You guys do this to your kids.
Speaker 1Yeah, we do, oh, I do it all the time I do.
Speaker 6Let me tell you.
Speaker 1And they're adults and I still do it, I do that we lived in Harrah, right.
Speaker 6Okay, so scorpions in rural areas. So we always had these scorpions show up. So my brother's like two years old and he's like he's missing. We're freaking out. We find him. He's got a scorpion tail hanging out of his mouth, right. Super trauma as a child. Well, my parents, instead of helping us like learn that scorpions are living things and like that all things should be loved and that just like scorpions, they're from hell well them are demons.
Speaker 6They look like lobsters and my dad thought it would be real funny to come home with a lobster carcass, put it on the back patio, covered it with a napkin, you said. Er Said Aaron, go get that napkin and bring it inside. This is the kind of parent no, my mom's wonderful my father. On the other hand, I uncover that lobster carcass. I thought it was a giant scorpion. Oh See, this is the kind of parent that I would be. That's why I don't have children. It's fun though. It's the kind of parent that I would be.
Speaker 1That's why I don't have children. It's fun though.
Speaker 2It's the kind of aunt that I am. It's a little bit.
Speaker 5Auntie life Hashtag auntie for life. Exactly, it's a little bit fun.
Speaker 1It is a little bit fun. Here's some advice for you. Oh Dude, the best way to hide your farts is to scream really loudly, right when you fart like this, here we go.
Speaker 4Can y'all hug? Each other. Can y'all hug each other? Oh no.
Speaker 5Oh, my God.
Speaker 2I mean now, you know I mean, now you know when are you going. I love you.
Speaker 4Where are you going?
Speaker 2Where are you?
Speaker 4going yeah, oh. Okay, where are you going?
Speaker 5Yeah, oh okay, oh my God.
Speaker 3Okay. So I'm going to get out and close the door and you can say all the bad words you want and when you're done I'm going to let you out, okay?
Speaker 2Okay. Deal. They're so cute.
Speaker 6This is good parenting right.
Speaker 4Right, oh, what the fuck, what the fuck.
Speaker 1Oh my god.
Speaker 4What is fuck? Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2Okay, we share all the memes about how children are weak and can't do what we used to do this thing, literally, you're supposed to run up this ramp jump, grab a cane.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, get it, dude, get it. Oh no, he didn't, he failed. Oh no, he is not your American Ninja Warrior. I want to wash my car, though.
Speaker 5Oh no.
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Speaker 2Okay, all right, no, look, he's having a great time.
Speaker 1I'm going to start a mobile detailing business. What are?
Speaker 6you going to call it. So, if you'll ask me my thoughts on selective breeding.
Speaker 2This would be a perfect example of why I say yes to selective breeding, please.
Speaker 4It's called.
Speaker 1I'm calling it money shots. Car detailing that's what I'm calling it.
Speaker 2Money shots, yeah, money shots Perfect.
Speaker 5Oh man.
Speaker 6Good stuff. Still sneezing, oh man, that's good stuff, oh still sneezing sounds like a wet fart oh no, no one watched what's in the cooler? What's left?
Speaker 2you guys are turning back into an alcoholic in one freaking session here you go.
Speaker 6Oh, it's a six pack. Yes, where's my old man?
Speaker 2Oh, where's Taylor the old man, my girl, old man Taylor.
Speaker 6It's okay, I probably need to wait anyways.
Speaker 1That was just part one.
Speaker 2That's a good time for her to go to the bathroom. Good Me too.
Challenges of Balancing Support and Success
Speaker 6Okay, oh my. God Shane no. I am surrounded by pee pee no it's okay, because now we can have intimate therapeutic conversations.
Speaker 4Sure.
Speaker 6You know what I mean. We're with feelings. Oh shit, now it's all on me, dude.
Speaker 1You just broke our camera.
Speaker 6Is it still shooting?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 6Did you really break the camera, or? Yeah, see, this is what they're gonna.
Speaker 1This is how it's frozen.
Speaker 6Now right here what happened right here? No, it can be fixed right we'll see, I'll get it going.
Speaker 1I'll get it going.
Speaker 6May have to change the camera angle if not, we can always just pick up the phone and the tripod and finish it out and edit together, right oh.
Speaker 1I'll get it.
Speaker 6I'm sorry.
Speaker 1I'll get it, don't be mad at me.
Speaker 6That's why I don't buy nice. That's why I don't buy nice. It's not your fault, you didn't do anything.
Speaker 1That's why just use my damn phone and the iPod, because, like every time, I'm like bruh it's just going to be a little different camera setup.
Speaker 4That's all We'll go a little closer.
Speaker 1The podcast is still going. Yes, hide it, hide it all. Nothing happened here. Nothing happened.
Speaker 6I guess I probably should check my phone too while we're taking a break. The camera went down. What did you do?
Speaker 4Casey took it down.
Speaker 1Let's see what we can do. Take it down. Take it down. Let's see, let's man. I wish I could play something for people that was like here. Let me, let me see if I can do this, if this will fix it.
Speaker 7Oh wait.
Speaker 6I have 87 auditions in my in-law. What 87? No, no, no, I get a lot of auditions, holy mackerel, I'm sorry, I stopped submitting because I have an average of about 10 a week without me asking to be submitted. But no, I have mentees that are sending me auditions.
Speaker 5And it's like I want to be a supportive person.
Speaker 4But at the same time.
Speaker 6It's really hard, yeah, because I don't have any time even for my family right now, and how do you pick? One. You know what I mean and you don't want to be like, hey, I don't have time for you, but it's a real thing. Oh man, you know what I mean. That's why I'm trying to get you hooked up with the right acting coach or whatever, because I can't always be there for you, yeah, damn.
Speaker 6But then I feel bad because you know my heart, shane, and that's another reason why I have to step away from these events, because people come to count on me so much and then it affects my mental health if I can't be there for them because you want to be right but you're stretched too thin. I feel like a jerk, and then so for me, the solution is to not make myself as available to people right now, in this moment because, I don't.
Speaker 1I want to only be an encouraging and inspiring man sure, but you also want to only be an encouraging and inspiring mentor Sure, but you also want to put out the best product possible. You can't do that stretch so thin?
Speaker 4No.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6Exactly, yeah, exactly. And so it's like I had a kid the other day. He was like well, how do you do this? And I was like, oh my gosh, you really just need to take a producing class. Dude Like you're literally asking me to walk you through the things that I volunteered 20 years of my life to learn. And I don't want to be rude to people, but the reality is I've lost my fucking ass bro.
Speaker 1Well, it's like, don't try to take a shortcut, it's not going to work. Don't try to take a shortcut, yeah, it's not going to work. Like it only works in like a minutia of the top percent, that like all of a sudden they have stardom and it was kind of accidental in a way.
Speaker 6And very rare.
Speaker 1Right, it's rare, so there's not a shortcut you have to put in the work.
Speaker 6No, you definitely have to do the work. And it's like, and I will go ahead and are we live right now? Still, I would love old man, before I go into this inspirational story, would you mind cracking this cider, cracking my 2.0% cider?
Speaker 6I had to check in and make sure that no one needed me. It's supposed to be my day off, but as a producer, you never really have a day off. I had to check in and make sure that no one needed me as far as it's supposed to be my day off, but as a producer, you never really have a day off, because anything could happen. Who just text? Speaking of someone? Who's texting the person I was actually getting ready to tell you guys a story about? I think name dropping is so tacky. Texting, uh, the person that I was actually getting ready to tell you guys a story about. Um, I'm I. I think name dropping is so tacky. Um, I want to oh yeah, I want to share stories of the people that I love that are doing amazing things, but I want to do it because they're doing amazing things, not because I need to attach myself to their celebrity, if that makes sense, and I think everyone that approaches this entertainment industry needs to come into this with that train of thought too. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5Oh man, oh, you cracked it, I cracked it girl.
Speaker 1Cracked it.
Speaker 5What Celebrity?
Speaker 6You don't want to say names, but Very rarely some people will get that one lucky break sure but it is very few and far between that is rare, rare, rare.
Speaker 6That's like rarer than in a football player making it to college and then the nfl, absolutely absolutely you have to put the work in absolutely, and a lot of people will tell me and I don't take this credit yet, but a lot of people will tell me you're in the top 1%, aaron. No one has been able to raise funds for a film and we'll see. I got to get to the finish line. It could still not happen. You know what I mean, and you never want to over-promise in this industry. Something that's very important is under promise over deliver, sure, always, because otherwise you look like a joke, you know, and that's a big problem. But an example of someone who I know personally, who is very close to my heart um, you know he was in hollywood. He was working in hollywood for a long time. He was one, one of those guys that literally had 18 abs, guys Like a Greek Adonis, you know.
Speaker 5I would like to meet that person.
Speaker 6That's how he felt that he needed to look like, because that was the standard that was being set during that time in our industry. Like looks did matter then, and they still do to a degree, but I think we're making some improvement and that makes me very happy. Yeah, yes, yes, guys, don't have it as difficult as women.
Speaker 1No way, like I mean, shane, like you know what they'll do.
Speaker 6They'll cast you with a 30-year-old wife and we're like lies, Because this makes sense.
Speaker 1Because that's what this guy can pull.
Speaker 6You know, and no doubt I'm proud of Everything you're accomplishing.
Speaker 4But also, no doubt.
Speaker 6That women in this industry Do have a more difficult time and there's a lot more expected From our appearance. But even in Hollywood, men get this body, body dysmorphia. Yeah, okay, to the point to where not only was he taking acting classes, but it was like my gosh bro, like you. Couldn't be more perfect. He was up for superman against um what was henry, yeah, against henry.
Speaker 6What screen test after screen. This is what happens in hollywood after you go on these multiple against Henry. Screen test after screen this is what happens in Hollywood After you go on these multiple auditions. Finally, you start getting screen test after screen test after screen test. So the way that things happen here in Oklahoma are not actually the way things happen in the real entertainment world out there, where things are going on. And he went through multiple screen tests and it was down to those two Wow and he had been Is Henry and he had been fighting for
Speaker 6roles. He'd been on multiple, you know he'd been on NCIS. He'd been on multiple different TV shows. You know doing what we're doing, shane, which is like taking those co-star roles, taking those you know, guest star roles, or those major supportings, minor supportings or whatever, and not anymore. But whenever he found out that they chose Henry, like, it literally devastated him and all he could think is like was I not hot enough? Was I not? There was such this like image in his head that hollywood made him feel that he had to have, and it was such a lie.
Speaker 6it was such a lie you know, so what happens two weeks later is that he gets called in to do a screen test for a pilot for a completely new type of TV show, something that's never been done before. And I call them my godfather. They're my film family and so I just call them that because, again, the name dropping thing to me is gross. But my godfather was like, look, you have a chance to go to this table read with these people. And they were like it's a comedy. And they're like go to this table read.
Speaker 6It's a CW show, let it be your last thing. And if you don't want to do it anymore, it's okay. It's okay, you've done a great job. Like you've done all of these things. My godfather told my godbrother, if you don't get a role within a year, I don't want you doing this, and that's coming from a father who's been a producer in the business. My godfather is the one that made Reese's Pieces on ET when Eminem declined. My godfather is the one that went to Reese's and made sure that Reese's was in ET, and so they actually have him to thank.
Speaker 1That's awesome.
Speaker 6That's why I love that candy and plus Reese's pieces are the bomb.
Speaker 5That's right. I love Reese's pieces, oh I love them.
Speaker 6So, you know, he was kind of going through and he's like, okay, fine, I'll go to this screen test. And the screen test went well. He decided to go ahead and go meet up, I guess, with the actors in the table read and what happened is is that he got cast as the lead role of rafael and jane the virgin, which is a telenovela that was on cw. Yeah, they ended up winning multiple emmys for that. He's justin baldoni and he was raf.
Speaker 6That's awesome, and he was literally at his end and didn't want to do it anymore. And finally, god, as he believes as well as I do, even though he's Baha'i. It's different than Christianity.
Speaker 6But, at the end of the day, we both believe in the same thing, which is like kindness and building each other up and like doing good, you know. And he didn't know how that show was going to end up turning out and everyone called him an overnight sensation. No, no, he hit the grind. For years We've been there working and watching him and watching him struggle and deal with this body dysmorphia and this idea that he had to go to the gym four times a day, not eat any more than 10 carbs a day. All of this stuff and, at the end of the day, the role that made him was the role that was real. I mean, he was still gorgeous and had the abs and everything like that, but that's not what was required for the role. That TV show ended up lasting five years and had many.
Speaker 6Emmy nominations and, as a result of that, he's gone on and used his wealth and his, his celebrity, to write books for young men who are dealing with being men without men, as parents, as fathers yeah, you know, kids that don't have fathers can read these books and really just understand, like you know. And and also toxic masculinity, like and I don't mean fathers can read these books and really just understand, like you know. And and also toxic masculinity, like and I don't mean it's okay to be masculine and I think that's gonna be like, oh, you're so woke because you're like a masculine toxicity. We don't mean that. I love a man.
Speaker 2Man, yeah, dude, I want you to take out my trash like you know all the things that you're supposed to do, I don't have to.
TikTok Bachelor Nominees and Rejections
Speaker 6Yeah, but it's the other stuff is toxic in this belief that you have to have this certain whatever. And so he's gone on to use a celebrity to build up children without parents and things like that. And he actually just finished wrapping up a film with Blake Lively opposite. Blake Lively is the lead and now he is executive producer of Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut.
Speaker 2Woo. Look at him, snaps her.
Speaker 6And I only share that story because there are so many people that are like, oh, I want to give up, or, oh, it's not going to happen for me. You know what? If you do the work, if you believe in yourself but you have to do the work, you can't just expect it to be put upon. You Pray for those things, great, but you still have to do the work. In this idea that we can just it should just happen.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's not a reality. I deserve it. Yeah, and you probably like do, but still you, still, you gotta most of the people that think that way probably don't.
Speaker 6I mean honestly and I just I just want to share with the world that that you know like, and what he's done, the things that he's done with his wealth, is that amazing. He's now gotten a 175 million dollar investment from steve starowitz, who he's now funding films that inspire social change and, honestly, just talking about spirituality and like letting people know it's okay to talk about these things that are real life. Yeah, like we need to talk about these things, guys, like seriously. Yeah, you know what I mean, because that's the only way we're going to get through this shit. You just heard Aaron cuss. Oh my God, that's the only way, guys, we are caca Breaking Aaron one minute at a time.
Speaker 2Snap, snap, snap.
Speaker 6That's the only way we're going to get through this crap together.
Speaker 2Caca is fucking caca Hell yeah, I, I'm so glad that you edited shit. Yeah, well, I mean it cuts all the time.
Speaker 6It's true, like you know, but it won't so.
Speaker 1Not to get Super personal but, this is a lead way into our Next segment. Did I say that wrong?
Speaker 6Do you have a guess? For the next segment Is How's the love life?
Speaker 1Are you single? Are you taken? Is it Facebook? It's complicated.
Speaker 5Is it bullshit like mine? Come on, maybe one of them.
Speaker 6I know this is kind of a sensitive subject for a lot of people. I am legally married, but I made the choice and I gave this person this conversation. Um, you either got to be ready to be all in or you got to be ready to be all out, yeah, and so all the secrets got to come out. If there's anything now that we need to know about, we're gonna deal with it now. You know what I mean. And if you don't want to go through that with me, then you're going to be all out. Yes, you've either got to be all in as a partner or all out. Yes, Okay.
Speaker 6So when I'm walking that red carpet, the decision has been made that I'm going to walk that red carpet alone Got it. It's my family's choice. I don't want my family's history and everything to be brought up as a result of my success, and if there's something that they don't want to be opened up about themselves, that they've battled or gone through, I don't want to put them on display as a result of my success.
Speaker 1Sure, I don't want to put them on display as a result of my success?
Speaker 5Sure. Well, we have curated a group of.
Speaker 1I'll go on the red carpet.
Speaker 5If you want, I would go with you.
Speaker 1Single men that are looking for suitors Shut up Get out Whatever. She would.
Speaker 2TikTok bachelor.
Speaker 6No, no, no, let's look, let's look, get out Whatever she would. Tiktok bachelor.
Speaker 5No, no, no, let's look, let's look. All right, so our options are open.
Speaker 6We love TikTok, bachelor, that's funny that you asked that, Shane, because a lot of people don't know or don't understand. But marriage is a weird, difficult thing.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's work.
Speaker 6And then being in this industry is a weird, different thing, for sure. But let's look at the Bachelors, because I know a lot of women, myself included.
Speaker 2Good morning Julia. Oh Julia, my fucking coochie looks hanging out.
Speaker 1She's got a big beaver.
Speaker 2She's got a big beaver.
Speaker 1Julia. Yeah, so here we go, let's pull up our bachelors. Hello, I'm dr john and lott red.
Speaker 7I'm the founder of secrets of speed hitting. I will tell you about blacklist and 18 systems, but people think I'm lying. Wow, I don't have blacklist and 18 systems, but I I do. No, oh, you do. We might teach you how to do something like that, which is four hits. Why should you listen to me? I don't know. I told you how good I am.
Speaker 3Okay, this will now put dynamite into your pipe. Dynamite Nice.
Speaker 2He is discombobulated.
Speaker 4Kind dumb fuck.
Speaker 2Thank you very much. This is John Modret, 10th degree black belt from the backwoods of Oregon Backwoods. Wait, was this on a dating site? Is?
Speaker 6that why you brought it up. Yeah, this is TikTok.
Speaker 1This is TikTok bachelors.
Speaker 6Okay, because you said bachelors. So I was like are we watching dating videos? And I was like embarrassing.
Speaker 2Videos. That should be dating videos.
Speaker 5He's trying to find you a real good one trying to find taylor a real good man and we were looking for
Speaker 6you, yes, anybody, and you anybody so hey guys, I don't need anyone else in my inbox, I'm just saying like I don't know why you guys think we want to look at your dicks, but we don't phallic photos or something, and I really said that out loud as a, as a, as yeah I'm not really looking for anyone, but it's unreal. How many people will come in my inbox thinking that I am really interested.
Speaker 1Can you imagine what that guy can protect you from?
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 6Ninja dragon yeah, but that dude was better off with a dick pic.
Speaker 1You see that? You see what I'm saying. That was 48 hits right there, 48. 48.
Speaker 6All right, let's see who's next.
Speaker 2All right, bachelor number two yes, don't do this warning don don't do this Warning don't do it, oh Jesus.
Speaker 1This is especially for Aaron.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2Oh what? No, that's what I want to do to the devil, yeah. Yeah. That's what I want to do to the devil. Yeah In the name of Jesus. I feel like Jesus would want you to not have a half shirt on.
Speaker 1Okay, let's see.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 5That's your shirt.
Speaker 6These are the moments I question God and my faith, because I'm like. God, why would you make this person live an entire life on this planet?
Speaker 1That's a grown man in that seat.
Speaker 4I'm so sorry, jesus, I know he's a son of yours.
Speaker 6Lord, have mercy.
Speaker 1You're never going to be able to watch a Spider-Man movie again without seeing that guy.
Speaker 2I really appreciated his really quick spin move.
Speaker 6I used to be really turned on by Spidey sense and now my Spidey sense has shriveled up. Where's the Jameson guys?
Speaker 2That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1I got a Spidey tingling in my arachnid. That's what I got a Spidey tingling in my arachnid. That's what I got.
Speaker 6And your kegels.
Speaker 2Yeah, with your kegel machine With my kegel device.
Speaker 7All right here we go oh my God, Martial arts. Oh, another martial arts. I would like to show you something that's a little different a little more arcane. I will be extending an invisible energy field that we call the key through their body, through their central nervous system, causing them to lose power and, for a moment, not to be able to recover. If you hit someone hard enough with key, which I will- Wait, key Wait, that's wireless charging right.
Speaker 6Key is like K-E-Y. I don't know.
Speaker 7You can stop the heartbeat? What?
Speaker 6he really means is cheat. He can't even say the word appropriately. That's what we're trying to get at guys.
Speaker 7He's a kid A full roundhouse kick and not flinch, it's cheating.
Speaker 1Oh, these guys he's going to do this against are guys that can take on a full roundhouse kick and not even flinch Uh-uh. Okay, the guys he's doing this to, no flinching Real world badass.
Speaker 6Uh-uh, shut the front door.
Speaker 4No watch.
Speaker 6I don't believe it, watch this.
Speaker 7Lies, I have to wave energy out of my body to disable them. Okay, come at me.
Speaker 6He needs to visit my trauma teacher One more time, one more time.
Speaker 7Come at me, come Say For a moment a wave of energy sweeps through their body.
Speaker 1I know I felt it. They don't know where they are. Does he have shoulder pads on under his gi?
Speaker 7At that moment, of course.
Speaker 1Seth, I felt it.
Speaker 7Dislocate them all.
Speaker 1Dislocate. Yeah, oh boy, wow Wow.
Speaker 5I didn't know Richard Simmons had a son either.
Speaker 1That's a good point he must have. He probably got money. That's why I'm sweating to the oldies. I'll never meet anyone like that. This is kind of a twofer.
Speaker 4Okay, either this guy or oh yeah, I can't move my feet.
Speaker 2I can't move my feet. Oh my God.
Speaker 6This is proof that crack is different in different parts of the world, crack is whack.
Speaker 1Truly truly is.
Speaker 6Or speed of any kind Dude? Could you do that without passing out?
Speaker 5No. I can't who I'm dead.
Speaker 1I'm dead. Who'd you like out?
Speaker 2of that group. Who's your?
Speaker 1pick. That's it this week.
Speaker 5Wait where's Winky man?
Speaker 1Winky man. He needs a break. Taylor has rejected him. He feels awful.
Speaker 2It's been a month since we've seen Winky man and I'm a little disappointed.
Speaker 6I'm really offended that I don't get an option at Winky man Because I don't like having a physical attraction towards Richard Simmons. I don't personally like smoking, methamphetamines or crack.
Speaker 1You have to blame it on your competition. She didn't pick Winky man in like a season and a half.
Speaker 2I think we've always picked Winky man.
Speaker 5No, she hasn't, I love.
Speaker 6Winky man Shut up. I think we've always picked Winky man, no she hasn't?
Speaker 2I love Winky man, shut up I haven't been involved. Show me Winky man, yeah, winky man, winky.
Speaker 4Man.
Speaker 2Winky.
Speaker 1Man.
Speaker 4It's not that hard to find. It's hard to find them. We'll have to wait.
Speaker 1I doubt that. But what I want to play for you now is this goodness, don't worry, we got you. The doo-doo tent is here for you. You can shit in the desert. Your backyard barbecues funerals family reunions.
Speaker 7You just take that seat, put it together and put that toilet thing on it and you sit down and you let that love go, let that love go.
Speaker 4Let that love go.
Speaker 7You got to take a shit in a hurry.
Speaker 1Don't worry, we got shit in a hurry. Doodoo tent, doodoo tent, the doodoo tent.
Speaker 6Did you ever get the camera working again?
Speaker 1Yeah, it's working. I'm checking my frame?
Speaker 6I'm not even in frame.
Speaker 1No, not in frame.
Speaker 6What kind of DP?
Speaker 5are you?
Speaker 1You have a camera on the wall, so. So we did talk about going to the gym, right? I want to know if you guys get mad at seeing those fitness couples doing shit. You know, showing off Don't make me feel bad, right, but anyway.
Speaker 6No, there's a reason why I don't have a gym membership any longer. Like seriously.
Speaker 1Maybe this is why, because people are gross, I don't care.
Speaker 2There is an equal and opposite reaction.
Speaker 6For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Okay, Tell me you didn't like that, please.
Speaker 1Somebody, I don't know, somebody might have Somebody. You like goats? She's taking her drink.
Speaker 6She's like nah, I'm over it. We just talked about goats and the guy just had pure art delivered right smack dab in his freaking face. That's right, pure art.
Speaker 2Pure art. That's how I want you to describe it on your Tinder.
Speaker 1Well, this is.
Speaker 2I possess pure art Below the waist, I possess pure art.
Speaker 1This is our last segment here.
Speaker 4Okay, and.
Speaker 1I have to do it because I have to stay on brand with the podcast Heard. Okay, all right, let me get it going here. And here we go. That was beautiful brand with the podcast. Okay, let me get it going here.
Speaker 4Here we go. That was beautiful, that was beautiful.
Speaker 6That was beautiful. Wow, there really are that many weirdos in the world, bro, she fell down.
Speaker 2It's shit, it's shit. Oh no, Sorry. Do you want to hold it for a second? Ah, oh, oh, oh oh.
Speaker 4Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh don't go.
Speaker 2Oh, the leg kick was a good one oh, there's, a turn. I don't like that is that yours no, is that yours?
Speaker 5He's fucking in the mirror. He's like I'm out. Oh my gosh, they're like get me out.
Speaker 2Run Dinner with Jesus? Well, that doesn't seem right.
Speaker 5Hey Zeus, you and your farts.
Speaker 1I gotta stay on brand, people Gotta stay on brand.
Speaker 6I get the brand, but you invite the one guest and never freaking has gas, that's so weird.
Speaker 1It's okay when you do.
Speaker 6No and it's okay. It is so weird I'm trying to like it's okay when you do no and it's okay. It is okay, guys, it's okay if you don't it's okay that you're not perfect like me, it's okay I wonder yeah, like what happened.
Speaker 2What happened for who?
Speaker 5I don't know, how did that work.
Speaker 6As Dr Shane Hargis explained earlier, I'm always expelling gas, whether you can smell it or hear it or not. Most of the time it's probably coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 5Coming out of your eyeballs ears. That's like Courtney, right Courtney doesn't fart.
Speaker 2I love her.
Speaker 5Courtney doesn't fart. Courtney, also our sister-in-law, she also doesn't fart, gertie I love her.
Speaker 2Courtney doesn't fart, so it just sleeps out of her. Courtney doesn't fart. Courtney also our sister-in-law, she also doesn't sweat what you don't either. I think that's a medical issue. No, no, Courtney doesn't I know, but do you?
Love Story and Guilty Pleasures
Speaker 6Do you sweat? Well, no, I do, and it's weird because I'm always cold, so, like I'm freezing, I'm shaking, and then I got this sweaty armpit stuff going on.
Speaker 2I'm like what is happening. She doesn't sweat and she doesn't stink. I sweat. I am told that I don't smell. Even after day four, I've been told that I have a very aromatic See. It sounds like there's a condition that you have Some people that don't fart, don't.
Speaker 6They don't fart and they don't stink it.
Speaker 1They don't fart and they don't stink.
Speaker 2It's called perfection and it's okay. Oh, okay, I don't have the kids, I am not burdened with that. It's called perfection.
Speaker 6Real talk. I actually don't have a sense of smell and it's not from COVID. I've never had a sense of smell. That's lucky. No, it's funny because my partner that's been with me most of my life, like he has an impeccable like nostril and like I can't see and I can't smell, but I can hear, like three miles away. Wow, so you got, so like when we are are like on good old couple terms you know what I? Mean he's like do you smell that? And I'm like what?
Speaker 5I can't hear you and you're like. I can hear the birds three miles away.
Speaker 2Yes so does that affect your taste?
Speaker 6So I'm actually a second level sommelier. That's why.
Speaker 5So when.
Speaker 6I managed restaurants. I was doing fine dining.
Speaker 2So how do you know the notes of a wine without smells?
Speaker 6It's very odd, because I don't get a floral note from the nose. Everything on my tongue, though, is above and beyond. Do you have like a Jacobson's organ?
Speaker 2I think it's true. No, I think it's true, so I had on my tongue, though is above and beyond.
Speaker 6Do you have like a Jacobson's organ, Like snakes? No, I think it's true. So I had an amputee kitty. She passed away this past year sadly, but what I noticed is from her not having certain abilities in other areas.
Speaker 2the other things Super enhanced, yeah.
Speaker 6Super enhanced and so that's so.
Speaker 5Your tongue is like what did you say?
Speaker 2Super potent.
Speaker 6I can taste everything Very well With my tongue. I can tell you which wood, if it's oak, if it's cedar, if it's whatever that it's been aged in.
Speaker 1You're like a snake.
Speaker 2She rubbed your feet, you rubbed my feet.
Speaker 5You taste everything. I'm very turned on right now. You can hold my hair. This has been a.
Speaker 2You can hold my hair. Oh my God, guys, it's a love story. What is your? I need to go home, these lesbians. I need to go home, okaybians.
Speaker 1I need to go home. Okay, here's. Here's how we're gonna end the podcast right there, just cut it, we're done. No no, no, no, there's no man that talks like that there is one question we have not asked Erin yet whenever your partner is very lucky, I will say that. Here's how we are going to end the podcast, and then we're going to tell you what this means, maybe after the podcast ends Hopefully, if I can time it just right.
Speaker 6Comedy is timing everything.
Speaker 1No, I'm not.
Speaker 6He never is. This Comedy is timing, everything no.
Speaker 1I'm not, he never is Okay. What is your favorite flavor?
Speaker 2Lord help me.
Speaker 1What's your favorite flavor, if you can think of any food, whether it's a guilty pleasure.
Speaker 6No, I'm going to just be completely honest. The first thing that came to mind was doggy style. Guilty pleasure no, I'm going to just be completely honest. The first thing that came to mind was doggy style. The accuracy yeah, I'm a Christian that still has sex with my person that I meant to F*** me. F*** my face.
Speaker 1Not where I was going, flavor.
Speaker 2I like going Flavor.
Speaker 4I like it. You're all I need.
Speaker 1And you know what? We are going to end it there. No, we're going to end it there because it's going to be a lot.
Speaker 6Butter pecan, Butter pecan. Hey, thanks for having me guys. I really appreciate you. It's been a blast.
Speaker 4Thank you so much, bye, bye, we're going to go pray now. It's all right, we're gonna go pray now. It's alright.
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