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Season 5 Premiere: Leesa Neidel and the Firehouse Buffet

Shane Harges Season 5 Episode 1

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What happens when a second-grade teacher decides at age 37 to completely reinvent herself as an actress? SAG performer Leesa Neidel takes us behind the curtain of her remarkable journey from Oklahoma classrooms to Hollywood film sets, sharing scenes with Matt Damon and navigating the unpredictable waters of the entertainment industry.

Leesa's candid reflections on becoming an acting instructor at The Actor Factory reveal how the skills learned in acting classes transcend performance—helping people from all walks of life overcome social anxiety and build professional confidence. "I've had lots of people take acting classes just to get better at talking to people at work," she explains, highlighting how the weekly practice transforms even the shyest students.

The conversation takes an honest turn as Leesa and podcast host Shane Harges discuss the emotional reality of being working actors—the intense preparation for auditions that often disappear into the void without feedback, the months between projects, and the strategies for staying creatively fulfilled during downtime. Their shared experiences offer a realistic glimpse into the industry rarely portrayed in glamorous Hollywood narratives.

Throughout the episode, Leesa's philosophy shines through: "If you're going to do something, go all in. Don't half-ass it, full-ass it." This mantra has guided her from her first Google search for "acting classes in Oklahoma" to upcoming film premieres and working alongside A-list talent. Her story powerfully illustrates that creative pursuits have no age limit—the perfect time to start is always now.

Between insights on actor preparation, filmmaking economics, and behind-the-scenes stories from various sets, this conversation delivers both practical wisdom for aspiring performers and inspiration for anyone considering a major life pivot. Subscribe now for more candid conversations with creative professionals who are forging unique paths in entertainment and beyond.

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Speaker 1

Hey, you know it's time to get it started. Let me introduce you all to Shane Hargis. Ok, see, yeah, we got a rep. Sit back. I know that you're going to have a good laugh, bringing you the comedy that you really need. Keep it entertaining, you better believe. So let's get it popping. No more talk. Going to make us laugh until we fart? Ok, that's who we want. Going to make us laugh until we? Okay, woo, hey.

Speaker 3

Way down, two, pound it out. He misses. And I shout Way down, two pound it out. He misses. And I shout my butthole has become a ring of fire. We went to pound town and he shouldn't be higher. I say ow, ow, ow To the anal fire. That ring of fire he tried. Now it's my turn To make his booty burn. Strap on my little friend for fun and down he bends.

Speaker 2

His butthole has become a ring of fire.

Speaker 3

He said I could do it too, and I won't make him a liar. It's my turn turn turn, turns out he's a crier.

Speaker 4

Here we are. Everybody hear us, yes, everybody good, yes, that was a good first song, even though we lost audio right at the end. But uh, that's weird. Hopefully it doesn't happen again, but I can't guarantee it hopefully we're recording, oh recording, recording, we are, we are recording. Has that happened before? Yeah, oh, we, oh, we had one of the funniest episodes it's gone forever and I did a a scene reading.

Speaker 4

I found an old movie, turned it outsides, had it marked for everybody. We went through this entire scene. It was from the movie Airplane and it was so damn funny.

Speaker 6

I'm trying to remember a funny scene from that movie, the whole movie.

Speaker 4

I think we did a couple of them.

Speaker 6

Hang on the airplane with Denzel Washington.

Speaker 4

No, no, leslie.

Speaker 6

Nielsen.

Speaker 3

Leslie Nielsen comedy.

Speaker 6

I was like what?

Speaker 4

That was not a serious movie not a serious, okay, yeah, like uh, the older white lady that speaks jive. Oh, it was. That episode was incredible and gone. It only got audio from our videos. It did not pick up the mic's audio and I didn't record on my roadcaster, I just totally forgot to. That would have got the audio for sure, and then I could put it both together. No, screwed it up, no, but our guest on the season five premiere is none other than lisa nidel hello.

Speaker 4

Yes, she is a sag actress uh known for like still water 13 seconds minutes, but hey 13 minutes we only had 13 seconds to get that would be bad safe from a tornado. That would be bad, that would not be good. Yeah, 13 minutes and you have some stuff coming out this year.

Speaker 6

Yeah, I'll actually be in LA this coming Friday, saturday and Sunday for a big premiere and a movie I did about a year and a half ago called the Comic Shop, with Jesse Metcalf and Tristan Mays. Made it into the beverly hills film fest and the director reached out and said he had a ticket for me, so to come on out, and that we had like the best spot you know in the whole film festival like the best time, the best theater. He's like he wanted the whole cast to be able to come. So, yeah, I'll be going out there for that. So that's coming out and it'll be streaming somewhere, I don't know, maybe amazon prime um, starting april 11th nice so that's awesome.

Speaker 3

I'm excited. I can't wait to see. I haven't seen it yet. That'll be fun, what's?

Speaker 6

that about it is about. So I have this son in it. He's the main character and we have to move around a lot because, uh, we're a military family and we moved to this new city and he's had this big dream forever to be a comic book illustrator, to become an illustrator. Well, I take him to the local comic book store and jesse metcalf is the owner of that and it's the whole story of his store is a mom paul and it's been around forever. And then the new big fancy one comes in down the street. So it's a save the mom paul slash. He mentors the kiddo that plays my son and has a. It's just a good family, friendly, like it's almost kind of like the movie Dodgeball.

Speaker 4

Is it Globo Gym that comes in? That's the big gym that comes in with what's his face.

Speaker 5

Vince Vaughn.

Speaker 4

No, he's on the Ben.

Speaker 3

Stiller.

Speaker 5

Ben Stiller yes, globo Gym yeah, and they take over.

Speaker 4

Yeah, well, that'll be fun.

Speaker 6

Yeah, but in the end of the day he gets his dream, he gets to start, you know, going after the comic book illustrating stuff, and the little mom-pa comic book store makes it Aw, it has a good, a happy ending, and then I think the One comes out later this year Is that what Aaron might have said?

Inside the Actor Factory Classes

Speaker 6

That's what they're shooting, they're shooting for obviously Christmas time because it was a Christmas movie that we just filmed. I filmed that in back in December and then a couple of days in January or a couple of days in December and a day in January Got that finished up and a day in January got that finished up and they're hoping, yes, to have that finished up and put out and released around Christmas of this year. So I hope that happens. That'd be a quick turnaround?

Speaker 4

Yeah, it is. I think that's what she was shooting for. I think they are.

Speaker 3

I think you're correct.

Speaker 4

Yeah, and that filmed here in Oklahoma. Martin Sheen is in it. Filmed in Enid. Maybe someone else Guthrie?

Speaker 6

Lisa Arnold was the director. She was amazing. Erin obviously crushed it with the script. She was a producer and the writer. She was so much fun to work with all of it Everyone involved. It was a great script. Another very feel good movie, yeah.

Speaker 4

Yeah, we got. We got a little information on that when Aaron was on the podcast. So that was that was cool to hear her story about that. What else? Oh, you're an instructor at the Actor Factory.

Speaker 6

Yes, I teach lots of classes at the Actor Factory. We'll start new sessions. Actually this tomorrow and Tuesday, a whole brand new session starts. Shane, you were in there. What do we do?

Speaker 5

I was.

Speaker 6

What happens in there? What happens?

Speaker 4

in there. Well, we start by playing Duck Duck Goose.

Speaker 3

All on a nice little rug.

Speaker 4

She's like okay, kids come sit on the rug. We play Duck Duck Goose. I think we made some cool pen and pencil holders out of old Campbell suit cans.

Speaker 6

I wish I had not asked him.

Speaker 4

Yeah, you shouldn't have. And then we end it the last day doing macaroni art.

Speaker 5

Ooh, that's my favorite, which is real, really fun. Try not to eat it all, but no, I don't know, I may incorporate.

Speaker 6

You're inspiring. You may all do some of that stuff in the next session. There you go.

Speaker 4

You know, just break the ice. That's what they were. No, we do some cold reads and then Lisa will give us some redirects on the spot on how quick you can. You might have made a decision on your character right before the cold read and then Lisa will come back and it'll be something Probably totally opposite of what you decided to do. So you have to try to shift on the fly into that next character or whatever you want to call it, and we do that. Scenes yeah. So we do that, yeah, scenes.

Speaker 6

Yeah, get to do partner scenes and start filling. You know what it is to work with somebody who has their own ideas and their own choices, and you've got to mesh them together and flesh the scene out. And we do background stories. Know how important that is, because if you're going to step into somebody's shoes and live their life in this moment that you're, you know, recording on tape or recording for an audition, or you know, hopefully, a scene in an actual movie on set, then you got to know this person inside and out. So that's what those backstories are vital. So we do that monologues.

Speaker 4

Um, like lisa has uh said many times in her classes, have at least one monologue in your back pocket if you need it, and two so that, uh, you have something to contrast and compare. Yep, uh, maybe drama, and then maybe the other one's comedy or you know whatever, but uh just to show your array of skills.

Speaker 5

Right, this isn't really for shy people.

Speaker 4

No, Well, I mean, I think there are there are though.

Speaker 6

There are though you, you can. They think it's not for them, but really it is, because I've even had lots of people actually not even just a few, but I've been teaching up there for three and a half years now and I've had lots of people just take an acting class. They're like I just want to get better at talking to people and at work, I just got this promotion and I have to start presenting two people. And, you know, at work, I just got this promotion and I have to start presenting, and they're like I literally, you know, need to learn how to even be able to be up in front of people. And so it's amazing, the practice week after week, how much more comfortable people get. I love watching them, you know, settle into their own skin and be like I can do this. I've made it into this big hard thing and it's not.

Speaker 6

So we take baby steps, because I teach a really beginner class and that's my Sunday class. It's acting technique and we take baby steps. We start from the absolute bottom. Like you know, people that have never heard, you know the verbiage that goes with the industry, like sides and slate and stuff like that. We start from the very bottom. So it's a good jumping off place if you're interested or if you're in there to just get to be a better, more comfortable person in front of other people. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4

So I've been in classes with people that you tell were were very brand new to acting and had that kind of. I don't really want to fully open up in front of people or in front of the camera and you actually get to see how much they grow out of that through the six, eight weeks, however long the class is.

Speaker 6

It's pretty cool.

Speaker 4

I've told Lisa that I even learned from the other actors in the room.

Speaker 6

Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 4

Because each person is going to have a different perspective on how they approach that character or that role that they're put in. Yeah, so I may do it one way. And then someone else jumps up later and they're reading the same thing. I'm like, oh, I didn't even think of that. Why didn't I think of it? Yeah, but it's like, okay, I see where you went with it and just kind of you kind of learn from each other and in class.

Speaker 4

So you're not only getting information from the instructor but from other creatives in the room.

Speaker 6

You absolutely do, because I took classes at the actor factory for 10 years. I've been up there a long time and I'm telling you I always loved when I was kind of like the greenest one in the room because I would learn the most in that class. I loved whenever everybody else was just on like level 10 and I was still down in level three or four, you know, and Chris and Daryl and some of the folk Daryl, you know he doesn't teach up there anymore, but he did for years and Chris for sure, he'd always be like don't ever be the best one in class. What are you going to gain from that? Really, try to always be in a class where you're like okay, that's where I want to be.

Speaker 6

You know, and it's true, what Shane just said is I learned so much from the other actors in those classes over all those years and I mean they would, they in those classes over all those years, and I mean they would, they would make a choice and I'm not kidding you, I would have an audition, even a year later, two years later, and be like I'm going to dip into that what I saw that one actor do in class that time and kind of apply it to this character and it does. It just grows you as an actress or actor for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 4

So I recently auditioned for a feature film and probably and it it was my second in-person audition, because the industry has moved to self-tapes for the most part.

Speaker 4

Yeah, um, the first in-person audition I wish I could just erase away, not not because of what I did was cringe, but what the project ended up being and how the person running this project was very much taking advantage of people and taking more advantage of kids and younger talent that weren't represented yet, but they didn't have an agent.

Audition Realities and Industry Struggles

Speaker 4

And the ironic part of it is that the show, series, movie, whatever it was supposed to become was about child protective services and here's this person taking advantage of these kids with no agents. So when my agent, christina, got word what was going on with this project, she texted me and was like probably everybody that was represented by her involved in this. She was like, hey, run, run now. And I said, hey, you know more than I do, uh, and you probably got some background information on certain things. No problem, I'm Yep. And that thing went nowhere and that person running that personally, I hope, ruined their reputation, because that's not what we need in this growing industry in Oklahoma is people taking advantage of others when this industry is hot and getting ready to explode even more.

Speaker 5

Somebody always got piss in the pool.

Speaker 4

I know, I know Baby Ruth in the pool. That's what it was. It was very shitty, very shitty of her. Did you always want to get into acting?

Speaker 6

Actually, no, I never even thought it up until about 10 years ago when I got in, even thought it up until about 10 years ago when I got in. Before that, you know, I was just, I had little kids and I worked a full-time teaching job and I taught second. Well, I taught first grade for a while and then second for a while and I was just, you know, just staying. You know, never had a minute to think about anything I actually wanted to do. Well, I had stepped away from teaching and just to kind of take a breather and finish raising my kid. I was having to get rides for my kid. It was crazy. So I was like I need to just be a stay at home mom for a little bit.

Speaker 6

Well, I did end up taking a little part-time job at a place across town and I'd get there and I'd get all my work done literally within an hour. So, cause, you know, when you're a teacher, any other job is simple as can be. They thought they were giving me all this work and I was like, oh, I can have that done in no time. So I would then have a lot of time to sit. And that's when it came to me. I was like, okay, this, this job isn't gonna cut it, but I do have a little too much time on my hands because, you know, my kids were in school. So I was like, what would be fun, what would I be good at, what? What would I, you know, find interesting?

Speaker 6

And acting just kept coming and I was just telling myself like stop, you live in Oklahoma, you know, and, mind you, this was way before all this was going on. I mean, there'd be little here and there, this and and that, nothing much. And so I just Googled acting class. I couldn't get it out of my head and this was about 10, 11 years ago. And I Googled acting classes in Oklahoma and the acting factory popped right up and I took my first class and never looked back and became SAG two years later. And I actually became SAG-E eight months later, actually SAG eligible. And then I joined SAG about a year after that because I had been cast in a pilot out in Atlanta that had been been picked up by a company in LA and it got moved completely out there but you know it was a pilot situation and went, you know it didn't work out.

Speaker 6

It didn't work out, but you know it was a pilot situation and when you know it didn't work out, it didn't work out. But here I am. Now I'm a SAG member, which is fine. It's opened a lot of doors for me to be a SAG member out in this area. I know it's what landed me my Atlanta agent. Even though that's a right to work state as well, she only hires on or adds a talent to her roster that are sag, so she's a you know big up-and-coming agency out there. So I know that it's helped. But yeah, in oklahoma you do not have to join sag it since we're a right to work. Yeah, in order to get plenty of work around here, but yeah yeah, um to that audition I was talking about with me.

Speaker 4

uh, what I was going to tie in there was that audition went so well and your class helped me redo the scene two more times in a different tone and I was able to on the spot, just love that I love it.

Speaker 6

I can be so happy because, you know, I teach that in my class and we do it and we practice it. And I don't know if some people are thinking, gosh, he's, you know why are we doing that. But it happens and it's happened to me and I try to always do to you guys what I've experienced, so that you're not on the spot going, oh okay, I haven't practiced this or I haven't been given this opportunity to have this moment, so that made me so—you sent that in an email and it made my whole day because it does happen. And I'm telling you you're prepared. You're ready. They want you to be British or what.

Speaker 4

I don't. I want to get booked. That's another part of the industry I was going to talk about. I'll jump into it right now. The time between projects, the downtime, is heart-wrenching like take your own movies well, you want to.

Speaker 4

I'll get into that too, because I wish I could. Um, but the downtime has been what's hard for me. And I just had a talk, uh, with an actor buddy of mine, a, a lover, lisa Fenimore. We just had a talk for the past couple of days and, uh, just you, you, no one understands very well how much preparation goes into auditioning. Yeah, because you're, you're trying to find that character's voice, you want it to be, you coming, this is you as this mob boss or oil field worker, and and you put so much effort into preparing yourself, getting your equipment together getting getting set up, recording it, editing what you need to.

Speaker 4

There's so much work going in you throw those auditions out, you get them submitted, you don't hear nothing and that's just the business. That's fine. But it's almost like if you put out tons of applications to get, uh, a new job somewhere and you never hear anything. You never hear anything back. You only hear back generally hey, you want to confirm your booking when? Your agent contacts you other Other than that?

Speaker 5

So you don't even hear like a eh nah, f off. Generally no.

Speaker 4

Every so often I have gotten probably I've been acting now four years, maybe going on four or over four. I have maybe heard once or twice back from the production staff that, hey, we loved what you did, but you just we had to go another way, whatever.

Speaker 6

I got very rare. In 10 years I've gotten one and they email me back and they're like we just needed somebody. We wanted you, we wanted you, but I wasn't going to be local. It was in a different state and they didn't say I had to be local, but they couldn't afford the project. Just needed that specific character to be local.

Speaker 4

And then I did one audition. I won't name the project, but I really wanted it because who stars in it? I read for one part. They got back with Christina, my agent, and was like hey, freaking loved it, but we want him to read for this part. And so I prepped that, did that, submitted that, submitted that they were like that was fantastic, please have him read for this part now. I read for that part and then I think they came back one more time oh my gosh I submitted that nothing, nothing like what so?

Speaker 5

just give me the first one I auditioned for if I did so good on it.

Speaker 4

Yeah, like what? So close, just give me the first one I auditioned for if I did so good on it, like I don't know Anyway.

Speaker 6

There's no rhyme or reason. You will never figure it out. You will not. Let's just let the actor land people who want it. You will never figure it out. There's not a rhyme or reason. But during the downtime, like shane said, classes are great. Get it, jump into a class, read a book, um, just fill your life with hobbies and people and family and and live a full life. That's what you got to do, because then you have that full life to give to any of these characters. The more life you live, you know, the better off you are to step into different people.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 6

So live a full life.

Speaker 4

So I started screenwriting and have my first screenplay written. It's complete, got a pitch deck. And when you talk about make your own movies, man, I wish I could, I really do, but but to now know the money that goes behind making something that's quality not like our home movies not like the home movies.

Speaker 4

We used to do watchdog home videos and things like that, even though those might have better quality than some things I've seen. Yes, and better acting? Yeah, probably Probably, but there's so much money behind it and for special effects for the camera gear alone.

Speaker 3

Alone and the insurance.

Speaker 4

To get quality material To put out a product that you would want anybody to see. That costs some money, and then you've got to pay all the people right, yeah, yeah, some money and then you got to pay all the people, right yeah, yeah unless people are like, hey, I'll do it for imdb credit or for pizza. I I can, um, I can use the footage for a reel that I need to put together, a demo reel, which it's got to be good footage that you want on your reel.

Speaker 6

Good sound.

Speaker 4

Yeah, sound, good sound. The crew is where you want to spend the good money. Yes, that's what's not talked about. Enough is. You can talk about actors all day long. Whatever there's so many of us, they're really good crew there's not a whole lot of, and they are the most valuable piece. When you actually get on a set and you see everything the entire crew does, it is crazy they are they're working their asses off yeah, yeah how's it going?

Speaker 5

anybody watching.

Speaker 4

Can you see uh?

Speaker 2

yeah, there's people on oh, hi well, nice, I don't.

Speaker 4

I don't know how to tell how many. Uh just says you know join, join, join.

Speaker 5

What do we do?

Speaker 4

nice, your fans, bro. All right, well, that's cool. That's cool. We'll see how it goes later. We'll get the analytics later. Yeah, yeah, comment, send us some questions. Tiktok Something Join the conversation. Don't just sit there and watch from the shadows.

Speaker 6

Ask me anything, ask us stuff.

Speaker 4

Oh no. So were you born and raised here in Oklahoma, or are you an Okie? She's an Okie, I'm an.

Speaker 6

Okie Threw and threw Raised in Tuttle.

Speaker 3

America when I was in Tuttle Tuttle.

Speaker 6

Tigers, it was not big how it is now. We were little bitty Way out in the middle of nowhere. Is what it felt like 35 people maybe. I mean even in 1996 when I graduated, I only graduated with 70 people. And so now the classes are hundreds, 200-ish more. So I mean they're competing 5A and stuff. I'm like, oh my God, we were a little bitty, a, 1a I think. By the time I left we were barely 3A, barely.

Speaker 4

And now Tuttle's just huge. I graduated from mustang in 95 and I want to say we had 300 and something maybe must be was always bigger than us. I had like 500 and something in mine yeah, yeah, and it grew by then and now it's just huge, unrecognizable yeah, that's how I feel about tuttle.

Speaker 6

I go out there, my sister still lives out there and I'm like this is not where we grew up.

Speaker 5

Do they have a Chick-fil-A? I don't think so. Mustang does oh.

Speaker 6

I know she goes to Mustang a lot on that little road that opened up. Yeah, and Panda Express.

Speaker 4

Where everybody gets a speeding ticket across that bridge between Tuttle and Mustang.

Speaker 5

Yes, what is that? Highway 7?, 4?, something like that, 47?.

Speaker 6

Yeah, I don't know. You can name any number. We'd go, yeah, highway 74.

Speaker 4

Thanks, Highway Northwest.

Speaker 6

Highway 69.

Speaker 4

Of course, highway Northwest, of course.

Speaker 6

Yeah, but that's why I never really thought about acting. I mean, because I grew up in Tuttle there was no acting or anything like that. Did y'all have drama? There was drama when my older sister was in high school, but by the time I got to the high school there was no drama. I guess that teacher either retired or the funding got cut. I mean there was nothing. But my sister was in drama, my older sister for like one year, but I probably wouldn't have even got in then. And then I went to uco, became a teacher. I didn't even think about it until way I was 37 when I took my very first acting class. That's another thing I like to tell people like it's not too late. It's, it's never too late. Start now, start now yeah, please, start now.

Speaker 4

Don't be, don't be like me and wait till you're 40s yeah, because how old were you in your first acting class?

Speaker 5

Last year.

Speaker 4

Yesterday no, I would have been like 44.

Speaker 3

43, 44.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

Speaker 6

Don't wait, guys Get in.

Speaker 4

And that's who I also want to thank is Cody Mayo, cody.

Speaker 5

Mayo.

Speaker 4

He's wonderful, yes, up in Tulsa, cody Mayo. He wonderful. Up in Tulsa, um, cody Mayo studios, um great, great classes up there as well. Um, I started there first because my schedule wasn't aligning yet for anything at the actor factory and I was like I need to do something and Cody had a weekend intensive and I went there and, uh, immediately had a great connection with Cody and the other actors in the class Do they haze you yeah it was bad.

Speaker 4

It was bad. Cody gave me. Cody gave me a wedgie and a swirly, Almost at the same time.

Speaker 6

I did not hate you to act.

Speaker 5

You're the nice, I was nice.

Speaker 4

It was like hand, hand wedgie, dunk flush All at once. All at once. It was crazy.

Speaker 5

But it taught you something.

Speaker 4

And now we're buddies. Yeah, it really bonded us.

Speaker 5

Can't really haze people anymore.

Speaker 4

I've heard no, it's frowned upon. It is frowned upon Everyone's sensitive.

Speaker 4

But a lot of my I hate to say it but majority of my acting buddies are up in Tulsa Because Cody also his studio. He puts on a retreat every year and different actors aligned with his studio go to these retreats and he does more training, usually a guest speaker to kind of kick off the retreat speaker. To kind of kick off the retreat he pairs people up to do we do like our own little. It's almost like the 48 hour film contest but we have like only a few hours to get everything together and write a scene and set everything up, and that's a challenge.

Speaker 6

And then we have a little contest.

Speaker 4

at the end there's awards which.

Speaker 4

None I had one up. Yeah, the first year of the retreat, me and my scene partner won Best Scene and then Best Use of the Secret Word. So, just like 48 hour they'll have like a phrase or a word. You have to somehow creatively put it in. You know, and you don't know what genre it's in, you know it could be a comedy. Luckily ours was comedy and my scene partner very funny dude, so that was his wheelhouse as well. So we nailed it and then he won. He won again last year with some other people in a scene, so he's a two-time winner.

Speaker 6

Two-timer. That's awesome. That stuff is so fun to do. Yeah, stuff like that is so fun.

Speaker 5

You get to be creative, yeah, so Cody's great, so fun.

Speaker 4

You get to be creative yeah.

Speaker 5

So Cody's great. That would give me anxiety.

Speaker 4

So if you're in the Tulsa area, look up Cody. If your schedule doesn't fit what their class's schedule or the thing you want to take isn't there and it's at the Actor Factory go to the Actor Factory.

Speaker 5

Where's Actor Factory? Right here in Norman. Right here in Norman Is that the Actor Factory Go to the Actor Factory. Where's Actor Factory? Right here in Norman, right here in Norman.

Speaker 6

Right here in Norman and we've got the Albin Method. Another teacher teaches that the Jester Method, there's a whole array. And then Chris does a demo camp where you get real footage that you can do, and he does two or three of those a year. Yeah, it's got everything you need. If you're more in the metro area, check out the actor factory, guys. It's. It's a complete. You will become a well-rounded actor or actress can you just go and watch people um, I mean you can't.

Speaker 6

I had a guy actually do that in the last acting technique class. He paid and and came he goes. I do not have, he goes. I actually want to be a director, that's my goal. He goes. So I am just here to listen to you direct, you know give notes and you know help them get better, and I'm here to see what choices and how they tackle different scenes. He just sat and watched every week, but that doesn't happen very often, didn't?

Speaker 5

throw tomatoes? No, not that mean happen very often, most people want it.

Speaker 4

Didn't throw tomatoes.

Speaker 5

No, oh Not, that mean Not that mean People do that, not that mean, how did that even start?

Speaker 6

I would not allow it. I would not allow it. No violence, nice and sneaky. How did the tomato?

Speaker 4

throwing start yeah that's good, that's a good point.

Speaker 5

I don't know Italy or something. There's a lot of tomatoes.

Speaker 4

There's just a lot of tomatoes.

Speaker 5

Is that where they come from? A lot of pasta.

Speaker 4

They're throwing noodles at them, yeah.

Speaker 3

Slap you with a manicotti.

Speaker 5

That's how they started throwing tomatoes. How did it start somewhere?

Speaker 4

I'm sure it was there.

Speaker 5

For some reason. Why was it tomato?

Screenwriting and Film Production Challenges

Speaker 4

Probably way back in the day where all the roads were mud and dirt and Shakespeare was doing a play, or you had people doing Shakespeare and no one understood what the hell they were saying.

Speaker 3

So they were just throwing potatoes and tomatoes.

Speaker 4

No, that would hurt. What do your daughters think of your acting?

Speaker 6

Oh, my daughters, because now they're grown, I mean 10 years later. They were 10 and 12 when I got in and they're 22 and 20 now, almost 21 and 23. Um, they love it, they're proud of me, they think it's amazing. They can't believe I, they're like mom you just I can't believe you went after that and then, like you've been in a scene with Matt Damon, but they do get tired of being my reader.

Speaker 6

I get lots of, and my one that went off to OSU. She's like I'm out of the you know, off the clock on that now, on being mom's reader. So no, they're proud Because you know we're always a family. You decide to do something, go all in, don't have to do it, don't you know we're always a family.

Speaker 4

Like you decide to do something, go all in, don't have to do it, don't you know?

Speaker 6

Don't half-ass it, yeah, full-ass it, full-ass, yes. And so they're like, well, you showed us. I mean. So I was like, yeah, I'm glad I did, because I wouldn't have been sitting here telling them all these years Don't half-ass stuff. Girls, don't give up. And you know so they're. They're very proud of me, they, they're my biggest cheerleaders. They're sweet about it, they're cute. They're like mom, what are you gonna do if you have to kiss someone and it's not dad? I, luckily, I've never had to.

Speaker 6

I've never even had to come close like I think thank goodness I, I, because I do not know I, I would have to prepare myself for that. I've been married for 20, almost 26 years Been together for 28. He's a piece of ass and what's so sad is my husband's like well, enjoy it.

Speaker 2

Enjoy it.

Speaker 6

It's fine. He's very laid back and could care less. Just could not care less. But that's their thing that they're hung up on. They're like we're not going to be able to watch that. I was like I'm not going to be able to watch it either.

Speaker 3

Have you done scary movies.

Speaker 6

What have you done? Scary movies I have. I've done a couple, actually. I did one called the Shifter a long time ago. We got into CineQuest. I got into every film, film festival I think that they put it in for and then covet happened.

Speaker 6

We got to do cine quest and midway through cine quest the whole world shut down. We barely got to fly home. That was in san jose, california, and we went out there for the big that was our world premiere of it, and the, the we did get to have our world premiere and then two or three days later, the whole festival shut down and everyone had to go home.

Speaker 2

Did you get COVID?

Speaker 6

Did I get COVID? Not from that. I actually didn't get COVID until after I had my COVID shot.

Speaker 5

That's happened to me too A year and a half later that's happened to me too, yeah. I got it last year and I didn't get it before that.

Speaker 6

Yeah, when it all first happened, I didn't ever get it. And then when they, you know, I thought I was doing everything right, but it still wasn't bad, it barely affected. I didn't even know, I really didn't even know. I had it till, I just couldn't taste, yeah, and I was like oh, this isn't.

Speaker 5

I remember getting my mouth washed and was like yeah, that didn't what's going on.

Speaker 6

And then I was smelling everything, yeah, but luckily we didn't.

Speaker 5

And we were terrified because we were in california when it was brand new.

Speaker 6

It was like what the yeah, we flew like in the big middle of it and then got home and you're on an airplane, everyone's coughing and my husband's a firefighter, so he was really around it, but he didn't get it for like a year as well.

Speaker 4

So we got, we got lucky. Yeah, I got the OG COVID. I'm not sure where or how I got it, but got OG COVID and I woke up and then I was doing something that I was washing my hands with some of my favorite hand soap in the kitchen. You smell your fingers, this peppermint stuff, and, yeah, it's my favorite hand soap in the kitchen.

Speaker 4

You smell your fingers this peppermint stuff and yeah, it's always like I love the smell. Hey, casey, is this soap old? Does the soap expire? Like lose its scent or something? She was like no and I was like, uh, okay, hold on. So then went to the uh pantry and pulled out every seasoning I could, like spicy, no, I can't smell. And she goes, stop bullshitting me and I was like I can't smell.

Speaker 5

She was like oh shit.

Speaker 4

And then I think she just went because maybe I did. So I think she just went because maybe I did, but we both got positive tests on Valentine's Day. Was that 2020?

Speaker 6

Or whatever it was 2021?. Probably the next year, because Valentine's Day, I didn't even know what it was yet.

Speaker 4

Yeah, it was like spring break. It was spring break because we were at Cinequest in San Jose, california, and it was like, yeah, yeah, and I remember we had to go to, we went to the CVS here in Norman and they had like a separate building and it was like this is weird if we, if we test positive, are they gonna like? Are they gonna like yeah, they're gonna bound us and like put us somewhere.

Speaker 5

This is weird.

Speaker 4

And uh swab you know your brain. And uh, I think I told the lady, uh, sorry for what you pull out nasty, but yeah, I remember the kids having to do that the first time, when they used to have to go all the way up here and they were in their car seats in the back seat.

Speaker 5

So they were strapped in and they were just screaming because they wouldn't let you out of the car.

Speaker 6

They just did it in the drive through.

Speaker 5

I remember doing it in the car, yeah they were so and then I think sawyer went first, so molly watched, so then by the time they got to her she was like oh yeah, like pull her hands down it was so dramatic.

Speaker 6

She's never gonna forget that. No, they were like, but I got it.

Speaker 4

I got it really bad. Um, and I think part of the reason and people can talk about their conspiracy theories but I was at the highest weight, uh, I've been in my life. I think I was, if I wasn't 270, I was a little bit above it. I really let myself go. But I got super sick. I didn't sleep for probably two or three days I don't want to say I was up the entire time. I probably in that three days, maybe three hours of sleep. I couldn't eat. I knew I was hungry but I would take a bite of something and my body would say that is gross.

Speaker 2

Stop.

Speaker 4

You're going to throw up, and so I couldn't eat, and I think I lost at least 20 pounds within a week and a half timeframe. Oh my God. Now it kickstarted my weight loss journey there you go, there's a silver lining.

Speaker 4

And when I, when I first started acting maybe even just right before that I had got all the way down to like two the low, two twenties, very low two twenties, and felt great. And then, of course, um, that wasn't a healthy way to do it and all that weight started coming back when started living regular again. But now I'm back on that yeah, I'm back on that fitness kick, uh, doing fight camp boxing.

Speaker 5

Man, I need to, I just don't care, I just can't get motivated.

Speaker 6

I just started at Hot Works about a month ago, Dude you like that. I love it. I kind of want to do that and I have seen results faster than anything else I've tried in a long time because I like to be healthy and work out and feel good and I have been trying things and gym would just wasn't doing it for me anymore. And then I started at hot works and more and love it.

Speaker 4

Yeah, I wanted something that I would love to do. Yep, um, it's gotta be fun, yes, and so I discovered fight camp and, uh, my job, my full-time job, can frustrate the living hell out of me big time, and boxing helps me with that. That anger.

Speaker 4

Sometimes that would, that would get pinned up and uh, and so now, uh, five days a week I'm out in the garage on the bag doing boxing workouts. It's been great, uh, and I think I've been doing it now for about four or five weeks and I've healthily lost I'm probably down about 11 to 12 pounds that's perfect and that for that.

Speaker 4

Yes, and so what it also did is I did start out kind of slow, I wasn't going as hard, so I could build the habit of working out almost every day. Like I said, I do take two rest days. Usually it's a Wednesday and Saturday. Like I said, I do take two rest days, usually it's a Wednesday and Saturday, but that next day after the rest day.

Speaker 6

I am just ready to go, like I need to.

Speaker 4

Right, you're like, okay, let's go. So I've set that habit now. I have other habits, and that's not doing workouts, that is brownies and cookies.

Speaker 5

Watching.

Speaker 6

Dateline Dateline huh, I like Dateline.

Speaker 5

True crime baby Sitting on the couch.

Speaker 4

My co-host here, taylor Lee, has some cool news with your employee award right.

Speaker 5

Oh, I got employee of the month $500 bonus.

Speaker 6

That's way good news. Congratulations.

Speaker 4

She's got a new office space. Is it open yet? Are you moved into it? No, not yet.

Speaker 5

We moved some stuff in the building, but we're still behind.

Speaker 4

Whatever, she's a top dog at her place of business, so that's nice to see.

Speaker 3

Just fake it.

Speaker 4

I think we all do to a certain extent. I've worked here almost 18 years it's been that long, huh yeah, you going to retire soon.

Speaker 5

Yeah, I got to do another 18.

Speaker 4

Isn't that so weird?

Speaker 5

Actually it's like 17,. I think I had to do another 18. And that's so weird. Actually, it's like 17.

Speaker 4

I think I added it up. Do y'all remember like back when we were kids and you saw like your friends, parents, were they retiring from places? Like at 20 years you?

Speaker 3

know, 25 years.

Speaker 4

And then they would. They would retire from that place. You know that is gone.

Speaker 6

That's gone.

Speaker 5

We have to beat the rule of 90.

Speaker 4

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5

So your age and your time work has to reach 90 for you to retire with full benefit.

Speaker 6

Yeah, that's like with teaching.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

Speaker 6

I'm the rule of 90.

Speaker 4

Yeah Me too.

Speaker 5

So yeah, you got to teach till you're old. It's so weird, it's weird, I old. It's so weird, it's weird, I hate it. I hate it for people and then, when you can, finally retire and travel and do stuff you're old and you're tired.

Speaker 4

You're old and you're like, can't do that fun shit anymore. I did watch a cool YouTube video. It was a guy that talked about how he took an early retirement and he compared his kind of financial situation with retiring early with his friend that waited the full time and the money difference was minimal.

Speaker 4

And this guy that retired early was younger at the time than his friend that waited forever so he could travel, do the fun shit he wanted to do and his friend didn't get to have those memories and the guy was like you know and my buddy could have had severe medical issues later on and he's still working and now he doesn't get to enjoy retirement at all?

Speaker 6

Isn't that everyone's worst fear ever? Yeah?

Speaker 5

you retire and then you get cancer diagnosis.

Speaker 6

I've seen that a lot. It's sad, it is sad.

Speaker 5

Yeah, I don't want to do that. No, no.

Speaker 4

But I started with the state way too late, so to get my rule of 90.

Speaker 5

You have to be 90.

Speaker 4

Yeah yeah, I got to work till I'm like 85. You will be 90. Yeah, yeah, so. So I'll be enjoying retirement on my hover round. It'll take me where I want to go. I'll drive that hover around to the Grand Canyon. Don't go over. No, I'm jumping. Yeah yeah, I'm just full throttle. All in, let's go full throttle. Yeah, full throttle, with the hover around right into the Grand.

Speaker 5

Canyon. Well, if you make a blockbuster movie and make millions, god, I wish you could just give them the finger.

Speaker 4

I know my hollywood so I feel like I feel like my screenplay unholy alliance is blockbuster.

Speaker 5

Holy.

Speaker 4

Alliance is something people would thoroughly enjoy and laugh and have a good time, a good experience.

Speaker 6

Didn't you get to do a table read I?

Speaker 4

did I did. That's exciting. I did with a bunch of my actor friends up in Tulsa volunteer to come help me and read. I'm sure they're being sincere and they all had a wonderful time. The room was filled with laughter. I got wonderful feedback from them, whether it was positive criticism or just how much they loved it. I knew the words they were speaking, you know I I do think they meant it, of course, and um, it was great and uh, I recorded it and I watched the video of the table read every so often that's exciting I watch and just listen to.

Speaker 4

it was nice to hear all the characters I've created have a unique voice, Because up until then they all had my voice in my head from reading and writing and so seeing these actors just bring these characters to life and just if I could, I would have the money, I would cast all of them because they were fantastic. That's awesome. I just I do hope it gets made. I hope, and I'm sure everybody that writes a script hope it gets made. But mine is better. I'm sorry, I mean it just is. It's better. There's gags in this script you guys haven't even thought of.

Speaker 3

And I'm not going to tell you right now.

Speaker 4

I might tell Lisa when the camera's shut off.

Speaker 6

Well, what's the next step? Let's go.

Speaker 4

So Chris Hoyt is helping me out with trying to secure funding. Um, I did have a talk with him the other day. Um, there is interest in the script, but he did mention how financing in the industry is kind of weird right now, and the guy he was talking to that was interested. He's having a slow time getting funding and so it's just a waiting game. More more to be patient for, yeah, you know. So of course, we all want everything now, now, now maybe waiting a little bit.

Speaker 4

maybe we get more funding and we can really kill this thing. Yeah, but either that. Are you going to cast?

Speaker 5

Lisa in it.

Speaker 4

There is a part.

Speaker 6

Yes, but I didn't do the table read. He needs to use the person. Well, maybe somebody can. He said they were perfect.

Speaker 5

Maybe somebody can.

Speaker 4

They were good, maybe they need another mom, maybe somebody can't.

Speaker 5

He said they were perfect. Maybe somebody can't. They were good. Maybe they need another mom.

Speaker 6

The other issue is Lisa, but I would do it in a heartbeat, though you know that, yes, in a heartbeat.

Speaker 4

Lisa's SAG. Oh, more than likely, this would be non-union right now as it sits. Now that doesn't mean that a SAG actor couldn't be cast, there's just more paperwork.

Speaker 6

That's what happened a lot of hoops to jump through they did extra paperwork and to this day the Byrds brothers have a such a special place in my heart. Shout out to the Byrds brothers because they did all that extra paperwork to have me and Shifter and because they don't, because it was a non-union project. Sag doesn't want you to do those. There are just a lot. I have to follow lots of rules, lots of rules, um, but that's okay because then the union also protects you wonderfully.

Speaker 6

Uh, there's lots of perks to be like I said it got me my atlanta agent. I know it did, and probably my chicago agent as well, because that is not a right-to-work area. So I bet you can't even not be. Well, I bet you could be saggy and still get an agent up there. But yeah, they did all that extra paperwork and, like I said, it got into everything they put it in, for we were supposed to go to the hollywood shorts, you know, but in it was going to be in august and I was like, oh, all this will be done, we're all going to la for this. That's a huge got in, that's a huge film festival and of course it it was not done, but yeah, so that I feel like that really kick-started a lot of stuff for me. Even though covid a little bit shut it down, it kickstarted this whole. You know, things can't happen. Things you know, cool stuff can happen.

Speaker 4

Yeah, you've got to know where you're done. Scenes with Matt Damon, dean Cain right, yep.

Life in Oklahoma and Acting Dreams

Speaker 6

That's how I got eligible. Superman, he's very sweet. Matt Damon is class act dude. You would think he would. You know he's just such a mega star, but he is the most down. It's like talking to shit. I was going to say he's like friendly good old boy. He's a good old boy, he does. He's just amazing.

Speaker 4

He was really wonderful to work with he's good will, honey. How do you like?

Speaker 5

them apples, so that's good, they're not a-holes.

Speaker 4

Well, at least they weren't.

Speaker 6

I've been with a couple you know, on set. But yeah, we're not going to talk about those folks, but yeah, I've had some great. You know, paz Vega was my scene partner in 13 Minutes and she was precious. She's another really big star and acted like no big deal. We're just working and you're the same as me and let's kill our scene.

Speaker 4

So yeah, I've had a lot of my nephew Taylor's son, sawyer, more interested in drama or acting or something, but he made a little movie on his iPhone. We were all out at our parents' house right, I saw yeah. And he was doing a treasure like a treasure hunting with the other kids little video with his cousins and stuff and uh, put it all together right on his iphone and then played it for us. Yeah, that's awesome and it was so cool.

Speaker 4

I was like man, you need to do this yeah but he is he said he might come out of that I mean how old is he?

Speaker 6

He'll be 11 in July. That's amazing that he did that. Yeah, very, and that was.

Speaker 5

YouTube videos, and that was a couple of years ago.

Speaker 4

Him and his friends, so he was like nine, yeah, when he did that, like he's he likes got a knack for it.

Speaker 5

He likes uh spielberg, maybe he likes that uh use the different apps and make videos and edit, but he likes to be in them too.

Speaker 4

But again, if there was like a bunch of people watching, he'd be like which, if we end up getting to shoot unholy alliance, I will be asking my family hey, come be zombies, you don't have to act, do it. You know you don't have lines, but you're gonna. You can be zombies, because I there. There is a scene in unholy alliance, in this little fight with some zombies, where I think a character takes out like a Girl Scout or something. My niece, molly would be perfect.

Speaker 5

She'd be a good zombie.

Speaker 4

Yeah, she kind of likes that.

Speaker 5

She's scary anyway.

Speaker 4

I remember she wanted to watch the Walking Dead.

Speaker 5

I want to watch that.

Speaker 4

You're three.

Speaker 5

She'd be like I remember she wanted to watch the Walking.

Speaker 4

Dead. Yeah, I want to watch that.

Speaker 5

Yeah, no, you're three yeah.

Speaker 4

And she'd be like but she'd be great.

Speaker 5

But yeah, there'll be.

Speaker 4

Maybe you know we can find something for Sawyer as well, of course, and maybe that will help him kind of get over that Sounds like he needs to be your DP. He might. He might or he can. Oh, you know what, if we do do it, he could be the uh, he could do some of the behind the scenes kind of the photos videos that they do, um, they do those things and um, really, that's for casting crew. They'll show some of those photos and videos of the production.

Speaker 5

He likes to make tornado short films too. He's a little obsessed with tornadoes.

Speaker 6

Hey, my oldest is. She always loved them. She was never scared, she's like. I want to go outside and look, Mom no.

Speaker 5

He kind of gets scared when it's real. But he watches a lot of youtube videos on tornadoes and then they reenact and make little movies in the house.

Speaker 4

I love it like destroy the house, like throwing shit all around they're like hiding.

Speaker 5

They're getting a bunch of snacks, taking them in the little hiding room. I'm like finding like fudge rounds in there ritz crackers are so old hidden in the little his hidey hole yeah, explains the mouse infestation I got roger for that oh yeah, roger little cat is a killer hey, how's tiktok live going over there?

Speaker 5

let's check in say something hunter, it's happening, it's happening, it's live, it's live I didn't know you could tick tock that long. I thought tick tocks were like. Well, it's a live. This is a live tick tock so tick tock live.

Speaker 4

I don't know what that. It's not just a tick tock video he's just streaming on facebook.

Speaker 5

He's just streaming the entire thing. Yeah, I'm streaming so people could just watch the whole thing on TikTok.

Speaker 4

Yeah, there's people on there.

Speaker 5

I thought it was like I think I don't know. What's the difference in a TikTok reel?

Speaker 4

Well, there's not a TikTok reel. Those are two separate things. Okay, so hey, I don't know either, I'm old. Tiktok Reels is Facebook, instagram. Those are those shorts.

Speaker 5

So they make it shorter but they're longer on TikTok.

Speaker 4

No.

Speaker 5

Well, tiktok, you can do 15 seconds a minute, 10 minute videos, I thought they were all a minute long.

Speaker 4

No, you can choose. You only have a few choices, though, but a TikTok live is just like if you went on Instagram live or YouTube live, where they can watch it in China. Right now it's happening real time. That's all that's it Do you have any other? Social media things you want to explain Don't fuck up X.

Speaker 5

You know you can go viral, right?

Speaker 4

yeah, that's not like you get to go on or something yeah, yeah, you know, you, you know if you go viral, you know I think the point is you want to try to go viral, so then, tiktok, youtube, facebook, instagram. Whoever sends you checks you. There's people that make money and their entire job, their business, is doing TikTok or Instagram.

Speaker 6

Yeah, because when it went down for a day there, so people were freaking out.

Speaker 4

I mean I was, because I use TikTok videos for the podcast. I mean it was real.

Speaker 6

Like people were like I make my whole living, yeah, and there's some cool stuff on TikTok. Oh, the podcast, I mean it was real, I make my whole living.

Speaker 4

And there's some cool stuff on TikTok.

Speaker 3

People do some cool things Go outside, go outside.

Speaker 4

Yeah, what if?

Speaker 3

you TikTok outside.

Speaker 4

Go bird watch what is it you like how to start a fire with a rope and twigs and dryer lint. There's probably a couple of dudes on there doing that. How to put up a tent.

Speaker 3

How to pitch a tent, and then do you utilize it.

Speaker 4

I do look up some things on TikTok, on how to do Recipes. It could be car stuff. There's all kinds of stuff out there. Now there is junk.

Speaker 5

That's for sure, and I wouldn't want little kids like the stuff you play here on this exactly like the videos I'm about to play right now in fact, that was my way to lead into it when we do uh.

Speaker 4

We did our uh season finale last november, early december I think so and so there's been a lot of things in the world go on since then, like what well we have, we have a new president. I don't know who's excited or not excited about it, you know, but uh, in honor of that, I do have a video for us. Here we go. If it'll play right, we'll see.

Speaker 5

Donnie.

Speaker 4

Now.

Speaker 5

Buffering.

Speaker 4

Now Didn't they do this before?

Speaker 5

Or, like the videos, would not play Clapper or yeah Action when like the videos would not play Clapper or whatever it's called Action.

Speaker 4

And go, and go, okay, okay. So no video Can't make fun of the Donald. Right, can't make fun of the Donald. Now, that's great. Are any of the other videos going to play? Who knows, get it together, we'll check it. Yeah, uh, uh, talk amongst yourselves and I'm gonna figure this out. Oh I don't. This could be a while. This could be a while how's everyone's weekend?

Speaker 6

good, I mowed, yeah, you mowed. I mowed before I came. Yeah, oh wow, and it's windier than all get out out there and I ate a lot of dirt, a lot of dirt in my eyes, a lot of dirt, but it's done. I had to scout my yard. Do you have a big yard? Yes, we live in about an acre and a half. Oh yeah, so you have a? Yeah, nice, oh yeah, I don't think I could physically push all of that. My yard's full of weeds.

Speaker 6

We sprayed Full of weeds, and they're starting to die and I was like it's time to mow them gone. But we had quite a few this year too. We forgot to do the pre-emergent stuff.

Speaker 5

But then I feel bad for the butterflies. But then I feel bad for the butterflies and the bees yeah, I want them to have some flowers, some nectar.

Speaker 4

Okay, let's see if we can get what other videos were there.

Speaker 6

Maybe it was just that video, probably fart videos.

Speaker 5

Oh, you know what? I'll do this real quick.

Speaker 4

Yeah, let me show this. This was an interesting news headline that I saw.

Speaker 3

Let me throw it over here for everybody to see Herpes.

Speaker 4

Rampant herpes virus could reach the brain via the nose, sparking behavior changes.

Speaker 6

No.

Speaker 4

What are the behavior changes? Like, I don't know. It just says a virus that most adults on earth have been exposed to which that's gross, don't tell me. That has a sneaky route into the brain and a world first study has now demonstrated that it can cause behavioral changes. While this form of infection thankfully appears to be rare, the authors do believe it merits more attention.

Speaker 6

What's is this for real?

Speaker 4

Is this going to? Are kids going to start using this excuse?

Speaker 6

Yeah, yes.

Speaker 4

I don't know why I didn't do my homework at school today, mom. I don't know.

Speaker 1

I got nose herpes I got brain herpes.

Speaker 4

Okay, maybe my homework at school today.

Speaker 7

Mom, I don't know, I got nose herpes, I got brain herpes, okay maybe, but I also wonder can?

Speaker 4

can everybody just start bathing regularly?

Speaker 6

oh, please come to my classroom and talk about that yeah, like I don't want to how herpes is.

Speaker 5

I don.

Speaker 4

Well, it says you can breathe it in. Right, you can breathe it in through the nose. I don't. I go to Walmart, right? I do some shopping at Walmart.

Speaker 5

I don't think you can breathe herpes in that's what it says?

Speaker 4

No, that's what it says it's like putting your nose where it don't belong. Rampant herpes virus could reach the brain via the nose.

Speaker 3

That's not what that means. You've got to make some membranes in your nose Via the nose.

Speaker 4

That's not what that means. So that stinky person in line right before you at Walmart in the self-checkout, I'm going to have to step back away from. That's not how you get herpes?

Speaker 6

Are we going to do that six feet rule again?

Speaker 5

I think he misinterpreted the whole thing. You weren't listening in sixth grade health class.

Speaker 6

No, he didn't, he fell asleep.

Speaker 4

Oh well, I don't know. It made sense in my head Do you stink because you have herpes? I?

Speaker 6

don't know. We don't know either. We both smell good, so we don't know.

Speaker 5

We don't know.

Speaker 4

I still can't get videos to pick. Let me try this. Let me try.

Speaker 6

Does this happen often, you know more than I want it to.

Speaker 4

This is what happened to me.

Speaker 5

Maybe it's because you're on TikTok Live, can only do TikTok one time, probably One at a time.

Speaker 4

You know what it did? Do something when we went on TikTok Live. That's when the one opening video see went weird. Don't you have them saved to your computer? Oh, yeah, that's what I'm playing. Yeah, I mean, it ain't gonna have nothing to do with your tiktok life if they're saved to your computer it's I love when the humans pipe in to your modem. Save us I'm surprised he doesn't know this. He's a tech tech guy tech warrior?

Speaker 5

I don't. I barely know how to work my iPhone. I don't either.

Speaker 6

I don't even know how to TikTok apparently my girls have to show me everything.

Speaker 4

I have to ask my girlfriend to show me everything. I have no idea how to work this phone, I swear.

Speaker 5

Where is Jordy? Let me see if it works here In the ether she is, she's everywhere she's everywhere and nowhere all at the same time but it's not working.

Speaker 4

Here there's something going on. Subaru it's not mine.

Speaker 5

I thought, y'all were sharing I own nothing put the clothes on my back something going

Speaker 4

on, I gotta figure it out. I gotta figure it out. I know what, I know what we can do, know what we can do. We're gonna do it right now. Right now we'll be back and we are back, uh, and I think our videos are going to work this time. So now, like I was saying before, in honor of our new president, like him, love him, hate him, despise him, I don't give a shit, but this is a funny video. The N-word there we go all right there we go there we go that's our president donald j don't know if that's real.

Speaker 4

It could be ai, I don't know who knows, that's the word we live in. Yeah, but oh the dawn. So now we talked about smelling herpes at Walmart. Be careful out there. Maybe you walk in like this now. Maybe you walk in with those people.

Speaker 5

Your husband's going to be like what kind of podcast were you on?

Speaker 6

He's a firefighter, have you ever been to a fire station and heard?

Speaker 5

all those guys I wish.

Speaker 4

This is yeah, she wishes that ever been to a fire station and heard all those guys wish this is yeah, she wishes that's her dream there with me sometimes.

Speaker 6

Yeah, she's like please hello, yes, please sign me up you mean a buffet of men they are a bunch of stinky animals. They're so gross and so inappropriate brothers, so okay, you would, you, you would, I'd probably fit in, fit in. Oh shit, it'd be no big deal. I'm serious, I warn people before I take them up there. I'm like guys, you know they're savages, you just never know what'll come out of their mouth. You gotta be prepared.

Speaker 4

That's usually this podcast, but they're heroes.

Speaker 5

They save lives. They can do that.

Speaker 6

And they are an awesome group of people up there.

Speaker 4

So they do you know that's?

Speaker 5

awesome. I don't know if I could do that. It would be hard. Yeah, the job would be hard.

Speaker 6

I couldn't do it.

Speaker 4

But that kind of camaraderie, that kind of being able to pick on each other, make fun of each other, crack jokes, inappropriate jokes, whatever we need to bring that back.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Speaker 6

We need to bring it back Well he has said from day one, it is how they get through. Yeah, you know, they have to have that to decompress from the crap that they see and the horrible stuff that's just constant and we probably only know like this much of it. Oh yeah, I had to tell him in our early because he got on the fire department. We'd been married about six years and you know, when he first got on, he would come home and tell me these stories and I would. They would disturb, they would, yeah, stress me out and disturb me and just make me sad or whatever they were, and I finally finally tell them okay, you can't tell me stories anymore. I internalize, I'm not, he compartmentalizes very well.

Speaker 6

And he just puts them in a place and they did what they could and they move on. And that's why they do the camaraderie, because that keeps it light up there.

Speaker 4

It's got to stay. Yeah, that was me and everyone, all all the guys I served with in the army. I mean, we had that kind of humor and it didn't matter what background you came from, what color you were, what you looked like. No, everyone was fair game. You know, if you do something dumb, oh we're, we're not to ever let you live it down. Oh, ever, because we're going to do something dumb and you're not going to let me live it down. Right? So now I'm going to give it back to you. I was stationed out at Fort Irwin my last few years in the service and that's in the high Mojave Desert in the service, and that's in the high Mojave desert. We'd be out in the desert doing some kind of field exercise and some dude went off to go take a pee pee over here and you got a whole desert and I'd go stand right next to him.

Speaker 4

Oh yeah, no there's no, I would go to the bathroom.

Speaker 6

You have a whole desert. Yeah, you're poopy, no, no yeah there's no, there's no, letting him go pee in peace oh yeah, all right.

TikTok Comedy Videos and Bachelor Segment

Speaker 4

Well, we're gonna jump into the fun segment. Not that this whole thing hasn't been fun, but I'm gonna say the light fun video. We're just gonna sit back, we're gonna see, or you're gonna see, people from all walks of life doing dumb things uh, never smart things, um, and maybe some animals farting. I don't know what I got, I forgot, but here we go.

Speaker 5

What's happening?

Speaker 4

Let's go. Oh, oh well. Here we go Hot dogs, that's our brother Dan.

Speaker 5

Hot dogs, hot dogs. I'm not buying hot dogs for that guy.

Speaker 2

I love hot dogs. Excuse me.

Speaker 8

How rude. You want to hump that thing right in front of me.

Speaker 6

Yeah, go out there oh my god, his lipstick's out my goodness oh, he was not done that hair.

Speaker 1

I want to tell you all you guys out there, I'm not looking for a relationship. I don't want to tell you all you guys out there, I'm not looking for a relationship.

Speaker 4

Okay, I don't want to be in one.

Speaker 1

Yeah, stop asking me to be in a relationship. I'm not looking for a man.

Speaker 8

I'm sure they're hitting you up there, ain't no?

Speaker 1

dating site.

Speaker 4

I'm sure they're hitting you up. Lady, you got a long list. Hey, get the dog off there. Okay, here's oh here's. Here's things on tiktok that that people put out that I don't think they review. If they reviewed this video and said, yes, this is the one I'm going to upload, so the entire world sees, he's got speech impediment.

Speaker 5

I do actually.

Speaker 4

Why so many?

Speaker 6

rings. He's trying to look like Jelly Roll. Yeah, this is my country.

Speaker 4

This is who I am, and this guy's partly painted on beer.

Speaker 3

Oh, it is.

Speaker 4

A cringe-like handshake and high five. And he's throwing up the number six, does he?

Speaker 6

have a rat tail. I think he did.

Speaker 4

Okay, I gotta rewind this Just a little bit he did A little bit, he did A little bit.

Speaker 5

He showed it off, just a little glimpse, just a little tease of it.

Speaker 4

Okay, we see your rings show off.

Speaker 5

Wow, and that guy oh wow, I bet they get a lot of girlfriends. Oh, that's fucking. What the fuck I bet?

Speaker 3

they get a lot of girlfriends. Ah, ah, what the fuck oh.

Speaker 4

Video quality is awful. I'm almost going to shit myself. Ah this is for Dan, our brother. Dan loves 4th of July and I found a new firework for him. This will throw us back into our army days right here. Look out. Holy moly, I want that one days right here, look out Holy moly.

Speaker 1

I want that one.

Speaker 5

We've had those happen.

Speaker 4

New song.

Speaker 7

I take a dump in the rain. I take a dump in the rain. It's all a part of the hustle. Sometimes you gotta go poop in the puddle. I had a whole lot of bread. This is my butthole's rebuttal. Shit it in plain sight.

Speaker 2

Nothing to hide. Me was hoping the rain might I spot a whole lot of bread this is my butthole's rebuttal.

Speaker 7

Yeah, shit it in plain sight. Nothing to hide. Me was hoping the rain. Might I spot a farmer, the barn over yonder? He's shaking his head like it ain't right, bending in a field, feel the rain on your skin Like Natasha Benningfield man? That farmer looks pissed and I'm unaware how rude it is. What you got against free nutrients Poop is rich in the crap that your crops all used to live. I just got betrayed by my bitch ass. Sometimes those your clothes is too can't switch fast. You can't spell disaster without this ass catastrophic. Yeah, yeah, I'll take a dump in the rain. I'll take a dump in the rain. Yeah, I'll take a dump in the rain. I'll take a dump in the rain.

Speaker 5

I'll take a dump in the rain, I'll take a dump in the rain. I'll take a dump in the rain Too much time on his hands. I know he does.

Speaker 3

Probably be me in the future.

Speaker 4

That's an interesting drum.

Speaker 6

Holy is that. Are they playing for church?

Speaker 4

Yeah, like where are they.

Speaker 5

That's like the church potluck Get it.

Speaker 6

Papa.

Speaker 4

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 2

Hello sir. So your entire leg was black. We had to amputate it.

Speaker 4

Oh, no, bruh.

Speaker 2

Oh, stupid Bruh.

Speaker 6

Bruh If.

Speaker 5

I hear that at school one time oh, my god, my kids say it all the time.

Speaker 1

Help me see what I've been seeing. Let me see, let me see what I've been seeing. Let me see. Help me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see.

Speaker 4

Let me see.

Speaker 1

Let me happy the way it brought out.

Speaker 5

Why did you?

Speaker 3

post that I don't know.

Speaker 5

People are so weird.

Speaker 4

Uh-oh.

Speaker 8

There we go Good afternoon.

Speaker 2

This is my song I wrote called my Butthole After Taco Bell Stupid. That's some talent. Oh, thank you.

Speaker 6

That actually was very talented.

Speaker 4

That was very good Very good Almost.

Speaker 6

Sounds like a weed eater it does.

Speaker 4

That horse had Taco Bell, it did. He had a cheesy gordita, crunch It'll do it.

Speaker 6

I actually love those. I do too.

Speaker 4

That's my favorite animal.

Speaker 6

That's my favorite animal. That's my favorite animal Alyssa Milano.

Speaker 8

What would you do if there was a child right in front of you?

Speaker 6

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 3

Yeah, baby, good athletic stance. Are you ready, goodness, yeah, baby good athletic stance.

Speaker 8

Are you ready catch it?

Speaker 2

nope nice oh my, oh my god, that's gonna be a bruise if you're twerking and a little shit comes out, it's okay.

Speaker 5

Don't be ashamed. That just means it's moving in all the right places.

Speaker 2

Thank you.

Speaker 4

I was wondering.

Speaker 8

Can anybody tell me this song? I just went into the convenience store to get some unhealthy food but there's a song playing on the damn radio and it got the toes tapping, the ass clapping. I tell you it's like a pop song. And I found myself just dancing down the aisles, even though I'm at another miserable day at work doing my job. But the song was going another miserable day at work doing my job. But the song was going and she's going and the beat. Does anyone know what she's saying, who it is and what's going on with it? It's a gal, it's a gal. It's a gal singing it, Okay, but I figure it's a pop icon of some sort. I don't know. Tell me.

Speaker 3

I mean, he got my toes tapping yeah.

Speaker 4

My cheeks weren't clapping. Nice, nice baby.

Speaker 5

Uh-oh, oh, it's like me. I believe this is what.

Speaker 4

Taylor does at home when her kids aren't home.

Speaker 5

I mean, I got a little better moves than that. Not much, but Do you though? I think so? Yeah, Is that?

Speaker 6

the stanky leg though.

Speaker 5

I think so yeah.

Speaker 6

Is that the stanky leg or the? What move is? That I don't know what she's doing.

Speaker 4

Peg leg.

Speaker 3

She was doing the peg leg, oh I don't know this is.

Speaker 4

It's a hip-hop tutorial. Feel free to show this in class.

Speaker 6

If, yeah, if feel free to show this in class. If someone's got a hip hop audition coming up, that would be a good example does anyone else have this problem?

Speaker 2

every time I eat celery, my lips swell.

Speaker 8

I don't eat it.

Speaker 4

I hate it, your lips swell, I don't understand. I love celery it's a play on words does anyone else have this problem? Yeah, okay, I don't understand.

Speaker 1

I love celery I don't have to stop eating it. It's a play on words. It's a little play. Yeah, okay, I'm an untrained meteorologist reporting on the snow. I mean it's in the streets, damn.

Speaker 4

Oh, it's in the streets, uh-oh, oh, in the streets, in the streets.

Speaker 5

Uh-oh, oh, that dude went through a portal, that fucking hurt.

Speaker 1

Why would you go that fast? That ain't cool, hey guys, it's your boy, the Hot Dog King. Here and today we're going to try a Reese's Pieces Kraut Dog guys. Yeah. So, let me show you what I'm working with here hey, show us. So we got the hot dog right there oh my God. Right here's my kraut Kraut, we're going to put some kraut on there guys. Okay, like that, and then we're going to take our Reesey Pieces right here guys. And we're going to sprinkle some on that bad boy.

Speaker 3

Okay.

Speaker 1

Here we go. Make sure I get enough on there. What's going on here? There it is, guys.

Speaker 2

The Reesey.

Speaker 1

Pieces Crap Ball. Reesey Pieces Reesey Pieces Now let's taste, test it and see how it goes. Here guys, the Reese's Pieces Crout Dog. Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces Now let's taste, test it and see how it goes. Here, guys, no mustard.

Speaker 4

No, it's a Reese's Pieces. I can't do sauerkraut Crout Dog, I don't like sauerkraut yeah.

Speaker 6

I hate, sauerkraut. Just watching him eat it.

Speaker 4

I don't even think I would like it on a hot dog, and I definitely wouldn't like it on a hot dog topped with rice and pieces.

Speaker 1

I gotta get another bite.

Speaker 4

No, you shouldn't Well?

Speaker 1

that ain't half bad. Gags me why.

Speaker 2

Why.

Speaker 1

That's not half bad actually. Why, why, Poor girl. That's not half bad actually. That tastes pretty dang good.

Speaker 4

No way, no way that does.

Speaker 1

Dang, go Dang. I would highly recommend trying this guys.

Speaker 4

No.

Speaker 1

Get you a hot dog.

Speaker 4

Get you some crab, please Get some racy pieces. Try it out for yourself.

Speaker 6

guys, that recipe was complicated. We needed it again.

Speaker 1

The racy pieces kraut dog guys. That's not half bad. Tastes pretty dang good right there.

Speaker 4

I don't believe you. Oh, is he eating the?

Speaker 6

whole. Thing.

Speaker 4

Yeah, he's going, he's all in. Please refresh our palates, please, from you, dan.

Speaker 6

Hell fuckin' yeah dude Kuder Riddles.

Speaker 1

Hell fuckin' yeah dude.

Speaker 6

Oh, that was perfect.

Speaker 4

Is that it, jeez? I think that's it.

Speaker 5

That wasn't very many.

Speaker 4

That's it. Oh, you know, I have so many of those lined up Like. So what I do on my tech talk when I find a funny one, I email it to myself. And I have find a funny one, I email it to myself, and I have, since we've been on our off-season break since first of december till now. So many, I have a ton, and so now I can split them up for the different episodes. So, um, but that brings us into TikTok, bachelor, uh-oh, and this is what is playing.

Speaker 8

Good morning Julia. That's my fucking coochie.

Speaker 7

Whoa.

Speaker 4

She's got a big beaver. That's a little intro there and here we go. Let's see what kind of suitors Taylor has right now. But I do have a little opener video.

Speaker 5

This chick is going to give you some tips to look out for and dudes frustrating thing about men is the fact that they refuse to acknowledge when they are being flirted with girl you're so handsome and they just go.

Speaker 2

hey, look at my hog. I have a four-inch hug, it's ready to roll Four-inch hug, oh my yeah that'll get the people going Four inches hard.

Speaker 4

Swear to God, swear to God, swear to God. You shouldn't, you shouldn't. I'm going to say that guy had too many beers, yes, but then this couple wanted to let you know that there is someone out there for everyone, okay I hope so yeah I'm gonna say he doesn't know what's going on.

Speaker 3

I can't.

Speaker 5

Is he related?

Speaker 4

I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure.

Speaker 6

Man, he's just in the frame.

Speaker 5

I'm afraid of that.

Speaker 4

I'm surprised they have Wi-Fi or that their phones have data.

Speaker 3

I don't know I was pretty impressed.

Speaker 4

but okay, Knowing those things, there's someone out there for you. Keep things there's someone out there. Keep that in mind yeah, keep that in mind and watch out for the guys drunk that have four inches.

Speaker 2

So don't worry, let's see what we got so, guys, I have a bandana on my wrist now, so that's going to be like my thing. Yeah, I think it makes me look a little cooler.

Speaker 4

And.

Speaker 2

I'm going to use it to like, kind of like when I'm on a Google YIATA. We'll be like oh my god, he's got a bandana on his wrist. He means business. He's gonna frick me up, frick me up. And that's just the impression I give people you know Eyes copy oh god, oh God.

Speaker 4

Yeah, these guys were like, hey, let's go for a threefer, threefer.

Speaker 5

I really hate to be the dude that fucks with us.

Speaker 3

Oh God, you think.

Speaker 1

I mean hell yeah, buddy Whoa.

Speaker 4

I'm going to go out on a limb and say those guys are volunteer firefighters.

Speaker 2

I look like a skinny walkabout yeah, that is how I know you. Come on, he's got a nice tan, all right, he's got some tribal. He's got some tribal. I like his necklace.

Speaker 1

Is it Spanish? And he just mixed it up.

Speaker 2

Yeah, and it's a little nasally In my life. I know where I go. Does he have back molars on the bottom? Yeah Me, no, far Forever, ever, ever, ever. That's my heart with.

Speaker 5

It is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever written.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 5

Yes, he ruined it. I'm sexy and I know it.

Speaker 6

Hey, I just went to Groovy's a couple weeks ago. I swear that guy was crazy.

Speaker 3

I swear.

Speaker 7

He probably was.

Speaker 4

Grandpa's going to slip and hit you better watch out.

Speaker 7

Dude, I'm a genius, or maybe he can do this because he got hip replacement. Yeah, I think that's it. That's it Watch.

Speaker 3

Woo, girl, look at that body. Girl, look at that body. I'm feeling it.

Speaker 6

I's it Watch Woo Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.

Speaker 2

Woo, I can't think of another move, so let me do the little knee wiggle. Oh God.

Speaker 7

Oh, uh-oh when are we?

Speaker 6

Where are we?

Speaker 3

Yeah, where are we, oh God?

Speaker 4

This is the last thing you're going to see. Oh, he's got his wedge pillow, yeah, I mean, see it scatters wedge yellow, yeah.

Speaker 6

I mean, I know.

Speaker 1

I'm sure you do.

Speaker 4

I can only think that George Michael is looking down going.

Speaker 7

This is what.

Speaker 4

I wanted from this song.

Speaker 6

He's rolling over in his grave. I do like the song but now he picked a great song. He ruined it. Now I'll see him every time I hear it. No, oh.

Speaker 2

The hell, hey, wait a minute. One side no, oh the hell, hey, wait a minute.

Speaker 6

One, one side.

Speaker 4

Did he cut his sideburn into? Like a mic To look like a microphone. Or did he just forget?

Speaker 2

You should do that.

Speaker 4

I don't think I can wear my Superman shirt anymore.

Speaker 6

But why does he need it to be a microphone? He's not singing, I don't know.

Speaker 2

Oh, my God.

Speaker 4

But why does he need it to be a microphone? He's not singing, you're flexing, but nothing is happening.

Speaker 5

Oh, make a sandwich.

Speaker 1

John Deere. Oh God.

Speaker 5

Is there a?

Speaker 6

hole in his shirt.

Speaker 4

Or is it?

Speaker 5

mayo. Is it mayo? Somebody ordered a sandwich. Another grandpa, geez, you think I'm old, or what?

Speaker 1

Hello grandpa.

Speaker 6

Nice to see you. Now Conway's going to roll up his sleeves.

Speaker 1

It's been a long time, you're just as lovely.

Speaker 6

Ooh, we could two-step. I'm going to take you two-stepping.

Speaker 4

I think, he's looking for more than just two-stepping. Are you happy?

Speaker 2

I think you're loaded Pills.

Speaker 4

Yes Means so everything is tucked in shirt, jeans and then Budweiser in the back. Hey, he's got a clean house yeah, he does, that's nice.

Speaker 6

Hey, he's got a clean house yeah, he does clean, he likes a shiny ceramic used.

Speaker 3

That's nice.

Speaker 5

Oh, my Another old one.

Speaker 4

Well, you know you got your tie.

Speaker 6

He's giving you a rain.

Speaker 4

He can dip it Okay, I like his gloves Now, his place is a little too clean yeah is he in an attic.

Speaker 5

Yeah, that looks like an attic.

Speaker 3

Like mom's downstairs.

Speaker 4

Is this a boy or a girl? Well, the name's Pat, oh, I think. Whatever you want.

Speaker 2

I'm not really into gynos, but my name is Buford Overland and I love farting in the bathtub and biting the bubbles, and I'm going to start a club of like-minded people called the Bubble Biter's Fart Club of like-minded people.

Speaker 3

It's called the Bubble.

Speaker 2

Biter Spark Club Yowchee yowchee yowchee Boo, boo, boo you know it, it's not even. House of.

Speaker 5

Biters, I know Stop.

Speaker 3

Oh, my Atlanta.

Speaker 8

Three payments Three payments New boot, goofin' I'm just goofing.

Speaker 5

new boot, goofing he's got a sense of humor at least, yeah.

Speaker 6

I think I like him the best so far. Not him, not teeth man. Is he supposed to be like Abraham Lincoln on stage?

Speaker 2

save and save and so.

Speaker 1

I don't know. Call me President Lincoln.

Speaker 2

I'm looking for my first lady, oh gosh, maybe we could kick around the Oval Office and have some light snacks and witty banter Witty banter. Hang out in the West Wing Work on some executive orders.

Speaker 7

Give me the old swipe right.

Speaker 6

What?

Speaker 2

Oh, I was like, what glad he said that I feel like I've been single for four score and seven years let me know.

Speaker 6

Yeah, it's the lip smack, you know, there we go.

Speaker 5

I'd go with the boot guy. I like the boot and I like the bandana on the wrist. Bandana on the wrist, he can protect me, you know.

Speaker 4

Off of the hills of that last video, Chris Munch. He's a comedian. He's got several characters that he does, but Taylor Lee gets gifted.

Speaker 2

Ooh.

Speaker 6

Okay.

Speaker 4

The Steven Stevens.

Speaker 5

Oh yeah, I'll put that in my bedroom.

Speaker 4

Calendar.

Speaker 6

Get it by my bed.

Speaker 4

Oh, I love it, sorry that we're already almost, you know, over three months in the year, so you get to use nine months of it.

Travel Plans and Outdoor Adventures

Speaker 5

But call me Shaq. I'm afraid of a rebound. He's sitting on it. Oh, that's right. Yeah, oh, let's ride.

Speaker 4

Yeah, His character, Stephen Stevens has made it into almost every TikTok Bachelor segment, we do.

Speaker 5

Very funny guy.

Speaker 4

Got me bleeding.

Speaker 5

He was.

Speaker 4

I probably have more where he's like oh, you caught me tubbing and he's either in the bathtub or he's in the hot tub.

Speaker 5

You're baking me, crazy Baking me crazy.

Speaker 4

He can make you some cookies. That's hilarious. We know you like your snacks. Let me know.

Speaker 5

Ooh, shout out Steven Stevens.

Speaker 4

Shout out Steven Stevens, hit me up, yep up.

Speaker 6

Put it by my bed it's like a calendar actually.

Speaker 5

Pretty in my office.

Speaker 4

Put it in your new office. Who's that?

Speaker 5

This is my new boyfriend. Blessings.

Speaker 4

Thanks, alright. Well, before we wrap it up, what? Does anybody have any exciting things coming up Anything?

Speaker 5

Easter, he's risen. Yeah, we have Easter Passover, that's in a couple weeks.

Speaker 4

Yeah, god's going fast it is.

Speaker 6

Hide your eggs, hide your eggs. We never get adult Easter baskets.

Speaker 4

It is.

Speaker 5

Hide your eggs. Hide your eggs. We never get adult Easter baskets, just bullshit.

Speaker 4

Yeah, we need to make that a thing. Adult Easter baskets, adult Easter baskets, those would be more fun anyways yeah.

Speaker 6

You could do that for your girls. Oh, I always still make them an Easter basket. I've never, not in 22 years. Mom of the year.

Speaker 5

It's one of my favorite things. Mom of the year.

Speaker 6

I love making stockings in Easter baskets. I like stockings too.

Speaker 4

I love it. We like the stockings.

Speaker 5

Gotta go all in.

Speaker 4

Yeah, scratch-offs, we like that. Yeah, scratch-offs.

Speaker 6

Candy, gotta add it in there.

Speaker 4

Scratch-offs, candy, little liquor bottles, you know whatever Exactly?

Speaker 5

Easter he's risen from church.

Speaker 4

I don't know how. About summer plans? Anybody have summer plans, since that's going to be here around the corner?

Speaker 6

Yeah, we pretty much live at the lake. We have a lake house at Eufaula, oh nice, so we get there as much as possible. We have an old boat. We sold our newer boat last year and we were going to get a different boat and we haven't done that yet, so we're still in our old boat. But yes, we have a boat. But she's an old girl, she's an old boat that's okay, she gets us out there nice yeah, we'll be. We'll be living there for most of the summer.

Speaker 4

Nice. I think we're probably going to make another trip to Red River this summer, y'all again.

Speaker 5

Uh-huh I think we might go to the Ozarks, ooh.

Speaker 4

Hmm.

Speaker 5

Where at I don't know, there's some bat cave. You can drive a golf cart through it and go to the bat bar and you drive around and drink and look at bats.

Speaker 4

There is that that I want to do, where you get on a golf cart and you drive through all this stuff and they do have different refreshment stops.

Speaker 5

I do want to do that. There's like scenic overlooks and waterfalls.

Speaker 4

We've gone to.

Speaker 5

Eureka.

Speaker 4

Springs a couple of times. That's been pretty fun. But it can get real hot and that town is basically like this, like built on the side of the hill, and you're either walking uphill upstairs, so it's kind of tough to get around.

Speaker 2

But it is fun.

Speaker 4

Bad knees. We did an escape room last time we were around. But it is fun, bad knees. We did a an escape room last time we were there. That was really fun. Uh, we did a. They do like this paranormal tour investigation thing at the uh, what's that hotel they have there, that's, you know, they're kind of famous hotel.

Speaker 5

Eureka.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

Speaker 5

I just forget the name all of a sudden.

Speaker 4

Anyway, really cool hotel, old hotel, really neat. I dressed up in my El Crapitan outfit when we did that, the ghost tour. Uh-huh, I wore this hat, my old creptan hat, my sunglasses and my velour tracksuit. Gold tracksuit, there was this group of girls and they were doing this.

Speaker 5

I was going to say I bet you have a lot of Snapchat.

Speaker 4

And I looked over at her and I went.

Speaker 6

Oh yeah yeah, you should have done the Captain.

Speaker 5

I went oh yeah, yeah, you should have done the like Captain Morgan thing.

Speaker 4

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, that's a fun town. But yeah, we want to make another trip to Red River in the summertime, get away from the heat. We haven't been in the summertime in a while. I want to get a Jeep and go off road and up in the mountains. I think we're going to do that. Casey has international barbershop competition coming up in October.

Speaker 5

I think where's the international at America?

Speaker 4

You can't wait, wait, till you hear the place where it's going to be Columbus, ohio. That's not international.

Speaker 5

I don't know why there? But we're going there, you're going to go to France, or something.

Speaker 4

Well, the next international? Well, see, on international. They really don't have those, at least yet in other countries like that that, because most of the courses are in the united states. They do have some from new zealand, australia, sweden, maybe uk, I can't remember but there's not a lot of them. So it makes more sense just to keep that international competition in the States.

Speaker 5

Make them come here yeah.

Speaker 4

But the Swedes their barbershop. Course, the women are tall. It's crazy. Yeah, they're kind of intimidating. Do they wear those clog shoes? I think they sometimes do.

Speaker 6

Those little wooden shoes yeah.

Speaker 4

Seems so uncomfortable. The next international that Casey's chorus after Columbus can qualify for will be in Seattle, so that'll be a fun trip.

Speaker 3

The fish market, yeah, yeah, so that'll be a fun trip.

Speaker 5

Another fish market.

Speaker 4

Yeah yeah. She just had a regional competition in Richardson, texas, last weekend, richardson, and so they only performed for evaluation this time. But that was fun, had a good time.

Speaker 5

What do they call you Like a dance mom.

Speaker 4

Are you like a momager?

Speaker 5

I'm like a chorus husband okay, and I do have a barbershop, your barber husband chorus husband I'm a chorus husband okay

Speaker 4

uh, and I have my plethora of hoes now. How that started was Casey said hey, I need a certain type of hose for my costume. Here's the color and everything I need. Can you please go to Walmart?

Speaker 5

and get it for me Dude to do that and I went right.

Speaker 4

Okay, I'll go do it. And they had a wall, yeah. And I said, how do I find yours In this plethora of hoes? And so it was born yeah, that was born uh, we also, uh, our, our group are also sister wives, because we were, we were in we're at a competition in colorado, in Denver I think, and we all went out to eat and all the girls had their chorus costumes on, so they all looked had the same outfit.

Speaker 5

You should have put a fake camera crew with you. They would have found your sister wives.

Speaker 4

So there were like 10 of the ladies there. I'm sitting at the head of the table and these two dudes walked up to one of the girls and was like who are you guys?

Speaker 5

Who are you and?

Speaker 4

she was like, oh, we're sister wives. And she looked down at the table at me and goes and there's our husband Shane, and I'm just like hey guys.

Speaker 5

Hi there.

Speaker 4

You know, know, they were like you're never gonna believe what we saw.

Speaker 5

We saw the dude had like 10 women when I went on a work trip last year I think it was last year to salt lake city, utah, and we went to dinner with a rep and it was like a big group of us so they split us into two tables For some reason one of the two dude reps, so they were each at one table. All the girls, women sat at this table and the other one was mixed and the waitress came up and she was like and I was sitting right next to my boss. She was like oh, how are you so lucky to get all these women? I didn't even think about it.

Speaker 6

I just was looking at the menu and I was like I mean we are in utah.

Speaker 5

My boss was like I forgot. Can I not say that? I can't say so. I was with work. Okay, I thought I was on the podcast.

Speaker 8

Okay, it's fine, yeah, she was so pissed like what it's appropriate. Yeah, we are, it's utah, it's true.

Speaker 4

I mean they shouldn't have done it, you know, if they didn't want people to talk we weren't at work, so I didn't get ridden up Get ridden up. Imagine getting ridden up for that I work for OU, so probably yeah. I wasn't going to state who you work for.

Speaker 5

Oops, I mean OSU. Where are you going?

Speaker 6

Just the lake Lake. Well, we're going to Florida at the very beginning of the summer for Lauderdale.

Speaker 5

Nice.

Speaker 6

Just hang out on the beach.

Speaker 5

Go to the beach, but we'll be at the lake.

Speaker 6

The rest of the year.

Speaker 4

I've been to Orlando.

Speaker 6

I have too.

Speaker 4

And.

Speaker 6

Destin, and that's it.

Speaker 4

But I went to a nice, stayed at a nice place, but I went for an IT conference. But we stayed one extra day, I think, and me and a co-worker I had rented a Camaro and we drove to Cocoa Beach Cruising looking for ladies. And just kind of kicked it at the beach, walked around. You're not really a beach guy, you know there's a part of me I do like a nice beach, not where sharks might be, but in Hawaii. When we went to Hawaii had great time.

Speaker 5

I love Hawaii.

Speaker 4

When I went to Jamaica had a great time. What I don't like in Jamaica we went out on one of those hobie cats, that's what was that? It's like a little catamaran type deal kind of like a little raft with a sail kind of a thing, um, and one of the guys that worked at the sandals resorts took us out and, uh, I did not enjoy that because the waves, the waves were rolling. So they were. They weren't crazy waves, but they were big waves.

Speaker 4

And then the resort when I looked at it just got smaller and smaller smaller smaller. I don't know what's in these waters.

Speaker 6

I don't want to be in the open waters.

Speaker 5

That's too far.

Speaker 4

And I said can we turn this around and go back that way please? We get halfway back, lose wind, so we're just adrift.

Speaker 5

Oh God and it's my nightmare.

Speaker 8

It is, and I'm living it.

Speaker 4

And I'm just like I did not drink enough for this, so, yeah, Didn't like that. Also why I can't go on a cruise I can't get myself to go on a cruise.

Speaker 5

I know I'm scared of this too. I can't do it.

Speaker 4

There's no way. It's a lot of water, not for me. You ever done one. I've done a few, we like them, but it's been a long time. It's been at least six or seven years since we've been. I mean, I wouldn't mind being on the big ship with all the stuff they have on it, but can we just stay docked?

Speaker 6

just right there in the port, is that?

Speaker 4

like it. Can I get a cheaper rate? Just go around the block, come back.

Speaker 6

You don't know, just stay there no, he doesn't even want to leave.

Speaker 4

But you get all the food, the entertainment yeah, they got all kinds of shit on there. You know, Dances.

Speaker 6

It's fun. We've been on a few, but yeah, it doesn't bother me. I mean I wouldn't have wanted to do on that deal that would have bothered me.

Speaker 5

The little boat.

Speaker 4

Do you?

Speaker 5

feel it rocking though.

Speaker 6

We went on one that was pretty rough and you could, but most of the time you forget you're on a ship. You forget you are on a ship. I get a little seasick. Luckily enough, none of us do. Y'all are used to the lake, I guess so.

Speaker 1

I've been on one of those yeah.

Speaker 6

I've been on one of those.

Speaker 4

Yeah, I've been on one of those. No, never again will.

Speaker 6

I get on one. Yeah, they're not my favorite either.

Speaker 4

Only if they stay docked, just like the cruise ships.

Speaker 6

They stay docked, yeah, but on the shore.

Speaker 4

You know I do. However, I do like snorkeling.

Speaker 5

Are you not a good swimmer? I do like snorkeling. Are you not a good swimmer?

Speaker 4

I'm a super good swimmer, but I love snorkeling Not out way out from the beach, just keep me kind of close. I do like it Did that in Hawaii and swam around sea turtles. That was cool. Yeah, I do like that. But you know know, I don't even like being out in the water on a lake oh, I love it.

Speaker 5

That's my happy place let's go, I think, let me out there. We didn't grow up like that, we're not used to it.

Speaker 4

Well, I mean, dad tried we'd have like a what? Like a 10 foot john boat. You know that with a little outboard motor that he would peg and turn. We're not really like people and it was like you could almost tip the entire boat over. It's like, dad, this is not boating. No, can we please just go back? I don't want to be on this thing with you driving.

Speaker 5

It's fine.

Speaker 3

Yeah, oh goodness El Reno.

Speaker 4

Lake. Poop Lake is what we called it. Poop Lake yeah, not a lake guy. Well, I like going to the lake. I don't know if I want to be out in the middle of it.

Speaker 6

In the summer, when it's the middle of the summer. That's the only place that's actually cool yeah.

Speaker 3

Is the middle of the lake.

Speaker 4

I did like kayaking down at Lake Murray, I did like that Lake Murray's beautiful. I did like that. That was pretty fun. We haven't done that in a while. Maybe we will, I don't know. We'll see. We want to get hard shell kayaks Right now. We just got the inflatable kind, and mine's not actually a kayak when we bought them. We bought them with our COVID stimulus checks. We're like, hey, let's get some kayaks. We're like, okay, so I'm looking at kayaks, weird and well to get out of the house, you know everything was closed.

Speaker 6

Yeah, everything was closed, yeah.

Speaker 4

We started getting. You could only do so much in the house until it's like we got to get out of here and kayaking was great. But when I was looking up kayaks, we couldn't really transport the hard shell kayaks.

Speaker 5

We had to get inflatable. You don't have a truck.

Speaker 4

They do have weight limits. Oh and I'm all about safety and I couldn't need I couldn't get a one person kayak at the time I had to get a two person, two person kayak. So I get a two-person kayak. So I'm a two-person kayak guy. That's how I describe my weight. Now I'm a two-person kayak. Mine is actually like a canoe and it's big and yellow. It looks like a giant banana. So I'm just out paddling with a giant banana. We had a good time.

Speaker 5

Take it out to Driper.

Speaker 4

I think we did no, no, no, we went to Thunderbird a couple of times. That's just gross, I can't do it anymore.

Speaker 5

So when we go Lake, Murray, take him out until you fall in. Come see me out of here Canoe around.

Speaker 4

We did go to Lake. Overholser one time. That was okay. They have like that weird channel area Huh.

Speaker 5

I did not know y'all kayak yeah.

Speaker 4

You don't. We're outdoor people. No, I don't know Same.

Speaker 5

I didn't see it on Snapchat or whatever, so I'll believe it. You didn't see it on TikTok. Yeah, I don't believe it. You didn't see my.

Speaker 4

TikTok live. I did record because we were even taking little hikes during the original COVID lockdown stuff and so I would do trail walking with Shane Hargis. So on my YouTube channel I'm doing funny bits doing that and I did on the water with Shane Hargis. Wow, I missed that. I guess filming from my kayak or my banana boat, so I'll have to check it out. Well, Lisa, thank you for coming on and helping us kick off our little season five premiere.

Speaker 6

It was fun. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 4

Yeah, laugh factory.

Speaker 5

Wait, what's the actor factory.

Speaker 4

She's a standup comedian now at the Actor Laugh Factory.

Speaker 1

Actor Factory.

Speaker 5

Actor Factory.

Speaker 6

Actor.

Speaker 5

Factory.

Speaker 7

And that's it.

Speaker 4

Thank you everybody. See you next time. Oh you know what I usually play, this Right.

Speaker 5

Get it together.

Speaker 4

Ciao, baby Gross.

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