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Potty Mouth and Proud with Karla Serrato
Karla Serrato joins us to discuss her multifaceted career as an audiobook narrator, actress, and podcast host while sharing candid insights about the entertainment industry and creative life. She opens up about finding her voice through various mediums, from Second City improv to her taboo-breaking podcast adventures.
• Co-host of PottyMouth Poopcast, tackling taboo topics with scientific depth and humor
• Audiobook narration career that started during the pandemic after years of curiosity about the craft
• Second City improv experience since 2017, including performing in equity stage productions
• Finding creative community through comedy and performing arts in Chicago
• The Fifth Element ranks as her all-time favorite film for its storytelling, romance, and sci-fi elements
• Thoughts on representation in media and what drew her to certain actors like Sandra Bullock
• Realistic perspective on pursuing SNL and other high-profile entertainment opportunities
• Practical advice for aspiring actors: get an agent through SAG-AFTRA affiliated channels
• The challenges and rewards of creating authentic content in today's digital landscape
excuse me, is anybody sitting here?
Speaker 2:sorry, this is taken sorry, um, you know, oscars have you seen? Have you guys watched the oscars? I have not. No, I've been dying to talk about it because, like I said, I've been sick and and I even had a chance to talk about the Oscars, but I liked it a lot. It was nothing spectacular happened, but Conan O'Brien I wanted to talk about his performance because I love Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love him too. I had a friend that was obsessed with him, but I don't really watch awards very often.
Speaker 2:I don't know why You'd rather be on an award show soon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, very often I don't know why you rather be on award show soon. Yeah, yeah, but I do like watching like afterwards and like this is what so-and-so wore and this is what so-and-so wore, and that was a funny part, and can you believe this?
Speaker 2:so you're more into the highlights part, I guess. So, yeah, yeah, I think my dream job is honestly to be a seat filler. Okay, that that's an actual thing yeah, when people could get up to use a restroom or something like that someone. They don't want an empty audience, so they have someone come there, sit there until they get back. I would love that. I would be such a fly on the wall no way, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:You had me at seat filler job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how much it pays, but just hang out with celebrities and stuff like that. That's, that's very cool. Um, thank you for tuning in to this. He's taken around your host, rob miranda. I got a very special episode this week, um, now normally I do movie reviews, talk about actresses, but today I got one on miss carla serrato. Thank you for coming on, carla. I think I might have mentioned you before on this podcast because I recapped podfest with my friend fernando and you were one of the people we met down there in podfest. You were actually on a panel, um, on a comedy panel, with like eight other comedians on there. You guys were all talking about comedy and then it seemed like everyone in the room got it, thought it was a platform to do five minutes, but you were definitely, I would say, the top two funniest people there, because everyone else was kind of like dad jokes good, yep, good, yes, good to know, I mean yeah I've got.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've got some definite like uh suggestions for next year.
Speaker 2:I'm excited yeah, well, they had open stand-up comedy like an open mic that night. There too I wanted to go. I want it would seem interesting, but I wanted to go. But it was a room probably just as small as this and and I don't know If it was like a big venue or like a stage at least, or I think it was just like a foot higher than everybody else. I wish it was a little bit different. But I mentioned, we met at PodFest because you have a podcast. You're co-host of Potty Mouth Podcast Potty.
Speaker 3:Mouth.
Speaker 2:Poop Podcast Potty Mouth. Poop Podcast Potty Mouth.
Speaker 3:Podcast was unfortunately taken when we started our journey, so we're like, okay, we'll just, we'll just do this, and you know what? It ended up being cut. A good thing, because it kind of describes what our podcast is about a little bit better.
Speaker 2:Uh, it's about poop, yeah, and all things taboo. I I debated, I'm telling I'll, I'll get to it, but like telling them poop stories about myself, because that's what you're all about. But on top of that podcast host, you're also an award winning audio narrator, audio book narrator. You're an actress, as I mentioned before, and you have a background in theater. I want to talk to you a lot about Second City pretty soon. But, as I mentioned, you're an actress. People can see you in stuff like chicago med, chicago fire, the quarantine files and the 2017 movie dissolved the game truth. I tried, I did look up like trailers and stuff like that. Yeah, it looks awesome, it's an. It's an indie horror and it is streaming. Um, is that your favorite genre horror?
Speaker 3:it is not I actually I. I can't watch a lot of it because I'll have nightmares. I'm just a tender little thing.
Speaker 2:Is it less scary on set than making the horror movies? Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 3:There's nothing scary about it when you're on set.
Speaker 2:I'm a big pussy. I'm pretty open about that. I'm a big pussy when it comes to horror movies. Because of this podcast, I've been forcing myself to watch more horror movies and I've become a fan. I don't do paranormal stuff like um, like the annabelle movies, the conjuring, oh okay, I see what you mean. Now those stuff, because that's stuff based on real stuff. I can't do that that's definitely horrifying.
Speaker 3:That's exactly why I can't do it. Oh, this is my sister, by the way.
Speaker 2:We have your sister here as well, like a live audience. That might be on the podcast a little bit, but she's also your co-host in the poopy podcast poopy poop, potty mouth podcast.
Speaker 3:It's a tongue twister it's a potty mouth poop cast. And you know, can I tell a really quick side story our first no, our second pod fest that we ever went to, which was um. In 2020, 2020, just before the shutdowns, we met one of our best friends, um madison, who always also has a podcast now, but but anyway, she was trying to learn our name and she was like, oh, you do the Putty Mouth Poopcast. What did she say?
Speaker 2:It is a tongue twister.
Speaker 3:Putty Mouth Popcast. It came out of her mouth and it was so funny.
Speaker 1:We cracked up. She's from the South, so she has an accent, so that with the different words was great Putty Mouth Popcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, different words was great. The pootie mouth podcast, yeah, it was good. Let's just plug the podcast right now. Like, uh, it's obviously about poop, but it's not just about poop, like, because I listened to a couple episodes years and the one I like the latest one listened to was like um, I just found her the elephant poop one. You guys also get like science facts about these poops. It's fascinating.
Speaker 3:We've learned a lot actually about like the science of like gastrointestinal functionings, and some of the stuff that we've had to delve into has really taught us. It's been really educational. So it's not just like scatological humor. We do talk about some serious stuff, because it's about poo and all things taboo and like that can be also very subjective like what's taboo to you, what's taboo to them like poop wasn't taboo to me and so I used to have an.
Speaker 2:I used to have another podcast called the dolly parton podcast. The joke was like we never talked about dolly parton, um, but I told a poop story on there. Everyone's done it. I'm just gonna say, like everyone's pooped themselves and I told the story on there and these my friends were trying to set me up with this girl at the time and she heard that story and she just lost all interest. So, like I was, like I've shared too much on some of these pockets I would have gone into like a bunch of questions like where was it?
Speaker 1:what consistency? Oh no how long did your car smell like?
Speaker 2:no, it was. I'll just tell it because I was debating on telling a story on this podcast. Because, um, it was only like three or four years ago, like I was a grown-ass adult in this. Um, I just got home from work, I ate some mexican food and then I was gonna take my dog for a walk and it's like a little under two mile walk. At the halfway point, the part where I'm furthest away from my house, I get bubble guts. I was like, oh my God, I get bubble guts. And I was like, let's hurry this walk up. So I'm pulling my dog and he's one of those dogs that wants to stop and smell everything, so I'm dragging him.
Speaker 2:It's getting worse and worse. Now I walked him around my neighborhood. The neighborhood's like broken up into two sections, like by a giant creek. There's a bridge connecting each side and the bridge is between two houses and once I got to that bridge, it hits me. I froze. I was like, oh no, it's happening. Yeah, exactly, I got goosebumps and everything it's happening. It's like there's nothing. My first instinct after I could move was like I gotta take my pad, like lower my pants.
Speaker 2:I was like because there was bushes, I was on the bridge. Like right off the bridge there's two bushes like bushes and the house on the other side of the bushes. I dropped my pants and I'm like getting in the bush as close as I can. Like a lot of the finish are coming out and my dog's like oh, where does this smell? He thinks it's like Party time. Exactly, he's all on me. I'm like less than half a block away from my house too. I was so close to making it. Oh, it feels the worst. So my dad was home at the time and I called him. I need you to come pick up this dog. Like is this bad? I told him the whole situation. He comes, he picks up the dog. He tried to get me in the car. He's like I'm not going to ruin your car, I'm just going to walk it out.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to walk it out, but like you know this is way TMI, but like it's like dripping down my leg at this point and the worst part about this story I'm probably on someone's ring camera, honestly, oh no. After that I told my family I'm not working this dog anymore.
Speaker 3:Tragic human events yeah.
Speaker 1:That's so kind that they were just like shit happens. I thought you were going to say that they came out with a toilet paper.
Speaker 2:No, I'm glad they waited until Lisa was gone. Yeah, but of yeah, but I told that story on the podcast and this girl was like, yeah, I'm good See, but that's a good indicator that this was not your person.
Speaker 3:If you can't handle my poop stories, goodbye.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm with somebody now who I haven't told that story to, so by the time she'll listen to this, we'll test it out. I'll take it early some of this.
Speaker 1:We'll test it out yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:How far deep are you guys in your podcast right now?
Speaker 3:uh, we, we took a really long break, um, and we got three seasons in, so now we're on season four. Yeah, and I don't know how many episodes each sarah's more of like the about about 13 or 14 each season, and then this season.
Speaker 1:So far we've only done four that's pretty good.
Speaker 2:I tried taking a break once, but it's hard to come back and like regain the following. It's hard, but you you guys are always busy like especially you, carl, like you're all over town. I think you just got back from new york not too long ago yeah, I did.
Speaker 3:I went to a conference, uh, audio publishers association so about that.
Speaker 2:How did you get an audiobook?
Speaker 3:uh over the pandemic. I've always wanted to do it, so my mom used to listen to she still does listen to like books on cd and I and I would always wonder like, how did that person do that?
Speaker 3:like that's a job and I was always curious like how they did that, but I never like looked it up or tried to figure it out for myself. And then I became an actor and I still was interested. It's just not something that I look like really worked hard to figure out. Then, during the pandemic, I'm like, okay, now's the time. So there just happened to be a course at a studio, um, an acting studio that I like to go to. It was the business of audiobooks and I did it over the pandemic.
Speaker 3:It was really I learned some so much good stuff about just getting started, but it actually took a really long time like over six months it was. It was probably close to a year before I actually did anything with the knowledge that I gained, because getting started is the hardest part. We even started like a support group for each other or accountability group where it's like, okay, where are you at in the journey? And most of us were just struggling to live our everyday lives and start. Most people, even if they started, they have stopped since. So it's rough because it can't just be like a side hustle that you can't sort of do.
Speaker 2:I think people think it's a lot easier because, I mean, I couldn't tell you the last time I read out loud since high school, because every once in a while I read the descriptions of movies on this podcast. People definitely can tell I'm not a reader. That is hard in the job itself. On top of that you've got to make it sound interesting too. I've read, or I've heard, a couple of audiobooks on tape. I'm really big on celebrity autobiographies. Matthew Perry's book it's a great book. The audiobook it's him reading. He just read it so dry and so boring.
Speaker 3:I was like come on, dude. It's funny. They say don't, if you author a book, don't narrate it. That's like the general rule and like publishers will suggest that heavily to their authors. But sometimes they just want to do it and a lot of celebrities are pretty good performers, so they'll do a good job typically.
Speaker 2:But you know, yeah, I mean on top of like just reading all wow, like I said, you gotta make it like. You gotta sound excited and sound thrilling. You know it's a lot of it's acting. That's what it is and you're that's pretty good about your acting.
Speaker 3:How long you've been acting for uh you know I have different anniversaries, so I've I've been acting since I was in high school, uh, but then I didn't, and then I had an agent right out of college, but I didn't really start working until about like the last five to six years. So like for the last let's see five it's about 10 to 15 years I've been acting like with I have an agent and stuff, but really going hard, maybe the last seven ish years, yeah was it a transition from theater into acting, or was it vice versa?
Speaker 3:um. So here it was. I went to school for it was theater, a theater-based um acting degree. I really my passion is tv and film like I would love to just make movies, and I'd be happy if that's all I did yeah um, but having a theater background is great because it helps you be a lot more, I guess, diverse.
Speaker 3:You can step into like film acting and you can do, uh, comedy and sketch and stand up a lot easier than if you just train in like film acting, because it's very heavily technical to do tv and film film acting.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's pretty cool. Uh, and I mentioned second city. A lot of people don't know what that is, but that's a big improv company to get a foot in the door. A lot of celebrities come from there, like I have ready, like tina faye, steve carell, dan arkroyd, bill murray, chris farley and jason sudeikis, just to name a few. And those are I think those aren't specifically from chicago too, because there is one in la, I believe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they have they have it out there in, I think, toronto.
Speaker 2:I want to say how long were you out there? For how long were you doing that?
Speaker 3:Here in Chicago. I've only done work at Second City here in Chicago. I started my journey there in 2017. I've loved improv since I can remember. Since I was doing warm-ups in high school, we would do improv games and in college I had this I guess I don't know this moment where I auditioned for the one big improv troupe and I didn't get in and they kind of in not so many words, told me that I sucked.
Speaker 1:And so.
Speaker 3:I thought that I sucked and I guess I just didn't have a great audition or it wasn't their type of improviser. So I just like took that at face value and let that be the end of that. And it was years before, and so then in 20 and that was what I don't know maybe like 2015, 24, no two, no, early 2000s. We're in the city of chicago, it's okay, okay, 2015, 24.
Speaker 2:No, no, early two thousands.
Speaker 3:We're in the city of Chicago.
Speaker 2:It's okay.
Speaker 3:Okay. So years later I'm like you know what I haven't done in so long and I would really like to go back and do improv. So I go to improv for actors. They have three levels, bus through that, I do the conservatory and and then I get calls to audition for some of their their equity stages. They have three equity stages. So I auditioned for one of their shows. It was like a Christmas show just out of the pandemic. It was one of the first shows that they were doing back in when we were like wearing masks and rehearsal and all this stuff.
Speaker 3:So in 2021, I did a show there um, deck the hallmark. I was the lead in that Um, and then I understudied to show best fricking songs of the second city, Um, and I've auditioned for a bunch of other stuff too, but yeah, that's, that was that's been my journey with with them. I would love to go back and work. It's a lot of fun. Um, it's a good gig.
Speaker 2:It's good people I thought, like for a quick minute, about trying to do something like that, like second city is like, but those, like I just listed all the actors like those are heavy hitters and it's intimidating almost. But like, like you said, like it takes one person to say something, not even negative, just like, eh, it was okay, it crushed my dream right there. Now you should stay here, now you could be honest. Is she funny? Is she good with improv?
Speaker 1:She's one of my favorite people to hang out with, because it's always just guaranteed at least a giggle here and there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But for sure.
Speaker 2:It's just so much fun Everything.
Speaker 1:At least a giggle here and there, yeah, yeah, but for sure it's just your podcast. Fun everything, I don't know. Just life is so much more lighter and hilarious, I would say.
Speaker 2:Your guys's podcast is pretty funny too, but I'll give props to you because your laugh on there is infectious. It is awesome. Sorry, it is funny, though you make it more fun and relatable, I would say it's weird.
Speaker 1:I don't think we've ever gotten feedback like from an person. Yeah, we get a little comments.
Speaker 3:We get feedback from robots.
Speaker 2:Oh, trust me, I'm there. I wish I get feedback from robots, actually, but my sister is also my biggest supporter too. She lets me know if I'm funny or not.
Speaker 3:That's why it's always important to ask, and you know, they're just going to be ruthlessly honest. Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm like if people don't believe me, they can just hang out with her. See, it's true.
Speaker 3:I think one of the one of the most fun parts about now that I'm thinking about it about um, doing comedy in Chicago was when I was doing my like the education portion.
Speaker 3:I would say, uh, at second city you meet people that you want to continue working with and, like I'm still, I'm still friends with people that I've just I started, you know, just doing classes with and you'll you can form like groups and do your own thing and create and it just feeds your artistic need, like the juices flow in and it really I feel like it helped me through some really hard times, like to just be meeting up with people that want to be creative and collaborate on something and create something that's cool. So we like I was a part of a, a sketch group. It was all female sketch group and we put on shows around the city and and it was just some of the most fun I've ever had in my life and I'm still friends with that's cool everybody, which is really cool I mean, I felt the same exact way like at a pod fest, because there's people just like us out there.
Speaker 2:Like we have their own podcast, some people are starting out, some people are seasoned and got great advice. Um, and that came at a perfect time too, because, like I'm three years deep in, I'm at the point like I'm self-doubting myself, I don't want to get out, but then you go out there, be creative with a bunch of people. It I was like okay, I'm on the right track, I'm doing everything right. Everyone else is having the same problems as me, so I'm doing something right. So it was great. And, uh, there's actually another one coming up here in chicago soon. I'm excited because I'm from north indiana. It's like chicago, I'm like 45 minutes away from chicago. Um, and I want to meet more people out here because, like Chicago is like a lot more creative than Indiana. Sorry, no, I'm not sorry at all. There's, like you know, you met my friend Fernando. He's the only other person I know in Indiana with a podcast. So a lot of us is just feeding off each other like content, creating stuff like that.
Speaker 3:You want to tell me you don't know.
Speaker 2:Ashley Flowers, oh, but you don't do paranormal, oh yeah, that's the only reason I know it sounds super familiar, though it's like people are used to hearing my dog in the background anyway, so it's okay so ashley flowers and oh my gosh, I am so blanking on her co-host.
Speaker 3:Uh, they, they're um.
Speaker 2:They have the um crime junkie podcast oh duh, but those they're like, they're like indian towards more towards indianapolis, I would say yeah, yeah, okay, so that's not super north.
Speaker 3:But yeah, and they have what like Audio Chuck now and a bunch of different podcasts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like one of the biggest podcasters in America right now.
Speaker 3:I listen to a lot of the spinoffs.
Speaker 2:See the thing with crime junkies, like for me, like I like to listen to podcasts in the car. If I listen to it in the car, if I listen to on the way to work, and I'll stop it, I'll forget everything that happens. I was like what the hell, what are they talking about? I forgot about this guy.
Speaker 3:And yeah, um, another big thing that you're into is, uh, comedy, because you hosted a couple santa comedy events too, right uh, I hosted back when I was doing the education and I met people and they were like okay, so we've got this show we want to put on for like valentine's day or something, and I would host that um, that's very cool itself because that's like a little bit of comedy work too.
Speaker 2:You got to be funny between each guest for so.
Speaker 3:So usually it's um, if it's going to be stand-up or some sort of variety, you do have your host that comes out and kind of does their a few like a, like a type five kind of loosey goosey and also hosts and, just you know, improvises and does crowd work. But I haven't done that because I don't have a type five, I don't have, I don't have jokes yeah literally I can do, I can talk to people crowd work yeah and I'm in that, but that's like so stand up.
Speaker 3:People have told me I should do stand up, but it kind of terrifies me because, first of all, I don't. I don't think I'm a very good writer. I will write and I have written and taking courses on comedy writing, but I feel like my jokes are no good. So I'm like I also feel like there's just so much work that has to go into it extra now where it's like, will I get canceled? How many apps do I give um? Yeah about whether or not I don't yeah, because it's it's.
Speaker 2:Some people come out there like they don't like. Shane gillis is one of my favorite comedians and he's just, he could almost say anything versus if someone else were to say the same like jokes they probably would get canceled. It's just like the type of vibe you bring out and, like you said, it's hard deciding because I'm sure that limits. That limits you top of what work you would get to in the future. I thought about stand-up for like five minutes too and I did write like a joke and I was midway. I told my friends this joke. Midway through it Someone comes in who didn't see like, oh, this is my stand-up routine.
Speaker 3:I was like what is he?
Speaker 2:doing? I was like oh gosh, I guess it's not that funny. Yeah, what is he doing? I was like oh gosh.
Speaker 3:I guess it's not that funny, yeah, I think with standup, you have to, you really do have to be a very like specific kind of person, Um, with, and it's. It's interesting because most comedians I know we're all very highly traumatized folk, typically neuro, neuro, diverse, Um, I'm very much generalizing but like, I feel like that's part of why we're up there is because we need this outlet. But, um, I don't know, I think that it takes a very special kind of person. That can you know. You have to be okay with people not liking your jokes. You're gonna bomb at some point multiple times probably.
Speaker 3:I feel like I don't know if I want to do that. I'd rather take somebody else's words and make them come alive would you write for somebody? I totally would like I've actually thought about. It'd be cool if to to be a writer on a show. Again, I'm not super confident with my writing. I feel like I have good ideas, but transforming them into like a script.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you got to make it seem natural and real. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:So that's where it starts to break down for me.
Speaker 2:Do you have a dream show that you'd like to write for oh man?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:No, but I really like everything that Mindy Kaling does.
Speaker 2:She's great. Oh my gosh. I watch the Office all the time. It's my comfort show.
Speaker 3:I just love everything she's coming back with a show I think right.
Speaker 1:Done. Yes, I can't remember what the name is.
Speaker 2:I know she had the Mindy Project. I don't know if it was a reboot of that or something completely different.
Speaker 3:It never. That was another really hilarious show, yeah.
Speaker 2:She's also just a fun personality to follow too, like her and BJ Novak. They're still friends and stuff like that. They're fun. Snl is pretty big improv. Do you think you would like to do that one day?
Speaker 3:I would love to do that. Yeah, I don't want that to be like my one. Oh my gosh, beacon, I will accomplish this or die, like if I had the opportunity to audition for them and they like me or whatever. That would be really cool. But it's also really tough, a tough life and especially if you have, like, a family, it would be really hard, like totally worth it, I'm sure but I think even like Jimmy, jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert have like talked about oh yeah, I've heard about it yeah yeah, on top of that, I don't even think they get that much money.
Speaker 2:I think, like they came out with like how much they make and it's like barely enough for their apartment out there in New York.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they get a lot of their deal like money from like doing ads and stuff like that On the movies they start doing those which I wouldn't shake a finger at.
Speaker 3:I don't know if that's the right saying.
Speaker 2:I've never heard that, but yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't shake a stick at it. Is that it? I don't know. We're really bad with quotes, it's okay.
Speaker 3:Proverbs Metaphors.
Speaker 2:No, it's okay. Metaphors no proverbs. English proverbs yeah, proverbs, I think it's just english we're not good at anymore. Um, now we're based out here in chicago. Have you thought about relocating to like la or new york, even?
Speaker 3:every dang day yeah uh, when I I wanted to move to la right out of high school in hindsight I'm glad I didn't, because I would have gotten eaten alive, um. But now I feel like, especially since I'm, since I'm a mom, I feel like I'm I'm happy to have like a home base and chicago has grown to be such a great hub for like an artistic hub.
Speaker 3:It has always been like rich in theater yeah but now it has really great film scene like a lot of indies and the tv shows are being done here.
Speaker 2:I mean it's on the dark night here, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:So we've got a lot, plenty going on here to like keep me busy, but also I can go anywhere and now that most things are virtual, like all my auditions are virtual, like most callbacks are. But yeah, I've always dreamt of living in California. I like the weather. I'm like I want a piece out of the Chicago winter.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Yesterday it was like 75 and today it's like snowing. Yeah, it's a blizzard outside.
Speaker 3:So I'd be okay with being done with that and living that life for a little while, see what it's like and take my chances and stuff. But it would be challenging. It's a big commitment, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but Chicago has a lot going on. I would say it's definitely the top three cities of all of America. I mean like yeah, the weather's nice in other places, but like we have everything you need here.
Speaker 2:Like I weather's nice in other places, but, like, we have everything you need here, like. So, there's movies, there's shows, years. There's beaches, beaches, terrible beaches, but they're there, they're there. We have, like chicago teams and um, everything out here. You know, we don't got to worry about fires or earthquakes or anything like that that's another real big plus.
Speaker 3:I'm like, if I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel like I would. I would never be the same. I would never be the same. I will never be the same Because I've never experienced one. So it's like, yeah, have you.
Speaker 2:It's pretty scary.
Speaker 3:There was one that happened somewhere in Illinois.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was in Chicago. What when?
Speaker 3:the Northwest suburbs.
Speaker 1:The point is that I remember it. It was a very wonky feeling.
Speaker 2:Do you remember that big earthquake I think it was last year or the year before in new york? I seen that tiktok of a girl who said she's like I'm gonna start exercising and the second she started doing jump ropes the earthquake. I was like that would, I would just yeah have you tried getting like um, are they on tiktok consistently, like making skits or anything like that?
Speaker 3:no, I have, uh, thought about it. I I don't know why I'm like. I feel like one more social media that I have to pay attention to might break my brain, but I do know that that's a great way to like get more of a following so tiktok go ahead.
Speaker 1:We almost did because I remember Carla's Corner. We almost did that because I had told her before TM, by the way, Like you're funny. Like people, even if you're not like obviously funny, but there's a quality about you that people are going to want to rewatch and stuff and who knows, that could lead to an audition of something like that oh yeah, we an audition of something like that. Oh yeah, we were close for her to do it, but then, yeah, it was too much.
Speaker 2:Who was it? Someone just came out and said it was a famous director too. They're starting to go out after more people who are famous on the internet because they have a following and stuff like that. Who was that? I can't remember who it was.
Speaker 3:I think I know what you mean. Yeah, it's kind of a thing now in theater too, like they will, no one will. Some places may or may not say this out loud or admit it. But yeah, if you have a following it's that doesn't hurt it definitely helps.
Speaker 2:It definitely helps your chances. I would say yep and then some people in the movies. I was how did you end up on the screen? You know, yeah, yeah, tiktok is definitely hard because you got to be on it like three or four times a day. That's what I hear and I don't know if I want that life. It's a big commitment and you see some stuff like someone tripping and falling get like millions of views, but I put in time and effort to write a skit.
Speaker 3:And it does like 100 views. I was like, come on, yeah, yeah, I've thought about doing that. I even told my agent, but they kind of were like you have to be really careful because you might especially when I think about this often with our podcast, because we will say we, you know it's potty mouth and we will drop all kinds of bombs on there. But I feel like I'm constantly like just tracking, okay, like what did I? Did I mention any like brands or insurance companies, or because it's happened where people lose jobs because of the content that they have out on the social media.
Speaker 3:So my agent's like just be very careful if you're going to want to do something like that, cause I'm like I have so many ideas and I feel like because of how slow work can be sometimes like there will be pockets of time where, like, auditions are really slow and nobody's really doing much. It's like, okay, so then create your own stuff. But I'm like, yeah, I have all these ideas. I would love to just like put it on TikTok or whatever.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, that was like the suggestion that was given and I'm like you know what that's fine Works with my I can't be up there three, four times a day anyway with my lifestyle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean the thing about, also another thing about, tiktok. It's a lot of competition out there too and it makes it harder for anyone to break out because, yeah, I can make a joke and someone can make the same exact joke and they get like big clout from it. So I mean it is tough to get out there too. Um, I don't want to go into the movie because this is a movies podcast too. What are some of your favorite movies? Oh boy, this is a big hard question.
Speaker 3:So my favorite movie of all time is the fifth element. Oh okay, but oh my god, the direction. Oh my god, look, oh my god, look I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm real brit chelsea clinton no, it's m night and I love.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny? Because I I recently found out that they um directed another movie that I really like. Let's see luke bessen bessen, really Really. That was a director Hmm, yeah, it's a French filmmaker, luc Paul Maurice Besson. Yeah, and they also directed Leon the Professional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's another good movie.
Speaker 2:I never heard of that one Interesting.
Speaker 1:It's really good.
Speaker 2:Interesting. I gotta watch that.
Speaker 3:Not paranormal you'll like it, right? Yeah, so it's uh with bruce, bruce willis and mila jovovich, that's how you say it um, it also has what's his name chris tucker chris tucker and um, the other one, the english man, the irish or the scottman, what's his name? Oh my God, I'm terrible at this. It's your favorite one, maybe it's not. You know what I watch it. I'm not the like most people. When they watch a movie they'll like go in and look at all the stats and who it is.
Speaker 3:I don't, I'm just like wow, that was great.
Speaker 2:I mean, I just saw a video yesterday. This guy prefers, like he wished, trailers didn't exist. You know, I agree with that to an extent, but I could see why, because nothing's worse than when you go to the movies and all the best scenes are in the trailers.
Speaker 1:Yes, they'll do that now, or the way that they edit the trailer. It makes it seem like a totally different movie.
Speaker 3:Like the pacing. It's just like. This is what it's going to be like. No, it used to be like that and it's Gary Oldman I love Gary Oldman.
Speaker 1:Oh, that guy. I was thinking of a Scottish guy in the movie.
Speaker 2:That's what I would also say.
Speaker 1:No, he's like that's Austin Powers with that mask on.
Speaker 3:No, he's English.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:But I love him. I mean, I basically have a thing for everybody in this movie. It's just such good storytelling. There's constantly a ticking clock, there's romance, there's action, there's sci-fi and I don't know. There's just something about it that really sparks my imagination. So that's my favorite movie of all time. Have you seen it?
Speaker 2:I haven't seen it in years but I remember it being a big part of my childhood. Yeah, it was a good movie. I'm not huge huge into sci-fi. I like, feel good.
Speaker 1:I think one of my top three movies of all time is the movie Chef with Jon Favreau Love it.
Speaker 2:That's my top three movies all the time is the movie chef with john favreau love it. That's my top three movies of all time. I'm a sucker for anything for like a dad and son relationship, so that's probably why I have a good relationship with my dad too. Uh, you would think I'm traumatized. Uh, yeah, actually there's a lot of sophia robert downey jr's in there for a second Jaleb.
Speaker 1:Muzamo, and I had a dream about him two nights ago.
Speaker 2:We were friends, I remember I'm sorry Go ahead.
Speaker 3:I was going to say I remember when this came out and I did want to see it because the trailers looked good, it's fun and it's great music in there too.
Speaker 2:I just didn't end up seeing it, and you definitely I follow these creative after this one, because it's a lot about cooking too. I mean, I definitely want to be like more try new recipes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:It is pretty cool I like movies that have uh cooking in it. Uh, I like magical realism like I love it. So when it's in a in a movie or a show or play, I'm all about it. I will eat that shit up.
Speaker 1:Excuse me for the for the you're good the lane for people who don't know. I know, but you know. Maybe others don't know. What is a magical realism?
Speaker 3:uh, it don't know what is a magical realism? It's basically what it sounds like, so it's taking a moment that might be realistic but injecting some magic into it. So, for example, in Como, agua para Chocolate like Water for Chocolate. They will have scenes where somebody's cooking and they're so sad and they cry and the tears go. Where somebody's cooking and they're so sad and they cry and the tears go into the batter or whatever they're making. So they make a cake and at the wedding, when everyone's having the cake, everyone starts to cry. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2:I didn't see that movie, but I think they did a parody of that on Family Guy, I think it's so potent.
Speaker 3:So the fact that people are making a cake and eating it and it's a wedding, nothing supernatural or sci-fi is happening. This is realistic. But the part that's magical or not realistic is the part where absolutely everybody's crying because they feel the sadness and the pain from the tears that were injected into this cake. Is it a sad movie? It sounds kind of sad. I mean, yeah, it could be a little sad Sometimes.
Speaker 2:I want that, though Sometimes tears that were injected into this cake. Is it a sad?
Speaker 3:movie. It sounds kind of sad it. I mean it's a yeah, it's, it could be a little sometimes I want that, though sometimes I want to cry yeah it's got that like emotional tugging it's about the.
Speaker 3:You know it's part of, you know, part of the human experience and it's a story of these, these families. Um, I think selma hayek made a show like a limited series and I have yet to see it, because I got so excited when I saw that she was doing this, but I never actually ended up seeing it. I miss so much because it's so hard to keep track to keep up, rather, with all the movies that do come out there's a ton yeah so many good tv shows.
Speaker 3:They're just getting like churned out and I'm also like I love this. I don't have time for all this. But also, if you're gonna make a show, can you like cast me in one, because there's so many, I feel like there's room well, like there's room now.
Speaker 2:Have you tried getting into the bear here in chicago?
Speaker 3:I've had some auditions.
Speaker 1:I have not been cast in the bear that's such a good show too, I know it's so good she keeps telling me and it's on my list, but max audition oh really yeah, he what for?
Speaker 2:yeah, so he's, he's also that's like a show, like the cast is breaking off from that show too and doing big, huge things right now. Um, you talk about like magical realism one of my favorite ones too also. It's not really magic in there, but, um, the secret life of walter middy with ben stiller. That's a really good, feel good kind of movie, has a bunch of quotes in there and everything that I follow every day. There's a different side of him too. He directed it too. I'm a big fan of when actors Ben Stiller, when actors turn and direct movies as well, too Well, now he's directing Severance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he created it. I don't know if he created it, but he directed most, if not all, of first season and season two, which I haven't started season two yet, but it's a good show.
Speaker 3:I feel like Adam Sandler has started doing that now in his older years, where he's directing and starring in stuff that's a lot more serious.
Speaker 2:I feel like he's at a point in his career where he can take chances like that too. Are you guys excited for the Happy Gilmore 2?
Speaker 1:too, I never saw the first one, oh my gosh. Okay, so robert's head just explained that's such a good movie because I don't want to. There's so many movies like, for example, um, the one with the tower nakatomi tower heist oh yeah, die hard, die hard. I haven't that. I haven't seen Ghostbusters. There's so many movies that I haven't seen, just because we grew up in a very Mexican household so it's not like they partook in those kinds of things. There's a lot that I want to watch, but I haven't.
Speaker 2:It's okay, I'm the same way too. I haven't seen a lot of classics, yeah classics, missing a lot of classics.
Speaker 3:It's a classic void.
Speaker 2:What's that? One with Denzel Not Die Hard?
Speaker 3:The other one, pulp Fiction.
Speaker 2:Sure. The one where he gives a Mel Gibson and yeah, we use the speech like yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't seen that one Small stuff like that, stuff like that. I haven't Like Godfathers, I haven't seen those, yeah same.
Speaker 3:Ooh, I have to know them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah exactly exactly Every night, three movies. It's hard, like you said, there's so many shows right now too, because there's going to be an episode coming up pretty soon on the podcast where I talk about TV shows and and once you're like once the show's successful. Already it's already had like three, four seasons behind it and now I'm just like I got to like catch up and most of the good shows are like an hour plus long, like Yellowstone. I started watching that. The first episode's almost two hours. I was like this is a damn movie.
Speaker 1:Whoa With.
Speaker 2:Kevin Costner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't seen that my parents are.
Speaker 2:Okay it's gonna be by cowboys, like what's that gonna be into that, but it's, if you like, sons of anarchy and um, empire it's. It's similar to those, like it's a bunch of family drama and stuff that comes out at the end. I'm also on watching landman right now. It's kind of similar with billy bob thornton, who I love, yeah that's great.
Speaker 1:Bad santa, that's kind of one of my favorite bad, samas are big I still.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that those are definitely early 2000s humor, where you can get away with a lot of stuff there was.
Speaker 1:It was just after that we're just like yeah.
Speaker 2:And then they made bad santa 2 was like okay, this kind of cut to close right yeah, I think they're like, let's capitalize on the little bit of a I was gonna say.
Speaker 3:Can I ask you a question? Sure okay, I always like to talk to movie reviewing people about water world that's been on those podcasts with kevin costner oh yeah, I mean I missed it.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry you're gonna tell me you haven't listened to all like 200 episodes of my podcast. Okay, well then, maybe it's like that movie if I were to watch it at the time came out I was like this is probably the best movie in the world. But now now, as an adult and with all the like, I looked up a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff too. It was fascinating how they made it Like they were legit on the water and all the sets were practical. That girl, the little girl in there, she's the girl from. She was in.
Speaker 3:Forever Andre.
Speaker 2:Napoleon, she's Napoleon Dynamite. That's all I know.
Speaker 3:Karina. Karina, she was in a lot of stuff when she was little.
Speaker 2:And that one is kind of like. I was kind of weird, like. So the storyline, like the love scenes were weird in that one, the action, the fighting.
Speaker 1:Like I said at the time, I'm sure it was awesome but I love that movie still Cause I watched it when it's when it recently came out and later and later and I still loved it. I kind of love the story.
Speaker 3:That's why I'm like what am I missing? Like okay, so I can sit back and be. Like okay, I can see why people are like this is terrible. I can see that, but it's also crazily. I love it. I don't know why?
Speaker 2:Well, and also a time like I forget, when it was made like early 90s, 80s. I remember my review. I can see the director's vision in there. They just didn't have the technical advances. It wanted to be like what's that one with Anna Taylor-Joy that just came out? Chris Hemsworth, cautionary Tale no, no, no, no, no. Something About Tomorrow? No, no, no. Mel Gibson has the original movies About the Wastel. Something about tomorrow? No, no. The mill gibson has the original movies about the wastelands. It just came out like last year.
Speaker 2:Uh, I don't know, joy stars in it. It's like a prequel. Max fury, max max. It kind of reminds me of that. But like, like I said, it was just trapped in its own time, like it didn't have the like technology we have today. Otherwise than that it would have been amazing, I think.
Speaker 2:And the thing that I saw, kevin concert put a lot of his own money in that movie. He does that for several movies and that to me is like okay, if the studio doesn't believe in it, I like I don't know how much I'm gonna believe in it, because he just did the same thing with, um, the westerns that came out like a year or two ago was gonna be part one, part two, part one is almost three hours long, if not three hours long, and it flops so hard like I don't even think they released part two. And uh, he put a lot of his own money in that too. Like it's like to me. Like, come on, if it's hard, if you describe up to this money like it's probably not worth making oh man, yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 3:I feel like kevin costner runs into that a lot and like, because the postman didn't do that well, but I loved it I loved the story.
Speaker 1:I loved like this, how slow it was for some reason. Usually I don't like that in movies.
Speaker 2:My favorite kevin costner movie is probably mcfarland mcfarland town that's a hispanic movie too. Like he's like it's a true story like he he plays this coach who gets fired from a football coach high school football coach who gets fired. He moves into this poor mexican town and he puts together track meet team or track cross-country team and he ends up winning state. It's a.
Speaker 1:It's a very feel-good movie too especially for hispanics, like, yeah, that's interesting. It's probably because if I see it's like a mostly about sports, I'm kind of not into it.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you definitely got to watch this. It's on Disney Plus right now because it's a Disney movie. What's it called again, mcfarlandtown?
Speaker 3:Yes, take this down with me. Hook is another one of my favorite movies. Okay, so it's the fifth element.
Speaker 2:With Robin Williams.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Hook.
Speaker 2:Okay, I want to know what these faces are. I know I remember seeing part. I don't think I watched it fully through.
Speaker 3:So hook is up there and, uh, the three amigos it's classic. Oh my god, I love that answer I mean a bunch of like disney movies, of course but, what would you say? Am I missing to wong fu? Thanks for everything. Julie newmar that's up there and I think because I, because I'm like there's five, I have like five favorite movies and I was able to.
Speaker 2:Are you guys on Letterboxd? I didn't know that for a while. I've heard of that. It's like Facebook for movie reviews. Yeah, you can list your top four on there too.
Speaker 3:I've been told I should get on that.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it's somewhere in my notes. A comedy I never knew about was Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. I just watched it the first time the other day Harlem Nights. I don't know if Eddie Murphy directed that. I said Eddie Murphy film so I was like okay it could be produced.
Speaker 3:Eddie Murphy does all kinds now too, or always has. Have you seen Bowfinger?
Speaker 2:no, you should see it. Ryan Snow too, or always has have you seen Bowfinger.
Speaker 3:No, bowfinger, bowfinger. You should see it because it's about filmmaking and it's so funny.
Speaker 1:It's really funny. It's one of those ensemble cast movies, so there's a lot of Heather Grahams in it. Robin, no, what's that lady with the tooth?
Speaker 2:Yeah, steve Martin and uh lots of people so you can have like movies about making movies. Seth Rogen just had a new show that just dropped called the Studio I believe I think it's an Apple when it's like a parody of like movies getting movies, and I don't know if he plays an agent or some studio executive. That is kind of raising controversy right now. It's like okay, you're shedding a bad light on stuff like that and he's like no, this is how the shit is, because I'm sure even you, carla, you see a lot of stuff that moviegoers like me don't even realize how the process works.
Speaker 2:To make an hour and a half movie, you've got to go through so many different stages. You've got to find funding, you've got to find like an hour and a half movie, you gotta go through so many different stages. You gotta find funny, you gotta find casting, you gotta do shoots, you gotta do reshoots, you gotta do promoting and stuff like that. I've heard good, I've seen great movies where if I don't go to the movies every single week, I wouldn't have known about it. You know, because like they don't do any marketing or something like that, or vice versa, like they do great marketing for it, for just an okay movie yeah, no, yeah there's.
Speaker 3:There's so much that goes into it and now there's so many people just making their own because it's so whack out there with with funding and who's putting what money where. So there's just a lack of people willing to take the risk, and I think that's a big reason why people are moving towards AI and it's and that's actually it's a big controversy too. It's like they're about they're making a film that's entirely AI right now and they're like well, would you watch it? And I think they're trying to see what people are like. What's going to ruffle feathers? Because I feel like the answer would be no, absolutely not. Um, of course I'd be curious, but I'm like I can live without that. Yeah, rather literally always see actual humans, and I know that like we use cgi?
Speaker 2:yeah, but what's somebody doing?
Speaker 3:cgi, though, you know because then what happens when like we these? Because then it's like what happens to celebrity? Where does that go? It doesn't belong to the person, they don't exist. So who are you actually following and looking up to and giving?
Speaker 2:your yeah, yeah it's.
Speaker 3:It just opens up all these like I feel like existential things where it's like we, I feel like it's it. It contributes to the disconnection of our humanity this is a busy quarter, um kind of forget about that, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Um, I think about the lizard, yeah, yeah, so one of the things that people don't well, a couple of reasons why people don't like AI one is take away from jobs, from actual people, and two, like like you mentioned, like you're going to replace, you can't really replace all the heartfelt moments in movies with a computer Like, um, it just doesn't seem to work. I reviewed a movie just like last month called hard eyes, that horror movie.
Speaker 3:I don. It's called hard eyes, that horror movie. I don't know if you guys remember that it's a serial killer that movie sucks so bad I thought ai wrote that it sucked. I read in an audiobook where I'm like this this is straight up ai, and nobody read through the whole thing because I'm, I'm reading the whole thing and I can tell you that was not a human that wrote, that sent that same sentence a few times and that didn't make sense. And that doesn't make sense. I'm like there's no way.
Speaker 2:The big thing is chat GBT. I use chat GBT a lot. It's scary what it can do. I typed in can you make me a script for an Instagram video of me going to the barbershop? It'll tell you pan over the outside of the shop shop, zoom in on the clippers and something like that. It's like it tells me step by step on what to do.
Speaker 2:It's like, damn, this kind of scary what it could do yeah, yeah, so I don't know it's have you gone out and flat out just tried writing anything for like either yourself or like like a movie or short script or anything like that writing?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, I took. I've been wanting to do a one-person show for a while now and the only action I've taken is I went to a class that would help me with like characters and starting to write it. So I put something together and I have a very rough draft, but I haven't revisited it in, like probably pushing a year at this point. But yeah, I do, I do, I do write. It's just like I said, I'm not very confident in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm the same. I tried writing a short story once and I wrote half of it and then I went back like a year later. I was like this is kind of ass. You get a different mindset. I was like I probably wouldn't read this myself yeah, and I mean a lot of.
Speaker 3:It also has to do with am I alone in this? Like the thought that keeps coming through my head is who? Who's gonna relate to this? Like nobody, like I feel like the experience is just mine, but I've learned through, I mean, just everything that I've done creatively. Chances are no, chances are. You're not alone and there's a lot of just fear of being misunderstood that will. That will hold me, hold me back a lot of crime a lot of crime, a lot of crime and emergencies yeah, I just had um, that's what it is.
Speaker 2:I just had like a like someone I met from PopFest. Actually she has a mental health podcast, justine I can't remember her last name off the top of my head, but she was on my podcast. We talked about mental health and that was the biggest thing, Like when I started, because this podcast was born out of mental health. Like I was going through depression and I need something put my energy and focus on too, so I did this um, and then I started doing my own research, like uh, like reading books and like therapy, like podcasts and stuff like that and, like you said, like you realized you were not alone in your experiences. Like there's someone else, whether you don't know them or not, are going through the same thing and it's crazy like how in your own head you get and. But once you get out there and like start talking to people and opening up what comes out of it, yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I think that's why it's so important to be as open and communicative as possible, because that's what people know. Otherwise it's it's easier to create separation when you quiet people down like I'm sure that that's that's.
Speaker 1:I think that's one of the important parts of our um, of our podcast, is to get that taboo out, because then you are putting it out there for people to realize that they're not alone, because, for example, like the mental health stuff, like a lot of people like, especially in families, like oh, don't tell anyone that you know any of this, because we don't want that scrutiny or something. But then when you do open up you realize you're not alone, someone else is feeling that, and then you can help each other and community and all of that you have like a favorite mental health movie.
Speaker 2:Silver lining playbook's a great one of mine what's it? What did you? Silver linings playbook with um brad, jennifer Lawrence. Yeah, I didn't Little Miss Sunshine?
Speaker 3:I didn't see that I'm trying to think because I feel like.
Speaker 2:I'm putting you on the spot, that's all.
Speaker 3:I feel like it definitely has to be. Yeah, me too the thing I guess. No, I can't think of anything.
Speaker 2:It's okay, I put you on the spot. That's one of the biggest things. When people ask me whoa you like watching movies, what are your favorite movies? I don't know, I don't have an answer for that.
Speaker 3:I just follow my podcast, the other thing, though, is that I feel like since I feel like most movies, I know this is going to sound so blah, blah, I don't know, but I feel like most movies, I know this is going to sound so I don't know, but I feel like they all are, at least to me, because it's somebody like the conflict that you put forth always has to do with somebody's struggle or a challenge, and it's like well, how, how do people deal with life? How do you deal with the tiny bits of grief that happen every day, whether it's like oh, that didn't go the way I wanted it, my life didn't pan out how I thought, and I just like flushed 20 years down the drain. Doing this, I feel like every story is about mental health in a way.
Speaker 3:Yeah and yeah, and just like how, yeah, how are you coping with it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Do you do it by yourself? Do you do you get help? How long does it take you to seek out assistance? Because yeah, and most stories, I feel what makes them good is when you at the foundation of it all. It's about love and it, it it goes across like theater too. When stories are, you might not be able like, oh, that's a love story, but it's about love in whatever, in whatever way. So like just like the all-encompassing theme is about love and that's how I feel about mental, mental health and movies and how like that's what we get to watch is. How did how?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's interesting to hear like directors and writers their their theories behind the movies too, because, like, sometimes I'll watch a movie before I watch I'll watch an interview with like the director first and then like hear their vision of it and going in there's like okay, I'm glad I heard that because, like I I okay, maybe this shot makes a little bit more sense now because it's really capturing this father and son's like relationship or something like that. You know, like it's no one's going in this industry wanting to make a bad movie, wanting to make a bad script. You know, everyone has their own interpretation and, yeah, sometimes it doesn't come out really good, but I always try to remember that, like in the back of my head, like, okay, this is this person's best work.
Speaker 2:You know, and so you can tell, totally tell them like studio gets their influence on there too, and they just try to make it more about the algorithm versus their actual story. And um, the last five minutes of the podcast a little quick. I want to talk about some of your favorite directors, though, and directors and actors.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, remember how I told you that I watch movies and I just walk away Like that was great. But actors.
Speaker 2:I mean, you do have some favorite actors.
Speaker 3:I do, oh, I do. Well, I guess Gary Oldman is one of them. I think, he's so diverse and incredibly talented. It's just everything he does is genuine um. I don't know where you can tell when it comes from somewhere like just aligned and honest, and nothing holds him back, so so I really like him. There are some women that I really enjoy.
Speaker 1:The Handmaid's Tale lady. You've always thought she was a really good actress.
Speaker 3:Which one? The one from the Advil commercial. Oh God, forget her name. Yeah, she's very good.
Speaker 2:Successful actress. I know from the Advil commercial.
Speaker 3:No, it was Excedrin, it was an Excedrin commercial and I think that's like literally what like propelled her career.
Speaker 2:It's like Nicole Kidman right now doing those AMC trailers, things. John Leguizamo was another he's great, I've been wanting to go watch and watch. That Was it the past.
Speaker 3:I wanted to rewatch that pretty soon. I saw that and actually it gave me a little bit of a headache. I was like what is happening? Um, send my. Hayek is somebody that I always looked up to and I was like awesome she was great growing up watching because I thought she was a great actress.
Speaker 2:But now I think she's like, like the past 10 years, she's in a point of career where she's like, okay, I can have fun with this now and she's really just trying anything. She's been in the adam sandler movie, she's done she's.
Speaker 3:She's a very fun personality she was in an episode of like the black mirror and stuff. That was cool I didn't see that yeah, I said, just look it up, selma. I don't know what the episode's called, but selma hayek's in an episode of the black mirror and I I try not to watch the black mirror because it's like beyond I like. I typically like psychological thrillers, but the black mirror some just keeps me too much anxiety new season just coming out these announcing oh, let's show photos.
Speaker 3:Oh my god yeah so, um, who else I was? Just, it was at the tip of my tongue. I was about to say, oh no, oh uh, sandra bullock she up she was like, and still is like, one of my favorite actresses or actors.
Speaker 2:She was good in what's that? The football one. Yeah, she's good in that. I like her a lot.
Speaker 3:Her entire career. I would like kill for Okay, I wouldn't murder anybody For real, but like, oh man, I'd die to have a career like hers, like she was in. She's like been in love story movies, like romantic love stories, uh, like action and freaking the heat with uh melissa mccarthy oh yeah, so she's like the one with the bus speed. That was her first big one, I think yeah, I think so and like so she's gotten to work with, mainly like Keanu. Keanu, yeah so, and what was the? Was it Interstellar?
Speaker 2:in space.
Speaker 3:Yeah, christopher Nolan, yeah she blew my absolute socks off in that movie Gravity, gravity Interstellar was different with Matthew McConaughey oh, okay, so Gravity, they came out at a similar time, like around the same time yeah, but that's. That was such a good movie and it like gave me so many panic attacks watching it, but it was worth it, like I'm like I will. I will have panic attacks just to watch you be amazing. So she was like somebody to I don't know. I really looked up to her and I thought that was cool.
Speaker 2:I haven't heard any news of her coming out anything, anything, I'm sure she probably is, but I just haven't heard anything news of her coming out or things, anything.
Speaker 3:I'm sure she probably is, but I just haven't heard anything recently I think what makes her well to me, what made it so awesome to watch aside from the fact that she was like one of the only snarky brunettes and I identified with that I'm like, oh, there is a place for me, like, because you know, like when growing up there wasn't a whole lot of like latinos there's not a lot of representation of main characters in movies or tv shows, so it's like seeing somebody with like darker features meant a lot and it gave me like it was just.
Speaker 3:It felt, even though I don't you know it felt like representation at the time. It gave me, like I don't know, that idea that this could be for me A little permission. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean for years. We only had like, was it the show with George Lopez?
Speaker 3:But yeah, I think one of the reasons that she's so good is because she can be. She's funny, she's comedic, and I once heard that if, like, you have to be smart to be funny, I once heard that you have to be smart to be funny, and I 100% agree with that. So if you're a funny actor, you're probably a smart actor.
Speaker 2:I agree with that. I 100% agree with that. I really do, because I'm a big fan of stand-up comedy too and I like listening to stand-up comedy stand-ups podcast and they're always talking about current events like, oh, what's going on with Trump, or what's going on in this country, or something like that. I'm like I don't know shit going on there, dude, I just know like I think you're funny.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was kind of when we were writing. I was in a comedy writing class and we would have to bring in we and write like one-liners and I'm just like oh man, that was such a challenge for me. Other people were like, but it was good to see how like I wasn't too far off. But yeah, that was what we had to do. We would bring in like what was going on in the news and write jokes off of that, which is what they do in like snl yeah, that's why I was like that would that could be fun.
Speaker 3:I could totally write for snl I mean they you could set.
Speaker 2:Think all it is is like a pack you got set in. Now the thing about that it's tough because, like, if they don't like it I mean if they don't like you they'll still use your audition like whatever you wrote in the skits in the show, probably without giving you credit?
Speaker 3:Do you have to write like a If you're?
Speaker 2:auditioning for a writer. Um, I don't know, I don't know the process. I remember hearing like interview process, like they this person auditioned to be a writer.
Speaker 3:Like that cannot possibly be true.
Speaker 2:I think it actually. I think I heard on a Joe Rogan podcast when I was thinking I don't listen to Joe Rogan like that, don't worry, I already did. You had somebody out there and you talked about the process. Yeah, you write a packet, a writing packet, three or four sketches and you submit it in there. If you like it, they'll call you for auditions or something like that, but if they don't like it, they'll still hold onto your sketches. It's their property. Now, I'm sure that's something in their writing for audition prices.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm'm gonna think about that for days now. But yeah, kind of like instagram and facebook, like anything you put on there, is kind of like they have the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And tiktok's the one always under fire too sorry, true, yeah, there's a, there's, um, there's a teacher here in in in Chicago, um that that does like the SNL prep, like. That's the class that I took the right, the comedy writing class it was for for.
Speaker 3:TV for what do you call the late night talk? For talk shows? I'll do. They have a talk show writing class, um, like SNL packet writing class, so like, basically, if you wanted to, you could prep that stuff, um, and then yeah it's, it's cool because they do a good job. Yeah nice.
Speaker 2:Uh, we're coming about over here. Before we get out of here, the last thing I want to ask you is just like what advice you have to give somebody who wants to get in the acting world I would say um get yourself an agent as soon as you can.
Speaker 3:How do you get?
Speaker 2:an agent. Let's start with that.
Speaker 3:Well, the quickest way is just to look them up online Search for agents in your area. But I would suggest going to the SAG-AFTRA website and looking up affiliated agents, because that means that they're legit. So anybody asking you for money or anything like that up front is not somebody you want to work with. But if you literally just do a simple search on, like a Google search for for agents in Chicago, you'll you'll be able to find a good list and submit, because they are the ones who will be getting like facilitating getting you auditions. Um, of course, getting a degree is nice, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get work. It definitely is good to have the training and have the experience, but I will say it just doesn't necessarily.
Speaker 3:again, it just doesn't necessarily guarantee you anything except for just some training yeah so, and I've seen plenty of people that have gone through like mfa programs, um, that just aren't doing it anymore. So it doesn't, it doesn't have to be like the go to school for it kind of thing. So I feel like if somebody is, you know, like out of high school, like you could, you could do, you can start whenever yeah, you can be an actor as a kid and get a work permit.
Speaker 3:So I would suggest that start with getting, get yourself an agent and, if you like, say you do a google search, it'll say what you need in order to submit to get signed. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, if you just think about it, do it. Life is too, short Life is too short and at least you say you went for it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would take that advice If I wanted to do it. Yeah, that's like the most direct path I can suggest for somebody.
Speaker 2:Nice, I want to plug your podcast. Well, last time the potty mouth poop podcast potty mouth poop cast potty mouth poop cast. Sorry, it's all good. You guys are Apple, spotify, everything you guys do try to do weekly. You said it right. Yeah, what is something from this season that you remember? One of the poop facts you remember do you remember any?
Speaker 1:what about the first episode of the season? The tenesmos, tenesmos, caca Tenesmos?
Speaker 3:caca. Yeah, tenesmos was. It's the first episode of the fourth season and it's basically the term. Tenesmos means that feeling when you've already gone to the bathroom and you've wiped and you've, you know you're moving on with your day, but you still feel like you're not done and you have to return to the toilet but nothing's happening. And that kind of was a reflection of what happened to us. We had to take a hiatus. We were like we were on a roll. We were doing like three seasons. We weren't super consistent with when they came out, but we did three seasons yeah back to back, and then it was crickets.
Speaker 3:For what? Four years? Four years wow so now we're back, and it was a tenesmus moment podcasting is just fun too.
Speaker 2:So I think, listening to you guys podcast, everyone check it out. I'll definitely have you both back on. We'll actually do movie reviews of some of our favorite movies. Thank you for both coming on the podcast. Like I said, keep checking out you guys podcast. Thank you for ever listening. Stay tuned podcast. Like I said, keep checking out you guys podcast. Thank you for ever listening. Stay tuned next week, where I'll be saving you a seat.
