Birthday Adventures, Comic-Cons, and 48-Hour Film Projects

Birthday celebrations, upcoming film competitions, and the realization that we're approaching our podcast's two-year anniversary – this casual check-in episode captures the ongoing journey of NOLA Film Scene.

Voiced by Brian Plaideau

Transcript

Welcome and Birthday Reflections

Speaker 1 0:03

Hello everyone, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and everybody in between, welcome to NOLA. Film Scene with TJ and Plato Livestream, livestream, livestream. I really liked Rob Paulson's episode from last week. He was a blast.

Speaker 2 0:21

Wasn't Rob, it was Paul Rugg.

Speaker 1 0:26

Man, I'm still woozy from my birthday. But you're correct, I guess I just imagined Rob he was. Last year we were able to use a clip around my birthday, so yeah, that's right, I turned 55 last week.

Speaker 2 0:42

It says it's live.

Speaker 1 0:43

We're live, and so am I Just a year older. Yeah.

Speaker 2 0:47

Man, I can't believe it's been a year since we shared that clip with Rob Paulson for your birthday Time has flown Exactly.

Speaker 1 0:56

We've got to be getting close on our two-year anniversary. That's like August or September.

Speaker 2 1:03

We started talking about it late, july and August, I think. We started building everything up and then we did the first episode, yeah, and I think we dropped the first episode with a guest, with Hick, I wonder. First week of.

Speaker 1 1:16

September. I was thinking September 19th, but you know he was a two-parter so we might still have it covered it might have been that late, I don't know. It's all good.

Speaker 2 1:25

I mean we're at I don't know 75 episodes. I think I lost track, yeah.

Approaching Our Two-Year Podcast Anniversary

Speaker 1 1:31

Plus with our little winter break, you know.

Speaker 2 1:33

Another anniversary or another thing is coming up. The 48-hour film project is in a couple weeks.

Speaker 1 1:40

Yes, sir, I can't believe it. We're on different teams this time. Dun dun dun.

Speaker 2 1:46

Dun, dun dun.

48-Hour Film Project Preparations

Speaker 1 1:48

I am working with the great AJ. Is it Littell? I never said his name out loud, I've just typed it. If I've pronounced it wrong, AJ, I'm sorry, you can just cut my scenes. He and I are Comic-Con buddies, plus you know background. And then we've been trying to find something to work on together for at least a year. He had plans for a short film, which I'm sure it's still planning, but like everything we do without major funding, it's a pain in the butt.

Speaker 2 2:12

Yeah, that's the nice thing about this. So I'm on Michelle Busquet's team this year. Busquet always say her name wrong. I don't know what's wrong with me, busquet. I'm on Michelle's team for the 48 this year. Ej Lytel and I met on Olivia's project Todd's almost three years ago, I think.

Speaker 1 2:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:35

He was doing video. They were doing a lot of handheld stuff to make it feel like a documentary. So I met him the night that we shot the big scene for the convention at the end of the movie and it's weird, I also met Carlos Jimenez on that project and he reached out to me today Me too Interesting. Yeah, yeah Things are starting to come back around.

Speaker 1 2:58

Yeah Well, you know we're always going to have that slowdown. Everybody's ready to work. So I just did Matt Carroll's LA Film Prize short called the Nova Experiment, and the poster looks really good. I didn't have to travel to Shreveport, though I did mine remotely.

Speaker 2 3:13

Yeah, you did some voiceover work.

Speaker 1 3:15

Yeah, yeah. Well, we did a video too. He hasn't said I'm a news guy. I'll be on the TV. Don't tell nobody.

Speaker 2 3:22

Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:24

So we did a few takes and then he changed the dialogue after I had finished which I don't want to go into specifics I was like, but that, that makes sense. And then the team was like, no, if we say it like this, ok, which wasn't hard, it just I need to get a teleprompter set up here, you know what I mean. And I need a big one, because I can't see without my glasses.

Speaker 2 3:44

Well, so you can can make the font bigger on a prompter. My prompter is, I don't know, maybe 12 inches across, but you can make the font big and you don't want the font real wide because then you see your eyes moving back and forth across it. That's a good point, so if you keep it tight. So the Elgato brand prompter has a voice activation feature in it where it detects your voice and it will scroll based on that. It won't move until you talk.

Speaker 1 4:18

I think the Coldread app could do a teleprompter thing like that too.

Speaker 2 4:21

Yep, I can help you with that stuff.

Speaker 1 4:24

You can help me with tech stuff. I don't know, yeah, yeah, don't believe it.

Speaker 2 4:30

You know, yeah, I wouldn't believe it either.

Speaker 1 4:33

I didn't mean to shut you down.

Speaker 2 4:34

No, no, no it's all good.

Speaker 1 4:36

I insulted your tech skills and you started boiling on the inside.

Birthday Celebrations at Buc-ee's

Speaker 2 4:39

No, it doesn't even faze me.

Speaker 1 4:43

That's what my wife says when I say stupid stuff. Well, like I was saying, I turned 55 and I didn't really party. You know I party. You know I had the day off so I was on my phone. I try to answer everybody's Facebook posts. I'm kind of obsessed with that. Just a thank you or a gif, gif of thank you, you know. So I had a good amount and that was relaxing and fun. And then Saturday, marie and I went to the new Buc-ee's in Pasco, shian, mississippi. That was my second time at a Buc-ee's and ooh, buc-ee's is amazing. Who would have thought I'd be like convenience store? I know it's a travel center, but it's a truck stop. It's 75,000 square feet. I think it's 50 pumps Cleanest bathrooms.

Speaker 2 5:23

Yeah, it's like a mall with gas.

Speaker 1 5:26

It is. Not only is the bathroom clean, each stall has a red and green light over it, so when you lock it you never have that fumble of is this one open? And the mascot Bucky was there photo up. So you know I'm like a pig and shit. I was happy as a clam. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 5:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:41

So we did one, we did thumbs up and then I told Cherie and Bucky saying that we put our heads on his shoulders. If I can't be stupid, I'm not going.

Speaker 2 5:50

Yeah, that's a good, good philosophy.

Speaker 1 5:53

Is it? Well, I don't consider it stupid, but everybody else does and I'm fine with that. I got a lot of compliments, no, like a couple of Facebook posts. You know, happy birthday. I admire that. You're always how do they put it Everything you are, or something like I'm just me. I don't try to hide it, I'll be goofy. You know, riding Falcor at the Mississippi Comic Con, that was great. I'm going to do goofy stuff. Maybe I'm a little embarrassed about it. Not much, but right there I was like ah, nah.

Upcoming Comic Cons in New Orleans

Speaker 1 6:25

I hear you, and we have another Comic Con coming this weekend.

Speaker 2 6:30

Oh, I didn't. I don't know about that one. When is it when or where is it?

Speaker 1 6:34

It's in the New Orleans Convention Center, ada Gould, who we may have posted because through GalaxyCon Live he and I had a conversation, and he's another celebrity. I bug on Twitter and post in social media, but he does Dr Zayas from Planet of the Apes, so his YouTube show is Hanging with Dr Z. So instead of like me talking to you, it's this orangutan talking to you and he's hilarious. You know, I'm a writer for the Simpsons. He was a stand-up. So now he's going to have a booth. I think just autographs. He's not doing photo ops. Maybe he can take one there. I'll see what I can do.

Speaker 1 7:14

But he's going to have a talk show Brian O'Halloran, barry Boswick and I forgot the third guest and I don't think they're charging extra for that. So that's unusual. And he's got to put on all that makeup too. You know what I mean? I was looking for the tickets. I was like where do I find it? Where do I find it? Oh, it's free. Well, his Patreon is $5 a month. He just needs a little support. He's like you know I'm not going to come do another level and come wash your car. It's five bucks a month. He gets some extra pictures in the ad-free version of his podcast.

Speaker 2 7:38

That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 7:39

Yeah, giancarlo Esposito is going to be there. That's his third trip to New Orleans, so I'm going to have to get a picture with him. Yeah, even if it's tail, I just I put it off. Put A lot of other stars too, and I can't think of one Emily Swallow, she was also in Star Wars, and then next month we have Nola Khan at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, and Anne Mahoney and Billy Slough are both going to be there, and that's really in my neck of the woods, so I think I'm going to have to take a little trip down the road.

Speaker 2 8:06

Yeah, might as well. Yep, I may go to that one too too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 8:10

I think that's a little smaller, so it's it won't be as crowded, kind of like Mississippi con when you go on Friday any con really on a Friday. Maybe they don't have every star, but they have smaller crowds usually and that can pay off. We don't have to fight through the crowd and you know, get your stuff done.

Speaker 2 8:25

Yeah.

Speaker 1 8:25

Yep, yep, anything good for you, you, I got the 48 and that's about it.

Episode Wrap-Up and Next Week's Plans

Speaker 2 8:31

I did the seven and seven with Matt last month. Yeah, yeah, and that's about it. Well, we just wanted to drop in folks. Drop a quick episode, catch up on a few things and be back on schedule next week. I'll get back to editing, okay.

Speaker 1 8:48

See you folks, see you folks.