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Speaker 10: my empty hairs.
Speaker 2: You well from Saskatchewan.
Speaker 9: I started in Saskatchewan, then I went to Toronto, then
Speaker 9: I went to North Richmond.
Speaker 10: That I went to Sherman Oaks.
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Speaker 2: It's not Denise versus Freddy, It's Freddy. Freddy was to me.
Speaker 2: Freddy was more idealistic like she was.
Speaker 5: Was you know what I mean, Like she was just
Speaker 5: sonny and like you really like you would take Freddie
Speaker 5: on to your mama. Yeah, Like Denise was just kind
Speaker 5: of flighty and kind of like exactly, y'all are talking
Speaker 5: Denise versus Freddy.
Speaker 2: So but I was just talking about who I saw first. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: we technically my out.
Speaker 5: My first question It was I was more questioning on
Speaker 5: Freddie Brooks than Denise. Denise didn't strike me as bowho.
Speaker 5: She just striked me as somebody couldn't keep a job,
Speaker 5: and I just I couldn't fuck with that.
Speaker 2: Young favorite employee ever. Ladies, John please welcome Chris Summer.
Speaker 10: Yes, it's a delight to be here.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Zoe for giving me this number because
Speaker 1: love I had to, you know, hit her up fifty
Speaker 1: two billion times. She's one of those people that might
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Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 7: Now I feel bad that I disturb my roll call.
Speaker 2: That Stevens were like legendary fighters.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, but that feels yeah, hate relationship.
Speaker 2: Going, But that's Steve. You know, you'll learn to hate
Speaker 2: them in five minutes.
Speaker 7: You'll experience all the all the emotions.
Speaker 10: I already have that spent moment I had to spit.
Speaker 1: I gotta know that you Okay. Today you told me
Speaker 1: that you are. We're going to a Star Wars convention.
Speaker 9: Yes, and I am now endeared to you because you
Speaker 9: let me come in a little early so I can
Speaker 9: still get there. It's a pop up Star Wars bar
Speaker 9: called The Dark Side, and it's been traveling all over
Speaker 9: America and it's interactive. They haven't told me too much.
Speaker 9: I do know that there's the possibility of a burlesque show,
Speaker 9: all the chicks representing all the different planets in the
Speaker 9: Star Wars universe.
Speaker 10: Doesn't it sound amazing? Yes? Look I got this.
Speaker 4: The bar that Jap of the Hut, was it right?
Speaker 9: That's what you're I mean, I don't know what this
Speaker 9: bar is. They just call it the Dark Side. I'm
Speaker 9: hoping the band is going to be there, because that
Speaker 9: band is legendary.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, yes, you really are a Star Wars
Speaker 2: what's your I am? I love it?
Speaker 7: What's your favorite all time scene in and all the
Speaker 7: Star Wars things combined?
Speaker 10: It's probably when Luke.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's kind of dour and a little maudlin,
Speaker 9: but I love that moment when Luke when his parents
Speaker 9: are dead and they're charred, and they're just fucking sitting there,
Speaker 9: you know, frozen. And he comes up out of that
Speaker 9: beautiful sphere that they live in, and he looks and
Speaker 9: there's those two moons, like those that clear sky, and
Speaker 9: those two blood red moons.
Speaker 10: I don't know. That just always has rocked me.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, have you seen the Last Jedi?
Speaker 5: But that's a stupid question. Of course, what did you think?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 9: I just loved the nostalgia of it. I mean, everybody
Speaker 9: was getting so fucking hung up on you know, why
Speaker 9: is lay a flying and ship?
Speaker 10: I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 9: I mean, I think my heart is just so all
Speaker 9: encompassing all things Star Wars, except for of course, well know,
Speaker 9: he shall not be named jar Jar Banks, So I mean,
Speaker 9: you know, yeah may so, no fucking like it either,
Speaker 9: That's the only one I don't do.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean I liked it.
Speaker 4: I liked it.
Speaker 10: It's hard to it's hard to make me not like
Speaker 10: I haven't.
Speaker 2: Seen it yet.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for as a as a so called nerd
Speaker 1: who is not that much into science fiction. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's really hard for me to figure out which side
Speaker 1: is correct, because a lot of Star Wars dweebs are
Speaker 1: like Prince Vans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not really feeling this film.
Speaker 1: But yet I trust a Rotten Tomatoes ninety one when
Speaker 1: I see it now, I mean, who am I to
Speaker 1: believe that all these critics were just blindly going to
Speaker 1: give this a claim across the board? Really no, because
Speaker 1: they ended up with a now report one one manly
Speaker 1: Portman and now those three middle one suck.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I think we can all agree those were drag.
Speaker 7: So you liked the New One though?
Speaker 10: I did. I had a good time, man, I was
Speaker 10: so excited to get there. And favorite Star Wars movie
Speaker 10: of all time A New Hope, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm hearing a lot of people say Rogue one
Speaker 2: these days.
Speaker 10: Now they can have it.
Speaker 9: No, I liked it, but it ain't no New Hope,
Speaker 9: and a New Hope just changed my my world. I
Speaker 9: remember my daddy who's left now he's dead.
Speaker 10: He he and I loved Star Wars together.
Speaker 2: New Hope. He just were you trying to explain it
Speaker 2: to me like football?
Speaker 7: I was telling Amre, who's not the biggest Star Wars fan,
Speaker 7: that New Hope.
Speaker 1: Was episode one, Episode one, which is technically episode episode
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean it was the very first one that came out,
Speaker 9: and I remember just this whole universe and this whole
Speaker 9: concept of the force.
Speaker 10: I loved it.
Speaker 9: It made sense to me being not a religious person,
Speaker 9: it occurred for me in a very religious way.
Speaker 1: So did you ever have any dreams of, especially with
Speaker 1: all the voice over working, Yeah, and working with like
Speaker 1: Frank Oz and all that stuff, like, to ever do
Speaker 1: these things?
Speaker 9: Well, you want to hear something crazy, My father, Don
Speaker 9: Frank's was the first one to ever give voice to
Speaker 9: Boba Fett in the Star Wars animation. Yeah, because you know,
Speaker 9: we never hear Boba Fett speak, so that in animation
Speaker 9: they let him speak. And then a couple of years later,
Speaker 9: George Lucas did an animated cartoon called Droid's and Ewoks,
Speaker 9: and I got to play Princess Nissa of the Ewoks.
Speaker 10: So that I think I was ten years old.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, was your father a voice actor?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's how I started. It was just your nepotis.
Speaker 4: From the beginning.
Speaker 2: I found where she told us in the in the
Speaker 2: so I'm driving the car, thank you, I appreciated.
Speaker 6: In the back.
Speaker 4: Let us know what we can ask directions.
Speaker 2: So you were you were born in Saskatchewan.
Speaker 10: I was, Actually, you want to hear something crazy. I
Speaker 10: was born in in Sino California.
Speaker 9: Y born in Sino California, And I know, and then
Speaker 9: right away, I think at the maybe six or seven months,
Speaker 9: my parents dropped out of society and moved to Saskatchewan.
Speaker 9: And I was raised on an Indian reservation with the
Speaker 9: plains Kre Indians. We had lived in a house that
Speaker 9: my father made out of mud, which is traditional for
Speaker 9: this tribe.
Speaker 10: And we were there until I was about seven years
Speaker 10: oldy Oh, it was beautiful. I mean well, I mean
Speaker 10: it was definitely hard.
Speaker 9: I don't know if you've ever been in a Canadian
Speaker 9: tundra and the plane and the plains in the dead
Speaker 9: of fucking winter. I mean it's, you know, below forty
Speaker 9: it's pretty fucking cold.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to use your lightsaber.
Speaker 10: To open your eyes.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But we.
Speaker 10: It was powerful.
Speaker 9: I mean I was exposed to all kinds of beautiful
Speaker 9: native music, pow wow music, payota music, dancing powow as
Speaker 9: a girl. It was a nice way to grow up,
Speaker 9: I'd say. And then after that we left there res
Speaker 9: and we lived nomadic in a school bus for a
Speaker 9: couple of years and then finally settled in Toronto.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it sounds like a half of Freddy's backstory. I
Speaker 9: think they got it from me. I mean, I remember
Speaker 9: when I walked into audition. They had this idea that
Speaker 9: this that Freddie Winifred was from Santa Fe and so
Speaker 9: they and I know that they wanted her to be,
Speaker 9: you know, have a white mother, was what they said.
Speaker 9: And then they just kind of left it open end.
Speaker 9: And then I just remember them after auditioning, they were
Speaker 9: interviewing me, and I could see their wills turning. And
Speaker 9: then the next time I went back to audition, the
Speaker 9: script was almost almost just the just the interview, you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean? So, were you the only child or
Speaker 2: did you have something?
Speaker 9: I have a baby brother. His name is Rainbow's son.
Speaker 9: He's also an actor. I don't know if there's any
Speaker 9: geeks out there. He was in the original Stargate with
Speaker 9: Jason Momoa. We're all very conted.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's kind of strange.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, he's ten years my junior.
Speaker 1: So how are you well, not even how are you
Speaker 1: pulled into acting? Your father was my father was an
Speaker 1: voice over work, but you guys live this whole he
Speaker 1: was doing more.
Speaker 10: Than voiceover work. I mean he when I was, like
Speaker 10: I said, I was born in Encino.
Speaker 9: My parents met. My mother's a dancer and my father
Speaker 9: was was an actor, and he was an on camera
Speaker 9: actor at first.
Speaker 10: He was did his well.
Speaker 9: The movie that they met was Francis Ford Coppola's very
Speaker 9: first film and fred Astaire's very last film. It was
Speaker 9: a musical called Finian's Rainbow starring fred Astae Patulla Clark
Speaker 9: and my father and my mother was a dancer in
Speaker 9: the chorus, and that's how they met. So he was
Speaker 9: a very very popular working actor for years and years
Speaker 9: and years. And she danced all over all over Broadway,
Speaker 9: you know, and Sweet Charity with Juliet Prowse and you know,
Speaker 9: Shirley McLean and they were really magic.
Speaker 2: So what was the decision to leave?
Speaker 5: They were disillusioned.
Speaker 10: They really were disillusioned.
Speaker 9: I mean, he was really getting tired of playing bad
Speaker 9: guys that hurt babies and women. And she was my
Speaker 9: mother as beautiful and black as night, and she was
Speaker 9: tired of, you know, being the only one or never
Speaker 9: getting to be the one. And they just said fuck it.
Speaker 9: And they sold everything they had and moved to Saskatchewan,
Speaker 9: where my father had been dig this crazy thing. He's
Speaker 9: had so many incarnations. But for a while he was
Speaker 9: the spiritual advisor for this heavy metal band called Crowbar.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Ar did this tour of all the Indian reservations in Canada,
Speaker 9: and my old man just fell in love with.
Speaker 10: Red Pheasant this reservation.
Speaker 9: Then he really became family to them, and I think
Speaker 9: that's where the seeds were planted. And they told him
Speaker 9: if he ever wanted to come back, he could, and
Speaker 9: he came back when he found my mama.
Speaker 8: Wow, there's a gorgeous picture of the two of you online.
Speaker 8: There is his hair braided.
Speaker 10: Yeah, did you wear a lot?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I wear my parents' hats.
Speaker 9: You know, I've been wearing It's so trendy now, but
Speaker 9: you know, I've been wearing these hats since I was
Speaker 9: a little girl.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: So as a young girl, did you have dreams of
Speaker 1: getting it? How did you get into the industry.
Speaker 9: Or I always wanted to be a performer. My parents
Speaker 9: performed even though we were on the res You know.
Speaker 9: My father did this amazing show on the reservation called
Speaker 9: The Insanity of One Man and it was just his
Speaker 9: ramblings and his thoughts. He'd had a projector he'd play autoharp,
Speaker 9: and then my mother would dance, you know. She the
Speaker 9: tap dancer retired from the National Tap Company of Canada
Speaker 9: at sixty nine years old. And so just watching them,
Speaker 9: I really never considered doing anything else. I wanted to
Speaker 9: be a singer and a songwriter and an actress. And
Speaker 9: then when we left the res my father that's when
Speaker 9: he became a voiceover actor, and then watching him, I
Speaker 9: just wanted to.
Speaker 4: Do it too.
Speaker 2: Did he have a like, was he of a male
Speaker 2: blink variety?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: What type of voice did your father?
Speaker 9: My father just had this really low and rich, resonant,
Speaker 9: low raspy voice, really beautiful. Yeah, I mean, but he
Speaker 9: did everything. I mean, he could alter himself. He was
Speaker 9: so talented. Can you tell I missed my old man?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're actual, I mean you're speaking voice, and
Speaker 1: I mean it's so there's such a not a trademark
Speaker 1: on it, but it's so distinctive.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you have this sort of raspy curse, this kind
Speaker 2: of voice when you were a kid? I did?
Speaker 9: I Mean, my mama used to joke about it that
Speaker 9: I always sounded like I had a mentalated cool hanging
Speaker 9: out of my mouth. I mean even when I was
Speaker 9: like three years old, you know, was like Mama, you know,
Speaker 9: it's just this low, kind of froggy.
Speaker 10: And my youngest daughter, Hero has that same voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how old is she?
Speaker 6: Hero?
Speaker 10: Peregrine storm Born is four years old?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, she's a star on Instagram.
Speaker 9: I mean we got to an elevator after Dan's class
Speaker 9: and this chick was like Hero, you know, and it was, yeah,
Speaker 9: a little it was a little creepy.
Speaker 10: I should Yeah, we spoke to pause.
Speaker 7: Sorry.
Speaker 11: We spoke to U Laila Hathaway recently about the way
Speaker 11: her voice sounds strikingly similar to her father's.
Speaker 4: Isn't it.
Speaker 11: The same as people looking physically? Yeah, their facial features
Speaker 11: or voices almost.
Speaker 7: The same thing.
Speaker 10: It's Sheila.
Speaker 9: It's funny that you bring up, because you're exactly right.
Speaker 9: When you can have a white man and an Asian
Speaker 9: man who look the same and they will sound the same.
Speaker 9: It's jaw placement, and it's all these things that give
Speaker 9: us all these sounds, and that's why they sound so similar.
Speaker 10: It's really freaky, you know.
Speaker 7: Hashtag jaw placement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now is a very hypnotic thing to every syllable,
Speaker 2: and it's an articulation.
Speaker 1: That she does voiceover work people. Yeah, but where does
Speaker 1: that come from? Like were you trained for this? Like
Speaker 1: how did you even enter?
Speaker 9: Well, like I said, it was it was pure nepotism.
Speaker 9: My father was doing a voice on Inspector Gadget and
Speaker 9: I was he Well, he would go on and off
Speaker 9: with with Welker, with Frank Welker, just sometimes guessing and
Speaker 9: doing doctor Claw, and then he would do a lot
Speaker 9: of in Daniel's, a lot of henchmen, a lot of
Speaker 9: you know, teachers in the school and shit like that.
Speaker 9: And then I remember, but this is just when he
Speaker 9: was auditioning. We didn't even know if he had the gig.
Speaker 9: And then he said, could you audition Cree, which is
Speaker 9: just being in the right place at the right time,
Speaker 9: the child of the right person. And then I lucked
Speaker 9: out and got it, you know, yeah, I got Penny.
Speaker 9: And then it just really steamrolled from there. I found
Speaker 9: myself working so much. I really wasn't even in school.
Speaker 9: I was singing jingles and doing every voiceover that came
Speaker 9: down the pike in Toronto, you know, Okay, yeah, oh
Speaker 9: well I was. I was living in Canada at the time.
Speaker 9: I didn't move to LA until I was seventeen.
Speaker 4: Oh really yeah, No, Inspector Gadget came from Okay, yeah.
Speaker 9: It came from Deek Entertainment, which is a Canadian company. Oh,
Speaker 9: I mean, but in Toronto is where I did you
Speaker 9: know all the George Lucas productions. It's where I was
Speaker 9: in the very first Hello Kitty cartoon. I played her
Speaker 9: arch nemesis, cat Nip. God, what else did we do?
Speaker 2: Hello Kitty had a cartoon, actual.
Speaker 10: Had an actual cartoon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hello Kitty's been around for quite a long a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: I've seen Hello Kitty. I just never knew it was
Speaker 1: a car, actual cartoon with voices, and.
Speaker 2: And she had enemies.
Speaker 10: She had enemies.
Speaker 9: This really weird chick name cat Nip, which is a
Speaker 9: kick ass name, isn't it?
Speaker 2: You? Guys?
Speaker 8: Ye?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I have a question.
Speaker 7: Do you have like duel citizenship?
Speaker 10: I do have dual citizenship? I love this guy, yet.
Speaker 2: Give it?
Speaker 7: No, I was I was just wondering what country we
Speaker 7: should get married.
Speaker 4: She's married.
Speaker 10: I'm actually not there, hold on bringing no, I I
Speaker 10: haven't man and he ain't going nowhere. I guess I
Speaker 10: should be married. You know it feels man you are committed. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: it's not it's not important.
Speaker 7: And I was just kidding, just kidding.
Speaker 10: She lives in Canada.
Speaker 2: On vacation in Niagaphone.
Speaker 4: I know it's not looking at her like that.
Speaker 2: See what high school? Did you go to high school?
Speaker 9: I went to high school in Toronto for about ten minutes.
Speaker 9: I actually started school in the fourth grade and I
Speaker 9: dropped out right before I started the tenth grade. So
Speaker 9: I have six, almost six years of formal education. I
Speaker 9: went to the Toronto High School for the Performing Arts.
Speaker 9: There was thirty six students.
Speaker 2: Wow, in the entire high school.
Speaker 10: The entire high school. Fridays were dedicated to cleaning the school,
Speaker 10: all of us. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So what was in between tenth grade and being seventeen
Speaker 4: and come into.
Speaker 9: Well tenth I was honest, honest to god, I just
Speaker 9: was so. I was kind of burnt out. You know,
Speaker 9: I was working a lot, and I remember going to
Speaker 9: my father, my best friend and I who's in LA
Speaker 9: she's an actress too, Tamara Taylor.
Speaker 10: She and I we just wanted to leave Toronto.
Speaker 9: We had so many dreams about coming to la I
Speaker 9: wanted to come here and have a band, and I
Speaker 9: was going to make music and that was really my dream.
Speaker 9: And she was going to come here at the time
Speaker 9: and be a model, which she'd hate for me to
Speaker 9: say now that all changed, That all change, and she
Speaker 9: of course committed to being an incredible actress. But we
Speaker 9: looked at each other at we had just turned sixteen,
Speaker 9: and we said, do you want to do this anymore?
Speaker 9: And we said, no fucking way. And I said to
Speaker 9: my dad, I think I want to drop out of
Speaker 9: high school and he said.
Speaker 10: What tuki so long? Man?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 10: I were so disappointed that I'd gone this long.
Speaker 9: And he said, you know, I was just giving you space, man,
Speaker 9: because I thought I thought you might might like it.
Speaker 10: And I said, I I can't stand it. You know
Speaker 10: that was an option.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh, she felt the same way. I mean, they really
Speaker 9: had such disdain for the education system.
Speaker 4: And you must have had a hell of us savings
Speaker 4: already for someone I'm just doing.
Speaker 10: Okay, I can't here, okay, okay, secure at the bag damn.
Speaker 2: So from that point on, once you came here, what
Speaker 2: was your first break?
Speaker 9: I guess my first break was working for an amazing
Speaker 9: woman whose since retired. I'm miss sterely named Andrea Romano,
Speaker 9: and she directed a Steven Spielberg cartoon called Tiny Tunes.
Speaker 2: Oh Yeah, obscure, and.
Speaker 9: I played Elmira Almira. Yeah you know, I'm going to
Speaker 9: hug you and squeeze you think you go on the paper, Bobby.
Speaker 10: Hilly, that's what I know. Yeah, that was my first
Speaker 10: job in LA.
Speaker 2: How do you develop because you do so many voiceovers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you develop, uh, the specific characteristics in
Speaker 1: the voices.
Speaker 2: That you do.
Speaker 9: Luckily, they give they give you a picture of the
Speaker 9: character and then they usually get you like a little
Speaker 9: bitty paragraph describing the character. And I remember looking at Elmira.
Speaker 9: The paragraph threw me because it said she was Elmer
Speaker 9: Fudd's niece, and I remember, yeah, it just and I
Speaker 9: remember thinking like, oh, Ship, I can't do an Elmer Fudd.
Speaker 10: I'm fucked.
Speaker 9: And then I looked down and I saw that she
Speaker 9: had like a gerbil skull in the middle of her bow.
Speaker 9: Do you guys remember, And then I read the lines
Speaker 9: and I just thought, this chick is bad, ship nuts.
Speaker 9: I'm just going to play her so crazy and just
Speaker 9: see what happens. But I really had no expectation because
Speaker 9: I didn't put that, you know, that Elma fudd elment
Speaker 9: into so I.
Speaker 2: Can't believe I never made that connection.
Speaker 8: And now you look at her face and it's like
Speaker 8: she looks.
Speaker 2: Tell me that Tiny Tuns came out before a Different World?
Speaker 10: Yes it did, Yes, I'm I mean if it didn't
Speaker 10: come out before Different World, I got booked it before
Speaker 10: a Different World.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you came aboard a Different World eighty eight?
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 1: Ninety okay, well slightly one year right made it tomatow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you just look at the character and you're like.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I read the paragraph and see what I
Speaker 9: usually go by what I feel, you know what I mean?
Speaker 9: You get a feeling when you look. I do anyway,
Speaker 9: and maybe it's just accumulated through all these years.
Speaker 10: I get it just to look at the eyes.
Speaker 2: So they're not telling you, like what's directing to go
Speaker 2: with them?
Speaker 8: They do.
Speaker 9: They give you a really tiny thing that says she's thirteen,
Speaker 9: or he's fourteen and he really likes sports, he's shy,
Speaker 9: he's always got a cold, or you know. Sometimes they
Speaker 9: give you little things or you know, but you really
Speaker 9: have to make it up yourself, which is you.
Speaker 5: Know, acting, that's the cool part, man, are the what
Speaker 5: would so taping tiny tunes?
Speaker 2: As a voice actor? How long would an episode take
Speaker 2: in order for you to get all the voices down for?
Speaker 10: Maybe like an hour maybe if it's full cast, maybe
Speaker 10: an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: Is this per episode or just like a season or
Speaker 2: per episode? And would you go to a studio? Like
Speaker 2: how would you do it?
Speaker 6: You just like this?
Speaker 9: You go and go in the studio and have all
Speaker 9: the chairs in a circle like us, and a booth
Speaker 9: with your stand and your script and then and those
Speaker 9: are the best ones. I mean oftentimes now things have
Speaker 9: changed so much and everybody's so damn busy. Oftentimes it's
Speaker 9: just me alone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you just read your lines and then they put
Speaker 5: it together later what did they mix it? But at
Speaker 5: the time you're doing that, you were all doing it together.
Speaker 9: But there used to be a really golden age when
Speaker 9: we used to all record together and it felt like
Speaker 9: you were kind of doing live radio, which is fun,
Speaker 9: which I used to do in Toronto too, a lot
Speaker 9: of live radio.
Speaker 10: There's fun.
Speaker 1: Who are the uh kind of the veterans of that
Speaker 1: voice circle? I know the word I know mel Blank
Speaker 1: and I know Marsh Maurice Lamars.
Speaker 10: Yeah, another Canadian.
Speaker 9: A lot of us are Canadian, by the way, I
Speaker 9: would I mean listen Tress McNeil, Rob Paulson, Tara Strong,
Speaker 9: Robin Tayer and other Canadians Jennifer Hale, Grey.
Speaker 2: Delisle, Like who were the idols, the gods.
Speaker 10: The well for me? I mean, I really look up
Speaker 10: to Tress McNeil.
Speaker 9: She's you probably know her from like Futurama and the Simpsons.
Speaker 10: I mean, she's just one of these.
Speaker 9: I remember when I walked into Tiny Tunes that was
Speaker 9: the first time I met Tress, and she did six
Speaker 9: voices in a row, talking to herself literally the entire scene.
Speaker 9: And I remember at seventeen just sitting down going, fuck,
Speaker 9: I am way out of my depth, man, because up
Speaker 9: until then, I think I was okay as a voiceover artist,
Speaker 9: but I don't know if I was committed to being
Speaker 9: really good, because sometimes when you do things as a kid,
Speaker 9: you don't even mean it per se. You know, commitment
Speaker 9: and real passion, I think is something that I developed
Speaker 9: in voiceover over time. Like you said, falling in love
Speaker 9: with people and admiring their talent, and that in that
Speaker 9: show was when I made a conscious decision to be good.
Speaker 2: Is it hard to to turn on? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: Say, if you're on set and you might have gotten
Speaker 1: a text that blah blah blah's in the hospital or
Speaker 1: someone passes away, and suddenly it's like, all right, well, production,
Speaker 1: you got to turn on.
Speaker 2: Let's go Like how hard is it to well?
Speaker 9: You know, because you no, you, I mean, you do
Speaker 9: this too. You know exactly what the answer to that is,
Speaker 9: you do it as best you can, you know. I mean,
Speaker 9: I've been in that situation several times, and I think
Speaker 9: one thing, I just being a born gypsy and a
Speaker 9: hereditary performer, it definitely is the show must go on.
Speaker 9: So I will show up as best as I can,
Speaker 9: be a little afraid at the edges, and when they
Speaker 9: yell cut probably fault to pieces, you know.
Speaker 2: So how did you get word of a Different World developing?
Speaker 9: I had a manager is when I got to l
Speaker 9: a very kind man, Larry Robbins retired now, and he
Speaker 9: he and his wife let me live with him actually
Speaker 9: for the first six months, and he would drive me
Speaker 9: to all my auditions, and I think Different World was
Speaker 9: the first audition I had was for.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you, sucker.
Speaker 4: I know, I was not.
Speaker 9: I did not do the part. I didn't get any
Speaker 9: parts that was my audition for. I auditioned for the
Speaker 9: part that Don Lewis played.
Speaker 12: Imagine you can imagine audition for the part that Amory
Speaker 12: Johnson taken off.
Speaker 10: Listen.
Speaker 9: I I just I think I just went there and
Speaker 9: just took a dump. I was probably just awful. But
Speaker 9: the next audition was a different world. So that was
Speaker 9: a real score, really really lucky.
Speaker 1: So you're actually one of the few people in a
Speaker 1: different world that didn't go through school days. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: was there a moment for you to get on in
Speaker 1: that production or in that movie or never?
Speaker 10: Just that didn't happen long prior.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, but they were already all friends and everybody
Speaker 9: year and I came the second year, so they were
Speaker 9: already doing that.
Speaker 2: Because so when you came along, that's the year that
Speaker 2: Wi Allen also came board.
Speaker 10: We all came and Charnelle Brown and so Dad, we
Speaker 10: all came together.
Speaker 2: So you came on the retooling what okay?
Speaker 1: Explaining to me, I wasn't you know, because there was
Speaker 1: an Internet and none of that stuff that, So what
Speaker 1: was the problem with whatever happened the first year that
Speaker 1: they cleaned up and then I.
Speaker 10: Don't know, I do know that.
Speaker 9: I can't call her Lisa, but okay, well Lisa got
Speaker 9: pregnant and so she wasn't going to return to a
Speaker 9: different world was what we were told at the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, but also with Marissa leaving and the director who
Speaker 1: was the first director before, I don't know that Debbie
Speaker 1: came along, Like I just know that they just had a.
Speaker 9: Complete Yeah, they felt they I mean yeah, and Debbie
Speaker 9: came in saying, let's make it like a real black college.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The first season is like the week of season like,
Speaker 5: that's it didn't really look good until she came.
Speaker 4: It wasn't It wasn't one person who was the star.
Speaker 4: It was kind of cool. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Dwayne like finally fell in love with each other the
Speaker 1: last episode, or at least she kissed him the last episode.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and.
Speaker 4: She went back to the house. She was still at
Speaker 4: the Cosby Houseyne.
Speaker 2: Was so traumatized.
Speaker 4: He looked up with.
Speaker 2: So what was it like for those was it four
Speaker 2: years for you? That was college.
Speaker 5: And work?
Speaker 10: Were you at the time I started it? The just
Speaker 10: turn God, I think I was just about to turn eighteen.
Speaker 10: I guess are you tired of talking about a different world?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 10: I love it's a good world. Do you know what
Speaker 10: I love about a different world?
Speaker 9: There was a lot of times, a long stretch of time,
Speaker 9: nobody fucking talked about Different World. Yeah, And I feel
Speaker 9: like Different World is very is you know, it was
Speaker 9: over and then nobody talked about it, and then just
Speaker 9: recently it's become this real retroactive, especially with You'll come back.
Speaker 9: It's just it's like, yes, I mean, maybe you loved it,
Speaker 9: you know, forever, and you were consistent, But the truth is,
Speaker 9: you know, well, you know, a Different World really wasn't
Speaker 9: I mean, it was a hit. It was a hit
Speaker 9: because it was in the right place, you know, we
Speaker 9: were right after Cosby and then. But the truth is, independently,
Speaker 9: you know, we really didn't get a lot of love,
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 10: And that's the truth.
Speaker 4: But every single now about every single black household had
Speaker 4: you on.
Speaker 10: So maybe yes, I went knots very farm, I would
Speaker 10: get a lot of right in LA.
Speaker 9: Otherwise it was really not that popular. I mean, I
Speaker 9: feel like it's much more beloved now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean it's just I mean, I think
Speaker 5: the importance of it is more understood. I mean, for me,
Speaker 5: you know, that was the first time I really saw college.
Speaker 5: I mean, like my you know, my grandmother and my
Speaker 5: grandparents they were teachers, and so I had people in
Speaker 5: my family that were college graduates. But it was just
Speaker 5: always an idea. It's just you hear about this college thing,
Speaker 5: but it's like, okay, so what is that? But then
Speaker 5: a different world came and you actually saw like, oh,
Speaker 5: so there's this place after high school that you go
Speaker 5: call college and what does.
Speaker 2: It look like?
Speaker 5: And you know, you have you know, the calf, like
Speaker 5: the whole going with you know, mister gangs like all
Speaker 5: that like that. Really yeah, yeah, that was you know,
Speaker 5: that was like, oh ship. And so I actually talked
Speaker 5: to Kadeen. It's been like a couple of years of
Speaker 5: but I just had a chance to tell him, you know,
Speaker 5: I man, just how much that show did for me,
Speaker 5: like going to and graduating from an HBCU.
Speaker 2: I mean, a different world.
Speaker 5: I know, a lot of cats my generation probably would
Speaker 5: not have even thought about college if you were not
Speaker 5: for a different world.
Speaker 10: This is why this show is so magic, and this
Speaker 10: is also a reason I'll never get tired of talking
Speaker 10: about it, because I'm just proud. I mean, what a
Speaker 10: lovely thing to get to say that I was a
Speaker 10: part of it. Because there's not a place I go
Speaker 10: where I don't hear the same story where someone comes
Speaker 10: up and says, man, I never thought I could go
Speaker 10: to college.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 9: I didn't have a you know, any kind of academic career.
Speaker 9: But then I started watching Different World and I got inspired.
Speaker 9: I got my ship together, and I went to college.
Speaker 9: And that's pretty damn beautiful.
Speaker 4: So first season you ever, did you had a date
Speaker 4: rape episode?
Speaker 10: Yes, with the Last Dragon sa.
Speaker 2: It was her first season. Yeah, what was that like?
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, I love that fucking movie, so
Speaker 10: I couldn't wait to meet him and I was so excited.
Speaker 10: I don't know, I don't want to was really awkward?
Speaker 10: Should I tell the stories?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 10: Yes, it was super awkward, but I just was All
Speaker 10: of us girls were in a you know, you know,
Speaker 10: we were in a tizzy. Man, we can wait for
Speaker 10: this dude to show up.
Speaker 9: And then I got and no, no, no, I don't
Speaker 9: want to say that I'm such as everyone thinks I'm
Speaker 9: so kind. Okay, but no, but I just remember we
Speaker 9: were doing the thing, and this is not his fault
Speaker 9: because I just attribute this to a lack of experience.
Speaker 9: I don't know how many movies he did other than
Speaker 9: the Last.
Speaker 4: Dragon it was, yeah, Janet video.
Speaker 10: It's not like he was.
Speaker 9: So it's not like he was coming in with a
Speaker 9: ton of experience. So I definitely cut him a little
Speaker 9: bit of slack. But I don't know if you guys
Speaker 9: are you guys are familiar When you have a table read,
Speaker 9: you're simply reading. I mean, you don't even have to
Speaker 9: make eye contact with the person you're in a love
Speaker 9: scene with. You can simply just look at your sides.
Speaker 10: So I was doing the date rape sceneity he started
Speaker 10: raping me, not literally, like literally like groping me and
Speaker 10: trying to kiss me, and I was, you know, the
Speaker 10: whole take. The whole room went crazy. It's like a
Speaker 10: bunch of NBC exacts and everybody's like, whoa, whoa, Wow,
Speaker 10: is just a fucking table read. He's gonna kill me.
Speaker 10: It's not really bad.
Speaker 2: It didn't.
Speaker 10: It didn't go too far, didn't go to listening, but
Speaker 10: you were.
Speaker 4: Always invited to question.
Speaker 10: Somebody always said something, you know, what I.
Speaker 4: Mean as soon as you I just you know what,
Speaker 4: It's okay, He's a god.
Speaker 10: I still love that. I still love that movie.
Speaker 2: On stage. Yes, Chappelle's Black Party, Yeah, it's a Chappelle's.
Speaker 1: Uh. When we were shooting Dave Schapelle's Black Party in Brooklyn, Yeah, he.
Speaker 4: Like say something about him.
Speaker 10: He's so handsome. Still still still.
Speaker 2: You know he.
Speaker 10: Keeps it.
Speaker 2: Like when you like, just hear what he said, did
Speaker 2: the see you miss it joint? Talking to me? That's
Speaker 2: he's Roselle's cousin. So is Roselle's cousin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he invited him on stage and then like
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, he's doing karate with the microphone.
Speaker 2: Brownouse kicks and everything, Brown House in the microphone. It
Speaker 2: was you were up there too. I don't remember that ship.
Speaker 5: He was on stage like he and but Loud was
Speaker 5: like singing back and forth at the end when it
Speaker 5: just kind of all just went.
Speaker 2: Did I know you back then?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a little brother fan this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now you didn't get me in. I got in through
Speaker 2: other means of subterfuge.
Speaker 1: Remember him and Rosario on stage and then he roundhoused
Speaker 1: Rosario's shoulder.
Speaker 2: And then it was like, all right, all right, get
Speaker 2: off the stage. You get this on tape. I was
Speaker 2: definitely on tape. Yes, definitely, he's gonna feel that beautiful moment.
Speaker 1: We were doing whom he says with most and then
Speaker 1: he gets on stage and fighting the wind and then
Speaker 1: he just starts roundhouse kicking, and then he roundhouse kicked
Speaker 1: the microphone standing and then brown house kick and it
Speaker 1: was like, all right, okay, get out the pool. Damn
Speaker 1: now you brought that up like I remember them, had
Speaker 1: to jump through.
Speaker 2: The top of the.
Speaker 10: Wait ready weight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was so cool because he had like
Speaker 4: a whole crush on him but he can't even though
Speaker 4: he wasn't knowing her like that. And I was in
Speaker 4: that dress, that purple dress viole.
Speaker 5: I used to Okay, so which episode who time act
Speaker 5: was a date rapist? Which one was the episode with
Speaker 5: Shaza with Gary.
Speaker 2: Quite a few off?
Speaker 10: He remember he became my man.
Speaker 2: And Byron's almost wedding.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we were, we were together.
Speaker 2: He was right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5: I remember sha He was like the hotel dude speeches
Speaker 5: and ship like he was like people dying that the
Speaker 5: kids are going to sleep into something.
Speaker 10: But oh, gel now, but shas started really sideways. He
Speaker 10: started first with this whole book that he had written
Speaker 10: about misunderstanding how the chicks were supposed to cater to
Speaker 10: their dudes. He came in sideways, but he was so fine.
Speaker 10: No one gave a.
Speaker 4: Ship off up until five years ago.
Speaker 8: That was.
Speaker 4: The era, and that's what he.
Speaker 10: Understanding.
Speaker 2: Where is she now? Is she dead?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: She he did?
Speaker 6: She did.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: I thought she was there, but I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I can't say for sure.
Speaker 1: Then I got to look her up. Yeah, shares out Ali. Wow, man,
Speaker 1: many many dining you appearance, no.
Speaker 2: Reason that's.
Speaker 1: After Well, you know, I know college isn't supposed to
Speaker 1: go on forever, so I guess having a good five
Speaker 1: year one was good enough for the show.
Speaker 9: But I think it should have gone long. But you know,
Speaker 9: they just didn't give a ship about it. I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 9: we were really a step child.
Speaker 4: We really did you like the storyline of you kind
Speaker 4: of straightened up and flying.
Speaker 9: It was literally paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Speaker 9: And it just bummed me out because even Friday and
Speaker 9: they flirted what was doing.
Speaker 10: And it was weird. I never got behind. It was yeah,
Speaker 10: it was unforn you got all this. I want to
Speaker 10: do a Different World trivia.
Speaker 2: Four hours a day, four hours a day. I've been
Speaker 2: watching a Different World for.
Speaker 5: Hours a day because like, once it comes on, you know,
Speaker 5: you can't turn off because there's no commercials in between
Speaker 5: TV shows now because they show all the credits super fast.
Speaker 10: You got to wear a diaper and it's like, you know,
Speaker 10: in one episode, you have.
Speaker 5: Time to change the channel before the next episode starts.
Speaker 5: So it's like, is this episode I'm gonna watch? No,
Speaker 5: it's on TV one.
Speaker 2: Did you'll hear who or Hulu?
Speaker 4: Did y'all hear what you said? I just said, I said, Bill,
Speaker 4: I want battle you. She said, they have those.
Speaker 9: There is a Different World trivia game by this company
Speaker 9: called Cards for the Culture, and they have a Martin
Speaker 9: Trivia game.
Speaker 10: They have a Different World Trivia.
Speaker 2: Actually they got.
Speaker 10: On your team because you know everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that show Man. So after the show,
Speaker 2: did you.
Speaker 1: Were you interested in doing more live action things or
Speaker 1: was it just like you had a comfort zone with well,
Speaker 1: you know, the.
Speaker 10: Whole time I was on a Different World. I had
Speaker 10: just started.
Speaker 9: I had just started a rock band called Subject to
Speaker 9: Change and we were assigned to Capitol Records and on
Speaker 9: hiatus we had done tour, I don't know, we did
Speaker 9: like seven or eight months with Fishbone, and I remember
Speaker 9: coming here.
Speaker 10: Whatever the first year of Different World was was when
Speaker 10: I did Subject to Change.
Speaker 2: So doing like the whole Truth and Soul era fishone.
Speaker 10: It was definitely truth and Soul. Yeah, that's what That's
Speaker 10: what we were, That's what we were touring.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, how chaotic was that.
Speaker 10: I was engaged to fish at the time, and it
Speaker 10: was crazy. I was yeah for years. Yeah, we were
Speaker 10: together for years.
Speaker 2: I never knew that it was crazy.
Speaker 9: If you know, yeah, then you know it was crazy.
Speaker 9: And then I remember that that was what I wanted
Speaker 9: to do the most. That's why I came to LA
Speaker 9: was to be a musician. It was never to be
Speaker 9: an actress. And it was I really thought, I would,
Speaker 9: you know, afford this music with acting. And I remember
Speaker 9: when Capitol Records just dropped us.
Speaker 10: They dropped us before the album even came out, and
Speaker 10: I was so disillusioned.
Speaker 9: So I went and did another series called Sweet Justice
Speaker 9: with Cecily Tyson and Melissa Gilbert, and you remember that, Yeah,
Speaker 9: you do it.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 10: It was a sweet little thing though.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and after that, I just was, you know, writing
Speaker 9: a little bit and then doing mostly voiceovers. At the
Speaker 9: time I remember that was that was when I just
Speaker 9: went into a really dark period. I was really crestfallen
Speaker 9: about that.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 10: I couldn't get my shit together.
Speaker 2: On the back end of that, on the back end
Speaker 2: of a different.
Speaker 10: Subject to change.
Speaker 9: Yeah, on the back end of that, because you know,
Speaker 9: we had toured that record almost two years straight, and
Speaker 9: that was when Capital was under this guy named Hal Milgram,
Speaker 9: and he really loved music. I mean, I'd never been
Speaker 9: to like, you know, had a CEO who was always
Speaker 9: at the fucking gig, you know, and we were just nothing.
Speaker 9: We were just we were like, you know, an all
Speaker 9: black rock band, and at that time there was oh
Speaker 9: my god, we had drums, keys, two guitars, sat had
Speaker 9: one man sack horn section, and uh, I think we're
Speaker 9: like six six pieces.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm surprised that the producers of a different world
Speaker 8: than trying to figure out a way to ease in
Speaker 8: your story.
Speaker 10: Like the guest Freddy was not supposed to dance, know
Speaker 10: how to dance or sing? Yeah, comes I had to
Speaker 10: do my best time.
Speaker 4: That they try me in the background episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Lisa doesn't want to get married. Yeah, here
Speaker 2: comes a bro.
Speaker 9: I know he's got it all, but I mean, and
Speaker 9: then after that, I just did animation, animation until finally
Speaker 9: getting over it and getting to do a solo album
Speaker 9: on work Group.
Speaker 2: How did you and lady hook up for that?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, I met I can't call I met Lisa.
Speaker 9: I met Lisa when I was doing Different World, probably
Speaker 9: the first season. Uh, Kadiem and I were dating when
Speaker 9: we did Different World.
Speaker 5: That was that was.
Speaker 10: That was my boyfriend for about god. We were together,
Speaker 10: I don't know, three years, four years.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 10: Duyne. We're together. We were together almost the entire run,
Speaker 10: I guess, not together the last year.
Speaker 2: Is that hard?
Speaker 1: Like mhm, I hate okay. I always use this term,
Speaker 1: but I mean it rather in a polite way.
Speaker 2: Is that not weird? Shitting?
Speaker 10: Where you eat first, it's delightful, then it's then it
Speaker 10: is ship Where you eat you know what I mean?
Speaker 10: Tastes good, then you don't want to eat it?
Speaker 1: Well, just working on TV, you know, like I know
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of temptation to because you spend
Speaker 1: a lot of hours.
Speaker 2: But Smiley, damn, that just slipped out.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Tavis Valley, I'm waiting on he's been quiet lately,
Speaker 5: but sorry he edit that out.
Speaker 9: I gotta say something in that in Kadeem's defense, because
Speaker 9: Kadeem was really my first real boyfriend, and he was
Speaker 9: an amazing boyfriend. I mean, we rode motorcycles together. We
Speaker 9: I remember, I remember I told him one time we
Speaker 9: had just gotten together. I told him I love this
Speaker 9: comic book Deathlock, and he one of our first dates
Speaker 9: was driving all over the city getting all ten issues
Speaker 9: because I think Marvel had only done ten issues, man,
Speaker 9: and he got them all.
Speaker 10: And going, you know like it was. It was super sweet.
Speaker 8: I mean, just.
Speaker 9: Imagine being young and never having a real, real adult
Speaker 9: romantic relationship.
Speaker 10: It was really a nice way to enter into what
Speaker 10: love is about.
Speaker 2: Wait time, all over the city. Where did you get shoot?
Speaker 9: We shot at CBS Radford in the valley. Yeah, but
Speaker 9: we had to go to you know, all the comic
Speaker 9: book shops to maybe one.
Speaker 10: Shop had one issue, one shove had two. Oh no.
Speaker 10: We shot in La Yeah, in the valley, in the valley.
Speaker 8: See this is ill because now it's like a whole
Speaker 8: different idea of who you guys behind the scenes, and
Speaker 8: even when you mentioned Lisa in our minds as you
Speaker 8: guys never were on the same show at the same time.
Speaker 4: Is so ill she was.
Speaker 9: To get back to what you said, Amya, she was.
Speaker 9: She was very good friends with Kadeen because of their
Speaker 9: first season, and I was in I think, yeah, I
Speaker 9: was in my band at the time, and I remember
Speaker 9: Kadeen was like, you gotta let love rule had not
Speaker 9: come out, he was, you know, and he was like, man,
Speaker 9: you got to meet my friend Lenny, and you gotta
Speaker 9: meet Lisa. I think you guys will love each other.
Speaker 9: And I remember them. They came over and Zoe was
Speaker 9: so tiny, and I remember I played I Think you
Speaker 9: want to know something crazy Lenny. Lenny had never heard
Speaker 9: Carnival Leon Russell's album, he'd never heard tight Rope, he'd
Speaker 9: never heard Out in the Wood, which at the time,
Speaker 9: I was, you know, my whole life obsessed with. And
Speaker 9: I remember playing it for him and we had a
Speaker 9: real connection. I mean, and with Lila Quoy and with
Speaker 9: Lisa and I we had a very instant love at
Speaker 9: first sight.
Speaker 10: That is my sister.
Speaker 8: I will.
Speaker 10: I can't say enough about how deeply I love her.
Speaker 10: So anyway, that's how we all came together was all
Speaker 10: through Kadeen. Thank god.
Speaker 1: I'm jealous that that Zoe was the second person to
Speaker 1: ever hear public enemies. It takes a nation of millions
Speaker 1: to hold us back.
Speaker 2: Was she really the day that Lenny was done with
Speaker 2: making uh rule? Where is the day that pe was
Speaker 2: mastering Nation of Millions? She don't remember that shit?
Speaker 1: And so no, well, there's a story that I think
Speaker 1: Lenny tells of like they really loved black Stiel in
Speaker 1: the Our Chaos, So they like played it three times
Speaker 1: in a row. That was like Lisa's favorite one, and
Speaker 1: they kept playing it like they felt the baby vibrating.
Speaker 1: Oh sweet, Yeah, crazy was jealous, something like, damn, you
Speaker 1: don't even know anything about that record.
Speaker 2: You were there for it. You know. How did you
Speaker 2: go about getting your deal? It was with work.
Speaker 10: Yeah, how did that go? That is Jeff are off.
Speaker 10: And I just remember.
Speaker 9: I was shopping for a record at the time, you know,
Speaker 9: or trying to get a deal, and I was getting
Speaker 9: a lot of doors closed in my face.
Speaker 10: It just they just didn't want the music.
Speaker 9: And then Lilakoy or Lisa gave my like a three
Speaker 9: song demo to Lenny, and Lenny went crazy.
Speaker 10: He was like, I love this ship. I'll produce this ship.
Speaker 9: And then I think I had a meeting with Work
Speaker 9: Group and my manager at the time said, Lenny Kravitz
Speaker 9: will produce it, and they were like, well we you know,
Speaker 9: we started with Lenny at Virgin and they were like,
Speaker 9: let's do this.
Speaker 10: So, I mean, I went to the only place that
Speaker 10: really wanted it. And that's the truth, man. I mean
Speaker 10: my money, yeah, you and twelve others that well, you know,
Speaker 10: you know that record really was a bonafide flop.
Speaker 2: You know you gave me that record.
Speaker 4: Is that why I don't have it anymore?
Speaker 2: You gave me that record, and you gave me some
Speaker 2: group one talking loud. I forget the japan Japanese group.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you don't smoke yoo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But United Future Organism, Yes, there you go. You gave me,
Speaker 1: you gave me crazy record, and you gave me United
Speaker 1: Future Organization work.
Speaker 4: I mean, sometimes I don't know the worst, but I
Speaker 4: know what I like.
Speaker 1: You used to host a Sunday radio program that was
Speaker 1: sort of like the percursor The Quest of Supreme line.
Speaker 2: She was. She was the you.
Speaker 1: Yeah long time ago, yeah, when she was six years old,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, go mama, yeah, Mean Sleep.
Speaker 2: How did that come together?
Speaker 10: Oh gosh, I love that song.
Speaker 9: You know, that's a funny one because I did not
Speaker 9: have the nerve to ask Lenny to do a duet,
Speaker 9: and we were we were Mean Sleep was Oh no, no,
Speaker 9: that's deliciously down Mean Sleep.
Speaker 10: I remember we were.
Speaker 9: We recorded the whole thing at Compass Point in now
Speaker 9: saw Bahamas, So talk about spoiled. I mean, what a
Speaker 9: magical place to be recording. And I think even the
Speaker 9: mandolin was Jimmy Page's mandolin that we used, and it's
Speaker 9: just so many little, you know, ancient magic things that
Speaker 9: went down in that studio. And I remember we're sitting
Speaker 9: at the control uh, sitting at the controls and I
Speaker 9: said we were.
Speaker 10: Getting to Mean Sleep. And I said, man, you know,
Speaker 10: who are we going to get to do this duet? Thinking?
Speaker 9: Please, please, please please feel this desperation I'm shooting at you, ma'am,
Speaker 9: and uh, I said, you know, I guess I could
Speaker 9: get You just have to be someone really good, man.
Speaker 9: It has to be something really fucking good. And he goes, well,
Speaker 9: I'm going to do it. Of course, you know.
Speaker 10: So that was but I really didn't know if he
Speaker 10: was going to do it.
Speaker 5: You know, when did you like your songs? How did
Speaker 5: you write them? Did you write on the instrument or
Speaker 5: did you just.
Speaker 9: Want Really I'm really a shitty guitar player. Uh just
Speaker 9: kind of plunk it out. But I mostly write melody
Speaker 9: and lyric on my own, and then I bring it
Speaker 9: to whoever I'm writing with and I just sing it
Speaker 9: to them. I tell them what I wanted to sound like.
Speaker 4: Have you and Zoe ever had a musical moment? Yes,
Speaker 4: we did, save you.
Speaker 10: Save Yourself, that's right. I wrote this song called save
Speaker 10: Yourself and she was in the video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we had was in the video. There's there's
Speaker 2: I assume that's three versions of you like you.
Speaker 10: That's what it was.
Speaker 9: And then who's the Because are my two other god children?
Speaker 9: That is Stry Sunshine and Body La La, two daughters
Speaker 9: of Hayes Rosen good good good friend of mine.
Speaker 2: Man. When I have kids, I'm gonna have y' all
Speaker 2: name them.
Speaker 4: My pleasure her kids.
Speaker 2: They sound like action heroes, sound like Marvel characters, and
Speaker 2: it's so great.
Speaker 10: I mean, just that you don't have to be like
Speaker 10: everybody else. You don't have to be to be Steve.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Sorry, tell us.
Speaker 7: More about your friend Zoe.
Speaker 4: Oh he's yeah, O yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The greatst Zoe Steve movement was Zoe jumped out of
Speaker 1: a moving car that Steve was driving because she.
Speaker 2: Could take She jumped out.
Speaker 7: No, she jumped out because she saw standing on the corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was all she needed.
Speaker 1: She's like, like, we're driving up sixth Avenue, Steve's going
Speaker 1: like thirty miles an hour, just like, yeah, jump out
Speaker 1: of the car.
Speaker 7: Talking, you know. Then headlines read engineer wrestled for Zoey
Speaker 7: Kravitz mishaf that was her fault.
Speaker 2: I miss you guys are fighting like cats and dogs.
Speaker 4: Man, excuse me, sir. Later, are we gonna do rapid fire?
Speaker 4: Different world questions? Because more to go? I just wanted
Speaker 4: to know. Okay, So.
Speaker 8: Me and my mom were talking about the HIV AIDS
Speaker 8: episode the other I wanted you to talk about it
Speaker 8: and the filming and if you guys were there moments
Speaker 8: of tears because t.
Speaker 9: Shir Yeah, she destroyed that didn't Well, here's the skinny
Speaker 9: about that.
Speaker 10: Ship.
Speaker 9: You guys got to remember, at that time, you couldn't
Speaker 9: even talk about sex. Censorship was so intense, man. You
Speaker 9: couldn't show a condom. You had to imply that it
Speaker 9: was in your purse and describe it as best you could.
Speaker 9: And this is at a time when masses we're dying
Speaker 9: of fucking age. I mean, just you know, when you
Speaker 9: weigh that out, it's just so sad. You know that
Speaker 9: the right, the Christian right, will will just not give
Speaker 9: us shit about it, to the point where they'll censor
Speaker 9: these very important things that can save so many lives.
Speaker 9: So we were in tears about so many things. And
Speaker 9: I attribute that to Debbie Allen. Debbie Allen came in
Speaker 9: and she said, you can't have a show about a
Speaker 9: black college and not address the social issues taking place,
Speaker 9: because it's always the children. It's always the young people
Speaker 9: that are going to yell up and rise and protest.
Speaker 9: And that's how that episode came, you know, And the
Speaker 9: original episode was even deeper. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 9: mean she had you know, people were dropping condoms. You know,
Speaker 9: we were trying to get this message across. But it
Speaker 9: was very tight, man, It was very tight. Then only
Speaker 9: so much you could say, so, I think she did
Speaker 9: an incredible job. I really give hats off to Susan
Speaker 9: Failes and Debbie Allen and navette Lee Bouser. Yeah, these listen.
Speaker 9: Can you guys imagine what it was like. We had
Speaker 9: people on this show like Lena Horn and Richard Rowntree
Speaker 9: and Joseph.
Speaker 2: Carroll and Diane.
Speaker 10: Such a pie.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, you know, TV one actually did a
Speaker 2: marathon of just Patty LaBelle episodes.
Speaker 9: Oh I love it, but I have to say that,
Speaker 9: you know, you got you gotta understand that these actors
Speaker 9: had never been some some of these actors had had
Speaker 9: to enter the soundstage from the back, you know, and
Speaker 9: they were coming to different world. They were driving on
Speaker 9: through the fucking front and they were greeted by the
Speaker 9: executive producer and creator who's a black woman. And then
Speaker 9: they look over and the director is a black woman.
Speaker 9: And then at the start of the fucking show is
Speaker 9: a black woman. And everybody working the cameras and everybody
Speaker 9: doing fucking craft service away. It was you know, I
Speaker 9: remember sitting with Diane Carroll and you know her, the
Speaker 9: stories that they would tell us, and they would almost
Speaker 9: be in.
Speaker 10: Tears they would say, you guys have no idea. We didn't.
Speaker 10: We could never envision this.
Speaker 2: Who you know, who is she the mother of dying
Speaker 2: here Whitley?
Speaker 10: Yeah, she was Whitley's okay.
Speaker 2: And Ron O'Neill was her father, depending what season.
Speaker 10: It was, Yeah, ron.
Speaker 1: Out.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we had to shaft down.
Speaker 2: Yeah everybody. Yeah, he's daddy.
Speaker 10: Now he's being Mary Jans somebody daddy.
Speaker 2: Now he's on Richard that Cobbler.
Speaker 4: I'm just leaving space for you. Okay, I'll jump in
Speaker 4: when I need to, Okay. So I could do this
Speaker 4: all time.
Speaker 8: So how did you feel about now the brother the
Speaker 8: brother storyline, the white brother's story.
Speaker 4: I thought he was our brothers, like.
Speaker 10: You talk about Matthew.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Matthew, I can't hear you louder. That's all I
Speaker 8: think when when I hear Matthew.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 8: So I also wanted to ask you when the new
Speaker 8: cast came, not the new cast, but when the dis
Speaker 8: freshman new freshman freshman, you know Jada p.
Speaker 2: Robinson.
Speaker 10: Can I tell you, guys, here's a little known fact.
Speaker 2: Bomber.
Speaker 10: Robinson is a very big voice of her actor and
Speaker 10: he kicks assay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was Dorian, Dorian.
Speaker 2: The one that wouldn't sleep with Yeah, that's right, that's right,
Speaker 2: she couldn't take it.
Speaker 8: Man. That's not on a Different World question, but on
Speaker 8: a Jada Pinkey question, did you guys bond rock and roll?
Speaker 4: Wise behind?
Speaker 10: She wasn't doing rock and roll at the time. I
Speaker 10: don't even think she listened to rock and roll all
Speaker 10: the time. I don't think so, I don't remember that anyway.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys, ever see Seinfeld.
Speaker 10: Whip it out, whip it out?
Speaker 2: Playing What what's your favorite episode of the Different World.
Speaker 10: That's such a good question. I'm going to say the
Speaker 10: one that everybody loves this stuffing show is.
Speaker 4: Stepping Show is my favorite stepping show?
Speaker 10: That the Do you know why the Stepping Show is
Speaker 10: my favorite?
Speaker 2: Freddie couldn't get the step, yes, Gilbert.
Speaker 9: So anyway, why I loved it was because, like I said,
Speaker 9: Freddie was supposed to be such an inconfident when it
Speaker 9: came to singing and dancing. And so when we got
Speaker 9: to the actual dance routine. You know, my mother's a dancer,
Speaker 9: and so I was doing the dance routine all out
Speaker 9: and I kept saying, I'll suck it up in the show, I'll.
Speaker 10: Up in the show. And then I think it was
Speaker 10: Debbie or somebody said just let her get it because
Speaker 10: it'll be so much more rewarding if Freddy gets the dance. Yeah,
Speaker 10: So I don't know. I'm just it's a special one
Speaker 10: for me.
Speaker 2: You got more different world questions.
Speaker 4: I don't have to.
Speaker 8: I was just going to ask you in retrospect the episode.
Speaker 8: The episode was where it's really focused on you and Jasmine, well,
Speaker 8: you and Whit and Roslyn Cash.
Speaker 9: Yeah, talk about Oh my god, can I talk about
Speaker 9: ros Can I just tell you that the minute she
Speaker 9: walked in, what a goddess and what a life and
Speaker 9: you know, just her telling us stories about the movies
Speaker 9: that she did, and I don't know, she was like
Speaker 9: the kind of person you just were dying to hang
Speaker 9: out with on purpose, you know, I just wanted to
Speaker 9: go get a drink with and she cussed like a sailor.
Speaker 10: That's my kind of fraud.
Speaker 9: It was delightful to work with Roslyn and Jazzy. Jasmine
Speaker 9: is one of my favorite people on the planet, and
Speaker 9: we were and still are very much in love. Our
Speaker 9: firstborn daughters are born on the same day.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Album I wrote a song for her album.
Speaker 10: She let me write a song everybody knows my name.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, real, real good song, tray Ma.
Speaker 9: We've inspired me. I remember, just like thinking, God, I
Speaker 9: hope my band gets a deal. I hope we get
Speaker 9: to do this.
Speaker 2: When we found out that Jazmine Guy Guy was working
Speaker 2: with full Force, we were like, you know, this is
Speaker 2: going to be crazy.
Speaker 10: What was the white chicken face? It's Samantha. It was
Speaker 10: just like tits on a chin. She was amazing. It
Speaker 10: was like a second period.
Speaker 8: Jazmine would always remind you of her talent, like you
Speaker 8: see her dancing and the lift up video.
Speaker 10: You know she dances.
Speaker 9: Jazzy is no joke, and let's give kudos to the woman.
Speaker 9: She's written books, she directs and writes and produces plays.
Speaker 2: She doesn't did she write a book with a phoenix about.
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: Since we're in a different world, I have a slight question.
Speaker 1: Whatever happened to the character of Millie.
Speaker 10: I loved you too. I thought she was the sweetest
Speaker 10: little thing.
Speaker 2: Little thing when Ron was still the dork h the
Speaker 2: first season.
Speaker 10: I liked Million That's a character they could have kept, Yea.
Speaker 2: I hate Steve right now he's making fun of it.
Speaker 4: It's a great watched it.
Speaker 2: I watched it a little bit.
Speaker 10: I did a little bit.
Speaker 2: You were talking about roseland Cash. What was she like.
Speaker 9: I mean, she's just like a down sister. She was
Speaker 9: funny and she was really generous with herself. She spent
Speaker 9: time with us. You know, we got to eat with
Speaker 9: her and talk with her and ask her lots of questions.
Speaker 9: She never got tired, and she gets distillertful air her.
Speaker 9: We didn't do that with her, but we certainly did
Speaker 9: that a lot. I mean, I have to vuye honest
Speaker 9: with you. I don't even remember the last season. I
Speaker 9: was so drunk out and drunk down. I mean, I
Speaker 9: you know, Jasmine and I used to go across to
Speaker 9: this place called a Votre Sante that was like right across.
Speaker 9: We taped two show, so you tape one show in
Speaker 9: the day, then you have dinner, and then you come
Speaker 9: back and tape it again.
Speaker 10: So you know, our theory was same show.
Speaker 9: Twice and then they well, then they've edited and see
Speaker 9: what's the best from both shows, because most shows had
Speaker 9: a live audience, and they say, you know, what's the best.
Speaker 9: We'll take the scene from the first show. This scene
Speaker 9: from the second show. But by the last season, I
Speaker 9: was already on tour with subject to change in my mind.
Speaker 9: I was bylocating, you know what I mean. I was
Speaker 9: so ready to go do this thing that I've always
Speaker 9: wanted to do. Jazzy had a record coming out, you know,
Speaker 9: Kadem was about.
Speaker 10: To do a big movie. We were really like, you
Speaker 10: know what I think he was about, You like, white
Speaker 10: men can't jump for something. We couldn't wait to.
Speaker 9: Get the fuck out of there, you know, just in retrospect,
Speaker 9: what a bunch of dumb ass in grades, you know.
Speaker 9: But but last year was so well we, like I said,
Speaker 9: we taped the first episode. Then Jazzy and I would
Speaker 9: go to this little shitty restaurant and we would get
Speaker 9: as drunk as we fucking could, and then we go
Speaker 9: back and do the.
Speaker 10: Tape the last episode. So when I see a lot
Speaker 10: of those shows, it's it's wonderful. It's the first time.
Speaker 8: It was that wedding episode, and it was much fun
Speaker 8: filming as it is as much fun.
Speaker 10: No, it was awful.
Speaker 9: It was awful, you know, because that was awful because
Speaker 9: you got to understand as much as we were ready
Speaker 9: to leave that show just fucking ended. It ended with
Speaker 9: a thud, and it we didn't know why it ended,
Speaker 9: you know, as far as we knew, we were still
Speaker 9: going strong everybody loves you and blah blah blah, and
Speaker 9: all of a sudden, it was like it's over, you know.
Speaker 10: And so that wedding episode, no cake, no nothing, no
Speaker 10: fucking party. Just don't let the door hits you on
Speaker 10: the way out, man, And we really didn't. Yeah, it
Speaker 10: came up. It was like, all of a sudden, oh,
Speaker 10: this is the last episode. Oh okay, we'll get them.
Speaker 10: You better get them, get them together, better make it
Speaker 10: a wedding, you know.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, okay, yeah that was it.
Speaker 2: You talking about the fake out, Well.
Speaker 10: You're talking about the funk autum. Know that episode was
Speaker 10: amazing because when he said please, the audience went fucking.
Speaker 8: Correctly crazy in your body because that's your man, Like yes, baby, no, no,
Speaker 8: I went.
Speaker 4: To I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Someone someone, someone y'all know of, once gave this episode
Speaker 1: as a reference to me, uh to go grab my woman.
Speaker 2: I really don't grab your woman.
Speaker 1: Is this the Rick James story? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's someone else has done that. I'll mention off
Speaker 1: the off the air.
Speaker 5: This was someone called someone kind of me and was like, yo, man,
Speaker 5: He's like, I already know who the call is.
Speaker 2: Something's happening.
Speaker 1: And if I was you, I'd be on that dwing win,
Speaker 1: I get on the plane right now, come out here
Speaker 1: and grab your one like Dwayne Wayne at Whitley's wedding.
Speaker 2: Like they used this thing as as an example. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that was a great episode. I'm so.
Speaker 10: Curious.
Speaker 4: It's brilliant.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is as well. Well, all right, let me
Speaker 2: get you.
Speaker 1: So I'm ready, Steve, because I can tell you about
Speaker 1: to say something off the off the change.
Speaker 7: I'm good, I'm good. Okay, we're done with Different World though,
Speaker 7: because I watched it a little bit.
Speaker 4: But not like which episode did you study it? Which
Speaker 4: episode was it that you saw?
Speaker 7: What was what was a perfect episode?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I was watch for Alicia Bonet and Jasmine guy.
Speaker 4: You know they weren't there at the same time.
Speaker 7: I thought they were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah they were they were first season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I watched the first season and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2: You're still keep in touch with everybody, uh, the cast?
Speaker 10: Yes you do, Yeah, there's not there's Yeah, I got
Speaker 10: to say.
Speaker 1: The most memorable moment I've ever had in my career
Speaker 1: doing chows. It was like when the twelve of you
Speaker 1: showed up, Like imagine in like nineteen ninety four and
Speaker 1: you're doing your first show in Los Angeles, California, and
Speaker 1: then like it's Cree and it's Lisa, and it's Jasmine
Speaker 1: and it's Jada and Latifa.
Speaker 10: Light was there too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was right. And what's her name? She was
Speaker 2: the eighteen t girls. She y had short.
Speaker 9: That's my best friend. That's what I'm talking about tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 9: we moved here together from Toronto. That's that's the godmother
Speaker 9: and my children.
Speaker 2: Now, I loved it for so long.
Speaker 10: Man, she just did a twelve year bid on Bones one.
Speaker 10: Oh no, no, no, I mean that's how long the show.
Speaker 10: Sorry God, sorry.
Speaker 2: Yo, that night. Yeah, we were never the same.
Speaker 1: We just thought because I mean we just thought, like, yo,
Speaker 1: the sky's a limit, Like you know, our first show in.
Speaker 2: All of Black Hollywood is out here for us.
Speaker 10: But you know what, we I am such a diehard
Speaker 10: roots fan. I mean we were so fucking excited.
Speaker 2: To be there.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that made Yeah, I'll say that of all
Speaker 1: I mean we've done, I think we're up to like
Speaker 1: forty five hundred shows.
Speaker 2: But that that to me is that's a top tip memory.
Speaker 8: Whenever I get together and there's a picture taken, I
Speaker 8: feel like y'all break the internet.
Speaker 10: So yeah, we hang out on purpose, you know.
Speaker 9: I think it has to do with just that we
Speaker 9: were you know, really there weren't a lot of black
Speaker 9: people on TV, and we were a part of such
Speaker 9: a movement. And like I said, when you're an underdog,
Speaker 9: you know you really you're bind together. You know, you
Speaker 9: got become really resilient and really strong. And I think
Speaker 9: that that's another beautiful thing about that show.
Speaker 10: Is it really created you know, lifelong friendships, youts, you
Speaker 10: know that. Yeah, but they'd never touched this one. It's
Speaker 10: such a weird thing.
Speaker 9: I just don't understand, no, no, what you can do
Speaker 9: without us. I mean, you don't wheel out the fucking ancients.
Speaker 9: I mean, bring us some new blood. How many wants
Speaker 9: to see our But that's white people. They can bring
Speaker 9: back anything.
Speaker 5: O L E. R.
Speaker 4: I mean they went to Japan and what happened, That's
Speaker 4: all I'm saying.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, they bring it back to with like with
Speaker 10: young young Blood.
Speaker 2: To build on that question, where do you think Freddy
Speaker 2: Brooks would be?
Speaker 9: Right now, Freddie might have well, god, you know, the
Speaker 9: unfortunate thing she had to become a lawyer. But maybe
Speaker 9: she used that, you know, maybe maybe she started you know,
Speaker 9: a couple of lovely organizations. I'd like to think that
Speaker 9: she went back to school and started teaching, maybe had
Speaker 9: like fifteen kids or something crazy, you know, because I
Speaker 9: just always thought she was such a mother nature and
Speaker 9: so nurturing, and I think she'd have to have a
Speaker 9: lot babies just because she have such an overabundance of
Speaker 9: love and compassion, and I think she would change things,
Speaker 9: you know, because she did. This character was very inspiring.
Speaker 9: You know, I have moments sometimes my mama we call
Speaker 9: her hell Cat. Sometimes she come to La and visit
Speaker 9: and we'll see, you know, a couple of cute little
Speaker 9: young things, and she'll say, oh, look at those two Freddy's,
Speaker 9: you know, and it's just you know, they'll have their
Speaker 9: you know, hair all the wild, and they'll just be
Speaker 9: dressed like like more like themselves than ever before, you know,
Speaker 9: just being themselves powerfully. And I think that's what Freddie
Speaker 9: gave us, because at that time, there were no let's
Speaker 9: face it. There were no black chicks that didn't. You know,
Speaker 9: we were all part of that time where it was
Speaker 9: so important to look like everybody else and be like
Speaker 9: everybody else, and especially on television, it was really important
Speaker 9: to fit into some kind of caricature. And let's face
Speaker 9: it that there were Freddi's that existed all over the
Speaker 9: world that were so isolated and alone and then they
Speaker 9: saw this character and they were like, oh fuck, there's me,
Speaker 9: you know, And that's why I love her.
Speaker 10: I mean, I just think special.
Speaker 5: If she was on Freddy Brooks in twenty eighteen, would
Speaker 5: be your Instagram honey.
Speaker 10: Oh please, don't she like.
Speaker 5: Not a scammer like, but she would be like she
Speaker 5: would be the Freddy Brooks. She would be the YouTube
Speaker 5: hair girl, like showing how to do the curls like.
Speaker 8: She has.
Speaker 10: I think she'd have more important things to do.
Speaker 8: I do think she'd be back with she'd had babies,
Speaker 8: just to have all the good she'd ye because ronn
Speaker 8: ain't having all them kids.
Speaker 2: Wasn't need to be two months ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she wouldn't be with him.
Speaker 10: Do you guys know this?
Speaker 9: Another fun fact is that Darryl Bell is in love
Speaker 9: and been in love and living with tempest for a millionaires.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did a reality show.
Speaker 2: Wow, Vanessa Hawks, they did a reality show.
Speaker 10: Just your mind blown down your mind there, I'll say
Speaker 10: this off the record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that explains why he was accompanying someone in
Speaker 1: the courtor.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, See.
Speaker 7: Did you ever meet Bill Cosby?
Speaker 10: I did for about ten minutes.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say if it was just for a
Speaker 7: few minutes, and then everything goes went black.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nor the car.
Speaker 10: I eject myself from the understand though.
Speaker 2: You do. Now you see where the line. I knew
Speaker 2: that it was coming. See see.
Speaker 4: How it's starting to he is laughing.
Speaker 2: Now cut is Mike off? So but you only met
Speaker 2: him once. That's what it was.
Speaker 9: Very It was like it was like assembly, you know,
Speaker 9: like the opening day when we first first started working
Speaker 9: on the show, and he came out and kind of
Speaker 9: thanked everybody in the split was it was real short man, gotcha?
Speaker 2: Okay, Now I want to know how hard is it?
Speaker 1: Are you the only notable person of color in the
Speaker 1: voiceover world during O No, no, No, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to answer.
Speaker 9: That for no, but there's there's there's a few of us,
Speaker 9: but you know, not very many. I'll tell you there's
Speaker 9: probably about the three or four of us, or maybe
Speaker 9: maybe five. The thing about the voiceover community is it's
Speaker 9: so fucking small. It's like a click, you know, we've
Speaker 9: got of you?
Speaker 2: Or is it?
Speaker 10: Oh there's less than that, Oh there's I mean, when I.
Speaker 9: Go to work, I probably see the same ten people
Speaker 9: every time, and when we see a new person, we're like,
Speaker 9: who the fuck is that?
Speaker 2: Are you lost?
Speaker 4: You know, No, we're not that mean, but I've seen
Speaker 4: that looking the way back.
Speaker 2: Is don still doing a lot of voice ess?
Speaker 9: I think she still does. Yeah, I don't see very much.
Speaker 9: Some other stuff she's done some really nice jobs.
Speaker 1: I've just seen her in a movie, or she's something
Speaker 1: on Netflix lower, or it's just recently she was a
Speaker 1: lawyer or something.
Speaker 2: So I think I know what you're talking about. And
Speaker 2: I can't remember it either. But I've seen it this
Speaker 2: week and I was like, oh, my god, that's doing.
Speaker 10: Noise, doesn't she She's definitely sacrificing children. She looks great.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: Are we ever going to see you back on the screen?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 9: Sometimes I sometimes I do do it for friends. I
Speaker 9: have friends that will ask me I actually just did
Speaker 9: a film for a friend and amazing writer named Charles Murray.
Speaker 10: I just did a film for him. It's called Truth.
Speaker 2: For Someone.
Speaker 5: In terms of voice acting, because that's something that I'm
Speaker 5: looking to get into.
Speaker 10: We do have a very nice voice. That's such a
Speaker 10: pretty residence.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. What where's the starting point for that?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 10: Boy, man, I gotta get real with you. It's so tough.
Speaker 10: It's so tough to get into.
Speaker 9: But I I can't really give you the same advice
Speaker 9: i'd give anybody else, because you know, the sound of
Speaker 9: your own voice.
Speaker 10: You do this all the time. I'd say, you just
Speaker 10: need to know somebody.
Speaker 6: How you.
Speaker 2: Who is who's the gatekeeper?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 9: I think it's probably the casting agents and the you know,
Speaker 9: the different networks like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and well.
Speaker 2: Actually, okay, I'll ask you a question. Yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 10: A sweating man. Hold on, I just got it.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, the thing you got, the wet and waving.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm going listen, I'm going back home. I can
Speaker 10: feel it in the back that is getting very very upset.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the living room turn into the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, well, I'm in the process of developing two
Speaker 1: animated series.
Speaker 2: Are so is it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Heying? But is there?
Speaker 1: Is it kind of a mafia system? Like am I
Speaker 1: naive thinking like, oh, I'll choose who I want to
Speaker 1: do these voices?
Speaker 10: All? No, no, you choose whoever you want and you'll
Speaker 10: be just fine. It's not like that.
Speaker 2: So it's not like a union where you have to choose.
Speaker 10: Oh god, no, yes there is.
Speaker 8: And you watch Robot you watch Robot Chicken. They throw
Speaker 8: anybody in their situation and it sounds really great.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, listen, it's it's definitely not. I think, honestly,
Speaker 10: I think the reason that you see the same twelve
Speaker 10: people this guys are really fucking good, that's all. And
Speaker 10: they're really dependable.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: It's like your studio musicians. You know, you got your
Speaker 10: your you know, like your your session, your session guys,
Speaker 10: you know, and I feel like we're the session.
Speaker 1: Guys, and it's hard and I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: sacrifice sort of Like well, when I visited the settum
Speaker 1: of Sesame Street, it was almost like the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like that's a very specific area that it's hard to
Speaker 1: make a steady living and if you can.
Speaker 10: Get in there.
Speaker 2: Is it a good living for you now?
Speaker 9: It's a wonderful living. Yeah, it's very nice. I mean, listen,
Speaker 9: I'm a mama. I started having babies real late. My
Speaker 9: children are really young, and I have time to hang
Speaker 9: out with them. I have time to write music, I
Speaker 9: have time to do all kinds of things, and I
Speaker 9: can still support myself, which is really nice.
Speaker 2: So what is the average like a work week for
Speaker 2: you as a voice actor?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, I have shows that I'm a regular on.
Speaker 9: I have a lot of shows that I reoccur on,
Speaker 9: and then I have a lot of shows that I
Speaker 9: just do guest spots on. So I have in your
Speaker 9: regular gigs, you have maybe two on Monday, one on Thursday,
Speaker 9: one on Friday, and then you'll have your reoccurring gigs
Speaker 9: that you do, you know, throughout the week too. I'd
Speaker 9: say work maybe four or five times a day.
Speaker 8: And do you find it's a difference between Cause it's funny.
Speaker 8: I listen to you and I'm like, I've done voice
Speaker 8: over work, but I feel like it's a difference between
Speaker 8: a voiceover actress and a voice over I want to say, announcer,
Speaker 8: like different things versus Yeah, and.
Speaker 9: You break that down to people, well, I think a
Speaker 9: voiceover a voice announcer, you're trying to do something that
Speaker 9: is going to of course lure them in. And the
Speaker 9: only quality that one has to have is that cell
Speaker 9: sell sell ability and that likability. And of course, when
Speaker 9: you're a voice over actress, you're playing characters, so likability
Speaker 9: and all those other things are not important. It's just
Speaker 9: important that you're delivering a well rounded, believable character.
Speaker 2: How do you protect your voice?
Speaker 9: I don't, man, I smoke weed, I smoke cigarettes. I
Speaker 9: smoke I'll smoke you if you'll fit in this paper.
Speaker 4: But I you know, but so I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't take care of my voice. I'm an asshole
Speaker 9: when it comes to this voice. Man, I just go
Speaker 9: really fucking hard. I mean, yeah, so I got no.
Speaker 10: Advice about.
Speaker 7: It works.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, it's also just it's real Rasby and
Speaker 9: it's always been and it's not going to clean up
Speaker 9: if I fly straight, you know, So why fat dairy?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yes, in my mind, I think everybody thinks, you know,
Speaker 9: sometimes I'll just have my face and a rib and
Speaker 9: you know, a fan of walk By be like Oh
Speaker 9: my god, Freddy.
Speaker 10: You eat meat and I just think, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 10: What do you want?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 2: What did you think of Nika and Van's cover of
Speaker 2: Me Sleep?
Speaker 9: I really am good friends with Nica because Nika's son, Suede,
Speaker 9: goes to school with my daughter Hero and so and
Speaker 9: I God, I love Van.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 10: I just thought it was.
Speaker 2: Cool, you know.
Speaker 10: And yeah, I liked it a lot.
Speaker 2: I thought they really did.
Speaker 10: I thought they did a good job. Nika sings her
Speaker 10: as off man.
Speaker 2: How did you eat Van in the first place? Street?
Speaker 9: Van and I wrote together deliciously Down and Mean Sleep
Speaker 9: and some other songs that I wish the world would
Speaker 9: get to hear too.
Speaker 10: I love writing with Van. We were you know what
Speaker 10: you're going to say. Listen.
Speaker 9: They call me amish two thousand. I'm such a fucking
Speaker 9: tech retard. One would literally have to do the thing
Speaker 9: for me. You know, I don't know you know me,
Speaker 9: so we'll scratch. But that was something that the record
Speaker 9: company did. The record work group set me up with
Speaker 9: this dude, David Ryan Harris from Follow for Follow. I
Speaker 9: used to follow them around like a group album when
Speaker 9: they would come to l A. My friends and I
Speaker 9: like groupies. We would go to the gig, would wait
Speaker 9: by the fucking bus. It was embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I was follow a record on it called If I had.
Speaker 10: That one Boys Boys, So he did.
Speaker 9: He did Dan Faris album That's right, and I think
Speaker 9: it was her m D for like a couple of years.
Speaker 9: So they set me up with David, Ryan Harris and
Speaker 9: Van uh because.
Speaker 2: If you on work that you were labeling, you know
Speaker 2: what's with David Harris.
Speaker 9: I wrote Still my Heart with Ryan Harris. That was
Speaker 9: our cool writing. An Astero is from Toronto. That's my girl.
Speaker 9: She's I met her because she was dating my brother
Speaker 9: and then he brought her to a gig and she
Speaker 9: was happened to be on the same label. An Astero
Speaker 9: is a pirate and a dear sister of mine.
Speaker 10: David, No, he wasn't.
Speaker 2: He wasn't.
Speaker 10: No, he was on something else. Eagle Eye, the Cherry's Brother.
Speaker 5: Save Tonight record that was a good man in a minute.
Speaker 5: That record was everywhere I heard it, like in Trader
Speaker 5: Joe's Oh Listen.
Speaker 9: It drove me crazy because at the time my album
Speaker 9: was just laying there like it was laying like a
Speaker 9: fucking egg, and everywhere we went, We'd hear Saved Tonight
Speaker 9: and I'd be like that mother.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the jealousy, man, it was deep. That was a
Speaker 10: hard time, man. I we had put so much love
Speaker 10: and you were.
Speaker 9: Ahead of your time and you know, I don't know, man,
Speaker 9: it was it was rough. I mean, touring was beautiful.
Speaker 9: We were really adored and embraced everywhere we went. And
Speaker 9: then you know, you check the record sales.
Speaker 7: I have a question for what should again the name
Speaker 7: of the band.
Speaker 9: I was in a band called Subject to Change, and
Speaker 9: then I did a solo album and then okay, I
Speaker 9: left the Yeah, the band broke up and.
Speaker 11: All right, but let's let's say the Subject to Change
Speaker 11: you did.
Speaker 10: That album tanked as well.
Speaker 2: But there's now that did actually come out?
Speaker 10: It never came out, Yeah, I guess it.
Speaker 2: I think it did come out. Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think that's like one of those things you find
Speaker 9: by accident at a truck stop, right there beside trying
Speaker 9: to get it right beside Nam Campbell.
Speaker 2: I got an idea.
Speaker 4: Seeing that album.
Speaker 10: It's called Baby Woman.
Speaker 2: I've actually heard it. Hold up, Yes, she did what.
Speaker 4: I bet Quincy produced it.
Speaker 2: No, he didn't have to deal with Okay, but the
Speaker 2: subject to change.
Speaker 10: Go ahead ahead, I'm sorry, sorry.
Speaker 2: Now and waited too long.
Speaker 7: Now it's going to sound.
Speaker 2: How we just diffuse every Steve bomb.
Speaker 7: Tell either forget or just won't sound right anymore.
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 7: So the subject to change album? What's that called?
Speaker 10: It was called womb Amnesia?
Speaker 7: Okay, did it come out or not?
Speaker 10: I don't think it.
Speaker 2: I think it that.
Speaker 5: There's copies, there's used copies for sale and discogs. I'm
Speaker 5: looking at them right now.
Speaker 2: I guess it.
Speaker 11: Doesn't matter whether it came out or not, actually, because
Speaker 11: the idea is to re release it now.
Speaker 9: Oh god, I would hate to put that record out.
Speaker 9: I mean I I just think it sounds like a
Speaker 9: raging chipmunk.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: It's like, you know, because I was I had just
Speaker 9: really become a feminist, you know, like just discovered that
Speaker 9: I you know that I was angry, and so I
Speaker 9: was really fucking like you know what you know when
Speaker 9: you first get angry.
Speaker 10: I mean, I was mad about being black, I was
Speaker 10: mad about being a chick.
Speaker 9: I was mad about everything, and so that album just
Speaker 9: sounds like a petulant frenzy, you know, And I.
Speaker 10: Think, yeah, I mean, I'm it's sweet you know, fucking pissed,
Speaker 10: you know hearing it.
Speaker 2: Now, is it kind of embarrassing?
Speaker 10: Like the thing about like just like I think it's
Speaker 10: kind of cute, you know, it tickles me a little bit.
Speaker 10: And I just sound so small, you know, like I
Speaker 10: sound really small and mad.
Speaker 8: So not very potent since you mentioned anger. Just curious
Speaker 8: to check your your temperature on the Hollywood right now
Speaker 8: as a feminist, and I love it.
Speaker 10: Man, this is a great time.
Speaker 9: I think a lot of motherfuckers are shaking in their
Speaker 9: boots and they should.
Speaker 10: It really excites me.
Speaker 9: I just can't wait for the next one, you know,
Speaker 9: you know what, I can't wait because know, I just
Speaker 9: can't wait for the next motherfucker to get strong because
Speaker 9: because the truth is, you know, I got two small
Speaker 9: daughters who have really already expressed a desire to perform
Speaker 9: and I and I don't want them to ever be
Speaker 9: pray for these predators. And I also know myself too,
Speaker 9: I am a big fan. I admire so many people,
Speaker 9: I admire so many men, and I have just been
Speaker 9: blessed that no one decided I was pray because I've
Speaker 9: looked up like you know, like I said, you know,
Speaker 9: we used to wait outside the bus.
Speaker 10: Man looking like we were prey on purpose, you know.
Speaker 9: And yeah, they all got to get got because this
Speaker 9: is this is ancient, this is the beginning of time.
Speaker 9: This is the plight of the weaker sex.
Speaker 10: And time is up.
Speaker 9: Time is up, motherfuckers. I have been god, no one
Speaker 9: ever got me completely. Let's say I got halfway got
Speaker 9: And I'll tell you another really sad, shitty fact that
Speaker 9: I know you can attest to. If you get a
Speaker 9: bunch of women together, not one woman has gotten out unscathed,
Speaker 9: not one, not a single one can say they didn't
Speaker 9: get me because we all were so fucking happy to
Speaker 9: be there. At one point let it go further than
Speaker 9: we wanted it to go. Maybe we even did say no,
Speaker 9: and it still kept going. And you know, this is
Speaker 9: what has happened to all of us, and this is
Speaker 9: why this time is so important, and it's got to
Speaker 9: keep going until every last one of these motherfuckers are out.
Speaker 2: What do you tell your daughter's like, what do you
Speaker 2: say to them?
Speaker 10: You know, I have to be very careful. They're four
Speaker 10: and six. I don't want them to be afraid.
Speaker 9: What I tell them is, if anybody tells you that
Speaker 9: they can touch you and don't say anything because they'll
Speaker 9: hurt your mom or dad. You tell them your mom
Speaker 9: is a wolf, your daddy's a fucking dragon, and nobody
Speaker 9: can hurt us. I said, anybody touches you, you tell us.
Speaker 9: I can't wait. You know, my babies know and they
Speaker 9: see me. I got you know, I'm not the one
Speaker 9: to cut off while driving.
Speaker 10: I'm not. I'm not the one in the park. You
Speaker 10: know what I mean? Character it actually does, it actually does.
Speaker 10: Then don't forget.
Speaker 9: My mother's family is from North Richmond, California, so I
Speaker 9: can don't push.
Speaker 2: Me birthplace of Masterpiece.
Speaker 10: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 2: That's so dope. So now, like, what do you pretty
Speaker 2: much do?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: Are your days pretty much consistent of voiceover stuff?
Speaker 9: It's all voiceover? I mean, I just started writing again.
Speaker 9: I'm super excited. I'm singing again, and that's setting me
Speaker 9: on fire.
Speaker 10: I'm so happy.
Speaker 9: Which is you know, when we talk about retro uh
Speaker 9: retroactive street Ferry is retroactive, you know, And all of
Speaker 9: a sudden, you know, people are talking to me about again.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: could get back the master or something, but I really
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 9: It's Sony that belongs to this. I'd have to re
Speaker 9: record the whole fucking you know.
Speaker 5: But no, I think it was a record. I mean
Speaker 5: when it came out, I think it was kind of
Speaker 5: before it's time a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think it was. I definitely wasn't ready for it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's definitely more for now.
Speaker 5: It would be understood more now than it would, you
Speaker 5: know at that time, I think, which us back to
Speaker 5: my idea.
Speaker 4: You can't do that.
Speaker 9: But you know, also, don't forget there was a weird
Speaker 9: thing going on at that time in the nineties. Do
Speaker 9: you remember when you weren't allowed to do television and music?
Speaker 5: Do you?
Speaker 10: Guys you know what that was? You don't remember that thing?
Speaker 10: If you were on TV, if you, well, that's now.
Speaker 9: But if you were on TV back in those days,
Speaker 9: you'd come on the stage and they'd be like, ah, fuck,
Speaker 9: this is that chick from different world. There's no way
Speaker 9: I remember God to say, remember everyone she used to
Speaker 9: just play Genghis cohen Man. But at that time you
Speaker 9: really couldn't do both a stigma about it. Now you
Speaker 9: better do it fucking everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was thinking like maybe.
Speaker 5: I think your journey with the music, maybe it would
Speaker 5: have been different if people knew you from the music
Speaker 5: first and then the acting they start. When you start
Speaker 5: with the acting first, people automatically discredit you as a musician.
Speaker 5: It's easy to be a musician, and I have a
Speaker 5: feeling that was what hinder Jasman's career as a singer
Speaker 5: as well, because people were expecting and they were waiting
Speaker 5: for Whitley to start singing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted to give it.
Speaker 10: RBL But I am I gotta say though, I am
Speaker 10: just super grateful for all the sweetness and love that
Speaker 10: people give Street Fairy.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 9: I was just literally facetiming Lenny last night and he
Speaker 9: was saying, man, I can't believe how many people won't
Speaker 9: stop talking about Street Fairy.
Speaker 2: It's so nice, you know, so you're writing now still.
Speaker 10: I just have been really set on set a flame.
Speaker 10: I caught a fire. It feels so good. You're ready
Speaker 10: to perform too, I would like to, Yeah, I will.
Speaker 10: I will to.
Speaker 2: Rewind back to your voice acting. Yeah you did. You've
Speaker 2: done video games as well? Right?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 9: Not as many, not very many thought. Yeah, I like
Speaker 9: there's things I like about video games and things I
Speaker 9: don't fucking like about video games. I mean video games
Speaker 9: when they set down that script, it's like, right, thud.
Speaker 5: That's what That's what I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 5: the strike that recently happened with the voice actors, because
Speaker 5: you know, you guys have to do you know, screams
Speaker 5: and so many different like you know, so many different
Speaker 5: screams and so many different yells.
Speaker 2: It's real voice. Yeah, So I was wondering if that
Speaker 2: was something that you had ever encountered.
Speaker 9: Well, oh yeah, man, there's some jobs you just call
Speaker 9: blood throat. That's like the kind of the code name.
Speaker 9: You know, how's your gig today? Blood throat? Man, fucking
Speaker 9: blood throat, because it's just page after page of like,
Speaker 9: you know, one punch has this sound, one punch has
Speaker 9: this sound, thirty fucking kicks, nineteen death cries, and by
Speaker 9: the end of the day, by the end of the day,
Speaker 9: you just feel like you've been hit by a semi
Speaker 9: you know, in the trope. And and the other thing
Speaker 9: about that contract that was so shady was, you know,
Speaker 9: these these non disclosure things that we'd have to sign,
Speaker 9: and then they were allowed to not tell us what we.
Speaker 10: Were auditioning for.
Speaker 9: So you'd go to this gig you it would just
Speaker 9: say unknown video game, right, and then you'd book it.
Speaker 9: They'd negotiate your fucking fee.
Speaker 10: You'd book it. Yeah you're in Halo. You're in Halo,
Speaker 10: and you got paid ten cents. So we were pissed. Man,
Speaker 10: we're pissed. It's not okay.
Speaker 2: Wow, So what you know is the union, Well, you
Speaker 2: guys did strike behind it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we did strike behind it. Okay, you're a little
Speaker 10: bit better.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: They were also, you know, the the video game companies
Speaker 9: were saying that it didn't matter if professional actors were
Speaker 9: doing the doing the jobs, that it was all about
Speaker 9: the game, and that we were incidental.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 5: We'll always wondered it was why couldn't they just you know,
Speaker 5: once you've recorded, you know, twenty thirty people doing all
Speaker 5: these different screens, why can't you just reuse them?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 10: You know what the kind directors do, the ones that
Speaker 10: you love to work for do they say, ah, we
Speaker 10: got it, we got it, go home.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we love those people. Yeah, that's Blizzard is really
Speaker 9: good like that. Andrea Torre is a Blizzard. They're a
Speaker 9: good company.
Speaker 2: Which video games were you on oh god.
Speaker 10: Honestly, I'd have to IMDb myself.
Speaker 2: Much weed.
Speaker 10: I spoke so much weed.
Speaker 4: We won't be a fallout.
Speaker 10: It won't be a lot of video games fall out
Speaker 10: because I don't do a lot.
Speaker 2: Of final fantasies.
Speaker 4: Are you an indict?
Speaker 10: I like Sativa? I also like a little Skywalker in
Speaker 10: the hyd Yeah.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about the new the new law situation.
Speaker 10: We're going to be able to do it? Yeah, recreation,
Speaker 10: I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 4: No, it's not yet, No, it's now, Yes, it is now.
Speaker 2: I got I got mine on Wednesday, so I can
Speaker 2: do anybody. But there's only four shops in all of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and they're all and what's Hollywood.
Speaker 4: But if you have a prescription, we get a discount.
Speaker 10: I don't have a prescription. No, I just got a
Speaker 10: guy that drives it home. I've got the same guy
Speaker 10: that's been delivering this ship, you know, since the Coke Daisies.
Speaker 12: You know what I mean.
Speaker 8: It's something about the normal sys. I did that up
Speaker 8: until like a couple of months ago.
Speaker 10: Yeah, night, what does it feel. I've never ever been
Speaker 10: in one of those shops.
Speaker 8: Well, you know what's crazy, because it's like seven eleven,
Speaker 8: but we no, that sounds went into yeah yeah, And
Speaker 8: it's kind of crazy to get your prescription over the
Speaker 8: phone and you know, get it five minutes.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, this is what I hear.
Speaker 2: Drugs.
Speaker 10: I like that door to door man, old school, but.
Speaker 4: They have charged, you know, for delivery.
Speaker 10: I don't mind, man, because you're just like now, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like I don't want to get out of the house.
Speaker 10: When you want to smoke. You don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 4: You're talking about drones delivering your weed.
Speaker 2: Now, if I was motivated, I wouldn't be exact him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we forgot you were here. We just kind of.
Speaker 7: You're like in a different world over there.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. I just read something
Speaker 2: you were supposed to be make Griffin.
Speaker 10: I was Griffin for the first season.
Speaker 2: That was was was I thought that was. I got
Speaker 2: to watch the first season again.
Speaker 10: That's awful. Don't do it. You know, that's one of
Speaker 10: my heartbreaks. Like I just didn't fit, you know, I
Speaker 10: gotta say, how do.
Speaker 2: You fit for? I mean, you're like I did.
Speaker 9: I didn't veteran of listen, I've been fired from better jobs.
Speaker 10: I have, man, I've been fired from some fucking gig everything.
Speaker 10: But can I tell you when I do when I
Speaker 10: go there from a voice though, you can just get
Speaker 10: the same call you get from every gig. You know,
Speaker 10: it's not working. You know, we really love her, it's
Speaker 10: not working.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: Here's the thing. You know, when that fucking job smarts me.
Speaker 9: When I go to do a guest spot on The
Speaker 9: Cleveland Show and it's a building a family guy like man,
Speaker 9: that fucking I get butt hurt going up on the
Speaker 9: elevator because I just like, think of all the fucking
Speaker 9: money I could have made that was probably get fired from.
Speaker 9: But I just didn't, you know, when you just don't gel.
Speaker 9: I mean, I have to tell you this. You know,
Speaker 9: Seth Green and I are that's my love. But the
Speaker 9: other Seth, I mean, we just didn't We didn't you do?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's a love of my life. He's such
Speaker 9: a dope ass dude. But you know it just didn't jibe. Listen,
Speaker 9: we all ain't going to be friends.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like Meg was always just a straight ahead character,
Speaker 2: said you didn't have to be silly.
Speaker 9: I think that might have been a problem. I don't
Speaker 9: know how good I am as the straight man.
Speaker 2: Oh, they wanted you more dryer. Yeah, and you were.
Speaker 10: I think I was just trying everything everybody else was trying,
Speaker 10: you know, because I.
Speaker 1: Love that first season, So I gotta watch it now. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was one of the people that was like, I
Speaker 1: want to see a bit you know when when they
Speaker 1: got cancel when they got canceled all that stuff. It
Speaker 1: was one of those people too. Wow, Okay, now I
Speaker 1: gotta read Sorry, America, watch it. I gotta rewatch it.
Speaker 2: Well, so.
Speaker 1: I'm using the Simpsons as as the wrong example, But
Speaker 1: is the goal to be on a series so successful
Speaker 1: that those residual checks just it would be nice?
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, it would be nice. You know
Speaker 10: I I don't even think I think about it in
Speaker 10: terms like that and in v O because it's such
Speaker 10: a constant. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: But what's what constitutes a successful series? Five years?
Speaker 10: Twenty years of rug round?
Speaker 5: Hold on, I'm sorry, I hate to rewind back to
Speaker 5: to a family guy, but I just read the wiki.
Speaker 10: Together.
Speaker 2: We want to we want to talk about Foxy loving.
Speaker 10: Love the fox.
Speaker 2: Yes, let me know if this is correct. On your.
Speaker 10: Fat They're fun, get that your fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just want to see if this is true.
Speaker 5: This is on your Wikipedia page, but it says the
Speaker 5: reason why Meg got recast because they felt having a
Speaker 5: black woman's voice of white character would be racially insensitive.
Speaker 2: The Cleveland show, that's.
Speaker 4: A fucking.
Speaker 10: Well, we thought it will be insensitive, so we fire
Speaker 10: the black girl white man. If it's true, I hope
Speaker 10: it's not true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would kissed me off.
Speaker 10: Yeah, let's let's say that's not You got to.
Speaker 4: Go back in the building. Yeah, I gotta go back.
Speaker 2: I had to update great filling games before you took off.
Speaker 4: We talked about Foxy you know, Yeah.
Speaker 2: She's not real. You know that, right, Foxy Love. I
Speaker 2: just feel that ask some question.
Speaker 10: It's real.
Speaker 9: She was a Jacoli colored, freaking amed foreman. Then for
Speaker 9: Maniac mistress Salva musician.
Speaker 2: She plays Frisbee, that's right.
Speaker 10: She played the ship out of the jingle frisk How
Speaker 10: many seasons we get out of that? That was like,
Speaker 10: I think we only got to God. It was so good.
Speaker 10: No one was exempt, I mean even God. I remember
Speaker 10: there was like this glory, glory, hollelujah, and he you know,
Speaker 10: sorry anyway, saying everybody got theirs you know.
Speaker 5: Here's here's a good question. Do you think there should
Speaker 5: be limits in comedy? Because, like, you know, the Dave Chappelle,
Speaker 5: I love that and you love I love them too,
Speaker 5: But there are quite a few people that did not
Speaker 5: like the Specials because of some of the topics that
Speaker 5: he covered. So I'm assuming that you don't think that
Speaker 5: there should be any boundaries in comedy.
Speaker 10: I don't know if I just think in comedy, I mean,
Speaker 10: I just think that, Oh, that's such a tough one.
Speaker 10: I use my instinct when it comes to when I'm offended, do.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 9: I I can feel, I can feel when it hurts you.
Speaker 9: I can feel when it hurts and then I can
Speaker 9: feel when it's just a really fucking clever joke, man.
Speaker 9: And listen, caricatures exist for a reason. Yeah, we all
Speaker 9: got a little bit of that ship.
Speaker 2: You hear actually said that word.
Speaker 13: Caricatures, caricatures, the boxing, caricatures, caricatures.
Speaker 10: I love it.
Speaker 2: Hear it? Wow? And actually I almost wish I wasn't
Speaker 2: in the room with her so I could just hear it.
Speaker 2: Do you kids know what you are?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 10: They don't give us ship, They don't watch TV.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 9: They watch My daughter loves the Legend of Cora. Brave, Brave,
Speaker 9: Little Wing loves the Legend of Cora.
Speaker 2: Mama, is that your voice?
Speaker 10: You know which one hero loves? Vamporina.
Speaker 9: This new show I do on Disney Junior and I
Speaker 9: actually the May the Circle Be Unbroken, bye and bye
Speaker 9: and bye and bye. I just got them a gig
Speaker 9: on Vampa.
Speaker 2: They did, you're pulling.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, let's Mama's gonna be oldest started somebody else
Speaker 10: get to work.
Speaker 4: To save this time she was seventeen.
Speaker 10: Show you right?
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, But they don't really, they don't get very excited.
Speaker 9: I mean, every now and then a cartoon will come
Speaker 9: on and they'll say is that you? And I say yeah,
Speaker 9: and then they just go by the business. As a
Speaker 9: matter of fact, I got so excited about Vamporina because
Speaker 9: this is the only cartoon they've gotten excited about. At first,
Speaker 9: I was trying to push it on them. I'd be like,
Speaker 9: don't you want to check out this?
Speaker 10: Look at this ship like, and they just didn't like it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: That One of our guys on the podcast is the
Speaker 5: musical director for Sesame Streak and his daughters.
Speaker 2: Hate me just about to make even the Halloween episode
Speaker 2: when he was like trying to They were just like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm good. Well you know I think. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think of Wars. I was about to say,
Speaker 2: like I wanted to be there so much. Anyway, Well,
Speaker 2: uh listen, this was so.
Speaker 10: Long, cried I.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you coming.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm happy I did well. Like I said, I'm
Speaker 10: a fan.
Speaker 2: So we love you, thank you, thank you for.
Speaker 10: Meeting you guys.
Speaker 2: She looks at Steve any last words.
Speaker 7: Steve now on behalf of two members of the Steve
Speaker 7: Miller Man myself, boss, belle yourself.
Speaker 2: Yes, I had to step anyway, that's that's that on
Speaker 2: behap of it.
Speaker 4: Thank you for raising a nation of weird and loving me.
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, just I guess I just want to say, God,
Speaker 9: bless the freaks. Freak shall inherit the earth and the squares.
Speaker 10: Got will watch the fuck out at night?
Speaker 1: Right the car back please then I'm stalking of all
Speaker 1: you freaks out there. Thank you for listening to question.
Speaker 2: This is a question. We will thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you, and I love you. Freak goodbye.
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