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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to another episode of Car Stories.

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Speaker 1: This episode is a very special episode because this is

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Speaker 1: the origin story of how Amelia and I know each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this episode was actually filmed before the understanding

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Speaker 2: that I was going to co host with you too.

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Speaker 1: I think Car Stories. I was feeling like, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do this anymore. I started losing that northern

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Speaker 1: star of that purpose. And then you know when they

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Speaker 1: say things happen for a reason, or people come into

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Speaker 1: your life for a particular reason. That was those moments

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Speaker 1: where it all kind of made sense, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I always say that and I believe it wholeheartedly

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Speaker 2: that everything happens for a reason. And yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: a great conversation. I felt like I had known you

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Speaker 2: my entire life. But people will understand where our kind

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Speaker 2: of foundation came from after they listened to this episode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything happens for a reason.

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Speaker 2: That it does.

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Speaker 1: Definitely this episode did. So hopefully you guys enjoy. I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting here today with Amelia Hartford. We had a kind

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Speaker 1: of a coffee sit down like a few months ago,

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Speaker 1: got to know each other and I was super impressed

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Speaker 1: by her story, her ethos, you know, her journey in life.

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Speaker 1: She's a fellow actor, and she is a car lover

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Speaker 1: or car aficionado, and she's a true rarity in this

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Speaker 1: world because she's a young woman that actually wrenches on

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Speaker 1: her own cars. It's not just lip service and saying

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Speaker 1: that I like cars or you know, and I like

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Speaker 1: ferraris and take pictures of it. She actually wrenches and

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Speaker 1: thank you. And it's awesome that she also has a

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Speaker 1: grand national which I have, and she loves that.

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Speaker 2: To be fair, it's a limited it's not a real one.

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Speaker 2: But I am such a fan of gea bodies body. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Same same, same, same same thing. Yeah. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you want to share, Amelia. You know, we

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Speaker 1: actually have a connective tissue and it's up to you

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Speaker 1: to if you want to share this, because that was

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Speaker 1: a really compelling story and I feel like you know something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I am a pretty open book, so

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Speaker 2: I feel like I really have no reason not to share.

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Speaker 2: I should preface I lost my dad at a very

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Speaker 2: young age due to suicide, so mental health has been

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Speaker 2: so important to me, and growing up, I watched my

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Speaker 2: dad live breathe bleed by trying to become a movie

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Speaker 2: producer and he was able to do two movies that

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Speaker 2: unfortunately didn't make a return whatever, But he tried. And

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Speaker 2: I just watched him every night, come homework on the

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Speaker 2: script every night, try to try to make something out

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Speaker 2: of it. And I think that's where I grew up

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Speaker 2: to see a lot of my drive. But in one

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Speaker 2: of the films that he did, he had cast you

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Speaker 2: in and it was called Forbidden Warrior. And I had

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Speaker 2: actually met you when I was a little child and

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Speaker 2: didn't put that together until much later in life. And

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Speaker 2: that was pretty wild. And this is before the Fast

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Speaker 2: franchise and everything. This was well year, This was in

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Speaker 2: like two thousand and six, seven.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and five, two thousand and five, two thousand

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Speaker 1: and five.

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Speaker 2: How crazy is that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So since then, what's what's your journey?

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Speaker 2: Ben? I lost my dad probably three years after that

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Speaker 2: had happened. I had this rude awakening that I was

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Speaker 2: going to be alone in my life. I didn't have

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Speaker 2: should do with your money for financing, this is how

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Speaker 2: you should say for retirement, you know. And one of

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Speaker 2: the first decisions I had to make in my life

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't go to my mom. I didn't have

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Speaker 2: to the Internet, and at the time I didn't realize

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Speaker 2: the race car forums would be biased towards race cars.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was just oh die hard car enthusiasts,

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Speaker 2: and these forums had told me that I should get

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Speaker 2: which I'm thankful I did. My first car was in

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Speaker 2: was shortly after that that I moved to Indiana, where

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Speaker 2: So that was a huge pivotal time in my life

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Speaker 2: an actress, because that's something that meant the world to me,

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Speaker 2: and it's all I've ever wanted to do. The earliest

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Speaker 2: And at the time i'd since lost the G thirty five.

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood, and have just been pursuing the Hollywood dream

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Speaker 2: for ten years now. I worked as a waitress, living

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Speaker 2: Was when I moved back. I was able to look

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Speaker 2: It was nice that I always knew I could go

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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure from peers from my mom actually too,

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Speaker 2: And it was so funny for my mom to tell

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Speaker 2: YouTube please? But she was right, and I started my

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Speaker 2: into acting. But that's the long winded answer of what

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Speaker 2: I've kind of been doing the past fifteen or so

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Speaker 1: Well, and you have a pretty big movie coming out

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Speaker 1: pretty soon, can we say? Can we say? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: We can say. I'm so blessed and thankful to have

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Speaker 1: It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: It was that such peace on this project because I'm like,

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Speaker 2: getting to blend the world of both cars and film.

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Speaker 2: That was really cool. Wow. It was also really nice too,

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Speaker 2: The opportunity was great, and I got to live in

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Speaker 1: That's so cool. Yeah, I met your father. I mean,

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Speaker 2: It so trippy to me that that used to know

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Speaker 2: The memories are good because obviously I've talked about it.

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Speaker 2: He had a drug addiction, alcoholism, and towards the end

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Speaker 1: And I can relate with that. Issues with fathers, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I grew up with the stepfather and I never

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Speaker 1: You know, my relatives on my mother's side would say,

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Speaker 1: fuck are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: I'm there.

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Speaker 1: I met this dude, you know, and I actually met him.

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Speaker 2: Did you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I met him.

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Speaker 2: It was that like, And how long ago.

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Speaker 1: I met him? Right after college? Was so? It was

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Speaker 1: like ninety five, ninety five, ninety actually around ninety six.

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Speaker 1: You know. I had so many like issues with my

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think they were ready to be parents,

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Speaker 2: Really yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then my mother contacted his sister who was living

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Speaker 2: Yeah, at my shop, and then I keep a couple

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Speaker 2: I trying to, you know, need it to go take

435
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 2: a walk because you can't figure out why, you know

436
00:21:58,840 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 2: X isn't working.

437
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: But do you feel pressure to have to record everything

438
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 1: you're doing around your cars?

439
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny you ask that. Yeah, I mean

440
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 2: I feel guilty in a way. Even if I'm driving

441
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 2: my cars, I don't at least bring my camera or

442
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: like if I go on car rallies or even just

443
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 2: Sunday drives, I need to be able to record it

444
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 2: or capture it. So sometimes it pulls me out of

445
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: being in the moment because I'm constantly thinking, Oh I

446
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 2: should have shot that, Oh that would have been a

447
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 2: cool shot. Oh wait, this would have been a great

448
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 2: thing for this. But yeah, I do that thought does.

449
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 2: It definitely cross my mind constantly because at the end

450
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 2: of the day, you know, you're telling a story in

451
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 2: these twenty minute episodes of this is what we're doing today,

452
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,439
Speaker 2: this is how I'm going to do it, this is

453
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 2: it finished, and this is how it performs.

454
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Speaker 1: You know. Social media I have this like weird relationship

455
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: with it these days, Like, am I actually really afraid

456
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: of it? Because it gets me like super bummed out,

457
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: you know why. So I end up like comparing myself

458
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,239
Speaker 1: to like other people and going, hey, I don't have

459
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 1: this many followers, I don't have this many likes, and

460
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 1: then you know, it's not like I don't have any

461
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 1: but then I go, well, what am I even thinking

462
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: about it? And then it starts to like trigger all

463
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: of my insecurity.

464
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 2: So I do feel like a big reason for people

465
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 2: struggling with so much mental health in today's world is

466
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 2: because of social media. You're constantly comparing yourself to other people,

467
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: You're constantly seeing things you don't have a big reason

468
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 2: of why I started youtubing was well, one, of course,

469
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 2: I wanted just to make a good living for myself.

470
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 2: I didn't do it for the money, but I was

471
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 2: like if I can do anything else and just get

472
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 2: by instead of being a waitress, then I'd be happy.

473
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 2: But also because other servers in the restaurant, because the

474
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 2: joke it's like, oh, you're an actor, what restaurant do

475
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 2: you work at? I would see other servers and friends

476
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 2: of mine lose roles and opportunities to people who had

477
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 2: a following social media. So that was a big factor

478
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,959
Speaker 2: in me being like, well, if I could make a

479
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 2: living to still be able to do auditions, do something

480
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 2: actually joy doing, working on cars, and not have to waitress,

481
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 2: and I can build a social media presence at the

482
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 2: same time, that just made the most sense for me,

483
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 2: And I'm really glad I did that because it would

484
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: have been very easy for me not to have and

485
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 2: I don't know where I would have been been today

486
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 2: if not.

487
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: So for someone that is trying to start a YouTube

488
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: channel or build content, right, just because you put stuff

489
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: out there doesn't mean that it's going to be successful.

490
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Speaker 1: I mean you are successful and you have a following,

491
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Speaker 1: like a legitimate following. I mean you have like like

492
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Speaker 1: a million subscribers or something like that, right, right, So, like,

493
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: I mean what do you think, why is it you

494
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: think people gravitate towards you, you know, and your your content,

495
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 1: like what is the what is it like the ethos

496
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: or the theme that you try to put into your content.

497
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 2: Going to answer that in two parts. So one thing

498
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 2: mister Beast talks about whom I highly respect, everything that

499
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 2: he's done in the world of YouTube and other platforms.

500
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 2: He talks about, if you're going to start YouTube, do

501
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: one hundred videos just to post, and then from their

502
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 2: start tailoring back, looking at which ones did the best,

503
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: and then from there try to figure out what did

504
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 2: the best, why did the best, and then start dissecting

505
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 2: and then putting a plan and moving forward. And a

506
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 2: lot of just doing the one hundred videos too, is

507
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 2: more the commitment of actually not only filming, but editing.

508
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 2: There's a joke that everyone wants to be YouTuber until

509
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 2: it comes to time to edit. But for me, I

510
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 2: was very fortunate that the first video got an audience.

511
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 2: The first video today that I ever produced has about

512
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 2: half million views because it got shared online. Because I

513
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 2: was first to market in the field that I was doing,

514
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 2: specifically LS content in the female space in the male

515
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 2: dominated industry, specifically with my two forty in the trying

516
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: to rebuild that, and from there I would do simple

517
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 2: things like I couldn't afford, Like I was living paycheck

518
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 2: to paycheck, I couldn't afford things. My friend would let

519
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 2: me install coil overs on his car that he bought

520
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 2: for the video, and I would be working on friends cars.

521
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 2: I had one shop in the very beginning allow me

522
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 2: to have a small part in the garage in exchange

523
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 2: for promotion and just helping them with marketing around the shop,

524
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 2: and I was able to work in my car and

525
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 2: get some used parts to be able to do builds.

526
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 2: But I think from the very beginning, which it's pretty

527
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 2: crazy to watch my first episode just to see my mannerisms,

528
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: how shy I was, how soft spoken I was, to

529
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 2: where I am today, I think what I've seen continued

530
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 2: success from is one doing stuff that I'm passionate about.

531
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 2: I could not continue to do the YouTube grind for

532
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 2: so long without just one thousand percent loving what I'm doing,

533
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 2: so picking the builds that excite me, but also I

534
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 2: like kind of pushing the boundaries of things and especially

535
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 2: the boundaries of horsepower and finding what the limits of

536
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 2: cars are. So I saw a lot of success with

537
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: the with the eight sting ray platform from you know,

538
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 2: at one point being the world's fastest disclosure I'm not today,

539
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 2: and then also building one of the highest horsepower cars

540
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 2: and all this being done and my small garage. I

541
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 2: was basically living in the shop during that period of

542
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 2: time because I was just so happy and so excited

543
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 2: with everything I was doing. Unfortunately, I had a team

544
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 2: behind me that as the company scaled, I've been able

545
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: to hire my friends and individuals that are just as passionate.

546
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 2: So I think for me, what's worked is doing things

547
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 2: that I just you know, that keep me up in

548
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 2: eight because I'm thinking about it because I'm just so

549
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: excited about it.

550
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: Did you have any pushback from like men out there going,

551
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, what is this girl, like you know, trying

552
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: to do with cars?

553
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 2: Definitely, Even still to this day, I've always struggled with

554
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: men and sometimes even women challenging me like, oh, it

555
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 2: can't be real, she's not doing it, she's reading a script,

556
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But I just try not to focus

557
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: on that. I really just focus on what I'm doing

558
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: and the people I surround myself with, Like I don't

559
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 2: think I'd be doing it today. If I didn't really

560
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: love it, you know. Yeah, but even in the beginning

561
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: my first couple YouTube videos, if you go back and

562
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 2: look at the comments, I think it was, like really

563
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: the third and the fourth had some like seriously terrible

564
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: comments that made me contemplate even continuing YouTube. But I

565
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: can I can only I can only hope that it

566
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: helped to pave the way for other women. You know,

567
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I was the trailblazer in that,

568
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: but I can only hope that what I did helped

569
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: to inspire anyone out there to create content and put

570
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: themselves out there.

571
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: Well, what is the parallels of, like you working on

572
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: a car, because it's a meticulous, you know, passion right,

573
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: and you have to have a level of OCD. Are

574
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: there any like lessons you've learned building cars that you

575
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: apply to your work as an actor.

576
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: Aside from the give it one hundred and ten percent

577
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: at all times, I think something that was actually probably

578
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: more challenging for me to grasp for acting was trying

579
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 2: to figure out a process because with cars it's very linear.

580
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: You know, you have to if you're swapping something, remove xpart,

581
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 2: replace it with Y part, and then you have Z

582
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: where it's acting, it's not so linear like that. It's

583
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: a little more modular of sometimes just you know, having

584
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: the space to think and build out the character's past.

585
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 2: And just because you spend thirty minutes doing this doesn't

586
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: mean you're going to get thirty minutes work out of it.

587
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 2: Sometimes you could spend for acting hours try to build

588
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 2: out a character and get nowhere where some days you

589
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 2: get really far with it. I have to remind myself

590
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: to be patient with the process because it is a process.

591
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: With cars, it's you know, if it doesn't work, I

592
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: hit it with hammer and sometimes I can get the

593
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 2: same result.

594
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense.

595
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: Do you mind me asking what your process is as

596
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: an actor?

597
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: One thing that I love to do is to create

598
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: a backstory in history, right. And that's why I love

599
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: old cars, is that I'll look at an old car

600
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 1: and now fabricate like a history of like you know what,

601
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: what kind of memories happened within that car? Right? And

602
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, when you attack a character,

603
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: you have to create like a bible of the character's DNA.

604
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: If you play like a character in Star Wars and

605
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: none of it's on screen, like your backstory, you still

606
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: have to create it like where was he born? What

607
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: does he eat?

608
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: Like? What was his Do you write all that down

609
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: or do you keep it in your thoughts?

610
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, yeah, I create like a bible, and

611
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a journal. And I don't know

612
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: if you read that book Artist's Way, you know, like

613
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: every actor.

614
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 2: That's part of the curriculum.

615
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: It's a good it's a good for for the you know,

616
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: for artists or anybody. It's a good book to read it,

617
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: and you know, you put your thoughts in it. But

618
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: then I walk around and I talk to myself, you know,

619
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: and I figure out like how this guy walks, like,

620
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: you know, was he bullied? Was he the bully? Like

621
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, what's his favorite food? If he does eat

622
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: or not?

623
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 2: You know, do you memorize things very easily.

624
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: In terms of like lines and stuff like that.

625
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: Or do you very don't memorize them because you don't

626
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: want to get them stuck in your head? A certain way.

627
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: Depends on the kind of lines. If it's exposition, it's

628
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: very difficult for me. Right, Like I played in an

629
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: attorney and it's like you know, like legal jargon. It's

630
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: like super difficult. But lines that have an emotional route

631
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, they are very easy for me.

632
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like once you have that clear intention

633
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: and objective and then if you can relate to the

634
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: character you found that grounding, that's when it becomes easier

635
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: to memorize. I think that was something I started doing

636
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 2: the very very beginning of I had to memorize everything

637
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: before I worked on the character. And now I'm like, no, no, no,

638
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 2: I was doing that backwards. I got to build out

639
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 2: the history like memorizations almost the very last thing.

640
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean, and also, you know if

641
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: when you start working with you know, seasoned actors, you know,

642
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: like you think like there's going to be this linear

643
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: process right when you come to set, right like everyone's

644
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,239
Speaker 1: going to have their lines like memorized, and the you know,

645
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: the director is going to know exactly what's gonna what

646
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: SHOT's going to be going on, and how they're going

647
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: to approach, you know, which lenses they're going to use.

648
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: But my favorite process is when you show up and

649
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: you know they have a general there's a lot of preparation,

650
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: there's been pre production, but they let the artists and

651
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: the actors and everybody collaborate and go, let's feel. Let's

652
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: feel like what's going on, Let's hear the words. And

653
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: instead of telling you you're going to stand there, this

654
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: is your mark, it's like where would the characters make

655
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: his entrance and where would he sit? And how would

656
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: you feel? And and when you get to work with

657
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, really seasoned actors that you know, carry that merit,

658
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: that influence, it's it's it's amazing. You know, it's like

659
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: you have the general sheet music and then you come

660
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: together and you play and you create.

661
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a perfect way to describe it. Yeah, that

662
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: was all that was so cool about Out Grand Turismo.

663
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 2: With the director that I had the opportunity to work with,

664
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: Neil Blancamp. He was very improv friendly and that was

665
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: something that I wasn't used to. But I actually at

666
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: first I was intimidated as an actor here improv but

667
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: then I grew to love it because it really allowed

668
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 2: us to be free and open and just work with

669
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 2: the other actors. And it was it really opened my

670
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: eyes to this different world of not being so heavy

671
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: on the text.

672
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: The hardest part for me in my career has been

673
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: having to convince the creative or the sometimes he's a director.

674
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the producers, right, the people that are in

675
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: power that I'm a three dimensional human being. You know,

676
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: you and I we have a different entry point. You know,

677
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: you're pretty white girl that comes in, big eyes, blue eyes, right,

678
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: You're very American, right, And I come in even though

679
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: I'm from Georgia and I'm American as apple pie. They

680
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: look at me and they're like, why why are you here?

681
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: You know, they need to explain that they need to go.

682
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 2: Well, do you still feel like that today or.

683
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: Is that more? I mean, I mean, I think it's changing.

684
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's wonderful that these conversations are

685
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: happening of inclusiveness. But you know, I've been doing this

686
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: three decades and you know, you know the whole point

687
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: of this podcast is to be transparent and have like

688
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: real hard conversations. Is you know, I don't there's no

689
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: opportunities for me as an actor. You know, That's why

690
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going behind the camera, you know, because I

691
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: feel like my face doesn't affect, you know, decision making

692
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: in Hollywood when you're a director. You know, I'm grateful

693
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: for many of the roles and opportunities I've gotten but

694
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, I want to have the opportunity to dive

695
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: into a role that merits an oscar, you know, but

696
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: I feel like it's so far away, you know what

697
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: I mean. You're like, you know, in success, like even

698
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: with the Fast and Ferience franchise, a lot of times

699
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it helps me because they're like, yeah,

700
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: he's the Asian dude that you know, he's a he's

701
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: a stunt driver. And I'm like, I'm not, like, you know,

702
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: I'm not a stunt driver. Like I'm an actor. You know,

703
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: I've done. My career started with you know, independent films

704
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: that went to Sun Dance, you know, but and and

705
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: with directors like I've had to you know, answer certain questions.

706
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, like you know, they asked me

707
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: like what martial arts do you know? And I go,

708
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: why does it have anything to do with the decisions

709
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: of where my character goes within this? And it's like, well,

710
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: I don't know where to put you. And I'm like

711
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: what does that mean. It's like, well, because you're Asian,

712
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 1: and I'm like what. And then within like I did

713
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: a TV show and it's like every time I showed up,

714
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: if I had anything to say. It was, you know,

715
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: like the character went to Chinatown, right, and I'm like hmmm.

716
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: And I used to really really like eat me up,

717
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: and you know, like I used to get super down

718
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: and like you know, and then that would turn into

719
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: like just you know, like anger. And I realized anger

720
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: doesn't serve because it shuts everybody down. And you got

721
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: to you know, understand the rules and then you got

722
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: to you got to win that game, and then you've

723
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: got to be in that position where you can make change. Right.

724
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: And also we're in America too. You know, there's like

725
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: five percent of Asian people in America, so you know

726
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: there's a demographic that show business has to serve. So

727
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: you know, I understand that, but you know, I envy

728
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: when I hear things like you know that you've never

729
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: had a bad experience because you're treated like a human

730
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: being when you're invited to set, and a lot of times,

731
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: especially when I started my career, like I was not

732
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: I'm not treated like an equal, you know, and even

733
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: to this day, you know, it's.

734
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 2: Just to communicate. Its difficult with directors on set. Obviously,

735
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: I've had terrible experiences with terrible humans in my life. Sure, sure,

736
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: especially being a woman in the male dominated space. But

737
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: obviously I can't relate or even begin to put myself

738
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 2: in your shoes for what you're telling me. I'm you know,

739
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: that's really heartbreaking to hear a lot of that. You say,

740
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 2: the franchise you fear could have hurt you doing Oscar

741
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: nominated films, but I believe that you could be cast

742
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 2: in one tomorrow. Sincerely, I don't know if your future

743
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 2: entails you continuing to be in front of the camera,

744
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 2: if you just want to fully be behind it, or

745
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 2: maybe there's a world where you're producing the stories you

746
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 2: want to tell that you also star in. But I

747
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: do see a world there for you.

748
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I mean, that's why I'm still in

749
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: the game, right. I'm still on the field trying to hustle,

750
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: and I am optimistic, but I also don't want to

751
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: wait for the phone calls to never happen. Yeah, and so,

752
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: and then it's as I get older, it's less about

753
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: like me, and it's about like how it's my contribution

754
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: to the world and even this business, and you know,

755
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: give other people opportunities, right, And it's not like I'm

756
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: on a soapbox going Okay, I'm only going to cast

757
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: like Asian American people. It's not that it's like give

758
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: any everybody that is marginalized an opportunity and like have

759
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: empathy when you come in. But then also understand the

760
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: business of show business and there is an economy behind it.

761
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: And the more successful the movie is, you know, the

762
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: more opportunities you have to make change, right, And instead

763
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: of complaining about it, it's like what can I do

764
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: to like, you know, contribute, right, And I love storytelling,

765
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: I love collaboration. I love being on set. Like every

766
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: moment I'm on set, like I'm so happy. And that's

767
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: why it hurts, because you know, as an actor or

768
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: the roles that I you know, get to be a

769
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: part of, You're there temporarily. There's just a part of it,

770
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, like real quick, you're like an appetizer and

771
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: then you know you're you're You're never the main course, right.

772
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: So I like to be the first one and the

773
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: last one on SAD and I like to talk to everybody.

774
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: I like the whole process, from pre production to production

775
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: to post production. So I'm okay not being in front

776
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: of the camera. It doesn't have to be about me.

777
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: And any actor that says like I don't care about fame.

778
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: It's like when you start out, like you know, it

779
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: is part of the allure, you know, and I don't

780
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: think I need that anymore. And I love like you know,

781
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: I directed a feature during COVID feature film, my first one,

782
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: and it's just an amazing feeling to be part of

783
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: the process of making a film and then also seeing

784
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: other people's dreams come true and being a part of

785
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: that well also.

786
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 2: To create something from beginning to end right.

787
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like a car.

788
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a car.

789
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like a car. And you know, like a car.

790
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: I've realized, like you can't do everything by yourself, and

791
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: there's always something that you can learn. And if you

792
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: keep your mind open, you know, there's a wealth of

793
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: community out there. And if you have this like empathy

794
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: and respect for other people, this willingness to learn. It's

795
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: amazing the community within the car culture. And I think

796
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: that's why I've always used the car culture as a

797
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: well of community. Like you know, it allowed me to

798
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: go have direct access to individuals that aside from Hollywood,

799
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: like I would just be able to look up to

800
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: as fathers, as friends, you know, as masters of their craft,

801
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: and the world doesn't know them, like, you know, they

802
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: don't have a TikTok or YouTube. They just like dudes

803
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: in a little garage somewhere, you.

804
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 2: Know, can't smoking cigarettes, working on.

805
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: The car, eating tacos, right, But then you hang out

806
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: with them and they're real life superheroes. You know. They're

807
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: like they're the father that I always wanted, you know,

808
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that's why I love the

809
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: car community so much. Yeah, yeah, Do you think the

810
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: kids today are wrenching like they used to? Or is

811
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: it it could be you know, all the old timers

812
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: saying they're not kids, don't even know how to drive

813
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: manual anymore. But then you go to these car meets

814
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: and you go to like you know, like Sema or

815
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: tokyotis on. It's like a lot of young folks out there.

816
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: I think because we live in the city, we're gonna

817
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 2: see it a different way where sure, more kids are

818
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: taking uber and there's a lot of quote unquote car pollution,

819
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:20,879
Speaker 2: so a lot of people don't want to drive as much.

820
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: But if you go outside of the city, I feel

821
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: like there's just as many kids who are just as

822
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 2: passionate about wrenching on cars and wanting to customize it

823
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 2: to make it their own, to kind of, you know,

824
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: tell their own unique story with it and personalize it.

825
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 2: But I also don't think things like street takeovers are

826
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 2: helping the forward progression of the automotive industry and things

827
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 2: like that. But I do feel like there is still

828
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: a large group of kids who are interested in cars.

829
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 2: It just might not be what it was twenty years ago.

830
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 2: It's a different way.

831
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: I mean, is it growing, is it doing these I.

832
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: Don't I don't know if it's growing. I see a

833
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 2: lot of racetracks starting to close because they can't keep

834
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 2: the business. And you know, I guess if you really

835
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: look at it, how much wrenching does an evy car

836
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 2: really need unless you're changing the brakes and whatnot. I

837
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe I just am a pretty optimistic person

838
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 2: or I forced myself to be, but I do believe

839
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: that there are still a lot of kids growing up

840
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: who are passionate about cars, who want to wrench. Is

841
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 2: it as much today as it was back then? I

842
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 2: don't know.

843
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: That's the catch twenty two with these street takeovers is

844
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: that the dudes that are doing it are wrenching on

845
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: their cars. What's the thing with these street takeovers? Like

846
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: why why are these kids like into it?

847
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 2: I don't know.

848
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just too old.

849
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: That I've never been to one, so I couldn't tell

850
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 2: you what the hype is. I just see these horrible

851
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 2: videos online of kids doing donuts and intersections and some

852
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: bystander getting hurt from being there.

853
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: Well, it seems like they like that getting hurt. It's

854
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: like a badge of honor, or, like getting swipe, like

855
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: like you know those videos like these kids being flipped

856
00:42:58,600 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 1: upside down.

857
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 2: The only thing that helme ever said, the only thing

858
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 2: I try to think of is like, okay, so you know,

859
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 2: back in the nineties when people were drag racing, shutting

860
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 2: down roads in the valley or something like that to

861
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: go drag racing, and the cops would come and they

862
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 2: everyone would scatter, and you're placing bets on who's going

863
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Speaker 2: to win. Like that was kind of frowned upon back

864
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Speaker 2: then too, you know, but it didn't seem as reckless

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Speaker 2: as what's happening today. So I don't know, is that

866
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Speaker 2: just my age coming in and looking at the generation

867
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Speaker 2: like all these kids are doing this when maybe we

868
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 2: were doing the same things at a different point in

869
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 2: our lives, but it was just different because it was

870
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Speaker 2: drag racing firsus donuts. I don't know. It's with the.

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Speaker 1: Drag racing, there's a point like it's like, you know,

872
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Speaker 1: it's like who's fastest, Who's biggest, Who is the biggest, fastest,

873
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Speaker 1: most powerful? Right, and then you bet you're like I

874
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Speaker 1: win and I beat you man, I get your pink

875
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Speaker 1: slip or I make the money.

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Speaker 2: Right, it's all clout right, I'm I would think, so

877
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Speaker 2: who can do the craziest donut or smoke the most

878
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 2: tire and then run from place afterwards? I'm speaking like

879
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Speaker 2: I like I know this. I don't really. I've looked

880
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: into trying to create a film, trying not to glorify

881
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: it as much. It appears that it has more to

882
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 2: do with social media following and doing crazy shit with

883
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Speaker 2: your car.

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Speaker 1: But so what, like where does it? I mean, going

885
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Speaker 1: fast is one thing. It's like like I make clicks,

886
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Speaker 1: you get because you beat so and so, or you

887
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Speaker 1: went you went two hundred miles an hour, Like that

888
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: makes sense, But then the most smoke then then.

889
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Speaker 2: Or the most views on a video.

890
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Speaker 1: And then what clout.

891
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Cloud's a hell of a drug.

892
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you got the most smoke on your car

893
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Speaker 1: kids points. How do you continue that? You just do go?

894
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I'm not condoning it, but I

895
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Speaker 1: would like to understand the psychology behind it. Yeah, Like

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Speaker 1: why do people get off on this because they look

897
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Speaker 1: like they're having a blast. Yeah right right, and I at.

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Speaker 2: Least from the videos that I've seen online.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, even the dudes that getting like swiped by the

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Speaker 1: car as they get up and they're like giving each

901
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Speaker 1: other all was so cool. It was the best, like

902
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Speaker 1: broken leg.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it.

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe we're just getting older, you too, So where

905
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Speaker 1: can people find you?

906
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 2: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. If you just search my name Amelia Hartford,

907
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: it's spelled E M E L I A. It'll try

908
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 2: to auto correct you. That's where you can find me.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: I know me too. Thank you so much for.

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Speaker 1: Having me of course, thanks for being here. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: was great, awesome,