Speaker 1: Ay, what is up? How you do a nerd vam?
Speaker 1: It's iffy? Why the way? And you're listening to a
Speaker 1: nerdificent and across from me as always eels Danny Fernandez.
Speaker 1: If I saw you eat like a massive hamburger today,
Speaker 1: it was a fourteen poundburg But yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: I really it was the whole thing. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't do my how bodies work, you know, I'm learning
Speaker 1: that the hard way. I have had trouble breathing all
Speaker 1: day and you know, I I look, I get it.
Speaker 1: You probably burned you know what, You probably burned calories
Speaker 1: trying to eat it. Oh my gosh. Well what was
Speaker 1: so crazy is because you know, you you always wonder
Speaker 1: what those cooking shows like, oh what do you do
Speaker 1: after it? And they're just like, okay, are you gonna
Speaker 1: take this? And I was like, well, if you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna throw away, yes, you know, like I come
Speaker 1: from that Nigerian heritage, like I was in Nigeria there,
Speaker 1: like you eat the whole cow, you do not any
Speaker 1: of the cabinets for Mexican families too. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like a whole thing. Like we were getting yelled at,
Speaker 1: but like she was kind of hustling us. There was
Speaker 1: a lady who was on the property who's like, you're
Speaker 1: not going to eat the how you are going to
Speaker 1: do it away? She assumed because we were Americans. But
Speaker 1: my dad was like, no, we are going to eat
Speaker 1: the whole cow. And she was like, I will take
Speaker 1: these cows. And so I was like, oh, she just
Speaker 1: hustled us because she just took some of the meat.
Speaker 1: But all right, I gotta respect the hustle. Shout out
Speaker 1: if she's listening all the way, I'm gonna Today we
Speaker 1: have a special guest, a little Oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is a voice that I've heard most of my life.
Speaker 1: And I got to be being in the room with them,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, I saved it all for the air.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to geek out, But now
Speaker 1: you can't be weirded out because we we have you
Speaker 1: on the tape her. The door does have a locked it,
Speaker 1: so there's a puzzle you have to figure out before
Speaker 1: you get out of here. I think I'm the only
Speaker 1: one in here who hasn't been an escape room because
Speaker 1: I just yeah, I'm bad at puzzles. So I just
Speaker 1: know him because you know, every time, every one of
Speaker 1: my friends who go in escape rooms. There there always
Speaker 1: is that one person. They're like, this guy was so
Speaker 1: dumb and he was slowing down the process. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I don't want to be that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be that person. If you're good at something,
Speaker 1: you have value. So it's like, you want to bring
Speaker 1: someone that's good at word games, someone's good at math,
Speaker 1: someone's good at puzzle, because oh, I can figure out
Speaker 1: this math question, I can figure out this geography questioner.
Speaker 1: Like people that are good at different things are helpful. Okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And even if you're just having a good time, and
Speaker 1: there are a portion where it's like do a fortnight dance,
Speaker 1: like I haven't seen that, but we need someone that's
Speaker 1: buff as hell like or something'll do that like lift
Speaker 1: you have to deadlift this up and pounds bookshelf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are talking to a woman of in my opinion,
Speaker 1: thousands of voices. I don't know if that's correct, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think that it is voice chasers. This week
Speaker 1: it was let's see see, but that's only like credited rules.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of times and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you do this extra, little girl? And this little
Speaker 1: guy over here. Yeah, Roger Craig Smith, who you have
Speaker 1: worked with, who I hate you hate canonically hate. Um.
Speaker 1: He was saying that. Yeah. In one show alone, it
Speaker 1: was he was credited as doing a hundred voices in
Speaker 1: one show. Wow, that's because he's not good. So they'll
Speaker 1: be like, oh, give the crappy little word. He can
Speaker 1: say one word or a snort or a gas, you know,
Speaker 1: give him the little bit parts that no one will
Speaker 1: care about. Are going to coolip this and send it
Speaker 1: to him directly. We are talking to Tara Straw and
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us, and today we
Speaker 1: are covering Harley Quinn. We are covering the history of
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn and kind of what she came to be
Speaker 1: and what she is now. Tara, you voiced back Girl
Speaker 1: before you were Harley. What was that kind of like
Speaker 1: that transition of getting to play essentially a hero In
Speaker 1: my opinion, Harley is still a hero, I guess an
Speaker 1: anti hero. But what was it like switching from back
Speaker 1: Girl Barbara Gordon to Harlene. Well, first of all, it
Speaker 1: was so cool to be back Girl. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was pretty new in town and there were a
Speaker 1: million people in that casting room like a list celebrities,
Speaker 1: huge voice talent. I was like, oh my god. And
Speaker 1: when I booked at my agents, like when you know
Speaker 1: you still had answering machines, He's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're the girl. It's the back, You're back girl. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god. And then I was in
Speaker 1: the booth with Mark Hamill on one side and Kevin
Speaker 1: Conroy on the other, and I was like, holy crap.
Speaker 1: And there was Adrian Barbow and then there was Arlene Sorkin,
Speaker 1: who is one of the most beautiful creatures you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And her voice is so it's so distinctive and beautiful,
Speaker 1: and the character was created for her. They created Harley
Speaker 1: for her and it's modeled after her. She has a
Speaker 1: similar look and that voice is unmistakable. And watching her
Speaker 1: do her bits with Hammel, like I really was like
Speaker 1: pinching myself every day just to be alongside this greatness.
Speaker 1: And um I just always loved her and adored her.
Speaker 1: And then when they went into the Arkham Games, they
Speaker 1: brought me in. There wasn't an audition process. They said
Speaker 1: they want to take Harley to a new level, and
Speaker 1: I was terrified because of those those are some pretty
Speaker 1: big boots to fill. And you know, people love their
Speaker 1: actors that create a voice, that make that voice famous,
Speaker 1: which is great. You know, the fans that love us
Speaker 1: were nothing without them, and they get piste off when
Speaker 1: we get replaced, so do we. So you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was really scared because she's such a
Speaker 1: beloved character that Oh my gosh, I hope people love
Speaker 1: my version because they didn't want me to do an impression.
Speaker 1: They wanted me to take what I knew of her
Speaker 1: and then make it my own and blow it out
Speaker 1: for this video game. And I was really really nervous
Speaker 1: at that session and to sort of tap into her essence,
Speaker 1: I had her one of her famous lines on my phone,
Speaker 1: so like any time before I'd go into a session,
Speaker 1: I would just be like, you'd think, you have to
Speaker 1: live in with Mr Jail. This time might be used
Speaker 1: to a little pain like That's how I'd get into
Speaker 1: it every time and then build from that. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Arlene was so gracious, Like in the press,
Speaker 1: she said that she had spoken to her husband after
Speaker 1: she saw me working like maybe one of the first
Speaker 1: times I bad girl, and she said, if there was
Speaker 1: anyone ever to take over for me. I wanted to
Speaker 1: be Tara. I have not been as gracious to people,
Speaker 1: but she was just a doll, and I feel so
Speaker 1: honored to follow in her footsteps. And it's it's one
Speaker 1: of those roles that, like, when you're by yourself doing
Speaker 1: a video game, it can be completely, so vocally taxing,
Speaker 1: because even if you're not doing a thousand death sounds,
Speaker 1: it's just you for four hours, non stop, and so
Speaker 1: sometimes you're like, oh, I have to do this video game.
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be crazy. Anytime it's Harley,
Speaker 1: I get so happy because it's like therapy, Like I
Speaker 1: get in there and get to scream at the world
Speaker 1: and it's so much fun. And now I feel like
Speaker 1: she's so much a part of me, Like I get
Speaker 1: really upset when someone else plays Harley, like I'm like
Speaker 1: that I'm Harley, you know, And I just love any
Speaker 1: any iteration of her I love. And I've done so many,
Speaker 1: you know, the video games is very specific. Then there
Speaker 1: was DC Girls and DC Superhero Girls, and then there's
Speaker 1: been some shorts that I've done and other entity like
Speaker 1: anywhere she lives. She's a little bit different here she's
Speaker 1: more Harleyan here, she's a little bit older. Here she's
Speaker 1: a teenager, here she's whatever. And you make that adjustment
Speaker 1: in your mind to be her in these different places,
Speaker 1: and it's always fun. And I do think she's a
Speaker 1: hero because you know, first of all, you love to
Speaker 1: hate the bad guy anytime, but there's such like a
Speaker 1: sincerity to her and like a pure love, like no
Speaker 1: matter what's going on, no matter how abusive the joker is,
Speaker 1: or no matter what she's facing, she still comes at
Speaker 1: her like prowess and her abilities and her agility from love,
Speaker 1: even if she's bashing someone in the head. It's like
Speaker 1: she's just pure, powerful love and you have to love
Speaker 1: her because she does everything so completely, Like there's nothing
Speaker 1: half asked about Harley. Nothing she and she hates. She's
Speaker 1: extremely loyal, that's what. She's extremely loyal. And I feel
Speaker 1: that way too about about Poison Ivy. I I always
Speaker 1: see Poison Ivy as a hero. I'm like, she's trying
Speaker 1: to save the planet. Nobody's listening, Like we're the ones
Speaker 1: that are destroying the planet, and she will kill us
Speaker 1: if she has to. But um, yeah, I agree. I
Speaker 1: think that there's such a fine line between hero and villain,
Speaker 1: and I really think it's depending on the perspective. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's like they say, the best villain is one
Speaker 1: that you can understand. I think the best villain is
Speaker 1: a hero who goes too far, you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: have someone like Eric kill Monger who you're like, I
Speaker 1: see where you're coming from, Please chill out, even thanos,
Speaker 1: I see where you're coming from. Please chill out. You know,
Speaker 1: like that is the because you know that hyper evil
Speaker 1: is just so done and cliche and everyone does something
Speaker 1: for a reason, so to do something to rule the
Speaker 1: world or two in the world, just like, well why
Speaker 1: are you doing that? Well, when you see a villain
Speaker 1: with vulnerability, that is like it's all moving because you
Speaker 1: always anytime there's a superhero, comic or character, you think
Speaker 1: what's their origin story? And when there's a villain and
Speaker 1: you and you see the origin stories where we see
Speaker 1: what they're going through, it's like wow. And there's always
Speaker 1: pieces that you can relate to, even if it's someone
Speaker 1: like Fannels or Harley like some crazy like okay, I
Speaker 1: can relate to that character even though they can shoot
Speaker 1: Letney bolts out their eyeballs there's something that I can
Speaker 1: relate to in their psyche. Yeah. I feel that way
Speaker 1: because we did an episode on The Punisher and I
Speaker 1: forgot to mention that he said you're one bad day
Speaker 1: away from being me, which is so true. That's how
Speaker 1: a lot of the that's kind of what happened with Harley,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that there is some I
Speaker 1: think she has sympathy for the Joker and then the
Speaker 1: Batman kind of has sympathy for her. And watching this,
Speaker 1: like watching her chase after him. Oh yeah, there definitely
Speaker 1: seems to be a level of Batman being like you're
Speaker 1: you got it? Like there were like a few episodes
Speaker 1: where you see him like the Joker doesn't care about you,
Speaker 1: and she's like, shut up, get you a big malage.
Speaker 1: Did you guys get the digital remaster that just came out?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you mean with the tiny funk open. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sitting there in my world. Good. Yeah. At Comic
Speaker 1: Con they played it on the big screen, side by side,
Speaker 1: and that show holds up anyway because it's like film noir.
Speaker 1: It's like beautiful, but to watch it recolored, it's like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, it's so beautiful. Man. I got it. I
Speaker 1: mean I feel like, you know, we're talking about origin stories.
Speaker 1: I think this is a good place to jump in
Speaker 1: on Harley Quinn. So Harley Quinn. Her full name is
Speaker 1: Dr HARLEYN. Francis Quinzel, this PhD and this is you
Speaker 1: know she what's dope, And she came from the animated series,
Speaker 1: but she still had that like nineties level uh like
Speaker 1: naming where like superhero names, their real name sounds like
Speaker 1: their nickname. Like I always bring it up on the podcast,
Speaker 1: Black Bolt's real name is black Agar Bolt. It's like
Speaker 1: shot for the movie Edward Enigma. Yeah right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the Riddler. It's like, come on, like that's
Speaker 1: what I'd be like, that's the guy. That's that has
Speaker 1: to be the guy. Yeah, it sounds like. But Arley
Speaker 1: Quin's of fictional character appearing in d C Comics was
Speaker 1: created by Paul Dennie and Bruce tim and first appeared
Speaker 1: in Batman, the animated series, which makes her so unique,
Speaker 1: uh you know, which goes to show just the perform
Speaker 1: and just like you know, I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of times people underestimate or under appreciate, except for the fans.
Speaker 1: They over I was gonna say over appreciate, but you
Speaker 1: appreciate just enough voice actors and just how dynamic their
Speaker 1: performance can be, because Harley Quinn would not exist without
Speaker 1: the performance, you know, like if if that wasn't a
Speaker 1: amazing performance in the animated series, it could have just
Speaker 1: been a character that lived and died with the series.
Speaker 1: But instead it was so good that because of Arlene, Like,
Speaker 1: had she not given that voice all those crazy little
Speaker 1: quirks and highs and lows and things that catch your ear?
Speaker 1: And what was that not just another chick's voice. It's
Speaker 1: really she breathed life into this character that you want
Speaker 1: to hear more from, even though it can be high
Speaker 1: or irritating or crazy, like gotta hear what I want
Speaker 1: to hear more. Yeah, So, going off of what you
Speaker 1: were saying about Arlene, So, she was a former star
Speaker 1: of the soap opera Days of Our Lives and appeared
Speaker 1: in a dream sequence on that series in which she
Speaker 1: wore just or costume. So, like Tara was saying, it
Speaker 1: was literally based off literally that episode is why they
Speaker 1: created Harley. Yeah. Yeah, So she appeared in an episode
Speaker 1: titled Joker's Favor in September of nine, two Tara. I
Speaker 1: wanted to know because she was just supposed to be
Speaker 1: kind of like a walk on role, Like she was
Speaker 1: just supposed to kind of be like the sidekick but
Speaker 1: not really have what she is. Now, why do you
Speaker 1: think that people latched onto her and have stayed latched
Speaker 1: onto her? Yeah, And I think that reason has changed
Speaker 1: over time. And I think initially people were so drawn
Speaker 1: to her because first of all, the fact that Joker
Speaker 1: even has a girlfriend's interesting, like who would date the Joker?
Speaker 1: And the fact that she's so lovable and so loyal,
Speaker 1: and also her costumes are always kick ass no matter
Speaker 1: what they put her in. Harley's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like the biggest cosplay, like especially comic On, but any
Speaker 1: of them, you know, there's just Harley events. Like I
Speaker 1: went to like a Harley panel and the whole room
Speaker 1: was Harley. Of course, I surprised everyone in cosplay and
Speaker 1: it was great. Those pictures are awesome. But I think
Speaker 1: people like I think they were drawn to her initially
Speaker 1: because of the total package. It was her drawing, it
Speaker 1: was her, it was the writing of her, it was
Speaker 1: the acting, it was how she looked, and the dynamic
Speaker 1: between her and Joker and how she would go for Batman,
Speaker 1: Like what cute little chick is going to go after
Speaker 1: Batman Harley? You know, Like, I think there was so
Speaker 1: much that went into this perfect storm to create this
Speaker 1: kick ass chick. And then over the years white people
Speaker 1: love her and how she sustained is because she's grown
Speaker 1: with the times. You know, some characters stay very classic,
Speaker 1: but she's like grown, like people like wow, Like in
Speaker 1: some of the games that you see like her becoming
Speaker 1: her own woman and her own power and kicking as
Speaker 1: by herself, and like, I just think it's something people
Speaker 1: aspired to. They go, oh, wow, she started out as
Speaker 1: this meek, little you know, wilting flower beside joker, and
Speaker 1: now she's you know, doing things by herself and kicking
Speaker 1: us all on her own. It's like wow, people are
Speaker 1: like blown away by her power. And she's so powerful,
Speaker 1: like you're just drawn to her, and everybody sees something
Speaker 1: in themselves from her. I'm not saying people are all psychopaths,
Speaker 1: but they you know, definitely see, well, I've put up
Speaker 1: with some crab in my life that I should love,
Speaker 1: and I still love that guy or whatever it is
Speaker 1: that she's so devoted and but also she's so cute,
Speaker 1: and that's a part of it too. Her design is
Speaker 1: so cute. It is a reason people cause play her.
Speaker 1: People don't always cause play Timmy Turner if they're a chick,
Speaker 1: because that's not hot. Really costume sex. Let's let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm going to look for that. I'm gonna look for that.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say. This was an interview from
Speaker 1: Bruce tim in Vanity Fair In he said, we didn't
Speaker 1: want to give Joker a girlfriend because it humanizes him.
Speaker 1: We're really trying to stress how bizarre and creepy he
Speaker 1: could be. Um And this is from Paul Deni and
Speaker 1: camp X. I was writing the script for the Batman
Speaker 1: animated series. When I was coming up with an idea
Speaker 1: for the Jokers gang of Henchmen, I thought I'd like
Speaker 1: to put a female character in there. I was going
Speaker 1: back and forth in my head about what kind of
Speaker 1: character she should be. What if she's funny, What if
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a throwback to the Henchman from
Speaker 1: Batman in the sixties. What if she gets laughs from
Speaker 1: the Henchman sometimes when the Joker doesn't like That's what
Speaker 1: I really love about her is that, like you said,
Speaker 1: she moves honestly from being a follower to a leader.
Speaker 1: Um she went from she appeared in a suicide squad
Speaker 1: in the New fifty two. That was in the New
Speaker 1: fifty two was when d C came through and kind
Speaker 1: of just redid a lot of their lines. And then
Speaker 1: she ended up in Rebirth having her own comic, Harley
Speaker 1: Quinn comic, And she's also in a Gotham City Sirens,
Speaker 1: and and she's like one of the only sustainable comic
Speaker 1: heroes that didn't start as a comic. Yes, and you know,
Speaker 1: and now all her comics are huge in the comics
Speaker 1: the bigger book ones are awesome, and I mean I
Speaker 1: bought them all. I've read them all yet, but as
Speaker 1: soon as I did kill Joke, I had to buy
Speaker 1: everything that was like that too. Let me get that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But so funny about it too, is Harley is kind
Speaker 1: of similar in Joker in the sense that Joker was
Speaker 1: supposed to just be a villain of the week and
Speaker 1: somehow he caught in and then you know, the same
Speaker 1: thing for Harley, she was going to be just this
Speaker 1: character who popped on and she just was so amazing
Speaker 1: that Yeah, there's there is something I think about her
Speaker 1: that is just so infectious, where you you just love
Speaker 1: seeing her, and I think it is just in a
Speaker 1: way where I find that, you know, Joker, like he's funny,
Speaker 1: but he's funny in a creepy way, like it's very
Speaker 1: dark and you don't really trust his laughs, where Harley
Speaker 1: seems like she's having fun. You know, you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: she's definitely not creepy, but she's also a train wreck,
Speaker 1: which is always fun to watch, you know, like, what
Speaker 1: is that girl going to do next? Right? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Terry wanted to actually quote you because we have this
Speaker 1: in here from that Vanity Fair article where you said
Speaker 1: feminism is about showing women as fully fleshed out human beings,
Speaker 1: and that's what Harley is. She doesn't make choices that
Speaker 1: are smart or good for a woman, but she gets
Speaker 1: to make those choices. Men are allowed to be up
Speaker 1: in all kinds of characters and women aren't. We have
Speaker 1: to be idolized. She gets to not be That was
Speaker 1: a good quote. Our producer Dad put that in there.
Speaker 1: He was like wow, because he pulled a lot of
Speaker 1: the research. He was like, he texted us yesterday and
Speaker 1: was like, wow, a lot of These quotes are from
Speaker 1: terra Um. I do want to say that that she
Speaker 1: kind of paved the way for characters that we see now,
Speaker 1: like Jessica Jones, who you know, deals with mental illness
Speaker 1: and she's alcoholic and she like she's allowed to be flawed.
Speaker 1: But way before she appeared, we had characters like Harley
Speaker 1: that were kind of groundbreaking of like, no, women don't
Speaker 1: have to be pretty and perfect all the time. They
Speaker 1: can still be super strong but have but have flaws,
Speaker 1: which makes them more relatable. Yeah, I find that. I
Speaker 1: find that, you know, that that is like the pinnacle
Speaker 1: to representation because lots of times when people are like
Speaker 1: insert you know certain race or women here, they have
Speaker 1: to they there's this need to make them always perfect
Speaker 1: because we're like, we don't want to offend them. But
Speaker 1: it's like, no, we you know, the fun stuff usually
Speaker 1: in media and storytelling is like seeing someone fail and
Speaker 1: bounce back and go through hard times, and you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see someone just be perfect. Boring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very boring. You don't get to do the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: So that that is very true, like, you know, especially
Speaker 1: like I think pre pre Harley, pre a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff you know, you usually have to leave it to
Speaker 1: beaver syndrome, where like, you know, the wife is the
Speaker 1: homemaker and she's perfect and she's not going through stuff
Speaker 1: even though she's taking care of five kids and a dog.
Speaker 1: You know, you mean she's not in the best. She's
Speaker 1: coming like, sister, let's go crack some skulls, and she's like, yes, please, spat.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, we are going to get into
Speaker 1: some of Harley's abilities as well as the video games.
Speaker 1: Right after these messages where Bad Bad, where that Terry,
Speaker 1: you were talking about how strong she is, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of times people do forget a lot
Speaker 1: of Harley's abilities. I mean Harleyn's ability Harley Harley Um.
Speaker 1: I was thinking of her her abilities as a doctor.
Speaker 1: Then that she's incredibly smart. I think as goofy as
Speaker 1: she is, she's she has a PhD. Does anyone else
Speaker 1: in this room have a PhD? That's what's funny about
Speaker 1: picking up like storied storytelling is there's so much, so
Speaker 1: many years of lore that that's I find the most
Speaker 1: fun part of like comics where there's one writer who's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we never talked about that, let's touch on that and
Speaker 1: I am waiting for the Harley comic where she's like
Speaker 1: cooking up all these different you know, because like if
Speaker 1: you think about it, Joker is always trying to make
Speaker 1: those like laugh asses. Harley probably is the one who
Speaker 1: knows how to cook it up the best. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: always fun too as an actor to play her both
Speaker 1: both ways, Like if there's flashbacks or things of her
Speaker 1: from when she was Harlen more Harlen, Like there's a
Speaker 1: difference in my voice when I'm doing Harlen as opposed
Speaker 1: to when I'm doing Harley, even within the same game.
Speaker 1: And it's always so interesting to like bring in the crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, like she starts out like, okay, what you know,
Speaker 1: what's bothering you today? And then she's like, oh I crab,
Speaker 1: Like she's like, you know, and vocally I come at
Speaker 1: it from a different place. I mean, when I'm in
Speaker 1: the studio, I like imagine in my mind what's happening.
Speaker 1: I see all the actions, so that sort of happens
Speaker 1: organically where it's a little bit lower, a little more
Speaker 1: like a human, you know, and then when it becomes Harley,
Speaker 1: it's like game over. I know, just you know, I
Speaker 1: just want to talk a quick sidebar about the talent
Speaker 1: of voice actors, like sometimes when you hear interviews of
Speaker 1: voice actors like, oh, I just do an impression of
Speaker 1: this person, uh, doing an impression if this person is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I get I stopped that the first one. I'm not good.
Speaker 1: And it seems like Harley is one of those characters
Speaker 1: who seems like it is like almost like I don't
Speaker 1: know the it's an accent, but then taken to the max,
Speaker 1: I don't know what would you say, Well, I'd say
Speaker 1: for starters that it is not and can't be an impression.
Speaker 1: If you're just copying what someone did before, you'll never
Speaker 1: capture their essence. And especially someone like Harley, who is
Speaker 1: so deep and so complicated and conflicted, if you're just
Speaker 1: trying to sound like you're never going to get to
Speaker 1: that core. And part of what makes her so incredible
Speaker 1: is you know there's a lot of deep stuff going
Speaker 1: on and you can't just say, hey, I'm gonna copy that.
Speaker 1: Any time I've been in an animated session where someone's
Speaker 1: coming in and doing an impression of let's say a
Speaker 1: mel Blank character that's not around anymore, I always like
Speaker 1: it drives me nuts where I can hear the difference
Speaker 1: between someone that just does a good impression and someone
Speaker 1: that captures the essence of that character. And there's a huge,
Speaker 1: huge difference, and not everybody can do both and you
Speaker 1: can hear it right away. And that's one reason some
Speaker 1: people don't like a version of Bugs Bunny, a version
Speaker 1: of Harley, because you're like, and they're not the greatest actor.
Speaker 1: They're just copying a voice. And whenever someone wants to
Speaker 1: get into voice acting, they say how do you start,
Speaker 1: and said, have you ever taken an acting class? You
Speaker 1: have to come at it from an acting standpoint. You
Speaker 1: have to take acting classes, scene study, improv singing lessons
Speaker 1: to know what your voice can do. Like, you've got
Speaker 1: to have a bag of tricks. You can't just go
Speaker 1: in there and read off a paper or copy something
Speaker 1: you've heard because it's not going to be authentic. So
Speaker 1: that's like a big big deal. And not every voice
Speaker 1: actor can do impressions, even if they have good ears. See,
Speaker 1: that's that's me. I'm the worst that impressions. That's okay,
Speaker 1: you might be a good voice actor. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go inside baseball after you know, letting letting
Speaker 1: our c v A listeners see. I always get those
Speaker 1: nuggets from you when I get these geniuses in here,
Speaker 1: So feel free to thank me. I always like to
Speaker 1: ask for thanks because you know that's what keeps me going.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for that. It's great that you
Speaker 1: say that, because I'm just we're getting back to hard
Speaker 1: Are you trying to transition? Not yet, because I'm still
Speaker 1: in inside baseball mode. I get so mad when I
Speaker 1: get the vo auditions, like, oh, this was a role
Speaker 1: done by X, so sound like X. And you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: why am I getting this? I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to sound like that person. Is you do? Is
Speaker 1: your advice the same? Just do you? Or is it well?
Speaker 1: If you if you're supposed to sound exactly, if they're
Speaker 1: trying to do exactly a voice match and you can't
Speaker 1: and you can't get there. If you have a couple
Speaker 1: of days to get there, work on it, like really
Speaker 1: work on it. And if you can't get there, don't
Speaker 1: go in. If you can get there and still bring
Speaker 1: your own essence into it, go for it. But there's
Speaker 1: gonna be people in there that get it, that are perfect,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to walk in there and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that guy sounds exactly like bugs and I sound like
Speaker 1: you know, Timmy Turner. No, it's not gonna work, right,
Speaker 1: So you better be pretty close if you're going to
Speaker 1: go in and try and voice match, but still make
Speaker 1: it your own, but not vocally necessarily with your acting,
Speaker 1: you know, Like initially for the new Rocky and Boallwinkle
Speaker 1: show that I'm doing, they didn't want a voice match.
Speaker 1: They said, we wanted to capture the essence of Rocky,
Speaker 1: but not a voice match. So I was actually pretty
Speaker 1: terrified because it hasn't been animated since the sixties and
Speaker 1: the adult generation or people that have watched it on
Speaker 1: reruns know what they want to hear. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you guys sure you don't want to do an impression?
Speaker 1: And then there was um chemistry reads, which means you
Speaker 1: go in with the person that's playing bowl Winkle, which
Speaker 1: was Brad Norman, and he's doing exactly Moose and everyone
Speaker 1: else on the show is exactly Natasha and you know,
Speaker 1: Fearless Leader. They are all those people. So I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: because they want me a little deeper and a little
Speaker 1: more sarcastic, and so I did that. I booked it,
Speaker 1: but it still didn't feel exactly right to me, and
Speaker 1: I swear to God when June died, it's like she
Speaker 1: jumped into my body and be like, girl, this is
Speaker 1: how it's supposed to sound right, And I beg the
Speaker 1: director to let me go back and do the first
Speaker 1: few episodes more like Rocky, which we did. So you
Speaker 1: you have to know who you're playing and know everything
Speaker 1: about that character. If you have to do an impression,
Speaker 1: watch that stuff over and over and over and get it.
Speaker 1: Like years ago, I had to do a Rosy Perez impression.
Speaker 1: Then at first I didn't have it, and I watched
Speaker 1: White Man Can't Jump a thousand times, like over and over.
Speaker 1: In the first I'm like, you know, sometimes when you win,
Speaker 1: you actually and I'm like over and over and over,
Speaker 1: and then finally like sometimes when you win, you actually lose,
Speaker 1: and sometimes when you lose, you actually win, and sometimes
Speaker 1: when you tie, you actually win't lose, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that she is, that's whats like. It took me a while,
Speaker 1: like get her, you know, and then I can say anything.
Speaker 1: You can ask me anything, I can say it like her.
Speaker 1: But I didn't just go oh, I'll try like I
Speaker 1: worked on that for days until it hit the right pocket.
Speaker 1: All right, now you know that was that was a
Speaker 1: that was a freemaster class. You look only nerdificent dropping
Speaker 1: nuggets like this. That's why you need a sub to
Speaker 1: me on twitch at least thank me. Back. Let's go
Speaker 1: into these abilities. So we were talking about her being
Speaker 1: a doctor, but she does have abilities because she has friends,
Speaker 1: for example, poison Ivy, who was toxic by nature. She
Speaker 1: didn't want to poison hardly with her natural toxins. Oh,
Speaker 1: Harlequinn is immune to various though not all, toxin and
Speaker 1: heals quickly from minor wounds. See, so she's not just
Speaker 1: a doctor with a big old mallet. She actually has something.
Speaker 1: Although that mallet, if we are saying she has tremendous strength,
Speaker 1: because that mallet is like it's massive. I'll talk about
Speaker 1: the girl's four arms. I mean that's like that's superhuman strength.
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn superhuman, superhuman, she's a superhero. She didn't enhance
Speaker 1: her strength and natural agility and developed an immunity to
Speaker 1: Joker's venom and toxic gas. So, and it was mentioned
Speaker 1: in the Batman animated series and comic books, and she
Speaker 1: probably is has community for other knockout chemicals. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of fake out she likes to do, where she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm knocked out, just kidding. I love that. Sorry, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're having a good time. You're having a good time.
Speaker 1: Need to listen to her a thousand times? I would
Speaker 1: love that. Though. If you do listen to Tear a
Speaker 1: thousand times, you come back and you have that voice down,
Speaker 1: we will be Um. Something that I forgot about Harley
Speaker 1: is that she is a gymnast. She's a trained gymnast,
Speaker 1: and she was actually before she when she was studying
Speaker 1: to be to get her PhD, she was a gymnast.
Speaker 1: So she can bend in ways that agile. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: makes that pretty apparent. I didn't want to say also
Speaker 1: that she has a PhD in criminal psychology. She also,
Speaker 1: I want to say, as as someone that is a
Speaker 1: hardcore feminist, I like the fact that she does use
Speaker 1: her sexuality in certain ways. Um, that's well, and like you,
Speaker 1: like you say, over the years, it's changed. She was
Speaker 1: a lot more submissive in the beginning, but she's found
Speaker 1: her power over the years and she's not afraid to
Speaker 1: use it. Yeah. As she shouldn't be. And I think
Speaker 1: I think her being sex positive is also important too,
Speaker 1: because I feel like that has changed and I feel
Speaker 1: like my generation is super sex positive and we're no
Speaker 1: longer just like trying to shame women, you know. So
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that about her costumes. I
Speaker 1: like that she can be sexy, smart, and super freaking strong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that too. So you know, I'm the game dude,
Speaker 1: because her look actually changed with Arkham Asylum and then
Speaker 1: Terry you came in for Arkham's City Origins and night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the skeletons of this how because you know,
Speaker 1: in games, you it's it's a lot different than just
Speaker 1: a straight narrative script. You're doing all these potential side
Speaker 1: you know, comments, especially like if a player chooses to
Speaker 1: ask a million questions, is that a different process or
Speaker 1: is it just a longer session. Well, when you're doing
Speaker 1: a series, you're with typically the other actors, so you're
Speaker 1: playing off each other, which I prefer to do because
Speaker 1: it's more fun. Like if someone says we gotta go,
Speaker 1: you might go okay. If someone you know you're responding,
Speaker 1: you're listening, is the actor. So when you're doing a
Speaker 1: video game, you're all by yourself and you have to
Speaker 1: like imagine what the other people are saying. And in
Speaker 1: video games you have to and you have to act
Speaker 1: out all the different scenarios that could happen. So, yes,
Speaker 1: it's a lot more work. It's a lot more dialogue,
Speaker 1: like if if it's almost like a choose your own
Speaker 1: adventure book, like you have to record every which way
Speaker 1: that could end right, and a lot of times you're
Speaker 1: recording like the idol lines to like hello, I guess
Speaker 1: that in here you want to thank me to do something.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you you know, you gotta There's so
Speaker 1: much to record, and I think the obviously the most
Speaker 1: vocally taxing or the pain noises and the fighting noises,
Speaker 1: they can be bad, like you know, okay, in this scene,
Speaker 1: Harley's electrocuted. Okay, in this scene she's falling off a
Speaker 1: cliff and dies, and you know, there's so many different
Speaker 1: things that you have to record, and it's a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, for sure, but it's it's I don't
Speaker 1: know why with Harley, it's just never a chore, Like
Speaker 1: I always feel so grateful to be in those shoes.
Speaker 1: I did want to say because her costume changed with
Speaker 1: these games, but then also with Suicide Squad, which I
Speaker 1: saw you dress up as Um. Do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite costume of hers? I think the first game is
Speaker 1: still my favorite that I did, And I remember UM
Speaker 1: being a comic con and being like a building of
Speaker 1: her in the new outfit and going, holy crap, I
Speaker 1: don't know if we can swear in this show, so okay,
Speaker 1: Holy Crow. Like Harley in full she's a building, like
Speaker 1: she's huge, like wow, and she's so hot and sexy
Speaker 1: and strong, and I was like, I don't know that
Speaker 1: was my That would have been my first choice for
Speaker 1: Harley cosplay, but I ended up doing I think a
Speaker 1: different one the first time, which was so much fun
Speaker 1: because normally at comic con I can't walk from my
Speaker 1: hotel to the con without people going to a strong,
Speaker 1: but as Harley, I could go anywhere because there's a
Speaker 1: million Harley's and in fact, people wanted to take my
Speaker 1: picture because they liked the costume, and there was just
Speaker 1: one guy that's like, can you take your picture? Harley
Speaker 1: is my favorite and there's like thirteen I've taken today
Speaker 1: and I said, okayun in my favorite and he goes,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've seen a lot of good ones.
Speaker 1: Like I just I couldn't wait for that guy to
Speaker 1: go home and make his iPhone just a little bigger.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun to do that. I had
Speaker 1: the best time. That would be funny if he uploads
Speaker 1: it's like facial recognition tear is strong. Like on there
Speaker 1: there was another There was like a family that just happened.
Speaker 1: You know, I love cosplay families. It's the cutest thing
Speaker 1: ever when they're all in costume and like the mom
Speaker 1: was bad Girl, the daughter was Raven, the boy was Benten,
Speaker 1: the other daughter was Harley. And I was with a
Speaker 1: director friend of mine and the mom said, will you
Speaker 1: take a picture with my daughter? She's dressed as Harley,
Speaker 1: And I said sure. And then they're like, actually, let's
Speaker 1: do a family photo. And I said okay, And I'm
Speaker 1: standing next to Raven and I go, do you know
Speaker 1: do you know who I am? And she's like I
Speaker 1: know who I am? And I go, okay, whatever, and
Speaker 1: she's like yeah whatever, Like they didn't know, right, And
Speaker 1: then my director goes, you know, she voices all of you, right,
Speaker 1: but she's your whole family, right, And they were like
Speaker 1: oh my god a second. They were like, it's just
Speaker 1: but cosplay is so fun. It was. Yeah. I always
Speaker 1: like I liked seeing when um Daniel Radcliffe was like
Speaker 1: spider I think you walked around a Spider Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but since he had a mask on, nobody. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the greatest, so much fun. My favorite is one you're
Speaker 1: like Blake Anderson from Workaholics, was he just he wanted
Speaker 1: to go in and buy stuff and he just put
Speaker 1: on a Wolverine mask and and like, I was like,
Speaker 1: but I could still see your hair. But I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I only know because I know it's you. Anyone
Speaker 1: else's like, who's that weird hair over? But it's so
Speaker 1: fun to just walk around the con incognito and be
Speaker 1: able to go anywhere and do anything. It's fun. If
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, we have to take another break,
Speaker 1: so I think that we can take a break and
Speaker 1: then wrap up with the future of Harley and yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and you know it's it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: new segment I called the Gush Session. Uh, and we'll
Speaker 1: go there that it sounds not good, that doesn't sound good,
Speaker 1: It'll make sense, It'll make sense when we get to it. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see you after the break. Wait is that you're
Speaker 1: going to a break? Yeah? What did you want to do?
Speaker 1: I don't know, just say hey, so well, uh, we'll
Speaker 1: get into you know, the movie is the future of
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn and wrap up and that's whatever, or we
Speaker 1: can keep that. We're gonna keeping all of that. We'll
Speaker 1: see y'all after the break. That's great and we're back.
Speaker 1: And before we move on to current Harley, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to touch on for those of you that are
Speaker 1: kind of thinking of where to start with her. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the animated series UM, which Terry was saying, still holds
Speaker 1: up so beautifully. I feel like you could honestly freeze
Speaker 1: frame any part of that show and like make it
Speaker 1: a poster. It's so pretty. Um. But another thing is her.
Speaker 1: She also appears. Harley appears in the graphic novel The
Speaker 1: Batman Adventures Mad Love, and that recounts a lot of
Speaker 1: her origin story UM and also her you know, her
Speaker 1: love with Joker, that relationship. You can see all of
Speaker 1: that in Mad Love. I actually just bought it. I'm
Speaker 1: really excited. I was listening to a podcast of people
Speaker 1: talking about it and it sounds amazing. So pick that
Speaker 1: up and yeah, so now we have Hardly in Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1: She also is going to be in Birds of Prey.
Speaker 1: My fans went ape when they found out I wasn't
Speaker 1: playing her on camera, and I'm like, dudes, I go
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I'm like, Margot Robbie's the hottest chick ever
Speaker 1: and she's a stunningly amazing actress. Um. She's also a
Speaker 1: lot younger than me. I mean, not that, but like
Speaker 1: like let her shine, you know, and she she's a star.
Speaker 1: Like if i'd pick her to play Harley, like great,
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I would like a tear of
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn. You know what I've said a million times,
Speaker 1: which I think would be really fun. I think they
Speaker 1: should put me him all in Conroy, like in a
Speaker 1: booth at a diner, like how you know, Stanley does
Speaker 1: this whole thing. I think we need a little cameo,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I think so when the fans
Speaker 1: go nuts, totally totally. I was reading. I thought I
Speaker 1: read somewhere though that you you did like a little
Speaker 1: thing of Harley for Arrow. Okay, so that was like
Speaker 1: her because people didn't really get to see her, right,
Speaker 1: people went because they knew right away was my voice,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you guys should put me on
Speaker 1: the show. The fans would really like that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it was just that one little one off with those
Speaker 1: one everybody, right, everybody make this happen Tara for Arrows
Speaker 1: number four. Maybe they could do like, you know, Harley's
Speaker 1: a mom and she has teenage boys or something like
Speaker 1: mom Harley, What does Harley as a mom do? Like
Speaker 1: she still likes to dress up and look hot, but
Speaker 1: then in the morning she makes outmeal like maybe she
Speaker 1: kicked us at night, but during the day she goes
Speaker 1: to p t a. Oh my gosh, that would make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. That would be Moley. You know,
Speaker 1: at home she's like everyone I have their breakfast and
Speaker 1: she's like, bye, kick somebody. Maybe you know there's two
Speaker 1: I don't know. You guys can totally pitch that steel
Speaker 1: and it's fine. Put me in an episode, okay, let
Speaker 1: I did want to say um in Suicide Squad. I
Speaker 1: did like the fact that Harley was, you know, she
Speaker 1: still let her hopes and dreams when she was in
Speaker 1: love with a joker. They had that Lolla Land sequence
Speaker 1: of her like with a baby and I love that
Speaker 1: fact that, like what Tara was saying, that she's fully
Speaker 1: fleshed out. You know, she's not a one dimensional villain.
Speaker 1: She's a woman that had dreams of her own. She's
Speaker 1: someone that has this love interest. She then, like we said,
Speaker 1: moves from a follower to a leader. She is, Ah,
Speaker 1: she's a one woman show. Yeah if he is. This
Speaker 1: where you wanted to do your gush session before we
Speaker 1: let Tara like, I want to individually, just go down.
Speaker 1: I'm dB and thank you for each individually, like you know, Benton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well't we well't we have two more hours? Right? Do
Speaker 1: you want to? I do want to tell Tara? So
Speaker 1: we had um Maurice Wanzer, who's a transgender actress and supermodel,
Speaker 1: come on, and she did on My Little Pony episode,
Speaker 1: and she was talking about how much your show, the
Speaker 1: new animated show, has affected her life and it's so yeah,
Speaker 1: and we went over the history of it and cutie
Speaker 1: marks and like just representation and what it means to people,
Speaker 1: but that it is just she was really funny. She
Speaker 1: was like, you know, anytime I'm feeling bad and I
Speaker 1: can see a rainbow coming out of a pony's butt,
Speaker 1: it makes me no. No, I meant like the hottest
Speaker 1: army brownies that like paint pinky Pie on their tanks
Speaker 1: and sing the songs to get them through crap in
Speaker 1: Afghanistans what like, and they're like hot. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's something really magical about that show that people really
Speaker 1: identify with. And the thing that I love about animation
Speaker 1: in general, but certainly My Little Pony is that you
Speaker 1: can be from anywhere, You're any color, you're any age,
Speaker 1: any background, like everybody's friends. And it's just like the
Speaker 1: inclusiveness of that show teach us such amazing lesson lessons
Speaker 1: which we obviously need today. And uh and I love
Speaker 1: that transgender people like I feel like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I am relating to these characters. I love these shows
Speaker 1: because nobody has judged in these shows. Everybody's accepted and
Speaker 1: love no matter what, even the villains, right, every pretty
Speaker 1: much every villain on My Little Pony has become a
Speaker 1: good guy, like you know, and I just I don't
Speaker 1: understand bullying or hatred of any kind. So the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm in a show that in particular particularly is
Speaker 1: inclusive and welcoming of everyone is like, and when I
Speaker 1: meet these people at cons and say, you don't know
Speaker 1: what this show did for me. It saved my life.
Speaker 1: I was suicidal or was whatever it's like means the
Speaker 1: world to me. Yeah, that's so dope and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy you could do that. I got one question another,
Speaker 1: just random question. Are you able to pull any character?
Speaker 1: People come up and go, I loved you in this
Speaker 1: blank character. Are you able to just like, okay, here
Speaker 1: it is? Oh, I know you want to ask for
Speaker 1: one and I don't have one in mind. I was
Speaker 1: just looking and I was like, man, what if somebody
Speaker 1: like came through? It was like Talia and the Animal Crackers.
Speaker 1: I actually can do that one. Animal Crackers, by the way,
Speaker 1: is the most beautiful movie ever and it hasn't come
Speaker 1: out yet because there's been some problems with the distribution.
Speaker 1: But she talks like this. She's a beautiful girl, and
Speaker 1: it would be great to see this movie come out.
Speaker 1: So perfect I was very perfect in this movie. Is
Speaker 1: not just mean in general, but okay, well, is there
Speaker 1: anything you'd like to plug or let people know where
Speaker 1: to find you? You can find me on all my
Speaker 1: social media at terror Strong and just I mean, I
Speaker 1: have some fun stuff coming up that I would get
Speaker 1: fired if I told you about. Don't worry, It's on
Speaker 1: your IMDb. The only new thing I'd love people to
Speaker 1: check out is the new Rocking ball Winkle because it's
Speaker 1: hard to catch it. It's on Amazon Pripe, so people
Speaker 1: don't know where to find it. But this season in
Speaker 1: particular so funny. We have weird Out and all kinds
Speaker 1: of great guests on, and it's a really really funny,
Speaker 1: great show. Um and the new d See Girls show
Speaker 1: that I'm doing with is brilliant. And to play bad
Speaker 1: Girl and Harley by the way back to back is
Speaker 1: so much fun. And and Lauren is such a genius.
Speaker 1: I do think she's the reason Pony such a success.
Speaker 1: Her pretty just works a different way. So getting to
Speaker 1: play both those characters, it's funny. Initially she said to me,
Speaker 1: I have some good news and some bad news. The
Speaker 1: good news is I want you to be back Girl.
Speaker 1: Great because anytime I look at a script and see
Speaker 1: Backgirl in my heart is like so happy. The bad
Speaker 1: news is you can't be Harley. I said why, and
Speaker 1: she said, because I want back Girl to live in
Speaker 1: Harley Land. I want bad Girl, hyper and crazy. And
Speaker 1: you know she has no attention span and she's all
Speaker 1: over the place, and I'm just worried it's going to
Speaker 1: be too close to Harley. And as you know, I
Speaker 1: had to kind of say, I understand, but because I've
Speaker 1: played so many iterations of Harley, I said, do me
Speaker 1: a favorite, bring me in and we'll do bad Girl,
Speaker 1: and then let me do five or six different Harley's
Speaker 1: be eid it and see if we can still pull
Speaker 1: it off. And so we do the BACKERU. We set
Speaker 1: her voice, which is higher than any backer life done
Speaker 1: because she's a crazy crazy town. And then we start
Speaker 1: playing around with Harley, and I sort of had this
Speaker 1: inspiration to make our little Brittany Murphy ish and like
Speaker 1: that kind of clicked into her. And so they heard
Speaker 1: that and they were like, Okay, no more auditions. We're
Speaker 1: done here. And so to play them both back to
Speaker 1: back and yet another version of Harley was so fun.
Speaker 1: So check that show out too, and it's totally different
Speaker 1: and fun. That sounds so fun and exciting. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know me is your boy? If I f y
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Speaker 1: Make sure you go ahead and connect it to your
Speaker 1: Twitch and giving them twitch prime themselves. Y'all have been
Speaker 1: coming through watching me play video games, and I love it.
Speaker 1: A lot of times you'll talk about what we talked
Speaker 1: about on here, and we keep the conversation going. I
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Speaker 1: you know, and stay stay, Stay Washington stories. You never
Speaker 1: know when a thirst trap coming through. Gosh, a lot
Speaker 1: of people people been hitting me out saying he's slowing
Speaker 1: down on thirst traps. It's like, well, I gotta keep
Speaker 1: it surprising. I mean true, true. I'm at miss Danny
Speaker 1: Fernandez and all the socials. I wrote in a book
Speaker 1: called The Good Immigrant that drops here in the US
Speaker 1: February nineteenth. February nineteenth. It's a collection of essays from
Speaker 1: actors and writers of color. Was super honored to be
Speaker 1: asked to be a part of these very talented people.
Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, I pick it up or preorder it.
Speaker 1: You can pre order on Amazon. It's coming out tight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Well you know uh we we usually do
Speaker 1: this and we lays will keep it going, so at
Speaker 1: the end of the show we say stay nerdy. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's a the Harley episode. Can
Speaker 1: we get a Harley Quinn saying stay nerdy, Stay nerty.
Speaker 1: Gouddies M