Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
Speaker 1: TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to
Speaker 1: a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Speaker 1: Jersey Drive with executive producer Spike Lee and director Nick Domez.
Speaker 1: I auditioned every rapper from biggiees Balls to Tupac, and
Speaker 1: I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
Speaker 1: transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I
Speaker 1: also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel
Speaker 1: I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
Speaker 1: acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
Speaker 1: that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
Speaker 1: get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
Speaker 1: casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for
Speaker 1: meditation of the day. Raise your words, not your voice.
Speaker 1: It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder Roomy.
Speaker 2: Words have massive power.
Speaker 1: You have to understand that words create and manifest.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So a lot of times when actors used to say
Speaker 1: to me, I'm a struggling actor and wonder why they
Speaker 1: were struggling, it's because of the words that they're using.
Speaker 2: If you say you're a working actor and next thing
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: You get a phone call, somebody recommended you, someone saw
Speaker 1: your work. You want to elevate your dialogue. You want
Speaker 1: to create words that are positive and that will create
Speaker 1: and manifest positive things for you. This is the most
Speaker 1: challenging thing. And I learned this in the movie called
Speaker 1: The Secret. If any of you have ever seen that movie,
Speaker 1: it's a phenomenal movie, and I suggest that every body
Speaker 1: at least see at once.
Speaker 2: But in The Secret, one of the.
Speaker 1: Spiritual leaders talks about how we create.
Speaker 2: Every experience in our lives.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the most difficult thing for human
Speaker 1: beings to accept, is the fact that we create, whether
Speaker 1: it's good or whether it's bad. Our thoughts and energies
Speaker 1: are the things that create. Right, So if I'm having
Speaker 1: great thoughts, I'm going to manifest great things because I'm
Speaker 1: feeling good and I'm on that vibrational level. Right, If
Speaker 1: i'm feeling bad, I'm going to create bad things. And
Speaker 1: the thing that the spiritual Leader said in the spirit
Speaker 1: in the Secret that was so challenging for us to
Speaker 1: digest is that we are responsible for that bad step too,
Speaker 1: and it's energies. So you want to be conscious that
Speaker 1: the energies that you're putting out there, whether you feel
Speaker 1: you know, and this is what's important, You've got to
Speaker 1: feel it. So you've got to feel positive to create positive.
Speaker 1: So you want to place yourself If I say in
Speaker 1: a happy thought, that takes you to a happy, positive place,
Speaker 1: and then your mood shifts, and then in that moment
Speaker 1: start creating you know what, and claim it. I want
Speaker 1: to go to Hawaii. Don't try to figure out how
Speaker 1: you're going to get there, when you're going to get there,
Speaker 1: just claim it. Because you're feeling good, You're at a
Speaker 1: place of maniftation and watch how these things happen. You
Speaker 1: have to experience it for you to know it. Today
Speaker 1: I will focus on positive words, positive energy to manifest
Speaker 1: positive things. Before we get started, I'd like to remind
Speaker 1: everyone to look out for my new show Inside the
Speaker 1: Black Box.
Speaker 2: I'll be co hosting with the Great Joe Morton. We'll
Speaker 2: be on Crackle Network real soon. I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore.
Speaker 1: I am very excited today about our guests. Not only
Speaker 1: is he spirit Actor alumni, but I have the pleasure
Speaker 1: of beating him at Inside the black Box on our
Speaker 1: show and he participated in an exercise. I get excited
Speaker 1: when actors are because all of you are creative beings.
Speaker 1: But when you tap into that creativity and instead of
Speaker 1: looking at the glass specifically right now during these strikes
Speaker 1: half empty, he's choosing to look at it half full.
Speaker 1: And that's why he's here, because he's going to tell
Speaker 1: us about this really exciting event that he's having next Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So ladies and gentlemen, I want you to stand up,
Speaker 1: put your hands together.
Speaker 2: From Mitchell oohgwazy.
Speaker 3: Welcome Mitchell, Thank you, Thank you, Tracy.
Speaker 2: How are you I'm great. How are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. Thank you for asking.
Speaker 2: So Mitchell, I'm excited because is well.
Speaker 1: First of all, I just want to say thank you
Speaker 1: for supporting Inside the black Box and being.
Speaker 2: Present in the audience.
Speaker 1: And I remember you know you don't forget talent, and
Speaker 1: you don't forget unique creative individuals.
Speaker 2: I remember when you first said your name, I was like,
Speaker 2: what's today? And you hit that base.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, okay, I would heard lou Rawl's
Speaker 1: ish very white Ish took me back to the seventies.
Speaker 1: But tell the audience what your experience was, because you
Speaker 1: are honestly one of the first people that I've had
Speaker 1: who has been on the show and is a guest,
Speaker 1: because I have spirit actor alumni, you know, who come
Speaker 1: on and do scenes and monologues in class and session,
Speaker 1: but actually sitting down and interviewing you. So how was
Speaker 1: that experience for you on inside the Black Pots.
Speaker 4: So as an actor, first and foremost, you've always wanted
Speaker 4: to be in those rooms where you're surrounded by creatives.
Speaker 4: And not only is it that, but you're surrounded by
Speaker 4: creatives of color. So you get to see like the
Speaker 4: different because people always.
Speaker 3: Like to put us.
Speaker 4: In a box and we all may have the same
Speaker 4: you know, hair texture or similar skin complexion, but there's
Speaker 4: so many things that are defining and when you get
Speaker 4: to meet so many people, it kind of broadens your awareness.
Speaker 4: So I kind of go back to the James Lifton
Speaker 4: days when he was doing It's at the actors studio
Speaker 4: when you look at that audience and you see all
Speaker 4: these diverse faces and things like that, but then you
Speaker 4: get to hear all the jewels that are being dropped
Speaker 4: from the guests that are being interviewed. So it's like,
Speaker 4: this is my version, you know, of that experience because
Speaker 4: I didn't get too because James Liften you know, rest
Speaker 4: and peace, yes, but this is my version of that.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I was just happy to be in
Speaker 4: the room and then get to participate, meet you, meet Joe,
Speaker 4: you know, Spruce Elsa, all those people. It's just it's
Speaker 4: one of those things that if you look back and
Speaker 4: you take a kind of time capsule of that time
Speaker 4: to be able to open it up and just see like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's how rich the time period was, especially coming out
Speaker 4: of a pandemic then going into a strike. So we're
Speaker 4: talking about two pauses in one particular season of life.
Speaker 4: And I always tell people, I said, listen, if you took,
Speaker 4: if you didn't take the opportunity to learn a new trade,
Speaker 4: a new skill, gain some knowledge, strengthen your body, your mind,
Speaker 4: your spirit. During that pandemic, you wasted your time, you know,
Speaker 4: because that was an opportunity for you to take that
Speaker 4: pause and use it for something to prosper, you know.
Speaker 4: So it's it's an amazing experience, I say, and amazing
Speaker 4: experience being present because it's still going to continue and
Speaker 4: people are going to be moved and wild and inspired
Speaker 4: and motivated through that course. So I'm happy to see
Speaker 4: what excited to see what's coming next for Inside the
Speaker 4: Black Box.
Speaker 1: So am I? So am I, because we too are
Speaker 1: on cause. However, like you said, we are continuing through
Speaker 1: and still having conversations and still creating, so it keeps
Speaker 1: that momentum going. I was talking to a producer yesterday
Speaker 1: who said that something really great is going to come
Speaker 1: out of this, and I agree with him that, you know,
Speaker 1: take the time like you and utilize all of your
Speaker 1: creative skills, create something, you know, create opportunities for yourself
Speaker 1: and other people. So before I talk about that event,
Speaker 1: I still want to talk in reference to you as
Speaker 1: an actor. Our audience are actors, and we all share
Speaker 1: this experience together. I look at your resume and it
Speaker 1: is filled with theater.
Speaker 2: Which my heart is just like, I'm so.
Speaker 1: Sensitive, but I was like all the most are like, yeah, mitual,
Speaker 1: of course you would do all this theater. But when
Speaker 1: you think about theater and you think about film and
Speaker 1: TV two different experiences, do you gravitate to theater more,
Speaker 1: film and TV?
Speaker 2: All of it?
Speaker 4: So before I answer it, Before I answer that question,
Speaker 4: what I'm learning now in life that is that every
Speaker 4: avenue or every turn in life calls for a different
Speaker 4: what's the word I'm looking for modus operandi only thing
Speaker 4: that comes up to me at the moment, because like,
Speaker 4: like if you're in the gym and you have weak glutes,
Speaker 4: like it's not going to do you any good to
Speaker 4: only work work on your chest. You know you're going
Speaker 4: to have to get get on that squad machine to
Speaker 4: de leg press things like that because your glutes are
Speaker 4: week you know you need to focus on that. So
Speaker 4: I think when it comes to film and theater and
Speaker 4: television things like that, they're all you know, they're all performing,
Speaker 4: but they all train different parts of your of your talent.
Speaker 4: So there are seasons where I'm just like, I really
Speaker 4: want to do a play. There are seasons where I
Speaker 4: want to be still in a frame, having the frame
Speaker 4: focused on me while I deliver certain lines and being
Speaker 4: able to operate in that stillness but have all this
Speaker 4: fire coming through, you know. So I think it really
Speaker 4: depends on where you are in your journey as a
Speaker 4: creative at that time, and then using each medium to
Speaker 4: hone in sharpen those particular skills. So that's how I
Speaker 4: you know, that's how I believe. But for me, I've
Speaker 4: always been a person who gravitated towards stillness, and it's
Speaker 4: hard to translate stillness on a stage. You can do it,
Speaker 4: but it's a little bit more difficult than when you're
Speaker 4: on a screen because the screen can, when you're on camera,
Speaker 4: can zoom in and gets to and blow everything out
Speaker 4: and then you're the main focus.
Speaker 3: But when you're on stage and.
Speaker 4: You're still like to be able to capture an arena
Speaker 4: or an audience with just stillness on stage takes.
Speaker 2: It takes the air out of the theater.
Speaker 1: Because for me, I think the connection with theater, which
Speaker 1: is my first love, is it's live and I feel
Speaker 1: whatever I entrust you guys on this journey, I go
Speaker 1: with you, and I feel sad, I feel happy, I
Speaker 1: feel all these things, and there's a connection just like comedians, right,
Speaker 1: And so I think for me and for working with
Speaker 1: theater and more in theater, that the immediate gratification is
Speaker 1: there as soon as you leave that stage drawer. You
Speaker 1: got people waiting to just tell you what you've done,
Speaker 1: how you've inspired and all of that. Like, there's nothing
Speaker 1: like that, there's nothing like that feeling. Even if you
Speaker 1: go to a premiere and go to the screening, it'll
Speaker 1: take at least a year for that film to come
Speaker 1: out Before that happens and you're on to the next
Speaker 1: or something. But in that you talk about stillness and
Speaker 1: presence in that moment. I've seen it. I've seen the
Speaker 1: authenticity of a person who was on stage and was huge,
Speaker 1: right and then they come off and you can just
Speaker 1: their hearts. We're just like holding on every single thing
Speaker 1: that you're saying to them, so you know. And I
Speaker 1: also think theater is powerful in terms of training, where
Speaker 1: it's a discipline. You can't call the script supervisor out
Speaker 1: for a line, you.
Speaker 2: Can't cut, you know.
Speaker 1: So, and then the other thing, of course mental izz
Speaker 1: training on here, but special skills ladies and gentlemen like
Speaker 1: I have to say, I went to Africa in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven. I think it was no. Yeah, around
Speaker 1: twenty eleven I went to Africa. I went to Ghana
Speaker 1: and Nigeria for the first time in my life and
Speaker 1: it changed my life absolutely. What I do know in
Speaker 1: coming back to America in my observation that we definitely
Speaker 1: have different lives. The appreciation for education in Africa was outstanding, phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything or felt anything like that in
Speaker 1: my life. And just the focus and discipline on you know,
Speaker 1: the occupations which people pursue, engineering, know, lawyer, doctors. I
Speaker 1: say all this to say that the language was one
Speaker 1: of the most impressive. To talk to an eight ten
Speaker 1: year old kid that tells me they can speak seven
Speaker 1: to ten languages was beyond impressive. So, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: just to read off a few dialects that Mitchell has, Spanish,
Speaker 1: of course, the English, French, African, Creole, Chinese like. I
Speaker 1: just think that if we were to were you born
Speaker 1: and raised in Nigeria.
Speaker 3: And then I was born and raised in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Okay, So but your connection, your bloodline, everything is Nigeria.
Speaker 2: It's still that discipline is in you. I don't care.
Speaker 4: So what I like to tell people is that in
Speaker 4: my generation, first generation African daughters and sons. You are
Speaker 4: house was the embassy. Whatever country you came from, your
Speaker 4: house was the embassy. Outside of that house was America.
Speaker 4: But inside the house, music, the food, the discipline, all
Speaker 4: of that, that's what happened. So like whatever was was
Speaker 4: going back home in your original country, you brought that
Speaker 4: to your particular house. So people always like, well you
Speaker 4: were born in Atlanta. I'm just like, yeah, you don't understand.
Speaker 3: We weren't.
Speaker 4: We weren't living life like you guys are living life
Speaker 4: in America. Like we were living in Nigerian household life
Speaker 4: in America.
Speaker 3: That's how it was.
Speaker 4: Like my connections are like I like when I talk
Speaker 4: to somebody and I hear their accent and I can
Speaker 4: tell that they're from Nigeria, like a coach, which immediately
Speaker 4: like I was in Miami recently and I heard a
Speaker 4: guy talking and he was Nigeria and I said, oh,
Speaker 4: well I'll find out and I say ah.
Speaker 5: I was like ah, I said, look you look like
Speaker 5: yeah American. I said, no, be American. I know I
Speaker 5: got that you won't see me. And he was just
Speaker 5: sitting there like and the bartender was looking at us
Speaker 5: like like what is going on here.
Speaker 4: But it's like it's that connection to it is you're
Speaker 4: your heritage that just kind of just kicks in at
Speaker 4: any moment in time.
Speaker 1: So that is so true, ladies and gentlemen. So Yvonne Orgy,
Speaker 1: her first acting class was with me. Right, So Yvonne
Speaker 1: wanted to be a comedian. Yvonne, for those of you
Speaker 1: who don't know, she plays the best friend on Insecure
Speaker 1: with Issa rag And so we were doing this monologue.
Speaker 1: We were doing a monologue and I had an actor
Speaker 1: sit in as her mom, and she was telling her
Speaker 1: mom that she wanted to be a comedian.
Speaker 2: She didn't want to be a doctor or engineer.
Speaker 1: Right, Yvonne is talking and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: in her monologue she goes ooh, or she makes a sound.
Speaker 2: And I said, after.
Speaker 1: It was over, I was like, I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: you were coughing or I didn't know, and she was
Speaker 1: like Tracy Nigeria. I was like, oh my god, but
Speaker 1: she said the same thing. Those gems, those traditions, those
Speaker 1: identities are instilled in that African home, regardless of what's
Speaker 1: going on outside in the Shenanigans of America. Because that's
Speaker 1: what continues on right the legacy, you'll do the same
Speaker 1: thing with your family. So I one of the things
Speaker 1: that there were so many takeaways, but I can tell
Speaker 1: you that one of the things before I left America,
Speaker 1: I never felt my birth certificated says well.
Speaker 2: Let me start with my older brother.
Speaker 1: My older brother's first certificate says colored, my versus certificate
Speaker 1: says Negro, and my youngest brother says black. So when
Speaker 1: we switched over to African American, I never felt comfortable
Speaker 1: saying American.
Speaker 2: I just never felt that connection.
Speaker 1: When I went to Africa, after I walked through the
Speaker 1: Elmina slave castle, I called my children up and I said,
Speaker 1: man up, Man up, because our ancestors mine they survived
Speaker 1: that ship. That wasn't a cruise ship. They survived that
Speaker 1: and you we are here. So what does that say
Speaker 1: about who we are? Because not everybody survived, and not
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to survive. Lots of people they don't talk
Speaker 1: about jumped off that ship. However, they have that beautiful monument,
Speaker 1: I don't know where it is, but underwater with all
Speaker 1: of those slaves carved, you know, in those sculptures. So
Speaker 1: that was a huge takeaway. And then when I came
Speaker 1: back to America, my friends said. I was like, I
Speaker 1: just I'm trying to settle in, but I couldn't. She said,
Speaker 1: that's because your soul has changed. And one thing an
Speaker 1: older gentleman told me in Africa, he said, we family
Speaker 1: is everything. We are so angry with the Africans in
Speaker 1: America because they don't revere family. Baby Mamas, hear this,
Speaker 1: that family is, it is so the foundation. I'm not
Speaker 1: just you know, I look at your me as a
Speaker 1: casting director, I look at your resume and it's a
Speaker 1: conversation what actors don't know now who are in the
Speaker 1: zoom world. When we used to be live, you know,
Speaker 1: we would really look at your resume and pull things off.
Speaker 1: That's why it's important to put things on there where
Speaker 1: our eyes will go. Oh, Benny Booman cis director ten story.
Speaker 1: So I would have talked to you about these accents
Speaker 1: and dialects and given you mad props on that. Because
Speaker 1: while actors are waiting for the strike to be over,
Speaker 1: there are digital resources that can help you with dialects
Speaker 1: and accents. So how about you come back into the
Speaker 1: game with a British accent that you never had before?
Speaker 3: Did get me in it.
Speaker 2: I just so I applaud you for that.
Speaker 1: And so what I want to let's talk about because
Speaker 1: I don't want any time to pass and I don't
Speaker 1: know where we are in time, but I want to
Speaker 1: talk about This is one of the reasons why I
Speaker 1: wanted Mitchell on the show Ladies and Gentlemen, because, as
Speaker 1: I said, in terms of not wasting time and looking
Speaker 1: at this glass half full, Mitchell has put together which
Speaker 1: I think is an amazing idea. It's Taco Tuesdays and
Speaker 1: it's a monologue Slam that he has created that is
Speaker 1: going to actually begin tonight to September nineteenth tonight, where
Speaker 1: first of all, where can they get the information?
Speaker 2: And then you could tell us about the event.
Speaker 4: I can put a link for the event right. You
Speaker 4: can also follow me on Instagram Mitchell Luke Guaisi. I'm
Speaker 4: the only person in the world that exists with that name,
Speaker 4: so pretty easy to find. But yeah, a monologue Slam
Speaker 4: tonight September nineteenth something that I wanted to do because
Speaker 4: I coming from Atlanta and live in New York. Now
Speaker 4: when you look at New York, what you remember about
Speaker 4: New York is, especially in that particular space is you know,
Speaker 4: Deaf poetry Jam, Deaf comedy Jam, Apollo, you know these
Speaker 4: types of context where people got up and it was live,
Speaker 4: and it was in front of front of the people,
Speaker 4: and it was and it was raw, and I used
Speaker 4: I used the presence of a vacuum a way to say,
Speaker 4: how can I feel this vacuum? And the monologue slams
Speaker 4: seem like it would be the perfect opportunity for not
Speaker 4: only creatives, but people who of live performance theory to
Speaker 4: come and get a taste of what New York has
Speaker 4: been missing for some time. In my opinion, If they
Speaker 4: have others, I haven't seen them, and I'm pretty I'm
Speaker 4: pretty out there when it comes to these types of things,
Speaker 4: I haven't seen them in a very long time. That
Speaker 4: comedy jam has gone, that poetry jam is gone. Power
Speaker 4: doesn't have the same a lord that it once has.
Speaker 4: So I'm like this, this, this needs to happen. And
Speaker 4: you know, people need to get a chance to sharpen
Speaker 4: their sharpen their skills and be awarded for it because
Speaker 4: there is a five hundred cash price. It's like you're
Speaker 4: just coming and you're just you're just performing. You're getting
Speaker 4: a trophy like you're actually getting cash in hand for performing.
Speaker 4: And we have a couple of celebrity judges who will
Speaker 4: be released at at a later time. So it's an
Speaker 4: opportunity for you to come and sharpen your skills and
Speaker 4: then get to hear from the judges on like different critiques,
Speaker 4: because a lot a lot of times we want the
Speaker 4: critiques ourselves, or we want someone to give us that,
Speaker 4: but you can always learn from somebody else or what
Speaker 4: somebody else is going through. The saying is a smart
Speaker 4: person learned from their mistakes, a wise person learns from
Speaker 4: other people's mistakes. And not that you're going to get
Speaker 4: up there and make mistakes, but if you're up there
Speaker 4: and you're listening to how someone is being critiqued on
Speaker 4: a particular thing, you can take that and use that
Speaker 4: for yourself, you know. So it's an opportunity for everybody,
Speaker 4: whether you're a performer, whether you're in the audience, you know,
Speaker 4: to get the chance to meet other creatives, come together,
Speaker 4: you know, phone that community, because I've always wanted community.
Speaker 4: I look at you know, Samuel Jackson, Lawrence Risburn, Denzel Washington,
Speaker 4: you know, all those people back in the day, they
Speaker 4: would always talk about when they were in the eighties
Speaker 4: going from audition to audition together.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: And if somebody got an audition for something that they
Speaker 4: felt was not right for them, they call up their
Speaker 4: home and say, listen, I just did this. Think you'd
Speaker 4: be better for it. This is a chance to create
Speaker 4: that community again because we need it.
Speaker 2: We do need need it.
Speaker 1: You also needed for a morale as well, because what
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I got here in the eighties and
Speaker 1: we had nec Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theater, Henry
Speaker 1: Street Selliment, like I can name at least five other
Speaker 1: you know, black theaters that were alive and kicking in
Speaker 1: the eighties. Here they have the grants, they have the philanthropists.
Speaker 1: Now they don't have that. So they all had to
Speaker 1: where Chris Rock shot his show for HBO is where
Speaker 1: Nigro Ensemble Company Company used to be, okay, and then
Speaker 1: they had to move because of rent and they're in
Speaker 1: a space, So we lost a lot of theater and
Speaker 1: definitely community because that's where people would go or you know.
Speaker 2: Because of COVID.
Speaker 1: I think we need to, you know, be around each other,
Speaker 1: you know, just be in that you know you're going
Speaker 1: when you feel like somebody else is going through the
Speaker 1: same things. There's a sense of relief and it can
Speaker 1: empower you. So I think that that's what's missing. Also,
Speaker 1: you're really right. I used to go to the Nigro
Speaker 1: Ensemble Company and the National Black Bead all the time.
Speaker 1: And Denzel Washington had a best friend who got restissol.
Speaker 2: He passed.
Speaker 1: But if Denzel when he went to auditions, he took
Speaker 1: him with him and then they would automatically his name
Speaker 1: escapes me right now, I apologize, but he they would
Speaker 1: talk to him and then you know, he eventually started
Speaker 1: getting auditions and working as well. But it wasn't that
Speaker 1: we didn't have Instagram influencers, I'm better than you, that
Speaker 1: overflow of competition that we could actually see. We didn't
Speaker 1: have access to that in the eighties. So it was
Speaker 1: all about, like you would put on then you put
Speaker 1: me on. Sam Jackson. There's this guy I do know, Leonard.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Leonard, but Leonard is an actor and
Speaker 1: he was Sam stand in the loyalty that Sam had
Speaker 1: for him. He was Sam stand In from like let's
Speaker 1: say die Hard up until like he was definitely on
Speaker 1: the set of Shaft with me, and that was two thousand. Wow,
Speaker 1: so yeah, we I just what do you just in
Speaker 1: a gauge because you're an actor, what type of advice
Speaker 1: would you give actors right now? Like, you know, the
Speaker 1: energy that's out there, your stillness and your presence is
Speaker 1: so soothing. What would you tell actors like to how
Speaker 1: they can handle what's going on right now? If we
Speaker 1: have I mean, they're talking about going to July, but
Speaker 1: just in general handing.
Speaker 3: This right July on July next year, I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry January January two y, twenty four, twenty.
Speaker 4: Four, Yes, what would I what would I say to
Speaker 4: an actor? Or I mean, well, I'll take something from
Speaker 4: Sandy Meisner. He said it takes twenty years to be
Speaker 4: an actor. Now, somebody will hear that and think that's daunting.
Speaker 4: But from year one to year ten, from year ten
Speaker 4: to year fifteen, from year fifteen to it's all time.
Speaker 4: It's all training, it's all deepening. And one of the
Speaker 4: reasons why I said I believe that he said that
Speaker 4: because there's so much life that you're going through as
Speaker 4: a person, just not even being a performer, but as
Speaker 4: a performer and going through life like you're getting experiences
Speaker 4: that are changing and shaping and molding the way your
Speaker 4: mind looks at things, and where your mind looks at
Speaker 4: the world, and where your mind looks at people. So
Speaker 4: I would say to somebody like, don't waste your time.
Speaker 4: Don't waste your time. For me myself, I made it
Speaker 4: come in a long time ago that every single day
Speaker 4: I'm going to progress in some area of my life
Speaker 4: every single day. And when I first heard that quote,
Speaker 4: I was like, well, I've been acting for ten years now,
Speaker 4: you mean I got another ten before I officially become
Speaker 4: an actor. Then I realized that there are parts of
Speaker 4: me now that when I get to my thirtieth year
Speaker 4: in this game, I could be a completely different person.
Speaker 4: I had that much more grounding, I had that much
Speaker 4: more activity happening in my being when I get in
Speaker 4: front of an audience. And that only comes over time.
Speaker 4: Like you can drink a bottle of wine from seven
Speaker 4: to eleven, or you can drink a bottle of buljelai
Speaker 4: from two thousand, It's going to be some different experiences
Speaker 4: and that's because time has happened. So as time goes on,
Speaker 4: just think about it that way. You're getting better with time,
Speaker 4: and not to look at time as an enemy, but
Speaker 4: as a gift.
Speaker 1: So then how can you calm them down? Because you
Speaker 1: know with this sense of urgency there. For me, I
Speaker 1: deal with the sense of urgency, and I'm like, what's
Speaker 1: the urgency to.
Speaker 2: Get where.
Speaker 3: We're going? Into spiritual territory?
Speaker 1: I know because I need that right now because your
Speaker 1: spirit is so soothing. They need you speak their language,
Speaker 1: and this is the time our last guess. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that people are coming on and soothing extra souls
Speaker 1: right now, that's what we need.
Speaker 3: So there's a quote that I always use.
Speaker 4: In how I manage the world and things around me.
Speaker 4: I always say, if the world is being pushed in
Speaker 4: a certain direction, do the opposite, because peace and chaos
Speaker 4: can't exist in the same place. So if you see
Speaker 4: a place of chaos, whether it's inside of you, whether
Speaker 4: it's outside of you, if you see that, go the
Speaker 4: opposite direction, because the opposite of that it's like water
Speaker 4: and fire, like you can't have them both. So if
Speaker 4: you see fire here, go where the water is. Whatever
Speaker 4: that may look like for you. Some people might take
Speaker 4: take a walk in nature. They might need to listen to,
Speaker 4: you know, a speaker, a preacher, They might need to
Speaker 4: listen to you know that that grandparent or that or
Speaker 4: that uncle or that mentor who has that.
Speaker 3: But you have to.
Speaker 4: Stop being so mixy, because here's a thing, like we're
Speaker 4: all creatives in this together, but we all have our
Speaker 4: different ways of doing that. You know, you may do
Speaker 4: it through you know, writing, or you may do it
Speaker 4: through you know, drawing, or you may do it through
Speaker 4: you know, acting or working on a monologue or something
Speaker 4: like that. Like we all have different ways. So it's
Speaker 4: like there are different different mediums for you to find peace,
Speaker 4: but you can't. You can't try to be so mixy
Speaker 4: and then get peace at the same time. Like it's
Speaker 4: like it's only going to confuse you more so like unplugged,
Speaker 4: Like take those times to unplug. You know, if your
Speaker 4: phone is bringing off the hook, cut your phone off,
Speaker 4: your Instagram is buzzing, disconnect even if it's for.
Speaker 3: Three days a week.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying to do it forever, but until you
Speaker 4: can find that place of peace, like you're never going
Speaker 4: to be in a clear mind to be able to
Speaker 4: see with sober thought the things that you need to
Speaker 4: do to help you get to the next place. Because
Speaker 4: I get it, like as a creative, as a as
Speaker 4: a writer, as a directors, as an actor.
Speaker 3: You get anxious and you're just like, I need want,
Speaker 3: I want this now, I want this now, on this now.
Speaker 4: But like like I said, time as a gift, like
Speaker 4: it's not up to you don't own it. You don't
Speaker 4: as you want to say that, you like, you can
Speaker 4: talk about manifestation all that type of stuff like that,
Speaker 4: but you don't own what happens. You can own how
Speaker 4: you react to these things, right, you don't own what's
Speaker 4: going to happen, you know, So take the time to
Speaker 4: just take a deep breath, sit back, find whatever it
Speaker 4: is that brings you peace, you know, and do the
Speaker 4: opposite of what's causing chaos.
Speaker 3: And that's the simplest way to put it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's stellar advice. It's stellar.
Speaker 1: Like I'm embracing that in this moment now, you know,
Speaker 1: because it is.
Speaker 2: It's I don't like to argue.
Speaker 1: I don't like confrontations and things like that, and there
Speaker 1: are people out there that do, and so I always
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just talking lower than you. I'm going
Speaker 1: to take those breaths, like you said, I read this,
Speaker 1: I want a Mitchell quote but I read this quote
Speaker 1: the other two because you've got great quotes. I read
Speaker 1: this quote the other day that basically said, oh, actually
Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm going to do the quote today,
Speaker 1: but I'll read it for you right now. It's called
Speaker 1: it says, raise your words, not your voice. It is
Speaker 1: rain that grows. It is rain that grows flowers, not
Speaker 1: the thunderstorms. So and it's Rooney and so I just
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, again, the louder you talk, the
Speaker 1: more animated you get, the lower.
Speaker 2: You have your energies.
Speaker 1: It just you start to sort of like, you know,
Speaker 1: downsize that energy, so to speak. But I just we
Speaker 1: we have five minutes. We don't even have that.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I want to say, I want to say something ahead,
Speaker 4: go ahead. I think this would be the easiest way
Speaker 4: for someone to find that place of still miss clarifying
Speaker 4: your why, clarifying clarifying your why, because your why is
Speaker 4: your mission, that's your purpose. And as a creative, if
Speaker 4: you don't have a clarified why, then you're going to
Speaker 4: be jumping around trying to find something to attach yourself to.
Speaker 4: And that's going to keep you in the moments where
Speaker 4: things are quiet and nothing's happening because you know why.
Speaker 3: You're doing it.
Speaker 4: You know your mission. When you know your mission, that's
Speaker 4: going to hold you over in those times when it's lean,
Speaker 4: because we all we all want the fat times, we
Speaker 4: all want those bountiful you know, those those prosperity times.
Speaker 4: But when you clarify your why when it's when it
Speaker 4: when you're when you're going through it in the middle,
Speaker 4: you're just like, why am I going through to? Because
Speaker 4: I have a mission right what I'm trying to get
Speaker 4: to and what I'm trying to leave. You know this legacy.
Speaker 4: When you clarify that, that's the easiest thing is going
Speaker 4: to keep you in the ground you and put you
Speaker 4: in that place like, Okay, now I understand, I understand
Speaker 4: why I'm here where I'm now, I remember why I'm here.
Speaker 3: Let's keep going.
Speaker 1: Wow, Mitchell, I can only imagine as a young young
Speaker 1: boy growing up, people often said to you, you're an
Speaker 1: old soul, You've been here before, you have wisdom of
Speaker 1: the elders. And I think those are outstanding compliments. And
Speaker 1: I feel like that is what continues to support and
Speaker 1: ground your career. You know, and ground you because I
Speaker 1: see a starting gate and I see people just waiting
Speaker 1: for to strike to be over, and once that gun
Speaker 1: goes off, it's going to be a mad rush. And
Speaker 1: the stillness and the calmness is also the knowing because
Speaker 1: I always say I sit in the knowing. I just
Speaker 1: like sitting there. I don't need to know when, I
Speaker 1: don't need to know how. I just need to stay
Speaker 1: in knowing that it is. So I just want to
Speaker 1: applaud you for beautiful gyms, like seriously, like thank you
Speaker 1: for adding that part of it. And ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: you need to be there tonight at Taco Tuesday Monologue
Speaker 1: Slam and we're going to have the information and the
Speaker 1: link up where you guys can go. But the door's
Speaker 1: open at six thirty and the show starts at seven
Speaker 1: point thirty. And also I wanted to say this, Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Someone called me yesterday about another event that's happening. But
Speaker 1: they said to me that where this is right, this
Speaker 1: is happening. This particular event is International nine Bistro and
Speaker 1: it's AD fifty three Bruckner Boulevard, Bronx, New York. He
Speaker 1: said that area is really coming up. It's almost you guys,
Speaker 1: like Dumbo in Brooklyn. But he said it is the
Speaker 1: place right now. So I'm so happy that you're a
Speaker 1: part of that big come up that's happening over in
Speaker 1: the Bronx.
Speaker 2: It's good to see that.
Speaker 3: So it was like right across from Harlem. It's like even.
Speaker 1: Wow there, I mean, he was raving and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I know another event next Tuesday happen.
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm not surprised because that is the
Speaker 1: new place right now, the South fron So congratulations on that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Bring Elsa on right now so that she can bring
Speaker 1: on our two actresses today.
Speaker 2: And they have questions for you, Mitchell, So Elsa.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Hello, thank you Mitchell. That was you already
Speaker 6: know that was that was wonderful. You looking forward to
Speaker 6: the event tonight. So we have two questions from audience members,
Speaker 6: Stephanie Charles and Kara Muhammad. You can come on and Stephanie,
Speaker 6: E're up first with your question him Mitchell or guazy?
Speaker 3: How are you doing good?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm all right? Thank you.
Speaker 7: My question for you is after the audition process, what
Speaker 7: is your way of letting go? What is especially when
Speaker 7: you don't have too many auditions coming in at the scene.
Speaker 7: So how do you not dwell so much on one
Speaker 7: and try to move on to the next one. You
Speaker 7: don't know when the next is coming. What is your
Speaker 7: process of the letting go?
Speaker 4: Okay, So we're talking about rejection right. Some years ago
Speaker 4: I did a show. I got to listen to Anthony
Speaker 4: Anderson and I got to ask a question similar to
Speaker 4: what you're saying, and he told me, he said, what's
Speaker 4: mine is mine, what's yours is yours? What is meant
Speaker 4: for me, It's not going to go to you. What's
Speaker 4: meant for you, It's not going to come to me.
Speaker 4: And then he said something that I took.
Speaker 3: To my soul. And they said, if you're not seeing it,
Speaker 3: create it period.
Speaker 4: If you're not seeing it created you know. So I
Speaker 4: mean I had an audition for Raising in the Sun
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, and I was and it
Speaker 4: was for Osagay, which is a Nigerian you know Nigerian character,
Speaker 4: but we know the typical Osagay character. He's dark skinned,
Speaker 4: you know, he doesn't have a beard. So I was
Speaker 4: like surprised that they even wanted to see me for
Speaker 4: that because I don't fit the archetype of osa God.
Speaker 3: But I worked.
Speaker 4: I worked, and I worked and I worked until I
Speaker 4: was able to get it in my bones. And once
Speaker 4: I in the audition, I could tell that they were
Speaker 4: feeling what I was saying. And when I left, you know,
Speaker 4: they said, like Mitchell, And then this is what she
Speaker 4: said to me. She said, Mitchell, it was a pleasure
Speaker 4: meeting you. And I walked out, and I'm just like, listen,
Speaker 4: even if I don't get it, I did the work
Speaker 4: one and I know I gave them my best shot,
Speaker 4: right And because a lot of times auditions are not
Speaker 4: like the role doesn't go to you know, the best
Speaker 4: or whoever right, It goes to whatever fits their particular vision.
Speaker 4: And if it doesn't fit their particular you don't partict
Speaker 4: fit their particular vision.
Speaker 3: And that's okay. Somebody else will period. Somebody else will.
Speaker 4: Somebody else will see it, somebody else will see you,
Speaker 4: somebody else will, you know, gravitate towards you.
Speaker 3: And that's not it's not a not a knock on you.
Speaker 3: You know, all you can control is the work that
Speaker 3: you put in. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: And I just want to pigyback off that. Stephanie yes,
Speaker 1: thank you Mitchell. As a casting director, there are so
Speaker 1: many situations that you guys have no idea about. Like
Speaker 1: there are times when casting directors are auditioning and the
Speaker 1: and the show is already cast. They have no role
Speaker 1: for you. They're just seeing what's out there. Or they
Speaker 1: have to hook up a girlfriend for a director or producer.
Speaker 1: There's so many shenanigans that happen behind the table that
Speaker 1: you guys don't know about.
Speaker 2: But I agree with Mitchell. You gotta let it go.
Speaker 1: The most important thing is your craft. You guys need
Speaker 1: to be focusing on getting better and better and better,
Speaker 1: because if you don't do that, these auditions are kind
Speaker 1: of pointless because you're not growing in the auditions, you're
Speaker 1: not growing as an actress.
Speaker 2: So Mitchell is exactly right. Hold on to what is
Speaker 2: yours is yours. Nobody else can take that away from Stephanie,
Speaker 2: and and you will be seen. You will be seen,
Speaker 2: That is a guarantee. So just let it learn to
Speaker 2: just because.
Speaker 1: What else are you going to do if you don't
Speaker 1: know a casting director and you all have time in
Speaker 1: your head.
Speaker 2: Time is precious, man. I'm saying, thank you, thank you, Stephanie.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Stephanie, And next up we have Karaia Mohammed
Speaker 6: Hi Karia.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Hi, Hi Rayah, good, thank you.
Speaker 8: So it was a yeah, I'm really uh inspired by
Speaker 8: some of your words that you were saying. But when
Speaker 8: you talked about like clarifying your mission and your why
Speaker 8: and how actors have a lot of like I would
Speaker 8: like creative juices flowing and any like project that they
Speaker 8: do or role that they go into, like how do
Speaker 8: you yourself stay grounded and figuring out what's like the
Speaker 8: best route to go when it comes to a character
Speaker 8: on the script?
Speaker 3: What's the best route to go when developing a character?
Speaker 8: Yeah, because I know, like we could have so many
Speaker 8: ideas and so many places that we want to take it,
Speaker 8: and so yeah, how do you like stay grounded?
Speaker 2: And no, you know you're very peaceful like she was
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: So I go back to different mediums create different results.
Speaker 4: If you've studied you know, there's the classic Stanislavsky, the
Speaker 4: Hagen uh Meisner, you know, hud Hagen has a certain
Speaker 4: way of breaking down a script. You know, uh, person,
Speaker 4: place thing, Why what are you trying to get? What's
Speaker 4: your objection? Why aren't you getting things like that. But
Speaker 4: then you have myers new which is very response oriented,
Speaker 4: like what that person gives you a quick response? What
Speaker 4: they say again quick response? So like it really takes reading,
Speaker 4: reading the script, finding out how it flows, and then
Speaker 4: using the correct medium or the correct tool. Let me,
Speaker 4: that's a better word, the correct tool. You can't.
Speaker 3: You can't. You can't.
Speaker 4: You can't eat a salad with a with a with
Speaker 4: a hammer, m Like you need a ford. You need
Speaker 4: a particular tool to eat that salad. But if I'm
Speaker 4: putting together a bookcase, a folk can't go do me
Speaker 4: no good, I'm gonna need a hammer. So it's like
Speaker 4: you have to figure out what the task is once.
Speaker 4: Once you clarify your task, then you can figure out
Speaker 4: what tool is going to be best for completing that task.
Speaker 4: And that goes back to clarifying the why. I think
Speaker 4: why is the why is the most important question you
Speaker 4: can ever ask. Because you can see the what that's
Speaker 4: that's that's easy. You can see what it is, but
Speaker 4: understanding why it is, I think it is the most
Speaker 4: important question that we could always ask. And then once
Speaker 4: you understand what the like why was this piece written?
Speaker 4: Which takes you to having to go research. You know,
Speaker 4: like if you look at you know, autobio autobiography of
Speaker 4: Malcolm X, like why was that written? You look at
Speaker 4: Raising his Son? Why was that written? You look at
Speaker 4: Langston Hughes and some of this poems, why was that written?
Speaker 4: Once you start getting that, then you'll understand. All right,
Speaker 4: now I understand why I was written. Now I can
Speaker 4: he constructed and build it up in a way that
Speaker 4: will translate from my creativity.
Speaker 2: Thank you, good life and Matavi narch.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, thank you ladies, great questions, and thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 2: Mitchell. I feel very at ease and peaceful, and ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, I'm gonna blow sprinkle dozen ask you to
Speaker 2: remain the same. When we come.
Speaker 1: Back with class in session, we're going to have a
Speaker 1: Spirited Actor alumni do a monologue. So don't go anywhere,
Speaker 1: Please stay put because Mitchell Ugazi is going to stay
Speaker 1: with us. Give them around regards. Thank you, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore, and
Speaker 1: you are still blessed to have Mitchell Ugwazi here today
Speaker 1: with us. Yes and tonight, in the spirit of his
Speaker 1: Taco Tuesday monologues, Lam and I have to emphasize that
Speaker 1: it's a five hundred dollars cash prize. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to say that he has a purpose, there's a goal.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I want you to sit back and and Elsa
Speaker 1: is going to introduce you to our spirit actor alumni
Speaker 1: who's going to perform a monologue for you.
Speaker 2: Mitchell, How cool is this?
Speaker 3: Thank you crazy?
Speaker 6: So today we have our spirited after alumna. We have
Speaker 6: Miss Stephanie Ah Charles. Welcome Stephanie, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 6: Thanks monologue. What's your monologue's name?
Speaker 2: And author?
Speaker 7: The flight attendant by Alison Williams.
Speaker 6: Fantastic. So when you are ready on your on action.
Speaker 7: Welcome to Northwest Airlines which are service from Minneapolis to
Speaker 7: Tokyo and Narita. Our flag time today is twelve hours
Speaker 7: and fifteen minutes. Take out the card from the seatpack
Speaker 7: pocket in front of you and following along as we
Speaker 7: detail the safety features of this aircraft. There are eight
Speaker 7: emergency exits on this aircraft. Take a moment now to
Speaker 7: locate the closest exit and keep in minded. Maybe behind you.
Speaker 7: If there's a changing cabin pressure, oxygen masks will fall
Speaker 7: from the ceiling. Place the mask over your nose and
Speaker 7: secure by pulling on the straps on both sides. So
Speaker 7: you're traveling with small children, why place the mask on
Speaker 7: yourself first, then secure the little beggar that's least likely
Speaker 7: to put you in a home. In the event that
Speaker 7: the cabin loses pressure and we do make a water landing,
Speaker 7: do you know no commercial aircraft has ever made a
Speaker 7: water landing on one piece? What you can use your
Speaker 7: seat cushion as a flotation device, place your arms through
Speaker 7: the straps and kick paddle your way to shore. Now,
Speaker 7: in the event that you survived the impact and make
Speaker 7: it to the afterlife of your choice, there will be
Speaker 7: an interest example on the safety features of this aircraft. Now,
Speaker 7: I will not be joining you back in Minneapolis. Instead,
Speaker 7: I will be remaining in Tokyo to become a Buddhist nun.
Speaker 7: Please note that my vow of nonviolence does not begin
Speaker 7: until we land in Tokyo.
Speaker 9: Have a safe flight and scene.
Speaker 1: Okay, Stephanie, So Mitchell, I'm gonna let you come in
Speaker 1: and give her some feedback.
Speaker 3: So well done, well done.
Speaker 4: And what I want to say is that there is
Speaker 4: I fly a lot like I like I fly a lot,
Speaker 4: so sometimes you get good five attend sometimes you get
Speaker 4: bad out of attendance. And what you did really well
Speaker 4: was giving us that I don't give an f right now,
Speaker 4: Like from the moment you started, I was just like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she does not really care.
Speaker 4: About this job at all, and it was it was
Speaker 4: it takes you back to when you're on that flight
Speaker 4: and you're just like, yeah, this is not going to
Speaker 4: be I'm not going to get the great service. And
Speaker 4: I think you really played that very very well and
Speaker 4: translated very very well. I'm not the only thing I
Speaker 4: was I guess unclear about was.
Speaker 3: Was she.
Speaker 4: Drinking beforehand or was that her first drink? I was
Speaker 4: trying to because I was thinking, like, why doesn't she care?
Speaker 4: Again Steven Sipplin, So yeah, I think it would have
Speaker 4: been interesting to see a little bit more of because like,
Speaker 4: when you're playing drunk, it's always difficult. That's one of
Speaker 4: the biggest actors hiccups is playing drunk because people want
Speaker 4: to be all extra sloppy with it and slurring their words.
Speaker 4: But it's really when you're drunk, you're trying to get sober.
Speaker 4: So it's like you're in the process of trying to
Speaker 4: find that sober place but you're still under the influence.
Speaker 4: So I think just seeing just seeing how you could
Speaker 4: play with it, just so that reads a little bit more.
Speaker 4: But as far as like you're not giving a damn
Speaker 4: about what's happening on this flight, I think was spot on.
Speaker 4: Like it's really it was. It was really amusing to
Speaker 4: watch what you're just sitting there like as a like
Speaker 4: I was. I was transported to the plane and I'm
Speaker 4: sitting there like here we go like we've all been there,
Speaker 4: Like we've all been there. So yeah, definitely, I just
Speaker 4: got off a lot yesterday, so it definitely took me there.
Speaker 3: Definitely do a good job.
Speaker 2: Well done, Thank you, Thank you Mitchell. And I wanted
Speaker 2: to say Stephanie Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Said something in this interview which I loved in terms
Speaker 1: of like characters, like you want to know where you're going,
Speaker 1: your character has a purpose in a direction as well, right,
Speaker 1: and so the purpose of this is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite monologues. So I can say I know this monologue
Speaker 1: very well, and you want your purpose, your direction is
Speaker 1: you are getting ready. This is your last flight. You
Speaker 1: don't give up. This is your last flight. You don't
Speaker 1: give up. And I personally would have preferred you to
Speaker 1: drink in the beginning because that's unorthodox, that's out of character.
Speaker 1: And as a on the plane, I'm like, well, she
Speaker 1: drinking is the pot by wait.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Like that's my reaction to what's happening, right, And be
Speaker 1: conscious of that reaction because, like Mitchell said, we've never
Speaker 1: seen a stewardess like you before.
Speaker 2: And then just make.
Speaker 1: Sure that you know, like you said, there are levels
Speaker 1: of intoxication, and so there is a way that you
Speaker 1: could show Mitchell how many drinks you have hack And
Speaker 1: so if it's just in the beginning, how cool is
Speaker 1: it for us to see the evolution of the intoxication
Speaker 1: along with the dialogue that you're doing. Because when people
Speaker 1: are drunk, they're trying to convince you that they're not.
Speaker 1: That's why they want to drive. That's what's engaging to
Speaker 1: watch is them, like you said, fight that's trying to
Speaker 1: get to that place is sober, but they're so far
Speaker 1: gone to keep missing it, keep missing it. And that's
Speaker 1: the comedy in watching a drunk right. But I thought
Speaker 1: you did a great.
Speaker 2: Job with it.
Speaker 1: As soon as you started talking, I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, she's got the voice down. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm in the airplane like that was great. You created
Speaker 1: the environment definitely. Oh my god, Mitchell, this has been
Speaker 1: a amazing, amazing interview and just your presence has really
Speaker 1: added to the show as well. I'm so grateful for
Speaker 1: the stillness. I'm so grateful for the present, and I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful for the emphasis you guys, ad time is
Speaker 1: of essence. It is a major valuable source and we
Speaker 1: should respect it and not waste it. Don't waste it,
Speaker 1: don't waste your time on thoughts and energies. So thank you.
Speaker 1: Aside from all the creative stuff, so once again, I
Speaker 1: do want to promote Taco Tuesdays tonight monologue slam. If
Speaker 1: there's a five hundred dollars prize. If you need to
Speaker 1: know what your direction and your purpose.
Speaker 2: Is, go be motivated by that.
Speaker 1: And also just a great networking, which I feel is
Speaker 1: that Mitchell is also an environment he's creating for you.
Speaker 1: And you never know who your judges are, so you
Speaker 1: know that's another they're surprise. So ladies and gentlemen, please
Speaker 1: once again Mitchell Uguaisi, please Mitchell Lazy and now it's
Speaker 1: time to of love trust in order for anyone to
Speaker 1: trust you, It's about.
Speaker 2: Your word and how you hold your word.
Speaker 1: I love when Sarah first came back from LA with
Speaker 1: her mom. She was two and a half, almost three
Speaker 1: years old, and I hadn't spent two years with her,
Speaker 1: and she knew me, but she had to.
Speaker 2: Re introduce herself to me.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that Siah held on to
Speaker 1: at such a young age was Grandma. If I said something,
Speaker 1: then I had to do it. I had to stick
Speaker 1: to my word. Sarah made me accountable for that, and
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for that. Because children hold on to
Speaker 1: our words. Children emulate us, and it's our job to
Speaker 1: set examples that are positive, empowering and that allow them
Speaker 1: to use their imagination and dream. They need us to
Speaker 1: keep our word in order for them to know how
Speaker 1: powerful the words are.
Speaker 2: Don't forget to look out for us.
Speaker 1: On our new show, Inside the black Box, my co
Speaker 1: host will be Joe the Legend Morton. It's going to
Speaker 1: be The Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids. We'll be streaming
Speaker 1: on the Crackle network. I'll keep you posted. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us on The Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore. I look forward to our Next Spirited Podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you,