Speaker 1: I Am all In. I Am all in with Scott Patterson,
Speaker 1: an I Heeart Radio podcast, Hey Everybody's Scott Patterson aim
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Speaker 1: one interview. We've got a very special guest, Floyd Floyd.
Speaker 1: Help us with your last name? Here? Van Abuse Kurt
Speaker 1: Vans behind a van Gotcha, gotchas you. First appeared in
Speaker 1: season one, episode five, Cinnamons Wake, and he plays Jets
Speaker 1: Stars Hall residue of frequents. Luke's Daniel also tends to
Speaker 1: wake at the Beets and Moore's house for the cats.
Speaker 1: Cinnamon Uh. Jeed is dressed in overalls in My and
Speaker 1: Mike Michelle and characteristically rude fashion refers to him as
Speaker 1: heehaw Man. I remember that his last appearance season five
Speaker 1: ups to a messenger nothing more, which is why he
Speaker 1: is here. He plays Henry at the Renaissance Fair, who
Speaker 1: shares some gossip with Luke Floyd. Welcome to the show, heys,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on, and I am just lost this.
Speaker 1: There we go. Um, it's easy to get here, Yeah
Speaker 1: it is. You know. You just have to go to
Speaker 1: that zoom thing, push the button, they beam you right
Speaker 1: up to the ship. It's it's it's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So you play two characters in the series. Yeah, Jed
Speaker 1: in season one and then again Henry in season five.
Speaker 1: How did you initially get the role? Did you audition
Speaker 1: or did they just offer it? Yeah? No, I I
Speaker 1: auditioned and then they offered it. That's the best of
Speaker 1: both worlds. They didn't know who I was. Actually not
Speaker 1: the auditioning part. It's better if you just get the offer, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, it is. It's nice when those come in.
Speaker 1: It's all right. But they gotta sweatch you out, don't they.
Speaker 1: They just gotta see the jump through. Were there any
Speaker 1: discussions with you about coming back to play a different
Speaker 1: or did they just so they just brought you it
Speaker 1: was in another audition or was it or was it
Speaker 1: they just booked you for it? They just as I recall,
Speaker 1: think they might have just booked me for it, right good,
Speaker 1: Although I mean it's it was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I remember being surprised that I was that
Speaker 1: I was, that I was called back right um, because
Speaker 1: Jed was kind of like he was such a you know,
Speaker 1: it was a little part. Was it was a it
Speaker 1: was a great day. I really enjoyed. What do you
Speaker 1: remember about being on set? Um? I remember hanging out
Speaker 1: waiting waiting um to uh to shoot, and and sitting outside,
Speaker 1: and I remember hanging out with a bunch of the actors,
Speaker 1: but mostly I remember Liz Liz tourists and and and
Speaker 1: Sally Struther's just talking about talking about gigs that they've
Speaker 1: done and and and the business and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And I was just like just listening and listening to
Speaker 1: stories and gossip and stuff and just really im mentally
Speaker 1: entertained by by Sally has that effect on people, you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she was really really she was really, she was surprising.
Speaker 1: She was surprising. She's a superb human being. And yeah,
Speaker 1: just a bright light and great talent RT, great rock
Speaker 1: on tour, great storyteller, keeps it. She's such a professional
Speaker 1: because she keeps everybody happy. And I'm light and uplifted,
Speaker 1: and she knows that people get exhausted on set, and
Speaker 1: when she comes around, she just gives everybody energy. It
Speaker 1: was it was Yeah, it was like being in a
Speaker 1: kind of a cerebral hot tub. It was just very
Speaker 1: bubbly and and yeah, and I remember I remember that
Speaker 1: more of the more than anything else, was just hanging
Speaker 1: hanging around with with with Sally and um And and
Speaker 1: Sally and Liz were really we're really like going back
Speaker 1: and forth, going back and forth. But yeah, the two
Speaker 1: of them together was forgot. It was a house on fire.
Speaker 1: It was really entertaining. Oh yeah, one of your lines
Speaker 1: in season five, the episode We Just Broke Down was
Speaker 1: quite a tongue twister. Do you remember it? A Bail Bill,
Speaker 1: Hey Bai, I remember. I don't know why it was
Speaker 1: so why I had you know, do you remember, Hey Bail,
Speaker 1: I can't see it now, Hey Bail Bill, the guy
Speaker 1: that toats the hay Bales. Hey Bail Bill, the guy
Speaker 1: that toats the hay bales. You know you know, Hey
Speaker 1: Bill Bill, the guy that Billy. Yeah, for some reason,
Speaker 1: it's like, I go, come on, boyd, you've got you've
Speaker 1: got this one one one nice line. And it was, man,
Speaker 1: why is that so hard? Of course? You you're you're
Speaker 1: sitting in my little cubic old trailer kind of a
Speaker 1: thing and it going over to go that's easy. Just
Speaker 1: think about what you're saying. It's hay Bales and Bill,
Speaker 1: and then but it comes out, heyb all the baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's impossible to say, you know, hey Bill Bill,
Speaker 1: you know he hey Bill, say Hey Bell Bill? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hey do know Hey Bell Bill? The guy that teams
Speaker 1: Hey bail Bill, the guy that toads the hay bales.
Speaker 1: You know that guy, That guy know, Hey bail Bill,
Speaker 1: the guy that tells me something some sort of some
Speaker 1: sort of a guffuffle at the grog booth. Was it
Speaker 1: the grog Booth? I just even remember the grock booth.
Speaker 1: It was some sort of thing in the grock Booth.
Speaker 1: And then he built himself a fort out of hay
Speaker 1: bales hiding in it. Than it was some sort of
Speaker 1: some sort of you know, some juicy town gossip about
Speaker 1: hey Bail Bill. Did you watch the episode before he
Speaker 1: came on? Oh? Did I? Did I watch that episode
Speaker 1: before before I came on? Yes? No, okay, I mean
Speaker 1: I watched it several times before and I put it
Speaker 1: on my reel and all that kind of jazz. So
Speaker 1: oh sure, But I just because I remember that line,
Speaker 1: because I had such a hard time with it, right, Sure,
Speaker 1: those are the ones. Remember, I still sided in my mind,
Speaker 1: going I'll get it right. You know, It's only like
Speaker 1: you know, a dozen or so years ago, but it's
Speaker 1: like it still kind of haunts me a little bit.
Speaker 1: We had a nice little scene together. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was nice. Was that the hay bill bill? That
Speaker 1: was the hay bail bill that they bail bill? Well,
Speaker 1: you got nailed, otherwise they wouldn't have moved on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: crossing crossing paths, right, I think I was hauling beverages
Speaker 1: or something. I was hauling something. It was. It was
Speaker 1: some sort of a we were It was like a
Speaker 1: kind of a ren faish kind of a field to it.
Speaker 1: I think I was even kind of in kind of
Speaker 1: rent fair, kind of garb sure Renaissance for sure. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah that's what it was. Yeah, I remember that and
Speaker 1: uh yeah. So You've had a lot of roles in
Speaker 1: some pretty iconic shows. Do you have a favorite role
Speaker 1: that you've done, a favorite role that I've done? Um, well,
Speaker 1: I had a I had. I had a role in
Speaker 1: in Las in Vegas. I actually did again. I did
Speaker 1: like two roles, two different characters in another show called
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. And I had a scene with with James
Speaker 1: Kahn where I was kind of easy used car salesman.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your experience with James Kahn. Uh. It
Speaker 1: was it was really, it was really really cool. I
Speaker 1: mean he was like I was kind of awestruck. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get to work with people and who are who
Speaker 1: you've seen for years, you know, like Sally and Liz
Speaker 1: and but this this scene with with with James and I.
Speaker 1: Usually I tend to just keep my distance from people because,
Speaker 1: you know, especially you know, celebrity type people, because I
Speaker 1: don't want to bother anybody. I don't get anybody's girl.
Speaker 1: But so I just sort of like waiting my trailer
Speaker 1: and wait to one called and then and then try
Speaker 1: to be as plaist as possible. But he was just
Speaker 1: he was just very cool and so relaxed and really
Speaker 1: really easy and um but I remember kind of like
Speaker 1: a couple of times just kind of like pinching myself, going, wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's sunny. She's right there, he's right there. But
Speaker 1: I'm being all of your ivy leagues soup yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And and it was awesome and it's and it's odd.
Speaker 1: Later on I ended up I was in I've been
Speaker 1: an an improv company for years and years and years,
Speaker 1: and I one of his sons, Alex, I was in
Speaker 1: our is in our group was one of our young
Speaker 1: improvisers and so um James came to see uh one
Speaker 1: of our shows, one of our improv shows. I was
Speaker 1: a group called impro Theater and we do long form
Speaker 1: improvised plays and we were doing a show at the
Speaker 1: Gary Marshall and Alex was Alex was I think he
Speaker 1: was doing tech for us. I think he was doing
Speaker 1: lights or sound or both, and and and and James
Speaker 1: came to see the show and he took us all
Speaker 1: out for We all went out for beer next door
Speaker 1: and he bought us burger and a beer and and
Speaker 1: was just telling us stories. But again, it's like the
Speaker 1: coolest it's it's cool working with these people. But the
Speaker 1: coolest part is like when the cameras aren't are off
Speaker 1: and they're just like hanging out and talking and they
Speaker 1: get you get to hear stories. I remember him just
Speaker 1: it was just some of the stories that that would
Speaker 1: tell that he would tell. It was like, can I
Speaker 1: tell like Brando stories? Yeah, a little bit, you know
Speaker 1: about on that setting, but he's done so much stuff
Speaker 1: that it was like it's almost like I can't even
Speaker 1: and it's all just and it's all just like things
Speaker 1: that go by in passing that are. So you were
Speaker 1: also the voice of the wildly popular game World of Warcraft.
Speaker 1: You do a voice? Now, do you do comic cons
Speaker 1: because you're positive? No, I haven't, but you know, the
Speaker 1: World of Wark Draft would fit right into the yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah. Well my wife, my wife Elisa, I play.
Speaker 1: I do the voice of Lord Terrian, uh Terrian for Driant,
Speaker 1: and my wife does the voice of Ronda Okay, which
Speaker 1: is a huge She's her characters is huge. So you
Speaker 1: two have never been invited to do a con um.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we've ever liked, like looked to
Speaker 1: going into it. She still she still works an awful lot.
Speaker 1: She's actually went to do a job right now. She
Speaker 1: does a lot of uh she's not only on camera work,
Speaker 1: but a lot of voiceover and a lot of looping
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I've got into that a little bit,
Speaker 1: but she does a lot of that. And she's off
Speaker 1: working on a new show right now. Burbank, she just
Speaker 1: left to do that. She started on the time we start.
Speaker 1: She's just now starting work. Um. Bobby two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: was this the Ameilio Estevez Um the film that he
Speaker 1: about Bobby Kennedy. Yes, oh okay, what role did you
Speaker 1: play in that? I was doing several different voices on that.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember what they were. I think voices
Speaker 1: on Bobby, voices on Bobby. So I was. I was
Speaker 1: doing a d R on that too, I was doing
Speaker 1: oh so you were? Okay. So I get credits for
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that is that are looping jobs,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times they don't give you, they
Speaker 1: don't give you any screen credit at all for loop mum,
Speaker 1: but occasionally they do so. Um on that one I got.
Speaker 1: I got credit on IMDb for doing for doing a
Speaker 1: background voices and possibly um, you know radio uh like
Speaker 1: the voice of possibly a radio or TV announcer or
Speaker 1: something that might be in the background. M hmmm. And
Speaker 1: you did This is Us? You did an episode of
Speaker 1: This Is You? You appeared on that. Yeah, I played
Speaker 1: did you did you? Did you work with Milo's boss
Speaker 1: there you go in season one? Um? And he was
Speaker 1: it was this. It was the episode about ended up
Speaker 1: buying because this it was this this mess of a house.
Speaker 1: He was working construction and I was his boss and
Speaker 1: he had just found out that they were going to
Speaker 1: have that they were going to have was it triplets
Speaker 1: because they yeah, they just found out that they were
Speaker 1: going to have multiple So he was asking me for
Speaker 1: rais and I was basically declined give him. What was
Speaker 1: So what was your experience like working with myle I've
Speaker 1: heard he's a giant pain. He was? He was? He
Speaker 1: was really sweet. No, such a such a horrible person, No,
Speaker 1: he was. He was really he was really kind and
Speaker 1: generous and really humble. It still is, I guess, a
Speaker 1: really sweet guy, unless he's turned horrible or something. He's
Speaker 1: as I recall, he was. He was really really nice.
Speaker 1: You know who was really great was when I worked
Speaker 1: on when I worked on Gilmour Girls. Um, I mean
Speaker 1: that was very enjoyable all the way around, but it
Speaker 1: was it was I think it was when I was
Speaker 1: working on Sinnamon's Wake in season one and I met
Speaker 1: Melissa McCarthy and she was I I fell in love
Speaker 1: with her immediately. She's like, um, so humble and so
Speaker 1: um appreciative. And I think this was really because it's
Speaker 1: really kind of like Gilmore Girls is really where she
Speaker 1: kind of like launched is all sure, I mean that's
Speaker 1: kind of where she where she kind of people sort
Speaker 1: of isn't it amazing to you, because it's amazing to
Speaker 1: me that it took another series for her to get
Speaker 1: before she really started getting noticed. Yeah you know, I
Speaker 1: mean she did all of this spectacular work in Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 1: and that didn't give her a film career. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: like that wasn't enough, right, it wasn't in years of
Speaker 1: just hitting it out of the park. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody else can do like the comedy Chops's She's amazing.
Speaker 1: I would I would watch I would watch her do laundry, right,
Speaker 1: so would I. I would watch her du laundry. And
Speaker 1: her husband Ben, they just seemed like, this is like this,
Speaker 1: I would like to go on a camping trip with
Speaker 1: those guys. Let's just go on a road trip with him.
Speaker 1: They're just like But when when I met her on
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls, she just like she came right up to
Speaker 1: me and she said, this is so great, this is
Speaker 1: so great. I feel so lucky, I feel so blessed
Speaker 1: to be here. And she was so humble and gracious
Speaker 1: and and and excited. It was. She was absolutely delightful.
Speaker 1: And I remember that a dear friend of mine had
Speaker 1: had auditioned for the same role as Suki had also
Speaker 1: auditioned for Suki and um and so, and I really
Speaker 1: wanted her to get it, and she didn't get it,
Speaker 1: and Melissa got it. And then it's like I came
Speaker 1: away after that going, Okay, well, if Tracy didn't get it,
Speaker 1: I'm glad she did because I just thought that she
Speaker 1: was just just such a delightful person. And you know
Speaker 1: Melissa didn't, you know that was Melissa didn't get the
Speaker 1: original role. The original role went to Alex Borstein. Oh
Speaker 1: really in the pilot. Alex Borstein appears in the pilot
Speaker 1: as Drella, the harpist in the Dragon Flow or the
Speaker 1: Dragonfly in or not the Dragonflight. It was the the
Speaker 1: other one. What do they call it? The cheez There
Speaker 1: you go, the original inn right, the independence in Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So that was and then uh, Alex was on and
Speaker 1: Living Color and they wouldn't let her out of her
Speaker 1: contract to do the series, so they had to recast
Speaker 1: the role and they took obviously it wasn't a harpist anymore.
Speaker 1: It became the chef. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then
Speaker 1: Melissa McCarthy got her opportunity in there. She wasn't amazing
Speaker 1: how much talent there is out there that's not even working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a question of like, oh nobody see people
Speaker 1: always say I can't imagine anybody else in that role.
Speaker 1: Nobody else could have played that. Yeah, there's lots of
Speaker 1: people that could have played There are and and and
Speaker 1: in many different interesting ways that no one's ever thought
Speaker 1: of and would be maybe even better than what you saw,
Speaker 1: you know. So I don't I don't buy into there's
Speaker 1: tons of great actors, tons of that. There just aren't
Speaker 1: enough parts, you know. That's the thing that well, one
Speaker 1: thing that is one thing that it's nice is that
Speaker 1: although it's confusing, there's so much content now, right, there's
Speaker 1: so much content there are there are a lot of
Speaker 1: there are a lot of opportunities, but of course there's
Speaker 1: there's never enough, no matter how much more there is,
Speaker 1: it seems like there's there's never quite enough for all
Speaker 1: the all the talent that there is, um so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think outside of the big agencies, it's really hard
Speaker 1: to get into one of these shows, right, you know
Speaker 1: how the packaging world is and yeah, yeah, how much
Speaker 1: pressure there is on these producers that are represented by
Speaker 1: that agency. I mean they you know, the actors the producers,
Speaker 1: the writers, below the line talent is all represented by
Speaker 1: the same agency and they make those deals and everybody
Speaker 1: else in the business is locked out of any of
Speaker 1: those shows. And there's so many of them. There's like
Speaker 1: five shows going right, Yeah, And it's all those film
Speaker 1: people that that came over and they migrated into the
Speaker 1: television space. Yeah, you see all this great television and
Speaker 1: so it's so fractionalized at this point, you know. And
Speaker 1: it's like that's the thing, so much, so much of
Speaker 1: the there's so much more really terrific content on television now,
Speaker 1: Like a lot of a lot of the film actors
Speaker 1: have thought, I want to do that, right, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to do that that looks that looks great,
Speaker 1: that looks challenging, And I mean, who can blame them?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, just because there's more content doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's easy to get a job anymore. Right, It's actually harder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's harder. All right. So it's that time again, Floyd,
Speaker 1: as you well know, where you are going to be
Speaker 1: forced against your will to play rapid fire? Are you ready?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna what I'm gonna What are you being forced
Speaker 1: to do? What? Do I push you make the stop.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you questions and you're gonna give me answers.
Speaker 1: I'm just very right, exactly exactly, exactly. H how many
Speaker 1: cups of coffee do you have in a day? Three?
Speaker 1: Are your Team Logan, Team jes or Team Dean? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna you don't know what that means? Okay, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: your Team Logan. By the way, I'm gonna go to um.
Speaker 1: I just our executive producer wants you to say that,
Speaker 1: who's your favorite Gilmore Girl's character? Rapid Fire Floyd, rapid Fire.
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta go, Suki, thank you? What would
Speaker 1: you order it? Luke Steiner, Patty? Would you rather go
Speaker 1: on a road trip with Taylor or Michelle? Michelle? Finish
Speaker 1: the lyric and where you lead? I will follow dot
Speaker 1: dot dot where you lead, anywhere you go close anywhere
Speaker 1: that you tell me too. Sorry, Judges, hang on, Nat,
Speaker 1: We're not going to give you the thanks. Sorry you
Speaker 1: were Yeah, um Jackson's vegetables or Suki's baked goods. I
Speaker 1: think we know the answer to this. I'm all the
Speaker 1: way you very much. Would you would you rather listen
Speaker 1: to Drella's harp? Or the Troubadours cover songs. Uh Chilton,
Speaker 1: Prepper stars Hollow Hi. Hi, there you go, Floyd. Keep
Speaker 1: on keeping on, brother, and keep nailing those jobs, and
Speaker 1: try to get involved in the convention game, because boy,
Speaker 1: there's a lot, there's a lot of need for there's
Speaker 1: voice actors do very well on that circuit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. We've we have several friends that that do
Speaker 1: a lot of voice over work. Yeah, and they do
Speaker 1: conventions a lot. Of course since since the lockdown, it's
Speaker 1: like it's, you know, but they're they're up and going again.
Speaker 1: But they're up, They're up and going. Now. I'm a
Speaker 1: little I'm a little slow out of the gate. I'm
Speaker 1: still very shy so about like not going anywhere without
Speaker 1: a mask. But um, it's I'm starting to feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I think we're okay. I think time things
Speaker 1: warm up, if they ever finally do really warm up here,
Speaker 1: I think it's think it's gonna be okay. Man. That
Speaker 1: was yeah, look into that. You're gonna you're gonna yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Floyd, thank you so much for your time,
Speaker 1: good luck with everything, and you too, all the best, buddy. Okay,
Speaker 1: you too. Man, All right, take care dot hey everybody,
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