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Hey Magic Makers, I'm Momby Rella.
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Juju Jones here.
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And I'm CJ Peterson.
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Get your wands to the ready.
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Well, when you mommy to get a wand to the ready.
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Because we solemnly swear we're up to no good.
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And speaking of up to no good, today we have with us Ms.
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Cricket Lee, who is the plays My and the Last Airbender.
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So we're super excited to have her with us.
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Welcome, Cricket.
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Yay!
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Thank you guys.
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I'm so excited to be here making a little bit of mischief and magic with you gals.
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I'm psyched to be here.
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Thank you for having me.
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Thank you.
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Uh it looks like we got our gremlins out, and the pixies have been kicked out of the studio because they got it to work today.
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However, we are pre-recording.
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We are not ignoring you, I promise.
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Um, we got the pixies out, but we are pre-recording.
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There was a slight mix-up in the time, but that's totally on me.
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Um, so as I said, we're not ignoring you, um, but we are pre-recording.
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So stand by.
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We have a wonderful interview with you today.
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And cricket, welcome.
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Thank you.
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Yes, I'm sorry we aren't live, but um, better here than not.
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So yes, enjoy that.
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Yes, definitely.
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So, mommy, you are the one who brought Miss Cricket to us, which you can tell us how.
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Yes, uh, we are huge fans of Avatar the Last Airbender, and May is actually our favorite character.
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Whatever.
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When my favorite's back in here, I've got him to grab I've got to get him to grab me something because in the other room I forgot to grab it.
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But um, last time we were at Eastern Rim, Cricket was there, and we got a chance to meet her in person.
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And uh, I got something very cool autographed, which I will show you guys in a minute.
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But uh, if you are a fan of the original series, I know there's been a lot of stuff coming out lately.
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She's the voice of May, and she's kind of like this gothy character who ends up with the Fire Lord Son uh Zuko.
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Yeah, she's just such an amazing character.
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I love it so much.
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You did such a great job bringing this character to life.
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Now, I know you've done a lot of other voice acting as well, too.
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So we will get into some of that.
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But yes, that is why uh we are huge fans of cricket.
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So you guys are that's how we got to meet, and we just hit it off, and we really loved your energy and kind of told me what you guys did.
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And I'm like, that sounds like fun.
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I need to be a part of that, and I love doing stuff like this.
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I really do.
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I love you know just meeting different people, especially women that are you know doing really fun, creative things.
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So um, that's how we met, and I'm just excited to be here.
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When you saw me in the hallway dressed at seven of nine, and you grabbed me, it took everything in my power not to go, oh my god, I gotta win.
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Really?
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Because you know, we don't we no one sees our faces ever.
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We look like, so you know, I'm like, nobody will know I'm incognito, you know.
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Oh my goodness.
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Uh we're we're we're we're we're fans and and we know we we we learned that stuff.
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Okay, so here's my here's my thing that I got out of the these are what May uses.
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She like throws these, these are her weapons.
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She doesn't have bending, actually, which is kind of funny because like in this whole world where they can bend earth, wind, fire, water, she doesn't have anything, but she is the most kickbutt character in this group.
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She can like just she is spot on when it comes to these things.
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She has like a whole little set of them every time she pulls them out.
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And so these are three different ones she had at the table last time.
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So thank you for this.
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I love so glad.
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I'm so glad you got one.
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Absolutely.
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That is so cool.
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Um, so I did a little stocking because that's that's that's my job.
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Like to stock.
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You're a researcher.
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Give your now, I call it stalking.
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Um if you sell my malls, you'd understand.
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Um, I'm one of the ones I actually run couple of comments.
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I'm on the floor of the company.
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Oh, I love that.
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So I I do lots of stocking.
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They're like all over my walls.
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My malls are like covered in autographs.
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Um, I love it.
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Yeah.
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So one thing I will confess is I actually don't watch anime.
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That's okay.
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It's okay.
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I always tell people that's okay.
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But in my stocking, I I like it pops everywhere.
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Um, people hate me for it, but that's okay.
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Um, but in my stocking, I found out that you're not just um a voice actress.
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Oh no, I'm not.
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I'm a I mean I'm a regular actress, if that's what you're referring to.
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So, yes, I'm a I'm a I'm a stage actress.
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You are first, first and last, right?
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So, meaning that's me forever.
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That's my bones.
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That's that's what I trained to do, that's what I will do forever.
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Uh, it's my first love, my my first passion.
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And whenever people young people say, you know, oh, what's the best thing to to to do to go into being a voice actor?
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You know, we always say, just go be a regular actor, go just because that's what you need to do when you're in the booth.
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You they don't want to hear a cool sound.
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That's not what's gonna get you the job.
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It's just responding to a circumstance.
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And if you happen to have a cool sound, that I guess that's cool, but that's not why I was hired.
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Uh they they happened to hire me maybe because I had that sound, but it was because I was responding to some given circumstances in a way that they liked, and that's just plain acting, and it's not film acting per se, it's stage acting, it's it's being trained, and so yeah, that's that's what you found out then.
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You were right.
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And I like actually I admire stage actors because you can't just say cut and retake when it comes to stage acting because you're there, there is no cut and retake.
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You you you just gotta keep rolling with it.
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Yeah, it's true, and that's my favorite thing about it.
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Like when you're in a play, the best part is when the audience is coming in and you're like getting ready and you're getting nervous, and you're like, I get to take them on a ride for an hour or two, and I'm so excited.
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I'm so excited to take you on the ride, and nobody's gonna stop me.
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There's no director to stop me.
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There's no light, there's no lighting designer to be like, wait, let's fix this.
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No, bro.
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No, you don't get to do that.
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No, there's nobody, the set person, there's no person powdering my nose.
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No, it's mine.
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No, there's a director who's already done his work and left.
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The only thing is between you and the audience now, and it's my favorite part of a play because it's just you and them.
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It's like a dance, and so yeah, film is totally different.
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It's not an actor's medium, it's this, it's the director and all the technical people's medium.
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And so I love stage acting for that reason.
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It's it's just like you get to say these words that are hopefully beautiful and hopefully interesting, and you get to share them with the audience and they get to see your spit on the floor.
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I mean, it's just like the it's the greatest thing there is, yeah.
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It's it I did drama for seven years, so it's like, yeah, so yeah, it's like you have, yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
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It's like there's there's no retake.
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It's it that's it.
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If you forget, you're like, oh god, oh and thankfully you have a exactly you have a crew with you, and they can usually cover up, or you can usually do it, but they just roll with it, and so thankfully there's improv in there too.
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Sometimes I'm like, oh, I left out an entire chunk of act three.
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Oops, like, and they're like, Oh, well, you know, it's that was a terrible idea, you know.
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But yeah, it just happens, it happens, but there's nothing better than that ensemble, too.
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So I think thank you.
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I'm glad you that you like that.
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No, I picked up on that pretty quick.
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I'm like, oh, that's cool.
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I like that.
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Yeah, I mean, my first love.
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I mean, I love Shakespeare, I love the classics, you know.
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When I was young, I loved Shakespeare.
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I had an affinity for that kind of language, which is really weird because I grew up in like a tiny little town, but I in the middle of nowhere, but I was like, this is cool.
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It's like it rhymes.
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I loved Midsummer, I wanted to play Hermia.
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I was like, she's short, I can play that.
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I'm a short girl.
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Like I was like, I want to play Hermia, you know.
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Uh, I never wanted to play the lead beautiful girl.
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I wanted to play the weird girl, the ugly girl, the short, the the the just the weird, the weirdo, which I do still and still feel like, you know, I always wanted to play the off character.
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Um, I think those are more fun though, honestly.
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Like 100%.
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Really good, like uh Beatrix from um Shakespeare's um Much New About Nothing, right?
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And Benedict, yes, those are like some of my favorite characters in that one.
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They're not like the the love interest or the main star necessarily, but they're such fun characters.
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Yeah, I totally get that.
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And Romeo and Juliet, right?
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Like the nurse.
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I'm like, I want the nurse, I want to play the nurse, and they're like, You're not gonna I'm like, I I I I I can play her when I'm older, like even now, like I think you know, 55 to 60, like what can I be doing, right?
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Like what that the nurse, like these are the parts I'm like picturing, you know.
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So there's longevity um with stage plays, you know, and voiceovers too.
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Well, and if you can make that character shine, that's the beauty of it.
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So, did that help you when you went into voice acting and how I think so, because you like you said, you you're sort of um you're used to improving because you're like, Well, if I forget a line or whatever, like I'll roll with it.
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Like you said, I love how you put that, you just roll with it, and uh, you're not a scaredy cat.
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You're like, well, I'll just figure it out.
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I'll the show must go on.
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And so I think when you're auditioning, um, you're not a nervous wreck because you're just like, Well, I've done plays for 20 years, like how hard can reading off a paper be like it was just like the easiest thing ever.
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And and you've and you've got a picture of the person, usually you're like, Oh, she looks like a gargoyle, she sounds like a witch.
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Okay, they've have so they've probably seen 20 witches.
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So, how can my witch be a little different?
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Well, I sound low, so my witch so maybe my witch is British, you know, you just like goof off.
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I mean, you're just a goof.
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Like, so I'm just gonna be a goof right now, and and be like, Maybe she's a really weird cookie witch.
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And you just act like a freaking weirdo for five seconds, and you're like, Oh, I'm gonna go get some jack in the box to eat and go home.
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Like, that's the life.
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I mean, that's your life.
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You don't give it a t a ton of thought, you don't take yourself too seriously.
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At least I didn't, that's how I lived.
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And you're not like, oh, why didn't I get it's like because your witch just didn't wasn't witching, you know, you just weren't the way that you are the witching.
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Can I say you just weren't it, man?
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And it had nothing to do with you or who you are as a human or it just it just wasn't it.
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And next day you might be it, and then maybe not for 10 years.
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I mean, and I just really lived by that.
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I was like, I'm not gonna say this has anything to do with my soul or who I am as a human or a woman.
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I didn't let it define my personality at all.
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I was like, because then you really get into some series, scary, troubled spots, right?
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Like your self-esteem gets wrapped up in that.
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And I was like, no way, I'm not doing that.
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That's going into crazy territory.
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So I was like, if this is just a gift I have, then I'm just gonna play with the gift.
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It's like singing, which I love to do.
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Like, yeah, I'm not a soprano, so why would I go up?
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Why do I think I can do opera?
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Like that, like that's common sense, you know.
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So I'm gonna do my flavor, my flavor of ice cream when I go in the room, and there's a hundred million flavors, and they might pick a different one.
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And that just means they don't want my flavor that day.
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And and maybe for years, which is painful because you're like, okay, dude, mint chip is good.
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Like, what are they thinking?
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Why don't they want that?
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And so what do you do in the meantime, right?
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I started writing, I started playwriting, I start like you start to just be like, what can I do to not be go crazy, you know, or or take it personally.
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Um, so yeah, I think it does help.
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I think that training look, I couldn't have pivoted and started writing plays.
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I would have just been like, uh, what do I do?
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If all I had was that, if all I had known was voiceover and I didn't really have anything else and didn't have that training, I might have just been like, I guess I'll go back to school and be a banker, which is by the way, awesome.
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Because I would have had great health insurance, I would have been rich right now.
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My life would have been really awesome.
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I'm just gonna wave my little wand because that would have been really great too.
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Okay, I'm just saying that wasn't my um that wasn't my future, but I love all the people that said I don't want to do this anymore.
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I'm like, good for you, because that's awesome too.
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That is not giving up, it's giving over and like saying, Okay, what else?
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And you can always come back.
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You can be 60 and be like, I think I want to try voiceovers again.
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Like, cool, you know, but yeah, so I do think having that background in theater, that training was so rigid.
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I mean, you were like a soldier, you didn't mess up.
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Like, if people were like, hit your spot, hit your mark, what are you doing?
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Why weren't you?
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Why were you late on your queue?
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You know, they were rough when you're you know, and you couldn't like mess up because the theater was it's a business, and I think that trains you too to not just be a jerk off when you're in a job, yeah, or and give it yeah, give it everything, yeah, and and be humble, be your witchiest witch.
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Be witching, exactly.
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You get a thick skin too.
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I mean you do, and I came from like workers, you know, very blue-collar family, and so they didn't think it was weird that I wanted to be an actor, they were just like, Oh, cool.
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Because they were like, Well, it's either that or like secretary, or like you know, nobody had gone to college.
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There wasn't that that was right, that wasn't an expectation.
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They were like secretary.
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I mean, god, real estate sounded like very fancy, like that would have been like way over at this point, it would, but at the time it would have been like, Whoa, that's fancy, you know.
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So growing up, it was like women were secretary.
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It was like nine to five, the movie, like that's what it looked like in my that's how I felt growing up.
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I I understand that because like it was like, well, be like, Well, what can I do when I grow up?
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And they're like, Oh, you could be a nurse, a secretary, you can work for any company like as a receptionist, yeah.
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I was like, ugh, I hate around kids.
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I was like, I don't want to teach horrible, yeah.
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Yeah, I'm trying to imagine my girls up here as secretaries, and I'm not seeing any of us as a secretary.
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I was I know, oh my gosh, and I was too.
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I mean, I was I've got it, but it yeah, but I can't I was a secretary at one point, but before that, I worked in construction on cylindrical.
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I mean, I could see I could see us all temporarily.
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We had to get the biggest deal.
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I don't know any of us doing it for forty.
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See, that's really cool.
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I'm not cool enough to have been in construction.
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No, I didn't think I was cool enough to.
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I got in with a friend, and and so it was her fault.
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And I was like, Yeah, you could make so much money doing that.
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It's true.
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I was just like, I guess I'll be a temp.
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Like, I remember temping after college, being like, Is this my life?
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Like, just gonna temp job, like temping, and like that was it.
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I was like, This is terrible, but yeah, so I think they thought being an actor was like a step up in a way, and so I had zero expectations.
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Whereas a lot of my friends were like, Oh my god, my parents aren't proud of me.
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And I'm like, What?
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Like, oh, they didn't understand.
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They were like, Oh, they think I should go to business school.
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I'm like, for what?
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Like, I really didn't even have a concept.
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I I just thought what I was doing was like the coolest thing ever, you know.
00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.480
Okay, off topic question.
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I um wildest job you've ever had.
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Like, I was the catastrophe adjuster.
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Juju, you said you were what what wildest.
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The tile sealer, the wildest job.
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Like, I was a catastrophe adjuster, which meant like I climbed the roofs and everything.
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You said you were a tile sealer.
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Uh, so the wildest job, I believe, would have to be working in construction.
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I started out as the demolition cleanup, and they really liked my work because I did it really, and I was always fascinated with those stilts, and I wanted to know what they were doing up there with the ceiling grid and tile, and so they showed me.
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They even got me my own little head uh hard hat that said little bit on it, and they painted it.
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Was it pink?
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They painted it pink.
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Okay, oh my goodness, obsessed with this right now.
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Okay, so I knew what was yours.
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My my most unusual one for me, uh, I was a lactation consultant at the WIC office for a while.
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Awesome.
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Okay, cricket vouchers.
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I mean, the one I have right now is pretty great.
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And I work at a metal hospital I work in a psych hospital for women between 18 and 80, and they're amazing.
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And it's I mean, it's wild.
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Thank you.
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I mean, the the people are they're amazing.
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Like a woman said to me this week.
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She's like, you're you're pretty ugly.
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And I said, Well, I said, I that's okay.
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This is great.
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This is what I love about them.
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And the next day she'll play me like the piano, be like, You're the best.
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Like this is what I love.
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Like they they're not in control all the time of their own minds, and I just love it.
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I love, I love how off they are, some of them, and how some of them are amazing and healed and ready to leave.
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And like, I just love the the difference.
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Every day is a completely different day.
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It's wild.
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Um, and then the other wild job I had was I worked as a temp and it was before I don't know, it was way before computers.
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So, like Montgomery Ward.
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Do you remember that store?
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Montgomery Ward wanted this is so scary.
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They wanted someone to have like color samples to show like I don't know who people in their whoever they were selling stuff to.
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So me and another girl would spin yarn, yarn, like at a spinning thing, and we would put them in these little like little bundles, and we'd we'd put tape on them, and then we'd do like thousands of them every day for eight hours, and I was like, I am gonna kill myself.
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Like, and we'd spin yarn for Montgomery Wards, and and after like a week, I was like, I I told my mom, I'm like, I know I'm supposed to pay rent with this, but like I will do any almost anything else.
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We'd start to feel like a world.
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Montgomery wards.
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Now I have such a sick feeling when I think about Montgomery Wards.
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Anyway, that was my words.
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That's off topic.
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I just thought it was a wild I love it.
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I love the pink.
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I mean, that's the best one, but catastrophic one, yes, catastrophe adjuster.
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Yeah, basically, when the regular staff adjusters get overloaded from like the hurricanes or tornadoes, they called us in as backups.
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Thank you for doing that.
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Yeah, so like we climbed the roofs and stuff.
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What you do it makes sense that she became an author after that, though.
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For some reason, it's like that would inspire stories to a degree of like it's true.
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So, like when, like, for example, when Katrina hit down Louisiana, they would come, we would go in and take over and stuff like that because there's not enough adjusters to adjust and get everybody up to it's not that we would get everybody up to where they were, but we would be the first line to come in and potentially get people as close as we possibly can to where they need to be.
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But we were the first ones to come in to start that help.
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And that's how it works.
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Wow, that's incredible.
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I actually I gotta I gotta say, Cricket, that I think it is amazing actually thinking of you having been May's character and brought that character to life the way she is, and now doing the job you do.
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I actually find that amazing.
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The first thing I told my husband when I got home was actually that because I was like, you won't believe what her day job is.
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I know it's great.
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It is great.
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Like sometimes I'm like, sometimes I'm like, I can't believe this is my life right now.
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Like, I could be in LA and like getting a facial.
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Instead, I'm in a psych hospital, but I love it.
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Like, I I think it's brilliant.
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I think I'm giving, I am giving away, I'm giving so much, I am receiving so much, and all of my acting goes into this job.
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All of my training, all of my humanity, I mean, all of my humor, all of my improv.
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I just you have to be on your toes.
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I mean, they are just like not only, but they just ask you stuff and and they get deep.
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I mean, they could in one minute be like laughing and then tell you a trauma that you're like, how do I okay, how do I process this and how do I help you process this?
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And how do I keep it light?
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Because I don't want to leave you in a dark place, right?
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I have a question for you.
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Um in your new job that you are doing, have you had any patients recognize you?
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No, that would be so crazy.
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Uh, thank God.
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Because vocally, there'd be no way.
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I mean, just no way.
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And physically, they don't know me.
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And even the people that are really well in general that might be in there for a short time are not well while they're there.
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Right.
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So they might have like, for instance, like it could happen to me.
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It could happen to any of us if we suddenly had some medication disaster where we like had some kind of manic episode or something that put us in a way that we were like, whoa, and we couldn't get a hold of ourselves, and or whatever, we went there for a month or whatever.
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It also could happen to someone like Lindsay Clancy, right?
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Where you have postpartum, right?
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So it that that's terrifying, but could happen to any human on the earth.
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It could also happen that you um um are using some drugs and maybe that wasn't a great choice, and then you get into a psychosis, and so a lot of things can happen, and it could happen to any person.
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You can also just have like a breakdown of some sort and end up there and just be like, whoa, where am I?
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This is not where I need to be.
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And then we need to have just to get you regulated and back, and then back with your family, etc.
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So there is it does take some time, but just thinking that it's like sometimes I often think like this could be me, this could be my sister, this could be my mother, and I need to treat these people like they are my family because I pray somebody cool would be there if that was me.
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Yeah, all right.
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That's really cool though.
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I like that.
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I love that okay.
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I want to delve a little bit more into your voice acting.
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Uh I know we've been chatting for a bit, but um, so Maya's my favorite, obviously.
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But for that, play for that, yes.
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But uh, you've done a lot of other characters like uh some video game characters and stuff as well.
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Would you kind of give us like a quick rundown of some of your favorites for that or some of the bigger ones?
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I started so when I first started doing voiceovers, it was in New York City because I had just people were telling me I should be doing them, and I was like, What?
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I don't really know what that means.
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I'm not sure how I'm supposed to just do them.
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Like I didn't understand.
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Yeah, I was like, okay.
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Yeah, like you should just go be a ballerina.
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It's like that's funny.
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Okay, what?
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Like, you're weird.
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Okay, no.
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Uh, or people that are like, you know, you see a pretty girl, you're like, you should be a model, but it's like, that's so ignorant.
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How's that person supposed to go just go to that?
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Right.
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So that's what people would say to me, and I was like, okay, weird.
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So then finally, one day I'm like, to the guy that said it, he's an age or he's a casting person.
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I'm like, you've said this now a lot, and I I don't want me to be rude, but what?
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How am I supposed to do this?
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And then he's like, Oh, go see this person, go take this class.
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And I was like, Thank you.
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:46.559
So I did all the things he told me to do, and I and I was remember those cassette tapes.
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Oh boy, right?
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.279
I had that, and I put a little cricket on it.
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I'm like, this will be cute.
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I'll I'll really market the hell out of this thing.
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And I sent it out and I got answers, and I was like, people are listening to this stupid thing.
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Oh my god, this is like I've sent hundreds of headshots, I've never got an answer ever, you know.
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And I'm like, this dumb tape.
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And people said they called me in, they wanted to meet with me.
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I got an agent.
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I was like, this stupid tape.
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That guy knew what he was talking about.
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This is the greatest thing ever.
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What a sham.
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They're gonna know I'm faking, they're gonna know I'm just a total fake, but I don't care.
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I don't care, right?
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It works, it works, it works.
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I'm gonna witch, I'm witching.
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I got it, I got it.
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I'm witching.
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So, so then I started doing, and it was all commercials there.
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And I loved that because you can make quite a bit of money on commercials.
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And I had a Johnson and Johnson commercial, it was so good that was running.
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I made great money, did a beer commercial.
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Then when I did decide a few years later to move to LA, they did warn me, hey, LA is not where commercials are, you will lose on some income.
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And I was like, I don't care.
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New York is making me crazy.
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I'm an anxious person, I'm medicated for it.
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I need to be somewhere a little more relaxed.
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And they were like, Okay, well, go there, it's gonna be more animation.
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And I was like, I don't really know what that is.
00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:15.039
Again, I don't watch, I'm not, yeah, I'm watching Dateline NBC, like that's what I watch.
00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.880
So I was like, Oh, okay, well, I'll just go and see what it's like.
00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:25.119
And so they would send me on these things, like, you know, this is a teddy bear, and he's got wings.
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And I'm like, Okay, like really weird stuff.
00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:51.279
And I'm like, Oh, a flying teddy bear, hmm, okay, you know, and I would just act weird, and but I didn't book anything, and then they'd be like, Okay, can you come in and read this five-year-old boy who's you know, just really goofy stuff, but it was fun, and then I got an audition for this girl, you know, this girl, um, this goth girl, and I just forgot all about it.
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And then a bunch of video games started coming in.
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So, video games were fun because they were short and they were all the same type of character that they wanted me for.
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They were like, get down, you're gonna die, and you know, things like that.
00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:19.519
So, all the video games I did, like um Lost Planet, I did, and these were like years and years ago, but Lost Planet was big, um Extreme Condition, I did Red Faction, like people love these old games.
00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.079
I did cars too, I did a cockney car.
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:23.359
She was the girlfriend.
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She was like, mate, I love you.
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Hurry up, big, get on the way.
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:33.279
Like it was cute, and then I booked May from Avatar the Last Airbender, who sounds nothing like me.
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.400
She's like, I love Zuko more than I fear you.
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.680
Like, that's her whole voice for the whole two seasons.
00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.880
I was like, This is the most boring character I'll ever play.
00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:48.160
She's but because she's so not like me, but that's the fun, right?
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:54.000
And when you hear her amongst the whole cacophony of other characters, she's great.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.680
But alone, I was like, This girl's a pill.
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.759
I'm gonna tell you something blow your mind.
00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:05.279
When I hear your voice now, because I'm like Momby, like a super fan of May.
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:11.200
When I hear your voice now, I get to experience May as like animated, and it's awesome.
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:11.839
Right?
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.440
That's the same for you, Mombi.
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.119
She'd be like, What's up, girls?
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:18.319
Let's go to Gucci.
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.160
Like, she'd be fun, like you know, if May was fun, you know.
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.599
But yeah, so I did lots of video games, I've loved it.
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.440
Um, I'm still auditioning now.
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:29.279
I've got a couple video games coming out.
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.519
I can't talk about, but I'm psyched.
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.279
I have a new play.
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.920
My play, my world premiere, my new one woman show is opening in October.
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.119
Very exciting.
00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:41.759
Yeah, that's called 1225 Shelby Road.
00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:49.119
It's about a school shooting and the aftermath in the community, and I'm playing all the parts, so that should be wild and fabulous.
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.759
And I'm gonna look to get it into solo festivals all over so I might be able to see you guys in person.
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.359
Wasn't it playing?
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.920
It's called 1225 Shelby Road.
00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.000
It's all over my social media.
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:05.039
But if I could get it into a spot, like into a solo fest near you guys, I would love that.
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.400
Awesome.
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.920
Well, thank you so much, Cricut.
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You've been a treat.
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We really appreciate your flexibility too.
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.319
Thank you.
00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:19.519
So uh, really quick, um, to learn more about Cricut and everything she's got going on, you can check her out at cricketlead.com.
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That's C-R-I-C-K-E-T L-E-I-G-H dot com.
00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:28.319
Um, so cricket, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.680
We really appreciate it.
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:31.119
My pleasure.
00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:32.720
Love you, ladies.
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.200
Um, in the meantime, next week, we actually had to rearrange our schedule.
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:39.680
So next week will be our one-hour special.
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:55.200
You get us for an entire hour where we're going to be talking about pineapwizs.com for just a little bit, and then for the Comic-Con I went to, but then we're going to be heading into your Comic-Con style because we realize that all of our Comic-Con styles are just a wee bit different.
00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.079
Um, so we're going to check them out and we're going to give you guys some tips and tricks as Halloween season's coming up.
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And also as the Comic-Con break is coming up, you know, you can get your Comic-Cons all ready for the upcoming cosplay season that's going to be coming up after the break.
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So, in the meantime, get your wands ready, guys.
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I need a cosplay May one day.
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Everybody, get your wands ready because I'm just gonna be taking us out.
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All right, guys, make sure to smash that thumbs up real quick.
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Sorry we had to pre-record this one, but we're so glad to have Cricket with us.
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So make sure to drop some love in the comments.
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Share this out and check out our website as well as make sure you're following CJ Pearson, Mombi Rella, and Juju the cosplayer, and of course, Magic Making Mischief for all the fun.
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And we will see you for the party next week.
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So get your popcorn ready then, and till then, Mischief Manage.
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Bye.
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Hey Magic Makers, I'm Momby Rella.
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Juju Jones here.
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And I'm CJ Peterson.
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Get your wands to the ready.
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Well, when you mommy to get a wand to the ready.
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Because we solemnly swear we're up to no good.
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And speaking of up to no good, today we have with us Ms.
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Cricket Lee, who is the plays My and the Last Airbender.
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So we're super excited to have her with us.
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Welcome, Cricket.
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Yay!
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Thank you guys.
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I'm so excited to be here making a little bit of mischief and magic with you gals.
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I'm psyched to be here.
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Thank you for having me.
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Thank you.
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Uh it looks like we got our gremlins out, and the pixies have been kicked out of the studio because they got it to work today.
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However, we are pre-recording.
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We are not ignoring you, I promise.
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Um, we got the pixies out, but we are pre-recording.
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There was a slight mix-up in the time, but that's totally on me.
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Um, so as I said, we're not ignoring you, um, but we are pre-recording.
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So stand by.
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We have a wonderful interview with you today.
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And cricket, welcome.
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Thank you.
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Yes, I'm sorry we aren't live, but um, better here than not.
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So yes, enjoy that.
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Yes, definitely.
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So, mommy, you are the one who brought Miss Cricket to us, which you can tell us how.
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Yes, uh, we are huge fans of Avatar the Last Airbender, and May is actually our favorite character.
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Whatever.
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When my favorite's back in here, I've got him to grab I've got to get him to grab me something because in the other room I forgot to grab it.
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But um, last time we were at Eastern Rim, Cricket was there, and we got a chance to meet her in person.
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And uh, I got something very cool autographed, which I will show you guys in a minute.
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But uh, if you are a fan of the original series, I know there's been a lot of stuff coming out lately.
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She's the voice of May, and she's kind of like this gothy character who ends up with the Fire Lord Son uh Zuko.
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Yeah, she's just such an amazing character.
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I love it so much.
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You did such a great job bringing this character to life.
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Now, I know you've done a lot of other voice acting as well, too.
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So we will get into some of that.
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But yes, that is why uh we are huge fans of cricket.
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So you guys are that's how we got to meet, and we just hit it off, and we really loved your energy and kind of told me what you guys did.
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And I'm like, that sounds like fun.
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I need to be a part of that, and I love doing stuff like this.
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I really do.
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I love you know just meeting different people, especially women that are you know doing really fun, creative things.
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So um, that's how we met, and I'm just excited to be here.
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When you saw me in the hallway dressed at seven of nine, and you grabbed me, it took everything in my power not to go, oh my god, I gotta win.
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Really?
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Because you know, we don't we no one sees our faces ever.
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We look like, so you know, I'm like, nobody will know I'm incognito, you know.
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Oh my goodness.
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Uh we're we're we're we're we're fans and and we know we we we learned that stuff.
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Okay, so here's my here's my thing that I got out of the these are what May uses.
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She like throws these, these are her weapons.
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She doesn't have bending, actually, which is kind of funny because like in this whole world where they can bend earth, wind, fire, water, she doesn't have anything, but she is the most kickbutt character in this group.
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She can like just she is spot on when it comes to these things.
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She has like a whole little set of them every time she pulls them out.
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And so these are three different ones she had at the table last time.
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So thank you for this.
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I love so glad.
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I'm so glad you got one.
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Absolutely.
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That is so cool.
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Um, so I did a little stocking because that's that's that's my job.
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Like to stock.
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You're a researcher.
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Give your now, I call it stalking.
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Um if you sell my malls, you'd understand.
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Um, I'm one of the ones I actually run couple of comments.
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I'm on the floor of the company.
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Oh, I love that.
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So I I do lots of stocking.
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They're like all over my walls.
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My malls are like covered in autographs.
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Um, I love it.
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Yeah.
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So one thing I will confess is I actually don't watch anime.
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That's okay.
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It's okay.
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I always tell people that's okay.
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But in my stocking, I I like it pops everywhere.
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Um, people hate me for it, but that's okay.
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Um, but in my stocking, I found out that you're not just um a voice actress.
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Oh no, I'm not.
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I'm a I mean I'm a regular actress, if that's what you're referring to.
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So, yes, I'm a I'm a I'm a stage actress.
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You are first, first and last, right?
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So, meaning that's me forever.
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That's my bones.
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That's that's what I trained to do, that's what I will do forever.
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Uh, it's my first love, my my first passion.
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And whenever people young people say, you know, oh, what's the best thing to to to do to go into being a voice actor?
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You know, we always say, just go be a regular actor, go just because that's what you need to do when you're in the booth.
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You they don't want to hear a cool sound.
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That's not what's gonna get you the job.
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It's just responding to a circumstance.
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And if you happen to have a cool sound, that I guess that's cool, but that's not why I was hired.
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Uh they they happened to hire me maybe because I had that sound, but it was because I was responding to some given circumstances in a way that they liked, and that's just plain acting, and it's not film acting per se, it's stage acting, it's it's being trained, and so yeah, that's that's what you found out then.
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You were right.
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And I like actually I admire stage actors because you can't just say cut and retake when it comes to stage acting because you're there, there is no cut and retake.
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You you you just gotta keep rolling with it.
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Yeah, it's true, and that's my favorite thing about it.
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Like when you're in a play, the best part is when the audience is coming in and you're like getting ready and you're getting nervous, and you're like, I get to take them on a ride for an hour or two, and I'm so excited.
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I'm so excited to take you on the ride, and nobody's gonna stop me.
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There's no director to stop me.
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There's no light, there's no lighting designer to be like, wait, let's fix this.
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No, bro.
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No, you don't get to do that.
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No, there's nobody, the set person, there's no person powdering my nose.
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No, it's mine.
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No, there's a director who's already done his work and left.
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The only thing is between you and the audience now, and it's my favorite part of a play because it's just you and them.
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It's like a dance, and so yeah, film is totally different.
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It's not an actor's medium, it's this, it's the director and all the technical people's medium.
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And so I love stage acting for that reason.
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It's it's just like you get to say these words that are hopefully beautiful and hopefully interesting, and you get to share them with the audience and they get to see your spit on the floor.
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I mean, it's just like the it's the greatest thing there is, yeah.
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It's it I did drama for seven years, so it's like, yeah, so yeah, it's like you have, yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
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It's like there's there's no retake.
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It's it that's it.
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If you forget, you're like, oh god, oh and thankfully you have a exactly you have a crew with you, and they can usually cover up, or you can usually do it, but they just roll with it, and so thankfully there's improv in there too.
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Sometimes I'm like, oh, I left out an entire chunk of act three.
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Oops, like, and they're like, Oh, well, you know, it's that was a terrible idea, you know.
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But yeah, it just happens, it happens, but there's nothing better than that ensemble, too.
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So I think thank you.
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I'm glad you that you like that.
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No, I picked up on that pretty quick.
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I'm like, oh, that's cool.
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I like that.
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Yeah, I mean, my first love.
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I mean, I love Shakespeare, I love the classics, you know.
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When I was young, I loved Shakespeare.
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I had an affinity for that kind of language, which is really weird because I grew up in like a tiny little town, but I in the middle of nowhere, but I was like, this is cool.
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It's like it rhymes.
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I loved Midsummer, I wanted to play Hermia.
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I was like, she's short, I can play that.
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I'm a short girl.
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Like I was like, I want to play Hermia, you know.
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Uh, I never wanted to play the lead beautiful girl.
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I wanted to play the weird girl, the ugly girl, the short, the the the just the weird, the weirdo, which I do still and still feel like, you know, I always wanted to play the off character.
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Um, I think those are more fun though, honestly.
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Like 100%.
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Really good, like uh Beatrix from um Shakespeare's um Much New About Nothing, right?
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And Benedict, yes, those are like some of my favorite characters in that one.
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They're not like the the love interest or the main star necessarily, but they're such fun characters.
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Yeah, I totally get that.
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And Romeo and Juliet, right?
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Like the nurse.
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I'm like, I want the nurse, I want to play the nurse, and they're like, You're not gonna I'm like, I I I I I can play her when I'm older, like even now, like I think you know, 55 to 60, like what can I be doing, right?
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Like what that the nurse, like these are the parts I'm like picturing, you know.
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So there's longevity um with stage plays, you know, and voiceovers too.
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Well, and if you can make that character shine, that's the beauty of it.
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So, did that help you when you went into voice acting and how I think so, because you like you said, you you're sort of um you're used to improving because you're like, Well, if I forget a line or whatever, like I'll roll with it.
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Like you said, I love how you put that, you just roll with it, and uh, you're not a scaredy cat.
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You're like, well, I'll just figure it out.
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I'll the show must go on.
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And so I think when you're auditioning, um, you're not a nervous wreck because you're just like, Well, I've done plays for 20 years, like how hard can reading off a paper be like it was just like the easiest thing ever.
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And and you've and you've got a picture of the person, usually you're like, Oh, she looks like a gargoyle, she sounds like a witch.
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Okay, they've have so they've probably seen 20 witches.
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So, how can my witch be a little different?
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Well, I sound low, so my witch so maybe my witch is British, you know, you just like goof off.
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I mean, you're just a goof.
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Like, so I'm just gonna be a goof right now, and and be like, Maybe she's a really weird cookie witch.
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And you just act like a freaking weirdo for five seconds, and you're like, Oh, I'm gonna go get some jack in the box to eat and go home.
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Like, that's the life.
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I mean, that's your life.
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You don't give it a t a ton of thought, you don't take yourself too seriously.
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At least I didn't, that's how I lived.
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And you're not like, oh, why didn't I get it's like because your witch just didn't wasn't witching, you know, you just weren't the way that you are the witching.
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Can I say you just weren't it, man?
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And it had nothing to do with you or who you are as a human or it just it just wasn't it.
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And next day you might be it, and then maybe not for 10 years.
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I mean, and I just really lived by that.
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I was like, I'm not gonna say this has anything to do with my soul or who I am as a human or a woman.
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I didn't let it define my personality at all.
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I was like, because then you really get into some series, scary, troubled spots, right?
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Like your self-esteem gets wrapped up in that.
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And I was like, no way, I'm not doing that.
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That's going into crazy territory.
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So I was like, if this is just a gift I have, then I'm just gonna play with the gift.
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It's like singing, which I love to do.
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Like, yeah, I'm not a soprano, so why would I go up?
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Why do I think I can do opera?
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Like that, like that's common sense, you know.
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So I'm gonna do my flavor, my flavor of ice cream when I go in the room, and there's a hundred million flavors, and they might pick a different one.
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And that just means they don't want my flavor that day.
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And and maybe for years, which is painful because you're like, okay, dude, mint chip is good.
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Like, what are they thinking?
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Why don't they want that?
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And so what do you do in the meantime, right?
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I started writing, I started playwriting, I start like you start to just be like, what can I do to not be go crazy, you know, or or take it personally.
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Um, so yeah, I think it does help.
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I think that training look, I couldn't have pivoted and started writing plays.
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I would have just been like, uh, what do I do?
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If all I had was that, if all I had known was voiceover and I didn't really have anything else and didn't have that training, I might have just been like, I guess I'll go back to school and be a banker, which is by the way, awesome.
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Because I would have had great health insurance, I would have been rich right now.
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My life would have been really awesome.
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I'm just gonna wave my little wand because that would have been really great too.
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Okay, I'm just saying that wasn't my um that wasn't my future, but I love all the people that said I don't want to do this anymore.
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I'm like, good for you, because that's awesome too.
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That is not giving up, it's giving over and like saying, Okay, what else?
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And you can always come back.
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You can be 60 and be like, I think I want to try voiceovers again.
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Like, cool, you know, but yeah, so I do think having that background in theater, that training was so rigid.
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I mean, you were like a soldier, you didn't mess up.
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Like, if people were like, hit your spot, hit your mark, what are you doing?
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Why weren't you?
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Why were you late on your queue?
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You know, they were rough when you're you know, and you couldn't like mess up because the theater was it's a business, and I think that trains you too to not just be a jerk off when you're in a job, yeah, or and give it yeah, give it everything, yeah, and and be humble, be your witchiest witch.
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Be witching, exactly.
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You get a thick skin too.
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I mean you do, and I came from like workers, you know, very blue-collar family, and so they didn't think it was weird that I wanted to be an actor, they were just like, Oh, cool.
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Because they were like, Well, it's either that or like secretary, or like you know, nobody had gone to college.
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There wasn't that that was right, that wasn't an expectation.
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They were like secretary.
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I mean, god, real estate sounded like very fancy, like that would have been like way over at this point, it would, but at the time it would have been like, Whoa, that's fancy, you know.
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So growing up, it was like women were secretary.
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It was like nine to five, the movie, like that's what it looked like in my that's how I felt growing up.
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I I understand that because like it was like, well, be like, Well, what can I do when I grow up?
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And they're like, Oh, you could be a nurse, a secretary, you can work for any company like as a receptionist, yeah.
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I was like, ugh, I hate around kids.
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I was like, I don't want to teach horrible, yeah.
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Yeah, I'm trying to imagine my girls up here as secretaries, and I'm not seeing any of us as a secretary.
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I was I know, oh my gosh, and I was too.
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I mean, I was I've got it, but it yeah, but I can't I was a secretary at one point, but before that, I worked in construction on cylindrical.
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I mean, I could see I could see us all temporarily.
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We had to get the biggest deal.
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I don't know any of us doing it for forty.
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See, that's really cool.
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I'm not cool enough to have been in construction.
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No, I didn't think I was cool enough to.
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I got in with a friend, and and so it was her fault.
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And I was like, Yeah, you could make so much money doing that.
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It's true.
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I was just like, I guess I'll be a temp.
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Like, I remember temping after college, being like, Is this my life?
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Like, just gonna temp job, like temping, and like that was it.
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I was like, This is terrible, but yeah, so I think they thought being an actor was like a step up in a way, and so I had zero expectations.
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Whereas a lot of my friends were like, Oh my god, my parents aren't proud of me.
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And I'm like, What?
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Like, oh, they didn't understand.
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They were like, Oh, they think I should go to business school.
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I'm like, for what?
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Like, I really didn't even have a concept.
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I I just thought what I was doing was like the coolest thing ever, you know.
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Okay, off topic question.
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I um wildest job you've ever had.
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Like, I was the catastrophe adjuster.
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Juju, you said you were what what wildest.
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The tile sealer, the wildest job.
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Like, I was a catastrophe adjuster, which meant like I climbed the roofs and everything.
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You said you were a tile sealer.
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Uh, so the wildest job, I believe, would have to be working in construction.
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I started out as the demolition cleanup, and they really liked my work because I did it really, and I was always fascinated with those stilts, and I wanted to know what they were doing up there with the ceiling grid and tile, and so they showed me.
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They even got me my own little head uh hard hat that said little bit on it, and they painted it.
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Was it pink?
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They painted it pink.
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Okay, oh my goodness, obsessed with this right now.
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Okay, so I knew what was yours.
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My my most unusual one for me, uh, I was a lactation consultant at the WIC office for a while.
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Awesome.
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Okay, cricket vouchers.
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I mean, the one I have right now is pretty great.
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And I work at a metal hospital I work in a psych hospital for women between 18 and 80, and they're amazing.
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And it's I mean, it's wild.
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Thank you.
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I mean, the the people are they're amazing.
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Like a woman said to me this week.
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She's like, you're you're pretty ugly.
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And I said, Well, I said, I that's okay.
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This is great.
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This is what I love about them.
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And the next day she'll play me like the piano, be like, You're the best.
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Like this is what I love.
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Like they they're not in control all the time of their own minds, and I just love it.
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I love, I love how off they are, some of them, and how some of them are amazing and healed and ready to leave.
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And like, I just love the the difference.
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Every day is a completely different day.
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It's wild.
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Um, and then the other wild job I had was I worked as a temp and it was before I don't know, it was way before computers.
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So, like Montgomery Ward.
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Do you remember that store?
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Montgomery Ward wanted this is so scary.
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They wanted someone to have like color samples to show like I don't know who people in their whoever they were selling stuff to.
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So me and another girl would spin yarn, yarn, like at a spinning thing, and we would put them in these little like little bundles, and we'd we'd put tape on them, and then we'd do like thousands of them every day for eight hours, and I was like, I am gonna kill myself.
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Like, and we'd spin yarn for Montgomery Wards, and and after like a week, I was like, I I told my mom, I'm like, I know I'm supposed to pay rent with this, but like I will do any almost anything else.
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We'd start to feel like a world.
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Montgomery wards.
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Now I have such a sick feeling when I think about Montgomery Wards.
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Anyway, that was my words.
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That's off topic.
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I just thought it was a wild I love it.
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I love the pink.
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I mean, that's the best one, but catastrophic one, yes, catastrophe adjuster.
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Yeah, basically, when the regular staff adjusters get overloaded from like the hurricanes or tornadoes, they called us in as backups.
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Thank you for doing that.
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Yeah, so like we climbed the roofs and stuff.
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What you do it makes sense that she became an author after that, though.
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For some reason, it's like that would inspire stories to a degree of like it's true.
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So, like when, like, for example, when Katrina hit down Louisiana, they would come, we would go in and take over and stuff like that because there's not enough adjusters to adjust and get everybody up to it's not that we would get everybody up to where they were, but we would be the first line to come in and potentially get people as close as we possibly can to where they need to be.
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But we were the first ones to come in to start that help.
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And that's how it works.
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Wow, that's incredible.
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I actually I gotta I gotta say, Cricket, that I think it is amazing actually thinking of you having been May's character and brought that character to life the way she is, and now doing the job you do.
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I actually find that amazing.
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The first thing I told my husband when I got home was actually that because I was like, you won't believe what her day job is.
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I know it's great.
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It is great.
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Like sometimes I'm like, sometimes I'm like, I can't believe this is my life right now.
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Like, I could be in LA and like getting a facial.
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Instead, I'm in a psych hospital, but I love it.
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Like, I I think it's brilliant.
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I think I'm giving, I am giving away, I'm giving so much, I am receiving so much, and all of my acting goes into this job.
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All of my training, all of my humanity, I mean, all of my humor, all of my improv.
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I just you have to be on your toes.
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I mean, they are just like not only, but they just ask you stuff and and they get deep.
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I mean, they could in one minute be like laughing and then tell you a trauma that you're like, how do I okay, how do I process this and how do I help you process this?
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And how do I keep it light?
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Because I don't want to leave you in a dark place, right?
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I have a question for you.
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Um in your new job that you are doing, have you had any patients recognize you?
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No, that would be so crazy.
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Uh, thank God.
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Because vocally, there'd be no way.
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I mean, just no way.
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And physically, they don't know me.
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And even the people that are really well in general that might be in there for a short time are not well while they're there.
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Right.
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So they might have like, for instance, like it could happen to me.
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It could happen to any of us if we suddenly had some medication disaster where we like had some kind of manic episode or something that put us in a way that we were like, whoa, and we couldn't get a hold of ourselves, and or whatever, we went there for a month or whatever.
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It also could happen to someone like Lindsay Clancy, right?
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Where you have postpartum, right?
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So it that that's terrifying, but could happen to any human on the earth.
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It could also happen that you um um are using some drugs and maybe that wasn't a great choice, and then you get into a psychosis, and so a lot of things can happen, and it could happen to any person.
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You can also just have like a breakdown of some sort and end up there and just be like, whoa, where am I?
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This is not where I need to be.
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And then we need to have just to get you regulated and back, and then back with your family, etc.
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So there is it does take some time, but just thinking that it's like sometimes I often think like this could be me, this could be my sister, this could be my mother, and I need to treat these people like they are my family because I pray somebody cool would be there if that was me.
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Yeah, all right.
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That's really cool though.
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I like that.
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I love that okay.
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I want to delve a little bit more into your voice acting.
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Uh I know we've been chatting for a bit, but um, so Maya's my favorite, obviously.
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But for that, play for that, yes.
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But uh, you've done a lot of other characters like uh some video game characters and stuff as well.
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Would you kind of give us like a quick rundown of some of your favorites for that or some of the bigger ones?
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I started so when I first started doing voiceovers, it was in New York City because I had just people were telling me I should be doing them, and I was like, What?
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I don't really know what that means.
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I'm not sure how I'm supposed to just do them.
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Like I didn't understand.
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Yeah, I was like, okay.
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Yeah, like you should just go be a ballerina.
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It's like that's funny.
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Okay, what?
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Like, you're weird.
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Okay, no.
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Uh, or people that are like, you know, you see a pretty girl, you're like, you should be a model, but it's like, that's so ignorant.
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How's that person supposed to go just go to that?
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Right.
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So that's what people would say to me, and I was like, okay, weird.
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So then finally, one day I'm like, to the guy that said it, he's an age or he's a casting person.
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I'm like, you've said this now a lot, and I I don't want me to be rude, but what?
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How am I supposed to do this?
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And then he's like, Oh, go see this person, go take this class.
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And I was like, Thank you.
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:46.559
So I did all the things he told me to do, and I and I was remember those cassette tapes.
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Oh boy, right?
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.279
I had that, and I put a little cricket on it.
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I'm like, this will be cute.
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I'll I'll really market the hell out of this thing.
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And I sent it out and I got answers, and I was like, people are listening to this stupid thing.
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Oh my god, this is like I've sent hundreds of headshots, I've never got an answer ever, you know.
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And I'm like, this dumb tape.
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And people said they called me in, they wanted to meet with me.
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I got an agent.
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I was like, this stupid tape.
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That guy knew what he was talking about.
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This is the greatest thing ever.
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What a sham.
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They're gonna know I'm faking, they're gonna know I'm just a total fake, but I don't care.
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I don't care, right?
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It works, it works, it works.
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I'm gonna witch, I'm witching.
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I got it, I got it.
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I'm witching.
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So, so then I started doing, and it was all commercials there.
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And I loved that because you can make quite a bit of money on commercials.
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And I had a Johnson and Johnson commercial, it was so good that was running.
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I made great money, did a beer commercial.
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Then when I did decide a few years later to move to LA, they did warn me, hey, LA is not where commercials are, you will lose on some income.
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And I was like, I don't care.
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New York is making me crazy.
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I'm an anxious person, I'm medicated for it.
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I need to be somewhere a little more relaxed.
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And they were like, Okay, well, go there, it's gonna be more animation.
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And I was like, I don't really know what that is.
00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:15.039
Again, I don't watch, I'm not, yeah, I'm watching Dateline NBC, like that's what I watch.
00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.880
So I was like, Oh, okay, well, I'll just go and see what it's like.
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And so they would send me on these things, like, you know, this is a teddy bear, and he's got wings.
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And I'm like, Okay, like really weird stuff.
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And I'm like, Oh, a flying teddy bear, hmm, okay, you know, and I would just act weird, and but I didn't book anything, and then they'd be like, Okay, can you come in and read this five-year-old boy who's you know, just really goofy stuff, but it was fun, and then I got an audition for this girl, you know, this girl, um, this goth girl, and I just forgot all about it.
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And then a bunch of video games started coming in.
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So, video games were fun because they were short and they were all the same type of character that they wanted me for.
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They were like, get down, you're gonna die, and you know, things like that.
00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:19.519
So, all the video games I did, like um Lost Planet, I did, and these were like years and years ago, but Lost Planet was big, um Extreme Condition, I did Red Faction, like people love these old games.
00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.079
I did cars too, I did a cockney car.
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:23.359
She was the girlfriend.
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She was like, mate, I love you.
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Hurry up, big, get on the way.
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:33.279
Like it was cute, and then I booked May from Avatar the Last Airbender, who sounds nothing like me.
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.400
She's like, I love Zuko more than I fear you.
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.680
Like, that's her whole voice for the whole two seasons.
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I was like, This is the most boring character I'll ever play.
00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:48.160
She's but because she's so not like me, but that's the fun, right?
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:54.000
And when you hear her amongst the whole cacophony of other characters, she's great.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.680
But alone, I was like, This girl's a pill.
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.759
I'm gonna tell you something blow your mind.
00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:05.279
When I hear your voice now, because I'm like Momby, like a super fan of May.
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:11.200
When I hear your voice now, I get to experience May as like animated, and it's awesome.
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:11.839
Right?
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.440
That's the same for you, Mombi.
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.119
She'd be like, What's up, girls?
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:18.319
Let's go to Gucci.
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.160
Like, she'd be fun, like you know, if May was fun, you know.
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.599
But yeah, so I did lots of video games, I've loved it.
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.440
Um, I'm still auditioning now.
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:29.279
I've got a couple video games coming out.
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I can't talk about, but I'm psyched.
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.279
I have a new play.
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.920
My play, my world premiere, my new one woman show is opening in October.
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.119
Very exciting.
00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:41.759
Yeah, that's called 1225 Shelby Road.
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It's about a school shooting and the aftermath in the community, and I'm playing all the parts, so that should be wild and fabulous.
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.759
And I'm gonna look to get it into solo festivals all over so I might be able to see you guys in person.
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.359
Wasn't it playing?
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.920
It's called 1225 Shelby Road.
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It's all over my social media.
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:05.039
But if I could get it into a spot, like into a solo fest near you guys, I would love that.
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.400
Awesome.
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.920
Well, thank you so much, Cricut.
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You've been a treat.
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We really appreciate your flexibility too.
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Thank you.
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So uh, really quick, um, to learn more about Cricut and everything she's got going on, you can check her out at cricketlead.com.
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That's C-R-I-C-K-E-T L-E-I-G-H dot com.
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Um, so cricket, thank you so much for joining us today.
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We really appreciate it.
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My pleasure.
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Love you, ladies.
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Um, in the meantime, next week, we actually had to rearrange our schedule.
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So next week will be our one-hour special.
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You get us for an entire hour where we're going to be talking about pineapwizs.com for just a little bit, and then for the Comic-Con I went to, but then we're going to be heading into your Comic-Con style because we realize that all of our Comic-Con styles are just a wee bit different.
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Um, so we're going to check them out and we're going to give you guys some tips and tricks as Halloween season's coming up.
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And also as the Comic-Con break is coming up, you know, you can get your Comic-Cons all ready for the upcoming cosplay season that's going to be coming up after the break.
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So, in the meantime, get your wands ready, guys.
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I need a cosplay May one day.
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Everybody, get your wands ready because I'm just gonna be taking us out.
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All right, guys, make sure to smash that thumbs up real quick.
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Sorry we had to pre-record this one, but we're so glad to have Cricket with us.
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So make sure to drop some love in the comments.
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Share this out and check out our website as well as make sure you're following CJ Pearson, Mombi Rella, and Juju the cosplayer, and of course, Magic Making Mischief for all the fun.
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And we will see you for the party next week.
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So get your popcorn ready then, and till then, Mischief Manage.
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Bye.
