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What's up, everybody?
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Welcome back to the pod.
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I'm Mike Draden Frigoroa, and this is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on news of the day, things I've experienced, seen, heard.
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So before we get started, do me a favor, watch this video.
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Alright, look, I okay.
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We this this episode is dedicated to all my actor friends out there to do it.
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Alright, so this this little one is pushing the phone around.
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I have it propped up.
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Alright, before I get shaken.
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Relax, relax.
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Alright, she's she's settled now.
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For those of you listening, my cat, Tony Girl, is on the desk and she's shaking it and makes the camera move and her tail is wagging.
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Excuse me.
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Here we go.
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Let me start again.
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This episode is for my actor friends out there and everybody who's in the performing arts.
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Um we have and can control the algorithms.
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And what what I mean by that is uh okay, resetting the algorithms to uh to amplify our careers is the point I'm trying to make.
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Me personally, resetting the algorithm on my main social media accounts, and there are only two that that I really am on or use, and that's Facebook one because you know I'm old and um every time I'm ready to cut the cord and ditch it, something new in something that I'm interested crosses my feed, and then it's it keeps me engaged and wanting to uh stay on.
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And of course, you know, promoting the pod and all of that, but trying to stay away from being an active viewer and just more of an active user of the of the app and the program or whatever is where my focus is.
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But I find it that I'm watching more videos and the stuff that I'm interested in.
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Like, for instance, I'm going for my motorcycle license, so I'm listening and watching to tips and tricks of people on their bikes and doing the thing.
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Um, and uh Instagram, that's the the only other one because I don't like I never did like TikTok and how it works.
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Um, there's nothing else like it.
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And the Instagram is starting to roll out more features for the uh edits, which I may start using, um, but not really, because I I like the other stuff that I use to edit film.
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But uh the one thing I'll I'll say this though, don't don't fall for that instance thing now that I don't know if you've seen the update.
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It's basically an AI grab, in my opinion, because you know there's no audio, it's just a video.
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You know, can't we do that now with live?
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We can just go on and do an instant video and post it.
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I mean, I don't understand the the I don't understand it.
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It's an it's an AI grab.
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Don't follow it, don't feed it, don't don't anyway.
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Um don't fall for the it's a trap.
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Um I've been on both programs since uh since they launched, so I like them the most.
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And I think I realized why I said it before.
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Um I don't remember what it was about Facebook that made me leave my space.
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Um, but it's it's growing.
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It can be so we can tweak it to our own advantage.
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And and I'm gonna walk you through um how I changed, am changing how I use the apps, um, and try not to get stuck in the scroll of stuff.
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The other thing too, in Instagram, it's like having to having to uh go to the top of the screen and choose people you're following to see what they're doing is really it's really annoying because I mean you're you're fed a lot, you know, other stuff first to get you engaged, but I mostly am interested in what the people I'm I'm friends with and what they're doing and and stuff.
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And maybe you pepper it with a little bit of you know random stuff or maybe an ad here and there, but it's just too much.
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Anyway, I digress.
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Uh so look, uh resetting the algorithm by um by uh acting people and coaches and and all of that is it's sometimes it's made me feel a little bit overwhelmed or um disconnected, um or feeling like uh out of step.
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And only because it there's so many aspects and so many points of view and so many opinions and so many everything that it's it's overwhelming.
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So I find myself um drifting away or turning it off, and I just get so bogged down with noise in my own head about am I doing it right?
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Am I doing it this way?
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Why am I doing that?
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Should I be doing it that way?
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All those different things, and that's all right.
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That's Tony Girl knocking everything off the desk.
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Alright, Mary, you're gonna have to relax here.
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Sorry, guys, let me fix this.
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Can you relax?
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Alright.
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You comfortable?
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Alright.
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I forgot where I was.
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Alright, not you two.
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You don't fit up here.
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Anyway.
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Um, where was I?
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Uh okay, so resetting the algorithm.
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Uh oh, right.
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Um, am I getting I become more um uh disconnected and overwhelmed by by all the info, noise, all of it.
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Um I find myself sometimes comparing, like I said, um, am I doing it this way?
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Why am I doing it that way?
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Um and I know I shouldn't.
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And I and it's really hard, but I know that I shouldn't.
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Um, but sometimes a lot of these actors that I see them that I've never seen before, and where they're come up and coming, they are so freaking good that I start questioning myself.
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Um, I mean, I know I know I'm capable.
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I I am trained, I I people have given me great feedback on stuff.
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But when I see some of these people, I'm like, what was that?
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It's it's amazing.
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And I find myself, instead of watching them analytically, I catch myself drawn in.
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And that's when you know they're good, because when you're drawn in and you forget that you're watching uh a film or a short or whatever, it it can it can be a little demoralizing, I suppose.
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I don't know.
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Alright, I'm trying to get this camera to stop shaking because I don't want a shaky video.
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You're gonna pick up that mess.
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I'm not I'm not doing it.
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I'm sorry, I looked away for a minute.
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Uh my notebooks are all over the floor.
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So anywho.
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Fresh hot coffee in the morning.
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Alright, so yeah, I get sometimes inspired, and then I get um encouraged, and then I feel like, ugh, what am I doing with myself?
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I start questioning my my sanity and my choices in life.
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Um, and I bring all of this up because uh that video by Spencer, uh Spencer Glass that you just saw, it was it really touched a nerve for me.
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Um and I have some thoughts, and I'm gonna walk you through how, like I said, uh how I am starting to use social media more for career advancement and to amplify what I've been doing uh or what I'm trying to accomplish instead of being sucked in and distracted by because I see people at work too when they're on their phones and just flipping through and watching, you know, that's their own enjoyment.
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Fine.
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Um I I you know I don't I don't uh begrudge them that.
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But um I notice everywhere I go, you know, when I'm on the subway, I don't know my phone.
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Uh when I'm on, you know, on the bus or you know, walking down the street, I'm I people are in their devices, and it's it's like really that's a whole other story.
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Anyway, so I'm gonna walk you through that and um how to amplify your talents and uh I don't know.
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I'm gonna take this and this this walk together.
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But first, um I have some celebrity signings.
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So at work uh a couple weeks ago, um two major, major, major people came through.
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For me anyway, one of them is major.
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Um, the doctor from Star Trek Voyager, Robert Picardo, was at the show.
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And um, so I'm gonna tell you a secret.
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Okay, I'm gonna share this with you.
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Like when I'm at my theater, which is the Imperial, I'm a ticket taker there now.
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So when you come in, you'll see me.
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I'll take your ticket, I'll scan it, I'll tell you which way to go.
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All right, okay.
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Um, when I'm at other theaters, mostly like, you know, the Belasco or whatever, I'm British, Mike.
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So wherever anyone comes and sees me, they bring me their ticket.
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I take them to their seats, and I'm very funny and gregarious.
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And I try, you know, they have no, I I my English accent is so good.
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It is so good that um, well shoot, what's his name?
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Um uh he played the priest in uh uh British comedy.
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Oh gosh, I forgot his name.
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Anyway, he looked at you, and you know, I wear my yarmulk at work and all.
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He looked at me and looks at my head and all, he's like, Where are you from?
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So I said, I'm from here, but I lived in London for so many years.
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So he's like, Oh.
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It was very ridiculous.
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I'm very ridiculous.
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I know it.
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But it's a way for me to have fun and deal with the monotony because sometimes a lot of people are not so nice.
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So, you know, when they encounter me and I'm all kinds of questions, you know, swarthy looking Yarmica with an English accent working in a theater, they're not they're distracted by whatever is pissing them off.
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So they're they're different sometimes.
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So they try to, I think the English accent for some Americans sort of makes them want to elevate their their um presence.
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I don't know what word to use, but make them act nice or not be the stereotype, um, especially people from the Midwest and the South, they get very kind and very, very wow, thank you so much.
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Uh so that's what I do.
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So um I was stuck in that mode.
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I couldn't really geek out with uh the doctor because he came in and he's like coming by me like this, and I see him like looking down at the edge of the seats for his seat, and I'm like, your seat's here, Doctor.
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And he just looked at me.
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Like I recognize him.
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I'm like, don't worry, I won't tell anyone.
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Um and uh we chit-chatted for a little bit.
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Uh so but he thoroughly enjoyed uh the show.
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And that same day, I didn't see her come in, and her seats were in the friggin' mezzanine, which blew my mind.
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But Sally Fields was there, and it was like the day after or the the day after Dolly Parton had passed.
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And Sally, I I would have lost my mind, I would have just started crying.
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Why?
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Why?
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No, no, I'm supposed to go first.
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I'm so I I think I probably would have gone into that dire tribe and made a complete fool of myself.
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Um, but um I've been a Sally Field fan since I mean back when I was a baby.
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It was Bewitched Genie, the Flying Nun, Star Trek.
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That's the only things that shut me up on TV.
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I got a kick out of the flying nun.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, so yeah, those are my celebrity sightings for for the month of September.
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No, uh, that was August.
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Um that was August, yeah.
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Oh my gosh.
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Um but I didn't get to get to see, like get interact with her.
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I can only see her from afar.
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Anyway, um Spirit 2.0 is now drumroll, please, everybody.
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First jet airways.
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Okay, for those of you who are not aware, there's a guy who came up with this idea that why not buy Spirit Airlines?
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And people just started like pledging, and it blew up.
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And now, with everything that has happened, and what's what I hope you've been following along.
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Um, I'll leave the link there for you to to catch up.
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Uh, for those of you who don't know, I originally pledged a thousand dollars.
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Um there the the the the sorry first jet airlines the the website is now live in October um September 9th, it went live for um donations.
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So um you have to check out and read the uh the details on how to do it.
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Um, but yeah, you can you can make your you can invest, is what I meant to say, not donation.
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You can invest into the project, and there's a lot of aspect to it.
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So go back to the original, the link is right there.
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Go back to the original post, follow along so you get caught up, see the whole story, how it came about.
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There is this is going to be the first ever airline run by the people for the people, just like it's it's a people's owned football team, the the Green Bay Packers.
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It's all community-owned.
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It's it's the only franchise team that's not owned by a billionaire or whatever.
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So it's live.
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Check it out, go do that.
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All right, so our relationship with social media, it may be distorted.
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And like Spencer said, um, his fear is that um our usage and relationship to social media is uh distorted because of uh our reality becomes what we think we're seeing or how people are projecting.
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Um we try we're the way we're engaging and how we're trusting the content.
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Um it can distort what you see.
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Because of course, you know, a lot of people put their, they want to put their best foot forward, you know, they they manipulate the what what you're seeing to be engaging, to to engage with them or whatever, right?
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Um but there's a lot of distraction.
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And the the things that and I get caught too, friends.
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I get caught in it where I'm like, should I buy that program?
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You know, sometimes I'll buy the the the pamphlet they're they're reading.
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I'm like, ugh, I already knew this, you know.
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I got got sometimes.
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But um, I'm trying to be the best that I can be.
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I mean, you know, I'm a middle-aged man.
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Um, I'm trying to be the best that I can be and and take take this somewhere.
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Um I don't have these grand dreams, but I just want to do the thing, right?
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Okay.
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So uh the distractions are geared toward, you know, making, and these are the ones that I've seen.
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Uh if it's it's uh how to get the best headshots, you know, uh, you know different lighting angles for your home self-tape setup, uh, the different programs or the the I used to be uh casting agent for HBO, but you haven't casted anything in the last how many years?
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You know, those kinds of things by my program, sit in my my webinar and learn the secrets of the this and the that.
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And it's really to me, um and it's not just to me, it is really a it it I wasn't saying cash grab, but that's not right.
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It's people trying to survive and make money selling their knowledge, and hopefully you'll gain um something good from it.
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But it's at the state where like I I'm not you know destitute, but I'm like I have to watch my budget.
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There's a lot of people who haven't, you know, made it, in quotes, uh, who are looking for the their the leg up, you know, and it and you're constantly being asked to pay for this or pay for that.
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And there's a to me, there's some things that you should pay for.
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Many years ago when I was younger, I used to think, oh, that stuff should be free, you should just help someone get somewhere.
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But then I realized as I got older, there are some things that maybe that doesn't require a payment, but there are some things for quality things you should have to pay for just to pay for it.
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Um and that's the difference because the stuff the quality stuff that you pay for is exactly that quality that's gonna elevate you or move you forward or be better than just the free thing.
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Yes, yes, we know that's my coffee, thank you.
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My my angelico cat is with my angelical cat mug.
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You want to smell that?
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Um so yeah, the the the ones that I really like is the casting agents like learn how to stand out in the casting room.
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Listen, we all we all know for those of us who've gone through it, the your I'm gonna talk about this later, but you're it's the first three seconds.
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If they haven't already cast and they know who they want, basically they're going through the motions because they have to by union rules, um, or they're looking for a backup or an understudy or what have you.
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Um but they're not quite telling you this yet.
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But say 95% of the time they already know who they want, but uh it's the first three seconds, they know whether or not they're gonna they want more from you.
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Um okay, so where Spencer says that um uh uh the way we look at other actors, uh how do you say it?
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Other actors and the and what they're up to makes us less inspired and less influenced and become deflated.
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Perhaps I know that like like me, um there's a very delicate line between being obsessed with someone or um being a super fan, absolutely.
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Um I'm not sure that I'm I'm making the right point here, but um being in a constant state of having to know what someone is up to all the time, I think that's an obsession that that's really not good for you.
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Um to find out what they've accomplished, like oh, whether they I think that's a distraction too, because you're not you're not um learning for your own growth.
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I don't because I don't really like like the my friends who have made it in quotes, you know, or who are you know doing the thing.
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I love hearing from them and seeing what they've done next, but that's you know, oh I there's an announcement, great, that's all I need to know.
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I don't dive into oh my god, what did they do?
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How did they get there?
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Who did they talk to?
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Because then I'll be lost in this cycle of why not me.
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And that's not my path, that's their path.
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I'm gonna try to adjust this so it stops shaking and it's not gonna work.
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I need a better stand because I have okay, rant.
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I have my setup here on top of a book, on top of a small Amazon box on my desk, so it's at the right angle, and nothing I've found so far.
00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:10.319
And my desk is it's new, it's nice, it's just rickety.
00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.200
It doesn't, it's not solid, so it shifts around a lot.
00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.119
And why are you flicking at me?
00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:22.160
For those of you listening, my cat's tail is center stage right now.
00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:28.000
Um, so yeah, once they once they make their announcement, that's all I need to know, you know.
00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.680
Um uh for like instance, one of what someone I know.
00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:34.160
Uh I didn't know this was gonna happen.
00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:44.640
I saw because I saw the the oh no, I saw a a deadline announcement that uh he was gonna be on Dead City, and that's why I got into the okay.
00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:46.559
I need to get on Dead City, you know.
00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:51.599
So I did what I did to like, you know, for people to see me doing a Dead City thing.
00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:57.039
And I'm working anyway, side by I'm working on something that's gonna be fun, and I hope you guys like it.
00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:00.640
It's a short film, you you'll it's a scene, two things you'll see.
00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:05.440
Anyway, um, I'm creating my own opportunities here, guys.
00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:06.400
And that's too.
00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:07.680
You had what was it?
00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:09.920
Don Cheadle said, It's like, you want to be an actor?
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What are you reading?
00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:11.519
Are you in anything?
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Are you taking a class?
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Are you being creative?
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You know, I'm not waiting and hunting down, I'm not waiting for someone to find me or discover me.
00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:23.680
I'm not hunting down um casting agents and all that.
00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:34.079
That whole process to go through the you know the corporate aspect to get the it's so daunting to me, and I'm I I applaud everyone who's gone through it.
00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:38.000
Um But I I just right now I just want to create.
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So I'm gonna try and create.
00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:42.400
I think I'm done ranting.
00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:50.000
Anyway, um having my own goals, yes.
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Having my own path, absolutely.
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Following it, you gotta pardon me.
00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:05.519
But being influenced by those who've made it can both be positive and a negative.
00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:09.359
I mean, we're stuck in um following them.
00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:26.240
Well, not stuck, but we we find I I don't want to generalize, but you know, I'll get stuck maybe being oh who's that uh I would have I would what would I have done?
00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.240
I should have put my phone on to not disturb.
00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:34.000
Let's do that airplane mode.
00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:36.559
Alright.
00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:39.359
Uh I forgot what I was saying.
00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:54.880
Anyway, um if you find a new direction to pursue your your craft by someone you follow, that's great.
00:22:55.039 --> 00:23:04.480
You should absolutely do that, but do not I don't think it's worth getting stuck in the the comparison game.
00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:10.880
Because I think that would that's a a big a big chain around your neck, you know.
00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:13.920
Uh boulder thing.
00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:14.559
That didn't work.
00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.359
Um where's my do not disturb?
00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:22.160
Here we go.
00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:32.480
Oh, that's not gonna work anyway.
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Um completely distracted and off now.
00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:43.920
Oh so I had this soak gamed out so well.
00:23:44.160 --> 00:24:01.920
Um all right, on the other hand, if you are annoyed by the success of uh by their success, then yeah, and then you end up in a bad place mentally, it's time to actually ask yourself why you're doing what you're doing.
00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:03.759
That's just my opinion.
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Um I I know someone who When I say I know someone, it's uh we we have taken classes together, we've socialized, we've communicated, we text each other randomly.
00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:30.799
Um some have made it, some have not, some of our aren't are not not made it, but we're on our way, or we're doing different we're doing the thing, right?
00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:47.200
There's someone I know who is really perturbed that someone else we know is uh is really really successful and getting getting there, you know, get getting just growing, booming, exploding.
00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.200
And I'm I'm excited for them.
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Like, good for you, you know.
00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:54.720
I'm maybe a little bit jealous, like I would I want to be in a Star Wars show.
00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:58.960
Um, but there she is, she's in a Star Wars show now.
00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:03.839
And um, you know, we all pick the same classes, we all have the same, whatever.
00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:09.920
Uh he's annoyed that she's there, and I'm like thinking, why are you annoyed by that?
00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:14.400
You know, he's not very happy, and I think we should I don't think he should be pursuing this anymore.
00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:15.599
Yes, darling.
00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:22.960
For those of you listening, Tony is rubbing all up on my neck, and she's hitting me with her butt because she wants butt pats.
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:24.640
So I'm gonna give her butt pats.
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I'm gonna shake everything on the desk now.
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If you can hear that, that's butt pats.
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You happy now?
00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:35.920
Okay, I don't want you twitched to my face.
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:36.480
Thank you.
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That's gross.
00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:50.240
Um so, like I said, sometimes while sometimes you know I have compared myself to others, um, may and maybe questioned some of my choices.
00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:53.759
Um I have to remind myself that my path is my path.
00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:58.480
I am happy for everyone who's getting everything that they've dreamed of.
00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:01.359
And I know what I end up doing is what I end up doing.
00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:08.000
So all right, so seeing the business through our phone is an illusion.
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It is 100% an illusion.
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It's not the business, and a lot of people don't do my a lot of people don't get that that entertainment in all its forms is a business, and you gotta come at it that way because if you don't, you're gonna be stuck with the illusion and then get disillusioned and feel like you know you got ripped off, or you know, come on, tell me, stop.
00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:46.799
Um for anyone starting out, I would I would I need you to understand that you know the business is it's a it's exactly that.
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:53.599
Um it's meant to entertain and um make a profit doing so.
00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:58.079
Um nothing is real, it's all numbers.
00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:04.640
I think those are random thoughts that I had written down here that sort of didn't flow the way I meant it.
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But what I want you to understand that it, yes, it's a business.
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There are a lot of people who if this is not gonna make money for us, we're not gonna do it.
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Or how if we make if it flops, then they get angry because they wasted the money.
00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:23.599
They don't care that the film flopped or that people got to do the thing or whatever.
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:32.880
If the money they invested to create this thing and it doesn't go anywhere or doesn't regenerate a profit, they're pissed off because it's about the money for them, right?
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:34.799
And that's what the corporate corporate does.
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.279
Corporate corporate, I hate that word.
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:46.799
There are numerous, numerous cogs in the same production that uh come together to in order to put something on, right?
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:58.720
Um, whether it's uh creating a television show, a film, stage performance, uh the facets work separately but together.
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:08.240
Um and the final project that you see in the final outcome, it's um it's a long winding process.
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:18.960
It's uh there's a lot of ups and downs, heartbreak, uh, tears, joy, all those things.
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:31.279
Um from rehearsal, from the final product, from okay, from starting up to rehearsals to the final product to what we finally see.
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:35.279
You know, it's many different pieces coming together to to create the the thing.
00:28:35.440 --> 00:29:08.160
Um, and then practicing your own process, like you have to, when you take class, when you take uh when you do your self-tapes, when you when you're you know reading plays and all of that, you're learning an aspect of the business that this part of it, our instrument, which is our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our our everything, um we're fine-tuning an aspect of the business model or part portion of the model, right?
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:32.480
Um so whether you're you're practicing for a self-tape or memorizing lines or you know trying to keep fit, um, when when the when you're uh not in sync with that, keeping everything in tune, you're gonna screw your business, is basically what I'm trying to say.
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.559
Um I think I think that makes sense.
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:37.759
If it doesn't make sense, let me know, right?
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:38.640
Say him like that.
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:40.799
Last part didn't make any sense to me.
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.920
Um yeah.
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:50.319
I think she's calm now.
00:29:52.160 --> 00:30:04.480
Uh I think I think I feel like I didn't I didn't express what I wanted to express uh just now.
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:11.119
Um I'm referring to my notes so I don't go off track.
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.240
Memorizing scenes, playing, taking scene, claims.
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:24.079
Oh, I think I I think this is part what I wanted to say, how I wanted to frame this.
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:28.640
Um when you're looking at everything as a business, you have to understand that your instrument is a part of that, right?
00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:39.039
So whether you're uh you know practicing um, you know, our own processes, like you know, uh like I said, practice doing your self-tapes.
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.559
You can make fake practice your self-taping just so you're better at it, right?
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.279
And check it out or show it to a friend and say, what do you think of this?
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.480
Um, you can do that.
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:54.319
Um uh memorizing scenes from a play to be sharper, easier, make your memorization skills a lot better and faster.
00:30:54.559 --> 00:31:01.119
Um, taking classes and keeping fit, that's part of the instrument that you that you need to work on.
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:07.440
When times are hard, we have to stay focused in what we can accomplish for ourselves.
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.440
So this way, when the moment comes, we'll be ready for the business.
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:17.279
And I had this conversation, I think I told you the story about a very well-known adult entertainer right now.
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He's really uber huge.
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:25.920
Back in the day, he was he was not, he was uh skinny, uh nice body.
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:29.440
Um, he was a go-go boy at the time, and he knew me.
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:35.759
I was bartending at this party, and uh he's like very inquisitive about the business and all of that.
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.000
And I said to him, Look, do you really want to do that?
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:39.599
And he's like, Yeah, I want to, I want to.
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.720
I'm like, it the first thing you need to understand, it's a business, and you need to look at it like that.
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.000
Because if you're not making them money, they don't care about you.
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:49.279
It's about the money.
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:58.640
So you have a big monster hoo-ha right there, you have a nice body, you have a pretty face, you're marketable, but you need to control that.
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.039
Don't let them control that.
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:04.319
Once you realize that, you'll go far.
00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:12.160
But if you just want to be popular and famous and you know get all the tail you want, that's gonna, you know, flash by and then you'll be nobody and used up.
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:23.279
And but if you want longevity, and I'd like there's Austin Wilde who uh started his guys in sweatpants thing, and then there's some other offshoots of that that he did.
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.680
And then there's Steve Cruz who took over Falcon and and Raging Stalin when they merged.
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:32.319
Now he's like behind the camera running the whole the whole enchilada over there.
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:34.960
Um, a lot of a lot of people.
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:41.759
Um Logan was his last name.
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:44.240
I forgot his last name.
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.400
Anyway, I just know his real name.
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.960
He has his thriving, you know, Blue Page life.
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:52.079
It's all him.
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.599
Even before he died, um what's his name?
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:58.480
Um oh shoot, his name just left me.
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.799
He was living in Spain and uh he passed away suddenly.
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:08.000
He had his own, he started out as a Titan model and now he had his own line.
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:15.519
Two of them, him and Steve Cruz, also um not Steve, um uh Damian Cross started Stag Own before he passed away.
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.079
He had his own studio based out of Spain.
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:22.160
These guys understood the business aspect of it.
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:29.440
So, and it's the same thing on in mainstream and non-adult, it's a business, and once you have that understood, you'll be able to go far and do more.
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:37.039
You may not even get to where you want, uh, but you can still create, I think is an important point as well.
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:44.319
Because all of the people making the millions of dollars, and it took me a long time to realize this as well, you know.
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:58.400
It's if it's not ingrained in your soul, and even Santana said this about the guitar, if it's not ingrained in your soul, ingrained in your soul, and you cannot breathe without doing this, then it's really not meant for you.
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:07.440
But if you want to try it, absolutely try it, and then understand all the mechanics behind it because what you see is not what everything it is that goes into it.
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:24.159
Um, and I I really I'm not be trying to be um judgmental here, but I'm hoping that young people coming up get that too, because they're they're deluded by what they're seeing and they think one way of what it is than it is.
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:26.079
Okay.
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:35.920
Um, so refreshing my uh social media, my relationship rather, refreshing my relationship with social media.
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:46.400
Um when Spencer said that uh uh I had to I had to stop, I had to stop because it became, what is it?
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.480
Because it really hit home as well, brought back to mind.
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:53.360
Oh right, these are my notes for me, I'm sorry.
00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:59.599
Um like I just mentioned I just mentioned Don Cheadle, right?
00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:20.559
When I was at a point where I had no idea where I was going with this or what I was doing, and I was like, oh, I I can't afford classes or how I just was in this vicious um what do you call that uh hamster wheel in my brain of like, you know, where does where do I start?
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:22.000
How do I get how do I get in?
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:22.719
How do I do this?
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.639
How do I where do I begin?
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:30.719
Uh, but I came across a video where he was doing an interview when he says, you know, are you in a play?
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:31.440
Are you reading anything?
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.000
What have you done?
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:32.800
But all that stuff.
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:37.360
And I'm like, you know, acting is not just, you know, getting, well.
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:40.000
I'm gonna put you down.
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:40.559
All right.
00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:45.280
Um acting is not just what you see.
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:52.480
It there's so many things that go into it, you know, reading plays, doing a scene with a friend, practicing your self-tapes.
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.519
It's all acting.
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:59.119
Um, even when I'm being British, Mike, on on at work, you know, I'm acting.
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:04.239
Um some people think I'm crazy, but I'm acting.
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:20.320
Um when he said that, it made me take stock in um my choices and what helped me to to uh it helped me to remind me of my why.
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:23.840
And my why was was that.
00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:28.800
So it I want you to see this interview so you know what I'm talking about, and it's linked right there so you understand.
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:42.079
Because if you're an actor or you in well, if you aspire to be an actor, if you're an actor in whatever state you're in, beginning or just watch this and and watch the link.
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:43.280
You'll love it.
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:45.440
Um, so here we are.
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:48.559
We're following our favorites, wonderful.
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:53.840
Uh when was the last time you posted something that you created?
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.519
And I'm asking you generally, when was it you created something and you posted it?
00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:59.679
Yeah, whether it's you know something silly.
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:08.639
Um when was um the last time let me look at my list.
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:15.039
Uh did you write something?
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:16.639
Did you read it out?
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:18.159
Did you post it?
00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:22.159
Um when was the last time you did something creative that you shared with the world?
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Think about that.
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:35.280
The really successful people on social media are the ones using it to showcase their talents through video and pictures.
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:39.519
That's the fact, Jack.
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.320
In many forms.
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.719
I mean, it doesn't have to be something polished, it doesn't have to be.
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.159
Do you remember there was a guy during quarantine?
00:37:50.400 --> 00:38:08.639
He had a uh, and I I know a lot of us, well, I know for me, I sort of stole the the term quarantines, uh, where he was creating, you know, one-man shows in his apartment, you know, and I'm like, oh my god, this is brilliant! I don't know whatever happened to that dude.
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:13.599
Um, and I lost track of uh that I don't think that that Instagram handle is there anymore.
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:16.000
But um, it was brilliant.
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:17.920
He got creative.
00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:40.639
So I'm I'm using social media now to truly connect with people, like through the podcast, through the other projects that I'm working on, because I I I know that everyone who follows me or writes to me, uh, they are responding to something I did, or something they're asking about what's next, or what have you, and I I thoroughly enjoy that.
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:46.639
Um it's still weird to me sometimes that people say, Oh, what when they they show interest.
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:54.480
Um, because I'm just doing it just to do it, because otherwise I get stuck in my brain, and I just I have I have to just let it out.
00:38:54.719 --> 00:39:02.320
Um so yeah, through the podcast, my own stuff that's coming soon, and and all the other stuff.
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:14.719
I am trying to connect with people by using the algorithm the the apps and manipulating the algorithms of myself into into that.
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:29.599
So it's more of an amplification of what I'm doing than me stuck watching other people be creative and doing um so I hope I hope all of this was helpful.
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:34.960
I really do.
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:38.239
Yes, baby.
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:44.960
I'm glad I hope you guys all enjoyed the lot of Tony Girl in this episode.
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:46.719
Just all over the place.
00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:51.119
And I'm not putting her down because people enjoy her.
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.679
Like, I don't have the tank over here knocking everything down.
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:55.360
He's asleep.
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:56.639
I don't want to wake him up.
00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:59.679
Um, so now you tell me, you know, what do you think?
00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:09.119
What do you what do you think about um what do you think you'll do to optimize your your social media to your advantage?
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:10.159
How how are you gonna do it?
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:13.920
I want to know what what tweaks are you gonna make it to amplify your thing.
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:20.079
Do you think um managing managing your social media account has become a job itself?
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:22.400
I absolutely do think it's a job.
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.440
Um it can it can take a lot of time and effort and energy.
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:42.559
Um, like I said before, and I'm never on my phone on the subway, but sometimes I do have to like maybe make a quick edit or send shoot an email or something or uh shoot a video real quick uh for B-roll or what have you, but I try not to do that because it's crazy in the subways.
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Um but yeah, how are you gonna, you know, what do you uh you think think it's a second job that you were not paid for, a third job or a fourth job?
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You can make it pay, but you know.
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Um how do you feel about uh social media's um assimilation into the industry?
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It's uh and what I mean by that is this um what do you what do you think about how the first thing a lot of casting people or the people behind the table look at is like how many how what is your following like?
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Because they are expecting that you know you're gonna amplify what you're doing through the social media, and then uh by by trade, I guess their their project will blow up as well.
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You know, they it's it's become a a metric that I think it's unfair.
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Um pardon me.
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I think it's a metric that's unfair, but how do you feel about that?
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I want to know what you think of that.
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Um now I'll phrase it again for you for in case you you forgot.
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Yeah, how do you feel about social media's assimilation into the industry?
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I don't think it's fair at all.
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Or do you even give a shit?
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Do you like say ah that's I don't care.
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I just like watching.
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It it doesn't matter to me.
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I want to know that too.
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So if you made it this far, thank you.
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I appreciate you.
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Um comment with um what emoji?
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Oh, the selfie emoji, the the arm holding the the phone up like this.
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For those of you listening, it's the selfie emoji.
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It's the arm holding up a phone.
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Uh post that.
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Um yeah.
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Thanks.
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So I have to give a shout out to a bunch of people.
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Um, thank you so much for uh signing up on um on uh the YouTube channel and to the Patreon.
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Um George, thank you so much.
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I appreciate you.
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Uh Faith, thank you so much.
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And Tori, thank you.
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Uh I'm glad you're you're there following.
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It's wonderful.
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Um, I still need to get to 500 so I can open up my shop on um on uh YouTube because I'm I can but come.
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I I just can't say anything until it's there.
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It's you know the way it works.
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But um, if I get 500 people, I can open my YouTube shop, please sign up.
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That will help.
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Um subscribe to the tube, yo.
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Uh, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or um or Spotify, five stars would be really helpful.
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I love it.
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I okay.
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The tank has awoken.
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Um it will help me go up in the in their algorithm moving up and uh exposure and all of that.
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And I just would like to say um you can also donate to the pod um through the the the BuzzFeed uh uh platform.
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It's the there's a link right there for you to to donate.
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Um and when you donate, you you there's a lot of uh perks that come with that.
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Um and also on the Patreon when you join the Patreon.
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Uh there's a lot of perks.
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And next month, I'm gonna start my uh monthly uh uh video chat for those um who sign up um in that tier.
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You're gonna get a time and a date to tune in, and we can just shoot the shit together.
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Um and I just want to welcome you to the very first episode that is also video on Apple Pod.
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This is the first one, yeah, everybody.
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I tried to set it up before, but I completely forgot all about it.
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And then I was doing all my updates, and I'm like, oh shoot, I I have I can now put video on in the Apple Pod.
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So now you get to watch me on Apple Pod and listen to me on the pod there.
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Um, so yeah, you can send me fan mail through BuzzFeed.
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Um, I hate that you can send me a message, DM me through BuzzFeed better than fan mail, so silly fans.
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I love my fans, but I think you're more like my friends, right?
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Um, you can send me DMs through but through BuzzFeed.
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But BuzzSprout.
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Buzz Sprout.
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The link is there.
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Go there.
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And um on Patreon too.
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Um, so the more you help me out, the the less the less there will be ads.
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That came out all wrong.
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I'm trying not to, I'm trying to go stay ad-free, although I'm I'm considering uh partnering with a couple of brands that I like because I use them, so I figure, you know, I've been using them for years.
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Let me see what I can do.
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But I'm trying to keep mostly ads free, but yeah.
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Uh all right, so thanks for watching.
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I appreciate you all.
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Um stick around because I'm going to give you my um five actionable real things that you can do today to amplify your talents on social media.
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So you're gonna want to join me over on Patreon for that.
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So later.
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Bye.
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Oh, it's horrible.
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What's up, everybody?
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Welcome back to the pod.
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I'm Mike Draden Frigoroa, and this is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on news of the day, things I've experienced, seen, heard.
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So before we get started, do me a favor, watch this video.
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Alright, look, I okay.
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We this this episode is dedicated to all my actor friends out there to do it.
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Alright, so this this little one is pushing the phone around.
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I have it propped up.
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Alright, before I get shaken.
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Relax, relax.
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Alright, she's she's settled now.
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For those of you listening, my cat, Tony Girl, is on the desk and she's shaking it and makes the camera move and her tail is wagging.
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Excuse me.
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Here we go.
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Let me start again.
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This episode is for my actor friends out there and everybody who's in the performing arts.
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Um we have and can control the algorithms.
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And what what I mean by that is uh okay, resetting the algorithms to uh to amplify our careers is the point I'm trying to make.
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Me personally, resetting the algorithm on my main social media accounts, and there are only two that that I really am on or use, and that's Facebook one because you know I'm old and um every time I'm ready to cut the cord and ditch it, something new in something that I'm interested crosses my feed, and then it's it keeps me engaged and wanting to uh stay on.
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And of course, you know, promoting the pod and all of that, but trying to stay away from being an active viewer and just more of an active user of the of the app and the program or whatever is where my focus is.
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But I find it that I'm watching more videos and the stuff that I'm interested in.
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Like, for instance, I'm going for my motorcycle license, so I'm listening and watching to tips and tricks of people on their bikes and doing the thing.
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Um, and uh Instagram, that's the the only other one because I don't like I never did like TikTok and how it works.
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Um, there's nothing else like it.
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And the Instagram is starting to roll out more features for the uh edits, which I may start using, um, but not really, because I I like the other stuff that I use to edit film.
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But uh the one thing I'll I'll say this though, don't don't fall for that instance thing now that I don't know if you've seen the update.
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It's basically an AI grab, in my opinion, because you know there's no audio, it's just a video.
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You know, can't we do that now with live?
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We can just go on and do an instant video and post it.
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I mean, I don't understand the the I don't understand it.
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It's an it's an AI grab.
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Don't follow it, don't feed it, don't don't anyway.
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Um don't fall for the it's a trap.
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Um I've been on both programs since uh since they launched, so I like them the most.
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And I think I realized why I said it before.
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Um I don't remember what it was about Facebook that made me leave my space.
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Um, but it's it's growing.
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It can be so we can tweak it to our own advantage.
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And and I'm gonna walk you through um how I changed, am changing how I use the apps, um, and try not to get stuck in the scroll of stuff.
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The other thing too, in Instagram, it's like having to having to uh go to the top of the screen and choose people you're following to see what they're doing is really it's really annoying because I mean you're you're fed a lot, you know, other stuff first to get you engaged, but I mostly am interested in what the people I'm I'm friends with and what they're doing and and stuff.
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And maybe you pepper it with a little bit of you know random stuff or maybe an ad here and there, but it's just too much.
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Anyway, I digress.
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Uh so look, uh resetting the algorithm by um by uh acting people and coaches and and all of that is it's sometimes it's made me feel a little bit overwhelmed or um disconnected, um or feeling like uh out of step.
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And only because it there's so many aspects and so many points of view and so many opinions and so many everything that it's it's overwhelming.
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So I find myself um drifting away or turning it off, and I just get so bogged down with noise in my own head about am I doing it right?
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Am I doing it this way?
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Why am I doing that?
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Should I be doing it that way?
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All those different things, and that's all right.
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That's Tony Girl knocking everything off the desk.
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Alright, Mary, you're gonna have to relax here.
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Sorry, guys, let me fix this.
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Can you relax?
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Alright.
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You comfortable?
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Alright.
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I forgot where I was.
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Alright, not you two.
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You don't fit up here.
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Anyway.
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Um, where was I?
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Uh okay, so resetting the algorithm.
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Uh oh, right.
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Um, am I getting I become more um uh disconnected and overwhelmed by by all the info, noise, all of it.
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Um I find myself sometimes comparing, like I said, um, am I doing it this way?
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Why am I doing it that way?
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Um and I know I shouldn't.
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And I and it's really hard, but I know that I shouldn't.
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Um, but sometimes a lot of these actors that I see them that I've never seen before, and where they're come up and coming, they are so freaking good that I start questioning myself.
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Um, I mean, I know I know I'm capable.
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I I am trained, I I people have given me great feedback on stuff.
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But when I see some of these people, I'm like, what was that?
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It's it's amazing.
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And I find myself, instead of watching them analytically, I catch myself drawn in.
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And that's when you know they're good, because when you're drawn in and you forget that you're watching uh a film or a short or whatever, it it can it can be a little demoralizing, I suppose.
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I don't know.
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Alright, I'm trying to get this camera to stop shaking because I don't want a shaky video.
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You're gonna pick up that mess.
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I'm not I'm not doing it.
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I'm sorry, I looked away for a minute.
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Uh my notebooks are all over the floor.
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So anywho.
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Fresh hot coffee in the morning.
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Alright, so yeah, I get sometimes inspired, and then I get um encouraged, and then I feel like, ugh, what am I doing with myself?
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I start questioning my my sanity and my choices in life.
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Um, and I bring all of this up because uh that video by Spencer, uh Spencer Glass that you just saw, it was it really touched a nerve for me.
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Um and I have some thoughts, and I'm gonna walk you through how, like I said, uh how I am starting to use social media more for career advancement and to amplify what I've been doing uh or what I'm trying to accomplish instead of being sucked in and distracted by because I see people at work too when they're on their phones and just flipping through and watching, you know, that's their own enjoyment.
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Fine.
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Um I I you know I don't I don't uh begrudge them that.
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But um I notice everywhere I go, you know, when I'm on the subway, I don't know my phone.
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Uh when I'm on, you know, on the bus or you know, walking down the street, I'm I people are in their devices, and it's it's like really that's a whole other story.
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Anyway, so I'm gonna walk you through that and um how to amplify your talents and uh I don't know.
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I'm gonna take this and this this walk together.
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But first, um I have some celebrity signings.
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So at work uh a couple weeks ago, um two major, major, major people came through.
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For me anyway, one of them is major.
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Um, the doctor from Star Trek Voyager, Robert Picardo, was at the show.
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And um, so I'm gonna tell you a secret.
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Okay, I'm gonna share this with you.
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Like when I'm at my theater, which is the Imperial, I'm a ticket taker there now.
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So when you come in, you'll see me.
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I'll take your ticket, I'll scan it, I'll tell you which way to go.
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All right, okay.
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Um, when I'm at other theaters, mostly like, you know, the Belasco or whatever, I'm British, Mike.
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So wherever anyone comes and sees me, they bring me their ticket.
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I take them to their seats, and I'm very funny and gregarious.
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And I try, you know, they have no, I I my English accent is so good.
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It is so good that um, well shoot, what's his name?
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Um uh he played the priest in uh uh British comedy.
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Oh gosh, I forgot his name.
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Anyway, he looked at you, and you know, I wear my yarmulk at work and all.
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He looked at me and looks at my head and all, he's like, Where are you from?
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So I said, I'm from here, but I lived in London for so many years.
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So he's like, Oh.
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It was very ridiculous.
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I'm very ridiculous.
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I know it.
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But it's a way for me to have fun and deal with the monotony because sometimes a lot of people are not so nice.
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So, you know, when they encounter me and I'm all kinds of questions, you know, swarthy looking Yarmica with an English accent working in a theater, they're not they're distracted by whatever is pissing them off.
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So they're they're different sometimes.
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So they try to, I think the English accent for some Americans sort of makes them want to elevate their their um presence.
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I don't know what word to use, but make them act nice or not be the stereotype, um, especially people from the Midwest and the South, they get very kind and very, very wow, thank you so much.
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Uh so that's what I do.
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So um I was stuck in that mode.
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I couldn't really geek out with uh the doctor because he came in and he's like coming by me like this, and I see him like looking down at the edge of the seats for his seat, and I'm like, your seat's here, Doctor.
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And he just looked at me.
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Like I recognize him.
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I'm like, don't worry, I won't tell anyone.
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Um and uh we chit-chatted for a little bit.
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Uh so but he thoroughly enjoyed uh the show.
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And that same day, I didn't see her come in, and her seats were in the friggin' mezzanine, which blew my mind.
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But Sally Fields was there, and it was like the day after or the the day after Dolly Parton had passed.
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And Sally, I I would have lost my mind, I would have just started crying.
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Why?
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Why?
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No, no, I'm supposed to go first.
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I'm so I I think I probably would have gone into that dire tribe and made a complete fool of myself.
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Um, but um I've been a Sally Field fan since I mean back when I was a baby.
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It was Bewitched Genie, the Flying Nun, Star Trek.
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That's the only things that shut me up on TV.
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I got a kick out of the flying nun.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, so yeah, those are my celebrity sightings for for the month of September.
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No, uh, that was August.
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Um that was August, yeah.
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Oh my gosh.
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Um but I didn't get to get to see, like get interact with her.
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I can only see her from afar.
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Anyway, um Spirit 2.0 is now drumroll, please, everybody.
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First jet airways.
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Okay, for those of you who are not aware, there's a guy who came up with this idea that why not buy Spirit Airlines?
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And people just started like pledging, and it blew up.
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And now, with everything that has happened, and what's what I hope you've been following along.
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Um, I'll leave the link there for you to to catch up.
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Uh, for those of you who don't know, I originally pledged a thousand dollars.
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Um there the the the the sorry first jet airlines the the website is now live in October um September 9th, it went live for um donations.
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So um you have to check out and read the uh the details on how to do it.
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Um, but yeah, you can you can make your you can invest, is what I meant to say, not donation.
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You can invest into the project, and there's a lot of aspect to it.
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So go back to the original, the link is right there.
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Go back to the original post, follow along so you get caught up, see the whole story, how it came about.
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There is this is going to be the first ever airline run by the people for the people, just like it's it's a people's owned football team, the the Green Bay Packers.
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It's all community-owned.
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It's it's the only franchise team that's not owned by a billionaire or whatever.
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So it's live.
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Check it out, go do that.
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All right, so our relationship with social media, it may be distorted.
00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:44.799
And like Spencer said, um, his fear is that um our usage and relationship to social media is uh distorted because of uh our reality becomes what we think we're seeing or how people are projecting.
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Um we try we're the way we're engaging and how we're trusting the content.
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Um it can distort what you see.
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Because of course, you know, a lot of people put their, they want to put their best foot forward, you know, they they manipulate the what what you're seeing to be engaging, to to engage with them or whatever, right?
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Um but there's a lot of distraction.
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And the the things that and I get caught too, friends.
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I get caught in it where I'm like, should I buy that program?
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You know, sometimes I'll buy the the the pamphlet they're they're reading.
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I'm like, ugh, I already knew this, you know.
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I got got sometimes.
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But um, I'm trying to be the best that I can be.
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I mean, you know, I'm a middle-aged man.
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Um, I'm trying to be the best that I can be and and take take this somewhere.
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Um I don't have these grand dreams, but I just want to do the thing, right?
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Okay.
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So uh the distractions are geared toward, you know, making, and these are the ones that I've seen.
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Uh if it's it's uh how to get the best headshots, you know, uh, you know different lighting angles for your home self-tape setup, uh, the different programs or the the I used to be uh casting agent for HBO, but you haven't casted anything in the last how many years?
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You know, those kinds of things by my program, sit in my my webinar and learn the secrets of the this and the that.
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And it's really to me, um and it's not just to me, it is really a it it I wasn't saying cash grab, but that's not right.
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It's people trying to survive and make money selling their knowledge, and hopefully you'll gain um something good from it.
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But it's at the state where like I I'm not you know destitute, but I'm like I have to watch my budget.
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There's a lot of people who haven't, you know, made it, in quotes, uh, who are looking for the their the leg up, you know, and it and you're constantly being asked to pay for this or pay for that.
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And there's a to me, there's some things that you should pay for.
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Many years ago when I was younger, I used to think, oh, that stuff should be free, you should just help someone get somewhere.
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But then I realized as I got older, there are some things that maybe that doesn't require a payment, but there are some things for quality things you should have to pay for just to pay for it.
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Um and that's the difference because the stuff the quality stuff that you pay for is exactly that quality that's gonna elevate you or move you forward or be better than just the free thing.
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Yes, yes, we know that's my coffee, thank you.
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My my angelico cat is with my angelical cat mug.
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You want to smell that?
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Um so yeah, the the the ones that I really like is the casting agents like learn how to stand out in the casting room.
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Listen, we all we all know for those of us who've gone through it, the your I'm gonna talk about this later, but you're it's the first three seconds.
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If they haven't already cast and they know who they want, basically they're going through the motions because they have to by union rules, um, or they're looking for a backup or an understudy or what have you.
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Um but they're not quite telling you this yet.
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But say 95% of the time they already know who they want, but uh it's the first three seconds, they know whether or not they're gonna they want more from you.
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Um okay, so where Spencer says that um uh uh the way we look at other actors, uh how do you say it?
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Other actors and the and what they're up to makes us less inspired and less influenced and become deflated.
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Perhaps I know that like like me, um there's a very delicate line between being obsessed with someone or um being a super fan, absolutely.
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Um I'm not sure that I'm I'm making the right point here, but um being in a constant state of having to know what someone is up to all the time, I think that's an obsession that that's really not good for you.
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Um to find out what they've accomplished, like oh, whether they I think that's a distraction too, because you're not you're not um learning for your own growth.
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I don't because I don't really like like the my friends who have made it in quotes, you know, or who are you know doing the thing.
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I love hearing from them and seeing what they've done next, but that's you know, oh I there's an announcement, great, that's all I need to know.
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I don't dive into oh my god, what did they do?
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How did they get there?
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Who did they talk to?
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Because then I'll be lost in this cycle of why not me.
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And that's not my path, that's their path.
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I'm gonna try to adjust this so it stops shaking and it's not gonna work.
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I need a better stand because I have okay, rant.
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I have my setup here on top of a book, on top of a small Amazon box on my desk, so it's at the right angle, and nothing I've found so far.
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And my desk is it's new, it's nice, it's just rickety.
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It doesn't, it's not solid, so it shifts around a lot.
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And why are you flicking at me?
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For those of you listening, my cat's tail is center stage right now.
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Um, so yeah, once they once they make their announcement, that's all I need to know, you know.
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Um uh for like instance, one of what someone I know.
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Uh I didn't know this was gonna happen.
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I saw because I saw the the oh no, I saw a a deadline announcement that uh he was gonna be on Dead City, and that's why I got into the okay.
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I need to get on Dead City, you know.
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So I did what I did to like, you know, for people to see me doing a Dead City thing.
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And I'm working anyway, side by I'm working on something that's gonna be fun, and I hope you guys like it.
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It's a short film, you you'll it's a scene, two things you'll see.
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Anyway, um, I'm creating my own opportunities here, guys.
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And that's too.
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You had what was it?
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Don Cheadle said, It's like, you want to be an actor?
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What are you reading?
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Are you in anything?
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Are you taking a class?
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Are you being creative?
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You know, I'm not waiting and hunting down, I'm not waiting for someone to find me or discover me.
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I'm not hunting down um casting agents and all that.
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That whole process to go through the you know the corporate aspect to get the it's so daunting to me, and I'm I I applaud everyone who's gone through it.
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Um But I I just right now I just want to create.
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So I'm gonna try and create.
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I think I'm done ranting.
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Anyway, um having my own goals, yes.
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Having my own path, absolutely.
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Following it, you gotta pardon me.
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But being influenced by those who've made it can both be positive and a negative.
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I mean, we're stuck in um following them.
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Well, not stuck, but we we find I I don't want to generalize, but you know, I'll get stuck maybe being oh who's that uh I would have I would what would I have done?
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I should have put my phone on to not disturb.
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Let's do that airplane mode.
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Alright.
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Uh I forgot what I was saying.
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Anyway, um if you find a new direction to pursue your your craft by someone you follow, that's great.
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You should absolutely do that, but do not I don't think it's worth getting stuck in the the comparison game.
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Because I think that would that's a a big a big chain around your neck, you know.
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Uh boulder thing.
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That didn't work.
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Um where's my do not disturb?
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Here we go.
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Oh, that's not gonna work anyway.
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Um completely distracted and off now.
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Oh so I had this soak gamed out so well.
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Um all right, on the other hand, if you are annoyed by the success of uh by their success, then yeah, and then you end up in a bad place mentally, it's time to actually ask yourself why you're doing what you're doing.
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That's just my opinion.
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Um I I know someone who When I say I know someone, it's uh we we have taken classes together, we've socialized, we've communicated, we text each other randomly.
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Um some have made it, some have not, some of our aren't are not not made it, but we're on our way, or we're doing different we're doing the thing, right?
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There's someone I know who is really perturbed that someone else we know is uh is really really successful and getting getting there, you know, get getting just growing, booming, exploding.
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And I'm I'm excited for them.
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Like, good for you, you know.
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I'm maybe a little bit jealous, like I would I want to be in a Star Wars show.
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Um, but there she is, she's in a Star Wars show now.
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And um, you know, we all pick the same classes, we all have the same, whatever.
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Uh he's annoyed that she's there, and I'm like thinking, why are you annoyed by that?
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You know, he's not very happy, and I think we should I don't think he should be pursuing this anymore.
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Yes, darling.
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For those of you listening, Tony is rubbing all up on my neck, and she's hitting me with her butt because she wants butt pats.
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So I'm gonna give her butt pats.
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I'm gonna shake everything on the desk now.
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If you can hear that, that's butt pats.
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You happy now?
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Okay, I don't want you twitched to my face.
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:36.480
Thank you.
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That's gross.
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Um so, like I said, sometimes while sometimes you know I have compared myself to others, um, may and maybe questioned some of my choices.
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Um I have to remind myself that my path is my path.
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I am happy for everyone who's getting everything that they've dreamed of.
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And I know what I end up doing is what I end up doing.
00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:08.000
So all right, so seeing the business through our phone is an illusion.
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It is 100% an illusion.
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It's not the business, and a lot of people don't do my a lot of people don't get that that entertainment in all its forms is a business, and you gotta come at it that way because if you don't, you're gonna be stuck with the illusion and then get disillusioned and feel like you know you got ripped off, or you know, come on, tell me, stop.
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Um for anyone starting out, I would I would I need you to understand that you know the business is it's a it's exactly that.
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:53.599
Um it's meant to entertain and um make a profit doing so.
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Um nothing is real, it's all numbers.
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I think those are random thoughts that I had written down here that sort of didn't flow the way I meant it.
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But what I want you to understand that it, yes, it's a business.
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There are a lot of people who if this is not gonna make money for us, we're not gonna do it.
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Or how if we make if it flops, then they get angry because they wasted the money.
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They don't care that the film flopped or that people got to do the thing or whatever.
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If the money they invested to create this thing and it doesn't go anywhere or doesn't regenerate a profit, they're pissed off because it's about the money for them, right?
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:34.799
And that's what the corporate corporate does.
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Corporate corporate, I hate that word.
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:46.799
There are numerous, numerous cogs in the same production that uh come together to in order to put something on, right?
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:58.720
Um, whether it's uh creating a television show, a film, stage performance, uh the facets work separately but together.
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:08.240
Um and the final project that you see in the final outcome, it's um it's a long winding process.
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It's uh there's a lot of ups and downs, heartbreak, uh, tears, joy, all those things.
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Um from rehearsal, from the final product, from okay, from starting up to rehearsals to the final product to what we finally see.
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:35.279
You know, it's many different pieces coming together to to create the the thing.
00:28:35.440 --> 00:29:08.160
Um, and then practicing your own process, like you have to, when you take class, when you take uh when you do your self-tapes, when you when you're you know reading plays and all of that, you're learning an aspect of the business that this part of it, our instrument, which is our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our our everything, um we're fine-tuning an aspect of the business model or part portion of the model, right?
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:32.480
Um so whether you're you're practicing for a self-tape or memorizing lines or you know trying to keep fit, um, when when the when you're uh not in sync with that, keeping everything in tune, you're gonna screw your business, is basically what I'm trying to say.
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.559
Um I think I think that makes sense.
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:37.759
If it doesn't make sense, let me know, right?
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:38.640
Say him like that.
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Last part didn't make any sense to me.
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Um yeah.
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:50.319
I think she's calm now.
00:29:52.160 --> 00:30:04.480
Uh I think I think I feel like I didn't I didn't express what I wanted to express uh just now.
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:11.119
Um I'm referring to my notes so I don't go off track.
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Memorizing scenes, playing, taking scene, claims.
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:24.079
Oh, I think I I think this is part what I wanted to say, how I wanted to frame this.
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:28.640
Um when you're looking at everything as a business, you have to understand that your instrument is a part of that, right?
00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:39.039
So whether you're uh you know practicing um, you know, our own processes, like you know, uh like I said, practice doing your self-tapes.
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.559
You can make fake practice your self-taping just so you're better at it, right?
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And check it out or show it to a friend and say, what do you think of this?
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.480
Um, you can do that.
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:54.319
Um uh memorizing scenes from a play to be sharper, easier, make your memorization skills a lot better and faster.
00:30:54.559 --> 00:31:01.119
Um, taking classes and keeping fit, that's part of the instrument that you that you need to work on.
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:07.440
When times are hard, we have to stay focused in what we can accomplish for ourselves.
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.440
So this way, when the moment comes, we'll be ready for the business.
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:17.279
And I had this conversation, I think I told you the story about a very well-known adult entertainer right now.
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He's really uber huge.
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:25.920
Back in the day, he was he was not, he was uh skinny, uh nice body.
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:29.440
Um, he was a go-go boy at the time, and he knew me.
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:35.759
I was bartending at this party, and uh he's like very inquisitive about the business and all of that.
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.000
And I said to him, Look, do you really want to do that?
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:39.599
And he's like, Yeah, I want to, I want to.
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I'm like, it the first thing you need to understand, it's a business, and you need to look at it like that.
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Because if you're not making them money, they don't care about you.
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:49.279
It's about the money.
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:58.640
So you have a big monster hoo-ha right there, you have a nice body, you have a pretty face, you're marketable, but you need to control that.
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Don't let them control that.
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:04.319
Once you realize that, you'll go far.
00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:12.160
But if you just want to be popular and famous and you know get all the tail you want, that's gonna, you know, flash by and then you'll be nobody and used up.
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:23.279
And but if you want longevity, and I'd like there's Austin Wilde who uh started his guys in sweatpants thing, and then there's some other offshoots of that that he did.
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.680
And then there's Steve Cruz who took over Falcon and and Raging Stalin when they merged.
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:32.319
Now he's like behind the camera running the whole the whole enchilada over there.
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:34.960
Um, a lot of a lot of people.
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:41.759
Um Logan was his last name.
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:44.240
I forgot his last name.
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.400
Anyway, I just know his real name.
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.960
He has his thriving, you know, Blue Page life.
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:52.079
It's all him.
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.599
Even before he died, um what's his name?
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:58.480
Um oh shoot, his name just left me.
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.799
He was living in Spain and uh he passed away suddenly.
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:08.000
He had his own, he started out as a Titan model and now he had his own line.
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:15.519
Two of them, him and Steve Cruz, also um not Steve, um uh Damian Cross started Stag Own before he passed away.
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.079
He had his own studio based out of Spain.
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:22.160
These guys understood the business aspect of it.
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:29.440
So, and it's the same thing on in mainstream and non-adult, it's a business, and once you have that understood, you'll be able to go far and do more.
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:37.039
You may not even get to where you want, uh, but you can still create, I think is an important point as well.
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:44.319
Because all of the people making the millions of dollars, and it took me a long time to realize this as well, you know.
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It's if it's not ingrained in your soul, and even Santana said this about the guitar, if it's not ingrained in your soul, ingrained in your soul, and you cannot breathe without doing this, then it's really not meant for you.
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But if you want to try it, absolutely try it, and then understand all the mechanics behind it because what you see is not what everything it is that goes into it.
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Um, and I I really I'm not be trying to be um judgmental here, but I'm hoping that young people coming up get that too, because they're they're deluded by what they're seeing and they think one way of what it is than it is.
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Okay.
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Um, so refreshing my uh social media, my relationship rather, refreshing my relationship with social media.
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Um when Spencer said that uh uh I had to I had to stop, I had to stop because it became, what is it?
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Because it really hit home as well, brought back to mind.
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Oh right, these are my notes for me, I'm sorry.
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Um like I just mentioned I just mentioned Don Cheadle, right?
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When I was at a point where I had no idea where I was going with this or what I was doing, and I was like, oh, I I can't afford classes or how I just was in this vicious um what do you call that uh hamster wheel in my brain of like, you know, where does where do I start?
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How do I get how do I get in?
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How do I do this?
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How do I where do I begin?
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Uh, but I came across a video where he was doing an interview when he says, you know, are you in a play?
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Are you reading anything?
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What have you done?
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But all that stuff.
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And I'm like, you know, acting is not just, you know, getting, well.
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I'm gonna put you down.
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All right.
00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:45.280
Um acting is not just what you see.
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It there's so many things that go into it, you know, reading plays, doing a scene with a friend, practicing your self-tapes.
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It's all acting.
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Um, even when I'm being British, Mike, on on at work, you know, I'm acting.
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:04.239
Um some people think I'm crazy, but I'm acting.
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Um when he said that, it made me take stock in um my choices and what helped me to to uh it helped me to remind me of my why.
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And my why was was that.
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So it I want you to see this interview so you know what I'm talking about, and it's linked right there so you understand.
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Because if you're an actor or you in well, if you aspire to be an actor, if you're an actor in whatever state you're in, beginning or just watch this and and watch the link.
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You'll love it.
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:45.440
Um, so here we are.
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We're following our favorites, wonderful.
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Uh when was the last time you posted something that you created?
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And I'm asking you generally, when was it you created something and you posted it?
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Yeah, whether it's you know something silly.
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Um when was um the last time let me look at my list.
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Uh did you write something?
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Did you read it out?
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Did you post it?
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Um when was the last time you did something creative that you shared with the world?
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Think about that.
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The really successful people on social media are the ones using it to showcase their talents through video and pictures.
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That's the fact, Jack.
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In many forms.
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I mean, it doesn't have to be something polished, it doesn't have to be.
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Do you remember there was a guy during quarantine?
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He had a uh, and I I know a lot of us, well, I know for me, I sort of stole the the term quarantines, uh, where he was creating, you know, one-man shows in his apartment, you know, and I'm like, oh my god, this is brilliant! I don't know whatever happened to that dude.
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:13.599
Um, and I lost track of uh that I don't think that that Instagram handle is there anymore.
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But um, it was brilliant.
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He got creative.
00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:40.639
So I'm I'm using social media now to truly connect with people, like through the podcast, through the other projects that I'm working on, because I I I know that everyone who follows me or writes to me, uh, they are responding to something I did, or something they're asking about what's next, or what have you, and I I thoroughly enjoy that.
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:46.639
Um it's still weird to me sometimes that people say, Oh, what when they they show interest.
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:54.480
Um, because I'm just doing it just to do it, because otherwise I get stuck in my brain, and I just I have I have to just let it out.
00:38:54.719 --> 00:39:02.320
Um so yeah, through the podcast, my own stuff that's coming soon, and and all the other stuff.
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I am trying to connect with people by using the algorithm the the apps and manipulating the algorithms of myself into into that.
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So it's more of an amplification of what I'm doing than me stuck watching other people be creative and doing um so I hope I hope all of this was helpful.
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I really do.
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Yes, baby.
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I'm glad I hope you guys all enjoyed the lot of Tony Girl in this episode.
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Just all over the place.
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And I'm not putting her down because people enjoy her.
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Like, I don't have the tank over here knocking everything down.
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He's asleep.
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I don't want to wake him up.
00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:59.679
Um, so now you tell me, you know, what do you think?
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What do you what do you think about um what do you think you'll do to optimize your your social media to your advantage?
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How how are you gonna do it?
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I want to know what what tweaks are you gonna make it to amplify your thing.
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:20.079
Do you think um managing managing your social media account has become a job itself?
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I absolutely do think it's a job.
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.440
Um it can it can take a lot of time and effort and energy.
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:42.559
Um, like I said before, and I'm never on my phone on the subway, but sometimes I do have to like maybe make a quick edit or send shoot an email or something or uh shoot a video real quick uh for B-roll or what have you, but I try not to do that because it's crazy in the subways.
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:50.000
Um but yeah, how are you gonna, you know, what do you uh you think think it's a second job that you were not paid for, a third job or a fourth job?
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:51.760
You can make it pay, but you know.
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:57.440
Um how do you feel about uh social media's um assimilation into the industry?
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:16.239
It's uh and what I mean by that is this um what do you what do you think about how the first thing a lot of casting people or the people behind the table look at is like how many how what is your following like?
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:28.800
Because they are expecting that you know you're gonna amplify what you're doing through the social media, and then uh by by trade, I guess their their project will blow up as well.
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:33.280
You know, they it's it's become a a metric that I think it's unfair.
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.079
Um pardon me.
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:41.599
I think it's a metric that's unfair, but how do you feel about that?
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:43.199
I want to know what you think of that.
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.559
Um now I'll phrase it again for you for in case you you forgot.
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Yeah, how do you feel about social media's assimilation into the industry?
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.599
I don't think it's fair at all.
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Or do you even give a shit?
00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:59.679
Do you like say ah that's I don't care.
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I just like watching.
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It it doesn't matter to me.
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I want to know that too.
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.719
So if you made it this far, thank you.
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:09.760
I appreciate you.
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.639
Um comment with um what emoji?
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:18.480
Oh, the selfie emoji, the the arm holding the the phone up like this.
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For those of you listening, it's the selfie emoji.
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It's the arm holding up a phone.
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Uh post that.
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Um yeah.
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Thanks.
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:36.239
So I have to give a shout out to a bunch of people.
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:45.519
Um, thank you so much for uh signing up on um on uh the YouTube channel and to the Patreon.
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:47.920
Um George, thank you so much.
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I appreciate you.
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:51.360
Uh Faith, thank you so much.
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:53.519
And Tori, thank you.
00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.719
Uh I'm glad you're you're there following.
00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:57.679
It's wonderful.
00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:07.760
Um, I still need to get to 500 so I can open up my shop on um on uh YouTube because I'm I can but come.
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I I just can't say anything until it's there.
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.880
It's you know the way it works.
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:19.679
But um, if I get 500 people, I can open my YouTube shop, please sign up.
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:21.519
That will help.
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.719
Um subscribe to the tube, yo.
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:31.920
Uh, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or um or Spotify, five stars would be really helpful.
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:32.480
I love it.
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:34.239
I okay.
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:35.760
The tank has awoken.
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:44.800
Um it will help me go up in the in their algorithm moving up and uh exposure and all of that.
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:56.559
And I just would like to say um you can also donate to the pod um through the the the BuzzFeed uh uh platform.
00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:59.599
It's the there's a link right there for you to to donate.
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:04.000
Um and when you donate, you you there's a lot of uh perks that come with that.
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:06.400
Um and also on the Patreon when you join the Patreon.
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:07.599
Uh there's a lot of perks.
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And next month, I'm gonna start my uh monthly uh uh video chat for those um who sign up um in that tier.
00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:22.480
You're gonna get a time and a date to tune in, and we can just shoot the shit together.
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:31.440
Um and I just want to welcome you to the very first episode that is also video on Apple Pod.
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:33.920
This is the first one, yeah, everybody.
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:37.039
I tried to set it up before, but I completely forgot all about it.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:43.519
And then I was doing all my updates, and I'm like, oh shoot, I I have I can now put video on in the Apple Pod.
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:48.239
So now you get to watch me on Apple Pod and listen to me on the pod there.
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:51.360
Um, so yeah, you can send me fan mail through BuzzFeed.
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:57.199
Um, I hate that you can send me a message, DM me through BuzzFeed better than fan mail, so silly fans.
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:01.119
I love my fans, but I think you're more like my friends, right?
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:04.239
Um, you can send me DMs through but through BuzzFeed.
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:06.000
But BuzzSprout.
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:06.960
Buzz Sprout.
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The link is there.
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Go there.
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.800
And um on Patreon too.
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:20.239
Um, so the more you help me out, the the less the less there will be ads.
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:21.119
That came out all wrong.
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:31.440
I'm trying not to, I'm trying to go stay ad-free, although I'm I'm considering uh partnering with a couple of brands that I like because I use them, so I figure, you know, I've been using them for years.
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:32.480
Let me see what I can do.
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:36.159
But I'm trying to keep mostly ads free, but yeah.
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:43.119
Uh all right, so thanks for watching.
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I appreciate you all.
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:58.800
Um stick around because I'm going to give you my um five actionable real things that you can do today to amplify your talents on social media.
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:01.679
So you're gonna want to join me over on Patreon for that.
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:05.280
So later.
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Bye.
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:09.519
Oh, it's horrible.
