Josh Young: Multifaceted Entertainer

Welcome aboard listeners! Prepare to be wowed as we navigate the world of entertainment with our special guest, the multi-dimensional Josh Young. This episode promises to be as enticing as a page-turner graphic novel, with Josh unveiling his creative process, from pumping up crowds to penning comic books. We start our journey by unraveling the intricacies of being an MC spiced up with Josh's experiences in the field. 

Our expedition into the world of entertainment takes a dramatic turn as we explore the realm of acting. Josh uncovers the secrets of method acting, revealing how the art of immersing oneself into a role is pivotal in delivering a compelling performance. From understanding your character's backstory to finding truth in imaginary circumstances, we leave no stone unturned. It’s like a masterclass packed with invaluable insights, not just for aspiring actors, but for anyone looking to understand the world of acting better.

But the ride doesn't stop there! As we approach the end of our voyage, Josh gets candid about the risks and rewards that come with a career in the chaotic world of entertainment. With anecdotes from his personal journey, including his work on his movie Ted Caldwell, he highlights the resilience required in this industry. Not to mention, Josh imparts wisdom on the importance of having a diverse creative career and turning your passion into a thriving business. Fasten your seatbelts, folks! This is a rollercoaster ride into the depths of the entertainment industry that you don't want to miss.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

What's up party people? This is Josh Young, and welcome to this episode of NOLA Film Scene. Nola Film Scene.

Speaker 2: 0:15

Hello, welcome to NOLA Film Scene with TJ Play-Doh. I'm TJ and, as always, I'm Play-Doh. Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene. We're here with my good friend Josh.

Speaker 1: 0:26

Hey, how y'all doing, Josh, thanks for joining us. Yes, sir, I'm excited to be here. How would you describe yourself? Tell the people about you? I am a MC and a DJ. I do that professionally. I'm also an influencer, an actor and, as of a couple days ago, I am a comic book writer, and I just finished my first comic book, called Popsicle Ghost, and it is out now.

Speaker 3: 0:50

Excellent. Do you have a copy of it? Can you hold up the cover? So I'd love to see a shot of that cover art. Yeah, awesome, I'm excited about it. Congratulations, that's incredible, definitely congratulations.

Speaker 2: 1:02

MC Popsicle. That's Popsicle Ghost of Comic, but you have a film you've been working on about Popsicle too.

Speaker 1: 1:07

Yes, I'm also making a movie called Popsicle World. I've been working on it for like three years now. I play every character at this juncture. It's about two and a half hours long. I'm probably going to make it shorter, but it's like a sci-fi, comedy, adventure movie and it's all on green screen. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:26

I do follow it on your Facebook. It's wild what is going on in Josh's head, that he came up with that In a good way. In a good way. I'm not weird, but weird like us, you know. Good it's fantastic.

Speaker 1: 1:36

If you watch it in order, it makes a whole lot more sense. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm excited about it. I'm almost finished. I got like 10 minutes left, I think, and then it'll be completely finished. I've been editing as I went, so it'll be done soon.

Speaker 3: 1:51

I like to ask Josh, how challenging is it to do what you're doing in that film with the green screen?

Speaker 1: 1:58

It was very weird at first because you're talking to no one and you're sitting in a room by yourself. As you get used to it, though, you really picture the other characters, so it gets a lot easier. It reminds me of on my podcast that also do. We talked to Charles Fleischer, which is the voice of Roger Rabbit, and that was basically what they had to do at that time for Eddie Valiant, the detective in the movie. He had to just sit there and talk to no one or like a stick for the entire movie. So he said he basically went into a sort of psychosis where he saw the rabbit and he said took him like six months to stop seeing him, because after you get used to put yourself mentally in that space, it's not so hard. Makes you crazy, though, I guess. So yeah, I've just been picturing. It gets a lot easier as you go. At first it feels awkward, but after a year or two you see the people pretty well mentally.

Speaker 3: 2:54

And it's wild. I love it. I've watched some of the videos that you produced in your production quality and the way you do it is just incredible. I've been doing a lot of editing with this podcast and I've done some editing in the past for a friend that had a YouTube channel. He was mostly a game streamer and seeing the stuff that you do and the editing that you do is just mind blowing. The way you bring that stuff to life.

Speaker 1: 3:16

Thank you very much. That's actually what I went to school for. It was just kind of like a project for myself, and I decided that I was not going to do things based on what I could do. I would do things based on what I wanted to do, and so it was an opportunity to learn. So I would say, like I want to fly, so I'm going to figure out how to fly. I would never base my decisions on what I knew was possible. I would just figure out how to do it as I went and I've learned a lot and I've never run into anything that I couldn't do. Excellent, awesome.

Speaker 2: 3:47

And you kind of already touched on it, but we've been asking people where they got their starts, what inspired them to go into the entertainment field. You went into the school because you went to learn the techniques, but also what was your inspiration before becoming a DJ?

Speaker 1: 3:59

That really just happened. It was very strange. I got out of school and I was just kind of floating around for a minute and then I went into this place called Hangout. It's very cool. I don't know if you guys have been there or heard of it, but it's like this giant club on the beach and you can fit like 5,000 people in there. It's huge. And so I went in there to watch some show or something and my friend's like hey, you should be an MC. And I was like I don't know what that is. And then he kind of explained it to me and I was like I'll think about it. And I walked all the way to the bottom step of the building and I was like screw it, I'll go ask him. So I go up to the front, the front desk, and I was like you guys need MCs.

Speaker 1: 4:34

And the lady that I happened to ask was the owner of the club and also nearly a billionaire, like rich, rich, rich, rich. And it was just some random person that happened to be at the desk and she was like you, you're going to be great, you're going to be amazing, we're going to hire you. And like we became really close friends after that. And then she was like whatever you need, let me know and we'll do it. Like if you want to dress up, do a dance or whatever, we'll do it and I'll get you the stuff. So I was like awesome. So that was a very good job for me and very encouraging creatively, but I could basically just make stuff up as far as entertainment and do it. It was a very encouraging environment for me creatively. That was just an accident.

Speaker 2: 5:15

That was awesome and I was a St Super fan. Captain Crescent City, I hired you and you DJed on the float as we cruise down the street.

Speaker 1: 5:22

That was so fun. Yeah, I enjoyed that a lot. That was the only time I've ever been on a float like that. That was really, really fun.

Speaker 2: 5:27

Oh wow, I'm glad I could break your cherry yeah that was so fun, I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1: 5:32

I just played like pump up music the whole time Like rock, rocks. That was fun, it was cool.

Speaker 3: 5:38

So are you still actively DJing, mcing, now?

Speaker 1: 5:42

I've been focusing more on MCing lately. I do a show at Razoo on Bourbon Street and I do that about four nights a week. I DJ a very little bit, but I much more enjoy hosting and like entertaining in that way, because I feel kind of there's only so much you can do with the audience if you're sitting there focusing on DJing so much. So I'd rather talk and dance and sing and all that kind of stuff, but I really enjoy it. It's fun. I'm doing all this other stuff too. I enjoy all these things though, so whatever works out best, I'll be happy to do.

Speaker 3: 6:17

It seems like the MCing and the things that you do with. That would carry over to the acting side of things, because you're also an actor. It seems like that that would be very helpful with doing certain types of performances, definitely.

Speaker 1: 6:31

It also can be not good. It just depends because if I'm like a rock star or if I'm like someone very similar to myself, that it's very effortless and I've built a persona that it's really easy to slip into. But if it's something where, like, maybe I'm shy or maybe I'm like some tormented person, or then it's hard or I had to actually deconstruct that. That was part of what I wanted to do when I started going to acting classes is I built this persona so strongly that I needed to take it away so that I would be able to do more than that one person. It was so ingrained in me to be this certain way that I was like I'm gonna start over and throw everything out and try to be just blank so that I can be other people.

Speaker 2: 7:19

Yeah, I got you, did you ever do the circle exercise?

Speaker 1: 7:22

He thought I did. I think he thought I did. I don't think I actually did, though I didn't correct him, but the reason I know I need to do it.

Speaker 2: 7:31

Josh and I met in Jim Gleason's acting class and almost every guest who is from the New Orleans area that we've had so far I've met in the circle exercise. At least there's the Jim Gleason connection with us. We're still on trend.

Speaker 3: 7:45

Yeah, Brian and I even met in the circle exercise. Yeah, it's not really.

Speaker 1: 7:49

Wow, that's a good place to meet people. Yeah, every actor that I know from around here I met them in Jim's class. I love Jim, he's a good guy. I worked in the Screen Actors Guild with Jim. I was doing communication with the Screen Actors Guild for a little while. I was working on getting people together and writing articles and stuff like that. So I did that to like so smart and soul. So wow, yeah, I was doing it Like I enjoyed it. I love all those people. They're very cool.

Speaker 2: 8:22

And before we started, you were telling us about a movie that's coming out.

Speaker 1: 8:24

Oh yeah, okay. So it's based on a graphic novel. It's called Tad Caldwell and the Monster Kid. It's like a horror sci-fi movie, Very cool, Like if you get a chance you should grab one of these. It's very interesting. I don't officially know that I have ADD, but I feel like if a doctor talked to me they would be like look at yourself. So this was very interesting. It's kind of like a mystery, Mysteries and it keeps you wondering what's going on until the very end. So I have antagonist parts in this. I can't say too much about what I do exactly, because it's kind of like a surprise at the end of the movie. They're doing sound for it right now and so it should be out very, very soon. I'm really excited about that.

Speaker 2: 9:15

Excellent and a lot of people know, in case this comes out and the strike's still on, this is an independent movie. That's why Josh can talk about it, but when we're taping, they're negotiating. So it's going to be over by the time this drops.

Speaker 1: 9:26

Yes, I hope so. Those things.

Speaker 3: 9:28

Yep, been a minute. It has OK, so tell me.

Speaker 1: 9:31

Be glad when it's done?

Speaker 3: 9:32

Yeah, indeed. So what was your inspiration to get into acting? You have, I feel like you have, some very distinct, different types of entertainment creative that you do. Tell us more about the acting side. How did you get your start with that, I think?

Speaker 1: 9:49

it was just I've always wanted to do that, ever since I was a little kid. Well, it went. Those are the first two things I was like first I'll be like I'll be a secret aide to be looking over your shoulder all the time I was 12. I was like I don't care, I'm going to be a secret agent. And then after that I decided to be an actor. It was just something that I'd always wanted to get into. And then when I moved to New Orleans maybe like five years ago or something like that there wasn't much of a scene in Alabama for that, so I decided I wanted to. While I was over here and I had access to those type of things that I would get into it, I just always enjoying getting to be other people and having that creative outlet.

Speaker 2: 10:30

So let's go back to DJ versus MC and you describe it how you can be more interactive with the people. When you mix in the audio, when you're DJing, you're concentrating on that. When you're MCing, when you're hosting, it's with the people. So what do you do for the music then? Are you bringing up other acts or it's all?

Speaker 1: 10:49

pre-recorded. No, we have a DJ that is doing his own show. And let me clarify this, because no one knows what either of those things are. So a lot of times I just say I'm a DJ because everybody is like you're an MC, oh then you're a DJ. Or you're a DJ, oh then you're an MC. And they are not the same thing.

Speaker 1: 11:09

An MC is master of ceremonies, and that is actually a term that came from the Catholic Church, believe it or not, which means you're right in the show. So, whatever that would entail, that's a good thing that I like about my job is you can kind of do whatever you want. I could sit on stage and build a sand castle if I wanted to. As long as people stay, then it's fine, which I really enjoy. So you can just kind of be off the cuff and make up whatever you want. As long as it's working, then you're allowed to do whatever you want to do. So an MC, you're sitting there, you're talking to the audience, you're singing, you're dancing, you're bringing people up, just hosting the show. Dj, this jockey I think everybody knows what that is, but I mean that's more. You're actually sitting there with the term you would have a DJ with you.

Speaker 1: 11:57

Normally, like you could do it, I guess, pre-recorded and run everything. But that's really complicated to do all that unless you're just running off of a playlist. But that's not the way it's supposed to be done. That's like one of the. I was at a. I worked at a radio station for a hip hop radio station when I was in college and those, those are two of the pillars of hip hop. You got your DJ and you got your MC and they're pretty inseparable. You kind of need to have both of them. You can do both, but it's better if you have two you know?

Speaker 2: 12:29

No, I think it's. I appreciate for clearing that up.

Speaker 1: 12:32

Yeah, people should know, because that that is a question that has haunted me for 10 years.

Speaker 3: 12:37

Excellent, I can imagine, and I wasn't entirely clear on the differences. But if you're DJing you, can you MC, or is it too task heavy to DJ and MC at the same time?

Speaker 1: 12:49

The way I like to do it. It definitely is, but it's not necessary. I mean, you could a lot of people do do both, but you're splitting. You can do in hat, so you're you can't move if you're DJing and MC, so the moving is out the window, your, your focus is cut in half. You can do it, okay, I guess, but it's not nearly the same, you know, because I'm I'm like climbing the walls and jumping off things and like dancing around, so like that would all be out the window, so you're just stationary, you know so. But the way I like to do it is very, very physically demanding. So, yeah, that would be hard to do if you're DJing.

Speaker 2: 13:29

I can't picture you sitting still Me either. It's too boring. And you feed off the crowd and they feel feed off of you. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:36

I'm just trying to whip everybody up into a frenzy the whole time. That's basically all. Like I would get in trouble all the time for being too intense, like when I was younger. I still do occasionally, but I think it's funny to get in trouble for being too hype If you're a hype guy.

Speaker 2: 13:54

I'm getting paid for it now what I used to get in trouble for and didn't continue with our jumping around. Let's go back to the comic book. How did you? How did that start? How did you get into the comic book? Who'd you contact? How did you get drawn? Did you draw?

Speaker 1: 14:04

it. I did everything as far as writing it and drawing it. Kurt all, mac or the guy that wrote this he, he kind of came on as like a consulting position because I didn't know what I was doing and so I didn't know about, like, page size or the bleed of the page. There's all this stuff that you have to know idea that goes into making a comic Like the size of it is very important All these things that nobody has any idea about. So he, he helped me as far as that goes. We met and he helped me just kind of figure out the rules, the general rules that you can't really break, and Ryan AC did the type setting.

Speaker 1: 14:43

I got really serious about it like six months ago because I talked to Kevin Eastman, the guy that made Ninja Turtles for my podcast, the pre-made version. That wasn't that good, but he seemed very interested in the idea and he wanted to talk about that a lot and I was like I can do this justice. I feel like I did not do it justice and if Kevin Eastman thinks there's something to it, god decided to get into it. Yeah, yeah, that came up with this little character, probably like 15 years ago, pubicle Ghost. That's on my hat, something that I've wanted to do for like 15 years, and I just I just decided to start working on it and I decided to make it kind of similar to my movie.

Speaker 1: 15:23

So it was a good jumping off point. I knew how to write that because I've been writing that. So I just I decided to make it more thing that I could not fit, like I cannot make myself into a giant Pubicle literally. I mean I could, but it wouldn't look very good. I'm very, very proud of it. It's something that I think that the quality of it is way better than something I thought I could do.

Speaker 2: 15:46

It looks great. I can't wait to read it.

Speaker 3: 15:48

Yeah, same here Can you read TJ. You know, despite popular opinion, yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:53

Oh, okay, good.

Speaker 3: 15:54

Good, good, there's lots of pictures in it, right?

Speaker 1: 15:56

So well words initially so that if you looked at it you could generally get a feel of it. So you got a shot. I think you can. I think you can do it. Good, Good, Good, Excellent, Excellent. We'll get played out to read it to you.

Speaker 2: 16:11

It fit the next audio book I do. Yeah, from this podcast, somebody reached out to me and said, would you like to do my audio book? And I was like, yeah, so cool. Yeah, that would be awesome. I think you would have to read your book, but I'll help if you need me.

Speaker 1: 16:25

Okay, sounds good. I feel like that's a really good job for you. To read books, though.

Speaker 2: 16:29

I think that's really cool as soon as I get myself to a class, I learned how to read myself. I'm sorry, no, I never learned to read. We're just trying to speak good here. We struggle with that every day.

Speaker 1: 16:41

I say that at my shows and we know who you're referencing. That's part of my show I say I can't read nearly every day at my shows. I don't, it's just a joke. It's an ongoing joke that I have in my shows that I can't read.

Speaker 2: 16:55

And all the girls in the crowd are like oh it's funny that it's brought up here. I'll teach you to read all the girls in your audience. No, no, ladies, just dance. Buy a drink, we'll be okay. Go to that bar, oh tip. Yeah, I'll take a tip. You don't have to teach, anyway, tj, you got any more questions? It's funny.

Speaker 3: 17:10

Yeah, so how did you? What was the inspiration behind your persona? Did it take you a while to develop that, or did it just kind of come to you early on when you started doing that kind of work, when I was?

Speaker 1: 17:22

younger. I feel like a lot of people are like this, like you don't really know who you are when you're like a young teenager or whatever. So my idea to fix that when I was like a young teenager was what do you like? Who would you like to be? So I just picked out a bunch of people, elements of different people, that I found attractive and I was like, if you like this, that it kind of is who you are in a way. So I found people that I respected or what I wanted to be like, and then just kind of like, put that together with my personality. So I did the same thing when I started MCing.

Speaker 1: 18:00

I was like, okay, what would like the perfect MC be like? So I was like, okay, colors, I want to wear really bright colors all the time. And I took inspiration Did you ever, did you guys ever see a goofy movie? Yeah, yeah, okay, power line from a goofy movie. I was like that is one of the people that I was like that, that is what I want to be like. So I took elements of that. That's like one piece of it. So I just took people like that that I was like sadly, a lot of the people I respect are not real people.

Speaker 2: 18:35

They're cartoon. There's real people behind them.

Speaker 1: 18:37

Since I want to be a cartoon. People like that are like Johnny Storm from Fantastic Four, just like people like that, and I was like, just took little elements of them and I was like this, this, this, this. It was acting in the first place, but to be an MC or to be anyone, it's just like an actor. There are elements of yourself. I feel like. To be a reliable actor, you have to distill part of yourself into this functional character. So I just tried to get the very best piece of myself that is reliable and let him out of the box and then he goes back in and I'd be well. I was gonna say I'm a normal person, but that's not true.

Speaker 2: 19:16

It's normal for you, josh, whatever that level is I can relate, I can relate.

Speaker 1: 19:21

Right, Probably not too too normal, but more normal than I appear, I would imagine.

Speaker 2: 19:27

Normal is boring. Normal is safe.

Speaker 1: 19:29

If we wanted to be normal, we wouldn't be too many of this, right? Yeah, forget that we don't need it.

Speaker 3: 19:34

Yeah, that's really awesome, man. I like hearing your process. We like hearing people's stories and how they develop to where they are and how they everybody's got a different. Everybody we have talked to so far has a different way that they got started in the industry and the things that they're doing. So it's really cool for me personally to hear what people are doing and how they got to that point, and it's inspiring to hear your story with the different characters and things that you've developed.

Speaker 1: 20:02

What do you guys think about that what I said? Do you agree about the separating parts of yourself as far as acting, or do you think it's better to just bring your entire whole self into it?

Speaker 2: 20:14

I think that would depend on the role. So if there's something that's just exactly 50 year old, three year old guy from New Orleans, you don't really have to mold or I wouldn't have to mold. Going back to Jim Gleason's class, you find what's similar. Go back to a point in your life, like for me, I entered the seminary after high school and didn't do any college. But let's say I had to play a lawyer. So if I go back to that point or even after that, then I'd have to imagine myself getting into law school and then the bar and how I would deal with clients and that kind of thing. So it depends on the role. And I think it's Al Pacino I'm not sure if the quote comes from him, but every time you're acting you have to be 97% of that actor, of that character, and 3% of you.

Speaker 2: 20:54

So you have to know Blocking. You know you don't want to lose yourself totally, but you do want to lose yourself a bit. You become the amorphous blob, you become the clay that you have to shape into that role, but not so much that you go crazy Like. We've heard bad stories of method acting. You know where people are just rude on set and treating people terribly. Oh, that's the character. No, you're being an asshole to my knowledge.

Speaker 2: 21:14

You can do it cut. Maybe you can't let the emotions go at first, but you still have to interact with other humans as yourself. Okay, back to one. Let's start again in action, right, and then you do that. So, yeah, you have to hold yourself a little bit but be able to let it go.

Speaker 1: 21:27

And it's almost a non-answer, but yes and no For me method acting would be go live in a hole for three days or something. I don't think being mean to people is the way to do it, but you know, I don't think that's necessary. I feel like, you know, maybe you just don't eat for three days, that because your character is starving in the desert or something. Maybe I'm not saying to do that, but I'm just saying do it to yourself, don't do it to other people, you know.

Speaker 2: 21:53

I heard it was on a different podcast and they were talking it was kind of entertainment reporting there were two actors for a movie, man and woman, and in the movie they're married. So in preparation they went to marriage counseling as their characters and the host was like, yeah man, what are they doing? That's so silly. It's like that seems proper to me, that seems right. I don't think that part is silly. So it's the process.

Speaker 2: 22:14

And then they took an extra step so that when they get on set they don't have to try to be the married couple. In that sense they'll be the married couple, and I think that's what method is. Yeah, I agree, somebody just sent me something. And, hey, watch my video. Can you give me a hand? Sure, I'll watch it. I don't know how much I can give.

Speaker 2: 22:29

And then you have the basic acting and is what's called pushing. So if you're supposed to be angry one out of 10, you're supposed to be a 10, but you're only feeling a seven. If you try to show more than that seven, it's you look like you're trying to act and be angry, whereas if you just show the seven, it may not have been what you wanted, but it will be true to life and that was some of the stuff that I saw in his and it was great, but he couldn't change it in editing. You know what I mean. So I guess I got off a little bit of time with that part of the method so that when the acting is there, the scene is there, when you're doing the acting, it's on the screen, the method comes through and then they can deal with whatever they need to deal with in editing, right?

Speaker 1: 23:02

Yeah, so it's like the that Todd Tad called well movie that I did. That was part of my because I believe in method acting to an extent. But my character while I can't say who it is, he he's like part of the characters, he's like starving all the time. So just I didn't need for a couple of days to try to get in touch with that feeling, but that that only affects me. You know, stuff like that.

Speaker 3: 23:27

For me. When I started studying acting, I studied Meisner and Meisner says that acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. So you have to find your own truth for each role and apply that. I agree with Brian. I don't necessarily think you have to be method and stay in that all the time. I don't know. Maybe some people do. I still don't fully understand why some choose to do it that way and some don't. Like Brian, I've heard the horror stories of big name actors that stay in character and they're complete jerks all the time. I don't necessarily think that that's right. I have to get my headspace right. If I'm doing something emotional and I try to tap back into a memory or an experience or something that I went through, to apply that and, like Brian said, like Jim has said, to be able to relate to that character and what they're going through.

Speaker 3: 24:17

I think it's possible to find experiences from life, to find a way to apply to each one.

Speaker 3: 24:23

I just booked a role where I have to play a mentally ill, homeless man and one of my brothers asked me well, are you going to go live on the street for a couple of days to get in touch with that? No, I don't think I need to go live on the street to get in touch with the homeless aspect of it. I've experienced things displacement from hurricanes, katrina and other hurricanes where I've been without power. I know it's not the same thing as living on the street, but I have experiences where there were times where food was scarce, water was scarce, the ability to clean yourself was scarce and moving around living on somebody's floor without air condition. I know it's not the same thing but it is an experience that I can find a way to relate.

Speaker 3: 25:11

And the character it's more about his mental illness than his living circumstance. So for that aspect of it I've done other research and looking at different types of mental illness and what specifically I need to bring for this character. He has conversations with himself, imagining that other people are there, so I kind of delve into that to be able to craft that character. So that's, I mean, that's kind of my I agree with you.

Speaker 1: 25:38

It may not always be necessary to put yourself through something horrible to understand a character. I think that method acting is more about having or finding experiences in your life that can connect you to the part. Whether it's exactly the same or not is not that important, but the feeling that you can remember and connect to, I think, is the purpose, and I don't think that you have to live in character to have experiences that you can revisit, that make you feel a certain way.

Speaker 3: 26:10

Right, I agree with you. I think it was in a class with Jim. He was describing it might have been Tom Hanks, a couple of other really big name actors, and watching them how they would just drop in and out of character like that. Being inexperienced, being new it takes a lot more for myself to get into a role, especially if it's something really emotional, and he described these people how they could just turn it on like a light switch. But then you also hear the other ones, as we've been talking about the method actors that stay that way all the time. I can't help but wonder if maybe they just can't flip that switch and drop in and out of character as needed, and maybe that's why they need to stay that way. I don't know. I still don't fully understand it.

Speaker 1: 26:55

I feel like people like Tom Hanks are just born a certain way. That is not normal, like they're not normal people. They're built a certain way and it makes more sense to me that normal people would need some sort of prompting to get to that point. Not I feel like more normal person would have to go through some steps or something.

Speaker 2: 27:19

And it would also depend on the role. So picture something that's so intense, let's say, I'll even say my left foot. There will be blood. His roles are intense and deep and they're scary, louis.

Speaker 3: 27:30

Daniel Davis.

Speaker 2: 27:31

And so maybe he has to stay in that, because that's such a level of intensity that you start in the morning and then there's lunch. But if you start chit-chatting with the people, you're gonna have a scene with where you would just chew them a new ass and you're like, hey, buddy, how you doing? To get back into that might be too much, might just waste time, and they have the experience where they know where they need to be met. You know what I mean. So I think it depends on the role, and if it's a deep drama or if it's a light comedy, it's gonna be a difference.

Speaker 1: 27:57

You know what I mean. Yeah, daniel Day Lewis is a mad man Like. I've seen his interviews and he's just this like soft spoken, normal dude. And then you see him in movies and it's just a complete shift. It's so crazy. I love him, I think he's a great, great actor.

Speaker 2: 28:13

It's just so strange to see him in his normal persona and gone Well, like a very nice person who plays the best villains, because they don't let that part of themselves out. In reality they're nice to people, they like people, but everybody's got all the emotions and all the bad stuff in us and so to let that out it's almost cathartic and I can go crazy and tear it up. But it's a safe space it's. You know, as long as you're not a jerk and knocking people out on set, you're at least not on purpose, and then it's a safe space for us to watch and enjoy that with him and access those emotions and those feelings too.

Speaker 1: 28:46

Yeah, I just call those type of actors, especially like Daniel Day Lewis, that's like a chameleon, that's one of those people that are just not normal, that can just access the part of themselves that is unknown to the general public. Tom Cruise is also a great actor, but his style is like what if Tom Cruise was the president? Or what if Tom Cruise was a bartender? Or completely different. He's not becoming anybody else, he's just Tom Cruise doing what he does, yeah, but it's good. He has a likable persona. You know? Yeah, exactly, it's interesting.

Speaker 3: 29:19

Brian, do you have other questions? No, we've covered a lot of it. Why don't we do some?

Speaker 1: 29:23

plugs. Okay, well, firstly so my new comic book just came out, like three days ago, called Popsicle Ghost. It is about the ghost of a Popsicle traveling to different dimensions and fighting evil. If you want one, hit me up on my Instagram, mc underscore Popsicle, and we can get you one. Do a special edition double issues, full color, very cool, and I will sign up for you. So check that out. Also on my TikTok or Instagram or Facebook, mc underscore Popsicle.

Speaker 1: 29:55

I have Popsicle World, which is basically a movie version of the comic book. It's a little different, but it's something that I've been working on for like three years and it's pretty good. So, yeah, come check that out. Also, I have a podcast called Weird Interviews. I interview actors, comic book writers, movie writers, book writers, voice actors, all kinds of stuff. I just interviewed Erica Schroeder, which is the voice of Evie from Pokemon, and Nurse Joy. She was the voice of Luffy from One Piece, and so that's out now. You can find that entire thing on my mc popsicles world page on Facebook. Also, keep a lookout for Ted Caldwell gonna be out soon. Keep an eye out. Awesome, and where do you emcee again? You wanna come to Razoo on Bourbon Street? I'm there every weekend, so come check it out. We turned up super hard.

Speaker 2: 30:49

It's a good club I've been in the past. I don't party too much, I'm getting old and tired, but it's a good club to be at, for sure.

Speaker 1: 30:57

I tried just under chaos, complete chaos, like legally as intense as it can legally be without people going to jail or being deceased. So that's where I like to say you just set that hard limit.

Speaker 3: 31:13

No one dies Just below death. Party stop before death. Yes, no one dies. Josh Young, thank you so much for sitting down with us. We got some great insights from you. You're very inspiring. I really like the stuff that you have going on. Go check out Josh's comic book, check out his show at Razoo and keep an eye out for his movie that's coming out soon Ted Caldwell. Josh, thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 1: 31:36

Thank you, tj and Brian. I really enjoyed it. It was really fun talking to you guys. Brian, I knew you. Tj, it was nice to meet you. I really enjoyed it, which is why we're very hard to get out of. No one dies, though. Would you die? No?