Picture TJ, a budding principal actor, at a chaotic Thanksgiving dinner. While the turkey is in the oven, he shares the thrill of the SAG-AFTRA strike reaching its end, the freedom to talk about projects openly, and the serendipitous occurrences that make the film industry so tantalizing. This episode is about embracing vulnerability and gratitude, spiced with personal stories that add flavor to our journey.
Ever wondered how the tools of improv can enhance your acting skills? We break it down for you and take you through the significance of family traditions. They are the threads that keep us connected to our loved ones, even when we're miles apart. We also reflect upon the joy of holiday peculiarities, like belting out Christmas carols outside of December and setting boundaries around holiday activities to create your unique joyous experiences.
As we gather around the Thanksgiving table, we invite you to listen to our reflections on age-old traditions and how they strengthen family bonds. From shared memories of camping trips to the power of laughter during vulnerable moments, we bring you a heartwarming episode. All this, culminating with a hilarious story about a holiday dinner gone awry, but with an unexpected surprise. So, join us as we give thanks and look forward to sharing more of our stories and experiences with you on NOLA Film Scene.
Follow us on IG @nolafilmscene, @kodaksbykojack, and @tjsebastianofficial. Check out our 48 Hour Film Project short film Waiting for Gateaux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pFvn4cd1U
Picture TJ, a budding principal actor, at a chaotic Thanksgiving dinner. While the turkey is in the oven, he shares the thrill of the SAG-AFTRA strike reaching its end, the freedom to talk about projects openly, and the serendipitous occurrences that make the film industry so tantalizing. This episode is about embracing vulnerability and gratitude, spiced with personal stories that add flavor to our journey.
Ever wondered how the tools of improv can enhance your acting skills? We break it down for you and take you through the significance of family traditions. They are the threads that keep us connected to our loved ones, even when we're miles apart. We also reflect upon the joy of holiday peculiarities, like belting out Christmas carols outside of December and setting boundaries around holiday activities to create your unique joyous experiences.
As we gather around the Thanksgiving table, we invite you to listen to our reflections on age-old traditions and how they strengthen family bonds. From shared memories of camping trips to the power of laughter during vulnerable moments, we bring you a heartwarming episode. All this, culminating with a hilarious story about a holiday dinner gone awry, but with an unexpected surprise. So, join us as we give thanks and look forward to sharing more of our stories and experiences with you on NOLA Film Scene.
Follow us on IG @nolafilmscene, @kodaksbykojack, and @tjsebastianofficial. Check out our 48 Hour Film Project short film Waiting for Gateaux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pFvn4cd1U
Happy Thanksgiving from NOLA Film Scene.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:Welcome to NOLA. Film Scene with TJ Play-Doh.
Speaker 2:I'm TJ.
Speaker 1:And, as always, I'm Play-Doh.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene. This is a special Thanksgiving episode. We decided to drop one and talk about stuff we're thankful for this year.
Speaker 1:We're just a couple of turkeys, just want to be in your ear this Thanksgiving week. How you doing, tj? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing good, I'm thankful, I'm thankful. And we have something big to be thankful for, don't we we?
Speaker 2:do. We recorded the Thanksgiving special yesterday and then, right after we recorded, we started seeing some breaking news and it appears that the SAG After Strike is over. It's over, bravo, yay. So now we can talk unabated about any and every project.
Speaker 1:Our favorite movies. If we have a guest, they can talk about things.
Speaker 2:People we've met. We can actually say the projects, even though we kind of said it.
Speaker 1:Say the projects and our favorite movies, Things that inspired us. You know, we've kind of hinted around things and I'm a Star Wars geek. I get to talk about Star Wars in a series and today Star Wars finally, the last episode of Loki.
Speaker 1:Oh, loki's been so good, I love that show. Anyway, it still has to be signed by, ratified by the committee in the upper and I don't know all the details. Then it goes to the members and they vote on it. So just the general. We don't know the actual terms. It sounds like they got pretty much everything they wanted, especially the protection against AI, the plagiarism machine, or so that's what it sounded like to me as well.
Speaker 2:It's like the committee got what the member body as a whole wanted. Yeah, totally. So we can always come back and do another episode once we get the details of everything that was approved. Totally, I'm excited. It's been challenging, to say the least, to try to talk around things concerning the strike strike projects. We've managed to have some good conversations with folks and find out their inspiration, but now we can get some more detail on things, movies and things that inspired everyone to get started with this industry.
Speaker 1:And some of the interesting stories that happen when you're working as background, behind the scenes or when you're a primary or lead things that happen to people we've met in the funny things. We've talked a little bit with Bill and how he and I took the picture, but I didn't talk how I could to show him the picture of myself dressed as death from the 90s and then I was cast as death's double. You know what I mean. That's awesome. Yeah, it's the coincidence of life, the good stories I'm so excited to. Finally I finally got the point where I can audition for things.
Speaker 1:Four years ago I started this journey, really want to be an actor coming from background, struggled, and then I got my first line and the pandemic happened. So I had a big pause Study, study, study, keep working at it, getting better, you know, hopefully getting better, and then, all right, I'm ready to audition. Strike, son of a, it's always something want to stop you so you persevere, you keep studying, you keep trying and I started doing auditions, got a couple of things commercial, short films and now it just feels like climbing that mountain. Take a pause, and I'm looking at the peak, because I went in on set, I went in on rules. I want to be on somebody's TV show, even if I'm just the guy like with pizza pizza's here. Okay, thanks, bye, that's the goal. And then get more and then get deep, and then get on Star Wars and put me in makeup and you won't recognize me, you know. Okay, I got to come down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, indeed, I've got a lot to be thankful for, brian. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1:I have nothing, I know I do. You go ahead though.
Speaker 2:In a nutshell family, friends and film three things, but there's a group of things within each of those three things.
Speaker 1:Cool, cool. I can say family. I can say friends, I need more film. But I can say film and let's call it career film, including improv and some voice acting stuff, and yeah, not exactly the same as yours but pretty much the same.
Speaker 2:I was kind of lumping those three the improv voice acting and podcasting, for that matter Totally Film category. Yeah, that I didn't mean only film, at least not for me.
Speaker 1:I know I was trying to come up with something different and it's pretty much the same thing. But, yes, thankful for this podcast on our friends who are listening, people who have come on and the opportunities that have come from this. You know, we got to record a video for a friend's play, someone invited me to do an audiobook. I got to do an audition for just like a voiceover commercial and because I have the sound booth here and that's for the podcast, we found out what you need to do that and the opportunities have just come. Every time you build a skill, every time we do this, every time we share, something good happens. So very thankful for that.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right as we're filming this. I'm really thankful. On the family front, I don't talk a lot about my family, a lot about personal stuff, publicly, but one of my older brothers had a pretty significant heart attack last week and it is finally showing some improvement, so I'm really thankful for that. Amen, I'm glad to hear it. And on the thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:On the entertainment front, this year's been a year of a lot of firsts for me.
Speaker 2:When I made the decision in 2022 to get into principal acting, I came up with a list of goals and things that I wanted to achieve.
Speaker 2:It was pretty small in the beginning and that came from recommendations that I got from actors on how to break into it getting professional headshots, starting to take acting classes, learning how to do self tapes for auditions and navigating the whole business side of things to get those accounts set up and then start getting some auditions and thankfully I got a few and film my first film late 2022. And speaking of firsts, last night we had the cast and crew premiere of that film with our singing teacher, lydia Peck. She was the writer and director producer of the film and our friend Hick was in it. We have a lot of friends that were in it as a result of that film. I made a lot of friends just from meeting them on set, working with them, yeah, and we had such a fun time at that premiere last night. It's going to be a fun film. People are going to love it. It's going to be a documentary and it's hysterical.
Speaker 1:I've seen the trailer. It looks great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hick mentioned Olivia's comedic timing and he's right she's funny, she's very funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very cool. I'm thankful a movie that I've been working with the director since 20. I met him in 2019 on the Kevin Smith movie. He was in charge of the background and keeping us all together, rounding us up, and we got to talking like this and he goes hey, you want to be in my movie? I said, oh, yeah. So I didn't hear from him for a year. I was like, oh well, I guess that didn't happen and he called me and said, hey, you want to come be a cop? My first line in that movie and any other movie, was Saturday, march 14th, 2020. And then the world broke.
Speaker 1:So this is. There's not even a kickstart, it's just a labor of love. People doing it for free. I didn't get paid, didn't want to get paid, and I've been six different characters, two different speaking parts for featured. I've been the stand in for another police officer, although he was the detective, and we had to make sure I turned front because I have more of a beard than him. I round up people, I worked crafty, I brought the snacks one day, so, and I might be getting an associate producer credit. Nice, and they just dropped the trailer. That's why I was going with this. Finally, death trip. Just a tiny, a tiny bit left and it'll be ready to start going out to festivals and then, hopefully next year, we'll be able to share with everybody. You know very thankful for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's nice to see projects that you're involved with from the beginning come to fruition and see what things take in real time, especially when things are being self produced or being produced on a small budget. You have to work within those budgetary constraints and sometimes that takes time. Sometimes that takes a backseat to day jobs to keep food on the table.
Speaker 1:Yep, yeah, I'll move you in with the livias. That's about to go to festivals. Once death trip is finished, it ought to be going to festivals. I played death in wheel of heaven. It's in the festivals now. So we always say acting is waiting. You're waiting to get the job. Once you got the job, you're waiting. You know when to go. When you're on set, you're waiting to get out your trailer, or you're holding and get there. Now it's done. We're waiting so we can show it to the public. It's great, but it drives you crazy.
Speaker 2:That's right. It's hard to also explain to people that aren't in the industry or that haven't been involved or had friends involved with a short film or an independent film that's going on the circuit. They want to know the name of the film and where they can see it. Well, it takes a little bit longer in that case because it does have to go out to the circuit and it goes around to the different film festivals and they don't want those films shown a lot beforehand because they don't want any kind of public opinion, public bias to affect any judging that might take place. I think sometimes people don't realize why viewings of these films are limited before they go to the circuit. I have to explain to family. That's the main thing is they want to keep it kind of on the low so the judging can be unbiased.
Speaker 1:Right, and then some of the festival circuit. You might find you distributor there, whether you met them in person, or people look at that list and they send out feelers hey, would you like me to sponsor your film? Whether they're good, bad or indifferent, you don't know, but then it'll come out to the public.
Speaker 2:Right, that's right I used to be thankful for, in addition to films, I feel like the podcast, this podcast. I'm grateful for this because I've made a lot of new connections in the industry as a result of this platform. You mentioned getting an offer to do an audio book and to do some video stuff. I've been invited on a couple of other podcasts free at this point and I've just made a lot of new friends as a result People reaching out direct messages hey, enjoy what you're doing, keep up the good work. And it feels good to get that encouragement from people, whether they're in the industry or not, right? So when they just reach out and say, hey, good job, keep it going, yeah, that's something else that I'm thankful for.
Speaker 1:Totally, I didn't know about you going on another podcast. You're cheating on me, my friend, definitely watch out there.
Speaker 2:I haven't gone on any yet, I've just had a couple of you know three invites. I am right you go, I guess, once they come back and say, hey, this is availability. I mean, you know how it is, it gets busy, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding. I'm glad for you as an individual and as a representative of both of us, you know, and just our friends and just their people, who maybe you haven't heard from a while on Facebook, not even in the initial. Oh man, that's so great. It feels so good to make people laugh and make them. Oh, I didn't know about that. I know how to be an actor now by watching you, you know cool or inspired people. How do I do that? It's been very good. Now, another thing I can be thankful for I did my first time as a teacher's assistant in an improv class this past weekend and I've been taking it since 2020.
Speaker 1:We just improv. Then we graduated improv for actors and we did an four level improv course, which you are taking also through a new bus improv. And then the teacher, david, who's been on our podcast, reached out and said hey, would you like to help teach level zero? Level zero is just an introductory course. It's kind of a little bit of the basics of level one. I was like sure Right now it was me and the teacher, nick. He mostly let me take the reins, but he'd step in and say, no, this, you know, guided me in the class in the right way, and so in the future I'll be doing that and then get my feet wet with level zero and maybe start getting up to level one, and just it'd be very cool for that to be a side gig. You know what I mean? I love doing improv.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and to be able to share that knowledge. Teaching isn't for everyone and if you have a passion for it, it can be very fulfilling. I've had the opportunity to teach a couple of different things over the years. Early on I was a CPR instructor and basic life support instructor and that was fulfilling because I felt like I was giving people some knowledge that might help save someone's life. And for years I taught martial arts and that was very, very fulfilling, especially because I got to work with my family, my wife and my kids and give them a little bit of that knowledge. It's fulfilling to be able to share that. If there's even one thing that can help somebody else out with something. And you're so vocal about sharing improv with the world, I think it's important, especially if you're an actor.
Speaker 2:I've got friends that are actors that love to act but are shy. Privately they're shy and I'm not necessarily shy, but I have, in the early days, a difficult time I should say had a difficult time showing vulnerability, and improv helped with that. I'm saying and doing stuff now and improv that I would have never done six months ago singing and dancing in front of people acting silly and now I love it. I enjoy it and I recommend it. Even if you don't want to take the full four course or four level course with a new bus, at least go check out level zero and just get an introduction to improv. See what it's about.
Speaker 2:I found that there are tools from improv that help with acting. This last film project I did yes, there was a script, but the director gave a little bit of latitude that if I felt there was something, a word or phrase or maybe saying something a little bit different at a certain point, would lend itself more to the character, I had the freedom to do that. So ad-libbing, the ability to do that when necessary, I feel was a helpful skill from improv, because there's no script, there's no pre-planning of anything. You step out on stage with a blank canvas and you're discovering and building a scene as it develops with your scene partners. So there are a lot of tools that I think improv carries over to acting. So I recommend it. I recommend it for everybody to at least try that.
Speaker 1:Totally. I haven't taken it, but a new bus does business courses so they'll come like a business retreat for a day and they'll teach some improv and help people get in touch with that creative side. It's the depth of their creativity and it helps like a group building activity as far as I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could see that being helpful. I'm thinking back to different trainings I've been through over the years and the whole team building and different games. Yeah, I can see it.
Speaker 1:And we know, in our different classes and groups you start coming up with your own inside jokes and there are things that'll make you laugh, that won't make people laugh. I can see that in office place weeks down the road. You know. Remember when you stepped on that frog. Remember, remember when you lit that guy on fire, his butt on fire. You know that's probably a little extreme, but yeah, I can see that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so tell me about traditions. Do you have any family traditions around Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1:Since my parents passed, it's not that much. We do go to my in-laws house and eat over there, but it's very low-key. I work seven days a week and then striving, and with all this acting and improv, I'm pretty much exhausted. So we go have a nice, very low-key dinner. Different family members will be there, it's not big, either. A turkey or a ham, the Militon stuffing which you might not be familiar with if you're not from New Orleans, the shrimp and Militon merloton oh boy, that's some good eating. And then it's kicking back, maybe watching a football, maybe watching the Saints, if you're lucky when it's on that day, starting watching Christmas specials that night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a big hard line in the sand. You know, in acting we talk about what our hard line is for things that we will or won't do. For some people Maybe it's playing a certain character or saying I know a lot of people that aren't comfortable saying racist things, and rightfully so. Right, everybody's got their line in the sand. My unwavering line in the sand is Christmas shows, movies, music, anything before Thanksgiving day, no, no, I mean, if a song comes on and I'm in public, that's one thing, but I'm not listening to it in my car and I'm not watching Christmas movies and I've got a whole list. I've got a list of Christmas movies. But I think that line in the sand comes from my dad. He was very strict about that in a playful way no Christmas movies or music before Thanksgiving day and not until after Thanksgiving dinner. And when I was growing up, when I was a teenager, I worked at a movie theater and I remember when Home Alone was in theaters and I just have a lot of good memories from my youth of that movie and as long as I can remember, for well over 20 years, my tradition has been Home Alone and then Christmas vacation on Thanksgiving day in the evening after Thanksgiving dinner I gotcha.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in 2010, I was deployed to the Middle East. I could not find a copy of Home Alone anywhere. Nobody had a copy of it. Back then DVDs were still the thing and I purchased it on Apple I guess at the time it was still iTunes maybe it's still iTunes and to download it we had Air Cards and you bought Minutes and they only lasted for so long and the speed was so slow. You could kinda Skype, but mostly it ended up being a voice call.
Speaker 2:I downloaded that movie from Apple and it took almost 24 hours for it to download. I kicked it off in my hooch, I went to work, I came back and I went to the gym, I went to dinner and went to work again and came back and it finished downloading on Thanksgiving day and I was able to keep up my tradition even being on deployment, I was able to watch it and where we were there was no shortage of movies. There was a morale, welfare and recreation facility where you could go, check out DVDs or music for free, like a library, and take them back to your hooch and watch them, and I don't know if somebody just had it checked out or if they just didn't have it in the library. But I could not find it on base anywhere, so I ended up buying it and downloading it and then you saved Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:like a special. It was saved. I listened to them all year round. The Hallmark movies I have to have a TV on while I try to go to sleep Same, my wife likes those. Sometimes I do MST3K on 2B and it'll just keep running. But I just put the Hallmark movies on and let it run Every once in a while during the year if I'm feeling maybe a little down, maybe a little hot. In August I'll play some Christmas music and stuff. The Christmas music would start at Thanksgiving morning while we were cooking.
Speaker 2:Okay, fair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe the parade.
Speaker 2:There are years I've watched the parade. There are years I haven't. I don't have a hard line with that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Makes you happy and doesn't hurt nobody else. Cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm the same way with.
Speaker 2:Pumpkin Spice. Yeah, oh yeah. Now I joke about that in a hard line because it was a joke. It was like a running joke with my dad and my family jokes about it. I don't judge people If you're listening to Christmas music or watching Christmas movies before Thanksgiving, I don't judge. I don't comment on it. It doesn't bother me. It's more of a joke than anything else with my family. But, that said, I stick to it. I don't do it.
Speaker 1:That's you nothing wrong with that. But, like the Halloween, people get mad about hearing about Christmas too early. I just saw a post 94 days to Mardi Gras. I'm sure the local people are like come on, and if you're not from New Orleans, you don't know. Mardi Gras starts on 12th night, kings night. So that's the 12th day of Christmas and I didn't know until I was older. But the first day of Christmas is Christmas day.
Speaker 1:I used to always thought that it would lead up to it and then at the end of that, that's when the season starts, and then about a month and a half might have a parade or two and then the week before Mardi Gras day, parades really start kicking off. You have two good weekends of it up until that Tuesday, and then Ash Wednesday you better stop partying and give it up for Lynn. That's right, I have a story about Thanksgiving, but I'm going to ask you one first. Mine is comically tragic, but it all works out in the end. So do you have something? It could be a great story, could be something like I can't believe I did that, or just I don't even want to talk about that. A story from Christmas past that you think people would find interesting Thanksgiving past wrong holiday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have one. Okay. So another tradition that my family has we go camping every year with my nephew and his family in the early days. We would alternate one year we would go to a place that was an ATV park and we would take ATVs and ride four wheelers, mud ride and camp, and then the next year it would just be a regular campground, and a couple of times we've gone to sites that are just cabins. One year we went to the mountains in Tennessee. We were going to take a cruise for Thanksgiving week and camp on a cruise ship in 2020, but the bottom is a lot of the world that year and cruises were canceled and we all had to get refunds from booking that. We started booking a year in advance and all put deposits down and thankfully, you know, the cruise line refunded everybody's money. We had three different families that are for families that we're going to go as one big group on this.
Speaker 2:But my tragic story the camping trips started. My nephew was doing it before that year and we started doing it the Thanksgiving after I got back from deployment to the Middle East and while we were on that camping trip, I got some really terrible, terrible news and I relive it every year. I remember it every year. One of the guys from deployment Fortunately I wasn't, I was in a combat zone but I wasn't in combat so we didn't. We didn't lose anybody on deployment.
Speaker 2:But when we got back, one of the guys, his day job. He was a sheriff's deputy somewhere in Alabama and he responded to a domestic disturbance and he lost his life that night. He was such a good kid. He wasn't in in my division, in my unit, but I had the honor and privilege to get underway with him on small boats several times. A really, really good kid and it was just devastating to hear that, hear that news, because you know he had a wife and he had a family. Just really good kid Boy. I took this in a sad direction, but every year I remember that.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing that. We've never talked about that and revealing your vulnerable-ness no other way to put it and that's something that we should always be thankful for. At Thanksgiving, like for me, both of my parents are gone, and every holiday their birthdays, their wedding anniversary, the day they passed away, christmas thing and it's always a tinge of sadness to go with our joy. So we should be thankful that we're still here and we can honor that memory. And that's yeah, we got serious, but that's, it's still cool, thank you. Thank you for sharing. Now my story is more asinine, like I am. So it was Thanksgiving. Hmm, how do you mean the 90s? I was working graveyard shift at a convenience store and I got off of work at 6 am, right at 5 am. Someone I knew, this girl from grammar school hey, how you doing? And I'm in my 90s, so I was in my 20s, so she wasn't a girl anymore. We're talking, she's picking up some beer or something for Thanksgiving. She walks out. I watch her go to her car. I look and I see this guy in a ski mask coming at me. It's November, end of November in Louisiana. So I'm like it's not that cool, for, oh shit, and it was my first time.
Speaker 1:I was about to get robbed. So he comes in and I have a baseball bat behind the counter and I pick it up and, man, I can feel my hands trembling. I used to sell cutlery and he's got a French chef knife, he's got Jason's knife. I'm like you know what he goes. You think you can stop me with that? And I started thinking, because if you work for some of these convenience stores and you fight back, you can be fired. Yeah, you know which is crazy. So if I had swung and hit, I could be fired. If I swung and missed, it would expose my side. I'll be dead. So I put the bat down and we've had like an island in the middle of the convenience store. So he comes in, got my back to certain machines. I opened the one I've been working on. He's the money. He goes open. That one had no money in it. Show him that's a lottery machine. It's funny to think about it. But I was like no, okay, give me wallet. Worked at the convenience store, I had no money, no credit cards. So he leaves my heart's racing. I go out and I follow back, lock the door, call the police. We had to do a long report. So the manager comes. You know the overall manager there how you doing, I'm okay, I go home.
Speaker 1:At that point I lived across the street from my parents, at this other house, my sister and I rented a place and the power's out. No, no, no, I paid my bill. I may be poor, I may have missed it. Before I know I paid it, A transformer had popped, so like the block was out, all right. So I go across street, help my family cook and tell them the story, and they're worried we're all fine.
Speaker 1:Well, we used to barbecue the turkey, and so you put the skewer in it and you tie the legs with twine and then, as it cooked, it would kind of surround the twine. So now it comes time to carve the turkey, and I don't know about you, but when I carve I nibble. So cut, cut, cut, put it on the side, cut a little piece for me. And I'm doing that. People are talking there, having their wine, they're having fun, and all of a sudden I go, I start choking. Brian, brian, what's wrong? And I just stopped moving, reached in my throat, pulled out a piece of twine. I don't know if it was a foot, it felt like a foot. I said that's it, I'm going to bed, I'm having a table Thanksgiving. Good night everybody. Just a series of unfortunate events, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's terrible yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, it makes a good story and the power came on later by the time we finished dinner, so and they called the guy guys. Later that afternoon they tried another convenience store and this older couple beat the shit out of them and nobody told me.
Speaker 2:So I was nervous every day going into work and ended up quitting, which was a good thing, but yeah my and I work in graveyard shift.
Speaker 1:You always invite the police to come over, so they'd stop, they'd get their free coffee and I'd like buy them lunch, because I want them there as much as they want to be there all night, so they're my friends. I was even at one of their bachelor parties.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:None of these sons of bitches told me the guy was caught. Thanks, oh thanks a lot, buddies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no kidding, yeah yeah. So you mentioned Turkey and you mentioned shrimp and melaton earlier. My, that's another tradition. My nephew's mother-in-law goes camping with us and she fixes a killer shrimp and melaton casserole. And we don't get a turducken every year, but most years we do Nice, and my family usually does the turkey. My nephew's family does the other stuff. So this year we've already, and you have to pre-order it, otherwise you're not going to get one. Right, some people go to specialty meat shops. Sometimes you can get it at Wendixie or whatever. So my wife has already ordered our turducken this year and it's seafood. Shrimp and melaton is the stuffing in it.
Speaker 1:Yum, you're making me hungry yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I have a rare thing for Louisiana. My mother was from Maine so I love minced meat pies, yeah, and growing up you could still find them in the freezer section of the supermarket. You can't anymore World market. I can find small ones, you know what I mean. Or you can find the pie filling on my end Right and in law that's my end now. She made it for us one year and my wife usually pick up a couple of those at world markets. So it's kind of like a black licorice to some people it's a little different. You know my mouth's watering. I'm getting hungry. We might have to end this episode.
Speaker 2:Final thing this has been a special Thanksgiving episode. We have a lot to be thankful for, personally and professionally. We are thankful that the SAG strike has ended. We can finally talk about our favorite movies and TV shows and some specifics as to what inspired us. We might do another episode with just me and Brian to talk a little bit more detail about what got us going. I am thankful. I'm thankful for our listeners that come back week after week. We are going to use the break coming up around Christmas time and start publishing some of the video versions of these episodes, and we're also going to be launching a Patreon. So if we have listeners that would like to help support the channel, that'll be a way to do it. We're trying to keep advertisements in the middle, interrupting the episodes down to a minimum, but the first step is going to be a Patreon. So I am thankful for all the listeners out there. I'm thankful for you, brian. I'm thankful for this podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm touched, thank you, and I totally agree. Can't say enough that we're thankful for the listeners. It's been a dream, it's been wonderful. I can't wait till the next part of the journey of things we can share with you, and you'll get to see our pretty faces now. Oh wait, well, my pretty face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm screwed. Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1:Have a happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, gobble gobble. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you, thank you.