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Navigating the Bay Area Film Scene with Bobby Ysip · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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  Music.
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  Yes, yes, yes. What's going on, world? This is your man, Buddy Romming,
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  and we are back at it, y'all, with another episode of the Yeah, Buddy podcast.
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  And you know how we do like every episode. I like to bring one of my friends
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  in from the entertainment industry. We sit down, chop it up,
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  see what we got going on in the entertainment business.
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  And this episode is like no other.
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  Man, this time we got my friend coming all the way from the Bay Area.
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  This dude, He's an actor. He's a filmmaker, production assistant, location manager.
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  He's a he's a jack of all trades out here in the Bay Area film industry.
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  So right now, y'all, I want y'all to make it live and make it live.
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  My good friend, Mr. Bobby, you sit up in the building, y'all. I'm here.
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  Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Bobby, man. Thank you for sliding through. Thank you. Yeah, buddy.
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  Podcast, man, for sure, for sure. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
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  Yeah, man. It's been I think the first time I remember,
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  like, see you on set like connected stuff like that was on the it was like a
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  it was a while ago it was like the the beats by drake commercial yeah dude i
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  was just thinking the same thing yeah because every now and then on my facebook
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  memories that that that picture will pop up and stuff like that do you johnny
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  and then duane and stuff all like that we like yeah go warriors but that was uh.
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  That was the beats by drake commercial we had who was on
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  this it was um kevin durant was there kevin durant was there
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  i i don't know if steph was there i don't think steph was there but
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  i think draymond was there draymond was there yeah draymond was there that
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  was cool commercial sets are are that's like
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  probably the main thing to get like work out here yeah i
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  believe so there's always commercials coming into the bay area
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  and it's like for instance right now
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  you got the nba all-star thing coming up and also
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  the playoffs like there is some stuff coming up for the playoffs i saw the casting
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  going on so it seems like there's a lot of commercials going on either even
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  in just in tech too because there's that's the tech world over in bay area too
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  there's tons of industrial videos and things going on for like salesforce or like.
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  Apple especially apple too yeah yeah yeah yeah a
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  lot of times like people will like especially like
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  actors and stuff like that as we want to be like like be like the big movie
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  star names on the posters and stuff like that but up here in the bay area like
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  the industry is mostly like how will you just like how you just said it's commercial
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  work and then it's like industrial work right.
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  Well i like to say like big movies like they come
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  in once in a while but to really stay in
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  it the industrial commercial is a
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  route to go up here because you'll continuously
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  get work once in a while you know because that's always played
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  out that way with the commercials but i feel like
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  you have to be a jack of all trades to do other
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  things to keep going like if you wanted to
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  pa too or like jump into production that would
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  be a great thing too and then do some acting that's what
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  i kind of do is i do both sides of like
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  acting and then the production to kind of keep
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  the ball rolling if there's no acting going on then i go to production and
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  if there's acting going on and i go back to acting um but
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  i feel like that's just across the board too i know people in la
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  that do the same thing too you know or like
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  have some other side hustle that they do to continue it
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  on i mean if if i mean
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  if the movies ain't coming in right now you just
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  gotta like find something to get you by like do the
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  commercials do the print work do the industrials you know yeah i think especially
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  with being up here in the bay area and in sacramento you definitely kind of
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  have to have that mentality to where under understanding what the market is
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  up here and understanding what the industry is up here.
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  And if you want to make money up here, that's where it's going to be commercial work, industrial work.
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  But if you want to, like how you say, be the movie star or say you get tired
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  of just being on the commercial work and industrial work because you know it
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  pays good, but it's not necessarily going to be something that's going to.
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  Put on your go put on your resume you know totally i
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  mean up here if you wanted to go to la and
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  be on like a network series i mean you could do that too
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  i mean you could just like move there but
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  i mean it's a different vibe of course i mean
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  if you wanted to still stay in the bay area you
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  could just fly down to to la once in a while since it's
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  so close you know it's not too far of
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  a drive or flight to get over there to go do some work
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  too so that's why i like staying in the bay
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  area more than i like staying in la yeah it's because it's so
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  close to go go there if i need to if i have to
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  and then come back and just relax here yeah you know but
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  and do my other work up here when things come along yeah how did you get involved
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  in acting and filmmaking where you were acting first or you more so like pa
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  in first well i got first into acting through my brother And back in 2009,
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  he worked at the Filipino channel and he was a cinematographer.
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  And there was a TV show coming from the Philippines to film in the Bay Area.
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  And he asked me if I wanted to be one of the characters in this show.
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  And I was like, yeah, dude, why not?
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  So I end up being in the show. I robbed this old dude, take his money from the Bible.
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  And I walk up and I'm like, yeah, dude, I just kept that dude.
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  It's funny. It's funny. but after that i
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  i didn't even really think about acting like a couple years
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  went by and i was like oh okay whatever and a
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  buddy of mine i was skateboarding with studio i don't know if he met studio i
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  might have met him a long time ago probably probably
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  a long time ago remember like on looking he was a short dude kind of right on
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  looking which one was that one was that the hbo one that was hbo one oh so i
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  did background on that one for like one day maybe yeah so i'm not sure if I
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  worked with him or not. Yeah.
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  Probably. Yeah. I probably did, but I don't know who he was. Yeah.
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  Anyways, he was looking for extras for HBO for that show, and we were going to be skateboarders.
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  And then I was like, oh, sign me up. I'm down. I'm going to be there.
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  And he signed me. He talked to his agent, I guess, and got us to go be extras as skaters.
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  But they changed it last minute. We become club goers at this bar.
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  Was it a gay club? He was a gay club. Hey, bro. Hey.
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  Hey, man. Finish the story, but we got some stories about that.
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  What was so funny is they made us wear penis necklaces inside this thing.
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  And it was like this bachelor party and we had to scream and get loud.
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  But in that moment i was like this is
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  kind of cool though yeah i mean there's big cameras there's lights
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  i'll be part of this i mean despite that what was
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  going on i was like dude i want to be part of this i like
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  i asked people how do you continue doing this they were like sign up on casting
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  networks and get an agent all these things yeah i just followed along and continued
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  trying to do that and just apply on casting networks and before they had like
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  bobano yeah yeah yeah because Bobineau created casting networks.
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  Is that what it was? I didn't know that. Yeah, Bobineau had created casting
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  networks. So I still think.
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  Bobineau casting is just casting networks now. So he'll still post.
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  Postings will still go through. I'll still see casting on it that says Bobineau
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  casting and stuff like that, but I think it's some other lady that runs it or
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  whatever. So that's what happened.
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  Wait, Bobineau was a good company. How did this happen? He just took over the game.
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  Like casting networks For anybody that doesn't know Casting networks That's
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  where you go to To find work in the Bay Area Well actually no They changed it
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  now To like It's almost like wherever now You can see work like LA,
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  New York Wherever it may be If there's an industry For filming up there There's
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  work being posted But yeah,
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  Boba No changed the game With the casting networks Because it went from Having to like,
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  finding the cast of directors going to the cast of directors to audition it
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  and stuff like that to where it's all online now he just yeah yeah it's a a
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  simpler interface for all of them they just go to one place submit and then
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  you get audition you submit that and it was pretty self,
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  self-sufficient you know yeah yeah but working on um looking because that was
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  funny because that was like one of the first like cast like background jobs
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  that i ever done but like how you say like The way they had posted on casting networks,
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  the way the job was and stuff like that, it was so misleading.
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  Nothing against the LBGT community or anything like that, but it's just the
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  fact that they didn't say that at all the casting.
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  So then I showed up to, I think it was a video game release party or whatever.
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  And I'm like, all right, cool, whatever, stuff like that. But then you start
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  noticing that when they start setting the backgrounds and stuff like that,
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  they start setting all the guys up together.
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  You don't really notice that person like you're just best friends just be best
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  friends together so all right cool whatever so we show all the
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  guys just group together and then next you know they's like okay well
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  you're not like i say what the fetus necklace is yeah all right now put
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  this on we're like what the fuck are we talking about bro then next
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  year you see all these sailors coming with like big buff ass
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  sailors in these tight ass suits and we're like yo what the fuck
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  can we just walk into bro like you make me think
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  like that's why these last minute changed me to go to this bar
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  yeah instead of we probably was all the same thing we probably was
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  all the same stuff i like that i was just like i
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  was like what yeah i didn't know what was
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  going on i was like this is bizarre but
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  i mean it's cool to be on a big set like yeah HBO that's the thing too because
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  it's a HBO show so you're not gonna you're you're just taking it that experience
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  and like how you said it was probably like one of your first times being on
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  like a big set so you don't really understand like so you're just taking it
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  all in and stuff like that but it wasn't it wasn't until went back and like
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  trying to watch the tv show i was like oh.
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  I got to do a couple of the episodes I remember I was like a bodyguard like
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  a club bodyguard or bouncer at one of the clubs yeah that's funny oh my word yeah,
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  yeah but after that like after getting that job I hopped on to Casting at Works
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  and I started applying for other ones and there was like the other murder in
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  the first came for a while with Taye Diggs.
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  I got on a couple episodes on that one, too. That was fun, too.
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  I really wanted to be part of that world after that.
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  I continued to do extra roles as long as I could. Then I tried to get an agent
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  at that time. Couldn't get one, couldn't find one.
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  Then I tried to move to LA.
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  In 2015, I tried to move to LA. It didn't work out. I came back up here.
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  Then I decided to go into production work.
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  2018 2017 and when i
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  hit that world it changed for a while it
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  was like okay i'm a pa i'm just going to think about production for
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  a while did that but it kept me
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  in the in the game of of the acting world because like
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  i met like people that were shooting projects and doing
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  things and made me still connect to
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  that community but it was
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  weird because i kept on bouncing back and forth and my focus
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  kept on shifting and from like 2018 to 2020
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  or actually when COVID hit like
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  that's when I really focused on production work and thought maybe I'll just
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  stay in production yeah and then after COVID hit I went back to acting when
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  when production kind of got back up to it and then I just balanced both now
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  I try to do both I mean but my end game is really to be actor.
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  Yeah, no, yeah, of course. How do you find that the balance between saying, okay.
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  Focusing on now being in front of the camera now i'm gonna be like behind the
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  camera is it more like just a like a mental fatigue that you go through you're
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  like all right now i need to just,
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  yeah it's it's a trip because like when i'm on set i don't want to be like too close to the camera,
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  because i know i don't need to really be there and then
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  when it's something like i as an actor that you need to
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  be in front of the camera then i'll go there i'll be there like
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  i i just balance it out like i don't need to be
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  there i won't be there like i just focus on
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  my work like damon damon was
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  matt damon had a video and he was talking about if he could just focus on his
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  work his teacher would just tell him to say just do your work kid so he always
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  relies to that quote that his teacher his theater theater teacher told him was
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  to just do his work so i always remind myself just to do my work that i'm supposed
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  to be doing at that time like just if i'm supposed to be the actor, I'm the actor.
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  If I'm supposed to be the production assistant, be the production assistant. Leave it at that.
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  Unless they pull me in and do something and want me to be the actor at that
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  day or be an extra or whatever. I kind of just separate it.
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  I lock in what I need to do and I just focus on what I got to do. Just do my work, kid.
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  You're one of the people where you're a member of the union with SAG and with
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  the crew because you're a teamster too and stuff like that. Indeed.
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  We'll jump ahead with the Teamsters in a little bit, but right now,
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  because most people want to be a pair of actors and want to join SAG,
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  what was the process like for you becoming SAG eligible and then deciding to,
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  okay, now it's the time for me to join the union?
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  So back in the day like you
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  had to like collect your vouchers well you collect
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  three vouchers a union vouchers and you
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  could join the you the sag after union and you
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  would have to keep the three hard copies and then like mail
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  it in and i still have my hard copies but
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  now it's different you have to be on the website and they they kind of
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  like check you have to check in to see if you're eligible on
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  there so like they send back the the voucher to sag
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  and all that now but like it was hard to really get the three vouchers because
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  like in the bay area there there is some union things going on like with shows
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  and movies and there's only a number a small amount a number of union vouchers
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  that go out sometimes and i remember one time i was working with.
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  Or at San Andreas and they're, they're, they're, you got a story.
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  Yeah. I got a story. Man, we got stories. That's funny, man. Yeah.
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  It was like after an 18 hour day, do you know Lamar Stewart? Yeah.
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  I asked him when we're signing out, are you guys giving union vouchers out?
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  He goes, we did what he said. No, but what he did, he goes, Hey everybody,
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  this guy right here, everybody look at him.
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  He's asking for a union voucher. do you think we're giving out union vouchers
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  today? He just put me on the spot.
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  I was like, I felt hella motivated. I was like, oh, man, you know, I shouldn't have asked.
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  But, like, I was researching about that, and I was like, you should ask sometimes,
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  right? So I asked, and they weren't giving out vouchers. Yeah.
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  But I talked to him, like, recently about that. He was like,
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  dude, you know, that's how it goes, man.
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  When someone asks for vouchers, you're going to have to put them on blast once in a while.
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  But, yeah, that's – I mean, when I got my three vouchers, like it was one was I had to shave my head.
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  And then one was like, I forgot the other one. I think the last one was I had
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  to shave my head to be on set and they gave me a union vouchers.
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  And that was the third one I needed to get to join SAG. And it took like five years to do that.
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  It's like, it takes a while. Like it doesn't happen overnight.
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  You just got to keep like going out and doing all these extra roles to get it.
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  Even like famous people like what's her name Cherijan or Cherijani.
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  What's her name I forgot she's a but she
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  did her three vouchers doing extra roles too and she's a
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  celebrity and she mentions you know just work to get your vouchers and then
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  you could join SAG and then from SAG you know like if you want to join now you
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  could join later it all depends like if there's a lot of SAG work going on then
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  you should definitely join But if there's not,
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  just wait a little bit and stay non-union because a lot of non-union work is around.
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  But I mean, eventually you want to join SAG because if you're wanting to make
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  it big and work on those big projects, you're going to have to make the jump
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  because all the bigger productions are SAG or all union, I mean.
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  Yeah yeah so the funny story i was
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  gonna say about like san andreas and what was his name oh lamar yeah
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  because how you said he wasn't giving out sag vouchers i
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  got my very first sag voucher on san andreas yeah what happened was is is i
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  did the same thing you did except i did it at the beginning of the day and i
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  just asked i was like yo little papa i was like hey is it possible for me to
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  get like a sag voucher or anything like that he's like nope we don't do that
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  up here today, man. I was like, for real? He's like, nope.
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  I was like, alright, shit, man. Whatever.
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  And so now you know, like once you're on, you get breakfast and stuff like this,
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  like laid down period, like just chill or whatever, like you know that actually
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  you don't just sit around and do nothing or whatever.
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  Yeah, so Lamar, he gets up from
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  his boot and he just takes off because somebody needed him or whatever.
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  And I just look at that desk and I walk up and I just snatch one of the sack vouchers off the table.
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  Oh, dude.
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  And I'm over here just looking at it like it's like the golden ticket.
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  Like I just hit the lotto or something like this. I'm like, oh my god.
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  And then another actor walks in and is like, yo, what is that?
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  It's like, it's a SAG voucher.
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  He's like, how'd you get it? I'm like, you stole it.
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  Like they're right over there. And so then he walks over to the table and he
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  gets ready to take it and they're like four or five PAs see him take it.
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  They swarm over to him. Oh, yeah.
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  Put that down i was like oh shit i'm like this is i don't know what the fuck i just did or whatever,
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  and i was just walking around to all the other side actors on set this
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  down like what do i do with this what do i do with this they're like just write
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  th on it and then you'll be good or whatever and they're like and then i see
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  lamar at the end of the day like you know they had union lines and non-union
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  line yeah i slide into the union line and i give him my paper and he's looking
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  and he's looking at the paper.
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  He's looking at my name. Doesn't see my name on the union list and he sees my
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  name on the non-union list and he just looks at me. He's all like,
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  motherfucker it just slides off on
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  it is it to me that's like dude that's
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  a good story i was like oh shit oh
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  my god dude i would never think to still want to do it i think maybe at that
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  time when i was starting like that too i'll probably do that too yeah but now
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  when i look i'm like hell no hell no but back then that desperation kicked it
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  i was like yeah yeah whatever fuck i You got to join SAG.
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  That's what it was about, man. Yeah. You got to join. You got to join.
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  And sometimes it takes some crazy moments to make it happen.
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  Yeah. Yeah. I don't recommend doing that. But yeah, that's how I got my first.
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  So what were the three projects that you worked on to get your vouchers?
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  I think one was the Intrinsic Smile.
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  Do you remember that one? I don't remember. But I mean, I think I remember seeing
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  like a casting for it. But I don't think I got on it. It was like a trippy movie.
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  Not a trippy movie. it was about like freemasonary or
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  the scene that i was in was like freemasonary high
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  upper class party and like elites
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  and at city hall i was like okay whatever it is it sounds pretty cool and i
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  played a waiter i was walking around just giving out drinks and but they gave
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  me a voucher yeah yeah i got on that and then my my first one my first one was
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  damn i can't remember what the first one was.
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  Maybe Ant-Man. Maybe it was Ant-Man.
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  You weren't stuck on the ferry, were you? Or the... Was that the ferry that
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  went out to the ocean or whatever? Oh, yeah.
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  I remember that. They went out and they got stuck and they couldn't come back.
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  They couldn't come back for like...
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  They were stuck out there for like 12 hours or something like that.
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  Like, no lunch, no nothing. Just crap service. Nothing but chips and... Chips Ahoy's.
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  12 hours. Crackers and shit. Yeah.
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  Oh, more almonds. Let me get a handful of almonds. Yeah.
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  I forgot which one I gotta come back to that one I know the last one I had to
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  shave my head to be on behind enemy lines that shot in Alameda on the boat or the military thing,
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  that was the last one I got and then.
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  I was able to join but i waited for like a couple years to
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  join it wasn't until actually i met the stunt
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  stunt actor andrew niece and he
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  was telling man you should just join zag you know
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  you've been waiting this long already and i think
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  you should just make the jump and i think you'll be good at it
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  and i was like all right i'll just join and
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  this is when they had the leonardo dicaprio movie
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  shooting up here in sack okay yeah yeah and i got on
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  to go on to that as bg i was
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  like all right this is cool that's all you've been a union for only like
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  a year okay okay i just joined like i've been
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  sag eligible for like years like maybe seven years okay i just finally yeah
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  yeah yeah that was dried up now all your hopes and dreams washed yeah now you
• 22:10
  just got to work under the car and shit.
• 22:12
  I heard people are working non-union in LA and so many of them are doing it
• 22:17
  that they could get away with that because they can't keep up with all the people working on union.
• 22:23
  I think that also, and I think that as long as they're paying their SAG dues,
• 22:27
  it shouldn't really matter. Yeah, exactly.
• 22:28
  Do something, man. Working slow. Yeah. We got to do something.
• 22:32
  It's not fair to all of us. Yeah.
• 22:35
  I hope we're able to do some other stuff at least. Yeah. So you worked on the.
• 22:43
  Leo DiCaprio movie that was the first project you did officially as a SAG member,
• 22:48
  how many days did you work on that?
• 22:50
  Two days that's funny the first day I get the email saying yeah we're going
• 22:56
  to have you on I'll email you the address where we need to meet,
• 23:00
  And I didn't get the email at night and I was like, oh, shit,
• 23:03
  dude, should I just go over there and just figure it out?
• 23:06
  So I just drove to Sacramento, not knowing where I'm going to go,
• 23:09
  hoping I'll get the email in the morning.
• 23:11
  And I sent them emails in the morning and they didn't get back to me.
• 23:15
  And I was like, I went to set and I was like, hey, do you know where base camp's at?
• 23:19
  They directed me to where base camp's at and I just go over there.
• 23:22
  And then once I get over there, I get an email and they're like,
• 23:24
  oh, you're here, blah, blah, blah.
• 23:26
  And then I walk in, I'm like, oh, yeah, man. What if I didn't show up?
• 23:30
  Because I didn't get no confirmation about where I should be going.
• 23:35
  I was like, oh, man, first day of being having a hard time.
• 23:40
  It gets better. Once you get the free breakfast, you're like,
• 23:43
  all right, this is cool. The breakfast was good, though. They had the good food.
• 23:47
  Did you work it on the set? Did you get to see DiCaprio or any of the actors? I didn't see nobody.
• 23:55
  What did they have you doing on set? I was the driver. I saw you there the same day.
• 23:59
  Yeah yeah okay yeah yeah yeah so you're just driving i
• 24:02
  was just driving okay yeah yeah was it the chase scene or i
• 24:06
  think it was a chase scene where they're running down the block yeah yeah
• 24:09
  yeah yeah yeah yeah oh so those are
• 24:12
  fun though i mean because you're chilling in your car the whole time that's always cool
• 24:15
  yeah yeah and you get the
• 24:17
  pay bump too for your car too yeah that's always nice that's
• 24:20
  always nice yeah i mean any bump
• 24:23
  is really good yeah they make you smoke cigarettes even though nasty as shit
• 24:27
  yeah yeah i smoked those motherfuckers like rain yeah right yeah i don't give
• 24:31
  a fuck yeah i smoke yeah smoke buff whatever it may be those herbal cigarettes
• 24:36
  taste like shit they're nasty as fuck but 20 bucks i'll take it though yeah it's worth it and then so,
• 24:44
  Working on, so the other projects that, so all the other like SAG projects that
• 24:48
  I've seen you working on and stuff like that, you were mostly like locations manager, PA and stuff.
• 24:54
  I was probably PAing or I was not location manager yet.
• 24:58
  I just joined location, the union location managing maybe three years ago or two years ago.
• 25:02
  So I haven't, I've only been on Shang-Chi.
• 25:07
  No, I did indie projects as a location manager and not a big one yet.
• 25:13
  Okay but you don't pf because yeah i saw well i went on to
• 25:16
  imdb yeah something like that but you also worked on you worked
• 25:19
  on was it the matrix 2 not the mate not matrix 2 but
• 25:21
  matrix revolution t-o-o-t-o yeah
• 25:25
  yeah matrix revolution the matrix 4 yeah matrix resurrection resurrection
• 25:28
  yeah yeah you're on there too aren't you yeah yeah yeah
• 25:31
  that was it was fine dude what did you feel about that what did you think what
• 25:35
  did you do on that i was a locations assistant locations okay so me working
• 25:41
  background on it it was like it was such a surreal experience it felt like the
• 25:46
  first time like i don't know how to describe it but like like i felt like i was
• 25:50
  in a movie if that makes any sense y'all like i
• 25:53
  know i'm on the move like i know like i'm in the movie but
• 25:56
  like like working on that movie it felt like the first time i was like like i'm
• 25:59
  on the movie like it was like this was like a surreal experience type of
• 26:02
  thing because like once they found out where we was
• 26:05
  filming at you had like they had a they had a rope off everything
• 26:08
  people it's just three thousand like three hundred people outside
• 26:11
  just cheer like yeah they had crowds like
• 26:14
  literally like and every corner they had signs too they're like keanu i love
• 26:19
  you and like even at one point we had to close like a building because so many
• 26:25
  people wanted to rush in to see keanu like it it was like a movie movie like
• 26:29
  how you explain it yeah like i didn't it was wild it It was wild.
• 26:34
  And it's like getting off the bus or whatever.
• 26:38
  People, they don't know who is who. You know what I'm saying?
• 26:40
  As far as they could be looking at us and be like, oh, that's the actor next
• 26:44
  to Keanu Reeves or whoever it may be.
• 26:46
  So they're treating you just like a movie star too as well.
• 26:50
  The exact same love that they show with Keanu Reeves. They're looking at you
• 26:53
  like, oh, I want a picture with you. Yeah, they'll take a picture with you.
• 26:55
  Like, you're not going to see me.
• 26:57
  No, trust me. The most you're going to see is the back of this head. But I appreciate it.
• 27:01
  It's the love man that they give the love they have the love and appreciation
• 27:04
  it's all like man like the movie may have sucked but it wasn't the greatest
• 27:09
  it wasn't the greatest my bad,
• 27:11
  maybe if they gave me a line or two but like the the just the fact that so many people was like i'm,
• 27:18
  Like, that was the first time I felt I seen the scope of what filmmaking was.
• 27:23
  Did you get to see it in the stunts or the explosion? Oh my god, yeah. Because I did.
• 27:28
  So, the one scene I did, it was like a lot of the office scene where we was
• 27:32
  like up on like the 28th story of the building or whatever it may be and shit.
• 27:36
  I was like, yeah, why the fuck are we so high up here and shit?
• 27:38
  Like, we could just green screen this shit. Like, we were so high up,
• 27:42
  they had to build an office building on top of like the other office buildings
• 27:45
  and stuff like that because like the building was like completely the floor was completely empty.
• 27:50
  That's how far separated it was for all the rest of the businesses.
• 27:54
  I'm like, why the fuck are we so high up right now? This don't make no sense.
• 27:59
  With the stunts, the whole third act of the movie where they're chasing him
• 28:03
  on the motorcycle and all that type of jazz.
• 28:05
  All the people is running after him. They're chasing after him.
• 28:08
  I was there all those nights.
• 28:11
  I knew up to you, man. It was fucked, dude.
• 28:16
  Oh, my word. it was so overnight those overnights
• 28:19
  was horrible i did like maybe like the first night like
• 28:22
  i was like and then after that i was like you know what man like it was
• 28:25
  funny because like we would be like having us just running
• 28:28
  down the street or whatever like chase after all right you know back to set
• 28:31
  now back to one and then running chasing after him again all right y'all back
• 28:34
  to what chasing after him back to what i was like god damn after like the first
• 28:37
  the third time i was all like i booked it and i made a left and i just ran down
• 28:44
  this alleyway i just pulled out this and I was just fucking smoking shit.
• 28:47
  I was just looking at them like, man, that can't be me right now.
• 28:53
  And then they're like, all right, y'all, we're going to sign up for the next
• 28:55
  thing. Y'all go back to Holden or whatever. The second they can clear Holden, I'll put that blood out.
• 29:00
  Like, I did something. Oh, that was tiring, y'all. That was...
• 29:04
  No matter having to run so many times yeah
• 29:07
  that dude i could feel like yeah it was like brutal
• 29:11
  and they didn't really tell people that they
• 29:13
  have people dressed up like some people are dressed up like in like like they're
• 29:18
  like stuff that they go to sleep in and stuff like that like philip was i didn't
• 29:23
  want to say his name but like oh my god i felt so bad yeah he was in his like
• 29:27
  underwear almost pretty yeah he was in his underwear in a robe he was in his underwear,
• 29:31
  a white feeter, and a robe from 6 o'clock at night to 6 o'clock in the morning in San Francisco.
• 29:39
  The Bay, like, it's just freezing cold. And this is in January.
• 29:43
  No, in February. In February.
• 29:46
  So it's still cold. Up in February, man. And he's over doing this for 12 nights.
• 29:50
  12 nights in a row. And he's, like, committed.
• 29:54
  It's like, Phil, you're not even sad here, bro. Just go home.
• 29:57
  Yeah, just go home. No, don't give up, but just go on the phone.
• 30:01
  They're torturing you right now, bro.
• 30:04
  It was... Oh, yeah. And then the stunts. The stunts was horrible, too, because.
• 30:11
  The Wachowski lady, she kept switching up.
• 30:14
  Well, I don't know. Maybe you could speak on as far as locations,
• 30:17
  how it was trying to manage the locations, because I just felt like she kept
• 30:20
  switching up, like what Cesar was going to do and all that type of stuff.
• 30:23
  But for the most part, well, that third act we were chasing,
• 30:26
  that took place on the same highway, or that same street anyways and stuff all like that.
• 30:30
  Yeah, Montgomery or like one of those streets.
• 30:33
  Yeah, but like she had switched up like one of the stunts that they was going
• 30:38
  to do for the day, so I'm going to just do something completely different.
• 30:41
  And they wasn't like prepared for that or whatever, so they had to just create
• 30:45
  like a contraption out of like,
• 30:47
  just whatever they could make it out of and shit like that so it was supposed to be like
• 30:51
  like keanu was on his motorcycle where he's like dudes like powers were
• 30:54
  like you know what i'm saying it was supposed to like and they get yanked back
• 30:57
  yeah yeah did you see that were you there there was someone that got injured yeah
• 31:00
  he did i saw that man it was horrible like it was supposed to that stuff was
• 31:03
  supposed to yank him back and then like just like he's like oh you know but
• 31:08
  like what happened was instead of yanking him well first off i don't know why
• 31:11
  they there was no mat anyways for him to land on but like that's dangerous already
• 31:15
  it was dangerous already because this it on the street.
• 31:18
  So instead of shooting him backwards, it shot him straight up.
• 31:21
  Oh. Fuck. It shot him straight up. He went...
• 31:25
  And then he went... They shot him up maybe like 20 feet up in the air or something like that.
• 31:29
  And then he just went smack, right down on his head, right on the fucking concrete.
• 31:34
  Now cold and shit. And then what happened was the stunt coordinator,
• 31:39
  he comes all running through like, oh my God, what's going on? What's going on?
• 31:43
  And he looks and he sees the dude or whatever. And I guess what happened was
• 31:47
  is the stunt person who got knocked out cold that was the stunt coordinator's son.
• 31:53
  Oh shoot. He had the one who set up the whole stunt or whatever.
• 31:56
  So now he looks at he sees his son knocked out cold or whatever so that he passes out.
• 32:01
  So now they got to call another ambulance but the other people they're like
• 32:05
  oh we need another one. So there was back to back.
• 32:09
  But the dude was back on set like the next day he had
• 32:12
  a lump on his head or whatever but he was like yeah it's all
• 32:15
  right let's get back to work man i'm brave
• 32:18
  man yeah what was your experience like working on the matrix i'm
• 32:21
  kind of biased like what i'm not biased oh in
• 32:24
  a sense i am just because i won an award on that
• 32:28
  a team in a award oh we all we all won
• 32:30
  that though but there was also some negatives also
• 32:34
  on that job but it's like i got
• 32:37
  hit in the face i got punched in the face actually oh shit there's there's
• 32:41
  a thing called lockups where pas and who are
• 32:44
  pas or us location assistants go to
• 32:47
  a corner and we don't allow anyone to walk on set we
• 32:50
  block out the the the public and so there's
• 32:53
  these rollerbladers coming down the street somehow they got through us and they
• 32:57
  went almost to set and they're causing ruckus and then they leave and they came
• 33:01
  to us and i try to stop them and next thing you know he swings and punches me
• 33:06
  in the face oh shit and i'm like what the fuck And I'm like,
• 33:09
  what's up, dude? I'm about to kick your ass.
• 33:11
  And then I held back and I was like, no, I can't. I just don't want to do it.
• 33:16
  And after that, the police came and was like, do you want to do anything with
• 33:19
  these guys? Do you want to take them to court? I was like, dude,
• 33:21
  I don't want to go to court, man.
• 33:23
  It's like, I got work. I got all this. And so I just was like,
• 33:27
  let's let them go. It's kind of one of those. Let me just punch him in the chest one time. Yeah.
• 33:31
  Yeah. I want him one of those. Let me get an even. Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:34
  Just hold him like this for me one time. I'm going to kick him in the ass. Yeah. yeah.
• 33:39
  But yeah, that's what happened on one of the nights. I mean,
• 33:43
  it was a tough job, too, because the nights were just like, it was days and nights, both.
• 33:49
  And it was cool at the end, though. We had a wrap party, kind of.
• 33:54
  One of the PAs, her parents owned Vesuvio's, the bar over in North Beach.
• 34:00
  And we went to North Beach after, and we opened the bar at 6 a.m.
• 34:03
  In the morning, and we all got drunk and shit.
• 34:05
  And after it was done, we all just got wasted.
• 34:11
  One thing about the film crews and stuff like that is rap parties.
• 34:15
  Rap parties are always a good time. Yeah, it's always a good time.
• 34:19
  You celebrate your wins with this party and you put everything into it and you end it on a good note.
• 34:27
  Yeah, and it's weird because that's one of the only times where you literally
• 34:29
  will see everybody who worked on that film set in the same room.
• 34:34
  The people who do the clerical work to the PA to the A-list actors.
• 34:40
  What the hell is everybody doing here, man? Yeah.
• 34:43
  The official, actually, Vucemia was a crew kind of party we had,
• 34:47
  but the official wrap party for The Matrix was at this other bar in,
• 34:51
  the mission and keanu was there the which
• 34:55
  which is hockey was there and everyone was there
• 34:57
  it was cool just the vibe in this place and like they
• 35:00
  had like free weed and all this
• 35:03
  stuff that was going on i bet there's a
• 35:06
  lot of free alcohol and yeah but
• 35:11
  that was probably one of the coolest rap parties i've been to yeah one
• 35:14
  thing i will say though about like working like
• 35:18
  with these um because whenever like these big time movie studios come up here
• 35:22
  to like work up in the Bay Area there's always like a select number of crew
• 35:26
  that they bring up from like LA to like work with them and stuff like that well
• 35:30
  them guys is assholes yeah dude we're different vibes in different LA when you
• 35:34
  said that somebody punched you I thought you was going to say somebody from LA did it.
• 35:39
  I wouldn't be surprised I'm like yeah yeah we both got that it's definitely
• 35:45
  a different vibe and stuff like
• 35:47
  they're like it's you could tell that like down there in LA there's such,
• 35:52
  so competitive up there just.
• 35:56
  So competitive up here like up here it's competitive but it's still community,
• 36:01
  so we're up here helping each other out and stuff like that they may do the
• 36:04
  same thing but instead of calling you by your name they just may call you asshole,
• 36:09
  yeah yeah yeah get your ass over here like no no I'm sorry that's not your name
• 36:16
  my best it's whatever but today your name is asshole for now for today your
• 36:20
  name is asshole i'll learn your real name,
• 36:22
  never mind i'm not gonna learn your real name it's just asking just asshole
• 36:25
  for today yeah yeah dude like comparing the
• 36:29
  crews in la and bay air i felt
• 36:32
  like when i worked in la as a crew member i felt
• 36:35
  like i was either getting backstabbed or someone was trying to just outdo me
• 36:41
  try to be really competitive and try to do things better than i was in the bay
• 36:46
  area it's like no we all work together we we you know we're a team you know
• 36:51
  we're a community we all help each other out,
• 36:55
  la is just very competitive i guess you know it's just the way it is i mean
• 36:59
  it's i guess that's how it has to be it's there's the shows there the movies
• 37:04
  being constantly shot yeah there's,
• 37:07
  there's just so much work up there
• 37:08
  to where it's like yeah you got to be competitive up here we're Like,
• 37:11
  whatever project's coming on, we just got to be lucky enough to get on that shit.
• 37:14
  Like, whatever we got to do to get this shit done, man, let's get this done
• 37:18
  as a team or whatever. Yeah.
• 37:20
  So that's always fun and stuff like that. What other...
• 37:24
  Jobs have you worked on as a PA?
• 37:27
  Well, yeah, as a PA. Then after that, talk about what's the process like joining
• 37:33
  the teamsters, like the process of joining the union.
• 37:36
  So a couple movies I worked on as a PA was Shang-Chi, a locations PA.
• 37:43
  And then Obi-Wan Kenobi, I was a PA, but also a locations PA. I was in LA.
• 37:51
  And then other numerous jobs where I was just a PA on commercials and all that.
• 37:55
  But how I first got into PA was through a friend of mine that I met at an award show.
• 38:01
  And his buddy was a PA. And I asked him if I could be a PA. And shout out to
• 38:06
  Jabari. I mean, you're a good dude, man. You got me my first job.
• 38:09
  You got me on this paid job. And I remember my first day on that job,
• 38:13
  I was like, what do I do? How do I do that? I was like, confused.
• 38:17
  When he was calling out the rolls, like, hey, cut.
• 38:21
  It's rolling. like i was like am i supposed to say that too and i was like i'm
• 38:25
  kind of shy i don't want to say,
• 38:27
  but eventually i ended up starting to do that and i
• 38:30
  remember also shout out to greg sumner i
• 38:33
  tell i tell you this story all the time he's the one that was a
• 38:36
  producer and i drove a truck or i
• 38:39
  didn't drive a truck but someone else did and i had to take
• 38:42
  out the the skid marks on the on the driveway so
• 38:46
  greg got me told me to go get some sandpaper home
• 38:49
  depot and scrape out all the tire marks on the
• 38:52
  on the driveway and i had to do that all day to get
• 38:55
  those out it was it's probably like a funny thing but it showed how much work
• 39:00
  i would put into being a pa like i'm down to be here let me i'll get this out
• 39:05
  whatever you need me to do and that's how you got to go about it as a pa you
• 39:09
  just gotta get the job done yeah you know it's okay like in between all that.
• 39:14
  A good attitude you know be ready be
• 39:17
  a listener be friendly be kind to everyone help anyone
• 39:21
  that needs help and you know just be
• 39:23
  a helping hand really on set yeah pa slash
• 39:27
  production assistant is probably the least glamorous job yeah there is on on
• 39:35
  a film set but like y'all i kind of like the back like i don't want to call
• 39:39
  it like the ants you don't say but like the working ass where y'all or all these
• 39:42
  moving parts and stuff like that people don't understand.
• 39:46
  That's making this whole thing go on.
• 39:48
  And sometimes production assistants, not even all production assistants will
• 39:50
  get even a credit in the film, you know what I'm saying?
• 39:53
  But y'all play major parts, especially with you doing locations.
• 40:00
  Break that down and what that means to be locations PA.
• 40:04
  For locations PA, so you deal with all the work that all the location managers
• 40:11
  don't need deal with, like putting the tables up, putting the chairs, putting cones out.
• 40:16
  If you have to do a lockup, you do a lockup. All depends on the situation.
• 40:22
  On Obi-Wan Kenobi, we brought tents through this forest and just brought them
• 40:26
  back and forth, tables and chairs.
• 40:29
  It's the heavy duty work that the location manager or assistant location manager doesn't do.
• 40:35
  It's basically just It's a PA, but you're attached to a department.
• 40:39
  It's almost like you're a camera PA and you do everything for camera.
• 40:43
  But for locations, you're a location PA and you do everything for the location department.
• 40:48
  So it's like maybe it could be office work or go get a sign printed or whatever it may be.
• 40:54
  It could be a bunch of different things, but it all deals with the location's,
• 40:58
  And I don't know, like, I had a great time doing locations PA stuff too. So I really enjoyed it.
• 41:04
  Like my time, like being there and then growing into a location manager.
• 41:08
  Like I kind of like had this idea that that's what I wanted to do was when I
• 41:12
  first heard about locations and what they do, I was like, Oh, I'll do that.
• 41:15
  You know, I'll just, I'll just go for that. You know, at first I was like,
• 41:20
  camera, should I be a camera guy?
• 41:21
  And I was like, I don't want to be on set all the time like that.
• 41:24
  At least with locations, you could kind of disappear into it. Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:28
  You need a little bit of break the down time and stuff like that.
• 41:30
  There's not as much pressure working with the director, the AD,
• 41:35
  all the actors, stuff like that.
• 41:37
  I just set this code and I chill. Yeah, that's all it is. I just put the tent
• 41:40
  up and instead I'll just go back to the corner to go sit there for a while.
• 41:44
  Because I'm already being an actor. I don't need to shine in the production
• 41:48
  world, man. That's their thing. They'll do that.
• 41:51
  I don't need to take the cake like that. I'm alright with where I'm at.
• 41:55
  As long as I get a paycheck and I can pursue my acting with that.
• 41:58
  Yeah, that's what's up. So that was an interesting thing you pointed out when
• 42:03
  you were talking about, okay, I've been working as a PA, but then choosing to
• 42:08
  go pursue the locations department as opposed to camera department, things like that.
• 42:13
  A lot of people may not understand that being a production assistant is almost
• 42:20
  as good as going to film school.
• 42:22
  You know because well it's a job in the
• 42:24
  film and then once you once
• 42:27
  you gain the trust of the other crew members now you
• 42:31
  can choose where you want to
• 42:34
  like what direction you want to take your career because unlike
• 42:38
  other jobs like this isn't this
• 42:40
  isn't something we're like oh i'm gonna go do a job interview fill
• 42:43
  out an application yeah fill this out it's really referral
• 42:47
  based and reputation based definitely referral
• 42:50
  based reputation based how they see you if you're friendly good
• 42:53
  kind all those things they take account for and and
• 42:57
  your reputation kind of leads you to where you want to go
• 42:59
  you know people hear about you and they hear your name and that
• 43:02
  was one of the reasons why i got into pa too is like like when
• 43:05
  i worked in i worked for free to get my name out so
• 43:09
  i can meet people to hear my name yeah and so and
• 43:12
  my work that ethic i thought was good so i just continued doing
• 43:15
  that and then i i figured out i met people
• 43:18
  in locations and they led they taught
• 43:21
  me all these things about locations and i just went with that way but i mean
• 43:24
  you could go any way like you could talk to like the ac you could talk to the
• 43:27
  grip department and they'll be happy to help you i mean here in the bay area
• 43:31
  yeah you know i don't know how la could be so but in the bay area i mean everyone's
• 43:36
  pretty helpful about wanting to help you pursue your dreams.
• 43:41
  But it really relies on, you know, being a good dude, good woman or whoever,
• 43:45
  and just, you know, standing out a little bit and make sure you get your work
• 43:49
  done, be a good person, all those things, all those above. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 43:54
  Because what they had, like you say, up here, the Bay Area is a great stepping stone.
• 44:00
  Like if you want to go down to LA to get to build up your resume build up all
• 44:06
  the credentials that you do need like if you want to be be member of SAG and
• 44:11
  stuff all like that the opportunities,
• 44:13
  up here like you can get it it's easier to get your SAG card up here yeah than
• 44:19
  it is down in LA now like that's up to us as the actor to like strip our ego
• 44:24
  and understand that we may not get our SAG card from,
• 44:28
  you know being like being the you know the top of the list you know like oh
• 44:33
  I just auditioned for the newest Star Wars film now you know I'm all this and
• 44:36
  stuff all like that TV show or whatever it may be you know that's how it is
• 44:42
  up here you're going to get your SAG card from doing background work but because there's such little.
• 44:48
  Competition up here as far as like SAG goes like you can easily get
• 44:52
  your SAG card on like with 13 Reasons
• 44:55
  Why I was filming up here for four seasons like like i
• 44:58
  mean like that's a gold mine up there yeah they're
• 45:01
  giving out sad life what are you talking about
• 45:04
  because at first there wasn't at first i heard they wasn't trying to do that at
• 45:06
  first they was trying to keep everybody like non-union but they're like
• 45:09
  once you found out the benefits like what's going on like no yeah you gotta
• 45:12
  run that up here that's four seasons that's 13 episodes i'm like yeah that's
• 45:18
  that is work right there man that is that's automatic right there if you just
• 45:22
  show up that's the way you gotta do that's it that's it just show You get the
• 45:26
  voucher, and then you could join SAG.
• 45:28
  It is easier to join up here because there's not a big crowd of SAG actors up here.
• 45:34
  Especially when it comes to minorities and stuff, all like that.
• 45:38
  I wouldn't doubt that there's a lot of SAG work that I just got because we just need a black person.
• 45:44
  I'd be looking around these back, like I'd go onto these sets,
• 45:47
  and I'd be looking around, I'd be counting the black people that I'd be seeing.
• 45:50
  I'm like, I see why I got hired.
• 45:53
  It's like a further action yeah i'm like i must be the safe black guy okay,
• 45:59
  all right whatever i guess i'll take this job i would see the same folks too
• 46:04
  yeah i see timothy yeah i see the way it's the it's the same it'd be the same.
• 46:14
  Like and we know what we know we go we're gonna see at least
• 46:17
  one of us on set like you know it's just it's the
• 46:20
  same that sounds like it's easier for us to get it up there without having to
• 46:23
  worry about the the competition factor we just look at that like yeah yeah which
• 46:28
  one of y'all is the standard today which one of y'all is the standard man all
• 46:31
  right do your thing for real which speaking of which man shout out to uh tim
• 46:36
  johnny and uh edwayne and shit like that yeah what's up y'all yeah,
• 46:40
  And then, so with, like I said, it being easier up here to get like sad work,
• 46:46
  you feel like that's the same thing with you doing like PA and like joining the Teamsters?
• 46:51
  Like it's easy. Like do you think it's, was it easy for you to find work up
• 46:55
  here like doing PA work in the Bay Area or LA?
• 46:59
  I think it was easier for me to get PA work up here.
• 47:03
  I had a network. I still do of like people that I just communicate with still.
• 47:10
  And i mean you get past jobs and
• 47:13
  that's how it works you you know someone can't work this job so
• 47:16
  they say hey you get a call or a text whatever we need somebody to work this
• 47:20
  job you know and there's like groups too on facebook you can get jobs on important
• 47:24
  too those are helpful but i felt it was easier to do it up here when i went
• 47:29
  to la to try to do it i had to restart a network and try to make everybody and try to get that going.
• 47:37
  But as far as joining Teamsters, it was hard. Like...
• 47:43
  Usually you get like a recommendation from like three people and they,
• 47:47
  then they call the office, but I kind of worked up pretty quickly.
• 47:51
  And I think I might get like some slap, like a little bit of heat from that
• 47:55
  because I kind of moved quickly to join.
• 47:57
  Yeah. But I think it was based on because I location managed Fremont movie that
• 48:03
  came out in Sundance and I did a pretty good job at it.
• 48:07
  And I think that kind of opened the door for me to join the Teamsters at that time.
• 48:12
  So I kind of earned my way in and I think I did a hell of a good job on that movie.
• 48:17
  So I mean after getting Teamsters it was kind of tough waiting for work because
• 48:22
  you know I'm still new and I mean people in commercial world doesn't know who
• 48:26
  I am yet and big movies they don't know who I am yet some of them do but no,
• 48:33
  I just gotta stay around and hopefully it'll work out.
• 48:37
  Yeah I feel like that's the same kind of hurdle that you go through like when
• 48:40
  you join the union because like you I feel like there's some sort of,
• 48:43
  there's like this momentum that goes into it with the non-union work that you're doing.
• 48:47
  I know before I was doing that, I was constantly either doing all the short
• 48:51
  films or whatever projects it was I was doing.
• 48:53
  I was either the lead, the co-star, whatever it may be, stuff like that,
• 48:57
  that kind of built that momentum up for me to be like, all right,
• 49:00
  cool, let me go now enjoy the union and stuff. I'm like, man, I got that confidence.
• 49:05
  But then you go with it, you join, and now you're doing these auditions and
• 49:08
  that confidence is still there, but now you're looking at it,
• 49:10
  And I'm all like, I'm over like, shit, man, I'm over auditioning it for the
• 49:13
  same person I was just the stand-in for.
• 49:16
  I was like, it was a whole different ballgame, man. I was all like,
• 49:20
  so it's definitely like I.
• 49:21
  Did it feel like more pressure towards you since you had to do more auditions and all this?
• 49:27
  No, the pressure didn't come from having to do more auditions.
• 49:30
  The pressure came from having less auditions now because it was because like the work had dried up.
• 49:36
  And my folks were solely on like, OK, you need work, you need work, you need work.
• 49:40
  But because there was such little union working, like, even with that,
• 49:44
  like, the auditions that did come up here, like, they only really came up here
• 49:49
  because there was an obligation for them to have an audition for these roles and stuff like that.
• 49:54
  But then realize that those roles are still kind of already delegated to maybe,
• 49:59
  like, a certain actor, you know. Yeah, they already premeditated, kind of, had their idea.
• 50:03
  Yeah, had their idea of, like, who they want. Like, I mean, that's just that
• 50:06
  audition process in general.
• 50:07
  Like going in and going into the audition knowing
• 50:11
  that they don't want you like they already have somebody else
• 50:14
  yeah i feel that man i feel like am i really doing anything here am i supposed
• 50:19
  to be auditioning or should i just pass on it yeah but no we gotta audition
• 50:23
  we gotta that that's the struggle but no yeah we gotta we gotta audition but
• 50:27
  that's that was the one thing that i did take away from like what i did join the uni was just,
• 50:32
  Just like I said, it's a different ballgame now because I even just auditioned
• 50:37
  for, what was it? Like, oh, all day of the night or whatever.
• 50:42
  The Netflix audition, you know, all day of the night or whatever.
• 50:44
  But then, like, when you look at it, you audition.
• 50:47
  You're like, fuck, even if you kill the audition, you look at the person who
• 50:50
  got the job, and I'm like, oh, this is the Duke of Snowfall. Like, fuck.
• 50:55
  That's somewhere away above. Somewhere above, yeah. But I guess I'll be here
• 50:58
  standing. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I'll stand and do it. I'll be there. Yeah.
• 51:02
  Might as well i mean i i
• 51:05
  i that tendance there's a ted danson show that
• 51:08
  came up this bay area and i got an audition for a
• 51:11
  role and i didn't get it but i saw who
• 51:14
  got it it was like this white dude i was like dude i'm totally completely different
• 51:17
  from what he looks like yeah so they kind of had it probably a
• 51:20
  white dude in mind the ted danson show that was yeah i
• 51:23
  know exactly what you're talking about too yeah but i want to yeah yeah
• 51:27
  yeah it's probably the same role yeah yeah like the the peaches the
• 51:30
  which one was it the peaches you had to talk about the peaches i think so
• 51:33
  like the yeah i think i think that's what it was yeah because you're like a
• 51:37
  food vendor or something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they just took everybody
• 51:42
  everybody we're gonna go with we're just gonna go with billy yeah let's yeah
• 51:49
  let's just go with jeff we don't we don't want no dominique.
• 51:55
  Oh man yeah and then so let's uh
• 51:58
  let's get into it man this is a portion of the show i like to call
• 52:01
  it the the mount rushmore the four
• 52:08
  top pa gigs i did yeah so
• 52:11
  the mount rushmore mount rushmore is a game that we play every episode
• 52:14
  with our guests it's where you do like i said your top
• 52:17
  four uh some subject that i gave gave you ahead of time you know sometimes i
• 52:21
  don't do that to me sometimes i just surprise them on the spot they're like
• 52:24
  fuck now yeah but i'll give you so yeah so we're gonna do your top four productions
• 52:32
  that you worked on first one i want to say,
• 52:35
  i talked about earlier is matrix that's because the stunts and the and the explosion
• 52:41
  scenes on that movie was amazing to be part of and you know it was just the
• 52:47
  matrix you know you thought it was and be like this big movie,
• 52:50
  even though it didn't blow up.
• 52:51
  But, you know, we had our idea about what it was going to be like,
• 52:55
  too, but it didn't happen. But, I mean, it was a great movie.
• 52:58
  Second one, Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi was cool to work on. That's what Simu Lee or
• 53:04
  whatever the guy's name is.
• 53:05
  That was in San Francisco, a little bit of it. Some of it was shot in Australia,
• 53:09
  but that was a really cool movie to work on to see the muni bus crashing to
• 53:14
  the side of these cars over by Fisherman's Wharf.
• 53:18
  What else? Dead Wrong was a movie I worked in LA with and that had Rob Schneider.
• 53:26
  And that was really cool because I got to talk to him a little bit and be a funny dude.
• 53:31
  And my last one would probably be Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• 53:37
  Actually, probably in a scale from one to two or one to four,
• 53:43
  I think number two would be Obi-Wan Kenobi and then three Shang-Chi and then four Dead Wrong.
• 53:48
  Okay cool so let's get into it let's debate it so the
• 53:52
  first thing i would say the the two things about the interesting about matrix
• 53:55
  4 and then shang chi is that matrix 4 was like the very last production that
• 54:01
  they started before the pandemic happened yeah shang chi was like the very first
• 54:07
  one yeah and it was i didn't work on shang chi but like for a reason you know I was like, I had that,
• 54:13
  but like, it was two totally,
• 54:17
  different like, vibes and energy, like, but we was on the Matrix and it was
• 54:23
  literally like the second they finished rapping, like,
• 54:26
  last day of filming the next day San Francisco went on the whole lockdown with
• 54:31
  the coronavirus and everything like that so if they had had to push anything
• 54:35
  back any further, that production would have been screwed.
• 54:38
  Yeah, dude, a lot of money would have been lost and all that shit i mean
• 54:42
  it ended right when that movie was done and
• 54:45
  then i was hearing things about china and shit while we're on
• 54:48
  that and that was the thing too because we was like there's like 300
• 54:51
  of us on set and we're just stuffed in this this
• 54:53
  room and we're all and that's all that's going on is everybody's just
• 54:56
  panicking like and this is back when everybody thinking like bumper's gonna
• 54:59
  turn into zombies and like that and i felt bad it was racist but there was this
• 55:05
  one there's this one asian dude like in the middle of us and he just came to
• 55:10
  set one day just hella sick and he just started coughing he's like he's like.
• 55:18
  He brought it over here get him out of here yeah get this dude out of here but
• 55:24
  um the one thing that i the matrix for that didn't talk about we talk about
• 55:28
  it now and stuff like that was,
• 55:31
  what was i about to say oh yeah that wasn't
• 55:35
  like would they talk about like celebrities and like you know like they talk
• 55:39
  about like like keanu reeves kind of has that reputation for being like a good
• 55:43
  guy just a real cool down to a dude yeah like if you'd ever seen like keanu
• 55:47
  like like on the set like interacting with people like it's true yeah it's true as like he was like,
• 55:54
  walk over to like the like the extras like because i i had met him in the bathroom
• 55:58
  and shit and like super awkward like because he was like because like they had
• 56:02
  finished filming a scene or whatever and he's just walking up to the like the
• 56:05
  other extras and he's very much like his um his bill and ted type of personality
• 56:09
  shit like they he's like hey man where's the bathroom you know,
• 56:14
  and then all the other extras I'm looking like it was Keanu Reeves talking to
• 56:18
  us like oh my god they're like it's that way it's that way and then like he
• 56:22
  was walking into the bathroom as I was like walking out of the bathroom I just
• 56:24
  opened the door like what the fuck face to face he's all like hello.
• 56:31
  I gotta use the bathroom,
• 56:35
  you should have closed the door I was like no too late it was Occupado no but
• 56:40
  I just walked down like yo what the fuck this happened man but then like the
• 56:45
  thing was is like when we was filming all the stunt scenes and stuff all like that.
• 56:50
  Whenever the camera's like facing Keanu on him and stuff all like that he always do like that
• 56:56
  that like you know use like his powers or whatever like that like he's in character
• 56:59
  stuff like that he's all you know what i mean or whatever but they're like when
• 57:04
  they did like from the opposite angle like and it's like the camera's like behind
• 57:08
  him or whatever yeah this fool's just he's still doing the action but he's just
• 57:11
  laughing and he's just getting he's like,
• 57:13
  oh my god yeah like he's a fucking kid or whatever i was like oh what the fuck like it kind of like,
• 57:21
  made you like i said give you that that motivation
• 57:24
  or like inspiration just lets you know that like oh not everybody's an
• 57:27
  asshole or like like this is work but like we
• 57:30
  can have fun with this type of yeah don't take it too serious yeah don't
• 57:33
  take it too like if he's not taking this serious he's number
• 57:36
  one he's number one he's over here laughing having a
• 57:39
  good time like he's a like he's a kid in a toy store
• 57:41
  or whatever come on man we we kids then yeah dude
• 57:45
  i i feel like keanu rius is that dude that
• 57:48
  is just a good guy all around man like on
• 57:51
  set he does his thing but he also helps out
• 57:54
  the crew too you know there's even videos of him carrying like equipment upstairs
• 57:59
  for the crew yeah you know he's just a good dude all around man yeah it's like
• 58:04
  where's the coffee you guys want some coffee you want some coffee it's like
• 58:08
  yo keanu bro it's cool man just do your thing bro,
• 58:13
  just go act man.
• 58:16
  By the way get me some toilet paper yeah.
• 58:22
  And then and then you had did Shang-Chi and like I said that was the very first
• 58:29
  production that happened coming out of the pandemic and for anybody that doesn't
• 58:34
  understand like what it was like,
• 58:37
  filming a movie during the pandemic bro like well coming out of the quarantine
• 58:42
  where they probably lifted everything and like having to get the COVID test
• 58:46
  and everything like that like COVID test before shooting,
• 58:50
  COVID test after shooting like we was getting COVID tests like three times a
• 58:54
  day on a set. That's true.
• 58:55
  Like man so what was that experience like now like back from set like and like,
• 59:01
  bagged lunches and whole bunches.
• 59:03
  Yeah the lunches were different before it was like
• 59:06
  a buffet for sure and you get to eat like open food
• 59:09
  but it was like more packaged and shit like that but like
• 59:12
  going back when covid was going on we
• 59:16
  had to take covid tests like throughout the day like three times you
• 59:18
  know because like actually on on
• 59:22
  chang chi someone caught covid and we we ended
• 59:25
  up going home for the day and then they called us back in to take covid tests
• 59:29
  and then they told us to go away and then wait until the results come in and
• 59:35
  they didn't know how to plan this out like when do we come back to set set the
• 59:38
  shoot again yeah so it was all new things going on and how to,
• 59:43
  go through it all.
• 59:45
  We eventually came back to shooting, but it was more strict.
• 59:48
  We kept each department very...
• 59:52
  They called it zones and stuff all like that. It was just...
• 59:56
  That was the first time I tried to go back to working movie sets during COVID.
• 1:00:03
  That really made you question, do I love making movies?
• 1:00:07
  Is it worth like me going out to kill myself. Yeah, because like it was like,
• 1:00:12
  because it's still the long work times.
• 1:00:14
  It's still like the same thing, but like all the good things that you went into, like expected,
• 1:00:20
  like craft service like the little things that you took for granted like
• 1:00:24
  craft service just being able to walk up to craft service and like grab grab
• 1:00:26
  a pack of oreos and then walk away and just snack on it
• 1:00:29
  yeah to where it's all like my brother's got like a tarp
• 1:00:32
  over it and like they're over sliding through the things like
• 1:00:35
  one at a time and all this type like having to people have to
• 1:00:37
  hand you food and how you say like the lunches were
• 1:00:40
  no longer like you just grab what you want yeah bag
• 1:00:44
  lunches and everything was cold and it was just it
• 1:00:47
  was like man this is like everyone's wearing masks too i
• 1:00:50
  mean everyone was concerned about catching it you know
• 1:00:53
  at that time it was very scary yeah i mean shoot
• 1:00:56
  i mean yeah and everybody's on edge nobody really wants to talk nobody talk
• 1:01:00
  to each other yeah very anti-social it was like that was the first i felt like
• 1:01:05
  i was like at a job like you know what i mean like you don't look like that
• 1:01:08
  that that that vibe that you get when you're at job like damn i'm at work right
• 1:01:11
  now yeah it felt like Like,
• 1:01:14
  I'm at work now. I'm at work. Damn.
• 1:01:17
  What are these damn cameras doing here? Get these cameras out of my face.
• 1:01:20
  Take them out. Get them out of here.
• 1:01:22
  It's like, that's your job. You're the PA. Oh, my bad. I'll be all right.
• 1:01:26
  Take you down the street. You're up there about six feet. Yeah.
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, but Shang-Chi was like one of the first ones that came up after COVID.
• 1:01:35
  And no one knew how to handle a set, you know.
• 1:01:40
  Everyone was still learning. They had people like the CCO and that was like
• 1:01:44
  the COVID compliance officer.
• 1:01:46
  And that was a new job for everyone on set was to have a CCO.
• 1:01:50
  And no one understood how to follow protocols sometimes, you know.
• 1:01:55
  And then they had those other, like, mobile tests you could take where you could,
• 1:01:58
  like, that's what we'd do. Before, you had to come into office and take that shit.
• 1:02:03
  And now, like, it just changed gradually.
• 1:02:06
  And then eventually it ended up, like, being nothing after a while.
• 1:02:10
  But, I mean, during that time, it was just tough, like, how to maneuver around
• 1:02:13
  all that and still make a movie. Yeah.
• 1:02:16
  Yeah. It was because they was trying to. And I bet the production company spent
• 1:02:20
  a lot of money just dedicated to like COVID testing.
• 1:02:25
  So we're like, we could tell just
• 1:02:29
  how much of a shortage there was with work because it's just so much money was
• 1:02:35
  dedicated to having to put forth towards COVID testing that it was just impossible
• 1:02:40
  to get all these projects off the ground how it normally would have been.
• 1:02:46
  Yeah there is a lot of money to be spent too on
• 1:02:48
  these movies too and then all they all went to covid like
• 1:02:52
  i remember being in la and one of the things that we had to
• 1:02:55
  do for covid testing was to drive up and they'd take the test inside the car
• 1:02:59
  yeah or you drive away and i was like something i was like oh what the hell
• 1:03:02
  that's different you know and like there's yeah so much things that they had
• 1:03:08
  to waste on covid compliance and all that and we had to drive to a certain specific,
• 1:03:14
  COVID tested place.
• 1:03:16
  To get that, to get the swab or whatever.
• 1:03:18
  And it's like, they're like, if you live somewhere like Sacramento,
• 1:03:22
  like me, like live in Sacramento, well, can I just go down the streets and like
• 1:03:25
  write it? Like, no, you got to go to the specific one in Oakland.
• 1:03:29
  And it's like, oh my God.
• 1:03:31
  Was it by the Children's Hospital that one? Yeah.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, man. Yeah, it's tough, dude. I wish it was more like you just go Walgreens
• 1:03:43
  to take it instead of having to do all that.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, it was a headache and a pain and stuff like that.
• 1:03:49
  And then the thing that sucked about that is the second they ended all the COVID
• 1:03:56
  protocols and were thinking that things were getting ready to get back up and
• 1:04:00
  running, the strike happened.
• 1:04:03
  Dude, it was one thing after another. I got hit with the strikes.
• 1:04:08
  That kind of demolished a lot of things.
• 1:04:11
  Money was being sent to more to the executives and they didn't want to share
• 1:04:17
  and they didn't want to help crews out and make films.
• 1:04:22
  There's a bunch of things going on. It was weird.
• 1:04:26
  Because a lot of people don't realize a lot of movies that came out last year,
• 1:04:29
  like 2024 and stuff like that, from a consumer standpoint, they'll be watching
• 1:04:34
  it and they'll be like, oh, this is my first time. Deadpool and Wolverine or whatever.
• 1:04:38
  They're like, oh, it came in theaters like now, but they don't understand.
• 1:04:41
  Like that movie went into production.
• 1:04:43
  Before those strikes you know i mean it was a it
• 1:04:46
  was a production during the middle of the strike so a lot of
• 1:04:49
  these movies have been coming out like over like
• 1:04:52
  2024 was carry over from 2022 2023
• 1:04:56
  that never got released because of the strike so it's like it's like a it's
• 1:05:00
  like a like a log jam a back jam of work yeah to where like so now consumers
• 1:05:05
  they're seeing that they're seeing this content all these movies being put out
• 1:05:08
  but from our standpoint for people who try to work and shit.
• 1:05:11
  We're like, that's cool and all, but shit is slow.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah, there's nothing going on. We don't got nothing.
• 1:05:16
  It's like, we're just waiting. We see these movies, but none of those are new
• 1:05:20
  movies. Yeah, to us, they're not new movies.
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  We're like... We're still waiting for Freaky Tales.
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  Yeah, Freaky Tales is supposed to come out this year.
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  I want to see that. I worked on that for a little bit.
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  I left early, but it was fun while I was there.
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  Yeah so the other
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  movie that you have worked on it was you said dead wrong yeah rob
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  schneider i was one of those that actually that
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  job gave me my union days to join the union
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  in la but it gave me 19 days you need 30 days
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  to join so basically you have to have 30 days to join the local 399 teamsters
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  union in la that that job gave you 19 days okay on set and that was a fun event
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  or a fun set because like the the crew was fun to work with i had one of the coolest managers,
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  shout out to romeo you're a good dude he always helped me out when i needed
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  the help i mean he got me the job too and it was a fun set like different places
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  to go to i've been talking to rob
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  schneider and just being a part of that production was fun to work in l.a.
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  And you said it was 19 days or it was 30 days to join the union?
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  To join the union. And that job gave you 19 of those days?
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  Yeah. Now, when they break that down, is it like you just show up for the day?
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  Does it count? Or is it like an hour scale that the hours have to accumulate to like 30 days?
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  I think it's on the paycheck or your payroll.
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  It should say your hours that you worked on. and
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  then it should give you like your day as in those
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  hours like your 12 hour day so that's one day
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  okay and then you know they count it from
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  there and okay and it's weird because you have to send it
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  to a third-party company called contract services
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  for them to vouch to verify your
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  your days that you worked and then you go back to teamsters and it's like a
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  whole mess you know that's interesting yeah but i mean not a lot of people understand
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  how much like you got to do to join the union there you have to get 30 days
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  sometimes you that's not the best way to do it sometimes you have to go on a
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  non-union shoot that flips to a union shoot.
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  I don't know i just got it that way i didn't join yet
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  by the way okay but still yeah but
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  you got the eligibility or what i didn't get the eligibility i got
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  the 19 days okay okay i needed 11 more okay i
• 1:07:44
  get what you're saying and i try to get i try to get it like throughout the
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  last couple years but i never ended up being 11 days so it
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  actually expired those 19 days those expire yeah
• 1:07:53
  after three years holy smokes yeah that seems
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  like a hassle from like from
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  a like a like i said a production assistant standpoint to where
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  i guess i could see why because like i heard the thing that say like production
• 1:08:06
  assistants they like have like a five year like you know after five years and
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  so they kind of like either they move up or they just don't do it no more i
• 1:08:14
  guess I can see how you say if your hours reset after three years,
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  stuff like that, you don't want to.
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  If you're sitting around at 24 hours or something, I'm only six hours away,
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  but shit's about to reset at six months. You'd be like, ugh.
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  It was like, dude, I tried so hard to get on that, and it didn't happen.
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  But it left me with the union in San Francisco to stay with.
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  So I was like, all right, I'll stay here. And if time ever comes to come to LA,
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  if LA calls me back to go there to work, and that might happen this spring but
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  I don't know if that's going to happen in a movie but if it does happen to work
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  that way then I'll come back to
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  LA and do that and then chase acting over there. It very leads me there.
• 1:08:58
  And is there a way for them to like grandfather you in like.
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  Being a local up here in San Francisco to where like.
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  Transfer to the Teamsters to them. Yeah. I think the only thing they do is you
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  don't pay the initiation fee when you join. Okay.
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  But you pay like some other fee. Yeah.
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  Because I think like with the union, you could be like me. I'm local up here
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  for San Francisco. But like if I wanted to join down in LA, I'd have to pay
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  the remaining half or whatever. The 15. Yeah. Yeah.
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  I mean i want to join all nationwide yeah
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  i think it'd be it'd definitely be beneficial because it's like
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  from a like just a career-wise standpoint
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  the way i look at it is like me being a member of the union or whatever it's
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  kind of just like like it like in a video game or whatever like you know you
• 1:09:48
  have like you reach like a checkpoint in a video there's like no matter what
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  happens after this point i know i'm gonna restart right here you know what i
• 1:09:54
  mean it was kind of like that's like i know no matter what happens like with
• 1:09:57
  the acting or whatever like falls off or whatever it may be.
• 1:10:01
  I know if I want to restart it wherever I travel to or whatever,
• 1:10:05
  I want to restart it. I'm starting right here.
• 1:10:07
  As a SAG member. As rather as opposed to be non-union now I got to fight for the SAG vouchers.
• 1:10:14
  Basically go through that whole hassle again.
• 1:10:17
  That's a whole hassle in its own. I don't think anyone wants to go through all that again.
• 1:10:21
  If you get it to this mark, you're staying at that mark. I'm like,
• 1:10:24
  I ain't going back. Have you ever considered like FICOR?
• 1:10:27
  I heard about it I don't even know how to go about it yeah I don't know how
• 1:10:30
  to go about it either but I mean it's just basically from what my understanding
• 1:10:33
  is you just give up all your union rights so you basically you just you're just
• 1:10:37
  basically doing it for the paycheck.
• 1:10:39
  No residuals no I don't think I don't know I'm pretty sure the residuals still
• 1:10:43
  still apply yeah but like I'd have to like do like I said I'm not too familiar
• 1:10:48
  with that's not me or whatever stuff like that but,
• 1:10:52
  James over like I might be recording right now let me alone.
• 1:10:58
  You see we got the show going on man,
• 1:11:02
  you wanted to say hi yeah you just wanted to say what's up,
• 1:11:06
  but then um okay so then last one what was
• 1:11:08
  the second one on your list was uh ob-wan for star
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  wars yeah what was that like oh that was cool
• 1:11:14
  man like we shot in on location and
• 1:11:18
  usually like the star star wars movies at that
• 1:11:21
  time were shooting in studio like Mandalorian like they
• 1:11:24
  had the green screen behind the actors and all
• 1:11:26
  that but with Obi-Wan Kenobi they were shooting on
• 1:11:29
  site at a location and one
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  of them was in Sun Valley in LA and it was like five football fields big of
• 1:11:38
  a like a field that goes down and that was like the place of Tatooine and that
• 1:11:45
  was like a cool place to see man it looked just like the village in Star Wars
• 1:11:49
  and like It was just realistic.
• 1:11:52
  It's like the way that they made the homes and all that.
• 1:11:57
  Probably one of the coolest sets I've seen. And also, I got to see Darth Vader.
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  I got to see, like, Obi-Wan. What's his name? I forgot his name.
• 1:12:07
  Oh, Hugh McGregor? Yeah. Was it Hugh McGregor? Who played Obi-Wan? It was the other guy.
• 1:12:13
  Christian. Oh, Hayden. Hayden. Oh, Darth Vader. That was Darth Vader. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Okay. I got mixed up. Yeah, it's all good.
• 1:12:24
  Like, are you even a Star Wars fan to be on this set? Honestly,
• 1:12:27
  I forget the characters. I don't remember all of them.
• 1:12:30
  But it was cool to be on a Star Wars flick and be part of that.
• 1:12:35
  Probably one of the greatest times. Great times. Were you on that for the whole time?
• 1:12:38
  For the most part, yeah. Because it took breaks in between.
• 1:12:42
  Yeah. And sometimes I wasn't working. I was like, dude, I need to be on.
• 1:12:45
  Because I moved to LA too at that time. I was trying to live there.
• 1:12:48
  I needed the work. Yeah. So I paid my bills.
• 1:12:50
  But it wasn't working out. And that's why I ended up having to leave to come back too.
• 1:12:55
  So one of those things. Yeah. It's all good. You back up here?
• 1:12:59
  Back up here? Back with the community? Back with the family making moves and shit like that?
• 1:13:02
  It won't be... I mean, way LA is looking right now anyways.
• 1:13:07
  That's probably a blessing. You have to be burnt down.
• 1:13:11
  Praise to the family and everybody that's being affected by that,
• 1:13:14
  but from a filmmaker's standpoint, having to move away from all that,
• 1:13:18
  it was probably just a blessing in disguise.
• 1:13:20
  Yeah. Good way of putting it, man. Yeah.
• 1:13:24
  Alright, man. Yeah, Bobby, you said, man, that's We're going to wrap this here episode up, man.
• 1:13:29
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• 1:13:59
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