Speaker 1: Weird things, weird, weird, weird.
Speaker 2: Greetings, my friends, this is an extra special episode. This
Speaker 2: is the most beautiful, most miraculous, heavenly manifestation. We have
Speaker 2: a goddess among us tonight, our wonderful friend Mela, well
Speaker 2: known by many names. You know if you catch my
Speaker 2: vibe as this was the lady. But she's known by
Speaker 2: many roles and by many names. And for many years
Speaker 2: we wanted to break into the wonderful world of anime,
Speaker 2: and by the grace of God, we have done it
Speaker 2: tonight with our guest. So Mela, thank you for being
Speaker 2: on the show.
Speaker 3: Oh it's my pleasure for being I had.
Speaker 2: To come pay you to the lady. Of course, why
Speaker 2: people ask, because I would like to just start talking
Speaker 2: about anime, if that's cool with you. Mela keeps getting
Speaker 2: type cast as goddess is in Queens of Heaven.
Speaker 4: Is that for real?
Speaker 3: That means the thing? Yeah? She's like, yeah, you know
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 4: Whatever, I'm a goddess.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: Over and over again. And Nana, Queen of Heaven is
Speaker 3: star Catwoman.
Speaker 4: You know, cat Woman is a goddess. Let's get that.
Speaker 2: She brings Batman to his knees.
Speaker 3: Show.
Speaker 2: I said to his knees, like, come on, man, that's yeah,
Speaker 2: like in worship.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, it's totally chill normal, Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, she's
Speaker 4: a goddess for sure. How long has that been happening?
Speaker 4: Have you been like type cast as a goddess?
Speaker 3: You guys, welcome to my dream life. So I love that.
Speaker 3: That's this is going to be the little the clip
Speaker 3: that say next on Mellow's episode. Well, the goddess thing
Speaker 3: started back in like two thousand and six, So that's.
Speaker 4: Basically that's a hell of a thing to be typecast as.
Speaker 4: I would be honored to be typecast as a goddess,
Speaker 4: just saying I'm just listen.
Speaker 3: I know people hook you up, Nick.
Speaker 4: Please hook you please? That would be for real.
Speaker 2: He is interested in voice acting.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a great voice, honestly, and I say that sincerely.
Speaker 3: Some people are like, I don't know if I like
Speaker 3: my voice, but I want to be a voice actor.
Speaker 3: It's acting with your voice whatever your voice is, for sure,
Speaker 3: you know. So I'm saying, even you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna send you some.
Speaker 4: Even I can be a goddess, guys, can't you hear it?
Speaker 3: That's the compliss listen, even someone like you could.
Speaker 4: Have I'm going to use that. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3: Shout out Melinda Hill. But that's your word. She's like,
Speaker 3: it's the compless. We're like, oh you came to the party,
Speaker 3: were hi?
Speaker 2: That like subtle shape compleat yeahs interesting?
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on, man, it's not the heart of a concept.
Speaker 2: Compliss I'm struggling.
Speaker 4: Compliment.
Speaker 2: I had a compliment insult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our parents do it sometimes you tried.
Speaker 4: Or if you're my parents, my dad, you do it
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, don't be talking about my boy like that.
Speaker 4: I love him.
Speaker 3: It makes us who we are, bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, the subtle shade of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean back to my real issue of being
Speaker 3: constantly cast as a goddess or a healer.
Speaker 2: Or some warrior princess.
Speaker 3: You know, I've kind of leaned into it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Some people come out, you know, during this last few
Speaker 3: years as this or that. I've come out as the
Speaker 3: queen of Heaven.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's a thing, man. She's just like, and
Speaker 2: I would love to go into that and and some
Speaker 2: of that theme in your life. But like even her
Speaker 2: New D and D camping, can we talk about that too? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would love push people to that. She's basically like
Speaker 2: an angel. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Basically I'm a nightingale Bard, but I'm an astral aerial elf.
Speaker 3: So I'm from the place between here and there, where
Speaker 3: music is the language, like music and light, and this
Speaker 3: is like my first time in corporeal form. So I
Speaker 3: just love everybody. You know, Like a beholder shows up
Speaker 3: and I sing him songs like Beauty is in the
Speaker 3: Eye of the Beholder, and everyone's like he's really scary,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, Hi, would you like a theme song.
Speaker 4: She's just like so bubbily and like just happy to
Speaker 4: be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it, just fill the love.
Speaker 4: What's the name of the campaign.
Speaker 3: It's called Squad twenty. You can watch it on six
Speaker 3: Sides of Gaming on YouTube, and it stars some of
Speaker 3: my besties from Apex Legends, so Nicholas Roy Octane also
Speaker 3: in Naruto and Jujitsu Guisen, Johnny Young from Overwatch he's
Speaker 3: Crypto in Apex, and Justine Huxley, who's Watson an Apex
Speaker 3: and absolute hilarious in the campaign, like Heart of Gold,
Speaker 3: but I can't do her accent. She has this like
Speaker 3: fantasy Irish accent, but she'll be like she's a druid. No, oh,
Speaker 3: She'll be just like she has primal savage savagery is
Speaker 3: one of her gifts, and she'll be just like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: I'm going to use primal savagery. So tear Out is
Speaker 3: intestines and time in a bowl.
Speaker 4: But she says it's so beautifully Yeah, you're just like, wow,
Speaker 4: that's so cool and sweet what you just said. But
Speaker 4: it's also kind of scary.
Speaker 2: We watched the premiere of the second episode today live
Speaker 2: and they were all like in the stream. So I
Speaker 2: was having a blast because they don't all know who
Speaker 2: I am. Nicholas Roy knows who I am because we've met,
Speaker 2: and I was like participating in the stream with him,
Speaker 2: kind of like yeah, gasting them up a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm team this guy, I'm team that guy. And they
Speaker 2: were commenting to me and they're like, I'm thinking, like
Speaker 2: they have no clue. I'm sitting here with Mella.
Speaker 3: Like just later No.
Speaker 2: But it was fun. It was really fun. I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed it. So I won.
Speaker 3: It's your first campaign, Yeah, yeah, so that was that's
Speaker 3: that's the tag is. They took four newbies. We had
Speaker 3: a four hour training session on a Thursday, and people
Speaker 3: that had like twenty years of experience, so they helped
Speaker 3: us build these characters. And and then we filmed five
Speaker 3: episodes on a Friday, five on a Saturday, two on
Speaker 3: a Sunday. So just back to back. Deer in the headlights, whoa,
Speaker 3: that's a lot at one time it was, but the mayhem,
Speaker 3: it's you catch it live.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're in good hands, like twenty year veterans.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Devin Or is our DM and he is
Speaker 3: I mean a great voice actor too, Like he's not
Speaker 3: a voice actor. He's like, oh, I would love to
Speaker 3: do it, and he only does like twenty seven voices
Speaker 3: per campaign, like right, yeah, and sings and writes these
Speaker 3: great stories. And it was funny, so fun really great crew.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Let's hope for the animated series. Oh yeah, whatever you want.
Speaker 3: Big shout out to Lena Schlatter Kalia Art. She's already done.
Speaker 3: You can see them on on my Instagram if you
Speaker 3: want to check. But these beautiful animated, like Disney esque
Speaker 3: versions of our characters.
Speaker 2: That is so and her character on herrad is depicted.
Speaker 2: This is totally random.
Speaker 3: I told you guys like, just whatever you're inspired to do.
Speaker 3: I don't want to micromanage you. Just I gave her
Speaker 3: my little bio.
Speaker 2: And isn't she like a Disney illustrator. Yeah, she has
Speaker 2: orbs around her.
Speaker 3: I know, yea in my hand. She goes, is that okay?
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, it's very checks.
Speaker 4: They show that art on the episodes.
Speaker 3: Uh not yet okay, Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Is it on your Instagram? I'll pull it up real quick.
Speaker 4: That's cool as hell. How serendipitous is that? You just
Speaker 4: like give her your little rundown and then she draws
Speaker 4: you like all beautiful with the orbs.
Speaker 3: Around Welcome to the podcast. Yes, and we're just on
Speaker 3: her phones. Yes, that is. I pick up my phone
Speaker 3: just in case it's not on my.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. I can't find it.
Speaker 3: I can't find it here, but.
Speaker 2: I want you to see it. Her instagram is the
Speaker 2: Mellow Lee and Home.
Speaker 3: By the way, Well, by the time you guys hear this,
Speaker 3: I'll make sure it's on there.
Speaker 2: Is it okay? If we like drop this in?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that too much work out?
Speaker 4: I like answer, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And that's a Disney illustrator.
Speaker 4: Can tell take it like one quick look at it.
Speaker 4: It's so disney esque and this looks like you.
Speaker 2: You see her astral wings.
Speaker 3: I'm upsessed, like the Switzerland. Yeah, that is everybody's wings.
Speaker 4: That's so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're having a blast.
Speaker 2: Can you send that image to me? Of course, I'd
Speaker 2: like to put.
Speaker 3: That off again for those of you at home that
Speaker 3: can't see my beautiful face. I am now texting Ryan
Speaker 3: led so always on my phone.
Speaker 2: We'll drop it in the in the video so they
Speaker 2: can see. Yeah, and they'll go He'll be like, you know,
Speaker 2: their jaws will drop at this. Amazing nerds. Yeah, of
Speaker 2: court nerds.
Speaker 3: I'm absolutely stunning in cartoon versions.
Speaker 4: You're so humble, You're so humble.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Kind of heaven since two thousand and six.
Speaker 4: Bro, is that really when you played your first goddess?
Speaker 4: Hey man, listen, I need to know the hard detail.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I played my first goddess until
Speaker 3: like the twenty twelves, I was. I was a vampire
Speaker 3: like a princess, and.
Speaker 2: I want to watch that one. By the way, you
Speaker 2: heard of Enemy, Yeah, she's in.
Speaker 3: I don't want to give it away, but she's.
Speaker 2: One of the main roles in there. I'll hell, yeah
Speaker 2: it looks cool.
Speaker 3: So Uki Cross and then Rinn so I was just
Speaker 3: a you know, goddess Maria. Yeah, Fate stay night, Fate,
Speaker 3: Fate stay Night, and then unlimited Blade works eventually, but
Speaker 3: she becomes Ishtar so I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey Alex, grab that grab that statue to your right.
Speaker 4: I now love me some fate stick.
Speaker 3: Look oh it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: How cool is that?
Speaker 2: That was bought for me as a president of my
Speaker 2: wife and mother in law's gorgeous random synchronicity.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so yeah, thank you. They have sport groups
Speaker 3: for goddesses like me, and do they.
Speaker 4: Really no filled with all sorts of other goddess you imagine? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 3: When were you first cast as a goddess? She's like, well,
Speaker 3: I was Jade and I just you know, ever since.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a tough life, isn't Jade?
Speaker 2: Like a thousand years older is a Katana?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: A woman never talks about her age. I'm an and
Speaker 3: Dannian goddess. Could we just leave it at that?
Speaker 4: Why? Seriously, Ryan, do you not know you don't ask
Speaker 4: women that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I love tik want you get.
Speaker 2: To about nine hundred years. I feel like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: She's like, you know, I'm on me full thousand years old.
Speaker 3: She's the younger version.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's giving that yeah. Oh yeah. So then two
Speaker 4: thousand and six is when you started voice acting.
Speaker 3: Really a little bit before then, like one or two things,
Speaker 3: I was just paying off student loans before I went
Speaker 3: to law school. And then it kind of got fun.
Speaker 3: So I figured I pushed law school back a little.
Speaker 3: And then I thought I'd save up money so I
Speaker 3: don't have to go to law school. And then I
Speaker 3: got like a publishing deal, a record deal, and and
Speaker 3: then I didn't go to law school.
Speaker 2: She sings, oh yeah, I heard a little diddy.
Speaker 4: I heard a little ditty.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the living room, she gave us a little sample.
Speaker 2: She's got a record.
Speaker 3: I love your impression of me.
Speaker 4: That was that was me, That was fully my energy
Speaker 4: coming out. Okay, you'll learn it's okay.
Speaker 3: You should have warned the crop top.
Speaker 4: I know I was this close.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I've said bro like eighty seven
Speaker 3: times today. It just it works with you.
Speaker 4: We're bringing that out of it. You almost said it again.
Speaker 4: You almost just called me bruh again. I can be bro.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 2: Now she's saying bro.
Speaker 4: But when not right, it's more shaka. But when I
Speaker 4: come out in that crop top, you're not gonna be
Speaker 4: calling me brou no.
Speaker 3: But you know I'll be watching going. I made that happen.
Speaker 2: I made his dreams.
Speaker 3: I made that. I was the beginning of that. That
Speaker 3: that paradigm you man from me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you changed my life.
Speaker 3: Oh Ryan, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I just I'm wondering what send it for me? You
Speaker 2: get to see me for you, But I needed to
Speaker 2: be more visceral.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: That's frightening, that's foreboding textures.
Speaker 2: I'm out maybe like you know, hold your hand when
Speaker 2: you're showing up on the scene or something.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, yeah yeah, So so two thousand and six,
Speaker 4: you didn't expect to have that much fun with it?
Speaker 3: No? Really, but listen, do we need to start again?
Speaker 3: Do we have to like rewind the song? Control already?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you it's it's really probably it's your fault. Ryan,
Speaker 3: What did I do? You're the one that took me
Speaker 3: to the mess hall and we had I mean, I've
Speaker 3: been trying to eat like sushi bowls, poke bowls, and
Speaker 3: he's like, they got a tater top bowl.
Speaker 2: Hey, I excited about it. I will say I did.
Speaker 3: His eyes lit up and I couldn't say no, you're
Speaker 3: in the South, so I had a Carolina Burger and
Speaker 3: some tot So I'm in a little bit of a
Speaker 3: tot coma.
Speaker 2: In a te hole. Oh yeah, yeah, we're in the
Speaker 2: te hole.
Speaker 3: I mean if we'd had just like a very smoothie,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, so I was the queen of having
Speaker 3: in two thousand and six, you'd be calm and yeah,
Speaker 3: but you tatered me not the verb, not the verb?
Speaker 4: Man, get tatered?
Speaker 2: What have I done?
Speaker 3: You got man.
Speaker 4: Up right now? Hell yeah?
Speaker 3: Things are getting crazy?
Speaker 4: Would you ever voice of tater?
Speaker 2: This is getting out of control?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like, I could be tighter, hot, and I can make things.
Speaker 3: And you know, Taer's got all kinds of uses. Imagine
Speaker 3: well my tight would She's like, she's like, I'm a
Speaker 3: guy for taters. Oh like, you give me some vegetables
Speaker 3: and I would make anything.
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Speaker 2: You know what cracks me up? Sound Yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 3: Corn fritter?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, how would they sound?
Speaker 4: Well? Your time.
Speaker 3: My nana makes like hot water corn bread, so I
Speaker 3: feel like hot water corn bread and corn fritters are
Speaker 3: like on a gang war. It's basically like you know,
Speaker 3: they'd be It's like the West Side Story. Can you
Speaker 3: imagine it'd be like what so corn fritter would be like,
Speaker 3: I'm a corner. I got some cool right, she has
Speaker 3: no idea? So good? You know, don't mess with me
Speaker 3: I'm a cool and then you got hot water corn
Speaker 3: bread coming up from a deep South, Like, listen, brow,
Speaker 3: you ain't never cord mess? What is how water corn bread?
Speaker 3: Poo poo poo. Man, I'm getting out of fly all day.
Speaker 3: You want to mess?
Speaker 4: Wait? Wait that.
Speaker 2: Was that was brilliant. So then I'm curious. We have
Speaker 2: to go there, guys, we have we do.
Speaker 3: I was a lonely child and an only child.
Speaker 2: We just went and now we have to take the mile.
Speaker 3: Oh wait wait, okay, wait, what are we doing now?
Speaker 2: How about a hot dog?
Speaker 3: My god, but it's a girl hot dog.
Speaker 2: That's up to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's definitely like she's a girl hot dog. But
Speaker 3: she is, well, my brain, people, she's a girl hot dog.
Speaker 3: She's a little bit. She's just like me. I mean
Speaker 3: she was a tomboy maybe just not drawn right, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I totally want to do it, guys, guys, guys,
Speaker 3: put me in a bun. Go on, guys, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: don't judge. I don't want to be a corn dog
Speaker 3: to the buns. I could the football games. You could
Speaker 3: put me like, I could be at the Dodgers. I
Speaker 3: could be like, hey, don't hang on me. If you're
Speaker 3: not for the Dodgers. I'm I'm from LA right now.
Speaker 3: So it's like, man, I could be a Dodger doll.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I mean, hey, just because I'm a girl
Speaker 3: don't mean that I can't be you know, I could
Speaker 3: sweat it out. I could be in New York. I
Speaker 3: could be like I could be hold on our dog.
Speaker 3: I could be in New York. I could put me in,
Speaker 3: put me in.
Speaker 2: So notice how the Corford was all right, I want
Speaker 2: to break it to you. No, no, no, that.
Speaker 3: Was never going to be hot dog.
Speaker 2: Huh. Well no, you can certainly get.
Speaker 3: The call back, but maybe I won't get the job.
Speaker 3: So there's there's that girls like, please don't like your girl,
Speaker 3: and they're like your girl.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So there's a meme war right now and our like Discord, Patreon,
Speaker 2: Ca and I just about corn fretters versus hot dogs.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're a perfect fit in this world. I just
Speaker 4: you have to know, like this is gonna be more
Speaker 4: on the money. Oh my, there is there's a there's
Speaker 4: a gang war. You said gang war.
Speaker 2: She said mafia.
Speaker 4: She said gang war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gang war.
Speaker 4: Our fans are in a gang war of hot dogs.
Speaker 4: Versus corn Fritters and.
Speaker 2: The corn Fitters mafia.
Speaker 4: I did you just gave them a voice?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: But you said cornforters and I said hot water corn bad.
Speaker 3: I just feel like I feel like they be treating
Speaker 3: like those hot dogs like their girls. And I mean notice.
Speaker 2: Notice that hot dog was desperate.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In the corn for it was.
Speaker 4: Cool, yeah, cool, chill like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I'm a cool fritter, Like I don't want
Speaker 3: to fight, go fight. We can settle this. Man. It's obvious,
Speaker 3: isn't it. Girl, girl, Man, I believe in you.
Speaker 2: I love I love.
Speaker 3: The comforts be it.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something funny. So when we were in Oregon following
Speaker 2: contact in the desert, which unfortunately Mela couldn't make she
Speaker 2: had to go back to do a convention.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, guys, it's service. It's all Ryan's fault. It
Speaker 3: is my fault.
Speaker 2: It's all my fault. Oh my god, I'm just in
Speaker 2: trouble now. Now now, you guys are all, you know,
Speaker 2: bonding and hitting it off, and I'm in trouble with everybody.
Speaker 4: It's okay, that's all right, it's okay.
Speaker 2: I've had my time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh me and wait we Oh, okay, I thought we
Speaker 3: were getting they were high fiving Nick. I thought he
Speaker 3: was like, no, fourteen minute episode.
Speaker 2: So you guys, you guys don't know about this. When
Speaker 2: we went to Oregon after contacting the Desert, which we'll
Speaker 2: come back to that, because we were there together for
Speaker 2: the whole time.
Speaker 4: I didn't even know that until today.
Speaker 2: I don't know that the whole time. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: it was amazing.
Speaker 3: I wish I wish I'd been in Oregon. That sounded am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was wild. But okay, So when we went
Speaker 2: to Oregon and State at a mutual friend's house, they
Speaker 2: had like a professional catering event and we did like
Speaker 2: a massive SkyWatch with like twenty to thirty people part
Speaker 2: of the So my buddy Emil, who y'all know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was at Azeia Fest. He got the corn for it,
Speaker 2: a recipe what from the discord And because he's in
Speaker 2: the discord incognito, he's incognito. He got the recipe, he
Speaker 2: gave it to the professional catering company and they made
Speaker 2: the corn.
Speaker 4: Fra no way.
Speaker 2: They were the first thing to just disappear. They were
Speaker 2: the first thing to get snatched up. Yeah. So the
Speaker 2: corn Friends are going worldwide. We had them in Oregon.
Speaker 3: They were okay, so yeah you didn't. I guess. I
Speaker 3: guess it's you know, when you go to Oregon and
Speaker 3: you're hanging out in this beautiful like nature's everywhere, you
Speaker 3: can't be like, madam, would you like a hot dog?
Speaker 4: Right? So unclassy?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I feel that corn fritters though
Speaker 3: classy nothing.
Speaker 2: It would have been ins get that away.
Speaker 3: We have to come up with a new name for it.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't call it a.
Speaker 4: Hot no, it would be something much more elegant.
Speaker 3: It would be hot dog.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, be like a pork fritter.
Speaker 3: Sir, you know, world peace? Yes, everything together? Please?
Speaker 2: So desperate in its voice, Yeah, I'm so stoked because like, seriously,
Speaker 2: on a real note, you have no clue how long.
Speaker 2: Like I haven't really talked about it a whole lot openly,
Speaker 2: but in the back of my mind, I've been like
Speaker 2: desperate to have somebody who's into voice acting to come
Speaker 2: on to the show and then you know the story,
Speaker 2: but the people at home don't know how you just
Speaker 2: like poof, you just appeared in my life, and I
Speaker 2: remember when you first sent me that message on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Me and Jenny were watching TV and I looked down
Speaker 2: at my phone or she found it actually sees oh
Speaker 2: my god, look it's a voice actor. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. I was freaking out. But it started
Speaker 2: off with a video.
Speaker 3: M I did.
Speaker 2: Can we talk about that?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't. I don't think I sent the
Speaker 3: video right away.
Speaker 2: Well no, no, but okay, you're right. You you do
Speaker 2: correct me on that. And it's important now because I
Speaker 2: didn't find out about the video till a couple days later,
Speaker 2: but you reached out to me. We get to talking,
Speaker 2: we schedule a zoom call, and then I find out
Speaker 2: there's a video.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, So I want to talk about that more or
Speaker 2: less about what happened to you.
Speaker 3: I want to be serious about this, but I'm also thirsty.
Speaker 1: So just.
Speaker 3: Realized the cameras on.
Speaker 2: Keep talking, get the shot, Okay, I can keep talking.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and then just beyond you know, talking about
Speaker 2: the or video and our connection together and everything, I
Speaker 2: also wanted to talk about, like your faith and just
Speaker 2: kind of expand upon that and some of the amazing
Speaker 2: things that happened to you and around.
Speaker 3: You, and I have an extraordinary life.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 3: I mean I had maybe not the happiest childhood, which
Speaker 3: is one of the reasons my second childhood is so
Speaker 3: much better than my first. I think is why I
Speaker 3: laugh a lot, and I love life is just so
Speaker 3: safe and beautiful and it's an adventure. I think it's
Speaker 3: it's probably how we all wish our childhoods were, where
Speaker 3: you don't know that monsters are real. And I've always
Speaker 3: felt though from like my earliest memory was probably nine
Speaker 3: or ten months old, and I was trying to take
Speaker 3: steps and I let go of my grandmother's hand and
Speaker 3: I took a step and I fell down the stairs
Speaker 3: and it was like a spiral staircase. And I don't
Speaker 3: remember falling. I remember flying and landing and being fine.
Speaker 3: And I could see there's a mirror at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the stairs and you could see her, oh my,
Speaker 3: oh my, like she was frightened coming down. And I
Speaker 3: remember thinking, she's not gonna let me do that again,
Speaker 3: you know, I was like, well, I really blew that.
Speaker 3: But I wonder why that's my first memory, And I
Speaker 3: think it's also my first memory that you know, as
Speaker 3: I get older, I'm like, that's my first memory of
Speaker 3: being protected, being carried right, like being safe in situations
Speaker 3: that could have ended up poorly badly, but my faith.
Speaker 3: When I was twelve, there was some really sad things
Speaker 3: that happened, inappropriate things. And it's funny that I recently,
Speaker 3: not that it's funny, but strange. I went to some
Speaker 3: comic cons some appearances recently at these places where these
Speaker 3: things happened, and it was it was lovely to know
Speaker 3: that I made it out, but also just a respect
Speaker 3: for this little girl. Like when you're twelve, you think
Speaker 3: you're one hundred years old. But I spent a year
Speaker 3: and a half trying to figure out how I could
Speaker 3: end my life. No, wow, but when you're twelve, I mean,
Speaker 3: where do you get pills? Where do you get a gun?
Speaker 3: Where do you know? That wasn't an option. And there
Speaker 3: was a group of kids that was going to a
Speaker 3: Baptist church and I went to this like adult Bible study.
Speaker 3: I'm twelve and somehow end up in this young adult
Speaker 3: Bible study. But they had an altar call and they
Speaker 3: were explaining that Jesus died for you know, not our
Speaker 3: sins only, but the sins of the whole world. And
Speaker 3: for me, what resonated was that there was this price
Speaker 3: that was paid for things that were done to me.
Speaker 3: And I'm a math girly, so I understood, like the
Speaker 3: people that had hurt me, mathematically speaking, there's nothing that
Speaker 3: they could do to make it better. And in this
Speaker 3: moment of like this mystical moment, I felt like this thing,
Speaker 3: this entity, this presence, this protection. It said, listen, if
Speaker 3: you give me your life and promise not to take it,
Speaker 3: I promised to make it worth your while. And I
Speaker 3: remember it's like a hard promise to keep, and I mean,
Speaker 3: you're thirteen. So I thought, okay, so in about six months,
Speaker 3: my life's gonna be perfect. You know the math And
Speaker 3: it took a minute, but I have this extraordinary life now,
Speaker 3: and I think I would have missed all of it.
Speaker 3: And I realized some people are like, why, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't think that when people are thinking of unliving themselves,
Speaker 3: they're thinking I don't want to be alive. They're just
Speaker 3: thinking I don't want to live like this. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: the math gets really difficult of how can I not
Speaker 3: feel this pain? How can I not feel When you
Speaker 3: have been physically, verbally or and or other kinds of abuse,
Speaker 3: it erases your value, and there's like this the strength
Speaker 3: that it takes just to walk outside and be normal,
Speaker 3: and I like, I'm in a place in my life
Speaker 3: right now. I'll openly talk about it because I realize
Speaker 3: if I don't, there might be somebody listening right now
Speaker 3: that is doing what I was doing, which is being
Speaker 3: a really good person and a support character. And I
Speaker 3: want to make sure everyone else feels good. But in
Speaker 3: the inside, it's because I don't think I have any
Speaker 3: other value then at least making you feel good about yourself.
Speaker 3: But there have been always this feeling of protection, of
Speaker 3: connection to God, and never felt like I needed to
Speaker 3: save twenty seven people so I can get a pizza party.
Speaker 3: You know, it was never a transaction for me. Those
Speaker 3: of you, I have been to some real hardcore churches,
Speaker 3: you may understand that. It just I don't feel like
Speaker 3: people are a currency. But I would love each day,
Speaker 3: like when I didn't think my life would keep going.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I thought, but at least I'll know that I
Speaker 3: got to make someone feel like they mattered. And so
Speaker 3: when you talk about like my relationship with God, I
Speaker 3: think it's this tremendous compassion that I've had for other people.
Speaker 3: But when I went back to these two towns where
Speaker 3: some really terrible things had happened. Is the first time
Speaker 3: I really had some extreme compassion for myself.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the bravery it took to get to where
Speaker 3: I'm at now, and I had never stopped to be
Speaker 3: like Mela. And I'm so proud of you because I know,
Speaker 3: though it's probably pretty hard to believe without seeing that
Speaker 3: that life could be better. And so, you know, if
Speaker 3: anyone can hear my voice now, I am the patron
Speaker 3: scene of second chances and late bloomers. I did everything
Speaker 3: wrong and my life is turned out beautifully, right, that's
Speaker 3: so beautiful.
Speaker 5: I definitely it's so hard for us to be compassionate
Speaker 5: to ourselves, and we don't like to think about that,
Speaker 5: you know, we think about being compassionate to other people, right,
Speaker 5: because we want to be like you said, it's like
Speaker 5: almost like in service to other people, a support character,
Speaker 5: like you said, but like who's supporting you? Yeah, if
Speaker 5: you're not going to do it, there's no guarantee that
Speaker 5: anyone else is going to do it.
Speaker 2: I think it's most difficult to be supportive to yourself.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely, and just recently the pandemic you know leading
Speaker 3: up to some of the reasons why Ryan and I
Speaker 3: know each other just I'm that strong support person. I
Speaker 3: played Lifeline and you know the goddess thing that goes
Speaker 3: in the and two friends two years in a row
Speaker 3: were diagnosed in March of cancer young cats gone in June.
Speaker 3: And then the next year someone jumped off the top
Speaker 3: of my building. And then six months later someone ended
Speaker 3: their life like in very close proximity to me, and
Speaker 3: it just broke me, like as the first of my life.
Speaker 3: I knew, like at that moment there was that was max.
Speaker 3: You know sometimes you're like, I don't know how much more.
Speaker 3: I was like, I knew that was it. It just
Speaker 3: broke my heart. And in the obituary the person said
Speaker 3: they were you know, I read at their obituary and
Speaker 3: they were anime fans, and I just was like, whow
Speaker 3: who made them feel like that they weren't worthwhile? And
Speaker 3: of course I want to reach out to them, But
Speaker 3: at that moment, I thought, if I don't have a
Speaker 3: sustainable practice of caring for myself, like it's just that
Speaker 3: thin line of just breaking. And that happened in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, and just this last couple of years have
Speaker 3: been really learning to forgive, you know, my abusers, learning
Speaker 3: how to put myself in the math equation of kindness
Speaker 3: and compassion and joy, and I leave time for taters
Speaker 3: and you know, like I'm just sometimes have a perfect die.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I don't joy. Like I think, it's really occurred
Speaker 3: to me, how unlikely not only that I have this
Speaker 3: incredible life, but how light unlikely it is that I
Speaker 3: made it out of thirteen till now.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: And I always feel like I have angels all around me.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I've had people that see things like that and they're like,
Speaker 3: you have angels all around you. And recently that happened
Speaker 3: and I was like, I know, and she goes, oh,
Speaker 3: you see them, and I thought, no, now I don't.
Speaker 3: And then about a week later, I was saying goodbye
Speaker 3: to my beautiful Nana and there were like these twenty
Speaker 3: one beautiful glowing orange red lights above her house and
Speaker 3: I was like, what is this? And I watched for
Speaker 3: a while and then I remember like I slowly reached
Speaker 3: from my phone because it's like one of those extraordinary things,
Speaker 3: and I thought maybe I can film it, And even
Speaker 3: in the in the camera, I would look at them
Speaker 3: and they were so astrally beautiful, and I would look
Speaker 3: at it through the iPhone and it was just like
Speaker 3: a pinpoint of the overall in person, which is such
Speaker 3: a metaphor, like sometimes when we were worried like did
Speaker 3: I look good in a picture? I do that all
Speaker 3: the time, do I look pretty? And human beings and
Speaker 3: this experience is so much much bigger than a lens.
Speaker 3: You know, that's just a fraction of what we think
Speaker 3: is being captured.
Speaker 4: You can't be captured all that beauty, right, And it.
Speaker 3: Was extraordinary and beautiful, and you know, even in the
Speaker 3: months that have followed, like I was like, well, how
Speaker 3: many people must have seen that? Nobody?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Really, I was curious if that was like a
Speaker 4: thing in that area that a lot of people had seen.
Speaker 3: There was actually like went online and I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know what else to call.
Speaker 4: They were orbs, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, so I typed in orbs. Nothing there was deor bags,
Speaker 3: which apparently.
Speaker 4: Is the thing that.
Speaker 3: I was like, there was a couple of things, but
Speaker 3: it did, you know, lead me to a thumbnail. And
Speaker 3: I love reading, so I just probably listened to the
Speaker 3: first two minutes of an interview of someone named Chris Bledsoe,
Speaker 3: but it says he wrote a book, and I read
Speaker 3: the book and that was it was extraordinary, like I
Speaker 3: saw like near death experiences and like I like I was.
Speaker 3: I had like butterfly buzz in my in my chest
Speaker 3: and my heart the whole time. But he said he
Speaker 3: had a little body, Nam Ryan, who believed him. And
Speaker 3: I reached out and I sent a message and I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know if you're going to read this,
Speaker 3: but I have an extraordinary life and I saw something
Speaker 3: really beautiful and extraordinary. It led me to your father's book.
Speaker 3: And I just want to say I'm proud of you
Speaker 3: for going through what you went through to be the
Speaker 3: man you are today, because a lot of people need hope.
Speaker 3: They need to know there's something out there. We don't
Speaker 3: need to understand what it is. But I saw an
Speaker 3: autographs with kids all the time, grown people, and people
Speaker 3: are frightened right now and lost. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I love God, but I'm really aware that sometimes churches
Speaker 3: can be the most abusive place is people have ever known,
Speaker 3: and so they they walk away from God because they
Speaker 3: think it can only be inside of a building. But
Speaker 3: I think Ryan, you and your dad have maybe opened
Speaker 3: up an opportunity for people to be reminded that it's
Speaker 3: it's in the air, it's in it's it's in who
Speaker 3: we are, it's in that we are in a magical
Speaker 3: existence right now, and there are mysteries to be uncovered
Speaker 3: and discovered.
Speaker 2: I saw your video, which I think by this point
Speaker 2: maybe we would have dropped it in so people at
Speaker 2: home could see. If you're not watching us on YouTube,
Speaker 2: you should go there because we do have video. Surprise,
Speaker 2: it's for the podcast only, you know Spotify video too.
Speaker 2: Oh sweet? Do we put video up there now?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Oh cool?
Speaker 3: Cool, so you can see how cute Nick is just
Speaker 3: about every meeting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, stop it and see the goddess called.
Speaker 2: And see the video there. I saw this footage. We okay.
Speaker 2: So I got our message on Instagram. Jenny and I
Speaker 2: are watching TV on a Friday night and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh crap, it's happening. It's happening you know, someone from
Speaker 2: you know, the anime industry. I started looking down your feed.
Speaker 2: Jenny was like, oh my god, she's a voice actor.
Speaker 4: Ryan.
Speaker 2: I was like, O I'll get back with her tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So I read your message. I reach out to you
Speaker 2: and obviously we hit it off really quickly, and then
Speaker 2: I don't remember who through the first stone, but it
Speaker 2: was like, let's get on a zoom call and I
Speaker 2: was like, heck yeah. It was like a day or
Speaker 2: two later. We get to talking. Obviously, the vibes are
Speaker 2: really good. We're like meshing. And then I see your
Speaker 2: video and if you remember, I had somebody coming to
Speaker 2: my house to pick up yeah junk, So it was
Speaker 2: just bad timing. It was like we had a call,
Speaker 2: but then I had this company coming to pick up
Speaker 2: all that old trash in my garage and they were
Speaker 2: getting delayed, and I was like, well, I'm so sorry,
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere. Do not go anywhere. I'll be back
Speaker 2: in thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I got an audition. I'm going
Speaker 3: to record this audition.
Speaker 2: I came back called her again and I was like,
Speaker 2: you have no idea how crazy that footage is. She
Speaker 2: has no clue. She's like, what do you mean. I
Speaker 2: was like, I have seen thousands and thousands and thousands
Speaker 2: of or videos and this is the best one that's
Speaker 2: ever sent to me, and your els in her head.
Speaker 2: She's like, oh crap, I'm a part of this now.
Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, it's beautiful. I don't I'm
Speaker 3: not in the community, so what would I compare it against.
Speaker 4: Sure, Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, And then I did when he
Speaker 3: texted me that. And then when we got back on
Speaker 3: the zoom, I could see his face and he goes,
Speaker 3: let me be clear, my dad and I like thousands
Speaker 3: and thousands, literally thousands of videos, and he's like, but this.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And then all of a sudden, I got
Speaker 3: those butterfly buzzes in my gut and I thought, oh, what,
Speaker 3: what's is my Oh?
Speaker 2: And it hasn't been posted yet ever as far as
Speaker 2: I know. Really, I'm happy that you've given me permission
Speaker 2: to post that.
Speaker 3: And you asked and I thought, well, who better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like astonishing, like you showed me back when
Speaker 4: I guess whenever it got it, and it was immediately
Speaker 4: like whoa. I mean like, yeah, not only do people
Speaker 4: not get videos like that typically, but only very very
Speaker 4: recently have I been around when there's sightings of a
Speaker 4: few at a time, a few in the sky at
Speaker 4: a time. I mean, we get excited if there's four
Speaker 4: or five of them at one sky at one time,
Speaker 4: and they just kind of like zip by and it's like, whoa,
Speaker 4: that's crazy. That video was like this is a whole and.
Speaker 3: It was a little overcast, and so for me, I
Speaker 3: couldn't tell they felt close, but I didn't know. And
Speaker 3: I even was thinking, are they against the mountains, which
Speaker 3: is a weird thing because there were no mountains anywhere nearby,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, maybe I can see them better because
Speaker 3: of the mountains, because I live near mountains. But like
Speaker 3: my brain was literally not understanding.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, tries to do all these mental gymnastics and
Speaker 4: like explain or contextualize what you're waking.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't have any context. But I you know,
Speaker 3: I feel led in my life quite often, and I
Speaker 3: think it was important for me to be led to
Speaker 3: someone who Again, anyone listening, I no matter what you believe,
Speaker 3: what church you've been, I'm so sorry if anyone has
Speaker 3: ever hurt you and thought made you think that you
Speaker 3: aren't extraordinary. Like the exquisite math of the universe equals you, like,
Speaker 3: as infinite as the universe is, we're like a speck
Speaker 3: on a grain of sand on the ocean, or you know,
Speaker 3: the beach on the ocean of the universe. But we
Speaker 3: were important enough to take our first breath, like you matter.
Speaker 3: And I feel like these experiences are very spiritual, and
Speaker 3: for me, I wouldn't have There was no fear. I
Speaker 3: wasn't frightened, you know, I wasn't abducted. I was just
Speaker 3: it was like a wave. And I would hope that
Speaker 3: you know, I love that your father and you have
Speaker 3: such a spiritual connection to the phenomena. And I think
Speaker 3: it's a it's a hello, and it's it's really it's
Speaker 3: a it's a childlike wonder. Remember when we were kids
Speaker 3: and we didn't know the answers, but we weren't afraid
Speaker 3: that we didn't know the answers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just.
Speaker 3: Were like, wow, now that's something I want to figure out,
Speaker 3: or HI, or you know, we talked about it sometimes.
Speaker 3: Remember when you were a kid. I don't know if
Speaker 3: anybody else did this, but you'd be maybe on a
Speaker 3: road trip, and a semi truck would come and you
Speaker 3: would you would do your right and and sometimes the
Speaker 3: truck would honk. Now you're not a kid thinking well,
Speaker 3: I wonder if he loves me, and this is going
Speaker 3: to be a long, lifelong friendship. The only thing that
Speaker 3: you are like in your moment is like I have
Speaker 3: made contact. It was just a wave, which that's a
Speaker 3: wave and it's sort of like you wave and wave
Speaker 3: back and like for days. You could be four or
Speaker 3: five years old and you're like, man, I communicated with
Speaker 3: a semi track like you just be like but that
Speaker 3: was that's the feeling. And I think that you know,
Speaker 3: even though I don't know exactly what it is, if
Speaker 3: it's if it's in line with the rest of my life, guys,
Speaker 3: it's it's angelic beings that were letting me know that.
Speaker 3: You know, hold on, the ride's going to get even
Speaker 3: more beautiful, and you know, well, welcome to my life.
Speaker 3: Listen made corn fred Or voices.
Speaker 4: Pretty wild, It gets pretty wild.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 4: They are getting so much publicity. I love it.
Speaker 2: I know, man, just some Wilmington restaurants. Good.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure it's all cholesterol for you in high.
Speaker 2: Protein right, yes, in North Carolina definitely. Well look, game
Speaker 2: knowse game, your life is wild. I know that. You
Speaker 2: know my life is wild too. I saw that video
Speaker 2: and I was like, well, you're my friend. Now, You're
Speaker 2: not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: I found that too, like not from the video. It
Speaker 3: was like, I get this alternate childhood right now. Like
Speaker 3: my childhood, it may have had opportunities for it to
Speaker 3: be fun, but I was just so traumatized and sad
Speaker 3: as a child that I was just trying to get
Speaker 3: through the day. But in my life now I meet
Speaker 3: people like Nick and Alex and sorry, guys, I'm running
Speaker 3: a fave. It's as if I'm getting to go out
Speaker 3: in the recess, you know when you get to go
Speaker 3: to the playground, like whoa cool put me in that
Speaker 3: kind of energy where we were just laughing and like,
Speaker 3: what what a beautiful thing that I get to experience
Speaker 3: this extraordinary event, and and then you know have like
Speaker 3: inner seven year old me connects to you know, inner
Speaker 3: eight year old you know sage Wise orby over here,
Speaker 3: and you know that's funny, sag Orb orbi one.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 4: I like that You're my only hope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we get to like I just imagine as
Speaker 3: as kids like looking up at the stars. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 3: that's cool in it, and he's.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, yeah, your imagination just goes wild. But that
Speaker 4: that video, it's like twenty giant fireflies in the sky,
Speaker 4: like I it's it's astounding.
Speaker 2: It's incredible where.
Speaker 3: I was they were. I mean, if I could measure them,
Speaker 3: they were more like four to five feet across. I
Speaker 3: mean they were they were. I guess when I took
Speaker 3: the pictures, just the center, the pinpoint of it is
Speaker 3: what you see. But the radiance of it they.
Speaker 4: Were had like an aura around them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They were like from my head to my waist
Speaker 3: and just moving and just masmerize.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think you're making a grand entrance with
Speaker 2: that video onto the scene, like, pow, this is my
Speaker 2: first ever orbit.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 2: You know, people are people would pay their life savings
Speaker 2: to have an experience like this, I'm telling you.
Speaker 3: But you know, isn't that the message of the divine
Speaker 3: is that you don't you don't have to give your
Speaker 3: life savings.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Unconditional love is like a great, huge bargain, right, Like
Speaker 3: everybody has enough in their pockets for some unconditional love.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that well is bottomless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean you can scroll all you want,
Speaker 3: but it's just like you're just like the ultimate verified
Speaker 3: person in the eyes of God, a creator whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it. Like we get to be like
Speaker 3: we're worthy of all the likes and all the loves,
Speaker 3: and I think it's really important and maybe that's the message. Like, guys,
Speaker 3: I was hanging out with my nana, who is ninety five.
Speaker 3: She's now ninety six. That's the time. She's ninety five,
Speaker 3: and and she just discovered the internet. She had cable
Speaker 3: forever and now she has the Internet. So she's like, baby,
Speaker 3: I gotta show you some stuff, and she was I
Speaker 3: don't know how she gets these. She has. Her whole
Speaker 3: YouTube feed is filled with Korean and Indian like humor
Speaker 3: meme videos.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: The person who's like it's like the funny music, and
Speaker 3: she's like making the noodles and she turns her back
Speaker 3: and her husband takes like the egg and he thinks
Speaker 3: he's got it and he switches the plate. But then
Speaker 3: it turns out she knew he was going to do that,
Speaker 3: and her plate now has all the good stuff, and
Speaker 3: she's just like, that's amazing. And then she'll sometimes be like,
Speaker 3: well and for you know, young the restless, because that's
Speaker 3: her jam. Oh yeah, she's found these things that do
Speaker 3: recaps and she's like, well, and it's recaps from years ago,
Speaker 3: and she'd be like, I remember when he had a
Speaker 3: twin brother.
Speaker 2: She's going up.
Speaker 3: She's like, so this is like she loves it. I've
Speaker 3: never seen this on YouTube, but YouTube has her number.
Speaker 3: It's like food memes and and recaps of the Young
Speaker 3: and the restless. So we were just I just thought,
Speaker 3: how sweet that I get to spend this time. And
Speaker 3: sometimes she's ninety six. I don't know how long she's
Speaker 3: going to be here, and I will try to memorize her,
Speaker 3: her laugh or her like the way she she gets
Speaker 3: excited her you know, she'll do her hands like this,
Speaker 3: you know. And and I walked out and I turned
Speaker 3: to say goodbye to her, And what was funny is
Speaker 3: I was like, Nana, there are UFOs over your house.
Speaker 3: And she was like, it's cold outside. You don't have
Speaker 3: a sweater. She wanted me in the car because she's ninety,
Speaker 3: you know, ninety six. All she could see was me
Speaker 3: standing like in a black you know, outfit, with a
Speaker 3: black phone. So she doesn't register that I'm taking pictures.
Speaker 3: She just thinks I've stopped to turn and say goodbye
Speaker 3: to her, and I'm frozen in love and bye. She
Speaker 3: thinks it out and she's like, good okay, goodbye. I
Speaker 3: got to go and watch The Young and the Restless.
Speaker 3: Did you get in your car and leave? But I
Speaker 3: was like, there are UFOs above your eye?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: She one of the reasons I had to stop filming.
Speaker 3: And I was like, guys, this is amazing. But she's
Speaker 3: really agitated. I had to run up to her and
Speaker 3: be like, Nana, there are UFOs above your house and
Speaker 3: I'm filming them. And she says, that's beautiful. You don't
Speaker 3: have a sweater and you have to protect your voice.
Speaker 3: And I was like okay. So I walked away and
Speaker 3: I talked to them. I was like, guy, I don't
Speaker 3: want to bother her, but this was magnificent. And they
Speaker 3: started kind of flittering and going away, and there was
Speaker 3: one and I was like, hold on, and I got
Speaker 3: in the car and I'm waving at Nana and I
Speaker 3: went around the block and then got out of the
Speaker 3: car to say goodbye to the last orb because I
Speaker 3: want to say goodbye, but I didn't want her to
Speaker 3: worry that I wasn't. I showed her the video the
Speaker 3: next time I saw her. She just giggled. Because my
Speaker 3: Nana sings all day long, talks to God all day long.
Speaker 3: And she's like a tough person, like she's the person
Speaker 3: who she's ninety six. Most of her friends are in
Speaker 3: their seventies. She's helping them with their wills. She takes
Speaker 3: them to chemo like she's she's a lifeline, right, and
Speaker 3: she's that person that like her. Her partner passed away.
Speaker 3: She was with him till the day he died. He
Speaker 3: collapsed in the house. She was not gonna have him
Speaker 3: in a nursing home. So she's like ninety years old
Speaker 3: and driving him to all of his treatments, and she
Speaker 3: wanted to make sure that he wasn't, you know, in
Speaker 3: a nursing home. And she just she talks to God
Speaker 3: all the time, and she's like a gangster when it
Speaker 3: comes to getting stuff done right. And sometimes she's also
Speaker 3: at this place guys like we're all talking about the
Speaker 3: spiritual stuff. But she'll be like and when I was
Speaker 3: in Oakland, she's like, there was a very handsome man
Speaker 3: and he wanted to dance with me, and this girl
Speaker 3: came up on me and she's like that, my man,
Speaker 3: you can't dance with him. And she was like, well,
Speaker 3: and I had one of those very loose blouses and
Speaker 3: I went to Chink and out came my switchblade, and
Speaker 3: I told her I could dance with anyone I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone else is getting these stories,
Speaker 3: but I get to spend more time with her because
Speaker 3: she's in California than anyone else. And both of my
Speaker 3: all of my grandmothers have been just extraordinary humans. But
Speaker 3: when I showed her the video, she just laughed, like giggled,
Speaker 3: and she said, yep, yeah, that's about right, and just
Speaker 3: like it's almost like she just knows that's who she
Speaker 3: must be singing to all day. I just feel very
Speaker 3: lucky that that's somehow, that's amazing, you know, in our
Speaker 3: you know, in our lineage somehow. But yeah, I guess
Speaker 3: it was a big opening. I'm so grateful for you.
Speaker 3: Like you're a fountain of knowledge, do you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? So like you're like my big bro. Or
Speaker 3: that's sticking, that is sticking.
Speaker 2: One yea Luke Skywatcher, Okaya, Princess Malaya.
Speaker 3: But that you know, there's a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 3: coming out as things, and I laughed about coming out
Speaker 3: as like Histor or the Goddess. But I'm coming, you know,
Speaker 3: as people that have had extraordinary lives who have overcome
Speaker 3: extraordinary things. And there is this this familiarity with people
Speaker 3: who have had traumatic childhoods or experiences. We've had a
Speaker 3: connection to other like if you flatlined. And I remember
Speaker 3: in my accident there was this gray like for a
Speaker 3: long time, and I wasn't in any pain. I was
Speaker 3: just kind of floating and just it was nice after
Speaker 3: the chaos of spinning in this car, and and I
Speaker 3: was in so and then I was just floating, but
Speaker 3: this voice just said, if you don't breathe, you'll die.
Speaker 3: And it was real calm, like a real, just calm decision.
Speaker 3: And I remember thinking, my life is so good, I
Speaker 3: have to go back. And I took that breath. Never
Speaker 3: been in more pain in my life. But the beauty
Speaker 3: of it was like I'd gotten to a place in
Speaker 3: my life, or as good as it felt to be
Speaker 3: in that other place, I wanted to be here. And
Speaker 3: that was such a great realization. But that we just
Speaker 3: get to connect on those things and Ryan it when
Speaker 3: I was reading the book, I just it's funny how
Speaker 3: we can have different experiences as human beings from anywhere
Speaker 3: in the world, but the outcome is the same. The alienation,
Speaker 3: not being believed. You know, a lot of abuse victim
Speaker 3: part of the abuse is when someone doesn't believe you
Speaker 3: when you try to ask for help. That's the final blow.
Speaker 3: And you know, maybe very different from where you were at,
Speaker 3: but we have the same experience of people that should
Speaker 3: you know, that should love you, and they probably do,
Speaker 3: but they don't believe you, or you feel alone, you
Speaker 3: feel alienated. Ats cool and gosh, you'd be like everybody
Speaker 3: else if you could be. We're just different. And the
Speaker 3: best part about being anime is that you go to
Speaker 3: these conventions and it's just a sea of people exactly
Speaker 3: like you. We're the people that sat at that table
Speaker 3: in school that had like the kind of the lunches
Speaker 3: that weren't cool and you know, like it's a sandwich.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's in it, but like just butter yeah, right, kids, right,
Speaker 3: But we took over the world and the world just
Speaker 3: became such a lovely place. And for me, I'm excited
Speaker 3: that I had this beautiful experience, but I didn't have
Speaker 3: to go through the heartbreak of wondering if it really happened.
Speaker 3: I mean, if it happened fifteen years ago, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have had a phone right to take a picture and
Speaker 3: what was here? What is that like for you now?
Speaker 3: Which exactly how kind the world is and accepting we
Speaker 3: were in contact in the desert and what was that
Speaker 3: like that? There are so many people that really do
Speaker 3: want to know that guidance and are hungry for honesty
Speaker 3: and extraordinary experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say this. I'm not going to say any names,
Speaker 2: just you know, for the protection of people. But you know,
Speaker 2: you were with us pretty much the whole time contact
Speaker 2: in the desert. Actually, you went to more of my
Speaker 2: dad's events than me, and one day I had to
Speaker 2: sleep in and she went to a panel that I
Speaker 2: didn't go to. So yeah, we get a lot of
Speaker 2: people coming and asking us questions. Nick and Alex have
Speaker 2: seen it. We do festivals and they you know, like
Speaker 2: people are really into this and they really come from
Speaker 2: around the world to see guidance. I had an experience,
Speaker 2: you know, they're sobbing tears whatever. I mean, a million
Speaker 2: different scenarios. And there was one lady, an older lady,
Speaker 2: she was elderly. She comes up to our booth and
Speaker 2: Dad's like signing a book and she comes up to me.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember the name, as she said, let
Speaker 2: me think about it for a moment. She said it
Speaker 2: was it was some well known name in the UFO
Speaker 2: world who I will not name. And she said, I
Speaker 2: was just at so and so's panel and they said that,
Speaker 2: you know, the reptilians are coming down to eat us,
Speaker 2: and they're they're gonna invade us and they're gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: take over our countries and enslave our population. And she
Speaker 2: was an old lady, right, And she was like, I'm scared.
Speaker 2: I'm really scared. Should I be worried about this? Doesn't
Speaker 2: the lady say she would protect us? Is she a
Speaker 2: race more powerful than those beings? And of course I'm
Speaker 2: sitting here in my head, I'm like, oh, I cannot
Speaker 2: believe she's believing all this bullshit, you know, and she's
Speaker 2: being tricked. I'm not like mad at her. I'm mad
Speaker 2: at that idiot who's pushing this crap on this vulnerable
Speaker 2: old lady and making her afraid. And I looked at
Speaker 2: her and I was like trying to think of how
Speaker 2: to say this in a way that was compassionate. And
Speaker 2: I was like, well, let me just say this. This
Speaker 2: is what I said to her. I was like, I
Speaker 2: believe that any decision that you make about the truth
Speaker 2: should be made with your heart. You're listening to what
Speaker 2: she's telling you, and it's scary. You're feeling afraid. You're
Speaker 2: feeling jittery and agitated and scared about what might happen.
Speaker 2: That's not from your heart. That's that's a very negative,
Speaker 2: evil force that's being pushed on you. And I said,
Speaker 2: and also, where's the proof? She was like, I don't
Speaker 2: know where's I was like, where's the proof, Where's the
Speaker 2: proof of these reptilians, Where's the proof of these monsters?
Speaker 2: Where's the proof of these aliens. She's like, I guess
Speaker 2: there is none. And I was like exactly, but you
Speaker 2: know what, we do have proof of these beings and
Speaker 2: you know, the orbs and all these loving things coming down.
Speaker 2: And I can't remember exactly what I said to the tea,
Speaker 2: but I can tell you that she walked away from
Speaker 2: that table being like, thank you, thank you. You know,
Speaker 2: I you know, it just was like reassuring her like
Speaker 2: you're okay, an alien monster is not going to come
Speaker 2: eat you. You are fine, and you know, follow your heart,
Speaker 2: listen to your heart. Think about this stuff from your heart.
Speaker 2: If it's scary and it's monsters and it's evil, probably bs.
Speaker 2: If it's love, if it's a message of compassion, you
Speaker 2: know I would listen to it. And this lady was vulnerable,
Speaker 2: like she she genuinely was like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: to believe. I'm scared and it just pisses me off.
Speaker 3: Well, let's play Devil's advocate and say any of it
Speaker 3: was true. It's like those of us have had and
Speaker 3: I guess I say those of us. So it's like
Speaker 3: everybody listening, those of us that have had dramatic childhood,
Speaker 3: dramatic experiences. We have to remind ourselves that we're speaking
Speaker 3: today because we got through them. So if we spend
Speaker 3: our time thinking that bad things can happen, of course
Speaker 3: they can happen. But we just laughed about corn fritters
Speaker 3: and hot dogs, and you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 3: there's so much possibility in the midst of no matter
Speaker 3: what happens, there's kind of this feeling that if something
Speaker 3: bad could possibly happen, I cannot experience joy, I must
Speaker 3: be afraid and fear it doesn't It's not helpful, you know,
Speaker 3: It's It's why sometimes We'll see these war stories and
Speaker 3: these people are just laughing because it's what gets you through.
Speaker 3: Human beings are extraordinary, you know, the math of the
Speaker 3: universe is extraordinary, but the math of us finding each other,
Speaker 3: being friends, being in this moment, me getting to play
Speaker 3: Goddesses of Heaven, and I mean, I'm sorry, I get
Speaker 3: paid to have a second childhood and travel all over
Speaker 3: the world and have friends and you know, I don't
Speaker 3: even know how is that even remotely possible?
Speaker 2: Hang out with fans that love you and that are.
Speaker 3: Kind and funny, and we're talking aerospace engineers and quantum
Speaker 3: physicists like and they're.
Speaker 2: Like podcast nerds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there could you do Jade's voice for me?
Speaker 3: Like we were contact in the desert? I'm talking man,
Speaker 3: the Bloodsoe crew runs deep like the people around them
Speaker 3: are like fascinating, extraordinary intelligent kind have seen the world.
Speaker 3: And then they'd be like, wait a minute, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: you're Jade from more to call that. And this one
Speaker 3: cat was like, could you could you do a voice
Speaker 3: note for me? As your friends? So I did this
Speaker 3: voice note and like two days later, this incredible human
Speaker 3: being who has studied Egypt.
Speaker 2: For thirty time.
Speaker 3: Shout out any shout out bro like that just brilliant,
Speaker 3: like had some knowledge and facts and a life story
Speaker 3: that you're just hey, you want to watch that show over?
Speaker 3: Not like this episode genius And he said, I love
Speaker 3: this but uh, I forgot to get a voice note.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, is.
Speaker 3: It too late? And I'm thinking, in what universe are
Speaker 3: you like a literal superhuman? It's like hanging out with
Speaker 3: like the Marvel and DC, you know heroes, and then
Speaker 3: being like, can you like do your corn for your impression?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: But again, we forget I think we're so used to ourselves.
Speaker 3: We forget how extraordinary we are, and that when we
Speaker 3: come together like from all these different places, like there's
Speaker 3: just magic and it just feels like the playground. You know,
Speaker 3: when we're on the playground as kids. We don't know
Speaker 3: what our parents do, we don't know how they voted,
Speaker 3: we don't know what church they go to. We're just kids.
Speaker 3: And sometimes we get the magic of that on a podcast,
Speaker 3: you know, at a convention, you know, at a SkyWatch,
Speaker 3: I think that's the magic. Like think about the SkyWatch.
Speaker 3: We're just people looking for something extraordinary in the sky.
Speaker 3: That's it. We're just kids going was that it, you know,
Speaker 3: just and I think we forget sometimes the magic of
Speaker 3: human beings just being together and looking for something extraordinary
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is beautiful. It's like when you're a kid
Speaker 4: and you're just like laying down in the grass, like
Speaker 4: looking at like ants, and every second is infinite and
Speaker 4: the universe is just incomprehensibly huge, which of course it
Speaker 4: still is, but it's just like everything is brand new.
Speaker 4: Everything is wonderful and fascinating and like perplexing. And it
Speaker 4: does feel like that. It does feel like that. We
Speaker 4: had a conversation somewhat recently where it's like I said,
Speaker 4: these these sky watches they kind of feel like summer camp,
Speaker 4: you know, they kind of they do. They have like
Speaker 4: that feeling, that like comfortable feeling of like the only
Speaker 4: thing that matters in the world right now is all
Speaker 4: of us being out here outside looking up for something extraordinary.
Speaker 4: And that's like those are the most real moments that
Speaker 4: we can experience. It's just those little moments even, you know,
Speaker 4: I can hear it to other things in nature, like
Speaker 4: just like standing at the shore of the ocean and
Speaker 4: just watching the waves, just like lap against the sand.
Speaker 4: It's extraordinary. We take it for granted, we take all
Speaker 4: of these things for granted, and this is a new
Speaker 4: front that this thing is emerging and these people are
Speaker 4: beginning to experience, and it's it's magnificent.
Speaker 3: And I think we're sometimes as adults, we were supposed
Speaker 3: to pretend that we know everything that's happening. But the
Speaker 3: piece of it is, I don't. We don't. We don't
Speaker 3: have to. We're children, yeah, in the universe, absolute children,
Speaker 3: And you know, I don't know if you guys have
Speaker 3: ever experienced this. I'm such a girl. I'm like my
Speaker 3: emotions on my sleeve. I'm a hot dog inside. But
Speaker 3: I I always felt like I wasn't enough. I was different.
Speaker 3: Growing up. I moved a lot, so I was the
Speaker 3: new kid, and I carry that anxiety with me. No
Speaker 3: matter how good I was at something, no matter how
Speaker 3: much people would say, you're good at this, I always
Speaker 3: felt like any minute it'd all come crashing down. Anxiety,
Speaker 3: like just fear when things were new. I hope I
Speaker 3: say the right thing, you know, just anxiety. I hope
Speaker 3: I'm pretty like the whole thing. Where like now I'm
Speaker 3: an actor and like you got to be on the internet,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, well, my photogenic, did I take
Speaker 3: the right selfie? Like I just never know. I'd rather
Speaker 3: just be right. And recently, especially this year, it's like
Speaker 3: really tapped into that thing when we were kids, Like
Speaker 3: you say, we didn't get at our you know, I
Speaker 3: think kids do now, but like when we were kids,
Speaker 3: we certainly weren't like trying to film ants like you
Speaker 3: were in that moment, right, And I don't know if
Speaker 3: I'm allowed to talk to about what happened at Contact
Speaker 3: in the Desert SkyWatch and some people were like, well,
Speaker 3: it's you know, it's a little bit cloudy. I've only
Speaker 3: seen orbs when it's cloudy, so I was like, something
Speaker 3: good's gonna happen. But there were a few people They're like,
Speaker 3: well it's cloudy, and they had left, maybe one hundred
Speaker 3: of the thousand, but some people stood up to to
Speaker 3: talk to Ryan and Chris and this this like white
Speaker 3: fluffy orbs super close with wings with fluffy wings, just
Speaker 3: like flitter flittered and like for twenty thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: You're talking a yeah, dude, it was like thirty feet away.
Speaker 3: It was so close, and it was one hundreds saw
Speaker 3: it yeah. And I just watched some and my friend,
Speaker 3: one of my friends, was like, did you film it?
Speaker 3: And I thought, no, of course not, yeah because and
Speaker 3: I was like that's good, Like I'm not here to
Speaker 3: film them all. I happen to have a few. You
Speaker 3: got it. You guys saw it. You can rewind this episode.
Speaker 3: I remembered what it was like to be a kid,
Speaker 3: like you said, and it was like, there's nothing better
Speaker 3: than just being in the presence of something that's extraordinary.
Speaker 3: And I mean, remember we always used to want magic
Speaker 3: to be real. Miracles are real.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, magic is real fact.
Speaker 3: That we live in this world. And just I watched
Speaker 3: it and I thought wow. And I was next to
Speaker 3: a cat that was like a longtime service of the government,
Speaker 3: like former air traffic controller, like so he knows how
Speaker 3: things go. And he was like a little kid. He
Speaker 3: was like wow, it's freaking out, whoa And you know
Speaker 3: you probably sixty seven year old cat, but like he
Speaker 3: was an eight year old boy. And we were, you know,
Speaker 3: we were basically outside looking at blades in the grass
Speaker 3: and stars and be like jeepers like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, wow, there is that notion that like, well,
Speaker 4: if you didn't film it it wasn't real. It's like, no,
Speaker 4: that is the furthest thing from the truth. Yeah, we
Speaker 4: all witnessed it with our eyes. We connected directly with
Speaker 4: that thing that we were looking at.
Speaker 3: And maybe that's part of the message. Yeah it's not.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, we want to share a bit. Oh
Speaker 3: that's right. That life is to be witnessed, to be experienced,
Speaker 3: to be shared. Man, think of how many people just
Speaker 3: sat on the beach without checking cards of who you are.
Speaker 3: We voted for what people kids and at the stars.
Speaker 3: You know what, It's funny. I'm living in California and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, I just tried to
Speaker 3: a California. I was like, oh man, we're just kids
Speaker 3: looking at the store. It's probably just because I'm tatered.
Speaker 4: What was in those taters? Well, was there's something in
Speaker 4: those taters?
Speaker 2: It was the sauce, sauce.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've had that much sugar, salt
Speaker 3: and fat and one saying I was like, you.
Speaker 2: You really are making me feel guilty here.
Speaker 3: No, we left no crumbs.
Speaker 2: I was like, are you sure this is okay?
Speaker 3: You know what was funnies? He's like, well, we've got
Speaker 3: fruit plates there's a vegetarian place, Greek Greek. And then
Speaker 3: he's like, mess also, we can have smoothies. And I
Speaker 3: was like roll back. I didn't hear anything, but there
Speaker 3: was one like and he was like, we could do Greek.
Speaker 3: I said, Greek sounds good. He goes yeah and mess all.
Speaker 2: She said your eyes a little.
Speaker 3: And I said, what's mess All? I said, your eyes
Speaker 3: lit up? And he goes have a Tater bowl and
Speaker 3: I was like, I can't get in the.
Speaker 2: Wave taste fried chicken.
Speaker 3: I was like that stuff?
Speaker 2: Man was.
Speaker 3: I mean like, hopefully this will be the most bewed
Speaker 3: episode ever, like it was the Taters Taters corn free.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm stching up on Tater energy. You're what
Speaker 2: I'm stitching up on that energy?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What does that mean for us?
Speaker 2: Tater Team? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Go go Tater range.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a new Dawn boys.
Speaker 3: Got it. You're gonna write as the theme song, Alex
Speaker 3: Tater Team, is it you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: How's it gonna go? Come on? Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, Tater Team. It'll it'll be like Alex will
Speaker 4: do the vocals for it, right, Yeah, you're find.
Speaker 2: Doing some metal shredding.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll definitely do something like tapping.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, it has to be it has
Speaker 3: to be primal scream and then where the Tater Team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's do it. That'll be the theme song
Speaker 4: for this episode.
Speaker 3: I know you guys have gangster like corn Fritter and uh,
Speaker 3: but I think Tater Team is coming on the right.
Speaker 4: Damn, what the hell there's a third gang on the
Speaker 4: rise right now, Tater Gang.
Speaker 2: I would I would say it's more team. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: more like they're in the position of power.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: The gangs are on the street level.
Speaker 4: They're the corporation.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, they're bigger than that. Even they're part of the.
Speaker 3: You know, Ryan Tater looking down at the neighborhood, seems
Speaker 3: to be some beef between the corn Fritters and hot Dogs.
Speaker 2: Wipe them out, hit the button in.
Speaker 3: And then like some like real all knowing god narrators
Speaker 3: like Nicktator overheard the conversation all of.
Speaker 4: Our names with Tat at the Ryan Tator, Nctator.
Speaker 3: Meditator, Meditator, that it's not the Tuma that's powerful.
Speaker 4: Actually that is the Meditator.
Speaker 2: Damn, what the punch up of that?
Speaker 3: She rises above she's a goddess. I am the salt
Speaker 3: of the earth.
Speaker 4: I'm the star.
Speaker 2: You gotta catchup packet wings.
Speaker 3: Damn, Oh my gosh, catch the packet wings. Those are deep.
Speaker 2: You need to get your Disney friend dude to punch
Speaker 2: up them.
Speaker 3: No, dude, you got a discord. Just got to be
Speaker 3: an artistic meditator. Ryan Tator, Alex Tator, Nicktator.
Speaker 4: Nictator is like Dictator. It is Oh my god, whoa,
Speaker 4: I'm the villain? Like, I'm the villain.
Speaker 3: No, we have to keep you. And you're like, listen,
Speaker 3: I know my dad's the king. I'm like Nicktator.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say villain.
Speaker 3: That's a strong one.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be.
Speaker 2: You're the one who does the stuff that we can't
Speaker 2: stomach for the team, Like, you know, you got to
Speaker 2: handle the hard choice.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm the bad copy.
Speaker 3: The meditator is like, hey, boys, I think you want
Speaker 3: to think twice about that. She spreads her ketchup packet wings.
Speaker 4: See can we make this's a show or a comic
Speaker 4: book or.
Speaker 3: Something happening right now? It's going to pay for our
Speaker 3: children's college. South Park is gone, guys. It's the Taters team.
Speaker 3: The problem. We're the Tat team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, Yeah, I love it. I'm like
Speaker 2: the baked potato.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it. There were no stigma harmed in
Speaker 3: the making of this episode.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, shout out, stay.
Speaker 3: I love He's like, I'm the baked Tater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to.
Speaker 3: I need to the Nicktator, baked Tater, Meloitator and what
Speaker 3: sf Tater that's a nickname, Serf Tater, Serf.
Speaker 2: Tater, did some tater.
Speaker 4: You guys man get bashful. Now you're the serf Tater.
Speaker 3: Come on, come on, thank you so much. Oh my gosh, that's.
Speaker 4: All from you.
Speaker 3: You know, it's really happened that thank you so much.
Speaker 3: That kind of felt a little bit like he was like,
Speaker 3: I never thought I'd be accepting this away. I don't
Speaker 3: have anything prepared, Serf Tater. I like tater te Lady,
Speaker 3: Tater lady.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, Wow, just got a white flowing the you
Speaker 2: know the packs that like the French fries come in
Speaker 2: the creakily.
Speaker 3: Little Oh my gosh, yeah, one a gown.
Speaker 4: We are giving our discord so much ammunition right now,
Speaker 4: it's insane.
Speaker 2: I think half of them are still freaked out about
Speaker 2: the hot dog.
Speaker 3: Thing like she was all on corn fritters side. I
Speaker 3: didn't mean.
Speaker 4: It's the right side of history to be one I.
Speaker 3: Put I put hot water corn bread in there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: dirty south Man, I had to represent.
Speaker 2: I think it's time for a new team. It's the
Speaker 2: Tater team. We're going to erase that old history and
Speaker 2: we're going to move forward with the TA team. Is it?
Speaker 3: It's fritters, dogs and Taters.
Speaker 2: Thectator erased the history. Oh my god, you're the nick
Speaker 2: goblin that the Tater Goblin is what you are.
Speaker 3: That's his alter ego, but we don't know the whole
Speaker 3: series that he is Tater.
Speaker 4: Goblin, and y'all are the one that was Goblin Tatters.
Speaker 2: That's right, bro, Yeah we were gobbled Taters. But you
Speaker 2: see the thing is then we met, we read tatter Goblin,
Speaker 2: and we joined forces because we're after the Tater Dragon. Okay,
Speaker 2: what like? And our Green Boys can't D and D
Speaker 2: can Oh yeah, shot, we got a shot.
Speaker 3: Out ours too, Yeah you do? What is it? Green Boys?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Green Boys is a comedy show. We do have
Speaker 2: a D and D campaign running right now, which is
Speaker 2: completely synchronistic because Melo also has one. Yeah, so watch both.
Speaker 3: Of them Squad twenty and Green Boys. Green Boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think wow, I think we hit everything magnificent
Speaker 2: about your life. Uh, you know what everything when I
Speaker 2: ask every question, every last Okay, I asked you this
Speaker 2: in the garag earlier, and you're like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite role that you've done. What's your favorite anime?
Speaker 2: Your favorite video game.
Speaker 3: I love that he remembers asking it but doesn't remember.
Speaker 3: I was like, it's like, I can't answer that question.
Speaker 2: Now I do remember that, but now on camera he's
Speaker 2: putting you on press.
Speaker 3: On camera often asked this question, Uh, I don't know
Speaker 3: if anyone is a Charlie and the chocolatectory fan, but like, no,
Speaker 3: how holy No, it's okay, listen.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: But in the seventies, I love this scene to where.
Speaker 4: You're talking about Willie Wonka.
Speaker 3: But there's a time where somebody actually they fake get
Speaker 3: the last golden tickets. So Charlie and Grandpa they're like,
Speaker 3: you know what, let's still use the dollar to get
Speaker 3: a chocolate bar just to enjoy, right, And they get
Speaker 3: the last golden ticket, and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: for me, I was I was going to go to
Speaker 3: law school. And be a real person, you know, like
Speaker 3: have a real job. But I enjoyed, you know, these
Speaker 3: voice acting jobs. I got to do a dr for
Speaker 3: early on in my career, like TV shows that were
Speaker 3: like Entourage, Gilmore Girls I got to work on. Now
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think what was the offshoot from Breaking Bad?
Speaker 3: Bettercall s All? You know, so there's different things. So
Speaker 3: this is like fun that you get to see these
Speaker 3: extraordinary actors and these projects. And I would do ADR, yeah, ADR,
Speaker 3: which is a post production sound so sometimes you have
Speaker 3: to replace a voice because they edited it and they
Speaker 3: didn't get the right line, and so you voice match
Speaker 3: or you know, you do what we call voice replacement,
Speaker 3: and so it's just technically amazing and cool. And I
Speaker 3: got to do anime and I just was so excited.
Speaker 3: So for me, I thought, I'm not obviously going to
Speaker 3: be a full time voice actor, because who's a full
Speaker 3: time voice actor? That's not real? Like that, don't dream
Speaker 3: too big, you know. But then I feel like I
Speaker 3: got unexpectedly like a golden ticket where I was allowed
Speaker 3: to just have this beautiful life where I do get
Speaker 3: to be a voice actor full time. And so you know,
Speaker 3: I played a lot of characters in the beginning who
Speaker 3: were kind of lost, who didn't know who they were.
Speaker 3: You know, Ren too, SoC is looking for the timeline
Speaker 3: where her dad's may be alive and she can be
Speaker 3: you know, you can be proud of her and Rose
Speaker 3: and Maiden. She's like this Victorian doll, but the makers
Speaker 3: of the dolls have set it up that you have
Speaker 3: to fight each other to meet your father. And but
Speaker 3: she just really wants a family. She wants her sisters
Speaker 3: and the father, you know. And I think there's all
Speaker 3: these themes that came up and of being troubled and
Speaker 3: being lost. Yuki Cross doesn't know who she is and
Speaker 3: she's abandoned, but she has this compassion for vampires and humans.
Speaker 3: And there was a lot of I didn't watch a
Speaker 3: lot of cartoons growing up, and so getting to be
Speaker 3: involved in that industry, getting to drive onto the Warner
Speaker 3: Brothers a lot and have a parking space and they
Speaker 3: feed you these cool cookies and like Warner Brothers craft
Speaker 3: service is pretty great, right, It just felt magical. And
Speaker 3: then for me to get to stay, you know, I
Speaker 3: was in this rough car accident and when I woke up,
Speaker 3: Uri Lo Andhal and Tara Platt were in the hospital.
Speaker 3: They visited me and Jason Charles Miller, who does music
Speaker 3: for like Critical Role and Final Fantasy, and the people
Speaker 3: from Bang Zoom that produced a lot of the animes
Speaker 3: that I'm in. The producers were there. So each time
Speaker 3: I would kind of wake up and come back into consciousness,
Speaker 3: I felt like Dorothy like and you were there, and
Speaker 3: you were there, and it was such a beautiful life
Speaker 3: that I thought, why am I trying to have a
Speaker 3: life less lived? I've won the lottery and so this
Speaker 3: was like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, and I'm you know,
Speaker 3: kind of rehabilitating learn how to walk. And when I
Speaker 3: thought I should maybe focus on that, I got Princess
Speaker 3: Sanda in Black Panther's Quest, you know, so I'm in
Speaker 3: the Marvel universe. It was Stanley's last TV show he
Speaker 3: worked on and then auditioned for guard A. And because
Speaker 3: everything's code named, you know, you don't know, and I thought,
Speaker 3: I'd really love to be in a triple A game,
Speaker 3: a Warner Brothers type game. And I got guard A
Speaker 3: and my agent said, you got it, and you know,
Speaker 3: gave me a script and it had another code name
Speaker 3: on Jade, but I'm looking through this three hundred page
Speaker 3: script looking for guard A because man, I'm I'm eat
Speaker 3: that up right, and I'm like on the last page
Speaker 3: and there was no guard A. And I called my
Speaker 3: agent and he's like, are you an idiot? Your jade?
Speaker 3: It says it right on this script, but like what,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry? What you know? So and then there was
Speaker 3: this what I thought was going to be small part
Speaker 3: not small, but a game that you know, might be.
Speaker 3: When I finally got to it, I thought, oh, it's
Speaker 3: going to be a titan Fall game. And I was
Speaker 3: excited because I know it's titan Fall is a great game.
Speaker 3: And they said, you know, we're actually not going to
Speaker 3: call it titan Fall anything. It's just going to be
Speaker 3: called Apex Legends, which to me, I was like, so
Speaker 3: nobody's going to know it's a titan Fall game, you know.
Speaker 3: And it was supposed to come out in September, and
Speaker 3: then they were like, well, we're actually gonna put out
Speaker 3: in January, and we're not going to do a campaign
Speaker 3: or anything, because I was like, when can I post?
Speaker 3: And like, we're not really going to advertise it at all.
Speaker 3: It's just we're gonna's apparently it's going to go out
Speaker 3: and if it catches great, which is usually code in
Speaker 3: Hollywood for we're shelving your game. It was really nice
Speaker 3: working with you. You know it turned out okay. For
Speaker 3: those of you that have heard of Apex Legends phenomenonic game, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know. So when you're asking me what my favorite
Speaker 3: roles are, it's like I can honestly say rent to
Speaker 3: Soka Jade, Lifeline, Tiki from Miraculous Ladybug. So the that
Speaker 3: bring me like they've flown all over the world to
Speaker 3: meet people because of these roles, Like I have friends
Speaker 3: like little Mella who was just like eating by herself
Speaker 3: at the lunch room. It's the wrong sneakers, like the
Speaker 3: super off off off brand sneakers. I don't know what
Speaker 3: happened that I got to have this beautiful life where
Speaker 3: people are kind and accepting and.
Speaker 2: It's you're a hero to a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Well anyone listening to my voice that that is already
Speaker 3: a fan or maybe you're like, man, she does good
Speaker 3: corn tater voices. Have you fallen in love with me?
Speaker 3: Now you're part of like a life saving lifeline for me? Like,
Speaker 3: how could I just not want to live this life,
Speaker 3: you know, So hello thirteen year old Mela who decided
Speaker 3: to hang around it it became worth it. And I
Speaker 3: hope that somewhere in my life, in my extraordinary friendships,
Speaker 3: like dude, you could have a Ryan and a Nick
Speaker 3: and an Alex in your life, Like life gets good.
Speaker 3: Anybody's struggling right now. You know, there's a terror in
Speaker 3: the universe, and anything's possible.
Speaker 2: We paid her to say that. It's part of the
Speaker 2: budget to make our friends come.
Speaker 3: You're very sweet, thank you. I just hope that in
Speaker 3: this beautiful life that I have, that I maybe give
Speaker 3: somebody the impression that it's possible that their life could
Speaker 3: be even more beautiful, because man, I think we've all
Speaker 3: been to the death of dreams, is what I call it,
Speaker 3: where you're like, oh, nothing that you thought was going
Speaker 3: to happen is happening, and things end in unexpected ways,
Speaker 3: and it's a real bravery to believe past the edge
Speaker 3: of nothing.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I've been to the death of dreams, great point,
Speaker 3: and I'm just past the void. And I hope that
Speaker 3: the sound of my voice or laughter corn Fritters and friends,
Speaker 3: and you know, maybe twenty one orbs in the sky
Speaker 3: that hey, give the universe permission to surprise you in
Speaker 3: beautiful ways, in strange and beautiful ways.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a it's a beautiful important message. And I
Speaker 4: can already tell you for sure that you have given
Speaker 4: that that hope to people just sitting here and talking
Speaker 4: to us. Goofy dudes. You you the people listening. There
Speaker 4: are people out there that needed to hear all of that,
Speaker 4: all of it and every bit of it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's it's very important and I'm proud of you for
Speaker 4: sharing that and for persevering.
Speaker 3: Wow, thank you guys for being safe space. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, and fun and inspiring. Man, I'm such a
Speaker 3: fan of you guys, and what you're doing absolutely sweet.
Speaker 2: We're huge anime nerds and video game nerds, and I
Speaker 2: think you are definitely, I mean, one of the coolest
Speaker 2: people we've had on our show. I mean, I can't
Speaker 2: tell you how much we talk about voice acting and anime.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's like what we do, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? So you coming on the show is
Speaker 2: kind of like a really cool blessing for us, and
Speaker 2: it opens the doorway for us to sort of carve
Speaker 2: our way into this industry and hear from people you know,
Speaker 2: like you who are in that world who maybe have
Speaker 2: open minded ideas or are having experiences or will having experiences.
Speaker 2: Because in my mind, it's like, now that you've talked
Speaker 2: about these things, you so bravely talked about your sightings,
Speaker 2: what you've experienced with and without me, but more or
Speaker 2: less what you've experienced. How many people at home that
Speaker 2: have been following you for years and are following your
Speaker 2: conventions are going through the tour of you know, seeing
Speaker 2: you here in Calgary, seeing you here in San Diego,
Speaker 2: seeing you here in Miami, And then they go and
Speaker 2: they hear this, and they're like, oh my god, I
Speaker 2: had no clue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: They thought you were just a voice on a cartoon.
Speaker 2: Now they're like learning this amazing spiritual depth to you.
Speaker 2: Just I just imagine what impact that will have on
Speaker 2: the people who already have looked up to you as
Speaker 2: a hero because they like your work, your art. You know,
Speaker 2: now you're opening a doorway into really helping people in
Speaker 2: a different way beyond art, but you know, in a
Speaker 2: really really deep way. So it's important that you're you know,
Speaker 2: being truthful about these things that are happening to you.
Speaker 2: I think that's why supernatural things happen to us, so
Speaker 2: that we can share and that it can move others well.
Speaker 3: And just so you know, like I mean, my crew,
Speaker 3: like Nicholas Roy is.
Speaker 2: A good friend of mine, shout out. He's a homie.
Speaker 3: And you know, we're we're seeing extraordinary things everywhere. And
Speaker 3: you know, I've shared this video with some people while
Speaker 3: I'm doing autographs and they're like, oh my gosh, thanks
Speaker 3: for sharing that. And people are hungry for hope.
Speaker 2: For truth, oh for truth, Yeah, for magic, And.
Speaker 3: I think there's an awakening happening. I don't know what
Speaker 3: everything is, but I just know that, man, I just
Speaker 3: want to be on the playground of this planet, imagining
Speaker 3: who and what we could be in a positive way.
Speaker 3: I know there's things going on that are rattling in us,
Speaker 3: but have they not ever? And as someone who made
Speaker 3: it through a landmine of a life, I know that
Speaker 3: there's another side, you know, to this battle, and part
Speaker 3: of it's just the joy of man sitting in a
Speaker 3: really cool environment like this, drinking water from a cup
Speaker 3: that says, let's have said.
Speaker 2: Soult sepately, that was funny on her D and D campaign.
Speaker 2: We don't tell those cups.
Speaker 3: But no, oh no, you guys, I mean, who's like
Speaker 3: the top benefactor on discord. Certainly I can sign this.
Speaker 3: And this grew out for the measly prize of one
Speaker 3: thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That's part of her D and D campaign. I don't
Speaker 2: want to give it away, but it's a funny joke
Speaker 2: from earlier soul Separately.
Speaker 3: Well, we created a character and we instantly wanted a
Speaker 3: plushy of this character in the D and D. So
Speaker 3: we kept narrating what we would want on this plushy
Speaker 3: into the story and then you could see our producer going, oh,
Speaker 3: are you going to afford that? So I'd be like
Speaker 3: soults you know.
Speaker 2: Campaign. It's great fun.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great, man, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: You need a close up on this. And I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: I just put the it's really should be in the store, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, well, I mean you're inspiring me.
Speaker 3: People are thirsty for this LEDs.
Speaker 2: Right, I like having you around.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean I do know. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you guys are going to be doing some commercials. You
Speaker 3: might hear a very familiar voice.
Speaker 2: There's a collapse there that Yeah, that would actually be epic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will sing on the Tater soundtracks please.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't be complete without you singing if.
Speaker 3: You do not make the Tater theme song and have
Speaker 3: me to be like yeah at the end, I'm.
Speaker 4: Just I'm just going to clip it out of this episode.
Speaker 4: I'm going to clip you saying.
Speaker 3: That yeah, yeah, yeah, I's gonna layer them.
Speaker 4: It'll be like a chorus of you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking. I'm thinking Meditator is the Tater goddess. Oh
Speaker 2: because of the type cast thing, it's the thing that
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 3: That's who you were like. I'll be like, They're like,
Speaker 3: we have a message from the Meditator Taters. I have
Speaker 3: a mission for you, if you will accept it. Nick Tator,
Speaker 3: what's the mission? I was like, what's your nickname? Because
Speaker 3: I know we have you Ryan Tats. Do you have
Speaker 3: a nickname? I can't remember.
Speaker 2: No, I don't really Agitator.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's a thousand percent like that.
Speaker 2: Do you accept your mission? I feel like it's a
Speaker 2: Japanese game.
Speaker 3: The world needs you, right, And then I could just
Speaker 3: see one of them where like she she falls and
Speaker 3: there's like all the packets are like, oh no, and
Speaker 3: then they're like are you dead? And I go, it's
Speaker 3: just ketch up.
Speaker 2: I see us send like a big plane. We have
Speaker 2: our sunglasses on, we grab our parachoes, dive out.
Speaker 4: This guy into like a Charlie's Angel thing and I
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 3: Charlie's Taters, Charlie Staters, Chuck Taters.
Speaker 2: We gotta save the dinner table, Ductators.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm gonna pass.
Speaker 2: Out, Chuck Tater. Isn't that the shoes that we wear?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh, Chuck Taters, Spectators. But I mean, guys, honestly,
Speaker 3: before we say, you know, the thing that we have
Speaker 3: to say at the end of the episode, and you
Speaker 3: know mission, if you choose to accept it, is to
Speaker 3: create a theme song.
Speaker 4: Potato Team, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3: Digitator, Serve Tater, Meloitator believes in you.
Speaker 4: You're gonna say Melitator out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. We cut Meloitator out the.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So you made a reference to the thing that we
Speaker 2: have to say, do you know it?
Speaker 3: I think so?
Speaker 2: You know I pluged your Instagram earlier. But before we
Speaker 2: before we roll out of here. Let's let's plug everything
Speaker 2: that you want to push.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, absolutely, I'm gonna be shameless. The Mela
Speaker 3: Lee on YouTube, Instagram, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Melo Lee dot com.
Speaker 3: You can sign up for my newsletter. I always give
Speaker 3: free giveaways for you voice acting classes. I have a
Speaker 3: new album coming out in the fall.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, it's gorgeous. I've heard one song and I
Speaker 2: was like, I loved it.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I love it. But my whole life is because of you,
Speaker 3: and I'd love to stay in touch with you, guys.
Speaker 3: So and also Squad twenty six Sides of Gaming on YouTube.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. Blow it up in the best way.
Speaker 2: Blow up their D and D campaign. It's actually really awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we have season two where we're going to
Speaker 3: be filming in August. But blow everything up so everyone
Speaker 3: can have this plushy. You want this plush It comes
Speaker 3: with booties, a cape.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. All you have to say,
Speaker 4: I'm in awesome.
Speaker 2: All right? Well you do know how we end it, right.
Speaker 3: I think so we say just you try guys.
Speaker 4: By guys, it's different. We are trying guff show. We
Speaker 4: are to try.
Speaker 2: Guys, there's three of us.
Speaker 3: Where do I look?
Speaker 2: Where you close your eyes? If you want?
Speaker 4: You ready?
Speaker 3: Yes?
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