Pretty Little Episode #38

This is a head gum podcast.

Pretty little episode.

It got me again.

You know, every time I hear the chatting with friends, I try and pick out each voice.

Oh, yeah.

I never can.

Yeah, we've become one organism, kind of.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm typically pretty good at isolating vocals and picking out different instruments when I'm listening to something.

But I can't in ours.

I think that's beautiful.

How are you, Tig?

I'm doing all right.

How are you?

I'm well.

I'm I'm in Toronto.

Yeah.

in this like very brightly lit kind of Severncy office room.

I'm in the edit.

I just had to do ADR.

I like record my audio for a big fight scene and a big sex scene.

It was humiliating.

I made everybody turn and face the wall.

Wow.

So wait.

Is it giving away too much, I guess, if you're telling me who you're fighting with?

Yeah, I can't say who I'm fighting with, but I get tased.

I think I talked about this on the pod, and I was so embarrassed by my tased acting and especially the noise.

So this was like my second shot at it.

Okay.

And

what was the noise and then what is the replace noise?

Let's hear it.

Okay, what it was was like

it was really not good.

And then what it became.

And what did you base that on?

Did you look up like people getting tased and noises they made or anything like that?

Well, I looked at videos and I saw the physicality, but they don't really make noises.

Like you're too, your body's all frozen up.

Oh, so you're silent when you're tased?

Maybe.

Yeah.

But then today I tried a new noise, which is more like,

and who's deciding?

Like, who has the experience of knowing the sound of a tased person?

All I know is that the sound team here were like, you got to do this again.

Yeah.

And I think people seem happy with the second round okay and then the sex scene was really embarrassing i had to turn the lights off in the studio basically and my sounds sexy right away it was pretty sexy yeah

and then i had to do all this like heavy breathing and i thought it would be really funny if i adr'd like like

like crazy sex noises as a joke but do you want to explain to people what adr is in case they maybe don't know like if there's a sound problem when you're recording or if you want to add a line or something you you go in and record your audio and your your dialogue but often it's just like breathing or do you i can imagine like when you have to do a running scene or something and then you have to adr all your panting do you do yeah i was just about to act that out that sometimes you have to go in and be like

yeah

and move i don't even know if i really make noise i don't know when the last time i ran was but um i don't know that i i don't know if i make those noises i don't think anyone anyone does, but then I guess for storytelling, they're like, just go for it.

Especially in a cartoon.

It feels better if I'm doing that, if I'm voicing a cartoon and you have to do the

and then it's like, okay, you're now putting something up on a sh a very heavy box on a shelf.

Yeah, yeah.

What is that?

Oh, that was just a boing, like a cartoon boing.

But like if you're lifting a box onto a shelf, but then you might drop it on a trampoline.

Of course, yes, yes.

We watched the same cartoon, apparently.

Yes.

But I want to go back to your sex scene.

Was that more uncomfortable to do the ADR for the sex scene than it was to do the actual sex scene?

Sort of, because at least, you know, when you're doing it, the adrenaline's going.

You're like, I got to just do this and get and there's another person you're ideally in the moment with but this is like there's a guy with headphones eating a sandwich Yeah at the next desk and

Yeah, just watching yourself as well as hell and how did you feel watching yourself were you was it titillating titillating no, but I hope it is for others

it's it's kind of a wild scene.

Yeah, I think I think it will be okay.

I don't know.

And how many sex scenes have you done in your career thus far?

I would say I did about four in Feel Good and then one in this show.

And does it get easier?

That's five in total.

Yes, absolutely.

And also that I feel more confident in

my bod now, you know?

Yeah.

What about you?

Have you ever done like a full

no,

nor would I?

No,

no, no, no, thank you.

I wouldn't mind seeing it.

I think it'd be great.

Oh, well, you are kind,

but also back off.

Yeah, I remember, I think Stephanie and I,

the most that went down on one Mississippi was kissing.

Right.

And that's the only

kind of interaction I've had.

It was with your very own wife.

It was with my own person.

And that was even uncomfortable for me because I'm not like a very

PDA.

No, I'm just not.

What about you?

Yeah, it is just weird.

There's a whole crew, but I don't mind it.

Wait, a whole crew?

But like for PDA in life.

Oh, are you

PDA in life?

I'm a very like hand-holdy, hand-on-the-leg, hand on the back, but I'm not like kissing a bunch in front of people.

I don't like that.

Yeah, yeah, same.

Yeah, but I like to have a bit of contact.

Yeah.

Just a, hey, I'm over here.

Hello.

Hello, it's me, the one you love.

Well, I can't wait to see.

I cannot wait to see.

Can you tell us if you win the fight?

Oh, I do win the fight, actually.

Yeah.

Oh, spoiler.

Yeah.

There's a couple fights.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm excited for you guys to see it.

I hope you like it.

Yeah.

I feel like Thomas might like it because it's set in 2003 and there's a lot of Canadian music in it from that era, which is really my era, like Canadian indie music, you know.

2003.

Yeah, I love that year.

I'm really excited.

Any bare-naked ladies in there?

No, but you got some Tragically Hit.

You got some Sam Roberts.

Oh my God, Barenaked Ladies, like at a really dramatic moment.

Yeltsboom.

One week.

Or during the sex scene.

Yeah.

Yeltsboom.

Yeltsboom.

Boy, they really had a massive explosion, didn't they?

Yeah, like they, because they made it down to the States, right?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And they just had such a different vibe.

I guess that vibe was Canadian.

I was truly like, what is this?

I enjoyed them very much.

I just had not experienced that, like, silliness.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Yeah, very silly.

Yeah.

What were you doing this morning?

What was I doing this morning?

We dropped off,

you know, Max and Finn at their school.

And then

I had to edit

this thing for a charity event that I'm

involved with that I have to announce.

I had a doctor's appointment.

Love it.

Yeah, love, love, love.

And

physical therapy.

Oh, cool.

Is that does that feel good, physical therapy?

Yeah, it feels really good.

It's making me feel like, oh, I should, maybe I should get more into

strength training because

it's hard.

I mean, I know it's not hard for you because you can do push-ups with me on your back.

I couldn't even do one, but I could at least do a plank.

Yeah, I mean, I was really impressed that.

Really?

Absolutely.

I mean, if you sat on my lap, I would, I would, I, I'm just, yeah, I need to definitely work on my strength training.

The thing I hate doing is legs.

Like, I like doing upper body stuff and trying to, trying to look strong, but I get, my legs are like little twigs.

They're very weak.

And I went rock climbing, I went bouldering.

I love bouldering.

Yes, and I didn't realize it's all legs.

Like, you're meant to be pushing with your legs.

Anyway, I was just quick.

Where were you bouldering?

Echo Park, there's a place, an indoor place with a bunch of walls.

But the crowd there, like the bouldering scene is like a lot of guys with ponytails, a lot of those

stringy little guys who are coming up.

I was like trying to do something, and then this guy comes up.

He's got braces.

He looks about 12.

He's like, Yeah, what you want to do is get your foot in the crevice there.

And then, like, boots me off basically and takes over.

I remember

I went, where was I?

I was in the arches in Utah in the canyon lands, and I was camping with these friends of mine, Mike and Micah.

Mike was my friend, and Micah I knew through Mike, and we had the three of us had gone to Utah to camp, and

we went bouldering out there.

On like real boulders.

Oh, we went real bouldering, like through really tiny crevices, you know, just like shimmying up and down.

And I remember

I was on top of this massive boulder, and and they had made their way down and they were like, just slide, just slide.

It was so precarious that

it just wasn't totally straightforward for me to get down off of this boulder.

So I slid down and it completely,

I lost.

the entire back side of my jeans.

Oh my gosh.

And I had the rest of the day to boulder with these guys

with my, you know, half shiny red bummy.

yes yeah yeah and we were so far from our campsite that there there was nothing that I could do so

yeah it was a bit of a a damper on the bouldering day I mean I was like visualizing that in my head but in my head when I pictured it it was a cartoon

it basically was such a cartoony moment

Well, listen, should we find out what our listeners want to?

That's why we're here.

So let's give them what they want.

Yeah.

Hi, Handsome Podcast.

My name is Marky, and I have a question for y'all.

Since May is a fan of escape rooms, what theme would your escape room be and what would be the key to getting out?

Well, I would have said Titanic,

which feels fucked up because it's a real-life tragedy.

But then I recently did a Titanic escape room that was so epic because I think there's nothing scarier than the idea of like water rushing in and trying to get like yeah yeah so I would have said Titanic but it's not a very whimsical joyful idea what about you I really don't know I mean it you're just like in a um

like a themed world like you might be in Jurassic Park or you might be in um

Sherlock Holmes' study mischief you know something like that or an Inca

ruin what about an insane asylum like you start i've never been in an escape room where you start in a padded room in a straitjacket and you you go where are the clues what am i supposed to solve and then maybe there's like you find a pin hidden in the padded walls and you use that here's my question is it

i have really bad claustrophobia would this be bad for claustrophobia like if you

didn't feel like you could get out the straitjacket would be a problem for you i think but generally i I think you'd be okay.

You're in a room.

You know that the door is not really locked.

You're not like.

Okay, because we were on, on

this is how much, how bad my claustrophobia is.

We were in Chicago on spring break, as you do.

Yeah.

And there was a submarine that was indoors.

No water.

Yeah.

No locking door.

I stepped onto the the submarine, and the guide started just talking about, and I went, okay, like I couldn't even talk.

I, I, my mind went so far into the future of like, or the past or wherever, it just was not there.

Yeah.

And I imagined being in the submarine, like underwater for months, which is apparently what happens.

That's how you train above water and then you go into a submarine for the first time, and you go away for months.

So

there's got to be a better way.

That's insane.

You're going for months in tiny

submarines.

So that would, I wouldn't have ever thought that something like that would be a problem for me

until the spring break when I was like, wow, I am, I know I'm not really submerged.

But you're fight or flight.

Yeah, it really kicked in.

But

who cares?

That's my issue.

And

you know what?

Maybe what I would do is I would be,

again, I don't really know what I'm referencing.

Right.

What about like a school or college or something that I want to get out of?

Would that be?

Maybe.

Yeah, I don't mind that.

There'd have to be like a plot element where you're trapped in there.

But yeah, like because I felt trapped in school.

Yeah, emotionally.

Yeah, every time.

It's an emotional escape room.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why don't you give me

an option?

I guess you rattled off a few.

Titanic,

Insane Asylum, Prison.

What are some good ones I've done?

Oh, you've done all of those.

I've done all those.

Actually, you know what?

Lisa Gilroy, our friend, friend of the pod, she went to visit the pyramids in Egypt, and she went into the Great Pyramid, and you have to walk through a tiny tunnel into the pyramid.

And she said, like, halfway through, she realized there's a line of people in front of her, a line of people behind her, like you can't go back.

And she was panicking.

And that's my hell.

I'm also.

So, is that claustrophobia?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's that's bad.

Okay, yeah.

Yeah.

I think we're, I think we should do Insane Asylum, but you could be one of the orderlies.

You could be like,

Nurse Ratchet.

I'm down.

I'm down.

Sorry to complicate that.

No, no, I love it.

I just want to know what I'm in for.

I'm going to find a really spacious escape room and take you.

Are there tiny hallway room escape rooms where

they should do a claustrophobia escape room?

Oh, Christ.

I mean, I'm saying that, but I would do it in a heartbeat, but I'd hate it.

I'd hate every second of it.

Oh, my gosh.

I can't even think about it.

Let's move on.

Yeah.

Oh, let's hear Marky's answer.

Yeah.

What's Marky up to?

My escape room theme would be similar to an episode of Double Dare, where guests climb and search giant cat towers and sift through litter to find three flags to open the door to get out or something.

Okay, thanks.

And what a podcast.

Cheers.

What a podcast.

Wait, that was really thought out or something like that.

But

I like that.

Why don't you start a business?

doing

don't tempt me.

I want to pack it all in and just do escape rooms.

Yeah.

Is that what if you if you could leave your career, is that what you would do is start an escape room company?

Immersive theater slash escape rooms.

But I like the idea of that marky had it being shrunk down almost where your cat saw it and you're going through big things of litter that's cool yeah thank you marky thank you so much thank you so much marky thank you so much what a what a question what a question what a marky what a marky should we hear another one i think we should yeah i don't see why not hello handsomes My pretty little ladies and dadies.

My name is Nikki and I'm from Chicago.

Longtime listener, first time question recorder.

I'm a huge fan of all of y'all and my question is,

what is the most beautiful place that you have ever been to?

Oh, great, great question.

Yeah, that's hard.

Did something jump into your mind?

I mean, there's so many places.

I love the

Pacific Coast Highway.

Oh, yeah.

I mean,

I'm just right up.

I mean, I've been to New Zealand, the black sand beaches of New Zealand.

Have you been to

New Zealand?

No, never.

I would love to because I love Lord of the Rings, and that's where

Hobberton is.

Oh, is that right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That might make you claustrophobic.

Little Hobbit homes.

Yeah, I don't think I'm cut out for the hobbitry.

But

some New Zealand for you.

You know, I love the Rocky Mountains.

I feel theme here that you're drawn to like mountainous rather than like white sand, blue water, Caribbean.

I certainly like blue water, Caribbean.

Sure.

What is the most beautiful?

That's not fair.

What is your answer?

I'm going to say

when I went to Nepal, there's a city in Nepal called Pokhara that's like around a lake.

and snow-capped Himalayas all around it.

And it's got these like jacaranda trees that were, when they're in bloom, are like so perfumey and beautiful.

Yeah.

And it just looks like it's

a fake place.

It looks like Disney.

So poker.

And also Iceland.

When you were talking about black sand beaches, like Iceland just looks like Mars and there's like hot springs and northern lights.

I want to go there so bad.

Stephanie?

Yeah, I do.

I love it.

Stephanie and I were

walking past these flowers this morning and I was like, oh, look how beautiful those flowers are.

And she stopped and was like, whoa,

these look like, like, this looks like when you're on drugs looking at something.

They were so beautiful.

And it's crazy how.

I mean, I'm going to say an obvious thing, but how nature is like that, where you

can't make any sense of how beautiful something is.

I'm going to go with the Rocky Mountains.

I'm going to go with the Rocky Mountains.

I love a river.

I love rivers so much.

I love that you can, there can be a shallow part of a river.

I love that

there can be a waterfall.

I love that a river can pool.

And there's so many options, and that you can have a sandy beach vibe on the neck on the side of a river.

Yes, I'm going to go.

I'm going to go with that.

Beautiful flowers, beautiful mountains, unbelievable water.

Isn't that crazy that you just switched your awareness there and you were like, I'm going to be really present and aware of the beauty of this flower and then you feel like you're on drugs all the time.

That's what enlightened people must feel or people who really practice like mindfulness and stuff.

It's like you can feel like you're tripping all the time because...

Everything's so beautiful.

Yes.

Yeah.

I like the idea of the river, that like a babbling brook.

Nothing babbles except a brook.

I can't.

Well, I know a few people that babble.

I know some babblers.

Yeah.

Babies, I guess.

Yes, babies.

Little babbling babies.

Should we hear Nikki's answer?

Yes, let's hear what Nikki has to say.

I can't wait, but I'm going to have to.

A place that really made you say, get out of town, Charlie Brown.

This is crazy.

You know, something like that.

My answer is Rio de Janeiro.

I went there last year with my best friend who I've known since I was three years old.

And we truly had the time of our lives.

The horizons, the cascading mountains, the people.

I mean, it truly was magic.

Really looking forward to your answer.

And I love you all so much.

Have a good one.

Thanks, Nikki.

We love you too, Nikki.

Thanks for listening.

And I have not, I've never been there.

Have you?

Never.

And I've never said get out of town, Charlie Brown, but you better believe I'm going to start.

Oh,

good.

Rio de Janeiro,

Charlie Brown.

Yes.

Let me quickly Google it because where is that?

Brazil, Brazil.

Max is obsessed with Brazil.

Is he?

Because I'm learning all the capital cities now.

I'm trying.

So I'm just in your time off?

Yeah, like I'm every day.

I'm like, right now I've got Europe down.

I've done Europe.

but it's Africa that's going to be hard because some of those words are really hard.

And Asia.

Yeah.

And you fully have the others down.

I have Europe down because I've got all the countries.

And then I was in the, I had like my most kind of spectrum-y moment of my life where I was in the back of an Uber and the Uber driver was like, oh, I'm from Armenia.

And I went, capital city, Yerevan.

Mm-hmm.

And I was like, what am I doing?

He was like, yep, that's right.

Oh, my gosh.

You would have a wonderful conversation with Finn because he loves geography.

Really?

Oh, he knows his countries, his capitals, all of that stuff.

Awesome.

It's really soothing to organize the world.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Finally, it's organized.

Finally.

Well, it was a wonderful experience seeing your mug again.

And

great to see your mug as always.

Yeah.

I hope you don't mind me calling it a mug.

No, I like it.

It's very New York

70s.

Oh, 70s.

50s to 70s.

Yeah.

All right.

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And until next time, what do you say, May?

I think you better keep it pretty handsome.

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