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00:18We have a very special guest taking over our opening music today fresh off her win on the
00:24voice battle of champions as soon as we heard her Carole King cover John Adam and I all turned
00:29our chairs I was first but whatever she's incredible she made me feel everything on the show this season
00:36one of my favorite performers ever to be on the voice performing rent-free give it up for Alexia J
00:48I ain't in the spin in the black don't send me no DM you black don't come back around when
00:57I'm good
00:58you missed your chance and there's no rewind
01:04oh it must hurt the way I stay on your mind
01:13cause I live
01:16yeah
01:18and free
01:19in your head
01:35you see I don't know why you calling around trying to see what I'm doing
01:42like it's you for real
01:45you gotta get it together baby
01:48because this ain't gonna never be there
01:55cause I live
01:57and free
02:01in your head
02:05yes
02:06yes
02:07I do
02:18you
02:19I do
02:31you
02:32you
02:33you
02:33you
02:51y'all give it up one more time for Alexia J
02:57she is incredible
03:00what a voice
03:01her new single rent-free is available now and we're gonna be chatting later this hour with her
03:05thank you we'll see you soon goddess she looks like some freaking goddess
03:09let's say hi to our first guest though one of them is a three-time academy award nominee who
03:13you've seen in education promising young woman and maestro the other is a golden globe winner
03:18who is also one of new york times 25 greatest actors of the 21st century no big deal
03:24together they now start in the second season of the hugely popular anthology series beef
03:30it's streaming now only on netflix
03:31i'm gonna record it
03:38you are an anti-selfish woman
03:41thank god we didn't have kids
03:43oh
03:43no no no no
03:45lindsey lindsey
03:47forget this
03:48stop
03:49oh
03:50oh
03:50oh
03:50oh
03:51oh
03:53oh
03:53oh
03:53oh
03:54oh
03:56oh
03:56oh
03:56oh
03:58oh
04:07Please welcome Carrie Mulligan and Oscar Isaacs.
04:31Oh, my God.
04:34I'm very excited.
04:36That scene is nuts.
04:38There's no golf clubs around here, right?
04:39Please, hide them.
04:40Hide your golf clubs.
04:41It kind of reminded me, though, was it a little cathartic?
04:43Because in my Sentry Been Gone video, they just let me trash an apartment.
04:46And it was awesome.
04:47It was like a rage room.
04:48And they kept on just replacing things.
04:51And I just kept going.
04:51And you don't have to pick it up.
04:52No.
04:53Yes.
04:54It's amazing.
04:54I felt bad about the guitar there.
04:56There was a guitar.
04:57Don't feel bad.
04:58I know, but I felt it was so sacrilegious.
05:00Just, look, you've got guitars everywhere.
05:01Yeah.
05:01If you would like to bash one, go ahead.
05:04No, I'm done.
05:05No, it's just...
05:06It's so funny.
05:07It's not funny.
05:08It's very violent.
05:09But it's hilarious how the comedic timing of them catching you, them running off, you
05:14being like, oh, s***.
05:15Like, all of it is great.
05:17So this is the third time.
05:18Y'all have worked together, right?
05:19That's right.
05:20Yeah, third time.
05:20Is it...
05:21I feel like the other two times weren't as much as this, obviously.
05:24No.
05:24Like, as far as, like, scenes.
05:25I always say, like, people are in movies together, but you're not in a ton of scenes together.
05:28Right, right.
05:29And it was almost exactly mirrored.
05:31So the first time was in a movie called Drive.
05:33Yeah.
05:33And I was on that for maybe about a week.
05:35Yeah.
05:36That's when we first met.
05:36We were the kids at that moment.
05:38Like, the young, you know, fresh on the scene.
05:40Yeah.
05:41And then a few years later, we did Inside Llewyn Davis.
05:43And then you and the kid.
05:45And then you were there for about a couple weeks.
05:47Yeah, just a week.
05:48Yeah.
05:48And so this is the first time we really got this much to do together and create a whole relationship.
05:52Yeah.
05:53We saw the intense fight between these two that sets up the season, right?
05:57That's, like, kind of what sets everything up.
05:59Yeah.
05:59Yeah.
06:00I mean, in a way, that tableau, that last moment, we kind of had to, you know, retrofit that thing.
06:06Like, figure out how to get to that moment with this fight.
06:09And so we spent, I mean, a long time, long conversations, rehearsals, figuring out, you know, such a tonally, very
06:16precise thing to do.
06:18Nothing is improv, right?
06:19It's all choreographed.
06:19Were you not?
06:20Well, no.
06:20At that moment, that was all.
06:22We had done so much rehearsals on it.
06:23But even in the moment when we were filming it, trying to find that moment that really breaks us apart.
06:29You know, it's like those fights that you get into when, you know, by the, suddenly you're like, how did
06:33we even get here?
06:35Yeah.
06:35You know, it's like, how did, how did this spiral out of control?
06:37And so to be able to build that thing moment by moment was really exciting.
06:42Yeah.
06:42Like, the one thing gets said and you're like, oh, can't take that back.
06:45Yeah.
06:45Yeah.
06:45Exactly.
06:46Yeah.
06:46I've never been in that kind of argument.
06:48No.
06:49Never.
06:50Things escalate because there is a video view fight that you don't want to go public.
06:55And this is, why do you think Josh, your character does not want this to go public most of all?
06:59It's not a great look, right?
07:01Yeah.
07:01I mean, not a great look.
07:02Well, first and foremost, but why?
07:03Is it really the relationship or is it the job?
07:05It seems like it's the job.
07:06His job's on the line.
07:08Yeah.
07:08His contract hasn't been renewed.
07:09He's the general manager of this very fancy country club.
07:12Yeah.
07:13And so, and these are people that work for him.
07:15Mm-hmm.
07:16And, you know, they're Gen Z, you know?
07:18I mean, like, you can't trust those people.
07:21They always have their phones.
07:22Exactly.
07:23They always have their phones.
07:24They're always filming.
07:25Yeah.
07:25Content, content, content.
07:26So, it's like, oh, my God, if this gets out, I'm screwed.
07:30Yeah.
07:30You know, I'm screwed.
07:31And it's very much about the performance, you know, like, the mask that people put on.
07:36And, you know, pretending everything's okay, pretending that, you know, everyone's safe,
07:39everything's cool, I've got everything under control.
07:42Yeah.
07:42And then the reality of what's happening behind the scenes.
07:45And so, I think that's the big thing that he's worried about.
07:48I know you worked.
07:48Is it true you worked at a country club before?
07:50Because you play a manager this week.
07:51Yeah.
07:52It was one of my first jobs.
07:53Yeah.
07:53Two months.
07:54I worked two months at this country club in Lake Worth, Florida.
07:56Two months was enough.
07:57That was enough.
07:58That was enough.
07:58I was just thinking about the song celebration over and over again.
08:01Yeah.
08:01A lot of weddings.
08:01A lot of, you know, it was, it was, that was enough for me.
08:04Yeah.
08:05Yeah.
08:05Can you talk about your character, Lindsey?
08:07Kind of what, because I, I think the interesting thing about your character is she kind of is
08:12lost it seems.
08:13Yeah.
08:13Yeah.
08:13Yeah.
08:14I had a big, like at the top of the, we worked together for a long time before we started
08:18shooting on the characters.
08:19And I remember saying to Oscar, like, who is she?
08:22Like, she just sort of doesn't, you know, she sort of reached this point in her life,
08:26sort of just through social currency.
08:29Like she dated the right person.
08:30And then she came to America and she was sort of English in America, which is kind of a thing.
08:35Yeah.
08:35You know, you can get by on that a little bit.
08:37I know it didn't work.
08:38Yeah.
08:38And so there was these various ways in which she sort of used her charm or like her social
08:43skills to get to a place, but she never really found a thing that she loved or a thing she
08:47was passionate about or really knew much about much.
08:49And so I think this marriage falling apart is like, well, that was her identity.
08:54That was all, that was who she was, was being part of this kind of royal family.
08:57Scary.
08:58And now maybe this is gone.
09:00And then what next?
09:01And then sort of mass panic ensues.
09:03And she, she a little bit off the rails.
09:07Yeah.
09:07Yeah.
09:08Music is a huge part of the series.
09:09We're going to get to that.
09:10Obviously, I want to cover that.
09:12But first we need a break and we've got someone in the audience to take us there.
09:15Hi, Kelly.
09:16I'm John.
09:17Oscar and Carrie, I'm a huge fan, but you really blew me away in Inside Llewyn Davis.
09:22You had great chemistry and a complicated dynamic.
09:25And it is so great to see you back together in a beef.
09:29Stay here.
09:29Kelly has more with Oscar and Carrie after this.
09:39I waited to select the China because...
09:42Dishware.
09:44Dishware.
09:44Not a proper term for that.
09:46Until the chairwoman had a chance to weigh in businesses her space.
09:50She finds it all very, um, colonial.
09:54Thank you so much.
09:56She does not like colonial.
09:58Okay.
09:59Oh, um, perhaps something's getting lost in translation.
10:02She would like it all redone by someone else.
10:08So good.
10:09We are back with Oscar Isaac and Carrie Mulligan.
10:11That was a look at their series, Beep.
10:13The second season is available now on Netflix.
10:16Music is such a big part of the show, so we wanted to dedicate this whole segment to talking about
10:20that.
10:20So you're very musical, like your character actually.
10:23Is this something you brought to the character or was already there?
10:25Hopefully a little more musical than my character.
10:28He's really trying to hold on to this.
10:30Yeah.
10:31So Sonny did have the idea of having, you know, this kind of holding on to this past identity
10:36that shows so much about, as we were talking about constructing identities.
10:39Mm-hmm.
10:40When those identities kind of fall apart.
10:42Uh, and so originally he had had an idea that it's, he's into folk music and, and, uh,
10:47and we talked about that in bands of like, you know, early two thousands.
10:51Yeah.
10:52Um, some that you might know.
10:53And, uh, and, uh, and then, but I, I said, you know, I've kind of done that a bit.
10:58Maybe there's something else.
10:59And that's when we came up with like, Oh, maybe like synth music.
11:01Maybe he's really into the Moog.
11:03Yeah.
11:03And, uh, and so we started adding, you know, exploring that idea and that ended up what we,
11:08being what we went with.
11:09Yeah.
11:09I heard you got a playlist too.
11:11Was it from Phineas for your character?
11:12No, Sonny, who created the show and directed it, he gave us a playlist.
11:15It was like a sort of a, across the whole season playlist and then we had our own little
11:20playlist.
11:21And Phineas, we had like some pieces of Phineas's score when we were shooting to sort of play
11:26to.
11:27Yes.
11:28A little bit.
11:28No, way more than play to.
11:30We're going to go there.
11:31Okay.
11:31I was, I was talking to them with a break.
11:32I've never heard of this, but you actually had little earwigs in your ear playing music
11:37while you're doing the scenes.
11:39Yeah.
11:39Well, this was your idea.
11:41So you should.
11:41Ish.
11:42Oh my God.
11:42I love that play was thrown.
11:44I love it.
11:45I love it.
11:45I love it.
11:45On national team.
11:46I've never, have you done that before?
11:48Uh, yes, but the, the, the reason why it happened was, uh, there's a scene when I'm
11:52playing the Moog.
11:54Yeah.
11:54And, uh, and Carrie's character comes in and we have a whole scene with this music playing
11:57in the background that I have made, the characters made.
12:00And so in order for us to be able to record the dialogue cleanly, we had the music playing
12:04in these little, uh, ear, ear wig pieces.
12:07And as we did the scene, it really tracked with what was happening emotionally, which
12:12is also Phineas is genius, but, um, it kind of just happened that way.
12:16Yeah.
12:16And we both thought, this is kind of fun.
12:18We should keep doing this.
12:19And then I said, I'd actually, I've actually done this a couple of times before for a couple
12:23of scenes in the past.
12:24Yeah.
12:24And it's kind of fun because you know, you know, as a, as an artist, tension is the worst
12:28thing that can happen, right?
12:29You want to be relaxed.
12:30We're the greatest.
12:31Well, I don't know.
12:32Like when you're really tense.
12:33It depends on the tension, Oscar.
12:34I guess you're right.
12:34You're right.
12:35You're right.
12:35For me, I'll speak for myself.
12:37When I'm really tense, I tend to close down a little bit.
12:39Okay.
12:40And so trying to get out of your head and out of the way and not thinking so much for
12:43me
12:43is helpful.
12:44And I think we thought this is maybe a fun way to kind of not even hear ourselves.
12:48Yeah.
12:49And to just, you know, have something else happen.
12:51Like take after take after take, like sometimes you can fall into a sort of rhythm that you
12:56don't even realize you're doing where you're like, Oh, I'm kind of doing it the same way.
12:59Or particularly if it's a bit funny, you're like, Oh, that was funny.
13:02I'll hang on to that and do it again.
13:03And then it's not funny.
13:04And so you get over conscious.
13:06Yeah.
13:06It was a way of just like, you've overdone it.
13:08Do you take off your brain and you listen to something and it sort of removes you from.
13:12So we started doing that for every scene.
13:13We would drive the sound guy crazy.
13:15We're like, now play this.
13:16And now play this.
13:17And it was pretty good.
13:18It was fun.
13:19Oh, I love.
13:20Okay.
13:20So I'm trying to picture how it actually works this.
13:23I want you to prove this.
13:24This can happen.
13:24Will you do this for me?
13:26I want you to hear music and have to say something.
13:29I need to see this.
13:30And you want to see it happen.
13:32Okay.
13:32You're talented.
13:33Yeah.
13:34All right.
13:35But I guess we don't, we don't have.
13:39What do you want?
13:40What do you want?
13:41All right.
13:41Well, I guess you have to imagine that it's in our ears, right?
13:43So nobody else will be curious.
13:45But we all get to be a part of the experience.
13:47You all get to be as if you are in our minds.
13:49Yes.
13:50And we'll just have to say some lines to each other.
13:52Okay.
13:53So like.
13:54Okay.
13:55What kind of vibe do you want?
13:56I think at first like, so sometimes we would try like, like, like an emotional kind of folky,
14:02like, you know, very earnest folky.
14:06Great.
14:07Yeah.
14:08Great.
14:08Yeah.
14:09But you have to imagine that none of you can hear that.
14:12Yeah.
14:12We can hear it.
14:13But we can.
14:14But you can.
14:15Okay.
14:16I'll say something.
14:17Do you want to start?
14:18Okay.
14:19I'll say.
14:20Okay.
14:21Okay.
14:21Ready?
14:22You've got to look at me.
14:24You've got to focus.
14:26Carrie.
14:27Yeah.
14:27Oh, God.
14:29All right.
14:30Yeah.
14:30Yeah.
14:30Okay.
14:34I don't think I'm ever going to be able to forgive you.
14:39Well, you're going to have to try.
14:43Cut.
14:45All right.
14:48You're about to laugh now.
14:50All right.
14:52She needs a lot of rehearsal.
14:53Oh, my God.
14:54I love that I secretly wanted to be like, I forgive you.
14:58I could just like.
14:59But now you're going to try to change it.
15:00Usually what we would do is like, if it was like an emotional thing, then we would try
15:03something the opposite of that.
15:05Yes.
15:05To create the good tension.
15:07Oh, I messed you up.
15:08Okay.
15:08Do a different, okay.
15:09Can you like a, like a, like a funky, synthy, poppy?
15:13Give me Jamiroquai.
15:15Yeah.
15:17Okay.
15:17Okay.
15:18Okay.
15:18So that's in here.
15:19Oh, that's in your core.
15:21Okay.
15:21So that's like in here.
15:23Okay.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Now you're going to do the same line?
15:25Same line.
15:26Same line.
15:28Okay.
15:29I don't think I could ever forgive you.
15:31I don't think.
15:32Okay.
15:33I don't know how I'm ever.
15:34No.
15:38I don't know how I'm ever going to forgive you.
15:42I'm sorry.
15:44Oh, God.
15:45Oh, you're, you're, you're, you're gonna have to try.
15:51Yeah.
15:52See that it's got a good energy.
15:54Yeah.
15:55It doesn't help him going.
15:57Yeah.
16:00I love it.
16:02It's totally different when we can all hear it.
16:04It's probably, yeah.
16:04We can do this for the whole show.
16:06I'm just gonna go.
16:08Still watch it.
16:09We kind of did.
16:09But actually, but actually, now it's going to be better when they do watch it.
16:13Yeah.
16:14Because I want to see the scenes again knowing that you're listening to the show.
16:17Yeah.
16:17You'll be looking at, you'll be looking at my hips.
16:18You're like, oh, he's listening to something funky right now.
16:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:20He's into it.
16:21Look at that tension.
16:22Look at that tension.
16:23Look at that tension.
16:23All right.
16:24We have to stop for another break.
16:26Everybody give it up for Carrie Mulligan and Oscar.
16:46Welcome back.
16:47We'll see our next guest on shows like Blue Bloods, The Secret Life of the American Teenager,
16:51and, of course, The Sopranos, where he played the world's most lovable mobster.
16:55He's also a best-selling author with the books Woke Up This Morning, The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos,
17:00and A Goomba's Guide to Life.
17:02His latest book is called Willy Boy Eats the World.
17:04It's out today wherever books are sold.
17:06Please welcome back to the show, Steve Sharipa.
17:09Woo!
17:09Woo!
17:27Congrats on the new book!
17:28Thank you very much.
17:29Yes.
17:30What inspired it?
17:31Did you ever see yourself writing a children's book?
17:33No, I never did.
17:34Yeah.
17:34And you know what, on Fridays, when I was on Blue Blood,
17:38so most of the cast, we would just put up a video.
17:40Hey, watch tonight, you know, like that kind of thing.
17:43Don't forget, tune in tonight.
17:45I'm sitting there.
17:46I have a bag of popcorn.
17:48My wife has videoed this little clip.
17:50And he's on my lap.
17:52He sticks his whole head in the bag, Willie.
17:54I saw the clip.
17:54And he came out and he pulled it out.
17:56And then we posted it.
17:57And we got, like, millions of views.
18:00And people just loved it.
18:01So we started making these videos.
18:03Yeah.
18:03And, uh...
18:04Look at him getting after it.
18:06Oh, he's incredible.
18:09I love his dog.
18:10Incredible.
18:11So we started making all these videos.
18:12We made people happy.
18:14I said, you know what, how about we do a children's book and, you know, just for me.
18:19Yeah.
18:19No big money, no advance.
18:21We don't monetize any of these.
18:22It's just for fun.
18:23And it happened organically.
18:24Like, this is sweet how this all happened in the first place.
18:26So there's usually, like, a lesson in a kid's book.
18:29So what's the lesson?
18:30Try new things.
18:31So what it is, is I eat Italian food most of the time.
18:35That's what I know.
18:36Willie meets some dogs at the dog park.
18:39Yeah.
18:39They say, hey, there's a lot more to, you know, in the city here.
18:43Most diverse city in the world.
18:45Most diverse food.
18:46You can get anything here.
18:47Yeah.
18:48Willie takes me around New York City.
18:50Shows me all the different foods of the world.
18:52Oh, I love this.
18:53And that's it.
18:54Try new things.
18:55Not only food.
18:57You know, kids should try new things.
18:58People.
18:59Adults.
19:00Yeah.
19:00Don't be afraid.
19:01Try new things.
19:04One of my kids will try anything.
19:06And one of mine just eats only beige.
19:08And I will pay him to try something.
19:10There you go.
19:10I'm not above it.
19:11I've heard that.
19:12I've heard that before.
19:13Yeah.
19:13And it works sometimes.
19:15Yeah.
19:15Not most times.
19:16But most times he'll try something.
19:17He'll be like, okay, actually, that wasn't bad.
19:18And I'm like, I know food.
19:20But the beige thing.
19:21Yeah.
19:21I've heard that.
19:22Yeah.
19:23That's not that.
19:24It's a whole thing.
19:25It's beige.
19:26It's texture.
19:26It's very hard.
19:28Well, obviously, that's not my problem.
19:30Me neither.
19:30Me neither.
19:31I'm like, did someone cook it and I get to eat it?
19:34Cool.
19:35I'll eat it.
19:35I just hate cooking.
19:37So does Willie, I hear Willie gets recognized quite a bit, right?
19:41Not a day.
19:41You know, I take my walks almost every day.
19:43Not a day goes by.
19:44Where's the dog?
19:45Where's the pooch?
19:46Where's Willie boy?
19:47Yeah.
19:47We were in the UK.
19:50Me and Michael Imperial just did a big UK tour.
19:53We did.
19:54We do a live show, Q&A and that.
19:56We did like 14 shows, 10 cities.
19:59They had cutouts of Willie in the audience in all these cities in the UK, asking if we
20:06brought him.
20:07There's people that will meet me in the street and go, is that Willie?
20:11Yeah.
20:12And they want a picture with him, not me.
20:14Yeah.
20:14Oh, my God.
20:15I'm not kidding you.
20:16So he's become kind of famous and he makes people happy.
20:20He's so smart.
20:21It's kind of scary.
20:23We have to spell things, me and my wife, because if we say it, he's like a toddler.
20:29He'll know.
20:29Yeah.
20:29So we have to spell things out.
20:31Yes.
20:31And of course, my daughters will think I treat him better than I've treated them.
20:36Yeah.
20:37You would never let me get away with that.
20:39Yeah.
20:39But we talked a lot about Willie.
20:41Let's meet him.
20:42Willie's here.
20:42Oh, let's meet Willie.
20:45Come on over.
20:46Come on out.
20:46Here he is.
20:47Come on, boy.
20:50I should have had food.
20:53Hi.
20:54This is my wife, Lauren.
20:56Nice to meet you.
20:56Nice to meet you, Kelly.
20:58Say hello, Willie.
21:02I should have had some food.
21:04I'm such a loser.
21:05He's a good boy.
21:06I should have had a sandwich or something.
21:08You want to sit down, Kimberly?
21:09Sit down.
21:09I don't know.
21:10You can run around if you'd like.
21:11I would say this is his first national TV, but he did do an episode of Blue Bloods.
21:17Okay.
21:18And they gave him a cash chair.
21:20He didn't have one here.
21:22Ah.
21:22That's all I'm saying.
21:23And we didn't get him food either.
21:24Look at him.
21:25He's like, I won't even look at you.
21:26No.
21:26I'm not even going to look at you.
21:27He's very close to his mom.
21:28Where's my pizza?
21:29Yeah.
21:30All right.
21:30Any plans to do any more books with Willie?
21:32We have an idea for another book.
21:34Maybe Willie takes me around the world and goes to different cities and different countries.
21:39It's a great show, too, by the way.
21:41It's like a kid show.
21:42We talked about it.
21:44You know, who knows?
21:45Like I said, it was just organically done.
21:47And it wasn't like, we got this big plan.
21:49Those are the best ideas.
21:50Those are the best ones.
21:51But, you know, I also, I've done a couple of Hallmark movies recently.
21:55Yeah.
21:55And I kind of like getting into that space.
21:57Yeah.
21:57I mean, I played a cop.
21:59I played, you know, obviously a mobster and all that.
22:02And, you know, you go to, you do those nice movies.
22:04There's no yelling, no cursing, no killing.
22:07Yeah.
22:07It's just nice.
22:08It's just kind.
22:10Yeah.
22:10Exactly.
22:10Yeah.
22:11Oh, my God.
22:12It's like, I refuse to look at you, ma'am.
22:14I did not get a chair.
22:15Say hello to Kelly.
22:16Hi.
22:16She, I should have brought you food.
22:19I'm so sorry.
22:21All right.
22:21We need another quick break, y'all.
22:22Willie and Steve's book is called Willie Boy Eats the World.
22:25It's out now wherever you buy your books.
22:27And everyone in the audience is going home with a copy.
22:29All right.
22:30We're going to chat with Alex Tuesday.
22:32Let's see if you can have the voice yesterday on here.
22:45Welcome back, everybody.
22:47You saw our next guest perform earlier on the show.
22:49And last week, you saw her win season 29 of The Voice on NBC and Peacock.
22:53Here is that moment.
22:54Our season 29 champion is...
23:00Your lights, your face, your eyes, exploding like fire, looks in the sky.
23:10Alexia J, you did it!
23:14Congratulations!
23:21Oh, man, I'm so proud of her.
23:24I know Liv was, too, in that moment.
23:26And even though she picked Team Ataman, I'm such a fan.
23:28She's so great.
23:29You can see all her performances on Peacock.
23:31The entire 29th season of The Voice is streaming now.
23:34And you can catch her new single, Rent Free, wherever you buy your music.
23:38Please welcome back to the stage the goddess, Alexia J.
23:59I love you!
24:00And I keep giving you s*** about not picking me, but I don't care.
24:04It was such a sweet moment.
24:05I love Matthew.
24:06Your son came out.
24:07We brought him out.
24:08And I love that John thought it was going to work in his favor.
24:10That was so funny.
24:12And it blew up in his face.
24:13Yeah.
24:14Because he said Maroon 5, and John's heart hit the ground.
24:16And you know what's crazy?
24:17Everybody thought that it was, like, staged or something.
24:20That boy loves Adam.
24:22Yeah.
24:23He was so excited.
24:23Oh, no, you can tell.
24:24Yeah, he was so excited when he'd seen him.
24:26And afterwards, he was like, Mama, I just met Maroon 5.
24:30Yeah.
24:30He was the coolest kid at school after that.
24:32Aww.
24:33What's it been like?
24:34Like, afterwards, you're from a small town.
24:36What's it been like?
24:36Oh, man, my folks have been throwing block parties.
24:39Yeah.
24:41Since I won.
24:42That's my baby.
24:43Yeah.
24:43They've been calling me, sending me videos.
24:45And so they're really proud of me.
24:46And so I'm super excited to go home and, you know.
24:49Chill.
24:49Yeah.
24:50Yeah.
24:50Have fun with them.
24:51Have fun with my kids.
24:52I love that there was enough time, though, for all of you to kind of have a little bit
24:56of time from that to actually cultivate a song and release a song.
24:59So where did Rent Free come from?
25:01So basically, when I got through with the show, I'm like, we got to work since we got
25:06all this time.
25:07Yeah.
25:07So we started just recording, recording, recording.
25:09And when they were in the studio, at Rent Free comes.
25:13And it's basically about, you know, somebody being super obsessed with you when you get
25:20to a good place.
25:21And when you was down, they didn't want to have nothing to do with you.
25:23And I know everybody can relate to that.
25:26So I was like, I think this is the one.
25:28Yeah.
25:28And since it's been out, I've been getting a lot of good feedback from it.
25:31So I'm excited for everybody to hear it.
25:33That's because you're singing it.
25:34Any song you sing is, you know, the song is great.
25:37But, like, you could sing anything.
25:39Please don't cover my songs.
25:42I'm just kidding.
25:43I'm totally kidding.
25:44I would love for you if you would tear them up.
25:46I love your voice so much.
25:48What about your little one?
25:49So you've got Harmony, too, right?
25:50Yeah.
25:51So you've got Matthew and Harmony.
25:52What is it like?
25:53Like, watching them watch you and all this happening?
25:55They look at my face.
25:57Stop it.
25:59Matthew has been through everything with me.
26:02So it's, for him, I know the experience is so amazing because he's watched me when I
26:09was taking care of my mom when she was sick.
26:10Yeah.
26:11When he was little and then I'm still trying to sing all at the same time.
26:14And when I got to the voice, he's like, we done it now.
26:18Yeah.
26:19Yeah.
26:20He knows.
26:21Yeah, he's excited.
26:22But at Harmony, she could care less.
26:24Yeah.
26:24She, yeah, she's her own superstar.
26:27She has so much personality and I can't wait for y'all to meet her eventually.
26:30But she could care less.
26:31That's the last born.
26:32She's the one that tells me when I mess up on any night.
26:35Oh my God.
26:36That's my son.
26:36That's my last born.
26:37I'll leave the house and be like, so that's what you're going to wear?
26:39And I'm like, well, not now.
26:41I'm like, God.
26:43So you have a sarcastic household.
26:44Oh my God.
26:45That's all.
26:46I just were dripping in it to where I think maybe it's bad, but they're very funny.
26:51Yes.
26:52You get funny kids.
26:53Life is hard and hard things happen and sometimes humor is the best way to deal with it, you
26:58know?
26:58Yeah.
26:58Not handle it completely, but to deal with a little bit.
27:01But yeah, my youngest is quite the ham as well.
27:03Yeah.
27:04Yeah.
27:04He showed up here one day and didn't tell me and showed up and had a song ready, gave
27:09it to the band without me.
27:11I had nothing to do with it.
27:12That's your manager.
27:13He walked up and was like, so this is where I sing and just sang Frank Sinatra.
27:17I was like, what the hell is happening?
27:20He's got...
27:20So I'm just saying, maybe there's a duet with Remington and Harmony.
27:24Come on now.
27:25I don't know if the world's ready.
27:26Y'all, you can check out Alexia's single Rent Free wherever you buy your music.
27:30You're working on a whole record as well?
27:31Yes.
27:31Yeah.
27:32I'm working.
27:32I'm working, working, working.
27:34So I hope to give y'all something really good.
27:36Oh, I want it and I want it on vinyl.
27:37Okay.
27:38Got it.
27:38And you can catch up with episodes and performances of The Voice streaming on Peacock.
27:42If you missed her performances or any of them, y'all, you got to check it out.
27:44It's such a great season.
27:45We're going to be right back though, y'all.
27:59Welcome back, y'all.
28:00There are dozens of Broadway theaters here in Midtown, and it's not just the shows that
28:04are incredible, it's the sets as well.
28:06But when a production shuts down, most sets end up in landfills.
28:09At least they did until our next guest stepped in.
28:12She's the founder of Scenery Bags, a business that recycles discarded Broadway set materials
28:16and turns them into practical, everyday items like handbags, pillows, and her stories, one
28:22we're very happy to share as we approach Earth Day.
28:24Let's welcome Jennifer, y'all.
28:26Give it up.
28:27That's a cool idea.
28:29Thank you so much.
28:30I was telling you in the break, I didn't really realize everything ended up in the landfill.
28:34I thought they would reuse, but they don't reuse a lot, right?
28:36Well, on the regional side, they do try to reuse as a cost-saving effort, but when it comes
28:41to Broadway, they're all their own LLCs.
28:43It's commercial theater, so it operates a little bit differently.
28:46And if a show's not going to tour or if it's not going to be stored for future use, a
28:50lot
28:51of times things, there's nowhere else for it to go but a landfill.
28:54And so when I heard that that was happening, when I see them throw away our shows, I would
28:59get heartbroken.
29:00And I wanted to do something about it.
29:01Yeah.
29:02So how did you get the scenery bags off the ground?
29:04How did you get this going?
29:05Well, in 2017, I had my first son, which afforded me time at home.
29:09Even though being a mom is the hardest job I've ever had, I was never, as a stage manager,
29:14I was out of the house all day, every day, six days a week.
29:17And so I had had this idea in 2015, but it took me till having time to like, oh, let's
29:24do this cute little maternity leave project, see if anyone else cares about what I care about.
29:28I had collected 600 pounds of theatrical waste at that time.
29:31Where do you collect 600?
29:33I called my friends.
29:34I called my friends and asked for their trash because I had been in this industry for almost
29:38two decades.
29:38I love this call.
29:39And it was sitting in my parents' storage unit in San Diego and they thought, I'm sure
29:44that they would never get rid of it because I was kind of a serial entrepreneur up to this
29:48point.
29:49And then I finally came and picked it up and found manufacturers and made our first round
29:53and that sold out in 24 hours on just Instagram.
29:58One of them went to Krista Rodriguez, Broadway's Krista Rodriguez, who posted about it.
30:03We went super viral and I accidentally created my dream job and never ended up going back to
30:09stage management.
30:09And now nine years in, we've collected almost 40,000 pounds of theatrical waste.
30:15That's such a, it's such a cool thing to do for the planet, but it's also such a cool
30:21thing to do for fans of Broadway and certain shows and stuff and to have a piece of that.
30:25It's like when, I think in sports, you know, they're like breaking down a stadium, people
30:28take the chairs, they get things like, I think that's just a really cool thing.
30:31So tell us about the products.
30:32You have some here, right?
30:33We have some here.
30:34So we have a lot.
30:35I like that velvet number.
30:37So the velvet and the pouches, this is all the most recent revival of Cabaret.
30:41Oh, okay.
30:42And then this in the middle is Glenda's bubble dress from Wicked.
30:45I was going to say, yeah.
30:47Yes.
30:48And then we have softs and we have pouches.
30:50We also do like home goods now.
30:52We really like rely on our audience to tell us what they want because we don't want to
30:55be creating waste on our end.
30:57You only can use so many handbags.
30:58So what else can we make?
30:59Yeah.
31:00And then we also have jewelry out of stage floors because the stage floors really don't
31:07decompose at all.
31:08They're made out of a really thick laminate.
31:10Yeah.
31:10And so when I have an inability of saying, I can't say no.
31:14When people offer me a piece of Broadway history that's headed to a landfill, I will say, yes,
31:19of course we will take that.
31:20We'll figure out what to do.
31:21Yeah.
31:21So the earrings are made out of the stage floor of the beautiful, the Carole King musical.
31:26And the rings are made out of Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette.
31:30And I actually wanted to gift you.
31:32I was going to say Interessante.
31:34I would like to buy one.
31:34I was like, wait.
31:36You're saying these?
31:37That's so interesting.
31:38I would want to give to you the earrings and the ring because I know that you are yourself
31:43a fan of Carole King and Alanis Morissette.
31:45Alanis Morissette.
31:45And we wanted to give you a piece of their Broadway history.
31:48I think this is the most beautiful thing.
31:53I think it's the most beautiful thing to create.
31:57Obviously, I love bags and I love jewelry.
32:00But it's such a cool thing.
32:01I only like things with meaning or a message at this point.
32:04It's like I don't like to just buy to buy.
32:06Usually it's like, oh, no, this means this or this has a meaning or this is where I was when
32:10this happened or my chapter of life or whatever.
32:11This is such a special thing that you're doing.
32:13And it's also just reuse, renew, recycle that whole thing to help the planet rather than it going to waste
32:19when people would love to be a part of it.
32:21So you also give back to the Broadway community.
32:23How so do you do?
32:23Yes.
32:24So I knew when I started this I wanted to have a give back component.
32:27And I wanted that give back component to be introducing a new generation to theater.
32:31Yeah.
32:31And so I found the Theater Development Fund, which does exactly that and so much more.
32:36So not only do they take students to see what is usually their first live theatrical performance on Broadway and
32:41off Broadway,
32:41but they teach classes and they go into the classroom.
32:44They teach classes about theater.
32:46And then we also get to support their accessibility programs.
32:49So every Broadway, ASL interpreted, closed caption, autism friendly and audio described performances,
32:56we get to support it through TDF because we really believe that access to theater should be access for everyone.
33:01For sure.
33:02You're so lovely.
33:04I love this.
33:05Thank you for the gift.
33:06That's very beautiful.
33:07We need a quick break.
33:09We're going to be right back, everybody.
33:10Thanks.
33:24Welcome back, y'all.
33:27Hamlet, an incredible movie.
33:28It was huge just past awards season.
33:30Jessie Buckley won basically every award out there for her role.
33:33An Oscar, a BAFTA, Critics' Choice, SAG, Golden Globe.
33:37If there was an award, she took it home.
33:39Jessie was here along with her co-star, Paul Meskel, who did an incredible job in the movie as well.
33:42They were here a few months back and it turns out they're both not just phenomenal actors, they're musicians as
33:47well.
33:47So obviously we covered that here.
33:49Sadly, that part of the interview couldn't fit in the first show.
33:52But good news, we get to show it to you now.
33:53You both have musical backgrounds as well, which I'm obviously going to talk about.
33:57You play like several instruments, right?
33:59And sing.
34:00Yeah.
34:01He's learned to play guitar on his left hand to play Paul McCartney in a few months.
34:08This man is like, I mean, he's going from playing William Shakespeare to Paul McCartney.
34:12Like, that is just...
34:13Do you just, is that what you do?
34:14Like, things come across your desk and you're like, it's not a great, I'm not interested...
34:17He's not a genius, move on.
34:19Next is Santa Claus.
34:21I'm like, I don't know.
34:23No, that's cool though, for loving music and getting to play Paul McCartney.
34:26That's awesome.
34:27I mean, it's insane.
34:27Yeah, I got to play Blackbird with him.
34:30I know!
34:31Were you so nervous?
34:32Like, don't f**k up.
34:34I mean, like, we were sat there and I was like, I just, if I never see him again or
34:39meeting
34:39again, I want him to know that we're like, looking after his life and his work and he's
34:43like, I'm going to just sit here and we're going to play it together.
34:46And thankfully I played well and you could see him just kind of go, okay.
34:50But I was like, my hands were like, Dan, Dan.
34:54It was such a wild experience.
34:57Oh, that's so fun.
34:58You're musical as well.
34:59You do jazz for a bit, right?
35:00You did a singing competition.
35:02Yeah.
35:02Somebody told me that.
35:03I was like, we have so much on call.
35:06When did you start singing first or acting?
35:08I started singing first.
35:10My mom is a harpist and a singer and now she works as a music psychotherapist.
35:15Wait, what does that mean?
35:16Kind of like a doula, like a death doula.
35:19So people who are kind of about to pass or people who are maybe in a coma or like just
35:25in a lot of pain.
35:26I've seen this with Alzheimer patients.
35:29So it's interesting.
35:29They can't remember certain things.
35:30But when it comes to music, there's a certain part that they remember all the words to a certain song.
35:35And they kind of wake up and be able to communicate in a way that, yeah, it's such a special
35:39thing.
35:40Okay.
35:40So you have a rad mama.
35:41Yeah, I have a rad mama.
35:43And then you went into jazz, right?
35:45You started doing that?
35:46I did kind of, when I moved over to London, I was 17 and I, you know, I was just
35:52like, if there was a door open and someone was like, come in.
35:55And I was like, oh, sure.
35:56What's in there?
35:57Yeah.
35:57And when I first moved over, I had often no job.
36:02And I worked with this, I basically firstly got drunk and started singing at a piano with this guy.
36:10And then he was like, do you want to actually work together?
36:12And so we would, I started learning jazz and would sing in these clubs around London where nobody listened to
36:19me, thank God.
36:20Yeah.
36:21And learned the whole kind of American songbook repertoire.
36:23But it was such a fun time.
36:25I thought I was Barbra Streisand, you know, it was like.
36:28I've thought that many a times in the shower.
36:29Yeah, and I'm just kidding.
36:31Yeah.
36:32No, I think that that's something you said, though, like staying curious, like of what's behind that door and being
36:37unafraid of that is what I think we become a better version of ourselves when we let go of that
36:42fear or almost embrace it.
36:44Yeah.
36:45You know, so I think that's why you're so wonderful.
36:47You two, I love you so much.
36:48What kind of music were you into growing up?
36:50My mom listened to a lot of James Taylor growing up and my dad listened to a lot of Pavarotti.
36:54So it was like.
36:55I love Pavarotti.
36:56Yeah, it was, it was a pretty, it was always around.
36:59It would always change and yeah.
37:02That is a crazy different household.
37:04Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:06Panic is available to see now on Peacock.
37:08We'll be right back with what I'm liking.
37:23All right, y'all.
37:24We have one last story for today.
37:25Perfect for all the animal lovers out there.
37:27This is what I'm liking.
37:32This summer, hundreds of kids will meet up at the Fort Wayne Zoo to get hands-on experience with all
37:36sorts of creatures, giraffes, lemurs, and penguins, just to name a few.
37:40It's all part of Teens for Nature, giving students a feel for a career in animal care and valuable leadership
37:45skills.
37:46We have the zookeeper on the line right now along with a recent graduate.
37:49Let's say hi to Gianna and Grace watching on WPTA.
37:53What's up, y'all?
37:55Hello.
37:56Hi.
37:57Well, Gianna, I'm going to start with you.
37:59You're the zookeeper now, but you came up through Teens for Nature, right?
38:02Yes, I sure did.
38:03So our Teens for Nature program is a leadership program where teens from all over the community can come and
38:11volunteer their time here at the zoo.
38:12They get to participate in a bunch of different roles around our zoo, and it helps them grow in their
38:17leadership skills through their love of nature.
38:19I used to be a part of that program, and it truly meant the world to me.
38:23A big part of our mission here at the zoo is connecting kids with animals, and that's exactly what the
38:27program did for me.
38:29And now I'm an aquatics keeper here at the zoo, and I have been for five years.
38:33And now I've done some incredible things that I could never even imagine back in the day.
38:38I've raised African penguin chicks.
38:41I've trained tons of different behaviors on animals, and I also get to scuba dive with sharks.
38:46So even, like, the idea that those would happen someday all started at the Teens for Nature program.
38:51Good luck with that diving adventure.
38:54So, yep, wow.
38:56Grace, what's the experience been like for you?
38:58I had always wanted to be a zookeeper ever since I was little, and the Fort Wayne Zoo was in
39:04my hometown.
39:05And so my parents kind of threw me into the teen volunteer program when I was 13 years old, and
39:12it truly changed my life.
39:14I started as a zoo crew member, and I would stand in front of living spaces and educate guests on
39:21conservation.
39:22And it just improved my leadership skills so much by being able to talk to mass audiences and be super
39:28comfortable.
39:29During my senior year of high school, I spent 13 months as an aquatics intern here with Gianna.
39:35And it's just been such an amazing experience.
39:38And now I'm pursuing a degree in zoo and conservation science and aquarium sciences in Columbus, Ohio.
39:45And it really has put me so far ahead in my field, gaining a lot more experience than I ever
39:51have over my classmates.
39:53And so it's just such an amazing opportunity to be able to build and get bigger internships for this coming
39:58summer.
39:59So it's such a blessing.
40:00For sure.
40:01Congratulations to the both of you for achieving your dreams and for still doing it, Grace.
40:06Good luck on that.
40:07Thank you both, Gianna and Grace.
40:08Give it up for them, y'all.
40:09I'm liking y'all's posts right now.
40:11Our season one partner, Pilot Pen, Makership Precise, the Goatship Precise Pen at The Kelly Clarkson Show.
40:16I want to celebrate those who find beauty in all forms of life.
40:19So they're going to be writing a check to the Fort Wayne Zoo for $1,000 in y'all's honor.
40:23Thank you so much for joining us.
40:26Thank you to all our guests.
40:27It's our author, Isaac, Terry, Megan, Steve, Sharifa, Alexia, Jay, Jennifer, Paul Meskel, and Jesse Buckley.
40:35Y'all have a great day.
40:36If it's not changing.
40:46We'll see you next time.
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