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Jeremy is a San-Francisco-Bay-Area-raised, Los-Angeles-Acting-School-Trained, twenty something year old who recently moved to Sydney, Australia for the love of his life.
If you have no idea what's going on in this strange thing known as "reality," GREAT NEWS! Neither does he! Come share a few laughs as he tries to piece it all together!
Hopefully something in this podcast inspires you to act with a little more empathy today, or a bit more courage. Or, at the very least, makes you feel a little bit less alone in your confusion.
1:45 - How the hell are you, Erik?
2:40 - “Livin’ the dream, losin’ my mind like everybody else.”
2:50 - We met at the Foothill Theatre Conservatory.
3:00 - How bureaucracy destroyed the program
3:40 - How Tom broke it down
5:15 - How nervous I was to audition for Conservatory
6:00 - Acting as I write screenplays
7:20 - Erik has never not gotten nervous to perform
7:30 - Jeremy’s showcase scene
8:30 - Jeremy’s one man show
9:45 - Did Loyola Marymount have a New Works Festival?
11:04 - The closest thing to Stand-Up
11:40 - One-Man Show Inspirations
12:24 - Jeremy’s early self-perceived weaknesses as an actor
12:30 - “Oh, I don’t know what to do with my hands.”
13:13 - Erik’s Stretch Story
14:40 - He used to feel more comfortable thinking about character first. Trying to get back to thinking of the craft first.
15:20 - Jeremy explains Stretch
16:45 - The Actor and the Target
20:20 - Reading books you have vs. Buying new books
22:30 - Watching first act of movies
23:20 - ‘As Good As It Gets’ with Jack Nicholson
24:06 - Letterboxd?
25:23 - The layers to the process of really thinking.
25:45 - Film criticism?
27:20 - Filmmaking is the film critic’s dream
28:00 - So much easier to tear down than create
29:00 - ‘Bullet in the Brain’ by Tobias Wolff
30:20 - ‘Red’ by Rothko
30:50 - Our judgy inner voice. You have to be continually reassured.
31:30 - Acting as a game of endurance
32:22 - The idea of “should”
33:00 - What’s the one thing you really WANT to exist?
34:30 - The action of being creative IN and OF itself.
35:00 - The invisible increments of growth
36:40 - A Bright Eyes lyric
37:14 - David Lynch quote
37:40 - Jordan B. Peterson —> Great stories are where the archetypal meets the personal
38:58 - Mark Twain on the value of traveling
39:30 - Trying to understand why a character reacts in a way we wouldn’t.
40:00 - Any choice CAN be reasonably motivated.
40:32 - Acting. The pure empathy machine.
40:45 - Me and Erik are fucking QUOTES GUYS
42:00 - What a good actor does in the face of shitty material
43:11 - What Erik expected from Hollywood. The lonesomeness of LA without community. Feeling lost regardless.
45:18 - Adam Scott, 15 years before he got anything.
45:25 - You need to cultivate an outside life.
46:16 - It’s up and down!
47:19 - The land of broken (entitled) dreams.
47:47 - Have some fucking agency!
49:20 - Sean Baker liked Strawberry’s look
50:00 - All the “You Shoulds”
50:31 - Who has the money?
51:00 - Only 3% of actors have this happen
51:50 - Jacob Elordi v. Angus Cloud
53:00 - Why I left L.A.
54:34 - A publicist (he thinks) told Erik this.
56:20 - What success looks like.
57:00 - “Just another movie that played at a big festival”
58:00 - The magic is in the DOING
58:20 - Seeking external validation always leads to unhappiness.
59:20- ‘The End of the Tour’, constantly re-defining our idea of success so we’re just outside of it.
1:00:00 - The CONSTANT effort and work necessary for gratitude.
1:00:54 - Erik is a HYPOCRITE
1:05:00 - You can read and learn all you want, but if you aren’t implementing, it’s pointless.
1:06:30 - How we try to BE LESS DUMB
1:07:27 - Erik prefers experiencing work with others, Jeremy does not.
1:08:20 - I used to think I wasn’t “advanced” enough for serious movies
1:10:00 - Of course, belief is the first step!
1:10:26 - An artist’s journey: bringing your skill level up to your taste.
1:20:00 - Religious upbringing talk
1:39:20
29 Jun 2021
Episode 19: Half-White Half-Filipino Entertainers, Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, and That Time Betsy Franco Read My Short Story
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In this, the 19th of (hopefully) many episodes he offers up some thoughts on media representation, being a Westerner through and through, the nobility of being a writer, how much he hates insensitivity around mental illness (but is not surprised by it), and how much he loves Wes Anderson's 'The Darjeeling Limited.
Hopefully something in this podcast inspires you to act with a little more empathy today, or a bit more courage. Or, at the very least, makes you feel a little bit less alone in your confusion.
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1:48 - We just MADE UP numbers!
4:23 - My playlist tonight is just thoughts.
4:44 - On “Blasian Representation”
6:50 - How I felt seeing half White half Filipinos in the media
9:00 - How I DON’T think
11:25 - Race problem solved
12:50 - Jordan Peterson on the dangers of the arrogance of the intellect.
14:06 - Glenn Loury on identifying as a Westerner
15:30 - The media and ideas I was raised on.
17:05 - Tobias Wolff and Raymond Carver
17:45 - My creative writing class at Chabot
19:00 - That time I met Tobias Wolff
19:40 - The nobility of writing
20:00 - My published story and having Betsy Franco read it
21:30 - I’ll always come back to fiction, I’ll always make screenplays
23:10 - The feedback Betsy Franco gave my story
25:13 - At least I got “Bullet in the Brain” signed, hahaha
27:23 - I hate insensitive comments about mental illness, especially from loved ones
29:20 - You’ll always have all kinds of people
31:10 - How good is ‘The Darjeeling Limited’?
33:28 - The “Hotel Chevalier” Short Film
34:30 - On Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
35:40 - People will live and die and never grapple with ideas as lofty as these
36:22 - Why my former classmate’s mother loved Jon Stewart
37:30 - The value of art
40:25 - A Connoisseur of nuance
41:40 - The more sides you see, the more you understand truth
42:15 - Do we need lies to survive?
43:20 - The fragility of the average mind
44:40 - God is essential, if you can’t find Him, you must create Him
45:30 - Most belief systems are prejudices, notions, or inspirations defended after the fact
47:35 - Master morality v. Slave morality
49:10 - Being hyper-critical of great figures out of insecurity
52:05 - Detaching yourself from your culture
53:22 - Where do our thoughts come from?
56:30 - I’m such a genius
56:50 - You’re my tribe!
25 May 2021
Episode 18: George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Gryffindor
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In this, the 18th of (hopefully) many episodes he parodies late night radio hosts, discusses the fantastic underpinnings of America, and gets into the practical benefit of the Crucifixion story.
Hopefully something in this podcast inspires you to act with a little more empathy today, or a bit more courage. Or, at the very least, makes you feel a little bit less alone in your confusion.
0:50 - This is a nighttime podcast
1:18 - 101KKSFPRURSO
1:56 - We got Jazz.
2:50 - Whooshkaa —> Anchor, more LISTENERS, baby!
3:45 - God bless America
4:45 - Everything has its downside.
5:20 - My coworker who LOVED America.
6:10 - What George Washington said.
7:16 - The American ideal is AMAZING!
8:17 - The practical value of Jesus crucifixion story.
11:20 - “Get that cross outta my face!”
13:20 - Give your life to a purpose greater than yourself.
14:20 - Homie CAME BACK TO LIIIFE!
15:35 - We need to shed past qualities to transition into each life stage.
16:28 - I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of resurrection and rebirth.
17:13 - I’m not Slytherin anymore!
18:30 - The essence of being a good person.
19:20 - We have no idea where our thoughts come from.
20:25 - Good and evil exist.
21:10 - As human beings, something about us is exactly the same.
22:05 - Is it the Devil and DEMONS?!
23:20 - Here’s the process to being the best person.
24:40 - Do you have panic attacks? I’m with ya.
26:20 - Acupuncture is INCREDIBLE.
27:54 - My wave analogy.
28:55 - The Happiness Curve (?) on emotional development throughout the years.
30:35 - My Uber ride with the early 30s parents in San Francisco.
35:20 - We all have our stories to tell.
36:25 - ‘Haunted’ on Netflix
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