Episode 126:"Live" At Fan Expo NOLA 24' FT/ Vincent Broussard, Edward Furlong, Kathleen Herles, Sarah Natochenny, and more!

0:00 All right, everybody, Uncle Dad here, and welcome to Fan Expo Day One. This is the intro, but this is a very special intro, isn't that right, Mike? Very special. Because this is the first time ever we're going to kick off the show right away, and you're going to un-open something? Open something? What am I saying? I'm going to open something. You're going to open something. Yes. You're not going to eat something. You're going to open something. How do you feel about that? I'm not going to eat something. I'm not going to un-open something. I'm going to open something. Good. Good. And what other way to start off than a Uncle Dad alumni. He was on our DesignerCon episode. Give it up for Andrew Heath. Andrew Heath, say hello again. Hey, how's it going? What a fun chance to run into you. Right, right. No, you turned the corner. I was like, hey. So yeah, super cool to see you guys.

0:42 We got to do an unboxing together or opening together, however you want to say it. An opening. An opening, yes. And I want to do one with him to kick off the show and really fast before he opens it. Where can our audience find your great product and what is your great product? Our great product is Frozen Culture Mystery Vinyl Figures, and you can find them at andrew-heath.com. We've got several series, and I think you guys are going to check out the Classic Monsters series. We do love Classic Monsters. Isn't that right, Mike? I like a couple of Classic Monsters, yeah. Okay, well, which one do you hope you get? I think this one. You know what we need. Okay. All right, so he's going to open it. Hopefully it's not one we already have.

1:23 Tearing the package and and and oh i think it's a new one oh is it a new one it is a new one we don't have that one and who did he get andrew is the sexy vampiris lady vampire. I was going to say Vampire Lady, but Lady Vampire is good, too. What a great way to start the show. You're opening stuff, and it's like Christmas, except I got to pay for it. So that's okay. Well, consider it my birthday present. Yes, let me consider that your gift. Exactly. Well, can we also get Andrew to sign that as well? Yeah, I can sign it. No problem. Awesome. Well, welcome to Comic-Con. It's not Comic-Con. Welcome to Fan Expo New Orleans.

2:04 We're hanging out. We're going to have a great time. We had to kick it off with something special. And be sure to check out Andrew Heath. He is a super funny man. He loves desserts. And I think his favorite dessert last time he told me was cake. Yes. Although, last night we ate at Antoine's in town and had baked Alaska. Best dessert I've ever had. It was so good. It was hauntingly good. That baked Alaska is crazy there. But since this weekend is when they start Mardi Gras season, you can get king cake. So get, I don't know if you've already had it before, but get some king cake where at recommendations you can get it from the rouses supermarket there there's a couple of those around there's if you just google like best king cake new orleans there's a like a handful that will come up we do like desserts here so get that dessert get his awesome stuff and we'll be right back with a fun-filled weekend of fan expo new orleans.

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4:27 Oh, I like it. So I'm Uncle Dad, and I am with me, as always, is? I'm Just Mike. There we go. I love it. See, we got it down. Okay, so we're going to see about some interviews. I'm hoping that we can talk to some legends like Peter Weller, who was RoboCop. Do you like RoboCop? I like RoboCop. What's your favorite RoboCop movie? The first one. That's it? That's all. That's all I need, right? I actually liked RoboCop 2. I know a lot of people will get mad about that. And I kind of dug the TV show. I like RoboCop 3. Which one was that one? The third one. Oh, okay. Also, it'd be cool to talk to legends such as Julia Lewis, but I don't think that'll probably happen. But if we did talk to her, what's your favorite movie by her?

5:09 Natural Born Killers. Such a great movie, dude. It is a great movie. Woody Harrelson's obviously great in it. She's great in it. they're great together they have that scene where they're in taos and he throws the thing off the bridge over the gorge and i've been to that gorge and got stuck down there and i'm in the dark with no light you did me and uh my friend brandon the brandon brandon bracamonte yes we we got stuck down in the bottom of that gorge so it holds a special place in my heart, Good to know. You too and your adventures. I swear. That's one day we should just do an episode of just you and him reliving the past. What do you think about that?

5:52 Well, I think there's like five people that might want to hear that. But yeah, sure. Hey, man. At the end of the day, this will always live on, right? So your story will be there for someone to hear. So we're here hanging out. Mike got to open up his beautiful little treat, his little fake Popsicle, which I think you love. Yes. It's fake? Yeah, you're not supposed to eat it. Well, don't sue Andrew because he told me I couldn't sue him either. So there you go. Well, and congratulations to him for doing the licensing with Care Bears and Ron English and whoever else was over there. Mad Balls? Mad Balls, that's right. I love Mad Balls, yeah. All right, everybody, we'll be right back after this break and hopefully we'll have some fun interviews for you all.

6:34 And if we don't, we've got some fun stuff coming throughout this entire weekend. All right so we are sitting here or standing here with edward furlong i watched terminator 2 was was obviously for anyone in my generation a huge movie and you were the coolest kid ever i i assume we're around the same age but how how old were you when you filmed terminator 2 i was 13 yeah i was And so that character that you played was such a cool character. How did that influence you as a regular 13-year-old kid in real life?

7:17 It changed everything, man. I wasn't an actor. I wasn't anything. I was just basically discovered at a boys club. And it changed my whole life, man. Overnight. Overnight. Yeah. And I think it changed it for the better, man. I really do. I don't know what else I would have done because I mean I was very lucky to kind of fall into something that I love at such a young age you know but yeah yeah like that watching that movie and like the scenes are so intense and you have Arnold you know the Terminator he's helping you but like the way that you're you hold it all together me as someone who is probably about the same age as you when you made that movie like I totally resonated with you as that character Do you feel like part of that character was you?

8:08 Like how much of your actual personality did you bring into that young John Connor? Oh man, I would like to believe that I was that cool as a 13 year old kid, but you know, I mean look, there was a lot, you know, they. Brought me in obviously because i was they wanted like a real kid you know not an actor or anything so you know i i brought a lot of me to the role but and then a lot of it is just jim cameron man and slick editing great dialogue and and just making me look way cooler than i was at 13 you know but yeah yeah definitely had a cool look and and and so we're here in new orleans and i'm do Do you get to enjoy New Orleans while you're here at all?

8:54 Do you go down in the French Quarter or anything like that? I will, I will, actually. I have some friends out here, and I always love coming out to New Orleans. So, yeah, it's great. I will. Right on, right on. Well, maybe we'll see you on Frenchman Street. All right, Eddie, thanks so much, man, for talking to us. Yeah, peace and love. Uncle Dad's here hanging out with Sarah Nottacchetti. Nottacchetti? Nottacchetti. That's a fun word to say. Nottacchetti, right? Right. Sarah, you are famously the voice of Ash Ketchum currently. And I have to ask you, when you switched over, you got this role. Right. How how daunting was that to get this role? The show was already entering season nine. So it was definitely I had large shoes to fill and it was my first big job. So it was very daunting.

9:38 And I knew I didn't have the job until it actually made it to television. So I approached it as like, this is this is just a fun thing I get to do right now. What do you say when you were getting into that headspace of being Ash Ketchum, what do you think the biggest challenge was? You know, I can't say that I found it too challenging to do the performance because I'm so kid-like and at that point I was 18 years old, so that was really fresh in my mind, just being a kid. And he was just like this adventurous, tenacious kid. And that's exactly what I was. So it wasn't too far of a departure from who I am naturally. Isn't that great that you just get a role? You're like, hey, you know what? I'm basically Ash Ketchum. I want to say that in my life, that I'm basically Ash. I want to be the Ash Ketchum of podcasting. Can I do that? Yeah, if you work hard enough, yeah. Okay.

10:23 Well, I got to get better at that, I think. But you know what's funny? One of my favorite roles that you did is probably one of the most unconventional ones. I actually love the fact that you're the voices of the mini marshmallow man. And in, oh my God, Ghostbusters Afterlife. Yes. So when you did that, I had, my thing, what was that like getting that call to be a part of that film? Did you know? Oh my goodness. That was such a surprise. It was a total surprise. It was a group of us actors and I did it from home because it was during the pandemic. And I, yeah, I didn't get to see anybody else. We didn't get to, you know, together. But I was very surprised to get that call and really, really fun to do. Yeah, it was so fun. And honestly, it's like the, it's probably my highlight of that movie. Really, it's such a fun thing. So I just had to tell you how much I love that.

11:06 So I don't want to take too much of your time, but thank you so much. And can I just ask you, where can our audience connect with you online and stuff? Anywhere you exist on social media, I'm right there with you at Sarah Natachene, absolutely everywhere. That easy, that easy. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Take care. Hi, everybody. Uncle Dad here hanging out with probably one of the most legendary voices in television for children. Let's give it up for Kathleen Herles. Did I get that right? Yes, you did. and you might recognize this voice. Hi, I'm Dora the Explorer. My heart just fell through the roof right now or to the floor. I can't even talk. Wow. That voice meant the world to me growing up. And it's actually a good way how, the reason why I want to talk to you is because your show did so much for my childhood growing up because it allowed me to connect with my sister in a very unique way because my sister and I are 10 years apart.

11:57 And so when I was growing up, we didn't really have a lot of ways to kind of find connection. Yeah. But she loved the idea of watching the show together because we were able to kind of play the game together. Yeah. Yeah. And so- We wanted an adventure. We wanted an adventure. Exactly, exactly. So what I'm curious to learn, like when you have, when you went into this role, did you kind of know like, okay, we got a magical thing here? Or do you just kind of think, oh, this is just another acting experience? What did you think? So I was cast when I was seven years old and the show aired when I was 10. So and now looking back on it as an adult, I did not know the magnitude or like how important and how impactful the show was and my voice was.

12:38 So but I mean, I understand it. I meet so many people like being at these cons and hearing stories like yours, like the memories that they have watching the show. It's really impactful for sure. And it's crazy because you wouldn't think such a, you know, it's a very simple idea at its core. Right. But it connects people in so many ways, you know, I mean, to help teach my sister Spanish. And I think in some respects, it's one of the starting points that wanted her to be in Hollywood. My sister actually works in Hollywood now. Yeah. And so it's one of those just crazy factors that these characters can bring such life to us inside. And also representation. That's a big thing, too. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm curious about that. You know, was that was that a scary feeling being like one of the only Hispanic characters on television?

13:24 Yeah, you know, for sure. So my parents are immigrants from Peru. I was born in New York. I grew up here. You know, my Spanish was, it was good. I always spoke with my grandmother, but it wasn't a hundred percent. Like I didn't have that accent, like, you know, some other people did. So I did feel self-conscious sometimes, like, you know, being the voice of this Latina heroine, like, you know, this leader for children's programming at the time. And I felt sometimes I did feel like I wasn't Latina enough or like good enough to play her, you know, but everyone comes from somewhere. Everyone has their story and you know wherever you are born if your family's from wherever they're from that's who you are that's a part of who you are so like I had to learn that and I'm proud to be her voice you know that almost got me choked up man because I know what that's like just you know being I'm not me my parents are immigrants too so it's like you know for Mexico so it's just such a you do what you did was such an important thing for us as all Latinx people so just thank Thank you for doing that.

14:28 And I got to ask one last thing. So a little fun. What is your favorite Peruvian dish to eat? Okay. So this is, I don't, a lot of people don't know, but this dish is called ají de gallina. So it can be, it's mostly made with shredded chicken, but I think in Peru, sometimes they do it with hen, which I know like a lot of like chicken soup is done or they prefer to do it with hen, but it's amazing. It's yellow. It looks disgusting, but it tastes amazing. Okay. Okay, what's the name of that dish again? Ají de gallina. I'm going to try that. There's a Peruvian place. I live in the Bay Area. And so there's a place out there that's Peruvian. I'm going to try it. I'm going to ask for that. Thank you. Awesome. Well, thank you, Kathleen. Thank you so much for your time and effort.

15:08 Really, I can't just say it was just an absolute pleasure talking to you. Well, thank you. Bye. Adios. Music. All right, everybody. Uncle Dad is back with day two of Fan Expo Norla. And Mike, you're with me, but please introduce us to your super hot, sexy friend. Oh, shit. Yeah, today we have a special guest along for the adventures of Fan Expo. We have Vincent Broussard from the Grammy Award winning Rebirth Brass Band.

15:50 Vincent, what's happening, everybody? How does that feel to be a part of this world today? This is different from your world. No, this is actually my first time actually being able to experience a Comic-Con. So, like, it's a totally new experience. Man, it's fun because when it's your first Comic-Con, and Mike, I'm sure you can agree, it's always such a unique feeling the first time, right? Well, my first time was a long time ago, so I kind of don't remember. But yes, it's fun to see people who haven't been to a con and see it through their eyes for the first time, looking at all the cosplay and the costumes and all this fun stuff for sale. Fun stuff for sale. Fun stuff for sale. Now, let me ask you, we talked about this off mic, but until the audience knows, you're a big anime guy.

16:35 Yes, I am. What are your favorite animes? Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo. more the older anime new stuff I really haven't gotten into because I just like the older stuff had like more resonance. More type of resonance for me so like yeah let me ask you Samurai Champloo what was the thing that really made you fall in love with it the hip hop the hip hop aspect the cuts and the tagging and the shows and like it's for me that's just the authenticity of it the way they meld it like it's kind of it's kind of easy to separate stuff But the way they blend, it's harder to blend to totally a Japanese culture with a hip-hop culture and make it seem natural.

17:19 Absolutely. Yeah, it's like, it's cool to shit, I mean. You need to watch that, Mike. I will watch it, thank you. I mean, it's always great to see how much hip-hop influences other cultures and how it blends into everything. You know, it's so cool to see how far hip-hop has come. It's beyond music, right? It's ingrained in pop culture so much, so. I will. I hear that you're popular in Japan. Japan. Yes. My albums are the top in the top three in Japan. Yes. They're actually, if you go to tower records, which they would tie records to still around in Japan, you can go in and buy that. You can buy it. No, you can't. No, you can't. We have a disclaimer. You can't.

18:00 All right. So let's go on. Let's go on this journey together. We've got some fun stuff planned. We're going to do some gunpla Mike. You don't know what that is, but you're going to find out as you do, right? Guns. Pla. Pla. Yes. And then we're going to hopefully interview some more artist and all that great stuff. So thank you for joining us. No problem. It's going to be such a fun experience and let's get this party started. Am I right? Who dat? All right. Uncle Dad here on the floor, live in the floor. It's busy. It's crazy. It's awesome. There's a line at the door for the one and only Jeff Brennan. Jeff Brennan, can you tell our audience who you are and what you've worked on? Okay. Well, I've worked on a bunch of stuff people would know. I've worked on Extreme Ghostbusters, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dragon Tales, Deathstroke Terminator, The Expendables, Spider-Man cartoon, X-Men cartoon. Well, the animated commercials for those.

18:48 Simpsons comic book. It goes on and on. You are a man with quite the resume, aren't you? So one of the things I want to ask you right away is Courage the Cowardly Dog. Was there a certain, what was the madness behind creating something that was terrifying, but yet lovable for children? Well, that was really John Dilworth's baby. You know what I I was just one of the people that helped out on it. He would give us what concepts he was looking for and we would design it based on his ideas and then he would kind of tweak it to make it fit within the show. Gotcha, gotcha. Was there ever a challenge meeting that? No, because a lot of times I would do stuff and it might not look exactly like it would fit into the show, but by the time he got his hands on it, it would kind of.

19:30 Mike, I know something caught your attention. Well, I'm a huge Ghostbusters fan and I see you worked on Extreme Ghostbusters. Were you a fan of the original? And did you watch the original The Real Ghostbusters cartoon? Honestly, I'm more a fan of the movies. I'm a big John Belushi. Well, John Belushi was supposed to be in it, but like Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray fan and stuff. So I was more from fan of the movies, actually. And when we first started working on Extreme Ghostbusters, we didn't have model sheets. So we did use the model sheets from Real Ghostbusters. So yeah, I wasn't really that familiar with the original cartoon. Yeah. Interesting. So when you do all these different projects, is it always hard to transition from like one to the other?

20:11 Yeah. I mean, they give you model sheets and stuff like that. Like you can see here, I have some model sheets. So every time you start a show, that's the first thing they do is they give you the model pack. Unless if it's something like Dragon Tales or Courage where we had to design a lot of stuff first and then we couldn't really start till all the designs were finalized, you know? So, yeah. Gotcha. So this is a model sheet right here. Here actually has it. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. OK. And so this is what the the the animator would get to get the idea. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And like I said on this one, they gave us the one from real Ghostbusters because there wasn't a model sheet for extreme Ghostbusters yet. So we were kind of working from this in the beginning. That's incredible, Mike. So as an artist yourself, what is that like to see all that? I mean, it's cool because I love this. The original real Ghostbusters. We didn't have a VCR.

20:56 I had a tape recorder and I would put the tape recorder next to the big TV. You know, those old wooden TVs that you'd put on the ground and I would record the audio and then listen to the audio of the cartoon. And Starblazers, too. Really? Okay. Awesome. Awesome. Wow. Great minds think alike. Right. Exactly. Exactly. You guys are both legends. Wow. All right. So before we wrap up here, Jeff, where can our audience learn more about you and connect with you? Well, it's JeffBrennan.com. CyberGirlLita.com has my comic book. I've got 10 issues of that. That was the one that was on Big Bang Theory. I don't know if you're taking video but like that's like that's the one right there and actually it's on, First issue on the show. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. We'll definitely take some photos of that as well so the audience can see.

21:39 It's CyberGirlLita, L-E-E, it's two L's, CyberGirl, and then L-E-E-T-A, Lita.com. And it's also on Amazon. Awesome. And then what was your Instagram? My Instagram is JeffWildstar. Easy. Easy. All right. Everybody go check him out. Listen, seriously, his work is great. And he's a part of your childhood. Celebrate your childhood. Am I right, Mike? Always celebrate childhood. Always. Thank you so much. yeah all right. Music. So we're here mike at the gundam base mobile usa tour now this is going on tour all across the u.s it's actually a pretty big deal mike i know you're not really familiar with gunpla but it's okay and we're going to learn all about that give me one second here as we get our awesome goods here. Sweet.

22:36 Love it. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Now, can I ask you... Am I able to ask you a question real quick? Is that okay? So, can you explain what... This gentleman here is learning about this. Can you explain to him what Gunpla is? So, Gunpla is going to be... It's a mashup of two words. It's a Gundam plastic model kit. So, yeah. It's just going to be a plastic model kit of a Gundam mobile suit. Do you know what Gundam is, Mike? I've heard of it. Can you tell them what Gundam Wing is, if you don't mind? So Gundam Wing was an anime series started in 1978, came out of Japan. And it's evolved into a bunch of different series that stream all over Crunchyroll, Hulu, all over YouTube, all kinds of stuff today. Look at that, Mike. You're learning.

23:20 All right. So we're going to work on this. And if we have any questions, do we just reach out to you? OK. We've got nippers there for you to use, entry grade kit, two sets of runners, two stickers. Okay, have fun. All right, let's do this. Okay, we will check in with you guys in one moment. You know, I have a fun fact about Gundam. I actually went to the Gundam cafe in Japan. So, Mike, when you go into the bathroom, you push this special button after you've done your business, and it turns on the Gundam in the bathroom. What does that mean? Like you're in the cockpit of the Gundam after you potty. After you shit? After you shit. Have you ever done those cafes in Japan?

24:03 Vincent no I have not got to because they'll change your life forever forever I've seen a DJ bar before but not no caffeine yeah you gotta check out the cafes let's check in with Callie because Callie's in the zone I'm in the zone yeah how many stickers you got on three or four I have one sticker one sticker one eye well it's really hard they're so little they are pretty little, so as we continue our journey through this I am kind of curious Mike do you find a sense of therapeutic quality of this? Yes. Excuse me. It allows me to just think of putting this together and forget about all my real life problems in the world. Oh, okay. Is there problems in New Orleans?

24:46 Problems in the world. Why did I say New Orleans? I was like, oh man. I'm sure there are problems. There's lots of problems in New Orleans. Callie, since you are an artist as well, what is your take on all this? Oh, it's like a great puzzle. Is it more of a puzzle, you think? Yeah, it's just a little puzzle. Ah, I like that. I think it's a good way to look at it. It is like a puzzle. It's a puzzle. And then you're making a 3D model puzzle, right? Like, it's great. What I also love about this is seeing you guys all just get into it. It's so sweet. It's such a wholesome moment right now. We're all just, as humans, building robots. Think about that, Mike. We're building robots. Yes. I've always wanted to build a robot. Every day I wake up, I wonder when I'm going to build a robot.

25:28 You know we should we should go ask your buddy eddie if he wants to make a robot yeah let's we should do we should have him at this table too as another celebrity guest celebrity on the show today yeah eddie furlong makes a robot that'll be fun so i am the first to finish, like gunpla nothing about it the person who knew nothing about it and the person who, someone here at this table said i was going to be the dumb one not the slow one the dumb one i said that yep and now it's on tape and everyone's going to hear it but yes i finished first me me me.

26:14 How how are you how are you doing over here seymour i'm getting closer my right leg is almost complete. She's getting closer. I do not understand this leg. This leg is so confusing right now. Well, look who's the dumb one now. Look who's the dumb one. Music. All right, Mike, we're about to, we're walking to our very first ever escape room. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I've never done an escape room, so a little excited. Are you nervous?

26:55 Slightly nervous. I remember my first time. Yeah. Were you nervous? I was pretty nervous. I saw a group of people outside the escape room and they were all wearing handcuffs. Yeah, we're not doing that one because we couldn't book it anymore. But i wanted to do that one you i'm sure you did want to be handcuffed to me uh you know what i'm gonna say nothing but uh i'm very excited to do this with you guys vincent this is your first escape remember yes it is are you nervous not at all i think i like puzzles okay okay i mean i think we're gonna be okay i think vincent's gonna save us because it's a horror themed escape room right yeah and vincent's a deep thinker he's a very deep thinker he's you know as a musician you must be i feel and he dropped his little guy well we'll be right back everybody and when we come back we will talk about our experience in the haunted hints what's haunted hints escape room so we're here with mike mike describe our waiting room oh we're in a waiting room we're in the hall and there's drape of red skulls and backdrop that says haunted.

28:13 Hints and we're waiting and we should have we're supposed to hear we were supposed to go in at five and it's almost 5 30 so i'm a little confused i'm a little concerned because what if we're getting a a different oh here we are right here all right uncle dad here with just mike mike say hello hi it's just mike and guess what mike we just got done doing a very special unique experience with haunted hints and we are with the man behind the experience aj how are you good how are you guys terrified terrified really terrified because we couldn't figure it out i bet we have a hard Hard time with equations, I think, or questions. What do you think?

28:56 Well, I think we had a hard time figuring out how to unlock a lock. Yes, we had a hard time with unlocking locks. That was our thing. But is that a common problem? Not really. Well, we got to get it together. Not surprised. Not surprised, yes. So, AJ, can you just tell us just a little bit about Haunted Hints and your involvement in it? Sure. Haunted Hints is a traveling escape room. We go to different conventions throughout the country. We also do special events. We go to some schools. We have also done some private events. We cater to spooky people or people that love spooky things. We are home of the 666 games, which means all of our games are played. They have six minutes to solve six puzzles and find six missing items.

29:40 You know what? I don't even think I realized that until you just said that. That's very clever. What do you think, Mike? I think we don't realize a lot of things until later. I think that's a common thing. Well, I have to tell you, it's such a great, I've done a few of these traveling escape rooms. And what's really cool about this is that it feels very theatrical, but in a way that's simple and smart. Was that always the intention of that? Yeah, so actually Haunted Hints is a brand of Dulce Artworks, Inc., which is a nonprofit arts and entertainment organization. organization. My background's in theater and we also offer a theater arts academy. So that's kind of where that came from. I have a love for theater, a love for horror stuff. So that kind of, and I also do game hosting.

30:21 So that's kind of where all of this came from. I love that. And I, you can see the passion in it when you're doing it. Like you can feel that it's not just a simple, Oh, Hey, come on in. That's it. Right. There's a whole level of theatrics too. And there should be, right. Cause there's so many people who do these, I believe. And I mean, we've, we've talked about out in the past that just don't do the full commitment you have that so you got something very special here i appreciate that now let me ask you this last question here this is a big one what is your favorite horror movie of all time scream franchise period you know scream franchise in particular scream 2 that's a great one right mike i love the also the scream franchise scream 2 was great wow you can't beat laurie mccaff you cannot you cannot i love the way you think all All right.

31:04 Where can our audience learn more about this and connect with the brand? They can check out our Instagram or Facebook under at Haunted Hints. You can also check out our linktree.com forward slash Haunted Hints. And you can see where our next tour stop is. Okay. Well, you guys better check it out because it's quite the spooky experience. What do you think? Yeah. I'm just scared of you. All right. Well, we got to go. All right. Thank you so much, AJ. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Music.

31:47 All right, everybody. Uncle Dad here with a little low-key conversation with our guest, who is a Grammy award-winning artist. He is truly a class act of a man. And honestly, he's a super cool nerd as well. He likes the anime life, and that's really awesome. And I'm going to hand him to my man, give him the keys, so he can take over right now and do a little interview with our guest. Mike, tell the audience who our guest is, and I'll let you hand over. Over yeah i promise not to lose the keys or throw them in the garbage can yeah so throughout the episode we've been fortunate enough to have one of the dopest saxophone players i've ever seen, vincent roussard from rebirth and it's just been a pleasure to to go to the con with you and you know i've seen you play a bunch of times and like and and and see the con through your eyes and and And being that it's in New Orleans, like, how do you feel?

32:48 Like, is the Comic-Con something that you feel like fits into New Orleans? Or, like, how does that feel for you? Because, I mean, you're of New Orleans, right? So, like, what's it like to be at a con in New Orleans? It's, let me see. It's cool. It's like, because, I mean, let's say I live down there. For the most part of my life I lived in New Orleans and I mean like I'm just getting the point of my life where it's like I live I stay down there I did Mardi Gras to Mardi Gras jazz and everything starts starts turning just blah because you just get used to shit so like when something like that comes down there it actually allows it actually allows because I mean yeah not Not everybody down here just likes to party and drink and smoke all day.

33:43 You got different types of people down there. And it just allows a different outlet a lot of times for people that's just used to living to a regular mundane life sometimes. Yeah, like, you know, from the outside, like, you see Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, Crawfish Festival, the Fried Chicken Festival. And you're like, oh, man, I'm, like, I get so stoked to come down here. Because you know my my roots are from here but i've lived in california most of my life so for me to see all that stuff i get so excited but i can see when you're here it's always that like it's it's that all the time right yeah exactly it's the same i like to last year you'll see it's the same same shit different day yeah yeah okay and so so let's talk about so you're in you're in your part of rebirth brass band which is like you know obviously We've said many times, you're a Grammy.

34:36 We just like to throw that out there. When and how did you become part of that band? How? Let's see. At the time, I was playing with the Little Rascals brass band. And the snare drummer from the Little Rascals, he switched him into the Rebirth. And the saxophone player with the Rebirth decided he didn't want to play anymore and moved to Slidell. So it was like, where can we find another saxophone player? They tried another cat out. He didn't work. and eventually they called me up into that spot like it's kind of like i mean i'm gonna say like a lot of times with sax players he's not really chosen you uh you you're needed so like he just they needed a saxophone player and he just called me into that spot and i've been rolling rolling with him ever since at least at the moment so like how how many how many years has it been.

35:38 Too long. Too long. Yes. I'd say year-wise, it's probably about 27 years. 27? Really? And so you've seen many iterations of the band, at least five different iterations. Yeah, you see guys come and go. But no matter what, there's the rebirth sound that is strictly to y'all that is different than any other band. Brass band, right? Overall it is, but I guess what people don't really realize about a live band is the sound of the band is made up upon the players in the band.

36:22 So the sound may change with the different iterations, but as long as the people playing the instruments actually try and adhere hear to what the rebirth sound is quote quote then it sounds yeah it keeps it going yeah because it is such a specific sound like you know i'll have spotify or whatever new orleans second line or jazz brass bands and when when a rebirth song comes on you can hear it right away that it's that it's rebirth and it just has that swing that you know other other brass bands don't have and so were you like like were you influenced like who were you influenced by mostly like growing up and like how what made you pick up a saxophone to start playing like how did how did that how did music find you how did music find me I just I was born that way like when I started off I started playing piano but.

37:25 I can recall as a child, when I would listen to any type of music in the car, in the house, I would pay more attention to the background shit. The background, what's going on in the background of the music more than the foreground. So, like, that's how I always heard music. I remember, like, at times when I first started playing on stages, I was more engaged into wondering how they routed the sounds coming from the stage monitors, more than me playing my horn into the mic. So it was always like a back-end thing for me. It's like I always, as a child, I've always been real inquisitive when it came to how to do things.

38:10 I love watching how people build houses. Is not really the action of doing it It's a preparation behind That action Of actually doing it Yeah so like I'm like I am that's why I also Rebirth I got my own stuff Going on produce Mix master. And I'm working on a project right now On my own I actually have like three projects in the hole right now That I'm trying to pop out takes time because when you do everything yourself it's a lot longer than doing label you got somebody else doing different things for you but but i don't mind that because music is a part of my anatomy i guess you could say yeah i would say so like okay so when you when you're playing reverse those those songs are those songs are already written and so you're just Just, you know, interpreting.

39:08 I'm constantly, it's kind of like, all right, this is the thing about it. Rebirth. Every time we could play, let's say you take, I feel like funking it up. With any live band, right? But a lot of bands, every time they play. Let's say another band tries to play, they feel like fucking up, they try to play it the same way every time. When we play it, it's a different song every time, depending upon how I feel. I'm feeling at the time how the trombone player, the trombone player may be depressed. I may be up. Trombone players may not even feel like playing their damn horns. So when we play it, it's the same notes, but the but the emotions the emotion going into that action is different so it's like that's why like they say all the time at the show every rebirth show is a different show yeah and like that's that's kind of like new orleans jazz in in general right it's it's it's open there's the swing to it there's there's there's the structure you know which was which makes it different than jazz from other places you know like chicago jazz new york jazz it's very structured very syncopated it is what it is and you know you're going to hear the same thing over new orleans.

40:27 It's yeah i say like i like to say i gotta sing when it comes to rebirth rebirth is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get and i love it and and that's part of what you know make what makes new orleans so great so so each time you play you have you have the song but you you are able to put your own part into it i mean i might i might stick to the original part i might add a little on the part i might choose to even flip the part but that's all that is like dependent upon like depending upon how i'm feeling at that time if if if the drums are grooving a different way on it and i don't feel it if it's a straight line and the drums are flipping the groove on it then i might flip that line on that part at that point in time but the overall the big picture of it it's still it's still what it is yeah as a spectator it's so fun to to see you guys at different shows and to see how how it comes out different like we we saw you a couple months ago in san francisco and i gotta say i don't know how you guys felt but as a spectator I felt like that was one of the best shows I've seen you guys do.

41:40 You're at the Independent. It was the second night you guys... Being there sold out and, and you guys killed it. And it's just so fun. And you guys look like you're having fun. You know, you can watch you guys communicating, laughing at each other. And yeah, it's just so great. It's great to see. And, and so, so tell me real quick. Okay. So that's Rebirth. What's the stuff that you're doing? That's your own, you know, like, and is that something that's going to come out for people to hear or tell me a little bit about that. All right. As far as my own stuff, my own silo hustle, I'm going to call it a hustle because I'm not making money off it. So it's not a hustle. But I go under slow drag productions and I have basically what happened is when the pandemic hit, I had time on my hands because we couldn't gig.

42:31 Gig so i just went back through i had like buku buku is french that's how we talk down there buku it means a lot wait buku is french yeah yeah but like i had like buku just old tracks that i did from way back in the day but they were all stereo tracks i just went to retract and everything, and it got to a point this this one project i did a long time ago that i lost all my sessions to So I just went Instead of me putting out some new shit And let the old stuff sit I just went back to the old stuff And just retweaked it all, And just Basically I remixed my old stuff And it's like.

43:13 It's kind of like I felt like I had It's like an open relationship, I need to close this relationship first For my old stuff If I can actually move on To my new stuff and it's just it's a lot of different, things going on with it and I'm pushing to put it out whenever it gets ready to come out so it'll come, it'll come when it's ready to come yeah yeah yeah definitely that's usually how it works right when it's ready to come it'll come. Alright so Mardi Gras is about to come up, we'll wrap up here Mardi Gras is about to come up you've been down in New Orleans, you've done Mardi Gras after Mardi Gras do you still get excited for that or are you just like here we go all the tourists all the people you know you're gonna do this thing that thing it's a mess everyone's getting messed up fucked up or do you still have like the excitement for for carnival uh carnival it's like a mixed bag for me is carnival is like it's just another year the same thing the only thing really gets me that I never really liked about Carnival Is you got An extra addition To the population down there So if you do If we did have a player gig It went Instead of me having to part, Five minutes from a gig I got to part Fifteen minutes from a gig.

44:38 But, I mean, it's just, I mean, carnival, I just, I never really, at this point in time in my life, I could really care less about a parade. But for the people who want to come down, come on down and enjoy yourselves. I mean, hey, hey, it's all good. It's all good. You've seen many parades. Yeah. And so that's the thing. Like, I remember parades from my childhood. And so when I come down here, I get excited because it's this very nostalgic thing that I remember when I first moved away from Louisiana, I moved to South Carolina. And when Mardi Gras time came, there was no King Cakes in the store. There was no, like there was nothing. And I could not comprehend that there was not a Mardi Gras at all. You know, and I grew up mostly in Lafayette, right?

45:19 So to come down here and experience it when you don't have it, it's so exciting. But I could see year after year, you being here, like the majesticness of it kind of wears away, right? Yes, it does. i mean but i'm just one person uh well well that's yes you're a hell of a person so where okay so to our listeners where where can if people want to see rebirth where do they see you guys well right rebirth let's see we have a standing tuesday night. Every day of the year in the city of New Orleans at a spot called the Rabbit Hole, right on the wreath of Castle Haley.

46:07 I mean, the only time we're not going to be there is if we're on the road on a Tuesday. But if we're in town on a Tuesday, we're going to be there. From time to time, you can catch us at like a House of Blues, Tipitina's, Holland Wolf. Hell, you might be able to catch us at a Bart Mitzvah, a wedding reception if the money get bad enough. An inauguration, maybe? Maybe an inauguration, too. Other than that, just out of town, just check the website out, rebertbrassband.com, and we travel all around the country. From time to time, we actually get out of the country, too. So just pay attention, pay attention, pay attention.

46:49 You keep your passport up to date, right? Actually, my passport is expired right now. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Well, yes. Actually, I need to get a new passport right now. There you go. I'm going out of town right now, so I really need it right now. Well, like I mentioned, we saw you guys at the Independent in San Francisco. Yeah, you guys get around. And, man, I just love to see you being successful. And you're a champion for rolling with us today and doing all the things. And it's an honor to be friends with you. and I appreciate all the, all of you that you extend out.

47:30 And we- I like to believe that moments lead to experiences. And if you don't take the time out to actually appreciate the moment in that given point in time, then you miss a whole, you miss a whole end game of it all. So I appreciate y'all for, I appreciate y'all for inviting me out and allowing me to hang out with y'all. I really do. There it is. Very sweet. And then I think Uncle Dye wants to say something. He is over here. Now you don't want to talk. Now you don't want to talk. So we talked a little bit about Samurai Champloo, and you talked about the hip-hop influences. So what I want to know, what are your top three hip-hop artists?

48:11 Top three? Oh, all right. All right. I can't say any of them. Hip-hop. Hip-hop. Hip-hop. All right. I'm going to go with Tupac. And with some Southern stuff, yourself yeah i'd be like a skull face uh i say east coast one more all right i did use my two already all right what's my third my third would be pocket nas yeah honestly i think nas in my opinion is i know he goes through a lot of bad rap nowadays but i feel like he was seriously when he was coming up he was one of the best rappers period he was on it 100 illmatic is It's one of the greatest albums ever.

48:55 Now, what is your favorite Nas song? The World is Yours. You can't go wrong with that song. You really can't. And Mike, I just want to have you chime in. Your favorite Nas song. I don't remember the name of it, but it's the one where he says, I'll never sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death. That beat is so hard, and the way that he comes in it, it's so hard. And you know, he just released a new album. Really? Nas did, yeah, we listened to it. He opens up the first song talking about being in his 40s and feeling like he's the Dalai Lama or some shit. But you know, here's the thing. So like Outkast, Outkast, hands down, is my favorite.

49:40 Outkast is my favorite and... I'm sad because Andre 3000 said he doesn't rap because he has nothing to talk about. But I would love to hear his perspective at this point in his life, watching all that's changed and just who he is as a creative person to hear him flow now. Because it was cool hearing Nas, like Nas now, he's old, older, talk about what it's like. And I feel like Andre is such a creative genius. I would love to hear him. I think with Three Stacks, it's more that. Three Stacks is like, it's kind of like looking at a prince.

50:20 It's like, if you're so ahead of your time with what's going on, he's just not really doing anything now, MC-wise, because it's like, when he says, like, I don't have anything to say, it's not that he can't write. He can write anytime he wants. that's that's he's just it's not like it's more like he's choosing not to write and he's choosing not to rap because he wants to try something else here so it's it's me i like i listen to the last i love it i love that the flute album yeah i love that like yeah when i want to go to sleep i put on the first one by the time the second one come on i'm out i mean like i'm just listening to to everything in my sleep.

51:06 And like, it was like, it was like, sometimes it's a choice. And like, he's, it's like, like as an artist, it gets to a point in the artist's life where it's like, am I going to choose to do what other people want me to do? Or am I going to do what I choose to do? And besides, Three Stacks, he has enough music for everybody in the world. He really doesn't need to do anything else. I love that you're saying that because there's an artist that I want to compare it to. So I'm a huge fan of Daft Punk. We all know Daft Punk. And Daft Punk, they broke up a while ago because they're not going to do music together. Well, instead of Thomas Fang altering One and a Half, he didn't want to make another DJ album.

51:49 So he made an entire old school orchestrated, like an orchestra album. Them and it's incredible but the thing is it's kind of your point he feels like he can't dj about he can't make anything new for djing because it's like what else can you do right and it's the same thing with the concept of andre 2000 it's like he kind of has a good point like he has so much out there already why not create a new sound that can create even a new audience of people right like it's it's kind of genius in some respects it's kind of like i like to say that once i've I've seen it up right this many places. It's like the purpose of an artist is to inspire. And then if you're an artist and it may be a, I told you, I told you, I was telling you this earlier at the table.

52:35 It was like, if you produce, if you, you could be an MC, musician, you could be a graphic artist, whatever it is. That product that you make as an artist is not the output. It's the input. It's like. It's the fans, the people that choose to accept it. That's the output. You had to say it in a totally different way. I told you. I told you a different way. It's not the artist that makes the art. It's the person that sees that product and calls it art. So, I mean, like once you put it out into the world, you have no control of it. It's kind of like a child. You have a child. Once a child is born, yeah, you can control that child to a certain point, but once you get to a certain point, he gone.

53:17 On you could try and steer him where where if you think it's better for him but if he sees somewhere better to go off of your away from you for you saying that's what he's going to do you can't control it like being able to understand in life that you can't control everything and everything gets to a point where you can't control it anymore and like you just gotta put it out there and hope it hope it goes where it needs to go and it's a great way to end this because it is about where it goes, right? So, Mike, great job. High five. Thank you so much, Vincent, for being a part of the show. We really appreciate it. And, Mike, you have something to say. I have one last question, Vincent, is, Will, what would it take to infiltrate you to convince Rebirth to do a cover of, speaking of OutKast, of Spidey, Adi, Dope, and Locious?

54:12 Spidey? Yeah. I know everyone on Frenchman Street covers it all the time, but what about a Rebirth cover? A whole lot. I love that. I love that shit. It's one of my top three favorite songs. Well, if there's ever an opportunity, let me know, and I'll put some extra dough in the tip jar. I got you. I got you. Vincent, thanks so much. Thank you again. And you know what I'm going to do? We're going to hear that song right now. All right, everybody. Have a great night. Thank you, Vincent. Peace. Music.