David: Hello, I and welcome
Leila: to Fun Fact Friday with me and him
David: and, and also Boo-Burry
Boo-Bury: Oh, hello there. Hello,
David: our third guests ever. Oh, this is Fun Fact Friday
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Leila: He has more things on a soundboard than us and I'm
jealous.
Boo-Bury: I have 1000s of ISOs 1000s upon 1000s
David: If we set up a soundboard on this tablet right here, you
could do that.
Boo-Bury: Alright, actually, well, if you have a couple of
virtual cables, you might be able to try the resonance
program out R E S A N A, N C E. I like it. It's pretty
responsive. You can build multiple boards which is you
know all you could really ask for me All right, I'll send it
to you right now actually
David: soundboard program well, let's let's not get into the
weeds with sound we do soundboard programs while we're
on the air.
Boo-Bury: But that's literally like my favorite thing ever. I
can nerd out. I have I have such a deep, thorough knowledge of
trying soundboard after soundboard. After soundboard.
Leila: Is that all you do? Some people have a picture of their
family in their wallet.
Boo-Bury: Yes, how do you know?
David: It's? So this week's episode is going to be about
like, like, what what blueberry does?
Boo-Bury: What do you do? What do I do? That's an most
interesting question. Because I'm not even sure half the time
Oh, well, I guess it's not it's more so why do I do this? Since
2010, I have made my primary source of income through working
entertainment. That includes theatre or theatrical shows,
working at theme parks doing setup for their holiday seasons.
So like Halloween decorations, lighting, lots and lots and lots
and lots and lots and lots and lots of Christmas strands hung
up in the theme park. I've been on tour for 2012 all the way up
until 2029 different shows I spent a couple of seasons
working on and off again with a rental company here in the Twin
Cities that would gear a lot of lighting packages to tours and
festivals and stuff as it came through. I've spent a decent
amount of time trying to work union calls here in town, it's
not something I am as available to do, just because it's kind of
like they have a lot of the time. Right. And now I work as a
tech director at high school.
David: Awesome. So you had sent me some because we talked about
hexagons last week, and you sent me some really cool pictures of
some behind the scenes stuff with some hexagons, and you've
worked in the in theater. Theater, we're all here to and
we wanted to ask you about some some lighting and stuff. Because
I'm currently trying to light the new studio because I'm going
to do video and I just think it's cool and wondering when my
video cameras activated right now. We can what do you what are
you doing?
Boo-Bury: You didn't know there's a video feed now. When
turn this whole episode into a gift, just just me this this
feed though
David: it's just my face though, is it like the cameras older? I
haven't set it up yet. It's just kind of like hanging from the
ceiling. Like Sandia. I'm messing with lighting in the new
studio trying to get a certain look. And so I'm reading all
about lighting scenes and lighting. Mainly like a YouTube
video type lighting. And all of the the lighting stuff
fascinates me because of how complicated it is when you think
it's just like, Oh, hey, oh, let's shoot a pink light over
there. So it's a little pink. And then we'll just put the
spotlight on the person in the middle. But is it any more
complicated than that? Or?
Boo-Bury: I can make it. I can make it even more simpler if you
like
David: that. fired at me.
Boo-Bury: Lady lady pluggy pluggy
Leila: Oh real. That's all you need to know. Yes.
Boo-Bury: That's not what I meant, but it works. Yeah, I
mean, it really it's like, what it comes down to, when when
you're working with lighting is you you want to define shape and
something that looks really flat. So if you did, you just
have a dark stage and a black backdrop back curtain, you put
an actor out there, well, you're not going to be able to see them
because there's no light. Okay, so we're going to put on some
face light. So the face lights come in from the catwalks up
above in the house as one of 100 million other different
examples. But when you when you bring that when you when you
shine the light on him from the front there, it it still makes
them look kind of flat, because there's nothing actually
separating their back from that curtain that's upstage of them.
So you want to maybe add some top light to come in and kind of
define where their shoulders are, right, because you're not
seeing the top of their shoulders, you're seeing the
front of their body. So it's really just, it comes down to
playing with both the highlights and the lowlights, the
highlights and shadows. And there's really only there's a
really good if somewhere video, which I'll see if I can find it
while we hang out here. But basically, it just shows what it
looks like to take a camera and shine it from every position
around them like a like a clock set up almost right. And, you
know, you can you can shine a light straight on to somebody's
face, but there's no good there's no definition. Exactly.
When you come in with a 45 from either side. Well, now you've
created more definition, you've got those the shadows of their
face and the contours and all that you can start taking steps
further by adding a cool and a warm color. Which I mean that's
you can do a hot or hot you can do a cold and cold, it really
doesn't matter. Just you know, I mean, there's even some lighting
designers the name of her escapes me but she's won several
Tony's over the years who uses no color in her show no gels.
It's all it's all just the intensity of the lamps. And I
And
David: what's a gel, I'm yeah, we're an educational show. Oh,
for sure the term that a lot of people may know.
Boo-Bury: So a gel is just a clear piece of it's almost like
cellophane but it's a lot thicker, because you don't want
it to melt while it's in front of the light. But essentially,
you just pop this piece of colored cellophane in front of a
light. And when the light hits it, it'll now shoot out that
color. So you can put a red jelly, get red, blue, get a
blue,
David: the LED little LED panels that I bought came with like
four or five different color gels to put in front of them.
And I've been playing with those, like even combining them,
you know, combined the blue and yellow and make green and I've
been messing around with them for the last week, just trying a
bunch of different different setups. And I think I'm coming
down to what I what I wanted to look like. And it's pretty cool.
But before we go any further, I would just like to mention that
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Boo-Bury: if you did it for the exposure,
David: right. Kyle Kyle gets a little split for his little part
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10,301 SATs. And that was in reference to last week we talked
about how we came up with the topic of hexagons. And it's
because I was looking around the room
Leila: I forgot what the joke was. So it was kind of like we
really hope you remember
David: talking about
oh, Wow, that's a neat GIF. We'll have to make sure we get
that into the, into the chapters.
Boo-Bury: So yeah, me Kara was actually just sent that over to
me. It's the GIF of the white spinning around somebody's face
and just how it morphs them essentially, right
David: completely change the shape of their face. Like I
said, I've been playing with lights this week, and I've got
my primary or what's principle, I got a principal light, which
is my main light. And then I've got my and that's, that's it.
It's about a 45 degree angle, almost maybe, I don't know, 30
from directly in front, and it's like the two o'clock position
maybe, which we'll get started before. Anyway. And then I've
got this other secondary light that's bouncing off the wall.
Which of the walls in here are white right now? It's bouncing
off the wall in this little reflective circle that I have
that kind of fill fill light, that's what it's called. So I've
got that. And then I've got some stuff in the back, like you were
saying earlier. That crown light, I think is what this
called maybe, key light key light. Yeah. And it hits the
back of me and defines me away from the background.
Boo-Bury: Yeah, it really just comes down to the separation
space,
David: right? You want to you can definitely tell where I am
versus the background.
Boo-Bury: Right. So you don't you don't want to get kind of
lost sucked up into that background, you want to make
sure that your form is clearly defined.
David: Right, right. And if I had a really, really good
camera, the camera can do a lot of that for you with you know,
the focus field and whatnot, but I've got a little cheapo camera,
so So yeah, that was that was our boosts. That was a boost we
got for last week show. And oh, just got another one. From
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There's a link to a folder. And it says I said I'd boost a
hexagon pic in and it's 17,776 SATs from blueberry. Yeah, and
what app is that is boost called CLI.
Boo-Bury: Yes, CLI. We want to see best ways of just spending
all of my sets.
David: Yeah, yeah, all of my wallets are empty right now.
I've got to actually pull them off the node to to start sending
them around again.
Boo-Bury: C dubs has turned me into a monster I've got a whole
of my node and its boost CLI shaped
David: just just send a boost all those good shows out there
on more and more shows are getting on onto that
Boo-Bury: 16,000 by the last count Wow.
David: Wow. So but yeah, that's that's the end of our value. Oh,
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thank you all very much the monthlies are fantastic because
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yeah, go ahead.
Leila: What's your favorite show that you have done?
Boo-Bury: As far well. I think the one that I was most invested
in and probably the most surprised that it actually came
together was a show that a friend of mine had wrote in
college and we submitted it as a student production. And I just I
have a lot of it It's very it's a very surreal feeling to
realize that what you know, there's people that just paid a
ticket to come see a show that we very messily cobbled
together, but we still got it done. And there was tears
involved. There was fights.
David: Oh, yeah, that's awesome. Any creative pursuits gonna have
that stuff?
Boo-Bury: But it was a cool show. It's, you know, it was
kind of like a dark Americana sort of gritty southern tale.
But that was, that was a really cool experience. And then we
actually did kind of a, quote unquote, soft remount at a
theater downtown and like, kind of tweaked some of the stuff and
yeah, it was, it was a good time.
David: It's really neat when you when you put something together,
and like people actually, like, enjoy it. Like they they want to
want to partake in it. Like this show. I
Boo-Bury: didn't say that they enjoy well.
David: They, but they they came to it. They were intrigued
enough to come to it. And they didn't get up and leave, right.
Or did they?
Boo-Bury: I'll never tell, right?
David: Well, I did a, I did a live show of me despod at a
local pub. And it was I just read three Edgar Allan Poe
stories. And I took all my computer, my podcast gear, all
that kind of stuff, recording equipment up to this bar, and
read some stories I had, like, 30 people show up. And now part
of it was probably because it wasn't paid. You know, it wasn't
a pay thing. I just did it. But it was really neat. That, you
know, I just did this thing that I rehearsed and put together and
had sound effects and all this stuff. It was really neat. And
then I think about like this show, what was Lipsy Leila? I
didn't know it was like, turn off your Microsoft sounds. Hey,
yeah, but we, we look at like, I'm not a big stats person on
how many downloads we get or things like that. But I did turn
on the OP three statistics for the show, just to play with that
whole system. And just like looking at how many downloads we
get a week, and I'm just like, wow, we've got that many people
take time out of their week, to listen to us goof off and read
facts about things we found on the internet, you know, 30
minutes before we start so like, you think about your number of
listeners, if they were all sitting in a room listening, how
overwhelming it would be.
Boo-Bury: It might be a little on the uncomfortable side.
David: Right? It would be it'd be amazing. Like you're like,
wow, there's this many people interested in the thing that
we're making. And it's just I don't know, it feels good to be
to be making something and people are actually out here
enjoying it. Or at least or at least hate listening, you know?
Waiting for us to mess up so they can cancel us. But yeah,
when you sent those pictures, you had sent us some pictures
that you said were from Alice in Wonderland that were like set
design.
Leila: I really liked those.
Boo-Bury: Thank you. That was a that was a show that we did here
at the School this past? April. Yes, April. It was a this one
was probably the most student driven design. In my what six
shows that I've done here now. So about two years old, we sat
down and we kind of came up with the just the shape of the set,
like oh, you know, like some form of staircases and like
something to cap said staircases would be really cool and our
sort of Maine carburetor took the concept and ran with it. And
what you're looking at is a 16 foot curved bridge that we built
from the ground up on top of two platforms that sit at 10 feet.
So when you get to the middle of that curve of the bridge, you're
standing 13 feet up in the air. Oh, wow.
David: That's an eight for a school production. That's really
Yeah.
Boo-Bury: Yeah, you can see the there's a picture towards the
beginning of the Alice folder, I got the jig laid out on the
floor, and we ended up building a giant. I mean, it was like
two, eight foot two by fours that we screwed together to make
this almost like a compass point when we just traced it back and
forth on the two sheets of plywood to get that huge curved
shape. Right and just put the blocks in there so that we would
have something that clamp everything as we are gluing them
into place.
David: That's cool. When we did we the sets that we had to do
when I was in high school theater, like there was nothing
that had to be built. We just had to bring things in from home
like that is it You want to have a you know, coat rack, you know,
Leila: we'd have a little basket of just stuff that we'd have to
pack into a little suitcase to bring it to other schools.
David: Yeah, we I liked the I always liked the, the local
theatre where like, you can tell that like the the whole set was
built by the same people who are doing the acting. Like, there's
12 people involved total. But yeah, we're, we're big fans of
the whole artsy crafts pneus of it that, you know, people have
to figure stuff out and people are wearing like, you know,
their, their funeral suit, and they're supposed to be like the
mayor, you know, wearing their one suit that they own up there.
But yeah, so you said that you had worked on cats? At some
point.
Boo-Bury: That was the last tour that I was on. That would have
ended March 2020.
David: So what ended in March of 2020?
Boo-Bury: You know, there was this thing going around it just
everybody got super into it. It kind of detracted from what was
going on at the time.
Leila: I must have missed it. Yeah.
David: Wow. How's it go? Look it up?
Leila: Right on birthday, too.
David: Yeah. Oh, man. That stupid bug. Like the day before
my birthday? Yeah, they lock everything. Yeah, yeah, she had
a whole party planned. And they were like, man, no, no party for
you. And it was her 10th birthday too. So I really, you
know, kind of ruined her. You only gain a place in your, your
birthday, like three times. You know, when your first birthday.
You get that one at one place. And then when you turn 10 You
get that 10s place. And then you gotta wait till you're 100
Before you get that extra digit. So now she's got to wait till
she's 100.
Leila: Before she could just say that. I'm not
David: like I'm nine.
Leila: No 300 perpetual.
David: Yeah.
Unknown: I am as old as time itself.
David: I knew I knew a kid in school that was born on February
29. Leap, leap year, leapfrog Leap Day, whatever you call it.
But yeah, so he always had to celebrate on the 28th to the
first unless he wanted to be 10 when he was 40.
Leila: The concept of leap years.
Boo-Bury: But this Yeah, the cats tour. It was my first foray
as the head electrician. I was the third guy that was also
called in which is not a good sign. If the show had only been
out for eight months. That means that they'd went through the
first crew of two people and then they went through the
second crew of two people so we were called in to be the third
replacements for this show that hadn't even been out for a year
and it was a it was a it was a trip. Let me just tell you that
trying to be as a PC as possible about it was a PG about it.
Sorry, it was it was it was a fun time. That's what it was. It
was great. It was grand, grand grand.
David: It was I had fun adventure
Boo-Bury: of my life. This is a actually I'll drop a link to
this. This is so this is kind of what I was in charge with you to
look at this one here and the hashtag Fun Fact Friday at IRC
dot zero node. These are our power distros for powering up
all of the trusses actually do you still have that? The PDFs
that I've sent over last night?
David: I will have to open up discord to get to them. But in
the meantime, we just got a live boost from Buli steed on
fountain technical hiccups go podcasting. Dane Bucha it the
technical hiccup. We were going live tonight. And the technical
hiccup was this guy. The output on my broadcasting software was
set to on the input the mic setting was set to a speaker
instead of a microphone. So it couldn't it couldn't hear us. So
when our server doesn't hear anything coming from a they call
it a DJ but a broadcaster. It automatically kicks back to the
other feed. So it wasn't hearing us so that the technical hiccup
was this guy, but that was a lot of wire 3333 sets. I guess we'll
put these pictures in the chapter chapter images and
you'll be able to see them there and It is a bunch of wires. Wow.
Very exciting stuff.
Leila: A lot of seats.
David: So it looks like you've got a looking at 71470 Cool lots
of really cool controls for the lights very futuristic Star Trek
Next Generation looking. Control Panel you get and tilt and pan
he can move operation of hexagons, lots of hexagons.
Leila: So like how good the contrast of the colors
Boo-Bury: where are you in the cats folder?
David: I m n the folder that you linked directly to? Oh, yes.
Boo-Bury: The Yeah, those hexagons, that's actually a it
was an antique Kaleidoscope that we had found that a Oh, nice to
have antique shop, thrift store, market, whatever. And I clicked
on all the lights, as you know, as saturated as I could have
pointed it right at the brand. I have. Oh, man, I don't have one
of the best pictures of the actual cat said I'll see if I
can try and find it. You can kind of piece together what the
deck looked like it was this giant kind of collage of all
these old sort of newsprint travel magazine collage piece,
really. So once you hit that color on the deck, and then you
hit the kaleidoscope with it, it really just erupted with colors.
Pretty cool.
David: Oh, yeah.
Leila: About that. So cool.
David: Now I'm sitting here digging through this, this
folder. Very neat
Leila: that we had at the place that I
David: can I share this folder on our show notes. I would just
different one.
Boo-Bury: Yes, I'm okay. Let me just make sure that I didn't
forget to point.
David: Okay, no problem. I'll Yeah, well, I can I mean, I can
also make a folder on one of my servers for it to
Boo-Bury: Okay. Now, I would actually probably do that,
because I can't Yeah, I'll tell them. I'll make a folder as
always exist, try to
David: pull down some stuff that that we've talked about. That's
what I try and do anyway. But yes, going going on tour or
having a show that's touring and working on it that it seems like
it would be really hectic for the behind the scenes people.
Boo-Bury: mean, it's really like you get in sixth. Okay, so I
guess to kind of double back for a hot second. And say answer.
Again, we lose question and what my favorite show was, my
favorite show that I was ever paid for was a tour that I did
called 42nd Street. It's a older musical all about tap dancing
and Broadway, it's got a whole show inside of a show that
they're trying to put on. And that was my first official full
length tour. So I was at the shop, actually, I got a folder
for this one too, if you go back and look in the 42nd Street one.
But the we started in the shop, we built the lighting rig. So
PRG is the company that we went through, essentially, they have
like a pick and pool with the scanner and the barcodes and
everything. It's like, okay, so I need this type of lighting
trust, and I need these type of lights. And I'm gonna grab this
amount of cable and you just pull it all into your sort of
Bay. And you, you build your show up. And it was that was
probably the first time I hit a job. I was like, oh, yeah, this
is something I could do for a living just building the rigs.
Send them out the tour. Ah, Be still my beating heart. Yeah,
David: that sounds cool.
Boo-Bury: Because you're like, Well, you gotta like lay out all
the cables, you got to make sure all the connectors because every
piece of trust at it needs to keep the lights in it. And you
need to keep the cables with it. Because you don't want to set
that up every week. That would just it would be madness. So,
gotta make sure everything lands in the right spot as far as your
power and data drops are concerned. And then your color
coding like a madman. I mean, at the risk of sounding like a
jerk, you really have to make your gear. So easy to understand
that. Anybody, literally anybody, and I've seen this
happen, literally anyone could walk up and say, Hey, I need a
job. And they let the person in there. And then that's who
you're working with for the day, right? Yeah, like so you've got
a whole gamut of experience and technical ability that you're
dealing with. So you've got
David: like a you got to really, you know, cable, orange two
plugs into port orange to, you know,
Boo-Bury: here's a, here's a here's a big ol pile of this is
all of the
David: I'm looking at a whole bunch of cables right now that
all have different colored ends and labels written on him.
Boo-Bury: So So for these, they they tie back to our demo racks.
And that way you know that when you're looking at a red cable as
an example, it's either dealing with a particular type of light
or it's landing in one specific location. I don't quite remember
how we had this one broke up, I think, I think these are color
coded based on the actual fixtures that we were powering.
But everything that this cable plugs into is going to be orange
all the way down the chain. So the
David: that's what I tell ya what I always wanted when I was
doing networking stuff, like I wanted all of the patch cables
to be the same color and then the cables that actually went
out to workstations I wanted those to all be the same color.
And I want you know, I wanted all that but then like the guy
who I tell this to just orders wherever he wants a checkbook,
you know, we got another live boosts 17,776 Somebody's
stealing your number and that person Oh, yeah, that person Oh,
yeah, it's okay just give me a second here. It's from Sir
Spencer. From Potter's it says blueberry is my celebrity crush.
Oh sure all Hey, sir Spencer thank you so much for the booth
we would definitely appreciate that. And but yeah, the cabling
is is amazing i gotta say and get these pictures I'll try and
get them into the chapters. I'll put them in the folder for for
Dred Scott to use. Or I might do the chapters This week I'm not
sure but these the if you're not able to see the picture it's
probably 150 150 cables. All will
Boo-Bury: look different when we're looking at here are known
as SOCO breakouts, SOCO is a type of cable that's got
essentially six circuits shot through it. So normal eccentric
cord, right, you're gonna have a hot neutral ground cable, right?
normal everyday household cable. That's essentially what a SOCO
cable is but six of them combined into together so you
don't have to sit there and run six individual cables everywhere
that you got to go. You can just do the one thicker one that's
usually taped together. Actually, if you look in the
corner, you see the one that's got the sort of hemp rope tied
around it. And the big white label on the side that's a Sacco
cable. I think I might so when you tie your breakout into it,
it fans out to six circuits that you can drop anywhere. That's
really cool. Yeah, and there's two types of connectors there's
a I'm guessing l 620. Or l 520. Which are the round ones those
are Twistlock connectors. They plug them in there and you give
it just a quarter terminal lock in place there's actually teeth
on the pins that slide into the plastic and will latch it shut.
David: That's because there's always you know, Stephens
walking around not paying attention what he's doing and
trips over a wire.
Leila: Stupid Stephen
Boo-Bury: go back to school Stephen
David: old Stephen the taught the wire tripper. I remember old
Stephen, we always we always give people names.
Boo-Bury: But if you if the resolution kind of sucks on
these pictures are old and this is probably 2014 may be
questioned.
David: You could still see what it is. It's piles and piles and
piles of wires. But yeah, that I love the fact that they are all
labeled like that, right? There just warms warms my heart.
Boo-Bury: Oh, yeah. I mean, that's,
David: well, you gotta take necessary for that though.
Boo-Bury: I really you if you need to go and break her off a
specific light. Because whatever reason it got smacked around
real hard in the truck on transport. Now it's behaving
like a wild man. You need to be able to go to that specific
breaker and be like, Oh, okay, well, I know for sure for
certain that when I flipped this one, I'm going to turn that
light off,
David: right.
Boo-Bury: So essentially, there would be there would be a label
on the breaker itself above the top with a piece of colored tape
behind it. And you could you could trace that color and you
can trace that label all the way through the line to where you
get to your actual light.
David: So so when you take all of this gear to a new venue, how
long would it take to set it all up?
Boo-Bury: It really depends on how much the or how many trucks
you have. How intense of a setup you got 42nd Street was. It was
a nice lean show. I mean, there was some really big, big heavy
set pieces there was a to bleachers that the PRG scenic
shop had modified modified, and they'd put them on air casters.
So you would fill them up with a compressed air compressor and
then flip a switch and there'd be air casters that would engage
in actually lifts these 5000 pound bleachers up, and you'd be
able to move them around. And I mean, that was like, that was a
pretty big set piece. But everything else, all things
considered, I mean, this show, we got to the point where if
we're doing a one off, so one off being one day, we load in
starting six o'clock, get through to lunch, when we really
hit our groove, and let me tell you why. Like, we we nailed this
show that we had a phenomenal flow, it was just, we're slammed
the show and slam the show out. It's, it was a well oiled
machine. And we got to the point where we can walk around or walk
around, we can walk, or we can leave and go back to the bus or
the hotel or go sleep in our chair, probably two o'clock. So
678-910-1112, one to nine hours, eight hours, somewhere in there.
And then we'd come back for presets at two hours before
doors, check everything make sure everything works. Do the
show, load it out. And this show I think we got down to like I
think we had a load out those like 315 ish, three hours, 15
minutes, which is pretty fast.
David: Yeah, that's, that's pretty, that's pretty good. No,
like I was looking at looking at how much gears and these
pictures and whatnot, and having to, you know, you don't know
this venue, you got to figure out how you're going to do it,
and then start doing it. You know, that's,
Boo-Bury: well, here's a good example of the situation you
might not ever expect to find yourself in. You might have
heard me joke about it with lavish before but in Bellingham,
Washington, when you're looking at the stage door, you're
looking at a giant sandstone boulder. So then, when we pack
the truck up, you have to come in from the side and build a
ramp city. And it's just ramp and platforms everywhere. It's
crazy. Like, well, this is Sansa. I mean, I'm sitting here
rubbing it away with my finger, you can just power wash this
thing.
David: Don't get it. Just look, I found the picture. Because
when you sent me the link in the chat, it just goes to the
folder. I was like I'm clicking around looking looking for the
picture. But yeah, I see that. Just a big old rock. And there's
just some dude standing in front of the rock.
Boo-Bury: It was a Oh, yeah. So that would have been that's our
head carpenter there. And then my head electricians in the back
there that feel I feel like you can get rid of it. I feel like
that. Like you could stick a whole building there. That's
David: a huge rock. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's prime real
estate. You know, that's, you know what I was saying? Maybe
it's an ancient Indian burial ground or something and they
can't. You don't want to disturb you. There's a mummy in there.
Don't disturb the DJ. I
Boo-Bury: hope it's the mummy,
David: or a giant.
Leila: So have you ever had like a favorite venue?
Boo-Bury: Oh. It depends on what capacity there is. And what job
I guess really is what it breaks down to. Because I have I have
done some tours as a spotlight operator. And the booths are I
mean, that's a space that nobody bought the spot operators ever
see in there a lot of times old, like reclaimed projection
booths, right? The probably the one that gets me the like, I
just I get so excited to be up in there. And it's always the
ones that have the most quote unquote personality to them. If
you back out and go to the bodyguard tour, you'll see some
lights of string lights posted everywhere. That's the catwalk
into this old little projection booth where the spotlight part
David: that's kind of cool. Like you can do color correction on
that picture and make it into like a stock photo.
Boo-Bury: It's yeah, I think I did kind of do that are where to
go saw it. I just saw it. I don't know why it's not letting
me think it's this one. I really I can I'm such a huge sucker for
that. But as far as like actually getting the de show in
the door and set up and ready to go. Durham Performing Arts
Center.
David: That's right up the road.
Boo-Bury: Yeah, no. They are Are savage when it comes to moving a
show they are in it's a really well laid out venue to win to
get a nice big concrete paddle backing and get multiple trucks
backed up to it. You got nice deck space everywhere so you can
Yeah, yeah, we,
David: my wife and I had planned to go see Colleen Ballenger
there a couple months ago but it it fell through because she was
sick. So we didn't actually get to go to the to the venue. And
now she's embroiled in a huge scandal online.
Leila: He was gonna reschedule for September, but yeah, I don't
know they got their money back.
David: Yeah, I don't know if if we're gonna go see her. Not
sure. Are you? Are you familiar with that whole thing? I'm not
that's Oh, it's not not to talk about on a kid show. So we'll
just leave it. Okay. recommend looking into look it up. It's
interesting. Internet drama. But oh,
Boo-Bury: I will say there's some other venues that do stand
out the starlight and Kansas City. If you scroll all the way
down to the bodyguard folder, you'll see two images of it.
It's this giant open air venue theater. It's it's right in
Spencer and Lauren's backyard. They can hear concerts from
there all the time.
David: Oh, wow. Doxxing This is Lorien right there.
Boo-Bury: But the spot booth is is a just a to top two towers
with the bridge. And it's open air. It's beautiful. Wow, that's
Leila: really cool. I really like it. And then anything that
says
Boo-Bury: the Fox Theater is really good. Like kind of 1920s
super hardcore Art Deco.
David: Oh, yeah. I see that when I happen to be looking. Right at
when when you start talking about it. That's got the old
it's got like the old lights on the on the front. Yeah, that's
neat. Yeah, well, we'll get these in the end of the at least
the show notes, if not the chapters, we're all trying to
try and get into the chapters. But blueberry it I believe you
have a heart out.
Boo-Bury: And yeah, I do. I do sadly. But I'm definitely game
to you know, if you ever want to do a follow up and get more
questions. Yeah.
David: Or we can come up with a topic and make you go research
it that's it. But yeah, we're wanting to get more guests. If
you if you know anybody that knows a lot about a particular
subject or if you know a lot about a particular subject or
you just want to come on you think you're entertaining enough
to hang out with us for you know half hour to an hour and you get
enough punk to thank you good enough. We can pick the topic
and send it to you. We just kind of want to talk to folks and see
you know just have a have a good time and and socialize a little
bit.
Leila: So quick question. If you could meet any animation, any
cartoon character who would you meet? Hmm, this definitely has
to do with the the show
David: huh
Boo-Bury: the Roger Rabbit would be pretty cool. He's
David: He's so goofy. What are you talking to you? I think he
was my favorite part of that movie is when he's he's stuck in
the jail cell. And he climbs out of it for some reason and does
something and then gets back in and like you gotta climb out of
that. So anytime you wanted. And he's like, No, only when it was
funny
remember that one little scene from that movie my whole life.
And the other thing about Roe Who Framed Roger Rabbit was
watching the behind the scenes of how they did the little
penguin waiters at the the club, carrying the actual trays with
drinks on it and everything. I thought it was so neat. They had
like little tracks in the ground. They had like these
little robot arms hooked to to hold the drinks and then they
covered them up with the animation that I remember that
piqued my interest in special effects. That was one of the
first ones I saw that kind of special effect, but what's super
cool, Leila Yeah, what anime character you want to meet?
Leila: I don't even know. It's like I had this question. I'll
David: set up. You met Kyle a bear. He plays a lot of animated
characters. Yeah. Ice Cube soup in the chat says wily Coyote.
He's just going to try and bum money from you because he is in
debt to the Acme Corporation. Yeah, he's in a lot of debt. But
blueberry thank you for coming on the show. Blueberry is on a
show called behind the schemes and that's in the word schemes,
the ease or threes. However, it's not a kid show Oh, that's,
Boo-Bury: that is fact. And I'm using even a disclaimer to, to
make sure that it's a make sure it's known, but again,
David: not for kids. Yep. Yeah, he clipped you clip that a long
time ago. That's an older one and a really old one. But maybe
we'll do a produced a new one for you. Yeah, you got just got
to stick with the old one, even if there's a new one. But yeah,
not not a kid show blueberry plus plus. I agree. So we're in
the entertainment industry with this podcast.
Leila: Background noise? I
David: got it. Yeah, no, we sound a lot better. Now. The
most recent thing that I said that I forgot to go and clip it
is. Leila asked me a question. And I was like, here's a lesson.
And like, I don't know why I said here's a lesson. But I was
like, here's the lesson. I don't know. I don't know. But anyway,
I gotta clip that. Thank you for coming on everybody. Round. I
don't have the round of applause clip on here.
Got you, boo. Yeah, check out a show. And this, what was this
episode supposed to be brought to us by Ctrl C and Ctrl? Yes,
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Leila: This concludes today's sponsor, yes.
David: All right. So I'll actually close out this this
call.
Leila: I'll let you go your answer to the animated question.
Okay. Next episode.
Boo-Bury: No, what? A whole week.
David: Yes, absolutely. That's how you that's how you keep
people engaged. cliffhangers?
Boo-Bury: I don't I don't know how I feel about this.
David: But yeah, we'll let you go since you said you had a
heart out. And actually Leila has to get going to she's got
something going on tonight. So we're gonna go ahead and I'll go
ahead and end this call. And we will wrap up the show. And we
will talk to you later. Thanks for coming on.
Boo-Bury: Yeah, not a problem. I appreciate it. And y'all be well
stay dangerous.
David: Oh, I'll try. Oh, thank you. Lila, no, that's not for
you. You stay safe. All right, and then get that to Yep, there
we go. Boop. So yeah, now we've got to wrangle up all these
pictures that that boo has sent to us. And I believe that will
probably be it for this episode of Fun Fact Friday. And if you
have any, any questions or corrections or even just any fun
stories or comments, yeah, I mean, I think those things
Leila: are complaints. To be heard you say that.
David: Bullies. Bullies deed says, oh, today. Oh, did I turn
off the Hello?
Leila: What did you do? Alright, let's keep going.
David: Okay, so yeah, blue seed says Ctrl. C copy Ctrl. P paste.
Got it today, I learned. Oh, wow.
Leila: That's not how that works. That's not how that
works. I used to think that was how it works.
David: So we will
Leila: see you next time.
David: Yes, we'll see you next week. And oh, yeah. So
Leila: I want to end the episode before you start playing with
all the stuff because we're having
David: technical difficulties. Yeah, it's fine. All right. Bye,
everybody.
Leila: Sorry, by Kylea thing to guess who was here. And now Kyle
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