The Kristian Harloff Show - What TV/Movies Do You Watch to Feel Good? with Dani Fernandez

Episode Date: January 25, 2022

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Welcome back to Big Thing. Happy Monday. I'm excited. I'm really excited for today's guest. Danny Fernandez is coming on. And I have never really had a chance to have like a full on conversation with Danny Fernandez. If you don't know, Danny, she is a comedian. She is a writer. She is an actress. She does it all. She does it all. And I can't wait to talk to her about a great many things. There's going to be so much that we're going to talk about today. I'll ask certain questions about certain movies. Who knows what the hell if we're watching the same things? There's tons of stuff. And I just remember from being around, like I say, I haven't spoken. to Danny on air. We've had many conversations in the past, but I just wonder if there's other things that she knows about, we're in very different generations. So there's a lot of stuff that she's probably watching and has watched that I should be watching, but I don't know. So I'm going to ask her about that too. I also want to see what she's doing, what she's writing, what she's working on, and a whole bunch of things. Before we even get into that today, I got to let you guys know, as I mentioned, a few different times. We got a new Patreon, at least it's the SCN Patreon, but there's more tiers and they're pretty exciting tiers. I got to tell you. We came up with these and we just thought

that it would be really fun. And as we mentioned on S-E-N Live, S-N Live is no longer live on Twitch anymore, but we didn't want to get rid of the show and we knew how much people love the show. So we are giving people access to two episodes of S-E-N-Live monthly at the $5 tier. However, if we get 250 patrons, we're going to make it three. And if we get the 500 patrons, we're going to make it four episodes. So that's for that's that's for the $5 tier. The $10 tier, we're going to do, I know you guys have been loving the rewatch series. We're just doing Batman right now, but there's some movies that people, hey, I want you to do Lawrence of Arabia or the thing or those types of things. And instead of putting it on the main channel, let's let the audience vote on it.

And then you guys can, we'll do a rewatch at the end of each month. So that's one big thing, rewatch at the $10 year, plus obviously the S&Live episodes. And then we're going to do Brett and Kate's Playdate. And they're going to, we're going to try to promote that up a little bit more. and do some more stuff with Brett and Kate's Playday because I know it's been pretty popular. And the $15 tier is only three tiers. Pretty simple. One Patreon exclusive.

We're going to do a live show per month with me. It could be a big thing episode. It could be Sitt. It could be any of those shows. And we're going to do one live episode because people keep asking you're going to do live shows anymore. And I don't do live shows on this channel, but I will do one on Patreon. So that's everything we got going on. And obviously, don't forget about the audio feed, subscribe, rate, comment, all that.

And then obviously, Spotify, we're starting to pick up. on Spotify. Let's follow us over there. But enough with this. You don't want to hear me keep talking about this. You want to hear Danny Fernandez. Same with me. All right, let's do it. Let's get to the big thing. It's me. It's Danny Fernandez. Let's do it. What's up, everybody?

Welcome back. Monday. And I hope you had a great weekend. And we're going to have a great show here today. Ladies and gentlemen, joining the show for the first time is Danny Fernandez. I don't know if you can see me off screed. I've just been like chugging caffeine. I spend like every sentence you say I'm taking a sip.

Knock it down. I'm telling you. So my wife just bought me for Christmas. She got me an espresso machine. So are you addicted? Yeah. You have no idea. I wake up with the kids in the morning, right?

So I need a, I need a, I'm not a young. I'm not, I'm not a young and like you. I have, every single thing when I wake up, I'm compared to me, you, I'm telling you, you're young. And I, and I, so I wake up, I wake up in the morning and I, and here comes the kids. the four-year-old is like taking care of 75 kids. So that espresso, it just like welcomes me with open arms. Like, get over here.

Give me a hug. So, yeah, I love it. Two things. Why do they wake up so early? My niece and nephew wake up at like 5 a.m. What time do they go to bed? It's like, are you on like military time with that? Well, I'm telling you with the stopping and everything that they're doing.

And my kid, the four-year-old, we thought she was going to be the calm one. And she's a soprano. She really is. But yeah, do you do they wake? Do they go to bed early? Yeah, I guess like six or seven. That's like little kid time. That's why.

And then the other thing I was going to say is that I never had energy. I actually tweeted and I was like shout out to the kids that like never had energy. Everyone says like when you were little and I was like no, I never wanted to like climb rock. I never wanted to run. I hate a PE. I just wanted to like pet animals. I just wanted to like sit and and be with my sticker book. I'm sure there are people listening that are like, yeah, that was literally me.

I did not want to. I was. I was born a 70 year old woman. You know how badly we were hoping for one of you? Like we were hoping. I was like we because my 10 year old is a ball of energy and she and and we thought, okay, well, this one's going to be the chill one. We don't know.

But that's that's what you get because I certainly was not a chill. I was not chill. I was all over the place full of energy. So petting animals and just doing a sticker book sounds like a dream. But I'm done. No more for me. No more for me. I wanted to be a vet.

for so long. I also used to take in stray animals. That was, I don't even know if kids do that anymore, but I wanted to be a vet until I found out that you also had to put them down. Yeah. So I was like, oh, never mind. I just want to do the petting part. I don't want to do the putt up. Yeah. It's almost like the patch atoms of, of, you come in, you cheer them up and then you take off before anything else has to happen. That's called a volunteer. That's called a rescue volunteer. Absolutely. How have you been? I've been, you know, it's been, I think just like up and down, like everyone else. My writer's rooms are virtual, which sound, I mean, I think everyone that has moved to Zoom know, like, what a grind it is. I think, like, the work at home culture was really like, oh, yeah, it's great.

Like, I mean, people that already worked at home knew that it wasn't, that it wasn't always so great. But having to be creative and be on and, like, staring at people for, like, seven hours a day. Like, it's not, I'm not even, like, doing, like, we're literally, like, on a Zoom. there's like 10 of us. And so you're having to like use your brain 24-7 and it just actually burns a lot of calories. That's really? Yeah, using your.

I mean, no one's like losing weight. I mean more like you're having to like you're having to like you're having to fuel yourself constantly. Right. Because your brain is using so much sugar and stuff to to work. It's true. And I think that we probably relate on this when it comes to the, like the Zoom meetings. And it goes from you being a comedian, being on stage, knowing and being a performer,

you understand the same thing. like I can't I'm doing these episodes right now digitally and I was kind of pushing against it. But I also felt that it was a way to get people, whether it was people like yourself or people who were out of town that I can have more conversations with. But like it's the in studio stuff for me. And it's that vibe. It's that energy. And I'm sure it's the same thing in the writer's room where you want it.

You're there and you're not distracted by anything else and you're bouncing off. And there's jokes that are being thrown out. And it's just, it's just a different energy. Yeah. I really feed off of like, I'm one of those people. I'm social for like an hour or two. And then I need to go back into my cave. So I,

I do. I feel like a lot of my friends are like that too. But I didn't, I like having the option of getting to go out. And now we don't even have that option anymore. So I don't think it's going to be for that long. I think we're, I think we're coming out of it.

But still, it's just such a bummer in the fact that like we've been, okay, yeah, yeah, it's like a tease. Like, here you go. Yeah, you guys, you're good. You're not just kidding. It's like, oh, it's every,

it's just like a kick. It took a kick in the ass every single time. But I do feel like it's getting better and I feel like we're going to be doing more. I bet you, and you can hold me to this, I bet you by February, the second week in February, you're back in the, you're back in the writer's room in front of people. No way. You don't think so? No way.

I don't think that the studios want to take that chance. No. Well, actually, I take that back. A couple of my friends are doing in-person writers rooms, but I think some of them have to wear a mask. They definitely have to get tested. like every week. But I don't, I think that's a liability for some of the studios.

They just don't want to do that. I just think cases are going to go down rapidly in the next like two or three weeks. I think they're going to, I think that the surge is starting, going to finally start to move out of it. But what the hell do I know? You know, I was, I literally had a statement on a T-shirt that was,

I said, I don't know shit. So that's probably the, that's probably the mantra I should stick by. That is a mantra for all of us. True. It's true. So tell me about, I know you can't talk about exactly what you're,

writing on at the moment, but like projects that you have been writing. When did you get at, let's start with this. When did you decide from the transition? Because I was able to actually see your like progression as far as like when, when we met, you were definitely you've gone up, but you're doing comedy, but you just kind of exploded inside of getting job, whether it was working with Kevin Smith, whether it's getting the job in record. How did all that just and you're, and you're a hustle.

You really work hard. So how did all that happen? I was going to say, yeah, I'm never happy. So I'm just like a perfectionist. People are like, how do you do that? I'm like, I'm never satisfied. I don't recommend it. Working on that.

I moved here to write. I actually moved to L.A. I went to high school and college in Texas. And then I lived in Colorado for a year. And then I was like, I had a lot of, I met Roy Wood Jr. at Denver Comedy Works. And he later, we've collabed on a couple of projects and stuff together. He's kind of my mentor.

actually. And now we have the same manager. And so I had other, I had other comedy people encouraging me to move here. They were like, you'll never, you always regret it. You know, you can always move back. You can always, I was, I was younger. And so I just, I just came out. I don't know if I recommend that because I didn't have anything lined up. And another thing is, I don't know if you dealt with this, the people that like might have promised you jobs or like oh i can get you and think like they suddenly disappear they suddenly not answering their texts they're still like not answering their DMs and so i was i was lost i was stuck i didn't know anyone i got a job at um the ice house comedy club because i drove to the ice house and gave them my resume and to be a hostess

and they said like 200 people had applied to to be a hostess there and so i got that job and and i started to meet comics started to do stand-up and i started to do stand-up up. I met Mark Ellis. Is that he met him at the Ice House? Yes. Yeah, I met him at the Ice House. And in like 2014. And then I and then I didn't write. It's really hard to get into. I thought like, oh, I could surely be a writer's assistant. Like cut to everybody wants to be a writer's assistant. Everybody wants to be a PA. Everybody wants to just be close, you know, to production or. And so I kind of took a detour from doing, from knowing Mark and from from doing stand-up and knowing people like Joe Star and like, you know, I started, I started to pop up as guests on like shows,

you know, on like Collider and Screen Junkies and like these other nerdists. And people really liked having me as a guest. And so they're like, oh, why don't you, our host is out this week, do you wanna cover? And then it solely came like, oh, do you wanna host your own show? And so that's how I got in at Nerdist and Geek and Sundry in some of those places.

So I took like a big detour. Yeah. I feel like a lot of people that have a comedy improv, like background, they're able to host very effortlessly. You're like, yeah, it's really easy. It's not, but it is once you've done. Yeah. It's a matter of being. So it's a matter of being able to speak and understanding that when you're navigating, like you have to, it's different rooms, right?

It's like the same way when you have navigate a room of 200 people on stage or 15 people on stage. It's the same type of tools that you have. If you're doing it enough, I agree with you 100. that it is it it comes easier it doesn't mean that it's effortless but it comes easier because you're you're navigating and you're using that same tool because I just started getting back up on stage and what I found is as I was going back up on stage I'm it's I'm I'm I'm it's it's a lot easier now for me to do certain things and play with the room a little bit more and play with guests and have it because that that tool comes back so I do

agree that for comedians it's it's it's a tool that we're able to use that helps us host tremendously. I think that's accurate. Yeah, but I actually, I should preface, I haven't done stand-up since like, like actual stand-up since like 2015, 2016. I felt like I was treading water out here. And I was. I was writing. I was hosting. I was acting. I was doing VO work. I was, which a lot of our friends do. But I just felt like I wasn't moving forward and cut to like when Mark and I were dating, Mark and I dated from 2014 to 2017. I think a lot of people don't. Well, I mean, he's great. We're still best friends, but I was going to say, like, I think it's really funny because people always like equate us. I'm like, we haven't dated in like four or five years. But when we were, it was wild to see him,

you know, hosting, doing this and that and then showering and going out at 10 p.m. and doing sets to 1 a.m. And I was like, how in the world do you do that and then go into a writer's room in the morning? You know, I have tons of friends that do that. They'll write for like John Oliver or they'll write for Jimmy Kimmel. And, and then they get off. from their writers room, they shower, they go and do stand up to 1 a.m. and they're back in their writers room. And I'm like, I just felt like I was burning the candle

at both ends and I wasn't moving forward in my career the way I wanted to. And I got really smart. I was like, what are the two things that I want to do? And I think that's how you saw me kind of propel forward all of a sudden is I, I sat down. I was like, what do I actually want to do? And it's great that I have a background in standup

and sketch and improv because I can use that in my acting. I can use that in my hosting. but I was just like, in writing, of course, having a comedy background and being a comedy writer. But I can't recommend enough once you find the thing that you want to do, like actually not feeling like you have to do 100 things. Because I just felt like I wasn't moving forward out here. So it's just really bad putting your feet down, digging your heels in and saying,

well, that's the goal. That's the game plan. And that's ultimately what you did. But it's a good thing to tell people, though, too, is like, throw the net out there and see and use all those things. Because as you said, even though, you haven't done stand up in since 2015 you had that tool you have that experience that that helps you tremendously in the things that you do and it doesn't just have to relate to stand up it's

it's whatever you're doing out there in general for people um that the more you work on certain things that was a waste of time nothing's a waste of time if you use it oh no yeah no i've used it tremendously i think it's it's i remember once i did a uh i don't say what company but we had to a lot of our friends like we all had to we know each other in like the hosting nerd community. And we all had to audition for this huge studio in front of each other. And it was like the one time where I felt like, oh, this case, it was, it was just like, you know, I could do like everyone was watching and it was so easy. It was like the teleprompter, this and that very transitioning, whatever, great. And then you saw people that maybe didn't have

a comedy background or stand that background really struggling with having to like, which makes sense, auditioning in front of everyone, but like really struggling to transition from subject to subject and interviewing people and being watched. And so I was really glad that I had that background. Well, yeah, I mean, it's for me, it's, all the stuff that Mark Ellis and I did for when we met, well, we met at a barbecue at my house, but then we really started hanging out more so at the comedy store and everything and knowing that aspect of each other. But then because we had that comfortability with each other, would we go into rooms,

because I can tell you how many times the two of us went into rooms together because they wanted to audition the schmose, right? And we had to do that. Right. Yeah. That gives you an error of, it's funny. It gives you an error of comfortability, but then it's also, you have to also realize that when the other person's not there,

it's not always like that. You don't have that person. So you've got to rely. That is where the standup comedy comes. You don't have, I don't have Mark on stage when I'm doing standup, but I got to rely on me. So it's interesting and makes a lot of sense that you say that.

But so what the, so a lot of that stuff, as you said, you pivoted, you started to say, well, that's what I want. How did the record Ralph thing come in?

Because I, it was almost like a fun Easter. for me when I was watching. I was like, wait a minute. I didn't know about this. This is awesome. And how did that all- funny?

My friends were like, how did you not tell any of us? I'm like, I'm not going to let you ruin my chance with Disney. The several people at Disney, this is, you know, I hate social media, but it also has helped me in my career and with visibility is that several of them followed me,

including Richmore, who's a director who created Recit Ralph. And they reached out to me because they wanted real-life people. I don't know if you watch Ralph breaks the internet. They have real life gamers, real life hosts, real life people that have hosted at these different, they wanted to meet people that were actually from these internet sites. And so they asked if I wanted to play myself, essentially.

And it was great. I mean, they had to watch countless videos of me to animate me. That was kind of intimidating, knowing someone watched me. And like they got my, because I talk with my hands a lot, they got that down. And that was, I'm like, we didn't have to go that far. You didn't have to animate me that far. And like my mouth movements. And then I started hosting with Disney, you know, because I am, I had hosted with E.

I've hosted, you know, a lot of different places. And so I ended up hosting at New York Comic-Con with them. And then the Latin premiere. And then like it's kind of once you're in, oh, skybound. Yeah. Skybound. It's funny. We keep crossing paths that way too because even when, so skybound for people out there,

we don't know that they're partnered up with Smodown, everything to. they've been doing these skybound expos. And I remember when we did the first one, like, hey, are you familiar with Hector Navarro and Danny Fernandez? And I'm like, very much so. They're hosting. I'm like, that's awesome. And when having you guys kind of throw to the Schmo down,

it's so funny how this, even though the space is big, it's so small, you know? It's, yeah. And that's why it's really important, I think, to look out for each other, to, you know, show up for people. We recommend each other, too. It's like we can't have all of the jobs. And some jobs I've kind of graduated from, you know, I've kind of moved on. And I'm like, I have other goals. In my life, I feel like you should have different goals, you know, each year and to help my career progress. And so being able to recommend people that I've worked with the same way that I was, that I became a guest and then a guest host and then, you know, kind of went on and wanted to create my own stuff. And that's why it's really important to like not have a bad reputation or like dick someone over.

like everyone finds out about it. It's a small town. And people don't want to work with you and people stop recommending you or flaking. I can't recommend. I mean, you've lived in L.A. for how many years? People are such flakes here.

That's me crazy. Yeah. And I'm like, maybe you have the luxury of flaking, but I don't. And I, you know, and so I just stop recommending people if they flake too many times.

So many people want this job. It's true. I've had that a handful of times and it's like, and it's last minute stuff. I understand certain things when certain things come up. and it's like, hey, and you give somebody notice, but then it's like, if it's, oh, if it becomes a habit, it's like, it's like, come on.

It's, it's fine, but it doesn't mean, as you said, that I want to work with you anymore or that I want to recommend you because that ultimately then starts to bleed into your reputation because you're like, who you recommend? Like, you know what I mean? So, so that is very important, I agree. The other thing, as I mentioned in the top of the show, is that there's a lot of stuff that we used to talk about,

like, you're still, you're pretty big into anime. Yes, but I feel I'm in a cave. Please don't judge me. I'm like in this writer's room. When you talk about TV all day, sometimes last thing you want to do is watch more TV. Sometimes I just need to literally move away from the screen. Actually, a blue light blocking glasses for when we are writing.

And sometimes I literally just go to the ocean and stare at the water. Probably good. It calms you down. It's a smart thing. I mean, the same, I'm with you. I was just talking. I had Freddie Prince Jr. on him. We both wrote for WWE. And so we both had the similar experiences that when you're working there and you're doing something, you're not watching, you don't want to watch it anymore.

You see how the sausages are made. It's the same thing. There's a lot of different things that kind of play. Same thing when he also referenced Star Wars. Like he was part of Star Wars. And after Sources were made, he just kind of stepped back. So working in TV and that's what you do all day long. Maybe you don't want to watch TV. You just want to stare at the ocean. That makes sense to me. but are there things though that you still get a chance to check out or right now you're just you're just focused in on as you said you have your game plan it's the writing right now and that's and that's it no i've kind of since i'm not in the reality tv space have actually started to watch a touch more of that and one of the shows that i love that i can't sorry one of the shows that i love that i can't shout out enough is we're here we're here it's on hbo it's an hbio original so you can watch on hbio max it is um Um, three drag queens, uh, Shangela Bob the drag queen and Eureka O'Hara, who are originally from RuPaul's drag race, but I didn't even really watch that. I didn't, I haven't really caught up with that. I haven't really watched most of those seasons. Um, they go to small towns and they introduce drag to the town. Okay. And it's a really big deal because I think they just had two

seasons. They just finished their second season. But it's a big deal because it's like they're helping people come out in that town. They're finding allies. They're showing that you can do drag and still be masculine, whatever your toxic masculinity. Like it's also hilarious. I want to say it's so funny. When I watch it, I'm just like, yes, I'm like, I just want to be friends with them. They're so funny. It's so groundbreaking. And it's just fun. They're like doing people up. They're like wigs and the makeup and the costumes, but they're also talking to people in these really small conservative towns to be like, we are harmless. Like, we're not, we're not hurting anyone. And it's fun thing to do with humor and it's, so yeah. Yeah. Cool. So yeah, and it's like a show.

I mean, they're up there. They're like telling jokes. They're singing. They're like putting on a whole show. And so I got really into it. It's just like seeing these families, you know, that these people that normally feel, they're like, they're parents. parents will do drag with them, you know, and it might be like a really tough, like, a dad that's like writing Harleys and is like, I've never, you know, I would never put on makeup and they're like, can we try? And he was like, you know, for my son, sure. And so it's like them kind of seeing that it's like so harmless to just let people do what they want. And it's a lot of fun. And HBO makes, it's great stuff right now. It's funny how obviously, you know, they,

they had to step up because it's HBO and everything. But it's still when they jump into that streaming game because they had HBO Go and everything, but it's different. They got into the game with HBO Max. And I think that it's amazing that with the amount of different streaming platforms out there that they just came out firing. And again, people are always going to say, yeah, well, of course, it's HBO. It doesn't mean anything because you can have a lot of money, you can have a rep, but you've got to put out the right stuff. And they're doing it. They're doing it with original content. They're doing with older stuff. I mean, in the background there, I got a picture of the Sopranos and that I'd rewatch the entire season and series again. then you have the original movies and that whole plan. Like, Christian, can I tell you? I had never seen. Obviously, I knew of the Sopranos and my dad was super into it, but I wasn't allowed to watch it when I was younger. It came out when I was too young to watch it.

And so I had to audition for a part where I needed to have like a 1970s New York accent. And to me, that's like Goodfellas. And so I was like how else to do it, watch Goodfellas, watch Sopranos. Sorry, that's how they say it on there. And so I would just copy what like Carmela would say. She would say and I would say it. I would watch her and I know Tara Strong said that when she was like learning different voices, that's what she would do.

She would just copy what they were saying. Oh, that's great. Yeah. That was my whole like fall was just watching the Sopranos. And then I was like, I need a break. How many did you want? Okay. So I think I watched till season four.

Okay. And then I was like, I need, I think this is affecting my mood. I was like, I need to stop. Steps the Bra is. on the show a lot. And we, and we, and she had never seen the Sopranos and she started watching the, she started watching it. She said that she said the same thing.

She started to talk in Mary New York and all that. And I had seen it many times over, but I, I just wanted to rewatch it again because the many saints in Newark was coming out. And I started getting so inspired. I'm like, I always told myself, I wanted to get that, that painting of Tony and Napoleon with the horse. And I said, I'm going to do it. And I bought it for myself for my birthday.

Oh, that's what's, behind you. That's behind me. It's, it's, it's, oh, yes. There's a scene where

Tony, he, he, he has this thing that, yeah, yeah, that woman, right? His friend's,

yep, his friend's girl. Yes, and then he gets, he gets it send and something happens to the horse and he does what he wants, he wants to get rid of it. He throws the painting out and then Paulie gets it and Paulie doesn't want,

he doesn't, he's sick of Tony staring at him. So he has, he repaints it as no, Tony has like a general. And, and that's the one I got. So that's,

I love that. But anyway, yeah, so I love, that's one of my favorite shows. But HBO Max, man, they're really just, they're just doing it right with the original programming. So if you, what's your go to when you are watching stuff? Is it HBO Max, Disney Plus? What do you got? Yeah, I have to say, I think it's those like really, I don't know why. I really love those.

Like, I've started to, I watched this season of Queer Eye and I watched, I started to rewatch it. Like, I also have a Peloton and sometimes I don't want to listen to the instructors. So I'll just like put them on low and all like, actually watch something else. And I think it's that feel good. I don't know, like, I just need a lot of feel good stuff right now. And so watching them like makeover someone's life and seeing them cry and like be so and I'm crying.

I'm like, oh my God. And I feel like I'm friends with them. And it just feels, I just need a lot of, obviously Ted Lassow. I've tweeted about Ted Lassow. I went to the Ted Lassow premiere in July. Apple's been really good to me. They've sent me a bunch of stuff. I'm like, oh, no, I'm tweeting about this because I like, I mean, I know you know I like

the show, but I'm like, I'm friends with Christo who's on it, Danny Rojas, and he's amazing and great and like blowing up right now. And so that's obviously a feel good show. And not that I'm not into others, because I love that we have a range. It's just so much bad news happening that I feel I kind of need, like I was saying with a soprano. I was like, I watched it. And then I was like, okay, I need to put something on that makes me feel really good. I'm with you. Because I think that that's, So everybody was talking about Euphoria recently. I've never seen it. Right.

And they're like, you should, yeah, you should watch it, but know that because you got daughters, I'm like, look, even if I didn't have daughters,

I wouldn't watch that show right now because I just hear it. And I love everybody involved with it. I just don't, I just like bingeed Cobra Kai. Because Cobra Kai to me, it's like, yeah,

feel good, fun, 80s kind of feel. And I'm like, I feel good afterwards. You know, I was watched like Peacemaker. I just watched Peacemaker,

I just watched Peacemaker the first episode. And there's some kind of violent stuff in it, But it's hilarious. And James Gunn just comes out kicking with all this dialogue. And that's the kind of shit I want to watch right now. It's not to say that I'm not going to watch deeper stuff if it comes along. And there's certain movies. But I don't need to.

That's one of the reasons that I started this channel is when we were doing Shmose and Collider, like we covered everything. Right. And a lot of the shit that Mark and I sometimes, I mean, you know you, Mark long enough who we were just, oh, I got to go see this because we cut down the channel. Can I tell you? I always thought that was crazy. Now that I'm like on the other side.

Yeah. But like when we were dating, he was like, I got to go see this. movie. I'm like, wow, how hard. I woke up at like 8 a.m. to go into my office job and I fucking hate. It was like before I officially transitioned over to entertainment. But it is funny when no one wants to see a bad movie. No one wants to sit through like two hours of a bad movie. And then you get another bad movie and you're like, oh. So, but I always thought that was funny. I was like, wow, your life is so hard. And now people are like, wow, you write television. You just like sit there

and get to write TV and you're, you know, you can't handle it and have to go stare at the ocean. Isn't that funny how that all, it's, it's circle. Yeah, because I remember we, it's, that's, I didn't want it to feel like work anymore. And that was, and that was the same thing to where Mark and I both were on the same page. We just didn't want it to feel like work anymore. And the problem is that you get to a place, especially with having a family. And I've been pretty vocal about it. I couldn't, I don't really, I couldn't stand my time at Collider.

It had nothing to do with the people I was working with. I love all the people I work with. But it was like, it was, it felt corporate. And even though we're talking about movies, it felt like this is what you need to talk. about this is what's popular this is blah blah and I still talk about shit that's popular now but I do it on my own watch and I do it because that's what I feel like talking about and I have some fun and if I want to go see it if a screening comes in I want to see that movie so I'll go in and I'll cover it and if it's shit and shit I'll still talk about it's a crap shoot I'll still talk about it's something that you hate and I love it but it's a crapshoot I didn't mind going to the movie that was fun to me I'm like that was terrible I felt like I had to ice picks in my eyes

but I can choose to go now as opposed to you guys got to cover this now or when Mark and I were doing it. It was four movies a week would come out and we knew that, okay, well, people are going to be talking about this one or we just want to make sure that we're in the sphere and people know because we were getting our rotten tomatoes and doing all this stuff. But I think we earned our stripes at this point. Yeah. Yeah.

So anyway, but the other thing you actually, I'm not going to pretend that I know all about. I did a little research on it, but I don't know enough about it. I want to hear what you were telling me about with the mushroom. I'm so happy to talk to you about this. So I've been pretty open since my inception on social media about mental health and my journey with mental health and the different things. I've done everything, Christian. I've guinea pig myself. I've done like clinical ketamine with a doctor.

Actually like Neil Brennan talked about it a lot and we actually had the same doctor. We both hated it. I didn't like it. I didn't like the, it just felt like my, my soul had been flung out of my body in a not fun way in a very, like, anxiety inducing where I was put under for an hour and I thought it was like three weeks. Oh, wow. Like I just lost all track of time. So that I've done like TMS, which is transcranial magnetic stimulation where they stimulate understimulated areas of your brain. That I do recommend.

I like that a lot. And a bunch of other things and also shrooms. I started doing somebody was like, I feel like the thing that you're missing because I've done a wealth. of therapy, all the different therapies. I've seen a lot of different therapists. And they've all helped me in different ways. But it was just like there was just something that I couldn't, like a wall or something that I couldn't get past. And so in April or May, I started microdosing shrooms. And so what I do is I get from a person because I believe they're still illicit. They shouldn't be. They're like literally of the earth. It should just be like weed, which should also, I know it's

hard to get in certain areas of the country, definitely not here. But I have a little capsule and I open it and I put like half of it into like water or tea or whatever. That's a microdose. So I'm not taking like enough to hallucinate. I take enough that I can talk to you like this. You know, I can be in my writer's room and stuff. And it is, it's made such a difference. It's made such a difference. It's really helped. I read about it. You told me about it. I said, let me check it out. I read about a little bit about it. And it's become. and pretty popular. A lot of people have been have been doing this. And how did you find out about it all the way through and then then decide, okay, were you nervous? Yeah. At this point, I don't think no. I mean, we were still, it was last year and it was like the pandemic had like come back around. And I was just like, I was pitching and shows at the time that were just, it was the hardest year to pitch and sell something. Because studios had lost a ton of money. And the stuff that they had picked up, they now had COVID protocols, a ton of

their budget had to go to testing everybody, making sure a nurse was on set, like all of these things that we don't, even like Marvel films, you know, getting shut down, having, you know, a whole big part of their budget going to COVID. And like, so us smaller, independent people having to deal with that. And so it was just like these killer ideas that I was, I was working on one with Sony, that they were, I still love my execs at Sony and they were in love with it, but it just didn't go through. It was just so hard pushing stuff through. And I just didn't feel like I was, I was moving forward in my career. I think a lot of us have felt stalled the last year or so. And I saw a healer that I had been working with. And she said, I think you should try, I try,

I do shrooms and I think you should try them, microdosing them, you know. And so I used her shrooms person. And okay, so the first day I took it, I was like, this just feels like an edible. Like I just feel a touch high like yeah i've felt this before all right and i remember i stayed up a little late i went to i was like going to sleep at 1 a m i was laying my head down on my bed and all of a sudden right as i laid my head down it was like everything is working out for me i love my life i love my apartment i love what i do i'm so lucky to get to do what i do and i was like what the fuck i remember i was like whoa is this what y'all are talking about yeah and so So for me, it feels like a pep in my, one, you can't do it all the time.

Because it kind of like, it kind of opens a different chamber in your mind. Because I trip ball in college, I'll tell you that. And one and one of the, I did it. But I, and I, this is years and years ago, and I haven't done it. I did acid and it's very different from shrooms for sure. Yeah. I did shrooms. And it was the same thing.

It was in the side of the, you just, it's that portion of your brain that you go, oh, I felt that. I didn't know I could open that chamber. before but then you're like I can't do this all the time but this is but this is more so of like you said like micro dosing tiny doses yeah and it opened up like a different portion of you saying okay instead of me saying this is not going to work but this is I'm going to run into a wall here you start to go into a different mindset yeah I think it works with neurofeedback loops and honestly there are a couple of documentaries on Netflix that you can watch I think one is fantastic fungi

where it shows like actually shrooms and they grow like they mimic the like brain stem like they mimic our brain and is it kind of like like I was saying with TMS it kind of like turns out in these understimulated areas of your brain it kind of like opening it up awakening them and so you can't take it all the time I think because it kind of wears off so typically you might do like one day on two days off or two days on two days off something like that you need some time for your brain to not be like not taking them in and kind of like have that downtime, but it still has the after effects. I almost feel like the day after I've taken my shrooms, I feel even better. And it really just feels like a pep in your step, like you have

this positive, like you're getting a boost of positivity. For me, it feels like if I were going to the beach with my friends and like my favorite song is playing and it's my birthday and I know everyone's going to have a good time. And it kind of like just re-changes your mood. And so I gave it to a friend of mine and she was like, I checked in on her and she was like, I'm off my Symbolta. She was like, I still take Limitol. I want to tell people, I think it's okay to obviously still take medicine. I'm not saying like this is in place of medicine, but for some people it can be if they only need like a little bit of an edge. I still take my medicine, but even with that medicine, it wasn't doing enough. And so now with the shrooms, it's kind of just like what I needed specifically for my

brain to be in a better place. Well, look, I mean, and as you said, like, I, from, from knowing you for at least the last, like, five, six years, that you have been very vocal about mental health and you have been out there trying to help people and been active that way. So this is, this is something that I'm glad, I'm glad to hear that this, this is working out for you and that, because you seem, you do seem like you have that pep in your step. That's because I've been chugging. Also, I have my little grogoo. I don't know if you can see it. Are you watching, are you watching Boba right now?

I have that's the one thing I feel bad I haven't I'll feel like I'll sit down and like watch all of it I'm obviously I mean I think everyone knows like I'm a huge Mandalorian fan so I don't know why I mean I know why I haven't I'm like I don't know why I'm like slam yeah slammed yeah let's talk some movies that you like some of your favorite movies do you I don't care of it's I know that you love the goofy movie we know that you love the goof my kids are watching you're watching that though by the way like they you discovered it on Disney. Plus and they were... Have you watched it? Do you like the little high dad soup moment? It's like a very bonding movie. I can't tell you that I... It's kind of like an impassing like when I sat down because it was it was after my time. So there were certain movies that I watched probably 10 years prior that were ones that I

can go, oh, look at that. That's nostalgia to me. Like perfect example for this. This is not a kid's show. But the nostalgia that really kicked in. We just started doing the Batman rewatches. And so Batman 89. the Tim Burton, you know, Michael Keaton one.

I, we did a review of Winston Marshall and, and Coy, and we talked about it. And they, they enjoyed it for sure, but they were watching it in different eyes than I was. I was watching when nostalgia guys, right? Like,

so I'm sure for, like, the goofy movie for you, you probably have so many memories as a kid and things that just, every time you watch it, just kind of pop up for you. And that's how I felt watching Batman. And so to answer your question,

to watch, like the kids like they're going to have those moments of a lot of different things because I show my kids everything I don't I don't want my kids be like in their generation I want my my oldest watched and this is what I love about her she watched Westside story but she wanted to watch the original first before she watched the remake and that's what I love and I'm like some kids they don't want to watch a 1961 version whatever it is she did she watched it then she watched the new one and she loved both of them so I like to show them and give them as much you know history and knowledge into film as possible But, yeah, Goofy Movie, it just, they loved it. So I watched their eyes. If they're happy about it and they're singing the songs, then it's a win for me. One day when you're sitting there and you like actually get to watch it, it's really sweet and slightly heartbreaking because Goofy just wants to be close to his teenage son. And his teenage son is at this age where he's like, you're embarrassing and I don't want to be around you. And so they end up going on this road trip together where Goofy is just like, I just want to be part of your life.

And it's so sad. And you're like, oh, my God. You should show them a Twilight Zone. I was going to ask you about that because I've seen, because that you, that's like one of your big things because I remember when, didn't one year you and Marco dressed up like that as Pauline? Okay. Yeah, I was Rod Serling.

I also got to be in a Rod Serling documentary called Remembering Rod. And that was great. My brother, it's a tradition to watch it at New Year's. And because that's how we got into it growing up. We watched it at New Year's. They always have a marathon. And so this New Year's, my brother was showing every year. He has it on like kind of the background when they're making tamales or like having

out or whatever. My niece and nephew will be watching Twilight Zone. And it's so funny because we'll be like cooking and we can see them. They're sitting there watching it. They're like too young, you know, to really know much. And like a couple of the parts are too scary. But it's just funny that they're watching it the way that we did. and I'm sure it'll be a thing for them as they get older.

Yeah, I think it's the same thing. I think my kids might be a little too young for that yet, but I do think my oldest is going to, would respond to that because I definitely want to, Twilight Zone is one of the, I think not talked about enough as time goes on, to be honest with you. Yeah. How revolutionary it was to television and everything that it did.

But go-to movies. What are your go-to movies? I would say, goofy movie, but what is? I, one of my favorite movies is fools Russian. Is that Matthew Perry and Selma Hyatt? Oh, right, right. And I, it's classic 90s rom-com, classic 90s comedy. I love the writing.

It's based on a real-life story of this, these two people from two totally different worlds that end up falling for each other. And like their families don't want them together. And I don't know, it just, her family felt so much like my family. And it's really funny because over the decades, people are like, this is a really stereotypical view of Mexicans. And I'm like, yeah, but it's also true. Like, I feel my family's always, like, one, they believe in signs. They're super superstitious. They're always lighting candles. They're always, like, so many of the things that she does. My family is so Catholic that her family does is what my family does. And so we grew up watching. I watched this movie when I was when I was little. We watch it like every year, every time it was like playing on TV. And so over time, that's what my nostalgia is for. So that's a feel good movie too. That's a feel good if you want to put something on.

I love that movie. Well, it also goes back to what we were just talking about. It's like it's amazing how like just these little things of how you find a movie in the first place, what it says to you, how you relate to it and how that ultimately will, you'll always take that with you because I'm sure that even if you're tired and you're coming back from the writing room and that movie pops on. I'm like, I'll watch a little bit right now.

Right? There's always those kind of movies that do that. And that's why I think the go to, I might even title this episode, what are your go-to movies? Because I think that's always a fun conversation. Like for me- Have your kids gotten to see Encantho?

Yeah, they love it. Oh, they love it. So are you addicted to those songs are so, wormhole, like just like worm their way. It plays in my living. The Bruno one. We don't talk about Bruno is number five on the Hot 100. I know. It's going against like Lil Nas X and like all like it's like up there with regular songs.

Listen, this is this is an Enkanto house. We, my kids love it. The four year old this morning, this is this is why this is not only do I love in Kansas because it's a good movie. This saves me so much stress in the morning because we just got one of those little, the little, the Apple pods that it's whatever like the like the mini pod. Yeah. So it like the Alexa.

of Apple. And it's, so I just, she was starting to get a little feisty in the morning and I just said, hey Siri, play the Enkanto soundtrack and our eyes light up. She moves everything out of the living room. She just moves everything on the side and she knows the words and she moves around. And then

when the 10 year old comes out, they start singing it together and there's one part of the song and it just stops and you hear the four year old go, we don't talk about Bruno. And it's just, they know all the words. They know everything about it. My daughter actually did a, um,

a review of it with me. She wanted to do it. She wanted to review it. I love that. I want to see if I can find the, uh, play out as you, we'll talk about it in a second,

but if I can find the audio, I'll play you a little, the audio from it. Um, she, yeah, and Kanto, it plays here all of the time. So,

uh, so you loved it. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, and that's,

I was, you know, the thing that I'd been missing from a lot of Disney animation songs, I mean, Disney animation films that came out, you know, the past decades.

is a banger soundtrack. Like I grew up on 90s Disney movies. We had like the Hercules soundtrack. It was like every song was a banger. Moulon, every song was a banger. And then the ones that have come out the past decade, it was like they might have one or two songs here or one, you know, Ryan the Last Dragon, which I think is great.

I don't think it was, it wasn't made to have, you know, a bunch of songs. But I kind of missed that. I kind of missed having like, man, all of these different songs kind of getting stuck in your head and just like really explosive. and fun, you know, that style of Colombian music is just so

vibrant. And that's another thing I like to put it on and like clean or dance around my place. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, so like I said, the music pops in this house all the time. You can hear it. Let's see if you can hear this. To live in a hidden part of Columbia in a magical house.

And all of them have magic powers except for, except for Mirabelle, who's the main character. And then their magic starts shading and Mirabelle started tries to like get to the bottom of it and she and um it's a really sweet movie about family that's a sweet movie about family i take her she didn't like this movie she gave me a face of what you talking about it's my favorite movie of all time of all time and my fuck too okay well maybe not my

favorite movie ever but it's it's but i'd say among my favorites of star wars and harry potter it's So you really love that. Yeah, it's pretty great. So the kids, the kids love it. That's a great one. So people who haven't seen, I think it's going to win the Oscar.

There's no doubt about it. Yeah. I don't know what its competition is, but yeah. Ryan, The Last Dragon, which was also pretty good. Oh,

right, right. It's competing against itself. It is. And it's the other one, the, what's it, the Mitchells versus the machines. Oh,

that's a great movie. Oh, that's a, that's so good. That's so good. That is really good. You don't get the kids to watch it. They don't want to watch it.

All I hear is how fantastic it is. Yeah. You watch it. Christian, you do this for yourself. No, I know. It was all the shit I got to watch,

that I want to watch. I mean, like I said, I just started watching Peacemaker last night. The problem is that this is what I tell people who watch this show is that my wife and I only have so much time together, you know, because of the work week.

And then she's very picky on the shit that she wants to watch an understandably show. So she's with the kids all day long. And we come in. And there's just her taste and my taste, even though she's like, no, we like a lot of the same thing. if I had a dollar for every single time that she was like I'm not into it like she turned off to

lasso like just to show you did did she get in a couple like the first episode is always the hardest it's a pilot they're like setting up everything yes she she said she goes I she's like she's like I get it she's like but I just don't understand why it's as big as it is and I was like I got to get back into this and I and then all this other shit pops up and whether it's uh I'm watching boba fed and peacemaker and then I'm doing you watch succession so I watched the first four episodes of Succession. I really like it. That's one I'm going to go back to for sure. I really like you need to finish. Yeah, especially being that like Sopranos type of. Oh yeah. It's for me. That show is for me. And everybody says the same thing. You got to watch it. I will.

It was like Breaking Bad, right? I didn't watch Breaking Bad until there was like two seasons left to go before it finished. And then I'd be all of it and was like, yeah, I knew the show was going to be for me. It's the same thing with Succession. I know that the show is going to be for me. I know I'm going to love it. It's just a matter of finding the time to do it. Um, I'm, I want to finish Dexter. I want to finish like there's there's a ton of shit. But jumping back to the to the go-toes for you, there's, there's two movies.

Are there any other ones that stand out for you that you say, yeah, that's the one that you got to be, you got to be on that page with me or we can't talk. I mean, I love Selena too. I think that's so, I wish it had come out in a time when like, I think it's like Oscar worthy. Yeah.

You know, it's one of, it's, uh-huh. Yeah, it's so good. It's so good. She's so good. I think it's our best acting role ever. And it was like her first. Like it's so good. That, you know, I've said the Twilight Zone.

I'm a big Disney head. So like any toy story, you know, that I love Toy Story. You have a favorite out of the four of them? Is the first one? Oh, yeah, the first one. The first one still. Yeah. I think that's, I think that's,

case with most movies. I mean, I feel that way about, I don't know if there's blasphemous in a bunch of people will write me, but I feel the Tom Holland Spider-Man ones, like my favorite is the first one. I just feel like... I don't think it's... Yeah, well, I'm just saying, like, I think it's,

you know, there's just, it's something about the newness and the, and the story, and the, like, it's just, you know, you're focusing on, on this, these characters. And because, you know, once you start adding sequel, it kind of like spins off into a bunch of things. And so I'm a very like first. Pun intended.

Spins off. But yeah. So yeah. Did you, did you watch the new one, the new way home? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I, I loved the social commentary of it. I love that it was so true to Peter Parker and his moral compass. And I'm interested to see what they do. I also love Andrew Garfield. field. He was really sweet.

Yeah, he is. And I love the fact that they can actually talk about it now. And if people are spoiled by a tough shit. Oh, oops. I mean, if I saw it, y'all, I saw it like three, I saw it after New Year's. So I got really sick. I got really sick and I couldn't, I couldn't go. And so like, y'all, if I like waited like a month to see it, and I still ended up seeing it. It's true. There's tons of this. There's so much that I want to see. Like the new screen movies is just out. I'm so curious about that one because I liked the first one very much. One of my favorite West Craven movies. It was so different at the time, the way that they played off of it and a little meta. And then the rest of them were fine for me. People love

the fourth one and I just not a big fan of it. But this one, getting big reviews, getting great reviews. People really, really dig it. So I'm excited to see it. But the problem was that at the moment, because of where we are i have a i got a four-year-old who's not able to get vaccinated and with the rates what kids are doing right now i'm like i'm not going to risk it right now i really want to see scream but i'm not going to risk it at the moment i will see it i will check it out but that's that's that's one i'm curious about you scream fan oh yeah yeah that that's same with horror i feel like that is uh Halloween i love Halloween but i think like the first one how can you beat the original scream same thing um i'm curious to see how they got teenagers to answer the

phone. Like, what are they doing there? You know, in this one, I'm, I'm curious to see what it's going to end up being because. Me too, because it looks like they play with it even so in the trailer with how they, they're playing with the technology of locks on the house and all that. So, yeah, I think they're going to play with it for sure. All right, Danny, a question now. So it's 20. It's, let's say, I'm going to, I'm going to paint the picture that that would come out of this shit in April, May, we're good to go. It seems like the world's getting back togetherish. What does 2022 look like for Danny Fernandez? What's the, what's, yeah, my goal is to focus on acting.

I've been, you know, in and out of writers rooms now throughout the whole pandemic, which I understand is a great privilege. And I am very grateful and I'm very grateful to my showrunners, my executives who love my writing. And I'm just ready, though, to be more visible. I haven't really gotten to act in anything. I've had big things here and there, but I haven't really gotten to star in anything and show off my acting chops

and all of my acting training and my vulnerability and comedy, and I just feel like I'm ready for that. And I know that is happening. Like that is happening this year, and I'm excited about that, but I'm just ready for people to see that side of me because like I said, it was like I was doing stand-up and then hosting and it's like

the one thing that I feel like, although a lot of people know I do that, I haven't really gotten to show that and prove myself to people. Well, I think that it's very similar conversation that I had a couple years back with like Tiffany Smith. Look what Tiffany did, right? Tiffany was the same type of thing. Went into hosting and then she's been, that's what she's been doing as far as acting goes to. And I think that when it comes down to, as you just said, I think that you just said the most crucial part of that for anybody who's no matter what you want to do whether it's acting or whatever job you want. Danny said it right then. She said, I know it's going to happen. And it was like a second thought to her. She just said, but that's what you need to do. In order to get stuff,

that's what you need to do. Yes. That is my manifesting, one of my many, if anyone that follows me, I'm really big on manifesting. And it's, it's taken so much mental strength to retrain my brain. I get, I get the feeling, you know, snarky and cynical and negative, but it just is not helpful with, if you're already dealing with that in this business, you need to just claim it. And so I don't even say it will happen. I just say it is happening, you know, because it is. And Tiffany and I are actually in a group together. And I love Tiffany.

We're so similar. We're so similar. It's like, okay, I'm ready, you know. And she's same thing. You know, she played Megan Markle. She, like me, has on some VO stuff and hosting and like, it's kind of like you have to wear all these hats to even survive out here. But I think we're both like, let me show you, give me the opportunity to show you what I can do. You know, and so same with how a lot of things are getting greenlit that already have existing IP.

We see that. It's like, why is this? Why are you making this, remaking this 40 billion times? That happens a lot in acting where it's like, okay, we're just going to pick from these four people who are in my demo because they're already established. Right. We know who they are. We want to take a risk on something.

They are. Yeah, but risks is how so many great things, you know, we talk about like Dev Patel being discovered or, you know, that's when I think of because everyone's like, oh, you have to have a big name to have a big movie. And it was like, no, Slumdog Millionaire ended up like winning an Oscar. And like, so you actually don't, especially if you're doing all these IPs, they already have a fan base behind them. So you should be putting in new people.

And so that's my. That's what this town is. This town is always been. We don't want to take a risk, but we want to be the people who remember for taking the risk. Like it's, my manager, I think he said actually that Reginald-Hudlin always says this, that everybody's rushing to be second. Yeah.

And I deal with that so much. It's like, oh, oh, she's on this. Okay, now we're ready. It's like, okay, let us know once you become famous and then we'll circle back around and want to work with you. Well, look, look. There were tons of people. I always go back to the, I watch that, the, the Rockies one of my favorite movies.

Right. Exactly. And it's that story where they wanted to pay him like $75,000 and say, that's it. You know, you're making nothing right now. So go take that and you're not starring in this. Who the hell are you? And he's like, no, I want to star in it. And it's like that story of that.

That's why it's always that he, that's the movie that people always bring back because it's like, believe in yourself, take the shot, push for what you want. Different business at the time, obviously in 1974, 75, whatever the hell. was. But you're right. There is this pool and a lot of people don't want to take that risk and working in the studio system for as long as I did. Yeah. It saw it all the time. And it was like, well, we want somebody, we want that person. We want that person, someone like that person, but we don't know. I don't know who that is. So no. And it's like, yeah, but look at the work. And it's why unknowns don't get the shot as much normally. And it's also the other thing. Another thing that's, that's why I give you guys so much credit for

people who are acting. The problem is that now, especially with streaming, because back in the day, TV, you could go and if you're unknown, you can make your name in TV and make the move because there's not a lot of big movie stars that are making the transition. Now Julia Roberts is doing TV. Everybody's doing streaming now. So it's like there's competition now

at even the highest level to get in and make your move. So yeah, I thank you guys for the, it's a grind. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing happened with Issa Ray. Like she never, they,

when she came out and was like, they wanted to recast me. I was like, of course they did. I knew I knew that. Like, of course they did. They wanted to pick somebody else with her own show about her own life, you know. And so now a lot of us creators, I'm so lucky to have a writing background where I can literally write myself into my shows and be like, I'm not giving this to you.

I'm not giving you this script unless I can be in it. Rami also did that as well. And so so many of us, Phoebe Waller Bridge. It's like, you know, everybody now wants to take a chance on her. And a lot of these studios, my manager would ask them, would you have taken a chance on her before she was who she was? And they're like, no. And it's like, okay, well, there you go.

How are you going to get new IP, new stories, new people, new faces, new talent, new ideas? So that's where I'm at for this year. That's where I've been at. But now I know this year is like going to be a big turning point. Well, I think that's for everybody out there who's listening, that you should take that and you should, and you really, We get comments like that a lot of times people asking, even when it comes to stuff like podcasting on how to do it

because there's so many people doing it and YouTube, listen to what Danny said. Put the positivity out there. Get yourselves in that spirit. I know it's tough. The last two years, it's been tough for a lot of people. But I do feel we're at the light of the end of the tunnel.

I really do feel that. And maybe that's me putting it that philosophy that Danny just talked about. So either way, Danny was so nice to talk to you after a bit. So we should do this again. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Of course. For letting me geek out about my movies and talk about shrooms.

Yeah, that was pretty fascinating. But the other thing is when you're able to talk about your show, why don't you come back here and let's do that as well. Yeah, I will. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, Danny Fernandez, please go and follow her on Twitter, Ms. Danny Fernandez. You see it right there. And once again, everybody, don't forget about those tears.

It is. Patreon.com slash S.E.N. Live. Check it out today. Do not forget about Spotify. Don't forget about Apple Podcasts, all that and more. You got so much. Appreciate you guys. Hit those comments because I comment all of them back.

You know that. It takes me a while, and that's a good thing, but I do it. All right, everybody. Thank you to Danny. Thank you, you, you guys. See you next time.