Tosh Show - My Favorite Foley Artist - Tara Blume

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

Daniel sits down with a professional noise maker, Emmy-winning Foley artist Tara Blume, to discuss all things sound in TV and movies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Here goes. Time for me to get myself in trouble. You know, you ever see like a celebrity gets divorced and they're like, the irreconcilable differences. Not me. Oh, totally reconcilable. I don't know if that's the right way to say it, but I know why we're getting divorced and I'm not going to be vague.

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Didn't attach a resume, zero contact information. I mean, his email was the shortest and I hate reading emails, so he's, I'm going to consider him. Jake, you start on Monday. All right, Balen has experience in both radio and television. That's a good start. Okay, but he only has one eye. What do you think, Ed? Guest. Okay. But he only has one eye. What do you think Ed? Guest.

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Hey Eddie, you know what a Foley artist is? Yes, I do. You do? All right, you're in the biz. I'm in the biz. A Foley artist. You know, any time you're watching a television show or movies, all the noises that they're making, they don't record those live. They just have somebody do it later. That's ridiculous. Right? Seems like you could do it all at once, but no.

Nope. They only have, apparently in Hollywood, you only have one set of mics. Yeah. So it's like, oh, we don't have mics for shoes walking, her tires squeaking. So they record all that separately. And this week, you're going to get to meet my favorite Foley artist. Enjoy. It's Chelsea Handler. And if you listen to my podcast, Dear Chelsea, you know that I love making space for women to share their stories. And that is why I'm excited to be part of Women Take the Mic, iHeartRadio's celebration

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Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Do you believe in ghosts? This question, man. Why do you ask everybody this question? I want to know if I'm talking to an idiot or not. So you Foley don't believe? You don't get the... I don't, but I didn't mean to say that. I firmly believe in them because I can feel them.

Okay. Lots. I've maybe felt them in like 15 different places. That is a baby that you're feeling. No, bro. I was not pregnant. Oh. You're from Clearwater, Florida.

You're from Florida. Are you a Scientologist? Fuck no. But that's the capital. I know it is. Yeah. It's the international capital. It is the Mecca.

It's the Mecca. It's the Mecca. It's the Mecca. Tom Cruise owns a penthouse there. They own 66 buildings downtown. My dad did all the air conditioning for all of them. So I know. Your dad's a Scientologist. No he's not.

You sure? He's rich though. Off of their money? Yeah. Completely. What? I just don't want to go there. Crotch?

Is that that? Are you seeing my crotch? In the wine. We are catching. All right, let me see if that's better. Is that? That is much better. It's your dick, bro.

It's not. I got real excited talking about clear water. Yeah, I don't know. Growing up there was like, you know, my family broke up when they were like, when I was 13. What did you do? They had a nasty divorce and it lasted for eight years. So I was just like. The divorce lasted for eight years? Yeah, it was nasty. had a nasty divorce and it lasted for eight years. So I was just like.

The divorce lasted for eight years? Yeah, it was nasty. You can't have a divorce last for eight years. Yeah, but at one point you have to, hey, you know this is having a negative effect on. Yeah, they didn't catch that drift. You turned out so good though. I did some weird.

Then you went to school in Boston. Yeah. You're the toughest person I know. Why? I don't know. You wanna go to Boston? You ever wrestle an alligator and then call it a homophobic slur?

No. A little bit of Boston, a little bit of Florida. No, and I've actually never gone into a fight with anybody. I'm kinda sad to say. Do you love Boston? It was cold as fuck. I showed up with sandals, so I don't know. I love Boston.

I mean, did you live there though for four years? Never lived there, never lived. I make fun of them constantly, just love the city. The summer is great, but like, you know, half the fucking time it's rainy and snowing and cold, so that's what I remember. I wouldn't live there that half. I came from Florida, so it was like, you know,

in that sense it was kind of brutal. My school is cool though. Berkeley College of Music. Yeah. Prestigious. Don't you think? Uh-huh. Yeah. Was that hard to get into? Not for me. Was it Music. Yeah. Prestigious? Don't you think? Uh huh.

Yeah. Was that hard to get into? Not for me. Was it expensive? Yeah. A lot of cheddar? Yeah, I mean I had a pretty good scholarship. Okay, and you met your husband there.

Yeah. What were you there studying? Voice. Uh huh. Vocalist and music production engineering. And what is he? He's a drummer. Like whiplash.

Not quite. I would say whiplash is Juilliard. Your house is just full of noise. Yeah, correct. Because he's also a music producer and engineer. Do you sing like an angel? I do. You want to hear me sing? No. I don't like it when people sing in front of me. Why? It's uncomfortable. I won't look at you. How about that?

And I don't know where to look. Why don't you close your eyes and I'll serenade you. Then all of a sudden it gets real sexual and intimate. I don't like that either. It will probably get sexual, I sound sexual. Ah! All right. When did you get married?

I've actually been with my husband for 20 years. Uh-huh. We met when we were 20 at Berkeley in Boston. And we've been married for 11, 20 years. We met when we were 20 at Berkeley in Boston. And we've been married for 11, I think. That's pretty good. And we just had a, we have a two and a half year old. You have a two and a half year old baby girl,

and now you're five months pregnant with a boy. So I have a five year old boy and a one year old girl. It's an opposite. Now my daughter just turned one and I'm in heaven because zero to one is my nightmare. Oh, that's a lot. But once, once. You can toss them around the room.

A little bit, yeah. I just, oh, and there's a little bit of attitude. Like if I take her away from something that she wants, she'll try to like latch onto my shoulder and bite me. Sure, she's probably hugging you more now too. Oh, it's the best. Yeah. And now, for the people listening at home that aren't familiar with the inner workings

of the film industry, what is a Foley artist? So a Foley artist, uh, re-performs the sound to picture. You know, TV, film, porn probably does have Foley. Porn has Foley? I would say probably. Why is it called Foley? A man named Jack Foley did the insertion shots for silent movies. So like instead of paying the actor to pull a gun out of a holster, he would set up the scene and re-shoot the

the image of like the gun coming out of the holster. So when he was doing it, he was in like a space like this that was silent and so he like heard the actual prop coming out of the holster and it gave him the idea of adding sound to picture So he invented audio basically he invented. Yeah, we'd still have silent movies to this day Somebody would have figured it out. Okay, but their name wouldn't have been fully which probably a woman Why haven't they banked all the sounds in the world? I mean, they're starting to do it they're starting to cut a fully They're starting to cut a Foley from old Foley, which sucks because it's, nobody cares anymore.

Do you get residuals from the noises that you've made? Definitely not. Have you ever been like, oh, I'm 100% certain something I did for this is used in something else? There's no way I would be able to tell that. You couldn't tell? No. You've never like made the perfect sound?

Dude, I make the perfect sound like 20, like 2000 times a day. I know, but like one that stood out. What was your favorite sound? I don't know, I just say like right immediately, like, yeah, that's cool. Okay. How many takes do you do a sound?

Once usually. One take? Is it because you run out of celery? No, it's because I'm that good. I feel like celery, is that a go-to sound? For bones and trees, sure. How many shammies are you going through a week? Oh, I have like four in that a go-to sound for bones and trees sure how many chamois are you going through a week? Oh, I have like four in my room right now

You can take care of them they last a pretty long time and actually the older ones sound the best so what sound do you hate? What's nails on a chalkboard to you kisses kisses? I'm with you. Do you know why no? I don't know why you hate it cuz usually it's a fat white man kissing his hand. It's a fat white man kissing his hand. Full artist. Making the, okay, don't do it. I do it better than that. That's what a white man would be doing.

This is gross. My engineer and I always joke that people are kissing the cave. So they go like this. Kk, kk, kk, kk. For some reason they like put their hand around their hand. They don't just capture the audio of a natural kiss. Like you want to just stop licking yourself.

I know. I'm just trying to show you what I do. So you want to like, you know, make your hand and lip and get it wet. And that's how you do it. But if you put your hand over it, it sounds like a cave. You're beatboxing. You ever do this? I can't beatbox. What are you doing? This is the thing kids used to do. Well my hands wet from my saliva. Yeah, that's the last thing I want. You know Axel Foley? Who the fuck is that? He's an artist of some kind. This is the most respected Foley in my book. What is he? Guns and Roses? What is that?

That's Axel Rose. Wasn't he in Beverly Hills Cop? Yeah. Oh, the character. Character name. I didn't see it. It's the only Foley I could think of. I recognized it, I just couldn't place it.

The laxative scene in Dumb and Dumber. Do you remember that? Mm-hmm. Now do you guys do that? Oh yeah. What's your go-to noise for diarrhea exploding? Probably like a fucking can of beans. Just dropping it in water?

I'd probably like make a mixture of shit, so it'd just be like a can of beans and like chunks of watermelon. You have to buy your own produce? Sometimes. Most of the time. I add it to my invoice and send them a picture. You send them a photo? Of you opening a can of beans?

No, of the receipt, Dickhead. Oh. I thought you... Look, there's the beans. Oh, you fucking ate those. No, you didn't. Oh, that's good. By the way, much like a magician, do you feel like you shouldn't film your secrets?

No, if you go to my page, I'm posting like 900 videos. That's what I'm saying, like is that bad for business? In my mind, if somebody can take what I did and learn from it and like do better, then good on you. Do you prefer animation or live action? They're equally great if the production is great. If it's shitty, it's shitty. I always get so mad in animation

if they make you record something. They're like, okay, we just need you to breathe heavy. Well, it's different for vocals. What's that? It's different for ADR for vocals. Your job would be to do that. But I don't, I feel like, can't you just have somebody else breathe?

No, it's the sound of your voice box. It doesn't matter. Nobody knows the difference between somebody else. No, they use my voice box a lot actually to cover some of your shit up. Cover up my lack of interest. I actually do male cigarette blows lots. What does that entail?

Uh-huh, that's a male cigarette blow. Mm-hmm. That's good. Are you still using smoking to let you know that people are cool? It's in a lot still, shockingly. I don't know what it is. I don't know if like the director's like, we just need to give this actor something to do because they suck at acting.

Like Brad Pitt and he always like holding fruit or something. He's always eating stuff. Right. He is. He's like eating something in every scene. Yeah. But I think that's because he just, you know. Now he thinks it's cool.

Or he's just trying to... What? Just like get the ladies off. Do you still find him attractive? Yeah. I find old blonde men weird looking. Who's that? Like I think blonde boys are cute,

but once you're like a man and you have blonde hair, I think it's fucking weird looking. So like Ryan Gosling, weirdo? Is he really blonde? Yeah. Dirty blonde, yeah. I'm not going to say dirty blonde. Do you watch movies and just constantly critique it?

I used to, but now I have a baby and I'm not listening at a proper level whenever I watch anything, so it's just dialogue and music is all I'm usually hearing. Do you ever watch movies and just mute it and just read subtitles so that you can just leave your work at home? Definitely fucking not.

I thought that was a good question. I thought, oh, that might be a nice way to. No, but most of the time, if I can hear it and it's bad, sure, it takes me out of the film. In your opinion, what's like the best movie or TV show in terms of Foley? No Cutter of Old Men is really good. Oh. Oh.

And then like any Quentin Tarantino movie because he's obsessed with Foley, so he just like plays it up. No! No! No! No! No! Have you gotten to work with him?

I wish. Okay. Maybe we can make that happen. He's gotta come out of retirement. Oh, is he done? No. Oh. Then why did you, what is happening come out of retirement. Oh, is he done? No. Oh, then why does he, what does that mean?

He says he's retired, but really bro, there's no way he's done. Oh brother. What about AI, you fucking worried about it? Everyone should be. Why? It's fucking weird. Oh.

What about Michael Winslow, you guys talk? Couldn't tell you that is. You serious? God damn it, that blows my mind. Who is that? Michael Winslow, he was couldn't tell you that is you serious god damn it that blows my mind It was Michael Winslow. He was on the in the police academy movies how he made a lot of funny noises The booger guy. No, he just made weird noises. He could make any noise like sirens and yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, it's kind of coming to me and black gentleman. Yep. Yep. Yeah. What about him though? Like what I just thought he would be up on your Mount Rushmore of noisemakers.

I just don't know what his deal is. He's just like a beatboxer, he can make any noise with his mouth. Yeah, and he's a comedian too. That's cool. Special, special talents. Oh, Tara, you're funny. Am I?

Uh-huh. You ever get any injuries making sounds? Oh, you bastard. Yeah. Toy your gooch. Basically. Planner fasciitis. Really?

Couldn't do it for like five years. What? Cause you have to perform footsteps in place. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Well couldn't you just be like, hey, I can do everything but this? I gotta outsource that?

That's what I did, but it was like, I couldn't do half the job. Half the job is feet. Half the job is feet, huh? Correct. How are your feet now? Still kinda fucked. Well, at least you have two kids.

At least I have two kids and I'm gonna gain 50 pounds and make my feet feel even better. Don't gain 50. I already did. You already gained 50? With her I did and I'm on my way. Nah, you'll be fine. Guess how much I fucking weigh right now.

God damn it, here we go. How tall are you? 580. Guess how much I fucking weigh right now. God damn it, here we go. How tall are you? 580. 180. No less. So glad it was less. You fucker. 161. Oh, that was closer, 167.

I tell you what, most of it's water weight. I know how much you drink. You don't know, Dick. Are you serious? Yeah. I saw you brought it. This thing? Yeah. Good lord. Please, get that off the table, it's not strong enough.

I've actually broke one of these before. It just smashed into 20 pieces. Did you record the sound? No, it was in the hallway. You ever fuck around with ASMR? I tag it all the time just so people will flock to my page, but no. I feel like the people that just listen to it

are the cuckoo ones. The people that record it, I'm like, all right, whatever. The whole thing is kind of weird. The shallow wet feet video on your Instagram. Oh, did you like that? Was that for a production or just some rich dude? That was for Quentin, so I could try to get on his next film.

And why were you wearing animal ears? It was Halloween. I was like, it was like a Halloween post. So you weren't just. Because I'm trying to like get somebody to come to my page. I thought maybe you were like doing an OnlyFans. No, I was like trying to sex it up and I was actually two days pregnant in that video.

Oh, hot. Two days. But see, let's talk about that. You're never really two days pregnant in that video. Oh, hot. Two days. But see, now let's talk about that. You're never really two days pregnant because they go back to your, you have your conception and then they go back to your last period. So it's like two weeks back.

So it like makes no sense. That's stupid as fuck. That's stupid as fuck. What do you think about Alabama? They're doing some fun laws, aren't they? Are they the ones that did the IABF thing? Oh my God, that's so crazy. And now they're saying that jerking off might be a misdemeanor.

It should be. Like a school shooting with just millions getting killed every time. It should be. A youngster jerks it. Are you gonna record the audio of your baby's birth and use it if you ever get hired and need to? No, because it's gonna be underwater.

You're doing a water birth? Yeah. Have you done a water birth the first one? Mm-mm. Oh, man. But the first one was natural. How long can you hold your breath? Probably not very long.

Probably like a minute. Oh, so you're not going under? Not me, dipshit. I like the idea of you doing a complete underwater birth. Just holding my breath. Just training for it. Here we go. Right now.

It's like, what are you, married to David Blaine? That's gross. David Blaine or just the concept of? Putting my head under the water that I'm birthing. Oh, that's fair. What if it's a large body of water? It's fair. What if it's a large body of water? It's not. When you have your baby, are you gonna stop? Are you gonna just keep working right away?

This is hilarious, because the first baby, I was like, oh yeah, I'll be back in four months, and then I didn't go back for a year. Right. So we'll see what happens. You're gonna play it by ear? Yeah. I'm gonna give you some gifts.

Sweet. Everybody that's on my show gets a gift. Of? Stuff at my house that I don't want anymore. Don't give me that. That's what I do. And you can get rid of it. I don't care. That's not my problem. Okay?

Oh, you have them? Yeah. Is that what's under this blanket? Uh-huh. I'm probably gonna take it to a foley stage if it's worth anything. Oh. A baby bjorn. For a baby.

Oh. baby. Oh Oh my god, this is for like an infant, huh? Yeah Jiminy Christmas You'll like that have one of these well now you got to this is dirty as fuck. I don't clean it You're not gonna wash it for me. No, I don't clean. It looks like there's throw up on it. No, there's no throw up on it. What the fuck did you bring me? This is a walker. This is a good walker.

I don't want anymore. I don't need it. You brought me all your ex baby shit. Some swaddles. They're all clean swaddles too, but whatever. But this walker has the wheels so it doesn't go fast. Oh, I got this.

Oh my God, you're too much right now. I am not taking that. Get that away from me. No, get that away from me. Stop, this is nice. No, fuck that thing. What do you mean? Your kid eventually, look.

No, it's bad for their hips, dummy. No, this one isn't, because they have their feet. No. You don't, this one, they get older, you're fine. Oh, they look. My kid's got the best hips. Not using it. You're gonna take it.

Nope. All right. What the fuck? This is for your three-year-old. It's a bumper car. Oh my God, that's actually awesome. Yeah. You're really gonna give me all this shit?

Yeah, I don't want it in my house. She's gonna love this. Yeah, and let me tell you something. I can't wait to give it to her, actually. Right, I'll make her happy. Nothing better than coming home and giving your kid something. Although it's gonna get skid marks all over my courtyard.

No, it won't. It's a bumper car. It's real soft. Pretty skid marky. Anyway, do you know why it doesn't have any stickers on it? Because when I buy any toy for my kid, I spend 30 minutes to an hour. Destickering it?

Every time. Why? With Goo Gone. Goo Gone, you're not a sponsor, but send me a fucking crate. I use Goo Gone and a hair dryer and I get every warning sticker, every sticker, because I think they look ugly and I don't like them,

and I do it. All right, so you got this. That is weird. I'm not taking that from you, but I'm taking that, but I'm not taking it from you. No, you're taking everything. Yeah, that thing's cool. I'm gonna load your car up.

How do you know I even have room in my car? I don't, we'll figure it out. Oh, you're saying you're not gonna take that, but we're gonna load it in your car and you'll give it to somebody. I'm definitely not doing that. What do you know I even have room in my car? We'll figure it out. Oh, you're saying you're not gonna take that, but we're gonna load it in your car and you'll give it to somebody. I'm definitely not doing that. What do you mean?

I don't have time for that shit. You've got time. Although if I had room, I would take it to a fully stage. I can disassemble it. No, like sound wise, that's like, you know, necessary but not on a fully stage. Jeez. Can you get your huge Gatorade thing?

It's, uh, agua. It's too big. I'm going to have the... It's distracting. I'm going to have this thing out, too, the whole time. What time do you wake up? 620. Because my kid goes, time to get up.

What time does your kid go to bed? We'll try to put her to sleep at 730. She won't fall asleep till, like, 8 up. What time does your kid go to bed? We'll try to put her to sleep at 7.30. She won't fall asleep till like 8.40. That's too late. Yeah, what the fuck? How do I get him to sleep sooner? I don't know, I've got two sleepers. I knew you were gonna say that, fuck you.

Maybe if you weren't fucking making a racket all the time. I'm like quiet most of the time. Take your jacket off, I'm sure that we'll have no problems cutting around that. That's a Foley. Every question now we have to make sure that it's at the end of the interview. That's a Foley artist's, no sorry,

that's a Foley mixer's dream cue. Jack it off. You ever sing the Star Spangled Banner at a Tampa Bay Buccaneers game? I sang it at the Atlanta Braves when I was 11. So no? Tampa Bay, no I have never sang for Tampa Bay. Not even the Lightning?

I've sang for the Lightning. You have sang for the Lightning? Totally. Whew, that's cool. Mm-hmm. Got that question answered. You're singing in college, but then you transitioned in college to fully work or no?

No, there's not a specific... There's no degree in fully? No, or instruction to do it. I did take a visual media course in college where we had to replace the sound for three minute clips of, I mean, like 24 films that my professor had a hold of. So like one of them was Matrix, one was like Monster, Ink. Which one did you pick? I did the Matrix and the Monster one.

Oh. There were like 23 different ones. I don't know, the Monster one's a weird one. It was fun because it was animation. Oh, I thought you're talking about when was Charlize Theron where she was like a murderer. Oh yeah, no, not that one. Depressing. No, no, no.

Whatever, that's what I was thinking, so I didn't understand. I said Monsters Inc. I didn't hear the Inc part. So you picked Monsters Inc, sorry, for the chuckle there, and The Matrix to do a three minute chunk of. Right, right, so you have to find classmates that sound like the actors, do ADR with them, replace the sound, hire a film score major person

to write a film score clip for three minutes of the film, do the foley, what else is there, backgrounds and add effects. And you were like, yeah, I'm in. This is fun. Yeah. I was like, whoa, this is crazy. Isn't it neat when you, when a light goes off, you're like, I can do this. Yeah.

There was like a, literally like a hole opened up in my brain. I was like, holy shit. That was the spirit. Yeah. That was like a literally like a hole opened up in my brain. I was like, oh that was a spirit Yeah, that was the spirit but I like ended up doing like four other people's projects I guess they were just like we don't want to fucking do this and I was like, can I do your folly? So they're at So when I came to Los Angeles, there was some cheating going on. Yes, and when I came to Los Angeles, that was my skill level That was it. Yeah for three minute clips. You just hustled. Yeah. Isn't that neat?

Yeah. I think that's pretty great. From like, cause I'm guessing you had no experience and you were like. Zero, zero. You had to explain this to the family when you're like, this is what I'm gonna try to do. I don't think I explained.

I was like, I'm going to California, fuck off. Okay, sweet little letter there. Mm-hmm. How long till you like actually broke in and were like, oh, I got a real gig and I'm living off this? Um, six months actually. That's amazing. Yeah, incredible.

You won an Emmy for your sound work on the show Atlanta. Yeah, did you watch it? I haven't watched it yet, but it's in my queue. Just watch episode six or seven. It's called Teddy. Is that the one you won the Emmy for? It's called Teddy Perkins. Because when you submit to an Emmy, you pick which one is the best one,

and they just judge off of that one episode. Right, correct. So this was the one that you were like, fully work, focus on episode six. I actually only worked on three or four of those episodes, so the rest I can't speak for. You ever been to Atlanta? Yes, I'm from Florida.

I shot a show there just recently. Always a car on fire on the freeway somewhere in Atlanta. I haven't been there in a while. Just always. Every day, there's just a random car, a Blaze on the side of the road, and I found that very peculiar. Yeah, I want an Emmy.

What do you do with that Emmy? It's just sitting on my piano. Is it a full-size Emmy or is a fully Emmy a little different? No, it's heavy. It's a thing. It looks like the normal Emmy that we've all grown accustomed.

What are you trying to say? I don't know. I didn't know if it was like, if some of the subcategories below. The less important, not famous people. The ones that they chop off and don't air on television. Yet if you came up and gave,

did you get to give an acceptance speech? No, because I was up there with 10 men. 10 men, and they took the spotlight away from you? The sound supervisor spoke. Bunch of shit. You guys should have all just went up there and just made dumb noises with blocks and stuff. And they're not all foley artists,

it was like the whole sound crew. Okay, it would have been fun if you would've went up there with blocks and you're just like, for your speech just started. Just like pull it out of my tits. That's what they're there for. I've gotten away with a lot.

What? Just shoving shit places through security points. What are you doing? You got an agenda? One that's really funny that pops into my head when I was in high school. I shoved a fucking Evian bottle full of Goldschlager in my crotch and just walked in, like went to the bathroom.

Shove it in your, right, in, like, between your legs. You just pinched it. Yeah, yeah, I just held it, right, right, right. Little thigh gap pinch. Right, right, right, right. You like Goldschlager, you still drinking it? No. It was a fucking 16 year old.

Trying to get shit faced. Mission accomplished, huh? Yeah, super accomplished. What's the hardest thing to recreate? That's always the question that everyone asks. Good question, John. So I'll see something and we'll immediately think of, okay, what the material is, right?

So, okay, it's wood. How much resonance does the wood have? So like that's where your brain thinks to try to like build what you see. Because you don't have the object, like ever. Is every sound the whole way through? Are you having to duplicate it? They can't use any of the sound that was just?

Yeah, nothing is really captured because they have lavaliers and booms and their prerogative is just to capture the vocals, not anything else. Do you prefer movies that don't have music backgrounds? This is what happens in a mix. They don't know how to treat Foley. They don't know how to mix it properly.

So what do they do? They just push the music up. What about nature sounds? Is that your world? Nature sounds. We do anything, so animal eating we would be doing, but like animal noises, no. Okay.

But like anything an animal is touching in their feet, in what they're eating. Spits we do. Spits? Throw up, choking, drinking, smoking, kissing, fellatio. Fellatio. Lots of it. I'm guessing you're not making fart noises.

No, libraries. Libraries for farts. Yeah. Tons of them. Okay. Front farts, what about front farts? Do they ask Mm-hmm. Front farts. What about front farts? Do they ask you?

Front? Front farts? Queefs. Queefs, same thing. Front farts. You tell me there's a library for front farts? Yeah, yeah, I am. Oh, is it a different category?

I'm not, that's not my category. Not a lot of front farts in films. I've only heard like two or three. Oh, do you know them off the top of your head? Not really. I feel like I can see the actress's face, but I don't even know her name. I wish I could just make that noise on my... I can't do it.

I think we all do. All right. I don't need you. Please stop trying to make a front part. What was one of the weirdest sounds that you've had to make? And how did you make it? Everybody always asks this question, and the weirdest sounds that you've had to make? And how did you make it? Everybody always asks this question, and the only one that I can recall

from being a baby foley artist, because I was really proud of myself in the moment, I had to do a sound for a live lobster. The noise of them screaming when they were before you? No, no. They were just handling live lobsters. And obviously I'm not going gonna go get a live lobster. So I took a shell of a flashlight, like a plastic one,

emptied out the contents, put a chamois in it, a wet one. And then took like a cooking utensil, you know the like claw cooking utensil with the circle, put that up against it and was just kinda moving it around and it sounded great for it. What would the chamois do? It would just add some weight? It adds like wetness and gooeyness.

And you could hear that inside the flashlight? Yeah, because like half of it's like hanging out of the flashlight, you know? Oh, okay. You know what I mean? And I'm like tapping the plastic against itself in the. You really, you physically get, kind of get into all the sounds, don't you?

Oh, it's a very physical job. That's why I've been injured. Are you gonna be in the Foley business forever? We'll see. You enjoy it? Well, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't like it. That's not true. A lot of people do jobs that they don't really love.

Not me. By the way, do they do Foley on The Bachelor and shit? Like all those kissing shows? They do? Those aren't those real kiss noises. Reality. I've done reality. I've done Survivor actually. I just did a reality show. You ever do The Goat? You fully work on The Goat? The Goat. I got to shoehorn you into my contract. I don't know what that is.

It's a new show coming out on Prime. Get me out. On Freevy. What's the context of the show? Is there anything that you... Oh, wouldn't you like to know? Well, I don't think I've ever told anybody what the show is about, yet I've plugged it for like fucking six months. It's all submarines. My little kid is obsessed with singing yellow submarines right now.

Oh, that's not a bad song to sing. I mean, it's the worst Beatles song, but who cares? She's like obsessed with yellow submarines, and I played the song. That's cute. My kid listens to everything from the new Wonka movie, so that's what I'm into. Well, she wants back in her knee.

Sesame Street is nice. But we were just listening to him. She hasn't watched anything yet. Oh, you don't let her watch TV? No, I am. Oh, good. Yeah, I don't want to open that floodgate. I love it.

Love that floodgate. Don't want to open it. Yeah. Let me know how that goes. With this one? When that one comes out and you need to just fucking... Yeah, yeah. 30 seconds to like do something else. If it's alive, we're gonna be like, cool, here's Nemo.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with the TV. I'm like, watch it. And then, you know what I do? Oh, he wants to keep watching it for way too long. Well, I just turn it off. And then it's like, okay, who cares? Now go outside. Now he's entertained outside.

Like, people that get stuck to their screen. I mean, no, he doesn't. He watches it when I let him. And then when I take it away, he stops watching it. How old is he? 15. Five. Five, that's what he said, yeah.

So you have a good little boy that listens to you then. Yeah, well, I mean, he also doesn't know how to undo passwords. Do you ever raise your voice at your daughter? Yeah. Are you worried about the relationship of mother and daughter when she turns like 15, 16? Yeah, because I was a hellfire. Little pistol? Yeah, I did everything.

Are you worried raising kids in Los Angeles? That close to Venice Beach, sure. Uh-huh. That's nice though. Yeah, it's really nice. Some culture. One time I was walking with my son, and I think we were in West Hollywood, and this person that didn't have a place to sleep, I don't know, what are we calling him now?

Unhoused. person that didn't have a place to sleep. I don't know, what are we calling him now? And I was- Unhoused. He just walked by us and he goes, what if I shoot you? Oh, come on. Hold on, here he goes. And then I just like smiled,

and he goes, what if I shoot myself? And he kept walking. Right, that's what I did. I just started laughing, because it was fucking funny. And I'm just showing, I'm telling my son, like we're not scared, that guy's kind of funny. You know where you're not gonna get scared?

No, we didn't get scared, he just laughed. Because you laughed. Right. What if I shoot you, what if I shoot myself? I was like, this guy's great. Oh my God. Why would I want to live anywhere else? Do you want to do some Foley work for our show in success?

Sure, do you have things that you need foley for? Nope. We don't need a lot. Although I would like some kissing sounds. This would be the only foley, but you have it silenced. Careful. I only have one mug. Did that hurt your ears? No, no, I just want the mug to break. You were like, like it hurt your ears.

Well, it was because I was like, oh, please don't break the one mug that I have. It was much louder than I thought. This table's crazy. Yeah, it was because I was like, oh, please don't break the one mug that I have. It was much louder than I thought. This table's crazy. Yeah, well, I'm sure we got this from Designs Within Reach. Perfect. Maybe we got it from Room and Board. Where did we get it from, Room and Board?

Yep. Oh, it's a Room and Board. I could tell just because it has a modern, sleek look, and it's probably overpriced. It was lovely meeting you. You too. Tara, thank you for coming. I look forward to listening to you in the future. It's Chelsea Handler. And if you listen to my podcast, Dear Chelsea, you know

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talked to my mom, uh, three minutes max before she's trying to wrap things up. Like you gotta get off the phone. Then she gets mad if I don't, uh't check in or like, oh, you didn't ask how I was doing or you didn't, I'm like, you give me such a small window. I don't know if anybody can relate to this. It started because I think she's like, oh, you never asked about my shingles when I had the shingles. I'm like, you complain constantly. She goes, oh no, that was after it was

over, but during it, I didn't and you guys didn't check in on me very much. I'm like, Oh, well, you only let us talk for a few minutes. So anyway, I thought I'd come up with a new segment where we just check in to see how my mom is doing physically. All right. Let's give her a call. Hello? Hey, Mom, how are you doing physically? Fine, really good. Thank you for asking. All right.

I love you. Talk to you later. That's it? That's it. Got to go. I didn't get any crate. Oh, I was joking. I didn't send you anything in a crate.

I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just being serious. I was just to go. I didn't get any crate. Oh, I was joking. I didn't send you anything in a crate. I was just being silly.

Bye. Bye. Love you. Bye. She's doing good. Now you needed a backstory to that. Let's hear about this crate. The other day was her birthday. I sent her some flowers and she's like, I got flowers. I love them. Thank you.

And I said, oh, the crate didn't show up yet. And she goes, no, it didn't come. I'm like, I'll be on the lookout. A big crate's coming. She still, she still doesn't, she still thinks a crate should be showing up. Anyway, I'm glad to know that she's doing well. Her health is good.

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Did he just shake his head? Yes. Yes. Holy shit. Uh, the Goat is coming out on Freevy. Greatest reality show of all time. And, uh, my tour popping in everywhere, ad and shows in, where am I ad and shows? Indianapolis? Yeah. You can't just I adding shows? Indianapolis?

Yeah. You can't just do one show in Indianapolis. Check out all those dates. Come see me in Vegas. Come see me at the Dolby theater in Los Angeles. All right. Carl's falling asleep on me. Another bedtime story for my once three year old son.

See you next week. Once upon a time in a small city with the little tiny people all they wanted to do was ride a motorcycle. But they couldn't. But, it was only a two-seat motorcycle. So they tried to keep up with the other motorcycles. But so they made it a motorcycle. Where? They turn it. They turn it, they turn it. Red rotor, red rotor, pre-tum-o-tor. And then he did it. He ride a seat.

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