hey good i love the youtubers standing
up
like that is so cute
that is so cute dang you guys like
nobody
i haven't everybody's been sitting down
i didn't know that you would be able to
see
us oh hello
hello
that was just a special treat so that
you could know
you're more comfortable in my jackings
right now
i do i have a pill i have a special
pillow that i'm using that supports
my neck so that i can watch television
on the ceiling
that's exciting you can lay on your back
and still like read a book or put your
ipad on your chest
yeah it's the it's i can't do that i
couldn't do it anymore so i put it i put
a projector
on my ceiling so now i have the full um
i just
because i was getting literally i was
getting herniated discs
from the amount of television i watched
and the amount i played on my phone
same problem so that i have a huge
question for you we have something very
big in common
i love reality tv
oh i'm so glad you said that and not
like
um because i would have been like felt
sorry for you um but
now i just think yes you're queen
because
it's so fun and funny what are you
watching right now like what
are you doing every single thing that's
on bravo
um if the kardashians were and i'd be
watching that
i also watched other reality things like
nailed it
like cake making shows i like i'll watch
all of the you know that english baking
show that everybody loves i forget what
it is on netflix
and then i'll watch masterchef
masterchef junior
um i watch survivor um so i'm a very
broad i have a very broad
but also i i i love documentaries
like there's a beautiful documentary on
netflix that has been out for years
but it's called dogs just called dogs
and it's so beautifully shot
and i love dogs and yeah and then
there's a
another great documentary on netflix
called unnatural
selection which is about crispr and
genetic and gene editing and
so i'm like i go all over the shop i
like
really smart stuff really dumb stuff
and if i'm really in in the like in a
vegetative smoothie
i'll watch her hgtv you know home stuff
well nailed it is fantastic and you
talked about loving dogs
um you're you're a big supporter of
adopting
wrestling yeah i'm about to get if if
if they they're coming to um tomorrow
and if they
say that my house is okay and that my
other dogs are okay with her i am
getting a 19 year old
chihuahua called jolene who has one
tooth
and her tongue sticks out the whole time
and i'm
in love with her and i just i just found
her own pet finder
so she's a rescue and um and i'm
just gonna do hospice with her i love
that you're super famous
and they still come and check out your
house yeah i always get like really
nervous i'm like this is the backyard
that the fence is
i know because it's good i'm nervous
i'm totally nervous and of course when i
adopted my boys i was fully
like nervous and i actually failed the
first um
because i didn't have uh the right kind
of
carbon monoxide thingy um
whatever but you know it's scary for
everybody
i really want i really want them to say
yes i can keep jolene
because she is a absolutely crunchy
scrappy little dork
tell you you are super famous in my
house because
there is a sesame street episode you're
on i'm sure you're aware
and that's the episode he chooses to
watch on repeat
oh a poor thing fun to do
and i was a dream come it actually was a
dream come true
like you know i watched sesame street
when i was a kid so i just couldn't even
believe that i was a guest
like when i was a kid it was like stevie
wonder was the guest
do you know what i mean so i was just
like
oh my god oh my god and also i love kids
and they love me and i used to be a
nanny
so um yeah so
i just had the best fun i i i like to be
a dork
that's really good though was there a
puppet that was your favorite because i
loved it they all had to see a wigs on
while they performed with
so adorable and yeah there was one but i
can't remember her name but she's a
special needs
she's the first special needs of special
abilities
depending on which way you look at it um
puppet and she was really nice
now you've got a bunch of stuff coming
up they sent over like a list of things
about you
like a guide sheet like this 17 pages
of how much you have been happening
that's important
is that i've basically wrote directed
and produced a movie
and it's really good and it's going to
come out
in imax and it's going to come out
sometime around mid
october or later if it's not safe i'm
not going to put anyone in danger but
i'm so excited because they think it's
good enough to be
on the huge screen um so i i
did a good job um it was it's cinematic
it's about a beautiful beautiful subject
um uh it's about you know
family love and uh loving
somebody on on the spectrum who's
severely
severely um low functioning
and and and then there's romance there's
platonic love familial love
and then basically it i'll break your
heart you'll cry
and then you'll laugh and then you'll
get really happy at the end
and it's got amazing cast too right you
have king hudson in it our friend leslie
odom junior's in there
maddie ziegler my little dancing muse is
the she plays
music she's the title character now
since you were kind of involved in all
aspects of it is there one part you
liked the best
uh yeah i i like i love just
directing and i love costume designing
um so i think i love both those things
i think i love direct i love love love
directing that's in the moment when you
you know you like action
and then you're talking to your actors
about what that motivate the motivation
is or what that what they should be
what the feeling is they should be
admitting uh emoting
um and that i love i love love love love
and i love setting up
shots like um like i've got a fibonacci
brain
so it like the shots there has to be
like some golden rule and and my brain
does it doesn't work if it's not like a
fibonacci theorem
so every shot you like every shot
uh it was really annoying for the poor
cinematographer
um and the producer but yeah just
sometimes
things i'll need to move things just
because uh
it has to for me please please the eye
like the golden rule does
the movie actually has two soundtracks
one that
is solely you and then one that features
the cast
well the cast one is obviously going to
come out first because it's there
it's theirs and they did it and uh you
know
and then eventually i'll put out my one
which has some different words and
like because i wrote them or before i
wrote the movie
and so um then i went back and rewrote
lyrics for the
cast so that it supported the narrative
of the film
but yeah most importantly the soundtrack
with maddie and kate hudson and leslie
odom jr
singing on it is gonna be like it's
amazing they're all
amazing amazing singers and so
that's really fun to have them singing
my songs and you know i'm only putting
out the soundtrack afterwards just
because just for my fans
now i not that that's not enough
obviously
but what else have you been doing you
know during the whole quarantine
state
i've been parenting and that's something
that
yeah i've been parenting mostly and
that's new to me that's uh you know i've
only had have my kids for
two years one one years i mean and
it's been that's been primarily my focus
is just being
available and consistent and so you know
we've watched a lot of the office
and we also started the
the print fresh prince of bel air from
episode one season one yeah
so we've that's what we've been doing
like socially
and then um and then occasionally i'll
get someone will send a track and i'll
want to sing over it and i'll um i'll
have my
um engineer he'll come down and
and um he's not just an engineer he's
also a songwriter so sometimes we'll end
up writing
a bunch of songs that week and yeah
it's just it's it's it's awesome and
it's
sometimes really lonely and sometimes
really
demoralizing and knowing
your friends are suffering and
knowing your even people you don't know
but
that you care about like your fans or
you know just
are suffering um that's
i'm a bit of a sp an old sponge i'm one
of those highly sensitive people
so i just feel bad for everyone who's
struggling financially and
professionally right now
trying to just keep their head above
water yeah
well we got the signal that we're
supposed to wrap this up with you
to you you are an absolute treat and
delight thank you for taking the time
stay comfortable
keep that protected likewise i know
neither of you are wearing pants
goodbye
