A Chicago Jew, An African-British Indian, and a SF Bay Area Filipino-White walk into a discord!

What do they have in common? They graduated together from Calarts' Acting Program in 2018! NOW Max, Yanni, and Jeremy podcast about being unemployed and TRAINED (!) as they make their way through the confusing world of SHOWBIZ, BABY!

Stories about art school, stories about the industry, and hot takes on cultural topics.  What else do you need?!

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Welcome to Episode 4 of 'Drama Queens!'

We had a bit of audio trouble AGAIN this week, but it kicks in around 27 minutes (Yanni's solo track drops out) but we were MOSTLY able to salvage it. So enjoy us talking about everything from how disappointed Yanni was in Zack Snyder's 'Army of the Dead' and how much Max loves D*ck Cheese!

0:52 - Max singing the iCarly theme song

1:07 - Have you seen Cry Baby with Johnny Depp

2:55 - Is there a practical reason you always mention your 01 visa?

4:32 - Jeremy’s FURY

4:56 - Taking the thumb

6:05 - What’s the most influential showbiz thing that’s happened to you in the past week?

6:30 - You gotta TURN IT ON for the people!

7:20 - Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead does not get an endorsement here

8:36 - What would have made it way better? Zombies playing roulette.

11:00 - How Bautista cries.

13:00 - Max and Paige couldn’t even WATCH it.

13:14 - Max loves D*ck Cheese

14:05 - Justice League - The Snyder Cut

14:54 - Max, what is the first best crying scene that comes to mind?

16:20 - Jeremy’s choice.

18:10 - Walking Dead SPOILER ALERT!!!

18:52 - Yanni’s favorite crying scene.

19:44 - Yanni gets MAD!

20:30 - I watched Paapa’s ‘To Be or Not To Be’

20:50 - LAG DRAMA

22:10 - Max’s dream Shakespeare performance.

24:23 - Yanni wants to act with Pappa.

24:46 - And would love to act with every brown actor out there.

25:16 - Yanni’s dream Shakespeare performance.

26:17 - Jeremy’s dream Shakespeare performance.

28:27 - The Year of the King

29:55 - How to make the Calarts experience better for future students?

31:05 - What Max would’ve wanted.

33:51 - The difference a good camera operator makes to an audition.

35:09 - A class or two on the business side of acting.

35:38 - What Jeremy would’ve wanted

36:40 - “I want to become an artist”

38:00 - Stephen Fry says to see yourself as verb

39:40 - Max has a hard time letting himself make bad art

40:22 - The New Yorker Cover Illustrator Anecdote

41:21 - Jeremy’s toxic mindset entering art school

42:39 - How arrogant were you guys entering Calarts and how did your mindset change?

43:52 - Yanni’s previously held acting prejudices.

46:30 - Don’t do it for the moneyyy

47:40 - Yanni finally answers the question.

48:24 - You gotta BELIEVE.

49:06 - If it takes time, it takes time…

49:13 - Max was a hot sh*t shooting star.

52:15 - Acting in the name of CAPITALISM?! Or for instant gratification?!

53:30 - There’s a verse in the Quran.

55:08 - Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’

55:40 - Art being tied to money through history.

56:52 - Disheartening nepotism.

58:36 - Tik Tok is free.

59:35 - Pop Smoke is basically Van Gogh

1:00:12 - Max HAD to bring up Basquiat.

1:01:13 - Charlie Bit Me is an NFT.

1:03:20 - Should we make Drama Queens NFTs? + Jeremy’s REAL thoughts on NFTs.