EPISODE 3
Guest: James Quattrochi
REZA: James Quattrochi is your AAA card when you show up in Hollywood, you need to sign up with him.
JAMES: Work gets work. There are no small roles.
CALLER: Ok my question is, you know how you guys talk about getting the head shots and all that stuff but what if someone has absolutely nothing on their resumes?
YOUSEF: They are called "Yousef before he moved out here".
YOUSEF: You know, there is one thing that is on my resume right now that is.. a little bit.. I'd still say of a lie. I took a combat course...
(Laughter)
YOUSEF: and my teacher is actually Reza. And the truth is we just got drunk and I beat him up a little while.
REZA: Yeah that's right. I still have the bruises.
RAFINE: Did you make a certificate at least of sort?
REZA: Yousef put down like, some sort of, what kind of singing down and they called you on it?
YOUSEF: Oh jeez..
REZA: You gotta have at least some...
YOUSEF: Ok, you know what, I'm going to give you this story.
REZA: I'm going to let Yousef speak.
YOUSEF: Ahh this is the most embarrassing story.
(Reza says something in Spanish)
YOUSEF: I go in for this audtion, right? It's for a Justin Timerlake type part. And uhh.. you know I'm supposed to sing, but I'm thinking "Ahhh.. screw it, I'm not going to have to sing in the audition so it's cool." I go in there and the first thing he asks me to do is sing and my mind goes b-lank. Like seriously blank. And I'm like..
(Sound effect of a woman screaming and laughter follows)
YOUSEF: Yeah exactly. I'm like "What do I do?" and he's like "Well, you got a song?" So I'm like "uhh sure" and instead of that, what do I do? *singing* "I'm sitting here in an audition, and I don't know what to say but I hope that you hire me today." You know I'm just like...
(Same sound effect of a woman screaming)
YOUSEF: Exactly.
(Laughter)
CALLER: Did you get the job?
YOUSEF: No.
YOUSEF: As long as you don't give up on yourself, you won't lose.
CALLER: Yousef here's what I think you should do. I think you should kiss Jackson for me and you should videotape it and post it on youtube so we can all watch.
REZA: (gagging sound and then retching) Ohh I think I just got an oyster on the microphone. Do we have someone on hold? I gotta get out of there. I need to get that mental image out of my head. *****, thanks for the call but that was GROSS!!!
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JAMES: Study, get pictures, take it seriously. Get a job, so you're not broke right? Wait tables.. 400-500 dollars. Pay your bills. You don't have to get rich. Just pay your bills so you can do auditions and do what you love to do. Don't let anybody, anybody tell you that you can't do it. "Oh you can't make it." "Oh you'll never be a star." You know what, we've all heard that.
REZA: (after having a picture of his tattoo): Thank you, I think I'm pregnant now.
