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Alice Is Fine - Sarah Hime
Ever felt the emotional rollercoaster of life's highs and lows, all crammed into one week? Scott Powers certainly has with his parents' recent hospitalization, and the incredible support he received. Meanwhile, Jim Banks brightens things up with the news of his newest furry family member, Ember, and the joyful chaos of his son Jimmy's back-to-school adventures. Join us as we welcome Sarah Hime, the dynamic Kitty Kat from "Pink is In," and navigate through heartfelt stories and lighthearted moments that resonate deeply with our listeners.
Discover the inspiration behind Sarah Hime's poignant short film, "Alice is Fine," which tackles the pressing issue of gender bias in healthcare. Sarah opens up about her own medical struggles and the emotional journey of crafting this impactful eight-minute dramedy. Get an insider look at the collaborative magic that brought this story to life, from the creative guidance of Vivian Endicott Douglas to the whirlwind of assembling a talented team for production. This episode is a testament to resilience, teamwork, and the power of storytelling to effect change.
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On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, scott and I have a talk with someone who is an actress of television, film and theater, a filmmaker, a writer, a co-producer, an arts educator, an acting coach and so much more. You might know her from the TV show. Pink is In as Kitty Kat. She is the lovely and talented Sarah Heim. Hey, scott, give us a kitty cat beat. Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? It's time for the final countdown.
Speaker 2:The show starts in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, let's rock, well, hello, hello. Welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, Season 5, episode 23. We got a great show today. I'm your host, scott Powers powers, and with me is my other host, jim banks. Jim, yes, welcome back.
Speaker 1:It's been a while, thank you. I know I was on the last episode, didn't you hear me? I was doing my lynn imitation.
Speaker 2:The whole episode I fooled you no, no, she said she was doing her jim and impersonation you were the commercials. So you are still there in spirit, technically.
Speaker 1:I get paid. I get paid nothing with my nothing.
Speaker 2:So, man, how the hell have you been doing?
Speaker 1:Good, oh, and I got something. Hold on, I got something for the episode or for the show, because I forgot thatn had a signature. So here's mine. Wait, what did she say? Oh, yeah, okay, so instead of her doing her, yeah, I guess I can do my yeah I don't think it'll have the sitting fact on my brother.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I don't know as hers well, we'll see who else you know.
Speaker 1:You know when I turn it my brother loves that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know. Oh man, that almost sounded like her.
Speaker 1:Close your ear, brother okay, what's been going on? That's weird things, oh no man, not a whole lot.
Speaker 2:Well, I can't say not a whole lot, but to knock this out a little bit quicker, yeah, both parents are in the hospital, and uh, that's all I'm gonna go with that man. You know, all I've been doing is is uh sitting in the hospital and uh, that's all I'm gonna go with that man. You know, all I've been doing is is uh sitting in the hospital, this one, that one, and uh, the reason why my dad's in a different one is because he loves the food in that hospital that's just.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. I mean it's already. It's super stressful for both of them. It's like a lot of people would just lose it with that, but now you got to run back and forth to the different hospitals.
Speaker 2:One day I got home from work, the hospital called they need something for my mom, so I had to go all the way back to Portage give it. Then I got home and then the other hospital called me and they're like hey, your this. So I got back out of bed and went to live and I'm, like you know, I almost get on the verge of tears sometimes. Yeah, because like I'm tired, I'm not gonna fall right asleep.
Speaker 1:you know, when I get home my mind's wandering all over the place, but your nerve is whether you're gonna get a text or not, right?
Speaker 2:you don't want to miss that phone call or something, you know something's. And again thanks for everybody that's reached out to me and you know, and gave me like their prayers of the good fight or, you know, just encourage me. And as always, you know, my wife, she's my rock, she like got me through a lot of this.
Speaker 1:I still had to get this out, like I told you before, in text, off the air, like people are going to understand what you're going through. They're not going to harp that the episode isn't out. They understand because life happens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say, and that's about me, I mean the last thing I knew, like Jimmy was in inventor's camp and man school's almost here already and it seems like it just ended.
Speaker 1:We got the list of his supplies for his next grade and we haven't started shopping on our vacation, and I was like you know, we had that whole vacation why didn't we shop, you ask? Well, we got a dog, all right, we got a red, golden doodle.
Speaker 2:All right. So it's a little one too, a little young one, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:It's four months old. It was born. Her name is Ember like fire, because she's really red like, looks like a little ember and she was born.
Speaker 2:Get this on May 4th, that's my brother's birthday, really, yeah, may the 4th be with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what we were saying and I said, well, let me name her like, because she looks like a little wookie kind of, but a red. I was going to name her Mala after the Christmas special, chewbacca's wife.
Speaker 2:Oh dude, no one wants to remember the Christmas special man.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on, it's canon in my book.
Speaker 2:Even Spielberg doesn't want to remember, but I was out.
Speaker 1:George Lucas, he don't want to remember that I was outvoted when I was reading the names of the red-headed dog list on the internet. Once I got to Ember they were like that's the name and I was like, all right.
Speaker 2:So are you looking forward to school starting back up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean because with the dog I forgot having a dog since I was a little youngster that they're a lot of work, especially a puppy, you know what?
Speaker 2:I hate what and thank God I don't have no kids in school but back in the day you would just go with a, a backpack and then you would fill up with all your books and you go home. Yeah, now they give you a list, like, of this kind of pencil. You have to have this many erasers. You have to bring like 12 boxes of kleenex to the class, but you know, teacher don't have to spend her own money. You know no one to block profession, yeah, and then people want see through uh, uh backpacks, which is understandable, you know. So there's no weapons in there. Like, hopefully no weapons in there. No, it's, it's too much man, it's just too much of a hassle yeah, but at least they've marked stuff down pretty cheap.
Speaker 1:Because if you did, if they get rid of all the school supplies and then like a month later your kid needs something else, it's back up to regular price and then there's not a lot of it. So you're looking for like you have to go to the school supply store and pay real big money.
Speaker 2:Notebooks. They're ridiculous. Well, you get that discount at your store. Yeah, so you can get your supplies there.
Speaker 1:Right now, notebooks are like 45 cents or something like that.
Speaker 2:Like I seen that three ring trapper and it was like 12 bucks, you know, and I'm like what the heck is that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it adds up. But that was our vacation. Pretty much was getting, getting the dog and then buying supplies which, oh my gosh, buying supplies for a dog from having nothing to get in all of it. You got to get a crate and you got to get food and you got to get happy pads or whatever, and I'm like, well, there goes, any idea of going anywhere for vacation? Cool, you can't really go nowhere.
Speaker 2:No, I mean you can't tell, tell me, you can't tell me this stuff, because we got six dogs man and I you know the plight of the having dogs and stuff, but with a little puppy.
Speaker 1:That's why I didn't know if I could do this episode, because my wife isn't wasn't home, but she got off early today. And my son you think that at his age he would be able to like watch a dog, but instead of like doing something to stop the dog from peeing in the floor or something or pooping, he'll like. He'll like ah, she's pooping, she's peeing, and he's just pointing to it. I'm like don't, don't announce it, Do something. Throw a pounder there, Throw something.
Speaker 2:I always had chihuahuas since I was little, before I moved here. I would always gag, always almost vomit, you know, and I'd clean up after the dog. And here, when I first moved in, it was like uh, and everybody thinks it's funny, they're like go go clean up, that you know. So like now I'm just like okay, whatever, and I just pick it up. You know my hand, but you know, like a paper tower, slim thing, they're like a, they become like a little kid and it's like you have to pack up to get, uh, to go take an oddy.
Speaker 1:You have to like for a puppy. You gotta like I gotta have the, the poop bags or whatever. Then I gotta have. I got treats in my pocket which use that audio how you want to. Um, I mean it's like. And then you know like, make sure you got the key to the house, you don't accidentally lock yourself out and stuff. And you know my gosh, real hassle. And I'm telling jimmy, you've got to start learning this stuff. You got to help me, help us out here. You wanted the dog. This is how, what you got to do, right, so he wanted it more than anybody oh yeah, he want he.
Speaker 1:Well, my wife wanted it too. She wanted a real bad puppy and jimmy, he's always he wanted a sibling and stuff, and he can't. If he can't have a sibling, he wants a puppy or something or a cat or something.
Speaker 2:So we chose puppy right, you know cats, cats, even though they are like solitude animals. Yeah, you know they have attitudes and a lot of people love cats over dogs. But to me, man a dog, you treat it right and it becomes like your kid and he's more obedient. Yeah, yeah, you know they're there to greet you when you come in or whatever.
Speaker 1:Because cats? Well, we had cats before Me, and Raleen did in our younger days, and the house would always smell like cat poop or pee in the litter box. And then you're like she didn't want that smell on our house and stuff. She's like, no, let's get a dog and the smell will be outside. In some ways it's easier, you know, yeah, but with this puppy stage I'm all stressed out, like every hour I have to take her out and stuff, make sure she don't, if she starts sniffing around on the floor in the living room, race her out the door. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think our young girl is five and a half months old and she's crazy Nuts. Yeah, she's already being trained at the school, though what?
Speaker 1:school.
Speaker 2:Oh, stony Run. Oh, okay, that's what I heard. My kid's the trainer. Really Everybody wants my kid to train because she's like the dog whisperer.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to get her services then, because Ember keeps jumping and nipping at Jimmy and stuff and biting his leg and stuff he's real timid and stuff. I'm like, no, you've got to be assertive with her and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my kid, she works with dogs. You got to be asserted with her and stuff. Yeah, my kid, she works with dogs. And if you look in my backyard it's like kitty land for a dog. It's like all the agility equipment in there and like all the a-frames and the teeter-totters and the weave poles and wow, and dog has three pools in my backyard.
Speaker 2:Man for swimming and teaching how to dive man, your dogs have pools and you don't even have any no, I don't even have like, I don't want to swim in the big pool, because the other dogs swim in the pool, you know, and and they're so crazy.
Speaker 2:Uh, they'll stand at the top of the ramp because they built the ramps where, like if an animal fell in, it could swim up to the ramp and just walk right out of the pool yeah but it'll stand up on top and wait for the current to push the inner tube around and then just like get on it like they're getting on the boat and then they would just go to sleep on the inner tube and then, when they get ready to get off, they wait for the inner tube to go back by the ramp and just get off and go back up the ramp. So it's, it's crazy. But yeah, she loves teaching dogs, loves it, yeah, you know, and she likes the dogs that are hard to teach. Oh, okay, enough of all this chit chat. We got a great guest that we are going to be talking to right after this break. Like Jim said, her resume is so crazy at everything she does. I love having Sarah on with us Again.
Speaker 2:After this commercial, we're going to be on the phone with Sarah Heim. We'll be back right after a word Do you like metal music?
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Speaker 2:Join us on the air right now, making a return to the power as such a great person, actor. She does so much stuff and Jim will explain everything before the show actually starts per se. So, sarah, as always, it's great to have you on. We appreciate it, sarah, as always, it's great to have you on. We appreciate it, sarah, I'm everybody.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be back on the show. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:Hey, you know you have created a short film. It's called Alice is Fine. It's a film about one woman's struggle to be heard, as she doesn't know the cause and she can't seem to find a doctor who will take her seriously. Tell us about this and your role.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. So I play the role of Alice in the film. I actually also wrote the film and I'm co-producing it as well, so this is my first time really writing and performing my own work, which has been really exciting, Also very vulnerable and very scary at times, but very empowering and very exciting as well. And the film really came from a very personal experience of health issues that I've been dealing with over the last couple of years. Um, and so Alice's experience of being in pain and not being able to find someone to take her seriously and then not being able to find help with that pain, uh, is something that I have gone through, and so what I wrote in the film is very much coming from my own experience. But as I was going through all of this over the last few years, I really started to realize how common this issue is.
Speaker 3:And you know, in the film I'm sort of dealing with issues of gender bias and health care and the frustration that comes with that, especially particularly for people who might have problems related to, like the female anatomy and female reproductive organs, for example. Any of us who kind of are dealing with those types of issues. We face very similar problems. But, as you're saying it's. You know I'm writing from my own kind of personal experience here, but I know it's something that people of all genders can deal with. There's all kinds of challenges that genders deal with. There's all kinds of challenges that we all face with the medical system.
Speaker 3:Um and so hearing other people share these stories and you know, as I'm going through my own issues, hearing my mom relate and my grandmother relate and all of these people I know having very similar stories it really inspired me to write this film. It's a short film. It's going to be about eight minutes when it's all completed, roughly. So it's a short story. But my goal with this short medical appointment that we see with Alice and what she's going through, the hope was that it would speak to larger things that lots of people can, can relate to and maybe have experienced, and it's sort of a we're calling it a dramedy, Like it's. It's a serious subject matter but there's also some funny moments too and some humor in it, and so my goal is that people can can watch and kind of laugh along as they're like oh, you know, I've been through something just like that or maybe it really hits them in the heart. Hopefully both um.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that was sort of the how the film came to life the crazy thing is you shot this all in one day, which had to be like super hard to get everybody's schedule just on par, and then hurry up, do it. I don't know how many retakes things had to take, but sometimes you said it's eight minutes long, but sometimes shorter has more meaning because your attention span doesn't like disappear, so everybody takes it in more.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know it in more. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know this touches home on everything. This is going to be good and because you're in it, I know it's going to be good. How did you get everybody like, like in one place and say okay, okay, hurry up, do this, do this?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you wrote the script too.
Speaker 3:Yes, I did. Yes, you are right, we it was a whirlwind. We did shoot it all in one day, um, and actually you're you're completely dead on that. That is kind of the. The biggest challenge is getting the team together and make and making it. You know, getting all these talented people available in one real mess at the right time to make it happen is kind of a miracle. I did write it. So sort of the way the process happened was that I started writing it I sort of at the end of 2023, so like Christmas time. Uh, last year I'd been working on it up until about, I would say, may.
Speaker 3:Um, I actually was working on the script along with, so, vivian Endicott Douglas, who is the director of the Fell. She is actually my acting coach, and so we have worked together for a few years in an acting capacity. She's an amazing artist and acting coach and she actually also coaches artists on their writing and other creative processes. So I was working on a script with her as my writing coach, but she actually also very much relates to and connects to the material of what I was writing about, and so the two of us really ended up partnering on the script, especially as we came to the, you know, the final draft. She was instrumental in helping me, you know, solidify the script and get the characters and the dialogue all finalized, like she was a huge part of the writing process. And so we it was funny we were kind of working on it in this coach, coachy capacity and then in the spray it was getting close to being a complete draft and we were talking about she was really encouraging me that, like hey, you can make this, like let's, let's do it. And then we realized we actually really wanted to work on it together and so I was so excited because I had really been hoping that, you know, she might be interested in directing it and she was.
Speaker 3:And so from that point we kind of hit the ground running because we realized that scheduling wise for us it was going to work best to shoot it in June, which meant, all you know, a lot of work to get all the right people brought in by that time, and so that we kind of just started from there. We knew we got her as the director and me as the as Alice, and we knew we were shooting at the end of June we pulled in our co-producer, brynn Kennedy, who was another amazing artist and collaborator and friend of both of ours. She came to mind, and so the three of us really partnered on bringing this to life. And so then it was a matter of finding the other actors that we felt like were going to be the best fits for all the roles, finding the crew who were going to be able to do our cinematography and our sound and all of that. And knowing that we were working with the end of June, we just kind of kept narrowing down Okay, are you free at the end of June?
Speaker 3:Are you free at the end of June? We want you to do this. We want you to do this, are you available, are you interested? And we're able to narrow down a date that everybody could shoot. So that was amazing. But we did shoot in one day because the film is, as we're talking about, short and it's one location that the scene all happens in. So it made most sense practically to shoot it in one day, and that very helpful budget wise as well. When you're working on an indie film can't shoot in a day. But it was a long, it was a 14 hour shoot. So, holy, wow, yeah, it was a. It was a wrong one um, but we got. We got everything felt that we wanted and we were really happy with everything we got in the day.
Speaker 1:So one question or one thing I had was looking at the uh, the subject of the film is that um, because till it comes out is that it might bring up with people that are going through the situation or a problem with a physician or a doctor. That it helps. This film might help someone maybe phrase or explain differently what they're going through to the doctor, because I mean a lot of us. I mean, every time I go to the doctor it's like hurting here and then I hurt all the time until I get to the doctor and then I'm like, well, now it doesn't hurt, and they're just looking at me like I'm crazy and I'm like, no, I'm telling you as soon as I go home or something, and it's not in my head. But this might, this film might say the key words or phrases that will make the doctors look at it differently and it might be something really rare or something that they're not familiar with and they can find a solution for it better.
Speaker 3:Yes, thank you for that and for sharing that. I really hope so. I think for me, as I was, you know, going through my own journey with my health in the last few years, I would see, you know, I totally went through that same thing of just feeling like am I crazy? Like is this, am I? You know, I know I'm feeling so well, you get, you know what you, what you're experiencing, and then you get into the doctor's office and then all of a sudden, it's so hard to articulate what you're feeling, or that day you happen to feel good, so that it's kind of hard to describe what is happening. And I know for me, and I would read books or I would be online and I would see people talking about similar experiences it was so meaningful for me to know, oh, I am not crazy, other people are dealing with this too. Other people have this type of pain, or other people, you know, lose their words when they're trying to talk to a doctor. I am not crazy. And that just gave me the confidence to be able to better stand up for myself in these positions, in these appointments. So I really hope so that seeing the film will make people go. Oh yeah, it's not just me Like this is actually happening and now, maybe it gives people the confidence to be able to stand up for themselves or, as you said, maybe better know how to word what they're going through.
Speaker 3:You know, I was when, in my research, I had done some reading about the idea that one of the challenges in medical situations is that there's a bit of a power dynamic, with the doctor kind of having power over the patient, because they're the person who is knowledgeable, the most knowledgeable, they're the person who's kind of the expert. And what often happens for patients is we try to sort of be the perfect patient, right? We want to be listened to, we want them to help us. So sometimes that means we get nervous in front of them when we're trying to explain our pain and what's happening, but also maybe we're.
Speaker 3:You know, I don't know if you experience this, but for me I'm always a little bit worried about letting my emotions show too much or showing how frustrated I am, because I already have a hard time getting taken seriously and I'm afraid that if I look too emotional they'll be like oh, here's another hysterical woman, her pain isn't real, you know. So we get in this situation where you're trying to, really you're trying to stay calm, but sometimes then you can't articulate yourselves as well as you want, or maybe you need to kind of say this is really frustrating and you're not as honest as as you could be because you're trying to be that perfect patient that's very easy to get along with. So I totally agree and so I hope that. I hope that when people watch it it gives them that that extra boost of confidence that they are. They deserve to be listened to, they deserve to be heard and, yeah, that it feels relatable.
Speaker 2:You know a lot of it's like. It's like some physicians are fast talkers, so to them you're just a number and a dollar sign, so they'll talk to you with all the big words you might be embarrassed by trying to explain yourself and they're just keep talking about it and talking about it and making you think that there's nothing wrong with you, you know. And then you go home and you're like I didn't even tell him what was wrong. You know, and, but I'll get that that couple grand bill at the end of the month. You know, and, and and that that's. A lot of people are scared to do that, to even go to a doctor too oh, absolutely, I think it's.
Speaker 3:it's so true that I I so often come home from appointments and go what did I even say? Why didn't I say this, why didn't I say that? And you just get overwhelmed at the moment when the person is talking at you so quickly and they're the expert, so you're kind of trying to take in and trust what they're saying. And it's not until you get home and you realize that what they said being no, or I don't understand any of that, or like they are totally telling you it's in my head mostly it's like the older doctors that we've been through that.
Speaker 1:They were like I know what I'm doing, I'm doing this, but younger doctors come in and they know more better ways to do stuff with the information and with. If you're too timid to ask because it's a gruff old doctor, male doctor, then they're going to just you know. Go ahead, just do what I said and go.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. It's so, so true and it's true. Sometimes you kind of luck out and meet a doctor, and it's true, often you've got if you've got younger doctors who are a little bit, but you're right that sometimes it's those younger doctors who are a little bit more open and then you kind of sometimes you luck out and find someone who really does believe you or who really does know something that can help you or they can direct you to the right person. I don't know.
Speaker 3:For me, being being in Canada, our system and one of our challenges is that we don't have to.
Speaker 3:For most doctors, appointments and specialists we don't have to pay at the end but because we have the universal health care.
Speaker 3:But what that can mean is that we often deal with a lot of waiting lists and wait long, long times to get in to see specialists because we're you know we struggle with funding or whatever it might be.
Speaker 3:And so something that I have found is, even if I can find a doctor who believes me and talk about what I'm going through in a lot of cases, particularly in regard to some of the issues we address in the bell, which is diseases like endometriosis and adenomyosis, which there's not a lot of research and science about them at all and the number of physicians who actually know anything about endometriosis. There's so few of them. You can wait for 12 months. You find someone who believes you but then you wait 12 months to even get in to see them and that totally adds up the tension of worry and kind of. You know you get into appointment you waited 12 months for and you're so nervous to say the wrong thing or you know explaining yourself and then if the appointment doesn't go well, it's devastating after you've waited such a long time to see that person.
Speaker 2:So yeah, you know, when I sit with my parents in the hospital my wife's a nurse she always gets feedback from me, and so the doctor explained what's wrong my dad or mom and then they don't use, like I'm not a doctor, so don't use the big words on me. Yes, because then when I go, my wife will say what are they saying? I'm like I don't know. I'll tape recorder next time, not a physician, so you know, talk to me like normal.
Speaker 3:And then they get all mad when you tell them to slow it down and talk to me like a normal person. I don't like words that are like 26 letters long and then I feel stupid. Oh, totally yeah, oh, scott, like I relate to that so much. It's so difficult when they they talk to you as though you already know the things they know, and so then you just feel completely stupid because you don't understand what they're talking about. Nor should you because you're not a doctor. But then it's hard to even know the right questions to ask them because you don't really know what they're talking about at all. It's so hard.
Speaker 2:You know. And then it's like down here, of course, everybody pays for everything and like my parents in the hospital, I'm already almost a quarter million dollars, but after the insurance they owe like 80 grand. You know, my parents are like 76 and 80. They ain't going to pay that off and don't put my name on it because I ain't paying it. And this is why another reason why I don't really like going to doctors, because I don't want that bill. You know, even though I go to a military doctor who loves sending you this doctor and this doctor and this doctor, and that doctor will say, oh, that other doctor didn't know what he's talking about, or she didn't know what she was talking about. It's like who do you believe?
Speaker 3:So instead of struggling with it, I just stay home oh, of course, and especially if you're not even sure, like sorry, I was gonna say, especially if you're not even sure you know if you were gonna have to go to an appointment, but you knew the person that was really capable, that they were gonna treat you really well and that they were gonna help you. And then you had to. You knew a big bill was coming. That's bad enough. But to also not really know if they're going to help you or they're going to treat you well or they're going to support you, and then you also walk out of there without answers and the big deal, like, of course, you just would rather stay home.
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Speaker 2:So the cool thing about this film you know, I know it's going to be good, I know it's going to have a big impact for being a little short film, but it's going to tell an amazing story. The cool thing is you're doing a GoFundMe. There's a lot of cost involved with this and I'm going to put you on the spot right here. Can you give us the GoFundMe link?
Speaker 3:Yes, I absolutely can. You're right. Let me see if I can get the right, the easiest way for you to find it. Yes, we are're and we're doing. We're trying to raise four thousand dollars right now to help us with the cost of the film. As you said, there's. There's so much cost that goes alongside making even a short little film like hard. There's a lot of cost involved, um, and so we're trying to raise some money to help us pay for this next like of the process, now that it's filmed. We're trying to. We have stuff to edit it and color, correct it and sound design and music to add to the film and submit to festivals and all these things. So that's what we're trying to raise money towards. And then let me just find the link. I apologize, I really should probably have it memorized or something, but it's sort of a. You know, it's a funny.
Speaker 2:Why are you looking for that for listeners at home or in their car or, as Lynn says, in the shower, soaping up and listening. The cool thing is about this if you donate to it, no matter what size, they're going to give you a token of their gratitude and they're going to give you some credit, a special thanks, at the final cut of the film. So I think that's very cool. You know, so like for me to see, like the Powers Point podcast or something on the picture. That'd be cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. We are for sure gonna thank the Powers Point podcast and the film and, yeah, we really wanted to make sure we for everyone who's donating, big or small. We know how generous that is for people to share their money and to want to support the film, so we really want to make sure that everyone gets that fun special thanks credit and then if people are able to come see the film, wherever we end up screening it, they'll be able to see our names pop up in the credit. So the GoFundMe link, it's wwwgofundmecom. And then slash Alice dash is dash fine, dash short dash film dash fund. So it's gofundmecom.
Speaker 3:Slash Alice is fine, short sell fundraiser. There's just a little dash in between each of the, each of the words. Also a way to find it, if that you know, if you're having a hard time finding that is um, if you follow me on instagram, I'm on instagram at. I'm dot sarah. I have a link in my bio that goes to a. It's a link tree that goes to a few different links and the top link on that link tree is the fundraiser as well. So if anyone is having a hard time finding that you, you just follow me on social media, on Instagram, and that's a good way to find me as well.
Speaker 2:As we speak, I'm filling out the donation page on part of Powers Point podcast. I like to donate, so oh, thank you, Scott. It ain't much, but so if I donate one penny a year, does it translate into the American money and there's more in canada? Or is it because I know the us dollars more than canadian dollar? Yeah, you know, I'm not sure actually I guess we'll find out here in a second, huh yeah but yeah, I'll have this up for you in just a minute.
Speaker 2:It's for a good cause, it's going to be good, I know it is, it's eight minutes so but it's going to be a very telltale short. Um, yeah, good luck on this and and making the money that you know, trying to recoup and pay everything back and earn some, hopefully for all the submissions.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Moving on for that, if you've got just a few more minutes, Jim likes to ask everybody, or guests, this or that questions. So it's going to be like shoot off the top of your head fun questions, this or that.
Speaker 1:So go ahead, jim, so you would have to choose this or that, okay, uh, okay, first one is tv or theater oh, you're totally getting me on that really tough question right off the bat summer tough and summer easy yes, okay, oh, I think, and while this, could you know some, I'm gonna go with tv okay
Speaker 3:yeah, I'm yeah, they can change. They can change sometimes, you know, depending on the month. Yeah, maybe I would say theater. It's such a hard one, but I I think there's so much incredible television being made right now and I love to make tv, I love to watch it and I think it's also very accessible for people. I think it, you know, in a way that sometimes theater isn't because it can be more expensive than it should be. Um, yeah, so yeah all right, uh.
Speaker 1:Next one is talking pets, or talking babies.
Speaker 3:Ooh, okay, I'm going to go with talking babies. They're tough.
Speaker 1:Okay, painful truth or a comforting lie?
Speaker 3:Painful truth.
Speaker 1:Okay, sauce on the side or sauce on top.
Speaker 3:Sauce on the side or sauce on top, sauce on the side. Yeah, it's nice to control Exactly.
Speaker 1:Okay, ice cream cone or milkshake.
Speaker 3:Ooh, ice cream cone, that was another toughie jam all right uh parking ticket or speeding ticket hmm, I guess you have to choose if I had to pick, I guess parking ticket, because they're usually not as much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sunrises or sunset, sunset, for sure I'm a late night person, not a morning person, flying or turning invisible for a superpower.
Speaker 3:Ooh, turning invisible. Yeah, that helps a lot. Yeah, I feel like there's many situations well, uh, planning it or winging it planning it. Yeah, I am not a winger okay, here's the canadian question.
Speaker 1:We asked also, uh, maple syrup or poutine?
Speaker 3:Oh, maple syrup. Yeah, that's a tough one too, but I love maple syrup.
Speaker 1:Okay, six more here. Vampire or werewolf, ooh To be or to encounter Either, or I'm not sure, maybe.
Speaker 3:Perhaps. Okay, I would rather be a werewolf.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But if I was going to meet one, I'd probably go for the vampire, okay.
Speaker 3:But you'd have to shave your legs more then. That's true. I didn't think of that, Scott.
Speaker 1:No, but then you'd be a werewolf with bare skin legs. Everybody would be weirded out by that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true. Yeah, but you know what Most people go on dates at nighttime. So like when you're on the first date and you know you got to try to like talk about the growling and the hairy growth coming on, It'd be kind of weird.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's actually of weird. Okay, that's actually really true. Okay, music playlist or podcast, think about it.
Speaker 3:That's another tough one. Okay, I guess I'll say music playlist, because I probably listen to that more.
Speaker 1:Gets you in a better mood.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it can be like good for different moods, can kind of be uplifting. But if I'm actually like doing like a long drive or something, I would pick podcasts. I love listening to podcasts when I'm. I can like sit down and listen to a show while I'm driving or whatever I love.
Speaker 1:So okay, guacamole or salsa, ohacamole, clean as you go or clean up at the end.
Speaker 3:I would have to say I'm a clean up. At the end I wish that it was the other way, but I'm not the tidiest, so I got to realize that.
Speaker 1:Okay, zoo or aquarium.
Speaker 3:Zoo.
Speaker 1:Okay, and the last one sweet or sour Sweet.
Speaker 2:Wait, or if you go to a Chinese restaurant, you can have both in one sitting.
Speaker 3:Both at the same time Exactly.
Speaker 2:Sour chicken, sweet and sour pork.
Speaker 3:And I am a big fan of the sweet and sour, so those are my favorite things sweet and sour.
Speaker 2:So those are my favorite things. Hey, I gotta tell you, looking at your GoFundMe, you almost you're not that far off from your goal which keep it coming in, because this is good stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we are. So we have been so overwhelmed by how generous people have been. It has been so encouraging. People have donated so generously. We're so grateful and it's been so lovely because it also has meant people have been sending in really nice messages and being really supportive of us and the film, which has been really encouraging. You know, you really put your heart out there when you write or act or produce something and we've been working on it kind of on our own for such a long time and it's so meaningful to us so we're so excited about it. But then all of a sudden you're kind of sharing it with the world and going, hey, we made this thing, we hope you're going to like it and it's so scary to kind of take that first step, but people have been so kind and so generous and it's just been really. We thank everybody who has donated so much.
Speaker 2:Well, sarah, we really appreciate your time, as always, and we always love having you on the show with us and we'll continue to monitor whatever you do. And thanks for giving me this interview to talk about your film, because again, I know it's going to be I'm starting to sound like that Donald Trump. It's going to be really great. But again, thank you so much and Lynn told me to tell you hi, so oh yeah, Hi, Lynn, Say hi to her for me.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Scott, I sure will, and once the film comes out and once you got the final copy or something, send me a link, because I don't know how long it'll take to get down here.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Yes, we will keep. We'll make sure we keep you posted and make sure you can see it. I don't know when that will be yet. We'll see kind of what happens with the festival submissions and then from there when when we'll be able to make it publicly available once it's premiered at some festivals. So hopefully we'll be, but I will make sure that we send that to you. And also I just want to say a big thank you for having me on and for all of your support. The Powers Fight podcast has been so supportive of me and my career so far and I am so grateful for that and I'm so grateful to have been on here today to talk about it. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2:That is awesome and I appreciate you saying that. So have a great day and thanks for coming on early with us.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2:Thank you, have a good one.
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Speaker 2:Welcome back to the podcast. As I told you, I hope you guys love this interview because Sarah does it all and she deserves all the support we can give her. So check out that GoFundMe page and I'll post a link of it in the description of the show. And she doesn't care if it's like $2, $5. I mean for Americans they take Canadian money. So if you want to throw in 20 bucks, you're only going to pay like 16. You're not paying 20 bucks, so I'm not being cheap.
Speaker 1:Well, but it's just a conversion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so again check it out, and I can't wait to watch this short film. And what did you think, Jimim?
Speaker 1:I thought it was a great interview. It addresses issues with not only women go through but also men and other people that I mean we've all experienced that, uh, with doctors and hospitals and if you, when you listen to it, we all both understood that that's what it is. It's like it helps us out and that by this movie coming out, like I said in the interview, that it'll help us all, I don't know you hope that it reaches out and touches a lot of people.
Speaker 2:And and letting people know that you're not crazy. If you get something wrong with you, you got something wrong with you. You got something wrong with you. Don't let anybody tell you any different, you know, like just because they're they got a college doctorate and PhD being a physician or a specialist. If you got something wrong with you, or or don't let them think you're crazy, you know, don't be embarrassed to talk to your doctor.
Speaker 2:I am sometimes, you know, being of that age, I got to come up with hey doc, you want to get the rubber gloves out in the lube? And oh, come on. No, I should be doing that, you know, but I'm not, you know, and I just sit here and I think when I'm telling this, you know, like what am I waiting on you? You know what I mean. They see this and do this every couple days, or I hope to god they don't do it every day because, uh, the last time I had, I was in the army and the guy was eating popcorn while he was doing it with the other hand and I was thinking that he was using the butter from the popcorn to lube it up and I was thinking that he was using the butter from the popcorn to lube it up and just give me a poke Wow.
Speaker 1:So I was saying that the only thing that I mainly I'd like you said I couldn't find my words the main thing is that it brings up the film that she's doing, brings up a way or issues that people might go through and that they might be able to find a solution from what the film shows Right. So I'm very much looking a solution from what the film shows Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm very much looking forward to seeing what she has created, no matter how small it's. More than I've done, more than you've done.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And, like I said on the pod, she's so close to reaching her goal and she's only asking for four grand, which isn't outrageous, you know. I mean she does have to pay everybody that helped her make this. I learned from the last show they do a union and because everybody's in the union, they, they all have to agree that everybody will get paid once it's done and once you know if it makes money, then everybody will get paid Again. If it's even a couple bucks. Starbucks costs like $4. I'll skip to Starbucks maybe in the morning and help her out. It's not asking too much. I'm a little cheapo sometimes, but I love supporting my friends. I'm a little cheapo sometimes, but I love supporting my friends, and she's definitely a friend of myself and of the show. So, and Jim, you have a new friend too. Yes, I do. Hey, we're going to cut short because the interview was nice and long Like I like it. Jim hit us up with that quote.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's the quote Stay positive.
Speaker 2:Better days are on the way. That couldn't be more true. You know, a lot of people are stuck in the now and they can't see the big picture, and so they start feeling trapped. How am I going to see another day? But you're going. So just you know, and always talk to me, always talk to jim. We're not physicians, but we listen. But that's all I got.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna play a new song that I finished last night. I call it the squad. I have to say that because when I have ai edit, all the transcript and all that, people ask me what's the name of that song and i'm'm like, oh, I forgot to add it. So, hey, we're going to talk to you guys next week and we hope you enjoyed this show like we did. That's all I got. Bye, bye, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands up. Mmm, oh, oh, oh, oh, bye.
Speaker 2:Made it through the fire. How did I survive? Your money, women, power, gotta feel alive. Palette from the stars. You can feel the vibe Every other hour through the night. It's a different sight. They don't want me up. It's like a deal is. You? Shout it to my people before you're a realist. They don't want me. I fix all the dealers. You shout at time before you're a realist Thank you, I got you. I got you. I got you. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I got you. They don't want me. I can tell the deal is. I'm trying to tell my people you're the realest. There was so much fun to try to steal us. Yeah, I can't see how it wasn't kids and I can feel it. Got a door. That's far. She can feel the vibe. I feel love and I'm a fool. To me it's a game inside your mind. Been through the far. How did I survive? Your money, room and power? Gotta fill them up, thank you, so Bye.
