JOHN: So is your show all you, or do you play the clips of the people you recorded? Another person from Texas in the show actually wears cowboy boots and talks about beating up Mexicans, and sings a very heart felt song he wrote about some friends he lost. It was very rare for two big males to come in together but they did. SCHNEIDER: I'm an outdoors person, a Turkey, I killed two big gobblers last year. JOHN: Do you want to give us a glimpse of ginger? But it's only 90 minutes, so I had to only include - so he is not included, but a woman he introduced me to at the Ozark, ginger, who plays the fiddle and and a Turkey huntedress and is fantastic. SCHNEIDER: Well, Jimmy - I mean, floor so many hundreds of people, and so many hours of things that they said that I want include in this play and have included in various incarnations of this play. JOHN: So let's explain why these voices fit into this production that your doing. SCHNEIDER: Yeah, you're traveling too fast to learn much! He said, how much time can you spend? I said a couple hours. JOHN: And "you're traveling too fast to learn?" One of the things he said is well, my parents put these horses TO WAGON and we went to California. He started writing when he was 16 because he was a schoolhouse teacher. He had 50 of the same red western shirt in his closet with black trim. SCHNEIDER: Oh, yeah! The Ozark Folk Center was his brainchild. And it's a little thing that I got so interested in, are the music of our ancestors, that I persuaded the Congress of the United States to put out $3.5million to build a facility where it's always going on. NEW SPEAKER: Listen, honey, yer travelin' too fast to learn much. This is from a 93-year-old man from Arkansas. You talked to such a wide variety of people. We have the clips of some of the voices that you collected. I just love where music and sound and language all sort of merge. And just recently I branched out to where English is not the first language, in some of the tonal language areas like Hong Kong. For the last couple decades I've been out and recording people in the English-speaking world where English is the first language. And I became very touched and moved by all these people, and developed this sort of Messianic complex about getting all their voices heard and fixing all the problems in America. And what I learned through that process is you can't really separate the sound of the voice from the voice of a person. And I'm very interested in dialects, so I wanted to go around and collect dialects around the United States. My mother was directing my dad in a play. My father and mother met at northern school of speech. What started it was I was an actress, came up by that naturally. SCHNEIDER: I like that phrase! I might use that. JOHN: That is the basis of the show that you're putting on at the Moxie. JOHN: You went on an odyssey probably to refurbish your soul somewhat. Commercialization tends to bleed the soul from these things, so. It's one of those cities that people have who developing works in New York want to take their work to to get it to where it needs to be before they try to commercialize it. There's a reason why it's reputed as a place to develop theatre. People are genuinely interested in each other here. SCHNEIDER: You meet people, you run into people you know at the grocery store. The people are genuine, it's a better place to raise a kid, in my opinion. SCHNEIDER: Oh, let me count the ways! It's beautiful. JOHN: Why do you like San Diego better than L.A.? So it's sort of like being on a permanent vacation and going for two days a week to Hollywood to work. I have a love/hate relationship with Hollywood. SCHNEIDER: Well, with South Park, I asked for a union contract. JOHN: Then you decided that it was time to leave Hollywood. JOHN: Okay! Yeah, but you did that for several years is that right? JOHN: South Park is something that is very much a part of your past, I guess, but I can't help asking you, can you get on one of your South Park voices? She has a new show called "freedom of speech" and it's based on the voices of the people she met on her travels. Our next guest will fit right in! Eliza Jane Schneider rose to fame as one of the voices on the television show, South Park, but she quit Hollywood, went on a cross-country odyssey, and is now living in San Diego. JOHN: Radio is all about voices and ideas.
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