- So what do you do?
- I've been a lawyer for a long time.
- What kind of lawyer are you?
- Insurance defense, litigation, trial lawyer.
- What do you do?
- I do a couple things.
I am in corporate HR and I'm also a hip hop artist.
- I am a puppeteer.
I did some training with Sesame Street and I've
been affiliated with the Muppets.
- I tutor children and when they get to around
sixth, seventh grade that's kind of when I say,
"Okay guys."
- What do you think 10 year old you would think
of yourself if they saw you today?
- Actually 10 year old me wanted to be a barber.
So my 10 year old would probably say,
"How they hell did you become a lawyer?"
- Really my favorite is to teach kids how to read.
I used to teach dyslexic kids in Atlanta and so
I love tutoring children that
have difficulties reading because I know I can help them.
- What would 10 year old you say?
- I think when I was 10 I wanted to be a veterinarian
'cause I love animals and if they saw that I was
a puppeteer, I think 10 year old me at the time
would've thought that was really weird
'cause I don't think that when I was 10 I knew that
being a puppeteer was a career.
- Is this what you imagined yourself doing as an adult?
- Not the HR part.
The being an artist, yes.
I knew from 14 that I was gonna be an artist.
- Passionate about anything else?
- I mean, as far as just living life and making sure
that I stay healthy and I'm very passionate about
just about spiritual and physical health.
- What was it like for you growing up?
- Just lived in the suburbs and I didn't really see
too many people different from me.
I tell people I lived in a bubble kind of until
I moved to Atlanta.
- That was similar for me until I got to college.
Most people kind of looked like me where I'm from,
so same thing.
- I just lost 63 pounds.
- Of congratulations, that's great.
- I lose half a person, I feel much better.
- Great!
- It makes a big difference.
Keep at the gym now--
- Consistency is the big thing, right?
- Absolutely, yeah.
You've got to keep at it, you can't stop.
- Cori you are 34.
You are white and I'm imagining that you have curly hair.
A cute shirt that says something positive on it,
some shorts.
You are from Virginia.
- Okay well I say 30 years old, around 30 to 36.
Not short hair, maybe medium length or longer.
Say you're maybe wearing a pant suit or slacks
like and a blouse.
- I think you're 42.
You are African American.
You are wearing like a blue blouse.
- You have brownish black hair that's a little bit long.
You are from Chicago.
- Probably late 50s or early 60s I'm guessing.
I feel like brown or salt and pepper hair
and I feel like you're wearing a suit too,
'cause you said you're an insurance lawyer.
- So this is my friend, Cori.
- Nice to meet you.
- You don't have curly hair.
Is curly natural? - No.
Trying to be right here with something.
- What about, where are you from?
- I'm from New York!
- New York! - Almost had it.
- I was so right.
- Where are you from? - From Michigan.
But Virginia, that's good.
How old are you?
- I'll tell you later, maybe I'll tell you later.
- Maybe I shouldn't say.
- I think we were pretty both close.
- We were close, yeah.
I was not right about the hair at all.
But I was right about the suit.
- Shoulder length hair, it's a little darker
than I thought, you're probably about 35, 32?
- I'm 30. - Oh okay.
- Close enough.
How about you, how old are you?
Roughly.
- I'm around where you said, just a little higher,
maybe a little higher.
You got the suit, how did you know I was waring a suit?
- When you said that you were an insurance lawyer
that made me think lawyers wear suits so maybe he's
wearing a suit.
- Are we gonna be friends?
- Yes! I'm your first friend in LA.
- Not my first, but you're still very important.
You're in the top five.
- I'm in the top five, yes.
You've been here for five weeks,
I'm just happy to meet you.
- Lets give this a try, hold on.
Here's just a random puppet.
- That puppet looks like me.
- I guess so, sure.
I don't normally play old guys in scrubs,
but normally I have hand puppets, but this is.
- So you gonna do a voice?
You gonna do a man's voice?
- Let me see if I can do a little man's voice
and teach all you kids what the medical field is like.
It was so nice meeting you.
- It was so nice meeting you, wonderful.
- Thank you so much for talking with me.
- I had never met, like I said, I had never met
a puppeteer. - Thank you.