Mara Junot is one of those fascinating people you meet that you instantly fall in love with.  Warm, genuine, and easy to talk to.  Funny, inviting, and personable.  And one hell of an actor.  Video games, such as Ikora in Destiny 2, Fortnite, World of Warcraft, Mortal Kombat, and Guild Wars 2.  She's also highly in demand as a narrative and promo actor: ESPN, CNBC, Lifetime, and others.  Oh, and a commercial actor, voicing spots for Target, AT&T, Walmart.  And then that strange and wonderful talent as a live announcer for VHI1 Divas, CNN New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper...yeah.  She's got crazy chops.  Randall Ryan Can it beat my favorite bad movie line from Mel Gibson's The Patriot?  Of course, if you haven't seen the movie, and by God if you haven't seen the movie, please don't.   Mara Junot (laughs)   Brian Talbot (laughs) Done.   Randall Ryan But, it’s pre-Revolutionary War. So he comes up to this woman, he says, “mind if I sit here?”, and she says “Sure, it's a free country…or at least it will be.”   Mara Junot No, she..uh, uh No she doesn’t! (laughs)   Brian Talbot (laughs)   Mara Junot (laughing) That’s kind of fantastic.     Brian Talbot (laughing) Oh, that’s beautiful.   Mara Junot (laughing) At least it will be.   ThEME MUSIC   Brian Talbot So Let’s Talk Voiceover, Mara Junot!   Mara Junot Let's Talk Voiceover.   Brian Talbot Well, that was pleasant!  I like that.   Mara Junot Excellent.   Randall Ryan Hi, Mara.   Mara Junot. Hi! Randall Ryan How are you, Mara?   Mara Junot I'm great! I've been…been…like messing with real estate and games and all kinds of crazy things like…   Brian Talbot Real estate?  Like what?  What's going on?   Mara Junot I'm home shopping.  Yeah.   Brian Talbot (gasps) Cool!   Mara Junot And in like the worst market in the past 16 years.   Randall Ryan Well, there is that.  There is that.   Brian Talbot  Buy high, sell low!  That's what they say. right?   Mara Junot Literally I think homes are more are 30%...25% more expensive this year than last year.  And last year there were 20% more expensive than the year before.   Brian Talbot See?  Going up, up, up. I love that!   Mara Junot It’s just nuts.  It is like, I mean literally looking at one place, in, I think, six hours they had 140 offers.   Randall Ryan Oh, jeez.   Brian Talbot Isn't that insane?   Mara Junot It is so nuts.   Brian Talbot People who want to sell their house nowadays, they literally go hang out somewhere for one day.  They come back with multiple offers over asking at ridiculous prices.  The only problem with that is if you're not leaving the area then you have to buy in that market…   Mara Junot: Right?   Brian Talbot … and that becomes the challenge, right? So   Randall Ryan Yeah, that is a problem.   Mara Junot Yeah, it's nuts.   Brian Talbot Well that's very cool though.  I mean, you know, home ownership, American dream.   Mara Junot Absolutely, absolutely. So fingers crossed all is going well so far knock on wood.  But yeah, this market, you guys, if you're, if you don't need to buy a house right now, do not buy a house.   Brian Talbot Don't, yeah. Yeah.   Mara Junot God!  Insanity!   Randall Ryan Other than that, you got a little project that you've been working on of late.  Just, you know, something came up, I don't know, it's something,   Mara Junot Yeah! Yeah, little little project.  Um I just,…I am a new actress in a existing role in a very, very popular game, happens to be called Destiny 2.   Randall Ryan Mm hm.   Mara Junot Has a teeny tiny little fan base; might have heard of it, but…   Brian Talbot Nice!    Mara Junot Yeah!   Brian Talbot Congratulations!   Mara Junot Thank you.  I'm, I’m like crazy stoked about it.  Like I'm, I'm just overwhelmed at the reception that I've received from the fans, ‘cause I kind of was dreading it because this is a long-established role.   Randall Ryan Sure.   Mara Junot A marvelous actress, Gina Torres. I'm sure we all know her from Suits and Firefly and lots of o