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Geraldine Laybourne on how Marcy Carsey came to be a partner on the Oxygen network

Geraldine Laybourne on the early programming mandate to "program only to boys because girls will watch anything" while at Nickelodeon

Geraldine Laybourne on how Ren and Stimpy came to be on Nickelodeon

Geraldine Laybourne on Nick News and Linda Ellerbee's contribution to the show

Geraldine Laybourne on the genesis of Rugrats

On the basis for the lawsuit from the Hollywood chapter and the National Academy over the Emmy voting process, initiated in 1975; attempts at settlement

On the negotiation between Marvin Burns and Dern in attempt to solve the lawsuit by the creation of two separate academys: NATAS in New York and ATAS in Hollywood; the "divorce" of the Emmys into primetime and daytime awards

On how the Emmy award itself was divvied up in the negotiation between NATAS and ATAS; unusual for a trademark

On the membership of the Television Academys; the broadcast rights to the Emmy awards

Dixon Dern on the lawsuit over the Emmy Awards settling by the creation of two separate academies: NATAS in New York and ATAS in Hollywood; the "divorce" of the Emmys into primetime and daytime awards how the Emmy award itself was divvied up in the negotiation between NATAS and ATAS; unusual for a trademark

On the film Older than America; on being in the play Three Little Birds and working on it with her son; on receiving the Order of Canada; on the Alberta Tar Sands and how businesses have changed her community's environment; on being involved in the environmental movement and protesting in Washington, D.C. with Margot Kidder; on stepping back from her involvement in the environmental movement

On working on the film Eden and learning about the sex trade world from that job; on what she learned about the police and the dismissed investigations of missing women while doing Unnatural and Accidental; on her approach to voiceover work and the differences between doing voiceover for narration and animation projects; on working in an all-Indigenous production of King Lear and the other Shakespeare roles she would be interested in doing

On the series Blackstone, on being in the film Down Here; on her role in Mohawk Girls; on comparing the pacing between television and movie productions; on working on the play The Rez Sisters; on working on Longmire and her character, "Marilyn"

On working on the film Falls Around Her and the limitations of working with an indie film budget; on having to take on different languages at the start of her career and how that has changed over time; on working on Through Black Spruce; on "pretendians" who pretend to be Indigenous; on her character in Godless; on her frustrations with non-Indigenous writers not fully understanding Indigenous culture; on how the value of Indigenous women and responsibility to the earth have been diminished

Tantoo Cardinal on doing voiceover work for some of Ken Burns's documentaries

Tantoo Cardinal on being in Blackstone

Tantoo Cardinal on working on Mohawk Girls

Tantoo Cardinal on working on Longmire

Tantoo Cardinal on being in Godless

Tantoo Cardinal on why writer Chong Kim chose her to play the nurse in Eden and Kim's insight on how women and girls in the sex trade were kept on reservations

Tantoo Cardinal on doing voiceover work for some of Ken Burns's documentaries

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Lou Diamond Phillips on Longmire

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Julia Jones on Longmire

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her

Tantoo Cardinal on the film Through Black Spruce being based on Tina Keeper's mother's story, and the backlash the film received because the story was written by a pretendian

Tantoo Cardinal on how Buffy Sainte-Marie misrepresenting herself as Indigenous took away from the careers of Indigenous people

Tantoo Cardinal on how Sylvia McAdam's work exposed how history has diminished the value of women in Indigenous culture

Tantoo Cardinal on stepping in for Tina Keeper's role in Mohawk Girls

Tantoo Cardinal on getting arrested with Margot Kidder while protesting the environmental movement in Washington, D.C.