Native Talk Arizona - airdate: 10/14/2026

Well, and I think both of those shows are just super important to the kids, and I hope they both continue and have Spirit Rangers three seasons, but hopefully they'll bring you back for a fourth or you'll end up writing a fourth.

All right, so I also want to talk about your award-winning digital creative work, Gone Native, the Comedy Central digital series.

Tell me a little bit more about this, who some of your guests have included, and the whole thing about it.

Yeah, for sure.

Really quick, I wanted to kind of talk just a touch more about Superior Rangers and Molly of Denali.

One thing I will say about those shows is, though they're not currently in production for additional episodes for either of those series right now, One of the things that was so fantastic about working on those shows is that each show employed probably around 100 Native folks, and these are people that are continuing on and making their own really amazing projects.

Like Vera Starbard, who was one of the main writers on Molly of Denali, and she's Alaska Native.

She has an amazing Alaska Native musical that she's releasing in the near future.

I know there are a lot of Spear Rangers writers that are continuing to write on other shows and projects.

I know Carissa is currently writing on a new show.

So though those shows are not necessarily continuing at the moment, the people who worked on those shows who are really talented Native creatives, you know, and hopefully myself included in that, are continuing to make, you know, really cool work out there.

So though the shows might not be continuing at the moment, the creators behind those shows are making some fantastic stuff, and y'all should definitely check that out.

And I think

that's definitely an important point, that yes, that it employed a lot of people, and it furthered their careers, or gave them a platform, or, and I hope people check out their work, and look at the credits at the ends of the shows, and follow them, right?

Yeah, for sure, and like, you know, myself included, you know, talking about, you mentioned my digital series, Gone Native, Yeah, I made most of the episodes of that while I was working on Spirit Rangers, and that was like a side project that was a side for my work on, you know, Spirit Rangers and My Life's Nolly, and it's basically a series of animated comedy PSAs about kind of weird microaggressions that Native folks often experience, and each episode is only like two minutes long, they're very short, but they cover topics like, you know, pretendians, people saying they're Native when they're not Native, you know, the the people, non-native using the term spirit animal, um, you know, native sports mascots and things like that.

And, um, probably one of the biggest hits of it that I feel like is constantly shared on native tech talk and native Instagram is an episode called telling people you're native American when you're not native.

It's a lot like telling a bear, you're a bear when you're not a bear.

The title is 24 words long, basically a Fiona Apple album title.

But, um, I feel like it still gets shared on social media constantly.

And, um, I fortunately had a lot of really great voice actors on that show that, you know, helped out, like Janice Speeding voiced a character in it, you know, from Reservation Dogs in Rutherford Falls.

Ty LeClair, who voices a character on the King of the Hill reboot.

John Timothy, who was one of the stars of Spear Rangers.

Ramon Zaragoza voiced our Indian Burial Ground episode, and he's one of the stars of Ghosts on CBS.

And, you know, we had a lot of really great, you know, behind the camera talent on that, too.

A lot of really fantastic native and non-native, you know, animators and storyboard artists doing really great work.

Well, and I think both of those shows are just super important to the kids, and I hope they both continue and have Spirit Rangers three seasons, but hopefully they'll bring you back for a fourth or you'll end up writing a fourth.

All right, so I also want to talk about your award-winning digital creative work, Gone Native, the Comedy Central digital series.

Tell me a little bit more about this, who some of your guests have included, and the whole thing about it.

Yeah, for sure.

Really quick, I wanted to kind of talk just a touch more about Superior Rangers and Molly of Denali.

One thing I will say about those shows is, though they're not currently in production for additional episodes for either of those series right now, One of the things that was so fantastic about working on those shows is that each show employed probably around 100 Native folks, and these are people that are continuing on and making their own really amazing projects.

Like Vera Starbard, who was one of the main writers on Molly of Denali, and she's Alaska Native.

She has an amazing Alaska Native musical that she's releasing in the near future.

I know there are a lot of Spear Rangers writers that are continuing to write on other shows and projects.

I know Carissa is currently writing on a new show.

So though those shows are not necessarily continuing at the moment, the people who worked on those shows who are really talented Native creatives, you know, and hopefully myself included in that, are continuing to make, you know, really cool work out there.

So though the shows might not be continuing at the moment, the creators behind those shows are making some fantastic stuff, and y'all should definitely check that out.

And I think

that's definitely an important point, that yes, that it employed a lot of people, and it furthered their careers, or gave them a platform, or, and I hope people check out their work, and look at the credits at the ends of the shows, and follow them, right?

Yeah, for sure, and like, you know, myself included, you know, talking about, you mentioned my digital series, Gone Native, Yeah, I made most of the episodes of that while I was working on Spirit Rangers, and that was like a side project that was a side for my work on, you know, Spirit Rangers and My Life's Nolly, and it's basically a series of animated comedy PSAs about kind of weird microaggressions that Native folks often experience, and each episode is only like two minutes long, they're very short, but they cover topics like, you know, pretendians, people saying they're Native when they're not Native, you know, the the people, non-native using the term spirit animal, um, you know, native sports mascots and things like that.

And, um, probably one of the biggest hits of it that I feel like is constantly shared on native tech talk and native Instagram is an episode called telling people you're native American when you're not native.

It's a lot like telling a bear, you're a bear when you're not a bear.

The title is 24 words long, basically a Fiona Apple album title.

But, um, I feel like it still gets shared on social media constantly.

And, um, I fortunately had a lot of really great voice actors on that show that, you know, helped out, like Janice Speeding voiced a character in it, you know, from Reservation Dogs in Rutherford Falls.

Ty LeClair, who voices a character on the King of the Hill reboot.

John Timothy, who was one of the stars of Spear Rangers.

Ramon Zaragoza voiced our Indian Burial Ground episode, and he's one of the stars of Ghosts on CBS.

And, you know, we had a lot of really great, you know, behind the camera talent on that, too.

A lot of really fantastic native and non-native, you know, animators and storyboard artists doing really great work.