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joeytainment.bsky.social
Emmy Nominated. Enrolled Cowlitz. TV Writer / Producer. Cat Guy. Writer - Spirit Rangers on Netflix + Molly of Denali on PBS + Way more things! Watch my new digital series at http://gonenative.tv
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Tonight in Seattle!

I had the absolute honor to host the talkback after yesterday’s performance of Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum! These actors and Larissa FastHorse put together a production that is both hilarious and Native AF. Go see it when it comes to your city!

After a year and a half of working on it, and years of wanting to get it made, we exported the final cut of "Pow!" this week. There are too many people to thank and many screening announcements to come, but right now, I’m happy and so proud that this film is going to make it out into the world!

Happy bday to my fav person Joseph Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social ! He’s incredibly talented, intelligent, handsome and funny. I’m sorry it’s a Monday but here he is with his 2nd fav fat orange cat 🧡

Ugh, my birthday would be on a Monday.

Happy Valentine’s Day to my sweetheart and silliest man alive @joeytainment.bsky.social He really wants a giraffe but we’re not getting one 🦒

Sorry losers. Everyone expecting a Valentine from me today can buzz off, EXCEPT FOR my nice, intelligent, deeply silly and very beautiful girlfriend @goldie.bsky.social ! To everyone else, deal with it.

Washington Friends! The folks at Daybreak Star Radio are bringing me out on February 20th to the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle to talk about my career and screen some of my work! Tickets are free and it’s going to be so fun. If you’re in the area, come through!

To the dozens of people who DMed me about this, yes I bought the Good Shirts LAsagna hat.

5 years later and I’m still popping up in articles as Sufjan Stevens’ own personal Wario

Congratulations to @jnoisecat & @emilykassie on their Oscar nom for Best Doc Feature Film! SUGARCANE sheds light on forced residential schools in Canada & US, honoring Indigenous resilience. Catch the 97th Oscars on March 2, 2025. #RepresentationMatters #Oscars2025

Some of my favorite Native comedy folks teamed up to put together a fundraiser / auction to support The Chapter House! Go to the link on this graphic and bid on some cool stuff to support the Los Angeles Indigenous community!

We love a meme!

I’m hosting a panel at @sxsw.com this year featuring some of my favorite Native creatives talking about how Native folks fought our erasure using memes! If you’re going to be in Austin on March 8th, come through and if you’ve got your own SXSW events, post them in the replies!

I’m screening a new project at YALL Comedy Fest 2025 in New York City! The Yes And Laughter Lab is a fantastic organization curating shows and projects with a lot of super funny comedians and writers using their platforms for social change. If you’re in NYC in early April, come through!

The @umactually.bsky.social Season 10 trailer just dropped and I’m in it breaking toys and jumping the highest I’ve ever jumped in my life! @dropouttv.bsky.social rules!

For a lot of folks, there won't be much to celebrate today, but Biden in one of his last acts granted clemency to Leonard Peltier and that's freaking great. Hands are up for everyone who fought for this for decades upon decades. This feels seismic.

The Los Angeles wildfires have put a lot of Native folks in SoCal in need, so The Chapter House is putting on a fundraiser this Sunday to help out! Come, eat Indian Tacos, watch super funny Native comedians and donate to help some great Native folks who could really use the aid!

I love that AI summaries views me as being just absolutely shredded.

One of the funniest moments of my life is when, at a concert in my 20s, a guy in front of me stage dove off of a two story speaker stack. He was caught by a 6'5" biker. The biker asked if the jumper was okay, and when the jumper said he was okay the biker punched him in the face.

Hey Best Buy maybe wait a beat?

Still safe! My plan is to evacuate the second the giant Universal Studios Minion Head catches fire and not before!

First Monday of 2025 share this if you want to give a big ups to my boy (Garfield)

2025 started with a professional wrestler telling me I've got great calves and glutes and that's a high I'll be riding until 2026!

I was booked on a bunch of super fun shows this year! I've been focusing on writing and directing a lot in 2024 like a real idiot, and I hope that in 2025, I get back to goofing in front of crowds more!

Another one of my Paw Patrol episodes dropped this month! It’s about three of my favorite things, a big battle of the bands, cats in fun costumes and anything 1980s hip hop. Paw Patrol is one of the most popular shows on the planet and I feel BLESSED that I get to write for it!

Happy Holidays! For Christmas, @goldie.bsky.social got me a bunch of custom Pow! concept art on pocket squares because she's very thoughtful and this short film is truly 90% of all I've talked about this year!

A decade ago I and a few friends made Kreezus, a complete parody of Kanye West’s Yeezus where instead of thinking he’s Jesus, he thinks he’s Santa Claus. It didn't age well for MANY reasons, but it was my first thing to go crazy viral and years later, I'm still VERY proud of it!

It’s @goldie.bsky.social and I’s two year anniversary this month! Our first date was at a trendy corndog place and our most recent date was her coordinating handy people to fix up our apartment so we could move in together! I love her very much and consider myself very lucky to date her!

We locked sound mix on Pow! a few days ago, so I thought it’d be a good time to write a new post about it! Every subscription gives me strength! open.substack.com/pub/joeyclif...

Oh dang! Today Spirit Rangers was nominated for three Children's And Family Emmy Awards! And shout out to Molly of Denali for being nominated for Best Writing and Best Interactive Media! Native storytelling in kids TV is killing it!