Solo Shows (with Caitlin Reilly)

Join us for a LIVESTREAMED reading of the Lemon DiLemon musical on August 23rd Sunday at 3 pm PST! Patrick had to write this musical as punishment for losing the Oscars Draft again on our Patreon, and now the gang will read it live, exclusively available on our Patreon. With special guests Paul F. Tompkins, Miles Bonsignore, and Kimia Behpoornia, this is one not to miss! More details at https://www.patreon.com/aoaoaoapod/posts/livestream-of-on-166420600 Presence. A small black box theater and some stage cubes. And of course, a story that your artistry and your soul must tell. This is all that you need to create a powerful solo show, and the artists we have on this week are proof of just that. These impactful solo artists dive deep into the emotional peaks and valleys of the creative process, the grit and effort required to self-produce, and the pathways along which they see their artistry growing on this poignant episode. So pull up your folding chair, dim the one stage light, and listen in! Caitlin Reilly is a comedic genius and we were so thrilled to have her as our guest this week! You can find her in your favorite tv shows, performing around LA, and as @itscaitlinhello on TikTok or @hicaitlinreilly on Instagram. MERCH HERE! https://artistsonartistsonartistsonartists.com/shop This episode was filmed in the beautiful Dynasty Typewriter Theater, and tech-produced by Samuel Curtis. For live shows and events you can find more about them at dynastytypewriter.com. To learn more about the BTS of this episode and to find a world of challenges, games, inside scoop, and the Artists being themselves, subscribe to our Patreon! You won't be disappointed with what you find. Check out patreon.com/aoaoaoapod Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists is an improvised Hollywood roundtable podcast Created and Hosted by Kylie Brakeman, Jeremy Culhane, Angela Giarratana and Patrick McDonald. It is a production of Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players and iHeartMedia Podcasts. Executive Produced by Matt Apodaca and produced by Alexandra Dennis and Laservision Productions. Music By Gabriel Ponton and Edited by Conner McCabe. Thumbnails by Josh Fleury and logo design by Lucy Tomkiewicz. Hollywood's talking. Make sure you're listening. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Please rate us five stars! See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  What's up, everybody, guys? Before we start this episode, we have a really exciting thing coming up on our Patreon. I recently lost a bet and had to write a musical in an entire day. And that musical happened to have to be about Lemon de Lemon, the guy who introduced vanilla to Hollywood, a Jeremy character from the 200-person panel. And now we're gonna read it live.

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  We got Miles Bonseigneur, Paul F. Tompkins, and way too many other people helping us out do the live reading on August 23rd, Sunday at 3:00 PM.

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  Enjoy the episode.

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  Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists. This week on the show, we have some fun artists, artists that work alone. It's one people shows.

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  Solo shows are a specific art form where one person puts on an entire play by themselves. One-man shows, one-woman shows, one-people shows. They're specific to the artist and reveal a lot about them.

• 3:15Speaker 03

  Whether it's talking about your traumatic life backstory or doing a musical all by yourself, these musicals and plays are tour de forces.

• 3:27Speaker 06

  So sit back, relax, and get ready for no intermission. Let's listen in.

• 3:35Speaker 06

  Wow. Unbelievable. I'm so excited to be with you guys.

• 3:40Speaker 07

  This is literally so cool.

• 3:43Speaker 06

  This is so cool.

• 3:44Speaker 07

  I can feel the artist's energy in the house tonight.

• 3:48Speaker 06

  You're so.

• 3:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:50Speaker 06

  I'm sorry, I'm like getting choked up. No.

• 3:54Speaker 07

  Well, also, can I just say like right off the bat, like, working on a solo show can be so isolating, right? It can be the most isolating experience, and unless you have a director to like bounce things off of, like, it's just you and the work all day long. And so to see other people who are going through the same thing is like, it's so good.

• 4:16Speaker 05

  I want to compare notebooks. I want to compare notebooks.

• 4:20Speaker 06

  I always say, I always say, who's my biggest critic? My journal.

• 4:25Speaker 06

  I'm like right there.

• 4:26Speaker 07

  Who's my second biggest critic? All my tech cues.

• 4:32Speaker 07

  Who's my third biggest critic? My Q Lab file.

• 4:36Speaker 06

  Huge. Add a GB to that one, a gigabytes.

• 4:39Speaker 07

  I think my biggest critic is probably Jesus Christ.

• 4:41Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 4:44Speaker 05

  Christ is your critic.

• 4:45Speaker 07

  Yeah. Christ is your critic. He doesn't, he's not with you? Well, he is with me. He's with me all the time. And as someone who, you know, sort of going into this journey and sort of making my own show and sort of telling my story and sort of being vulnerable in that way, it's, it's really crazy to sort of have this experience and to think to yourself as you're on stage and you're thinking, wow, that's my purpose.

• 5:13Speaker 07

  Literally. That gave me chills. I know. And that's God.

• 5:16Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 5:17Speaker 07

  And that's.

• 5:17Speaker 03

  Sometimes I feel like it's theater magic.

• 5:19Speaker 07

  The work for me personally, I think, I think the work is like giving me. For sure. It's work for sure.

• 5:24Speaker 05

  It's also with the audience, too.

• 5:25Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's sort of like the live theater aspect of it, but for you, it's.

• 5:28Speaker 06

  Yeah, like, and I just want to say thank you, like, we were joking around.

• 5:31Speaker 07

  You're welcome.

• 5:32Speaker 06

  For you to bring us to, like, for me, for you to bring me to a place that reminded me of the importance of what we are doing as individuals, really reminded me the importance of what we're doing, you know? The beauty and the art and the, I mean, Dionysus, you know, to pay homage to the great God himself.

• 5:52Speaker 03

  The god of theater and tradition.

• 5:54Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 5:55Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 5:55Speaker 06

  But thank you.

• 5:56Speaker 07

  And wine.

• 5:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:57Speaker 07

  And wine.

• 5:58Speaker 05

  Sorry, you, did you have more to say on that?

• 6:00Speaker 06

  I did, but it's all right.

• 6:01Speaker 07

  I just wanted to piggyback off of that for a second. You know, you sort of mentioned Dionysus.

• 6:05Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 6:05Speaker 07

  And although we do kind of, in, in terms of theater and sort of like the old world and sort of like, you know, you think about like the old like Roman Greek choruses and stuff like that, but at the same time, I do, I do kind of want to steer away from talking about like other deities.

• 6:24Speaker 06

  Totally.

• 6:25Speaker 07

  Because I do think just, if, if I could just, I just wanted to say that, like, in terms of telling a story and being on stage by yourself and being one directed with source, that is sort of the main energy of play. That is sort of like the drop-in story, right? And if you're in the drop-in story, then you're in the drop-in phase.

• 6:48Speaker 05

  If I could just say too, like, and I totally respect your faith, but, but to be honest.

• 6:53Speaker 07

  I don't know. No, it's not about faith. It's about, it's about source.

• 6:55Speaker 05

  Okay. So I respect your source, but for me, there's a lot of. So I respect your relationship. There's just a lot of them. So I think I want to leave open room space for that.

• 7:03Speaker 07

  If I could ask you for a second, because I'm the kind of person, I'm just so like, just so like curious about people.

• 7:10Speaker 03

  That's so, yeah, that's interesting.

• 7:11Speaker 05

  I'm a curious guy, too.

• 7:13Speaker 07

  I'm a curious little kitten. If I could ask, I know that I'm speaking, if I could ask, what is your show about?

• 7:20Speaker 05

  So my show is about.

• 7:23Speaker 07

  This is amazing. Let's go around.

• 7:24Speaker 03

  No, I would love, yeah, no, no, no.

• 7:26Speaker 06

  Introduce ourselves and tell us about our shows.

• 7:28Speaker 07

  Your show that you can see at fringe.

• 7:30Speaker 06

  Like, I've heard about all your shows. I haven't been able to see any of them, but I'm really excited to, like, so you go ahead. Yeah.

• 7:34Speaker 05

  Okay, great. Yeah, so my show is called My Messy Exes, and it's my relationship with every religion, right? I've tried every religion in my life, and I, I basically come out as every single god you've ever heard, and I perform as some sort of messy ex, like you're on Tinder, like I'm an ex calling you back, like on a bad date. So I do Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is messy and sloppy and is really guilt and toxic, right? And then I come out as Vishnu, right? And then I come out as Mohammed, and then I come out as, you know.

• 8:08Speaker 06

  You come out as Mohammed.

• 8:09Speaker 07

  You come out as Mohammed.

• 8:11Speaker 05

  Because for me, I've tried them all. Okay? I come out as every single type.

• 8:16Speaker 07

  And you. And how long were you practicing Islam for?

• 8:19Speaker 05

  About six months in college.

• 8:21Speaker 07

  Okay, so you could.

• 8:22Speaker 06

  And so you would know, like, one of the biggest gravest you can do is maybe portraying the prophet Mohammed.

• 8:28Speaker 07

  Of course. Genuinely, like, maybe one of the most disrespectful things you can do.

• 8:32Speaker 05

  Of course. And guess what? But I go there, right? Like, je suis Charlie, you know what I mean? Like, I'm like Charlie Hebdo.

• 8:38Speaker 06

  Oh, God, no. Oh, God.

• 8:41Speaker 07

  Okay, so one thing I do like about you.

• 8:43Speaker 05

  What? I'm interesting, and I push the boundaries. Like, that's for me, solo shows, I push the boundaries, and you walk in, and there I am, and I'm breastfeeding, like, literally breastfeeding Anne Frank. Like, that's what I'm doing.

• 8:56Speaker 07

  It's just. This is just, well, it's tough. Okay, because I'll, I'll be real, we were all there the other night where we did, um, uh, Jolly Fringe Sampler, which is a show where you do 10 minutes of each of the show. And it's sort of like an advertisement to get people out to see your show. And picking 10 minutes out of one hour was so hard, but you, um, your 10 minutes was so interesting because it, like, it, you got all of these texts to come up from all the gods, and they were texting you like booty calls. And it was like really fun.

• 9:31Speaker 05

  The different gods trying to booty call me and try to get me to have sex with them, AKA part of their religion, because religion to me is a sex cult. Anyways, my name is Chauncey Featherbutt, and I'm so excited to be here. And I love pushing the boundaries. Like, South Park has gone limp, and it's time for me to step in.

• 9:55Speaker 03

  That's, I've never heard anybody say something like that.

• 9:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:59Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 9:59Speaker 05

  I just want to be edgier, and I want to go pushing it. And I'm loving doing it. I want to apologize. I think you've gone behind me. I want to apologize for going 40 minutes long last time.

• 10:10Speaker 06

  Totally all right. It's like, it's all right. It's, um, I guess I'll go.

• 10:15Speaker 07

  I thought we were, okay.

• 10:16Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah, no, you go.

• 10:17Speaker 07

  No, no, no, you go.

• 10:18Speaker 05

  Because we're gonna have to have a discourse, because I've been really wanting to talk to you.

• 10:23Speaker 06

  Like, I think you should go.

• 10:24Speaker 07

  No, no, no, no, no, no.

• 10:25Speaker 06

  Please, go, please.

• 10:27Speaker 07

  Seriously, you go. No, seriously.

• 10:28Speaker 06

  I'm not ready.

• 10:28Speaker 07

  No, no, no, seriously, you go. Yeah, I don't have to go next.

• 10:32Speaker 03

  I can't.

• 10:33Speaker 07

  I can go, honestly, I can go last. You can go next.

• 10:35Speaker 03

  I can go last is not a big deal.

• 10:37Speaker 07

  My name is Daisy Mann and I am the author, creator, director, lighting designer, marketing designer, social media coordinator, choreographer, musician, and director of the solo show To Hell and Back. And this is about, it's about my journey.

• 11:05Speaker 03

  Don't cry, I'll cry.

• 11:06Speaker 07

  Stop, I'm gonna get through this. I've done, I've done 18 shows already. I have to be able to get through this without crying.

• 11:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:13Speaker 07

  When I was 12 years old, I was fully set at school in Beverly Hills. I had friends, I had everything I could ever wanted. And then my family moved me to San Diego.

• 11:27Speaker 05

  Fuck.

• 11:29Speaker 07

  And my entire world was flipped upside down overnight. All of a sudden, my peers were not child stars, working actors, photographers, models, artists. They were surfers.

• 11:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:43Speaker 05

  It's so hard.

• 11:44Speaker 07

  And

• 11:45Speaker 03

  And San Diego is fucking awful.

• 11:47Speaker 07

  It, thank you for saying that.

• 11:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:49Speaker 07

  Because it is hell. And so it's a mix of storytelling, a little bit of song. It's also a little bit of, I pay homage to The Odyssey as well, because moving to San Diego was sort of my odyssey. And

• 12:05Speaker 05

  So far.

• 12:06Speaker 07

  It's so far. And so it, it, it really was this, this sort of like hellish journey that I am really excited to tell on stage and I'm, just can't believe that I get the opportunity to do so.

• 12:23Speaker 06

  Can I say like you taking the hellish journey back and reliving it every night on stage? I can't imagine the cathartic energy you're having this summer, like the cathartic transformation you're having.

• 12:36Speaker 07

  Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's been a lot of healing, right? And I know that, like, I know, I know, I know, a solo show is not therapy. A solo show is not therapy. That's like,

• 12:47Speaker 05

  It is, but it is.

• 12:48Speaker 07

  Right?

• 12:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:49Speaker 03

  I'm sorry, can I hug you?

• 12:51Speaker 07

  Yeah, yeah. I'd actually love that.

• 12:54Speaker 03

  I just sort of feel like, like attuned, like I just, I just, I just wanna like give you just like a little bit of love. No, honestly, because, and I wanted to thank you, like, thank you for sharing that story and thank you for being vulnerable. Because a lot of, a lot of girls are not vulnerable like that, but you are. And so I do appreciate you being,

• 13:11Speaker 07

  That means so much coming from you.

• 13:14Speaker 03

  Of course. And I just wanted to share. I'm like, I love you. Like, just sort of in a general sense.

• 13:18Speaker 07

  Can I say that? I, I love you.

• 13:21Speaker 03

  Oh my god. I feel like we would, I feel like we would love to do like goat yoga together.

• 13:26Speaker 07

  Oh my god.

• 13:26Speaker 03

  Have you ever done goat yoga?

• 13:28Speaker 07

  Yeah, where the goats are around. I've done dog yoga. You've done dog yoga?

• 13:33Speaker 03

  I'll do whatever you wanna do.

• 13:34Speaker 07

  Oh my god, okay.

• 13:35Speaker 03

  I'd love to hang out and get coffee or something.

• 13:37Speaker 07

  Sunday?

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Of course.

• 13:41Speaker 05

  Are we done?

• 13:42Speaker 07

  You guys done? We're done.

• 13:44Speaker 05

  Great. I just wanted to say that.

• 13:45Speaker 03

  What were you guys texting each other?

• 13:47Speaker 05

  Nothing.

• 13:47Speaker 06

  No, we weren't texting.

• 13:49Speaker 05

  You weren't?

• 13:51Speaker 06

  I wasn't texting. I'm not on anybody's text threads.

• 13:56Speaker 07

  So what?

• 13:58Speaker 06

  It's alright, no, it's totally cool. It's like, I'm kind of known as the text, the text thread killer. I post a meme or something like that and for some reason it just goes silent.

• 14:07Speaker 07

  Okay, I think somebody only said that like once.

• 14:09Speaker 06

  Yeah, I know, maybe. Well, I guess I'll go. My name is Spencer Ruffian. And my show is called Oh Nuts. It's kind of a crazy show about the exploration of like nuts. And I use nuts on stage, kind of like show. And ultimately, really, it's like, it's funny, like clown show about like nuts, but really what it's about is like, am I straight?

• 14:34Speaker 05

  Right, cuz you read about clown classes, right?

• 14:36Speaker 06

  I read about clown classes. I thought, that sounds so fun.

• 14:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:40Speaker 06

  But I couldn't afford it because headshots and like acting classes and commercial classes. And so I couldn't afford it. So I was like, I will take it by doing, I will do my own show to take a clown class. Cuz like, that's LA. That's like the grind set. That's the mentality you need to like.

• 14:59Speaker 03

  It's like when you wanna learn a language and you have to go to like another country.

• 15:01Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 15:02Speaker 03

  And just like fall into it.

• 15:03Speaker 06

  Yeah. So like, my show is like ultimately like, am I straight? Cuz it's like a question I've had for a long time. And the good, the good or bad news is I am straight. Like,

• 15:12Speaker 07

  Oh, good. Oh my god, you spoiled the egg.

• 15:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, well, like, it's like, the spoiler helps you.

• 15:19Speaker 07

  The spoiler helps. Can I just say, can I give you a compliment? Your stage is so messy after.

• 15:25Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 15:25Speaker 03

  I was gonna ask, do you shower?

• 15:27Speaker 07

  So many liquids on the floor.

• 15:29Speaker 06

  It is covered in any, imagine, nut shells covered in lube.

• 15:34Speaker 03

  And that's not like your skin, like you are covered in nut stuff.

• 15:40Speaker 06

  Kind of like as an ugly little gremlin creature covered in like pus and stuff like that that discovers a nut. And it just goes bozoinkers from there.

• 15:48Speaker 05

  And the things you ask the audience to do, I've never seen anyone ask.

• 15:51Speaker 06

  No. The best thing about my shows is, one, you're gonna see my penis. Two,

• 15:56Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 15:57Speaker 06

  I'm gonna make somebody in the audience so deeply uncomfortable, they'll question their own sanity.

• 16:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:03Speaker 06

  And three, at one point, at the end of the show, you'll be moved. Like, that's a guarantee.

• 16:08Speaker 03

  I really liked the opening scene when you kind of hatch out of that egg.

• 16:11Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 16:12Speaker 03

  I thought that was really beautiful.

• 16:13Speaker 06

  Because like, for me, that was like my, that was the question. This looming question, hatching out of the egg, am I straight?

• 16:21Speaker 03

  Can I ask what the, like, what the significance of making the audience member the nut chugger?

• 16:28Speaker 06

  Like, I just think that's funny. Like,

• 16:29Speaker 03

  Like, it just feels weird to give one audience member like all this bucket of nuts that they have to chug.

• 16:33Speaker 06

  They're the chug, nut chugger and it's like hard cuz it's like big hazelnuts. Like, they can't chug a hazelnut.

• 16:39Speaker 07

  Have you ever had someone say no to being the nut chugger?

• 16:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was my, that's what I do. I bet that's awkward.

• 16:45Speaker 07

  Does that happen?

• 16:46Speaker 06

  It's so funny. It happened once. And I said, no, you can't say no.

• 16:51Speaker 07

  What did you do?

• 16:51Speaker 06

  Yeah, I said, I gave it to them anyway. And they loved it, I think.

• 16:54Speaker 05

  It only happened once and then, so everyone else has been cool chugging nuts?

• 16:58Speaker 06

  Everybody else is kind of then sat there going like, what do I do? And I go,

• 17:01Speaker 03

  What if someone's allergic to nuts? Yeah, what if someone's allergic?

• 17:06Speaker 03

  Chugging the nuts. What? Chugging the nuts. Oh, this is you playing like the, the closet version of you. Do I like nuts?

• 17:14Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah. When you switch back and forth between the closet version and the outside version.

• 17:19Speaker 06

  Like, literally, it's like, like, oh, yeah, I guess I'm just like, yeah, I'll see you later, Richard.

• 17:24Speaker 03

  Is that my best friend? Do I like his nuts?

• 17:28Speaker 06

  There I was, wondering what was gonna happen for the rest of my life.

• 17:31Speaker 05

  Did you see her sneeze, by the way?

• 17:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, I saw that. That was crazy.

• 17:34Speaker 03

  I'm sorry. Sorry.

• 17:38Speaker 06

  No, you can, you can go if you wanna, yeah. Do you wanna go?

• 17:42Speaker 03

  No, no, no, no, you, you can go. I can go. No, no, no, I can go last. It's okay.

• 17:45Speaker 06

  No, you should go.

• 17:46Speaker 03

  No, no, no, I can go last.

• 17:47Speaker 06

  No, go.

• 17:48Speaker 03

  But you weren't done and I don't wanna step on your toes.

• 17:49Speaker 06

  I was so, I was done yesterday, queen.

• 17:52Speaker 03

  Can I? Can I hug you?

• 17:56Speaker 05

  Okay, everyone's getting hugs.

• 17:57Speaker 03

  I just, I just sort of feel so like moved by your story.

• 18:01Speaker 06

  So nice.

• 18:01Speaker 03

  And I just, I mean, it must be really, really hard to like question your sexuality like that, you know what I mean?

• 18:06Speaker 06

  It really was. It was like super, like,

• 18:07Speaker 03

  Really, really hard.

• 18:08Speaker 06

  I felt like the process was super vulnerable and like, it's just beautiful, like what you find at the end. Yeah, like,

• 18:13Speaker 05

  It's amazing you found at the end you're not gay.

• 18:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was like crazy.

• 18:16Speaker 03

  To sort of come right back around to like, yeah.

• 18:19Speaker 06

  And like, sometimes, like, when you ask a question, you already know the answer.

• 18:21Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 18:22Speaker 06

  But I had to do all that soul searching because like, I feel like for my career would have been like so much better if I was bi.

• 18:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, queer is really like in right now.

• 18:31Speaker 06

  So, especially for one person shows.

• 18:34Speaker 07

  I, yeah, it would make the whole process so much easier.

• 18:37Speaker 03

  It really would.

• 18:37Speaker 07

  It would make the whole solo show process so much fucking easier.

• 18:40Speaker 05

  You know what I keep finding is that the, the appetite for watching people talk about being bi is really huge right now.

• 18:49Speaker 06

  Huge.

• 18:49Speaker 05

  People are excited when it's brought up at any sort of show. And they love when they dive into it cuz it's unique.

• 18:55Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 18:56Speaker 03

  My favorite part, though, is when you finally say that you are not gay. And if the nut chugger is finished with the bucket of nuts, at the bottom of the nut bucket, it says not gay.

• 19:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, like, so you could get it spoiled earlier.

• 19:07Speaker 03

  You have to, you have to get through all of the nuts to figure out like where.

• 19:10Speaker 06

  That was my journey. Like, I had to get through all of the nuts to realize I'm straight.

• 19:14Speaker 05

  That's amazing.

• 19:15Speaker 06

  Like, I, I thought that was so cool.

• 19:17Speaker 03

  It was really beautiful.

• 19:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, that actually came to me in a dream.

• 19:20Speaker 03

  I bet.

• 19:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 19:21Speaker 06

  Well, like, in a, I would, I would, I would like the idea that it came to me in a dream, if that makes sense.

• 19:27Speaker 07

  Yeah, like, I would like, like, I think that would be a cool idea.

• 19:30Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 19:31Speaker 03

  I think that makes sense.

• 19:32Speaker 05

  It would have been awesome if that came to you in a dream.

• 19:34Speaker 06

  I journaled about how it would be cool to be, if I had a dream like this.

• 19:38Speaker 03

  But that's a dream in itself. Like, you dream. That's a daydream.

• 19:42Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 19:43Speaker 07

  It came to you in a daydream.

• 19:45Speaker 03

  That's a daydream.

• 19:45Speaker 06

  It came to me in a daydream.

• 19:47Speaker 03

  Yes. Because every, every thought is a dream within itself and every thought is sort of a, is, is a priori source.

• 19:54Speaker 06

  I'm sorry, I'm, I'm taking up too much space right now. One of you have to introduce yourselves.

• 20:01Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 20:05Speaker 07

  Okay, you got this.

• 20:07Speaker 03

  I'm sorry, I'm just like kind of nervous. It's okay if I go, right?

• 20:11Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 20:12Speaker 07

  Yes, of course.

• 20:13Speaker 06

  This is your stage right now.

• 20:14Speaker 03

  Okay, my name is Sydney Keebler-Mothimer and

• 20:22Speaker 03

  and my one woman show, my one girl show, one lady show, I guess I should say, is called Bully?, question mark. And it's about the fact that a lot of people that I went to school with do claim that I was a very violent bully to them. I don't necessarily remember it that way. If, if you were to push me up against a wall, and that would sort of be my answer. And so it's sort of, it's sort of an exploration of

• 20:53Speaker 07

  Lost memory and sort of an exploration of Grief.

• 20:58Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 20:59Speaker 07

  Yeah. Just touching me. And sort of finding, you know, those that, those that think you bully are sometimes just bullying themselves and it has nothing to do with you.

• 21:09Speaker 06

  It's literally there.

• 21:10Speaker 05

  I will play just, just because I, you know, play the devil in my show because I was Satanist for a bit. I want to play devil's advocate a little bit here.

• 21:19Speaker 07

  Of course. This is interesting. Oh, oh, do it as your devil's advocate character.

• 21:23Speaker 05

  Devil's advocate. Um, hello, I'm the devil.

• 21:25Speaker 07

  Oh, my God.

• 21:27Speaker 05

  I'm a y'all boy and I'm the devil.

• 21:29Speaker 06

  Sitting right there.

• 21:30Speaker 07

  Is the devil gay?

• 21:31Speaker 05

  The devil's gay in mine.

• 21:32Speaker 06

  His advocate is also gay?

• 21:34Speaker 05

  The advocate is also gay.

• 21:35Speaker 07

  Did you use Alexander technique for that?

• 21:37Speaker 05

  I did, yeah.

• 21:38Speaker 07

  I could tell. I did as well. Amazing.

• 21:41Speaker 05

  So I just wanted to ask.

• 21:42Speaker 07

  There's also a singing aspect as well. And then at the end, I, I do an interpretive rip and dance about the first time I got my period.

• 21:48Speaker 05

  Right. So just real quick though.

• 21:51Speaker 07

  Thank you.

• 21:51Speaker 05

  For devil's advocate, right? Like you say, like you, you portray the people who are accusing you of bullying you. But you portray them in a way that if I was that person, I think I might perceive it as bullying.

• 22:04Speaker 07

  Well, so I portray the people that have come forward in the last 10 years or so that have come forward and have said that I was a bully. I, I portray them as dirty little rats.

• 22:12Speaker 05

  Right. So like, maybe like, maybe can you do, when you read the deposition, can you do that scene for us?

• 22:16Speaker 07

  So the first rat, so I'm, so I'm in sort of like this New York alleyway when I was in theater school. And so it's called rat number one. For those of you that have seen, it's, it's the rat number one piece. And so when rat number one comes on and they're like,

• 22:38Speaker 07

  and so that sort of signals that, you know, you go to school and maybe, maybe you think someone's being a bully to you just because they're blonde and just because their dad is a dentist. And I, I was blonde and my, my dad was a dentist. Wait, is that true? My dad was a dentist. Your dad was a dentist for real? My dad is a dentist. That wasn't just for the show? Wait, when I saw your show, I had no idea that's true. Yeah, no, my dad is a dentist. Yeah, no, my dad is a dentist. Oh, my gosh, that's literally crazy. What a small world. Yeah, he's a dentist. Is your dad also a dentist? No, I, I just mean like, I've like been to the dentist. No, I just can't believe it. I just can't believe it. You've been to the dentist.

• 23:15Speaker 06

  I, I've been to the dentist. That's insane that your dad's a dentist.

• 23:18Speaker 07

  Yeah. So all like whatever dentist, like you've been to the dentist. You know what they do. Like my dad does that.

• 23:24Speaker 06

  That's crazy.

• 23:24Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh. I like, I, you kind of like forget that like all the drilling and all that stuff, like someone's dad does that. Yeah.

• 23:32Speaker 06

  Literally.

• 23:32Speaker 07

  Yeah. And it's crazy because then like you wrote truth.

• 23:35Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:35Speaker 07

  I did write truth. And so, you know, then that sort of brings me back to, you know, my relationship with God and my relationship with peace. And faith. Oh, faith. And source. I call it source because I do want to be nondenominational. I don't want to be, I don't want to be disrespectful towards anybody because I'm not. I'm actually a very kind-hearted person. I actually have not been mean to anybody. And I think you prove it in your show by reading the Bible for 10 straight minutes. Thank you. Yes, that's the Bible piece. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love the Bible piece. Leviticus 99.

• 24:07Speaker 06

  Somebody's like, you were like the spawn of Satan. You are so ungodly. And then boom, cut.

• 24:12Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 24:12Speaker 06

  One light as you read the Bible for 10 minutes.

• 24:15Speaker 07

  Yeah, it actually turns out they were wrong.

• 24:17Speaker 06

  They were wrong.

• 24:18Speaker 05

  It'd be an interesting double bill. You should do that.

• 24:22Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh. That would be so good. That would be so good. I haven't, um, I haven't seen your show.

• 24:29Speaker 05

  You have to. You have to see it.

• 24:30Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 24:30Speaker 05

  You have to come to my show.

• 24:31Speaker 07

  I would love to.

• 24:32Speaker 05

  You have to see it.

• 24:33Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 24:33Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's great. I'm getting you a ticket.

• 24:36Speaker 07

  I saw, I saw a preview of.

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• 26:02Speaker 06

  I'm obsessed with these Sunday performance joggers. I put them on for my really long walks. And then after my walk, when I'm exhausted, I wear them on the couch as I watch my favorite show. They have this soft performance stretch in it that wicks moisture. And there's this cool tapered leg with a cuffed ankle. I look good. I feel good. And it's nice to be out in these Viori clothes. They're the best.

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• 26:38Speaker 03

  Preview of it at IPA and Plays for Days.

• 26:41Speaker 06

  Yeah. IPA and Plays for Days.

• 26:42Speaker 03

  The festival that, yeah, the part of the fringe.

• 26:44Speaker 06

  That's so bad.

• 26:45Speaker 03

  It's just like a fun day activity. That's really nice. And you get to see other people's work and it's really.

• 26:49Speaker 06

  Go ahead, introduce yourself.

• 26:50Speaker 03

  Okay, fine.

• 26:51Speaker 07

  So did you, I was gonna, does anyone have any questions or like sort of like how it's.

• 26:57Speaker 03

  I want to know about the wedgie costume you're in.

• 26:59Speaker 07

  No, honestly, you go.

• 27:01Speaker 03

  Are you sure?

• 27:01Speaker 07

  No, no, no, you go. No, it's okay. No, no, you go. Like honestly, I don't want to like, no, you go. No, seriously.

• 27:06Speaker 06

  And like, I just had a question, like, are these real people that reach out?

• 27:10Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, that's a good question.

• 27:12Speaker 07

  Yeah, I was also wondering about the, the, the voices, if it's like impressions of actual people or if it's.

• 27:17Speaker 05

  And the video you show of you actually pushing a woman into a dumpster.

• 27:21Speaker 03

  But it looks reversed.

• 27:23Speaker 05

  Looks like you're pulling her out, but it looks like, but then a bird flies backwards. So you can tell it's reversed.

• 27:27Speaker 03

  It says rewind. So you can tell that you're kind of taking the footage and kind of like doctoring it a little bit.

• 27:34Speaker 05

  You saved a woman from a dumpster.

• 27:36Speaker 07

  No, I did pull her out.

• 27:38Speaker 03

  But what, what do you have to say to the claims that it's, that it's in reverse?

• 27:42Speaker 07

  That's not true.

• 27:43Speaker 03

  So why is that bird going, going backwards?

• 27:46Speaker 07

  Birds are not real.

• 27:48Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 27:50Speaker 03

  You're one of those.

• 27:51Speaker 05

  So that's, it's AI.

• 27:53Speaker 07

  Well, it's not AI. AI is really bad for the environment, actually.

• 27:58Speaker 07

  That was a nice surprise. But honestly, I don't, I don't, I don't want to, I honestly, it's, it's so nice being here and I don't want to take up too much time and I really didn't want to step on your toes.

• 28:07Speaker 03

  No, it's okay. Mine's really quick and mine's really short.

• 28:09Speaker 07

  So long. Can I, can I just take a second? Can I just give you a hug really quickly?

• 28:12Speaker 05

  She hasn't even spoken.

• 28:13Speaker 07

  I might cry. No, can I just like before we, I just kind of feel I'm pulled to you. Can I give you a hug? Oh, my gosh. Do you mind if I say this? Oh, my gosh.

• 28:24Speaker 03

  I am liked. I am liked.

• 28:26Speaker 07

  Yeah. Wow.

• 28:28Speaker 03

  Wow. Thank you so much for that.

• 28:29Speaker 07

  Yeah, of course.

• 28:29Speaker 03

  What did you say your name was again?

• 28:31Speaker 07

  Sydney.

• 28:32Speaker 03

  Sydney.

• 28:33Speaker 07

  Keebler Mothammer.

• 28:34Speaker 03

  Piece of Sydney's in my heart. Um, hi. Um, God, where do I start? My name is Quinn. Um,

• 28:43Speaker 03

  sorry, I'm gonna cry.

• 28:44Speaker 05

  Go ahead.

• 28:45Speaker 07

  That's okay. That's, no, that's like what this is all about.

• 28:49Speaker 06

  But like I always say, a solo show is more like an exposed wound than a bruise. I always say that.

• 28:58Speaker 03

  I have, I'm called, me and my producers were calling it the Goth Girl Show. Like instead of a one girl, a one woman show, it's a one Goth Girl Show.

• 29:06Speaker 07

  One Goth Girl.

• 29:08Speaker 03

  Um, just a little, cause like I, I don't know if anyone listens at home, but Fringe is kind of like, there's a lot of marketing behind it. And there's like, what makes yours different, right? Like there's so many different shows. Um, yeah. And my show's pretty simple. It's a car play. So you get in the car with me. Um, and I'm just a woman going, a girl, a girl going through it in her car.

• 29:30Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  And you get to sit in the back and just, um, drive with me for 45 minutes. And, um, you get to really see what girls are going through when they're alone.

• 29:45Speaker 07

  And this, this show, like it really.

• 29:47Speaker 06

  I couldn't imagine.

• 29:48Speaker 07

  It's just so unbelievable because you know that like, you know that when you get in the car, like you're driving to TJ Maxx. Yeah. And like. We see in the visuals like TJ Maxx getting closer and closer and closer and closer. And it just like brings me to tears that like, I didn't want to get to TJ Maxx because I was enjoying the ride so much. Yeah.

• 30:07Speaker 03

  Thank you, guys. No, and it's hard. I've always wanted to do like a car play and really like, I think what, what inspires me right now is naturalism.

• 30:16Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 30:17Speaker 03

  When I see a real faucet on stage, I'm like, that's what our forefathers wanted theater to be.

• 30:25Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 30:25Speaker 05

  I mean, so you're like, you're in your real car.

• 30:27Speaker 03

  I'm in my real car.

• 30:28Speaker 05

  I mean, that's what's amazing about it. Like, new stage, right? Like, I'd love to do my show in your car. Like, it's like.

• 30:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's asking the question, like, everything's a stage.

• 30:39Speaker 05

  It's asking the question, everything's a stage.

• 30:42Speaker 03

  It's asking the question, this is a stage.

• 30:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:46Speaker 03

  And this is a stage.

• 30:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's awesome.

• 30:48Speaker 03

  And sometimes the most private parts of our lives, in the car, in the bathroom, it's asking the question, that's a stage.

• 30:55Speaker 05

  It is brave that you, you let the audience, I think what's crazy about this, and I want to know how you even handled this, that you do this, you let them control the aux cord. Because I saw, I saw that on the Instagram that you were saying, hey, I don't know who sent this to some teen group, but a lot of kids are getting in here and playing fart noises in my whole show, like, please stop. Like, how do you stay in the zone crying, driving around when like fart, you know, forty-five minutes of farting has happened?

• 31:22Speaker 03

  No, I want to talk to you guys about this.

• 31:24Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh. I would love to talk about this.

• 31:26Speaker 03

  I think I would, I would love to just like dive into the fact that like, doing a show in rep, doing a show that many times.

• 31:34Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:34Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 31:35Speaker 03

  Like, it depends on who's the chug, the nut chugger that day.

• 31:38Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 31:38Speaker 03

  And who has the aux cord that day. My show is changing every time. I know this is crazy when I say it, but I don't think I've ever done a show that was similar to the last one.

• 31:49Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 31:50Speaker 06

  How could you?

• 31:50Speaker 07

  And that's so true. That is so relatable. And like, the audience really changes it, you know?

• 31:55Speaker 06

  Literally.

• 31:55Speaker 07

  Like, sometimes you have as few as just two people in your audience. Yeah. And then sometimes you have as many as, you know?

• 32:04Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 32:04Speaker 07

  Like, you have, you could have as, you could have like more than, you could have more than that.

• 32:08Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 32:09Speaker 07

  Yeah, in your audience as well. And can I say something? Yeah, like, oh my god, way more.

• 32:14Speaker 03

  Like, how many have you, have you felt like it was like?

• 32:16Speaker 05

  Oh, man.

• 32:17Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh, like, I mean, it could be as few as two.

• 32:20Speaker 03

  Or?

• 32:21Speaker 07

  Or more, or way more.

• 32:23Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 32:23Speaker 07

  Way, way, way, way more. And like, when, when it's, when it's like, when it's like half, when it's, when it's, when, when there's like butts in seats, like, you feel the energy in the room shift.

• 32:35Speaker 06

  It's like butts in seats. It's like, that's what it's actually all about.

• 32:38Speaker 05

  What's the biggest house you guys have had so far?

• 32:40Speaker 07

  Oh, my god.

• 32:41Speaker 03

  When I sell out, it's three seats.

• 32:43Speaker 06

  Like, cra- yeah.

• 32:44Speaker 07

  That's crazy.

• 32:45Speaker 03

  Cause it's the front and the middle.

• 32:47Speaker 07

  I had a back-to-back sold-out show. I think it was three hundred seats, the first night.

• 32:50Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 32:51Speaker 07

  Oh, really? That's amazing.

• 32:52Speaker 06

  That's great.

• 32:53Speaker 07

  Oh, okay, yeah, that's awesome. My, my dad invited. That's really cool. And you, and you have like producer backing, right? Uh, well, my. You have like a company, you have like a company that's backing it, you have like a producer, you have like a lot of money behind it? Yeah, well, I mean, I, I, I don't want to like, you know, sort of like, talk about money, that's. No, of course, of course, of course. My, my, my dad, who's a dentist, is also a producer.

• 33:18Speaker 06

  No way.

• 33:18Speaker 07

  But what I was going to say is that, and I feel like a lot of people don't point this out, is that theater is alive.

• 33:26Speaker 05

  Yeah. Why haven't we been saying that?

• 33:28Speaker 03

  No, like, you are so, right?

• 33:30Speaker 05

  It's crazy.

• 33:31Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 33:32Speaker 03

  I, there is that group of kids that, like, the entire version of my play, like, we sold out one night, and when we sell out, we sell three tickets, right? And when we sold out, these kids just like kept yelling six, seven to me throughout the whole play.

• 33:46Speaker 07

  Oh.

• 33:47Speaker 03

  And I, it, but the way it changed my monologues.

• 33:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:53Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 33:54Speaker 03

  Like, it's alive.

• 33:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:56Speaker 07

  It's alive. It's alive. I had a heckler in my audience, and it actually ended up being one of the girls that claims that I bullied her.

• 34:03Speaker 06

  What was she heckling you like?

• 34:05Speaker 07

  She was just saying like, really just mean stuff, things that a bully would say. She was saying, you know, you broke my collarbone. And the truth of that is, is that I didn't break her collarbone. The stairs railing broke her collarbone. I don't have the physical strength to break someone's collarbone. No, that's ridiculous.

• 34:24Speaker 03

  Did it inform the work when she heckled?

• 34:26Speaker 07

  And it did. And so it was during Rat, the Rat Three piece.

• 34:31Speaker 06

  I love Rat Three.

• 34:32Speaker 07

  The top dancing Rat Three piece.

• 34:33Speaker 05

  I love the Rat Three piece. When you bring up those two other things on sticks that look like rats, and you do it.

• 34:38Speaker 03

  And I think by Rat Three, I go, oh, they're all different rats.

• 34:41Speaker 07

  Right. And I was doing that, sort of, when it sort of goes into the soliloquy about muffins.

• 34:48Speaker 06

  Do it. Do a little of the soliloquy about muffins.

• 34:50Speaker 07

  Well, out of the show, it's sort of hard to, um, drop in, but.

• 34:55Speaker 03

  If I see one more muffin, I'm gonna eat it all up. I'm a fat, fat rat, and I must take it down.

• 35:05Speaker 07

  And I saw her.

• 35:07Speaker 05

  The need to, the need to have a soliloquy in the middle of a one-woman show, as if you haven't been talking directly to the audience.

• 35:12Speaker 07

  You could tell it's a soliloquy. You could tell the difference.

• 35:14Speaker 03

  It looks a little different, right?

• 35:15Speaker 07

  It looked a little different.

• 35:16Speaker 03

  It's kind of short, and it's not a full monologue, and it's kind of paced down.

• 35:18Speaker 07

  Well, the, well, the solilo- I mean, the soliloquy went on longer, of course, but it did rhyme.

• 35:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 35:23Speaker 07

  And so when I.

• 35:24Speaker 03

  So how did that change? Yeah.

• 35:25Speaker 07

  So she's screaming, you broke my collarbone, broke my collarbone, my family sued your family. And I just dropped in harder. I just, I kind of, I had this moment where I just, I sort of

• 35:39Speaker 07

  became the rat.

• 35:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 35:41Speaker 07

  I became the rat. Whoa. Yeah. That's crazy. And so that informed how I felt about her, where she is Rat Three in my story. That is sort of a peek behind the veil. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

• 35:54Speaker 03

  Wait, that's, well, she's so.

• 35:56Speaker 07

  She's really a dead heart. So she shows up, she's Rat Three, I'm playing Rat Three. So I, I really, I become Rat Three, which means I become her, which means that we are all connected, which means that everything that she said about me is not true.

• 36:12Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 36:12Speaker 07

  She's just in pain. She just doesn't know.

• 36:15Speaker 06

  Like, that's the beauty of like.

• 36:16Speaker 07

  She's just hurting.

• 36:17Speaker 06

  I think solo shows are so important because it shows that all of us that created a solo show are the victims.

• 36:22Speaker 07

  Yeah. Yes.

• 36:23Speaker 06

  The victims of our own life.

• 36:24Speaker 07

  Because we're brave enough to tell our stories.

• 36:26Speaker 03

  Is this the girl that did that really long Instagram dump? Uh, and there were pictures of her with like a neck brace on?

• 36:31Speaker 06

  Yeah. She had like the video of being pushed down the stairs.

• 36:34Speaker 07

  Rat number three?

• 36:35Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 36:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 36:36Speaker 03

  Cause there's some girl that was like talking about a fringe show, don't go see this fringe show. Is this the same girl?

• 36:42Speaker 07

  I don't have social media.

• 36:43Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 36:44Speaker 07

  Oh.

• 36:44Speaker 05

  Brave, girl.

• 36:45Speaker 07

  That's really brave. Well, actually, this is a question I had for you guys, because obviously, at Fringe, there's thousands and thousands of shows, you know? Big shows, small shows, like, there are shows happening in the back of pizza restaurants, there are shows happening in attics, there are shows happening in big theaters, small theaters.

• 37:02Speaker 03

  Donut Aladdin?

• 37:03Speaker 07

  Donut Aladdin actually has some pretty good circus stuff.

• 37:07Speaker 03

  You haven't seen it? Go see Donut Aladdin and get the jelly doughnut.

• 37:11Speaker 05

  It's epic.

• 37:11Speaker 07

  You have to go. Um, but how are you guys approaching marketing? Because like, obviously, we have the posters of our shows that line a wall where like, you look at it, and there's thousands of them, back to back, to back, to back, to back. But like, how are you taking that extra step? Like, did you guys hire PR?

• 37:29Speaker 05

  Well, for me, like, I just got to know my audience, right? Like, when I'm looking out and I see somebody that walks in that isn't wearing a graphic tee, I go, uh-oh, I'm gonna have an issue with that guy. Like, that person's gonna be an issue. But usually, my guys are funny, like, as long as the new Beverly isn't playing something interesting that same night, they're gonna be there for me.

• 37:47Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 37:48Speaker 05

  They fucking love it. Like, as long as, you know, like, uh, you know, like, Dolomite or whatever isn't playing, or some ridiculous, you know, sex exploitation kind of film, you know, they're ready to go. But for other people, I want to let people know, like, I'm pushing boundaries. So I go out, I dress as a nun, and then I go out, and I go out where we're all advertising and firing, and I lift up my, my habit, and I'm wearing a G-string, and my flyers are in the G-string.

• 38:16Speaker 03

  I've seen this.

• 38:17Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 38:18Speaker 05

  So I have people pull, pull flyers from the G-string, and also the flyers, they're covered in lube.

• 38:25Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh, that's awesome. So when you touch the flyer, they're, you're touching.

• 38:29Speaker 05

  You get lube on your hands.

• 38:29Speaker 03

  And what does the lube represent, like, in religion?

• 38:31Speaker 05

  It like, it represents like the sluttiness of religion. Like, it's like, come to me, you know what I mean? Like.

• 38:38Speaker 07

  But the come is spelled, is spelled the different way.

• 38:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, like, like, yeah, like semen.

• 38:43Speaker 07

  Can I ask about your actual dating life?

• 38:45Speaker 05

  My actual dating life?

• 38:46Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 38:46Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm happily married.

• 38:50Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 38:50Speaker 07

  Okay, okay.

• 38:52Speaker 05

  I've been married to my lovely wife, Charlotte, for fourteen years. We met, uh, sophomores in high school.

• 38:58Speaker 03

  How many times has she seen a show?

• 39:00Speaker 05

  She comes to every show.

• 39:01Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 39:02Speaker 05

  She comes to every single show, and she busts a damn gut in the front row.

• 39:06Speaker 07

  I actually saw her on a corner. She has the Jack Skellington sweatshirt.

• 39:11Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 39:11Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 39:12Speaker 05

  Yes. Yeah, and she's making charm bracelets. She's making bracelets for everything.

• 39:15Speaker 07

  Taylor Swift bracelets.

• 39:16Speaker 05

  Yes. She might have, she's been making bracelets for all of yours, actually. I, I, I, she's come to everyone's shows. She doesn't speak a lot, but she's so passionate.

• 39:25Speaker 07

  Oh, my god, that's so nice.

• 39:27Speaker 05

  She's come to all your shows.

• 39:28Speaker 07

  Wait, she's come to?

• 39:29Speaker 05

  She made, she made bracelets with, uh, sentences from all of yourself.

• 39:32Speaker 06

  Oh, my god.

• 39:34Speaker 07

  And she's got a little surfer on it. Oh, my god. She wa, she really was paying attention. These are actually kind of ugly.

• 39:40Speaker 05

  What do yours say? Shut up. What do yours say?

• 39:42Speaker 07

  Um, it says bully, question mark, but bully is spelled wrong. Does she not know how to spell?

• 39:48Speaker 05

  Oh, she might have just run out of letters.

• 39:49Speaker 07

  Does she seriously not know how to spell?

• 39:50Speaker 05

  It's actually really expensive, it's actually really expensive to keep all letters on, on, like, on a deck.

• 39:56Speaker 07

  Yeah, I'm just saying.

• 39:57Speaker 05

  So it's like, she maybe ran out of letters.

• 39:58Speaker 07

  Yeah, but I'm just saying, if you're gonna like make a bracelet, like, at least like.

• 40:00Speaker 05

  You're gonna give it back to my lovely wife, Charlotte?

• 40:03Speaker 07

  Let's not spell, right?

• 40:04Speaker 03

  So she doesn't speak, but she's really passionate?

• 40:07Speaker 05

  She's really passionate.

• 40:08Speaker 03

  She's really sweet.

• 40:09Speaker 05

  She's, she's the kind of person who loves to be kind of near a conversation. Let her in, she won't say anything.

• 40:18Speaker 07

  But hover, hover. She's a quiet type.

• 40:20Speaker 05

  She's a quiet type. She's got, she's got her big hoodie on and her gigantic glasses, and she loves to be around.

• 40:25Speaker 06

  My favorite people to be in a group with, and my absolute fear to be when the group clears and you're stuck with them.

• 40:30Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 40:31Speaker 06

  You have no idea.

• 40:32Speaker 05

  Oh, man, she's got nothing one-on-one.

• 40:33Speaker 07

  She's malleable.

• 40:34Speaker 05

  I love my wife.

• 40:35Speaker 07

  And you're allowed to sort of be your big boy self, and sort of like be big boy.

• 40:40Speaker 03

  Big boy.

• 40:41Speaker 07

  And you're allowed to sort of be big in every room.

• 40:44Speaker 05

  We have our inside jokes, like, we, we watch, we watch TV, like, like.

• 40:48Speaker 03

  Does she watch? What, what are her shows?

• 40:51Speaker 05

  Um, do you know Penny Dreadful? She loves Penny Dreadful.

• 40:55Speaker 06

  She loves Penny Dreadful.

• 40:56Speaker 05

  She loves Penny Dreadful.

• 40:57Speaker 07

  She loves Penny Dreadful.

• 40:57Speaker 05

  And she loves, she loves Supernatural. She's obsessed. Those boys, those are her celebrity hall pass.

• 41:03Speaker 03

  She should watch my favorite show. She should watch my favorite show, Wednesday. Has she heard of it?

• 41:07Speaker 05

  She's obsessed with Wednesday.

• 41:09Speaker 07

  I bet Charlotte was really running Tumblr a few years ago.

• 41:12Speaker 05

  Charlotte was, she's still on it.

• 41:15Speaker 07

  Has she ever?

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• 43:12Speaker 05

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• 43:48Speaker 03

  Has she ever seen the show Firefly?

• 43:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, but she prefers the movie.

• 43:54Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah. Can I ask a question? Like, I never get this opportunity, other than like, almost every single night of my life, when I do like the clown jams, but like, how did you guys like contrive your place? Like, how did they come to you? Like, I'm just never surrounded by artists like this.

• 44:11Speaker 03

  Mine actually came from a lawsuit.

• 44:14Speaker 06

  No way.

• 44:15Speaker 03

  Yeah. Wait, that lawsuit in the rap ballet is real? Yeah, yeah. My family was being sued, and it was really, really hard. And I decided to make a one-man show about it.

• 44:28Speaker 06

  That's amazing.

• 44:29Speaker 03

  I think what's so important about all of our shows is like, the difference between the idea and just deciding to do it. Yeah.

• 44:35Speaker 06

  Like, we actually are the bold ones, the best in show, I will say. Like, we are the ones that like, people always like, how do you do it? How do you do it? You just...

• 44:45Speaker 03

  You just do. You just do. If we were drafted in war, let's say we were like at the front lines of the Civil War, we would be all the heroes on the front lines, I would say.

• 44:53Speaker 06

  Because we would be... Because we decided to do it.

• 44:56Speaker 07

  It takes bravery, you know? And like, I'll answer, for my show came to me as I was riding the Surfliner, which is the train that takes you from LA to San Diego. And I was just like, feeling all of these feelings just come rushing back, like all the, like, the pain and the pressure. You know when you have heaviness on your chest you can't let go of? That's what I was feeling the entire time. And I was like, I, my breathing got shallow, and I was flailing around this train, like, going, where am I? What's going on? What am I doing?

• 45:35Speaker 07

  And then, the only way for the thing to come out of me was a 60-minute monologue, one person style.

• 45:45Speaker 06

  So good.

• 45:46Speaker 07

  And like, there's no other format for it sometimes.

• 45:48Speaker 06

  Literally.

• 45:49Speaker 07

  Like, I honestly, I've tried a bunch of things for this. I tried to do a pilot, like a, like a multicam pilot.

• 45:57Speaker 03

  We don't have enough of those.

• 45:58Speaker 07

  Didn't really work out. Yeah.

• 45:59Speaker 03

  Like a workplace comedy would be cool.

• 46:01Speaker 06

  I loved your short film about it.

• 46:02Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 46:03Speaker 06

  I thought it was so genius, so smart.

• 46:05Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 46:06Speaker 03

  Or your zine.

• 46:06Speaker 07

  Thank you so much.

• 46:07Speaker 06

  To try to fit an entire movie in a short film was genius.

• 46:09Speaker 03

  Your zine, I love.

• 46:10Speaker 07

  Because I don't do it, I don't write it like a short. I, I just did a full feature, like, all the plot points of a feature, but really fast.

• 46:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was awesome.

• 46:17Speaker 07

  Thank you for reading my zine. I love, I, I have a soft spot for the zine. How do you make a money on a zine?

• 46:24Speaker 06

  I don't, they should figure it out.

• 46:26Speaker 07

  There has to be a way, like, maybe the big zine guys can like, like, host like a day where you can like, buy up and coming zines. Because like, how on earth are we making money on those things?

• 46:37Speaker 03

  I wish they put ads in zines. Like, maybe that'll be like something.

• 46:41Speaker 05

  Well, let me ask you guys, like, go ahead.

• 46:43Speaker 07

  Well, I have a question. I mean, you could turn it into a vertical.

• 46:47Speaker 05

  That's good.

• 46:47Speaker 07

  Oh my gosh, I heard those are really hot right now.

• 46:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:50Speaker 06

  Ick.

• 46:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:51Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 46:52Speaker 06

  Ick for me.

• 46:52Speaker 07

  Are you anti-verticals? I do know that clowns hate verticals. I read that.

• 46:57Speaker 05

  Charlotte loves verticals.

• 46:58Speaker 06

  No, thank you.

• 47:01Speaker 06

  That makes sense.

• 47:02Speaker 07

  No, I like, I think, what if we all, I mean, we're all, this is a crazy question. Oh my God, I feel crazy for even saying this.

• 47:08Speaker 03

  I lead with yes, so be careful.

• 47:10Speaker 07

  So, we're all solo artists, right?

• 47:13Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 47:13Speaker 07

  What if we made a vertical together?

• 47:16Speaker 05

  That's interesting.

• 47:17Speaker 06

  Wait, what?

• 47:18Speaker 03

  I lead with yes, and if something doesn't feel good, I say yes to it.

• 47:21Speaker 07

  What if all of our solo shows could be combined into one vertical?

• 47:28Speaker 05

  Interesting.

• 47:29Speaker 03

  So, I actually am doing my show in New York soon.

• 47:33Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 47:34Speaker 07

  Oh.

• 47:34Speaker 05

  What theater?

• 47:35Speaker 03

  What? At the Gershwin.

• 47:37Speaker 05

  Whoa, and that's on Broadway?

• 47:39Speaker 03

  So, yeah. The theater that did Wicked? Yeah, yeah. They're sort of, they're taking a pause, and they're letting me sort of do a drop-in for about three weeks.

• 47:47Speaker 05

  Same set?

• 47:48Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh my God. Well, because it's been up for so long.

• 47:51Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 47:52Speaker 03

  And so, I'm actually busy, but it sounds like such a...

• 47:56Speaker 07

  Yeah, no, no, that's, I totally, like, I don't want to step on anybody's availability.

• 48:00Speaker 03

  And honestly, if I was available, I would, a million times over, I would, I would absolutely love to do that, but I am...

• 48:07Speaker 05

  You didn't like Set a Date or...

• 48:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, my, my show might actually be going to Broadway.

• 48:12Speaker 07

  When is, when is it going to Broadway, though? Because I could like, um, well, is it going to Broadway?

• 48:17Speaker 03

  We don't know yet, but it's, it's sort of, it's doing a drop-in, sort of like, proof of concept. No, drop-ins on Broadway are like, really big right now, and I'm so proud of you. Thank you.

• 48:27Speaker 07

  Oh my gosh.

• 48:28Speaker 03

  So, it's between probably now, and I would say like, November 29th.

• 48:32Speaker 05

  Wait, I mean, like, verticals, verticals, Broadway, that's so exciting. The big thing is, you know, one-man shows are the number one thing that's being turned into other things right now, right?

• 48:43Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 48:43Speaker 05

  We got, we got Baby Reindeer, we got Fleabag.

• 48:46Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 48:46Speaker 05

  Like, and like, what's, like, what's the goal for us?

• 48:50Speaker 03

  Big Bang Theory started as a one-man show.

• 48:53Speaker 07

  So did The Pit. So did The Pit. So did The Pit. So did The Pit. So did The Pit.

• 48:58Speaker 03

  So did The Pit.

• 48:59Speaker 07

  I heard Fairly Odd Parents as well was a one-person show.

• 49:02Speaker 05

  And Great British...

• 49:03Speaker 03

  Same with Roly-Poly-Oly.

• 49:04Speaker 05

  Great British Baking Off.

• 49:05Speaker 06

  Roly-Poly-Oly, Great British Breakoff.

• 49:07Speaker 03

  Um, The Masked Singer. Well, I liked Great British Breakoff because it was breakdancing and baking at the same time.

• 49:13Speaker 05

  I loved all those people breakdancing in a tent in a field in London.

• 49:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was really good. You know that Allstate guy?

• 49:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 49:19Speaker 03

  He started as a one-man show.

• 49:22Speaker 07

  Oh, Mayhem? Mayhem, the one-person show?

• 49:25Speaker 05

  We honestly buy that.

• 49:26Speaker 07

  Actually, I actually wish I could have seen that.

• 49:29Speaker 06

  I buy that.

• 49:31Speaker 07

  That actually dramatically feels like it has legs.

• 49:33Speaker 03

  I think like, what's so cool is that like, one-man, one-person shows are, are really blossoming.

• 49:42Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 49:43Speaker 03

  The fact that yours is going on Broadway, like, I, I, I am a little nervous to say this out loud, because they don't want to jinx it, but, um, I think in the car next week, one of the, one of the passengers knows the artistic director of someone at the Pasadena Playhouse.

• 49:58Speaker 07

  No way, they know someone.

• 50:00Speaker 05

  You have a passenger who might know the artistic director of the Pasadena Playhouse?

• 50:04Speaker 06

  And I got a question, how would you do it in the Pasadena Playhouse?

• 50:06Speaker 03

  We would just, they have a road in front of it. Yeah, we would just get a car and pull up. And so, the people would wait inside of the theater, and then like, four at a time would go into your car and then do the show.

• 50:16Speaker 05

  Would you ever do it in a real theater, though?

• 50:18Speaker 03

  That would be interesting. That would be interesting.

• 50:23Speaker 03

  I'd say it loses its thing. What if you took the car on the stage and then just drove around the stage?

• 50:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I would say if you did it in a theater, it would be a show.

• 50:34Speaker 03

  Yeah. I don't know if I have much.

• 50:38Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 50:38Speaker 03

  If it, I think, what I love about it is, it's the naturalism.

• 50:44Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 50:44Speaker 03

  Right. There's a lot of stuff that you have to be in the car for.

• 50:49Speaker 05

  Sure, but there is an argument that you're... Just an Uber, right?

• 50:53Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 50:53Speaker 03

  I would.

• 50:55Speaker 06

  You do drop them off at the location.

• 50:56Speaker 07

  You take them to places that they request.

• 50:59Speaker 03

  Well, that's a part of the service that we were told we'd sell tickets if we did that.

• 51:03Speaker 07

  It's immersive. It's immersive.

• 51:05Speaker 03

  It's immersive.

• 51:05Speaker 06

  How much are your tickets?

• 51:07Speaker 03

  Um, it depends on what area you want to go.

• 51:09Speaker 06

  Yeah, so this is an Uber.

• 51:10Speaker 07

  So, yeah, this is, this is sounding like an Uber.

• 51:13Speaker 03

  I am just so grateful to be here with the best artists I know.

• 51:16Speaker 07

  No, this is amazing.

• 51:18Speaker 03

  Do you guys get nervous when reviewers come?

• 51:21Speaker 07

  Do you think about reviews?

• 51:22Speaker 06

  If I could get a reviewer to show up to my show, that would be amazing.

• 51:27Speaker 03

  Would you make them chug the nuts?

• 51:29Speaker 06

  I would make them the nut chugger immediately.

• 51:31Speaker 05

  What is happening with that show? That has to be building into something.

• 51:35Speaker 03

  It has to be like going to a fair or something.

• 51:36Speaker 06

  Like what?

• 51:37Speaker 05

  Like, it has to be, people must be interested or their dates or.

• 51:42Speaker 07

  Your show?

• 51:42Speaker 03

  Like, what's gonna happen?

• 51:43Speaker 07

  What's going on at your show?

• 51:44Speaker 06

  So, we are about to get out of the work in progress stage. I've done

• 51:48Speaker 03

  It's a massive part.

• 51:49Speaker 06

  150 work in progresses so far.

• 51:51Speaker 03

  The honeymoon phase, I like to call it.

• 51:52Speaker 06

  Yeah, honeymoon.

• 51:54Speaker 07

  A big artist, yeah.

• 51:55Speaker 06

  About to jump into the actual show and I do, I guess I'll announce it, I have an overall with HBO now. To do seven different type of like, kind of interesting shows with them.

• 52:08Speaker 03

  Interesting shows?

• 52:09Speaker 07

  Interesting shows?

• 52:10Speaker 06

  That's what they said.

• 52:11Speaker 03

  Like on TV?

• 52:12Speaker 06

  On TV, like kind of dark gritty.

• 52:14Speaker 03

  Interesting shows?

• 52:15Speaker 05

  Interesting shows?

• 52:16Speaker 03

  So, they just liked your vibe?

• 52:18Speaker 06

  That's what the deadline article said.

• 52:19Speaker 05

  Overall, it's an overall, you're on deadline.

• 52:21Speaker 06

  Yeah, Spencer Ruffian signed for seven interesting shows at HBO.

• 52:25Speaker 03

  Seven interesting shows?

• 52:28Speaker 07

  Wow, do you even know what it's gonna be called?

• 52:29Speaker 06

  Well, the thing is like, there's something about my performance

• 52:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:34Speaker 06

  That is so

• 52:38Speaker 06

  raw.

• 52:39Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 52:40Speaker 06

  Execs can't put it in a box, so they need it.

• 52:45Speaker 03

  And they need seven of it.

• 52:47Speaker 06

  And then they need seven interesting shows of it. They don't know what to do with it, so they say, I'll give you money, money, money, money, money. What can you make?

• 52:55Speaker 03

  And the shows are all separate from each other?

• 52:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, seven interesting shows, different shows. So, it'd be like one sitcom, one solo. I gotta decide.

• 53:03Speaker 03

  What's your idea for the first one?

• 53:05Speaker 06

  I have no ideas. I've got like a, do you guys want me to read some of my notes of like?

• 53:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 53:10Speaker 03

  If they're interesting.

• 53:12Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh, I love, this is like a live workshop.

• 53:14Speaker 03

  This is a workshop.

• 53:15Speaker 07

  This is so exciting.

• 53:16Speaker 03

  We needed this. This is why networking is so important during Fringe.

• 53:21Speaker 07

  We should all take out our notes app.

• 53:23Speaker 03

  If I was little and I watched this.

• 53:24Speaker 06

  Our notes app of like different ideas.

• 53:26Speaker 05

  Little me would be like, what the heck?

• 53:28Speaker 03

  No, literally, I'll grab everything. I'm gonna bring out my notes app as well. Okay.

• 53:32Speaker 06

  Like, so like one idea for like one of the seven interesting shows is like, uh, guilt mom. So, it's like, my mom is guilt, um, and I play her the entire time.

• 53:44Speaker 05

  What if she's Mother Mary, Catholic, Catholic? What if she's Mother Mary?

• 53:47Speaker 06

  So like, no.

• 53:48Speaker 05

  And she's like, she's breastfeeding so much, her nipples are bleeding.

• 53:51Speaker 06

  I like that part, but I don't like the Mother Mary part. I like, kinda like body horror, nipples are bleeding, but I don't like the Mother Mary.

• 53:59Speaker 05

  Okay, okay, no, take it, proceed, per heard.

• 54:01Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 54:01Speaker 05

  Just knowing that I can, if you guys are punching up or doing a writer.

• 54:04Speaker 07

  I have a pitch for an idea of what if she cried?

• 54:07Speaker 06

  I like that, but like, I don't want.

• 54:09Speaker 03

  Interesting?

• 54:10Speaker 06

  Like, who's crying?

• 54:11Speaker 07

  Like, there was like a woman in it?

• 54:14Speaker 06

  I think so.

• 54:15Speaker 05

  Guilt mom?

• 54:16Speaker 07

  And I think like, like what if she cried is just an idea.

• 54:19Speaker 06

  That's a really good, okay, I'll write that down. I like that.

• 54:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, okay, great, great, great. What's in your notes? Um, well, I sort of started out with, um, sort of like the opening monologue of another show idea that I found. I'd love to hear it.

• 54:32Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 54:33Speaker 03

  Okay. It's about me being a child.

• 54:39Speaker 06

  Okay, great.

• 54:40Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 54:42Speaker 03

  I love the smell of the air before a rainstorm. It reminds me of being a child, being somewhere with my parents fully present. I would take a whiff of the air and feel my stomach do a flip. That feeling of, I'm alive, similar to the feeling you get the night before a trip to Disneyland. I remember, I remember the day I noticed that I had stopped experiencing that feeling. I was 14, feeling the weight of everything around me. And now I'm old and I've started to feel that feeling again, that gratitude of being alive, although now it's coupled with a twinge of sadness. Holding on to a balloon of grief for the rest of my life, trying to become accustomed to it, like a new birthmark.

• 55:28Speaker 03

  Trying to figure out the gratitude of being alive, feeling like a vagabond to the earth, the last remaining crewman on a pirate ship abandoned at sea.

• 55:37Speaker 06

  God, and like literally, that's how I know I'm straight.

• 55:41Speaker 05

  And you know what's beautiful? So, that was exactly what was written down just now on that real note.

• 55:46Speaker 03

  You're kidding. You're literally.

• 55:48Speaker 05

  So, I'm really dying to know what that was?

• 55:50Speaker 07

  I am so curious how that note got in your phone or what's going on.

• 55:54Speaker 03

  So, that's the realest thing that's ever happened on this podcast.

• 55:58Speaker 07

  Wow.

• 55:58Speaker 03

  I think, I think I did it for a show of someone reading a monologue on their phone and I, I.

• 56:06Speaker 06

  It was really good.

• 56:07Speaker 07

  That's the great thing about the notes app. You never know when it's gonna come up.

• 56:12Speaker 03

  I also have, I also have, um.

• 56:17Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah. Why don't you close your eyes, hit a note, and do a dramatic reading of anything?

• 56:22Speaker 03

  Okay, I, I'm, I have, um, I have one that says, I don't trust Canadian women. There's something going on there.

• 56:31Speaker 05

  Oh, that's good.

• 56:32Speaker 07

  Oh, that's fun. That's really.

• 56:33Speaker 03

  And then.

• 56:34Speaker 07

  That's definitely a show.

• 56:35Speaker 03

  I have another one that says, how come every female bartender is from Scottsdale, Arizona?

• 56:40Speaker 07

  That's true. That's definitely true.

• 56:43Speaker 03

  And these are honestly, and that's the thing about being an artist, because these are just like thoughts that I have. Yeah. But they can become something. So inspiring. It made me honestly, I wasn't gonna say mine.

• 56:53Speaker 06

  Say it.

• 56:53Speaker 07

  Say it.

• 56:54Speaker 03

  Say it. Okay, so

• 56:58Speaker 03

  I think it starts when, like, if someone, if an audience member, I think they could only come see the show if they're, um, hungry.

• 57:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:08Speaker 03

  And. Why did you get so quiet when you said hungry? Because it's like, I think what's making me cry about this idea is that it's gonna feed.

• 57:16Speaker 07

  Oh.

• 57:17Speaker 03

  In multiple ways. So, I think what happens is, it's another car play and I think. What if we got out of the car? Okay, what about this? Okay, I love that. I love that. What if, what if you at home are feeling hungry? Okay. And a plague comes to you.

• 57:34Speaker 05

  Stewardess.

• 57:35Speaker 07

  Stewardess.

• 57:36Speaker 05

  That's stewardess.

• 57:37Speaker 03

  That's sort of like.

• 57:38Speaker 07

  Yeah, I think this is stewardess. What if it's you on stage?

• 57:41Speaker 06

  I gotta be honest, really interesting?

• 57:44Speaker 05

  It's really interesting.

• 57:45Speaker 06

  Genuinely.

• 57:46Speaker 03

  I think there's something about the Ring camera and somebody walks up and I'm doing like a one woman show for you at your house. You don't have to open the door.

• 57:53Speaker 06

  That's good.

• 57:53Speaker 03

  Wow. And I drop the food. But what if someone doesn't have a Ring camera? Do you always have to specifically go to people that have Ring cameras? I guess something like that. It's a workshop. I'm figuring it out. I haven't read that to anybody. I haven't read that idea out loud to anybody. Beautiful.

• 58:07Speaker 05

  I mean, I was looking at my ideas too, like, a lot of these are, cause me and Charlotte were kind of like sitting there being like, what can this be? Like, we love that it's live.

• 58:15Speaker 06

  When you guys are alone, is she talking to you?

• 58:17Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah. She doesn't stop talking.

• 58:20Speaker 06

  I can see that.

• 58:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, you know what I mean?

• 58:21Speaker 07

  Like, the second the door closes now, she's talking.

• 58:23Speaker 06

  Beautiful thing I've ever.

• 58:24Speaker 07

  That's so nice.

• 58:25Speaker 05

  It's, it's, we like go forever and ever and ever, especially if I get her talking about Has Been Hotel. She loves Has Been Hotel.

• 58:35Speaker 05

  She's obsessed with it.

• 58:41Speaker 06

  Oh, hey. Nice to see you there.

• 58:42Speaker 03

  Sorry, we were just like in the middle of an episode.

• 58:44Speaker 06

  We love the episode. It's so funny, right?

• 58:46Speaker 03

  Just checking on you. You good, girlie?

• 58:47Speaker 06

  You good, girlie?

• 58:48Speaker 03

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• 59:12Speaker 06

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• 59:15Speaker 06

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• 59:16Speaker 03

  Back to the app.

• 59:20Speaker 05

  She's obsessed with Has Been Hotel and we watch it together all the time.

• 59:23Speaker 03

  My nephew loves Has Been Hotel.

• 59:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, so does my adult wife.

• 59:26Speaker 06

  Hey, just a word to the wise, clear your browsing history now.

• 59:31Speaker 05

  Really?

• 59:31Speaker 06

  Yeah, you could be arrested for that shit that she's searching.

• 59:34Speaker 05

  No, it's fine.

• 59:35Speaker 03

  Isn't there like sex on that show, but it's for kids?

• 59:38Speaker 05

  No, it's like naughty. It's like a naughty cartoon with like really great music.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  She should watch like Umbrella Academy or something.

• 59:43Speaker 05

  Oh, she's watched it.

• 59:44Speaker 06

  She's definitely watched that.

• 59:45Speaker 05

  She, she doesn't, it's not as good as the comic she said, but she loves it.

• 59:48Speaker 03

  Has she ever seen the show The Expanse?

• 59:50Speaker 05

  No, maybe I'll show that to her. She loves that, um, that M. Night Shyamalan Apple TV show too, Servant. Anyways.

• 1:00:00Speaker 05

  Anyways, I, we were just pitching like, what could this be? And what's crazy is we actually settled on board games. So, we're thinking like, maybe we turn my show into like a Cards Against Humanity kind of.

• 1:00:11Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:00:13Speaker 05

  It's called like, oh, God, or like the church, the church from hell or something.

• 1:00:17Speaker 03

  Really good.

• 1:00:17Speaker 05

  And then it's like, you create new gods together, so it's like.

• 1:00:20Speaker 03

  She would love watching you make that.

• 1:00:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's like Buddha with, uh, tongue piercing and, yeah, and, uh, smells like, uh, cherry lipstick, like stuff like that.

• 1:00:33Speaker 07

  That's really good.

• 1:00:34Speaker 03

  Can I just like, can I say thank you?

• 1:00:38Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:00:39Speaker 03

  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

• 1:00:43Speaker 06

  And like, maybe like, I was thinking like, maybe a good way to end is like, what have we all learned from doing our solo shows?

• 1:00:51Speaker 03

  I think that is a really good way to end, is to learn.

• 1:00:53Speaker 06

  Like, one word that like, maybe like something you really took away.

• 1:00:57Speaker 03

  One word?

• 1:00:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, like, and see if you can keep it to one word, cause like, that's like the fun of this exercise.

• 1:01:03Speaker 03

  I like that.

• 1:01:04Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:01:06Speaker 03

  My word I'll say is, um.

• 1:01:11Speaker 03

  I'd say it's

• 1:01:15Speaker 03

  travel.

• 1:01:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's awesome. It's beautiful.

• 1:01:22Speaker 07

  My word is

• 1:01:25Speaker 07

  suffering. Yeah.

• 1:01:27Speaker 03

  God, suffering.

• 1:01:30Speaker 07

  More like suffering.

• 1:01:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:32Speaker 07

  That's so true.

• 1:01:33Speaker 03

  It's two words in one.

• 1:01:35Speaker 07

  Can I pay you for that idea?

• 1:01:36Speaker 03

  No, I'll just, please, I don't take, I just take tips.

• 1:01:41Speaker 05

  You gotta, you gotta kind of separate the commerce from the theater. I think something's going on with you. Capitalist, man.

• 1:01:48Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:01:50Speaker 06

  My, my, I guess my word is

• 1:01:53Speaker 03

  No, no, no, oh, no, no, no, no, you go, you go.

• 1:01:54Speaker 06

  Sorry, no, you go.

• 1:01:55Speaker 03

  No, no, no, seriously, I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

• 1:01:57Speaker 06

  Literally, I don't want to go.

• 1:01:57Speaker 03

  No, I don't want to step on anyone's toes. No, I want you to go. I want you to go. I want you to go. No, no, no, I want you to go.

• 1:02:02Speaker 06

  You go.

• 1:02:03Speaker 03

  I want you to go. No, seriously.

• 1:02:05Speaker 06

  Go.

• 1:02:06Speaker 03

  Mine's justice.

• 1:02:07Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:02:07Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 1:02:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:09Speaker 05

  For the victims or for you?

• 1:02:10Speaker 03

  For myself, yeah.

• 1:02:11Speaker 07

  Hey, yeah.

• 1:02:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, justice. I would say.

• 1:02:15Speaker 06

  I guess mine is nutty.

• 1:02:18Speaker 03

  That's, how'd you think of that?

• 1:02:20Speaker 07

  This guy is a clown for real.

• 1:02:23Speaker 03

  You are going to clean up.

• 1:02:25Speaker 06

  I've only thought about it.

• 1:02:26Speaker 03

  You read about it. You are going to clean up in clown school.

• 1:02:30Speaker 06

  Stop.

• 1:02:31Speaker 03

  Especially if you have seven interesting shows. But do you know who also went to clown school?

• 1:02:36Speaker 06

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:02:38Speaker 03

  Do you know? You know what I'm gonna say, right? Do you actually know?

• 1:02:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:02:41Speaker 03

  Connor Story.

• 1:02:42Speaker 05

  Connor Story.

• 1:02:43Speaker 03

  Went to clown school.

• 1:02:44Speaker 06

  The hero of clown school.

• 1:02:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I mean, look at him now.

• 1:02:48Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:02:49Speaker 03

  He's

• 1:02:50Speaker 06

  He's kind of the North Star.

• 1:02:51Speaker 05

  I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get that Connor Story body. I just signed up for HelloFresh.

• 1:02:55Speaker 06

  Oh, awesome. That's gonna help so much.

• 1:02:57Speaker 03

  It's really more exercise than it is food.

• 1:02:59Speaker 06

  How many meals a week are you doing?

• 1:03:01Speaker 05

  I'm getting 15 meals a week.

• 1:03:02Speaker 06

  Genius, just for you?

• 1:03:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:04Speaker 03

  What's your word?

• 1:03:06Speaker 05

  My word?

• 1:03:08Speaker 05

  Honestly, after all this, you know, I could say stigmata, I could say confession, you know, I could say circumcision. But I'm gonna say Charlotte. I realize how much I love my wife talking to you guys.

• 1:03:20Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:03:21Speaker 03

  I know, it's like quickly become your thing.

• 1:03:23Speaker 07

  You never realize what the show is actually about until it happens.

• 1:03:27Speaker 05

  I'm screaming about my exes and saying that like, oh, I'm like, this is like, you know, Thor, if, if Thor was like a demon twink, you know, it's stuff like that. But then now I'm like, wait a minute, my wife has been there for every step of the way.

• 1:03:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, since you were 15.

• 1:03:43Speaker 05

  Since I was 15 and all my exes are about, you know, the people I dated from 10 to 15.

• 1:03:52Speaker 03

  It's a really crazy, it's a really crazy dating time for all of us, yeah.

• 1:03:55Speaker 05

  So I paired this like 13 year old girl that I dated with like, you know, uh, an angel, or, you know, Buddha or whatever, so.

• 1:04:04Speaker 03

  Some of the most violent, sort of in-depth, intense relationships I ever had were with people that I dated for two weeks when I was 11. I've, I've never felt that kind of rage, I've never felt that kind of passion.

• 1:04:16Speaker 05

  My goddess is Charlotte and I need to be worshiping her.

• 1:04:19Speaker 06

  Wow, you finally found your religion.

• 1:04:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:04:21Speaker 03

  Oh, my God, and that's the play. That's really beautiful.

• 1:04:24Speaker 05

  That's amazing.

• 1:04:25Speaker 03

  That's the, that's the play.

• 1:04:26Speaker 05

  I gotta make a whole play about this. That's amazing, guys.

• 1:04:29Speaker 07

  Guys, come see to Helen Back, it's at the Hullabaloo Stage, 3:30 PM. And, um, if you buy two tickets for the next, uh, week, you get one also as well.

• 1:04:43Speaker 03

  And also, if you want to see my show, Bully?, you can catch it for the next three weeks, coming up very, very soon at the Gershwin Theater in New York City.

• 1:04:51Speaker 05

  Come see my show at The Ditch at Stinky's. I'm gonna be over outside there, uh, I think I'm doing, I think I'm doing a marathon where I'm doing the show 20 times in a row, uh, pretty soon.

• 1:05:04Speaker 03

  Come see my show, it's on the corner of La Brea and Tarpit. We'll pick you up, you just wave your hand, get in line, um, we'll pick you up, just buckle up.

• 1:05:13Speaker 06

  And, uh, check out my show, Oh Nuts, we are in the Black Box's Black Box's bathroom. Uh, it's a 15-seat theater, it's called the bathroom, it's not actually a bathroom, and they don't have a bathroom. Uh, come check it out, it's gonna be probably three audience members and a bunch of execs.

• 1:05:29Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, we should all mention for our fringe shows, if we don't, I don't have a bathroom, you don't have a bathroom.

• 1:05:33Speaker 06

  No bathroom.

• 1:05:34Speaker 03

  Go to the bathroom before you come to our show. The Gershwin has about seven bathrooms. That's awesome.

• 1:05:39Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:05:40Speaker 03

  Starbucks across the street, great bathrooms.

• 1:05:42Speaker 06

  Such a good bathroom.

• 1:05:43Speaker 03

  Really good.

• 1:05:45Speaker 06

  Should we just like, maybe like, give your favorite line of dialogue from your play? Like, just like, a little bit of like, I just can't get enough.

• 1:05:52Speaker 05

  We just can't leave, huh?

• 1:05:53Speaker 07

  Oh, why about the

• 1:05:55Speaker 06

  I honestly feel like I'm in a solo show right now.

• 1:05:59Speaker 07

  It's got, because you get to a point in a solo show where you're like, surely it ends now, but there's always 15 more minutes.

• 1:06:05Speaker 03

  And you're literally waiting for someone to be like, end of play.

• 1:06:09Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:06:09Speaker 07

  Let's do the final line of all our shows.

• 1:06:11Speaker 06

  Oh, genius.

• 1:06:12Speaker 03

  This is so perfect, because there was like five endings, and that is like a good fringe show. Perfect.

• 1:06:17Speaker 06

  Okay, I'll do mine. Huh. I guess after all this time, the only nuts I like were mine.

• 1:06:27Speaker 07

  Southern California is not created all the same.

• 1:06:35Speaker 03

  And I guess I'll just pull over right here. If you left anything, make sure you take your phone and water.

• 1:06:44Speaker 06

  It's like an info line.

• 1:06:48Speaker 05

  Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to fuck up the butt.

• 1:07:01Speaker 06

  It's the last line, wow.

• 1:07:04Speaker 03

  And mine is, let me try and find it.

• 1:07:10Speaker 03

  It's not my fault and you're actually fucking ugly. This has been Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists, answering the question now, that's why they called it Showbiz. Guys, give it up for our guest, Caitlin Riley.

• 1:07:21Speaker 05

  We love you, Caitlin, amazing.

• 1:07:23Speaker 03

  We're gonna link all this stuff, if you want to find her, you definitely have already found her in the description below.

• 1:07:30Speaker 06

  Live from the beautiful Dynasty Typewriter.

• 1:07:34Speaker 05

  Bye. Go join us on Patreon, go see what we're up to over there, it's down there too. Bye, we love artists and we love solo shows.

• 1:07:41Speaker 03

  We love that we've done that, we've done that, we've done that.

• 1:07:44Speaker 07

  We've all done that, we've all done that.

• 1:07:47Speaker 03

  I did, I did Lissa Strada at, in the Hollywood Fringe in 20 2014. And we'll link that livestream ticket right in the description below. Yeah. It's out there.

• 1:07:59Speaker 07

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