Show
Show Notes
Katrina and Jen talk about improv, including improv articles they found on the internet and facts you can add to your scenes. Discover soup and what the word of the day is. And see what Will Hines photo will end up on the studio wall. You know, important stuff like that.
And we get a visit from an improviser in Texas, Hill Kane! We learn what Hill is up to in her area and thinks about improv and the communities that surround the art.
Guest: Hill Kane
Word of the Week: Biblioklept
Soup: Chili Pumpkin Soup
Plugs:
- Katrina: contact her! Give her a job! She is amazing!
- WGIS Jams, Fridays at 11am and 5pm PT: More info or head straight to the Jam on Zoom
- WGIS online classes
- The next “Characters Only” class
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Credits
Starring:
Katrina Charles as Katrina Charles
Jen deHaan as Jen deHaan
Music & Sound FX: Katrina Charles
Set/Video Design & OBS Button Pusher: Jen deHaan
Production: Jen deHaan / FlatImprov.com
Podcast production: FlatImprov.com Podcasts
Theme song:
Title: WNIS (Weenis) Theme
Written by: Katrina Charles
Performed by: Katrina Charles and the Katrina Charles choir
Executive Producer: Will Hines’ photo
End Credits: Music by Patrick Richmond from Pixabay
Special thanks to: World’s Greatest Improv School (WGIS) (weegis)
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Speaker A – [00:00 – 00:58]
La. La la la. La la. La. La la
Speaker A – [00:58 – 01:19]
La. Life to normal. And you need a change. From something totally expected. To something strange. A sign that go to a place where dreams come true
Speaker A – [01:19 – 01:39]
And all we need is you. It’s the world’s nerdiest improv show that you and I. Sweetness. Don’t you know it’s your internet connected on your screen a glow and we’ll make it up as we go. The world’s nerdiest improv show
Speaker B – [01:39 – 01:52]
Welcome, everyone. This is the world’s nerdiest improv show. Parentheses wness. Parentheses. Weenus.
Speaker C – [01:52 – 01:53]
And, uh, we are your host.
Speaker B – [01:53 – 01:58]
I’m Catrina Charles, and I am Jan de Haan. There
Speaker B – [01:58 – 02:01]
we go. I put our names up when we said them this time.
Speaker C – [02:01 – 02:03]
Amazing. And today we have a guest.
Speaker B – [02:03 – 02:10]
We do have a guest today. I’m really excited about having another guest. I know, we know we’re.
Speaker C – [02:10 – 02:14]
It’s like we’re on a roll. We’re on a guest roll a guest.
Speaker B – [02:14 – 02:17]
Roll like butter. Uh, like a butter. Wait. Like a butter.
Speaker C – [02:17 – 02:18]
Roll like
Speaker C – [02:18 – 02:20]
a like butter on a roll.
Speaker B – [02:20 – 02:24]
Butter on a roll. Yeah. We’re on a roll. Like butter on a roll.
Speaker C – [02:24 – 02:25]
Rolling like butter.
Speaker B – [02:25 – 02:27]
You know what I really like?
Speaker C – [02:27 – 02:28]
What do you like?
Speaker B – [02:28 – 02:29]
Bread and butter. Pickles.
Speaker C – [02:29 – 02:31]
Ooh. Interesting. Yeah.
Speaker B – [02:31 – 02:33]
Do you like a bread and butter pickle?
Speaker C – [02:33 – 02:38]
You know, I I’ve tried them before. I think I was like, like cautiously
Speaker C – [02:38 – 02:58]
okay with them because I didn’t like. It wasn’t what I was expecting. Because I’m used to dill pickles. Yeah. This week actually, I saw a tutorial on TikTok on how to make bread and butter pickles. Uh, and I like, now that I understand, like, all the spices that go in there, I’m like, oh, maybe I could try it again and like, just know that it’s going to be a spicy pickle, you know what I mean? Oh, a
Speaker C – [02:58 – 02:59]
spicy pickle.
Speaker B – [02:59 – 03:04]
I’ve only had sweet ones. I don’t know if I’ve had. Maybe I’ve had a spicy version of a bread, I guess.
Speaker C – [03:04 – 03:08]
I mean spice in the sense of like cinnamon and like of those kind of spices.
Speaker B – [03:08 – 03:14]
So those kind of spice. I gotcha now, you know what’s going in. So you know what to expect.
Speaker C – [03:14 – 03:17]
Exactly. I think going blindly into a bread and butter pickle, it’s not gonna
Speaker C – [03:17 – 03:23]
not going to be a an experience you’re expecting if you’ve just had dill pickles.
Speaker B – [03:23 – 03:38]
So anyway, I have a friend who is vehemently against the bread and butter pickle will only have a deal like, but has actual, like real feelings. Yeah, like bread and butter pickles should be banished
Speaker B – [03:38 – 03:42]
from the earth level of feels about that type of pickle.
Speaker C – [03:42 – 03:47]
Wow. Okay. Yeah, I would I would have to try again to have that kind of care about it.
Speaker B – [03:47 – 03:58]
I would like to feel that strong. I think about a general food item. Um, yeah. Well, I’ve been given a really bad time about zucchini for
Speaker B – [03:58 – 04:01]
about two years on the we just discord.
Speaker C – [04:01 – 04:03]
Wait, you about liking it or disliking it?
Speaker B – [04:03 – 04:11]
About growing them, being someone that that is a purveyor of zucchinis or anything zucchini related.
Speaker C – [04:11 – 04:16]
So people are against her for this.
Speaker B – [04:16 – 04:18]
They are against the zucchini
Speaker B – [04:18 – 04:27]
And I’ll just I’ll name names. It’s Berg. It’s Berg who teaches at World’s Greatest Improv School, a member of convoy.
Speaker C – [04:27 – 04:35]
Oh my goodness. Yeah. Wait, wait. Um, so in our interview today, we talk about side beefs. Is this kind of a side beef?
Speaker B – [04:35 – 04:38]
It’s a side label. Make it a side
Speaker B – [04:38 – 04:38]
beef.
Speaker C – [04:38 – 04:40]
It’s a side zuke.
Speaker B – [04:40 – 04:54]
It’s a side zuke. It was I detailed zucchini growing in 2022, and I took Berg’s classes and never lived it down. Never lived it down.
Speaker C – [04:54 – 04:58]
What is the particular thing that Berg has against zucchini
Speaker C – [04:58 – 04:58]
growing?
Speaker B – [04:58 – 05:02]
Uh, I think the fact that I do it. Okay.
Speaker C – [05:02 – 05:07]
So is there other things that you do that he is against just simply because you do them live in?
Speaker B – [05:07 – 05:17]
Maybe, I don’t know, this is all a for fun beef. Uh, to to clarify, it is a for fun beef. It’s not a side beef. It’s a for fun
Speaker B – [05:17 – 05:22]
I for fun beefs are actually some of my favorite things. Like if.
Speaker C – [05:22 – 05:26]
Oh for sure. Yeah I’m taking it as completely serious.
Speaker B – [05:26 – 05:29]
So yeah we should we should actually it is very serious. Yeah.
Speaker C – [05:29 – 05:37]
Incredibly serious. So no, I, I completely understand, um, having a stance on zucchini. That seems like a good thing to have. Yeah. Just just know what your
Speaker C – [05:37 – 05:40]
boundaries are when it comes to long vegetables.
Speaker B – [05:40 – 05:44]
So set the boundaries. Do you have any boundaries in mind that people should have?
Speaker C – [05:44 – 05:57]
Um, you know, just like how long you should let a zucchini grow? Are you into, like, small zucchini, larger zucchini? If not, no zucchini. Would you like a roasted zucchini or a grilled zucchini? Yeah. Are you
Speaker C – [05:57 – 05:59]
for or against zoodles.
Speaker B – [05:59 – 06:02]
Oh, zoodles. Oh, that’s a hot topic.
Speaker C – [06:02 – 06:03]
It is a hot topic.
Speaker D – [06:03 – 06:05]
Oh, we’re gonna hear it. Yeah.
Speaker C – [06:05 – 06:11]
So, uh, I don’t know, just, uh, it’s good to know where you stand with those kind of things. Much like pickles.
Speaker B – [06:11 – 06:14]
Much like pickles, bread and butter.
Speaker C – [06:14 – 06:17]
Uh, I wouldn’t pickle a zucchini. It’s
Speaker C – [06:17 – 06:18]
like, not that kind of thing.
Speaker D – [06:18 – 06:21]
Oh, really? Because I could pickle one if you wanted.
Speaker C – [06:21 – 06:31]
You could? Yeah, but I’ve also made the mistake of, like. And this was long ago, before I had actually cooked with zucchini at length, um, length. Um.
Speaker B – [06:31 – 06:37]
Oh, wait, wait. There we go. Thank you so much. You’re welcome
Speaker C – [06:37 – 06:57]
But I, uh, I have accidentally mixed up cucumber and zucchini before in a recipe. I got a cucumber when I should have gotten a zucchini, and I tried to cook it and it didn’t go well. Um, but just to squash any concerns. I have since learned
Speaker C – [06:57 – 06:59]
what a zucchini is.
Speaker B – [06:59 – 07:04]
That is good. That is good for the, uh, the for your recipes and your eating pleasure.
Speaker C – [07:04 – 07:09]
It’s much better. Highly recommend if you’re going to cook with either of them to know what each one is.
Speaker B – [07:09 – 07:17]
Right. Well, on the note of cooking, which we seem to do every episode, we talk about food to
Speaker B – [07:17 – 07:35]
a certain extent, which is fitting because let’s, uh, let’s talk about the soup of the week. We’ll see. I might not have, uh, soup on, uh, let’s see what we got coming up. Oh, no we don’t. We have soup. There we go. Soup of the week.
Speaker C – [07:35 – 07:37]
What kind of soup is this? Jen
Speaker B – [07:37 – 07:39]
This one is a chili pumpkin soup.
Speaker C – [07:39 – 07:50]
Um, chili pumpkin. Um, a little bit spicy. Sounds like spicy and like it would go good with, um, zucchini, maybe.
Speaker B – [07:50 – 07:53]
Yeah, it probably would, right? Yeah, you could.
Speaker C – [07:53 – 07:54]
If you have strong opinions about this, let us know.
Speaker B – [07:54 – 07:56]
Let us know. Yeah. Let us know if you would put
Speaker B – [07:56 – 08:12]
zucchini on the side, if you would do some zoodles, or if you would put it on inside the soup into the soup. Anyways, let’s get to our interview, shall we? Yes.
Speaker C – [08:12 – 08:16]
So this week’s interview, uh, we’re interviewing a wonderful person, Hill Kane
Speaker C – [08:16 – 08:27]
um, who I had the pleasure of being in an online improv group with, uh, during the height of quarantine, uh, 2021 and or so, um, which is very fun, but, uh, happy to talk to her today.
Speaker B – [08:27 – 08:33]
Yeah. I am looking forward to this learning more about Hill. All right. Should we roll it?
Speaker C – [08:33 – 08:34]
Let’s roll it.
Speaker B – [08:34 – 08:36]
Let’s roll it
Speaker C – [08:36 – 08:51]
Thank you so much for joining us. Hill we have Hill Kane here. Uh, interviewing uh, Hill prolific improviser. Yeah. Huge improv nerd. Um, we are so happy to have her on the show today. So thank you so much for being here.
Speaker E – [08:51 – 08:56]
Oh, you too are some of my favorites. Katrina and I go way back to pandemic on online
Speaker E – [08:56 – 09:11]
improv from, uh, we won’t even say the name of the team. They don’t exist anymore. We had a couple we tried to be we try to be politically sensitive to something that was happening in the world. So anyway. But yeah. And then, Jen, I think I’ve known you since the very beginning. Days of of widgets.
Speaker B – [09:11 – 09:16]
Yeah. Not Venus, not Venus widgets. Yeah
Speaker B – [09:16 – 09:18]
Completely different. Totally different.
Speaker E – [09:18 – 09:22]
Oh different. There never said accidentally. Instead of the other one.
Speaker B – [09:22 – 09:27]
Never. Never. You get into so much trouble.
Speaker E – [09:27 – 09:29]
Oh, I don’t think so.
Speaker B – [09:29 – 09:30]
Oh yeah.
Speaker C – [09:30 – 09:31]
Oh my gosh.
Speaker E – [09:31 – 09:36]
You have to think will at the bottom of your, um, website or whatever, I was looking
Speaker E – [09:36 – 09:51]
at or the newsletter because like, just in case you say we just instead of Venus or vice versa, like, yeah, we cover the bases. Yeah, but this is not a beer. This is sparkling water. Okay, good.
Speaker C – [09:51 – 09:56]
It is I yes, it could be beer drinking time on the internet
Speaker C – [09:56 – 10:00]
It’s 5:00 anywhere on the internet? Yeah.
Speaker E – [10:00 – 10:12]
Anyway, I’ve never been one to really follow that rule. Like I drink when I feel like it and I don’t want, I don’t, and that’s good.
Speaker F – [10:12 – 10:16]
I mean, we’ll
Speaker F – [10:16 – 10:20]
going. Well, I’m land water.
Speaker C – [10:20 – 10:36]
I’m, I’m still drinking my morning coffee. So even though it’s noon here, I’m still getting the, uh, the wheels turning. Yeah, but but Hill, um, would love to delve a little bit into just like how you got started in improv, kind of maybe where your trajectory has led you and
Speaker C – [10:36 – 10:38]
and, uh, yeah. Anything about that?
Speaker E – [10:38 – 10:56]
Oh, well, let me give you the Reader’s Digest version. No, it’s really not that long. Um, I was like, so many of us write in a horrible depression. I don’t mean to say that in an insulting way, but, you know, actors, um, comics. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, really miserable in
Speaker E – [10:56 – 11:15]
my life. And my boss was really nice, and he’s like, oh, you’re going to explode. You know, this is not sustainable. You work, you work too much, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, he’s like, what? What do you want to do? And I’m like, I just wanted to take an improv class. And, you know, I grew up in the theater and dance and stuff, and he’s like, go ahead. I’m like, what? That guy let me leave.
Speaker E – [11:15 – 11:33]
I took 201 at UCB, LA at from 11 to whatever it was, 11 to 2. Like every intensive, I got to leave school, go to go to the UCB and then go back to my job like every day for two weeks. So I just classic UCB, LA, um,
Speaker E – [11:33 – 11:54]
the my 101 class was half people that their agents made them take an improv class so they could put on their resume. It’s like a thing in LA. Um, I’m still friends with some of those folks. 213141 started doing the advanced workshops. Uh, Josh, Josh, Josh, his last name is escapes
Speaker E – [11:54 – 12:14]
me. He has a at the clubhouse, which is still vibrant. Um, he’s had a boot camp. It was a Harold boot camp two weeks. Um, I was actually off on medical leave for my, like, uh, depression. Um, but, you know, it was great because, like, I was healing myself through improv, and I really think. And it’s not just the improv, it’s
Speaker E – [12:14 – 12:33]
the community and the people because we’re all nutjobs. And I love that about us. Um, but it was great. And then, um, on an indie team, Taylor’s helpers, uh, celibate Taco. Just some weird, like, their practice groups. And then they become indie teams, but they’re coached. We had great coaches, um, and
Speaker E – [12:33 – 12:52]
then pandemic. It’s awesome. So, um, but because of the pandemic, I joined some online troupes. Katrina and I had a mutual friend or one of the people in the group had a mutual friend, so we were on an online team together. I was trying to support online improv. And look, can we just all admit it was
Speaker E – [12:52 – 13:09]
not good? At first it was not good, but it it got its legs. Yeah. I feel like I’m doing all the talking, but, um, it really did get to be good and sometimes great. Uh, just like improv in real life, right? It’s either good or great. Kind of like a pizza.
Speaker B – [13:09 – 13:12]
It’s kind of
Speaker B – [13:12 – 13:12]
like a pizza.
Speaker E – [13:12 – 13:14]
Kind of like a pizza. It’s.
Speaker F – [13:14 – 13:15]
Yeah, pizza.
Speaker E – [13:15 – 13:32]
It’s cheese, you know? But, um. Yeah. So then, uh, pandemic got a lot of experience, learned short form, was on a short form team where the guy spun the wheel, and I think I was from no short form experience to 127 games in my pocket. Oh, yeah. And
Speaker E – [13:32 – 13:51]
um, decided to move to San Antonio. Was researching, and they seem to have like, some good theaters. Um, I was attracted to the bare stage, uh, theater, but they never reopened after the pandemic. And, um, that lady had some side beefs, which is unfortunate with some of the other, uh, club owners and improvisers and oh my God, apparently, like a
Speaker E – [13:51 – 14:11]
huge divider, divisiveness, debate. Uh, you know what I mean? In the, in the San Antonio community, which is small. Um, yeah. And then, uh, studied short form at Comedysportz, studied long form here with the denials, got on the denials, which is the longest running San Antonio long, uh, short form team. And it’s taught me
Speaker E – [14:11 – 14:32]
on a short form team. What? And what I know still was trying to get opportunities. And I just, you know, I think I was a good community member. I supported other people. They started to notice me. I was in every workshop, every everything. And then I finally got asked to join the Ladies Night crew, which is at Black Potion
Speaker E – [14:32 – 14:52]
which was like a new theater and kind of like the IT theater. Then I even did, um, some pickup shows and some matches at comedy sports long form. And then now I’m a show producer here in San Antonio, and it’s just nice, you know, it’s fun and weird to be on the other side of of the show, running
Speaker C – [14:52 – 14:54]
Yeah. What kind of show are you producing?
Speaker E – [14:54 – 15:11]
I’m so glad you asked. I’m surprised I don’t have it. It’s called Combo loco. Combo loco. It’s a variety show. So like the one coming up March 15th. If anyone’s in San Antonio. Um, it’s an early time slot, which is weird because, um, improv here is all done at ten and 1030, so it has magic
Speaker E – [15:11 – 15:31]
puppets, stand up, um, narrative long form, uh uh, like montage, long form. And then we do mixed doubles where we take two, two duos, two sets of duos. So four duos and mix them up and put them in a new form and make them stretch. Gosh, yeah, it’s super fun
Speaker B – [15:31 – 15:40]
So yeah, you mentioned puppets and magic and a lot of other things. Uh, obviously we’ve heard about clowning being a thing.
Speaker E – [15:40 – 15:42]
I have a clown, I have clowning on my you have clowning.
Speaker B – [15:42 – 15:51]
So what’s going on where you live? Like, is there something that’s sort of emerging as newly popular, kind of like clowning is, I guess
Speaker B – [15:51 – 15:53]
hot in LA? I don’t know. Is it?
Speaker E – [15:53 – 16:11]
That’s so funny. Um, well, then it will be hot here in about like 3 or 4 years, probably. Um, but it it does exist here. There’s a new duo that is a clown and a clown and a gorilla, and the guy, Clint Taylor, who is a good friend of mine, or he used to be until he broke up our long form
Speaker E – [16:11 – 16:15]
team and didn’t even tell me. Love you Clint. Just kidding. But he did do that. Um, no.
Speaker F – [16:15 – 16:21]
He started beef and me side by side.
Speaker G – [16:21 – 16:22]
Beef. Dried beef.
Speaker B – [16:22 – 16:22]
There we go.
Speaker F – [16:22 – 16:23]
Manual button.
Speaker E – [16:23 – 16:30]
Thank you. Soundbite. Um, he started a thing and it’s clown and gorilla and they literally come out. He’s just like a clown in the gorilla. And
Speaker E – [16:30 – 16:33]
they try to do normal things. I find it very distracting.
Speaker F – [16:33 – 16:34]
Wow.
Speaker B – [16:34 – 16:46]
So I have a wow a wow, I, I have a calling there. Like I would be the gorilla. They’d be like, why is there a random girl? Why is this happening? No reason Jen.
Speaker E – [16:46 – 16:50]
It’s hot in that suit. This is a full grown man and I. I was so glad that
Speaker E – [16:50 – 16:53]
I recognized his voice. I’m like, That’s Kevin Miller in there.
Speaker B – [16:53 – 17:02]
Like, I taught dance fitness in a seven foot T-Rex inflatable T-Rex. So, you know, I don’t make sense all the time.
Speaker E – [17:02 – 17:04]
Or just once. You do that a lot.
Speaker F – [17:04 – 17:05]
Just once.
Speaker C – [17:05 – 17:09]
That was the brand. The T-Rex Dance Fitness
Speaker C – [17:09 – 17:15]
I, I do it one day, one day, I.V. fluids after that.
Speaker E – [17:15 – 17:30]
Um, so, uh, yeah. So here’s the clowning that’s in Kamaloka. We have a lovely community member named Lynn Thomas. They are, uh, pronouns. They, them they are, uh, prolific. They run the all friends
Speaker E – [17:30 – 17:49]
the Friend Zone, which is a twice monthly show where it’s experimental. So if you have a new duo or you want to try something, you go to the friend zone. It’s a really warm, welcoming, safe space that she’s they sorry that they’ve created and, uh, they are a clown. They do a yearly pride. Um, queer. What do they call it
Speaker E – [17:49 – 18:09]
Queer cabaret. Queer cabaret. And they host the whole thing in full clown. And I think they even went to clown school with the Clint Taylor guy. So we have cast her as our meddling, zany clowning. We call it clowning stage manager for Combo Loco, where she bothers
Speaker E – [18:09 – 18:29]
people like right before they’re going on, after they come back and she’s just going to be our zany stage manager and she’s going to take over an emcee the second half of the show. She’s got some ideas I don’t want to spoil, but she’s just going to be clowning the entire time. But subtle. Kind of like a Cirque du Soleil clown
Speaker E – [18:29 – 18:32]
not a Barnum and Bailey clown, right?
Speaker F – [18:32 – 18:35]
Clowning, clowning, clowning.
Speaker C – [18:35 – 18:39]
What a what a cool thing that I’ve never looked into.
Speaker F – [18:39 – 18:40]
Yeah, but I will.
Speaker E – [18:40 – 18:47]
Are you a are you one of those people that are fearful of clowns because they can be scary?
Speaker C – [18:47 – 18:49]
I wouldn’t say fearful. I would
Speaker C – [18:49 – 18:54]
just say cautiously suspicious.
Speaker B – [18:54 – 18:57]
Cautiously suspicious.
Speaker F – [18:57 – 18:57]
Suspicious.
Speaker C – [18:57 – 19:02]
It’s it’s truly it’s truly a personal issue. And I’ll work through it in therapy.
Speaker E – [19:02 – 19:09]
Um, and you definitely see. But you were here for you. We’ve got your back. Literally. You have your back. I have been a clown
Speaker E – [19:09 – 19:29]
a couple times, uh, for, like, uh, my niece and my nephew, who are, well, grown up now, uh, got the whole thing. Went to Santa Monica costume, uh, you know, down famous place in Santa Monica. Um, the big shoes, the the nose, the rainbow wig, the stupid, like, all of it. All of it, you know, and
Speaker E – [19:29 – 19:44]
I was in law school, so money was tight, but I did it for my niece, and I think the children were 2 to 5, terrified of me. So it just like much of my junior high school year, I just went around trying to get them to like me.
Speaker B – [19:44 – 19:49]
So all I’m seeing right now
Speaker B – [19:49 – 19:53]
is you and that and a whole bunch of kids screaming, running, running away.
Speaker F – [19:53 – 19:55]
And I’m running away.
Speaker E – [19:55 – 20:09]
Yeah, I would take the thing where I’d be like, shoo! And I would throw my red nose and like, then they would bring it back to me and they would, they’d be like, there you go, there you go. And then, you know, a little closer, like closer. Until I baked
Speaker E – [20:09 – 20:15]
them all and ate them for lunch. But it was it was a rough day. I’m kidding. It was a rough day.
Speaker C – [20:15 – 20:17]
Oh, I didn’t think you were kidding.
Speaker E – [20:17 – 20:29]
And I went, this is this is how bad my clowning career was. Um, I was a gymnast and stuff, so I’m flexible, and I can do, like, a lot of silly clown like, physical things. That was fun. But, um, you know
Speaker E – [20:29 – 20:49]
the outfit is big and sweaty. And then I went to return the outfit the next day, but the place was closed because there was a massive earthquake, so it must have been a tough one. It was. It was 1997. Maybe. Maybe that’s when I was, um, huge earthquake and all the bricks had fallen off all the stores on that street. So like. Yeah, and
Speaker E – [20:49 – 20:59]
then all I’m thinking of is they better not freaking charge me a late fee. This is a force majeure if I’ve ever law school. Well, this is what a force majeure is. Okay, I get it now.
Speaker F – [20:59 – 20:59]
I’m learning.
Speaker E – [20:59 – 21:06]
I’m learning like an earthquake, so I don’t have to pay the late because it’s not my fault. Because of a force majeure.
Speaker F – [21:06 – 21:08]
Nice. Oh, my gosh
Speaker C – [21:08 – 21:13]
Do you feel like your law background helps you in improv?
Speaker E – [21:13 – 21:15]
No, I think it hurts me.
Speaker F – [21:15 – 21:19]
Really? So? So how so?
Speaker E – [21:19 – 21:28]
Um, well, it’s fun whenever there are courtroom things, because I can kind of help direct and make sure or. But that could also be bad because it’s improv and
Speaker E – [21:28 – 21:48]
none of that matters. Right? But, um, and, uh, I don’t know what came first. If I went to law school and became literal, I was very literal. I take things very literally. And you can’t, you know, like, you always have to think. That’s why I have a hard time with some of those word games, because it’s like, oh, no, this is what it means. But it oh
Speaker E – [21:48 – 22:08]
so yeah, I think because and, and you tend to be rigid and linear. So I’m always trying to like leave that outside and put on my other part of my brain, which I’ve always been in the arts and in some kind of creative endeavor and played music and blah, blah, blah. So, um, those it’s like instead of the angel and devil, I have the lawyer and the artist
Speaker E – [22:08 – 22:28]
like constantly like doing this, fighting for my soul, fighting for your soul, and having side beefs while they’re at it. My beefs, I, I’m more like I’m the person that ends up in the middle of the side beefs, not in like I’m not a piece of beef. I’m like
Speaker E – [22:28 – 22:29]
in the middle.
Speaker C – [22:29 – 22:37]
You’re a side side beat or a middle. You’re the you’re the bun to the hot dog. But like a reverse hot dog.
Speaker E – [22:37 – 22:38]
Reverse hot dog, let’s call it.
Speaker C – [22:38 – 22:43]
Yeah, I mean, like like if the bun were in the middle.
Speaker F – [22:43 – 22:48]
I
Speaker F – [22:48 – 22:52]
we might all be thinking of something other than improv right now.
Speaker B – [22:52 – 22:56]
Uh, but I’m thinking of, like, what are you thinking about? No.
Speaker H – [22:56 – 22:57]
Moving on.
Speaker F – [22:57 – 22:59]
Okay, okay.
Speaker E – [22:59 – 23:06]
Um, I don’t like that my box is bigger than yours. That also sounds bad.
Speaker F – [23:06 – 23:07]
Oh my God, yes
Speaker C – [23:07 – 23:10]
This is Venus after dark.
Speaker B – [23:10 – 23:15]
Venus after dark, I suppose is Venus.
Speaker E – [23:15 – 23:17]
Is that your funny bone? Is that what a Venus is?
Speaker C – [23:17 – 23:23]
Um. I believe it’s the skin on your elbow. If, uh, my fourth grade bully was correct. Oh, yeah.
Speaker E – [23:23 – 23:26]
So, I mean, that’s close to your funny bone.
Speaker B – [23:26 – 23:27]
Close to the funny bone. It
Speaker B – [23:27 – 23:29]
funny bone adjacent.
Speaker F – [23:29 – 23:29]
It is.
Speaker C – [23:29 – 23:31]
Which makes a lot of sense for our show.
Speaker F – [23:31 – 23:34]
Where do you apply for the job?
Speaker E – [23:34 – 23:43]
Where do I apply for the job? Where you get to name stuff because I want to name stuff for my all name nail polish, all name body. I want to name stuff.
Speaker C – [23:43 – 23:47]
I feel like that’s one of those jobs you just take and
Speaker C – [23:47 – 23:51]
then you, you get popular enough on TikTok that it just sticks.
Speaker F – [23:51 – 23:52]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [23:52 – 23:58]
And then if you keep using it enough and then add the hashtag, then it becomes a thing.
Speaker F – [23:58 – 23:59]
Okay.
Speaker E – [23:59 – 24:07]
Yeah. And then you can go on social media and see how many times your hashtag is getting used. And you can audit your hashtag. See there’s the lawyer coming
Speaker E – [24:07 – 24:08]
out.
Speaker F – [24:08 – 24:09]
There you go. There you go.
Speaker B – [24:09 – 24:17]
Yep. So speaking of funny bone adjacent, what are your favorite short form games?
Speaker F – [24:17 – 24:25]
Oh, okay. I, uh burn burn burn burn burn burn anyways.
Speaker E – [24:25 – 24:27]
Because first of all, I’m just going to be really
Speaker E – [24:27 – 24:44]
honest. I think short form games are games. I don’t really think they’re improv. I am definitely of that, you know, UCB long form snob thing because, um, I got an argument with someone that has a side beef with someone else. I know I’m in the middle on the hot side, B side.
Speaker G – [24:44 – 24:45]
I’ll be back.
Speaker F – [24:45 – 24:46]
There we go. But, um, sorry
Speaker F – [24:46 – 24:49]
that she was like, oh my God.
Speaker E – [24:49 – 25:02]
I’m like, yeah, I don’t get nervous. She’s like, aren’t you nervous? I’m like, no, short form doesn’t make me nervous. Like, no, she’s like, I don’t believe you. And I’m like, well, do I look nervous right now? Like, I know I love when Katrina gets her. What eyes.
Speaker C – [25:02 – 25:06]
They’re so big, too. It’s like I can’t hide the what?
Speaker F – [25:06 – 25:06]
Uh, yeah
Speaker F – [25:06 – 25:08]
Yeah, I don’t know.
Speaker E – [25:08 – 25:18]
It’s like when you do that in an improv, you give such good face. Like, I know exactly what she’s going to say or what she’s feeling by her face. It’s it’s a it’s a talent. But, um. Yeah.
Speaker F – [25:18 – 25:19]
So good face.
Speaker B – [25:19 – 25:22]
Hashtag that hashtag Katrina.
Speaker E – [25:22 – 25:26]
Big eyes and face. Um, so. Yeah. So I do like playing
Speaker E – [25:26 – 25:46]
four corners. Uh, or is it pen left? Pen? Right. I think that’s fun. Um, but, you know, a lot of these games that people call short form games, they’re not good at them. And they become long form games just because they go on too long. Like some of those naive games. I was watching one the other night, and I just, I felt bad. I wanted to leave. It was embarrassing. They just
Speaker E – [25:46 – 26:04]
couldn’t figure it out. And like someone just say what it is so we can move on to the next thing because we got two more things to get through. It was not funny, it was sad and I was out of alcohol. Oh, it’s all be oh by be here too. I should mention that in San Antonio all the improv you can bring your own alcohol.
Speaker F – [26:04 – 26:05]
Wow.
Speaker E – [26:05 – 26:06]
They say beer and wine
Speaker E – [26:06 – 26:11]
One place doesn’t sit and I. I’ve, like, made shots for everybody as they came in. Oh.
Speaker F – [26:11 – 26:15]
It’s fine. That sounds like a party. Yeah.
Speaker E – [26:15 – 26:18]
Drunker they are, the bigger the beefs.
Speaker C – [26:18 – 26:22]
That’s true. That is true.
Speaker F – [26:22 – 26:23]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [26:23 – 26:26]
I just in the middle of that stuff. It’s like, um
Speaker C – [26:26 – 26:45]
Well, we were kind of talking before the interview, which I don’t know if we’re supposed to mention in the interview, the pre-interview that do whatever we want, whatever you want, your show, however we want. True. Um, good to know. Um, we were talking about just like the improv community and, like, how valuable it is, but also how kind of like, probably because so many
Speaker C – [26:45 – 27:06]
people from so many different backgrounds exist in the improv space. Like, you’re going to get some beefs, you’re going to have some disagreements. And, um, I don’t know just how how like I find, I find like I don’t have beefs anymore. I do feel like I am also like, hell, I get a little caught in the middle sometimes
Speaker C – [27:06 – 27:11]
and then I’m immediately like, I’m going to remove myself from the situation.
Speaker E – [27:11 – 27:25]
Um, let’s talk to Jen about that, because Jen has to cast things and she I know, I know, people tell you like, don’t put me with this person. I don’t like that. I’m like, you know, and you you manage all those teams. Did the teams go away because it’d be so peace
Speaker B – [27:25 – 27:37]
No, no it didn’t. We’re just trying new things. We’re trying new things. Yeah. And beefs do happen. I mean, I think it’s inevitable. You have humans. You have beefs.
Speaker E – [27:37 – 27:41]
Oh, that, um, I don’t know.
Speaker C – [27:41 – 27:45]
And and listeners, if if there’s just a break in the conversation, it’s because it
Speaker C – [27:45 – 27:47]
got too real and we had to cut it out.
Speaker F – [27:47 – 27:50]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [27:50 – 27:53]
We talked for about 15 minutes there and then cut it out.
Speaker E – [27:53 – 28:05]
No we didn’t, but, um, I mean, there was this woman, um, in the new to the improv community as I was because I was from another state. Um, and they were, but I had, you know, I brought with me, like, some
Speaker E – [28:05 – 28:23]
really solid training that, um, people didn’t want to acknowledge, which was kind of funny. And then I even think used against me or whatever, like, well, you don’t know. Well, you don’t well, you do long form like, whoa, okay. At UCB, the long form short form beef, it’s it’s going to go on forever. Yeah.
Speaker F – [28:23 – 28:25]
It’s like Romeo. It’s
Speaker F – [28:25 – 28:29]
the Montagues and Capulets of improv. Is it Capulet?
Speaker E – [28:29 – 28:30]
I’ve been saying it wrong.
Speaker F – [28:30 – 28:31]
Is it?
Speaker C – [28:31 – 28:31]
What? How have you.
Speaker F – [28:31 – 28:32]
What have you?
Speaker E – [28:32 – 28:45]
I don’t know, I don’t even want to say Isis and Capulet, but they could be from here. Let me. Let me do it. Be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet. Capulet. I’ll no longer
Speaker E – [28:45 – 28:50]
be a Capulet. Ah, it doesn’t matter, I don’t care. We’re not having a beef over it because, like, no one really cares.
Speaker F – [28:50 – 28:51]
I don’t care.
Speaker B – [28:51 – 28:55]
I, I like both of the pronunciations.
Speaker F – [28:55 – 28:55]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [28:55 – 29:04]
Like it. Um, at the Super Bowl, which is super nerdy when I just watch it for the commercials because I am in marketing. Um, not the football. I don’t really
Speaker E – [29:04 – 29:11]
care anymore. Um, everyone learned out learned that they’d been saying timun wrong because we were all been, I think, in our heads.
Speaker C – [29:11 – 29:24]
My gosh, I know I was a team person too, and I was also I’m also concerned at how much advertising they could buy, because I feel like that is a really shady thing, and I feel like selling
Speaker C – [29:24 – 29:28]
a full tuxedo for 29.99.
Speaker E – [29:28 – 29:35]
I’m a grown man and you’re thinking of dollars and average. Yes. That is that is a legit beef.
Speaker C – [29:35 – 29:45]
Um, I have a beef with TMU. It’s not even a side beef. It’s like a real beef or Tamu. No I don’t. Well, that’s one side of the beef. Is the the pronunciation
Speaker C – [29:45 – 29:46]
on the other side of the beef is.
Speaker F – [29:46 – 29:48]
What’s going on? Yeah.
Speaker C – [29:48 – 29:51]
How are you doing this feels weird.
Speaker E – [29:51 – 29:57]
Yeah. Um, and then, uh, then there’s the passive aggressive beef.
Speaker C – [29:57 – 30:01]
Um, I might be more of a fan of the passive aggressive beef. Really?
Speaker F – [30:01 – 30:03]
Really a fan of it.
Speaker E – [30:03 – 30:04]
I don’t like it. I don’t
Speaker E – [30:04 – 30:24]
I get mad when people at me and texts and they do anything and, like, demand something or ask me something or just it triggers me. Because this is not this should be a conversation. Yeah, don’t come at me in a text and say, oh, are you as an example, are you done with our are we going to, uh, I don’t know, this
Speaker E – [30:24 – 30:33]
this improv thing. I forget where it is. Are we going to countdown fast or are you over the duo? Our duo thing. And I’m like, it’s not a text thing.
Speaker C – [30:33 – 30:44]
You text somebody, I do, I do kind of want to clarify why I’m a fan of the passive aggressive beef, and it’s because I am the passive person and the passive aggressive beef
Speaker C – [30:44 – 30:53]
And so if someone’s being passive aggressive towards me, I’m like, this isn’t my problem because they’re not being direct with me, so I don’t need to deal with it right now.
Speaker E – [30:53 – 31:04]
Yeah, I ignored it. I think people should. When people come at you like that, especially in a modality that is inappropriate, that ignoring them is okay. But I also have
Speaker E – [31:04 – 31:24]
that lawyer brain or whatever. Like if I see something, I kind of have to, I feel like I have to answer it or I’m being rude or, you know, like I just but now, like, I’m learning as I get older that I don’t have to respond to every text message. I can ignore it. I just like but there are people that do it over and over to me and I’m like, do I say something
Speaker E – [31:24 – 31:44]
like, hey, you know, I don’t know, like ten x training. I have some ten x stuff back here. Um, they teach you to agree with every objection. Like agree with it doesn’t mean like your heart and soul agrees with it, but you acknowledge it and you agree with it, and then you continue on to the close. So it’s like, yes, I am a piece of poop
Speaker E – [31:44 – 32:03]
And, um, I need your agreement here, here and here. Yeah. Like, just like kind of I don’t that’s how passive aggressive negation is that. Oh my God, it’s a beef that I have. Yeah. So, um, I don’t want to I mean, we I can
Speaker E – [32:03 – 32:23]
tell you about specific beasts, but I think just the concept of them. And then if you are in a beef like, can you just be an adult and just work with it, don’t bring it to my show and say, I would love to do your show, but not if blah blah blah is doing it. I’m like, are you serious? Are you seven? Come on, I prefer
Speaker E – [32:23 – 32:27]
that so and so. Have nothing at all to do with your show.
Speaker C – [32:27 – 32:43]
Okay. Yeah, it’s it’s difficult and I feel like it’s like a very it’s a very common thing no matter what space you’re in, like bands and or theater productions, you know, it’s always going to be there are people who any community is going to have exactly
Speaker F – [32:43 – 32:47]
There’s humans, humans, humans. Yeah.
Speaker E – [32:47 – 33:03]
And then like, then you do want to be like, is it the great Rodney King that said, can’t we all just get along, you know, like, no, I, I feel like I feel like what he said was so beautiful and profound and all he got was a big, you know, butt kicking for it. But I’m with
Speaker E – [33:03 – 33:06]
good old Rodney for Rodney King.
Speaker C – [33:06 – 33:23]
Um, I think there is, you know, value in having conflict because it allows people to learn and grow. But it is like also, um, because I’ve had conflict with people where we’ve disagreed, but then we’ve come to talk about it and we’ve been like, oh, I see your perspective. I see my perspective
Speaker C – [33:23 – 33:43]
This is how I still feel, but I see your perspective also. Um, it is difficult to kind of have that conversation within like a space where you’re only I think that’s another reason. Like, I guess it’s getting me to like getting to know the people you’re doing improv with or getting to know the people you’re doing any show with. And I feel like Jen might have mentioned something like this before, because
Speaker C – [33:43 – 34:03]
like, as soon as you start to get to know a person, um, you kind of give them more slack and you just like, you know, you’re less judgmental, like as soon as you get to know the person. Yeah. Um, so it’s it’s kind of valuable to, like, even on improv, like, or online improv to, like, hang out afterward a little bit
Speaker C – [34:03 – 34:23]
just talk, see what people’s lives are like. Because if you’re just seeing them for practice or just for the show and like you’re having some disagreement within that, like there’s no context for like, oh, they’ve had like a really bad week. They’re going through a really hard time. That’s why they’re being a little short with me, you know, kind of thing. Like it’s I find it very, very helpful to like even just like in the most minimal
Speaker C – [34:23 – 34:28]
way, just like know what someone’s dealing with or knowing how someone’s like life right now.
Speaker E – [34:28 – 34:43]
Yeah. And I that’s good. And Jen you facilitated that so well with the, the the hangs which I, I’ve gone to a couple of them and it is great. And then you know I was on the we just house team baby goat and
Speaker E – [34:43 – 35:03]
and the entire team stayed together. We now are coached by a coach. Every other week we pay money. I’m the treasurer which is paying the butt. So I make everyone pay quarterly because I am not chasing $8.50 from everybody every other week. Uh, not going to do that. But, um, I always like, had this thing because we don’t really
Speaker E – [35:03 – 35:23]
hang that much. But some people I’ve had many classes with, like edema shows up on, like, I know him, I know his improv, I love, I mean, and I like everybody, but I kind of had imposter syndrome. I’m like, oh, I don’t think they like me. I don’t think they think I’m good at improv. So when the whole team decided to stay together, it’s very validating for me as a member of that team like, oh, we
Speaker E – [35:23 – 35:43]
were we’re going to do this, we’re going to stick it out. But very common in San Antonio have teams that don’t have a coach. They don’t practice. They just show up and do improv together. And like, how good could that improv be when you don’t really know? That’s why Bangarang or uh, uh, Sentimental Lady. I mean, they’ve been together for so long and some members might
Speaker E – [35:43 – 35:50]
come and go, but that core is still there. And you just are. It’s they’re so good. They know what the other person is going to say before they say it.
Speaker C – [35:50 – 36:02]
Yeah, there’s definitely value in getting to know your team members and doing impromptu long terme, too, because I do feel like there are people with different, you know, um, like improv means different things to
Speaker C – [36:02 – 36:22]
them. Like for me, it’s very community based. Like, I’ve met the majority of my friends through improv and, um, I think that’s important. But then there are other people who are like, you know, I want to get good at this for another thing, or like, I want to, you know, get just get good at it like that. And those are all like, valid reasons to do improv, but I think it does help overall
Speaker C – [36:22 – 36:27]
in the grand scheme of things, to get to know people and kind of build a community in it as well.
Speaker E – [36:27 – 36:38]
I don’t know how you don’t like how do you like it’s a it’s a vulnerable thing, even just playing some games or like word association or mind meld, like things come out of your mouth that aren’t planned, you know.
Speaker F – [36:38 – 36:39]
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C – [36:39 – 36:42]
Oh my gosh. If you don’t trust the people, you’re on stage
Speaker C – [36:42 – 36:57]
with and you say something really weird and you’re like, my brain. My brain just did it. I don’t know why and don’t know why that came out. Yeah, it’s so much more helpful when you, like, have people that are just like, well, we know we got you instead of like, what?
Speaker E – [36:57 – 37:02]
I would rather be on a team with, you know
Speaker E – [37:02 – 37:22]
say, heralding seven other people that I trust versus seven people that are the best improvisers in the world, because you’ll get good. That trust will breed good improv and better improv. And I also noticed, like my my friend, my friend, uh, Mr. Potsie, I’ll just call him by Mr. Potsie. Um, he
Speaker E – [37:22 – 37:42]
he he’s an engineer. So we always we meet almost once a week, and we like, um, critique in a kind way, like review all the shows from the weekend and, and we’re both very linear, so it’s kind of funny, but, um, I forgot why I’m even telling you this, but. Oh, I remember, so, um, we talked. He calls it priority differential. Differential
Speaker E – [37:42 – 38:02]
dial. It’s like when people are on a team and like like for me, it’s like my number one hobby. It’s like next to eating, sleeping and like, trying to make money. Like it’s improv. And I, you know, I love it. It’s my number one hobby. And, um, like anyone I’m on a team with, like usually is the same thing. But then you get people that that that changed
Speaker E – [38:02 – 38:17]
And now they’re not into improv, they’re into something else or other many other things. And I’m just like, I, I it’s hard for me to like, not get resentment about it. Oh yeah, I know, yeah I might, I might have to start a beef.
Speaker F – [38:17 – 38:20]
Oh no. Oh you have no beef. Beef.
Speaker B – [38:20 – 38:21]
No. Beef.
Speaker F – [38:21 – 38:22]
No. Do
Speaker F – [38:22 – 38:29]
you have on that note, on the note of beefs, do you have anything you’d like to plug before we wrap things up?
Speaker E – [38:29 – 38:42]
Well, I, you know, I have a little tiny fledgling online school. It’s not meant to compete with anything that Will Hines is doing. Actually, I have his blessing, but, um, it’s it’s supposed to be for people in
Speaker E – [38:42 – 39:02]
San Antonio. Um, but people in San Antonio don’t like online improv. So there I do do workshops. There’s one coming up on Sunday with Michelle Gilliam. It’s really cool. Um, and that, uh, um, maybe we could put the link in the show notes. Oh, it’ll be over. But anyway, um. It’s fine. I just think it’s not. It’s not getting
Speaker E – [39:02 – 39:21]
off the ground. But if you’re in the San Antonio area on March 15th, come see combo loco. But I, I do plug all the. We just jams all the Queen city jams like improv, improv, improv, seven days of improv. If you’re not doing something related to improv every day of your life, you’re just probably not an improv nerd.
Speaker F – [39:21 – 39:22]
Like, oh my
Speaker F – [39:22 – 39:24]
oh, I know strong fighting words.
Speaker C – [39:24 – 39:25]
Those are.
Speaker F – [39:25 – 39:26]
Yeah, that was fighting words.
Speaker B – [39:26 – 39:31]
We want to hear about something in the chat right now. Are you doing improv seven days a week?
Speaker F – [39:31 – 39:33]
I’ve been five.
Speaker E – [39:33 – 39:41]
I think five days is what you need to get your improv nerd card. And then if you’re overachiever, like many of us are, yeah.
Speaker F – [39:41 – 39:42]
And you get a little gold
Speaker F – [39:42 – 39:44]
star on that card.
Speaker C – [39:44 – 39:47]
Also, I think like D and D counts oh, 100%.
Speaker F – [39:47 – 39:48]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [39:48 – 39:53]
So if you’re doing improv and or D and D seven days a week, you’re happy.
Speaker E – [39:53 – 40:02]
We have like a fully like sells out $15 instead of $10. Uh, once a month D and D improv show where like you, they roll
Speaker E – [40:02 – 40:05]
the thing, they go on a campaign. It’s like an ongoing saga.
Speaker F – [40:05 – 40:06]
Oh my God.
Speaker E – [40:06 – 40:15]
Popular improv show in San Antonio. It’s called monster Comic-Con second Friday of it there. I’ll plug it for them. Second Friday of every night at combo.
Speaker B – [40:15 – 40:17]
Another plug.
Speaker F – [40:17 – 40:18]
Another plug.
Speaker E – [40:18 – 40:21]
I don’t really have anything to plug. You guys have anything to plug your show
Speaker C – [40:21 – 40:23]
Uh, well, plug plug in the in the show.
Speaker E – [40:23 – 40:28]
Later on, like, stop directing us.
Speaker C – [40:28 – 40:33]
Oh my gosh. No, we appreciate it. We have we appreciate your your guidance and your your vision.
Speaker F – [40:33 – 40:36]
You need to help. We always need the help that really will.
Speaker E – [40:36 – 40:41]
Because my thing to have it like doesn’t expand out. Is that a Will Hines picture
Speaker B – [40:41 – 40:42]
It is.
Speaker C – [40:42 – 40:45]
Yes it is. It’s an old one. We’ve since changed it.
Speaker F – [40:45 – 40:47]
But yeah, we’re in.
Speaker E – [40:47 – 40:59]
The year of the show is when you guys, uh, change the picture. It’s fun changing. And also, I’m not going to lie, many times the soup that has sponsored you is soup that I eat that week because it makes me crave it.
Speaker F – [40:59 – 41:01]
Oh, my God, I’m very
Speaker F – [41:01 – 41:09]
a lot of our a lot of our recent recipes are on Jen’s, uh, plant based recipe website. Wow.
Speaker C – [41:09 – 41:09]
Yeah.
Speaker F – [41:09 – 41:10]
Plant based recipes.
Speaker C – [41:10 – 41:11]
Dot com.
Speaker F – [41:11 – 41:16]
What is it? Blog? Blog plant based recipes.
Speaker C – [41:16 – 41:21]
Com I know I’ve saved some recipes. I keep needing to go to the grocery store and actually get the
Speaker C – [41:21 – 41:21]
ingredients.
Speaker E – [41:21 – 41:26]
And the best thing about making soup is how your house smells for like the whole week.
Speaker C – [41:26 – 41:30]
Oh, and then how your pot just sits in the the sink for seven days.
Speaker F – [41:30 – 41:30]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [41:30 – 41:32]
So all you’re doing improv?
Speaker F – [41:32 – 41:33]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [41:33 – 41:41]
I allow myself to only watch TV as I’m cleaning my kitchen, so like, I yeah, I started putting
Speaker E – [41:41 – 41:47]
I started putting TV on in there and it helps for about ten minutes and then I’m like, all right, I’m tired.
Speaker C – [41:47 – 41:48]
I’m going to go.
Speaker E – [41:48 – 41:52]
It’s a struggle. The struggle is real struggle.
Speaker C – [41:52 – 41:56]
If I did less improv, I’d have a cleaner kitchen. But would my life be any better?
Speaker B – [41:56 – 42:01]
No no no no it would not. And that is why you get your improv nerd
Speaker B – [42:01 – 42:10]
card with the star in the corner. And if you do tabletop RPG, you get another star because you’re extra nerdy.
Speaker C – [42:10 – 42:15]
Yeah. Oh my gosh, I’m going to need to make I’ll make a printable nerd card for us.
Speaker E – [42:15 – 42:17]
I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker B – [42:17 – 42:21]
Yeah, neither have I, and I just got my nerd card
Speaker B – [42:21 – 42:22]
revoked.
Speaker E – [42:22 – 42:26]
No, no, you could still you you you check all the other boxes.
Speaker F – [42:26 – 42:27]
I just don’t get the second star.
Speaker C – [42:27 – 42:41]
You don’t I am I have played Dungeons and Dragons, but I’m not great at it. I get distracted too easily. I keep trying to, like, dig things and or, like, kill people. And people are like, don’t do that. And I’m like, um, yeah, I it’s also
Speaker C – [42:41 – 42:45]
based on a caste system, which I kind of have a visceral reaction to.
Speaker E – [42:45 – 42:51]
And in the beginning, like all the nerdy boys who I had crushes on played it and they wouldn’t let me play because that was a girl.
Speaker F – [42:51 – 42:53]
So yeah.
Speaker C – [42:53 – 42:55]
Yeah, that is it’s fair to have a bitterness.
Speaker F – [42:55 – 42:56]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [42:56 – 43:01]
I just want to say it’s only in D&D that I try to kill people nowhere else
Speaker E – [43:01 – 43:03]
You know, no one is thinking otherwise.
Speaker C – [43:03 – 43:05]
And I just want to make it real clear.
Speaker B – [43:05 – 43:11]
Oh, we’re making things clear here about the passive aggressiveness and then about about, you know, potential.
Speaker C – [43:11 – 43:13]
I don’t get passive aggressive.
Speaker F – [43:13 – 43:20]
I get even get oh my goodness. Let’s see the eyes. You know, let’s see through the eyes
Speaker B – [43:20 – 43:40]
Through the eyes. All right podcast listeners you’ll have to you’ll have to tune in to our YouTube for this. We’re all doing our big eyes. And with that we lost all of our viewers, I’m sure. But thank you, Hill, for joining us this. Well, today I’m going to say today because this is going to air later and it’s going
Speaker B – [43:40 – 43:51]
to air at a different time. Uh, and by air, I mean stream. Uh, just to get that accurate. And thank you. Thank you so much for joining us, Hill.
Speaker F – [43:51 – 43:52]
Thank you so much.
Speaker E – [43:52 – 43:55]
More than air. Thank you so much.
Speaker C – [43:55 – 44:00]
We we appreciate being part of your community. Oh, you’re not not beefing.
Speaker F – [44:00 – 44:00]
Not
Speaker F – [44:00 – 44:03]
community. We’re I’m coming.
Speaker B – [44:03 – 44:04]
And I have no peace.
Speaker F – [44:04 – 44:07]
No no no beefs because I’m Plant-Based.
Speaker G – [44:07 – 44:09]
No beefs.
Speaker F – [44:09 – 44:11]
What’s happening? No beef. Gosh.
Speaker C – [44:11 – 44:19]
Well, thank you so much again, Hill. Uh, this has been wonderful. And, uh, go do some improv. I’m gonna go.
Speaker E – [44:19 – 44:20]
I’m on my way right now to
Speaker E – [44:20 – 44:23]
a gym. No, I’m kidding. A little bit later. Okay.
Speaker F – [44:23 – 44:29]
Bye bye. Waiting for.
Speaker B – [44:29 – 44:35]
And we’re back. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to this part of the show. That was a great interview.
Speaker F – [44:35 – 44:36]
It was really fun.
Speaker C – [44:36 – 44:39]
It was great talking with hell. Thank you. Hello.
Speaker B – [44:39 – 44:40]
Thank you so much
Speaker B – [44:40 – 44:52]
Hill. Just amazing energy. A lot of fun. And if you’re in that area, go see those shows. Yeah. Or the next ones I guess. Future ones.
Speaker C – [44:52 – 44:54]
What day is it?
Speaker B – [44:54 – 44:56]
March 7th.
Speaker I – [44:56 – 45:00]
Nice. Thank you. Yeah
Speaker I – [45:00 – 45:01]
Um.
Speaker B – [45:01 – 45:09]
Like, uh, everybody listening, be like, um, what’s the point of this? All right.
Speaker C – [45:09 – 45:15]
I don’t even know, I don’t know, I feel like everyone listening is like, what’s the point of this podcast?
Speaker B – [45:15 – 45:20]
Yeah, it could be, uh, so if, you know, please let us know
Speaker B – [45:20 – 45:39]
by sending us an email or something. Um, but we’ve got, we’ve got, uh, we’re moving on to, uh, word of the word of the week. All right, let’s see what we got for the word of the week this week. I guess I should say why we have. Why do you have a word of
Speaker B – [45:39 – 45:59]
a week on an improv show? Good question. You. These are words that you can use in your scenes to spice them up, to add some interest. Or maybe just like this might be a character for you, uh, this word of the week, potentially. Biblio Klepht.
Speaker J – [45:59 – 46:00]
Yeah
Speaker B – [46:00 – 46:03]
Biblio Klepht. Now, what does that mean? Katrina.
Speaker C – [46:03 – 46:20]
Well, it is a it’s a book thief, a book thief, someone who steals books. I, um. I was going to say I’ve been a biblio klepht, but it wasn’t really stealing. It was more, um, in college
Speaker C – [46:20 – 46:36]
back when, like, you could easily sell textbooks online. A lot of people would put them in, like the free piles at the end of the year. They would just throw books in there if they couldn’t sell them at the bookstore, and I would then take them and sell them on the internet. Oh, well, that’s not thieving.
Speaker B – [46:36 – 46:40]
That’s that’s smart. That was entrepreneurial
Speaker F – [46:40 – 46:42]
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker C – [46:42 – 46:55]
Um, so that was how I, um, probably one of the few ways I made money in college was just taking other people’s scraps and selling them on the internet. Hey, and you know what? Maybe I should take that up again.
Speaker B – [46:55 – 47:00]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know a lot of people do that from thrift stores. Although
Speaker B – [47:00 – 47:02]
that can be a problem because people need the thrift stores, but.
Speaker C – [47:02 – 47:12]
Well, now, now the thrift stores are all really expensive because people do that. So yeah. Yeah, I think I would stick to like if people leave stuff on the side of the street or something like that.
Speaker B – [47:12 – 47:13]
Oh for sure.
Speaker C – [47:13 – 47:20]
Yeah. But then you have to like, fix things up. Um, which I have done before, but I’m kind of I’m too much of a germaphobe
Speaker C – [47:20 – 47:20]
now to do that.
Speaker B – [47:20 – 47:25]
I think I was just saying you’d have to do sniff tests on a lot of things.
Speaker C – [47:25 – 47:39]
Yeah, sniff tests, just like general disinfect, everything kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, spice up your scene like a bread and butter picker, picker, pickle or
Speaker C – [47:39 – 47:40]
bread and butter.
Speaker B – [47:40 – 47:41]
Yeah. Bread and butter.
Speaker C – [47:41 – 47:42]
Bread and butter picker.
Speaker B – [47:42 – 47:52]
I guess you could, if you were in a place with multiple bread and butters to choose from, sourdough bread roll, etc.. There you are. Different types of bread.
Speaker C – [47:52 – 47:54]
A bread and butter picker.
Speaker B – [47:54 – 47:57]
Yeah, there we go. It just made up a new thing. Improv.
Speaker C – [47:57 – 47:59]
So much improv
Speaker C – [47:59 – 48:02]
It’s almost as if this whole show was improvised.
Speaker B – [48:02 – 48:04]
Yeah, it’s almost like it is.
Speaker C – [48:04 – 48:04]
It’s almost.
Speaker B – [48:04 – 48:12]
It is. I mean, if this show was scripted, if this show was scripted, there’d be a lot of people going, really?
Speaker C – [48:12 – 48:14]
I wouldn’t want writing credit.
Speaker I – [48:14 – 48:17]
I wouldn’t yeah, I wouldn’t want the writing credit for this either.
Speaker C – [48:17 – 48:19]
That’s a, that’s a non a
Speaker C – [48:19 – 48:23]
non attributed, non attributed no attribute I don’t know.
Speaker B – [48:23 – 48:28]
Yeah. It’s just something that doesn’t happen. Everyone. The show is definitely not scripted.
Speaker C – [48:28 – 48:28]
That’s scripted.
Speaker B – [48:28 – 48:39]
But if you’d like to send us a script this is where you would do it. You would do it at weenies. Weenies. That’s how you can reach us. If
Speaker B – [48:39 – 48:51]
you want to be a guest on the show like Hill, uh, you can reach us from this website or our social media when improv show. Do you think they will? Katrina?
Speaker C – [48:51 – 48:54]
Do I think they will reach out.
Speaker B – [48:54 – 48:54]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [48:54 – 48:57]
Um, let me think about it.
Speaker F – [48:57 – 48:57]
Um
Speaker F – [48:57 – 49:04]
I think, yeah. Good. Yeah. Good.
Speaker C – [49:04 – 49:05]
I’m getting some energy.
Speaker B – [49:05 – 49:07]
Yeah, I’m getting energy.
Speaker C – [49:07 – 49:08]
Energy?
Speaker B – [49:08 – 49:18]
Yeah. Well, before we go, um, I’m going to run our ad. Um, uh, before I forget, we have an ad, and then we’ll we’ll be back after the ad
Speaker B – [49:18 – 49:22]
So how about we do that? All right, roll an ad.
Speaker G – [49:22 – 49:25]
Have you been raised to never let history repeat itself?
Speaker B – [49:25 – 49:37]
You might be living in a world of first beats only. How do you know if you’re trying to survive on first beats alone? Symptoms include. Your first beat was frat bros heading to Burning Man, and your second beat was something unrelated.
Speaker B – [49:37 – 49:57]
About two sisters gossiping about 90s after school specials or something. Or you thought of a perfect rooster callback, but you kept your mouth shut because you thought no one needed to revisit that great farm scene. Or you could have made a solid pigeon pecking connection during the third beat, but you didn’t because it would have been
Speaker B – [49:57 – 50:17]
too much to go back 30 minutes in the set. You know you’re living an anti-second beat lifestyle that rejects historical repetition. If this very advertisement gives you chills, nausea, acid reflux, a bad case of heartburn, vertigo, unrelenting jazz hands and chills
Speaker B – [50:17 – 50:29]
If any of these symptoms resemble your history hating reality, you are living in a world of first beats only, and you need help from us here at Do It Again, Please and improv Sabbatical at Do It Again, Please and Improv Sabbatical.
Speaker G – [50:29 – 50:31]
You’ll read to history.
Speaker B – [50:31 – 50:37]
You’ll get reps of beats, history starts repeating itself by noon, and you receive the same
Speaker B – [50:37 – 50:42]
dry toast you got for breakfast and also for lunch and also for dinner.
Speaker G – [50:42 – 50:46]
Oh, that asshole who stole your parking spot when you arrived.
Speaker B – [50:46 – 50:56]
Don’t worry, you’ll see them again. We assigned you parking spot 17 F, and we also hired Logan to pull into 17 F seconds before you arrived. In fact, we’ll assign you the task to go
Speaker B – [50:56 – 51:15]
off site and pick up more post-it notepads for Do It Again, Please. And improv Sabbaticals central office five times per day for the length of your stay. And every time you repeat this task, Logan will be waiting for you in their Rav4 and pull into 17 F right as you pull up. Good work Logan, and good work you for reliving this annoying experience
Speaker B – [51:15 – 51:35]
five times per day. Doesn’t seem funny yet. Don’t worry. The 11th time Logan pulls into your spot, you’ll get it, cause that’s why you’re here. You need to learn, you know. Get it. You’ll marinate on that great comeback while you’re in aisle five at Office Depot. That’s where the post-its are, and eventually you’ll tell off Logan
Speaker B – [51:35 – 51:55]
perfectly every time. So many beats, so much opportunity, so much Logan. Hear it. Do it again, please. And improv sabbatical. We believe a joke gets funnier the more times you say it. And that dry toast gets moderately tolerable by day eight. But best of all, we’ll let you mangle
Speaker B – [51:55 – 52:15]
your second beat with a premise that barely resembles the first beat, but at least demonstrates you are moderately aware of the relevant concepts and technique by the time you drive home from the sabbatical. Don’t live in a world of first beats, only there’s always more roosters to call back and there’s always more Logan. So call us at one 800 555. Beat
Speaker B – [52:15 – 52:21]
That’s one 805 55BEAT, then call me please.
Speaker K – [52:21 – 52:24]
All right, we’re back.
Speaker B – [52:24 – 52:27]
And we’re at the very bottom end of the show.
Speaker H – [52:27 – 52:28]
We are.
Speaker B – [52:28 – 52:32]
Um, so what do we have left? Katrina?
Speaker C – [52:32 – 52:34]
Oh, well, we have to, um, change
Speaker C – [52:34 – 52:37]
the wall artwork, and then we have to plug some stuff.
Speaker B – [52:37 – 52:54]
Yes, we do. All right, well, let’s let’s change that wall art first. All right. Changing of the will. Hynes, what do we have this week? Oh. Very nice. Oh, very
Speaker B – [52:54 – 52:55]
professional this week.
Speaker C – [52:55 – 52:58]
Very professional. It makes me feel like I should have worn a tie.
Speaker B – [52:58 – 53:07]
Yeah. Podcast listeners, we have a Will Hynes and a tie this week. And a tie. Yeah. No more hat lost, the hat gained.
Speaker C – [53:07 – 53:12]
It was a good hat. It was a great hat, actually. I love the hat. Yeah, I will remember that hat.
Speaker B – [53:12 – 53:14]
It is. It’s, uh, similar to
Speaker B – [53:14 – 53:23]
um, I believe a hat that a, uh, Elton John wore in I’m Still Standing video.
Speaker C – [53:23 – 53:24]
Perhaps that sounds about right.
Speaker B – [53:24 – 53:28]
Yeah, sounds about right. A straw hat just for. Yeah. Like one of those.
Speaker C – [53:28 – 53:34]
One of those flat tops round then flat brim. Yeah. You know, you
Speaker C – [53:34 – 53:39]
know what I mean. Kind of like a barbershop quartet hat maybe. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker B – [53:39 – 53:47]
Yeah, possibly. You know, the flat hat. Yeah. But this week we’re back to shirt and a tie.
Speaker C – [53:47 – 53:49]
Shirt and a tie. Now we’re all business.
Speaker B – [53:49 – 53:53]
We are business. And it’s time, therefore, for
Speaker B – [53:53 – 53:58]
plugs. Plugs. We’re all business. Yeah. Do you have anything to plug?
Speaker C – [53:58 – 53:59]
We forgot to do that last week.
Speaker B – [53:59 – 54:01]
We did forget to do that last week.
Speaker C – [54:01 – 54:06]
Oh well it’s okay. I didn’t have anything to plug last week and I don’t have anything to plug this week.
Speaker B – [54:06 – 54:14]
Oh. All right, well, that’s okay. Um, I’ll plug world’s greatest improv school. Uh, it has lots of online classes
Speaker B – [54:14 – 54:33]
I have a class coming up on April 13th. It’s a character. It’s another character’s class only characters series, uh, ish. But there are one class each. Uh, this one’s about heightening you being relatable, being a relatable character, and then heightening from there. Yeah
Speaker B – [54:33 – 54:39]
All right. Fun. I hope it’ll be fun. It’ll be fun. Fun? It’s always fun.
Speaker C – [54:39 – 54:45]
Jen’s character classes are always fun. Highly recommend. Definitely worth. Worth it. Worth a take.
Speaker B – [54:45 – 54:48]
Worth a worth a gander.
Speaker C – [54:48 – 54:49]
Worth a gander.
Speaker B – [54:49 – 54:54]
Worth a gander. All right, well, I think we’re right at the bottom of the show
Speaker B – [54:54 – 54:57]
Should we run some credits?
Speaker C – [54:57 – 54:58]
Let’s run those credits.
Speaker B – [54:58 – 55:04]
Let’s run those credits. Oh, I always enjoy this, uh, credit music.
Speaker C – [55:04 – 55:10]
It reminds me of how I’m going to go eat some pickles after this.
Speaker B – [55:10 – 55:14]
Yeah, I might go have some pickles as well. Some dill pickles. So I don’t have bread. Butter
Speaker B – [55:14 – 55:14]
pickles.
Speaker C – [55:14 – 55:21]
I’ll send you that. Uh, the TikTok for the. Yeah. The recipe for bread and butter pickles, if I can find it, I love that.
Speaker B – [55:21 – 55:23]
Oh, there’s a pickle soup, too.
Speaker C – [55:23 – 55:27]
Oh, oh, oh, I feel like I’ve heard of that. Yeah.
Speaker H – [55:27 – 55:29]
That’s good. All right.
Speaker C – [55:29 – 55:31]
Come back next week for pickle part two.
Speaker B – [55:31 – 55:50]
Pickle part two, and blackout
World’s Nerdiest Improv Show – Episode 10: Potato Carrot Soup (ft. Luke Bovard)
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