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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.
Word of the Week: Spatterdashes
Soup: Carrot with Crouton Soup
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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
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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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Transcript
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Speaker A – [00:00 – 00:59]
Life’s too normal. And you need a change from something totally expected. To something strange
Speaker A – [00:59 – 01:19]
Assigned to go to a place where different dreams come true. And all we need is you. It’s the world’s nerdiest improv show. Though you and I, as weenies. Don’t you know it’s your internet connected on your screen aglow. And we’ll make it up as
Speaker A – [01:19 – 01:23]
we go. The world’s nerdiest improv show.
Speaker B – [01:23 – 01:39]
Welcome, everyone, to the world’s nerdiest improv show. Parentheses wness parentheses. Weenies. And we’re your hosts. I’m Catrina Charles and
Speaker B – [01:39 – 01:59]
and I’m. There’s Catrina, and I’m Jan de Haan. And today we don’t have a guest. We don’t have a guest today, but we do have improv things to talk about today, don’t we? We do. We do? Yeah. Um, so much improv. So much improv
Speaker B – [01:59 – 02:19]
You won’t believe how much improv we talk about. You won’t. It’s. You won’t believe. Improv. Um. Improv improv improv improv improv improv. We’ve got improv ads. We’ve got improv to talk about. We have improv
Speaker B – [02:19 – 02:39]
adjacent things. Improv, improv adjacent things you wouldn’t even think were improv adjacent. But they are, you know, because why? Because everything’s improv adjacent. I guess everything is improv adjacent. Because improv is life, and life is improvised. Equal life. We
Speaker B – [02:39 – 02:59]
mind melded on that, didn’t we? We did. Yeah. Improv adjacent, improv adjacent. There we go. Yeah. So how’s your week been? Oh, it’s been a wild, wild week. Jen has it. It has. Tell me more. I, I went to the the lake and I saw some cool ducks
Speaker B – [02:59 – 03:18]
Ducks, ducks. Yeah they were a little I think they were called Buffleheads which feels like. Which feels like an insult. It does. You goddamn bufflehead you. Exactly. It feels like it should be some sort of like. Yeah, but they were cute. I liked them, um, they had little
Speaker B – [03:18 – 03:39]
little, um, round heads, so I guess that makes sense. It’s the buffalo round. I’m wondering. Buffalo. I’m. That’s. Yeah. Is Buffalo a shape buffalo head. But I’m also now wondering are there ducks with non round heads. Um okay. Yeah that’s true. There are ducks
Speaker B – [03:39 – 03:59]
with non round heads are ducks with like mohawks. Oh okay. So it was kind of like a rounded like mohawk. I’m gonna have to double check this when we do our ad break so I can, like, make sure I’m make sure I’m giving proper information. Yeah. Not to mess up someone’s improv scene about buffleheads about buffalo heads or or
Speaker B – [03:59 – 04:19]
just send this misinformation out about ducks and they’ll be like, where did you learn that about ducks? And and then they’ll say, on the world’s nerdiest improv show. And they’ll be like, is that the best source for duck information? And then they’ll lose. Our listener will lose all credibility. I have
Speaker B – [04:19 – 04:39]
I have a plan for our show. Okay? We are the world’s nerdiest improv show. Um, but I want us to be the world’s worst duck information show. The world’s worst source for duck information. I. I would like to take that on with you. Mallards are from Mars and
Speaker B – [04:39 – 04:59]
Buffleheads are from space. Right? Right. Home. About that. A Muscovy duck cannot fly. Oh, that’s misinformation right there. A Muscovy duck is also kind of just a turkey with a duck bill. Really? No
Speaker B – [04:59 – 05:18]
Oh wait, this is misinformation chat. See, I was almost you could you were so convincing on that delivery podcast. I mean podcast listener. You would absolutely have been convinced on Katrina’s delivery right there. Just absolutely sold that misinformation about I’m adding that to my resume. Absolutely can sell misinformation about
Speaker B – [05:18 – 05:31]
ducks. Excellent. You won’t. No. You will never know what’s real or what’s fake on this improvised show. Mhm. That’s right. Anyway that was my week.
Speaker C – [05:31 – 05:33]
How was your week Jen.
Speaker B – [05:33 – 05:38]
My week was about as exciting and I think we’re going for a
Speaker B – [05:38 – 05:58]
Well no I’m not going to sell it like that. I started seeds in the greenhouse because I think we are on a trajectory for every week on this show involving something about plants or gardening. And, uh, anyways, I’ve started lettuce and peas and and onions
Speaker B – [05:58 – 06:18]
Nice. Late. Everything is late. Wow. I am not on my gardening a game this year. I mean, I’m not on my anything. A game this year. Yeah, neither am I, except for this show. Mhm. Yeah I mean you’re on your A-game. Oh well thanks
Speaker B – [06:18 – 06:38]
because I don’t feel like I am. Let’s uh. What kind of soup is this show being brought to us by. Let’s look at that. We got carrot soup this week. Yum. Carrot with croutons. Croutons are in the photo. Therefore it’s part of the soup that
Speaker B – [06:38 – 06:59]
Yes. For carrot soup. Do you add any other vegetables or is it really just like you blend up some carrots and make it into a soup? I would be adding other vegetables just because I’d probably be trying to get rid of some stuff in the process. I would also be adding cashews and or sunflower seeds to this blend
Speaker B – [06:59 – 07:06]
to make it a little creamy. Yeah, well. Nutty. Creamy. Yeah, I shouldn’t say that. Little nutty creamy.
Speaker C – [07:06 – 07:07]
Little nutty creamy.
Speaker B – [07:07 – 07:18]
Are we gonna get a whole different rating on this show now? This is the, um, soup information misinformation show. Yeah
Speaker B – [07:18 – 07:32]
we’re all about, uh, about leading you astray with our improvising on this show and getting flagged by age restrictions on YouTube. Yeah, possibly this week. Oh, the excitement that will ensue.
Speaker C – [07:32 – 07:37]
Anyway, anyway, that sounds like a great soup.
Speaker B – [07:37 – 07:38]
Yeah, I think
Speaker B – [07:38 – 07:58]
it’s a great soup. Thank you very much. Carrot with crouton soup. Bringing this show to you today, that is our sponsor. And, uh, as we could roll some ads, now that we’ve gotten the soup stuff out of the way, I’m going to check about the buffalo head. Okay, check about that buffalo head while I run some ads. Have you
Speaker B – [07:58 – 08:18]
been raised to never let history repeat itself? 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, but your second beat was something unrelated about two sisters gossiping about nights after school specials or something, or you thought of the perfect
Speaker B – [08:18 – 08:38]
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 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
Speaker B – [08:38 – 08:58]
very advertisement gives you chills, nausea, acid reflux, a bad case of heartburn, vertigo, unrelenting case of jazz hands and chills. 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
Speaker B – [08:58 – 09:18]
at Do It Again, Please and Improv Sabbatical. You’ll redo history. You’ll get rips of beats. History starts repeating itself. By noon. You receive the same dry toast you got for breakfast, but also for lunch and also for dinner. Oh, that asshole who stole your parking spot when you arrived. Don’t worry, you’ll see them again. We assigned you parking spot
Speaker B – [09:18 – 09:38]
17 F, and we also hired Grayson to pull in to 17 F seconds before you arrive. In fact, we’ll assign you the task to go 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, Grayson will be waiting
Speaker B – [09:38 – 09:58]
in their Rav4 and pull into 17 F right as you pull up. Good work Grayson, and good work you for reliving this annoying experience five times per day. Doesn’t seem funny yet. Don’t worry. The 11th time Grayson pulls into your spot, you’ll get it, because that’s why you’re here. You need to learn to, you know, get it. You’ll
Speaker B – [09:58 – 10:18]
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 Grayson perfectly every time. So many beats, so much opportunity, so much Grayson here at 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
Speaker B – [10:18 – 10:37]
by day eight. But best of all, we’ll let you mangle your second beat with a premise that barely resembles the first beat, but at least demonstrates your moderately aware of the relevant concepts and techniques 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
Speaker B – [10:37 – 10:48]
there’s always more Grayson. So call us at one 800 555 beat. That’s one 805 55BEAT. Call me please.
Speaker D – [10:48 – 10:57]
Late night zoom. Improv class. Too late to drink coffee. Well, you have just the thing. TI TI
Speaker D – [10:57 – 11:07]
You probably have some in your cupboard right now. Is it expired? Who cares? It’s just dried leaves and stuff. Expired TI. It’s fine.
Speaker B – [11:07 – 11:18]
Welcome
Speaker B – [11:18 – 11:24]
back, everyone to the show. So, did you find out anything about Buffleheads Katrina?
Speaker D – [11:24 – 11:33]
I did, I looked it up on the Audubon app. And by the way, if you’re a bird watcher or just a human and you don’t have the Audubon app, what are you even doing?
Speaker B – [11:33 – 11:38]
I know, what are you doing? What am I doing? Because I don’t know if I have that app. Yeah
Speaker D – [11:38 – 11:49]
Um, it is it is a great app. You can search birds by color, size, type. Wow. Yeah, it’s super great. Um, so I don’t know if this will show, but, um, this is a bufflehead.
Speaker B – [11:49 – 11:49]
Uh huh.
Speaker D – [11:49 – 11:54]
Oh. Um, yeah. According, um, I’m sorry, podcast listeners, it’s a little duck.
Speaker B – [11:54 – 11:58]
Small duck, round head, a round head on
Speaker B – [11:58 – 11:59]
that very round head. Yep.
Speaker D – [11:59 – 12:00]
Nailed it.
Speaker B – [12:00 – 12:18]
Um, the description on the Audubon app is a very small diving duck. Adult male has white scarf on round black head. Female has gray head with white ear spot. Young male is similar but white spot is bigger compared to hooded merganser. A hooded merganser
Speaker B – [12:18 – 12:38]
or hooded merganser. Hooded merganser I did see a common merganser the other day. A common um. How is a common different from a hooded? They look different. Okay, yeah, that sounds like not misinformation at all. I’m so sorry
Speaker B – [12:38 – 12:57]
I failed the misinformation aspect of this duck show. And now we are a duck show. Um, but also, if there is any information that is incorrect, we can blame Audubon for that. Now, because we are reading off the Audubon app that was absolutely directly taken from the Audubon
Speaker B – [12:57 – 13:17]
app. So take it up with them. Not yes, exactly. Don’t come complaining to us or do come complaining, because if you do, your comments will probably help us in some way, even if they’re anger filled. Help our SEO. Yeah, it probably will get angry. Get angry at us. We’re gonna piss you off
Speaker B – [13:17 – 13:37]
with these next facts. Should we move on to our weekly slides? Speaking of that. All right, let’s get that soup off of there. All right, podcast listeners, we have, uh, listen, we have sorry, we have moved on now to our first Reddit based improv discussion. Katrina, this one’s yours. What have you brought
Speaker B – [13:37 – 13:57]
with you this week? So, um, something I found in my improv journey is that improv really helps me with writing. And I was kind of curious if other people, you know, had any, like, takes on that, um, like how it might help them. So I found this article on Reddit or posted on Reddit called Improv Class is a
Speaker B – [13:57 – 14:17]
way to improve Writing. Question mark. Um, and there were lots of comments about how, um, you know, improv can help you with writing. Uh, one of them is kind of the if then, um, aspect of improv and like how that helps in narrative writing, just like knowing, you know, where the story should
Speaker B – [14:17 – 14:36]
go. Um, but also other people said that it helped them write dialogue, just feeling more comfortable or more, um, natural, less clunky. Okay. Um, yeah. So there are some good stuff in here. Uh, I read it like two weeks ago when I sent it to you, but I didn’t look at it again. So
Speaker B – [14:36 – 14:56]
um. Yeah, just lots of little tidbits of how, um, writing or improv helped people with writing. And I do feel like personally, it helped me too. And it also just helps, like the I before I would um, like think of try to think of like the perfect thing, like all the time, just like, what’s the perfect thing that could happen. But in doing
Speaker B – [14:56 – 15:16]
improv, you learn that, like, there really is no perfect thing. There’s like just multiple ways it can go and how you deal with that. And so I think that’s really helped me in writing because I can like mentally think through it one way and be like, oh, I like where that’s going. I’ll write that. Or or no, I don’t like that. So yeah, yeah, I find it really helpful. So if you’re a writer considering
Speaker B – [15:16 – 15:36]
improv, do it. It’ll help. That’s one of the the fun things of giving everybody the same initiation to go off of, and just seeing the radically different scenes that happen off of the exact same initiation. There are so many ways to take everything
Speaker B – [15:36 – 15:57]
It’s so true. It’s so it’s so interesting how different a scene can be off of just one word, um, or even the same setup. You can give someone the same base reality, the same full on setup, and the scenes will be radically different from there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So many variables. Have you taken any of those
Speaker B – [15:57 – 16:17]
um, improv, uh, improv to sketch type classes before? I don’t think I have. I’ve definitely taken improv classes and sketch classes, but not combined. Right? Yeah. Yeah, I’ve taken I’ve taken each. I have not taken the merging of those two, but I’ve heard good things
Speaker E – [16:17 – 16:21]
Yeah, it does sound like it would naturally work and be helpful.
Speaker B – [16:21 – 16:37]
Yeah. I mean, they’ve been doing it for a long time at Second City. Um, next slide exercises for playing grounded characters. Question mark. All right. So
Speaker B – [16:37 – 16:57]
so grounded characters. So, uh, there’s I mean, this thread is a much it’s a newer one. So it probably will continue to get more, uh, comments attached to it, but, uh, grounded characters. Uh, there’s lots of ways that you can approach this exercises for playing ground characters, though
Speaker B – [16:57 – 17:17]
The first one that pops into my mind is the Park Bench of Truth. Uh, I think that is, uh, one that is excellent because you’re just in this exercise. It’s simple as heck you are. You can be literally sitting on a park bench at a park, and you and
Speaker B – [17:17 – 17:37]
your scene partner are just having a regular conversation and taken it from there. I think it is a good way if you are playing a whole bunch of wild characters and you want to peel it back a little bit, that’s one good way of doing it. Of course, the other thing to remember about playing grounded characters you can have big energy, weird
Speaker B – [17:37 – 17:57]
characters that ground the world. Uh, the world can be weird, and you can be just making that world understandable for your audience. You can, of course. Um. Excuse me? You can ground things. Uh, just make them relatable. Is is
Speaker B – [17:57 – 18:12]
one of the main things is can your audience relate to them so you can do that in a whole bunch of different ways. So, uh, exercises of course, can be all over the place for this particular exercise. Uh, Katrina, do you have any favorite exercises for playing grounded characters?
Speaker E – [18:12 – 18:17]
Oh, gosh. Um, as someone who
Speaker E – [18:17 – 18:22]
struggles to play a grounded character sometimes, uh, I think.
Speaker F – [18:22 – 18:36]
I don’t know if I know any exercises. I think I’ve just been told to, um, you know, play to top of intelligence, basically is is one thing just like, um
Speaker F – [18:36 – 18:56]
I think that helps me stay a little grounded to be like, okay, we’re gonna make the the best decision for this character at this time. Yeah. Like what? How would someone truly in this situation react? I think that helps me try to stay grounded. Yeah. Like like making human. Like, even if it’s a weird world or a weird situation, like
Speaker F – [18:56 – 19:07]
making the most logical next step. Just like, based on on, like, human behavior. I guess if you’re a human.
Speaker B – [19:07 – 19:11]
If you’re a human, depends. I mean, you could be a boiled egg in the scene.
Speaker F – [19:11 – 19:16]
That’s that’s where it gets complicated because, like, I don’t know
Speaker F – [19:16 – 19:29]
um, one of the, one of the things that you can also do in a scene, if you just want to keep it play grounded characters is start off really grounded in that base reality and try to keep it boring.
Speaker B – [19:29 – 19:36]
Um, which I mean is similar to the park bench of truth. But you’re not, you know, because park bench of truth. I should explain
Speaker B – [19:36 – 19:56]
it’s oftentimes set up is you are playing you to start off, you are speaking as yourself. You are, um, giving your own real life experiences in the scene and starting from that place. So you can do that in other scenes as well, if you just want to keep the base reality really boring. And it’s
Speaker B – [19:56 – 20:16]
like just you can use a directive of nothing funny or particularly interesting can happen until later in the scene. The the base reality has to be boring and you can start it from there. And that will sort of almost guide you into keeping it, at least in a little bit more of a grounded space, character wise, off the
Speaker B – [20:16 – 20:36]
top, which will kind of transpire to the rest of the scene, um, where you will find eventually something funny, but not at the top. Yeah, that’s another way to go about it. Easy. That makes more sense than what I said. But, um, I do want to ask you, have you heard of
Speaker B – [20:36 – 20:55]
the short form game Park Bench? Um, maybe, uh, I might have done. I don’t there’s so many different titles for everything. How does it go? Well, I just remember playing it in high school. And, um, basically the whole point of the game is to come in as a character so obnoxious and so weird that you scare the other person who was
Speaker B – [20:55 – 21:16]
sitting on the park bench off the park bench. Oh my God. So basically the opposite of, uh, the exercise I just said, yeah, because when you said park bench, I was like, that’s interesting. Oh, okay, I got it, I got it. Oh, it’s completely different. Yeah, it’s a different park, a different bench. Yes. And a different exercise. Anyway, fun to play with your friends. Yeah. I
Speaker B – [21:16 – 21:18]
like that one. That one.
Speaker G – [21:18 – 21:23]
Although that one sounds like, sounds like real life to me.
Speaker B – [21:23 – 21:36]
Oh I know, yeah. It’s a little too real. Yeah. Little too much. Yeah. No, I think I don’t even know if it’s like a legit, um, short form game. I just know they were like, okay, high school kids in theater
Speaker B – [21:36 – 21:56]
This is a game for you. Yeah. Or it was. Your high school friends were pranking you for sure. This is a short form game. Let’s scare Katrina. Oh, I was always a scary one, so. Oh, well, I won if that was the case, I love that. Did you get a trophy? No. Um, that’s too bad
Speaker B – [21:56 – 22:15]
I should have. Yeah. Should have our word of the week. There’s a lot of words on this listener. If you’re listening, we will read out what it says. Now, this is our word of the week is spatter dashes, which are also known as spats, something that was worn
Speaker B – [22:15 – 22:35]
until the 1920s. This is actual information. Uh, footwear accessory that functions as spatter guards covering the instep and ankle or below the knee. Some say that they are also known as a gator. But other sources of information say that gators are
Speaker B – [22:35 – 22:55]
indeed a different thing than spats or spatter dashes. So there seems to be disagreement on the internet about how this word is actually defined. And yet I still brought it to this show because I just wanted to say spatter dashes
Speaker B – [22:55 – 23:15]
I find that, um, to be a reasonable reason to bring it. Um, also, I don’t think you have to use it in the, um, the defined terms because this feels like. Yeah, if I drop something in the kitchen, I’m going to say spatter dashes, you know, spatter dashes. Spatter dashes. Yeah, yeah, it’s really more of an exclamation
Speaker B – [23:15 – 23:35]
I think for me. Yeah, I like that. I, I do appreciate that. Um, and it ducks round head. But the other thing is apparently spatter dashes is used in some sort of context around painting and stucco, I believe. But I’m probably spreading misinformation now to some degree
Speaker B – [23:35 – 23:55]
You know, maybe that’s our thing. Maybe that is our thing. Although I think if we’re bringing the word of the week for people to use within. Hey, wait a minute, it’s improv. Use this word however the heck you want. There really aren’t rules. Yeah, there are, but there aren’t. You know, there really aren’t. There aren’t. No, no. But
Speaker B – [23:55 – 24:15]
if you get a note, come and complain actually on one of our, one of our feeds because all bad news is good news. Next slide. This is yours Katrina. Yes. Thank you so much Jen I get to talk about another duck billed animal that’s not a duck a
Speaker B – [24:15 – 24:35]
platypus. Um, so I found this TikTok. I’ve been a fan of platypi pussies for a while. Uh, most of my life, ever since I knew what a platypus was, I was like, that’s a creature for me to be a fan of. Um, they are a weird little, little buddies. Um, they have the duckbill. They have the fur
Speaker B – [24:35 – 24:55]
they lay the eggs. But they are mammals. They are venomous. They have a little barb on their foot. Um, um, but the thing in this, uh, TikTok video that I found that got me was their genetic or, like, their genome, like they are related to birds. So somehow
Speaker B – [24:55 – 25:15]
like when birds split off from mammals, they, like, kept both, like, millions of years ago, hundreds of millions of years ago. Wow. So, like, they split off and decided to make their own decisions on how they’re doing. So exactly. So they’re like, I don’t want to not be a bird. You know, that’s great
Speaker B – [25:15 – 25:35]
Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Um, so I thought that was really cool. And also, um, they have like multiple chromosomes, like, instead of like the two x, two y or whatever. Science. I know it, you know it. Yeah. Uh, they have like multiple pairs of genomes which
Speaker B – [25:35 – 25:55]
is more similar to insects and plants than other animals. So platypi are more insect, technically speaking. Is that what you’re saying? I don’t want to say more insect, but like, aspects of them are more
Speaker B – [25:55 – 26:14]
related to insects and plants than other animals. That’s pretty wild. Yeah, you can’t quote me on that. Watch the TikTok, watch the TikTok. The links will be in our show notes for that. Yeah, but, uh, I just thought that was so interesting. Like, they went their own way. They they committed
Speaker B – [26:14 – 26:33]
to the bit hardcore, perhaps the most of any creature in the history of creatures. They committed to the bit. Yeah. And it just goes to show that, like in an improv scene, you can be anything. You really can. Yeah, you can be part insect and nobody will know.
Speaker H – [26:33 – 26:34]
Yeah, you
Speaker H – [26:34 – 26:42]
just have to, um, you know. Uh, build out the world, like, commit to the world.
Speaker B – [26:42 – 26:54]
Um, there was another part of this TikTok that was interesting to me, and I think I’d heard it before. But basically, when European people found found these things in like, the 1700s, I think it was, uh, they sent specimens
Speaker B – [26:54 – 27:14]
back to be like, look at this thing. And they truly thought it was just like a bunch of animal parts sewn together, like they didn’t believe it was a real creature. So. Wow. Yeah. For some reason, that’s making me think of a whole bunch of these platypi and a trench coat or something like that stacked up. I do not know why that image
Speaker B – [27:14 – 27:34]
came to my head, but that’s what happened. I love the visual and I appreciate it. And I hope they don’t poke each other with their venomous barb. No, but it would be more like a quilt analogy. Would have fit way better in that. But for some reason I saw Platypi in a trench coat. I also need to apologize right now
Speaker B – [27:34 – 27:54]
deeply to our audience and to you, Katrina as well. I have an apology to make because first of all, I never ran the title line for the beginning of this section, which was things on the internet before we went on to our Reddit. So people are going, why are they talking about
Speaker B – [27:54 – 28:14]
Reddit improv articles right now? You did you did announce it. You did say onto our first link, onto our first link. But that was all I gave, which was completely insufficient. And then raise your hand if you noticed. Um, no one here is raising their hand. No one here is raising their hand. That’s because we perennially
Speaker B – [28:14 – 28:34]
don’t have an audience that we can see. And then I progressed us right on to the TikTok section, which is something that we like to call scene sprinkles, information that you can sprinkle into your scene. And we generally tend to introduce this section with a why to justify why are we bringing
Speaker B – [28:34 – 28:54]
TikTok facts onto this show? And it’s so you can take these facts and use them in your scenes. So now we have perhaps caught our audience up to what we’re doing right now. If they are not familiar with the show, we did promise a wild episode today. We did full of misinformation
Speaker B – [28:54 – 29:14]
on and we are committing to that bit and delivering hard. Anyway, that’s all I have about Platypi. That was fascinating. And we can add that on into our scenes. And we’re going on to another thing that you might want to spring
Speaker B – [29:14 – 29:34]
into your scenes. And this one, if I was sprinkling this into a scene, I know I would be annoying everyone greatly. So perhaps I won’t take this advice, but this is this, uh, we’re we’re looking at the image of a the the green frog that has this novelty
Speaker B – [29:34 – 29:54]
song making fun of the word hello, hello, my baby, hello, my doll. That that song from 1899, um, was actually making fun of the word hello, because at the time, it was slang. It was slang that they were trying to introduce into our vernacular to
Speaker B – [29:54 – 30:14]
have a word to greet someone. When you picked up the telephone, which was a new invention at the time. And so there was the suggestion of using the word ahoy, as in ahoy! See how I would be so annoying if I was to use this in a scene? Oh, annoying annoying an annoying
Speaker B – [30:14 – 30:34]
annoying. Oh boy. Oh, Katrina would have my back in this scene, wouldn’t you? You would? Absolutely. You would I, captain, I, I yes, and I think I have a next thing. He wanted people to shout the word ahoy into the phone when they answered. That was apparently the original suggestion. The word
Speaker B – [30:34 – 30:54]
hello one. But hello again. It wasn’t even part of English at the turn of the century. And, uh, people would say good morning or other sorts of greetings when they saw each other on the street and not hello. Hello was a new word. That was something I learned. Uh, but also, I just love the idea of picking up a phone and
Speaker B – [30:54 – 31:14]
saying, Ahoy! That’s so interesting. Yeah. Like, now I need to go back to every period piece and see if they say hello. Yeah. Prior to 1899, I believe. Oh my gosh. Yeah. We’ve only had. Hello. Yeah. What what if it like that was only like 60 years before the Beatles
Speaker B – [31:14 – 31:33]
right. Like, how would they have written that song? Hello, goodbye. Good question. That’s a beat. It would have been. Ahoy, goodbye. I think my running bit on the show has to be. Is that a Beatles thing? And pretend I know absolutely nothing about the Beatles. Oh. Um
Speaker B – [31:33 – 31:53]
They had. They had a song. They had a song called Ahoy, goodbye. Oh. Oh, no. All right, moving on. So you can you can submit improv things to us. Facts to us yourself. You can submit yourself
Speaker B – [31:53 – 32:13]
to us if you’d like to come on to the show. And this is where you do it. Our website is Ween dot is and that will take you to a form more information about the show, prior episodes, all that kind of thing indeed. Yes, I’m still stuck on this hello thing
Speaker B – [32:13 – 32:33]
Right? Like where did they get hello? Did they have. Hi I don’t know, did they just say howdy? Howdy I, I don’t I don’t did howdy come after hello or is maybe hello coming from howdy. Yeah. Because howdy howdy feels like a cowboy thing which was definitely before 1899. Um, what
Speaker B – [32:33 – 32:53]
was my idea of cowboys before 1899? Completely wrong. Did they not have. Howdy. Wow. We are blowing some minds right now on this show. I think I my whole worldview has been turned upside down just from this segment alone. Did they? Cheerio, I guess would be a greeting that
Speaker B – [32:53 – 33:13]
would be a greeting if you were in a certain region or any region really. Cheerio. But you can only say it like that. But really, people didn’t just go around saying ahoy to everyone, did they? Did they? Maybe they did. Maybe they should. Maybe we should change that. It’s like, can you imagine, like the Oregon Trail just
Speaker B – [33:13 – 33:33]
everyone like, oh, hi. Good morning. Ahoy. Like that’s something you should only say on a boat. Exactly. But now I’m just going to say ahoy to everybody now. Ahoy! Greetings. Anyway, anyway, we should move on. Uh, what do we have next? We are moving on. Um
Speaker B – [33:33 – 33:53]
to plugs. Plugs? Would you like to talk about plugs? I could plug something. Okay, let me get the plugs thing out. Plugs? I had to remember one thing for the show, but, um, I think I lied. I don’t have anything to plug
Speaker B – [33:53 – 34:13]
Oh, no. Um. Uh, I, I mean, I guess, uh, um. Yeah. I really got nothing. Well, we can plug yourself. We can plug Katrina. Me. All right, I am here. Um, I’m on the internet sometimes
Speaker B – [34:13 – 34:33]
I, um, I, I don’t know, Katrina’s great. Thanks. You’re welcome. All right, I will I will plug, uh, world’s greatest improv school. We are on the Twitch channel. There are online classes that you should take. Um, on the subject of
Speaker B – [34:33 – 34:53]
grounded characters, I have a character class coming up, uh, on April 13th that helps you heighten from yourself so you can keep it grounded and relatable. And we will heighten part of that. And this will be a way that you can practice creating characters quickly that are based off yourself
Speaker B – [34:53 – 35:12]
So they are relatable and you can heighten from there. And that’s what we’re going to be practicing in that class. So that’s my plug. And Jen’s character classes are fantastic. Oh thank you I paid Katrina not nearly enough to say that. Okay, well, I’ll
Speaker B – [35:12 – 35:22]
give you some more. Thanks. Thanks. All right. We should move on now to the most important part of our show, as always.
Speaker I – [35:22 – 35:29]
Oh.
Speaker B – [35:29 – 35:32]
Oh, no. Katrina’s like, did
Speaker B – [35:32 – 35:33]
it change?
Speaker I – [35:33 – 35:38]
It did change. It changed it. Katrina was like, oh, no, it didn’t work.
Speaker B – [35:38 – 35:52]
Here, let me show you that again. Wow, what a difference. What a difference. I’m sorry. Listener, if you’re listening to us, you’ll have to go check
Speaker B – [35:52 – 36:01]
out that part of the video, which is a very subtle, subtle, wildly different. So different. Such a different. Will Haynes.
Speaker I – [36:01 – 36:01]
Wow.
Speaker B – [36:01 – 36:12]
And I will actually give a little bit of background, uh, information for that. It was a mistake. I didn’t even I that was not intentional
Speaker B – [36:12 – 36:19]
at all. And then when I saw what I did, I chuckled. And so I left it in there.
Speaker I – [36:19 – 36:20]
Oh my gosh.
Speaker B – [36:20 – 36:32]
Yeah. That’s great. Are we still doing the thing where we ask people if they know where it’s from or yes, we are going to do that thing. Uh, Hill Hillary got, uh, the
Speaker B – [36:32 – 36:52]
last one, I believe, which was, uh, Will Haynes at UCB, uh, in New York. Hill guessed that correctly. Well done Hill. So if anyone knows where this is from, please comment anywhere and let us know and you might win. Uh, a shout out on the show. What a prize
Speaker I – [36:52 – 36:53]
What a prize.
Speaker B – [36:53 – 37:05]
Yeah, got your name said by us, and we will clarify that your name isn’t a false duck fact. Uh, yes. Oh, those round headed buffleheads.
Speaker I – [37:05 – 37:08]
You’re such a round headed bufflehead.
Speaker B – [37:08 – 37:12]
But what was the word? Uh, sparkle
Speaker B – [37:12 – 37:15]
Scattered ashes. Scattered ashes.
Speaker I – [37:15 – 37:17]
Yeah, spats.
Speaker B – [37:17 – 37:32]
I like sparkle Gator to sparkle. Sparkle gator. Uh, you’re a gator. Sparkle gator. That’s a compliment. That is a compliment for sure. Should we move it on to our credits and roll on out? Let’s go take a nap. Let’s go
Speaker B – [37:32 – 37:52]
take some naps. We need them, don’t we? Ah, there we go. Oh, that was fun, wasn’t it? It was fun. Yeah, yeah, we learned about ducks. We learned about platypus platypi spattered ashes. We learned about greeting people
Speaker B – [37:52 – 37:53]
Buffleheads.
Speaker J – [37:53 – 37:57]
Cheerio. Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy!
Speaker B – [37:57 – 38:25]
I don’t know why you say Ahoy, I say wait, I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hi. Ah, I love it and black out.
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