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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: Scrupulous
Soup: Chipotle and Rosemary Creeeeem Soup
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Solo improv examples (Monika Smith):
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
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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)
Socials & Livestream
Homepage: http://ween.is
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/wgimprovschool
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@flatimprov
Socials: Instagram | TikTok | Threads
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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. A sign
Speaker A – [00:59 – 01:19]
that go to a place where dreams come true. And all we need is you. It’s the world’s nerdiest improv show. That you and I aren’t witness. Don’t you know? Get your internet connected and your screen aglow. And we’ll make it up as we go
Speaker A – [01:19 – 01:22]
For the world’s nerdiest improv show.
Speaker B – [01:22 – 01:39]
Welcome, everyone. This is the world’s nerdiest improv show. Parentheses wness parentheses. Weenus. And we are your hosts. I’m Catrina Charles, and I’m Jen. Dhahan
Speaker B – [01:39 – 01:51]
I’m putting our names up on the screen. There they were. And there they go. And they’re gone and they’re gone and they’re gone. So how are you doing, Katrina? Oh, I’m pretty good.
Speaker C – [01:51 – 01:52]
How are you, Jen?
Speaker B – [01:52 – 01:59]
I’m not doing too bad. Good. I’ve been, uh, watching some TV, watching some shows
Speaker B – [01:59 – 02:07]
Um, watching shows. Um, I’ve been watching Not Dead Yet, which I really, really enjoy.
Speaker C – [02:07 – 02:09]
I need to catch up on that. Yeah.
Speaker B – [02:09 – 02:19]
Good show. Um, I watched theater camp movie. Um, have you seen that one? I have not, um, I wonder if TJ seen it
Speaker B – [02:19 – 02:32]
Uh, probably, uh, yeah. Ben Platt, uh, had a lot to do with that or wrote produced was in it, that sort of thing. And yeah, it was good. I never went to theater camp, ever.
Speaker C – [02:32 – 02:37]
I, I didn’t either. I did go to camp and we did theater there, but it wasn’t theater camp.
Speaker B – [02:37 – 02:39]
Mm. General camp
Speaker C – [02:39 – 02:47]
It was general camp. And then there was a theater option for the theater kids there. Like, we have to give them an option or else they’re going to riot.
Speaker B – [02:47 – 02:53]
They’re going to be theater kids. Exactly. They’re going to theater kid all over the camp. We want to contain them into one area.
Speaker C – [02:53 – 02:59]
It’s going to spread the theater kid is going to spread. If if we don’t give them one hour block per day
Speaker C – [02:59 – 03:01]
uh, to, to get their theater out.
Speaker B – [03:01 – 03:17]
Yep. Yeah, you got it. I surprisingly, I get it after watching that movie. Um, I don’t think I would have been a theater kid even if I did. If I was aware that that was something I would like when I was young.
Speaker C – [03:17 – 03:19]
That’s true. Well, maybe you would have discovered
Speaker C – [03:19 – 03:22]
you liked it and, like, taken an adjacent role.
Speaker B – [03:22 – 03:39]
I think I probably would have, because, I mean, eventually I found theater stuff, um, late in life. So, yeah, I would have loved to have found, uh, it earlier on. Oh, we’ve lost
Speaker B – [03:39 – 03:49]
Katrina. Our audio listeners. Katrina, uh, Katrina’s coming back. Katrina is there.
Speaker C – [03:49 – 03:59]
I, I had to, um, go let the dog that I don’t have out got that a dog got in and I had to get it out
Speaker B – [03:59 – 04:02]
It makes me want to sing, but I won’t.
Speaker C – [04:02 – 04:06]
I won’t like the theater, kid, you are like the theater kid.
Speaker B – [04:06 – 04:18]
I truly am on the inside. You have nailed it. You’ve nailed it. I come across it that honestly, I seem like a theater kid
Speaker B – [04:18 – 04:21]
I really, really old theater kid.
Speaker C – [04:21 – 04:30]
Uh, you know, theater kids don’t age. Um, it’s it’s really like a youthful in, in a perpetuity type thing.
Speaker B – [04:30 – 04:34]
Okay, so once a theater kid, always a theater kid on the inside.
Speaker C – [04:34 – 04:36]
Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker B – [04:36 – 04:38]
I just realized it when I was middle age
Speaker B – [04:38 – 04:41]
happens. It happens.
Speaker C – [04:41 – 04:52]
Happens. But you’re here now. It’s like that. That one saying has been stuck in my head recently. The, like. The best time to start was, like a decade ago. But the next best time to start is now.
Speaker B – [04:52 – 04:58]
Yeah, I hear that about trees a lot. Hmm. Planting a tree. Um
Speaker B – [04:58 – 05:05]
because I role in the gardening circles and I have to mention gardening every single episode.
Speaker C – [05:05 – 05:08]
I guess I should mention birds. Yeah.
Speaker B – [05:08 – 05:11]
Let’s mention a bird. Have you seen a bird today, Katrina?
Speaker C – [05:11 – 05:18]
Oh, my gosh, I saw. I think it was just a crow, but it was a great crow. It was like a wonderful shiny crow
Speaker B – [05:18 – 05:21]
I like corvids.
Speaker C – [05:21 – 05:21]
Corvids?
Speaker B – [05:21 – 05:22]
Yes. Corvids.
Speaker C – [05:22 – 05:23]
They’re the best.
Speaker B – [05:23 – 05:25]
Yeah. Corvids are pretty great.
Speaker C – [05:25 – 05:26]
Corvids are great.
Speaker B – [05:26 – 05:38]
Corvids love gardening love. And who is bringing us this episode today we’re brought to you by soup. That’s
Speaker B – [05:38 – 05:57]
right. Soup brings you this show. We are powered by soup on Wednesdays. This week’s soup I’m looking at it Chipotle rosemary cream soup, our podcast listener. You will have to check this out on the website if you want to see it. But it’s a delicious looking soup.
Speaker C – [05:57 – 05:58]
Looks delicious
Speaker C – [05:58 – 06:07]
Also you say Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle is it.
Speaker B – [06:07 – 06:14]
I just wanted to you wanted me to explosive up my mic.
Speaker C – [06:14 – 06:18]
Yeah because
Speaker C – [06:18 – 06:19]
isn’t it Chipotle.
Speaker B – [06:19 – 06:31]
Chipotle I think you are right I’m going to hand it to you because I think you I, I shouldn’t you know you know I shouldn’t get stuck on this detail.
Speaker C – [06:31 – 06:38]
But I actually like Chipotle. But I also am in my editor brain
Speaker C – [06:38 – 06:46]
is like it’s chipotle chipotle Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle Chipotle.
Speaker B – [06:46 – 06:53]
Yeah. We could Asmr right now because I’ve noticed our voices are going down into whisper Chipotle.
Speaker C – [06:53 – 06:58]
Yeah you you have a better microphone for this but a worse
Speaker C – [06:58 – 07:07]
pronunciation. Well the best microphone wins okay. Matter. The pronunciation doesn’t matter once you have a better microphone.
Speaker B – [07:07 – 07:17]
Oh, I like that. Well, then I’ll just get a really high priced microphone and mispronounce the F out of everything. Amazing.
Speaker C – [07:17 – 07:18]
Yeah, I’m looking
Speaker C – [07:18 – 07:28]
forward to it. And just like my eye is going to start twitching like more and more as it goes on, but I won’t be able to do anything because is this going, like to bad, bad, um, bad advertising?
Speaker B – [07:28 – 07:33]
There’s no bad advertising that like, if we get all the anger comments on my pronunciations, we’ll be. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C – [07:33 – 07:37]
Okay, you know what? We both think it’s Chipotle. We change our minds
Speaker B – [07:37 – 07:56]
Exactly. Everyone out there Weenus thinks it’s Chipotle. I’ll stumble across every pronunciation from now on. All right. If we had a guest, we would be bringing that guest on right now, wouldn’t we?
Speaker C – [07:56 – 07:57]
We would
Speaker C – [07:57 – 08:05]
Mhm. But we don’t we don’t today. But we will again one day someday when I don’t mess up the scheduling.
Speaker B – [08:05 – 08:17]
Ah no you didn’t mess up scheduling. Yeah. Well you can say that you did but you didn’t. You don’t need to apologize. We should run an ad. Oh yeah. Yeah. Let’s run
Speaker B – [08:17 – 08:37]
an ad. We’ll be back in a second after this message. Have you 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, and your second beat was something unrelated about two sisters gossiping about
Speaker B – [08:37 – 08:57]
noughties after school specials or whatever. 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 too much to go back 30 minutes in the set. You
Speaker B – [08:57 – 09:15]
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. If any of these symptoms resemble your history hating reality, you are
Speaker B – [09:15 – 09:35]
living in a world of first beats only, and you need help from us here at Do It Again, Please and Improv Sabbatical and do it again, please. And Improv sabbatical. You’ll redo history. You’ll get reps of beats. History starts repeating itself. By noon, you’ll receive the same dry toast you got for breakfast and also for lunch and also for dinner. Oh, that
Speaker B – [09:35 – 09:55]
asshole who stole your parking spot when you arrived. Don’t worry, you’ll see them again. We assigned you parking spot 17 F, and we also hired Bradley to pull in to 17 F seconds before you arrived. 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
Speaker B – [09:55 – 10:15]
of your stay. And every time you repeat this task, Bradley will be waiting in their Rav4 and pull in to 17 F just as you pull up. Good work Bradley, and good work you for reliving this annoying experience five times per day. Doesn’t seem funny yet. Don’t worry. The 11th time Bradley pulls into your spot, you’ll get it because
Speaker B – [10:15 – 10:35]
that’s why you’re here. You need to learn to, 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 Bradley perfectly every time. So many beats, so much opportunity, so much Bradley. Hear it. Do it again, please. And improv sabbatical. We believe
Speaker B – [10:35 – 10:55]
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 your second beat with a premise that barely resembles the first beat, but at least demonstrates you’re moderately aware of the relevant concepts and techniques by the time you drive home from the sabbatical. Don’t live in a world
Speaker B – [10:55 – 11:12]
of first beats, only there’s always more roosters to call back and there’s always more Bradley. So call us at one 800 555 beat. That’s one 805 55BEAT. Call me please call me please I will and okay.
Speaker C – [11:12 – 11:13]
And I’ll do it again.
Speaker B – [11:13 – 11:14]
Again and
Speaker B – [11:14 – 11:22]
again and again. I’m sure a few people are curious about how long this will go on.
Speaker C – [11:22 – 11:26]
I’m not. I want it to go on forever. Oh.
Speaker B – [11:26 – 11:35]
How nice. Also, uh, the the the hair tie thing that’s green in there, and it bugs me now seeing that that’s like a cut out
Speaker B – [11:35 – 11:37]
on the braid. On the single braid.
Speaker C – [11:37 – 11:41]
I thought it was a cool, um, design choice.
Speaker B – [11:41 – 11:44]
A cool design choice for my hair.
Speaker D – [11:44 – 11:45]
Mhm.
Speaker B – [11:45 – 11:46]
Oh, cool.
Speaker D – [11:46 – 11:47]
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker B – [11:47 – 11:54]
Well we’ll get into hair actually later on in the show, but we got some slack I know. Right. Forshadowing
Speaker B – [11:54 – 12:00]
Mm hmm. Uh, let’s see what we got on. Uh.
Speaker E – [12:00 – 12:05]
I seen on the internet.
Speaker B – [12:05 – 12:14]
On the internet. Let’s see what Katrina brought for us today. Our first slide. Oh, we got to turn the slides on
Speaker B – [12:14 – 12:15]
first. There we go.
Speaker C – [12:15 – 12:34]
Yes. Well, I was, um, perusing Reddit the other time at a point in time, and I, I was thinking, has anyone, uh, discovered how to do improv by yourself? Oh, I spent a lot of time alone. I don’t know about you, Jen. Oh, I sure do. But
Speaker C – [12:34 – 12:54]
uh, yeah, we, um. Uh, you know, we need we need some ways to keep our our minds sharp when we’re not in a class or in a group or or anything. So I found this Reddit post called can I Practice Improv by myself? Uh, and it turns out, yes, you can can, um. That’s it. That’s all I got. Just kidding. I have a good
Speaker C – [12:54 – 13:14]
Um, so one, uh, tip people people suggested was, uh, just doing like, a stream of consciousness either with characters. So just, like, come up with as many characters as you can, um, like, as your brain kind of develops them or just to, like, observe your thoughts and then like, say them out loud and just show like
Speaker C – [13:14 – 13:33]
how much your brain is, uh, capable of just coming up with out of nothing. Um, another thing was to observe people. When you’re out and about, just observe their wants, their needs, their, like, funny things that you could use in a scene later. Um, uh, maybe that’ll be good for, like, pulling premise or anything. And you can also practice pulling premise from things that
Speaker C – [13:33 – 13:54]
you observe. So say, oh, you see someone like do something funny on the street and you’re like, how could I turn that into a scene and just kind of run into a couple, um, scenarios that you could use? Uh, you could practice rhyming games by yourself, practice giving monologues, which I often do in the car, but it’s awfully, um, awfully it’s
Speaker C – [13:54 – 14:01]
often that’s it’s often, um, when I’m trying to, like, replay a situation and make it better. Yeah.
Speaker B – [14:01 – 14:05]
Like a scene. Like a scene, a scene or a life situation.
Speaker C – [14:05 – 14:13]
Um, a life situation. Or like what I would have said to a person. Oh, if I had thought of it, you know, like those kind of things helpful, though. Oh
Speaker C – [14:13 – 14:26]
um, and then, uh, word association. So if you’re sitting in the car in traffic, just like, hey, like, let’s think of a word and then think of a bunch of other words. Yeah. Um, those are some helpful improv tricks you can try just on your own in your free time.
Speaker B – [14:26 – 14:30]
So like a self pattern game, um, or a self A to C.
Speaker C – [14:30 – 14:34]
Yeah A to C. Yeah. Helpful. Yeah
Speaker B – [14:34 – 14:53]
Yeah I improvised with myself all the time, but my internal monologue is actually speaking like I am right now to other people. That’s the way my internal monologue default voice is, which is quite helpful for delivering monologues, because that’s all I do. That’s the way that I speak. But what was quite interesting
Speaker B – [14:53 – 15:13]
for me when I first encountered doing that and practicing that in improv, um, of having a conversation with, um, solo with another person who wasn’t there. In improv context, you have to get used to it, even though it is kind of the default mode of internal speech that I have, which I found quite interesting. I thought as
Speaker B – [15:13 – 15:32]
people might, I’m going to kill this one. I’m built for this one, I’m wired for it, and then you. Then I did it and completely failed the first time I tried. And I was like, okay, you should not have had the confidence in the bravado for that because that did not go well. Um, yeah, it’s a great thing. There’s
Speaker B – [15:32 – 15:44]
also a one person shows out there like Monica Smith of Wedges were streaming on wedges channels. Monica Smith has A11 woman herald that I’ve heard about. That’s amazing.
Speaker C – [15:44 – 15:52]
Apparently it is incredible. There is. I think there’s a couple on YouTube, um, that she’s posted. So definitely go check that out. Monica with a K. Yes
Speaker C – [15:52 – 15:54]
Monica Smith. Uh, yes.
Speaker B – [15:54 – 15:56]
We’ll try to remember to put that in the show notes.
Speaker C – [15:56 – 15:57]
Yes.
Speaker B – [15:57 – 16:12]
But we have me. Yeah. Making a live show note right now to everyone. Okay. That’s really sad. I’ll try to remember to put that in the show notes. Um, yeah. Great topic though. I mean, there’s so there’s so many things that you
Speaker B – [16:12 – 16:32]
can do. I, um, do some solo improvising where I record separate tracks and improvise with myself. Uh, record one track first. Uh, think of the responses in my head and then go ahead and record against my live audio or my audio that plays, which is another way of doing improv by yourself
Speaker C – [16:32 – 16:33]
Very fun.
Speaker B – [16:33 – 16:36]
Yeah. And weird.
Speaker C – [16:36 – 16:40]
We do what we have to do to get by.
Speaker B – [16:40 – 16:52]
Yes we do, yes we do. As improvisers. I’m an improviser. I Bloor that trend. I don’t know if I’ve seen that yet done by an improviser
Speaker B – [16:52 – 16:59]
Uh, if you’ve seen any of those of that trend of I’m a blank so we blank or whatever it is.
Speaker C – [16:59 – 17:07]
Oh yeah. The like back and forth, the back and forth. Yeah, I’m an improviser, so I always improvise. Improvise.
Speaker B – [17:07 – 17:11]
But yeah, it’d be something witty. Yeah. Oh did I oh that was rude
Speaker B – [17:11 – 17:13]
of me. Sorry. Katrina.
Speaker C – [17:13 – 17:20]
Um, no, that was fair. That was 100% fair.
Speaker B – [17:20 – 17:26]
Oh. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply improvise was not witty.
Speaker C – [17:26 – 17:31]
I didn’t mean to imply that the most obvious answer was
Speaker C – [17:31 – 17:33]
it incredibly clever?
Speaker B – [17:33 – 17:38]
Oh, it was clever. We just needed some wordplay to get that rimshot in there.
Speaker C – [17:38 – 17:41]
All right, I’m an improviser, so of course I can take harsh notes.
Speaker B – [17:41 – 17:51]
I gave you a rimshot for that. Oh, actually, that should probably have been a sad trombone. I’ll give you
Speaker B – [17:51 – 17:54]
sad trombone to give you one of each.
Speaker C – [17:54 – 17:57]
I’m an improviser, so I know I’ll get them next time.
Speaker B – [17:57 – 18:01]
I gave you a rimshot on that.
Speaker C – [18:01 – 18:03]
I didn’t deserve one.
Speaker B – [18:03 – 18:11]
Oh, I gave you one anyways because I’m a supportive non-scene partner. I’m not seen partnering right now, but if I was, I would be having your back on that somehow
Speaker B – [18:11 – 18:31]
Yeah. So the, uh, article that I’m reading from bringing along to the show from again, also from Reddit, like Katrina’s is improv karma for artists. Exclamation mark. That’s the name of the thread. And this person is asking
Speaker B – [18:31 – 18:51]
are there improv like exercises that people doing art could do? And this is sort of made me brainstorm a little bit on some of the prompts that we get in improv. And could this be translated to an artistic space? This also caught my eye because
Speaker B – [18:51 – 19:11]
I graduated with a education related art degree and then ended up going into improv. So it’s like merging those two worlds for me a little bit. So I was intrigued. Um hum. So this is just some of the things that I was brainstorming and Katrina, I’m you very well might have some other brainstorms for this, but if you
Speaker B – [19:11 – 19:31]
were doing some kind of art project, of course we could be getting suggestions. I mean, we get that anyways in an art class, so I don’t even think that that’s really, uh, inspirational, um, at all. But, uh, what I was thinking, you know, art projects where we all contribute maybe to a canvas or
Speaker B – [19:31 – 19:51]
something, or everybody in the room contributes one thing, and then you start from that spot and, you know, build out the scene from that. We could build in some limitations in our art space. We could be you can only use from this palette of color or that you know, that medium or you have
Speaker B – [19:51 – 20:11]
to incorporate, uh, some particular mixed media element into this piece of art, because in improv we oftentimes have limitations. You know, this is going to be the genre that we’re, you know, improvising within for this. So setting some limitations, maybe around things, um, working
Speaker B – [20:11 – 20:31]
with the person next to you, they have to give you something or they have to give you prompts throughout the session that you have to, in real time, add into your canvas or your art piece that you’re working on. Uh, one thing that sounds particularly terrible to me, I’m going to out myself like, this is not team player like
Speaker B – [20:31 – 20:51]
but you could take turns working on the same piece of art and listener. I’m. I have a foul look on my face right now. Because to me, as someone who likes doing art, that sounds dreadful. That sounds absolutely terrible. Collaborating one after another on the same piece. Oh my God. But you could do it and it would be in Provence. Fired. Uh, random
Speaker B – [20:51 – 21:10]
assignments. This is something I did in art therapy once was go outside, see something that’s happening right now, pull it into your piece of art, start from there, and then come back and continue. So kind of live elements in the thing. You could have somebody do an interview or like an Armando storytelling monologue
Speaker B – [21:10 – 21:30]
and you based the artwork off of that, everybody in the room. And one thing and I’ll leave it at this, this is something I actually do practice all the time and love doing, is listening to a piece of music while you’re doing art and being inspired by that piece of music, and that’s what you’re drawing. It has to be tied into the music. Um, and then I was
Speaker B – [21:30 – 21:50]
thinking some of those might actually work for improv scenes, which is why I thought, I’ll bring this one to the show, because almost all the things I said there, I think we could be doing for scenes as well, instead of a piece of art. Um, which was the point of the question anyways. Katrina, do you have any ideas off of that? If you are doing an art project, how you might incorporate improv
Speaker B – [21:50 – 22:10]
somehow? Well, I think you covered a lot. Um, so I would say like just to expand on the like, you know, starting from something. I have seen a lot of artists, not a lot, but like several artists on like TikTok or, um, you know, various sharing social media, um, where they’ll start with, like
Speaker C – [22:10 – 22:29]
even they’ll like draw either like a weird thing and then just have to, like, draw around it. Yeah. Or like, they’ll even get, like, their pets involved. Just like, have them like, like, put some paint in a bag and have their pets step around under that and then they have to like, kind of draw with it. So it’s like collaborative art with their pet. Oh that’s cool. Yeah. So I mean get just creative, like improv
Speaker C – [22:29 – 22:30]
is improv.
Speaker E – [22:30 – 22:34]
You can do it like you could do it, I love it.
Speaker B – [22:34 – 22:49]
That’s very encouraging too. Yes. Yeah, I really like this question. I thought that it was it was quite fun and I bet that it would, even if you did do it in the art sense, that you’d get sort of inspired, perhaps for your improv as well, and also starting your
Speaker B – [22:49 – 22:59]
scene from using a piece of art. I’ve done that before, um, inspired by, you know, an actual picture to do your set with. Um, that’s a lot of fun, too.
Speaker C – [22:59 – 23:04]
Yeah. What a cool concept of, like, combining combining the two.
Speaker B – [23:04 – 23:09]
Combining. Yeah, yeah, it’s kind of like a genre prompt in a way, because you get the feeling
Speaker B – [23:09 – 23:27]
of that painting, and it has to inspire the feeling of the scene. Yeah, yeah, that’s really cool. Oh, this is a word. Yeah. I used this word this week in in the We Just newsletter and so.
Speaker C – [23:27 – 23:30]
Oh I keep flipping in and out of existence
Speaker C – [23:30 – 23:37]
Um, so this is our word of the week for our audio listeners. Um, would you like to do the honors, Jen.
Speaker B – [23:37 – 23:46]
Oh, I could, yes. Uh, sure. The word of the week is scrupulous. Screw Pew pew!
Speaker F – [23:46 – 23:49]
Pew pew pew pew pew pew.
Speaker C – [23:49 – 23:51]
Screw pew pulis.
Speaker B – [23:51 – 23:57]
Okay, now I’m going to hear that from now on when you get a rim shot for that.
Speaker C – [23:57 – 23:58]
Thank you.
Speaker B – [23:58 – 24:03]
Would you like to tell our listeners what scrupulous means if you can read the screen that is.
Speaker C – [24:03 – 24:09]
Oh yes I can um it is a diligent, thorough and extreme attention to detail. Puncture
Speaker C – [24:09 – 24:29]
puncture closely, careful and correct exact work. Or if I’m leaning the right way, uh, strict regard to avoid doing wrong. I’m assuming wrong. Yes. Uh, has moral integrity. Has moral integrity? Yeah. Basically just trying to being
Speaker C – [24:29 – 24:32]
a little anxious about doing the right thing, which I get.
Speaker B – [24:32 – 24:33]
Exactly. Yes.
Speaker C – [24:33 – 24:48]
I identified quite strongly to this word, scrupulous and scrupulous is the one um, I can’t I oh my gosh, I forgot the word for the, um, white guys. Oh my God
Speaker C – [24:48 – 24:53]
not the white guy. And in Star Wars.
Speaker B – [24:53 – 24:58]
Oh, you’re asking me the Star Wars genre stuff, and I am blank.
Speaker C – [24:58 – 25:02]
It’s it’s literally the guys dressed in white.
Speaker B – [25:02 – 25:09]
Like, I can only think R2d2. Oh, we’re going to have super storm Stormtrooper. Yeah. See
Speaker B – [25:09 – 25:12]
I never watched Star Wars. I never watched Star Wars.
Speaker C – [25:12 – 25:18]
Yeah, okay. Anyway, my joke was going to be it’s the one stormtrooper that can hit something.
Speaker B – [25:18 – 25:21]
Screw Pupulus I like it.
Speaker C – [25:21 – 25:24]
Yeah, because they’re notoriously a bad shot.
Speaker B – [25:24 – 25:27]
Are they notoriously a bad shot? Is that part of the lore?
Speaker C – [25:27 – 25:29]
That’s part of the lore
Speaker B – [25:29 – 25:32]
Okay, I really need to read up on that lore.
Speaker C – [25:32 – 25:36]
It’s more of like an internet lore. It’s like a lot of a lot of GIFs.
Speaker B – [25:36 – 25:49]
So what do you do? Like if I get going into some sort of genre or some sort of lore I am not familiar with, I end up oftentimes just committing hard to being wrong. That’s
Speaker B – [25:49 – 25:50]
good. Do you have a tactic?
Speaker C – [25:50 – 25:56]
Um, I usually figure out I’m wrong and then apologize profusely.
Speaker B – [25:56 – 25:59]
Uh, in the scene, as in character or afterwards?
Speaker C – [25:59 – 26:04]
Yeah. Like that’s that’s when those character things. That is really hard to override in my brain.
Speaker E – [26:04 – 26:05]
Yes.
Speaker C – [26:05 – 26:08]
It’s like, oh no, okay, I need to get this
Speaker C – [26:08 – 26:22]
right. Anyway, I yeah, whenever I say something like characters are hard for me because whenever I say something out of like out of character for myself, I’m like, I shouldn’t have said that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B – [26:22 – 26:28]
It’s just kind of funny. On the on the topic of scrupulous at least, that I would commit hard to being
Speaker B – [26:28 – 26:37]
wrong because outside of a scene, I definitely am filled with scruples. All right.
Speaker C – [26:37 – 26:39]
Can’t believe I forgot the word for stormtrooper.
Speaker B – [26:39 – 26:43]
Stormtrooper? Oh, we might get some hate mail on that one.
Speaker C – [26:43 – 26:46]
Come for me in the comments. Boost our ratings.
Speaker B – [26:46 – 26:48]
Please boost our ratings by commenting about
Speaker B – [26:48 – 27:08]
how Katrina should have known Stormtrooper, and how I should have known everything else that I’ve messed up. All right, speaking of speaking of facts, uh, seen sprinkles in season with specifics. These are just facts that you might be able to utilize
Speaker B – [27:08 – 27:27]
in your scenes. Maybe you’ll use it this week in a scene. Something that you learn from this show. Because having those facts and those details, uh, having interests and dropping that information into a scene can be a fun thing to do and add well to a scene. Katrina, what did you bring for us this week
Speaker C – [27:27 – 27:48]
Uh, this week on TikTok, I, uh, saw a TikTok about Tanis. I think it’s like the Tanis dig site or something. But this dig site in North Dakota is secretive. You can’t know where it is. Basically, they found just like, um, so many dinosaurs. There’s been so much discovery there. Uh, it’s one of the largest. It’s potentially the largest dino discovery
Speaker C – [27:48 – 27:56]
of all time. Wow. We’re still finding it out. Um, but what’s interesting about this is they have found. Oh, did I freeze? Can you hear me? We can hear you.
Speaker B – [27:56 – 27:58]
You’re back. Okay. You’re back.
Speaker C – [27:58 – 28:07]
Okay. Um, so what is interesting about this is it might be linked to the asteroid impact that ended up killing the dinosaurs. Because what
Speaker C – [28:07 – 28:27]
they found is, like, fish from, like, saltwater fish that may have come from the Gulf of Mexico and been washed up in the Western Interior Seaway, which was like a seaway that went through the middle of the United States. Um, so what they think might have happened was the asteroid impact sent a wave from, like
Speaker C – [28:27 – 28:47]
the Gulf of Mexico up into North Dakota. And the way they know this is because beneath the fish and stuff, uh, they found, um, like burrowing mammals. So they know it was like dry land at one point. So, uh, they found, like, really cool dinosaur, um, pieces they found like
Speaker C – [28:47 – 29:06]
a fully almost intact leg fossil, like, with the skin and everything, which is like. Wow. Yeah. I mean, like, it’s fossilized, but, like, you can see, like, the skin texture and everything, like, oh, there’s some cool stuff, but it’s still, like, pretty secretive, I think, like, they’re, you know, obviously they don’t want other people to be storming the.
Speaker G – [29:06 – 29:07]
Yeah
Speaker G – [29:07 – 29:09]
stealing stuff and taking photos.
Speaker B – [29:09 – 29:12]
Selfies with a leg.
Speaker C – [29:12 – 29:27]
Yeah. But I just thought it was so cool because, like, what a what an amazing historical find to like, just see like the direct, like the direct result of the asteroid impact that ended up like causing this mass extinction
Speaker C – [29:27 – 29:27]
event.
Speaker B – [29:27 – 29:41]
Yeah, that’d be cool. And also to get some more answers about the asteroid, you know that that’s what happened and that’s what actually caused it or how fast all that kind of thing. Because I think there is still a lot of unknowns around the asteroid.
Speaker C – [29:41 – 29:47]
Um, I think also, I read recently this is unrelated to the TikTok, but, um, apparently the dinosaurs
Speaker C – [29:47 – 30:05]
didn’t go extinct immediately. It was like over a thousand year period. Yeah, just like the asteroid asteroid started the catalyst of it all, like killing off all these things. So, yeah. Super interesting. And, um, makes you makes you hope that, uh, Armageddon. They’re getting they’re getting that, uh, that figured out.
Speaker B – [30:05 – 30:07]
Yeah. They might
Speaker B – [30:07 – 30:08]
uh, we might get some more hints.
Speaker C – [30:08 – 30:16]
The movie Armageddon is figuring out how to. They’re figuring out how to block our, not our active Armageddon.
Speaker B – [30:16 – 30:19]
That’s currently. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker G – [30:19 – 30:19]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [30:19 – 30:23]
I do feel like it’s going to be more like a don’t look up situation, I think.
Speaker B – [30:23 – 30:26]
Yeah, we’re definitely in a don’t look up situation anyway
Speaker C – [30:26 – 30:27]
Comedy.
Speaker B – [30:27 – 30:46]
Comedy. And uh, on that note of comedy, here’s the Dumbo octopus. So listener, we’re looking at our next factoid from the internet. And this one is the Dumbo octopus that we’re looking at. And as always, we will have links in our show notes. If you want to
Speaker B – [30:46 – 31:07]
find these things for yourself. But, uh, Dumbo octopus was an octopus, uh, that I’ve never heard of before. It’s actually 15 species that are part of the umbrella octopus genus, which gets their name from. There’s, like, webbing. There’s, like, skin between their arms
Speaker B – [31:07 – 31:27]
So, um, that’s the umbrella element of the octopus. All their arms have the skin between them. And then the dumbo octopus. Those species get the name because their fins look like dumbo ears. Like elephant ears, which is so cute and adorable. But these are very deep
Speaker B – [31:27 – 31:36]
dwelling octopus species, and I. I had not heard of them before, so that is why I brought this fact, which I believe it looks like I found on Twitter I guess.
Speaker E – [31:36 – 31:38]
Amazing.
Speaker C – [31:38 – 31:43]
Yeah, I, I have heard of a Dumbo octopus and I know exactly what it was when I saw the picture.
Speaker B – [31:43 – 31:47]
Oh well, there we go. That’s great
Speaker C – [31:47 – 31:59]
I’m a nerd. But yeah, that was that was super interesting. And, um, yeah, I like I don’t know, I relate to them because they dwell in the depths and they, they just like it. There I get it.
Speaker B – [31:59 – 32:07]
Yeah, I get it too. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn’t mind to be dwelling in some depths of ocean sometime. Yeah
Speaker B – [32:07 – 32:08]
it seems nice. It seems nice.
Speaker C – [32:08 – 32:13]
I feel like I feel like the water pressure just feels like a warm hug. Yeah, yeah, like a weighted.
Speaker B – [32:13 – 32:16]
A wet weighted blanket. Exactly.
Speaker C – [32:16 – 32:18]
It’s like nature’s weighted blanket.
Speaker B – [32:18 – 32:26]
Yeah. Uh, this next one. I’m just throwing in here for funsies. Uh, and this is a reminder of
Speaker B – [32:26 – 32:46]
how our little stories can be fun. Or little stories. That sounds so diminutive. Anyways, stories can be a fun inspiration for scenes. I just had to share this one because this one, this woman, uh, went in and to get, uh, her hair cut at a, at a salon and was waiting for
Speaker B – [32:46 – 33:06]
uh, her stylist in the little waiting area. And then a person came out and said, you know, I can I’m going to, uh, wash your hair while you’re waiting for your stylist to. Stylist is almost ready. And so she’s like, okay. So she goes back, gets her hair washed and, and notices everyone in the, in the salon is kind of
Speaker B – [33:06 – 33:26]
talking and looking at at them. And she’s like, what’s going on? Something’s going on. They’re talking about us. And then so somebody comes over, uh, and talks to the person washing her hair. Uh, something like, what are you doing here? What are you doing? And it turns out the person washing her hair had nothing to do with the salon. And
Speaker B – [33:26 – 33:46]
it was just a random person, uh, to, uh, to to that took her to get her hair washed. And that person went running out of the salon and never to be seen again. But the search on here, um, the search on here was the midnight. The midnight barber, uh, which is a mighty Boosh reference
Speaker B – [33:46 – 34:05]
uh, which made me laugh because it’s like the guy that was cutting his friend’s hair in the middle of the night. Anyway, the midnight, midnight barber. I’ll put the links in in the chat. But anyways, this whole thing made me laugh, so that’s why I brought it. That’s why I brought it. It’s not really a fact, but it was a an amusing story
Speaker C – [34:05 – 34:14]
That’s, uh, the place I go to get my haircut only has one person working there, so that’s. That makes me feel more comfortable now.
Speaker B – [34:14 – 34:25]
Yeah, well, I feel pretty comfortable because I don’t go. I don’t get my hair cut. I’ve cut my own hair. I’ve probably gone in, I think about maybe 3 or 4 times in the past 20 years, uh, to get my
Speaker B – [34:25 – 34:29]
hair cut, because I do not like people touching my head or my neck.
Speaker C – [34:29 – 34:30]
Um, so.
Speaker B – [34:30 – 34:33]
Yeah. So I cut my own.
Speaker C – [34:33 – 34:39]
It looks so good for being home cut. Thank you. Yeah. You have like, uh. I mean, you’ve got a skill now, but.
Speaker B – [34:39 – 34:45]
Yeah, well, after all that time, I go in, when I mess it up. Too bad. That’s the 3 or 4 times I’ve gone in is when I’ve
Speaker B – [34:45 – 34:50]
done such a poor job. I have to go get a professional to fix it.
Speaker C – [34:50 – 35:00]
That makes sense. Mine is too. Um. It likes doing its thing too much, so I can’t. I can’t cut it because it will then do its own thing and it’s not good.
Speaker B – [35:00 – 35:03]
Yeah, yeah, hair can have a mind of its own.
Speaker C – [35:03 – 35:06]
It does have a mind of its own. You did say we would talk about
Speaker C – [35:06 – 35:08]
hair later and I did, and that was.
Speaker B – [35:08 – 35:12]
That was it. We did it, we did it. We accomplished that.
Speaker C – [35:12 – 35:14]
Uh, appreciate you, uh, telling the truth.
Speaker E – [35:14 – 35:15]
Thank you.
Speaker B – [35:15 – 35:25]
And, listener, if you have a good improv something or not, it doesn’t. It could be average. It could be bad for all
Speaker B – [35:25 – 35:45]
for it doesn’t matter. Uh, you can send us, uh, facts. You can send us improv things to talk about. You yourself can come on to the show as our guest. The place to go is weenies. That’s our website, weenies. And there’s a form on there
Speaker B – [35:45 – 36:02]
and you can send us stuff. And thanks and thanks. And you can you can talk to Katrina if you’d like to have a chat with Katrina by way of email. Katrina is not happy right now.
Speaker C – [36:02 – 36:05]
I’m not unhappy. I
Speaker C – [36:05 – 36:22]
just I actually finally had to delete some stuff from my Google because I have a my. It’s 99% full. Okay, I that that’s it. That’s okay. I mean I could still get email now but just it’s close.
Speaker B – [36:22 – 36:25]
Just just don’t send big attachments is what
Speaker B – [36:25 – 36:26]
Katrina is trying to say. Yeah.
Speaker C – [36:26 – 36:30]
If you if you’re going to try to scam me small attachments are how you do it.
Speaker B – [36:30 – 36:31]
All right.
Speaker C – [36:31 – 36:35]
Or links I’ll click it. Oh will you I’ll click whatever. Yeah.
Speaker B – [36:35 – 36:39]
That sounds like a challenge for the audience.
Speaker C – [36:39 – 36:44]
The the less legitimate looks, the more likely I am to click it because I’m like, they wouldn’t fool me that they wouldn’t
Speaker C – [36:44 – 36:45]
be.
Speaker B – [36:45 – 36:48]
Oh, they wouldn’t, they wouldn’t send that link.
Speaker C – [36:48 – 36:50]
If they didn’t, they would not about they would not.
Speaker B – [36:50 – 36:58]
Now that I know this information, you’re in trouble. Katrina. Oh, no. Yeah. Should we, uh, do our favorite segment of the week?
Speaker C – [36:58 – 37:02]
Oh my gosh. Yes. Oh, wait, is it is it going to actually change this week.
Speaker B – [37:02 – 37:04]
It is going to change this week. It
Speaker B – [37:04 – 37:09]
changed last week too. It was just subtle. It was subtle.
Speaker C – [37:09 – 37:09]
It did.
Speaker B – [37:09 – 37:22]
All right. Let’s see what we got this week. We’re shifting over to see what new Will Hines is on our wall. Ah, there we go.
Speaker E – [37:22 – 37:24]
What was that, a cupcake
Speaker B – [37:24 – 37:44]
It is a cupcake. Ah ah. And if anyone knows where this photo is from, this one’s a probably a challenge. If you know where this photo is from, give us a comment. Give us a comment somewhere. Send us a message. We’ll give you a shout out if you can tell us where this image is from.
Speaker E – [37:44 – 37:44]
I
Speaker E – [37:44 – 37:47]
have no idea what this image is from, but I want a cupcake now.
Speaker B – [37:47 – 38:04]
Yeah, well, if you find out where this image is from, you might win a cupcake, a virtual one, a virtual cupcake. Yes, to my inbox, to your inbox in GIF sketchy link with a very, very sketchy
Speaker B – [38:04 – 38:16]
link that you’re like, ah, I’m going to click it anyways. Oh, why did I click that? That’s what’s going to happen. All right. Do you have anything else to add Katrina or should we roll them credits.
Speaker C – [38:16 – 38:19]
Oh um well are we doing plugs?
Speaker B – [38:19 – 38:24]
We should do the plugs. Yes. All right. Uh, I got plugs. I don’t have plugs. Let’s go
Speaker B – [38:24 – 38:26]
back into this room now. We got plugs.
Speaker H – [38:26 – 38:27]
Plugs?
Speaker C – [38:27 – 38:32]
We got plugs. Um, I still don’t think I have anything to plug.
Speaker E – [38:32 – 38:33]
Hmm.
Speaker B – [38:33 – 38:36]
All right, all right, well, I’ll plug stuff.
Speaker C – [38:36 – 38:42]
I’m not doing a whole lot. Watch our show. Oh, you’re doing it. Good job. Good job.
Speaker B – [38:42 – 38:44]
You’re watching it. Thank
Speaker B – [38:44 – 38:45]
you very much.
Speaker C – [38:45 – 38:46]
Thank you for being here.
Speaker B – [38:46 – 39:04]
Yes. All right. Well, yeah. Okay. So I’ll plug I have another improv podcast that I do called Neurodiversity and improv or improv and Neurodiversity, depending on where you read it. And I talk about, uh, things to do with improv through the lens of mostly autism and ADHD
Speaker B – [39:04 – 39:24]
But it is useful for anyone who’s improvising because you are improvising with us all the time. And I’m just talking about a lot of how to do improv stuff, which should be relevant no matter what neuro type you are. So that’s, uh, one thing I’ll plug. And World’s Greatest Improv School, uh, has a bunch of improv classes. Online classes
Speaker B – [39:24 – 39:29]
We’ve got new ones that are being added all the time. So check those out.
Speaker C – [39:29 – 39:40]
And they’re all super fun. I’ve taken so many. It’s been. I think it’s been a year since I started taking Wiedrich’s classes, and not a bad one in the bunch, and I’ve taken quite a few.
Speaker B – [39:40 – 39:43]
Excellent. I’m glad to hear that. Yeah, yeah, and look at
Speaker B – [39:43 – 39:45]
how good of an improviser I am.
Speaker C – [39:45 – 39:49]
Try something. Try Jen. Try to try to improvise with me.
Speaker I – [39:49 – 40:01]
How do you do, kind sir? Oh well, I do quite well, thank you. Uh, would you like a spot of tea? I would love a spot of tea with two sugars, please.
Speaker C – [40:01 – 40:03]
See, we’re so good and seen
Speaker C – [40:03 – 40:04]
We’re so good.
Speaker B – [40:04 – 40:11]
Oh, I love it. We are the best. We roll the credits before we get into trouble.
Speaker C – [40:11 – 40:12]
Please roll the credits.
Speaker J – [40:12 – 40:14]
There we go.
Speaker I – [40:14 – 40:19]
How do you do? I am a troll underneath a bridge. Oh, no.
Speaker F – [40:19 – 40:22]
I’m a Billy goat and I cross.
Speaker I – [40:22 – 40:23]
Oh, you look tasty. Can
Speaker I – [40:23 – 40:32]
I have a bite of your leg? No, I prefer that it stay attached, please. Oh, I’m going to take a little bit of a nibble between your toes.
Speaker F – [40:32 – 40:35]
Anyways, I’m going to scoot away from you so you can’t do that.
Speaker I – [40:35 – 40:40]
Oh, I might scoot away as well. No. Oh, okay.
Speaker J – [40:40 – 40:43]
So this this thing is fun. And
Speaker J – [40:43 – 40:59]
blackout.
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