World’s Nerdiest Improv Show – Episode 4: Butternut Mint Soup

Show

Show Notes

Jen and Katrina share things about improv that include where to find an infographic on game of the scene, neat facts to add to a scene, how to learn reacting to voice-over improv from Ultimate world cruise-TOK, and more.

What’s the word of the day, and can Jen pronounce it? SUSPENSE! Watch this show to find out.

Links to content discussed:

• Game of the Scene (Reddit)
• And Scene show (Caveat)
• Jack Black (TikTok)
• Don’t be an Asshole class
• Neat wax tablets (TikTok)
• Ultimate Cruise-Tok (TikTok)

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)

Transcript

Speaker A – [00:00 – 01:19]
Life’s too normal. And you need a change from something totally expected to something strange. Assignment. Go to a place where if our dreams come true. And all we need is you. It’s the world’s nerdiest improv

Speaker A – [01:19 – 01:33]
show. The view and I are 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 – [01:33 – 01:38]
Welcome, welcome, welcome

Speaker B – [01:38 – 01:47]
This is the world’s nerdiest improv show. Parentheses. Wness. Parentheses. Anus. Yes.

Speaker C – [01:47 – 01:48]
And we are your host.

Speaker B – [01:48 – 01:58]
I’m Catrina Charles, and I’m Jen de Haan. I remember to do it this week. We’re here to talk about improv

Speaker C – [01:58 – 02:05]
Improv. We’re here to talk about improv. Yeah. And, uh, maybe one day we’ll we’ll have guests.

Speaker B – [02:05 – 02:07]
Maybe, maybe maybe I hope we do.

Speaker C – [02:07 – 02:10]
One day I do, too. That would be nice.

Speaker B – [02:10 – 02:18]
And why don’t we talk about that for a second right now? Okay? If somebody wants to be a guest, they could go to Weenus. This place

Speaker C – [02:18 – 02:22]
Let us know.

Speaker B – [02:22 – 02:23]
Yeah, let us know.

Speaker C – [02:23 – 02:25]
We’ll get back to you. Maybe.

Speaker D – [02:25 – 02:26]
Oh, maybe.

Speaker C – [02:26 – 02:31]
Oh, I just mean that in the sense of, um. I’m bad at returning emails, so.

Speaker B – [02:31 – 02:38]
Oh. That’s right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that’s okay. Um, I’ll also get an email. Um, and, and

Speaker B – [02:38 – 02:46]
I can, I can, I can reply. Um, yeah. Yeah. So how did your week go this week?

Speaker C – [02:46 – 02:57]
Oh, well, it went fine. It was a fine. It was a fine week. It was a, uh, I live in, um, the Pacific Northwest, so we had lots of rain and lots of wind. Yeah. Um

Speaker C – [02:57 – 02:59]
that’s kind of my whole week.

Speaker B – [02:59 – 03:02]
Yeah, we had some snow up here. Oh, wow.

Speaker C – [03:02 – 03:03]
Yeah.

Speaker B – [03:03 – 03:04]
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker C – [03:04 – 03:06]
Which, how was that? Was it, was it.

Speaker B – [03:06 – 03:08]
Oh, I didn’t go outside.

Speaker C – [03:08 – 03:14]
Okay. Yeah, I was going to ask if it was wet. And then I was like, it’s probably. Yeah, probably.

Speaker B – [03:14 – 03:17]
Yeah. It was a very, uh, slushy, uh, wet snow.

Speaker C – [03:17 – 03:18]
Slushy wet snow. Yeah

Speaker B – [03:18 – 03:22]
We aren’t getting snow up here in Canada anymore, apparently. Oh, no. Yeah.

Speaker C – [03:22 – 03:26]
That’s not good. Yeah, that’s like the whole thing. That’s the whole brand.

Speaker B – [03:26 – 03:38]
Yeah it is actually, speaking of not going outside and being sedentary, that’s me. I had this thing, so I tried to work out this week. Uh, I tried to

Speaker B – [03:38 – 03:58]
I’ve been trying to actually do a little bit more physical activity, uh, recently. Um, and this is, I mean, I used to be a fitness instructor, right. So I used to do that quite a bit. And I realized, oh, I haven’t been doing that quite a bit, and I haven’t really, uh, I guess admitted to myself how little

Speaker B – [03:58 – 04:18]
uh, physical activity I’ve been getting. So I go and I do a video workout and, um, one of the Apple Fitness ones, which I do recommend. Quite nice. And, uh, I do it. And then I get upstairs and I’m like, oh, boy. Oh, I really overdid it. Uh, and I’m like, just panting and I get the little blip blip on my Apple Watch

Speaker B – [04:18 – 04:38]
And I look at it and I’m like, ah. And it gave me a little animation. I was like, feeling really good about myself. I thought, oh, I actually got it. I got a thing I got like Apple Watch is cheering me on. And uh, and then it said, oh, you’ve hit your fitness goal for January. And I’m like, yes, you met

Speaker B – [04:38 – 04:58]
the you you completed the move ring one time. Therefore you’ve finished your January goal. Now Apple Watch it actually adjusts your your your monthly goals based on what you’ve been doing. And it’s put my bar so

Speaker B – [04:58 – 05:05]
low that I have to do. Just finish my very low ranked move one time.

Speaker C – [05:05 – 05:09]
But hey, a win is a win.

Speaker B – [05:09 – 05:18]
So I don’t think it’s a win. I was like, wow, I’ve fallen so far anyways. Anyways

Speaker B – [05:18 – 05:22]
yeah, so it’s kind of sedentary still.

Speaker C – [05:22 – 05:38]
So good, so good. Yeah, yeah. I’ve also been trying to go and do more things. I like walking, um, I just walk, uh, I, I, I like it because you just start and then eventually you stop

Speaker C – [05:38 – 05:50]
you start walking, and then you stop walking. Yeah, yeah. But in between, like, you’ve listened to a podcast, so it’s like you didn’t do anything. You just listened to a podcast while doing the same thing.

Speaker B – [05:50 – 05:54]
Yeah, that’s something though. I mean, there’s really good podcasts out there. Oh, yeah.

Speaker C – [05:54 – 05:54]
There are a lot of good podcasts.

Speaker B – [05:54 – 05:58]
Yeah. And I mean, you’re learning something or you’re actually ingesting

Speaker B – [05:58 – 06:01]
at least some content. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker C – [06:01 – 06:05]
It’s like watching TV for your ears. For your ears.

Speaker B – [06:05 – 06:08]
Do you, do you listen to improv podcasts?

Speaker C – [06:08 – 06:18]
Um, a little bit. I’ve been a little bit, uh, behind recently. Yeah. But I do love a good improv podcast. But what are your what what do you listen to?

Speaker B – [06:18 – 06:18]
Oh

Speaker B – [06:18 – 06:19]
I listen to a lot of comedy. Bang!

Speaker C – [06:19 – 06:21]
Bang, a lot of comedy. Bang!

Speaker B – [06:21 – 06:21]
Bang.

Speaker C – [06:21 – 06:25]
Yeah, yeah, I need, I need to catch up on my comedy bang! Bang. Yeah.

Speaker B – [06:25 – 06:27]
It’s good, I recommend amazing.

Speaker C – [06:27 – 06:38]
Yeah, it’s Comedy Bang. Bang is one of those, um, podcasts where it had so many episodes when I started listening that it’s kind of just overwhelming. So I, uh, I just kind of like

Speaker C – [06:38 – 06:40]
pick and choose episodes to listen to. Yeah.

Speaker B – [06:40 – 06:47]
And, uh, guess what? There’s more episodes now because time has passed and they’ve no more.

Speaker C – [06:47 – 06:58]
See, that’s the problem. Yeah, that’s the problem. Because every time I look back, I’m like, oh no, there’s more. Yeah, yeah. But like a good way. It’s like a good, uh, it’s a good a lot because like a good problem

Speaker C – [06:58 – 07:11]
to have it is a good problem to have. So it’s like, I’ll never be without something to listen to. Right. Because there will always be more. But at the same time, it’s like I want to consume it all. But I’m about one human.

Speaker B – [07:11 – 07:18]
You are one human. I mean, at least the rumors are saying, yeah, yeah. It’s either that a robot

Speaker B – [07:18 – 07:22]
it’s, uh, it’s a toss up.

Speaker C – [07:22 – 07:27]
Yeah. Depending on the day today, human today, human today. Human.

Speaker B – [07:27 – 07:31]
So what’s our, uh, show brought to us today by.

Speaker C – [07:31 – 07:37]
Oh, well. Is it soup?

Speaker B – [07:37 – 07:38]
It is soup

Speaker B – [07:38 – 07:49]
Today is episode. Episode four is brought to you by soup. What type of soup is bringing this us this episode today?

Speaker C – [07:49 – 07:55]
Yes. Uh, specifically, we have a beautiful butternut mint soup, a butternut mint.

Speaker B – [07:55 – 07:57]
I almost said it again

Speaker B – [07:57 – 08:17]
Oh, God, I can’t, I don’t know, it’s over there. There. It’s over here. Uh, there. Yes. Uh, I keep saying buttermint buttermint buttermint. I guess I need betterment. Uh, all right, we do some ads. Uh, these these ads. This episode was not

Speaker B – [08:17 – 08:19]
brought to you by these ads.

Speaker C – [08:19 – 08:22]
Mhm. No, no. All right.

Speaker B – [08:22 – 08:23]
Should I roll them?

Speaker C – [08:23 – 08:26]
Roll, roll the ads.

Speaker E – [08:26 – 08:27]
Roll the ads. Roll.

Speaker C – [08:27 – 08:37]
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Speaker C – [08:37 – 08:56]
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Speaker B – [08:56 – 09:17]
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Speaker B – [09:17 – 09:37]
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Speaker B – [09:37 – 09:56]
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Speaker B – [09:56 – 10:16]
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Speaker B – [10:55 – 11:03]
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Speaker C – [11:03 – 11:11]
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Speaker D – [11:11 – 11:14]
You’ve used the improv lawyers I have.

Speaker C – [11:14 – 11:15]
When someone made a Lord

Speaker C – [11:15 – 11:21]
of the rings reference. Mhm. Um. And I didn’t know. Yeah. What. Rivendell. Is that it?

Speaker B – [11:21 – 11:23]
I really don’t know either.

Speaker C – [11:23 – 11:29]
I don’t know, it was, it was a weird time, but you know, they helped me and and here I am.

Speaker D – [11:29 – 11:29]
Yeah.

Speaker B – [11:29 – 11:35]
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Speaker C – [11:35 – 11:43]
Oh, well, it really depends what you mean by this. Because if you mean telephone, that’s not a telephone.

Speaker B – [11:43 – 11:45]
It’s not a telephone, is it?

Speaker C – [11:45 – 11:55]
But if you mean hang loose, that might be cultural appropriation. But it’s a little bit I. I accept the meaning more

Speaker C – [11:55 – 11:56]
Okay.

Speaker B – [11:56 – 11:57]
Yeah. All right.

Speaker D – [11:57 – 11:57]
Mhm.

Speaker B – [11:57 – 12:04]
Yeah. See this gets some people noted in a scene. Mhm.

Speaker D – [12:04 – 12:04]
Yeah.

Speaker B – [12:04 – 12:09]
I was just wondering uh if you had any strong thoughts upon that.

Speaker C – [12:09 – 12:12]
Oh well it’s just like it’s not a phone.

Speaker B – [12:12 – 12:13]
It’s not a phone.

Speaker C – [12:13 – 12:14]
However if you hold it

Speaker C – [12:14 – 12:20]
to your ear, it’s a phone really. To me.

Speaker B – [12:20 – 12:21]
To you.

Speaker C – [12:21 – 12:25]
Okay. A lot of people now, but to me I will accept it as a phone. Okay. Because I know what you mean.

Speaker B – [12:25 – 12:34]
Yeah, well, I’d like to know from our listeners what they think about this and whether or not it should be noted in a scene or

Speaker B – [12:34 – 12:39]
if you should be doing something like that, or if it’s a phone to you. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker C – [12:39 – 12:40]
Good question. Yeah.

Speaker B – [12:40 – 12:44]
Thank you. Well, let’s move on to as seen on the internet.

Speaker C – [12:44 – 12:48]
As seen on the internet.

Speaker B – [12:48 – 12:54]
So nice. So nice production value. You’re valuing

Speaker B – [12:54 – 12:57]
up my production. Katrina, what have you brought for us this week.

Speaker D – [12:57 – 12:58]
Yeah.

Speaker C – [12:58 – 13:14]
Well, this week on the internet, I found this cool little infographic. Uh, not little. It’s like a good sized infographic. It’s like medium. I would say like a medium sized infographic, but, um, it is actually from we just. Instructor. Teacher. Uh, Kevin

Speaker C – [13:14 – 13:34]
Mulaney. Uh, and it’s just a cool little infographic on discovering the game of the scene. So it kind of walks you through, uh, establishing base reality and then exploring the base reality and then reacting to the first, you know, uh, the, the first weird thing, um, and then framing the

Speaker C – [13:34 – 13:52]
weird thing and then justifying the weird thing. So very, very, like, basic improv stuff. But I still kind of like to check back on it occasionally because you forget. You forget the, the little basics. So, uh, I thought it was a cool, cool, uh, infographic that that was, uh, uh, very helpful.

Speaker D – [13:52 – 13:53]
Yeah.

Speaker B – [13:53 – 13:54]
And it’s nice

Speaker B – [13:54 – 14:11]
to have a visual reference as well, because when we’re in classes, we’re usually learning things verbally. It’s easy to forget. Or you might be helped by something visual. And I found this a nice visual reference. It helps, you know, just get it in the noggin.

Speaker D – [14:11 – 14:12]
Yeah.

Speaker C – [14:12 – 14:14]
Yeah, I think I find that helpful too. Like having

Speaker C – [14:14 – 14:19]
a a visual aid. So yeah, I thought it was neat. Yeah, I found it on the internet.

Speaker B – [14:19 – 14:34]
You did find it on the internet. And we will put the link to this in, uh, the show notes, if you’re listening. There are people listening to this as a podcast. So we will put the link in the show notes and for anyone else, because what they see right here is

Speaker B – [14:34 – 14:37]
cropped off. There’s more below the picture frame.

Speaker C – [14:37 – 14:54]
Oh, and I feel like for the people who are listening to to the podcast form, um, when Jen was asking about what something was, right, she was making kind of a hang loose symbol with her hand

Speaker C – [14:54 – 15:06]
when really, uh, you’re supposed to pretend like you’re actually holding the thing, not make your hand. The thing, I think, was the point we were getting to for our for our auditory. Audible. Auditory?

Speaker B – [15:06 – 15:13]
Yes. For people. Yes, for the audio only people. Yes. I was doing like the banana phone. Hang loose

Speaker B – [15:13 – 15:33]
thing there. Uh, yeah. Thank you. Let’s move on to the next slide. What do we got here? All right. So I’m going to talk about a type of improv show, uh, that I’ve been watching lately on the internet. This is a live stream thing. So no matter where you are, you can go and, uh

Speaker B – [15:33 – 15:53]
you can stream this show. It’s called and seen. It’s a show that’s happening in New York at, uh, caveat, uh, theater. And it’s live streamed, like I was saying, and it’s a really neat show. Uh, the format of it, it’s a unique one. You might have played a short form game called Actor’s Nightmare or

Speaker B – [15:53 – 16:13]
something named, uh, similarly. And it’s where one person in the scene is reading from a script, from one role in the script, they would pick one person’s, uh, lines in that script and they would read them, and the responses are improvised. So you don’t really know where that script is going. The point of the the

Speaker B – [16:13 – 16:33]
script is that you haven’t read it before, so you have no idea where it’s going, but you have to improvise as the other character in that script. And it is my favorite short form game, maybe one of the only ones I liked. I’m joking, but it was my favorite short form game to play. And uh, this is actually the the show. And they have they’re pairing an actor

Speaker B – [16:33 – 16:53]
who has most of them have memorized the script and with an improviser, improvisers that you might know. And it’s just it’s amazing. It’s wonderful. It’s it’s so neat to see this played in such a dramatic way, because the actor knows the script and they’ve memorized it and they’re playing it just

Speaker B – [16:53 – 17:13]
the way it’s supposed to be. And the improviser is doing amazing and it just goes. It’s so many twists and turns and unexpected reactions. And I think the thing that I love the most is just the commitment on the improviser side. Like they just jump right in and and just say what they’re thinking and they’re not sort of trying to, um, I think

Speaker B – [17:13 – 17:24]
there’s one way you can play this game where you sort of leave it a little bit open so you don’t get messed over, but this the improvisers just go right in and go at it and it’s it’s a great show. I do recommend it.

Speaker C – [17:24 – 17:27]
That’s amazing. I’m gonna have to check it out.

Speaker D – [17:27 – 17:28]
Yeah.

Speaker B – [17:28 – 17:33]
It’s good. I’ll put that link as well in the show notes

Speaker B – [17:33 – 17:53]
And I have an I have an extra one here. I had to share this one. This is from the internet. It’s Jack black and it’s TikTok. And I will link it. He’s just steamrolling the interview on the red carpet and it’s just glorious. He goes in and basically interviews himself at such an interview, steamroll

Speaker B – [17:53 – 17:56]
So I had to share that bit from the internet as well.

Speaker C – [17:56 – 17:59]
That’s incredible. I will have to look watch that too.

Speaker B – [17:59 – 18:13]
I don’t know, it cracked me up. It made me laugh. All right. And the last one, oh my gosh, I’m steamrolling this share thing. Uh, this is an improv class for men called Don’t Be an asshole

Speaker B – [18:13 – 18:19]
So I’m sharing that one as well. Improv share from the internet, huh?

Speaker D – [18:19 – 18:22]
Great. Sure. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker B – [18:22 – 18:23]
Yeah.

Speaker C – [18:23 – 18:27]
Well, I’m gonna have you read the word.

Speaker D – [18:27 – 18:28]
Oh.

Speaker B – [18:28 – 18:33]
Oh, no, that’s just staring at this word going. Yeah, I did listen to

Speaker B – [18:33 – 18:46]
the proper pronunciation of it, but I have no idea if I’m going to remember it right now. Katrina, why do we have. Well, I’m stewing in despair of not remembering how to pronounce this word. Why do we have a word of the week on this show?

Speaker C – [18:46 – 18:52]
So we love, uh, you know, things we can add into our improv scenes to just make it a little, uh

Speaker C – [18:52 – 19:04]
shake it up a bit. Um, so our word of the week, uh, allows us to learn a new word, possibly that we’ve never heard before, that we might be able to throw into an improv scene and just shush it up.

Speaker B – [19:04 – 19:12]
Just shush it up. Sprinkle those fancy words in there. This is indefatigable, and I do encourage everyone to

Speaker B – [19:12 – 19:27]
go and, uh, just search this one on the internet for the proper pronunciation. But I believe that is indefatigable, and it’s incapable of being fatigued, untiring, and displaying capacity for persistent effort.

Speaker C – [19:27 – 19:30]
Amazing. Yeah.

Speaker B – [19:30 – 19:32]
Somebody who persisted

Speaker C – [19:32 – 19:35]
Would you say that you’re indefatigable.

Speaker B – [19:35 – 19:41]
Some days if I’m in a good hyperfocus, I am okay.

Speaker D – [19:41 – 19:42]
Yeah. Cool. Yeah.

Speaker B – [19:42 – 19:52]
But I’m probably do feel fatigued on the other side of that. Which, yeah, means I fall out of indefatigable until I’m definitely that

Speaker C – [19:52 – 19:53]
Takeable.

Speaker B – [19:53 – 19:55]
Fatigable. Yeah.

Speaker C – [19:55 – 19:58]
Fatigable fatigable.

Speaker B – [19:58 – 20:02]
Fatigable. Yeah, I’m pretty fatigable at times.

Speaker C – [20:02 – 20:07]
I’m pretty Fatigable. Yes, I’m I’m fatigued right now.

Speaker D – [20:07 – 20:11]
That’s good. Let’s go to our next slide.

Speaker B – [20:11 – 20:12]
And I realized

Speaker B – [20:12 – 20:32]
I forgot a slide in here. We are going to seen sprinkles. Uh and I don’t have the seen sprinkles slide in here. But this is a facts. It’s tidbits. It’s things that you might be inspired to add to a scene for more detail, more specifics, uh, that kind of thing. And

Speaker B – [20:32 – 20:38]
uh, Katrina, what did what did you bring for, uh, so I found this TikTok.

Speaker C – [20:38 – 20:52]
Um, I forgot who to credit. So that’ll be in the scene in the show notes. Sorry. Um, but it’s this really interesting thing that I didn’t know existed until this week, which is a Roman wax tablet. So, back

Speaker C – [20:52 – 21:12]
in, you know, Rome, ancient, ancient Rome, uh, of the ancient variety of Rome’s. Um, they would do these wax tablets where, uh, like, kind of like a wood frame. They’d pour the wax in and then they’d have a stylus, which is where, you know, stylus is that we use on electronics. Got their name, uh, to write in the wax and then the stylus

Speaker C – [21:12 – 21:32]
would have a flat end that you could then erase what you’ve written in the wax, and I, I don’t know, I’ve always been curious how people wrote back, back in the day. Um, and, uh, I just thought that was fascinating. And people still make them today to kind of like, use. Oh, I mean, I mean

Speaker C – [21:32 – 21:35]
it’s an ancient art, but, uh, people are still making them today.

Speaker B – [21:35 – 21:39]
Oh, I would love I, I would like to DIY something like that.

Speaker D – [21:39 – 21:42]
Right. I know, it’s amazing. Yeah.

Speaker B – [21:42 – 21:45]
It reminds me of an etch A sketch kind of.

Speaker D – [21:45 – 21:46]
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker C – [21:46 – 21:49]
Probably a little bit messier. I could find a way to make it messier.

Speaker B – [21:49 – 21:52]
Yeah, it is definitely messier. I guess. Unless you busted

Speaker B – [21:52 – 21:55]
the etch A sketch. I don’t know what’s inside those things.

Speaker C – [21:55 – 22:00]
I think it’s iron. Iron? Well, yeah. Magnets and iron.

Speaker D – [22:00 – 22:01]
Right?

Speaker C – [22:01 – 22:01]
Mm.

Speaker D – [22:01 – 22:02]
Huh.

Speaker C – [22:02 – 22:06]
I don’t know, it would make a good mess.

Speaker D – [22:06 – 22:09]
Yes, I could, we could find a way I like that.

Speaker B – [22:09 – 22:11]
I mean, instead of writing, it could be

Speaker B – [22:11 – 22:22]
like, no, no, no, this is not paper. Not at all. Ah, it’s wax and my stylus. See how annoying I am?

Speaker D – [22:22 – 22:23]
Yep.

Speaker C – [22:23 – 22:27]
See, I knew you’d be able to work it into a scene.

Speaker B – [22:27 – 22:30]
Yeah, yeah, maybe I’m not fatigable.

Speaker D – [22:30 – 22:31]
Maybe not

Speaker D – [22:31 – 22:32]
Next slide.

Speaker B – [22:32 – 22:43]
Alexis, I’ve been sending this person to Catrina on TikTok. Like you have to watch this one.

Speaker D – [22:43 – 22:44]
It’s so good.

Speaker B – [22:44 – 22:51]
Yeah. I’m annoying. So, uh, I’m my share. This week is the ultimate cruise. The ultimate world cruise

Speaker B – [22:51 – 22:54]
that’s going on for, I believe, nine months, isn’t it? Nine months?

Speaker C – [22:54 – 22:57]
I think they’re about one month in, one month into a nine more months.

Speaker B – [22:57 – 23:11]
Oh my goodness. And so this, uh, this individual here, I see no wrong way. This way here, uh, he is being put on the cruise for a couple of weeks, and this is where I sort of picked up. I’d heard about the cruise

Speaker B – [23:11 – 23:31]
but I had not come on to cruise TikTok or Ultimate Cruise TikTok yet until this person showed up on my feed and he was placed on, he put out a TikTok saying, well, if I was on the cruise, he would turn it into like a reality show. Like, I am not here to make friends. I’m here to win that kind

Speaker B – [23:31 – 23:51]
of attitude, which I was like, this is glorious. And so then, of course, somebody sponsored him to go onto the cruise and there he is now on the cruise. And the reason I’m sharing this is because it is just loaded with cruise lore. And I think that I’ve now ended up on Ultimate Cruise TikTok

Speaker B – [23:51 – 24:11]
Of course, as you do, as you start to watch anything on any topic on there and, uh, this these are the most entertaining. They give a lot of cruise lore about how things work in this particular video about how there’s two simultaneous pieces of music playing, like ten feet apart. Which part

Speaker B – [24:11 – 24:31]
Which sounds like complete chaos to me, uh, about how some people are telling him not to curse and he’s just throwing it right back in their faces, and it’s glorious. And I’m just learning so much about cruise lore. And this next slide is like a subgenre of ultimate cruise

Speaker B – [24:31 – 24:51]
TikTok, where there’s all these influencers and there’s a bunch of influencers on the cruise and, uh, all doing reaction videos to the announcements on the loudspeaker. And this to me spoke of improv. I thought, well, isn’t this a good showing of how to react to a voice over somebody yelling

Speaker B – [24:51 – 25:03]
something from the back line? That’s just an audio. Everybody’s reaction, oh, they’re overreacting because they’re all influencers, but it’s glorious. I’m here for it, and we can learn something for our improv.

Speaker D – [25:03 – 25:05]
I love that.

Speaker C – [25:05 – 25:11]
Like, this has been such a great week on TikTok for me. Um, just watching everything unfold. I

Speaker C – [25:11 – 25:31]
believe there in the Drake Passage now. Um, uh, so like for the next day or so, it’s going to be just kind of waves and chaos, I’m sure. Um, so I wish I wish them all the best and highest working Dramamine. Yes. Um, and, uh, I’m just excited to see where this goes. I

Speaker C – [25:31 – 25:51]
also love the, um, social hierarchy that’s emerging, uh, from, like, you know, the whatever. I forget their name, but the, like, you know, the, the VIP cruise members who take way too many cruises, like, like you have, like, so many points. They’re like top tier level cruise goer. Yeah. Um, and just like the

Speaker C – [25:51 – 25:58]
weird status at play there. Um, so yeah, definitely a lot of cool improv themes. Yes.

Speaker B – [25:58 – 26:11]
Oh my goodness. And I think that’s why he ended up on the, uh, on the cruise as well, was talking about that caste system and how he was going to overthrow it or just, you know, wedge himself into the dramas

Speaker B – [26:11 – 26:32]
Beautiful. And, um, yeah, I am here for all of it. I’m also, uh, hoping that some of them don’t get the Dramamine and get very sick and then have, you know, pity parties on there, and we can all kind of laugh because anyone going on this cruise that can afford to go on this cruise, which is ridiculously

Speaker B – [26:32 – 26:41]
expensive. So I believe that the people that we’re seeing are generally quite privileged and could maybe have a few wrenches thrown into their day.

Speaker D – [26:41 – 26:45]
Um, I don’t know and who knows?

Speaker B – [26:45 – 26:50]
Or I’m a very bad person, one or the other. I mean, he’s like, no comment.

Speaker D – [26:50 – 26:51]
No comment

Speaker C – [26:51 – 26:58]
I, I just don’t want to see a lot of people ill. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker D – [26:58 – 26:59]
No, that’s a good point.

Speaker C – [26:59 – 27:03]
That’s a fair point. So it’s like a it’s like a selfish it’s a selfish thing that I don’t want them to get.

Speaker B – [27:03 – 27:10]
It’s selfish on both sides. It’s selfish to want to see them puke and have a wrench thrown in, because you know that they’ve all paid

Speaker B – [27:10 – 27:19]
like, $100,000 to be there. Or it’s selfish that I don’t want to like, like whatever it is, empathy, puke, whatever that’s called.

Speaker C – [27:19 – 27:30]
You know, when you see something like empathy, puke, I don’t know what it’s I do think, though, that like, if I ever got the chance, I would go on this cruise just because I want to see some penguins.

Speaker D – [27:30 – 27:30]
Yeah

Speaker D – [27:30 – 27:33]
I want to see some cool penguins.

Speaker C – [27:33 – 27:34]
I want to see some cool ice.

Speaker D – [27:34 – 27:35]
Yeah.

Speaker C – [27:35 – 27:37]
Penguins jumping around the ice.

Speaker D – [27:37 – 27:37]
Uh huh.

Speaker B – [27:37 – 27:39]
And sliding.

Speaker C – [27:39 – 27:43]
Yeah. Maybe a leopard seal, but, like, separate from the penguins. Because I don’t want to.

Speaker B – [27:43 – 27:50]
Oh, you don’t want to see the the whole sliding down and chomp right, right into the mouth of a leopard seal

Speaker C – [27:50 – 27:51]
No. Yeah. I don’t want to see that.

Speaker B – [27:51 – 27:56]
I don’t want to see that either. No, I guess maybe I’m not that bad of a person.

Speaker D – [27:56 – 27:58]
Hey, hey, there you go. There we go.

Speaker B – [27:58 – 28:05]
So submit to Weena’s Wness world’s funniest improv show.

Speaker C – [28:05 – 28:07]
But not in a weird way.

Speaker B – [28:07 – 28:10]
Not in a weird way. Just a very normal way

Speaker B – [28:10 – 28:30]
Um, you can submit your, uh, wanting to come on here as a guest. You can submit improv tips. You can submit your TikTok that inspired some improv thought an improv article you have written that you would like us to talk about

Speaker B – [28:30 – 28:49]
Yeah, all of them. You can send us a video and we can play it. I can never get my directions right in this thing right here. Wouldn’t you like that appropriate again? Yes, but we have like a very wide range of what we deem appropriate. So

Speaker B – [28:49 – 28:54]
I feel like Katrina is like I’m not opening that email.

Speaker C – [28:54 – 29:10]
I feel like your range might be a bit wider, but, oh, I have that kind of energy. I know, but you also have that kind of power because, uh, you’re you’re. Jen is in control of everything technical here. I am just here to bounce

Speaker C – [29:10 – 29:11]
ideas off of.

Speaker D – [29:11 – 29:16]
Oh, no, oh, no.

Speaker B – [29:16 – 29:20]
What point of the show is it right now, Katrina?

Speaker C – [29:20 – 29:23]
Well, isn’t it our most important point of the show?

Speaker B – [29:23 – 29:28]
It could be the most important point, but I’m wondering if my most important point is the same as your most important point.

Speaker C – [29:28 – 29:29]
Mm mm

Speaker C – [29:29 – 29:33]
Is it the the, um. I’ll let you press the button.

Speaker B – [29:33 – 29:49]
I’m pressing the button. It’s such a nice photo this week. Um, it’s so good. Really weird that, uh, uh

Speaker B – [29:49 – 29:56]
Will’s, uh, publicist sent this to me last week, but the photo is from about ten years ago, plus. Interesting, I believe.

Speaker D – [29:56 – 29:57]
Yeah.

Speaker C – [29:57 – 30:02]
I feel like if you have a photo like that, you’re gonna make it current as long as possible.

Speaker B – [30:02 – 30:05]
Yeah, I think that’s probably what the publicist is going for.

Speaker D – [30:05 – 30:06]
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker B – [30:06 – 30:09]
Definitely. Definitely. Yeah. Well

Speaker B – [30:09 – 30:12]
that’s on our wall for another week.

Speaker D – [30:12 – 30:13]
Love it, love it.

Speaker C – [30:13 – 30:16]
I’m gonna look at that every day. Yeah.

Speaker B – [30:16 – 30:25]
Me too. Do you have any plugs to make? Let’s see if I got a little, uh, plug, uh, plugs video. I’ve got a plug.

Speaker D – [30:25 – 30:28]
Sound plugs

Speaker D – [30:28 – 30:30]
There we go.

Speaker C – [30:30 – 30:48]
Did it, did it go okay? Um, yes. Do I have any plugs? No, but I do have the same plug as last week, which is? We are on TikTok. We are an improv show. And, uh, we actually had a good, good little run this week with

Speaker C – [30:48 – 30:54]
one of our videos. It got like, uh, 80 likes, which is more people than I’ve talked to in the last year, so.

Speaker B – [30:54 – 31:01]
Oh, me too, by far. Probably by far, by far. The more people that I’ve talked to in a several years for me.

Speaker D – [31:01 – 31:03]
Yeah, yeah, a couple of years for a little bit.

Speaker C – [31:03 – 31:08]
Uh, so that was very fun. So if you want to ah, uh, be one of those people, um

Speaker C – [31:08 – 31:12]
feel free to check us out. We are trying to get to 1000 followers so we could live stream on there.

Speaker B – [31:12 – 31:26]
Oh, yeah, that would be great. And we are up to four followers on TikTok and only only half of them are us. Only half of them are us. We have hit 50% of our own follower rate. Whatever.

Speaker C – [31:26 – 31:28]
Which is the best

Speaker C – [31:28 – 31:29]
we’ve we’ve had.

Speaker D – [31:29 – 31:30]
Um, so.

Speaker C – [31:30 – 31:30]
Exactly.

Speaker B – [31:30 – 31:37]
Yeah. So far we were at, uh, 66.6% for a little while there until I think yesterday or this morning.

Speaker D – [31:37 – 31:38]
Incredible.

Speaker B – [31:38 – 31:41]
Yeah. It’s great. Amazing. I’m so happy.

Speaker D – [31:41 – 31:42]
I would say. Yeah.

Speaker B – [31:42 – 31:47]
Um, I guess I’ll plug, uh, world’s greatest improv

Speaker B – [31:47 – 32:07]
school. We just, uh, has online classes. We’ve got, uh, new labs program, which is a bunch of classes and shows that you could stream on the internet like this one. Um, and it will be a lot of fun with improv school. Com and then you can

Speaker B – [32:07 – 32:19]
find classes from the menu at the top of the website. Yeah, we’ve done plugs. Should we roll those credits now?

Speaker C – [32:19 – 32:22]
I guess we should roll those credits unless we have any. Anything else to talk about?

Speaker B – [32:22 – 32:26]
I don’t know, I’m kind of out. I can’t believe I’m saying I’m out of words right now

Speaker B – [32:26 – 32:29]
It happened.

Speaker C – [32:29 – 32:31]
I’m out of words that you’re out of words.

Speaker B – [32:31 – 32:33]
I know it’s shocking, isn’t it?

Speaker C – [32:33 – 32:36]
I guess we should roll those credits. We should roll the credits.

Speaker B – [32:36 – 32:38]
And we could still talk in the credits, too.

Speaker C – [32:38 – 32:40]
Oh, good. Okay. Fantastic.

Speaker B – [32:40 – 32:46]
That’s right. If you’re listening to us on audio only, the credits are rolling. The credits are on Venus.

Speaker C – [32:46 – 32:47]
Should we try to read the credits

Speaker B – [32:47 – 32:48]
Oh my gosh.

Speaker C – [32:48 – 33:03]
Production. Jen. Yeah. Theme song Katrina and credits. Pixabay. Special thanks to Regis info and old X go to wheezes. That’s right.

Speaker B – [33:03 – 33:06]
Okay Katrina, you have a good week.

Speaker D – [33:06 – 33:07]
Oh, you

Speaker D – [33:07 – 33:07]
too. Thank you.

Speaker B – [33:07 – 33:10]
All right, let’s black out.

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