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Show Notes
Jen and Katrina are LIVE again and hoping that Twitch comments connect to their digital studio. Will it? Time will tell.
What’s the word of the day? What’s the new photo on the wall gonna be? WHERE IS IT FROM? SUSPENSE! Watch this show to find out.
NOTE! We had to clip out the interview test from this livestream because my audio didn’t work!! Not sure why but we’ll do some more testing. Ooops. So much for a spontaneous test.
Also congrats to Luke who guessed where the last week’s photo was from! Go Luke!
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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)
Transcript
Note: You can also click the youtube video above to access YouTube’s transcript on their site.
Speaker A – [00:00 – 02:14]
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the world’s nerdiest improv show, Parentheses, w n I s, parentheses, winis. The parentheses are said out loud.
Speaker B – [02:14 – 02:18]
Yes. And, uh, we are your hosts. I’m Katrina Charles.
Speaker A – [02:18 – 02:25]
I’m Jen DeHaan, and we’re gonna talk about some improv stuff. Improv. Improv.
Speaker B – [02:25 – 02:26]
Improv.
Speaker A – [02:26 – 02:27]
Improv.
Speaker B – [02:27 – 02:31]
Improv. Yeah. Making stuff up.
Speaker A – [02:31 – 02:34]
Yeah. Making stuff up just like we’re doing right now.
Speaker B – [02:34 – 02:37]
Right now. Yeah. This is all made up.
Speaker A – [02:37 – 02:45]
It is. This is absolutely not scripted at all. I mean, if it was scripted, probably everyone would want it to be a little bit better.
Speaker B – [02:45 – 02:52]
Yeah. I feel like people would have notes. Yeah. They were like they they spent time on this.
Speaker A – [02:52 – 03:24]
Yes. They would be they would be surprised. Yeah. Alright. Twitch. Hello, Twitch. Hello, Facebook. Hello, other Facebook. Hello, Instagram. Hello, YouTube. I think we’re going to five different places, although I just checked Instagram, which we’ve never streamed to before. And it’s, uh, of course, Instagram format, not like squishing our video into a Okay. The yeah. It’s a tall one. So we have I don’t think anyone can probably see us.
Speaker B – [03:24 – 03:29]
We’ll just oh, this yeah. Hi. Do that. Get get our heads in there in the middle.
Speaker A – [03:29 – 03:33]
I don’t even know. It’s really weird.
Speaker B – [03:33 – 03:34]
Uh It’s very strange.
Speaker A – [03:34 – 03:52]
So sorry, Instagram. We will we will figure that out or just not stream there. And if you are joining us on Twitch, try putting send us a, um, like, a a chat message, And we’ll see if we can bring it in. Say hi.
Speaker B – [03:52 – 03:54]
Let us know we’re you’re there.
Speaker A – [03:54 – 04:14]
Let’s see if we I I don’t even know if this will work. I I don’t I don’t even know. I need to do more testing on what this stuff is gonna do. Um, it’s oh, there we go. Oh my goodness. It’s my own message to us. It worked. It anyways.
Speaker B – [04:14 – 04:15]
That’s very exciting.
Speaker A – [04:15 – 04:20]
Yeah. It is very exciting. I clicked it a lot of times, so it’s probably gonna blink, uh, now.
Speaker B – [04:20 – 04:22]
So Is that the right hand? Yes.
Speaker A – [04:22 – 04:24]
Yeah. There you go.
Speaker B – [04:24 – 04:24]
Right there.
Speaker A – [04:24 – 04:39]
Something worked. Yeah. See, that’s all my clicking. It’s it’s now gonna blink. Um, so But if you are joining us now, you can, um, we can put your, uh, lovely messages there. See, I I clicked it too many times, and now I’ve ruined the show.
Speaker B – [04:39 – 04:43]
I don’t think it’s ruined. Thank you.
Speaker A – [04:43 – 04:49]
Yet. Yet. Oh, Katrina knows how this is gonna go.
Speaker B – [04:49 – 04:53]
This is our, what, our sixth show?
Speaker A – [04:53 – 04:54]
Yeah. I’m so sick.
Speaker B – [04:54 – 04:59]
Yeah. Well, we haven’t we haven’t earned it yet. So Yeah. We’re still trying.
Speaker A – [04:59 – 05:26]
Yeah. We are working working hard. Um, or hardly working. Oh, that is so lame. Okay. Well, anyways, We have, uh, a soup that has brought this episode to us, uh, today. Let’s take a look at that beautiful soup. This week, the episode is brought to us by this lovely soup, which is a chunky tomato Mushroom soup.
Speaker B – [05:26 – 05:33]
Sounds amazing. I would I would eat this soup right up. Yeah. Right up.
Speaker A – [05:33 – 05:37]
Looks Looks pretty good. It’s got some, uh, Swiss Swiss chard in there.
Speaker B – [05:37 – 05:42]
Is that what that is? I was wondering if it was butter or, like, basil maybe.
Speaker A – [05:42 – 05:50]
Yeah. I think well, maybe a little bit of both. There’s some definitely some Swiss chard in there. I I grow Swiss chard. Rainbow chard. Oh. That looks like a rainbow chard.
Speaker B – [05:50 – 05:52]
Yeah. Beautiful.
Speaker A – [05:52 – 06:14]
Yeah. Uh, I bet, uh, I bet, um, anyone watching this is, uh, maybe Very surprised that it is a gardening chat now. Um, Yeah. Alright. Well, How was your week this week? I I think we got distracted by the, um, theatrics of the comment there, Katrina.
Speaker B – [06:14 – 06:25]
Oh, um, I got distracted by the soup. Um, but my week was fine. How was your week?
Speaker A – [06:25 – 07:06]
Oh, my week was a delight as usual. Uh, most of my delight involves food these days. I I’ve been messaging or I’ve been speaking a lot about these maple Oreos all week long. It has been my standard improv share, which which I’ll I’ll get to a little bit in a second about improv sharing. But, um, it’s been my standard improv share of the week. It’s the maple Oreo. It is Gluten free. It’s also vegan. Um, it is something that I found up here, uh, ordering my groceries, um, on the Internet. And I thought, well, I gotta try for that and ate the whole pack in probably two days. I mean, it was Oh my gosh. Sad. It was very, very sad. Whole pack to come on.
Speaker B – [07:06 – 07:16]
I have had those maple cream cookies From Canada, um, I eat them with pretty much the same speed. Uh, that sounds amazing.
Speaker A – [07:16 – 07:30]
Yeah. It is. I I would say that these maple Oreos are even better than the Dare. There’s, like, a bun there’s several different, uh, brands of Canadian maple cookies, and this one is possibly the best that I’ve tried.
Speaker B – [07:30 – 07:33]
Wow. Yeah. I’m gonna have to go to Canada and get some.
Speaker A – [07:33 – 07:51]
The fact that I’m big talking as a maple cookie connoisseur is not my proudest moment right now. Yeah. Alright. Well, on that note, uh, we have we have a guest today.
Speaker B – [07:51 – 07:54]
We do. Our very, very first guest.
Speaker A – [07:54 – 08:09]
Um, I got a big talk right now and say get ready to Disappointed, which is a very, very odd way to introduce a guest. Should we introduce our guest?
Speaker B – [08:09 – 08:16]
We should. Let’s let’s introduce our very esteemed, highly rated on Uber Eats guest.
Speaker A – [08:16 – 08:19]
Really? Okay. Well, welcome our guest.
Speaker B – [08:19 – 12:21]
This is our guest. Um, I would like to to, uh, welcome Jen, uh, Jen DeHaan, uh, calling in all the way from Canada, The land of the maple cookie. Um, Jen, thank you so much for joining us today. Oh, absolutely. Oh, really? Oh, that’s interesting since you did invite yourself. Do you often surprise yourself? Oh, really? What was the most surprising thing to come out of your mouth this week? Was that before or after you ate the whole pack of maple cookies? Okay. So maybe you just had too much dessert, and you’re like, that’s enough. Yeah. I’m very similar in that. Um, but, also, it’s understandable if you’ve had such a great dessert. You don’t wanna, like, wipe that slate clean, you know, with anything. So, um, yeah, that that makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. Oh my gosh. Of course. Yeah. You have to, like, know what your last fight’s gonna be of anything. Yeah. For sure. I’m a last bite person. Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. Great. That’s that’s a a good thing because, otherwise, this would have been a years long feud drawn out. It would have been. Fighting words. Fighting words. If you don’t care what you’re putting in your mouth, That’s yeah. Anyway, enough about me, uh, because you are our esteemed guest. What, uh, what what do you wanna say to our improv audience? Yes. I love that, though, and it’s so true. You really, uh, improv is It’s very much just about enjoyment and having a good time. And yeah. So I, uh, is there anything else you’d like to say before you step off, uh, the the interview quarter? Mhmm. It does. Very exciting. Well, thank you so much for being our guest, Jen, and our first guest. Speaker B – [12:21 – 12:50]
And, uh, we will we will soon have outsiders. Yeah. I’m very excited. Message us. Yes. We we do have a a small list growing, but, um, you can still get on there. Yeah. Email. I’ll just be here.
Speaker A – [12:50 – 13:03]
Hi. Hello. Hello. Welcome back. Alright. Well, we thank you, uh, very much, guest. I shouldn’t be saying that.
Speaker B – [13:03 – 13:18]
We thank we thank you so much to Jen DeHaan, our very first guest. Um, she she had to run. I did. Yeah. I had to run. And then, uh, here we have Jen Yeah. Right back here.
Speaker A – [13:18 – 13:28]
Right back here. And, uh, now we, I believe, have some, uh, Advertisements from, uh, from improv, from the world of improv. Should I roll the ads now?
Speaker B – [13:28 – 13:29]
Let’s roll those ads.
Speaker A – [13:29 – 13:31]
Let’s Roll them, why don’t we?
Speaker B – [13:31 – 13:32]
Alright. Let’s go.
Speaker C – [13:32 – 14:11]
This is Phil. Phil tried to improvise solving quantum mechanics and broke the space time continuum. This is Jim. He improvised his third wish from a genie and accidentally got a Nikon camera instead of a Canon. This is Timothy and Crystal. They improvised with super glue and now their hands are stuck like this for a while. This is Robert. He improvised with his eyewear before meeting Medusa, and it turns out knockoff Ray Bans just don’t make the cut. There’s a time And a place for improv. And there’s a time and a place for maybe not improv. The world’s greatest improv school. Here, it’s always time to improv.
Speaker D – [14:11 – 15:57]
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That’s one eight eight eight five five five w zero r d. Operators are standing by. And Jen’s mom.
Speaker A – [16:02 – 16:13]
And welcome back. Welcome back to the show. Those are some, uh, some interesting ads. I like it.
Speaker B – [16:13 – 16:19]
They were, but I learned a lot. Mhmm. And I learned that I should contact my coach if I’m stuck in a scene for forty eight hours.
Speaker A – [16:19 – 16:20]
Oh, you want to be.
Speaker B – [16:20 – 16:21]
No.
Speaker A – [16:21 – 16:23]
I I was the dry scene.
Speaker B – [16:23 – 16:28]
Right. I was in one for thirty seven hours, so I didn’t have to contact anyone.
Speaker A – [16:28 – 16:37]
Oh, Yeah. That’s good. I mean, it’s good. If you didn’t stretch for the forty eight, then you’re in big trouble. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we’re moving on Moving on. The Internet.
Speaker B – [16:37 – 16:39]
The Internet.
Speaker A – [16:39 – 17:12]
As seen on the Internet. As seen on the Internet, we’re going to bring up our slides for this week. I’ve just turned on the slides. By the way, hello to our podcast listeners. We’ll try to describe what’s going on visually for you. Um, but we have some ads or some sorry. Some articles, uh, about improv to discuss improv things. Katrina, What did you bring for us this week?
Speaker B – [17:12 – 18:20]
So this week, I found an article on Psychology Today as I like to peruse to see what mental affliction I’m Currently suffering at any given time, uh, and I found one on improv. And this one is about seven research backed benefits of improv comedy. So it turns out improv is good for your brain. Uh, some of the the things I read, uh, was Improv activates language and creativity centers in the brain. Um, and there was a part of that that said, uh, while improvising, a brain brain region associated with self judgment quiets down, and a creative and, uh, and a creative and language brain center speaks up, Which I thought was interesting because I definitely am less judgmental of myself when I’m pretending to be a cow on a farm. You know? Or I like that. Yeah. And, um, the the second point was improv helps promote brain connectivity, Which I don’t know what it means, but it sounds good. Uh, it says that, um, in or they found improv helped with brainwave coherence Wow.
Speaker A – [18:20 – 18:22]
Spirits Wow.
Speaker B – [18:22 – 18:36]
Which can be good for, uh, for trauma. So if you have trauma, maybe look into improv. Maybe it might help help help a little bit. Help your brain connect things and, uh, yeah, make your brain work better.
Speaker A – [18:36 – 18:37]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [18:37 – 18:38]
I thought that was great.
Speaker A – [18:38 – 19:02]
It is great. And I I love I see a lot of, uh, a lot of people are involved with applied improv, which is, doing improv for anxiety, doing improv for depression, sobriety, all sorts of different reasons. It just, All over the place. And and a lot of, um, a lot of people are doing that very important work, and I Reckon that it’s related to a lot of the things you just spoke about.
Speaker B – [19:02 – 19:16]
Yeah. I, uh, definitely check out the article again. It’s, uh, seven Research backed benefits of improv comedy, but definitely a good read and, uh, definitely, uh, it it makes me feel better about spending so much on classes.
Speaker A – [19:16 – 19:18]
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker B – [19:18 – 19:20]
It’s for mental health reasons.
Speaker A – [19:20 – 19:34]
For mental health. And one of the things that I love the most It’s just not being myself for a while, not thinking. My brain’s not racing, thinking about all the things it normally Does I don’t have I can be a character.
Speaker B – [19:34 – 19:36]
I don’t have to Cow in a field.
Speaker A – [19:36 – 19:40]
A cow in a field. I mean, there’s really something about that, isn’t there?
Speaker B – [19:40 – 19:45]
There’s something so peaceful about just Sitting there chewing something.
Speaker A – [19:45 – 19:46]
Cud.
Speaker B – [19:46 – 19:48]
Cutting. What? No.
Speaker A – [19:48 – 19:51]
Do Do cows chew cud?
Speaker B – [19:51 – 20:02]
I don’t really know what cud is, um, but I assume if I was a cow, I might enjoy it. If all my other cow friends were doing it and pressured me into it, I might do it.
Speaker A – [20:02 – 20:13]
Might do it. Alright. Yeah. Well, if somebody is watching us right now, Let us know if chat if cows chew cudd, and we’ll somehow try to get it up on the screen.
Speaker B – [20:13 – 20:18]
And maybe tell us what CUD is and if it’s appropriate for a Twitch show.
Speaker A – [20:18 – 20:27]
Yeah. Or if we got it completely wrong, um, I would be fine with that because then we might get a comment. Uh, heckles are always invited. Alright.
Speaker B – [20:27 – 20:30]
Moving Heckles are invited. Corrections are invited.
Speaker A – [20:30 – 20:48]
Corrections and heckles. I’ll I’ll take a heckle, Give a correction to Katrina, but I’ll I’ll I’ll take a heckle. I’ll take anything. I I’m desperate. Right. And now they’re like, wow. There’s a lot of truth in this, and this is not improv anymore. This is real.
Speaker B – [20:48 – 20:50]
It’s not real.
Speaker A – [20:50 – 22:44]
Next. It got very real. Uh, this is the next slide. Um, our podcast listeners We’re looking at a teacher in this one with the words, I am a teacher, and I hate icebreakers. Now this is a a video I saw on TikTok that made me think about icebreakers in improv. And this teacher Doesn’t really hate still does icebreakers, but doesn’t like traditional icebreakers seem to be the issue of just, Hey. How you doing? Tell us something that, you know, the the very the very, like, what did you do this week kind of thing, Which reminded me of improv and how much I agree with this teacher. Uh, I I am one that prefers Less traditional icebreakers, uh, to participate in, uh, and it they’re generally the ones that I tend to choose, which would be like, this I was actually inspired this morning in an improv jam by this very video that had she this teacher does Stack ranking of, like, potato chip flavors, like, something very random. And she says you learn so much about the other students by just what How invested they are in potato chip flavors, what flavors they do, but it’s really how they talk about it and how they engage with others Based on that thing instead of what they’re actually sharing. And that’s, I think, the kind of icebreaker I like. You learn a lot from a person even if it is A more mundane topic. And then if people for the issue for me, if people have a lot going on in their life, like, a whole bunch of bad stuff that say happened that week, They don’t have to think about that in the icebreaker. They can just think about potato chip flavours and you still learn a lot about people that way which is what I believe this teacher was getting at in this video. Speaker A – [22:44 – 22:58]
So I found it interesting because we do icebreakers and improv all the time. So it was I felt it was absolutely on point for improv. Katrina, what’s your thought on the top of the class Icebreakers.
Speaker B – [22:58 – 23:06]
I don’t I don’t mind them. Um, I do think if more of them were about potato chip flavors, I would like them more.
Speaker A – [23:06 – 23:06]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [23:06 – 23:10]
Um, and, also, I wanna know how you feel about potato chip flavors.
Speaker A – [23:10 – 23:14]
You would you like the answer that I gave this morning in the jam?
Speaker B – [23:14 – 23:14]
I what?
Speaker A – [23:14 – 23:47]
Alright. Well, my top ranking potato chip flavor is a salt and vinegar, probably some kind of kettle cooked one. And my bottom least favorite chip flavor, also salt and vinegar, but by Pringles. Pringles salt and vinegar is just a disaster to the salt and vinegar flavor. Uh, it is it reminds me of how I’m not eating a better salt and vinegar Chip. And because they do salt and vinegar so poorly, that is the worst flavor of all time.
Speaker B – [23:47 – 24:12]
Very interesting. That’s super interesting. Um, I think I kind of agree with you on the number one. Uh, I love a good kettle cooked salt and vinegar. I kind of like, there are times where I want a Pringle, but then I have a Pringle. And it’s weird because it just feels like like, You know, those, um, those packaged mashed potatoes, but instead they’re, like, in chip form.
Speaker A – [24:12 – 24:13]
Right.
Speaker B – [24:13 – 24:22]
So it’s just like mashed potato chip. Wow. And there’s something weird about that. Yeah. Um, so I think Pringles in general would probably be by bottom.
Speaker A – [24:22 – 25:04]
You’re bottom. Yeah. Yeah. I hear that. I definitely heard that. Yeah. What I would like to hear also, uh, in our chat, in our comments, or somewhere on our social Media, which is w n improv show, by the way. What are improv icebreakers that you love? What are improv icebreakers that you don’t love? I will also give a shout out to Stan of WG Improv School Community who does some very great icebreakers, I will say. Stan is great at icebreakers in general. So Stan’s not watching, But he should be. Uh, let’s move on.
Speaker B – [25:04 – 25:07]
Just somewhere, wherever Stan is, his ear just started ringing.
Speaker A – [25:07 – 25:07]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [25:07 – 25:13]
He’s like This is about my icebreakers. Me. I know what this is about.
Speaker A – [25:13 – 25:19]
Uh, I know what this is about. Uh, which is actually brings us Perfectly to our word of the week.
Speaker B – [25:19 – 25:30]
Katrina, why do we even have a word of the week? Uh, well, it’s, uh, just a fun thing that we can include in scenes. The more vocabulary we have, the more we can use words.
Speaker A – [25:30 – 26:30]
Yes. That is very true. And these words are sometimes incredibly fun to use in an improv scene. I like being inspired by words I see that I don’t know that I learn about, and then sometimes I try to use them in a scene. And, uh, I I just, uh, I like Doing that. Um, this word of the week is nonplussed, which is a word I use all the time. Um, I absolutely love this word, but what I didn’t realize is it has two incredibly different definitions, meanings, which is something I actually learned this week. It can be unsure or perplexed about how to react due to confusion or surprise, which might be Stan right now. Or unimpressed or unperturbed, which is How I usually use the word. I’m unimpressed. I’m nonplussed. Katrina, Do you use this word?
Speaker B – [26:30 – 26:40]
I don’t use this word, um, but I believe it’s in a song from the Mean Girls musical. And so Now I know what it means, so that’s nice.
Speaker A – [26:40 – 26:43]
I love it in the lyrics.
Speaker B – [26:43 – 26:47]
Yeah. I think so. I I hope I’m not lying. Um, I still need to see the movie.
Speaker A – [26:47 – 26:51]
So Well, you know, if we’re wrong, please heckle us.
Speaker B – [26:51 – 26:52]
Heckle me.
Speaker A – [26:52 – 26:54]
Inform well, inform Katrina.
Speaker B – [26:54 – 26:56]
Inform me.
Speaker A – [26:56 – 26:57]
Heckle me.
Speaker B – [26:57 – 27:00]
Yeah. I can be heckled also.
Speaker A – [27:00 – 27:01]
Oh, okay.
Speaker B – [27:01 – 27:03]
Well I mean, like like a nice heckle.
Speaker A – [27:03 – 27:04]
A nice heckle.
Speaker B – [27:04 – 27:06]
Like a like a jovial heckle.
Speaker A – [27:06 – 27:08]
Like a little boop on your nose style of heckle.
Speaker B – [27:08 – 27:09]
Yeah.
Speaker A – [27:09 – 27:10]
Okay.
Speaker B – [27:10 – 27:13]
I like a boop heckle.
Speaker A – [27:13 – 27:37]
I like it. I like any kind of heckle. I like yeah. I’ll just take whatever it is. Okay. I’m not desperate. We we were going we’re circling back to the desperate Same. Scene sprinkles. These are the specifics, the details that we’re getting into a scene. In any way, details are grand. And how do we learn details, Katrina?
Speaker B – [27:37 – 27:51]
Oh, anywhere from anything. Mostly TikTok, but also other places on the Internet and books, maybe. Yeah. Maybe a newspaper Or a magazine. The world is endless.
Speaker A – [27:51 – 28:19]
Exactly. And that’s what we like to be doing if we’re going out in the world or not going out in the world. Either is completely valid for bringing in that inspiration into your scene. If you see something Something it might remind you of something that you saw this week or something that you experienced this week, and then you can use that to help inspire and drive scenes, which is good. What have we learned this week, Katrina? This is your submission of facts that we learned.
Speaker B – [28:19 – 28:31]
Well well, this is a TikTok video I found. I forgot who it’s by, but, um, we’ll we’ll credit later.
Speaker A – [28:31 – 28:51]
That’s what we do. I have, uh, by the way, with the Previous articles, I should mention, uh, we put all the links in the, uh, the the notes in the episode notes, So you can go get that also on the Wienis website. Every episode has a new page, and all the links are there. So you can grab all these links for any episode. Sorry. Proceed.
Speaker B – [28:51 – 29:33]
No. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Um, yes. So this video basically talks about how prohibition in the nineteen twenties, uh, It’s largely, uh, it’s largely, uh, ignored that part of it was because of, um, alcohol being a free fuel. Uh, so, basically, everything that they had could run off of alcohol, but, you know, they wanted They didn’t want people to have renewable energy for free. Um, so this TikTok kind of dives into, um, that, And I thought that was interesting because I had no idea that’s something that, uh, what prohibition was about. But it makes a lot of sense, don’t it?
Speaker A – [29:33 – 29:39]
It sure does. Especially, I mean, right up to today, that is modern times right there still.
Speaker B – [29:39 – 29:46]
Yeah. And that’s why it’s been sixty degrees in the Pacific Northwest for three days in January.
Speaker A – [29:46 – 29:55]
In January. Yeah. And, uh, all sorts of plants are sprouting and coming up that really shouldn’t be at this time of year.
Speaker B – [29:55 – 30:01]
Yeah. A couple flowers bloomed on a tree outside my window, and I was like, you’re early. Yeah. You’re early.
Speaker A – [30:01 – 30:34]
And then, uh, when that happens, which is actually that I mean, that segues into something that I learned this week. Well, I kinda knew, but it was reminded, uh, of when The flowers do bloom this early, and then we get a subsequent freeze, which we very well might because February is on our doorstep. Then you just never get any fruit from that later. It just that’s it. Done for the year. So it might be a bad fruit year this year. No. Yeah. Well On that sad note.
Speaker B – [30:34 – 30:38]
That was depressing corner. Yes.
Speaker A – [30:38 – 30:41]
This is an improv show, everyone.
Speaker B – [30:41 – 30:44]
Sorry. Sorry.
Speaker A – [30:44 – 31:01]
It was the saddest show I’ve ever Scene. Oh, man. WG in school, Twitch. I went there going for some comedy, and they talked about how there’s not gonna be any fruit This year.
Speaker B – [31:01 – 31:02]
Oh my gosh.
Speaker A – [31:02 – 31:28]
Well, that’s a garden chat. Swiss chard to to fruit trees. Yep. That’s our improv show. Well, on that note, my, uh, my scene Sprinkles is about octopuses, Which is octopuses is the plural of octopus. I learnt that researching facts for the rat scraps improv show. Is Octopi? Is it octopi? Is it octopuses?
Speaker B – [31:28 – 31:34]
Why isn’t it octopi? I’ve been told it’s been remember. I’ve been told for so long that it was octopi.
Speaker A – [31:34 – 31:40]
Yeah. I think it’s somewhat accepted, but octopuses is the more correct one.
Speaker B – [31:40 – 31:42]
Well, it sounds more fun that way.
Speaker A – [31:42 – 33:11]
Yeah. I have to relook up that Fact. I mean, that fact has gone out of my brain, but I did look up octopuses is correct, and that’s what they used in this article. So octopus Interesting. Apparently punch fish. They punch fish. And what was Interesting is there’s they don’t know why. They do know that it happens. There’s a whole bunch of video footage. If you go into the Show notes, you’ll find a link to a video with this video. And, uh, you will see an octopus just taking a tentacle out and Freaking sucker punching fish just left, right, and center all over the place. So all these all these videos of octopuses punching fish, And they only have hypotheses about why this even happens. They don’t even know yet. They just know the punching happens. And one of their hypotheses, but Marie and and this is on the podcast listeners. This is on the screen right now as the text. But marine biologists say it could be out of Spite. Out of spite. I mean, this seems like an improv scene. Something we’d be making up right Like, oh, yeah. This fish. This octopus. I’m punching things. I’m punching you fish out of spite. You think I’m just making that up. I’m, like, Doing all sentience and stuff with the octopus, but it might be real. I mean, and the next slide here is this and the action could be seen as Showing the fish who is in charge.
Speaker B – [33:11 – 33:36]
That’s It’s so interesting. But, also, I have to, you know, think that that octopuses, uh, Uh, don’t have access to, like, kickboxing gyms. Like, where are they gonna take out that aggression? Yeah. Like, on the coral? No. No. The coral’s all dying. They don’t wanna punch the coral.
Speaker A – [33:36 – 33:47]
Yeah. And, also, that’s boring. I mean, it’s like a stationary target. They want Yeah. Target. And if you watch these videos, I mean, the fish are all over. The fish the fish are probably pretty darn annoying to an octopus.
Speaker B – [33:47 – 33:56]
True. Does it, like, injure the fish, or does it just, like, like, kind of, like, oh, I got punched. I’m gonna move a different direction.
Speaker A – [33:56 – 33:59]
Oh, they were moving in the video. Okay.
Speaker B – [33:59 – 34:09]
Well, so, like, it’s not like a lethal punch. So Yeah. You it could just be like a a get off my lawn Get off my home kinda thing. Kinda thing? Yeah.
Speaker A – [34:09 – 34:14]
Yeah. Which is showing the fish who is in charge, which would be this hypothesis from Yeah.
Speaker B – [34:14 – 34:24]
These Very true. Biologists. Very true. Just like Clint Eastwood octopus down there with his little little garden. Octopus’s garden.
Speaker A – [34:24 – 34:26]
An octopus’s garden. That’s a Children’s book, isn’t it?
Speaker B – [34:26 – 34:29]
I thought it was a Beatles song. Right.
Speaker A – [34:29 – 34:39]
Oh my god. I see. Our patron saint executive producer photo is gonna be so pissed.
Speaker B – [34:39 – 34:51]
We don’t Oh my gosh. We’re Scrubbing this from the Internet. We have to scrub this episode. We have to take this episode down. I just said, Oh, is that a children’s book? No. That’s a Beatles song.
Speaker A – [34:51 – 34:52]
Oh, crap.
Speaker B – [34:52 – 34:59]
Well, wouldn’t it be wild if it It was a children’s book and I just for some reason made up that it was a Beatles song.
Speaker A – [34:59 – 35:07]
Well We might actually, you know, yeah, like, Will Heights is not gonna he’s not gonna watch it.
Speaker B – [35:07 – 35:10]
I guess, you know, it’s it’s not Unless he put it on the Internet.
Speaker A – [35:10 – 35:22]
Well, we’re gonna put it on Internet, and then maybe one of our viewers right now is gonna have to put that. Anyways, viewers, please, please, Please just do it a solid and just pretend you didn’t hear that.
Speaker B – [35:22 – 35:25]
Yeah. We need a graphic that says don’t tell Wilhite.
Speaker A – [35:25 – 35:26]
Don’t tell Wilhite.
Speaker B – [35:26 – 35:29]
Don’t tell Wilhite No one snitch.
Speaker A – [35:29 – 36:12]
Well, do not snitch on us. Alright. Maybe we should move along before we get taken down. Wienist, uh, we’re we’re now looking at a slide podcast listeners with submit to Wienis, w e e n, dot I s. That does not mean you need to bow down to us. It’s just we wanna hear from you if you wanna be, You know, if, uh, you wanna come on the show, if you have facts or improv stuff or improv resources To send us something for us to look at and chat about, we would love to hear about it. If you’ve got something going on, we’d love to hear about it. So That’s our, uh, URL, and there’s a form on that page that you can send information to.
Speaker B – [36:12 – 36:16]
Send us your information. We won’t use it to steal your identity.
Speaker A – [36:16 – 36:17]
Mm-mm.
Speaker B – [36:17 – 36:18]
Guaranteed.
Speaker A – [36:18 – 36:33]
Guaranteed. What is also on there is our, uh, handle w n improv show that is on TikTok and Instagram. We are up to eight Eight. Followers on TikTok.
Speaker B – [36:33 – 36:36]
And I think at least four of them are real people.
Speaker A – [36:36 – 36:39]
Yes. At least four are real people that are not us.
Speaker B – [36:39 – 36:43]
And, yeah, two of them are us. Two of them are us.
Speaker A – [36:43 – 36:50]
And we need to get up to one thousand in order to live Stream. Uh, ambitious goals. That’s what we’re all about.
Speaker B – [36:50 – 36:57]
You know what? If you don’t dream big, why even show up To the nap.
Speaker A – [36:57 – 37:01]
To the nap. I love that. I love that.
Speaker B – [37:01 – 37:06]
I’m gonna I’m gonna get a good quote out of one of these days.
Speaker A – [37:06 – 37:10]
One one day, one day we will.
Speaker B – [37:10 – 37:17]
One day, I’ll have one strike of genius, And then I will retire, and someone else can take my place to to then.
Speaker A – [37:17 – 37:27]
Well, if we get that one stroke of genius, maybe it’ll go viral, and we’ll have a thousand followers on TikTok, and then we can put our BS all over TikTok. How about that?
Speaker B – [37:27 – 37:35]
Okay. Wait. Can I try a few more times to have a stroke of genius? Yeah. Okay. Can I have a suggestion?
Speaker A – [37:35 – 37:37]
Um, tofu.
Speaker B – [37:37 – 37:53]
If you don’t eat the tofu raw, Eat it with some chili sauce. Okay. Another suggestion. Toenail. If you don’t cut your toenails, your toenails will cut you.
Speaker A – [37:53 – 38:05]
Wow. I like that was delivered with such conviction, Podcast listeners, I mean, the look in the eye dead at the camera, confidence for I’m days.
Speaker B – [38:05 – 38:08]
Pretty proud of myself. Uh, you should be.
Speaker A – [38:08 – 38:19]
You should be I think that clip right there, I’m gonna clip that clip out. I’m gonna put that clip up on our ins on our Instagrams and our TikToks, and it’s Amazing. See what it does.
Speaker B – [38:19 – 38:21]
If I’m famous this week, you know why.
Speaker A – [38:21 – 38:25]
Yeah. And then you won’t be back here next We can all be alone.
Speaker B – [38:25 – 38:28]
No. I will. I have nothing I have nothing else to do. This is my thing.
Speaker A – [38:28 – 38:35]
Yeah. That’s pretty much true for me as well. We’re actually locked in this room. We are. We are locked In this room, we never get out.
Speaker B – [38:35 – 38:38]
We have a lot of soup, though, so we’re good.
Speaker A – [38:38 – 38:49]
We have a shite ton of soup. Shite. Shit. I curbed it. Alright. We’ve got the next part of our show, Katrina. Do you know what it is?
Speaker B – [38:49 – 38:51]
Isn’t it the most important part of our show?
Speaker A – [38:51 – 39:20]
The Absolutely the most important part of our show. And I’m gonna give a shout out to Luke who knew, I can’t do the hand right. Uh, who knew what this photo on the wall was? I’m so sorry, podcast listeners. You’ll have to go and look at the video if you wanna see what it Like, it’s gorgeous, and Luke knew where it was from. But will Luke or anyone else know where our next Photo is from Wait.
Speaker B – [39:20 – 39:21]
I wanna know where it was from.
Speaker A – [39:21 – 39:34]
Well, it’s from the same place that this next photo is from, so I can’t say it quite yet.
Speaker B – [39:34 – 39:35]
Okay.
Speaker A – [39:35 – 39:45]
Yes. But that’s our next photo. Katrina’s speechless Podcast listeners.
Speaker B – [39:45 – 39:54]
I just don’t know where it’s from. Well, like, I don’t even know in the last photo if it was, like, balloons or those, like, giant bowling pins. I don’t know.
Speaker A – [39:54 – 39:58]
I will give a hint. They were balloons. You can correct on the first guess.
Speaker B – [39:58 – 40:05]
That was probably the more reasonable answer. Like, I don’t know where you get that many bowling pins that Colorful.
Speaker A – [40:05 – 40:39]
Yeah. They were very colorful. But if you are watching on our video and you know where this this photo is from, Please let us know. I mean, if you know it right away, put it in the chat, and we’ll somehow get that chat up on the wall in the next couple seconds. But, otherwise, please just comment on our social media or anywhere, um, and let us No. And you might get a shout out on the show. Uh, dare to dream. I I know that I know that that Means everything to everyone, doesn’t it?
Speaker B – [40:39 – 40:45]
I mean, you get a shout out on the show that streams in, like, five different locations.
Speaker A – [40:45 – 40:51]
Locations. Even on Instagram where no one can see it other than our shoulders.
Speaker B – [40:51 – 41:00]
Right now. Oh my gosh. I I yeah. What what? I need I don’t know. I’m gonna wear something special on my shoulder next week. Yeah. I’m gonna get a parrot.
Speaker A – [41:00 – 41:03]
Just for Instagram. Hi, Instagram. Alright.
Speaker B – [41:03 – 41:06]
Plugs.
Speaker A – [41:06 – 41:11]
Plugs. Do we have any plugs this week, Katrina?
Speaker B – [41:11 – 41:24]
Well, I think we’ve already kind of plugged our, oh, social media and stuff. Personally, I don’t have a lot going on, so no. Alright.
Speaker A – [41:24 – 42:09]
Well, that’s fine. I will I’ll plug Wegis who, uh, very generously lets us do the show, here, uh, or the one place on on Twitch as well, um, and, uh, of course, has, you know, The wall person. And, uh, I will also say that there’s other there’s lots of, uh, great classes that are up on the website in this week. There’s two new ones up there with Shannon O’Neil teaching. Uh, one is can you heighten past Blue. Can you heighten past heaven? Yes. You you think you’ve heightened as far as you can go or you’ve gone to poop. How do you heighten past that? Shannon’s gonna teach us out.
Speaker B – [42:09 – 42:10]
Amazing.
Speaker A – [42:10 – 42:13]
Yeah. Yeah. Check that out.
Speaker B – [42:13 – 42:24]
I do I do just wanna say, um, did you just say the wall person For Will Hines? Yes. We should be calling him Wal Hines. Oh.
Speaker A – [42:24 – 42:28]
You got a rim shot for that.
Speaker B – [42:28 – 42:29]
That was That’s amazing.
Speaker A – [42:29 – 42:37]
That was amazing. That is that is the viral. That is the the genius That is Katrina’s wordplay and puns top notch.
Speaker B – [42:37 – 42:41]
If if TikTok doesn’t like this, I don’t know what they’ll like.
Speaker A – [42:41 – 42:56]
But Yeah. Alright. Well, I think we’re going on to our credits, aren’t we? And just one more note. This is our new If you wanna get a hold of us, that’s how to do it. Alright.
Speaker B – [42:56 – 43:00]
Well, And thank you so much for watching.
Speaker A – [43:00 – 43:12]
Thank you, Twitch. We are going to roll our credits now. Wanna thank you all for coming here and watching us and supporting the show. It’s been a lot of fun.
Speaker B – [43:12 – 43:23]
It has and we learned so much about octopuses and their violent habits. Very violent. So violent. I never I am I am non plussed by that.
Speaker A – [43:23 – 43:26]
Oh, using the word already. I love it.
Speaker B – [43:26 – 43:29]
Oh, wait. Wait. I am non octo plus.
Speaker A – [43:29 – 44:09]
Oh, like the octopus. Oh, like the octopus. Oh, so many things. Alright. And black out. out.
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