Show
Show Notes
We have another great show featuring Katrina and Jen talking improv things, running improv-inspired ads, discussing food and soup, and TJ’s Movie Minute featuring great improvisers acting in scripted movies.
Word of the Week: Pilgarlic
Soup: Hearty potato and vegetable noodle soup
Links to content discussed:
Plugs:
Comedy Ads
Credits
Starring:
Katrina Charles as Katrina Charles
Jen deHaan as Jen deHaan
TJ as TJ’s Movie Minute
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 – 01:19]
Life’s too normal. And you need a change from something totally expected to something strange. Assigned to go to a place where if our dreams come true. And all we need is you. It’s the world’s
Speaker A – [01:19 – 01:34]
nerdiest improv show. That you and I as weenies don’t you know? Get your internet connected on your screen and glow. And we’ll make it up as we go. The world’s nerdiest improv show.
Speaker B – [01:34 – 01:39]
Welcome, everyone
Speaker B – [01:39 – 01:51]
on. This is the world’s nerdiest, nerdiest improv show. Parentheses a wness parentheses. Awareness. The parentheses are set out loud.
Speaker C – [01:51 – 01:53]
They are. And we are your hosts.
Speaker B – [01:53 – 01:59]
I’m Catrina Charles and I’m Jan de Haan. And this is the show where we talk about improv
Speaker B – [01:59 – 02:09]
things we do, and we’re back to, um, pre-recording because last night, my internet or last week, last night to last week, my internet was really bad.
Speaker C – [02:09 – 02:19]
So, um, we’re we’re back to pre-recording. But we are our future selves are probably live in the chat right now. Yeah. Say hello to
Speaker C – [02:19 – 02:21]
your future self, Jen.
Speaker B – [02:21 – 02:25]
Hello future Jen. Be nice in the chat. Future Jen.
Speaker C – [02:25 – 02:28]
Hi future Katrina, you’re doing fine.
Speaker B – [02:28 – 02:35]
Future Jen you’re not okay. Oh, sorry. Future Jen.
Speaker C – [02:35 – 02:37]
Future Jen, I believe in you.
Speaker B – [02:37 – 02:39]
Ah yeah
Speaker B – [02:39 – 02:49]
I’m. I don’t really believe in you. Future. Jen. You’re you’re not. Yeah. Okay I yeah I do. Oh, Katrina, you’re a much nicer person than I am. No I’m not.
Speaker C – [02:49 – 02:59]
Yeah, it just depends. It depends on the moment. But anyway, our future selves are in the chat, so please feel free if you’re watching to chat with
Speaker C – [02:59 – 03:03]
who we are, like, six hours from now. Yeah.
Speaker B – [03:03 – 03:07]
Um, how was your week? Speaking of ours.
Speaker C – [03:07 – 03:19]
Gosh, it was great. Just living. Living the dream. Uh, living the dream of, um. I saw some ducks this week. Nice. I saw some ducks. I saw some
Speaker C – [03:19 – 03:23]
geese. Yeah. To, um. Yeah, I think those were the kind of.
Speaker B – [03:23 – 03:34]
The highlights are very nice. Yeah. Birds are good. Mhm. Yeah. Um, I, I haven’t seen any birds this week. I’m, I’m afraid.
Speaker C – [03:34 – 03:35]
I’m so sorry.
Speaker B – [03:35 – 03:39]
Yeah. Uh, but it’s been a relatively good week. It’s had, uh
Speaker B – [03:39 – 03:43]
improv in it. Um, I’ve watched shows. Shows are fun.
Speaker C – [03:43 – 03:47]
Shows are good. Yeah. Those are fun. Yeah. What shows? Oh, God.
Speaker B – [03:47 – 03:59]
That’s what I’m sitting here trying to remember. Which shows did I actually even watch? Uh, but I did want to say that I know tonight I’ll be watching the movie. We have, uh, TJ’s movie minute coming
Speaker B – [03:59 – 04:06]
again this week. Um, and I will be watching the movie that TJ talks about, which I’m not going to spoil tonight.
Speaker C – [04:06 – 04:18]
Very exciting. Yeah, I’m very excited to see what show TJ has reviewed this week, and also to watch it and also to watch the one from last week because I forgot to oh yeah, that’s a good movie as well.
Speaker B – [04:18 – 04:19]
Yeah, yeah
Speaker B – [04:19 – 04:26]
yeah. All right. Well, um, I think, uh, we have a soup sponsor this week.
Speaker D – [04:26 – 04:28]
We do? Yeah.
Speaker C – [04:28 – 04:32]
And this one comes from a very special source on the internet, doesn’t it, Jen?
Speaker B – [04:32 – 04:37]
It does? Yes. This is our soup of the week from, uh, plant based recipe.com.
Speaker C – [04:37 – 04:39]
And the exciting thing
Speaker C – [04:39 – 04:48]
about this is there’s actually a recipe to it, uh, which Jen will link to in the show notes. So I’m very excited to try this and make it. Probably while watching TJ’s movie.
Speaker B – [04:48 – 04:52]
Yeah. Oh, that that I think they’ll pair very well for you.
Speaker C – [04:52 – 04:56]
Oh, maybe this is our new thing. Uh, soup and movie pairings for the week.
Speaker B – [04:56 – 04:59]
Yeah. Um, yeah, just see how. Well. Well, actually
Speaker B – [04:59 – 05:19]
See, uh, because I don’t know what movie like, TJ picks the movie and, um, talks about it, and I pick the soup. And those choices are generally independent from each other just due to timing. And, uh, I think that there is a possibility that it will be an like an incredibly
Speaker B – [05:19 – 05:26]
negative poor pairing, potentially because of the nature in which they are being paired, which is random.
Speaker C – [05:26 – 05:38]
Oh, well. Just to round out the trifecta, I will, uh, suggest, um, a beverage maybe to go with it. And so then there’s more chance of one of the 2 or 2,
Speaker C – [05:38 – 05:48]
one of the pairs of things. One more variable. So. So this week’s beverage, not sponsored is cranberry juice. Enjoy.
Speaker B – [05:48 – 05:54]
Nice I love it. We’ll have to add that to the show notes as well. Yes we will. Yeah.
Speaker C – [05:54 – 05:58]
Enjoy a nice cranberry juice with a vegetable
Speaker C – [05:58 – 06:02]
noodle soup and whatever movie TJ suggested today.
Speaker B – [06:02 – 06:13]
Yes. This is, uh, potato and vegetable noodle soup. Sorry. Yeah. Um, no, that’s totally fine. Uh, the noodles, I think, are fairly important. I like a good noodle. So.
Speaker C – [06:13 – 06:16]
Yes. What kind of noodles are in the soup?
Speaker B – [06:16 – 06:18]
The noodle
Speaker B – [06:18 – 06:37]
It’s a wheat noodle. Um, the one pictured is definitely a wheat based noodle. Um, I generally like a wheat based noodle. Uh, I like a rice noodle. Who am I kidding? I like all noodles. I like all noodles other than a bean. I don’t like a bean noodle. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Didn’t last week. I got
Speaker B – [06:37 – 06:46]
on to gardening. And this week, now we’re into food recipes. Well, on an improv show.
Speaker C – [06:46 – 06:57]
I mean, improv is really about everything. And we you, we bring ourselves to improv, you know? So this is us. This is us bringing ourselves
Speaker C – [06:57 – 06:59]
to improv. Is it good? You decide.
Speaker B – [06:59 – 07:17]
You decide and let us know. In addition to the pairings as well. That’s where I was going with that. These are random pairings. We want to know if they’re bad or good. So please comment, email, uh, go into a chat somewhere where we mate, we
Speaker B – [07:17 – 07:30]
might be and let us know. And also I kind of I will say that I’m heavily inspired by Billy Merritt, who I get coached by, who does oftentimes bring food into all the improv things.
Speaker D – [07:30 – 07:31]
So interesting.
Speaker B – [07:31 – 07:32]
That might be where this is from.
Speaker D – [07:32 – 07:36]
Yeah, well, I love bringing food into improv, so.
Speaker C – [07:36 – 07:37]
All right
Speaker C – [07:37 – 07:38]
hats off to to Billy.
Speaker B – [07:38 – 07:40]
All right. We’re gonna blame Billy.
Speaker C – [07:40 – 07:44]
Hashtag blame Billy, blame Billy.
Speaker B – [07:44 – 07:57]
So we, um, will have guests. Uh, so. And that could be you. So do contact us if you do want to be a guest on the show and just talk about improv
Speaker B – [07:57 – 08:16]
things. Um, this is where the guest would be if we had a guest on This week, which we don’t. Right here, right here, right, right here, here. But until that point, uh, we will go straight into our advertisements
Speaker B – [08:16 – 08:25]
our ads, our special improv ads from the special special Profits roll.
Speaker E – [08:25 – 08:28]
Let’s roll those ads.
Speaker C – [08:28 – 08:36]
Hello. Do you procrastinate? Do you have
Speaker C – [08:36 – 08:56]
trouble getting things done on time? Do you often wait till the last minute to do things that you have to do? If you answered yes to this one question that I asked in three different ways, then improv may be for you. Improv. There’s usually
Speaker C – [08:56 – 08:57]
not homework.
Speaker B – [08:57 – 09:16]
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? Well, symptoms might include your first beat. Was frat bros heading to Burning Man, and your second beat was something like completely unrelated about
Speaker B – [09:16 – 09:36]
two sisters gossiping, like about 90 after school specials or something. Or you thought of a perfect rooster callback and you kept your mouth shut because you thought no one needed to revisit that great farm scene again. Or you could have made a real solid pigeon pecking connection during the third beat, but you didn’t because it would have been too much. You thought to
Speaker B – [09:36 – 09:56]
go back 30 minutes in the set. You know you’re living an anti-second beat lifestyle that rejects historical repetition. If this very advertisement gives you chills, nausea, acid reflux, a bad case of heartburn, vertigo, unrelenting jazz hands, and chills. If any of these symptoms resemble your
Speaker B – [09:56 – 10:15]
history hating reality, you’re living in a world of first beats only, and you need help from us here at Do It Again, Please Colon and Improv Sabbatical and do it again, please. Colon and Improv sabbatical. You’ll redo history. You’ll get reps of beats. History starts repeating itself by noon. Here you’ll receive the same dry toast you got at breakfast, but also
Speaker B – [10:15 – 10:18]
for lunch and also for dinner.
Speaker E – [10:18 – 10:22]
Oh, that asshole who stole your parking spot right when you arrived.
Speaker B – [10:22 – 10:35]
Don’t worry, you’ll see them again because we’ve assigned you parking spot 17 F, and we also hired Tad to pull in to 17 F seconds before you arrive. In fact, we’ll assign you the task to go off site and pick
Speaker B – [10:35 – 10:55]
up your post-it note pads for do it Again. Please call in an Improv Sabbaticals Central office five times per day for the length of your stay, and every time you repeat this task, Tad will be waiting in his Rav4 and he’ll pull in to 17 F right as you pull up. Good work, Tad, and good work. You reliving this annoying experience five times every single day you’re here
Speaker B – [10:55 – 11:15]
Doesn’t seem funny yet. Don’t worry. The 11th time tadpoles into your spot, you’ll get it because that’s why you’re here. You need to learn to, you know, get it. You’ll 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 Tad perfectly. Every
Speaker B – [11:15 – 11:34]
single time. So many beats, so much opportunity, so much tad. Here at Do It Again, please call in an improv sabbatical. We believe a joke gets funnier the more times you say it, and that dry toast gets moderately tolerable by day eight. But best of all, we’ll let you mangle
Speaker B – [11:34 – 11:54]
your second beat with a premise that barely rivals the first beat, but at least demonstrates your moderately aware of the relevant concepts and technique by the time you drive home from the sabbatical. Don’t live in a world of first beats, only there’s always more roosters to call back and there’s always more tad. So call us at one 800 555 beat.
Speaker B – [11:54 – 12:02]
That’s one 805 55BEAT for do it again, please. Colon and improv sabbatical. Call us please.
Speaker F – [12:02 – 12:12]
Welcome back. Welcome back to the show. Hi, Katrina.
Speaker D – [12:12 – 12:12]
Hello.
Speaker C – [12:12 – 12:14]
Can you tell? My eyes twitching
Speaker C – [12:14 – 12:15]
no, I can’t okay.
Speaker B – [12:15 – 12:16]
Is it. Are you okay?
Speaker C – [12:16 – 12:18]
It’s like twitching a little bit I don’t know.
Speaker B – [12:18 – 12:24]
Oh my goodness. It was maybe the length of that previous had.
Speaker C – [12:24 – 12:28]
It was, it was probably just the stress of not being on my improv sabbatical right now.
Speaker B – [12:28 – 12:34]
Oh that’s right. Well, you have to call the do it again, please, I will, I
Speaker B – [12:34 – 12:35]
will improv sabbatical.
Speaker C – [12:35 – 12:37]
Well, I keep leaving a voicemail over and over again.
Speaker B – [12:37 – 12:39]
Oh, they’re not answering you.
Speaker C – [12:39 – 12:41]
Oh. They’re answering. I just keep leaving a voicemail.
Speaker B – [12:41 – 12:46]
Oh, nice. Well, I like that. I mean, that’s kind of in line with what the sabbatical is all about.
Speaker C – [12:46 – 12:49]
Yeah, no, I figured that’s that’s what I was hoping.
Speaker B – [12:49 – 12:53]
Yeah, well, it gets funnier the more that you do it and beat them.
Speaker C – [12:53 – 12:54]
Yeah
Speaker C – [12:54 – 12:57]
I’ve left about 45 voicemails, but I think the 46 is going to be hilarious.
Speaker B – [12:57 – 13:09]
Oh, my God, that’s exactly when it becomes funny. Good. Yeah. Nice. All right. Should we go on to our slides? Yeah. All right. Well this segment is called.
Speaker C – [13:09 – 13:14]
As seen on the internet
Speaker B – [13:14 – 13:33]
It as seen on the internet. All right, well, uh, our listeners on the podcast, we’ve brought up some slides. Uh, just a quick preamble that all of these articles will be linked in the show notes. So you can go watch, read, listen whatever you want to
Speaker B – [13:33 – 13:44]
do to for all of these articles that we’re just showing a screenshot of here on the visual representation of the show. Our first slide is from Katrina. Katrina. Yeah.
Speaker C – [13:44 – 13:53]
So this is, uh, a Reddit post I found this week. Uh, someone posted it five days ago. Um, but, uh, basically asking the question if there are any films
Speaker C – [13:53 – 14:13]
uh, films that follow the structure of an improv long form. And a lot of people, um, commented, I was expecting, which is, um, a TV show called Seinfeld might have heard of it. I’ve personally never watched, like at length Seinfeld. I’ve definitely seen episodes, but I never really got into it. But I really now I want to try because I’m like, oh, cool. Um
Speaker C – [14:13 – 14:33]
someone else said Burn After Reading is actually a herald. Oh, so I don’t know. I haven’t seen that either, so I need to watch it and see if that that holds true. It does have 18 or 16 upvotes, so. Huh. Wow. Nice, right? Uh, um, someone else suggested, uh, the UCB TV show
Speaker C – [14:33 – 14:53]
um, follows a Herald pattern in most episodes. Have to look that up, too. Um, there was, uh, just like a few other suggestions that sounded cool, apparently. Um, 30 Rock might follow a Herald, which I bought, like the last time I watched through 30 Rock. It was far before I started improv
Speaker C – [14:53 – 15:13]
so I’m a far before I knew what a Herald was. Yeah. Um, so confirm or deny, but, uh, excited to watch that again and see. And same with, um, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, I believe was also possibly so. I don’t know, I just, um, I don’t know if these are all correct or not. I’ll have to, like, go back and check
Speaker C – [15:13 – 15:33]
But I also thought it was cool to just, um, I never considered that TV and film would use, like, improv structures to tell a story. Um, so I don’t know. I thought that was cool. And I have to, like, go look for it in film and TV. And if you see something cool in film or TV that might follow an improv structure, please let us
Speaker C – [15:33 – 15:37]
know. So yeah, I can add it to my Letterboxd watch list.
Speaker B – [15:37 – 15:52]
I love that letterbox watch list. Yeah, it’s interesting, and there’s so many improvisers in the shows that are listed that were, you know, involved in writing, and it makes sense to use that structure, which has been around for a very long time now. So it makes
Speaker B – [15:52 – 16:12]
uh, and it makes a lot of sense because it kind of just pulls a, uh, a show together naturally through the specifications. Um, and one thing that I’ve noticed is fun is I’ll watch improv shows where I’m not sure about the structure, uh, and take notes. I did that for the rat scraps show because I
Speaker B – [16:12 – 16:32]
was doing a, um, like an after spiel on rat Scraps show for a little while, and so and I wanted to understand the structure that they were using in order to do what I was doing. And, um, it’s fascinating to like, just when you do watch just for form, how much it changes your understanding of the show
Speaker B – [16:32 – 16:43]
itself. Um, so it is a I can imagine watching a movie would be an interesting experience, noting it along, taking down notes and watching for that structure.
Speaker C – [16:43 – 16:48]
Definitely. Can you give any insight onto the restaurant scraps for oh, Katrina.
Speaker B – [16:48 – 16:52]
Katrina has just been les left
Speaker B – [16:52 – 17:04]
the studio, so we will get Katrina back in one second and showing on stream. Katrina, welcome back to the studio.
Speaker C – [17:04 – 17:12]
Speaking of improv shows, ghost is back on CBS tonight, which I’m very excited to watch
Speaker C – [17:12 – 17:14]
And that was me being a ghost.
Speaker B – [17:14 – 17:31]
Disappearing, ghosting, ghosting. The show was only for a second, only for a slight second, not sponsored. And our podcast listeners would be like, I noticed nothing other than Jen started randomly talking extra, um, to our to our podcast listeners.
Speaker C – [17:31 – 17:32]
I just, uh peaced
Speaker C – [17:32 – 17:36]
out. I just didn’t didn’t want to want to be here for a second.
Speaker B – [17:36 – 17:41]
And I just flipped it looked it looked so cool the way that you did it, too. Thank you.
Speaker C – [17:41 – 17:49]
Thank you so much. I have been practicing. That’s it, that’s it. Yeah.
Speaker B – [17:49 – 17:51]
That’s it. Dramatic pause
Speaker C – [17:51 – 17:56]
Um, so yeah, I forgot what I was saying, but rat scraps.
Speaker B – [17:56 – 18:11]
We were talking about rat scraps form. Um, but mostly I was noticing, uh, where the connections and callbacks came in. Was a big one for me. And sort of watching where in the show, uh, the two halves of the show that started to happen. Um, and
Speaker B – [18:11 – 18:31]
just sort of the comparing the structure of the first half to the second half. Mhm. Um, and the speed of the tags, I would watch for that sort of stuff as well for where, sort of where the scenes went and then where the, the edits happened, where the sweeps happened. Um, yeah. And you just kind of kind of have
Speaker B – [18:31 – 18:40]
to do that. So it’s like you’re initiating scenes and then how things speed up in the half of the set, I think is what you might notice if you were to do that, too.
Speaker C – [18:40 – 18:51]
Interesting. All right. I will have to pay more attention. Yeah. That’s fine, I find I find I when I’m watching improv or television, I, I don’t pay attention enough to like, follow
Speaker C – [18:51 – 18:59]
the structure. Yeah, I pay attention barely enough to follow the story. But yeah it’s and that’s on ADHD.
Speaker B – [18:59 – 19:01]
Something to do separately.
Speaker C – [19:01 – 19:02]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [19:02 – 19:10]
Yeah. And I agree about the ADHD thing. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. We should move on to the next slide.
Speaker C – [19:10 – 19:11]
Moving on
Speaker C – [19:11 – 19:13]
moving on to the next slide.
Speaker B – [19:13 – 19:30]
Well it’s related. It’s related on purpose. Uh, so this is another one from Reddit that I was uh, reading. And it was how would you define a format in the context of improv. So this is talking again about those structures, the named structures
Speaker B – [19:30 – 19:50]
Uh, can you, um, what what how does it pertain? Uh, the overarching definition for all the forms as it applies to improv and a lot of people are talking about, um, it’s, uh, like the first one, a replica you can replicate the starting, um
Speaker B – [19:50 – 20:10]
and how the show is run, uh, the starting middle and end of a show. It’s the overall structure and agreement on how it’s going to happen or a template. Um, those are definitely true. But one of the things that I noticed is, is it might not, uh, those definitions might
Speaker B – [20:10 – 20:30]
not encompass one other way that I think form is used. Uh, and so I will do a Billy we’re talking about Billy Merritt earlier. So let’s talk about Billy again. This is a direct quote from Billy. Suggestion is opening. Opening is theme and theme can be form. So there
Speaker B – [20:30 – 20:50]
is a way of doing forms that are both either inspired by other structures. So like you could be inspired by Pretty Flower. The opening might inspire. This is going to be a pretty flower, or this is going to be a mono scene just based on the way that we started the show. Or we’re going to use Harold for this because that’s how it kind of started
Speaker B – [20:50 – 21:09]
And we know those structures, so we know what’s happening. Oh, this is suddenly a slacker because that’s what the opening or the first scene inspired us to make. And we know that structure. So that’s just following a known structure, which the definition would count for that. But there’s another way of doing a show
Speaker B – [21:09 – 21:29]
And that’s your inspired by the opening or the first scene to do a theme. And then you basically make a new form based on how the show starts. So this might just be taking in your knowledge of all the forms and making a new form on the spot
Speaker B – [21:29 – 21:49]
a structure that makes sense based on what how the show started. Uh, and that might be your themed show. Um, and that’s of course, not following any sort of agreement, but it’s agreement in the moment so that I maybe that is some other definition or name
Speaker B – [21:49 – 22:09]
or something like that, but that is something that happens that I think would probably fall into the definition of a form, but it’s like a form in the moment. Anyways, that’s my thoughts on that. Good thoughts. All right. Next slide. Where are we going from here
Speaker B – [22:09 – 22:14]
Oh we’re going to the word of the week Katrina. Why do we have a word of the week.
Speaker C – [22:14 – 22:29]
Uh well so we can expand our vocabulary and use it in uh, a scene or. But vocabulary. Yeah. That was a Moira Rose inspired. Um, but, uh, yeah. Just so we can, uh
Speaker C – [22:29 – 22:41]
have a fun little, little thing to use in the scene, and maybe it’ll inform a character or, uh, a something your character knows about, you know, who knows? The possibilities are literally endless.
Speaker B – [22:41 – 22:49]
It is. And I, I think that especially those of us who are like the writerly types of improvisers or into sketch
Speaker B – [22:49 – 23:09]
or stuff, just love words as well. I love a good word. Throwing a good word in there. Throw it. Yeah, I’m gonna throw the word. Then it’s pill. Garlic this week. Pill, garlic. Uh, that’s apparently how it’s said. I did go listen to about four different 4 or 5 different sites and they all said pill garlic. So hopefully that’s correct
Speaker B – [23:09 – 23:29]
Um, and pill garlic is a pitiable or foolish person. The fool, uh, and regarded with mock pity or mock contempt and the basis of the word. Both of these are old school obsolete words, but this might be the
Speaker B – [23:29 – 23:49]
more obsolete usage of the word is a bald head or a bald headed man was given as one of the definitions of pill garlic. Uh, and that’s where the word originated from, which is peeled garlic, which is assumed to be the, uh, the it kind of looks like a bald head, a
Speaker B – [23:49 – 23:51]
peeled garlic, peeled head of garlic.
Speaker C – [23:51 – 23:59]
So honestly, I have to say I love garlic so much that I would love to be called a pill. Garlic. Yeah, I would be like, that is a compliment. Thank you so much.
Speaker B – [23:59 – 24:07]
I like being the fool enough. Yeah, so I would be totally fine being a pill, garlic or being called a pill. Garlic.
Speaker B – [24:07 – 24:09]
Either one of those things.
Speaker C – [24:09 – 24:24]
And in tarot, the fool is actually a hopeful card because it means new beginnings and, uh, stuff like that. Because a fool will just go blindly into the new beginning without knowing what’s going to go wrong. So it’s like actually a positive thing.
Speaker B – [24:24 – 24:26]
That’s good. Yeah. And we can
Speaker B – [24:26 – 24:29]
circle that one right back to ADHD as well.
Speaker C – [24:29 – 24:41]
Yeah. And um what’s multi what’s it called. Multi interested person I don’t know multifaceted. Sure.
Speaker B – [24:41 – 24:46]
That’s not multi interest. Yeah. We just we like a lot we like to learn.
Speaker C – [24:46 – 24:46]
We
Speaker C – [24:46 – 24:47]
do.
Speaker B – [24:47 – 24:47]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [24:47 – 24:53]
Don’t ask me anything else about tarot though I know like three cards I know zero cards are there.
Speaker B – [24:53 – 24:55]
I think there’s a death card. I’ve heard there is a death card.
Speaker C – [24:55 – 24:58]
But that’s actually also a positive card. Is it really.
Speaker B – [24:58 – 25:00]
How is the death card positive?
Speaker C – [25:00 – 25:06]
Because it means like the end of a cycle. So like and then like a new beginning. So like oh
Speaker C – [25:06 – 25:12]
the fool might have like a relation to it in a way of like, yeah, okay. Yeah.
Speaker B – [25:12 – 25:15]
I’d like the death of some stuff that’s bad.
Speaker C – [25:15 – 25:26]
Right. Exactly. Okay. So like, things have to end for new things to begin. So it’s actually kind of positive. Yeah. I’ve learned unless unless you’re reading it as like death. And then it’s
Speaker C – [25:26 – 25:27]
not that positive.
Speaker B – [25:27 – 25:30]
Yeah. That would be possibly negative. Yeah.
Speaker G – [25:30 – 25:31]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [25:31 – 25:46]
All right. Our next section, our next segment that we have is seen sprinkles. We’re seasoning scenes with all those specifics and details. It’s good to learn things. So this is kind of our
Speaker B – [25:46 – 26:04]
this week I learned this week I’ve noticed. And you can do this from anywhere. You can go out and do stuff. You can watch media. You can learn things. You can learn facts. Uh, this week we found some things I believe this is from TikTok and the link will be in the scene. Notes Katrina I love this one.
Speaker C – [26:04 – 26:05]
Yes
Speaker C – [26:05 – 26:25]
Uh, so this is my scene sprinkle for the week. Uh, it’s a TikTok I found that we will link, I think, um, but, uh, basically when you cross a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale, you get a wholphin. And they’re, they’re two different animals that shouldn’t technically be able to breed because they’re in different
Speaker C – [26:25 – 26:45]
sections of the chart. There was a word for it. I forgot. Genera maybe, I don’t know. Okay. Um, they’re just they’re. Yeah, they’re just like they’re supposed they’re farther enough away that they shouldn’t technically be able to breed, but they do. Um, and then you get a wholphin. And, um, unfortunately, they are
Speaker C – [26:45 – 27:02]
more common in captivity. Bu um, but they can happen in the wild during our in places where both species live. So fun fact and there’s also something called a kaluga. Kaluga which is a narwhal and a beluga.
Speaker B – [27:02 – 27:04]
Oh my goodness.
Speaker G – [27:04 – 27:04]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [27:04 – 27:05]
See
Speaker B – [27:05 – 27:16]
I didn’t know any of that. And it sounds like if I encountered that in a scene, I would also think it was being made up exactly as part of improv. But it’s real.
Speaker C – [27:16 – 27:17]
It is real.
Speaker B – [27:17 – 27:18]
I love it.
Speaker C – [27:18 – 27:24]
It’s kind of like, um, how narwhals are real. Even though they look like unicorns.
Speaker B – [27:24 – 27:25]
They do
Speaker B – [27:25 – 27:33]
not look real at all. I’m sorry, narwhals, I’m really sorry about that. But you don’t look like a real species.
Speaker C – [27:33 – 27:43]
Doesn’t look real. No, it’s actually, um. Fun fact a narwhals tusk is actually a tooth. Really? They have one very, very long tooth.
Speaker G – [27:43 – 27:45]
My goodness. Yeah. Wow
Speaker C – [27:45 – 27:47]
Fun fact.
Speaker B – [27:47 – 28:05]
Fun fact. Well, we’re going to be disappointed by the next slides because they are not as interesting and they are not nearly as fact based. But they did make me laugh. It did make me think of an improv scene. Um, so mine again, I will link this on TikTok because I do encourage
Speaker B – [28:05 – 28:25]
everyone to go see the video because it’ll just maybe brighten. Well, I hope it will brighten your day. It’s chickens jumping, hens jumping for noodles and they lift themselves off the ground in a way that is comical. That is delightful. And I did
Speaker B – [28:25 – 28:45]
not. I did not know that chickens would jump. It makes sense, but I, I just didn’t know that they did it. Uh, for our viewers that are watching the visual representation of this show, we are looking at some images of chickens jumping up for noodles hanging from the ceiling
Speaker B – [28:45 – 28:55]
And it’s I don’t know, I’m hoping it’s delightful. Here, we got a close up expression. Oh my gosh, of a chicken. Are we sure that’s a spaghetti?
Speaker C – [28:55 – 29:01]
Not a picture of me eating ramen because you look like that. I do kind of look like that.
Speaker B – [29:01 – 29:02]
It’s delightful, though it is.
Speaker C – [29:02 – 29:05]
I tend to hang. I tend to hang
Speaker C – [29:05 – 29:09]
my noodles and eat them that way.
Speaker B – [29:09 – 29:20]
We are absolutely going to need some video of Katrina eating ramen now, because I. I have to see that now that you’ve brought it up, I’ll get that for next week, okay?
Speaker C – [29:20 – 29:23]
Next week. I don’t think I have ramen, but I do have spaghetti.
Speaker B – [29:23 – 29:25]
All right. Listeners
Speaker B – [29:25 – 29:34]
next week we’re going to see a video of Katrina eating ramen. And our podcast listeners might have to just well, we’ll find a way to put that in the show notes as well.
Speaker C – [29:34 – 29:45]
There will be links somewhere. Um, links, I do have to say, looking at these, um, these photos of these chickens going for noodles, I just I always think about how
Speaker C – [29:45 – 29:52]
chickens are descended from dinosaurs. Yeah. And then I just imagine a dinosaur doing that, and it makes dinosaurs that much more lovable.
Speaker B – [29:52 – 30:02]
Yeah, but now I’m just thinking about humans hanging from the sky. And, you know, it’s just took on a different characterization in my head.
Speaker C – [30:02 – 30:04]
Okay, I do want to be clear. You took it there.
Speaker B – [30:04 – 30:05]
I did take it there
Speaker B – [30:05 – 30:06]
That’s my fault, everyone.
Speaker C – [30:06 – 30:15]
I was just thinking, wow, a T-Rex would really love some linguine. Yeah, like they never got to try it. I feel like they would love it.
Speaker B – [30:15 – 30:25]
And I’m just thinking of human legs dangling like noodles. All right, listeners, if you want to submit to us, email
Speaker B – [30:25 – 30:44]
provocative things that we should discuss or any facts that we need to know, please know that you can contact us on weenis or on our social handles. One improv show and you can get that to us or come visit us. If you would like to
Speaker B – [30:44 – 30:53]
Yeah. Or you can send us something like TJ sent us, which is what we’re going to be showing next, which is TJ’s movie minute.
Speaker H – [30:53 – 30:55]
Movie minute. Let’s go. Yes. All right.
Speaker B – [30:55 – 31:05]
Let’s see what TJ is bringing us today. And these movies all involve improvisers or improv in some way. And our improv
Speaker B – [31:05 – 31:12]
universe in this style of improv, I believe even. All right, let’s see TJ’s Movie Minute. Hopefully this works.
Speaker I – [31:12 – 31:24]
Making Beav’s this. I love this movie so much. I love Eliza Coupe. She is an absolute genius. Um, and her and Steve Howey
Speaker I – [31:24 – 31:44]
in this movie, they are both fantastic together. Um, this movie centers on them as a married couple, um, who are trying to have a baby and having a lot of, uh, unsuccessful attempts at doing so. However, they don’t they don’t let that stop them. They don’t they
Speaker I – [31:44 – 32:04]
keep trying. And as they keep, you know, navigating, uh, trying to do so, um, they run into a lot of, you know, wild, crazy supporting characters and bonkers mishaps and adventures, um, especially one of my many favorites
Speaker I – [32:04 – 32:13]
centering on, uh, John Daly as, like, a chill, Zen Buddhist dude with, like, a short fuse. It’s just watch this movie. It’s awesome.
Speaker J – [32:13 – 32:17]
Awesome. I love it, TJ.
Speaker B – [32:17 – 32:19]
Thank you so much.
Speaker J – [32:19 – 32:20]
TJ.
Speaker B – [32:20 – 32:24]
And I kind of I just wanted that movie minute where it
Speaker B – [32:24 – 32:32]
was like and zero and uh, but TJ said it was awesome and that was that was it. So we didn’t miss anything. Yes.
Speaker C – [32:32 – 32:36]
Cool. Well, uh, we do appreciate TJ filling that full minute.
Speaker B – [32:36 – 32:41]
Absolutely. Just chock a block full. So that’s what I’m going to be watching tonight.
Speaker C – [32:41 – 32:44]
Oh my gosh I’m so excited. Yeah me too.
Speaker B – [32:44 – 32:44]
And
Speaker B – [32:44 – 32:51]
it’s it’s amazing when you watch these movies how many improvisers you do see in the cast every single time.
Speaker C – [32:51 – 33:04]
It’s so fun. It’s it’s honestly, the more you do improv and the more you kind of like, see, like, oh, I took a class with that person who’s serving wine in this movie. How very cool. Like, it’s what a neat, small world makes me feel like I’m
Speaker C – [33:04 – 33:07]
connected and not just on a computer all the time.
Speaker B – [33:07 – 33:10]
We are connected. We are part of something.
Speaker C – [33:10 – 33:12]
We are all one.
Speaker B – [33:12 – 33:19]
We are all one. Oh, what a lovely. And on that note, join our cult. Join our cult.
Speaker C – [33:19 – 33:24]
It’s not a cult yet, but it could be with
Speaker C – [33:24 – 33:24]
you.
Speaker B – [33:24 – 33:37]
It could be with you. All right, we need to change a photo on our wall. Uh, I’m apologizing to our podcast listeners that you don’t get to see this fantastical production.
Speaker J – [33:37 – 33:39]
Production value.
Speaker B – [33:39 – 33:43]
You’re valuing up my production. We’re gonna do it right now, aren’t we?
Speaker C – [33:43 – 33:44]
We
Speaker C – [33:44 – 33:44]
are.
Speaker B – [33:44 – 33:50]
All right, well, all right, um, we gotta. We gotta tilt out of the way. I’m choking on my.
Speaker K – [33:50 – 33:55]
Blip.
Speaker B – [33:55 – 34:00]
We changed a photo on our wall.
Speaker C – [34:00 – 34:04]
I love the plaid. I’m. I’m in. You know, Washington
Speaker C – [34:04 – 34:05]
We love a good plaid here.
Speaker B – [34:05 – 34:16]
We absolutely love a good plaid. And there’s also a tuk involved in this photo. Tuk a tuk or a beanie, depending on where you live. A knitted woollen cap.
Speaker C – [34:16 – 34:18]
Fancy. Fancy.
Speaker B – [34:18 – 34:24]
Yes. We had a, uh, a poll recently on the World’s Greatest Improv School Facebook group
Speaker B – [34:24 – 34:31]
about the difference between a top hat, a fedora, and a tuk. Not the difference. You could vote for one of them with no context.
Speaker C – [34:31 – 34:33]
Who won?
Speaker B – [34:33 – 34:44]
Uh, the tuk one. Yeah. Nice. Go tuk. Go tuk. Katrina, do you have any
Speaker B – [34:44 – 34:46]
plugs?
Speaker C – [34:46 – 34:52]
Plugs? Um, I don’t, but if anyone wants to hire me, let me know.
Speaker B – [34:52 – 34:54]
Yes, if you have a job.
Speaker C – [34:54 – 35:01]
Um, I’m a UX writer slash content designer, and I can also do improv, so hire me, please. Yes.
Speaker B – [35:01 – 35:04]
I would like to plug Katrina as well
Speaker B – [35:04 – 35:07]
Hire Katrina. That’s my first plug.
Speaker C – [35:07 – 35:09]
Thank you so much. I need a job.
Speaker B – [35:09 – 35:13]
Yes, we’re looking for Katrina.
Speaker J – [35:13 – 35:14]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [35:14 – 35:22]
I don’t know if that’s a plug so much as a a a plead, um, a plead plug and plead.
Speaker B – [35:22 – 35:23]
Plug and plead
Speaker B – [35:23 – 35:26]
I like it. We should rename that segment to be plug and plead.
Speaker C – [35:26 – 35:28]
Plug in. Katrina begs for a job.
Speaker B – [35:28 – 35:31]
Yeah, well, I’ll plead as well.
Speaker J – [35:31 – 35:35]
I’ll plug a class that I have coming up starting February 28th.
Speaker B – [35:35 – 35:43]
Uh, world’s greatest improv school. Um, I’ll have a link in the show notes, but we’re doing an improvised morning show. We’re going to be focusing on character
Speaker B – [35:43 – 36:03]
development, character kekec, a character sustaining and, uh, adding specifics details and doing a brand new form. Uh, it will stream on both podcast and on Twitch and Facebook and YouTube and everywhere. So, uh, check that out in the show notes. If you’re looking for some improv classes
Speaker B – [36:03 – 36:09]
if you can tell by like our studio and our tech and stuff, it’s going to be a really cool class.
Speaker C – [36:09 – 36:16]
It’s going to be using different technology. But still, Jen is a master and wizard and it’s going to be fun.
Speaker B – [36:16 – 36:23]
Thanks, Katrina. Yay! Thumbs up. All right, well, I think, uh, I think
Speaker B – [36:23 – 36:25]
we’ve done a show. Do you think we’ve done a show?
Speaker C – [36:25 – 36:29]
We have. I feel like you’ve done a really good job at hurting me in the right direction the whole time.
Speaker B – [36:29 – 36:33]
I think you have done a fantastic job in being herded.
Speaker C – [36:33 – 36:34]
Thank you.
Speaker B – [36:34 – 36:43]
I don’t feel good hurting you, but I appreciate it, though I will leave it on that positive note. I hope
Speaker B – [36:43 – 37:03]
All right. Well, I’m gonna roll the credits. Let’s roll those credits. And thank you, TJ, for sending a video to us. And if you have, uh, anyone else has any video mentions of improv things that they want to send, you can send it to us too, and we’ll put it in the show
Speaker A – [37:03 – 37:09]
And stuff and things.
Speaker B – [37:09 – 37:19]
And we will see all of you next week and stop the blackout.
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