Speaker 1: Hello, How did We Get Weird? Listeners?
Speaker 2: This week we are going to re air one of
Speaker 2: our favorite episodes with the hilarious and delightful Sam Richardson.
Speaker 2: We're talking about our days in Chicago doing improv, teenage Mutant, Ninja, Turtles,
Speaker 2: Power Rangers, and so much more. So please enjoy and
Speaker 2: we will be back next week with a brand new episode.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Vanessa Mayor and this is my brother Jonah.
Speaker 4: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 4: and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people
Speaker 4: we are.
Speaker 2: Today, who are pretty into layering during the winter months,
Speaker 2: if I do say so myself.
Speaker 3: Welcome to How did We Get Weird?
Speaker 2: So, Jonah, I was thinking about our guests today, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking about when we first met. Now, I
Speaker 2: know this has less to do with you and me
Speaker 2: and more to do with me and our guest, but
Speaker 2: I still wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So just give me a break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, go ahead, get into.
Speaker 1: It, Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm so excited about today's guest and the way
Speaker 2: that I first met him was I was doing improv
Speaker 2: in Chicago. I was, you know, out of college for
Speaker 2: a few years. Doing improv in Chicago, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden and I'm with all these Chicago improvisers,
Speaker 2: don't we think we're funny? And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: this group of Detroit improvisers moves to Chicago, and they
Speaker 2: are so much funnier than us.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 2: Our guest is kind of acting like, oh, that's true,
Speaker 2: and you know it. It includes our guest today. Tim
Speaker 2: Robinson was another one of the Detroit people. I mean,
Speaker 2: these people, they're just so much funnier than us, in
Speaker 2: like such a real way. And then I one summer
Speaker 2: got to do a show in Detroit, which I guess
Speaker 2: must have been after that, and I was like, whether
Speaker 2: they're in Chicago or Detroit, they're so much funnier than us.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is not meant to I think
Speaker 2: Chicago improvisers are so funny.
Speaker 1: Got Detroit improvisers are funny here.
Speaker 4: So, Vanessa, what was funnier about was it like a
Speaker 4: different like longer form for shorter form, or different sensibility
Speaker 4: or what made it funnier to you?
Speaker 2: They specifically as people were better at comedy than us.
Speaker 3: They were just funnier humans.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, so I think The first thing we should
Speaker 2: do after we introduce our guests today is ask why
Speaker 2: are they funnier?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, why don't you introduce him? And then we
Speaker 3: can ask ourselves? Right now?
Speaker 1: That sounds great.
Speaker 2: Jonah, our guest today, is an actor, comedian, writer, producer.
Speaker 2: You may know him from playing Richard Split on the
Speaker 2: HBO political comedy series Veep co creating and starring in
Speaker 2: the comedy series Detroititers with Tim Robinson. What about starring
Speaker 2: the Apple TV series The After Party?
Speaker 3: Or how about this?
Speaker 2: How about when he was nominated for a Primetime Enemy
Speaker 2: Award for Outstanding Guest Actor a Comedy Series for his
Speaker 2: performance in Teslaso. Folks, you know him from that, but
Speaker 2: I know him from our days of improvising together in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Sam Richardson.
Speaker 5: You know, thank you very much.
Speaker 6: I don't know where, well, yeah, now, I think truly
Speaker 6: Detroit improvisers. Like in Chicago, I feel everybody knows what
Speaker 6: improv is. So like when you're performing an improv show,
Speaker 6: everybody is like on board immediately, and in Detroit that's
Speaker 6: not the case. So you have to like just like
Speaker 6: learn to become real good, real fast, right, because that's
Speaker 6: the only way it works. So like there's a whole
Speaker 6: bunch of people who were like what is this and
Speaker 6: you're like trust me, and then you know it's like
Speaker 6: we all like train this hyperbolic chamber of no laps
Speaker 6: for a.
Speaker 5: Long time and then you like squeeze blood from the stone.
Speaker 3: That's my yes.
Speaker 2: I feel like Tim has told me a similar thing,
Speaker 2: which is that like, yeah, we were performing at like
Speaker 2: Second City and Io, these places where it's like everyone's
Speaker 2: kind of there to have fun, whereas you guys were
Speaker 2: often well you had a Second City there, but you was.
Speaker 6: The So Second City was first was in Detroit City proper,
Speaker 6: and it was in the Hockeytown Cafe and it was
Speaker 6: like right across the street from Camerica Park and like
Speaker 6: it's right like downtown, and that was like where it
Speaker 6: started and was there for like ten a little less
Speaker 6: than ten years, and so there it was like, oh,
Speaker 6: this like cool small black box theater of Second City
Speaker 6: where you know you're in here, you're in our rules,
Speaker 6: and it's like it's fun and funn you can like
Speaker 6: really come out on the city and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: Then it closed down and then reopened in Nova, which
Speaker 6: is a suburb, which.
Speaker 2: Is where I did a summer doing Jews call the
Speaker 2: musical in Nova.
Speaker 6: That's right, yes, And Nova was is like a very
Speaker 6: very much the suburbs, and they were right above Andiamo restaurant.
Speaker 6: It's the Italian restaurant and the club next door. And
Speaker 6: anybody who came out there, they didn't care. It's like
Speaker 6: a big open space, which is not great for a
Speaker 6: small comedy.
Speaker 2: And wasn't there another place that you guys kind of
Speaker 2: would perform it a lot where you really had to
Speaker 2: prove like So.
Speaker 6: Then there was also planet Ant Theater, which that was
Speaker 6: like a night that the audience was like on board
Speaker 6: for in that space because it was like very like
Speaker 6: very experimental like there. And so like there was that
Speaker 6: plus comedy like so you know where we got to
Speaker 6: like write our first shows and everything. Yeah, and like
Speaker 6: sort of get a feel for what our comedic voices were.
Speaker 6: It's like really really it was Planet Ant that like
Speaker 6: let us find out who are what our comedic voices are,
Speaker 6: and then Second City let us polish them in front
Speaker 6: of like paying like a full proper paying audience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and here we are in Chicago in these like
Speaker 2: really nice, big theaters where everyone knows what improv is.
Speaker 5: Everyone people people have flown to right, They're like, I
Speaker 5: can't wait.
Speaker 4: Sam, I don't know if you know this. I've done
Speaker 4: a little improv myself. It's not really a big deal.
Speaker 4: I haven't been nominated for an Emmy or Primetime Emmy,
Speaker 4: but you know, I had an experience where I took
Speaker 4: some improv classes at UCB. Yeah, I took one, my
Speaker 4: first class ever. It was a very long time with
Speaker 4: Antheon Taminak.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 4: And then I took a second one. It was very
Speaker 4: strange because we had our class show. We got a
Speaker 4: lot of laughs, and our teacher was upset that we
Speaker 4: didn't follow the game. We weren't playing the Dell close thing.
Speaker 4: And it was so weird because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is a comedy show, but they were so focused
Speaker 4: on the Dell close thing that, like our teacher was
Speaker 4: actually was kind of annoyed with us. And then I
Speaker 4: kind of never did it again because I was like,
Speaker 4: this is isn't it kind of supposed to make people
Speaker 4: laugh too? Like did you have that kind of experience
Speaker 4: or was it more kind of free form for you?
Speaker 6: I mean, I get the idea of like, oh, we
Speaker 6: want you to know the rules before you break the rules.
Speaker 5: Make sure sure of course that.
Speaker 6: But like also I feel like what happens so much
Speaker 6: and I'm not downing any of the theaters or anything
Speaker 6: like that, or at least I'm subtly doing that.
Speaker 5: It's like.
Speaker 6: It's like it becomes so much about like the form
Speaker 6: of it, and then everybody just kind of like plugs
Speaker 6: themselves into it. But like the whole point of the
Speaker 6: form is just to like make somebody forget, to like
Speaker 6: just make somebody lose and like kind of not worry
Speaker 6: about it. But if you're not worried about it and
Speaker 6: you're doing it, then you don't need the form, right,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, as long as it works, right.
Speaker 6: But like the whole idea of like these like structures
Speaker 6: and all that is just to put some bones. You
Speaker 6: put meat on the bones, and you can just kind
Speaker 6: of get in there and like be playful without have
Speaker 6: to worry about like how the stretch of it works
Speaker 6: because the strucure is already established.
Speaker 5: But again, if you don't need that, it's a crutch.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, And in a trait we
Speaker 6: didn't like really like nail forms every now and then
Speaker 6: somebody would like come back from a trip from Chicago
Speaker 6: or like, it's just rather we've.
Speaker 5: Got to do uh you know what I mean, We've
Speaker 5: got to do this form. And we're like yeah, sure.
Speaker 6: No, we're just gonna I'm just gonna come in as
Speaker 6: a waiter and and then like listen and respond and
Speaker 6: like I'm gonna fall down a bunch and that's gonna work.
Speaker 2: I also think in Chicago it was well, depending on
Speaker 2: like what improv team you were on or whatever, it
Speaker 2: was such a like big deal to like follow the structure.
Speaker 2: And again, I had the best time in Chicago, and
Speaker 2: I learned so much and it you know, got me,
Speaker 2: you know, to where I am now and everything.
Speaker 1: But just thinking about.
Speaker 3: Stuff that we would do, what we would be like we'll.
Speaker 2: Take a suggestion and it would be like we would
Speaker 2: pretty much really do Harold's which is like to the
Speaker 2: listener who's not super familiar with improv, it's like a
Speaker 2: structure of like an improv show that's like you get
Speaker 2: a suggestion and then you do you do like.
Speaker 6: A loose like like a bunch of like word finding,
Speaker 6: like some sort of open game to start out or
Speaker 6: like some exercises walking around, Like if a suggestion is water,
Speaker 6: you're like.
Speaker 5: Oh, ducks ponds, like walk.
Speaker 2: Diving, you know, so bud, But while you're saying that,
Speaker 2: you have to be like pulling it from the air
Speaker 2: and doing really embarrassing.
Speaker 5: Stuff exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, a duck is in water the waves, and.
Speaker 2: Then like by the end of it, everyone's going like
Speaker 2: tear drop, tier.
Speaker 6: Drop drop, tear drop, tear drop, drop, drop, drop, drop
Speaker 6: drop the base, and then you're in a club and then.
Speaker 2: You do like three scenes. Oh my god, I don't
Speaker 2: know how we did it because it's like it seems
Speaker 2: so hard not to do it and be like so,
Speaker 2: and then you do three scenes that are like kind
Speaker 2: of loosely based on that, and like it'll be like
Speaker 2: coming out and being like and then like sometimes no
Speaker 2: one's going out and you just have to go out
Speaker 2: and be like, hey, Joe, big day at the office today.
Speaker 4: Your improv skills have only gotten sharper with times.
Speaker 5: But I'll tell you what that is the reality of
Speaker 5: what it was like.
Speaker 6: The initiation would be like, hey, Joe, office, it's Greg's birthday,
Speaker 6: isn't it.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, I forgot to get the cake for
Speaker 2: Greg's birthday. We have to bake a cake right now.
Speaker 5: Oh that's right, let's bake it right now in the office.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: We've got a sink, we've got uh got a microwave,
Speaker 2: a microwave, I've got some flour in the kitchen, and
Speaker 2: i'll I guess we'll flavor it with.
Speaker 3: These onions scenes.
Speaker 5: Ha ha ha. If you're lucky, now.
Speaker 1: Don't worry because you go, oh, the scene's over.
Speaker 2: That stinks. Absolutely not. We're going to come back to
Speaker 2: it in the second half. So then you do three
Speaker 2: scenes that are like that kind of unrelated, or they
Speaker 2: can be on the same.
Speaker 5: Theme exactly, or they could be exactly.
Speaker 6: So moving forward in time a little bit like after
Speaker 6: the oh the cake didn't go well or he got sick.
Speaker 5: And then that's that. Then you're doing that for another
Speaker 5: five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now between that, so you do three scenes in
Speaker 2: a row, and then there's another game where you go,
Speaker 2: like you would maybe want to pick up on what
Speaker 2: was the suggestion It.
Speaker 5: Was duck water, and then duck was what it came from, Oh.
Speaker 3: Right, right, right, water.
Speaker 2: So then the next thing, maybe someone goes on stage
Speaker 2: and goes glug glug glug glug glug, and then people
Speaker 2: start like harmonizing.
Speaker 6: With it, and everybody's doing kind of a dance.
Speaker 5: The idea of being is a real palate cleanser.
Speaker 2: Cause right, that's right, that's right, it's supposed to be
Speaker 2: a palate clean And then you come back to the
Speaker 2: three seats and yeah, like you said, Sam, like when
Speaker 2: you get to that scene about the cake in the office,
Speaker 2: then it's like Joe's like, hmm, this cake looks really
Speaker 2: good and then he tries it and he's like, guys, guys.
Speaker 5: You know I'm allergic to onions.
Speaker 2: Right, And they go oh shit, and then it's like then,
Speaker 2: why did you eat the cake? And he goes, I
Speaker 2: didn't think onions would be in a cake. Everyone last,
Speaker 2: someone runs across the stage, because that's.
Speaker 1: The end of the scene.
Speaker 3: That's how you edit.
Speaker 1: That's how someone has to run across.
Speaker 2: The stage, which is also it's also really hard to
Speaker 2: be that person I've always found who edits the scene
Speaker 2: because it's like you're basically like, also, you can't let
Speaker 2: people sit out there and improvise for too long because
Speaker 2: then they look stupid.
Speaker 1: But it's hard because you have to.
Speaker 6: Run across exactly, like do like a light jog across
Speaker 6: the stage to show the audience, and the players say,
Speaker 6: all right, and that's it.
Speaker 5: It's a white so that's so that's that scene.
Speaker 1: And who doesn't look extremely cool doing a light jog?
Speaker 2: So then three scenes again.
Speaker 1: Then you do another game, which.
Speaker 6: Is like the last game for this one, somebody would
Speaker 6: be like somebody would like initiate that you're at a
Speaker 6: water talk show.
Speaker 5: And everybody would be like a guest on that thing.
Speaker 2: Sometimes yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, totally.
Speaker 6: Everybody's included because like do you typically have like oh,
Speaker 6: so with all these things, they're doing three different scenes
Speaker 6: per act. Let's say it's a three act thing, right,
Speaker 6: so like so we will do our office scene, but
Speaker 6: somebody else is doing you know, a mother daughter scene,
Speaker 6: going to you know a park, and then somebody else
Speaker 6: is doing a scene.
Speaker 3: In a womb, right exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know that sort of third act or a
Speaker 5: pre third act.
Speaker 6: Sort of group thing is just includes everybody the palate
Speaker 6: cleanser and maybe incorporates like little bits and things from
Speaker 6: what you've done, or it just like doesn't at all,
Speaker 6: and you know it.
Speaker 3: That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: So you're saying like maybe the third game is like
Speaker 2: an underwater or like an aquatic talk show where like
Speaker 2: the characters from the other scenes in the show come on.
Speaker 6: Well I wouldn't did, because a third act usually has
Speaker 6: everybody and then they like sometimes like we in between.
Speaker 3: Right right right? Yes, man, my whole life same here.
Speaker 4: I feel like our listeners are getting just a masterclass
Speaker 4: in improv.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, honestly, that's really like if you were going
Speaker 2: to move to Chicago or Detroit and learn improv, now
Speaker 2: you don't have to.
Speaker 5: Exactly, we just saved you five years of grind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Just practice that you know,
Speaker 2: and you're some comfortable space.
Speaker 6: In your home, exactly enough space to be able to
Speaker 6: lie out two people can lie head to toe, head
Speaker 6: to toe and you know, I mean have space that's
Speaker 6: about as much bace as you need, and a backline
Speaker 6: and then you're ready to go.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've really set some people up here. Now before
Speaker 2: we go to our first commercial break, can I just
Speaker 2: bring up one other thing that happens, yes, which is
Speaker 2: that a couple improv teams might do heralds and then
Speaker 2: there's this thing called the dream.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, Sam, oh my god. The dream is.
Speaker 2: This thing where you pick an audience member, you single
Speaker 2: them out, you bring them on stage, and you tell
Speaker 2: us about your day and they're like I had. By
Speaker 2: the way, it seems like I feel like I'm shitting
Speaker 2: on Chicago im pravd.
Speaker 1: I actually love it, and I don't. That's not how
Speaker 1: I mean this.
Speaker 5: I just I'm looking lovingly.
Speaker 1: Okay, someone's like on stage.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Jonah, Like, imagine we would like bring you
Speaker 2: up on stage.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jonah, We're going to do it to you now.
Speaker 3: Jonah.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's morning, so you haven't had a
Speaker 2: full day. Tell us about your day yesterday. You don't
Speaker 2: really have to. I won't take a long time with this,
Speaker 2: but okay, yeah, Like what did you have for breakfast?
Speaker 3: Woke up?
Speaker 4: I had some cereal for breakfast, took my dog for
Speaker 4: a walk, came home, did some work, and then and
Speaker 4: what do you do for work?
Speaker 5: Sir?
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, Well what is it you do for work?
Speaker 6: Another person would come Out'm like okay, yeah, and what
Speaker 6: is it that wants.
Speaker 3: To get on stage?
Speaker 1: So like I think of a question. Gotta think of
Speaker 1: a question for this guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm a therapist. Oh wow, wow.
Speaker 2: That's really cool. Okay, someone who does improv all day.
Speaker 2: That's really cool. Okay, sorry, just kidding. Wow, interesting, interesting, cool, cool?
Speaker 2: And okay, So you went to your job. Do you
Speaker 2: see clients or is.
Speaker 5: There anyone you work with that you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Who annoys you or that you really like?
Speaker 4: Just a regular day. And then I came home and
Speaker 4: then played with my dog some more. Okay, played with
Speaker 4: your dog? Did you eat dinner?
Speaker 3: I did eat dinner?
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, the question what are your dog's names?
Speaker 3: A dog's name is loopen okay, dog's loopin. Okay, like
Speaker 3: the flower. Okay, okay, got it, got it? Like the flower? Okay.
Speaker 1: And then you had dinner? What did you have for dinner?
Speaker 3: I had mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2: Okay, you had mashed potatoes. And then did you watch
Speaker 2: any tea or anything like that?
Speaker 4: I watched the news? You watch the news while I
Speaker 4: ate mashed potatoes.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well, thank you very much. Know what
Speaker 5: this is your dream?
Speaker 1: Okay, so then we do Jonah's dream?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Me.
Speaker 1: Someone is just whoa.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, what did.
Speaker 1: You have for breakfast?
Speaker 5: Cereal?
Speaker 1: Time for Cereal our sloop in, loop in. Please be quiet.
Speaker 1: I have to go to work.
Speaker 3: Walk walk walk walk walk to work.
Speaker 6: H I'm having so many problems today, Jonah, it's just
Speaker 6: like the week has been so weird and like just
Speaker 6: I'm having problems with my mother and my father.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what you should do. You should talk to them.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Okay, work work, work, and then everyone on stages work work, work, work,
Speaker 2: work work.
Speaker 1: Well, it's time to go home.
Speaker 2: Walk walk walk walk walk walk walk walk or arp.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take you for a walk, walk walking walking walking. Okay,
Speaker 1: finally time to have dinner. Hmm what should I have?
Speaker 6: I'd come out and I'd be the fridge of like
Speaker 6: empty empty empty empty, mashed potatoes empty empty, empty empty.
Speaker 2: And then I go, I guess I have one choice,
Speaker 2: and then everyone on the stage goes Masha, and then
Speaker 2: I go, well, I guess I'll turn on did you
Speaker 2: say you watch TV?
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to news?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's time to turn on the TV. And
Speaker 2: then someone who hasn't got the last.
Speaker 5: Stage time, last chance to do something.
Speaker 3: And in the.
Speaker 2: News tonight, a lot of things happening in the world,
Speaker 2: and that's the news. And then I go, okay, now
Speaker 2: go to sleep, Sleep, Sleep, Sleep.
Speaker 1: And that, ladies and gentlemen, was Jonah's dream.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 6: The audience laughs, And it's Chicago. The audience laughs, and
Speaker 6: the audience.
Speaker 2: Laughs, lap slaps. Maybe some other places the audience, yes,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe.
Speaker 5: Some here too.
Speaker 3: Maybe that was incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2: So that was your exact dream last night. Okay, And
Speaker 2: with that, we're going to take a quick commercial break.
Speaker 2: I won't be right back, Sam Richardson, and we're back
Speaker 2: from commercial break.
Speaker 3: Back from commercial break, Sam, my nical question for you.
Speaker 4: You know, Vanessa, did the Second City Touring company, did
Speaker 4: some cruise ships stuff. Did you do any kind of
Speaker 4: touring stuff when you were kind of cutting your teeth
Speaker 4: in the biz?
Speaker 5: I did. I performed Second Seed Detroit. Then I worked
Speaker 5: in a cruise ship.
Speaker 6: Actually that is where I first met you, Vanessa, because
Speaker 6: you were on the ship with Brett Oh and Chris
Speaker 6: and we met in Miami for like up talking about
Speaker 6: like a day, and then I moved to Chicago.
Speaker 5: After that. I was on the ship for a year.
Speaker 3: Okay, you were on a ship for a year.
Speaker 6: Two contracts he did five months and then home for
Speaker 6: a month and five more months.
Speaker 2: Than oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. So we actually met
Speaker 2: on a cruise ship.
Speaker 5: For a day in my because the way.
Speaker 3: The ships we were docked in Miami exactly.
Speaker 6: So like we were at I can't remember where, but
Speaker 6: one of my oldest and best friends, Brett Ganell, was
Speaker 6: in your cast, right, So I went to meet up
Speaker 6: with him, and then I was introduced to you and
Speaker 6: Chris Watowski and Brett Lyons.
Speaker 2: Lions right, and who's your Molly Durand and our music?
Speaker 2: That tall guy, Yeah, he was very talented and I
Speaker 2: truly can't believe I'm blanking on his name.
Speaker 5: It wasn't Johnny Rotowski, was it.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't John Edwardtowski. But I worked with him
Speaker 2: when I did Jusic Call the musical.
Speaker 4: Vanessa, you have a poster of the CULD cast of
Speaker 4: this ship somewhere.
Speaker 2: Well, there was one in our in our grandparents grandparents
Speaker 2: apartment and in our parents' house. Yeah, the laminated poster
Speaker 2: of that cast and musical director who's name we're blanking
Speaker 2: on was in my parents' house, my grandparents' apartment.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so Sam, you did a five month contract.
Speaker 4: You said this was pretty cool, I'm going to do
Speaker 4: it again. Did you think like this could just be
Speaker 4: my thing or you after a year you were ready
Speaker 4: to move on?
Speaker 6: Well, I went to the ships because I was trying
Speaker 6: to move out to Chicago to do Second City. Actually,
Speaker 6: really I want to go to Vegas because like, that's
Speaker 6: gonna be the coolest job, because.
Speaker 1: There was a Second City in Vegas then right.
Speaker 5: There was there was for me.
Speaker 6: I was like twenty one, and I was like, this
Speaker 6: could be the best job a twenty one year old
Speaker 6: could have, is like to live in Vegas and like work.
Speaker 5: You know, as an adult.
Speaker 6: I'm like, now, I'm like that would have been the
Speaker 6: death of me, and like, but I really wanted to
Speaker 6: do Second City Vegas, you know, because like, oh, they
Speaker 6: do have Second City main stage in Chicago. That's lofty,
Speaker 6: but Vegas is like accessible.
Speaker 5: I want to do that. Of course I want to tour.
Speaker 6: So I went to work on the cruise ship and
Speaker 6: while I was in the first cruise ship, Second City
Speaker 6: Detroit closed. So then I was gonna move to La
Speaker 6: But I was like, all right, well, I'll just do
Speaker 6: another cruise ship to kind of figure out what I'm
Speaker 6: going to do. In the meantime, I was just like,
Speaker 6: work on this cruise ship. Did the cruise ship. Then
Speaker 6: they hired me to the touring company. So I moved
Speaker 6: to Chicago, toured for two years, and then got hired
Speaker 6: for the main stage, and then did two years in
Speaker 6: the main stage before I moved up to LA And that's.
Speaker 5: Life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And Vanessa, you understudied my touring company, Greenco. And
Speaker 6: we had the best time because you think you came
Speaker 6: in for Lily for like a week on a tour,
Speaker 6: and that's why I was like, oh my godness is
Speaker 6: the funniest and the absolute best because.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was so fun.
Speaker 2: Was I stealing stuff left and right on that tour too,
Speaker 2: because whatever, I love free stuff.
Speaker 5: Love free show. It's all this soap. It's so free.
Speaker 2: There were always a lot of extra bottles of water
Speaker 2: that I'm like, no one's gonna take these.
Speaker 5: Exactly, just like let me sit here. It wasn't ways.
Speaker 2: Wait, your ship was also docking in Miami. Was it
Speaker 2: your first cruise ship or your second cruise ship?
Speaker 5: It was my first cruise ship. Yeah. Yeah, it was
Speaker 5: the Norwegian Pearl.
Speaker 3: Oh great, I remember the Pearl.
Speaker 2: I remember the Okay, so we met on the cruise
Speaker 2: ships first.
Speaker 3: Okay, I thought we met in Chicago first. I got that.
Speaker 6: Wrong, unless I met you when we were like auditioning.
Speaker 6: But I'm pretty sure it was Brett introduced.
Speaker 5: Me to you.
Speaker 2: I bet, I bet that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: such funny Detroit guys.
Speaker 3: Look at us now here.
Speaker 5: We are my own recording studio here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For listeners who didn't hear, I thought that Sam was
Speaker 2: in a recording studio, but he said, he's just in
Speaker 2: the room that has a lot of stuff, slide.
Speaker 5: Junk, glad of junk, I lot of toys on the wall.
Speaker 2: Actually, it really looks cool to me. I'm sitting on
Speaker 2: the floor of my guest bedroom.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Johnah, I was gonna say, you know, say
Speaker 4: I'm speaking of toys.
Speaker 1: Here comes a seamless transition.
Speaker 4: We reached out to you about topics. You picked a
Speaker 4: great one, which is action packed television shows like Power Rangers, ThunderCats,
Speaker 4: Ninja Turtles, And I'm just curious, like, why did you
Speaker 4: kind of pick this topic? Were you really into these
Speaker 4: shows growing up? Do you still watch them? What's behind
Speaker 4: that for you?
Speaker 6: I was obsessed with these things, like they really did,
Speaker 6: Like they were my whole life, like you know, Ninja Turtles,
Speaker 6: Power Rangers. Like like when we asked a question, I
Speaker 6: was like, well, what are things? And like it took
Speaker 6: me a second because like I'm still really into these things.
Speaker 6: So it's like, wats them that shaped my childhood? As
Speaker 6: I sit on like a Ninja Turtles chair and look
Speaker 6: at my wall of Power Rangers, and I was like,
Speaker 6: oh well, and I was like trying think of like
Speaker 6: other stuff. I was like, well, but no, these things,
Speaker 6: true are what like shaped me? And I was like
Speaker 6: so obsessed with them as a kid. I lived in
Speaker 6: Ghana for a while, you know, back and forth, but
Speaker 6: like in first grade and second grade i lived in Ghano.
Speaker 6: I would have like all these tapes of stuff, and
Speaker 6: like the tapes would be of you know, Ninja Turtles
Speaker 6: or like you know movies, but like a lot of
Speaker 6: like g I Joe and like he Man and ThunderCats
Speaker 6: and so like I would just watch these on repeat,
Speaker 6: and like now I have like a encyclopedic knowledge. I'm
Speaker 6: like yes to a question about ThunderCats. I can tell
Speaker 6: you anything about it. I was a Thundercat for Halloween.
Speaker 6: I was lying over Halloween, like a few years ago.
Speaker 6: I was skeletor of this past Halloween.
Speaker 5: You know. I got into martial arts because of Ninja Turtles,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that's why I picked it. Because it's even
Speaker 6: still I'm like, actually, they are legit good movies, and
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 5: I agree with myself.
Speaker 3: Sam.
Speaker 4: I was in a punk band in college for a
Speaker 4: few years and we're called mamra Oh.
Speaker 5: The Ever Living. That's incredible to people who.
Speaker 2: Aren't super familiar with ThunderCats, Can you explain that name?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: So the ThunderCats were this humanoid cat people from this
Speaker 6: planet called Thundera, and their world is being destroyed, so
Speaker 6: they left their planet and landed on this place called
Speaker 6: Third Earth, so that they were trying to make a
Speaker 6: new world there on Third Earth. There were about seven
Speaker 6: ThunderCats who were like the last surviving members of Thundera.
Speaker 6: By Lionel with the Sword of Omens, which was the
Speaker 6: like sort of symbol of the ThunderCats. But it's like
Speaker 6: this power, magical power sword that held the eye of Thundera,
Speaker 6: which was the a like a magic jewel that was
Speaker 6: the source of the Thundercat's powers essentially, and so the
Speaker 6: ThunderCats essentially the ThunderCats like being the name I'm assuming
Speaker 6: comes from like dinosaurs being thunder lizards, but these are.
Speaker 5: ThunderCats, got it. But they weren't huge.
Speaker 6: They were like human size but like very strong humans,
Speaker 6: like very big humans, but they were like had cat features.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, Okay, Well I was actually asking about the
Speaker 2: name Mamra, but I didn't.
Speaker 5: But Mamra was like a mummy. He was like a
Speaker 5: mummy sorcerer, evil sorcerer. So he's Momrob.
Speaker 6: But then he like turned into like a big version
Speaker 6: of Mamra who was like very muscular, but he was
Speaker 6: very like Egyptian themed. Okay, had like yeah snakes and
Speaker 6: like he was, yeah, that's mum Rah and Rob being
Speaker 6: the god of the Egyptian son god. That's never like
Speaker 6: pointed out in the show because that's not really what
Speaker 6: he is, but I think it's just something that sounded
Speaker 6: very you know, and they're like, what's his name, mummy Rah,
Speaker 6: Like mam is good.
Speaker 5: Hotel, cool name.
Speaker 1: Jonah, you guys used it in your Yeah.
Speaker 4: No one knew really what it was I feel like
Speaker 4: very few people got that reference. And this is probably
Speaker 4: early two thousands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been all over.
Speaker 1: It interesting that you picked the villain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 6: Ancient spirits of evil, that was what we say. You say,
Speaker 6: ancient spirits of evil transform this decayed form to Mamra
Speaker 6: the ever living, and then he turned like huge, wow.
Speaker 3: Moving wow.
Speaker 2: So you watched these shows a lot growing up. When
Speaker 2: did you move to the US or back to the US.
Speaker 6: So I moved back after second grade, so I was
Speaker 6: there for first and second grade. So that would have
Speaker 6: been like nineteen ninety two is when it came back
Speaker 6: to the or ninety three is when I moved back
Speaker 6: to the States, back to Detroit, And like you know,
Speaker 6: this whole time, I'd just been watching and watching and watching,
Speaker 6: and like that's around then.
Speaker 5: Is also like when Power Rangers came.
Speaker 3: Out right right right right yeah, and.
Speaker 6: It was like aimed right at my chest because like
Speaker 6: I was, how would I have been. I would have
Speaker 6: been like eight seven or eight years old? Yeah, and
Speaker 6: I just you see these I remember that the toy
Speaker 6: commercials and then the Fox like I was watching Fox
Speaker 6: and like the commercial four Power Rangers came out and
Speaker 6: I was blown away.
Speaker 5: I was like, what is this how?
Speaker 6: And like the idea they were teenagers was like so
Speaker 6: cool because I was like, oh man, I'm gonna be
Speaker 6: exactly like that, and I'm gonna have powers and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna be able to morphine transform.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be morphin time. Never happened for me.
Speaker 1: So you were at the perfect age for that.
Speaker 2: I never thought about them as being Did they fight
Speaker 2: a lot Power Rangers?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they would fight the Putties first, like so
Speaker 6: the Tears. So the Power Rangers' idea is Rita Fulsa
Speaker 6: is released from her prison on the Moon after ten
Speaker 6: thousand years ago, putting this tomb by Zord on on
Speaker 6: the Moon, and then like there's a mission to the
Speaker 6: Moon that the US takes or whatever the world takes,
Speaker 6: and then they find this thing and they take the
Speaker 6: top off of it and it releases Rita and her
Speaker 6: evil forces.
Speaker 5: And so Zordan finds five young people.
Speaker 6: Teenagers with attitude and brings them to the command center
Speaker 6: and gives them these power coins that then turn them
Speaker 6: into the Power Rangers, and so then they can transform
Speaker 6: and they can protect the earth from the evil forces
Speaker 6: of Rita. And so they would fight the putties, which
Speaker 6: were her like goons that were made of clay. They'd
Speaker 6: fight them, but then like they would make monsters out
Speaker 6: of clay who would be like Pudgy Pig or Madam
Speaker 6: Woa or you know what I mean, a nasty night
Speaker 6: and they would fight them first with their blade blasters,
Speaker 6: then use their power weapons. If that didn't work, then
Speaker 6: they would she would make them huge, you know, building size.
Speaker 6: So then they would call their power zords, which were
Speaker 6: these like robot dinosaurs, and then they'd come out, and
Speaker 6: then the robot dinosaurs didn't do it, then they could
Speaker 6: combine the robot dinosaurs and make the Megasord, which would
Speaker 6: then fight the giant monster with his power sword, which
Speaker 6: came from the sky and would always win the day of.
Speaker 2: Course, of course, And what do you think you loved
Speaker 2: so much about that show and that show in particular,
Speaker 2: but also all of these kind of action packed sort
Speaker 2: of magical adventure shows.
Speaker 5: Huh, you have never thought about it.
Speaker 6: So I had gotten into martial arts at the cot
Speaker 6: Ninja Turtles.
Speaker 2: So, like, Jonah, did you get into martial arts because
Speaker 2: of a ninja turt I did take taekwondo classes around
Speaker 2: that age.
Speaker 4: I don't know directly, but I'm sure it was influenced
Speaker 4: probably by my favorite ninja turtle, Donatello.
Speaker 6: Yes, down Teller from the movie is my favorite as
Speaker 6: my favorite ninja turtle, but usually Leonardo's is.
Speaker 5: My favorite period.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 5: I find like I'm most like the two of them.
Speaker 6: However, I feel like as a person I'm a little
Speaker 6: bit of all four of them in some way, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, All four of them make one sam.
Speaker 2: Yes, but like oh same here, because I love pizza,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 6: I mean, That's the main thing. I'm a party dude,
Speaker 6: but I also do machines. Sometimes I lead, but I'm
Speaker 6: also I'm cool but rude.
Speaker 1: Which one is funny?
Speaker 5: That depends.
Speaker 6: Michael is a funny one in the movies. In the cartoon,
Speaker 6: Rafael is the sarcastic.
Speaker 1: Funny one that's so weird that they switch that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but because in the movie Rafael is the brooding
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, like upset one. So he's
Speaker 6: so his idea is like the prodigal son, like he
Speaker 6: doesn't feel like he's knit with the group. Because teen,
Speaker 6: he's like the most teen angsty one. So like he
Speaker 6: like it's really trying to find himself and so like
Speaker 6: he leaves the group a little bit and then that's
Speaker 6: kind of like the push pull and so with that
Speaker 6: then you have like Michael Angelo and Dona Tello or
Speaker 6: like the sort of like comedic duo or Michael Angelo
Speaker 6: is just like jokes, jokes, jokes, gags. Dona Tello sits
Speaker 6: back and he's like very like quippy. But Leonardo was
Speaker 6: like the leader and he's like a little dorky, but
Speaker 6: he's trying to like keep his brothers together. But meanwhile
Speaker 6: fight with Rafael because he's like I'm trying to keep
Speaker 6: us together and he's like you, you know, the boss
Speaker 6: and me, and so like that's essentially the very it's
Speaker 6: a very good film.
Speaker 5: If you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the original.
Speaker 5: Film, the nineteen ninety that had.
Speaker 1: The song go Ninja, Go, Ninja.
Speaker 6: Go from two that's from Ninja Turtles too.
Speaker 2: Was there an original song from the first one? And
Speaker 2: can you sing turtle Power Turtle Power? That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it was a rap song.
Speaker 6: I can't remember the name of the guy who did it,
Speaker 6: but I remember so well because it would come up
Speaker 6: at the end of the movie on the half show anyway.
Speaker 5: Anyway, the guy, the guyud rap and he would.
Speaker 6: Like explain the plot of the movie, you know, like
Speaker 6: which is what like rap songs in those days. It
Speaker 6: would just at the end of the movie, the person
Speaker 6: would wrap a thing that would explain the whole movie
Speaker 6: that you just saw, you sa, you just saw it,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, like and like clearly he
Speaker 6: saw it, and seeing it was like taking on some
Speaker 6: notes and then that's what the rap would be about.
Speaker 6: It's not phlegmatic, it's just directly Wikipedia. It was like
Speaker 6: Wikipedia before Wikipedia.
Speaker 4: This this is incredible. So it was by this hip
Speaker 4: hop duo from New York called Partners in Crime. Crime
Speaker 4: is spelled k R y m E, and that itself
Speaker 4: is a crime, and it's an acronym for keep rhythm,
Speaker 4: your motivating element.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6: And you know they were like, that's it, that's it,
Speaker 6: Partners in Crime.
Speaker 5: The sand in Turtles, We're gonna take off.
Speaker 6: But my favorite thing about it, which was also I hated,
Speaker 6: is he would explain the movie, but he'd get it
Speaker 6: so wrong, Like he described all of them. He was
Speaker 6: like this, and Raphael, he's a leader of the crew,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, no, he's not.
Speaker 5: He's specifically not, he's not. He's very much not the leader.
Speaker 4: It's like, maybe we should be listening to someone who
Speaker 4: can spell crime correctly, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like it was clearly a mistake. They're like, no, actually,
Speaker 5: what it stands for is keep rhythm and not even rhyme.
Speaker 5: Is it rhythm?
Speaker 3: Keep rhythm your motivating element.
Speaker 5: Your motivating element? Like, how do you even do that?
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, I was killing some time
Speaker 4: at a Walmart and they had sam if you remember
Speaker 4: the Ninja Turtles video game, which was huge, oh and
Speaker 4: how and they had like you know how now you
Speaker 4: can buy arcade games and I was playing it. I
Speaker 4: was going some time and then like part of me
Speaker 4: was like I should buy this, like and then I
Speaker 4: feel like I couldn't really do it and probably would
Speaker 4: not be good for my productivity.
Speaker 3: But that was an incredible game.
Speaker 5: Don't you think it was an incredible game? You can
Speaker 5: buy it now.
Speaker 6: They have like the little mini it's called one up
Speaker 6: game where they it's like a little mini box.
Speaker 3: That's what I was playing. Yeah, yeah, do you have it?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: It's like one of those things where you like, I
Speaker 6: could buy it for myself. I'm like, I gotta find
Speaker 6: a special occasion and.
Speaker 5: It just stays at the store. Yeah, I want one
Speaker 5: very much. I want that, and I want NBA jam Oh. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Arcade Machine. They just released maybe.
Speaker 6: A little bit ago, a game called Revenge of the
Speaker 6: Shredder Ninja Turtles. So it's like very throwback to the old,
Speaker 6: like Arcade in Trots games, and it's like a multiplayer game.
Speaker 6: You completely friends online and you can be the four
Speaker 6: Turtles plus two more so you can be total six
Speaker 6: people and you're just like going through side squirrel fighting.
Speaker 6: It's so much fun as like a full almost forty
Speaker 6: year old adult man playing with my other almost forty
Speaker 6: years or forty plus adult men friends or friends and
Speaker 6: like playing as Ninja Turtles and like calling out the
Speaker 6: guy who you are and I'm le because I'm I'm
Speaker 6: most like him, and then we played through the levels.
Speaker 6: But it's great Ninja Turtles Revenge of the of the
Speaker 6: Shredder or Return Return and revengeat of the Shredder. But
Speaker 6: if you like that original game, you'll have a blast
Speaker 6: with this because it really much is that?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to check it out for sure, And
Speaker 3: I said, maybe you could get it from me.
Speaker 1: What's the name of it again?
Speaker 6: You know, at that time of the year, people had
Speaker 6: given gifts Ninja Turtles Revenge of the of the Shredder.
Speaker 6: It's a downloadable game.
Speaker 1: You buy for some.
Speaker 5: That For myself, it's easy. You know.
Speaker 4: We did an episode last year about the Ninja Turtles
Speaker 4: and we talked about this thing that that no one
Speaker 4: really remembers, and I feel like I want to throw
Speaker 4: it out there to see if you remember it. Ye,
Speaker 4: Hostess made these Ninja Turtle custard pies. Yes you remember those?
Speaker 4: I absolutely do, Okay, absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Jonah was really into those.
Speaker 6: Like I love them because I think they were they
Speaker 6: were apple, but they had like green on the inside.
Speaker 5: It was supposed to be like the slime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jonah, is this so nice for you? Because I
Speaker 2: feel like our guest when you brought this up, did
Speaker 2: not remember them.
Speaker 4: There's not even a lot on the internet about these,
Speaker 4: Like they're kind of kind of an obscure eighties kind
Speaker 4: of Hostess promo thing.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they were bigger in the Midwest, maybe
Speaker 2: because we're from.
Speaker 6: Oh maybe maybe because like, yeah, I feel like those
Speaker 6: like factory made snacks really really.
Speaker 5: Took hold in the Midwest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember we had them at school.
Speaker 4: You had like a little snack bar and you could
Speaker 4: buy them at school. And I remember like when they
Speaker 4: had the custard Ninja Turtle ones, like the fluorescent ones.
Speaker 3: That was that was all about this.
Speaker 6: Yep, I love them because there's the thing like, for me,
Speaker 6: if you put ninja trolls on anything like that, branding
Speaker 6: and marketing worked hook line and syncround me. I was like,
Speaker 6: I got you, because the guys eat this right right right,
Speaker 6: So like.
Speaker 1: The guys meaning the turtles, meaning.
Speaker 5: The Ninja Turtles. Yes, the four Brothers.
Speaker 2: So you thought any food that was branded like Ninja
Speaker 2: Turtles was stuff that they actually ate. Yeah, And I
Speaker 2: was like, I mean that's funny, kid would yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: I was like, I eat their cereal. I gotta eat
Speaker 6: the host's pies I'm talking about. I was all about
Speaker 6: Pizza Hut pizza because like it was, it was at
Speaker 6: the beginning of the first like VHS tape, it was
Speaker 6: commercial for Pizza Hut. I was like, well, I gotta
Speaker 6: eat Pizza Hut while I watching Turtles, and like in Detroit,
Speaker 6: Pizza Hut wouldn't deliver to my house. It was only Dominoes,
Speaker 6: So like I had get Dominoes and like kind of
Speaker 6: a grudgingly eat it.
Speaker 5: But I was like, ah, I'm meaning this, and watching
Speaker 5: the Turtles, you.
Speaker 1: Thought, sorry, I feel like I'm I'm like kind of
Speaker 1: like trolling you.
Speaker 6: But you're a seven year old child.
Speaker 1: Because there was a pizza commercial.
Speaker 2: Before the show, well because they were eating pizza, so
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, it must be this pizza.
Speaker 5: And it was on the VHS tape like before, so like.
Speaker 2: It was all like not the tape that you recorded
Speaker 2: it on, but like the VHS tape that you bought.
Speaker 5: The one soul.
Speaker 3: Okay, that logic.
Speaker 2: Makes sense to me, by the way, I'm so sorry
Speaker 2: I'm questioning your seven year old logic.
Speaker 1: Now, just to go back really quickly, you were.
Speaker 2: Saying I was asking you about like what you think
Speaker 2: you loved about these shows so much, and you were
Speaker 2: saying you took martial arts because of them, but I'm
Speaker 2: just curious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, it's like very active and like it was
Speaker 6: like a very clear sense of like justice and like
Speaker 6: right and wrong and like physically like implementing justice.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: So as a kid, I felt it was very appealing,
Speaker 6: especially very appealing to me. It was like, oh, these
Speaker 6: are like these warriors of right, like this ancient justice,
Speaker 6: Like there's a very clear form of evil and like
Speaker 6: you know that the evil is very obvious, and then
Speaker 6: like these people are immitting these these powers from elsewhere
Speaker 6: that they were used because like it's the same reason
Speaker 6: why I like, I liked Superman as a kid. It
Speaker 6: was like, you know, there was nothing that could happen
Speaker 6: that wasn't solvable by him.
Speaker 5: You know, yes, yeah, it's like and.
Speaker 6: I love Batman, but Batman was very reactionary, like something
Speaker 6: would happen and then he'd go and he'd like figure
Speaker 6: out and beat a person who did it.
Speaker 5: But Superman stopped happening, you know, right.
Speaker 6: All these shows, it's like something was happening and they
Speaker 6: did go and they go and they stopped the end
Speaker 6: of time, you know what I mean, before it became
Speaker 6: a problem, or it was in the middle of becoming
Speaker 6: a problem, they'd stop it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So it was like very active and not reactive that
Speaker 6: appealed to me as a kid at least, but even
Speaker 6: still like that's what for the cartoons, you know, I
Speaker 6: mean that was the thing. And like for he Man also,
Speaker 6: like there's this duality for like he Man was great
Speaker 6: because he was like this this wimpy thing. Then he
Speaker 6: became the most powerful man in the universe when he
Speaker 6: like held his sword up and then said I have
Speaker 6: the power, right, and like it was just like things
Speaker 6: are like very powerful and very strong, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 6: with a little kid, you're like and I was like
Speaker 6: a very wimpy, little skinny, little little kid, so like
Speaker 6: the idea of like being ultimately powerful totally, even as
Speaker 6: a little boy, I was like, I demand power and
Speaker 6: I got that.
Speaker 3: That's incredible, that's so great.
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, like with Power Rangers,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that like in their off time they're
Speaker 2: like cool teams and there's probably also something really cool
Speaker 2: about them having all this power, but also on their
Speaker 2: time off. That's kind of how I always felt when
Speaker 2: I would watch Roundhouse on Nickelodeon, do you remember, Because
Speaker 2: it would be like they'd be doing sketch comedy and
Speaker 2: playing all these like wacky characters and then at the end,
Speaker 2: they just like be wearing knee pads and roller blades.
Speaker 1: And just kind of like hanging out. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I bet they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna go like they're gonna go like eat pizza and
Speaker 2: like have the best time because they're such cool teens.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, they're the coolest teens. Tommy and Jason are
Speaker 6: like doing martial arts in the youth center. You know,
Speaker 6: you know, Zach is also doing it, but he's also
Speaker 6: doing hip hop keto, and Treeny's doing taichi and Billy's
Speaker 6: like inventing something and Kimberly is doing gymnastics. Like that
Speaker 6: was like and You're like, oh, that seems the best
Speaker 6: place to hang out. And I want to be one
Speaker 6: of them and among them. And they're at the Juice
Speaker 6: Bar hanging out with Ernie so cool. Bulkan Skull or
Speaker 6: like trying to pick on them, but I don't know
Speaker 6: why bolkan Skull picked. They were trying and pick on
Speaker 6: Billy and like and I would work, but I'm like, Billy,
Speaker 6: you are a superhero.
Speaker 5: But that's the fun part.
Speaker 6: Because like he's he's like a nerd and getting beat
Speaker 6: up then like he can transform and then turn into
Speaker 6: the Blue Ranger and like Fight the World's Greatest Threats.
Speaker 1: The Duality, The Duality.
Speaker 4: Do you ever watch because it seems like they remake
Speaker 4: a lot of these cartoons now, like Memo Befo, We're
Speaker 4: watching an old cartoon and then or it's like there's
Speaker 4: like a new version like Strawberry Shortcake or Muppet Babies,
Speaker 4: where like everything's like kind of this weird like three
Speaker 4: D CG like CGI, and it's like to me, I'm
Speaker 4: like me and my wife were just saying that the
Speaker 4: old cartoons are so much better, right, there's so.
Speaker 6: Much I like I go back because you sometimes you
Speaker 6: feel like, oh, I'm just being an old man and like, oh,
Speaker 6: well back in my day things were but you know,
Speaker 6: you watch and you're like, no, this was it was
Speaker 6: truly better. I mean some of the things are and
Speaker 6: stuff like like he Man like as an animated show,
Speaker 6: truly not incredible because you can see like they were
Speaker 6: like saving money they because they would like reuse a
Speaker 6: lot of cells and stuff like that. But but even
Speaker 6: still like even the world they built was very cool
Speaker 6: and it advanced, like because they mixed like Viking culture
Speaker 6: with like technology and like with sort of like these
Speaker 6: like eroticism truly, like they're all wearing like tights but
Speaker 6: also like armor and like these huge belts and like fur,
Speaker 6: and they'd be like you know, or not even tights
Speaker 6: but just like thongs and then like bear legs and
Speaker 6: big boots with fur on the boots, and you're like,
Speaker 6: that's sexy. You know, they did it, and they did
Speaker 6: that for us, thank you.
Speaker 2: On one of our episodes, we played the new Muppet
Speaker 2: Baby's song and like, you know, the old ones like
Speaker 2: so iconic, and then the new ones like this woman
Speaker 2: being like moping, no my gad Jan's gun ja Like
Speaker 2: it's so like, no, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I'm remembering it.
Speaker 3: Jonah, You're right, that's very accurate.
Speaker 4: It was like this classic kind of do woppy thing,
Speaker 4: and then they remade it into this weird pop b No.
Speaker 5: Was like mop baby Babies.
Speaker 6: Like I was like, it was, yeah, it's like doop,
Speaker 6: but that wasn't like what was the modern music at
Speaker 6: that time, because that came out in the eighties, so
Speaker 6: it wasn't like of the time.
Speaker 5: So they make that poppy, you have to make that.
Speaker 5: They gotta make a disco song.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I mean, if you're gonna do
Speaker 6: the New Muppets babies.
Speaker 1: Oh totally, totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like they were not keeping rhythm. They're
Speaker 4: motivating thing whatever. I can't remember that motivating element. Yes, motivating,
Speaker 4: we'll call back.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it seems like trilling, you know.
Speaker 6: If I'm gonna just sidesep for one second. That were
Speaker 6: a backstep. So I got so into Power Rangers. Me
Speaker 6: and my friend Lamar, we would like make our own
Speaker 6: Power Rangers show because we'd been through it, and we
Speaker 6: watched the Power Rangers in a well passed when we
Speaker 6: should have been watching it, you know what I mean, well
Speaker 6: to the point when we were like, oh no, we
Speaker 6: if we were going to become Power Rangers in real life,
Speaker 6: it would have happened now because we're at the actual age.
Speaker 5: I just hold on.
Speaker 6: We had the power morphers like the toys, and we
Speaker 6: always keep them on ourselves. And the idea was like,
Speaker 6: here's the thinking. If for some reason in the universe
Speaker 6: it becomes real and a monster attacks by transitive property,
Speaker 6: our MorphOS should work and then we will also become
Speaker 6: Power Rangers. Like, so just have it on you just
Speaker 6: in case, because you don't want to be without it,
Speaker 6: and then if it works and only one of us
Speaker 6: has it and it works, you'll be so mad.
Speaker 5: So have it and be ready. We're so obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: Did you ever feel like it was starting to work
Speaker 2: and you were like, wait a second, like, oh.
Speaker 5: I think it's just let me be the one.
Speaker 6: No, not, damn it, it's more for a time close.
Speaker 6: That's closest been yet. That's the closest it's been. I think,
Speaker 6: like my shoes start to change, but I wasn't looking
Speaker 6: down at them, so I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay. So got close, got pretty close.
Speaker 6: But then I got so into it that I discovered.
Speaker 6: The Power Rangers came from this Japanese thing called Senai.
Speaker 6: These were Japanese action shows that for the America. What
Speaker 6: they did was they took the action parts of it,
Speaker 6: cut it, and then put American actors in the off
Speaker 6: costume parts.
Speaker 5: So they made Power Ranges for very cheap. In Japan.
Speaker 5: These were like huge budgeted, like big shows.
Speaker 6: With like explosions and like all the fight scenes would
Speaker 6: be like humans and then people in costumes. It was
Speaker 6: like very big, it was like, but then the heim
Speaker 6: Saban took that and then made it Power Rangers, and
Speaker 6: so they like tremendously underpaid everybody, and like it was
Speaker 6: very cheap. I found out about it, so I got
Speaker 6: my hands on the tapes I had. I had my
Speaker 6: dad order the VHS tapes with Japanese with English subtitles,
Speaker 6: so subbed being obsessed. I watched this it's called Zou Ranger,
Speaker 6: and I knew everything about it, so I've got so
Speaker 6: deep into and then like I would like know all
Speaker 6: the theme songs to the Sentai shows, so like Zoo Ranger.
Speaker 5: And and Wow and like Go.
Speaker 6: Go five and Dire Ranger and all these things, because
Speaker 6: I was like obsessed, and like even still I'm like,
Speaker 6: I just like know them like starts to try and
Speaker 6: learn Japanese to like know how to watch these shows
Speaker 6: better and then get into anime and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Anyway, that's the obsession. I was obsessed.
Speaker 2: Oh, if anyone could have more into a Power Ranger
Speaker 2: in real time, it would have been you and your friend.
Speaker 5: I still think I will be able to do.
Speaker 1: You still carry that thing?
Speaker 6: I usually had it like right there. I wish I
Speaker 6: might have put it away because if somebody was coming
Speaker 6: over to the house and I was like embarrassed about it.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, what if a force of evil
Speaker 2: is trying to sabotage you and hit it, I mean,
Speaker 2: probably pretty important to locate that thing where it gets
Speaker 2: into the wrong hands.
Speaker 6: So as an adult, I then got this limited edition
Speaker 6: Green Ranger Dragon Dagger. So I have this thing, and
Speaker 6: it's a gold plated and it's like an adult version
Speaker 6: of the toy prop WHOA, I'm the Green Ranger who
Speaker 6: was like the ultimate cool power Ranger who came in
Speaker 6: later into the season and like was like was rocking
Speaker 6: everybody's socks off, and then had the dragons Or was
Speaker 6: introduced like a new thing.
Speaker 5: So I use this to call his dragon Zord.
Speaker 3: How does this work like a flute?
Speaker 6: And like when you do that, he would like play
Speaker 6: this like dagger as like a flute and they would
Speaker 6: call the dragon Zord and then the dragons Or would
Speaker 6: come and it was like this big giant robot dragon
Speaker 6: that would fight alongside the Megasoord and then there's a
Speaker 6: big deal when they both transformed into one, they became
Speaker 6: a dragon Megazord. But I had this toy and then
Speaker 6: so I got this thing as an adult, I keep
Speaker 6: on saying as an adult, and I mean it because
Speaker 6: I am as an adult. I am an adult, I swear,
Speaker 6: But like you know, I still have like all this
Speaker 6: Memorabilian stuff because Bandai, who makes a toy is they
Speaker 6: know that, like my generation grew up watching stuff so
Speaker 6: that now they're like and they called the Legacy line,
Speaker 6: like and here's a legacy Morphers. Yeah, So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: of course I'm gonna buy it. Of course I am.
Speaker 6: There's no way. So I do have the Legacy morph
Speaker 6: like the new one. And I sent my friend Lamar
Speaker 6: who lives in England. Now I was the bloways a
Speaker 6: Blue Ranger. He was always a Black Ranger, so I
Speaker 6: sent him the Black Rangers like Morphers be like, hey,
Speaker 6: I remember this and our power coins. So we're still
Speaker 6: and we're still already so excited when he was so
Speaker 6: excited because I mean it was our life, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, Like we were upsetsed because we would go,
Speaker 6: especially in the summertime. We would go like one week
Speaker 6: at his house when we can at my house, back
Speaker 6: and forth all summer. You know, I'm talking about like
Speaker 6: watching Power Rangers or watching you know, anime, watching like
Speaker 6: whatever and then like coming up with our own like
Speaker 6: Power Ranger shows and all that. So it was such
Speaker 6: an important part of our lives that extending him this
Speaker 6: thing was like, oh, it's just like a crystallization of
Speaker 6: what our childhood was. And then that's on a sad note,
Speaker 6: the guy who played the Green Ranger, Jason David Frank,
Speaker 6: just passed maybe a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and like because he took his own life, and
Speaker 6: it was really the saddest thing because like it was
Speaker 6: such an important part of me growing up. I like
Speaker 6: remember like the first time he came up on there.
Speaker 6: This was just maybe a few weeks ago. And so
Speaker 6: like me and my my friend Lamar hadn't talked in
Speaker 6: like a while, not not not for any reason, but
Speaker 6: he lives in England and some time difference is hard,
Speaker 6: you know, so like just to like keep up is
Speaker 6: like a hard thing. But like we talked to each
Speaker 6: other and it was like a really nice thing to
Speaker 6: kind of like talk and remember and reminisce on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it was nice in the in the in
Speaker 6: the face of like that really sad thing. I mean,
Speaker 6: I'll just I'll just wait, I just hold on to
Speaker 6: the little more for you know, and if the time comes,
Speaker 6: I'll be ready.
Speaker 2: All right, Well we're going to take a quick commercial break,
Speaker 2: but we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: So the sandwich is said, okay, and we're back.
Speaker 2: So Sam, now we want to play a little game
Speaker 2: with you that is called legit moan or unnecessary grown.
Speaker 3: Legit moan necessary grown.
Speaker 2: And basically this is inspired by a now defunct column
Speaker 2: in our local paper growing up called the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Speaker 2: And there was this section called Monday Moaning that we
Speaker 2: used to read where every Monday the paper would print
Speaker 2: extremely petty complaints that their readers would submit. We used
Speaker 2: to find them very funny as kids, and we find
Speaker 2: them even funnier today as a So we picked a
Speaker 2: few for you and we will decide whether we will
Speaker 2: individually decide whether we think they're legit moans or unnecessary groans.
Speaker 2: And again, these are all at least ten years old, Okay,
Speaker 2: but let's get to it.
Speaker 4: Oah, So I found these this morning. First one is
Speaker 4: from Parma, Ohio. It's a short one. My moan is
Speaker 4: about people cutting grass. I don't know who's lazier, people
Speaker 4: who have their grass cut or people cutting the grass
Speaker 4: with equipment worth ten thousand dollars for a postage stamp
Speaker 4: sized a lot. So this person is upset saying people
Speaker 4: are lazy if they hire someone to cut their yard,
Speaker 4: but also saying people are lazy if they buy a
Speaker 4: lot of equipment to cut a small yard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, I don't know what you want from these people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess they think people should use like more
Speaker 4: equipment that's cut it themselves, but use more pared down equipment.
Speaker 3: If they have a smaller yard. I think that's what
Speaker 3: they're saying.
Speaker 5: I think, Yeah, I think. But like even the complaint
Speaker 5: is like confusing. It is because like you can't be
Speaker 5: at it both.
Speaker 6: If you don't want me used proper equipment, let them,
Speaker 6: then you get somebody professionally.
Speaker 5: To come do that lawn for them.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 6: Also, you're trying to have garden workers and like lawn
Speaker 6: care professionals unemployed out there right, No, I'm unnecessary.
Speaker 1: What do you think I'm saying the same thing.
Speaker 2: If you want people to cut their lawns, you don't
Speaker 2: get to pick their lawnmower, get a grip.
Speaker 3: I cut my lawn, okay, and I have a pretty
Speaker 3: modest lawnmower. It's electric. It's not a big deal. You
Speaker 3: would love you.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so I think I fit in that category
Speaker 4: of having a pretty small setup for my yard. But
Speaker 4: I also would think if I got a nicer lawnmower
Speaker 4: or hire someone to do it, that would be cool.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say, like, that makes me lazy. So I
Speaker 4: think this is a really misguided moan.
Speaker 3: I agree. So I'm going to stay unnecessary grown as well.
Speaker 5: This person has a lot of spare time, and so they're.
Speaker 6: Watching somebody how the lawnmowing goes, and they're like, ah,
Speaker 6: you should do what I do for my line, and
Speaker 6: then all you your gear is too small or too big.
Speaker 5: There shouldn't be that. No.
Speaker 4: I picture this person on their front porch. The person
Speaker 4: next to them has landscapers. He's like, they're lazy. The
Speaker 4: person to ride them has like a riding lawnmower, is like, oh,
Speaker 4: they're lazy and want something else to worry about.
Speaker 1: Find something else exactly that.
Speaker 6: They're out there like cutting each blade individual with scissors.
Speaker 6: See that's you know, the exact height.
Speaker 3: Get real, all right?
Speaker 4: Soving on that one, Vanessa, do you want to read
Speaker 4: that this next one? Is a little bit Halloween theme,
Speaker 4: but I think it's still, you know, just relevant.
Speaker 2: I think it's yeah, yeah, to the gentleman who is
Speaker 2: surprised when trigger treaders discarded his wife's homemade brownies, certainly
Speaker 2: tossing them as garbage into your yard was pretty rude,
Speaker 2: but are you really surprised they weren't eaten. It's a
Speaker 2: shame that your wife's thoughtful efforts went to waste in
Speaker 2: this age of demented people trying to harm children by
Speaker 2: poisoning them or putting pins into their candy. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: allow my daughter to eat homemade brownies unless they were
Speaker 2: from somebody knew well enough to be certain she wouldn't
Speaker 2: come to harm by eating them.
Speaker 1: Stick to store about candy.
Speaker 2: It's much less work for everybody involved, and you can
Speaker 2: be certain it won't go to waste.
Speaker 1: That's from a dinah Ohio.
Speaker 6: I think legitim mo. And they even call out the
Speaker 6: fact that, yes, it's rude to throw it in the
Speaker 6: front lawn, but you shouldn't be given out like to
Speaker 6: strangers baked goods because also who knows allergies?
Speaker 5: We don't know what you're doing with you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree, just don't you know what ma'am. First
Speaker 2: of all, yeah, just buy some candy. Also, get in
Speaker 2: or get.
Speaker 5: Out, in or get out, you know exactly.
Speaker 2: Jonah and I have talked about, you know, there are
Speaker 2: worse things to be given, including pennies and apples, which
Speaker 2: we've gotten none, yes Halloween and those are But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think this person has a very it's a Legiti moan.
Speaker 1: I think this is a good point.
Speaker 2: Like you just in this day and age, you can't
Speaker 2: be making your homemade brownies. Yeah, there's Yeah, aside from
Speaker 2: just even if we trust this woman, we don't know
Speaker 2: her well enough to have a list of ingredients.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, or even if they're posted, like can we
Speaker 6: really true? Like who's the overseeing I that's like making
Speaker 6: sure she's using these ingredients?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, what's the standard here?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 5: I bet it goes back in this thing.
Speaker 6: Like I'm sure her husband or whatever her neighbor was
Speaker 6: like it's lazy to buy candy.
Speaker 5: You gotta make it yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just let's get over this lazy and let's let's
Speaker 6: use the things that we can.
Speaker 5: Buy to make all of our lives easy. Yes, that
Speaker 5: is capitalism.
Speaker 3: Capitalism support it.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I think the tone of the letter
Speaker 4: is harsh to the gentleman, like in this age of
Speaker 4: demented people, Like it's like very kind of traumatic.
Speaker 3: It feels like.
Speaker 2: Also it feels a little bit like how did this
Speaker 2: guy find this out? Like did this other guy that
Speaker 2: confide in it, or like did this other guy tell him?
Speaker 2: And instead of him being like, I think it's okay,
Speaker 2: like she should like be just buying candy, he decided
Speaker 2: to just go straight to Monday Morning with that opinion.
Speaker 4: Right right, Sorry to I interrupted you, It's okay. I
Speaker 4: was just actually just watching Freaks and Geeks and there's
Speaker 4: an episode of the mom like baked stuff and none
Speaker 4: of the kids will eat it, and you know, it's
Speaker 4: kind of sad for her. And I do think like
Speaker 4: there can be a nice sentiment of like wanting to
Speaker 4: make something and do something special. But yeah, it just
Speaker 4: feels like that time has just kind of passed and
Speaker 4: we need to kind of accept it. And a lot
Speaker 4: of these Monday Moons are people who are very stuck
Speaker 4: in the past. It's just not the way things are now.
Speaker 4: Just buy some candy, it's just easier. Just make your
Speaker 4: life easier. You know, you don't need to cut every
Speaker 4: blade of grass, you don't need to bake brownies.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, you're grouping these people together. Why am I
Speaker 2: being such an asshole today? I'm like I'm making all
Speaker 2: these like observations that are so like, okay.
Speaker 3: So what do we think that we think this is
Speaker 3: a legit moon? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I think it's okay.
Speaker 5: The messaging is harsh, but the message is salient.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, okay, exactly, fair, very well put this.
Speaker 4: Is the last one. This in short, but sweet Lynnhurst, Ohio.
Speaker 4: I wish neighbors on either side of me would tend
Speaker 4: to their own business and not mine. I mean, what
Speaker 4: do you think, Sam, I feel like we're missing a
Speaker 4: little bit of context.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly, I think so too.
Speaker 6: Then you're like, it's on either side of you that's
Speaker 6: a problem. I was maybe on either side of me
Speaker 6: and the police and the chop protective services would just
Speaker 6: get off my back.
Speaker 5: I think you're not giving us the whole picture here, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, yeah, tough one to judge.
Speaker 4: And also, yeah, it's interesting to write this into a
Speaker 4: local paper and not provide it.
Speaker 2: That was my first thought was, like, yes, do you
Speaker 2: have a friend or is there Yeah, I think if
Speaker 2: I can take a leap here.
Speaker 4: The logic is maybe my neighbors will see this and
Speaker 4: they will know it's me, and it's like a subtle message.
Speaker 2: My only thing about that is almost everybody in Lyndhurst,
Speaker 2: Ohio has neighbors on either side of them. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, unless you live on you know, the first
Speaker 2: house on the street or something like that. So and
Speaker 2: even in that case, you might be on a corner
Speaker 2: where there are people on either side. So the point is,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into the way the city
Speaker 2: is divided, but I just want to say, yeah, it
Speaker 2: is really unless this person is always telling their neighbors
Speaker 2: how much they love Monday Moaning and love to write
Speaker 2: into it, right, or if they purposely plan to write
Speaker 2: this and then say, did you see Monday Moaning today
Speaker 2: one of my complaints got posted.
Speaker 3: It could be it could be a little too subtle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or like in my head.
Speaker 6: They try to do that, and then they got a
Speaker 6: little nervous about it, so they wrote in like some
Speaker 6: details and like that's too obvious, and describe the thing
Speaker 6: out line by line until that was all.
Speaker 5: That was left.
Speaker 2: They kept cutting out the details until there was literally
Speaker 2: just my neighbors with mind their own.
Speaker 6: Business, so many ex's on that paper, just lines crossed out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is truly a hard one to judge.
Speaker 2: But just based on this person's coping mechanisms with when
Speaker 2: they're faced with neighbors they're not crazy about, I feel
Speaker 2: like it's hard for me to support it because, yeah,
Speaker 2: unless you know, sometimes we've once found like a continuation
Speaker 2: of like someone responded to someone else's.
Speaker 3: Oh really Monday moaning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like I wonder if this person would respond
Speaker 2: to their own moaning like the next week and say, like,
Speaker 2: just to be a little more specific, this is who
Speaker 2: I am, and these are the specific things that happened, and.
Speaker 1: Like you know who you are neighbors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's something that I made up that it
Speaker 2: probably didn't happen. So in that case, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call this an unnecessary groan just because it's it's too general.
Speaker 3: I agree, Sam, what do we think.
Speaker 6: I'm going to say unecessary groan because it truly, quite
Speaker 6: literally you're groaning, but there's no details. Unnecessary, you haven't
Speaker 6: said anything, so it's unnecessary.
Speaker 4: I'm going to agree with both of you. And I
Speaker 4: think by calling this legitimate, you're really rewarding this like
Speaker 4: the most like passive aggressive way to the problems. And
Speaker 4: I just cannot, I can't put my stamp on that.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, un this, they're grown all the way on
Speaker 4: this one.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 6: And if this was a herald, each of those scenes,
Speaker 6: the semlets would have been about all three of the houses.
Speaker 6: And then so the one in the center it has
Speaker 6: the lawn that's not taken care of, or it has
Speaker 6: a lawn that a complicated, a lawnmower, and then big brownies,
Speaker 6: and the one on one side is complaining about the lawnmower,
Speaker 6: and one the other side is complaining about the brownies.
Speaker 5: And then that's how it all comes together. The last act.
Speaker 6: All it makes one big scene where you've seen all
Speaker 6: the little things and they all come together that last
Speaker 6: one complain about it, and this is the letter. The
Speaker 6: person's like, get off my back seeing, Oh my god, incredible.
Speaker 2: And then at the end they go, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for coming tonight. Be sure to tip your bartenders.
Speaker 2: They're going to use that money to pay for dumb things.
Speaker 5: Like rent and insolin.
Speaker 2: They use it room stuff like college dues and those
Speaker 2: dude's rent support inlent insolent. So okay, So Sam, what
Speaker 2: a delight this has been?
Speaker 3: And where can people find you?
Speaker 6: You can find me on the IG. I'm on the IG,
Speaker 6: you know, the Sam Richardson. I don't really use Twitter
Speaker 6: because I don't like to type things.
Speaker 5: You can find me on Twitter, I guess. And just
Speaker 5: like you know, the after Party, you seem an after party.
Speaker 3: After party, yes, and just other various shows.
Speaker 5: Go back watch Detroiters, watch Champagnel.
Speaker 2: Oh, Champagne Ill. Yes, I didn't mention that's so funny.
Speaker 2: And and Detroiter is just if people haven't seen it,
Speaker 2: it's absolutely a hilarious work of art.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, okay, is that okay with you?
Speaker 6: All?
Speaker 5: Okay with you all? You know?
Speaker 1: Are you all cool with that?
Speaker 5: I hope that's fine with you? And I hope you're
Speaker 5: all right with it. I'll say, Also, go see Office
Speaker 5: Christmas Party if you've got it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god, the time they spent
Speaker 2: in Atlanta doing Office Christmas Party together.
Speaker 1: Who could ever forget?
Speaker 3: Who could ever forget?
Speaker 5: Get?
Speaker 2: The Times Confederate Cemetery across from our hotel and being like, look,
Speaker 2: we probably shouldn't be here.
Speaker 6: You know, there was like a cannon, a Confederate cannon
Speaker 6: that was pointed directly at the elevators. When you get
Speaker 6: off the elevator, you're faced by a cannon that was
Speaker 6: used to kill.
Speaker 5: I'd say, hundreds of soldiers.
Speaker 2: Very spooky, scary for us.
Speaker 5: And they would do like demonstrations and stuff and like
Speaker 5: have reenactments.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they would do demonstrations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was like a big Confederate funeral reenactment or something.
Speaker 3: One day, and yeah, I thought we'll steer clear of
Speaker 3: that wild Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the memories.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much Sam for joining us today.
Speaker 3: That was so much.
Speaker 5: It has been the best. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It has been so much fun.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, this has been incredible, and we wanted
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