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Speaker 3: Enjoying the episode, Welcome back to Artists on Artists on
Speaker 3: Artists on Artists. This week on the show, we have
Speaker 3: some fun artists artists that work alone.
Speaker 5: It's one people shows.
Speaker 1: Solo shows are a specific art form where one person
Speaker 1: puts on an entire play by themselves. One man shows,
Speaker 1: one woman shows, one people shows. They're specific to the
Speaker 1: artist and reveal a lot about them.
Speaker 3: Whether it's talking about your traumatic life backstory or doing
Speaker 3: a musical all by yourself. These musicals and plays are
Speaker 3: tour deforces.
Speaker 1: So sit back, relax, and get ready for no intermission.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in. Wow, unbelievable. I'm so excited to be
Speaker 1: with you guys.
Speaker 4: This is literally so cool.
Speaker 1: This is so cool.
Speaker 4: I can feel the artist's energy and the house tonight.
Speaker 6: Syah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: This is well.
Speaker 4: Also, can I just say, like, right off the bat,
Speaker 4: like working on a solo show can be so isolating, right,
Speaker 4: it can be the most isolating experience and unless you
Speaker 4: have a director like bounce things off of like, it's
Speaker 4: just you and the work all day long. And so
Speaker 4: to see other people who are going through this city.
Speaker 1: It's so good. I love books. I always say I
Speaker 1: always say, who's my biggest biggest critic? My journal? There,
Speaker 1: I'm like, who's my second biggest critic?
Speaker 5: All my tech cues, Yes, it's.
Speaker 4: My biggest critic.
Speaker 1: My cue lab file huge.
Speaker 6: I think my biggest critic is probably Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whoa Christ critic?
Speaker 6: Christ? Is your critic.
Speaker 2: He doesn't.
Speaker 4: He's not with you.
Speaker 6: Oh he is with me, is with me all the time.
Speaker 6: And as someone who you know, sort of going into
Speaker 6: this journey and sort of making my own show, sort
Speaker 6: of telling me story and sort of being a vulnerable
Speaker 6: in that way, it's it's really crazy to sort of
Speaker 6: have this experience and to think to yourself as you're
Speaker 6: on stage and you're thinking, Wow, that's my purpose. Literally chills,
Speaker 6: I know, And that's God.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel like a theater magic work for me personally.
Speaker 4: I think I think the work is like living for sure.
Speaker 1: It's work for sure.
Speaker 7: The audience too.
Speaker 4: Theater aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, and I just want to say thank you,
Speaker 1: Like we were joking around for you to bring us
Speaker 1: to a like for me, for you to bring me
Speaker 1: to a place that reminded me of the importance of
Speaker 1: what we are doing as individuals. Really reminded me the
Speaker 1: importance of what we're doing. Ye, the beauty and the
Speaker 1: art and the I mean Dionysus, you know, to pay
Speaker 1: homage to the Greek god himself.
Speaker 5: The god of theater and tradition.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, but thank you and wine and why did
Speaker 8: you have more to say all.
Speaker 1: That I did, but it's all right. I just wanted to.
Speaker 6: Piggyback off that for a second. You know, you sort
Speaker 6: of mentioned dan Isis and although we do kind of
Speaker 6: in terms of theater and sort of like the old
Speaker 6: world and sort of like you know, you think about
Speaker 6: like the old like Roman Greek choruses and stuff like that,
Speaker 6: but at the same time, I do I do kind
Speaker 6: of want to steer away from talking about like other
Speaker 6: deities totally because I do think just if I could
Speaker 6: just I just wanted to say that, like, in terms
Speaker 6: of telling a story and being on stage by yourself
Speaker 6: and being one directed with source, that is sort of
Speaker 6: the main energy at play. That is sort of like
Speaker 6: the drop in story, right, And if you're in the
Speaker 6: drop in story, then you're in the drop in phase.
Speaker 2: If I could just say too, like, and I totally
Speaker 2: respect your faith, but to be honest, I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's not about faith.
Speaker 1: It's about source, Okay, So I respect your source.
Speaker 7: But for relationship, so I respect your relationship.
Speaker 2: There's just a lot of them, So I think I
Speaker 2: want to leave open room space for that, if I.
Speaker 6: Can ask you for a second, because I'm the kind
Speaker 6: of person I'm just so like just so like curious
Speaker 6: about people.
Speaker 5: That's so, yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a curious little kitten.
Speaker 6: I can ask, I know, but I'm speaking if I
Speaker 6: could ask, what is your show about?
Speaker 1: So my show is about your show? Like I've heard
Speaker 1: about all your shows. I haven't been able to see
Speaker 1: any of them. I'm really excited to, like, so you
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great, Yeah, So my show is called My
Speaker 2: Messy Exes and it's my relationship with every religion. Right,
Speaker 2: I've tried every religion in my life, and I basically
Speaker 2: come out as every single god you've ever heard, and
Speaker 2: I perform as some sort of messy X like you're
Speaker 2: on tender Like I'm an ex calling you back like
Speaker 2: on a bad date.
Speaker 7: So I do Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is messy and sloppy and is really guilty
Speaker 2: and toxic.
Speaker 1: Right, And then I come out as Vishnu.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 2: And then I come out as Muhammad, and then I
Speaker 2: come out as you know, you come out.
Speaker 1: As you do because for me, I've tried them all. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'd come out as every single type and you.
Speaker 4: And how long were you practicing Islam?
Speaker 7: For about six months in college.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you can, and so you would know that
Speaker 1: the biggest gravest you can do is babe.
Speaker 4: Genuinely, like maybe one of the most disrespectful things you
Speaker 4: can of course.
Speaker 2: And guess what, but I go there right like just
Speaker 2: sweet Charlie, you know what I mean, Like I'm like, Charlie,
Speaker 2: hebdo Oh.
Speaker 1: God, oh god.
Speaker 8: Okay, So one thing I do like about you, Okay,
Speaker 8: I'm interesting and I push the boundaries like that's for
Speaker 8: me solo shows, I push the boundaries and you walk
Speaker 8: in and there I am, and I'm breastfeeding, like literally
Speaker 8: breastfeeding and frank like that's what I'm using.
Speaker 4: Well, it's okay because I'll be real. We were all
Speaker 4: the other night where we did Jolly Fringe Sampler, which
Speaker 4: is a show where you do ten minutes of each
Speaker 4: show and it's sort of like an advertisement to get
Speaker 4: people out to see your show. And picking ten minutes
Speaker 4: out of one hour was so hard, but you your
Speaker 4: ten minutes was so interesting because it like it you
Speaker 4: got all of these texts to come up from all
Speaker 4: the gods and they were texting you like it was
Speaker 4: really hooty calls and it was like really funny.
Speaker 2: The different gods trying to booty call me and try
Speaker 2: to get me to have sex with them aka part
Speaker 2: of their religion, because religion to me is a sex cult.
Speaker 7: Anyways, my name is.
Speaker 2: A Chauncey feather Butt, and I'm so excited to be here,
Speaker 2: and I love pushing the boundaries like South Park has
Speaker 2: gone limp and it's time for me to step in.
Speaker 5: That's I've never heard anybody say something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to be edgier and I want
Speaker 2: to go pushing it and I'm loving doing it. I
Speaker 2: want to apologize. I think you've gone behind me. I
Speaker 2: want to polize for going forty minutes long.
Speaker 1: It's all right, I'm totally all right. It's okay, it's
Speaker 1: all right. Speak. I guess I'll go.
Speaker 6: I thought we were okay.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no you go.
Speaker 6: No, no, you.
Speaker 7: Have a discuestion because I've really wanting to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I think you should go.
Speaker 6: No no, no, no, no, no no no seriously seriously you go
Speaker 6: no seriously no.
Speaker 4: No no you Yeah, I don't have to tagle.
Speaker 7: I can't.
Speaker 6: I can't go honestly, I can go last, you can
Speaker 6: go next. I can go last. It is not a
Speaker 6: big My name is.
Speaker 4: Daisy Man and I am the author, creator, director, lighting designer,
Speaker 4: marketing designer, social media coordinator, choreographer, musician and director.
Speaker 1: Of the solo show To.
Speaker 4: Hell and Back. And this is about It's about my journey.
Speaker 5: Don't cry, I'll cry stop. I'm gonna get through this.
Speaker 4: I've done eighteen shows already. I have to be able
Speaker 4: to get through.
Speaker 5: This without crying.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When I was twelve years old, I was fully set
Speaker 4: at school in Beverly Hills. I had friends, I had
Speaker 4: everything I could ever wanted. And then my family moved
Speaker 4: me to San Diego. Fuck, and my entire world was
Speaker 4: flipped upside down overnight.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden.
Speaker 4: My peers were not child stars, working actors, photographers, models, artists.
Speaker 4: They were surfers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so hard, and in San Diego is fucking
Speaker 6: awful it thank you for saying that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it is hell. And so it's a mix
Speaker 4: of storytelling, a little bit of song. It's also a
Speaker 4: little bit of I pay homage to the odyssey as well,
Speaker 4: because moving to San Diego was sort of my odyssey
Speaker 4: and uh, so far, Yeah, it's so far, and so
Speaker 4: it really was this this sort of like hellish journey
Speaker 4: that I am really excited to tell on stage. And
Speaker 4: I'm just can't believe that I get the opportunity to
Speaker 4: do so, can.
Speaker 3: I say, like you taking the hellish journey back and
Speaker 3: reliving it every night on stage?
Speaker 5: I can't imagine the.
Speaker 3: Cathartic energy you're having this summer, like the cathartic transformation
Speaker 3: you're having.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's been a lot of healing, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: And I know that, like I know, I know, I
Speaker 4: know solo show is not therapy. A solo show is
Speaker 4: not therapy.
Speaker 6: That's like it is, right, Yeah, I'm sorry. Can I
Speaker 6: hug you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I'd actually love that.
Speaker 6: I just sort of feel like like it's tuned. Like
Speaker 6: I'm just I don't want to like give you just
Speaker 6: like a little bit of love, no, honestly, because and
Speaker 6: I wanted to thank you, like thank you for sharing
Speaker 6: that story and thank you for being but because a
Speaker 6: lot of receptives are not vulnerable like that, but you are,
Speaker 6: and so I do appreciate you being.
Speaker 4: I just like I just like so much coming from you, of.
Speaker 6: Course, and I just want to share I'm like, I
Speaker 6: love you like just sort of an a jentle.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, can I say that I love you?
Speaker 1: My god.
Speaker 6: I feel like we would love to do like goat
Speaker 6: yoga together.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, yoga.
Speaker 1: Actually I've got.
Speaker 4: Dog yoga yoga.
Speaker 6: I'll do whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: I'd love to hang out and get coffee or something. Say,
Speaker 6: of course, are we done, guys, We're done.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say.
Speaker 6: That, what were you guys texting each other?
Speaker 1: Nothing? No, we were texting, you were I wasn't texting.
Speaker 1: I I'm not on anybody's text threats. So what it's
Speaker 1: all right? I'm kind of is the text the text
Speaker 1: third killer? I've post a meme or something like that,
Speaker 1: and for some reason it just goes silent.
Speaker 5: I think somebody only said that like once.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, maybe, well I guess I'll go. My name
Speaker 1: is Spencer Ruffian and my show is called own Nuts.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a crazy show about the exploration of
Speaker 1: like nuts, and I use nuts on stage kind of
Speaker 1: like show and ultimately really it's like this funny like
Speaker 1: clown show about like nuts. But really what it's about
Speaker 1: is like, am I straight?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 7: Because you read about clown classes, right?
Speaker 1: I read about clown classes. That sounds so fun, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford it because headshots and like acting classes
Speaker 1: and comercial classes and so I couldn't afford it. So
Speaker 1: I was like, I will take it by doing. I
Speaker 1: will do my own show to take a clown class,
Speaker 1: because like that's la, that's like the grind set. That's
Speaker 1: you need to like.
Speaker 3: When you want to learn a language and you have
Speaker 3: to go to like a nut their country and just
Speaker 3: like fall into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like my show is like ultimately like am
Speaker 1: I straight? Because it's like a question I've had for
Speaker 1: a long time and the good the good or bad news?
Speaker 1: Is I am straight?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, oh my god, you spoiled the egg.
Speaker 1: Well, like it's like the spoiler helps.
Speaker 4: You can say, can I give you a compliment? Your
Speaker 4: stage is so messy after thank you? Do you shower
Speaker 4: on the floor?
Speaker 1: It is covered in any imagine nutshells covered in loop.
Speaker 5: And that's like your skin, like you are cad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of like an ugly little gremlin creature
Speaker 1: covered in like puss and stuff like that that discovers
Speaker 1: a nut and it just goes but zoinkers from there
Speaker 1: and the things you.
Speaker 7: Ask the audience to do I've never seen anyone ask no.
Speaker 1: The best thing about my shows is one, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see my penis. Two, I'm gonna make somebody in the
Speaker 1: audience so deeply uncomfortable they'll question their own sanity. And
Speaker 1: three at one point at the end of the show,
Speaker 1: you'll be moved like that's again.
Speaker 6: I really liked the opening scene when you kind of
Speaker 6: hatch out of that egg. Yes, I thought that.
Speaker 1: Was really beautiful because like for me, that was like
Speaker 1: my that was the question, this looming question, hatching out
Speaker 1: of the egg? Am I straight?
Speaker 3: Can I ask what the like what the significance of
Speaker 3: making the audience member the nut chugger?
Speaker 1: Like, I just think that's funny, Like like it just.
Speaker 3: Feels weird to give one audience member like all this
Speaker 3: bucket of nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to chug there the chug nut chugger, And it's
Speaker 1: like hard because it's like big hazel nuts, Like they
Speaker 1: can't chug a hazel nut.
Speaker 4: Have you ever had someone say no to being the
Speaker 4: nut chugging?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awkward.
Speaker 7: Does that happen?
Speaker 1: It's so funny it happened once. I know you can't
Speaker 1: say no. What did you do Yeah, I said, I
Speaker 1: gave it to them anyway, and they loved it, I think.
Speaker 1: And then so everyone else has been chugging nuts. Everybody
Speaker 1: else's kind of then sat there going like what do
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 6: And I what if someone's allergic to nuts?
Speaker 1: Chugging a nuts? What chugged? Oh?
Speaker 5: This is you playing like the closet version of yes
Speaker 5: do I like?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: When you switch back and forth between the closet version
Speaker 4: and the outside version.
Speaker 1: Like literally it's like like, oh, yeah, I guess I'm
Speaker 1: just like, uh yeah, I'll see you later. Richard. He's
Speaker 1: that my best friend. I like his nuts. There. I
Speaker 1: was wondering what was going to happen for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life the way Yeah, I saw that. That
Speaker 1: was crazy.
Speaker 6: Sorry, sorry, No you can you can go if you
Speaker 6: want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to go? No?
Speaker 6: No, no, no you can go.
Speaker 2: I can go.
Speaker 6: No no, no, I can go last. It's okay, No
Speaker 6: you should go. No no, no, I can go last.
Speaker 6: But you weren't done, and I don't want to step
Speaker 6: on your time.
Speaker 1: I was so I was done yesterday, Queen can I can.
Speaker 6: Everyone's getting I just sort of feel so like moved
Speaker 6: by your story nice and I just I mean, it
Speaker 6: must be really really hard to like question your sexuality
Speaker 6: like that, you know what I mean, like really really hard.
Speaker 1: I felt like the process was super vulnerable, and.
Speaker 6: Like it's just beautiful, like real really vulnerable.
Speaker 7: It's amazing you found at the end you're not.
Speaker 6: Gay, Yeah, to sort of come right back around like yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Sometimes like when you ask a question, you already know
Speaker 1: the answer. But I had to do all that soul
Speaker 1: searching because I feel like for my career had been
Speaker 1: like so much better if I was by.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well queer is really like in right now really so.
Speaker 4: One person shows Yeah, it would make the whole process
Speaker 4: so much easier, really, you know, the whole solo show
Speaker 4: process so much easier.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: What I keep finding is that the appetite for watching
Speaker 7: people talk about.
Speaker 1: Being by is really huge huge.
Speaker 2: People are excited when it's brought up at any sort
Speaker 2: of show, and they love when they dive into it.
Speaker 1: Because it's Yeah.
Speaker 3: My favorite part though, is when you finally say that
Speaker 3: you are not gay, and if the nutshrug is finished
Speaker 3: with the bucket of nuts at the bottom of the
Speaker 3: nut bucket, it says not get.
Speaker 1: So you could get it spoiled earlier.
Speaker 6: You have to to get through all of the nuts
Speaker 6: to figure out, like where.
Speaker 1: It was my journey, Like I had to get through
Speaker 1: all of the nuts to realize I'm straight. That's amazing, Like,
Speaker 1: I thought that was so cool.
Speaker 6: It was really beautiful.
Speaker 1: That actually came to me in a dream. Well, like
Speaker 1: I would. I would I would like the idea that
Speaker 1: it came to me in a dream, If that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that, I would like, Like, I think that
Speaker 4: would be a cool idea that.
Speaker 3: The idea of it being in a dream, Well to
Speaker 3: be if I had a dream like this, that's a
Speaker 3: dream itself.
Speaker 6: Dream, that's a day dream. Thank you, that's a day dream.
Speaker 6: Gave me in a day dream, because every every thought
Speaker 6: is a dream within itself, and every thought is sort.
Speaker 1: Of a is a prayer to sorce I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: taking up too much space right now. One of you
Speaker 1: have to introduce yourself.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, you got this. I'm sorry, I'm just like
Speaker 6: kind of nervous. It's okay if I go right, yes, yes,
Speaker 6: this is your Okay. My name is Sydney Keivler and
Speaker 6: mothhemer and uh and my one woman show my One
Speaker 6: Girl Show, One Lady show, I guess I should say,
Speaker 6: is called Bully question Mark, and it's about the fact
Speaker 6: that a lot of people that I went to school
Speaker 6: with do claim that I was a very violent bully
Speaker 6: to them. I don't necessarily remember it that way. If
Speaker 6: if you were to push me up against a wall,
Speaker 6: and that sort of be my answer, And so it's
Speaker 6: sort of it's sort of an exploration of lost memory
Speaker 6: and sort of an exploration of grief.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just touching me and of finding you know,
Speaker 6: those that those that think you bully are sometimes just
Speaker 6: bullying themselves and it has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1: Literally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will play just so just because I you know,
Speaker 2: play the devil in my show, because I was saying
Speaker 2: this for a bit, I want to play Devil's advocate
Speaker 2: a little bit here.
Speaker 6: Of course, this is interesting.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, do it as your Devil's Advocate character.
Speaker 7: Devil's advocate, I'm thet is.
Speaker 1: The devil gay, the Devil's gay in mind his advocate
Speaker 1: is also gay.
Speaker 5: The advocate is also did you use Alexander technique for that?
Speaker 6: I did, Yeah, I could tell you, you know I
Speaker 6: did as well.
Speaker 1: Amazing, So I just want.
Speaker 6: There's also a singing aspect as well, and then at
Speaker 6: the end I do an interpretive ribbon dance about the
Speaker 6: first time I got my period.
Speaker 2: Right, So just real quickly, thank you for Devil's Advocate, Right,
Speaker 2: Like you say, like you you portray the people who
Speaker 2: are accusing you of bullying you, but you portray them
Speaker 2: in a way that if I was that person, I
Speaker 2: think I might perceive it as bullying.
Speaker 6: Well, so I portrayed the people that have come forward
Speaker 6: in the last ten years or so that have come
Speaker 6: forward and have said that I was a bully. I
Speaker 6: portrayed them as dirty little.
Speaker 1: Rats, right, So like maybe, like you, when you read
Speaker 1: the deposition, can you do that?
Speaker 6: So the first rats, so I'm in sort of like
Speaker 6: this New York alleyway when I was in theater school,
Speaker 6: and so it's called Rat number one for those of
Speaker 6: you that have seen it's it's the rat number one piece.
Speaker 6: And so when Rat number one comes on and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I can't let.
Speaker 1: Me die.
Speaker 6: Day, and so that sort of signals that, you know,
Speaker 6: you go to school, maybe maybe you think someone's being
Speaker 6: a bully to you just because they're blond, and just
Speaker 6: because their dad is a dentist, and I was blonde
Speaker 6: and my my dad was My.
Speaker 5: Dad was a dentist. My dad was for real the
Speaker 5: show I saw your show. I had no idea that's true.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, my my dad is a dentist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my dad is.
Speaker 6: My dad really crazy?
Speaker 4: What a small world? I just mean, likest.
Speaker 5: No, I just can't believe it.
Speaker 4: I just can't believe it.
Speaker 6: You've been to the dentist.
Speaker 1: I've been to the dentist. That's insane that your dad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so all like whatever dentists Like, you've been to
Speaker 6: the dentists.
Speaker 5: You know what they do, Like my dad does that.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like I literally you kind of.
Speaker 4: Like forget that, like all the drilling and all that stuff,
Speaker 4: like someone's dad does that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and it's crazy. You wrote truth.
Speaker 6: I did reade truth, and so you know then that
Speaker 6: sort of brings me back to you know, my relationship
Speaker 6: like God and my relationship and faith of faith and sours.
Speaker 6: I call it sours because I do want to be
Speaker 6: non denominational. I don't want to be I don't want
Speaker 6: to be disrespectful towards anybody because I'm not. I'm actually
Speaker 6: a very kind hearted person. I actually have not been
Speaker 6: mean to anybody, and I think you prove it.
Speaker 4: In your show by reading the Bible for ten street men.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Yes, that's the Bible piece. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 6: love it.
Speaker 1: I guess like you were like the Spada sat and
Speaker 1: you are so ungodly and then boom cut one light.
Speaker 6: Yeah you read and yeah, it actually turns out they
Speaker 6: were wrong.
Speaker 1: They were an interesting that that would be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't, I haven't. I haven't seen your show.
Speaker 1: You have to see it. Yeah, you have to come
Speaker 1: to my show.
Speaker 6: I would love to have to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. I'm getting you a ticket.
Speaker 9: I saw it.
Speaker 3: I saw a preview preview of it at I p
Speaker 3: A and plays for days for days, so bad. It's
Speaker 3: just like a fun day activity that's really nice.
Speaker 5: And you can see other.
Speaker 1: People's work and go ahead introduce yours. So did you?
Speaker 6: I was gonna? Does anyone have any questions or.
Speaker 5: I don't even know about the wedgie costume?
Speaker 6: No, honestly, you go, are you sure?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: No? No you go, but it's okay, No, no you go,
Speaker 6: Like honestly, I don't want to like know you go? No,
Speaker 6: seriously and.
Speaker 1: Reached out.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was wondering about the voices, if it's like
Speaker 4: impressions of actual people, or if it's in the.
Speaker 7: Video you show of you actually pushing a woman into
Speaker 7: a dumpster.
Speaker 5: But it looks reversed, looks like.
Speaker 1: You're pulling her out.
Speaker 7: It looks like but then a bird flies backwards, so
Speaker 7: you can tell.
Speaker 5: It's rewind, so you can tell that you're kind of
Speaker 5: taking the foot something that.
Speaker 9: You did.
Speaker 7: The dumpster.
Speaker 6: No, I did pull her out.
Speaker 5: But what what do you have to say to the
Speaker 5: claims that it's that it's in reverse?
Speaker 6: That's not true.
Speaker 5: So why is that bird going the going back? Bol
Speaker 5: sports are not real? You one of those?
Speaker 1: So that's it's a.
Speaker 6: Well, it's not ai. AI is really bad for the environment.
Speaker 6: Actually nice, Honestly, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't want to. Honestly, it's it's so nice being
Speaker 6: here and I don't want to take it too much time,
Speaker 6: And I really didn't want to step on your toes.
Speaker 6: It's okay, you've been waiting so long. Can I can
Speaker 6: I just take a second? Can I just give you
Speaker 6: a hug really quickly?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Can I just like before? We I just kind of
Speaker 6: feel I'm pulled to you.
Speaker 10: Can I give Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 10: am like, I am like yeah, wow, wow, thank you
Speaker 10: so much for that.
Speaker 5: Of course, what did you see your name on?
Speaker 6: Was again Sydney, Sydney Key Blair Mothamer.
Speaker 5: Piece of Sydney's in my heart? Hi God, where do
Speaker 5: I start? My name is Quinn.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm gonna go ahead. That's okay. So what this
Speaker 1: is all exposed with? Like I always say a solo
Speaker 1: show is more like an exposed wound than a bruce.
Speaker 1: I can always say that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have, I'm called me and my producers were
Speaker 3: calling it the goth girl show, Like instead of a
Speaker 3: one girl, a one woman show, it's a one goth
Speaker 3: girl show, one girl just a little because like I
Speaker 3: don't know if anyone listens at home, but fringes kind
Speaker 3: of like there's a lot of marketing behind it, and
Speaker 3: there's like what makes yours different? Right, Like there's so
Speaker 3: many different shows. Yeah, and my show's pretty simple. It's
Speaker 3: a car play. So you get in the car with
Speaker 3: me and I'm just a woman going a girl, a
Speaker 3: girl going through it in her car and you get
Speaker 3: to sit in the back and just drive with me
Speaker 3: for forty five minutes and you get to really see
Speaker 3: what girls are going through when they're alone.
Speaker 1: And this show, like it really I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 4: It's just so unbelievable because you know that, like you know,
Speaker 4: but when you get in the car, like you're driving
Speaker 4: to TJ Max. Yeah, and like we see in the
Speaker 4: visuals like TJ Max getting closer and closer and closer
Speaker 4: and closer, and it just like brings me to tears
Speaker 4: that like I didn't want to get to TJ Max
Speaker 4: because I was enjoying the ride so much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you guys. And it's hard.
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to do like a car play and really,
Speaker 3: like I think what what inspires me right now is naturalism.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 3: When I see a real faucet on stage, I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's what our forefathers wanted theater to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so you're like you're in your real car.
Speaker 5: I in my real car.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what's amazing about it, like new stage, right,
Speaker 2: Like I'd love to do my show in.
Speaker 5: Your car, Like yeah, yeah, I mean it's asking the question.
Speaker 5: Like everything's stage is asking the question.
Speaker 7: Everything's a stage.
Speaker 5: It's asking the question. This is a stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is a stage and sometimes the most
Speaker 3: private parts of our lives in the car, in the bathroom,
Speaker 3: it's asking the question.
Speaker 5: That's a stake.
Speaker 7: It is brave that you you let the audience. I think,
Speaker 7: what's crazy about this?
Speaker 2: And I want to know how you even handle this
Speaker 2: that you do this, You let them control the ox
Speaker 2: cord because I saw I saw that on the Instagram
Speaker 2: that you were saying, Hey, I don't know who sent
Speaker 2: this to some teen group, but a lot of kids
Speaker 2: are getting in here and playing fart noises in my
Speaker 2: whole show, Like please stop, Like how do you stay
Speaker 2: in the zone crying driving around when like fart you know,
Speaker 2: forty five minutes of farting is happening.
Speaker 5: No, I want to talk to you guys about this.
Speaker 3: I think I'd love to talk about like I think
Speaker 3: I would I would love to just like dive into
Speaker 3: the fact that like doing a show in rap, doing
Speaker 3: a show that.
Speaker 5: Many times yeah, oh my gosh, like it depends on.
Speaker 3: Who's the nutchugger that day and who has the ox
Speaker 3: cord that day. My show is changing every time. I know,
Speaker 3: this is crazy when I say it, but I don't
Speaker 3: think I've ever done a show that was similar to
Speaker 3: the last one.
Speaker 4: That is related well, and like the audience really changes it,
Speaker 4: you know, like sometimes you have as few as just
Speaker 4: two people in your audience yea. And then sometimes you
Speaker 4: have as many as from like you have you can
Speaker 4: have as you could have, like more than you can
Speaker 4: have more than that ye in your audience as well.
Speaker 5: And can I say something, yeah, like way more like
Speaker 5: how many have you have?
Speaker 9: You felt like it was like, oh my gosh, Like
Speaker 9: I mean it could be as few as too or
Speaker 9: or more or way more yeah, way, way, way, way way,
Speaker 9: And like when when it's when it's like when it's
Speaker 9: like half when it's when it's when when there's like
Speaker 9: butts in seats, Like you feel the energy in the room.
Speaker 1: It's like butts in seats. It's like that's what it's
Speaker 1: actually all about. What's the biggest house you guys have
Speaker 1: had so far?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, when I sell out it's three seats
Speaker 3: like crazy, Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I actually had it in the middle.
Speaker 6: I had a back to back sold out show. I
Speaker 6: think it was three hundred seats. The first thing.
Speaker 5: Really, that's great that's my dad invited.
Speaker 6: That's really cool.
Speaker 4: And you and you have like producer backing right, Well,
Speaker 4: my you have like a company. I like a company
Speaker 4: that's backing in my dad. You have like a producer,
Speaker 4: you have like a lot of money behind it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean I don't want to like, you know,
Speaker 6: sort of like let's talk about money. That's my My dad,
Speaker 6: who's a dentist, is also a producer. But what I
Speaker 6: was going to say is that, and I feel like
Speaker 6: a lot of people don't point this out, is that
Speaker 6: theater is alive.
Speaker 1: Yes, why haven't we been saying that?
Speaker 5: No, Like you are so right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is that group of kids that like the
Speaker 3: entire version of my play. Like we sold out one night,
Speaker 3: and when we sell out, we sold three tickets, right,
Speaker 3: And when we sold out, these kids just like kept
Speaker 3: yelling six seven to me throughout the whole play.
Speaker 5: And but the way it changed my mom.
Speaker 4: Law, Yeah, it's a lie.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 6: I had a heckler in my audience and it actually
Speaker 6: ended up being one of the girls that claims that
Speaker 6: I bullied her, Like she was just saying like really
Speaker 6: just mean stuff things that a bully would say. She
Speaker 6: was saying, you know, you broke my collarbone. And the
Speaker 6: truth of that is is that I didn't break her collarbone.
Speaker 6: The stairs railing broke her collarbone. I don't have the
Speaker 6: physical strength to break someone's didn't inform the work when
Speaker 6: she heckled.
Speaker 3: And it did.
Speaker 6: And so it was during Rat the Rat three piece,
Speaker 6: the top dancing Rat.
Speaker 2: Three piece, when you bring up those two other things
Speaker 2: on sticks that look like rats.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and by Rat three, I go, oh, they're all
Speaker 6: different rats, right, And I was doing that sort of
Speaker 6: when it sort of goes into the soliloquy about muffins.
Speaker 6: At soliloquy about out of the show sort of hard
Speaker 6: to drop in, but.
Speaker 5: I'm getting.
Speaker 2: Up and I saw her the need to have a
Speaker 2: soliloquy in the middle of one woman, because if you
Speaker 2: haven't been talking to.
Speaker 4: It's a soliloquy, you can tell it's a little different.
Speaker 1: It's a little different.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean it's a liloquy. Went on longer,
Speaker 6: of course, but it did rhyme yes, And so when
Speaker 6: I did that change, so she's screaming, you broke my
Speaker 6: collar bone, broke my collar bone. My family suit, your
Speaker 6: family and I just dropped in harder. I just I
Speaker 6: kind of I had this moment where I just I
Speaker 6: sort of became the rat. I became the rat who. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so that informed how I felt about her. Where she
Speaker 6: is Rat three in my story. That is sort of
Speaker 6: a behind the veil.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: She so she shows up, she's Rat three. I'm playing
Speaker 6: Rat three. So I really I become Rat three, which
Speaker 6: means I become her, which means that we are all connected,
Speaker 6: which means that everything that she said about me is
Speaker 6: not true.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just in pain.
Speaker 4: She just doesn't know.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of life.
Speaker 4: Just heard it.
Speaker 1: I think solo shows are so important because it shows
Speaker 1: that all of us that created a solo show are
Speaker 1: the victims. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because we're brave enough to tell our stories.
Speaker 3: The girl that did that really long Instagram dump and
Speaker 3: there are pictures of her with like a neck brisong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she had like the video of being pushed down
Speaker 1: the stairs.
Speaker 6: Rat number three.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because there's some girl that was like talking about a
Speaker 3: fringe show. Don't go see this fringe show? Is this
Speaker 3: the same girl? I don't have social media?
Speaker 4: Oh girl, that's really brave. Well, actually, this is a
Speaker 4: question I had for you guys, because obviously at Fringe
Speaker 4: there's thousands and thousands of shows, you know, big shows,
Speaker 4: small shows, Like there are shows happening in the back
Speaker 4: of pizza restaurants, There are show's happening in addicts, there
Speaker 4: are shows happening in a big theaters, small theater. Donut Aladdine,
Speaker 4: Donut Aladdin, don'nut alide some pretty good searches.
Speaker 5: Go se donut Aladdin and get the jelly donuts you.
Speaker 6: Have to go.
Speaker 4: But how are you guys approaching marketing because like, obviously
Speaker 4: we have the posters of our shows that line a
Speaker 4: wall where like you look at it and there's thousands
Speaker 4: of them, back to back to back to back to back,
Speaker 4: But like, how are you taking that extra step?
Speaker 5: Like did you guys hire pr well for me?
Speaker 2: Like, I just got to know my audience, right, Like
Speaker 2: when I'm looking out and I see somebody that walks
Speaker 2: in that isn't wearing a graphic tea.
Speaker 1: And go, I'm gonna have an issue with that guy,
Speaker 1: Like that's like literally an issue.
Speaker 2: But usually my guys are funny, like as long as
Speaker 2: the New Beverly isn't playing something interesting, that same night,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be there for me. Yeah, Like as long
Speaker 2: as you know, like you know, like Dole or whatever
Speaker 2: isn't playing or some ridiculous, you know, exploitation kind of film.
Speaker 2: You know, they're ready to go. But for other people,
Speaker 2: I want to let people know, like are pushing boundaries.
Speaker 2: So I go out, I dress as a nun and
Speaker 2: then I go out and I go out where we're
Speaker 2: all advertising and flying, and I lift up my my
Speaker 2: habit and I'm wearing a G string and my flyers
Speaker 2: are in the geople pull pull flyers from the G
Speaker 2: string and also the flyers they're covered in loop.
Speaker 5: So when you touch the flyer there, what does the
Speaker 5: represent like in religion?
Speaker 2: Like it represents like the slootiness of religion. Like it's
Speaker 2: like come to me, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 2: am like like like yeah, like semen.
Speaker 4: Can I ask about your actual dating life?
Speaker 1: My actual dating life?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm happily married. Okay, okay, okay, I've been married
Speaker 1: to my lovely wife Charlotte for fourteen years.
Speaker 7: We met sophomores in high school.
Speaker 1: How many times she comes to every show?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: She comes to every single show and she a damn
Speaker 7: cut in the front round.
Speaker 6: I actually saw her on a corner. She has the
Speaker 6: Jack Skellington sweatshirt.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 7: And she's making charm bracelets.
Speaker 1: She's making bracelets for everything. Yeah she might have.
Speaker 2: She's been making bracelets for all of years. Actually, I
Speaker 2: she's come to everyone shows. She doesn't speak a lot,
Speaker 2: but she's so passionate. She's come to all your shows.
Speaker 4: She's coming.
Speaker 7: She made bracelets, and.
Speaker 4: She's got a little surfer. Oh my god, she she
Speaker 4: really was paying attention.
Speaker 6: These are actually kind of ugly.
Speaker 7: What do you say? Shut up?
Speaker 1: What are you saying?
Speaker 5: It says bully question mark, But Billy is spelled wrong,
Speaker 5: does she not.
Speaker 2: It's actually really expensive. It's actually really expensive to keep
Speaker 2: all letters on on like on deck.
Speaker 6: Yea yeah, but I'm just saying, if you're gonna make
Speaker 6: a bracelet like.
Speaker 7: You're going to give it back to my lovely wife Charlotte.
Speaker 6: That's not all right.
Speaker 5: But she's really passionate.
Speaker 1: She's really passionate.
Speaker 2: She's the kind of person who loves to be kind
Speaker 2: of near a conversation.
Speaker 1: Let her in. She won't say anything, but.
Speaker 7: She's a quite dish. She's got her big hoodie on
Speaker 7: her gigantic glasses.
Speaker 1: She loves to be favorite people to be in a
Speaker 1: group with and my absolute fear to be when the
Speaker 1: group clears in your stuff.
Speaker 6: She's malleable, and you're allowed to sort of be your
Speaker 6: big boy self and sort of like be big boy,
Speaker 6: big boy, and you're allowed to sort of be big
Speaker 6: in every way.
Speaker 7: We have our inside jokes, like we we watch, we watch.
Speaker 5: TV, Like, like, does she watched what are her shows?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Penny dreadful? She loves, she loves, she loves, she loves Supernatural.
Speaker 2: She's obsessed those boys, those are her celebrities.
Speaker 5: Watched my favorite show Wednesday?
Speaker 4: Has she she's obsessed with Charlotte was really running Tumblr
Speaker 4: a few years ago.
Speaker 6: She has she ever seen the show Firefly?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but she prefers the movie.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can I ask a question, like I never get this
Speaker 1: opportunity other than like almost every single night in my
Speaker 1: life when I do like the clown Jams, But like,
Speaker 1: how did you guys like contrive your place? Like how
Speaker 1: did they come to you? Like I'm just never surrounded
Speaker 1: by artists like.
Speaker 6: Mine actually came from a lawsuit?
Speaker 1: No way? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Who we thought that lawsuit in the in the rat
Speaker 5: ballet is real.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my family was being sued and it was really
Speaker 6: really hard, and I decided to make a one woman
Speaker 6: show about it.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: I think that's so important about all of our shows,
Speaker 3: is like the difference between the idea and just deciding
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we actually are the bold ones, the the
Speaker 1: best in show, I will say, Like, we are the
Speaker 1: ones that, like people always like, how do you do it?
Speaker 1: How do you do it?
Speaker 6: You just you just do you Just if we were
Speaker 6: if we were drafted in war, Let's say we were
Speaker 6: like at the front lines of the Civil War, we
Speaker 6: would be all the heroes on the front lines.
Speaker 1: As we would be. Yeah, we decided to do it.
Speaker 4: It takes bravery, you know. And like all I'll answer
Speaker 4: for my show came to me as I was riding
Speaker 4: the Surfliner, which is the train that takes you from
Speaker 4: La to San Diego, and I was just like feeling
Speaker 4: all of these feelings just come rushing back, like all
Speaker 4: the like the pain and the pressure. You know, when
Speaker 4: you have heaviness on your chest, you can't let go of.
Speaker 4: That's what I was feeling the entire time. And I
Speaker 4: was like my breathing got shallow and I was flailing
Speaker 4: around this train, like going where am I? What's going on?
Speaker 4: What am I doing? And then the only way for
Speaker 4: the thing to come out of me was a sixty
Speaker 4: minute monologue one person style, so like and like, there's
Speaker 4: no other format for it sometimes, like I honestly, I've
Speaker 4: tried a bunch.
Speaker 11: Of things for this.
Speaker 4: I tried to do a pilot, like a like a
Speaker 4: multi caam pilot.
Speaker 6: We don't have enough to really work out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a workplace.
Speaker 1: About it. Yeah, I thought it was so genius, so smart.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Because I don't do it. I don't write it like
Speaker 4: a short. I just did a full feature like all
Speaker 4: the plot points of a future, but really fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 7: Thank you for reading my zine.
Speaker 8: I love.
Speaker 5: I have a soft spot for the zine. How do
Speaker 5: you make a money on a zine?
Speaker 1: They figure it out, There has to be a wait.
Speaker 4: Like maybe the big zine guys can like like host
Speaker 4: like a day where you can like buy up and
Speaker 4: coming zines because like, how on earth are we making
Speaker 4: money on those?
Speaker 3: I wish they put ads and zines like maybe that'll
Speaker 3: be like something.
Speaker 7: Well, let me ask you guys, like, go ahead, Well
Speaker 7: I had a question.
Speaker 6: I mean, you could turn it into a vertical.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I heard those are really hot right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you anti vertical?
Speaker 6: I do not actually really really cool.
Speaker 4: I like, I think, what if we all I mean
Speaker 4: we're all this is a crazy question. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: I feel crazy.
Speaker 5: For yes, so be careful.
Speaker 4: So we're all solo artists, right, yeah, what if we
Speaker 4: made a vertical together?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: I lead with yes? And if something doesn't feel good,
Speaker 5: I say yes to it.
Speaker 4: What if all of our solo shows could be combined
Speaker 4: into one vertical?
Speaker 6: So I actually am doing my show in New York soon,
Speaker 6: A leader that did Wicked. Yeah, yeah, they're sort of
Speaker 6: they're taking a pause and they're letting me sort of
Speaker 6: do a drop in for about three weeks. Yeah, oh
Speaker 6: my god, because it's been up for so long and
Speaker 6: so I'm actually busy.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, no, that's I totally like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: If I was available, I would a million times before
Speaker 6: I would. I would absolutely love to do that, but
Speaker 6: I am my show might actually be going Yeah.
Speaker 4: When when is it going to Broadway?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 6: Because I could like, well, it going to Broadway. We
Speaker 6: don't know yet, but it's it's doing a drop in
Speaker 6: sort of like proof of Contra.
Speaker 5: On Broadway are like really big right now and I'm
Speaker 5: so proud of you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's between probably now, and I would say, like
Speaker 6: November twenty ninth, I.
Speaker 7: Mean vertical Vertical is Broadway. That's so exciting.
Speaker 2: The big thing is, you know, one man shows are
Speaker 2: the number one thing that's being turned into other things
Speaker 2: right now. Right the night we got we got Baby Reindeer,
Speaker 2: we got Flea bag Y, like like what North Stars,
Speaker 2: what's the goal for us?
Speaker 5: Like Big Bank Theory started as a one man show.
Speaker 4: Yes, the Pit I heard fairly odd Parents as well, one.
Speaker 1: Piece show.
Speaker 6: British, Yes, Breakoff Yeah the Mass Singer British because it
Speaker 6: was break dancing and baking at the same time.
Speaker 7: I loved all those breakdancing in a field in London.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know that All State guy. Yeah, he started
Speaker 5: as a one man yeah.
Speaker 4: Mayhem may the one person show.
Speaker 1: I actually wish I could have seen that.
Speaker 12: Actually dramatically feels that he has like I think, like,
Speaker 12: what's so cool is that like one man one person
Speaker 12: shows are are really blossoming.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the fact that you're going to Broadway.
Speaker 3: Like I am a little nervous to say this how
Speaker 3: loud because they don't want to jinx it. But I
Speaker 3: think in the car next week, one of the one
Speaker 3: of the passengers knows the artistic director of someone at
Speaker 3: the pasading in a playhouse.
Speaker 1: They know someone a passenger who might know the artistication
Speaker 1: and so, and I got a question, how would you
Speaker 1: do it in the passing the play?
Speaker 5: We would just they have a quad in front of it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we would just get a car and pull up.
Speaker 6: And so the people would wait inside of the theater
Speaker 6: and then like four at a time would go in
Speaker 6: to your car.
Speaker 5: And then, though that.
Speaker 3: Would be interesting, that's interesting, I'd say it loses its thing.
Speaker 6: What if you took the car on the stage and
Speaker 6: then just drove around the stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say if you did it in a theater,
Speaker 1: it would be a show.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I have much. I think what
Speaker 5: I love about it is it's the naturalism. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of stuff that.
Speaker 7: You have to be in the car for sure, but
Speaker 7: there is an argument that you're just an uber, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you would, I would you do drop them off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you take them to places that they request.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a part of the service that we were
Speaker 5: told we'd sell tickets if we did that.
Speaker 6: It's immersive, it's a mercy. It's a mercy your tickets.
Speaker 5: It depends on what.
Speaker 4: So Yeah, this is this is sounding like an uber.
Speaker 5: Oh I am just so great to be here with
Speaker 5: the best artists I know.
Speaker 1: Artist.
Speaker 4: Do you guys get nervous when reviewers come? Do you
Speaker 4: think about reviews?
Speaker 1: I could get a reviewer to show up to my
Speaker 1: show that would be amazed.
Speaker 5: Would you make them chug the nuts?
Speaker 1: I would make them the nut chugger. The media? What
Speaker 1: is happening that show? That has to be building into something?
Speaker 5: It has to be like going to affair or something
Speaker 5: like what.
Speaker 7: It has to be.
Speaker 1: People must be interested or what other dates are? So
Speaker 1: we're about to get out of the work in progress stage.
Speaker 1: I've done fifty working progresses.
Speaker 5: So far the Honeymoon.
Speaker 1: Honeymoon about to jump into the actual show and I do.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll announce it. I have an overall with
Speaker 1: HBO now to do seven different type of like kind
Speaker 1: of interesting shows with them.
Speaker 5: Interesting shows in shows.
Speaker 1: That's what they said on TV TV on TV Like.
Speaker 6: Since you say shows, so they just they just like
Speaker 6: your vibe.
Speaker 1: That's what the Deadline article said. Deadline, Yes, and signed
Speaker 1: for seven interesting shows at HBO.
Speaker 5: Seven interesting shows? Wow?
Speaker 6: Is there the concept?
Speaker 1: There's something about my performance that is so.
Speaker 4: Raw?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Execs can't put it in a box. So they need it,
Speaker 1: and they need seven of it, and then they need
Speaker 1: seven interesting shows of it. They don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with it, so they say, I'll give you money, money, money, money, money,
Speaker 1: what can you make?
Speaker 6: And the shows are all separate from each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seven interesting shows, different shows, so it would be
Speaker 1: like one sitcom when one's so okay, I get.
Speaker 6: To decide what's your idea for the first one.
Speaker 1: I have no ideas. I've got like a do you
Speaker 1: guys want me to read some of my notes of
Speaker 1: like yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, this is like a live this is
Speaker 9: a show.
Speaker 1: This is so exciting and.
Speaker 6: My networking is so important during Yeah, because you can
Speaker 6: miss out.
Speaker 8: If I were middle and I watched different yeah, little
Speaker 8: me would be like what the heck?
Speaker 6: No, literally, okay, I'm going to bring up my notes
Speaker 6: app as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like so like one idea for like one of
Speaker 1: the seven interesting shows is like, uh, guilt Mom. So
Speaker 1: it's like my mom is guilt and I play her
Speaker 1: the entire time. Mother married Catholic Catholic.
Speaker 2: What if she's mother Mary so like and she's like her,
Speaker 2: she's breastfeeding so much, your nipples are bleeding.
Speaker 1: I like that part, but I don't like the mother
Speaker 1: Mary part. I like kind of like body horror nipples
Speaker 1: are but I don't like the mother Mary.
Speaker 2: Okay, okayed for her, Yeah, just knowing that I can
Speaker 2: if you guys are punching up doing a right, I.
Speaker 4: Have a pitch for an idea of what if she cried?
Speaker 1: I like that what but like, I don't like who's crying?
Speaker 4: Like there was like a woman in it. I think
Speaker 4: so guilty and I think like, like what if she cried?
Speaker 4: Is just an idea?
Speaker 1: That's a really good Okay, I'll write that down like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's in your notes?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 6: I sort of started out with sort of like the
Speaker 6: opening monologue of another I okay, it's about me being
Speaker 6: a child. Okay. I love the smell of the air
Speaker 6: before a rainstorm. It reminds me of being a child.
Speaker 6: Being somewhere with my parents fully present, I would take
Speaker 6: a whiff of the air and feel my stomach to
Speaker 6: a flip, that feeling of I'm alive, similar to the
Speaker 6: feeling you get the night before trip to Disneyland. I remember,
Speaker 6: I remember the day I noticed that I had stopped
Speaker 6: experiencing that feeling. I was fourteen, feeling the weight of
Speaker 6: everything around me. And now I'm old and I've storted
Speaker 6: to feel that feeling again, that gratitude of being alive,
Speaker 6: although now it's coupled with a twinge of sadness, holding
Speaker 6: onto a balloon of grief for the rest of my life,
Speaker 6: trying to become accustomed to it, like a new birthmark,
Speaker 6: trying to figure out the gratitude of being alive, Feeling
Speaker 6: like a vagabond to the earth, the last remaining crewman
Speaker 6: on a pirate ship abandoned at sea.
Speaker 1: God, and like, literally, that's how I know I'm straight.
Speaker 7: So that was exactly what was written down.
Speaker 1: I am so highest.
Speaker 4: How got on your phone or what's going on?
Speaker 5: So that's the realist thing that's ever happened on this podcast.
Speaker 11: Wow, I think I think I did it for a
Speaker 11: show of someone reading a bottlogue on their phone and
Speaker 11: I that's the great thing about the you know, I
Speaker 11: also have I also have h oh yeah, why don't
Speaker 11: you close your eyes?
Speaker 6: Okay, I I'm I have I have one that says,
Speaker 6: I don't trust Canadian women. There's something going on.
Speaker 5: There, that's something.
Speaker 6: And then that's definitely I have another one that says,
Speaker 6: how come every female bartender is from Scottsdale, Arizona.
Speaker 4: That's true, That's definitely true.
Speaker 6: And these are, honestly, and that's the thing about being
Speaker 6: an artist because these are just like thoughts that I have,
Speaker 6: but they can become.
Speaker 5: Something so inspiring it made me, Honestly, I wasn't gonna.
Speaker 6: Say mine say it, say it, say it, Okay.
Speaker 3: So I think it starts when like if someone, if
Speaker 3: an audience member, I think they could only come see
Speaker 3: the show if they're hungry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and why did you get so quiet when you
Speaker 6: said hungry?
Speaker 3: Because it's like, I think, what's making me cry about
Speaker 3: this idea is that it's a feed.
Speaker 6: In suple ways.
Speaker 5: So I think what happens is.
Speaker 6: It's another car play, and I think, what if we
Speaker 6: got out of the car.
Speaker 5: Okay, what about this?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 5: I love that what if what if you at home
Speaker 5: are feeling hungry and a play comes to you Stora Dash.
Speaker 6: That's sort of like I think if something.
Speaker 1: I think there's something really interesting, gine.
Speaker 5: Camera and somebody walks up and I'm doing like a
Speaker 5: one woman show.
Speaker 1: For you at your house. You don't have to open
Speaker 1: the door. That's good.
Speaker 6: Wow, But what if someone doesn't have a rain camera?
Speaker 6: Do you always have to specifically?
Speaker 5: I guess something like that.
Speaker 3: It's a workshop. I'm figuring out. I haven't read that
Speaker 3: to anybody. I haven't read that idea.
Speaker 6: That's really really beautiful.
Speaker 2: I was looking at my ideas too, like a lot
Speaker 2: of these are because me and Charlotte were kind of
Speaker 2: like saying that, being like, what can this be?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 1: We love that when you guys are alone, is she
Speaker 1: talking to you?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she doesn't stop talking. I can see that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I mean the second.
Speaker 4: The door closes.
Speaker 1: It's actually the most beautiful things.
Speaker 2: It's we like go forever and ever and ever, especially
Speaker 2: if I get her talking about has been hotel.
Speaker 1: She loves has been a hotel.
Speaker 5: She's obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: Oh, hey, nice to see you there.
Speaker 5: Sorry, we were just like in the middle of an episode.
Speaker 3: We love.
Speaker 1: The episode is so funny, checking on you. You're good, girly,
Speaker 1: You good girly.
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Speaker 2: She's obsessed with has been Hotel and we watched it
Speaker 2: together all the time.
Speaker 7: Ye.
Speaker 1: Hey, word to the wise, clear your browsing history now,
Speaker 1: really yeah, you could be arrested for that ship but
Speaker 1: really searching. No, it's fine.
Speaker 6: Isn't there like sex on that show? But it's for kids.
Speaker 1: No, it's like naughty. It's like a naughty cartoon with
Speaker 1: like really great.
Speaker 5: She should watch like Umbrella Academy.
Speaker 7: She's watched it.
Speaker 1: She's definitely watching. She isn't.
Speaker 7: It's not as good as the comics, she said, but
Speaker 7: she loves it.
Speaker 6: Has she ever seen the show of the Expanse.
Speaker 2: No, maybe I'll show that to her. She loves that
Speaker 2: that in night shamal on Apple TV show to Servant. Anyways, Oh, anyways,
Speaker 2: we were just pitching like what could this be? And
Speaker 2: what's crazy is we actually settled on board games. So
Speaker 2: we're thinking like maybe we turned my show into like
Speaker 2: a cards against Humanity. It's called the Church the Church
Speaker 2: from Hell or something, and then it's like you create
Speaker 2: new gods together.
Speaker 5: So that she would love watching you make that.
Speaker 2: Yeah Buddha with a tongue piercing and yeah, and uh
Speaker 2: it smells like uh cherry lipstick.
Speaker 5: Like that that's really good. Can I say thank you?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: And maybe, like I was thinking, like maybe a good
Speaker 1: way to end is like what have we all learned
Speaker 1: from doing our solo shows.
Speaker 6: I think that is a really good way to end
Speaker 6: is to learn like.
Speaker 1: One word that like maybe like some of me really
Speaker 1: took away one word. Yeah, like and see if you
Speaker 1: can keep it to one word, because like that's like
Speaker 1: the fun of this exter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like yeah, my word I'll say is I'd say it's.
Speaker 1: Travel. Yeah, that's awesome. That's beautiful, so beautiful.
Speaker 5: My word is.
Speaker 4: Suffering, yeah, god, surfering more like surfering. Yeah, that's so true.
Speaker 6: It's two words and one.
Speaker 4: Can I pay you for that idea?
Speaker 1: No, I'll just please.
Speaker 5: I don't take I just take tips.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta kind of separate the commerce from
Speaker 1: the theater.
Speaker 7: I think something's going on with you.
Speaker 1: Capitalist man. Yeah, my I guess my word is no.
Speaker 6: No no no no no no no no you go no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8: Serious.
Speaker 6: I don't want to step on.
Speaker 1: Any of these times. I don't want to.
Speaker 6: I don't want to know. I want you to go.
Speaker 6: I want you to go. I want you to go. No,
Speaker 6: I want you to go. I want you to go. No, Seriously,
Speaker 6: mine's justice, okay, yes, yeah for the victims myself. Yeah yeah, yeah, justice,
Speaker 6: I would say.
Speaker 1: I guess mine is nutty. That's it.
Speaker 5: How do you think of that star as a clown?
Speaker 5: You to clean up?
Speaker 1: I thought about it about it.
Speaker 6: You are going to clean up in clown.
Speaker 5: School, especially if you have seven interesting shows?
Speaker 6: But do you know who also went to clown school?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 6: Do you know what I'm going to say?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: Do you actually say.
Speaker 1: Yeah to you.
Speaker 6: Our story Connor story went to clown School, the hero
Speaker 6: of clown School. Yeah, I mean look at him now, Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's he's kind of the north stop.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to get.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give that Connor story.
Speaker 3: Body.
Speaker 7: I just signed up for Hello Fresh.
Speaker 1: Oh awesome, that's going to help so much.
Speaker 6: It's really more exercise of his food.
Speaker 1: Meals a week are you doing, I'm getting fifteen meals
Speaker 1: a week genius just for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's your word?
Speaker 7: My word?
Speaker 1: Honestly, after all this, you know, I could say stigmata,
Speaker 1: I could say confession. You know, I could say circumcision.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Charlotte. Wow, I realized how much I
Speaker 1: loved my wife talked about Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: I know, it's like quickly become your thing.
Speaker 4: You never realize what the show is actually about.
Speaker 2: This whole time, I'm screaming about my exes and saying
Speaker 2: that like, oh, I'm like this is like you know
Speaker 2: Thor if Thor was like a demon twink, you know,
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But then now I'm like, wait a minute, my wife
Speaker 1: has been there for every step of the way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, since you were fifteen, since I.
Speaker 1: Was fifteen, and all my exes are about you know,
Speaker 1: the people I dated from ten to fifteen.
Speaker 6: It's it's a really crazy dating time for all of that.
Speaker 1: Yah. And so I paired this like thirteen year old
Speaker 1: girl that I dated with like you know an angel, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Buddha or whatever.
Speaker 6: So some of the most violent, sort of in depth,
Speaker 6: intense relationships I ever had were with people that I
Speaker 6: dated for two weeks when I was eleven. I've never
Speaker 6: felt that kind of raye. I've never felt that kind
Speaker 6: of passion.
Speaker 1: My goddess is Charlotte, and I need to be worshiping her. Wow,
Speaker 1: you found your religion? Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 5: And that's the wow.
Speaker 1: The play. That's amazing.
Speaker 6: Really, that's the play.
Speaker 7: I got the whole play about this. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: Guys. Guys, come see to Hell and Back. It's at
Speaker 4: the Hullaballoo Stage three point thirty pm. And if you
Speaker 4: buy two tickets for the next week, you get one
Speaker 4: also as well.
Speaker 6: And also if you want to see my show Bully
Speaker 6: Question Mark, you can catch it for the next three
Speaker 6: weeks coming up very very soon at the Gershwin Theater
Speaker 6: in New York City.
Speaker 7: Come see my show at the Ditch at Stinkies. I'm
Speaker 7: gonna be over outside there.
Speaker 2: I think I'm doing I think I'm doing a marathon,
Speaker 2: or I'm doing the show twenty times in a row
Speaker 2: pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Come see my show. It's on the corner of Lebrea
Speaker 3: and Tarpit. We'll pick you up.
Speaker 5: You just wave your hand, get in line, we'll pick
Speaker 5: you up.
Speaker 1: Just buckle up and check out my show. Ow nuts,
Speaker 1: we are in the black Boxes black Boxes bathroom. It's
Speaker 1: a fifteen seat theater. It's called the bathroom. It's not
Speaker 1: actually a bathroom, and they don't have a bathroom. Come
Speaker 1: check it out. It's gonna be probably three audience members
Speaker 1: and a bunch of execs.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we should all mention for our friends shows.
Speaker 3: If we don't. I don't have a bathroom. You don't
Speaker 3: have a bathroom, no bathroom to break into our show.
Speaker 6: The Gershwin has about seven bathrooms. That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Starbucks across the street. Great bathrooms.
Speaker 1: Such a good bathroom. Really good. Should we just like
Speaker 1: maybe like give your favorite line of dialogue from your play,
Speaker 1: like just like that's a little bit of like I
Speaker 1: just can't get We just can't leave that. I honestly
Speaker 1: feel like I'm in a solo show. Right.
Speaker 4: It's because in a solo show where you're like, surely
Speaker 4: it ends now, but there's always fifteen more minutes.
Speaker 5: And you're literally waiting for someone to be like end
Speaker 5: of But let's.
Speaker 4: Do the final line of all our shows, genius.
Speaker 5: Because there was like five endings and that is like
Speaker 5: a a friend show.
Speaker 6: Perfect.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll do mine. Huh. I guess after all this time,
Speaker 1: the only nuts I like were mine.
Speaker 4: Southern California is not created all the same, and.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll just pull over right here. If you
Speaker 3: left anything, make sure you take your phone and water.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like an info line.
Speaker 2: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the
Speaker 2: Lord my soul to keep and if I die before
Speaker 2: I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to fuck
Speaker 2: up the butt.
Speaker 1: It's the last line.
Speaker 6: Wow, and mine is let me try and find it.
Speaker 5: It's not my fault and you're actually fucking ugly.
Speaker 3: This has been artists on artsts on hartists and artists
Speaker 3: answering the question. Now, that's why they call it show viz. Guys,
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Speaker 7: We love artists and we love solo shows.
Speaker 1: We love that. We've done that.
Speaker 6: I did. I did Lissa Strata in the Hollywood Fringe
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty fourteen.
Speaker 5: I will link that live stream ticket right in the
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's out there.
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