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Speaker 2: My got do you remember?
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly when we first saw.
Speaker 2: I feel like I remember being at your house, like
Speaker 2: in the computer room or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, we either had
Speaker 3: our computer room or it was probably right before the
Speaker 3: computers made their way to our bedrooms, which sounds horrifying.
Speaker 2: So this is my cousin Chloe, and we used to do,
Speaker 2: amongst other things, watch Liam Kyle Sullivan's shoes on YouTube
Speaker 2: every single day after school.
Speaker 4: You would have been last year of middle school, junior
Speaker 4: high and I would have been a freshman or incoming
Speaker 4: freshman into high school. And that's when when everything changed, when.
Speaker 2: Relly, did you know that Kelly or I guess Liam
Speaker 2: is from New England?
Speaker 4: No, yeah, that makes even better Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I didn't know if we were talking about
Speaker 3: like New York, Connecticut, Massa, Chusetts, like the whole of
Speaker 3: New Englander.
Speaker 4: Okay, it was good people.
Speaker 1: Kid, Do you remember muffins?
Speaker 4: Muffins is everything? I have true word. The dog was
Speaker 4: just roaming the huves.
Speaker 3: I have true word association with banana, shides of glass,
Speaker 3: by anything.
Speaker 4: Fire.
Speaker 2: I know in retrospect, I'm like, oh, he was obviously
Speaker 2: from Boston because all of his characters have like but
Speaker 2: that's yeah.
Speaker 3: But what I think is so amazing is I did
Speaker 3: not pick up on that at all. Right as a
Speaker 3: thirteen fourteen year old, I'm like, this is how every
Speaker 3: mother or person from here talk, So why wouldn't they talk?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 1: Mom, says Fire.
Speaker 4: Especially what do you want, little Johnny? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how we talk here exactly. That's why. How long
Speaker 4: ago was that?
Speaker 5: Which is gross?
Speaker 1: I don't want to age twenty years.
Speaker 4: I mean thank you. I love you.
Speaker 5: I love you.
Speaker 2: Liam Kyle Sullivan aka Kelly. Your sixteenth Minute continues now.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to sixteenth Minute, the podcast where we talk
Speaker 2: to the Internet's main characters and speak about how their
Speaker 2: moment affected them and how it changed the Internet and us.
Speaker 2: And today we are continuing my talk with Liam Kyle
Speaker 2: Sullivan aka Kelly of Shoes Fame. I have been so
Speaker 2: happy to hear how much people are enjoying the first
Speaker 2: part of this episode, So no commentary for me at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna jump back into it.
Speaker 2: We return to my interview with Liam Kyle Sullivan at
Speaker 2: the Lyric hyperiend a lot of just like internet stuff
Speaker 2: is just very commonly understood now because it's just been
Speaker 2: around for so long and almost in a kind of
Speaker 2: like dystopian way sometimes, But like who in your life
Speaker 2: could possibly relate with what you were going through? Like
Speaker 2: there were so few people who had gone through anything
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 5: There were a handful of us, right. I met Taizon
Speaker 5: Day who did Chocolate Rain. Yes, yeah, wonderful human being.
Speaker 1: He seems like a sweetheart.
Speaker 5: Very smart, and I got to meet him because Weezer
Speaker 5: did a music video, but this was three years later,
Speaker 5: so it's like two thousand and eight or nine. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it was nine that I got to meet
Speaker 5: him and we talked and oh wow, and Judson Lapley
Speaker 5: who did the Evolution of Dance. Oh yes, I got
Speaker 5: to meet him as well.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 5: He's a very smart, lovely person too. And yeah, we've
Speaker 5: talked over the years, actually, Judson and I about really
Speaker 5: nice our experience because I still kind of have to
Speaker 5: explain a little bit, like it was a unique way
Speaker 5: to get famous right time. It's still kind of unique.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess it's not unique in that it's
Speaker 5: been going on for twenty years, but it's the kind
Speaker 5: of thing where it can happen like that, it can
Speaker 5: happen in a moment that you don't even expect. I
Speaker 5: feel lucky or fortunate that I was going for laughs.
Speaker 5: You know, I was trying to make be a performer
Speaker 5: and be out there, and some people that's not the case.
Speaker 2: You know, you have this like internet clout that is clear,
Speaker 2: but also people don't fully understand.
Speaker 1: So when you're translating that to you're already in.
Speaker 2: Entertainment, you're a working actor at this point, how do
Speaker 2: you bring that to your like reps and too meetings.
Speaker 5: I remember one meeting I had where yeah, it was
Speaker 5: clear that guy didn't get why it was funny or
Speaker 5: why people liked it. I don't know if that's like
Speaker 5: a thing where well, we're trying to market to this
Speaker 5: audience and you're finding this audience and we don't match up.
Speaker 5: Our audience doesn't match up with yours, so we're not interested.
Speaker 5: I think maybe that's what it might have been. One
Speaker 5: of the things I gave up or just like stop
Speaker 5: doing in my brain was trying to think or imagine
Speaker 5: I'd go in circles in my head, why didn't that work?
Speaker 5: Why didn't you know? Maybe it was because I was
Speaker 5: bringing in some anxiety like I was before, Like I
Speaker 5: might have had some desperation on me because I knew,
Speaker 5: like this is a shot, this is you know, you
Speaker 5: only got one shot. Do not miss your chance, blow.
Speaker 1: Like that whole thing full a mile full a mile.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe I had don't fuck this up too far
Speaker 5: forward in my head, you know, I try to think,
Speaker 5: what was my part in this? You know, why didn't
Speaker 5: it cross over into mainstream success or not even mainstream
Speaker 5: just like more traditional success. And I guess I've just
Speaker 5: stopped thinking about that and it's made.
Speaker 4: Me much happier.
Speaker 2: Really, really, going into the Liam Sullivan Internet archive experience,
Speaker 2: you were like ahead of the curve and people didn't
Speaker 2: know what to do, like they didn't know how or
Speaker 2: if there was still a sense or I guess I'm
Speaker 2: curious if you felt the same way.
Speaker 1: Stuff that was very special to you on the Internet
Speaker 1: still felt like separate or like cool.
Speaker 2: Or underground, even though every single person you knew had
Speaker 2: seen it. It still felt like, well, but people don't
Speaker 2: know about this, but we did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny. I meet people now who haven't seen it.
Speaker 5: I once did a show where there were a lot
Speaker 5: of straight people, straight men who didn't know who I like,
Speaker 5: had never seen and but we're appreciative, we're assholes. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they were just like, wow, I never saw that. That
Speaker 5: was really good. I don't know how I missed it.
Speaker 5: And I was like, well, you know. Another thing was
Speaker 5: that a couple years in, when I was making more
Speaker 5: and more videos, it really did become harder and harder
Speaker 5: to just do what I wanted because I suddenly I
Speaker 5: was the studio exec I could see the numbers, right,
Speaker 5: I could go under the hood and YouTube and say
Speaker 5: people checked out at your video at you know, three
Speaker 5: twenty three, or you know, this video did really well.
Speaker 5: Make more videos like this.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know that some people are very like
Speaker 2: invigorated by that, but I find it very stressful and
Speaker 2: I'm like creatively limiting.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, and it's good to have limits as a
Speaker 5: creative person sort sometimes because well most times, with the
Speaker 5: mother of invention, you know that. But in this sense,
Speaker 5: it was brand new. It's not like when you get
Speaker 5: in front of a crowd and you don't get last,
Speaker 5: You're like, okay, that didn't work. Let's go back figure
Speaker 5: it out. You go up again, and it does get last,
Speaker 5: You're like, Okay, I worked it out, it's working. Whereas
Speaker 5: I was now at a place where I kind of
Speaker 5: had to just put it out there and if it
Speaker 5: wasn't working, well, you're sol.
Speaker 2: And then be a data scientist on the back half
Speaker 2: and like, which is like.
Speaker 5: I needed someone else to be doing that, But I
Speaker 5: also didn't want somebody telling me you should make more
Speaker 5: videos like this one. Right, I was like, well, what
Speaker 5: about you know where I'm at now? As a creative
Speaker 5: that kind of went away, you know, I started trying
Speaker 5: to satisfy the numbers instead of making stuff that made
Speaker 5: me laugh.
Speaker 2: Well, at what point did it stop being fun? When
Speaker 2: did it start to feel a good job.
Speaker 5: I think I always had fun, but I did get
Speaker 5: to a point where I knew I had to do
Speaker 5: Kelly if I wanted to make a living. This was
Speaker 5: all I was doing. And there were no contracts coming in.
Speaker 5: There was no like, oh, you're going to be on
Speaker 5: this show, you know, paying Like that wasn't happening, and
Speaker 5: so yeah, it was stressful. I tried to have fun,
Speaker 5: but at a certain point I just said, you know what,
Speaker 5: I think I have to stop. Gosh, I haven't really
Speaker 5: thought about this in a long time, so it's hard
Speaker 5: to articulate. It wasn't so much that I didn't like
Speaker 5: the character Kelly. It was like I felt like I
Speaker 5: was under her shadow. I never made anything as good
Speaker 5: as shoes or muffins, and so I felt like I'm
Speaker 5: just kind of I'm just kind of I don't know
Speaker 5: what the word is, like circling. I feel like I'm
Speaker 5: hovering in this zone of creativity, but I'm not growing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's how it felt. It felt like a trap. It
Speaker 5: felt like, oh geez, I can't do anything else. And plus,
Speaker 5: you know, I was kind of catapulted into a different
Speaker 5: way of making things right. You know, I had to
Speaker 5: make things kind of like shoes took months to make.
Speaker 5: I mean I shot on the weekends, I shot at night.
Speaker 1: A lot of locations. There's a lot going on.
Speaker 5: I location scouted, I did all that stuff. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: was like, can you can you? I had three different
Speaker 5: cinematographers helping me. No way, yes, because people weren't available.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, are you available on around Saturday
Speaker 5: at two o'clock. Now I'm doing this other thing. Okay.
Speaker 5: It was a lot. Yeah, And so I remember having
Speaker 5: one meeting with someone who said, yeah, we could do
Speaker 5: a new video every month, and I was like, I
Speaker 5: don't know if I can do that. Yeah. So it
Speaker 5: was yeah, I don't know if you want to call
Speaker 5: it burned out or taking a break for mental health
Speaker 5: or just just like realizing, oh, I can't really make
Speaker 5: money at this the way people are making money at
Speaker 5: this now. Like that was like six years later, totally
Speaker 5: a twother six years later, where it had changed a
Speaker 5: lot and people were churning out stuff, real cheap stuff too,
Speaker 5: like just talking to camera, and I was like, I
Speaker 5: don't want to do that. I want to do a
Speaker 5: character in the story and all the stuff right.
Speaker 2: Truly, Like you can count on one hand people who
Speaker 2: had experienced anything like that when you were having to
Speaker 2: process it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you process stuff like that? That's like
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure to be under with like literally
Speaker 1: no one to talk to about it that would understand.
Speaker 5: I mean, Jesus, I don't know how I pressed well.
Speaker 5: It took years of therapy later, but the therapy helped
Speaker 5: me mostly with the feelings of anxiety that I would have,
Speaker 5: because you have anxiety in life no matter what. And
Speaker 5: I felt like I needed help to deal with it,
Speaker 5: you know, I needed tools strategies to say, Okay, I
Speaker 5: feel myself getting all, you know, worked up, you know,
Speaker 5: whether it's meditation or breathing or you know, just something.
Speaker 5: I need something right. And I got a lot of
Speaker 5: help with that in therapy. We did cognitive behavioral CBD.
Speaker 5: I was lucky, you know, I found a good therapist.
Speaker 5: What really catapulted me into therapy was my mother died
Speaker 5: and that hit me so hard because she was such
Speaker 5: an inspiration to me. And she died when I was
Speaker 5: thirty six and I was just married. You know it.
Speaker 5: It really, it really messed me up for a while.
Speaker 5: But it was right around the same time, like five
Speaker 5: years after going viral where that happened, and so it
Speaker 5: was kind of a I was in a bad place.
Speaker 2: Was all of your family still in New England? Y? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and being so far away that's really hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my mom, Oh my gosh. So I wanted People's
Speaker 5: Choice Award for you.
Speaker 1: I saw the acceptance video.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so the reason there's an acceptance video of just
Speaker 5: me on the couch is because that year there was
Speaker 5: a writer strike and so did not have a regular
Speaker 5: ceremony with the red carpet and the step and repeat
Speaker 5: and all that. So I didn't get to go. But
Speaker 5: my mother watched the East Coast feed, you know, the
Speaker 5: live airing, and she called me three hours before it
Speaker 5: came on out here and said, Liam, you won, you won?
Speaker 1: You want Oh it.
Speaker 4: Was so great.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet. Yeah, Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more.
Speaker 2: Liam Kyle Sullivan, Welcome back to sixteenth minute. Ariana Grande
Speaker 2: is not going to win an oscar this weekend. But
Speaker 2: I know how I feel. And here is the final
Speaker 2: piece of my interview with Liam Kyle Sullivan. Well, I
Speaker 2: mean I want to talk a little bit about I mean,
Speaker 2: I just want to talk about New England all the time,
Speaker 2: either like from your family or your actual family into
Speaker 2: your work at different times.
Speaker 5: They're all over it. I mean, yeah, the Muffin Lady
Speaker 5: is a hyper exaggerated version of my mother.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: She used to make gourmet she studied to be a
Speaker 5: gourmet chef and she used to make these wonderful dishes
Speaker 5: for me and my sister. But we were kids, so
Speaker 5: gourmet food is like trash to us. But she put
Speaker 5: it down in front of and say you'll eat it.
Speaker 5: You'll eat it and like it. And that was that
Speaker 5: stuck in my head and I put that in the
Speaker 5: Muffins video Kelly's mother Grandma. That's based on two of
Speaker 5: my grandmother's kind of mashed up together and the dynamic
Speaker 5: you know in the shoes video.
Speaker 1: I know, or I think I know, Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You worked with your now wife on Kelly videos. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did you did you meet through doing that? Or
Speaker 1: how did you meet?
Speaker 5: Oh? We met. It was great. It was so great.
Speaker 5: Was doing a show at the Henry Fonda Theater in
Speaker 5: October of two thousand and six. It was a Halloween show,
Speaker 5: so everyone was dressed up in costume. I was dressed
Speaker 5: as Kelly and I did my set. I got off stage,
Speaker 5: I was walking to the lobby and she walked past me.
Speaker 5: She was dressed as Marilyn Monroe, and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 5: who's that? And you know when time slows down, that's
Speaker 5: what happened. It felt like I was moving in slow
Speaker 5: motion as I looked at her and she looked back
Speaker 5: at me. Later, I'm in the lobby and I see
Speaker 5: her again and I talked to her and I flirted
Speaker 5: with her. I was still in Kelly costume, but I
Speaker 5: felt really confident.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I didn't know, is this connected to Kelly?
Speaker 1: This is awesome?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we didn't know what we really looked like. Right,
Speaker 5: So our first date was like a blind date because
Speaker 5: we said we'll meet here. I didn't in those days,
Speaker 5: you didn't look people up like I didn't her up
Speaker 5: to see what she really looked like, right, That felt
Speaker 5: creepy to me. Yeah, to investigate.
Speaker 2: Her, I think people forget about that because it's so
Speaker 2: normalized now that like, yeah, the idea of like online
Speaker 2: stalking someone used to be very creepy behavior.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So where we met and we had a great
Speaker 5: first date. Yeah, we we wound up. We went to
Speaker 5: this restaurant that both of us were like, this isn't
Speaker 5: us Let's get out.
Speaker 1: Of here nice.
Speaker 5: So we took off and we went to this little bar.
Speaker 5: They were playing ABC by the Jackson five and have
Speaker 5: you seen her by the Highlights? Oh? Wow, yeah, I've
Speaker 5: seen her? Tell me have you seen? So that became
Speaker 5: our the song we danced to at our wedding.
Speaker 1: It's so nice.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's and I love that you you
Speaker 2: met as two famous women and then they caame.
Speaker 5: Just ever thought of it that way?
Speaker 1: That is so cool.
Speaker 5: But I tell a little more about how we met
Speaker 5: in my show.
Speaker 1: And you have two kids now, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Daughter's eleven and her son is five. I just did
Speaker 5: baseball with him, and she's in a play. We're not
Speaker 5: like pushing her into that, you know, we're just supporting
Speaker 5: if she wants to do it great. And she's made
Speaker 5: some short films too, whoa, And she's got talent. She
Speaker 5: really does. She I've edited for her, she's been like
Speaker 5: the director and I've sat editing her stuff. And she
Speaker 5: knows timing. She's got great timing. She's just really she's
Speaker 5: got a lot of talent.
Speaker 2: And that must be so cool, getting to like collaborate
Speaker 2: with your parents and you collaborating with your daughter.
Speaker 5: So cool because I'll try to teach her a little bit, yeh,
Speaker 5: not too much. I want her to figure it out
Speaker 5: on her own.
Speaker 1: You have to realize her vision.
Speaker 5: But she knows what she wants. That rocks, and yeah,
Speaker 5: it's totally raw. I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: Does your daughter know about the Kelly videos? Has she
Speaker 1: seen them?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: What's her take? Does she like them?
Speaker 5: She likes them, but they're not They're twenty years old,
Speaker 5: so sure, it's like ancient history for her.
Speaker 1: Wild But.
Speaker 5: I don't really ask her about I don't, right, I
Speaker 5: don't really know what her opinion is per se. But
Speaker 5: she knows about it, and I've performed when she's been
Speaker 5: there a couple of times. I think, so she's heard
Speaker 5: the flom and all that. You know, it's different like
Speaker 5: when she was eight sick. You know, kids change so
Speaker 5: much over time, totally so she could have a totally
Speaker 5: different opinion.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know, what is it like watching your
Speaker 2: kids be these like digital natives.
Speaker 5: We try to hold back as much as possible. It's
Speaker 5: like building a damn Yeah, it's you know, because you're
Speaker 5: not just opening them up to the world and what's
Speaker 5: out there, you're allowing people in to their world as well.
Speaker 5: We took a class about like how to protect your
Speaker 5: kids from you know, predators or you know, creepy people
Speaker 5: and stuff. And the best piece I got out of
Speaker 5: that piece of advice was who's asking what? Who wants
Speaker 5: to do what with your kid? And what are they
Speaker 5: doing and what are they asking to do? Like, oh,
Speaker 5: we need to you know, do this thing privately or
Speaker 5: you know, like that kind of shit. But online you
Speaker 5: just don't. That's a whole different world. So we got
Speaker 5: to take another class eventually. But we do things like,
Speaker 5: you know, she has a phone, but it doesn't have
Speaker 5: social media on it, right it has she can call
Speaker 5: our friends or text our friends. And that's it for
Speaker 5: my son, you know, he barely he's only five, so
Speaker 5: he's he's not there yet. It's a new landscape and
Speaker 5: I feel for parents out there because you just don't know.
Speaker 5: Like you can put all the fail safe, all the
Speaker 5: parental controls on the iPad and all that stuff to
Speaker 5: try to protect, but there's.
Speaker 1: Always going to be a way around it.
Speaker 2: Like it's just, yeah, cleaning out my dad house summer,
Speaker 2: I found this letter I wrote to him. I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's been like eleven or twelve, but it was like
Speaker 2: this long apology for like having a secret MySpace account
Speaker 2: that my parents didn't know about, and it was like I.
Speaker 1: Was like, I'm so sorry I've betrayed you, and like
Speaker 1: blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And I think he kept it because he thought it
Speaker 2: was funny. I'm curious how your relationship with the Internet
Speaker 2: has changed, but I guess I'm even more interested in
Speaker 2: how your relationship with Kelly has changed now that you're
Speaker 2: sort of like reconvening with this character.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my relationship with Kelly has definitely changed. It's weird
Speaker 5: because I am Kelly, so it's really I'm talking about myself.
Speaker 5: I am you know what it is. It's kind of
Speaker 5: like I did this cool thing, I can still do
Speaker 5: this cool thing, and I've kind of like stop the
Speaker 5: negative talk in my head, like every time it rears
Speaker 5: its ugly head. I'm like, I don't need to hear that.
Speaker 5: I don't need to think that. I can just go
Speaker 5: with what's going on and feel good about performing this
Speaker 5: character and find joy in it and not think, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm just you know, one dimensional, or you know, oh
Speaker 5: I'm just this, you know, I'm not that talented, or
Speaker 5: like all those terrible thoughts can go fuck themselves at
Speaker 5: this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well that's oh man, that is very empower
Speaker 2: to hear. I'm glad for you, and I'm glad for
Speaker 2: the audience. Is that, like people can.
Speaker 1: Tell you how important your work is to them.
Speaker 2: Because it's it's true, like there's just very few pieces
Speaker 2: of work like Kelly, especially at the specific time where
Speaker 2: it just is like it's a it's a generational work.
Speaker 1: It's really special. And I'm glad, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my gosh, I mean I'm a big fan,
Speaker 2: and I'm so glad that your relationship with a character,
Speaker 2: in your relationship with yourself is like you can reconnect
Speaker 2: with it on your own turn also come full circle
Speaker 2: and be back on stage.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: It is amazing. Yeah, And I tell myself, you know, Liam,
Speaker 5: it's okay, to suck. It's okay. You can get up
Speaker 5: there thinking you're going to suck, and you might suck.
Speaker 5: You might be awful, you might forget everything you wanted
Speaker 5: to say, you might just lay a big egg up there.
Speaker 5: But you got up there and you did it. And
Speaker 5: that's the thing that way back when, like thirty five
Speaker 5: years ago, maybe I got this advice, which was dare
Speaker 5: yourself to suck. You know, if you're afraid of being
Speaker 5: bad at something, don't let that fear stop you right
Speaker 5: from doing it.
Speaker 2: The Internet of today kind of discourages you from doing
Speaker 2: that in a way that feels a little frustrating. Of
Speaker 2: like again, like you're saying, like like you were having
Speaker 2: to feel like you had to do in two thousand
Speaker 2: and six, of like chasing the numbers, making sure that
Speaker 2: like you're calibrating something to be creatively satisfying to this machine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like there's a trick to this, and if you
Speaker 5: learn the trick, you'll succeed.
Speaker 2: But there is I mean, that's just impossible because I
Speaker 2: feel like if you followed those rules, shoes wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 5: You know. Oh yeah, shoes broke a lot of rules, right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I did a lot of things unconventionally, Yeah, and it
Speaker 5: worked for me. This show that I'm doing is I'm
Speaker 5: going to try to keep doing it and get it
Speaker 5: really good. And it's been difficult to do because it
Speaker 5: is such an emotional journey. Yeah, I'm talking about really
Speaker 5: like the stuff we talked about here therapy. And it's
Speaker 5: a hard show to do. It's really hard, I can imagine. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's sometimes I feel excited to do it and other
Speaker 5: times I feel terrified to do it.
Speaker 2: And is that is this style of performance for you?
Speaker 2: It sounds pretty new, right, that something that's personal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never really gotten personal like this in front
Speaker 5: of a big crowd. By the end of the show,
Speaker 5: like I'll run the show in my head or you know,
Speaker 5: just run the lines. By the end of it, I
Speaker 5: feel better, think like maybe this is a good message.
Speaker 5: There's I think there's a good message in it. I
Speaker 5: don't think it's just me flapping my gums for an hour.
Speaker 5: There's funny parts, there's sad parts, but I think as
Speaker 5: a whole maybe people can come out of it with something.
Speaker 5: Almost every time I finish it, I feel good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Well, I mean thank you for taking
Speaker 2: an hour and a half to.
Speaker 5: Talk about it. Can we talk for an hour and
Speaker 5: a half? Much?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I like it?
Speaker 1: There again, you're doing me a huge favorite. This is like,
Speaker 1: so I'm so kind.
Speaker 5: Stuff out.
Speaker 2: I'll find something to cut out, you know. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much to the wonderful Liam Kyles Sullivan. You can
Speaker 2: follow him at the links in the description, and if
Speaker 2: you happen to be listening to this the day it
Speaker 2: comes out, he will be workshopping his show, a Liam
Speaker 2: Kyle's Sullivan Show tonight at the Lyric Hyperion in LA
Speaker 2: and next week on sixteenth Minute, we are taking a
Speaker 2: side quest into the language of today's Internet. See you
Speaker 2: then and for your moment of fun. Here is Kelly's
Speaker 2: most recent official appearance, a promo for CrOx.
Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to fat, I mean your
Speaker 5: favor I'm back. Oh by the way, why did it
Speaker 5: just go get your size? Thank you? No, seriously, thank you.
Speaker 5: You still have to pay for The.
Speaker 2: Sixteenth Minute is a production of Whole Zone Media and
Speaker 2: iHeart Ordaps. It is written, hosted, and produced by me
Speaker 2: Jamie Loftus. Our executive producers are Sophie Lickderman and Robert Evans.
Speaker 1: He amazing.
Speaker 2: Ian Johnson is our supervising producer and our editor. Our
Speaker 2: theme song is by Sad thirteen. Voice acting is from
Speaker 2: Grant Crater and pet. Shout outs to our dog producer Anderson,
Speaker 2: my cat's fleeing Casper, and my pet rock Bert, who
Speaker 2: will outlive us all. Bye.