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The Muppet Scriptmas Carol - Jiavani & Matt Wilkie · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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  Christmas comes early this year on December 20th in fact, as
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  Muppet fans are treated to another live Muppet script
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  reading, this time featuring the beloved Muppet Christmas Carol.
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  Tough Pigs is once again proud to present the show's companion
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  podcast where we'll chat with the people involved in bringing
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  the show to life. My first guest and in a way my
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  Co host in this miniseries as an old friend to us here is Tough
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  Pigs. He's the director and producer
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  of the live script readings and I'm excited he's here with us.
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  It's Matt Wilkie. Hi, Matt.
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  Hey, Jared. Hey everybody.
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  How are you today? I'm very well excited to see you
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  and excited for our next guest. She's a comedian, actor and
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  improviser who's appeared in shows like Dead to Me and Last
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  Week Tonight and as a fan favorite on drop apps Make Some
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  Noise. She's playing the ghost of
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  Christmas Present in The Muppets Christmas Carol.
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  So let's come in and know her better.
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  Man, It's Giovanni. How are you?
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  Hello. I'm so good.
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  I'm so excited to see you and meet you.
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  It's very strange to see you on my screen and be able to talk
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  back to you. Yeah, hello.
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  Hello, Bunny. I'm glad you said that because I
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  feel like every time I say your name I need you to repeat Bunny,
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  Why? Could you wanna make some noise?
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  I was like hope. I was.
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  I was like, I was like, oh, OK. If you're surprised, if you're
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  like, if it's a new thing to be talking back to me, what would
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  you want to hear? I guess that maybe.
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  You've really, you've made this. You've made this Dropout fan
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  very, very happy. So I'm very excited for the
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  Muppet script. Miss Carol.
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  It's gonna, I'm gonna definitely have this podcast screw that up
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  many, many times. It's such a sweaty title, I
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  know. I did think to myself when I
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  first thought about it, I was like, I wonder how Matt's going
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  to integrate the word script into this one.
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  Yeah, that's that's. What's that process like?
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  Well, it's, it's, it's easier than you think.
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  It's just wherever it feels right.
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  And and I'm a I'm a big fan of the blank check podcast and they
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  always have the really sweaty titles for their mini series
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  that they do. Yeah.
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  So so I took inspiration from that and I was like, let's just
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  put script into all of the the titles So well, I.
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  Mean good luck when you get to The Muppets, The Muppets Most
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  Wanted, because I don't know what you're going to do for
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  that. I'll figure it out.
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  I'm, I'm excited to come along with the journey with you, Matt.
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  This script is obviously a lot different to the others.
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  You know, I, I almost class Muppet Christmas Carol as a
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  drama. I don't see it as a comedy.
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  I see it as a drama. I almost see it as a horror
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  film. I have made that.
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  I have made that argument before.
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  So with this being so much different, I guess to the
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  others, what are you finding to be the differences sort of
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  putting this show together versus the others?
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  Sure, great question. So the, the first thing that's
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  very different is the fact that we always have narrators on
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  stage to do the stage directions and and things like that.
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  But in this movie, we've got narrators on stage and then two
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  characters who are playing narrators who are also
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  narrating. So already the meta levels of it
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  all were a little hard to wrap my head around when I was trying
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  to figure out how to adapt it better for a stage rating like
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  this. But what I found is that with
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  this movie especially, there's such a familiarity with it, with
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  the audience and people who are going to be in it and who are
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  watching it. And they've, this is the one
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  movie, I think even more than the original Muppet movie, that
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  people have seen many, many, many times.
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  So many people have this as an annual tradition.
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  So it kind of made the job of cutting things back easier
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  because I know that people were already have a lot of the scenes
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  and things in their minds. Absolutely.
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  You know, Yeah. Well, you say it's a tradition
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  for a lot of people. Giovanni, what's your sort of
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  personal relationship with this film?
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  Because, you know, was this a childhood favorite or is this
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  something that you'd come to later?
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  This came to me later and I it was the movie that made me fall
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  in love with Rizzo. I never, I never connected with
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  him so much until I saw this movie.
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  Also, I was like, I was just looking through my emails
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  because to be totally honest, I think I misread your e-mail,
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  Matt. I thought I was playing Ghost of
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  Christmas Past and I fully, I fully almost got like a very
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  gauzy white costume and emailed you to ask if somebody could
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  hold a fan in front of me the whole show and fully just read
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  your e-mail way too fast. I was like, I was like, do I?
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  Am I going to music rehearsal? Should I sing so I'm just like,
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  I'm just like re acclimating. I'm really excited to play Ghost
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  of Christmas Present. Well, there we go.
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  I mean, let's process this in real time then.
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  Giovanni, what's, what's going through your head?
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  It's. Exciting this.
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  Is very exciting. Also, you know, feel free to
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  edit it out if that's weird. I'm keeping it all.
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  Oh my gosh, I'm like, OK, this is all so funny because I when I
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  was a kid, my church, which was like a big like Christian mega
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  church, put on a production of Scrooge the musical every
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  Christmas where he like finds Jesus at the end.
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  And I always wanted to be the ghost of Christmas past because
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  she was like the prettiest, like most lovely one and she was a
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  child. So it was like, Oh, this is
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  perfect. But it would never, it always
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  went to like a very talented little girl whose family was
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  like more influential in mine. So I never got Ghost of
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  Christmas Past. And then I auditioned for that
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  Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell movie, for the Ghost of
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  Christmas Past in that movie. And I was like on the phone with
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  my sister earlier and I was like, I'm finally going to play
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  the Ghost of Christmas. Past.
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  Stupid. Say that again.
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  It has been ripped away from you.
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  Wild again, this time by my own not paying attention enough.
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  I'm looking forward to two things.
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  One, I'm looking forward to watching this video back and
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  just seeing your face when I say she's playing Ghost with
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  Christmas present to see wait, what?
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  And two. He's checking Matt's face.
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  I'll be like, wait, oh, Matt's face isn't changing.
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  Oh. And I'm also looking forward to
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  because I believe Anna Garcia is playing gross with Christmas
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  present. Hey, you are the taking Anna
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  down. Sorry.
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  Yeah, you're right. Either taking Anna down or just
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  like mouthing the words behind her as she thinks.
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  I'm only sad that that means we won't have a scene together.
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  I. Love her.
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  Well, I'm all right. Well, there we go.
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  Well then I'll know I'll be available to hold a fan if she
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  wants to wear a gauzy outfit, yes.
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  Yes, well, I mean, what's going through your mind now, Giovanni,
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  costume wise? Because like, you know, I know
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  when you played Rolf, you had like a big dog costume and yeah,
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  you're obviously thinking about this goals and stuff like that.
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  But I guess what's going through your mind now?
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  Let's let's brainstorm some ideas.
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  My immediate idea is like a big robe and like attaching a lot of
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  fake fruit to it. He's got that big like feast
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  upon upon his entrance and I think it would be cool to just
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  be carrying that upon my person. I think that would be a cool
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  draggy look. I love that, yeah.
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  I like it. Well, I would argue.
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  I mean, don't get me wrong, every role in this in this
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  script reading is gonna be great, but I think you've got
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  the good one like. Oh, that's an amazing.
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  Present is an amazing part. I mean, you get to sing probably
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  the best Christmas song that's ever existed.
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  Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, I can't believe this.
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  Sorry. I'm like, I'm like, wow, I'm
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  realizing like all the things I'm going to get to do 'cause
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  I'm already, you know, if I, if, if Matt invites me to do one
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  line in the thing, I'm like, yeah, that sounds amazing.
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  So I'm like, Oh my gosh, this. Is so cool.
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  Wow, this is exciting for This is exciting for me too because I
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  don't usually get to offer people roles in person.
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  It's usually just over e-mail or or people, people like yourself
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  who are so sweet, who are like, I'll do anything, just tell me
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  what I'm doing. But to get to see it on your
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  face is really fun. This is an amazing day and it
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  was already an amazing day. Well, Matt, can you talk a
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  little bit about casting? How do you go about sort of
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  figuring out who's going to be who?
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  Well, it's it's a really fun process.
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  Casting is the most fun process for me.
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  I love thinking about all the friends that I have and all the
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  people I've worked with already and just doing something,
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  something like this is a great example where there is no Ralph
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  in this one. He had, you know, a very
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  diminished role. This one was right after Jim had
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  died, as we all know. And so there's no, there's just
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  a silent appearance from Ralph. And I was like, but I still want
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  to work with Giovanni. So where can we put her?
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  What is the solution here? And when I thought of like
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  somebody who just has so much joy and love, love for their
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  fellow person, love for themselves, love for the spirit
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  of joy and excitement and humor and all of those things, I was
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  like, that's Giovanni to AT. And so yeah, let's get her in
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  there. So casting casting is just so
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  much fun for me. It's it's fun to to like be
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  watching drop out and Grace and I, my wife will will turn to
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  each other and be like, oh, we've got to get that person on
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  one of the meetings. We got to get that person.
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  And so dropout has been one of my biggest pools to draw from.
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  They have such a great talent over there.
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  Yeah. I mean, since day one, I've been
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  sending you like, you should have this person play this role.
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  You should have this person play this role.
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  Yeah, no, I I send you to spam now, yeah.
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  Yeah, that's fine. Oh, I know that's not true, but
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  it still hurt a little bit. So Giovanni, what is it like
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  then where I guess when you get that e-mail sort of, you know,
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  back in the first one, you know, what's your immediate thought
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  when you get asked to come and do one of these script readings?
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  I. Mean one that the the vibe on
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  the that the like being at the show is going to be the most fun
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  ever because Matt is assembling the most talented, sweet,
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  lovely, funny people and like surprise people, famous people,
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  bunch of friends. It's just like, oh, that's going
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  to be 40 of the best people and it's going to be such a blast.
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  And I like the last one that I did the the Manhattan one that
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  would wait. No paper.
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  Yeah, yeah, Nina W like I I've never seen her in a part like
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  that, like in such close proximity.
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  And so like TBH, she like out Piggy, Miss Piggy.
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  I have never seen anything like it.
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  Like I was like she would have stolen Miss Piggies gig.
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  Like like she was so good. And like, she's, she's doing
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  weird physical stuff, like around like through the, all the
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  performers that are on stage. And I'm just like in awe.
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  So I, when I find out that I'm going to be able to do something
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  in one of these, I am excited beyond words for the fun, the,
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  the friendship and the inspiration.
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  Honestly, it's such, it's, it's such an awesome time.
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  I think for the audience too. You can feel everybody's having
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  a blast. Yeah, for sure.
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  It's, it's one of those things I'm like, I'm in Melbourne in
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  Australia. So I, you know, unless someone
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  wants to fork up some cash, I ain't making it to one of these
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  live unfortunately. But like you know, I've said to
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  you before, Matt, what I love about these is it is the vibe of
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  it is just so much fun. Like I sit there and I watch
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  them and I go, I'm having such a good time watching this.
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  And what I think as well is this, it really shines a light
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  on the script itself. Like I have seen something like
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  the Muppet Movie, I have seen 6,000,000 times.
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  But watching it, you know, performed by Nina and by Mark
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  Evan Jackson and Bobby Moynihan or whoever it might be, it takes
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  on a whole different, a whole different.
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  There's a whole different appreciation for it because go
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  on. Yeah, yeah, No, I was, I was
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  just going to say it's, it's in a weird way by putting humans
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  onto the stage and having them say the same thing.
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  There's also this kind of separation that you then take
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  where you're you're taking a set back words and you're saying
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  there are people behind the puppets and there's people who
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  are putting their performance in here.
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  But by seeing it just straight from a human, it almost lets you
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  look at it in a brand new way that a lot of people probably
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  haven't considered before, haven't thought about.
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  There's by having humans, you're seeing the humanity of The
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  Muppets come through a little bit harder.
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  And and I think that's such a wonderful thing that you, you
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  know, even if you know these movies backwards and forwards,
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  you can quote every line. You kind of see a new
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  appreciation when you look at it just as a script and say, well,
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  what's how would Paul left Tompkins to read this line?
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  How would somebody like like Paul, she or Rob, like, how
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  would they read this line that we've all heard said 1000 times
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  before? And how are they going to put
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  this new spin on it? And I love having the the
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  ability to give people that freedom and just just let them
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  play and have fun. So for Someone Like You,
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  Giovanni, I guess, are you? You know what I really like
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  about this, And Nina's almost the exception to the rule, but
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  in the best way possible is none of you are doing impersonations
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  of these characters. Like, yes, see how you might
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  have a dog suit on, But yeah, not.
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  But you're still bringing your own sort of interpretation to,
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  say, Rolf for. Example this is my Rolf.
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  Yeah. So how do you go about, how do
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  you approach that? Are you sort of trying to play
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  the Muppet playing the role, or are you sort of interpreting it
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  from scratch? Well, I'm thinking about like,
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  what makes the ghost of Christmas present now, you know,
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  like what, what lights him up? What's in his core?
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  Like, how does he view his role in like what what he's doing in
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  people's lives. I assume that Ebenezer Scrooge
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  is not the only one. This is now.
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  I'm just like, I'm just talking about my actor process now.
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  So that's where I'm like coming from.
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  And then I want to, I also want to like, I want to delight fans
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  of the movie who are coming into it with, you know, a childhood
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  embrace of this experience. And I want to like meld those
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  two things. My, my own process as an actor,
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  what's going to be fun and true for me and like, you know and
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  respect and and love for, for an audience who's going to who's
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  going to want to feel a, a, a joyous familiarity with, with
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  the performance as well. That's that's how I would come
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  at it. Yeah.
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  Has there been anyone you know when you've been doing these?
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  Anyone who surprised you with their interpretation of a
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  character? Matt, you can also jump in if
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  you have an answer. Matt I.
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  Jog my memories. I have a a fun one, which was so
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  in our, in our, the one we did together, those the great Muppet
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  caper Angela Giratana was in the show and I didn't know until we
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  were like preparing for the show that she had never seen The
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  Muppets growing up. She didn't she just didn't grow
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  up with The Muppets. So she didn't really have a real
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  framework for it. And so she didn't, I don't think
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  she watched the movie before she did the show and.
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  No, I'm sure she did it. Yeah, I'm certain she didn't.
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  And that was great because it gave her like this whole new
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  like, like Rizzo was almost like, like a Ratatouille
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  character. Yeah, Rizzo was.
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  Wild. It was and then and then I'm.
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  Thinking of the Colombo guy. The Colombo's The Peter Falk
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  scene. Was Peter Falk.
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  Yeah, Peter Fall. It was so it was so funny
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  because like, I I had never seen the muck bit caper before that
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  show. I watched it for it and I was
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  like, I was like, oh, what a funny like monologue that it's
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  long. And Angela started doing it and
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  it was I, I, I could be remembering wrong, but like it
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  was kind of spot on at 1st and then she lost, she like lost
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  confidence when she's realized how long it was and like it
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  changed into something else, which was so funny.
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  But it's just like, whatever, whatever happens, it's so like
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  at the at the heart of it, you have really funny, funny, fun
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  people. So it's like, I love whatever's
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  happening here. It's lyric.
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  Exactly, exactly. I love she just she takes this
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  beat before she starts. She goes OK.
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  And it was so funny. And like everybody in the
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  audience knew that that monologue was coming too.
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  If you're a fan of the. So they were like, we get why
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  she's getting ready now. I remember watching it and you
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  could just see she's highlighted their lines and it was like a
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  full page of justice. The full the whole page.
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  Just the whole page was yellow. You know, Angela was wild
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  watching that. There was a couple of times
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  during Rizom like this is, I don't know what she's doing, but
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  I love it. It was crazy.
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  Matt, how do you go about, I guess, choosing your own roles
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  because you take a couple of little positions here and there,
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  You know, how do you go about doing that?
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  So it's usually just for the sake of stage space.
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  It's I'm, I'm, you know, I do it for performance background and
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  I, I'm an improviser and a comedian and all of those fun
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  things. But this is usually more about
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  I've taken the producer role in these shows and I'm trying to
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  highlight these actors and give them the, the medias of meaty
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  things. So a lot of times it's just I'm
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  filling in where it's like a one line or one scene character.
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  I don't have anybody else that I can fill it in with because
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  there's other people in the scene and I just kind of need to
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  jump in. That being said, though, I have
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  given myself unintentionally by the three movies we've done now,
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  I've given myself a part that takes place on a plane, a train
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  and an automobile. So I was thinking of that.
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  I was thinking during this Thanksgiving season, I was
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  thinking about that movie. Funny.
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  What can you tell us? Maybe a little role you'll be
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  playing here. Yes, I will probably be selling
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  some vegetables during the show. Cute.
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  Great. Are there any?
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  Are there any Muppet moments that take place on a boat?
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  I know that like we've got the nice John Candy title there, but
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  just so we get more vehicles. I mean, think you're tired of
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  Muppet Treasure Island? Oh, great.
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  OK. I'm thinking, oh, wonder if
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  there is that. The whole film is just that.
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  OK, cool. I'll have to I'll have to do
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  like a one line pirate or something to good.
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  Good, yeah. Every vessel I can think of.
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  Giovanni just this is as a dropout fan, I asked this
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  question. You know you're one of my
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  favourites. I'll make some noise a couple of
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  like I have quoted your Stone chef reading it making up
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  specials from a few weeks ago. One of the funniest things I've
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  ever seen. I showed my partner recently the
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  one of. You know, the celebrant who's
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  definitely hooked up with the couple, she just lost her mind.
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  She loved it. Thank you so much.
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  So you're genuine of my favourites.
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  You know, if you have to pick two Muppets to stand next to you
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  on that stage and get prompts from Sam, who are they going to
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  be? That's a great.
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  Question. Oh my gosh, who do I want to be
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  on make some noise with from The Muppets?
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  Oh my gosh. OK, I would get upstaged by Miss
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  Piggy, but I would I would, I would still I would still like
• 20:41
  it would still be so worth it. Even if she's steamrolling
• 20:44
  everyone and and I'm going to go, I think I'm going to go
• 20:52
  gonzo. I'm like, I'm feeling a lot of I
• 20:55
  will just like I want to get it right.
• 20:56
  But I do like, I think gonzo for balance.
• 20:58
  And this is me, just like casting in a way that I'm like,
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  OK, OK. I think the three of us together
• 21:03
  would be really good. That'd be an all timer.
• 21:08
  That would be, I think it would be the equivalent of like, it
• 21:12
  would kind of be like me, Lisa Gilroy, and who's like, who's
• 21:19
  the dropout Gonzo, maybe like Lou.
• 21:24
  Oh yeah, he said. Lou.
• 21:26
  And that would be like that would be a good team.
• 21:29
  That would be. I would watch that.
• 21:30
  Well, sort of, you know, I watch Dropout and I think, you know,
• 21:33
  Sam has basically made the Muppet Show.
• 21:35
  Like he's just, he's got this, he's got this absolutely empire
• 21:39
  and he's just hiring all these friends to have fun and be fun.
• 21:42
  You know, in that sort of scenario, I guess, which Muppet
• 21:45
  do you feel like you would identify with in that sort of
• 21:49
  umbrella? I do agree with the, with the
• 21:54
  Dropout being a, a Muppets ensemble, which I absolutely
• 21:57
  love. I think, I mean, I have Muppets
• 22:03
  that I love, but I, I, I don't know.
• 22:08
  I don't know if I can think of one that feels like it's exactly
• 22:11
  me. I feel like I feel kind of
• 22:13
  closest to Elmo. Yeah, I feel a bit.
• 22:16
  I feel a bit Elmo, honestly. And do you know what?
• 22:21
  I have interviewed Elmo multiple times and I'm having just as
• 22:24
  much fun interviewing you so. I'm really, I'm really going to
• 22:29
  have like go to sleep with a smile.
• 22:36
  You know, as we sort of begin to wrap up, Giovanni, what are your
• 22:41
  holiday traditions? We're coming into the holiday
• 22:43
  season. You know, to put a timestamp on
• 22:45
  this, we're recording this the day before Thanksgiving.
• 22:48
  What are your what is your month look like as you're late after
• 22:50
  the holidays? I'm going to go to San Diego
• 22:54
  tomorrow for Thanksgiving, where my family is.
• 22:58
  My family does a lot of interesting things.
• 23:02
  This is a big Filipino family and there will be probably like
• 23:07
  80 to 100 people at at the gathering.
• 23:13
  One thing I really love is everybody will bring their empty
• 23:17
  Amazon boxes and other like boxes from over the course of
• 23:21
  the year. And we build these huge
• 23:23
  structures out of the empty boxes and take turns hurling
• 23:28
  ourselves into them. Sometimes children that you
• 23:31
  know, kids love getting thrown into stuff and just knock over
• 23:35
  the box, the tower boxes, the towers of boxes and then rebuild
• 23:40
  them and that's always a good time.
• 23:44
  God I love. Weird family commissions.
• 23:46
  I love it. What do you have on Christmas?
• 23:49
  We have. We have a drinking contest at
• 23:51
  Christmas. My family.
• 23:53
  There is a plaque, I have won it.
• 23:56
  It has my name engraved on it. You have it for a year and then
• 23:59
  it gets passed to the next person.
• 24:01
  What What did you like? What was the quantity and what
• 24:03
  was the do? You know what it's Do you know
• 24:05
  what a Jager bomb is? Yes, yeah.
• 24:08
  Jager bomb, Jager bombs and we we all line up, there's round
• 24:12
  Robins, you line up and then in the end it gets to two people
• 24:15
  and by the end you have like when the time I won, I think I
• 24:18
  had 6 and I was, I was gone. That was it.
• 24:22
  But I won. Gosh.
• 24:25
  Was there still? Stuff you had to.
• 24:26
  Do like was was there still like more more hanging out, like more
• 24:31
  holidays? This is at like 4:00 in the
• 24:33
  afternoon and that day usually ends like midnight.
• 24:36
  Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, it's it's chaotic,
• 24:40
  but it's good fun. My family makes cookies.
• 24:45
  Boring cookies are. You an are you?
• 24:50
  Are you an oatmeal Raisin family?
• 24:52
  Are you white chocolate macadamia?
• 24:54
  No, we're, we're, we're chocolate chip.
• 24:56
  Chocolate chip. Yeah.
• 24:57
  Cute. Yeah, we do that.
• 24:59
  And we do, we do snickerdoodles and we do like those ones where
• 25:04
  it's like the little sugar cookie and then you push the
• 25:06
  Hershey's kiss into the middle. Classic.
• 25:09
  Well, it's like new classic. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:12
  Lovely. Any other traditions, Matt?
• 25:16
  Anything weird? You don't.
• 25:17
  You don't throw people into cardboard or get hammered.
• 25:20
  Little throwing in in. In the Wilkie family.
• 25:24
  Fair enough Matt, you always, we always like to support a charity
• 25:29
  with your script readings. What?
• 25:31
  Who will we be supporting for this one?
• 25:33
  We do, yes. So for this performance, we're
• 25:36
  going to be supporting a wonderful foundation called One
• 25:39
  Simple Wish. I'm going to just read a little
• 25:42
  bit 'cause I think it's so important.
• 25:43
  One Simple Wish works to amplify the voices of individuals
• 25:47
  affected by foster care and foster crises.
• 25:51
  So they have a website where you can go to and you can fulfill
• 25:57
  wishes. So often these are very small
• 26:01
  things that kids are looking for.
• 26:03
  It's a very great charity to support around the holidays.
• 26:07
  Of course, the wishes that people are asking for go up
• 26:10
  around this time, but what's great about what we're doing is
• 26:14
  the way that we're kind of processing everything is that
• 26:17
  our support will go to them probably in January, and that's
• 26:23
  when donations are down a little bit for a lot of organizations.
• 26:27
  So by doing this, we're bringing awareness to one simple wish now
• 26:32
  so that you can donate either for yourself or it's a great
• 26:35
  gift that you can give to somebody this holiday season.
• 26:38
  You can go to their website, 1simplewish.org and check it
• 26:41
  out, or what we'll also be doing is donating afterwards.
• 26:45
  So we give them that little bit of boost.
• 26:47
  It's kind of like A2 tiered approach to get them a lot of
• 26:50
  wishes granted. Beautiful.
• 26:53
  How can people watch the show? So the show will be live at the
• 26:58
  Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles on December 20th at 6:30
• 27:03
  PMI did find out however, that we are sold out for in person
• 27:07
  already, which is great. Wonderful.
• 27:10
  OK, so we will be able to watch our live stream at
• 27:16
  dynastytypewriter.com. Dynasty.tv will also have some
• 27:20
  of the information and yeah, you can check it out from there.
• 27:24
  I am very, very excited. I have had an absolute blast
• 27:28
  this last half an hour. Matt.
• 27:29
  We'll see you again for the rest of days.
• 27:31
  But Giovanni, I, I, I love you even more now.
• 27:34
  Thanks. This has been a genuine
• 27:38
  pleasure. Absolutely.
• 27:42
  And I'm so excited to play Ghost of Christmas Present.