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The Muppet Scriptmas Carol - Hannah Pilkes · 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 Movie 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 with me. As always, there's no friend to
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  us here at Tough Bigs. He's the director and producer
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  of the live script readings and I'm excited he's here.
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  It's Matt Wilkie. Hello, Matthew.
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  Oh, hello, Jared. How are you?
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  I'm very well. I'm excited because my guest
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  today is a comedian and actress who's appeared in shows like
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  Leanne on Netflix and Dropouts. Make some noise.
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  And as a social media follow, I strongly recommend should be
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  playing Lou Zealand and Belinda Cratchit in the upcoming show.
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  Or is it Patina? That's Emily Cratchit says
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  whatever, It's Hannah Pilcus. Hi, Hannah.
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  Hello. I'm very excited to speak to
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  you. I know, how fun is this?
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  Gosh, if there's one thing that gets me going, it's Muppets.
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  Wow, I mean, let's dive straight in.
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  Your Instagram bio says you are part Muppet.
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  I feel like I feel like my husband is Kermit and I'm like
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  Piggy and Chef. A crossover and maybe Cookie
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  Monster. So maybe not Muppet Christmas
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  Carol specific and maybe a little Michael Gain a little
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  more cocaine. Yes, yes.
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  So what? What does being part Muppet mean
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  to you? I mean, I'm, I'm a long time.
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  I even have a labyrinth. The babe with the power tattoo.
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  I'm a Henson head. They grew up watching Fraggle
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  Rock, Dark Crystal labyrinth. I love practical effects.
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  I love puppets so much. I love Sesame Street growing up
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  and The Muppets. To me, especially Muppets
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  Christmas Carol, there is like no deeper joy in my gut than the
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  feeling of total commitment of puppets.
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  It is like it's a better universe.
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  We should all just, we should live there.
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  That's sort of my feeling. Yeah, let's get there.
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  We'll, we'll do our best. Matt, do you have any Muppet
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  tattoos? Because I mean, Hannah's got the
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  Labyrinth one. I've got Kermit the Frog's eye
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  tattooed to my wrist. I I do, I don't.
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  I can't take my shirt off right now, but at the top of my
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  sleeve, it's Kermit's collar. And then the rest of my skin
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  goes down. Yeah, yeah.
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  And I would love it for like, it's a full body.
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  It starts here and. It starts here.
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  We are. You're just entirely green under
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  that outfit. Yeah.
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  Thank you. And you've got a little Jim
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  Henson on your back, like putting his hand inside you.
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  All right, All right, let's move on.
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  All right, honey, you said, you know, you feel like you're that
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  mixture of Piggy and, and the chef and even a bit of Cookie
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  Monster. And is there anyone else that
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  you feel the energy flowing through?
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  You let's see, I feel a little Snuffleupagus.
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  I mean, this is I'm good. I'm branching out into Sesame
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  Street here and you know what? Ghosts of Christmas past.
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  I definitely like production design alone and costuming.
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  I mean, chef's kiss and chef unreal.
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  Like I love a treasure and a treat.
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  Like if you're around my house, it's just like trinkets and I
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  feel like like the grapes and the the gorgeous food spread.
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  It's just so opulent and I love that.
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  That sounds wonderful. Well, look, you'll be obviously
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  playing the daughter of Miss Piggy as you play Belinda
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  Cratchit. Tell me about that process.
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  What's that going to be like? Oh, man, I mean hours and hours
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  and hours of agonizing method. I mean, I'm going to make my
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  husband's like hell. I'm going to probably cut off
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  contact with my family for a little while just to really get
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  in that feeling of, of togetherness and, and, and need
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  and lack. It's going to be I'm I'm going
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  to really disappoint a lot of people in my life, but that's
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  how committed I am. They're all.
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  Matt, who's playing the other Cratchit sister.
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  The other Cratchit sister is Janet Varney.
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  Lovely, lovely Janet. Yes.
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  Love having her on the show. We'd love to have her fill in
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  now and then when when she can on these fun little roles.
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  And I think, I think the two of them together are just going to
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  be great. Hannah, do you know Janet?
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  Just just as a a faraway fan, so I mean, this whole this whole
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  lineup is some folks that I know, but it is stacked.
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  There's like no one that I'm not a fan of.
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  I yeah, I would have gone to this if you hadn't asked me,
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  which I was already going to reach out to you to ask you to
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  ask me so. Well, that you know what that
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  comes to my next question. How did you have much FOMO
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  looking at the first three of these, Hannah?
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  Yeah, yeah. I cannot but wonder when's it
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  gonna be my turn. I mean, Paul, Paul's one of my
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  dearest pals. I I did for Iatopia with Paul
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  and Paul. So to me, part Muppet.
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  I mean, I think we can all agree Paul has like Muppet blood as
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  well in like this beautiful inner child, silly.
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  So when Paul told me about him doing it this year and then I
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  looked at years past, the FOMO was real.
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  So truly I would like moments from writing to Matt already.
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  So it really worked out. I was shamelessly going to be
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  like, hey, I'm right here. Which I've been doing as well,
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  Matt, but he still hasn't asked me to come in.
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  OK, weird. You would have to kind of cross,
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  cross emotions. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  But you look, look for the right role.
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  I mean, as we spoke in the last episode, Matt, if you need a Mr.
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  Curly Twirly, here I am. That's an obscure Muppet,
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  Hannah. I don't expect you to know who
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  that is. Absolutely.
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  That's a deep cut. Yeah, that's a.
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  Pretty deep cut. Matt, can you talk about
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  bringing Hannah into the fold? Absolutely.
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  So Hannah is someone who who I adore.
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  I love everything she's done on drop out.
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  I died when she did the the voice of her pet, the really
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  specific voice that was amazing. So instantly I was like, OK,
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  that's someone I need to work with.
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  And it's been such a wonderful year to be doing these
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  presentations and to find people like Hannah who are real life
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  Muppets. And so many of them do come from
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  drop out. It's a, it's kind of a Muppet
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  magnet over there. So it's, it's been wonderful to,
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  to connect with Hannah. I just kind of blindly reached
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  out on Instagram. I knew we had a bunch of mutual
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  friends, but we just hadn't connected.
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  And I was like, I really want it for this one and this is going
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  to be the quickest way to do it. So I just, I just sent her the
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  message and and as she said, she was immediately like, I was
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  about to message you. So so happy it worked.
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  Out and I'm I'm not like that. I'm not like, hey, can I be?
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  I wouldn't put it past me to ask to be on a comedy show, but this
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  was one where I was like, I'm going to sit in the audience
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  pissed, so I'm going to have to go out.
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  Just rush the stage next time if you're not in the next one and.
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  That was my next thing. It was like the only good way to
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  storm something. Yeah, it was good storming.
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  I had genuinely forgotten about the dog with the other specific
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  voice for the dog on Make some noise.
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  For me, it was the IT was the person who's been in Amsterdam
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  for two days and just comes back with an accent.
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  Oh, yeah. OK.
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  And if you want to know where, of course I am my father's
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  daughter. My father is not part Muppet.
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  He is a Muppet. He is a 70 year old Dutch man
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  with an accent that to me has only gotten thicker over the
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  years even though he's lived in the states since he was 18.
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  And he'll say stuff like we are dying to know what the Super
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  today is like. He is such a human up there.
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  So I that's where the Amsterdam all he has like 7 siblings and
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  they all live in Holland. But I love drop out for that
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  because it really is just like a meeting of dopes.
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  It's like the dopiest people who are also, I mean, some are so
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  clever. My gift is more voices and
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  sounds and sort of like, you know, gesticulating.
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  But it's, it's such a, such a cool hodgepodge of, of brilliant
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  people. Well, like we talked about this
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  a little in the Giovanni episode, it's basically Sam's
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  made The Muppet Show. Yes, yes, totally.
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  He's completely just made The Muppet Show and I'm so jealous
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  sitting and watching it because it really sometimes feels like
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  you're watching The Muppet Show. It it's the closest thing
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  because I feel like the misnomer with improv especially is that
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  it has to be purely cerebral and heady.
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  And it's like you have these brilliant people that are quick
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  as lightning. But I also really appreciate
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  that Dropout explores like all subsets of humor.
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  So then there's like your Josh Rubens, who are just like so
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  clowny as well. And you know, then you have your
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  Giovanni's and your Anna Garcia's and your Lisa Gilroy's.
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  But it's it's, it's, it's how I found some of my my favorite
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  friends that I've like shamelessly DM being like,
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  you're funny. How do you want to hang out?
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  And also just yeah, like I love a bite sized clip that just
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  makes you laugh as you're going about your day.
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  Well that's why I said before I find like your social media or
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  something I strongly advise people to follow.
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  I scroll through your stuff constantly and I just giggle.
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  What was the one? The one like an improviser at
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  the back like trying to get in that you did like a few months
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  ago? I laughed about that for four
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  days. It just popped into my head at
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  random times that I giggled to myself.
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  I would love to say that that was fiction, but that had
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  happened. The thing about improv shows
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  last night, I was on fire. I was out every time one week
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  before I left the wall once. And I'm like, I've done this for
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  so many years. But comedy's so psychological,
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  right, Which is why when you like the The Muppets, Chris,
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  like it's so risk averse because you're like, you're going to
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  help us. We're going to have rehearsals.
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  The materials gorgeous, but improv is always a dice roll.
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  You can still I'm at any age, at any level.
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  I'm way like I've done. I did a little bit of improv in
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  like high school. I'm too intimidated to go up and
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  do what you guys do. It terrifies me.
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  It's scary, but you know what? SO is living.
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  So I'm like a simulation out there.
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  At least don't go. At least if I make a fool of
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  myself, I'm like, I have a pulse.
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  I'm alive like another day. And I, the other day I did a
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  horrible thing. I went to go sit and they had
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  swiped the chair so it was a collapse onto the ground.
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  The sound it made was like I'd broken every bone.
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  The whole audience gasped and everyone sort of held.
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  And then I rose and said I'm OK and we all collapse.
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  But humiliating. It was like Tim Robinson's chair
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  company, only there was no chair to catch me.
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  So your company is very physically expressive.
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  I mean, even just as you were talking then you were
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  gesticulating very, very Swedish Sheffy.
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  How tempting do you think it's going to be to like full go into
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  that physicality while you're doing this script reading?
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  Well, if there's ever something that lends itself to
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  gesticulating, it's it's emulating puppets, right?
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  Like you really. We need the arms, we need the
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  gangl, we need the Chris Fleming body energy.
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  We need, we need that silly. But yeah, I mean, in auditions
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  for more grounded things, I have to tone it back.
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  But I think for this, it might actually be quite well served.
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  Scratch. It is maybe a bit a bit more
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  subdued, you know, maybe a bit a bit more inward.
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  But God, I'm so excited to watch.
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  I'm already thinking about Anna playing the ghost and laughing
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  to myself. Oh, we feel good.
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  I I mean, are you going to get to tackle Mark Evan Jackson?
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  Because at one point those two Cracker sisters just dive on
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  Kermit. Well, do we have a stunt
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  coordinator? We.
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  Believe her, I think. I think Mark's open to doing
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  stunts, yeah. Great.
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  Perfect. Did a couple of stunts on The
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  Good Place. He'll be fine.
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  Yeah, I listened to his podcast and he talked about doing his
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  own stunts. So just Hannah.
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  They're telling. I do die that old stunts and
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  improv shows, so we're ready to go together.
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  Well, it is a fun role, but it's also can be quite subdued and
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  there's some genuinely depressing moments that the
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  Cratchit sisters sort of get to go through as.
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  Spoiler alert, Tiny Tim dies, but he doesn't actually die.
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  Is there an intimidation there of sort of playing that those
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  more depressed depressing. Is that the word I'm after?
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  Subdued, maybe? I would say like Earnest.
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  I mean, that's another thing I love about Muppets and Sesame
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  Street and all things Henson is that I always think it's crazy
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  that Henson initially was making like adult programming and was
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  like, I'm not going to do kids stuff.
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  And then life kind of had other plans.
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  But I think you feel that in all the work that he does and that
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  Michael Caine is giving the performance of his goddamn life,
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  there's no And I really appreciate that because I
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  appreciate anything that doesn't stoop down to like, children
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  aren't stupid, adults aren't stupid.
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  Earnestness and sweetness and humanity is really beautiful and
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  can be really funny. And I really appreciate that
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  this, I'm always really moved in this, this rendition of the of A
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  Christmas Carol, because I appreciate that everybody does
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  play it really earnestly. And then you have the songs that
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  add and infuse the humor and you have the pratfalls and that, you
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  know, of course, cute puppet jumping into something in an
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  explosion of some kind. But I I like the project.
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  I don't know, there's something, there's something really sweet
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  about the fact that it is like an honest portrayal of something
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  kind of sad. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Matt, when do you sort of go
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  about casting for this one? The other shows are all very
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  comedy based. This one is not necessarily as
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  much of a comedy. Does that change how you go
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  about casting or do you think about that a little bit more?
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  I do actually, yeah. Yeah, I do think about how there
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  is kind of a switch in a lot of characters there where it's very
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  silly moments and then very serious moments.
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  And it is definitely, it was front of my mind when I was
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  doing casting for this one of people that I know can kind of
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  play both sides and kind of bring a little bit of the
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  sadness into the comedy and then a little bit of comedy into the
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  sadness as well. And Hannah is a great example of
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  that. I think.
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  I think she's got that that skill within her.
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  And I think we've got a lot of really great people that are
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  going to are going to really impress.
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  Yeah. And you need like, it gets
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  really dark the the future ghost as a kid.
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  I I mean, it's, it's also really a good cautionary tale.
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  If there was ever anything that was going to whip me into shape
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  in terms of like, give to your neighbor, be a good person, it's
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  that freaking last ghost Pookie. Legitimately terrifying, yeah.
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  Absolutely and really played so real and.
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  Yeah, this is the third time I'll have said this during this
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  podcast series. There is an argument to be made
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  that this is a horror film. There's I mean, but again,
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  that's very Henson right? Like I'm like Dark Crystal.
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  I probably wouldn't show my 4 year old nephew, but like when
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  he is old enough it is like the world building again.
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  I think that he doesn't shy whatever is in service to the
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  world, but I don't think he shies away from spooky things.
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  I think you're right. Like my nephew, we had to turn
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  it off. We had to turn off Muppets
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  Christmas. He wasn't ready last year as it
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  got darker. First half all about it.
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  Second-half dicey. Yeah, I feel the same way now
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  and I'm 36. Yeah, look, a lot of people like
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  to wear some sort of costume that invokes their character.
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  Hannah, have you thought anything about what you might
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  wear? I haven't yet, but I famously
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  have like 100 wigs and way too many costumes.
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  I had to get a full storage unit because I'm not ready to part
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  with my sketch comedy days. With good reason because you
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  never know when you're going to pack up a trunk and need it.
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  But I've got many a puffy sleeve.
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  I've got like one of those like kind of bigger skirts, thinking
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  about that. An apron of some kind, perhaps,
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  you know, maybe a loaf of bread. I don't know.
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  I don't know. I don't know how committed
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  people get. Well, I.
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  Mean they do. Get pretty committed.
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  Yeah, go. On Yeah, I am always, always,
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  always of the, you know, an improv back mind of go bigger
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  and especially because it's Muppets, you can go as huge as
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  you want. So everyone that I catch it's
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  it's always complete 100% whatever you want to bring,
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  whatever you want to wear, whatever kind of makeup or wig
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  or anything at all, it's totally up to you.
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  I just want you to have fun, and it sounds like you already are,
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  which is great. Give me a wig.
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  I'll wear a wig even when it's not necessary.
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  When I did, you're the straight man.
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  You're just going to come in and take everyone's order.
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  They're like, why are you wearing red pigtails?
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  Trust me, love a wig. I'm with you.
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  I am. In our high school drama class,
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  we had a whole closet that was filled with costumes and wigs
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  and all that stuff. I wasn't allowed in it because I
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  would walk in and I would come out and I just wouldn't drop
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  character. I would walk around to school in
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  like ridiculous outfits. I'd have people on my back
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  running into classrooms shouting stuff.
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  It's a miracle I didn't get expelled.
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  I'm so impressed by this. Wow, is this a guy?
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  Is this a quiet audition again to be in the next one?
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  Well, I mean. I'm so mad that I never drop
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  character. Exactly right.
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  I have. Look, I'll be honest, I've been
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  pitching to Matt that I should play Walter in the 2011 film
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  when we get there, but he's definitely not interested, and
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  that's fine. Well, let's talk about a much
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  more fun role you'd be playing, which is New Zealand.
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  Yes, way more fun and and one that I had to go back.
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  Some of these I needed to be reminded of because you just
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  don't know the name. There's so many characters
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  names, but that's going to be really fun is that we're going
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  to get to sing. Yes, yeah.
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  So, So Jared, we talked about this last time in the music
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  episode. There's one of the problems with
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  doing these shows, which is a cool problem to have, which is
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  that there's so many characters and at least once every Muppet
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  movie there's a moment where it's like 16 Muppets are all
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  talking over each other. So you can't skimp on that even
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  if you like triple cast or quadruple cast.
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  So for a lot of these now I've realized that the especially the
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  singing parts are easy to kind of just give off to a different
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  character. So that way you don't need to
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  cast someone else for just a one line song reading.
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  So yeah. So in this version that we're
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  presenting, the song, Scrooge has a little bit of singing from
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  New Zealand, which is gonna be fun and interesting.
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  I'm excited. I'm excited for a music
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  rehearsal. Yeah, it'll be fun.
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  As you can tell. I have like permanent nodes from
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  drop out voices that you aforementioned.
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  But so this New Zealand will have a real husk, which I think
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  is really exciting, just bringing new levels and
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  dimension. But yeah, but again, I'm happy
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  that I get to do something in the first half and then we've
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  got like kind of that it devolves into something very
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  different later on. Yeah, yeah.
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  Will you be throwing fish at people?
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  You know, it depends on if I can get to the bait and Taco before
• 19:34
  her. Stall.
• 19:37
  I I can confirm that yes, yes she will be.
• 19:40
  I always have boomerang fish for for Lou.
• 19:43
  I've I've said that for every movie, even if Lou doesn't
• 19:47
  appear in the movie, I'm going to put him in just for one line,
• 19:50
  just so we can throw fish at people.
• 19:52
  OK, and and listen. And I've got even more and now I
• 19:55
  get to sing. What could be better?
• 19:57
  Be better? I famously love a prop.
• 20:00
  I love to toss a prop. I love, I love a prop as well.
• 20:03
  Love a wig, Love a prop. Look, what I'm getting from
• 20:05
  this, Hannah, is that if you and I were in high school together,
• 20:07
  we wouldn't have been allowed the same class.
• 20:11
  I know, get that. Plus my crippling ADHDII.
• 20:15
  Really. It would have made things even
• 20:17
  harder. Give me any distraction and I am
• 20:19
  off on it. But I found the job where I can
• 20:22
  be permanently distracted. Just give me, you know,
• 20:25
  imagining, yeah. You've done well.
• 20:27
  So am I right in assuming, Hannah, this is a movie that's
• 20:30
  been a big part of your childhood?
• 20:33
  Yeah, every year. It's an every year watch.
• 20:36
  Big part of my childhood. My best friend just did a drag
• 20:39
  brunch yesterday and it was Muppets Christmas Carol themed
• 20:42
  and they, they were Marley and Marley and they were Tiny Tim.
• 20:46
  And for Marley, Marley, they put a mask on one side of their face
• 20:48
  so they would go Marley and Marley and it was wild.
• 20:52
  I was always as a kid, I loved Marley and Marley, even though
• 20:56
  they're crotchety and it was perfect.
• 20:59
  Yeah, it's. A great, that's a great thing.
• 21:03
  I'm looking forward to seeing Marley and Marley performed
• 21:05
  live. Yes, yeah.
• 21:08
  So who have we got playing the the the Marley Brothers?
• 21:11
  Man, the Marley Brothers, yeah. So we have Hal Loveland
• 21:14
  returning and then we have joining him, Annie Savage, who
• 21:19
  is also from the thrilling Adventure Hour and wonderful,
• 21:22
  wonderful voices on both of them.
• 21:23
  So yeah, I'm really excited for we have a, we have a kind of
• 21:27
  like a smaller band practice tonight and then we have all the
• 21:30
  singers coming on Thursday and we're going to get everybody in
• 21:33
  the room and go over, go over Scrooge and go over everything.
• 21:36
  And it's going to be. I can't wait.
• 21:39
  As we sort of begin to wrap up, Hannah, I've been asking people
• 21:42
  about holiday traditions. Have you got any sort of weird
• 21:46
  and wonderful holiday traditions?
• 21:48
  Well, my dad's from the Netherlands and my
• 21:50
  brother-in-law is Swiss. So in Holland on Santa Claus,
• 21:54
  which I think passed already, that's the 5th of December, you
• 21:58
  leave your shoes out for Santa Claus to put, you know,
• 22:02
  chestnuts and candies. And yeah, we, we could, we could
• 22:05
  all question sort of like the sanitary.
• 22:07
  There's some questions there, but I choose to think it's like
• 22:10
  whimsy. And then there's Christmas.
• 22:14
  For Swiss Christmas, you take a real Christmas tree and you put
• 22:18
  candles on them. And we did that for a couple
• 22:22
  years. Uh huh.
• 22:23
  Until we were all having panic attacks moment to moment, sort
• 22:27
  of watching, seeing like, oh, the wind blows in an earthquake
• 22:32
  prone state. We're going to have another
• 22:34
  forest fire on our hands. So last year we begged my
• 22:37
  brother-in-law. We said, you have a son now,
• 22:40
  please retire it. So now we got those fake
• 22:43
  candles. It's beautiful to look at, but
• 22:45
  it is, Oh my God, so unsafe. And there's no Safeway to do it.
• 22:49
  You're near a dried up tree. Yeah, crazy.
• 22:54
  So. That's, that's, that's great.
• 22:56
  What I've I've really loved asking people this question
• 22:58
  during this podcast because we just got a whole myriad of
• 23:01
  insane things. That's the first one that's
• 23:04
  being had, the potential for a national disaster.
• 23:08
  Sorry, that's. Nice.
• 23:10
  And listen, no, it don't implicate us that we've stopped,
• 23:13
  OK? Look for the other blizzards
• 23:15
  that are doing that, yeah. We.
• 23:18
  We added, I was holding the extinguisher going Steven,
• 23:21
  Steven, please. Hannah, as you call yourself
• 23:29
  part Muppet and like, I'm definitely getting that vibe off
• 23:31
  you the last half an hour, let's say Disney come to you.
• 23:37
  Say Hannah, we want you to create you a dream Muppet
• 23:41
  project. What do you think that would be?
• 23:44
  I mean, I know that they did a recreation of I guess I'm open
• 23:48
  ending it to to Henson, if that's OK.
• 23:51
  I would like to play David Bowie.
• 23:53
  I would like to be the Goblin King.
• 23:55
  And then maybe we make it the Goblin Queen.
• 23:56
  I think, I think David Bowie's quite androgynous anyway.
• 24:00
  I don't think like anything. I mean, look, and maybe it might
• 24:02
  make that part a little bit weirder with Jennifer Connelly,
• 24:05
  who's 16 and they're at the ball.
• 24:07
  I think that one would be really fun and honestly like a live
• 24:10
  action Miss Piggy. But I know that Colascola's
• 24:13
  doing that and there is no better person to do that.
• 24:16
  So as much as I would love to be involved in something like that,
• 24:20
  I'd love to PA on that. Truly, I just want to be a Cole
• 24:25
  as Miss Piggy. Nothing could be better, yeah.
• 24:27
  Have you? Have you got a Miss Piggy
• 24:29
  impression? Because you do some great voices
• 24:31
  although. You know, I don't, but my
• 24:32
  husband is a really good Kermit impression and Will will
• 24:37
  randomly surprise me that my nephew loses his mind for the
• 24:41
  Kermit. Surprisingly, I haven't ever
• 24:43
  tried any Muppets. I that's a good that's a good
• 24:46
  project for me to kind of dive into next.
• 24:48
  Yeah. Beautiful.
• 24:49
  If we talk again, we'll find out.
• 24:50
  I can't do it, yeah. That's all good, Matt.
• 24:54
  Can you please remind us a of who we're supporting with this
• 24:58
  event and also where we can watch it?
• 25:01
  Absolutely, yes. So we are presenting the Muppet
• 25:04
  script this Carol on December 20th.
• 25:07
  That's a Saturday and we will have two showtimes. 2:00 PM
• 25:10
  matinee is gonna be in person only and there are still tickets
• 25:14
  available for that at dynastytypewriter.com.
• 25:17
  We will also have a Late Show at 6:30 PM which will be live
• 25:21
  streamed. So we still have tickets for the
• 25:23
  live stream on sale. The in person for that one is
• 25:25
  sold out, so it's going to be a really, really great show.
• 25:28
  That's at the Dynasty typewriter here.
• 25:30
  My favorite place in LA to do live comedy.
• 25:33
  And yes, we're supporting a wonderful organization called
• 25:36
  One Simple Wish. This is a foundation that was
• 25:40
  launched in 2008 as an online giving platform and it was
• 25:45
  designed to raise awareness and empower everyone who is affected
• 25:49
  by the foster care system. So it's a really great place
• 25:53
  where kids who are affected by this are just submitting simple
• 25:57
  wishes, just little things that that could make, you know, life
• 26:01
  a little happier, a little better.
• 26:02
  There is so, so it's a place where your donations go towards
• 26:06
  these wishes that they have. So for example, Quincy wants a
• 26:10
  really cool camera for Christmas.
• 26:12
  And that's it. It, it's, it's just a little
• 26:14
  simple thing that, you know, people think about, you know, we
• 26:17
  have to raise money and we have to make sure that it's going
• 26:19
  towards feeding them and housing them and all of these things
• 26:20
  which are very, very important. But sometimes the most important
• 26:24
  thing is something really simple is just getting a cool camera
• 26:27
  for Christmas. And if we can do that, if we can
• 26:30
  help out with that in any way, it's, it's a really wonderful
• 26:34
  thing to do. I'm so happy that we've we've
• 26:36
  raised, I know I said this in the last time, but we've this
• 26:39
  year raised over $45,000 for the charities that we've supported
• 26:43
  and I'm so happy and proud of everyone that's watched for
• 26:47
  laughs but also just watched to help out.
• 26:50
  It's been a really, really great year.
• 26:52
  Yep, you've done very, very well and it's an absolutely worthy
• 26:56
  cause. Hannah, where can people find
• 26:58
  you? What have you got to promote?
• 27:00
  As I said, you are a social media follow I strongly
• 27:02
  recommend. Thank you so much.
• 27:05
  You can find me yeah, at Hannah Pilkis on Instagram or TikTok
• 27:09
  threads. I'm on threads now trying that
• 27:12
  out and on on Leanne on Netflix. We're about to film season 2, so
• 27:16
  catch up on season 1. It's 16 episodes, but they're
• 27:19
  quite short, so you can binge it in like a day and I guarantee
• 27:23
  it'll make you feel good because Leanne Morgan is just human
• 27:26
  sunshine. So yeah, it's really.
• 27:29
  I love it. You've also you're doing
• 27:31
  something soon, which what is a High School Musical show where
• 27:34
  you're improvising around it. I did High School Musical in
• 27:38
  high school. We.
• 27:40
  Were the the way. We were the we were the very
• 27:42
  first people in Australia to do it.
• 27:44
  I played Chad, I learned how to spin a basketball on my finger,
• 27:49
  so it means a lot to me. I'm we're.
• 27:51
  In the presence of a legend. I know I'm going to have to, I
• 27:54
  mean, as far as method as you go, I mean, I'm we're going to
• 27:56
  have to have a side call for because I have some questions.
• 27:59
  I am a little spooked. And famously when Paul asked me
• 28:02
  to go on tour, he said it was because I was a good singer.
• 28:05
  But I can exclusively only sing extremely low register.
• 28:08
  So Gabriella is going to have to be really low register This.
• 28:13
  That's OK. We're it's, it's, it's the 2025
• 28:15
  version, Yeah. Well, I'm excited to see you and
• 28:20
  Scriptmas Carol and you and everything you do forever.
• 28:22
  Hannah, thank you very much. Thank you.
• 28:24
  Nice, nice meeting you.