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Improvisers · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists and Artists
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  Speaker 1: this week on the show, they are the lifeblood of
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  Speaker 1: the comedy community. They're beloved, they are thrilling, they're exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone loves to be at their shows and there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: quite like them. This week on the show, it's improvisers.
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  Speaker 2: Improvisation is when people are making things up on the spot. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: did you guys write that before?
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  Speaker 3: No, they didn't, So throw out your scripts and let's
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  Speaker 3: listen in.
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  Speaker 4: It's really fun.
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  Speaker 5: To chat with you guys. Yeah, you guys. Do you guys,
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  Speaker 5: Do you guys have podcasts on your own?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I have a podcast where I make my guests
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  Speaker 3: watch a full episode of ghost Hunters and then we
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  Speaker 3: talk about that episode of ghost Hunt a.
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  Speaker 4: Quick improv set after.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do a quick improv set based on the
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  Speaker 3: ghost Hunter's episode we saw.
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  Speaker 4: And then yeah, that's so funny, and then.
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  Speaker 3: We do a herald after. So it's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: episodes are like two.
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  Speaker 4: Hours, which is the perfect podcast.
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  Speaker 3: It's super fun and we're growing and I can tell,
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  Speaker 3: like the numbers are we're growing.
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  Speaker 6: That's amazing. Yeah, what's your podcast.
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  Speaker 4: So my podcast is actually really really fun.
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  Speaker 7: I uh bring in the same four guys and we
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  Speaker 7: just go for it for about like I don't know,
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  Speaker 7: two to three hours, just kind of going for it.
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean you go for We just like improvised,
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  Speaker 7: just NonStop.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine he's like going.
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  Speaker 1: For grosses imagine groceries and all of a sudden, like
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  Speaker 1: the CIA comes and tries.
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  Speaker 7: To like arrest him, like like, oh, you're arrested, mister,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm like, uh no, I'm just grabbing watermelon.
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  Speaker 2: Literally reminds me exactly of a podcast idea that I've
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  Speaker 2: been dying to do.
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 6: And it's four people all Gordon ramsay.
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  Speaker 5: That is so.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, no, that's really funny because I have an improv
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  Speaker 7: team named for Gordon's and it's four guys named Gordon
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  Speaker 7: and we just go to town on stage like it's
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  Speaker 7: you go to town.
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  Speaker 6: You live in the country and you go visit the town.
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  Speaker 3: No, like like, can you imagine you're the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you guys when you guys, when you Guys
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  Speaker 1: had that show at the l Salvadorian Mexican fusion restaurant.
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  Speaker 4: El Salvador Infusion Mexican Restaurant.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was you guys saw that show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and you guys did that.
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  Speaker 1: You did uh like like close call car accident improv
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  Speaker 1: where you had someone every you had every people like
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  Speaker 1: come up and tell monologues about when they were almost
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  Speaker 1: in a car accident and then and then you did
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  Speaker 1: in pro based on those stories.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's called for Gordon's car crash stories at Sauces.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So fun, super fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had some way to get the audience.
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  Speaker 4: It's so fun.
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  Speaker 5: When you went into the kitchen during your set.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you remember that I lost my mind?
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  Speaker 5: That killed absolutely no.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean like with improv, it's so hard
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  Speaker 7: to like translate. But like when you it was really funny.
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  Speaker 1: Because imagine like you go into the kitchen and like
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  Speaker 1: they're cooking like something really special and you like walk
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 4: Y what somebody's names.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go round, Let's go round around, Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Around, Let's go around.
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  Speaker 3: I will down round around on the school bus. I'm
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  Speaker 3: the captain. Okay, sorry, no guys, I'm just playing. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Leila and I've been doing improv for I've been in
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  Speaker 3: like well I've been doing improv for like ten years
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  Speaker 3: because I did in high school, but I've been in
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  Speaker 3: the scene for like probably four or five years. Whoa, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I trained at a little bit of UCB, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of this sleep away camp in Delaware called
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  Speaker 3: Make Them Ups.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I've heard of Make Them Ups. That's so cool
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  Speaker 4: that you went there.
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  Speaker 5: Always wanted to go to a sleep away improv camp.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like they only like you have to audition
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 5: In a boarding school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was one of like like they only pick
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  Speaker 3: like forty sixteen year olds to audition to get in,
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  Speaker 3: and so it was like, yeah, it's actually like kind
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  Speaker 3: of hard to get in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard like because like forty five people are auditioning, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so like some tough choices have to be made.
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  Speaker 6: It also costs so much money, huh Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you can get a scholarship of ten
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  Speaker 3: percent off if you're really good.
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  Speaker 1: Did you believe like the massive amounts of allegations that
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  Speaker 1: came out.
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  Speaker 6: About it, there was a massive shut down.
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  Speaker 1: Right, like because there were like forty sixteen year olds
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  Speaker 1: in an improbably like a massive problem, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough. The allegations are definitely tough, but it's
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  Speaker 3: like I'm exhausted at this point. There's allegations everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's not about the The allegations
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  Speaker 2: themselves aren't that big of a deal.
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  Speaker 6: It's just that there's so many.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the volume. Yeah, I get why that's a problem,
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  Speaker 3: but like, nonetheless, I mean, it was still like a
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it taught me kind of everything. I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't It wasn't all bad for me.
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  Speaker 3: I understand. I feel really bad for those girls, but
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  Speaker 3: I I had a good time.
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  Speaker 4: What's your name?
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  Speaker 8: What up?
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  Speaker 6: Guys?
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  Speaker 2: My name's Cameron and my Instagram bio is Crazy Cameron.
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  Speaker 2: So people call me crazy. I what can I say?
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  Speaker 2: I Uh, I only do short form because I just
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  Speaker 2: am silly.
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  Speaker 4: I am a silly guy.
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  Speaker 5: At like Comedy Sports.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So I started at Comedy Sports and now
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing short form at Olive Garden.
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  Speaker 6: It's this new program they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I heard about that. They have a stage.
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  Speaker 8: And call right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called meat Palls and with a Z. I
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  Speaker 2: live in at Water and I have a hot girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: How'd you get into that? Like? Are the auditions like
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  Speaker 3: rolling or is it?
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  Speaker 6: I asked, Oh, I really believe in asking for things.
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  Speaker 3: You just asked and they just like let you on.
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  Speaker 2: So I had a friend that went to my all
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  Speaker 2: boys school with me and I and he started he
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  Speaker 2: started a short form team at Magiano's at the Grove.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just like a one off. And believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, the guy at Olive Garden was there
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  Speaker 2: and he was like, this is such a good idea. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: I am at a young Hollywood party with my hot girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: I meet that Olive Garden guy and I pitch him
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  Speaker 2: my team and he goes.
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  Speaker 6: What about meatballs? And I go, what about meatballs with
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  Speaker 6: a Z?
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  Speaker 2: And ever since we just do short form, it really
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  Speaker 2: brings in a lot of customers because I just I
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  Speaker 2: think short form is so silly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we should probably for the listeners.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I can't believe we're.
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  Speaker 3: The experts on this. Blowing my mind right now.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy.
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  Speaker 3: A short form improv is basically it's it's a simpler
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  Speaker 3: form of improv. It's based on predetermined games, so you
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  Speaker 3: basically don't even have to do anything when you improvise.
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  Speaker 3: It basically takes like no skill because it's already built
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  Speaker 3: in for you.
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  Speaker 6: Have you heard of whose lines it?
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  Speaker 5: Anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what it's like, right, It's kind of like that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I love whose.
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  Speaker 6: Lines it anyway?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, where like long form is actually like a lot
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  Speaker 7: more difficult, I would say, And.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's more difficult to watch, but that's because
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  Speaker 3: it's so much more impressive to do when you do
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  Speaker 3: it right.
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  Speaker 1: It's like red wine versus like a spritzer of red wine.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's like yeah, like without the bubbles, like there's
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  Speaker 1: no you know what I mean, But.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, that's exactly that.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I feel.
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  Speaker 3: That's just how I feel. No offense though, Like no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I no, I mean there's a lot of different forms
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  Speaker 2: because then have we talked about long form?
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  Speaker 6: Have we explained it?
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  Speaker 4: We just I just did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So long form improv is like there's just so
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  Speaker 1: many less rules in long form than short forms.
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  Speaker 6: I actually don't agree.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, like let me show you like an example,
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  Speaker 1: because like the short form is like, oh, you have to.
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  Speaker 5: Do this in this scene, you can't do other things, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then in long form it's like no, we just do
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  Speaker 1: a simple opening and then we do an exact scene,
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  Speaker 1: three scenes off that opening, and then we do a
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  Speaker 1: group game, and then we do second scenes off that opening,
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  Speaker 1: and then we do another group game.
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  Speaker 5: It's just more free.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry. I think it looked like I was like farting
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  Speaker 3: for a second or that was I think I just
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  Speaker 3: had like, sorry, I this is my Instagram bio, but
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  Speaker 3: it says like resting fart face.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god, I see it.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it kind of looks like I'm about to say something,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm actually not. So that's where that story came from.
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  Speaker 3: My friends like just give me shit all the time
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  Speaker 3: because I have resting fart face.
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  Speaker 6: I love one give each other ship. It's like the
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  Speaker 6: best kind of friends.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I am actually doing a web series based on that,
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  Speaker 3: so I could send you the script if you guys want.
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  Speaker 3: I actually need extras for a party scene this Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: if anyone's interested.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy, where are you shooting?
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  Speaker 3: We're shooting in Anaheim. But it's really short, like six hours.
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  Speaker 6: Ye's super short.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super short. I'm yeah.
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  Speaker 6: What's your name?
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  Speaker 3: I'd be amazing. Sorry, go ahead, no.
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  Speaker 5: Worries, guys. My name is Dusty. I am a comedian.
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Third.
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  Speaker 1: Second, I'm a husband, and then first I'm a lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: So I do all scorts of different kinds of things,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a lot of fun with like my life.
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  Speaker 1: But like for me, improv is like the most incredible
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  Speaker 1: thing in the world. Like if Willy Wonka were to exist,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't open a Candy Factor, he'd open a comedy
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  Speaker 1: theater because some of the stuff we get to do
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  Speaker 1: is so fun and so crazy, and it's just like
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  Speaker 1: so fun because I don't get I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: do that stuff during the day. I get to save
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  Speaker 1: it for the night and I'm out all night and
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  Speaker 1: I'm working so hard, and so it's like fun to
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  Speaker 1: be playing.
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  Speaker 5: And I've done a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of stuff I was I did eighteen months on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: Company at Groundlings.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, you did a year and a half. That's tough.
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  Speaker 4: You got really close to actually getting main stage.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well then I just gave it up because I, oh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Just like got rid of it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I made it.
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  Speaker 1: I moved from personal injury to criminal defense as a lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: and it just was going to be too hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to do main company and uh, like being a
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  Speaker 1: criminal defense attorney.
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  Speaker 4: So you didn't get caught.
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  Speaker 5: WHOA, No, I've turned it down. It just felt better
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  Speaker 5: for me, and it broke my heart. It was so
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  Speaker 5: awkward to have to tea.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure. I'm sure it was such a.
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  Speaker 1: Rummer, but I loved it. It was so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like a nice release.
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  Speaker 3: It's just so it's just kind of like it's just
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  Speaker 3: like a hobby for you and you could just kind
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  Speaker 3: of fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like the best, Like Wow, talking to all
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  Speaker 1: day are quote unquote innocent people, but I know they're murderers.
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  Speaker 5: I know they're awful people.
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  Speaker 1: You know they've done terrible things like and so it's
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  Speaker 1: like heavy, heavy, heavy.
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  Speaker 5: So when I get out of it, I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 5: go play, let's poise, step stoples, we fight things like,
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  Speaker 5: let's go do improv, like you know, it's so fun.
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  Speaker 5: I just got on a Harald team at UCB.
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, you went to law school and you were on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't even like want to do comedy at
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  Speaker 3: all or anything.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I probably couldn't. I could never.
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  Speaker 4: I just what you're doing it, you're doing it.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I don't know. I just I just love
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  Speaker 5: to hang out.
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  Speaker 1: I love the things we get to do, the people
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  Speaker 1: I get to see, Like that's what I do it for.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible that you just like went to law school.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's just nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thanks, thanks, Yeah, I mean I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: love it. It's it's like I don't get to be
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  Speaker 1: like this around other people. Like if I was on
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer panel, it's like blooh.
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  Speaker 5: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Like can you imagine like being a lawyer, And then
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  Speaker 1: like everyone else is like, I mean, this is a game,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is totally a game.
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  Speaker 5: When I'm describing, like we do an improv scene off it?
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to? You guys like want to?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, oh my god, I'm so I know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think my coach does this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: We just start talking and we start small talking, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, are you just wasting my sixty dollars by
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  Speaker 1: having a conversation? And then he goes, wait, let's do
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  Speaker 1: scenes off of our conversation.
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  Speaker 5: We just had.
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  Speaker 4: That's so funny. Should we do.
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  Speaker 5: Improv scenes off of the conversation we just had?
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  Speaker 2: Scenes from a park bench, scenes from a park bench,
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  Speaker 2: Scenes from a park bench.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, nobody can see, but camera's eyes just like went
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  Speaker 3: cross eyes crazy.
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  Speaker 7: It's crazy. So what's up, guys, I'll tell you my name.
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  Speaker 7: Oh sorry, no, no, it's no problem.
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  Speaker 3: Probably prop scenes based off of his intro.
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  Speaker 7: That's fine, that's I know. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 7: you guys. I've seen you guys around, so like, that's
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  Speaker 7: really funny. You just said your name was Gordon because
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  Speaker 7: you've been in the for Gordon's.
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  Speaker 4: No, none of our names are Gordon. None of our
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  Speaker 4: names are Gordon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's funny.
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  Speaker 4: We just like love to like do spins on that stuff,
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  Speaker 4: so like.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like so funny. I could throw up right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's so fucking funny.
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  Speaker 6: That's so funny.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks guys, thank you so much. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 4: basically my name is.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Chyler, and I am I'm a I
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  Speaker 7: guess what I'm known as kind of like the king
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  Speaker 7: of the indie scene. Like I just run the indie
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  Speaker 7: scene and spend most of my days just commercial auditioning
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  Speaker 7: and putting on improv shows. So it's a blast. I
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  Speaker 7: have a lot of fun with my friends. I have
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  Speaker 7: a lot of fun with a lot of people, and
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  Speaker 7: it's great. I really love improv and I think it
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  Speaker 7: actually is very beneficial. And that's like the problem is,
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  Speaker 7: like people always see it as like a joke, but
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  Speaker 7: actually mentally speaking, it's super beneficial and can teach you
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  Speaker 7: things that nothing else can.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, got one.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, go Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm so sorry that I can't make it to
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  Speaker 3: our wedding today. I have to go to a commercial audition.
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  Speaker 6: Honey, we're gonna get married. We've We've been waiting for
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  Speaker 6: this forever.
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  Speaker 3: I know, but this is a non union Samsung job
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  Speaker 3: and I have to go do it.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, it's your neighbor here. It's a kind of a craze.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny that I know you as the king
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  Speaker 2: of Indie. Yeah, I just that voice is iconic. Do
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  Speaker 2: you ever feel like I've only seen you improvise in
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  Speaker 2: that voice?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I do a lot of other voices.
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  Speaker 6: No, it's literally always them the voice.
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  Speaker 3: It's not it's not you have no one voice.
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  Speaker 4: It's really not. It's really not always.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when when we did that lights Out show, it
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  Speaker 3: was like a lights out bit show at the clubhouse
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  Speaker 3: midnight and.
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  Speaker 7: Because yeah, there was an earthquake like a magnitude seven
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  Speaker 7: point eight destroyed the power grid at the club.
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  Speaker 3: And the electric and then we tried to recreate it
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  Speaker 3: the week after and call it like lights out. We're
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  Speaker 3: we should do this every week, and then it just
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  Speaker 3: like didn't feel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's not the only voice I do. That's
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: just not the only we could tell it.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Like, it's so funny you call yourself the king of
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: the indie scene number one.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: I think that's kind of funny.
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: I don't call I've just been called that. You Literally,
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: I'm kind of outside of the school I think.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: You are pushing it, though I'm not like.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: You're pushing it.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: No, I'm really not try outside of the school system.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen you get on any sort of house
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: team ever, No, because which is cool, Like it seems
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: like you don't want I.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Also know those like bullshit, Yeah, it's awesome that you
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: don't even want to get on one. It's like, I
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: can tell that's so funny.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I got on one and it was just like I
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: like just showed up to the audition. I really wanted it,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: of course, but there's a bunch of these teams that
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: are like junior teams.
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: Never been on one, you know those junior house teams.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Like Mad Yeah, I'm on mod No No like mess Hall, mess.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Hall, Yeah, calling a junior house team.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's what I think. They're literally categorized as.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Oh really that's crazy. I just am not in the
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: schooling system.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: So yeah, because you're king of the indie scene. I
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: mean I did mess I did. I got put on
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Herold for a little bit, But I really love short form.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: That's really my main gig. Do you guys like musical improv?
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: I love musical improv.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: I think it's really really funny, and when a team
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: can do it, that's so it's like magic.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: I've seen you do it and you sang in that voice.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well I didn't sing in that voice.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: But I love when we do an indie voice, when
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: we do an indie night, I like really love getting
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: musical improv teams because they just bring something and then
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: sometimes they let me jump in and it's like just
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: so fun.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Chyla, what's your background? Like, what do you want to do?
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Because I feel like I see you everywhere. I feel
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: like you see you doing improv. You're jumping in all
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: sorts of sets.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: You're playing with people every single night. I've seen what
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: the powerwhiles, have seen it all that stuff, but.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know what you do outside of it, man, Like,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: because every time I feel like, and this is where
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I'm so grateful, I feel like, every time I'm in
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: conversations with improvisers, we're only just doing bits. So we
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: have of course that I have that incredible bit where
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you act like you're a sergeant and I like I'm
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a grasshopper.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that sergeant sounds like that neighbor.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: It really doesn't, It really doesn't.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Can I hear the sergeant?
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: I don't know this b Well, it's kind of like
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: you have. It's probably gonna happen organically.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Is this bit that happened just because we were talking
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and I interrupted him and then I was like, oh,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: Get back to your station.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what happened.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: That's so funny.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: It's the same boy, not it's not just if anything,
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: it's like pretty straight man.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: All of that you have said, Like you I don't
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: know who you are as a person, Like what what
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: are you up to?
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Dude? Yeah?
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: No, I do improv and I just like I do
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: a lot of commercial auditions and that's you know.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: That's my life. So uh, everybody, get back to the base.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: I know you drive that Prius. Oh you're being a grasshopper.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys get it now right this bit?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you drive a Prius. Did you pay
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: for that with like a commercial money? Like do you
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: book the commercials or like where are you at?
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: No, I sometimes book the commercials, but most of the money,
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: I mean it's mostly coming from like a couple of
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: commercials that I do every year.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: And it's great, it's oh solid, it's all.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: So you're like an actor.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like I'm an actor, like kind of. I guess
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: that's awesome.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: I wish I could do that. I'm so jealous of
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: your life.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Like no, thank you, guys, thank you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: No.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: To be honest, though, a lot of the money does
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: come from my parents, so like that's great.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Quick, Well, yeah, what do they do?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: My dad is in industrial design and my mom is
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: also an industrial design so they both design the benches
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: that don't let hopless people sleep on them.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like the spike were.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: The just the like the spike ones, just the ones
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: that have aggressive, aggressive handles.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: What do they call it?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Malicious architecture?
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: No, it's like malevolent design, malevolent design. How did they
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: get reach off of that?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Well, a lot of cities, everybody has them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: That's that's honestly really messed up.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Well, it's it's sad and like I just try to
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: talk to them and it's tough. You know, family dinners
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: are tough because like, I don't know, this is kind
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: of awkward.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I've definitely taken your parents to court before. I've tried.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Really I've tried to.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've I've represented a couple of people in my
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: public defender days, a couple on house people that got
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: injuries from trying.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: To So you were a public defender before you switched
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: over to the private.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: I've done everything. It's so boring.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I was public declinded and then I was personal injury.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Then I became criminal defense. So I was public defender,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: fighting for the state, fighting for people, fighting greatest, and people.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Do sick of it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: And I said, I'm so sick of being poor.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be personal injury and I'm gonna get a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: lot of money from trying to get to help other
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: people out. With injuries and they got a little too
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: cold for me, and I want to go back. I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: want to go back to helping free the innocent. But
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do it for free anymore. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: want to get paid doing it well. So I became
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a criminal defensientory with all the experience.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: The criminal defense attorneys that get paid well usually are
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: also not not defending the good ones.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I try, I try, you know, but it's it's it's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: tough to find a rich, good person.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna be honest.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: I laughed a little bit. It's a little tricky, like,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: you know, I take what I take, but it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Is that's insane.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Ask you guys like something like a crazy question, like
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: like what do you think, like is the most valuable
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: thing you've learned from him?
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Oh yeah.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Because I thought this was like I think about this
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: all the time.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I would say a sense of community. And I first
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: of all, my my friends. I love my friends. I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: have some of the best friends ever. And I would
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: also say it's community building. Every Wednesday at seven am,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I go with my friends and we go pick up
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: you know, like when shopping carts get away from the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: grocery store. We go get them and bring them back
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to the grocery store. It's a nonprofit and that's your
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Oh no no, And I do that on Tuesdays And
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have found that group if without improfit.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: That's a charity, that's a that's such a night.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: How'd that charity start? Ralph's Ralph's started.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Ralph started it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: They and they were like, uh, we're losing all these
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: shopping cards because that's probably.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Something their employees would normally do, like for money.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: But then also the city was having problems with the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: shopping cards because it was like, uh, it was kind
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: of like trash.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: In a sense.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, my parents also designed the shopping carts that stop
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: the wheel.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: I think we nonprofits to court as well.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Back of the public deferend Todays because of the injuries
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that were sustained by a couple of house people from
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: ripping the shopping carts from their homes.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, not all Ralphs can afford those because that's
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: really expensive.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: All Ralphs are rich.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: No, that's all different.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: It's all different.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: So they really don't think about Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: The charity started when there was a treater Joe's Shopping
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: cart on the four o five and ten people died.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Wow, oh my god.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I was about to do like a like a bit
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: about like your pull up.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I actually think comedy that's about dark stuff is so funny.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: It's like I felt, I'm just like I'm on the
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: four or five, and then I'm like, this avocado is
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: kind of soft.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Avocado. I'm not just a softy. There's a lot more
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: me ow's at my pain masks.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're minds me yeah, my favorite. The thing that
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I've learned most about improv is that every choice you
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: make is right. Yes, every single move you make is correct,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: even if it makes people uncomfortable, even if like you're
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: told not to, even if your teacher stops the scene,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Like you have to go in with the knowledge that
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: everything you do is correct, and so you can take
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: a note, but just know that the choice you made
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: was right. And I apply that to my normal life.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: So like, every time I do something that like I
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: don't know, maybe my roommates don't agree with, or my
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: parents don't agree with, Like I made that choice because
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: everything I do is right.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Like what are the things that you what are those
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: choices that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: They roommate's car, which like I think that she like
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: we know that situation that well. I guess it was
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: this whole misunderstanding because she goes to work every day
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and for some reason I thought like maybe she wouldn't
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: have work one day, and so I just like took
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: a chance, and I just took it really quickly. I
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: just had to go to Coachella, and so she was
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: like really upset.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But and it's like we can resolve that situation. But
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I know that every choice I make is right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: I feel like she would get it, like if she
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: was actually so.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: But then if you've been around long enough, you know
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that every choice is right. But then also to listen
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: so much to her when she's so upset, just listening
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to her, and you must have just been listening to
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: her when she was so pissed.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was really listening and I was like responding,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: and I was actually really in it. I was I
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: couldn't help but smile the whole conversation because I was like, I'm.
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: So so amazing to listen to have, like if I'm
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: your roommate, to be listened to so well, and then
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: at the end you go, every choice I make is.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, and like, well, I did tell her that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I explained like.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: That, you guys were just improvising.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I said this was you should go take
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: a class. You should take a class. You're really good
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: at this.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I think the numero uno thing that I learned that
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: is important to me in everyday life is when you
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: see and this is more you see be the groundlings,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but it is if you see the unusual thing, you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: got to call it out.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: And if you because you can't, if you can't call it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: That must help you so much in your law cases.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I get a lot call it out. Here's an unusual thing.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: The person says that they saw my client at three pm,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: but my client was in a gym at three pm.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: You sound like a really confident lawyer.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is exactly how I sound too in
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the room.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: And I'd say, what was unusual about that is that
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the who would go to the gym in the afternoon.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I will never.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Go to the gym. No, you won't catch me there.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: You won't catch me there.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: It's not unusual to me.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I think what's unusual to me about this one is
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: somebody saw them there, but it's very clear we have
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: them on a camera that they're somewhere else.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: I guess what was unusual to me is how you
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: said it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: That's what you could heighten it. I think more unsure
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: about the more and more serious thing like voice or something,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: and you're like, wow, I really think my clorient.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: Was your client could be like I don't think I'm guilty.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Or if you like maybe did the subtitles game and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: if maybe you don't understand what they're saying, like if
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: it's another language, just like make up what they're saying.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That's such a good exercise, a short form for you.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that's really fun and improv
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I love that stuff and improv.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: So I hear where you guys are coming from.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: The unusual thing here to just isolate it was that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: alibi was wrong and this person was actually lying under.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: What was crazy years if this person was would be exonerated.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Like it's hard when jail is on the line to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: do bits and jokes and things like that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: How do you not heighten it?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: It's hard not to heighten it. It's hard. I want
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: to do those things like using a lot.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Is there no like walck ons or anything? In court?
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: No?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I mean so I guess I could explain court through
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: improv terms.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: That'd be really helpful.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: That would be so because I mean, I've seen it
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: on TV, but I don't think that's like, yeah, the.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Only honestly, the only court I've seen is in improv scenes,
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: and every single time.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: The funny thing is nobody knows how courts work.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And the funny thing is usually the stenographer, and there's
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: usually four or five scenographers usually, I would say an
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: improv That's one of my biggest problems when it comes
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to being an improviser is people are like, oh, I'll
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: take you to court, and then we cut to the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: court scene and the entire team wants to be a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: sonographer and I'm her alone.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: That's the hardest thing for me.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, because nobody knows how.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Because I'm just like, well, let's just do it, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: we don't have to do it. You don't have to
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: do it step by step by step by step.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: But one person's got to be a judge, one person's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: got to be a defendant, one person's got to be
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a prosecutor.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: We can have some people in the audience, we can
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: have a bailiff. There's a lot of people that we
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: can use.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, I love when people are big choice bailiffs.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough too, because bailiffs usually don't speak unless
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and if a bailiff is speaking, then something has gone
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: terribly wrong.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: That's usually something you think about it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about teaching a genre class?
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: You'd be so good at that a genre because lost
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: like a genre.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: They asked me to teach a genre or they asked
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: me to teach one over at this new comedy theater
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in El Segundo called El Comedy Click.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: That's crazy. I am on one of their house teams.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Scc YEP, no way, congrats.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Thank you. It was a there was like twelve rounds.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know I heard that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: They said what we don't like about the other theaters
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is that there's not enough auditions.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Rounds because it builds you.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they said, we're gonna take what everyone loves, the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: heavy levels and the heavy heavy heavy gatekeeping.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, nobody goes to the shows. They only go to
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: the auditions.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they pay for the auditions, you guys.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know, And maybe this is a hot take,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Like I feel like we all are like Boo gatekeeping,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: but like I don't know, like it's it's kind of useful.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Are you on house teams anywhere?
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I'm on I'm on MOD and I'm
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: on mess Hall at UCB, and I just think that
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: it's like good to have, like it's and there's so
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: much camaraderie. So I guess like around the audition we should.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Explain what modern mess hall is.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: In gatekeeping, let's.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Explain gatekeeping mod mess Hall and El Segundo's Mod Poppy.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, So, so a MOD team is ucb's how sketch team.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Now it's not exactly improv but it's kind of like
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: drawing on a lot of those terms. And mess Hall
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: is like they're almost Harold team, Like they're so close
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: to the Harald team, which is like the big team,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Like they're really really close to it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: And so then mod Poppy it's mod Poppy, It's Poppy.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: It's the equivalent to MOD at UCB, but it's a Alsogundo.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: So, uh, it's sketch auditions, auditions.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: And the team is mostly auditions. Yeah, that honestly sounds
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: really fun.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: So you like gatekeeping though, and what's gatekeeping?
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: It's not that I okay, So gatekeeping is like when
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: you do you when you put impossible barriers to the stage,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: you just keep putting barriers up and up and up,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: and like, oh, you have to take this class. Oh
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: you have to like do this team. You have to
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: do this team for six months before you can even
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: be considered for this team. And it's like, I don't know.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I just like I think rules are kind of awesome,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: and I who always agrees.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: With me, maybe's great for you, but I'm just like
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: outside the system, Like I just feel like they hold
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: talent back, and like what improv is what I've learned
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: the most is how to be free. And that's like
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: the biggest thing is you should have right fear. You
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: should be following your gut. Every choice is right, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: I feel like in a system, you're just not going
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: to get as many interesting choices.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: That's why I also know so incredible because the system
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: is trying to get into the system.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, have you considered being a lawyer? It sounds like
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: you'd love it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I've never thought about it because I want to be
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: a famous actor.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: What do you do?
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Like, what's your day job?
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: So I do social media for a company that makes
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: life worse for prisons.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: I've seen that social media they're trying to do.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Like Wendy's Twitter, like from twenty sixteen, they're trying to
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: do that for it's like a it's like a so
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: it's not exactly directly harming the prisons. It's like private prisons,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: like like pr firm and so, and it's called.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: Hey, you guys like rip apart the prisoners in those
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: private prisons, right, you make fun.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: We like roast the prisoners, and it's like it just
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: pays the bills, you know, And it's been in a
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: wage like I don't.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: It's not amazing, And I like you all.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: I have no.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I have officially been to court with the employers and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: parents of every single person that's improv man, that's every
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: odd because you're that is being used to deny prisoners rights.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: It's so crazy. You're going ahead to head.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah so funny, yeah, so insane.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like we all have to take jobs.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: These are like I don't endorse it. It's just like
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: these are just the jobs that are available. And I
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: totally never work in a restaurant totally.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: No, No, I could never. It just it holds me
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: back and it's just so.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Literally hard to get a shift covered. It's like just
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: you had an audition. It's so hard to get a shift.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: I was a bus boy for fifteen years.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: What it was so hazy when you were in law school?
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Law school? I started in fifteen.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, I've got a pull for that. Okay, Hey bus boy,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: you seem a little young to be in here. What
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: are you doing?
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know that improv doesn't sound right. I feel
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: like you're not doing something.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: It sounds like you're trying to copy somebody else's Did
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: you start?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Were you talking or I think you need to go
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: from yourself.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Don't like put on a voice.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I just am not. I'm not. That was me just
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: You're doing like grownling stuff where you're doing a big character.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Just go back to you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'll try again. Hey bus boy, you look a
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: little young to be here.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Now you're in your head and I can tell you're
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: sewing your head and now you're trying to be funny.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe just like what if we all take a deep breath.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: And then one, two.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Three, five?
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Oh damn it, everything I do is right? So there
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: is no four in this universe? That's true? What else is.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. If there's no it's called the fantastic three.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Let's keep going. Let's more.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: There's no four, then it's like connect three.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Let's let's give more.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: If there's no four door in a car, it's like
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: a three door in a car.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: That's I'm not good at this because it's premise pulling,
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: and I don't know what the fun that is.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, if there's no four then we can't play four square,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: which is my favorite short form game.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: And what and what would you play instead?
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: Damn once agad. I don't want to invent anything. Maybe
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: let's go back to what's been done. Three square.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: That's good, Oh oh oh oh.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: If there were no fours, it would just be a
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: George man Grilles.
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: And uncle, there's not trying to play anything like that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Nice, awesome, Nice, that's awesome. Nice, that's awesome.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: No money.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Hey, here's a question. How hard was zoom improv during
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: the pandemic?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: God, it's just like it doesn't It.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Honestly killed me. It honestly ruined my life.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: When theaters shut down, I didn't know what to do
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: and I don't know how you guys managed to pull through.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: But it honestly ruined me.
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: I tried to do any any shows I could, but
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: no venue was open, and so what I would have
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: to do was indie improv on Zoom and you're performing
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: to just yourselves, and that's no real different than indie improv,
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: but it felt different.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm totally agree, buddy. I think it was the
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: darkest darkest times because I couldn't connect with my friends.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: And I hate to get deep here, but it's just
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: like I'll just be vulnerable because I trust you guys.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: You guys are my best friends. Zoom improv was so
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: hard because I couldn't just like be with my.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Buds, you know what I mean.
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I was just like I was just trying to
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: pull premise, and it's hard. Premis when you're like when
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: they're like a lag and then when doesn't know what
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: you're saying, it's you have to like just like pretend
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: that's what was, like what what the initiation was, and
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: like you just like can't. It's just so inorganic.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: And I think that's what people don't understand, is like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: it just like doesn't work. And I don't know why
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: people kept organizing those shows because it's like it's just torture.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: We needed something, right, like, we needed something.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't want another hobby. I was working overtime because
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the court system was such a gd mass at that point.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: There was so much going on.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I was zooming into court cases. I mean that's what
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: was actually.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Wait, did you ever confuse a court case for a
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: zoom improshow? Oh?
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: My god, the office? Oh my god, of course not.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: But let's see that.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Let's see it, let's see it.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so late for this deposition.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: I'm a gonna stenographer.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: Wait, there's six of you.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: That means, oh, dang, this is my improv class. Guys,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I thought you were in my deposition.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Meanwhile in the other place. Please, he'll be here. He'll
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: be here, I promise you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: I want to see my panties.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: God.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I love how we did both scenes and you had
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: the confidence to come in there and go switch it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: It's like that short form game Parallel Universe.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: No, I love Parallel Universe.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I played before Ben really.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: And Cameron, I will say, you're one of the funniest
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: improvisers I've ever seen.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. You have that great two person show.
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: It's you, Cameron and Ashley Toronto, right, and you're just
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: so much funnier than her every single time.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: Oh my Toronto. I was in writing lab with.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Ashley Toront She is crazy. She is absolutely unpredictable and
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: actually groto.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: That brings me up into a new point, which is zoom.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Improv made dating hard?
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: How How how did you guys date?
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: I didn't meet, Like, but you don't.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: You aren't you dating a No?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I have a really really really hot girlfriend. But it
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: was hard to like flirt.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: But you were trying.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: Oh you mean.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Like it was hard to meet because you do most
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: of your flirting at improv shows.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: You guys don't.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: I'm married, I got a wife.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: But you don't flirting and improv show when you see
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: that girl and she's got ankle length pants and you
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: could see your vans and she's got a T shirt.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: French talked.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, it was really good prop me, I
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: think in that sense to not like because I'm I
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: kind of worked my way through like a lot of
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: people on my team and so.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Oh you slept with everybody on your team?
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, Like I think it was nice to
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: just like have that barrier and have that separation. What
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: was this. This was Friday Friday.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Friday Friday.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, we knew you. You were all sleeping together.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: It all started with together all just with me.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: No, that would be crazy orgies. I think improvisers can't.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: I don't think we can because we're too awful. Yeah,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: we're doing too many.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: It's funny because I feel like improvisers are really six
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: positive to a point.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, point, and then they get weird conservatives Like.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: But it's funny because I feel like I'm not around
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a sex positive atmosphere in court, Like that's not what
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: we're talking about usually, and if we are talking about it,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: like it's literally legal.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, we gotta see this scene.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: We gotta see this scene a lot from just me
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: to play in that because I'm sorry, you like live
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: in a different world.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Otherwise we'd just be like pulling improv premises out of
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: talking about improv and like, imagine is that can you you.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: Have about improv?
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Is? No, it's I and I don't ever want to
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: hear it. And it sounds awful.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: Somebody to that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: It's like imagine doing something like a forty five minute
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: show or something that's improv by improv, like a meta
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: thing that sounds.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Awful as well.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Just eat your own asshole.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, might as well make out with yourself in the mirror.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: I've been on Hara ald night before and no, thank you.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: That's why I approved Poppy the audition.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, wait, so you were saying, oh no, we were
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: pulling from you.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we were pulling from my story, my little anecdote.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't remember what it is.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: You would be a good monogeist an alogist.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, monologists.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Have they ever asked you to do to do?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: To do?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Big big mouse, big mouse?
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: I have been asked the big mouse. I did a
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: big mess a couple of times.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Whoa, I just never want to do it.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Charlie Cooky was on there.
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: He is a legend. It's so funny. He's so funny.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: I hope the allegations aren't real.
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: No, I think that you guys so funny that they
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: make your hard make your accusations seem quieter because you're
• 39:59
  Speaker 11: so damn funny.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Like it like it pains me because like I know,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I could say the same thing about Jim Alistair.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: You know, I really.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: Hope, really true Jim Alistair.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I quite literally am friends with one of the people
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: that is a victim of him.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: But his buttons are so funny.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: True, oh no, but like it's like so probably definitely.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: And it's actually good that they're removed now.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: It's really good, so good.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: Because it gives it gives the rest of us spots
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: on the team.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Are you guys pranking me because we're a good talking
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: about people that I'm representing?
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Way, okay, can you tell us is he guilty?
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: No?
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: I can't tell you guys that guys do that. Let's
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: just say they heard me. And at this point in
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: my career, I have a lot of money.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it feels like you.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: You work on like insanely controversial cases. So it sounds
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: like Jim Allister might have done something.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: But he's so so funny and like it's like I
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: saw that on that Netflix show and he still comes
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: back to do these shows.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like he's.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Always talking to all the girls after.
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: So I saw him do a Jamaican accent for forty
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: five minutes straight in a set and it was so funny.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Have you guys watched his Netflix show Creepy Fuck?
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: He's so funny on it's so funny.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I loved his first one I'm a little stupid bitch,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: creepy fuck talk to me, baby.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they really cleaned it up for the second one.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: His second show with a very similar name, just a
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: shorter one. I'm telling you, Cameron, you're one of the
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: funniest guys I've ever seen, So much funnier than your partner.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, I sometimes I think it's just my smile. That's
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: what my mom says.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: That's so great.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she's from India.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's really awesome.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: So do you guys, what what's like your next step?
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: What's the end goal? What's the game?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Because for me, it's always just a really fun side gig.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: It's something to do, it's something to take the mind
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: off the day. Well from when are you gonna give
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: it up? Or when you're gonna grow into it?
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Or what's what's the next step for give it up?
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I think I could ever No, no.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Way, Yeah, I'm I'm actually opening up an improv school.
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: I'm starting to teach school teaching classes now, are Yeah.
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: That's so incredible.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Are you like one of those you should try to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: teach like businesses and stuff.
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: That's what's so amazing.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: No, No, I don't want to work with with people
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: that aren't in it.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get that.
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: I get that.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I would say counterpoint is businesses have a lot more
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: money than actors.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: That, Okay, we gotta pull that, we gotta pull that.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Business you should listen to that.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: I think you should listen.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: We gotta pull that, we gotta pull it, Okay. To
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: be honest, also, I think there's a big problem.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: I hate being on the back line and just like freezing,
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: I suck ass.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Your biggest freeze? What was your biggest freeze?
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Oh my god?
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: Wait, I do want to answer your question though, like
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: what's going on?
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: What I want to do I would like to know
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: about question is.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Like, what's going on?
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I I want to be the man who's written the
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: most pilots in the world.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Cool, that's the dream.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: And how many of you written so far?
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: I've written fifty.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's actually incredible.
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: And I know that in our industry there's not really
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: a place for just pilot writers, but that.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: You don't want to like pitch them and make them.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: Now at all.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Going into the same office all the time would be
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: so I just like know the art of the pilot
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: and I have taken pilot classes and if anything, I
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: want to start teaching how to write a pilot class.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: That's so great and camera.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: I just want to really instill you're one of the
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: funniest people and there's no way you don't have a
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: future in this industry.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: There's no way.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Your comedy partner, Ashley Gronto, I don't know about her,
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: maybe cut her loose.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: So sweet, but so sweet.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: And she's so organized.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: You don't think you think Ashley's organized. I don't know
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: about organizing.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Really organized.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Actually sends me spreadsheets when we when she was she
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: would write her characters in writer lab in Excel sheets
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and it was really impressive, Like it was amazing.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: I see that stuff all day.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Is now Ashley you're talking about, Yeah, your partner, the
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: nervous one because I improvised with so many girls. And
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: that's what I also want to talk about. I want
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: to talk about the difference in gender and how the
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: numbers are shifting, right, numbers are shifting, Like our Poppy
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: team used to have one girl a team and thank god,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: now there's two.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like it's really and thank you guys
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: so much for giving me the to talk about this,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: like you guys are truly some of the good ones,
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: like like everything really can and yeah, I would say, like,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: I mean it's good, Like, don't get me wrong, it's
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: great that like more women are doing this and it
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: it's but it's like it's also awesome to like be
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: on a team with like a bunch of your big brothers,
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Friday Friday, Yeah, I feel
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: like a lot safer, just like rolling up to a
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: bar with everybody at Friday Friday behind me. You know,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: it's like I just feel protected and I just like
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: I never had a big brother, and I.
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: Feel that about girls. I love improvising with girls.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: You really seem.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: To have the opposite opinions of almost every other person
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I improvise with.
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Really, and I'm really look, I'm in court. I hear
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: different points all the time.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: People playing Devil's advocates for some awful things all night
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: nobody likes.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't like any of these things. I mean,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, they're all problems, But I just
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: like think change would be like why would we do that?
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: So you could be excluded from teams because maybe you're
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: not good enough you haven't taken enough classes or because
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: of your gender, and you think no change.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Nobody should ever be excluded. I just like, I don't
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: know if you guys get like it's like it should
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: just be made up of people who like get it,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: sure to get it.
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: I just wish it in my in my world, I
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: wish more girls would show up to the indie space because.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: They're just yeah, they show up.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: Usually one of the guys scares them off and then
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: they go and they're.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're scary.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: I will admit there's a lot.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't blame them. I was once I
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: saw a scene I saw. I was at the clubhouse
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: and I saw two guys doing a scene and a
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: girl went to swipe at it and they didn't see
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: her know that.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: They said no, they said no.
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they said no, we're not done here.
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: And it's just like, I don't want my girlfriend to
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: watch that stuff. Yeah, saw my shows. Do you guys
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: have significant others? Do they go to your shows?
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: I have a wife. She came to the first year
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: of shows and then she hasn't since. But it was
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: so nice for her to come.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: If there's a big one she'll maybe come out, like
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: when when I play with a crazy Uncle Joe show.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Every now and then a groundling, she'll come by.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Wow, So you're literally on every show in Hollywood.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: I guess, yeah, you've been on Poppy.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: When they ask me I haven't done Poppy, I did.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: I did the senior version of Poppy.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Wow, you've done everything.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I told you I was friends with people
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: that started the e SEC.
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: So it's incredible. I've just been around them. An old fart.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I'm an old fart with nothing to do at night
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: that I sometimes I don't want to go home because
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I'm so caught up in my own feelings after seeing somebody.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: Who I know is innocent spend a life in jail, like.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: We gotta pull from that.
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: We gotta pull from that.
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: Okay, all right, cut to the courtroom, A.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Sware, no, what you gotta spend your whole life in jail?
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: That was really funny.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: That was really funny.
• 48:06
  Speaker 12: That was really I will say there was really funny.
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: There was I didn't know where you were? Oh, I mean,
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: who wear one? And why? Like I knew we were
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: at the courthouse.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: But who, what?
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: Where?
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: When?
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: Why? It's such a school thing for me, and it's
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: just like.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: It's just like, once you get good enough, you could
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: break the rule.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did feel very real for me because I
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: didn't I didn't kind of see a comedic lens.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: I thought it was really funny.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I thought it was really funny.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, the idea, you should come play a show
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: with me, that'd be really fun.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: Let's so, let's definitely do it.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're you host? What do you host?
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: I host Electric Electric?
• 48:41
  Speaker 7: It goes up at one am to four am, and
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: at four am the jam starts, So you can come
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: at any time.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I'll get you out and.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: We can What do you guys do tomorrow? I'll tell
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: you what I'm doing.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I'm waking up at six am to pick up shopping
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: carts and then I'm picking twenty people's brain one.
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: After the other. Do you guys have to pick people's brains?
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just not anymore. My brain gets picked at
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: this point. For sure. I used to pick brains because
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: I used to learn so much, don't you love?
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: I will see the improv community is so good about
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: like learning from each other.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, for sure, and learning not what not
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: to do?
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah for Suah, well, tomorrow I'm getting up in the
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: morning and literally, shoot me, I'm gonna film a TikTok?
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: Oh my what for anti prison?
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Uh No, it's just like I'm trying to, like, you know,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: do that horrible shitty thing that everyone's doing right now,
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: and like it's like it's so not funny.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: I think I seeing your TikTok's being shared. You you
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: started doing it during the pandemic, right.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm doing I started doing it. Yeah, but
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: it's like I'm rolling my eyes the whole time. Like
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: it's like it's not fun as long as you have
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: like five hundred thousand whoa. But it's like, literally, shoot me.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: That's insane that you wouldn't like that, because I would
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: love that.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: I mean it's just like it's not all it's cracked
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: up to be. It's actually so annoying.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: Different people killing different things.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's just yeah, it's so weird to
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: hear that it bothers you because.
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: That's my dream.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean you could do.
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: It, do you think?
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: Do you have any ideas for video?
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah? You have any ideas, Kim.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we can bounce them around.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, all let me think of some ideas.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: This is okay, okay, I was thinking about.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: I was thinking, no, say it, go ahead.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: I was thinking about doing a British character.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: That's really funny.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: The bong goes, Oh that's great, that's great.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: That's really great.
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: Is that funny?
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: I saw your friend Ashley Gronto doing videos. I gotta
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: say they were not good.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, we've talked about Ashley a lot, and I feel
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: like we don't necessarily need to be ragged on her.
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: I think we all know what Ashley's deal is. I
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: think it's like she's in that category of people who
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: are making and I'm in it too, making awful content,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: just like throw up, pissed, barf content. No, but she's
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: a lovely girl. She's so organized.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she tries so hard.
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, we organized. She's really nice.
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: Who's your guys' dream career?
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: Atticus Finch to Kill a Mockingbird? Oh?
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: You want to? You wanna be in it?
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: No? No, I want to like do what he does.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Like I thought he was like a really bold, cool guy,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: fought interesting, but fought for the right thing a hard time.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: And who is he?
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: He's a lawyer from To Kill a Mockingbird, a book
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: by Harper Lee. I'm not familiar with classic. You guys
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: read a.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Lot, No, no, And you guys didn't read in school?
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: No, no, I don't read.
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: Okay, we cut to that school?
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: What school?
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: What school?
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: A school?
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: Or they didn't read? Is that the premise?
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, cut to it. Then I'm confused why we keep
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: cutting to real things. I'm about to talk to you
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: guys about something genuine, and then we're cutting way every time.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: But try it, but try it, but try it?
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: Okay, welcome to the school? Or nobody reads good?
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: I might give notes? I'd say you came in too strong.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: What I don't guys?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I think you guys need to figure out your work
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: life balance. And I think you need to treat improvit
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: like work because it's not play, because you guys are
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: treating it too seriously.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: Really you think, yeah?
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: I think so. I think you got to give a
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: little more perspective.
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: What do you think happens if we take it too seriously?
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: We don't get better, We just what happens?
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: I think you lose yourself.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: And all you do is talk about improv.
• 53:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's all you do, spend your free time, just
• 53:06
  Speaker 12: spending my whole life like it's just flashing before my
• 53:09
  Speaker 12: eyes where it's just like I'm at the clubhouse, I'm
• 53:13
  Speaker 12: at UCB.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I go to a bar.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: I come home, I talk about improv. I think about improv,
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: and then I go to bed, and then I wake up,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: and then it happens again.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: And I tell you what, You're gonna do that over
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: and over and over again, and then you're gonna turn
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: forty five years old, and it's gonna get harder to
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: get out of bed, and it's gonna get harder to
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: go to.
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: Sleep because my knees are so old.
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: Sorry, At this point of the hour, I get crazy.
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: It's noon.
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: I literally just woke up.
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: I don't think that's gonna happen to man, what I
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: don't think that's gonna happen to me?
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: All Right, guys, you want to bonner?
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: They want to see my big bonner.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Ah, not today, Frankie. You're always pulling out your big
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: boner at the taco bell.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: That's so funny. That's really you should.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: Write a sketch about that.
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: It's really good. Do you think No, it's really good.
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: Maybe before we gets are on the right path, it's
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: really good. Guys.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: Do you wish you were at a roundtable of lawyers?
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: No, First of all, it wouldn't be a roundtable, would
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: be a long table, and it would be a big dinner.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: It would be boring as f.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: It feels like you don't like either, or you're just
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: like bragging about one to talk to you about the.
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: Ragging about going to court all the time. I'm sorry, No,
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying like, I don't know.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I guess I see myself and you guys, I was
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: really into improv in the beginning.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: Oh really, like what years?
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: What changed twenty thirteen to twenty sixteen.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: It's crazy, You're just like, really he did exactly.
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: I did really want to do all the stuff, and
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: then I realized, uh, well made me feel empty, so
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: sort of doing other things.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: That's crazy, because like improv is the only thing that
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: brings me any happiness.
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: Hold on to that.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: No, you know what, I'm gonna change my life right now.
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: Oh well that's that's du You don't have to change this.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: I'm going to change my life right now.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: What are you gonna donna do?
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna quit.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: You put your on mess hull in mad, don't quit.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: I gotta quit.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: You want I would love to be on those teams.
• 55:33
  Speaker 8: Don't quit.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna quit. And then I'm just gonna like fly
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: to Oregon and I'm gonna like become like a I'm
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: gonna do wolfing. That's what I'm gonna I'm gonna do
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: something fucking crazy. I'm gonna quit. I'm going to quit
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: my place on two house teams and I'm gonna go
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: wolf And you know what, I'm gonna come back enlightened,
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: and I think I'm gonna come back better than everyone here.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: And what are you doing? You come back?
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: What do I do when I come back?
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna go off. You're gonna do that, and
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: you're gonna come back? What are you gonna do?
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Then I go right back on stage to improv. No,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: oh my god, oh my god.
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: Wait, this is making me a tad bit spiral.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: Well, but I we shouldn't spiral. We shouldn't be skirl.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Here's my thing is the thing besides uh doing improv,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: what I do is I pick brains. So if I
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: can't pick someone's brain at coffee. Then if I can't
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: do improv, then why would I pick their brain at coffee?
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, because you're pulling for them to be characters on
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: stage later.
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: And I'm trying to like learn about the system. So
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: what the heck do I do? That's it. I'm gonna quit.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: What are you gonna do?
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna freaking quit, And I'm gonna smoke weed and
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: steal catalytic converters.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: That's what I'm gonna freaking do, and I'm gonna sell
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: them all right.
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: This is actually making me spiral, like I've never thought
• 56:58
  Speaker 7: of improv like this.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: And I think I'm gonna quit.
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: I think I'm gonna quit hosting one of my shows,
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: maybe the one at seven years. Don't hang it all up,
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna quit hosting one of my shows, the one
• 57:09
  Speaker 7: at seven am.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: But haven't you been doing that for five years?
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: Five years?
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: It's everybody plays on Mollie.
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: Everybody plays on Mollie, and it's well, basically what it
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: is is every I let all the teams bring however
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: many peple they bring at seven am, and they're on
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: their team, they get a certain amount of time and
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: a certain amount of molly and so basically you're seeing
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: these great It's about about a minute of per person.
• 57:36
  Speaker 7: So if your team is four people, you get four
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: milligrams of Mollie and four minutes to play and it crushes.
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: And then at the end that goes on for about
• 57:45
  Speaker 7: an hour and a half. But you have to stay
• 57:47
  Speaker 7: the whole time. You have to stay the whole time,
• 57:49
  Speaker 7: otherwise next time you can't come back. And at the
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: end of the hour and a half, then I invite
• 57:54
  Speaker 7: one person, one of my friends, it could be one
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: of you, to do an hour and a half slow
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: play mono scene together.
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: So you're gonna quit that show.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: You're gonna get No not talking about it.
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: I think it's just such a it's such a good
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: pinnacle in the scene, you know.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: I think it should stay.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't want to spiral you. I was throwing
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: my own garbage onto all of you.
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: Do your thing. I think all of you maybe love
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: this community and need this community. Don't let me change
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: it for you.
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: Maybe you should quit being a lawyer, you know what.
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I just got an audition to be
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: in a Snapchat commercial for dunkin donuts. Could you ask
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: them if the greatest comedic mind of our generation?
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: Could you ask if I can come?
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's like on Actors' Access.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like we need to help each other out.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: We should all do this, can we all? We should
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: all go to the audio.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: I would if it's a group one, that'd be fun.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of solo. I would talk to your
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: agents and see if there's something that they can do.
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: I mean, but you're the greatest. That's that's really cool
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: what you said. I believe you are the greatest.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't do commercials after my toastedos campaign.
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: So please don't kill you.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna throttle you with my hands.
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: Well, don't do that. My bonners in my way.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: Stop improvising about your dick.
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Well, it's funny. This is artists answering the question.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Now, that's why they call it show business.
• 59:26
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