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Episode 161: Baseball, Mental Health, and The Theatre. · Chucks Cantina

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  This is Chuck's Cantina podcast where anything and everything is up for discussion, and
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  now here's your barman, Chuck O'Donnell. But can you just talk for like
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  recent four or five seconds of the good I can talk. I'm hoping that
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  it's going to be okay because I have one window open and it is the
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  Bronx. Well, not anything that as it adds to the characters. Yeah,
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  not just that's you know, it's true because it's like it's it's a
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  warm day here and like spring is it's actually quite it's been like unseasonably cold,
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  but it's but it's warm. And like the here in the Bronx when
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  it's warm, the dirt bikes and the race cars and the music that you
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  don't want to hear comes out. So it's really loud and I'm noxious here
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  on warm bas So Yeah, it is character. Yeah, so we can
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  just we can just get into it. I don't I mean, as some
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  of my listeners know, I don't really do crazy intros. I just sometimes
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  just go right into it. I'll just get the basics out of the way.
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  let me said the proper formalities here. Uh my guest today. I've been
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  talking about this for a couple of weeks now. We uh we have met.
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  We exchanged couple messages over on pod match. I've got them a shout
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  out. They've helped me with other guests in the past and stuff like that.
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  Uh my guest today and again, if I butcher anything a million,
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  please cut me off. But you but you're away. Perfect Amelias, as
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  she mentioned, she's from the Bronx. She is a actor and teaching artists
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  based out of the Bronx. She is on here today. We're gonna have
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  a little fun here, talk about some you know, theater stuff and anything
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  else that comes to mind. You know, pretty much as the show Aways
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  goes, we just throw spaghetti at the wall. Whatever hits hits. But
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  I want to get the main thing on, not the out of way.
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  I want to discuss the main thing too, is while you're on the podcast
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  today. She currently is in the process of getting ready to perform a show
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  that she is producing as well as acting in a one woman show. Literally,
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  that's what you wrote called all that all she cares about is the Yankees
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  and pronounce if I'm incorrect, please you know if I'm in correct here,
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  please correct me. Was written by john Ford Noonan in the nineteen eighties.
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  And your show is coming up at sometime in May at the Andrew Friedman Theater
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  or Andrew Freeman Home on Grand Concourse in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, which
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  is a little a little poetic there. So yeah, so uh, really
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  quick before we get into you know what you're you know, curly working on
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  stuff like that. Are you drinking anything today? I yes, So I
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  have a a grapefruit seltzer with a splash of grapefruit juice and a splash of
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  lemonade. All right, well, I mean it's pretty fade. Ye,
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  Yeah, I'm going crazy. I am going crazy. I wouldn't say you
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  go crazier. You're in the Bronx, You're I mean, I was gonna
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  ask you, like what you got dirt bike sults? I mean, I
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  can I'm surprised you can actually even have dirt bikes or race cars outside those
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  roads. What you guys have, you can't, but they do. It
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  is New York, right, yep, yep, No, you're not supposed
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  to. There's no you're not supposed to. And we actually my husband has
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  the Lieutenant on like speed dial because we don't. Because so we live in
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  like a very residential neighborhood sort of out by the water, and there's a
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  lot of there's a there's a lot of roads that are not that which of
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  course you don't think of in the Bronx. But man, they're not that
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  busy. So no, they'll do donuts in the road for for like hours.
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  Yeah no, and it's i mean, everybody likes to have fun.
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  Yeah, but there's also a lot of kids in the neighborhood, right you
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  know, it's it's it's unsafe and it's not fun to listen to. So
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  yeah, it's crazy. No, they're not supposed to do those things.
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  Surprised. I'm surprised they could. I mean for a dirt bike, yes,
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  but I'm surprised that even cars could do donuts on those Yeah. No,
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  there we have we have big ride roads too, just like it's yeah,
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  yeah, this, I mean like a lot of the Bronx is you
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  know, pretty pretty residential, not built up like Manhattan. Okay, yeah,
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  it's not. It's a little it's not. Yeah. Although I say
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  these things like I'm i've been to I've never been to New York. It's
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  actually one of my dream destinations to go to. And I know, we
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  I know, I didn't discuss this online. I am from like the Chicago
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  area, and I can't tell you that even on those residential roads, even
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  on those downtown roads, they are not whiting up for donuts. But yet
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  kind of like you, people will find a way to do them. Oftentimes
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  it ends up with them possibly dating someone's car and then they just you know,
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  drive off into the sunset. But that is so yeah, perfect.
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  I want to get back to the main focus here. So, as I
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  mentioned, you are curently in the process that you're ready to you know,
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  finally, you know, finally you know where you're getting there, finally almost
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  there, you know, finally time to open the current if you will,
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  for this performance that you're producing, and you're gonna be acting for the one
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  woman show. For all she cares about is the Yankees were like, I
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  want make sure to give your other colleagues are involved with this some you know,
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  some praise heers. So this will be directed by and get embe correct
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  me here. Your director is Jonathan Lidman, also New York Native works actually
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  works for Major League Baseball. Is a member of the Actors Studio Playwright Director's
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  Unit. And then your co producer is Tatiana kat who was actually from the
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  Soviet Union and was class or to me, trained in classical ballet and received
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  and in history and archaeology. Wow. So yeah, she's amazing. She
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  is amazing. Yeah, they both are. They both are, all right,
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  So I just got to ask. So, I mean, obviously you
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  know, and and as always, like I said on the Soul Sols or
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  everything like that, I'll make sure to post all of your information everything too,
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  so people can go on checking your stuff out also find more information about
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  your show. Cut up. But what was the uh the inspiration? Because
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  I mean again, I'm not I'm not an actor myself, not yet.
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  I'm actually looking to get into voice acting discuss here on the podcast a couple
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  of times. But I did study film and some film, not just not
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  just film in general film history, bilto the business of film at school and
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  based on some just conversations I've had with network and stuff like that. You
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  know, acting is one thing, it's obviously a very important, very you
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  know, hard thing to do, but I know that producing and game behind
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  essentially being the creative force find something like that takes a lot of like a
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  guts I fuel so ont of like what drove you to not only yeah,
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  in this performance, but also essentially be the forefront head of it. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it's it's a lot. It's it's it is a lot.
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  It takes up so much of my brain and it's kind of it's it's kind
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  of crazy. It really is. It's crazy. It's ridiculous. It was
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  it was just a stupid idea. But that's you know, that's what we
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  do. That's what us, weird, crazy artists, dreamers we do.
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  Yeah. So I was I was auditioning for this theater company actually up in
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  peak skilled and I think about twenty seventeen, and the man who was in
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  charge of the company when he asked me to come back to the callbacks,
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  asked me to find a monologue that spoke to my soul and made me fall
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  hot on my face. And he said, I don't care if it's your
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  type. I don't care if you play an animal, a kid, a
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  man, a woman, a dog, doesn't matter to me. Just go
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  find something that you love. Which is a very strange thing for an actor
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  to hear, because we're constantly being sort of staring, like we're constantly being
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  tight, and we're constantly be sort of typing ourselves, even though we go
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  into it knowing that that's not the only thing we can do. But it's
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  just you. You just sort of spend so long kind of like trying to
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  get people to look at you in a way so that you can get a
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  job, and then to be told to like go out and find anything you
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  want to work on is sort of was amazing. So I went and I
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  you know, we have a we have the Drama Bookshop here in New York,
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  which Lin Manuel has saved since the pandemic. But it's this just one
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  little bookshop that actors go to to sort of find their next scene or find
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  a play. Like when you're in acting school, you go with your scene
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  partner and you just like they have a cafe and you sit there and you
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  just like read all you know, read all the plays so you don't have
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  to buy every single one, okay, and it's kind of a magic play.
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  So I went and I sat down, and I found a monologue book.
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  I found a monologue from this play, and I instantly really liked it.
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  In the monologue, it talks about her being stuck in her apartment for
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  forty three days, unable to leave. It doesn't say why, and this
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  was before COVID, so it was sort of a It wasn't something that we'd
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  all experienced being stuck in our apartment at that point when I was when I
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  was looking at the monologue, but I really just fell in love with the
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  monologue. And I think at the time what I loved about it was this
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  idea of this woman who is sort of on the outside seems like she's successful.
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  She was a a basketball champion in high school, moved to New York
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  right out of high school. She clearly has friends who loved her, She
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  has a boyfriend who loves her. She clearly is like a neighborhood fixture.
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  It takes place in the West Village, and it sort of talks about like,
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  why would this seemingly attractive thirty nine year old woman just all of a
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  sudden not being you know, just completely malfunction. And I related to that
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  idea because I think a lot in my life people have told me like,
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  well, what, what's what's wrong? You should be happy, you're beautiful,
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  like there's nothing, there's nothing wrong with you, you know what I
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  mean? Right, Like, growing up I got that a lot, and
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  as an actor, I got that a lot. The classic, the classic
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  case of everyone thinks your life is perfect being outside viewer, but they don't
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  really know what's going on in between the lights. Yeah, I totally yeah,
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  yeah, totally totally. And this I mean, I'm you know,
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  growing up, I think it was you know, things were. Things have
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  changed in some ways, but I think in some ways things are made so
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  much worse by social media. But but but you know that sort of idea
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  of like you know, why, you know, why don't you You'd be
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  so much more pretty if you just smile, the kind of thing that like
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  men said to me when I was wait, you're saying yeah, which like
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  you know now now, I would love it if somebody would say that to
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  me. Yeah, like I would really have some great words, you know,
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  to say back to them. But no long times that to me anymore.
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  But but no, I just I really related to that idea of just
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  kind of, you know, this seemingly perfectly, well, you know this
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  woman who you know, seems like she has everything going for her and yet
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  she's falling apart. And I just I just liked that idea, and I
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  so I auditioned with it, and I took it to my acting class and
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  one of my longtime acting teachers, who I've had since I was seventeen,
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  he just said, well, you should do the whole show. And I
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  was like what, I was like, I think if Jeffrey says I can
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  do the whole show, that means I can do the whole show. And
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  then I was like, oh, crap, if I can do the whole
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  show, it means I should probably do the whole show. So it was
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  like this I sort of just felt like, oh crap, I have to
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  do this now, Like it just sort of felt like something like it was
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  just something I should do. And that was a while ago COVID happened.
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  And I'm not going to say that I had extra time, because I definitely
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  didn't. It was it was insane in our home. My daughter had remote
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  kindergarten. I had a Oh, it was so crazy. Her teachers were
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  amazing though she like learned to read completely on zoom at you know, at
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  five years old. I don't know how they did that. I will forever
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  be grateful for them. But at nine month old, my husband's a public
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  school teacher here he was on Zoom and I was actually working for NOOM as
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  a health coach remotely, so pandemic was crazy for us. So I didn't
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  necessarily have extra time, but I think I had. I don't know.
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  I was able to sort of think about the show a little bit, and
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  I put out an ad in playbill for a director, and I got such
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  amazing responses back. It was really hard for me to choose Jonathan Litman,
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  who is my director. Really was just a no brainer. And I asked
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  Tatiana, who I've known for a long time. We were in a much
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  ado about nothing together in I think twenty eleven. I asked her. I
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  asked her just to help me. She's an actress and a dancer, she's
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  a teacher, she's a scientist, like she's just this amazing person, and
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  I you know, she really is. She's amazing. She's just amazing.
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  She's a magician. Pretty much. She could probably beat you in a Muay
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  Thai fight. She will, oh, no doubt, Oh no, for
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  sure. But I was like, I don't there's no role, Like it's
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  not acting, it's not dancing, but like I just want help and I
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  trust you, and she was like, I'm there, I'm gonna do it.
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  Awesome, so she read it, she fell in love with the show,
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  and Jonathan was kind of He was sort of a no brainer because he's
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  incredibly talented, and just the fact that he wanted to work with us in
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  the first place was kind of amazing to me. And then this extra gigantic
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  bonus that he's he's a baseball player and he works for a major League baseball
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  and it was just because I like baseball. I am a Yankees fan,
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  but I'm not knowledgeable about the sport. I played soccer. I didn't never
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  play play softball, so it just made And my husband is a huge Yankees
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  fan, and actually he helps in some ways, but he's also too busy,
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  so I was like, it would be really awesome to just you know,
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  obviously, I mean, Jonathan just he made sense. And so once
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  once I hired Jonathan and and got Tatian on board, it was sort of
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  just a matter of of you know, the train was like on the tracks
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  and just sort of watching it go. We did a production of the show
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  in Maine in twenty twenty two because I grew up in Maine, because my
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  husband's a teacher. We're really fortunate to be able to live with my parents
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  every summer, so we kind of like summer in Maine on the on the
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  cheap. Is there a better way to say that's hey, i've seen on
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  your playing At times during the pandemic, my wife and I very thankful.
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  We moved in with up my in laws for a couple of years, and
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  you know what, hey it again. Don't knock again the whole you know
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  the expression don't not until you try it, Like, yeah, yeah,
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  don't get me wrong where there. Sometimes I'm like why did I do this?
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  Why did I do this? Absolutely? And there's other times like,
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  hey, no, it's actually not bad. And then you're like like Charles,
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  you have to complain about you're not even you're in the basement. Yeah,
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  So we actually we did. We came like we always did, like
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  a week in the summer in main but then for COVID we came like we're
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  there May through August, right, and then we were like, well,
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  we could do this, but we were in their house. And then we
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  were like, well, we could do this, but maybe we should adjust
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  it a little bit because my parents have a garage with an apartment above,
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  and my mom had her office there she's a psychologist. But in the summer
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  she converted it so we actually have our own little like studio apartment above the
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  garage. So it's really so amazing. Yeah, so there is no it's
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  not even a basement, it's a studio apartment. But yeah, So anyway,
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  we did the show in Maine because we had like a theater and we
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  had some help there, and then and then and now it's coming to the
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  Bronx in in May in a couple of weeks May sixteenth, and that sort
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  of was up to the grant cycle. And we ultimately want to end up
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  at Paradise Factory Theater on East fourth Street in New York City because that's actually
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  run by the playwright's brother who is still alive. The playwright is not.
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  So yeah, so that's kind of the long version of the story. Nothing
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  wrong with it. So and then I just got to ask, so,
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  like when when you did it or if here's not like when you did it
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  in May, Like what was the like the first go around, Like what
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  was the reception, like overall like view or something like that, because like
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  obviously because you know it's I mean, it's like this, It's like,
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  I'm again, I'm not from New York. I've never been to New York.
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  I do know people from New York, and I can tell you right
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  now when it comes to anything Yankees, if there's like if you yeah,
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  if you say like one slight thing, it's like you spit like in their
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  mother's food or something or something. It's just like like I like, I'm
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  just like, hey, I'm just I just had a I just had an
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  opinion, like no need to you know. But again, especially with the
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  industry you're in it, like what you're doing, there's gonna be opinions and
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  stuff like That's like what was the overall reception for the first Uh yeah,
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  I mean we were very aware of like we're going into Red Sox territory.
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  You think about that, it's gonna go over, you know, and that's
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  that's probably the what what a way to start off, Like let's let's let's
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  go right to the lines. Then if we can survive. And yeah,
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  it's not. It wasn't only Red Sox carry so like my my parents live
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  in down East Maine, which is sort of near bar Harbor and also near
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  dear Isle, which is an island, a small island, beautiful place,
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  sort of like an artist hub, but also very quiet like in the winter,
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  but also it's known for lobstering, so and it's it's really it's a
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  little bit of a journey, like it's you have to go over a causeway
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  in a bridge. So it's like not just Red Sox territory. It's like
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  lopster men, fishermen, like die hard Red Sox, you know, like
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  yeah, it's yeah, it's it's definitely you know, it's not like I
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  don't know, like Connecticut is like probably a little bit of the fence.
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  This dare Isle main. Uh. I think you're almost you're almost afraid to
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  wear blue because yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But then it's interesting because
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  there's also a big summer population and and there's a lot of you know,
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  there's a lot of New Yorkers there in the summer, so there are Yankees
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  fans, but then there's also like a summer you know, there's also like
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  a summer person thing versus like a year round person thing. So we kind
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  of like now that people, i mean people know me and like now people
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  kind of know my husband because like we're sort of like we're sort of accepted
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  because we were like not really summer people. We're like half summer people because
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  we're like sort of from there. So yeah, it's a very interesting but
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  yeah, so there it was. We it was a huge, beautiful theater
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  that is attached to a high school, okay, and we knew going in
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  that we would not sell very many tickets, which was because we sort of
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  did it last minute, and that was you know, that was okay.
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  We really just wanted to get it up on its feet and get some reception,
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  some kind of feedback from the audience, and the feedback was good.
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  I mean, I think although I mean, there is a lot of Yankee
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  stuff in the show, like there's no doubt about it, it's constant Yankee
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  stuff, but it's not it's not really about that at the same time.
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  So I think in a way, like people kind of luckily, the universality
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  of the rest of the show I think overshadows the Yankees. After a while,
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  and we got some good feedback. I mean, some of it was
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  really one One audience member wrote an email to us and said that he,
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  you know, he really enjoyed it, but it was also very difficult for
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  him to watch in some ways because he had a son dealing with some mental
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  illness and he felt that it was I mean difficult, I guess in a
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  good way. Like for an actor, that's a good thing to hear because
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  it means I'm doing my job. But people, I mean people liked it,
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  I think. I mean, I didn't hear the bad feedback. If
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  there was bad feedback, let me put it that way. Yeah, more
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  people. Yeah, well that's good because like I'm saying, like I was
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  gonna say too, because like that they want to talk about Like in your
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  the message when you reached out to the to me, I'm trying, I
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  said, we're like a network. We're not. It's just a one man
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  show. When you reached out, you had mentioned like the themes of like
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  you know, like what you know, what the what your performance upcoming was?
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  Like the first thing I call like you geve, you know, you
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  said like you know, relationships, baseball. But the thing that come I
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  write away was mental you know, mental health, and that is something that
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  like not even just on the podcast, but just like in my life,
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  I try to promote and take very seriously because like again kind of like that
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  audience member that wrote you that review and that really and essentially he said,
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  like, well it can be a little sanding, it's also you know,
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  in a positive It's like like, look that that's a that's that's obviously your
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  objective for any performance you do. You're trying to put out the best performance
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  based on what the scripts or the production is. And for the audience members
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  good I mean obviously you want to be good, but like good or bad.
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  By bad, I mean you want some type to emote, for them
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  to have some type of emotion through it. And when I saw the mental
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  health thing or not meant to see me the mental health I was just like
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  that connected me right now because I'm like, look, like any performance where
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  that's like a focus, I'm always in on that because yeah, especially today,
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  like I said, like mental health, thankfully it's becoming more of a
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  topic not just in life but also like employers and stuff like that. Like
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  I mean, I'm not gonna lie to you like I didn't even know this
• 21:26
  till like a meeting we have. Let me go my and my current player.
• 21:29
  The next month is uh mental health month, which I'm like all four
• 21:32
  which is great stuff like that mental health awareness rather so another thing is because
• 21:38
  like you mentioned, like you know, just something like yourself like with the
• 21:41
  past and stuff like that along the way, try to think how I should
• 21:45
  wear this? Okay, if any with the with the recent you know,
• 21:51
  with like the time off you've had or not the time off like with the
• 21:52
  production kind of not happening in a little bit and now you're going to that
• 21:56
  and based on past stuff, has that it all become like the mental health
• 22:02
  more of like a focus on the show or such. Has anything changed?
• 22:06
  That's really the main thing, because like you know, like sometimes like you
• 22:08
  know, like not just messing with like your performance or your production, but
• 22:12
  like sometimes something might happen in current events where it's like, hey, maybe
• 22:15
  we should enter that part out because of ABC and d reason and stuff like
• 22:19
  that. Yeah, I mean yes, and no, so no, there's
• 22:25
  nothing happening like in that. Sorry, don't spoil anything either. No,
• 22:29
  No, I'm not gonna spoil anything. I mean, yeah, if there's
• 22:32
  any new Yorkers, Connecticut people, New Jersey people listening and come see us.
• 22:36
  I'm not gonna spoil it, but uh it's interesting because yeah, yeah,
• 22:41
  I want to say something I wout saying soil it. Yeah yeah,
• 22:48
  but uh so there's there's nothing happening in the outside world that that that that
• 22:53
  that's really changed much about how we have. The show itself is like such
• 22:59
  a product of the nineteen eighties, though, and there's a couple parts and
• 23:02
  we every day were like and john Ford noton passed away, like right after
• 23:07
  I decided to work on this, but before I started working on it,
• 23:10
  and like in that same class, my acting teacher said to me, like
• 23:12
  you should email him and like tell him you want to do it. And
• 23:15
  of course I didn't because I'm, you know, afraid of people, and
• 23:18
  I'm kicking myself because like we have so many questions. So there are there
• 23:23
  there are some things in the show where we're like why did you put that
• 23:27
  in? Like what is happening? And then we're like, it's just the
• 23:30
  nineteen eighties and they're just they're in experimental theater land, and like this seemed
• 23:36
  like a yeah, I don't know, it was a its time. Yeah,
• 23:41
  yeah, and it's not it's not it's done almost never, you know
• 23:44
  what I mean. So I think it's I think I think probably I don't
• 23:48
  know. I mean, I think I think it's it's sort of more of
• 23:52
  probably was more of in a workshop phase and like maybe he would have I
• 23:55
  don't know, maybe he would have I don't know. But but nonetheless we
• 23:57
  love it. But it just sounds like regardless, like you know, like
• 24:02
  if he saw themselves, like they would probably enjoy it. Basic because I
• 24:04
  could tell like my sound like you I hope, So I hope. So
• 24:07
  yeah, And I mean that's why. Also we want to really be able
• 24:11
  to speak to his brother. He's like he's upstate a lot, so we
• 24:15
  the manager at the other theater, we talk to him all the time,
• 24:17
  and we're hoping to eventually meet john Ford Noonan's brother and just kind of like
• 24:21
  gets you know, just have a conversation with him and hopefully he'll see the
• 24:22
  show. But what I mean, one thing that we're sort of really trying
• 24:26
  to focus on, you know, and it's it's very strange for me to
• 24:30
  be a producer because I'm and to be acting in it, because it's because
• 24:33
  I'm also I'm also a director, and so it's like really hard for me
• 24:37
  to to like, you know, sort of like in rehearsal to stop not
• 24:41
  direct and also like not have the producer hat on and just have the actor
• 24:45
  hat on. That's something that I struggle with especially. And also I'm like
• 24:49
  an anxious person, so you know, there is really no turning off any
• 24:53
  part of my brain. It's just a matter of like sort of hushing it
• 24:56
  for a minute. But we we are sort of the ending of the show
• 25:03
  is is ambiguous and it really is up to the audience to decide what happens.
• 25:11
  And you know, ultimately I would I will say ultimately I've changed my
• 25:17
  mind about what happens to her from the first time we did it till now,
• 25:21
  so that that is actually kind of big. And I think the reason
• 25:26
  that I changed my mind in some ways is producer and director in some ways
• 25:30
  actor. But we we sort of, you know, when we got back
• 25:34
  together to to rehash it is sort of like why, you know, why
• 25:40
  do we want people to see the show, What is the message? Why
• 25:45
  should an audience come, and what are they taking away from it? And
• 25:48
  I sort of felt like that we have a stronger choice now, even though
• 25:55
  we're still playing with it and I still don't know, you know, if
• 25:57
  we'll ever get it right. But but and we we all feel like we
• 26:02
  could work on this show kind of forever and not quite figure it out.
• 26:07
  But in that way, it's it's changed a lot, actually, although I
• 26:10
  don't know that, yeah, because the ending is very ambiguous. Something sort
• 26:14
  of crazy happens at the end, and then you don't know what happens to
• 26:17
  her, see, and I love that. I love that stuff because,
• 26:21
  like I was, I was the biggest Like I said, I'm a huge
• 26:25
  movie guy. Some TV shows I enjoy and some friends of mine literally,
• 26:27
  like I'm not going to say who. I literally had a friend call me
• 26:30
  on the phone a couple of years ago and like literally cussed me out because
• 26:33
  I was one of the last few people to finally be like I don't need
• 26:37
  to watch the Sopranos. I know about the ending and all that stuff,
• 26:40
  and like, yeah, but you don't know why it's so important. And
• 26:41
  now obviously I've watched it, and obviously Sopranos and the air production completely different,
• 26:48
  but like the endow the point trying to make that was like the point
• 26:55
  trying to make that was like the ending. It's one of those endings where
• 26:57
  I'm not joking, like it's you sit there right when it happens, and
• 27:03
  you go, wait what happened? And then obviously you know you'll rate something
• 27:08
  or like and I can't remember theme in the movie. They did like a
• 27:11
  prequel like a couple of years ago for HBO, and like that made me
• 27:15
  think the ending changed for something like that. And it's like it's like one
• 27:18
  of the things where it's like a continuously makes you think about it and I
• 27:21
  guarantee you you know, like like once people see this or like like oh
• 27:22
  wait, I gotta go see it again because like maybe like oh did I
• 27:25
  miss something? You know. It's like it's like it's like any move like
• 27:27
  any movie now, which I get it. I get why they do this.
• 27:33
  I'm a huge guy like where if the movie's really good and I want
• 27:36
  to see it again, I'm gonna see it again. But like with some
• 27:37
  movies now and I get why they do this too. It's like oh,
• 27:40
  hey, like you gotta go back and watch it because you missed this thing
• 27:44
  because like this little thing that was on this guy's shelf was you know,
• 27:47
  and it was actually the key or something like just some light random stuff like
• 27:49
  that, and I see I love that stuff where like it continuously makes you
• 27:52
  think about just everything, which is awesome because like again that's what you want
• 27:56
  because like yeah, like yeah, you can do a production and then it's
• 28:00
  you know, it's good to go. Because like I remember like the first
• 28:03
  time like I saw Wicked, and uh like when I saw Wicked, like
• 28:07
  obviously like you know, if everyone by everyone knows what Wicked, it's kind
• 28:10
  of like the prequel to like what you know, Yah of Oz was,
• 28:11
  but like it was like one of those things. I was just like after
• 28:15
  like it ended, I was just like, wait, what happens now?
• 28:17
  You know? I mean like like like like like like like look, I
• 28:19
  know what happens later, but there's a giant gap in between. And I
• 28:25
  kind of like to know, you know, because like I know you mentioned
• 28:29
  earlier and I apologiz I came remember the name of the place you said that
• 28:32
  like Lynn Manuel Morinda kind of like helped keep running the Drama Bookshop. Yeah,
• 28:37
  thank you Drama Bookshop. Like like when Hamilton came out, like imem
• 28:40
  like that was just like a huge deal and like all like and like not
• 28:44
  that like I'm not gonna say like it gave theater like live performance is kind
• 28:48
  of like a a extra boost that it needed. But like I just remember,
• 28:53
  I mean I just rememt like there wasn't like a time where they were
• 28:56
  travel around the country where it's like, oh, hey, Hamilton's come to
• 28:59
  time, would you like take gets Well, they've been sold up for two
• 29:00
  years, so sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, And like all I
• 29:03
  ever kept hearing about it was like it was just like it wasn't just a
• 29:07
  historical musical. It was like one of those ones that makes you think and
• 29:11
  like again it's like like if you like you can you know, it's like
• 29:12
  the classic like hey, don't go to the bathroom during the movie. You're
• 29:15
  gonna you might miss the whole thing. Like it was like one of those
• 29:18
  that's what this this sounds like, which is awesome that like hey, if
• 29:21
  you kind of like if you blink, which you're gonna play like if you've
• 29:23
  blinked too many times, you're actually gonna miss this really important you know clue
• 29:26
  that kind of helps at the end when yeah, in fact the end you
• 29:30
  might not know. Yeah, no it is, but no, there are
• 29:34
  like there are a couple reveals and it's like and we you know, we
• 29:37
  we we talk on all the time, like all the time when rehearsal,
• 29:41
  like yeah, but is this happen, Like as we're like working through something
• 29:44
  like wait a minute, did this happen yet? Yeah, we're like no,
• 29:45
  We're like no, because this because this is gonna happen. And then
• 29:48
  we're like, but the audience isn't even gonna know that's gonna happen, so
• 29:51
  it doesn't even matter because they're not gonna be thinking about this like that at
• 29:53
  this point. And we're like, but of course it matters, and we
• 29:56
  know it matters, but we're like, and you know, it's like because
• 30:00
  they're yeah, there's just stuff going on that yeah, it's like things come
• 30:06
  together, but they also don't. But yes, I would love it if
• 30:08
  people like draw their own conclusions and uh and keep thinking about it yet and
• 30:15
  like in terms of like you mentioned, in terms of like things getting sort
• 30:18
  of better with mental health or at least as having better conversations. For me,
• 30:22
  that's actually one of the things that I want people to take away because
• 30:26
  I think sometimes I think sometimes people are kind of hard on I don't know.
• 30:34
  I don't know the country, or humans in general or just everybody.
• 30:38
  I don't know. I mean, I think we are not perfect yet,
• 30:41
  but I think we've come a long way. And I think things would have
• 30:48
  been completely different for Spanky if this was happening for her in twenty twenty twenty
• 30:53
  twenty four. You know, I think she would have had more resources,
• 30:56
  her friends would have known what to do, her parents would have known what
• 31:00
  like it it was just sort of like nobody, you know, like no
• 31:03
  one at that time. It was just kind of just not there. Just
• 31:08
  wasn't. They just didn't have like the options or the awareness or the ability
• 31:12
  to like ask for help in the way that I think we're getting better at
• 31:18
  you know, and we all have a long way to go, but like
• 31:19
  it's I think it's much better than it was, you know in nineteen eighty
• 31:22
  three. Well yeah, and it's like it's like you're saying, like it's
• 31:25
  that conversation like and you know right away some listeners of the show that I'm
• 31:32
  knock on you, but like quote like you know, different diferent like Baby
• 31:34
  Boomer generations gen X BLENNI was like each generation has had this like how I
• 31:40
  put it like this context, like what mental health is, and like some
• 31:42
  like that never hear of it, because like I'm a nineties kid, and
• 31:47
  like I'm well aware of mental health because it's something I focused on myself greatly.
• 31:51
  But like it's like having that discussion with people my age, half of
• 31:56
  them are like oh, like like it's none of them are ever like,
• 31:59
  oh, yeah, let's talk about it, which again it's not an easy
• 32:01
  thing to talk about, even like with your closest friends right away. But
• 32:04
  like some are like I've never talked about it because it might just been like
• 32:07
  based on how they were raised, not like anything like like not like most
• 32:10
  parents that were even like don't talk about your mental health, but just like
• 32:14
  they just it was never a focus for them. Yeah yeah yeah, And
• 32:16
  like as you said, like as we're getting as like the times getting older
• 32:21
  and stuff like that, because like I said, like, yeah, I
• 32:22
  managine this was written in twenty I mean, heck, if this was written
• 32:25
  you know, this was right in the eighties and this was all that stuff
• 32:28
  in the eighties. If this was written twenty twenty, it likely not too
• 32:32
  I mean maybe a little different, but like it wouldn't be that much everything
• 32:35
  would be today, but there's will be some difference because, like I said,
• 32:37
  just like it's mental health is just growing, thank thankfully, by the
• 32:40
  way, every single day. But also at the same time, it depends
• 32:44
  the generation, because who knows where mental health is gonna be nine just a
• 32:47
  fibers next year. So like it, like I said, like next month,
• 32:50
  like I didn't even know about it. It's mental health awareness a month.
• 32:52
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's It's interesting too because it's
• 32:57
  like so Spanky, I mean she we also talk a lot about if it
• 33:02
  was twenty twenty four, she she would be like the first female Yankees manager.
• 33:07
  Like she has this like statisian like she is she's a super fan,
• 33:12
  but she actually really knows what she's talking about. And the only reason I
• 33:15
  know that is because John cain Delpi, because that's what he does. Like
• 33:22
  he does this you know stats part. He goes around the country and sort
• 33:27
  of helps people work out pitchclock stuff. Like he he has a very good
• 33:31
  understanding of what's going on. And so it's Spanky the character, like she
• 33:36
  you know, she really knows what she's talking about, and she probably would
• 33:37
  have had a different career, a much different life, just if those opportunities
• 33:43
  were sort of more streamline, more mainline to women. But it's also really
• 33:47
  interesting to think about because she's, you know, she's stuck in her apartment.
• 33:51
  And it's weird because we're struggling so much with social media now and Internet
• 33:57
  and the effects and like when I have little kids and like we you know,
• 34:00
  we don't My eight year old daughter is always asking for a cell phone.
• 34:04
  We still don't have a cell phone. She doesn't really understand what TikTok
• 34:07
  is, you know, but a lot of her friends have cell phones,
• 34:10
  and it's but it's it's this huge thing that we're grappling with, and I
• 34:14
  think a lot I mean I think a lot of times we think of it
• 34:16
  in a bit of a negative way because it's having a big negative influence on
• 34:21
  mental health for instance. Right However, it's interesting because like I think,
• 34:24
  if Spanky had Internet, like she'd probably be I mean, she'd probably be
• 34:32
  a YouTube she'd be an influencer. I don't know, Speak he had internet.
• 34:37
  It was really sorry speaking had Internet and TikTok with and again I'm not
• 34:39
  the biggest baseball fan, but she had the internet with the way that the
• 34:44
  MLB is having their arms officiate the game. She probably have a stroke because
• 34:47
  it is yes, yeah, like she would like, yeah, she'd have
• 34:52
  like a little whatever post game YouTube, she'd be super famous. But then
• 34:57
  it's interesting because it's like would she be so she might be functioning better because
• 35:01
  maybe she'd have a career or she'd make a living on this, but then
• 35:06
  this behavior of like isolation, et cetera, Like it would also allow her
• 35:10
  to like ignore her her her problems right in a way, or like her
• 35:17
  her illness wouldn't like bubble to the surface in a way because she might just
• 35:21
  be able to keep going on high functioning as a YouTube influencer and like never
• 35:27
  really realize that there's other stuff going on for her that she really has to
• 35:30
  figure out. So it's just it's it's interesting. There's like so much to
• 35:34
  think about within this show and sort of in a modern lens. And I
• 35:37
  mean I was born in eighty two, so like for me, it's it's
• 35:40
  so fun because like I have la looks sneakers, like just the kinds that
• 35:45
  like I wanted to have when I was like a little girl. And we
• 35:49
  have you know, we have like a bunch of eighties just stuff in the
• 35:52
  show. You know, there's there's cassette tapes and she just great. It's
• 35:59
  just so fun to sort of like flash back to that time. Yeah,
• 36:04
  the show just has like so much, so much to think about and look
• 36:07
  at and talk about. I think. And I'm also like in New York
• 36:09
  like I am in New York City, die hard person. I love New
• 36:14
  York City, and I love like the vibrancy the feel of the West Village
• 36:20
  you get in the show even though you're not outside her apartment, you're in
• 36:23
  her apartment, but you still get that feel of like the old school in
• 36:25
  New York that that has gone in a lot of ways now well and actually
• 36:34
  kind of like and that's the thing too, because like I've always been a
• 36:37
  like with any films or anything like I've watched. I love it when basically
• 36:43
  how you're saying, like with what apartment like West Village is. I love
• 36:45
  it when almost a a location if you will. And I don't know one
• 36:54
  of my professors, they know, who are they about to be very proud
• 36:57
  of me for saying this. I love it And I'm a huge always and
• 37:00
  it's as like you like you have to hear someone say it for you realize.
• 37:04
  Oh actually I can think of like twenty of those when a location itself
• 37:07
  is almost like as as almost like as important as the character themselves. Like
• 37:15
  and I'm gonna like a huge nerd here, I don't know. I mean
• 37:16
  you've probably seen like the nineteen eighty ninety Tim Burton's Batman, like that background
• 37:22
  city itself was a character. Yeah, I mean obviously, and like again
• 37:28
  like obviously, like you know, stuff with film and theater has changed with
• 37:30
  like location stuff like that or for example, uh, my wife and a
• 37:34
  couple of years ago, I think they're still performing. We saw the Lion
• 37:37
  King in downtown Milwaukee in the musical and just like the thing I love like
• 37:42
  how what they did with that was like obviously, like it was just a
• 37:45
  stage, Like yeah, they had like the mountain, Hukuna matata, the
• 37:46
  whole jazz and stuff like that, but like I love like what they did,
• 37:50
  like they didn't just stay on stage, like they came into the crowd
• 37:53
  and like perform there because like why like well, the stage is the giant
• 37:58
  mountain top and like if you know it, Raffiki is sitting there looking at
• 38:00
  Simba and showing him us, Well, then all the animals should be next
• 38:04
  to us going oh hey ahh yeah in some aspects, so yeah, yeah,
• 38:08
  yeah. Anytime like it's setting, it anytime like setting is like a
• 38:12
  huge like part of the show. Like I'm always I'm always a huge fan
• 38:14
  of that because I guess, like I said, it's one of those things
• 38:15
  where it's like you pay attention because like you doing something as simple as walking
• 38:20
  to one corner or you moving a book like that could mean something. And
• 38:23
  just that's like it's like one of those things like Charles or Chuck. Most
• 38:27
  people don't really think about that, Like you know, you don't think about
• 38:30
  that when I say it, but then when you perform it and you see
• 38:34
  it, then all of a sudden, your brain clicks. You go,
• 38:36
  wait a minut, why are you doing that? Yeah? So yeah,
• 38:38
  yeah, And it's and it's like, you know, maybe not everybody does
• 38:42
  maybe, And I mean and we you know, we hope, you know,
• 38:45
  we we and like you said, like we want it to feel like
• 38:51
  the West Village is a character, and so I hope that we're doing some
• 38:54
  of that and and yeah, it it's a lot of those little things matter,
• 39:04
  and I think, you know, I think everybody's gonna just like anything
• 39:07
  else, everybody gets something different. And and that is one reason why I
• 39:10
  do like shows that sort of are a little more open ended. It's like,
• 39:16
  it's okay to feel like it means X to you and why to your
• 39:22
  husband? You know, like it's you don't You're not gonna get it.
• 39:25
  I know that drives some people crazy. Like it's like TV shows like that
• 39:30
  drive my husband crazy. You know, We'll be watching some I don't know,
• 39:32
  like some spy show and he's like, he's like, what is happening,
• 39:37
  And I'm like, I have no idea, but I I know that
• 39:42
  I'm I'm gonna get it in the end, and I trust it's gonna like
• 39:45
  I can't. I don't know what's happened, Like I don't know. He's
• 39:51
  like, but why not, You's gotta like figure it out, and I'm
• 39:53
  like, you just have to have faith it's right. So, yeah,
• 39:58
  I don't know, it might might I think. I think some people want
• 40:00
  to want to want to know, want to know, and some people don't.
• 40:06
  So yeah, this this, I don't know. Some people who don't
• 40:08
  like cliffhangers might might not like this particular show. But see, the thing
• 40:14
  is any person who says they don't like cliff hainers are the people who talk
• 40:17
  about cliffhangers more than anybody. So like, you know, because I think
• 40:22
  that's the thing, right, like they want it there. It's they're uncomfortable
• 40:27
  with uncertainty, right, But then that means you're all but that means also
• 40:30
  the production it's doing a job because why because it's like, what's the what's
• 40:34
  the one thing you always want tomber about any production? Do you remember how
• 40:37
  it ended? Obviously? Yeah, Like if they're sitting there and they're talking
• 40:39
  about this A, B and C and D with this ending, it's like,
• 40:44
  well, clearly because like you know, if I'm you know, if
• 40:46
  you're the person who's really upset about a cliff hainer, or if I'm just
• 40:51
  a person who's you know, I'm oh, yeah, how the show go
• 40:53
  and you're telling me about it's like it seems like you're really invested in this
• 40:57
  performance because all you're talking about is how it ended, right, Like like
• 41:00
  it's one of those things just like oh and I didn't like this okay,
• 41:04
  because like you know, when when the Sopranos came out, no one was
• 41:07
  like, oh yeah, I just faded the black anyway, what do you
• 41:10
  want for? Like no, it was like, you know, yeah,
• 41:13
  because like again, I'll never forget, you know, which is hilarious.
• 41:16
  My father loved him to death. Sorry, Dad, I gotta I've called
• 41:20
  him out before this before, you know, when I was I was watching
• 41:23
  move Radar movies when I was like five six years old. Don't get down
• 41:27
  it for any other children. You do what you want with your parenting decisions.
• 41:31
  And by the way, not like it was anything like crazy like or
• 41:34
  it was like Predator with all sports, like you know, like oh yeah,
• 41:37
  the guy got his arm chopped off whatever, But like, I'll never
• 41:42
  forget. The one thing he wouldn't let me watch with him was a Sopranos
• 41:46
  and I'll never forget. It's one of those moments in my life. I'll
• 41:49
  never forget where I'm sitting in my room and I'll never forget when the thing
• 41:52
  went to black because I was in my room and I I'm not gonna say
• 41:55
  it on air. I have never heard so many, so many vulgarities like
• 42:02
  love my I love my dad as most fathers are blue collar. I have
• 42:07
  never heard like swear to guy like if you're arrestled, but he was kind
• 42:08
  of prom on the TV, Like I was like, what is wrob with?
• 42:12
  And then they come to find out, you know, of course all
• 42:15
  in the it's the weirdest thing too. We live like in the like we're
• 42:16
  call this set kind of like down Hillary. You know, neighbors that like
• 42:20
  my dad didn't like, neighbors that like the one neighbor that no one there
• 42:23
  liked. They're on their front lawn. What happened to your TV? It's
• 42:28
  like it's one of it's one of those fun things. But it's like that's
• 42:30
  the purpose of like what you're like, what your production is gonna do.
• 42:34
  You're gonna and spot You're gonna kick up a lot of emotions. You're gonna
• 42:38
  have a lot of people questioning things, which is good. And then at
• 42:42
  the end, like you know when you take that final bom be like oh
• 42:45
  yeah yeah, and then some people are like wow, that was amazing.
• 42:46
  Some people are like I have so many questions, but it's like no one,
• 42:50
  no one. No one's just gonna be like I want to go home
• 42:52
  and have a pizza. It's like no, like what they want to keep
• 42:53
  talking about it, which is awesome. So that's what we hope. That's
• 42:57
  what we hope. Yeah, and I will I will Arnold Swarzenegger. So
• 43:00
  I do this thing sometimes where I'm like, I get nostalgic about my childhood,
• 43:06
  and I'll like pick a movie that I think is a good idea to
• 43:07
  show our kids case so it makes you feel better about the movie you were.
• 43:14
  I was like, Kindergarten Cop. Oh, yeah, we should,
• 43:16
  we should watch Kindergarten Cop. But this was like I was like two,
• 43:20
  it was maybe two Christmases ago, so my daughter was seven and my little
• 43:24
  one was three. But Kindergarten Cop sounds fine, right, that's not Oh
• 43:30
  no, Kindergarten Cop is like there's like there's like they like shoot like six
• 43:37
  people in like the first ten minutes and like very violent ways. Yeah,
• 43:40
  and did you remember that part? See I forgot that you see? And
• 43:44
  I hate to say, no, I think about it. Some parts of
• 43:45
  that movie are not exactly greatest in today's circumstances. They're not. They're really
• 43:51
  not. Yeah, it was I had to admit that, like that was
• 43:53
  a bad idea at that point. Yeah, but it should probably have not
• 43:57
  have been called Kindergarten cop. No, I mean it implies just in the
• 44:01
  name, like kindergarten should be fine watching this. Yeah that's not true.
• 44:07
  That's very true because like because the other forgig too, like the first time,
• 44:10
  like I mean, I mean, like, yeah, I was a
• 44:13
  little guy, but like I wasn't stupid. I remember the first time I
• 44:15
  saw Billy Madison. I'm like, so wait a minute, you're telling me
• 44:17
  that this thirty year old can just walk into my class anytime he wants and
• 44:21
  like hit on my teacher and take the class. No, no, no,
• 44:25
  Chuck, that's illegal. It would be arrested. Oh man, Billy
• 44:30
  Madison. I haven't thought about that one in a long time. See,
• 44:34
  and it's it's hilarious. Well, it's like funny because like kind of going.
• 44:36
  I got the Billy Madison thing because like I said, like theater not
• 44:39
  that like it's not that like it's heaving renaissance, but kind of like in
• 44:43
  a way is it, because like I said, like I haven't heard and
• 44:45
  again, you can cut me if I'm wrong, because I when I was
• 44:46
  like like when I was growing up, like I never really heard about any
• 44:51
  major performances because I said, like I would I would always like watch like
• 44:53
  entertainment news or like read papers and something that because I I just love like
• 44:58
  entertainment stuff like that. And it wasn't really until Wicked or no, let
• 45:01
  me let me back check. It wasn't until Cats when like like always like
• 45:06
  I heard about this huge kind of thing with theater. And then obviously when
• 45:08
  Wicked came out, that changed the whole game. And then like I'm thinking,
• 45:13
  like other ones, what you got? Wicked you got, uh,
• 45:15
  Cats, you got about like rends. You were probably too young when n
• 45:20
  came out, but that was like a game gane. No, I remember,
• 45:22
  I remember my parents' out rent and of course I mean the big one,
• 45:25
  the one I never got to see, which I kind of kicked myself
• 45:28
  in the butt for, was a Book of Mormon. I'm a sucker for
• 45:30
  I'm a sucker for anything. The guys from South Park do blame me.
• 45:32
  I don't have the stuff they do. I'm like, why is this on
• 45:35
  television? I don't understand that, but yeah, but I would just the
• 45:40
  thing I would ask you, though, was like, how is it like,
• 45:46
  if anything, do you still feel that like there's that I mean,
• 45:50
  obviously, any actor, any performer, you know, they want to have
• 45:53
  the big blockbuster. They want to be doing the Tom Kruise movies. Why
• 45:57
  because it's like it's one of the things they having the most fun to make
• 45:59
  the most dope. Do you feel like there's still that giant urgency or that
• 46:02
  like drive to like they want to do that live performance because if anything too,
• 46:06
  Like I'm thinking about it now as I talk about it, Like there's
• 46:08
  times like I mean, I like watch the Oscars. Some friends of mine
• 46:10
  we do a little we do a little prop besk. Everyone doesn't and like
• 46:14
  you know, you'll hear like, oh so and so so for a Cami
• 46:15
  word. Oh, they just want a Tony where it's like, wait,
• 46:17
  Brian Branston was just doing broad Away, Like what that I didn't know?
• 46:22
  Yeah, So do you still feel like there's that drive, there's still that
• 46:24
  like urgency to like really want to do that live performance for audience? I
• 46:29
  mean, I don't know, because I I mean, I've I've never been
• 46:32
  to La So I I mean, I I like film acting. I would
• 46:42
  love to have more of a film and TV career when I had like when
• 46:46
  I had kids, I realized that that just wasn't possible with like not being
• 46:53
  able to pay a thousand dollars a month for childcare, probably even more than
• 46:58
  that, because you really like with film and TV, you really like you
• 47:01
  need to have twenty four hour availability, like I you know, I like
• 47:06
  like school. It's like two different school pickup times, two different school like
• 47:09
  it's it's other people can't do it. It's so anyway, So I really
• 47:14
  have been doing mostly theaters since I've had kids, although I really like both
• 47:17
  mediums. I love film and TV acting, and I would love to do
• 47:22
  more of that work because yes, it is, I mean, it's it's
• 47:23
  it's different, and I don't I mean, I I mean, I think
• 47:31
  most people who are like trained in New York are really trained to be theater
• 47:36
  actors. They're trained, you know, it's still sort of considered like you
• 47:38
  train in acting school, you do scene work, you do plays, and
• 47:45
  you train as if you're going to be a theater actor, and then you
• 47:47
  sort of transfer it to to film and TV. And a lot of most
• 47:52
  acting schools have film and TV class now, and it's a little bit different.
• 47:55
  But I think that it's I mean, I think some great actors,
• 48:00
  probably you know, great film actors can't transfer it to the stage and they
• 48:06
  try and it's like whatever, go home, and some can some can I
• 48:09
  mean, you know, like the way around or or it's the other way
• 48:14
  around. Yeah, one hundred percent. So I mean I think I really
• 48:17
  don't know because I grew up doing theater. I mean, I grew up
• 48:22
  doing musicals, you know, from a very very young age. So I
• 48:24
  don't know, you know, if if people still feel that drive or not.
• 48:30
  I mean, I know that it, you know. And it's weird
• 48:31
  because because I'm so busy, I have like six different jobs and we live
• 48:35
  in the Bronx, so like we're kind of removed in a way from some
• 48:37
  of the art scene that's happening. Like I can't just bop into Midtown to
• 48:42
  see something, and it's really hard for us to get babysitters. It's like,
• 48:46
  I act, I don't see a lot of theater, which is nor
• 48:51
  do I even watch a lot of movies because I'm so busy and I'm so
• 48:54
  tired, and then I'm doing my own work. So it's like if I'm
• 48:59
  not in my own rehearsals or in a show, I might go see stuff
• 49:02
  that my really good friends are in. It's it's really hard for me to
• 49:07
  just like get out and see theater, and then, you know, I'm
• 49:10
  so tired. I often fall asleep with my kids at like nine o'clock,
• 49:15
  yeah, you know, and then I wake up at like, you know,
• 49:16
  I wake up really early, like do some work in the morning when
• 49:19
  everybody's leaving me alone. So it's so it's it's kind of like embarrassing to
• 49:23
  say, but I don't feel like I have a really great grasp on like
• 49:27
  what other people are doing in the industry sometimes because I'm just so sort of
• 49:32
  like in in my zone of like mom and teacher and and producer and actor
• 49:39
  that I don't I don't necessarily have a great grasp on what else is going
• 49:43
  on. I mean, Jonathan Tatiana do, and and they they always come
• 49:45
  back and they tell me about the theater that they see. I mean,
• 49:49
  I think in New York people are just as passionate about theater as they as
• 49:52
  they always have been. That's awesome. It's a little bit different after COVID,
• 49:58
  but I think it's I think it's still huge, and I mean I
• 50:00
  still think there's nothing like live theater. So I don't I think people,
• 50:07
  Yeah, I think people still have that drive and I also I do immersive
• 50:10
  theater, which is like what you were saying. I mean, it's different
• 50:15
  than mine King obviously, but I do an immersive theater where the audience is
• 50:19
  really part of the show, and that's becoming a little bit more and more
• 50:22
  popular, which I think is really cool, and I sort of think I
• 50:27
  feel like that has a lot more I don't know, I feel like that
• 50:31
  will become more and more interesting to people and sort of more and more well
• 50:35
  known, and there'll be more immersive shows that people can come to see and
• 50:37
  take part in, which is really cool, I think. And I think
• 50:42
  that people in some ways probably have like a little bit of a yearning for
• 50:45
  that now, sort of after COVID, I think people like to connect and
• 50:50
  sort of I think combination COVID and social media, people sort of hunger for
• 50:55
  sort of real human connection and experiences. Yeah, so I think live theater
• 51:00
  gives you that, and then immerse the theater gives you that, like even
• 51:04
  more so, I think people I think people will always love performing theater and
• 51:08
  seeing theater, I hope. I think I think there's nothing worry about that,
• 51:13
  because like I said, I I don't I mean, like anytime like
• 51:15
  you hear that, like theaters are continuously selling out, whether there were traveling
• 51:20
  across the country or like in your instance, like you're doing that, You've
• 51:23
  done this show, you in a different place before, now you're doing it
• 51:27
  literally pretty much right near you know, yeh stadium, like like if anything,
• 51:30
  like you're you're really you're really going with the theme there with the whole
• 51:34
  Yankees everything like that was spanking smart. Yeah, But no, like I
• 51:37
  said, I think there's always be that driver because like I said, and
• 51:38
  kind of going like you're kind of about like ever since COVID, like that
• 51:43
  we have even like and again you know the pandemic's over, yes, and
• 51:46
  no it is it it is because we're still in the effects, but like
• 51:49
  we still had that like yurnie or like someone's like pulling us to like like
• 51:52
  yeah, I can go on Twitter, Oh sorry, X, I can
• 51:57
  go on Facebook? Can we started on that? I can go on I
• 52:00
  know, I can go on all these platforms and stuff like that and like
• 52:05
  type and discuss and like saying what I want to say. But like it's
• 52:09
  gonna it's gonna sound it's gonna sound really, it's gonna sound awful actually,
• 52:13
  But like just having that like I'm not gonna say like almost at the baby,
• 52:15
  like almost like an argument about something like you're passionate now, like in
• 52:19
  a bad sense, but like like like something that you saw, like oh
• 52:22
  I saw this movie and you saw that movie, Like you saw this show
• 52:24
  and I saw that show, and it's like you or we were talking about,
• 52:28
  oh this person, I love the ending, they're like, oh I
• 52:30
  hated it. And it's like and I'm glad because I feel like it's helping
• 52:34
  a lot of people. Actually, But one of the few bright sides I'm
• 52:37
  gonna say that out of the pandemic was people are a little more not as
• 52:44
  well. I mean some of mark, but like not as many people are.
• 52:46
  Like I want to say, no, they're not a shy That's what
• 52:49
  I'm trying to say. Where it's like they have that like they have that
• 52:52
  forefront focus of like I need to connect with you, I need to talk
• 52:54
  with you, so like you you know, usually might be like oh cool,
• 52:58
  you liked it. Cool anyway, it's like why do you like it?
• 53:00
  Yeah, And like they get that they get either their comfort zone,
• 53:02
  which is awesome and I think and like it'aid like I know some I know
• 53:06
  people they have never been to theater. I've always encouraged to go to it
• 53:08
  because, like I said, it's like doing something different from one is always
• 53:12
  fun. But then like if you do something different and you get hooked to
• 53:15
  it, like like what more do you what work do you say about that?
• 53:19
  Yeah? Yeah, so you got something good out of it? And
• 53:21
  like I know some people like who who have gone to uh performances. I
• 53:24
  mean I can't and I apologize to the people involved. I can't remember the
• 53:29
  name of the theater of Milwaukee. There's this theater Milwaukee. It's kind of
• 53:31
  like you might know the name of the type of stage. Essentially, it's
• 53:35
  not a center stage. It's there's a stage. I like, actually I
• 53:37
  take them back it as a center stage, but like the stage is like
• 53:40
  if it's ten by ten, I'd be shocked, but it's everyone's completely surrounded.
• 53:46
  As remember there's only like maybe it's like a stage. I could fit
• 53:50
  maybe fifty people if they build the stage right. But just like that,
• 53:54
  there's that like emotion like you said, like where it's like there's an interactiveness
• 53:58
  where they're like they're in your face talking. But with this performance, rather
• 54:01
  that the audience wasn't involved, the guy wasn't like pointed audience members. There's
• 54:05
  just the basic on how it was. So I do think that in terms
• 54:09
  of you know, live performances theater, there isn't that like there's not there's
• 54:15
  not a downtrend. Rather, that's what I'm trying to get sayed is yeah,
• 54:17
  I don't yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think so. And
• 54:21
  you know, it's like it's it's yeah, I think I think you're right,
• 54:23
  and I think that yeah, And I think it is good to bring
• 54:28
  people together. And you know, I think it's it's so safe to sort
• 54:30
  of like have that fight on X and like forget that the other person is
• 54:36
  human, you know, and we're everybody's so divided right now. It's like
• 54:39
  if people had probably real conversations, it would be a little harder to you
• 54:45
  know, to sort of demonize everybody so much. So Yeah, I think
• 54:49
  go live theater, bringing more people together, talk about endings and then you
• 54:54
  know, talk about something else too. I don't know. Yeah, No,
• 54:59
  I think you're I think people do sort of want to come out and
• 55:04
  experience things. I hope. I mean, I think it's we just saw
• 55:07
  I just saw hades Town two nights ago because my all time favorite singer songwriter,
• 55:13
  Anita Franco is in Hadies Town right now. And that was the first
• 55:17
  Broadway show. I actually can't even remember how long it's been, which is
• 55:22
  terrible. But you know, once my kids are older, I'll get back
• 55:24
  to sing wore theater. But but yeah, it was. I mean,
• 55:28
  I see other theater, but I haven't been on Broadway, you know,
• 55:31
  on a in a Broadway theater in a long time. And that was.
• 55:37
  Yeah, it was just wonderful to see all the different you know, tourists
• 55:40
  and New Yorkers and sort of like you know, young people, old people.
• 55:45
  It's it's you know, a theater is going to bring everybody together in
• 55:46
  that way. And I think a generational thing is important too, because the
• 55:52
  generation sort of seemed to get more and more divide, like not not divided
• 55:58
  as in like against each other, but it's like I just think like the
• 56:01
  gap between because of technology growing so quickly, I think like the generations are
• 56:07
  just so different now in a way that they maybe don't interact as much.
• 56:12
  I don't know, but I think it's great to bring generations together as well.
• 56:15
  And you mentioned about people not seeing theater. My like dream, dream
• 56:20
  dream is to get like Yankees fans who just don't see theater, to get
• 56:22
  to come, like to come to the show. I feel like that's what
• 56:25
  I really want. I know, Well, there's actually games that whole weekend.
• 56:30
  There are games that whole weekend, which is like one of the reasons
• 56:35
  why I went on pod match is as you said, which is like a
• 56:37
  very cool platform, because I just I was like, how do I get
• 56:39
  to how do I get to baseball fans? Because you know, I have
• 56:44
  my circle of performers and artists and theater people, Like how do I get
• 56:47
  to how do I get out of my zone of sort of like you know,
• 56:52
  of just people, Like how do I get that guy in Connecticut who's
• 56:59
  like close to the Bronx and like he doesn't come ever see theater. I
• 57:00
  don't know, but I'm working on it. I mean I feel like I
• 57:07
  feel like just I mean, like I said, if anything to like you
• 57:09
  said, you talk about getting it might like like we talked about like getting
• 57:14
  people out of their comfort zone, which of course it's not easy for anyone
• 57:17
  to do that. I don't care how tough you are. But like when
• 57:21
  you do that, the reward can be fantastic. And I feel like having
• 57:27
  a Yankee fan who doesn't like theater or not, like they's never done they
• 57:32
  ever gone to theater, I feel like that could like they were like I
• 57:37
  would love that. That would be like the cream of the crap, like
• 57:39
  like, hey, this is perfect scenario. We got what we want.
• 57:43
  We got a Yankee fan who you know, they're sitting there the whole time
• 57:45
  murmuring like, oh I could have been I should have gone on the game,
• 57:51
  okay, and that wasn't. By next by the end, by the
• 57:53
  end of the show, they're standing up giving you you know, standing ovation
• 57:58
  because they're so you know, like moved by the performance, especially especial or
• 58:02
  as I'm sure something they ruined theater for them forever and they never want or
• 58:09
  as some die hard Yankees Red Sox fans that are like wait a minute,
• 58:13
  that's not or something like that because of so we did. We did one
• 58:20
  library show in March, just this past March. We were one of the
• 58:23
  theater companies I work with organizes a library show, and the artistic director there,
• 58:29
  who I've done for a long time, said, you know, Amelia,
• 58:30
  if you want to if you want me to put this sort of on
• 58:32
  the dock, and I will. And I was like, I don't know
• 58:35
  if it's gonna work as a library show, but sure, you know,
• 58:37
  if people want to have us and like one library us up on it in
• 58:43
  all of Westchester. But it was, I mean, it was a great
• 58:45
  opportunity for us because we got it up on its feet, you know,
• 58:47
  two months ago now, so now we're just sort of tinkering with the fun
• 58:51
  stuff. But the the audience there, you know, it was like a
• 58:54
  Sunday matinee in Westchester. And there were a couple older gentlemen in the audi
• 59:00
  and who came up to me at the end, and one of them,
• 59:04
  one of them was like, he wouldn't stop talking to me about Yankees and
• 59:07
  baseball. I had no idea what he was talking about. I had no
• 59:09
  idea, but he did say that there is she is watching a game in
• 59:15
  the show, and he said that he remembered the game that she was watching,
• 59:20
  and yep, and he was. And then he was talking about how
• 59:23
  he remembered all the players that she's that she's talking about. And then there
• 59:27
  was another gentleman who was a little more streamlined and was sort of like,
• 59:31
  I'm a huge Yankees fan. This was on point, Like everything made sense,
• 59:36
  it was accurate, it was historically you know, blah blah blah blah,
• 59:38
  which was like very cool to hear. I mean, we we know
• 59:42
  that it is, but it was cool that. I mean, they were
• 59:45
  but they were theater people. They were theater at baseball people. So but
• 59:49
  it was just fun to hear from them that they that they sort of did
• 59:52
  lock into the baseball stuff because there is a lot of it. Although it's
• 59:55
  like if you don't like baseball, you don't hear that, you know what
• 59:59
  I mean, it doesn't it's this or that, it doesn't matter. But
• 1:00:01
  if you do like the baseball there's a lot of history in there. There's
• 1:00:05
  a lot of details that are like sort of fascinating. Billy Martin is the
• 1:00:08
  manager of the Yankees during this play, and he was a little like fiery.
• 1:00:16
  He was fired literally a couple of times and came back as manager I
• 1:00:20
  think two or three times and had like a big temper, big reputation,
• 1:00:27
  and so a lot of people remember him and they remember when he was manager.
• 1:00:30
  He died tragically in a car crash in the late eighties, I think
• 1:00:35
  so. Yeah. So it's just it was a fascinating time for baseball and
• 1:00:39
  people, people who were alive and were Yankees fans then absolutely remember that this
• 1:00:45
  specific time period, which is very cool. So it's fun and and then
• 1:00:50
  we can wrap up here in a second. I do appreciate your time to
• 1:00:52
  see especially on a Friday. I do gotta say, like anytime, like
• 1:00:57
  any performance you do. You know, like I said, obviously obviously you're
• 1:01:00
  doing your homework. You have a great team just by now you just by
• 1:01:04
  like with the Messry Simon, just like the like just the way the emotion
• 1:01:07
  that you showcase actually like like they know their baseball, they know this and
• 1:01:09
  stuff like that. But like when you have literally the most uh what's the
• 1:01:16
  word I'm looking for, the most strict if you will, like peers of
• 1:01:20
  like I'm a diehard Yankees fan. I remember exactly what what game and what
• 1:01:23
  play, what the temperature was on that day, saying that that was spot
• 1:01:28
  on, Like I mean, that's just gotta feel like a giant not like
• 1:01:30
  it's just gotta feel like a whole like Okay, we're doing this on like
• 1:01:35
  we're doing this right. Yeah, Yeah, And I mean, it's also
• 1:01:37
  kind of like a nod to John Ford noonit and like because I mean he
• 1:01:39
  wrote it in the eighties. It was you know, it was fresh in
• 1:01:43
  his mind. It's not like he was going to do research, right,
• 1:01:45
  but it just he did take the time to make it accurate. The things
• 1:01:52
  that mattered are accurate, you know. The the things that are based in
• 1:01:57
  history or are based in baseball are accurate, which is cool, you know.
• 1:02:00
  And the rest is just just all sorts of other stuff is just like
• 1:02:06
  you wouldn't you wouldn't even think of. And I think that'd be really kind
• 1:02:09
  of it'd be really interesting. Like you said, like people go into this,
• 1:02:15
  they know it's from the eighties. They watch it as one things like
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  wait a minute, what does this happen like in the you know now?
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  Or like that, what did this happen like in the later nineties two thousands
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  when they were like in the World Series every time you blink or yeah or
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  what if? What if? Hearing out? What if this? What if?
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  This? Uh? What if? This book was written in two thousand
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  and four, when the Red Sox finally broke the curse. Oh god,
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  I mean I remember that so well. I remember that so well, that's
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  that's literally how my step my mom and my now my pops, my stepdad,
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  that's how we bonded because I wasn't really the big I mean I was,
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  I was. I watched base I watched you know, I watched you
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  know, I'm from in Chicago, Cubs guy, and like I would watch
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  Cubs games with my dad and then like my stepdad is a White Sox fan,
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  and like right out, I'm like, I'm like, oh no,
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  we got a problem. But then like we both were watch sitting there watching
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  because I mean, like he said, I wasn't a baseball but I knew
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  the curse of the you know, I knew the great of Bambino. Everyone
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  knows that you don't have to be a baseball fan. You know that,
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  you know that curse, and like just watching that with him, it was
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  just like it was like again, like you know, it was one of
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  those scenes you never thought you'd see. I never thought I see the Cubs
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  won the World Series. But love of God, they somehow did it.
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  I still sometimes don't think they did it, but they did it. I
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  mean it doesn't look like they did it now, but no, and I
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  think it's like one of those scenes where any performance where you can get the
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  audience member to continuously think afterwards good or bad, it's like it's one of
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  use. It's like, hey, we got him, and I really do
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  hope for you that you do get I'm saying, not even just Yankees fans,
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  hope we get Red Sox fans, because that'd be awesome too. I
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  would love some Red Sox fans. And you know, I am a New
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  England girl. I mean yeah, I mean my family is a Red Sox
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  fan. My dad, my dad's Red Sox fan. But yeah, yeah,
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  Red Sox fan are welcome. Everybody's welcome, Like, yeah, New
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  England, you guys have had some pretty good years you have, Like what
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  last twenty you got, like how many Super Bowls? How many Stanley Cups?
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  Yeah I don't, I am not. I'm not a football person,
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  but I even I know that. Let's put it that way, right,
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  put it that way. Like I know someone I know, Curly lives in
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  Boston. They're like and they like that they don't like sports at all,
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  and they're like, yeah, that's all I hear about is like oh yeah,
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  yeah, years ago we did this, And I'm like, great,
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  can I get my pizza. Yeah, oh man, and you you have
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  to you clearly have to come to New York though, if you're eating pot
• 1:04:41
  pizza in Boston, this is problematic. So well and actually, if anything,
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  we didn't even get to that. I've never I have never heard I'll
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  say this really quick, I have never heard a person from Chicago going to
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  New York and complain about their pizza. Now, I never heard a person
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  say that Newer pizza is better than Chicago pizza. But I've never heard a
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  complaint. And I've always wanted It's like a dream, like like you know,
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  go like different right, Well, yeah, well it's like it's like
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  any it's like anywhere, like if like, yeah, go go to Texas
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  and get a steak and then go to ninety a steak, go to Seattle
• 1:05:16
  and get a fish taco, and then go to Texas and or not not
• 1:05:19
  Texas, get somewhere not on the water and get a fish taco. Of
• 1:05:23
  course, completely different. So we got engaged in Chicago. I was there
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  for like, oh and we but I mean Chicago pizza is like deep dish
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  right to me. That's like see, that's the thing that's the difference it's
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  okay. No, no, no, no, that's fair. No,
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  that is the general public and some people some people like that. Know.
• 1:05:45
  We're like, that's not no deep Dish, No deep Dish, Yeah,
• 1:05:46
  Deep Dish is a Chicago pizza, yes, but for Chicago pizza, it's
• 1:05:50
  not the Chicago pizza. Now, Chicago pizza is like when it's it's it's
• 1:05:55
  just kind of like your pizza is just a regular pizza, but we cut
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  into squares like that to me, Chicago pizza. But but but here's the
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  thing. No, we I will gladly say we owneded Dish because yeah,
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  it's fantastic. Now. Is that the thing that most people go to when
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  they'd come here? Yes, And like you know, like or like I
• 1:06:12
  said, he what pizza chain did this Year're like, oh, we're gonna
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  serve New York pizza. I'm like, I'm in I'm in Milwaukee. I'm
• 1:06:17
  not. That's not sure, that's not New York. Like like when they're
• 1:06:20
  all there like, oh, it's a New York pizza you folded in the
• 1:06:23
  middle, and it's like that's no, you gotta do that in New York
• 1:06:25
  because like I mean, that's like a goal of mine. Someday to go
• 1:06:27
  to New York and like we're out super Land. It's like, oh,
• 1:06:30
  it's two am, where can we find a pizza place open? Of course
• 1:06:32
  you can. It's New York, so yes you can. Although I don't
• 1:06:35
  know if those are the ones I would do. I have to tell you
• 1:06:39
  if so, listen, if you when you hunts to New York, you
• 1:06:42
  have to actually come to the Bronx for pizza, because the Bronx is the
• 1:06:45
  real little Italy Arthur Avenue. But then also the best pizza is Louis and
• 1:06:50
  Ernie's. It's sort of on my side of town. Louis and Ernie's that's
• 1:06:55
  where you have to go. And they're all cash, super old school,
• 1:06:59
  it's so bron See right away, you got me. If I go to
• 1:07:02
  a place and they're all cash, I'm in right away. Because like there's
• 1:07:04
  some places, there's some like not I mean there's some people, but mostly
• 1:07:08
  there's like what Chicago's also known like like a little side note, secretly they're
• 1:07:12
  known for their Italian beasts. If you go to Italian Beast Joint and they
• 1:07:15
  have it's only cash only, you're in. It's like, okay, this
• 1:07:17
  is this is a good place. I don't need to know it. If
• 1:07:21
  anything, I don't know if you've watched The Bear at all, it's a
• 1:07:24
  huge poppet show on FX right now. They've actually yes, And it was
• 1:07:30
  like a pad in the back because my dad's favorite beef joint. They couldn't,
• 1:07:33
  I guess you know. It's like it's like a business. It's like
• 1:07:35
  a small business, like, hey, can we use your place? Can
• 1:07:38
  we run out your place for day to run do our show? And they're
• 1:07:40
  like no, like no, we need to make a living. And so
• 1:07:43
  what they what what the show did? They didn't. They literally made a
• 1:07:46
  studio, like a little studio, and they made an actual replica of this.
• 1:07:50
  It's called mister Beats and Orleans if you're in noise that I'm talking about,
• 1:07:54
  and it's just and the and they literally got they even got it down
• 1:07:57
  to the cash only sign right and like right away. It was like,
• 1:08:00
  oh, and maybe want to drive down there right away? But then I
• 1:08:02
  forgot about the Chicago traffic, which we don't get into New York at Chicago
• 1:08:05
  traffic. No no, no, no, definitely not definitely not definitely not
• 1:08:11
  yeah, because we like in our neighborhood you have to have a car.
• 1:08:14
  So I'm like a you know, like I have a car. It's it's
• 1:08:16
  weird living in this area of the Bronx went to non New Yorkers, Like
• 1:08:20
  I play like I'm a New Yorker, but like we never order delivery.
• 1:08:26
  I can't walk outside and get a cup of coffee and like one of the
• 1:08:28
  coffee shops like friends, Like that's not it's not like my hand. I
• 1:08:34
  would love to. I mean, when I'm rich and famous, I will
• 1:08:36
  live I will live in Greenwich Village right where Spanky lives. There you go,
• 1:08:40
  But for now we uh we actually right now we live in the apartment
• 1:08:43
  that my husband grew up in. We're about to move, but we're staying
• 1:08:45
  in the area because, uh we love the Bronx. And I I never
• 1:08:49
  would have thought that I was going to live in the Bronx. Like I
• 1:08:53
  sort of joke that, like if you told me when I moved to New
• 1:08:55
  York City that I was going to live in the Bronx, I never want
• 1:08:57
  to move. It's not true. But it was not my dream to like
• 1:09:03
  live in the Bronx ever ever. Ever, but here you are is like
• 1:09:08
  here I am, but like the Bronx is still the Bronx. It's still
• 1:09:11
  the old school in New York doesn't have these like fancy little bike lanes and
• 1:09:14
  like restaurants on the Parking Street like it's the Bronx is still the Bronx,
• 1:09:19
  and I love it and uh but yeah, it's it's it's weird. I
• 1:09:26
  drive a lot. I drive a lot for New Yorker. Yeah, that's's
• 1:09:30
  wrong with that. There you go. And on that note, I do
• 1:09:33
  want to first thly, I do appreciate your time this evening. Again.
• 1:09:36
  I know it was a Friday. We've been talking for a couple of weeks.
• 1:09:40
  Now try to get this down and we already get this time. Not
• 1:09:43
  so again thinking for coming on. Thank you. I always like to give
• 1:09:46
  the final few minutes notes to you. Obviously we've you know, we've discussed,
• 1:09:51
  we discussed some the stuff here. I mean, I mean, I
• 1:09:54
  really appreciate you also getting detail about your family. I said, I know
• 1:09:56
  you you you know you do teach method acting your HU. It works in
• 1:10:00
  education as well. Obviously, you know if you're in the New York area,
• 1:10:04
  I'll give you a second to like to like obviously say where they can
• 1:10:06
  follow information obviously, if you're in New York area coming soon, go see
• 1:10:10
  it. All she cares about is the Yankees written by John Ford Noon in
• 1:10:14
  nineteen eighties. And yeah, so before we get out of your Amelia,
• 1:10:17
  the floor is yours. And if there's aye, promote your show where they
• 1:10:21
  can find you online, socials and all that stuff. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:10:26
  I think just like I mean, if you're in the area, please
• 1:10:30
  check out the show. We are at Andrew Friedman Home May sixteenth, seventeenth,
• 1:10:34
  and eighteenth. Tickets are an event, right if you just look at
• 1:10:39
  all she cares about is the Yankees event, right, and then my instagram
• 1:10:44
  is Yankees Underscore play. And then more than anything, because I know,
• 1:10:47
  you know, listeners are all over the country, like follow me, and
• 1:10:50
  like if you thought anything was interesting and you have any ideas to share,
• 1:10:55
  like message me. You know, I just want to connect with people,
• 1:10:58
  and obviously more followers help me. If you know any baseball fans who like
• 1:11:02
  live in the area who want to see theater, or if you have a
• 1:11:06
  small theater in your small town and you want a Yankees show to come,
• 1:11:13
  We're a small little team and we can set everything up. If you have
• 1:11:15
  a theater that like wants the show will come, We'll come to you.
• 1:11:20
  And yeah, and I'm also an acting coach. If you want Zoom method
• 1:11:24
  acting lessons. If you live in I don't know, uh, Louisiana or
• 1:11:28
  something like that, and you want some acting lessons, hit me up for
• 1:11:31
  that too. But yeah, more than anything, just like follow me.
• 1:11:33
  And you know, I like to chat with people. I like to hear
• 1:11:36
  what people have to say about things. And thank you so much, Chuck.
• 1:11:41
  This was like really fun. I like just you know, like your
• 1:11:46
  your I like hearing your ideas too, so that like I'm just like not
• 1:11:51
  doing all the talking. It was really fun to hang out and have my
• 1:11:54
  seltzer a great fruit beverage oftentimes like I get. Actually once had another guest
• 1:12:02
  that came on here Authorna by the name of JV Hillary and asked me,
• 1:12:05
  goes hey, was listened to some of your episodes, like you guys don't
• 1:12:09
  drink a lot? What do you mean? It was like oftentimes you just
• 1:12:12
  every time with every little side notes and I didn't even not even joke,
• 1:12:15
  I even mean to say earlier with the Bill in Madison, it is an
• 1:12:17
  homage to Adam Sandler. Anytime we have water on here, we don't call
• 1:12:20
  it water, we call it high quality. H two oh, unless unless
• 1:12:25
  you're in the state of Florida, because their water is absolutely disgusting. So
• 1:12:30
  but so, but you know, I appreciate you coming on. It was
• 1:12:34
  a pleasure speaking with you. Also, side note real quick, So Adam
• 1:12:38
  Sandler was went to my acting studio and his teacher Jeffrey in what's the what's
• 1:12:45
  the daddy? What's the big daddy Daddy? Yeah, so he's like the
• 1:12:49
  older man who steals his girlfriend, Jeffrey. So that's my that's that's my
• 1:12:55
  teacher. That's my wonderful, amazing, amazing like you're telling American treasure.
• 1:13:01
  He's amazing, right, teacher, Yes, you're telling me. The teacher
• 1:13:06
  is the guy he walks in this apartment going, hey, I grown up.
• 1:13:12
  I didn't tell you this, but I adopted a kid for us.
• 1:13:15
  And then this old man walks out of the bathroom. Yes, and then
• 1:13:18
  she goes he has a five year plan, and he goes, what don't
• 1:13:21
  die? That's awesome? Yes, yes, I know and like, and
• 1:13:28
  Jeffrey is so much more than that. He is an amazing teacher. He
• 1:13:32
  was he was in Bridge on the River. Why he was in like Twilight
• 1:13:35
  Zone episodes. But yes, that's him, and he's amazing and wonderful,
• 1:13:39
  and him telling me that I should do the Yankees play is really ultimately why
• 1:13:43
  I did it. So we've come full circle. Thanks. That is awesome.
• 1:13:51
  And on that note, that is Amelia obviously, please go follow her
• 1:13:55
  on all of her on her socials and also you know, if you had
• 1:13:58
  the chance, if you're the New York area on the I believe that's the
• 1:14:01
  third weekend of May, go check out all she cares about the Yankees.
• 1:14:05
  Otherwise we've any questions, feel to reach out to Amelia. Also you,
• 1:14:09
  like I said, yeah, just go on their web. Go on their
• 1:14:10
  website. You can send the more information. And again Yankees are pretty global.
• 1:14:15
  I mean no reason you can't be in Chicago, Milwaukee, San Antonio
• 1:14:19
  and send her a measures of going, hey, let's talk, let's shit
• 1:14:21
  chat like that like them a fun weekend So as always thinking of for coming
• 1:14:26
  on. You can find us at Chucks myself at Chucks Cantina, your socials,
• 1:14:30
  Chuckscantina at gmail dot com and uh, we'll see you next time.
• 1:14:34
  They can get Amelia