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Hell yeah.Well, welcome back adventurers to the Allen Wellmet 20-sided tavern podcast.It's me, R. Alex Murray, your host and universal swing and idiot, uh, back, back jamming.Hey, and we have two new, well, not new, but new to the podcast.
People don't look at me like that. This is an audio medium, but I will brook none of those looks from you Cassidy sledge.What do you mean?
Cassidy sledge and RJ Christian are here and we're gonna hang out with them and so now y'all know them you've seen him on stage as the DM and the TK and Swing, and all the characters.All the characters?
If you put me and Cassidy together, we get one you.Yeah, oh.Mathematically, that's how that works.
Cassidy plus RJ equals R. Alex Murray.
Mathematically, what happens?Yeah, R. C. Murray Cola.Yeah.Oh, man.These are the jokes.All the characters was, I was, have you played every, you've played everybody.At this point, I've played everyone.Yeah.
What about Ethel? Okay, well... No, Ethel.
What about Zvezda?What about Katya?
Okay, women matter, so I haven't played everyone.Women count, so no, I haven't played everyone.
Yeah, absolutely.No, you gotta do it. Oh man, and you've played... Good lord.Say hi.
Hello, I'm Cassidy.That's my name, Cassidy Sledge.I'm the bar swing.I cover DM and TK.Hell yeah.
Step up, step up.Introduce yourself, RJ Christian.
Yeah, what's up?It's me, RJ Christian.Holla at your boy.I am player swing.I cover the Warrior, Mage, and Trickster.
Hell yeah, well, welcome to the podcast nerds what we've been doing for everybody's first episode mostly is sort of like just like Saying a little bit about yourself and how you started playing D&D What got you into nerdery in the first place?
Just you know, just getting to know each other and then I don't know about three episodes from now I'm gonna try and start getting really weird Once everyone has been on it.I'm excited about that.I don't know what that means.
We're going to get freaky.It's going to be so strange here in this little dressing room that's turned into a podcast studio.
Yeah.But yeah, how do you find yourself at the 20-sided tavern, Cass?
Well, I'm very fortunate in that I had a very nerdy brother growing up who, well, so our dad bought us a Sega Genesis when we were wee little lads and lassies.
Sonic all day, every day, baby.And then my sister got Dance Dance Revolution on the PlayStation 2 for Christmas.Oh wow, with the pad and the whole thing.Oh yes, it was crunchy and so noisy every time you rolled that mat out.Oh, they suck.
Oh, they were terrible, but really bad grinding for hours, baby.And then we were like, hold on a second.This this is a PlayStation.It's a gaming console.You can buy more than one game for it.
You can buy two or three. There's a guitar hero, which is just DDR for your hands.
No, but literally, like, that's where we started.And then we were like, hold on a second that we we can get violent with this.And then we got Xboxes.My brother and I played through a couple of Halo campaigns together.
And then he got me a Switch because he's cool as heck like that.And now we play Baldur's Gate together.And then I guess, oh, D&D.Yeah, I started playing during the pandemic.
and no you say what you're gonna say i was just saying that all that all counts oh yeah yeah and then i started playing dnd during the pandemic and i saw this thing and i was like i want to audition for that sure yeah yeah i mean i don't we don't need to talk about the audition process actually i would love to get into that right now oh god let's get real crunchy about all the three of us sitting next to each other on a weird little bench in pearl studio is about to throw up on our feet
Oh, that is the fact that we were all at the same coffee.
Oh my God, round two, we were all together.
I was sitting very quietly next to y'all trying desperately not to out myself.
Oh my God.I remember because I remember RJ and I had met in the first round and I remember we walked into the second round and we saw you going around and like saying hi to everyone.
And I remember just being like, God damn, this guy, he knows everybody.
I remember going out to the Instagrams, going back like, hey,
I thought you guys were I was like, oh these guys are friends.These guys know each other That's the best but I mean, yeah, let's let's that then the like There has to be something in you that like looks at the casting notice and goes.Yeah.
Yeah, I could do that right sure like cuz not everybody does I mean, I'm sure
we think about it as because we have people come up to us like all the time and go like how do I get how do I get in this show which by the way you know what quick PSA if you come to see this show and you're an actor listen man we get it and we love you but like
Don't ask me how you get to, when you can audition for the show when I'm like doing the show in the audience.That's weird.Surely that has happened to both of y'all.
It's something where I don't know how to, I mean, I can't give you, I can't, I have the job.
You mean my job?You'd like my job, the one that I'm doing right now.
Someone has to leave inherently for you to get this job.I'm so sorry.
I love it when people follow me on Instagram and they go, hey, when are tour auditions?And I'm like, my brothers in Christ, I don't know.I don't know when tour is happening.
I do dumb, dumb jokes on the stage, man.
We're peons. I don't even know what, what the, you know, script updates are going to be.We're changing the script all the time.I don't even know what that night's going to look like.
I couldn't name a third of the chaos chart thing.Oh my God.I'm not, I'm not your guy, but man. What drew you in, RJ?Tell us your story.
I was in the marching band in high school.
That is such a specific nerd.I'm glad we have a marching band nerd.
And it's a thing where the marching band attracts all the types of nerds.So the lead saxophone was a science guy.He was all in the science and mathematics.And there was a guy who was really into Pokemon.
Ended up hanging out with these guys who are really into like Super Smash Brothers and Dark Souls And so I wasn't I sort of got dragged in like I didn't self-identify as a nerd I was a nerd, but I got dragged in by my marching band friends But Dungeons & Dragons specifically fairly new to me sure before doing this I had played like four sessions of
Like ever.I love that.Well, you're in a full on ass campaign now, right?I am.I am.I've had to skip a couple of days.But that's been fun.So now I've been inducted.The show works.
You're playing for work.You're like, I better get into it.I better really be able to do this.
RJ, tell us your species in your class.
Right now?So I'm a human bard.Are you actually?Oh in my campaign?
I just said freaking marching band.
A human bard.I play a warforged warlock. Interesting.
It's really quite fun.We were talking about you being a warlock the other day.I didn't know you were Warforged.That's fun.I miss Warpman.I want to do an Eberron setting so that we can have a Warforged.Yeah, we've got Hiro.He's a fishing robot.
Fishing?Yeah, he loves water, but every time he goes near the water, he breaks down because robot.
Yeah, yeah.I mean, we love to do that as our character flaws here, right?Sure.We love to be like, you're a bird, can't fly, scared.
Yeah.You're a big dumb bro who's friends with everybody.Idiot.Too bad you're dumb.Oh, well. These poor guys, these poor idiots trying to save the world.Well, you gotta have something to work against, right?What's your Warforged, what's their name?
His name is Mark Zero, because he's the first model of this guy.
Oh my god, that's really good.
He's Mark Zero.That's so DTSD coded, too.It's so like, what's the wizard's name?Mark.And then you take it and make it funny.
Go for it.You started it. Do the whole Lord dub, come on, you got it.
He was a great guy, but honestly he was a little weird.But I worked with him for so many years, and we kissed a little bit.But unfortunately, he liked dark magic, and he made- Oh, just him, huh?Wow, okay, this is new.Oh, this is fun.
Yeah, he liked it, he ate it, he put it in his mouth, and then one day, the Havoc came!We called it the Havoc! And he put it in his butt, and we had... But my friends, the watchful order, they had to... That's a new development, too, is buddies.
Yes, they put them in the sartophagus, and they said... The what?Run that word again.The shartophagus. And they said, hey, don't go, don't go, don't go breaking my heart.And then, but now I wonder, is it cracked open?
I'm not sure if this is spoilers or not for the show.
I think it might be, but I think also- I got it so wrong that-
No, hold on, it's cracked open.
What do we have to do?It's cracked open.Get the director on the phone and make the script edits tonight.This is what's on stage.
Finish the lyric.Put him inside a big egg and it cracked open.It's up to you heroes to take that yolk and put it in a pan and make a big omelette.Any questions?So many.That's what he says.
It's amazing because that's essentially what it boils down to.
Haha, boils, egg.That's what a heart boils down to.That's what it poaches around to, you know what I mean?
I like how it was just making no sense and you said, omelette, you're finished.
Don't laugh.Don't encourage that kind of behavior, Murray.
Why?My brain's scrambled.I love it.Well, you're just jealous.You want to poach my jokes.Your jokes?
My jokes?I did not say jokes.You said poach my jokes.You said jokes.
I don't know, man.We will be vindicated.We'll be vindicated by chat when it hits.Oh, man.
This is about to be the most chaotic episode I feel.
That's really good.Yeah.Yeah.I love that we're 12 minutes into a podcast episode and we're all punch drunk and insane.I mean, it's the beautiful thing about this show, right?Because both of you guys are on tonight, right?
Yeah.We're here recording.What truck are you doing?Water.Oh, obviously.
Oh, man.I mean, Yeah, I don't know, I kinda wanna talk more about this Mark Zero.I'm still, I don't know, are you guys playing in?
The campaign is that we're starting this thieves guild, and so Mark Zero is trying to find, get enough money to bail his creator out of jail, and so that's why he's going around robbing everybody.Wait, time out, time out.
Is this a homebrew world, or is it?This is a homebrew world.
Okay, that's my question, is the Eberron, because that's the, we can't do it because there aren't Warforged in Faerun.In Faerun.Yeah.
Yeah, nope.They're only in Eberron.And so we've got to do another one there if we want to put the fun robots into the, I want guns.
I mean, I guess we got Barry Blasters, but we don't have like, that's the Spelljammer, I'm in the Spelljammer's campaign and everybody at the table was like, I want a fucking gun!
I need the listeners at home to recognize that right before Murray did that, he pulled the microphone so far away from his mouth.
I know what I'm about. Excuse me, can I make a spaceship?
Can it talk to me?And then can I have a fucking gun?Hell yeah.Can I get the Cortana like Halo?Yes.With spell?
Please, let me be a Psy Warrior and have a gun.Let me be a Jedi with a gun.
Wait, hold on, does that exist?Can you have like an AI, can you like reskin a familiar into like a little AI lady?
I'll allow it if I'm your DM.I'm into it.Okay.I'm gonna cast unseen servant, but I want the servant to be seen and also sexy.
Can I do that?Yeah dude, make a wisdom saving throw to see how nice your unseen servant's titties are.Oh shit, not one.Ugly.Oh no, beauty's in the eye of the beholder.
Oh my god, how many eyes then?
It's a lot of beauty.Do I know?Do I know how many eyes are on a beholder?
Quick RJ, your wisdom re-roll question is how many eyes does Xanathar have?Two.
That's incorrect.I don't know the answer off the top of my head.I want to say eight, but I probably am wrong.
Listen, on average, well, actually, you know, in D&D, probably the average is a lot greater than two.For beholders?
Yeah, I would argue.Because I got the big one in the middle of the face and all the little tentacle eyeballs, no?
Yeah.When I'm done with them?Oh, no.
All right, so if you're if we're both relatively new to D&D you started off what would you say?Other than like video games is the thing that you are the biggest nerd about do you have like a I mean, I probably, you guys are smiling at each other.
I know what Cassie's gonna say.
I know what both of you are gonna say, but the listeners don't.
What are you gonna say?I thought you were gonna say music.I thought you were gonna say music.Well, I was.Oh.Were you?I was gonna, hold on a second.Were we both gonna say music?
You wanna do it on three?
Hold on, one more second.
Okay, we just kissed anyways Or or you just unlocked a like someone's new horrible ASMR Somebody listening is like somebody just went ah and now they're chasing that specific lip noise.
They're like I need schlorpie in my ears I can't go to sleep unless somebody makes oh
It's my horrible party trick.
The worst.I love it, do it again.
Oh, just a one that time.Just one, one schlorp.
One schlorp for the road.One popping pustule.Oh man.Okay, music.
We're both music nerds.We know, I knew this.I know this to be true.You're both absolute music nerds.You have a full on, At least one degree in it.
Don't.That's true.That's true.
I was not talking about a bowel movement, Cassidy Sledge.
You had that look in your eyes.
I always got that look in my eye.
It's hard not to.Like, it's just hard not to.Every time, every time, every time somebody says, it's your duty to do this.Which happens a lot in like high fantasy or high fantasy TTRPGs.I'm like.
Yeah, yeah.What's my duty?Is it my sacred duty? Are people gonna get mad at me if I don't do my duty?
I feel like this show has ruined me.I can't go five seconds without being like, and now it is time to make a pun.
I mean, yeah, I mean, we have to.We have to.It's our job.We do it all the time.We can't stop.We play.It has been well established that portmanteaus are welcome on the podcast at any time if you think of a good one.
Yeah, man.We just sit around goofing. But BM in music, BM in music, and you both like, I mean, RJ, you write musicals like a crazy person.It is true.What are you working on?
I am working on a Christmas musical that is, it has changed shape so many times, but it is a parody of like homework.
Christmas movies, you know, it's gonna be this business woman who comes back to her small town and- Yeah, the Christmas tree Iowa or whatever.Exactly, you know, Christmas, Christmas on the moon, you know, Christmas with grandma.Yeah.
And it's, you know, she's gonna meet that country man and settle down and it's gonna be silly, it's gonna be funny.Hell yeah, I'm into that.
I'm sorry, I just came up with a portmanteau.
Okay, a popular holiday meets a dangerous thing that happens when you combine ammonia and bleach.
Okay, I got one.Okay, go, go, go, go.
What other biohazard are we gonna get?
Yeah?A holiday where you plant trees is also Sharon Stone trying to teach young kids. Fucking I shouldn't be making 90s movies portmanteaus.We're both she'll be Arbor day Tona Beach Arbor dangerous minds looking for but you are young.
No it Yes, like the fun song I know Okay, is that weird?You guys are the are y'all the you're the current babies of the cast, right?
Oh, we are the two youngest, huh?
Okay, how's that going for you?
I don't know how to respond to that either, man.
I don't know.Is it weird?It was, I felt like a little while ago the cast skewed young and all of a sudden it feels like it's skewing older now.Like it's skewing thirties, early forties.
When we're all on stage together, we all feel young and dumb and stupid in a fun way.
Oh, okay.I'm just like, I'm just running around with my silly little friends.And then all of a sudden we're backstage and people are like, ah, yes, my spouse that I am married to in the house that I own is happy.And I'm like, what is that sentence?
Which one of these off-Broadway actors owns a house?
But people have like pets and stuff.And I'm like, I don't know if I can afford to feed myself.Yeah, yeah.
No, I kill everything.You're not taking care of anything?I... Someone just... Okay, Jasmine got a Tamagotchi from Comic-Con and she said that I could be its godmother.
That's a... That is.You've grown up.Dark.
Listen, listen, I'm a big Tamagurli, okay?
I don't have any problem with that, but the idea of you being like, I will be this Tamagotchi's spiritual aunt.
Yeah, anytime that little guy takes a poop backstage when Jasmine's on stage, you know I'm gonna clean him up.Oh, you're on it, you're there.That's active guardianship.If they poop too much, they get sick.
So you gotta clean up the poop and then you gotta give them medicine.
You're actually oh my god, he just pooped on the floor What's your least favorite vein that I may inject some medicine into my least favorite vein I
Do Tamagotchis have favored veins?I've never in my life as a true and honest 90s child owned a Tamagotchi.My sister had one and she murdered that fucker on the weekly.It was bad.I'm more of a pog slap bracelet man myself.
I recently learned that pogs are little cardboard circles. Yes, I mean, this was the problem, right?
I believe Connor on stage started talking about pogs and looked around and was like, is there not one elder millennial on this stage with me right now?I think Jasmine knew.Yeah, yeah.But I was lost in the sauce.
They're the only thing that I have ever been the first person to have in my life.Interesting.I was the first guy, I was like, I've got pogs, my aunt got me some for Christmas.But that's the thing about being the first person to have something, right?
You're like, I have these, and everybody's like, What are, what are, what are those?
Yeah.Are you too old for silly bands?
Oh, you fucked with silly bands though, right?
I'm too old for silly bands like. like I had to deal with kids in classes that I was teaching having silly bands.
I'm sure there's some overlap and something between our generations of musicians.
Oh yeah, I mean there's, I mean, Sonic the Hedgehog.
I mean, but those are the like big ones, right?It's the huge stuff.It's like the, when we started zipping around references on stage, yeah, it happens.
Cause you guys are all like skibbity.I'm just kidding.I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.I would never.
I'm just kidding.We say Gyat, Riz, Ohio all the time.
Sticking out your Gyat for the Rizlord.
I managed to, without thinking about it, somebody said something and I just went, slay.And it was like, it was acknowledged by one of our young Zoomer backstage staff and they were just like, yeah, slay.And I was like, I did it.
You're so young and with it.
No, false, false.I have a wife and a pet and so many house plans.
That's an adult person thing to say.
I have a Roth IRA account.No!
And a high yield savings account.
And I try to diversify my portfolio.
You monster!You're just becoming Chester.I am Chester.You and Chester are one.
Yep.I mean, I've been on a gap year for 25 years just running away from my responsibility.I don't want to be there at all.
Wait, RJ, is there a character you feel like you are?Yes.
Is there a character I feel like I am?That's an interesting question.I don't know.I always feel like I'm putting on a little different something.I don't know.
Is there an easier one to slip into?Is there anybody that you're like, yeah, I just really feel comfortable in this guy?
At this point, it's been Alistair.Which has been, I've been doing a lot of dark Alistair.Yeah, just like doing him as frickin' Batman.
Oh gosh, who used to do the, Pete Holmes used to do the sketches as Batman where he's just like, hey Joker, you wanna see how sweaty I am in my Batsuit?It's so funny, and Batman's such an asshole, and I internalized those as a kid.
When I slip into this character, I'm doing, like, Pete Holmes Batman.
It's fun to make him a bastard that way.I mean, it's fun to see all the different ways everybody could make, like, the zealot weird.
It's so, like, the characters are so, so different.Like, now that we see, like, how many different people get to embody them, like, they contain multitudes.It's impressive.
Oh, yeah, because at this point, we got, like, Yeah, with me and both of y'all and the players on me and you and Will, like there are four people regularly getting a hold of a lot of the characters.
And I will say just as someone from behind the bar, it's been really fun to watch you sit with these characters for several months and see how they like grow and progress.
Murray, I don't know if you feel this as much anymore because you're also bouncing behind the bar and you don't have as much time to like
play with characters but I remember RJ your Alistair used to be like this like Minnesotan kid like oh how you doing there kids yeah me Alistair I'm just gonna bop you with my sword here don't do it again it's a big goober he's just a loser
Oh, I can't talk to my kids.
I don't know what a freaking Pokemon is Poor guy just needs some help Yeah, well you get to do it I mean we talked we talked about that a Bria talked about that even and even Felicia in like just a short amount of time of like Yeah, let me mess with them.
It's like day one to date.Oh eight.
They're like, Oh yeah, the third time I got to be this character.Yeah.You're just like, Oh, totally.Like this is such a weird thing, right?
You don't, we get to run the same scenario over and over and over and over and over and over again, but it's different, different, different, different, different.Yeah, man.It's fun.
Well, I feel like as swings, at least in my experience, it's been like, I've got to I've got to hold on to the safe choice for for a good bit, because I don't know what I'm going to do as character.I'm not going to do it eight times a week.
And it's like, OK, now I know who the hell this guy is.Now I'm gonna do something completely different.
Yeah, I'm going to burn one.Let's do that, because I absolutely have.I forget who I walked some someone in this weird run of all of us covering warriors for a month.I got it.And like,
Took a swing and then I was in it and I was like, I hate this I hate this guy.He's this is nothing.Oh, no, I've given myself nothing to play against.I don't have anything going Alright, I guess what character it was.
No, I don't And uh, and I just sort of was like, all right.Well, that's that's how it goes.I think it was I want to say I I want to say it was Tamburlaine and I just like went to do something but I didn't like I didn't make a big enough choice.Sure.
And so I ended up just being Alex with a thing in his hand.
Yeah.If you could play one character.
That's a hard question.I feel like someone asked this question on the Discord recently, and I've always had a soft spot for Alistair, and I do think it's because my very first character ever was a Paladin.
There's something very exciting to me about him there, but in terms of like actual playing in our TST campaign, probably Tamberlain, just because I feel like in terms of
If I ever had to go on stage last minute for something, a bard is something that I feel familiar with in my day-to-day life.
I mean, we're all right there.Give me an instrument, let me go.I'm ready.I can sing dumb shit songs.
It's always a good bit of being like, oh yeah, Tamale, play one of your best songs.It's like, okay, I've been playing this one for years.
We walked right into it last night, man.We did a like- Oh, with our freaking band.Yeah.We just were like, we're in a band now.And that was it.The whole show was us like doing weird songs.
And like, I think it went up and down with the audience was into it.And then we're like,
this the whole time and then we're like oh we love this and then we're like they still fucking doing this and then we're like oh my god they're gonna like use the power of song to kill the bag okay good word oh you committed the whole show it was the saga of the beefy boys
But it was a whole lot of us being like, you know, this song, and then somebody would say the title of a song, and then we'd all sing it together.
And like a Beastie Boys rap kind of way, or?No.
In a sounds bad and is awkward kind of way.In unison insane kind of way.
Wait, can I get a little taste of what that was?You cannot.
It's lost to time, and it's dead.
Can never happen again.This is a podcast that I reserve the right to say no, but. All right, what's the but oh No But you can yeah, no you can sing a song.Yeah, I don't want that.Hold on.Why Paladin you said your first ever?
Why were you drawn to Paladin?
Okay, that's a really good question.
We're coming to you.I want to know why Warlock, but Paladin.
Well, I built my character.My then partner at the time was building a campaign with his high school friends and said, hey, why don't you join?And I was like, heck, yeah.And we had the what, 14, 15 hour road trip from Chicago to New York.
So I, in that 14 hours, was doing a heck ton of research, and I was like, I want something that's got a big arm, I don't want anyone to touch me, but I want to be able to smack people, and I want to cast spells.
And so it was kind of down to Cleric and Paladin, but I was very tempted by that Lay on Hands pool.I was like, that Insta-healing is kind of sexy.Oh, Paladin?Yeah.So I committed to the bit, and then I wrote a seven-page backstory.
Of course you freaking did!How long did it take for that all to go up in flames?
Like a couple months, honestly.Okay.
We lasted pretty long.Nice.Oh, I mean, I meant your backstory.You stuck to the backstory.
Oh, I committed, baby.I committed to my bit.
I mean one or the other, that's the Travis McElroy of it all, we'll just invoke Trav.Hey guys, Travis McElroy's coming to be in our show if you didn't know that yet, you ding-dongs.
But like for the first Taz, he wrote his like, are you aware, have any of you guys listened to, let me out you right now.
I love the McElroy brothers.
Nah, nah, nah, that's loud, I hadn't heard of Bria Iyengar do nothing.
I'd heard her DM three shows with the McElroy's.
All I knew.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which makes it really easy to be like, Hi, nice to meet you.You're a coworker now.Hello.Yeah, I'm gonna have to be like, Okay, don't say anything weird.
don't freak out but yeah he wrote like a huge backstory for his first character in their first campaign and like stuck to it that's cool that you stuck to it and like made it work I like I went cleric for my like first we're both church weird yeah we are and and church weird are you church weird
Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Sure.Do you want to expound on that?No.To any of us?
I mean, I think we all just in our class selection.
Yeah, sure, right.Warlock, a cleric, and a paladin walk into the room and the bartender says, Jesus Christ, who are you?And then we all go, Jesus Christ, dude.It's like, correct, yes.Yes, you nailed it in one.Yeah, yeah.I don't know.Cleric for me.
I don't know why cleric.I guess I felt like my cleric could... Listeners, can you hear Alex Stumpoli in the background?I hope you can.
Those dulcet tones couldn't be lost.
Yeah, I don't know, man.Like, there's something about, like, I always want to be... I like being half support, half kickass.
I want to be both.And, like, you used to have to pick. Really?For D&D, yeah, you used to have to pick.
Oh, are we talking like advanced second edition?
I mean, we're talking like third, we're talking like, I mean like, but even like, or like, did you play, you played a bunch of video games, did you play like Final Fantasies or did you play RPGs at all?
Oh yeah, those would really get you on like, this is personal support, and they'll spit on you.
Yeah, absolutely, and they'd just sit there and do nothing, right?
My brother and I really committed to Wizard 101, and I was a big life school wizard,
Yeah.But also, well, I also have like a blank spot where I went to college, right?Like I didn't play video games.We played like, like N64 Goldeneye and like Smash Brothers.We had, we had, um, GameCubes.So there's a whole lot of, uh, Smash Brothers.
We did skip your story for why you picked Warlock.
Um, I, I was honestly thinking about, cause I knew this guy was going to be a robot and I was thinking about how like, say like Cyborg from the Teen Titans, right?
Like sometimes he'll blast out like a rocket launcher, sometimes he'll have like needles or whatever, but he always goes back to the seismic cannon.That's his whole thing.And for me, I think Warlocks, I think it's got the Eldritch Blast.
They can do other stuff, they'll do other cool spells and whatever, but they can just boop you with that Eldritch Blast as much as they want.That felt very That's a very good analogy.
You've got like two big moves per episode, right?
Just like the Teen Titans.
I freaking love Teen Titans so, so much.
I also like it.See?We did it.
We crossed the divide.We did it.Hooray.I'm so proud of us.Teen Titans, go.Yeah, fairly odd parents.
Timmy was an average kid.
Mom and dad and Vicky always giving him commands.
I mean, I was watching cartoons.I also probably about when I had graduated from college and was like being an idiot stoner in my early 20s, I was probably weirdly watching a lot of the same television as you guys.
I mean, I recently got into like 14.Yeah.Get a little high and watch Between the Lions, that show that teaches kids how to read.
Oh, my God.What? Yeah, baby Very reading rainbow ish.
Yeah, not No, but there were a lot of puppets happening this show needs puppets, that's my new that's gonna become my T-shirt Just one I tried I tried to put puppets on the chaos chart and they said no I
I've got some.You have them?I've got a lot.I was a children's entertainer for like seven years.So I've got like, I have like a closet full of puppet friends that my wife does not like.
I think we need a sock puppet for every character on stage. and then at one point if we chaos chart roll everyone turns into a sock puppet for the rest of the scene and you can only communicate through your sock.
Yeah like number 87 it's time to light the lights.
Yeah exactly.Hey listeners if you like that idea uh email uh
I'll tell them you need this if we all organize.I don't we absolutely cannot start a puppet fun spam campaign.Episode six of the podcast.
That will result in an email.
Yeah, but puppet like just a puppet behind the a puppet behind the bar so that every once in a while I could just be like puppet Just an elven member of the city watching just like a puppet comes up and you just have to deal with Like yeah, just like like Muppets Treasure Island style is just like there's a puppet here now I'm gonna be honest.
The only Muppets film I've ever seen is Christmas Carol Wow, I'm sorry
That's, not even the Jason Segel ones are nothing.
No, I'm a Michael Caine supremacist apparently, I guess.
Interesting.Ah, the Caine mutiny.There's a really old person joke.Oh my God, yeah, that's, all right, well, you're missing out.You watched a couple episodes of The Muppets with me the other day, didn't you?
Dude, we put one on and both fell asleep immediately.
Oh, all right then, fair enough. Yeah, man.I mean, it's good stuff.I don't feel like the Muppets need me to defend them right here now.They don't need defending.
I'm not attacking them.I'm just saying, I don't know.
When are we going to get Kermit as a guest star?Oh my God.
Oh my God.There's a way to do that for sure.Oh my God.Kermit guest star?
We contact the Henson company.We're like, hey guys.Oh my God.I don't know if you want to be a cool guest.
I mean, they do guests.I've seen- Oh my God. The music festival that I go to every summer had Kermit as a guest.He came in, sang the Rainbow Connection.
Yeah, he just popped up and sang the Rainbow Connection and then Jim James, my morning jacket, no, no, no, you don't care, it doesn't matter, just appeared out of nowhere.
He hadn't been there all weekend and like appeared, walked on, sang a verse and then like disappeared and his band played Red Rocks in Colorado the next day.Like he just like,
Up here does sing with and then we had animals show up and be a the drummer Okay, I have never wanted anything more in my life than to have Kermit be a guest star Fireball
Um, well, let's see.I could A, either introduce him to my webbers, or B, treat him like I like to treat pigs.
It's your choice.It's B!All right, Kermit. Oh God.How you gonna make some pork?Oh no.Well, I am gonna.
All right, I take back everything I said.I don't want this to happen even a little bit.I take it back.
I would love it if it showed up like.Have you seen Elmo on like late night shows?Oh, she's so funny.
Yeah, Elmo's hysterical and kind of gets kind of raunchy.Oh.On like late night shows.It would be really great if Elmo just showed up and was just like.
Isn't Elmo canonically like three?
He's a New York three, though.
New York makes you an L.A.
one. But yeah, no, he's like an angry New York three dude, it's Ridiculous.He's like talking mess on Jimmy Kimmel and doing like a lot of entendre Oh, and it's very it's very funny.
I like his beef with Rocco.
Yeah, it's the best Who's the person who like smacked Elmo?Do you remember this like Elmo was on some show?I was like, I don't want to put a neck.I don't remember who it was but Elmo was I
Elmo's on some show, and he said something kind of funny, and someone got mad and smacked Elmo, and then he went on to a talk show, and the guy was like, I just want to say I'm so sorry for smacking you.Elmo's like, Elmo forgives you.
That's a good Elmo.That's a good Elmo.That was really good.
Elmo just wants to say that I'm sorry.Sorry, Rocko's a rock.
I can't believe you haven't busted that out.I don't know how we would.
That's like a new accent chaos chart.That'd be perfect.
I'll tell you what, the next time I get that, I'll do Kermit.If you promise that the next time you get it, you do Elmo.You know what, it's a deal.One of us is gonna get it on the first chaos roll and be stuck being Elmo for an hour.The laryngitis.
That'd be great, but Jesus.
I'm gonna attack recklessly!I think Elmo can pronounce R's.You don't know what Elmo can do!
Shut up!Elmo's just an uwu the whole time?
That's a really good Elmo bow.God, that's amazing.Michael's made multitudes.All right, well, I mean, I can't wait.I'm excited to see how Muppety and Puppety we all get, but yeah, thanks for hanging out.This has been a lovely chat.
I feel like we've chatted.
Yeah, the chat has been chatting.
And you guys have got a show to get ready for.Yeah.Yeah.So thanks so much.You wanna take a second to scream your socials or whatever into the mic?
Yeah, do you want me to actually scream?
Okay.Hey everybody, my name's Cassidy Sledge.You can find me on Instagram at Cassidy Sledge.
Yeah, it was great.Thank you.
Hey, this is RJ Christian here.You can follow me at RJ The Composer and my theater company at The Hardy Meal.
And I am still at our Alex Murray on all socials.And you know who I am.I'll be back again next week.Next week, I'm really excited.We're going to have our last two cast members that y'all have not gotten to hear from yet.
Alex Stompoli and Connor Marks will be here with me and Cassidy.And we're going to have a bar episode and we're going to talk about how rowdy it is.Oh it's gonna be bad.We're gonna talk shit on all the rest of you players.
Mostly yeah.The next week's episode will be why four people don't like RJ.
Oh man.My therapist is gonna have a field day with that one.
She asked how your week went, you just hit play.
So why do you think your co-workers hate you?This place is 40 minutes long.They fucking said it.
They did it for 40 minutes, they got paid to do it.
They did it, they did.They produced, they mixed it.They promoted it before they did it.It's the most viewed episode, they're liking it.
Hey, hey, hey, the one upside is you have a fantastic Elmo impression, so we'll be sure to mention that.
That was worth.That was worth.Yes.That was amazing.All right.
At least you recognize it.
Friends, we got to get ready and go do this show.This was glorious.Thanks, everybody, for listening always.And until next time, ale.
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