This is a very comfortable spot.
Is it a comfortable spot?
I can speak this loudly except for when I get like really excited and then my voice gets much louder but I can see like the green light pulsing on the box.It sounds great.
I hope that you don't get too excited Thaddeus because I've seen you rip a man apart like a chewy bottle.
We actually ask for what you're interested in, so we find the polar opposites to bore you to death.
I'm known for my flat affect.
Have you already recorded?
Is this viral buzz marketing for Cookout?Yeah, yeah, yeah.Cookout constantly asks us to put them on sponsorship, but... Oh yeah, yeah, I can't.
We can't be recording when we're talking about Cookout because that's giving them free. Free word of mouth!I am recording now though, so don't say anything that you wouldn't want all of Thaddeus's best friends to hear.
I think Thaddeus is kind of cool.
And the end of my social security number is 74.No!
This is an unexpected regular problem we keep having.Welcome to the ImpossiCast, my name's Andy North.I'm Alex James.And this week we are privileged to have one of the masters of the game.What?Go ahead.What's the game?The game of improv, my boy.
Were you responding to me?Yeah, yeah.I was just hyping you up.Oh, okay.Thanks.Let's hype up our guests now by me not interrupting your great intro.No, that was great.
I think we all recognize that when you turned into an old crone and said, thanks, dad, that you were hyping up the guests. It's Thaddeus, ladies and gentlemen.Thaddeus, what's your last name?
Edward.I knew it was, but I don't have it written down.I know it was, too, because I've got a bone to pick with you.Why?That's right.I've waited for this exact moment.
I've come up to Thaddeus in the past and been like, there's something I want to tell you, but I'm waiting for the podcast.Oh, yeah.I'm glad that you've told me.
That's why nobody speaks to me in real life.Everyone's waiting to record podcasts with me.
You're just like, which podcast should we leave?
I too also have, little known fact, a theater background too, working at Playmakers at UNC.
So I have, outside of the other theater that can't be named because of our massive lawsuit that's happening between us, I also run into a whole bunch of other theater people in the area.
And whenever I mention, like whenever I go to these functions, I meet these other theater people, and I mention Mel's song, they're like, oh, I have a friend that does that.Do you know Thaddeus?And it's always you.
I've been to weddings and like, and other things.And they are always just like, oh yeah, Thaddeus.And like talking about like,
plays that you've done and projects that you've done that like these other people like know you don't ask me who these other people are because I'm smooching at a party that I don't remember them afterwards but it's always your name when I always mention Mel so they're like oh yeah Thaddeus
Wow, I, wow, I totally have, I don't know what to say.That is wild, darling.Yeah.Everyone's talking about you.I guess, I don't know.
That's a good intro because you're in the theater world.You and I have had a few conversations about like actual theater theater.
Which is unusual in like the improv world, like to have a serious actor such as yourself to work with.
Well, because I like scripts and typically that's the opposite of improv.Oh, too easy.
Too good.Actually, Thaddeus, that line read for our podcast wasn't that good.Can you try it one more time?Can we take it from the top?Did I say that right?
Sure.What word should I hit harder?
Well, yeah, because I like script.
And that's the opposite of improv. Damn, he's the best in the biz.He's pretty damn good.And you're a pretty good director, Alex, is what we're finding out.Yeah, thank you.Did you go to school for theater?
Oh, oh.I did not.I always say, so I dropped out of college, and after that, I started doing theater.So I always say I studied theater at the School of Hard Knocks, but they have a really great drama program.
Yeah, you're busking.Yes, you're out on Ninth Street doing streetcar Yeah, I have so many a shirts I just I'm so traumatized by looking at them now You are if you don't mind my saying so in intellectual I feel like we did we did a show together and
yeah that's true called the setup where we improvised the whole play whoa we did five five or six of them yeah yeah and um Yeah, it just seemed like a, like a circumstance that you were very comfortable in.Oh, I mean, do you like to read?
What do you do for your hobbies in your spare time?Do you like to read literature?I play a lot of video games.Do you play mobzot?
No.That is video games is what us dullards do.
I don't think you understood the question.You don't, you don't play video games because Alex plays video games and we invited you on the
I Play a lot of where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, okay It's geography I play a lot of Starcraft because that's astronomy And a lot of minecraft Which is geology?
Wait, are those real?I thought you were joking.
Those are all real games.
But what type of video games do you like?
So I actually should have led with the games that I actually do play.Because a friend of mine calls them spreadsheet games.
So a game that I am currently... You're pretending to play these really smart games and then when you say real games, it sounds like you're playing
Yeah, so like a game that I am currently very obsessed with is Stellaris, which is produced by a Paradox Interactive.And it, yeah, it's just, it's micromanaging an interstellar empire.There's no
advanced like graphics, you know, there's no like first-person shooting and everything.It is just administration of government and spreading and sort of waging, like waging spreadsheet war across a galaxy and I cannot get enough of this game.
Are there like different tech trees?We're talking like you decide if your civilization is going to focus on the economy?
Yes. Yes, lately I've been really into tech-based empires that are looking to ascend into, turning themselves into cyborgs or robots, people who will assimilate.So it's sort of role-playing the Borg from Star Trek.
And your closest real-world equivalent, you're sort of a space Elon Musk. Yeah, yeah, which we are we're big Elon Musk fans in this podcast.
Oh Is that something I know it's the answer is probably no but maybe Is that something that if in in real life that you're interested in things like cryonics things like uploading your consciousness into?
You know, I feel like I used to be, because I do really want to see the future, like personally, but I don't know that I actually want to see the future.I think I want to see an idea of the future.I don't know that I actually want to see it.
Like that you don't want to be there for it and have to actually suffer the consequences of it.Correct. Don't worry young people.
It's probably gonna be fine.Would you want to live forever if you got sent 3,000 years in the past?
This came up in our big box wizard game.Yeah, did it?I think so.It's a common iceberg.Briefly.
I read... God, when was this?25 years ago, the Interview with a Vampire series, or up to the third or fourth book or something like that.
How many books is in that series?
Too many.Okay, sure, sure. How can I put this?Not enough prose to make them all separate books.There's a lot of repetition from book to book.Oh no.Oh yeah.
It's like she would copy and paste seemingly pages from one book and then drop it into the next one as kind of like a previously on, but it's like, I read this, and when I'm reading the next book, I'm like, what is happening?
Because I know I've read this page before, but I haven't read this book before.But anyway, but what stuck with me the most from those books is the loneliness of being a vampire and living for thousands and thousands of years.And that terrifies me.
And they have to count each year.
Well, but you could just go outside in the... Listen, here's what I think.
This is what doesn't scare me about that is because I guess I'm not a... Well, we shouldn't say this.But I feel like I would not be, if I was a vampire and didn't want to be alive, I would just go outside in the sun.
I feel like that wouldn't be the idea that it's like, well, you can't get out of it.
It's like, yeah, because you absolutely can.
You can go out in the sun.
There's so many ways, but I guess I'm saying- You can have a delicious Italian dinner to end it.
Well, you can't.Don't they get sick if they eat- The garlic.Oh, I see what you mean.
No, an Italian like an Italian man.Yeah.Delicious Italian guy.
Speaking of delicious Italian men, this is a podcast where obviously where we play games, Thaddeus.We keep track of our scores.We compete to be the winner of each episode.Today, you will play two games.
And I'm going to open up our scorekeeping sheet here.And now I think we should transition into them.We like to get to know the guests a little bit through conversation and then through gameplay.So does that sound good to you?
That sounds like a lot of fun to me.
Alex, do you want to do the first game or the second game today?
I think you need to decide for me.
All right.Then I am going to, we're going to play a mini game to decide who goes first.I am thinking in my head of a sexy vampire.Um, what color is that vampire's eyes?
They were gray.So I'll go first.Um, Oh, I have to go actually.Uh, we only have three microphones and actually I have, uh, somebody waiting, uh, who's going to come on mic to do this game for me, make my life a little easier.
So if you guys get to talk amongst yourselves, I'm going to go hand it off to my guest.
Oh, of course.Thaddeus Masterman.Uh, Thaddeus not to, uh, check on chain here.Have you listened to any of our podcasts?
Okay, so this so this isn't uh, this isn't a unformality that uh, that occasionally we have people come on and Andy just gets to live in his house while I get sent to hell.It's very exciting.Oh no.
The trapdoor just opened up.
Hello, gentlemen.I have been under the house in a trap door.
I'm sort of a chud of myself for this week, gentlemen.Are you familiar with what a chud is? Like the underground a cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller.
I could tell you for an intellectual man, sir I love anagrams from the 80s me as well and my anagram is from the 80s as well the 1880s my anagram mother young man Now you thought that it was half an erection am I correct It is not.
It is not that, young man.That's a chub, obviously.And I do try to speak very clearly, so I would appreciate if you would listen with all your mental acuity.
I don't listen clearly.I listen messily. I'm a very messy listener.
I also don't appreciate- Very muddy ears.That's something I've always thought about you, Alex.You have very muddy ears.
My name, gentlemen, is Cassidy Hobbs.I'm a frontier task rabbit.I'm available.Back in the beautiful 1880s, which is where I'm from, We used to be hired out as mercenaries, solve any number of jobs.
Sometimes I'd just blow into town, solve the town's problems, and then leave with the rising sun.Alex, are you familiar with doing that?
Yeah, I've watched Cowboys.
Have you now?I'm going to ask you more questions about that later.However, no, nobody wants you to do that anymore.They put it all on these apps these days.You got to talk to the Steve Jobs.You got to get on the task rabbit.
So I've ceased to become a mercenary and now I'm a task rabbit.Mr. North has hired me to perform a game for y'all.Does that sound like something that you would enjoy?I would enjoy that.
And I, and I imagine it was very affordable to hire you to do that. It's the gig economy, so of course I make $5.25 an hour.They don't have to pay me minimum wage because I'm not technically an employer.I'm a drifter.
I'm a man of the tumbleweeds.I'm sorry that this podcast is only 45 minutes.It's always been only 45 minutes.
And Mr. North did imply that he would not.He would be prorating my hourly rate. That's why I would, I normally speak much faster than this, but I adopted a laconic sort of pace to try and be able to go to cookout after this.
No, you're going to a cookout.Oh no, I'm going to, I understand the confusion.I'm going to the beautiful restaurant cookout.They have many reasonably priced meals and a large selection of milkshakes.
Mr. Cassidy, which is your favorite of the 40 milkshakes?
pineapple.If I could get a jackrabbit milkshake, that's all I would be drinking from dawn until the absolute dusk of the moon.However, they don't serve such flavors at your local cookout, mister.What is your name?
Alex James.I'm going to teach you how a cactus teaches the sky how to yearn for itself.
And what's your name, sir?
That is very poetic.Thaddeus Edwards.Hello, Thaddeus.You seem like a man I could respect, are you?I hope so.What do I have here? are several.Thaddeus, I have written down here that you were an expert on 80s and 90s television shows.
I am, yeah.I was kind of raised by TV.
Particularly situation comedies, would you say that, or is it a wider sort of net than that?I would say mostly, yeah, sitcoms.Sitcoms! Yes.All right, very good.
That was a challenge of masculinity, and you have cowed me, which is ironic because I myself am a cowboy.
But what I have here are a few TV opening credits and what I'm gonna do for you is I'm gonna narrate what is happening in the opening credits and I would like you to please buzz in and tell me what you think the TV show that I'm narrating is.
Does that sound good to you, Alex?
Thaddeus, how about to you?I got it.What are you going to be your buzzer noises?Doorbell.
You're gonna be a doorbell?Great, thank you.
they feature highly in a lot of sitcoms that is true you notice you don't see doorbells anymore yeah everyone's got these ring doorbells that shoot to camera and they're not funny ring doorbells are not funny yeah because it just goes straight to your phone and your phone's on vibrate when steve urkel shows up at my front door if i can see him through my ring camera and take action in order to avoid him that leads to much less steve urkel coming over to my house frankly
Anyways, my buzzin's gonna be, this town ain't big enough for the two of us.
That was quite a long buzzin sound.You said it awfully slowly.Don't you think on a podcast you should have a high energy fast pace?It was either that or the sound of a tumbleweed. Oh, don't tempt me with a good time.
Threaten me with a good time, that's what I meant.All right, let's start with an easy one.
I'm gonna load up this and now I don't have the, oh, well, Mr. North doesn't have the fancy kind of YouTube where you don't have to see the little ad for five seconds.So we'll watch that and here we go.Buzz in when you think you know it.
Oh, we have many automobiles passing by.What looks to be a drinking establishment.Oh, now we've immediately gone back in time.
That is where everybody knows your name.
Oh man, that might have been the only one I bought.Right across the street from Boston Common.
Boston Common, another situation comedy.I don't have Boston Common.I tried to only pick ones where I myself would stand a chance of being able to guess it.Boston Common was not one that I enjoyed watching.
Have you watched Cheetos, however?
I did.I did watch Cheetos growing up.I can't tell you why.I can tell you why in two words.
Because I was eight years old.Norman Peterson.
What a jovial gentleman he was.
How old were you when you were watching Cheetos?
And literally everyone knew his name.They did.
How old were you when you were watching Cheetos?
probably eight.I can't help but feel that most of the humor was probably going unappreciated by.Yes.
I think maybe you just appreciated the rhythm of a joke.Mm hmm.When I would watch sitcoms as a kid, that was as well.I wouldn't understand the right.I love the movie Ghostbusters and the lord knows why.
Oh, I watched it again when I was, you know, in my twenties and uh, was hearing all the jokes for the first time.
Jokes that I'd heard a million times before, but they were hitting me as jokes for the first time in my life, which is a strange experience.
I think Ghostbusters is a perfect film about Reagan-era 80s.
Yes!Which we were both alive for in the 80s.We were.
Yes, Alex?No, I was just gonna say, if you were in the 1880s and you watched it in your 20s, how did you watch Ghostbusters?
We had a 1880s Reagan.His name was Clawfoot Reagan.He was sort of a steampunk version.
You need to think of history as sort of a common San Diego game where there's only a number of repeating characters that change outfits for different time periods.Okay, we have another introduction here.
Alex, you think Cheers was the only one that you would be able to get?
No, I believe in myself, so I've already won.
I believe in you as well.
Oh, here we have a bridge.Ding dong.Yes? I'm going with full house.That introduction also features a bridge.However, that is not the introduction that we're looking at. I'll keep going.
All right, now there's a, we appear to be- Is there a traffic jam?There is a lot of traffic.It's evening.You wouldn't expect there to be so much traffic on the street.So now we have a beautiful courthouse.I'd like to go there.
This town ain't big enough for the two of us.
Taxi driver is a less of a situation comedy and more of a very bleak drama.
Oh, is it just regular taxi?No, no, no, no, no.Is that taxi drama with 14-year-old what's-her-name?
It's not taxi drama with 14-year-old what's-her-name.Speaking of the 80s.Ding dong.Night court?It is night court.
You literally said night and court.
Harry Anderson, Markie Post.Who's Markie Post?Markie Post, she was the blonde, I'm blinking on her character's name, Christine something.
Wow, I can't believe you don't know something.
You sound like my mother.
We gotta get her out, I guess.
Did you ever watch Night Court, Natty?You made it a séance.
I'm sorry, that was very dark.
That was very dark.Oh, no.He's brought it down.
Did I watch Night Court?Did you ever watch Night Court?
I have not seen the reboot though, but I did watch Night Court.You're not one of the 12 people that's seen the reboot of Night Court.Yes.I don't know if that's true.It might be a very popular show.
I've seen, what's it called when the people, the people's court and Judge Judy?What's like the whole thing?
Oh wait, Judge Wapner from the people's court?
Yeah.What's it called when all those people come in and they faked having problems to get money?
Okay, there's the courtroom TV show court TV.Isn't there a court TV channel in the world?Who I'll judge Alex right now John Leroy kit
Yes, won three Emmys in a row for this show playing Dan fielding tenant playing Dan fielding Yeah, took himself out of the running for future Emmys because he felt that and it sounds like this may be true He would have continued to win them Wow He's a very charismatic man, but I found myself wondering what else was on TV in the 80s that John Leric it was sweeping the Emmys back then not a whole lot not a
Alright you guys, are you ready for one more?And then a bonus one.
Uh, here we have another bridge.Oh.
Oh, this town ain't big enough for the two of us.
Is this full house?It is not full house.
I was trying to pull the rug under you.
This house, however, is fairly full.No, this bridge looks like it's in a more temperate climate than San Francisco.Might get chillier in this little town here. Now we have a gentleman riding on the back of a wagon.Oh, ding dong, Perfect Strangers.
Hmm, I'm not getting more than 10 seconds of these introductions.
I was raised by television.Why, it is Perfect Strangers.
I remember, yeah, that is Bronson Pinchot as Belky Bartokomis in Minos on the back of a wagon before he comes to America.
Thaddeus, you know I hate to correct you, but the audience is screaming into them.
ipods and their iphones right now and they're saying it was meepos meepos he's balky from meepos balky bartakamoose from meepos you know that's correct you know that carius is old because he still says ipod
What is the last iPod they made?It's all foam now.Oh, am I Cadius?What was your name again?
That is a Cadius, right?It's because it rhymes.
It's Cassidy Hobbs, frontier task rabbit.I will be returning to the podcast as a returning member.I think I bring a sort of energy to the show, which aids.
All right, this one's gonna be the final one Because I think why it might be well no this that one actually might be too easy I'm gonna pick a harder one.I'm gonna pick a hot more difficult one.Was it full house?Oh No.
Although Full House is on my list, it was Mr. Belvedere.But I started thinking, anything that I name about Mr. Belvedere is going to give it away immediately.Yeah, we see a butler.He's a very distinctive man.
We see one of those green librarian lights.
There were not too terribly many butler-centric sitcoms of the 80s and 90s.
It was a low point for butlers.Where are they now?
Exactly.Oh no, you've put me inside my own brain.
I've started thinking about... Are there still people with butlers?
I believe so.There's a book called The Remains of the Day.I'm sure that Thaddeus has read it.It's one of my personal favorites.I've heard of the movie.He's heard of the movie, Alex, which is akin to having read the book.It's basically the same thing.
Now this is interesting because this... This is the season 2 introduction.It looks like this show had several introductions over the years.So this is the season 2 introduction.
Cassie Hobbs, have you ever watched anime?
You like openings so often.If you like openings, you should watch anime.
Cassidy Moshi Moshi.Cassidy Desu. I'm sort of a tsundere, as you can tell, Alex.I've been giving you a hard time.I run hot and cold. But it's only because I find myself attracted to you I certainly can't show you all right now.
Here's our final uh Introduction season two intro.Oh, here's another city.We're zooming in on some skyscrapers.They want you to know in these shows That these take place in cities.
Oh, but here we're in more of a suburb now interesting very tall house He's a gentleman coming down the stairs.He looks like he's having a
A good day big old smile on his face old lady standing up from the piano She's also having a and everyone's looking directly into the camera when they do this.
Here's an older woman You on a bench you you ain't got much time left partner.
Oh, no.It's not the Brady Bunch.
It's not the Brady Bunch.A little too early for the for the.Yeah.
Ding dong.Yes, sir.Mm hmm.
Growing pains?No, it's not growing pain.No.Those are good guesses.We're back to we're reset back to neutral, you know.Here's a gentleman why he's appears to be waxing his car.He's a good looking young gentleman.
Looks like he's going to wax that car and maybe go on a date in it. Rubbing it down young lady working at a sweet shop in the 1990s now That's interesting a young very young lady looking in a dollhouse.
I know all of these images Extremely young man on a big wheel driving into the garage.I may have forgotten that this character existed He wasn't on the show very often.I don't think What's this gentleman doing with an accordion?
He doesn't look like he belongs to the family.Maybe he lives nearby.Another lady, oh, she's looking at me with come hither eyes in a diner of some kind.Now all of these is very quick cuts.Wait, ding dong, is it Family Matters?It is.
Ah Family matters.Wait, did you guess family matters?
No, I didn't you guess that I did be like With one of the it was one of the bridges you didn't guess family matters No, you all oh and they're all riding a bike across the bridge.Where did family matters take place?I don't read Chicago.
It was Because it's a spinoff of perfect strangers.Oh
Family Matters is a spinoff of Perfect Strangers because of Harriet, the character of Harriet.That's all I remember is that Harriet was in Perfect Strangers, but do you remember more detail?
I mean, Reginald Vail Johnson, who played Carl, was the security guard.He was the security guard of the department store in Perfect Strangers, but then when they spun it off to Family Matters, he was a cop.
Oh, it was Reginald Val Johnson.
And then they had, season one, they had their daughter Judy, who they then sent up stairs and was never heard from again.
Did you ever see upstairs in the show?No.
She was banished to the vortex.
Was his name Boner that lived above the garage?
Oh, in Growing Pains.Yeah, Mike's best friend.
Did he live above the garage?I think I'm conflating him with somebody from step-by-step who lived above the garage.But that gentleman looked like a boner, but perhaps his name was not Boner.
It was probably Boner.Don't look it up on Google, but if you remember the name of the neighbor boy that lived in the garage in step-by-step.
Okay, I have to get rid of my Google search right now then.Send it back.Send it in.I was just looking up boners. Bonus from the 80s.
No, we don't give out boner points.That's inappropriate.
That's city slicker talk.
All right, now I've got to go back down into the underground.I've really enjoyed.
I really expected you being in the underground was going to be a big thing about it.
You could have just used the door like everyone else.
I didn't originally intend to be in a trap door, but the Foley work necessitated me rapping on the floor, which I can understand, which you gentlemen would think then that I was coming up from some sort of underground lair, like the Phantom of the Opera.
I don't know what Foley Walk is, but when you opened that trap door, it was kind of obvious where you came from.
Yes, I'm having fun with the fourth wall today.I'm sort of a creature of straddled time and space.Speaking of straddling slime and space, Thaddeus, you have taken that game.
I'm going to leave a little note here for Andy with my invoice that Thaddeus has won 20 points for that game.And Alex, you've taken home a big old donut of yourself.
The fact that I was able to recognize so many of those intros on description alone is going to keep me up at night.I feel like I want to give you five bonus points because I think you saw a combined total of less than a minute of introductions.
Yeah, I'm not too upset about how quickly that ages on that.Alright, time to die.Goodbye!Die?Oh man. Mr. North, can I get back down in there?I've got to continue with my chug-like activities.
What's your favorite sitcom?
Probably Arrested Development.
Oh, that's not even from the 80s and 90s, but I love it too.Yeah.Yeah, that opening starts with a white screen.
Yeah.Oh, Andy, you missed it.You had your TaskRabbit friend.Yeah.Cassidy Hobbs, Frontier TaskRabbit.
Money well spent.Yeah.Is it?
Yeah, I thought so.Okay, good.Because I did, he went a little bit over, he did 35 minutes and I told him that I'm not paying him extra for the extra five.
He was just very slow with his dialogue.
I think he was doing it on purpose.He could have gotten that in under 30.
Luckily, the viewers of this podcast could just be toned to the edited version.Where it's slow, it doesn't come on for them.
And they'll listen to it on like 1.5 times.Yeah, they probably will.
Yeah, but he sounds like a normal guy.Yeah, he does.
And it's drive time.Great job, you guys.Thaddeus, you have to give me points for how great a game that was out of, I kind of made up the, so there were a total of 20 points available to the two of you.So it has to be on a scale of one to 20.
Whoa.That's fairly generous.I feel like I struck oil.Yeah.
I like trivia and that's what that felt like.
Texas gold. Beverly Hillbillies.I got that one.I'm surprised that you can get like the Beverly.You were naming some.It was TV Land or Cartoon Network on my television.
Yes.What about like after school and stuff?I mean, that's when I saw all of these after schooler on TGIF.
Yeah, I don't know.I guess I watched Full House.What else I watched?
Did you ever watch Saved by the Bell, Thaddeus?
Religiously, I loved Saved by the Bell.
Because there was an hour long block of Saved by the Bell on right after school.And so it was very easy to get through.I mean, you'd get through the entire run of Saved by the Bell in like every six weeks or something.Yeah.
So we saw all those episodes, a bunch. Wow.
Yeah, I feel like TV rerun culture from the 80s and 90s has completely gone away.Nobody knows what that is, but that's why I know Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction and Green Acres and the Jeffersons and all that stuff.
I was not alive for the first runs of any of those shows, but I know them just as much as I do Punky Brewster and Silver Spoons and all of that stuff.
Wow.And now we've got the streaming culture.
Yeah.And nobody wants to watch anything older than a year.
Yeah.These kids today don't know what it's like to watch shitty shows over and over again.
They don't.That's why I keep on, I've said it before and I say it again, they need to have a just surprise me feature on every streaming section.Thank you.
I would probably pay extra for that.
Those of you that are following along with our Cheers rewatch, my wife and I are rewatching Cheers.I mean, not rewatching, neither of us has ever seen it except for an episode or two.
So we've been watching our way through it over the course of the year.We are now finishing up season 11, which means that we're almost done.
Wow.So, I'll let you guys know.Yeah.What's your favorite episode so far?My favorite episode?I can't remember the names of them.I'm so sorry.
What's your favorite like storyline?
Woody said something like really funny.I don't remember.I mean, it does.
When you're tearing through cheers like we are, it does meld together.So, it's a lot of like one-off lines and stuff.
Do you prefer Diane or Rebecca?
Oh, it's so hard to tell Thaddeus.What's your preference?I think I prefer Diane.Here's the thing.She's a wonderful actress, but I love how the show became an ensemble comedy after she left.It was really the Sam and Diane show while she was on.
And nobody else really got to take center stage in any episodes.And that's been a wonderful change.
Whoever happened there was a character there was a recurring character on Cheers Yeah, but like whatever happened of that character like Really
I know you're messing with me, but you're so sincere.You're such a good actor that I was like, I know, I know you're messing with me, but it was so believable.
I really, audience, you needed to be there because I was looking at... Alex and I both knew that that is But there was a moment where I was like does he not know We don't talk about Frazier on this show this isn't weird KGB suing
What?Kelsey Grammer be suing.
Oh, I see.I thought Kelsey Grammer sued the KGB.I was like, I don't think that lawsuit's gonna bear fruit.
I thought you were saying beast ewing, like something about him being the beast and a female sheep.Ooh. He is a female sheep of himself.Hey, I've got a game.And I've mentally debated about which one to go with, and I think it's going to be this one.
Well, actually, Thaddeus, let me ask you.This is actually a good way to put it.Thaddeus, without telling the audience anything, which shirt do you like?Yours or mine?
I like... I mean, I, I like, I like mine, but it's like, it's like 49%, 51%.
You're wearing a Disney 60th anniversary shirt, a Disneyland 60th anniversary shirt.
And Thaddeus is wearing? You could say what that is as well.
Oh, it's the USS Enterprise.Is that right?Is the Enterprise?Yeah.Going in front of Earth's moon.Yeah.
It's a very tasteful shirt.And Andy is wearing a blue button-down.Thaddeus, what would be your spaceship if you owned a spaceship?
I mean, I think it would be the Enterprise 1701D, the ship from the next generation.
I mean, you would pick a ship that already exists?
Yeah, I think I would pick a ship that already exists because I can then customize it as opposed to having to sort of figure out all of the new things that a ship can do.And yeah, like the Enterprise D, the Galaxy Class is very extensible.
There's got lots of different consoles and everything.You can put anything in it.It's got all the holodecks.So yeah, it's a great ship.
Oh well, then if you don't mind, it looks like BOOP! What's that booping button?Oh, my goodness.
There's a light up panel.
Captain Edwards of USS D, whatever you said, Enterprise 1601 D. Oh, hello, Captain.
Oh, hello.Hello.I just got knighted or captained.
It is I, Space Command.As someone that's watched maybe the first season of Next Generation in college,
The best season, ask anyone on the internet.
Oh, the internet has opinions about Star Trek?
Captain Edwards, point of order.I'm wondering, is Next Generation the one with, like, Picard and Riker?
It is.Okay.Yes.And LeVar Burton.Yes.And we have a mission for you, Captain Edwards.Here you are, captain of your own spaceship.And then, of course, you have your trusty member of your crew.Hello, it's me. Am I, am I Andy North?
I think I'll be Andy North because they don't have weird names in Star Trek, right?Humans don't.
Um, Warf is it a weird name?He's a Klingon.He's a Klingon.Data.He's an Android.Sometimes they do have like weird names, but now I'm like kind of blanking.
Scotty.That's a weird one.
Montgomery Scott.Well, yeah, I guess like a lot of like the humans from Earth do have like, quote unquote, like normal names.Yeah.
I would like to be Ensign Keith David.OK, good for you.
Yeah.I love it.Because in the TV show Gargoyles.
Yeah.Because Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes.Mm hmm.Mm hmm.
A lot of the voice actors were from Next Generation, except Keith David wasn't. Well, was he ever on Star Trek, Keith David?
No, I'm thinking Paul Winfield.No, Keith David was not on Star Trek, to my knowledge.
Well, Captain Edwards, here at Interpol, or whatever it's called, maybe you'll tell me what I am.We have come across a lifeless planet that needs your investigation skills.We've got strange distress signals happening from outer space.
Is that the theme music for Strange Things Happening?
It's both the theme music and the warning symbol from the sensors.Oh, no.
That's right.And then, of course, you won't be left without, we will teleport you a special object made from Commander Chat GPT.You just have to tell us number between 1 and 20.Of course, you and Chief Officer Davis over here.That's close enough.
will get their own object by picking any number between 1 and 20 as your mission begins.Are you ready to accept the task, sir?
I thought it was the NBC theme song.We joined the Starship Enterprise U.S.S.D.flying towards this lifeless planet when a bunch of meteorites and an Astro Belt is in the way.Captain, if you pick a number between 1 and 20, I can give you an item.
I will go with number 10.
Number 10, ooh, a gravity manipulator device.These are way better than some of the gadgets we've gotten in the past for this style of game.But what if I also told you there might be a defect?
It's only because you're acting so damn smart about how good these items are.
Commander David, keep your cool.
Commander David, what item would you like?Uh, I would like item number four.Item number four.
Uh, then you've got a holo-map projector.Ooh.That can come in useful.How will you deal with these upcoming asteroids that are protecting the planet?
I'm looking to- Am I the commander now?
You're the captain!I'm the- Yeah, and the captain's higher than the commander.Or, who goes-
I kind of was trying to make our guests go first.Oh, yes.Okay.
It'd be the highest status role, but... As captain, I have the gravity... Gravity manipulator?Gravity manipulator device, which to my ears sounds like a tractor beam.I will grapple the asteroids and move them out of the way, so sort of...
making their center of gravity the direction that I want them to go in.
Yeah, that seems like the way to go.I've got this cool map, Captain.I was going to help plot a course through the asteroids if you needed it, but now... You can help me figure out where to send them.Okay.
Oh yeah, because we don't want to drop them on anything.
Probably not probably not depending For now, yeah, I mean it well, I mean if If there is anyone that we have like a war treaty With we could probably send it in that direction
Excuse me, Star Command.Yes, Star Command from Buzz Lightyear.
Is there anybody on the planet that we're at war with currently?It's a lifeless planet, unless there's a twist of there being something secret there, but that never happens in Star Trek.
Oh, Commander, I just got an idea.Do you remember when you were a child on the future planet, throwing the little gunpowder things at the
yeah like poppers yeah poppers yeah but not those not the poppers not not yeah not vcr head cleaners yes yes so maybe we could throw the asteroids at the planet and and see if they explode like poppers yeah i think that would be fun we're gonna do that star command yeah all right uh so you throw the using your map to guide you and your gravity device you throw the stuff at the plot the planet you hear a big
Uh-oh.It's a living planet.
It's Krakoa, the planet that walks like a man.Oh no.You come up with your engineer.
Hey, it's your engineer, Captain Commander.Are you ready to be beamed down to the planet?
Oh no.I think the planet's mad at me now.
Well, you should have thought of that before you put a bunch of asteroids up its buttocks.Yeah, that's fair.
I guess if you're going to get hit with a bunch of asteroids, the buttocks is not the worst place they could end up.
It's a lot of fatty tissue.It could absorb the blow.Exactly.Tight, tight, tight.Down you go.
You find... Captain, Commander, it's me, Star Command.I'm only on radio now because you're on the planet, but if you look down in your box and give me a number, you'll find a tool to help scan the planet.Oh, scan it.
Fifteen.Captain, you've got dimensional pocket storage. Oh, great.And commander?Uh, one.One.You got quantum communicator.
That sounds like we could talk to people in the past or the future.
A device that allows you to instantaneously communicate over vast distances by using quantum entanglement.Knew it.It's ideal for sending and receiving messages across the galaxy.
And with a dimensional pocket thing in my pocket, I essentially have a bottomless pocket.It's Mary Poppins' bag.
It's Mary Poppins' bag.It's a portable hole.
So the first thing I am pulling out of there is an umbrella with a bird handle.
Yeah, I think we solved the problem with that, actually.
You've tried to scan the planet with the umbrella with the bird on it?We have to scan the planet?
I forgot about that.I thought we were just playing with toys.
What are they how do they talk in Star Trek do they have Communicators in their ears in that show or do they have what so with the original series they had Communicator which were handheld devices that flipped open so like your cell phone.
Yes earliest of a cell phone I do that
Yep, yep.By the 90s, when Next Generation came, the communicators were their badges that they wore on their chest, on their uniform, and they just tapped them.
And that pretty much has been the communicator for most of Star Trek, I think, in Discovery, because it's a thousand years into the future, I think they have some kind of just like implant in their ears.They don't even have to tap it anymore.
They don't have to tap.Yeah.They also carry around personal transporters.It's very futuristic.Wow.It seems like a lot of our problems are solved.Yeah.A lot of narrative problems are...
Or it's solved that way.Do people just not get trapped on the planet anymore because they can just leave at any time?
Unless there is like a reverse polarity of the graviton field that screws with your thing.
I forgot to mention there's a reverse polarity of the graviton field.
It screws up your portable hole.
walkie talkie captain what uh how do they usually scan planets how do we usually scan planets with a tricorder which i so i reached into um my dimensional pocket bag and i pulled out a tricorder and i used my quantum communicator to call my ex from across the galaxy hello hey it's me i just wanted to call see what you're doing what
I know and don't cuss at me.
Yes, I cussed you out because I never wanted to hear your voice again.
Listen, I need a favor.Can you warp me my old tricorder and then we never have to talk to each other again.
Okay, what's your coordinates?
X 7 2 Z 400 Y. I'm on an evil planet.X 7 2 Z 7 Y?Yeah.That's Your communication goes dead.It's probably for the best, Captain.
Yeah, you need to recharge your quantums.
I do need to recharge my quantums.
While the captain and the commander are talking about recharging quantums, they don't realize that the ground is shifting.And what they thought was a solid rock they were standing on was actually a giant Zorb.
It's a monster that you can describe with your eyes.I'm just on the communication.
I can't see it.Wait a minute.This living planet has little monsters on it, too?You've got little monsters in it like lice. Gross.
Ooh, itchy.It's an itchy planet.It's an itchy planet.
Maybe that's the problem that we need to take care of.
That could be the problem we need to take care of.We need to beam down some shampoo for this entire planet.
Yeah, is any of the things in our bag shampoo?Well, why don't you give a number?And then we'll see what gets beamed down to you.I'll go first this time.Seven. Seven.Did we already do seven?
No, we haven't.A stealth cloak.
Where did Commander Keith David go?I hope he doesn't get a Marauder's Map.I can hear him, but I can't see him.Oh, I should stop talking.I'm going with item number... Six.
Number six.Nanobot repair kits.Oh, bingo.
If your nanobots get broken.Oh, this kit must be very little.
It must it's it is the size it can fit through the head of a needle.The eye of a needle.Needles don't have heads.
Nanobot repair kit can get into the kingdom of heaven. So we have to fight off this monster with our nanobot repair kits.And a stealth cloak.And a stealth cloak.
Cloak the nanobots.We cloak the nanobots so that the planet can't see the nanobots.Oh, there you are again.I took it off.And now I'm wearing a bikini.Is that a regulation bikini?
Yeah, well, I got it from some of the guys down in Lido deck.
You know what?I've been down to the Leto deck so many times and I still don't understand what it is.
Are they part of Starfleet, the guys down there?Because they sure seem to be having a good time.
They technically are.They're wearing most of the uniform.We got to... We cloak the nanobots and throw the cloaked nanobots into the mouth of the planet and hope for the best.
Let's see.Yeah, I hope this works out because I am a captain.
I am an administrative person.I don't understand nanotechnology.
A set of microscopic robots that can perform on-the-fly repairs on equipment or even biological organisms.
Oh, it's like the Genesis device.
Yay.Oh, but sometimes it misinterprets the damage, leading to over-repairing or altering non-damaging I wonder if they could take care of all the bubble gum I swallowed as a child.
Oh yeah, that's still in there.
Also, I had a watermelon seed in 1997.So any day now there's going to be a tree growing out of my mouth.
There's all barfs and striped and shakes.Barbra Streisand?That's his best Barbra Streisand impersonation as he falls dead. Curiosity, the hole he came out to seems to lead to a secret tunnel.Oh, he was guarding a secret tunnel.Now he's dead.
It was a space troll.Let's explore the tunnel.
The commander and the captain go down the tunnel courageously.Wait a minute, Captain.Didn't we land on the planet's butt?
Should we be cautious about exploring every hole that we find, even the first hole that we find.
I understand your reticence.Reticence?
And I am ignoring the smell of sulfur as we continue to travel down this rapidly narrowing passage.He's probably an asshole.
Oh praise the captain and commander here in perfect unison.A little chance that's getting louder and louder as they soon come across a group, a hive mind called the BORB.Oh no.Oh no, the BORB, the BORBS.
It sounds a lot less scary.
It does.Well, kind of.What, like what are, who are, who are the favorite, uh, uh, musical acts of the BORBS?
The Smashing Pumpkins, of course.
Just as long as they aren't barbs.I would not like that.
Then they're medieval.Captain, it's the arch nemesis, the barbs.Be careful not to do anything that makes them draw attention to you.
A stealth cloak would really come in handy right now.
A stealth cloak would come in handy and I ripped the stealth cloak off and I am wearing a shirt with a silver star and it says zero down at the bottom.And it gets their attention.
It's the opposite of what we're supposed to do.Oh no!Oh no!All at once, every single of them. Thousands of borbs down there screech and point at you.And now you must escape.If you want to have an item, you can.
Can I send them a message?The world is a vampire.
Captain!It sounds like you want to be assimilated into us because you like smashing pumpkins so much.No, we don't.Then it looks like you must choose an item. Mine's number three.
Number three.Anti-gravity boots.See you, Captain.Number 19.Cryo grenades.
Oh, I'm coming back.I'm running out of the cave and I'm throwing the cryo grenades behind me, hoping that it freezes the morbs.
Yeah, it seems like the easiest thing to do here.
I'm gonna pick you up under the armpits so that we can go faster.
I'm glad I wore deodorant.
It looks exactly like the end of Toy Story.
We're not aiming for the Borg.While you're throwing grenades behind and flying through the air, you two make a perfect escape back into this ship when you notice that the mothership, the Borg mothership, has now surrounded your star's fleet.
Aw nuts.Captain, if you want to get out of here, you have to take all that you know and use all of your space knowledge.
Captain, we could just keep going with my anti-gravity boots.The B.O.R.B.probably won't chase us.They'll just go after the ship.
Do we think the B.O.R.B.are intelligent?
The B.O.R.B.is gonna blow up.You hear all the B.O.R.B.say, we're gonna blow up your ship. If you don't blow up our ship.Oh, we have to blow up the Borm's ship.
Oh, uh, we need fireworks.
I don't know.Give me a number.
And when I'm at you five, four and five, the two things you've got in order are, uh, we've got, uh, plasma blaster and teleportation was bad.
It's like, we've never done an away mission before.
Also, don't you still have your portable hole?
Oh yeah, I do.Yeah, I have the bottomless pocket thing.The Mary Poppins bag.
If we're brave, we could teleport into the B.O.R.B.ship and maybe use that parrot umbrella of yours somehow.
To save ourselves from the explosion?
Oh, I wasn't even thinking about that, but yes.
To get back.We plant the plasma charges throughout the BORB ship.
What's the most blow up-able part of a BORB ship, Captain?
Probably the exhaust pipe.
We've been in so many exhaust pipes today.One more is not going to kill us.
They're very, very poorly engineered.
Where do you teleport back to once you post all your charges?
I wouldn't mind going and checking in on my ex-girlfriend.I've been thinking about her for the whole rest of this mission.
It's a bar at the front of the ship. That's where Whoopi Goldberg works.
Is where all the cool people hang out?
I mean, they're all Starfleet officers.Oh, sure.Oh, you're going to the officer's bar.I don't know if that makes them cool people.
So you teleport to where your ex-girlfriend is and to the bar in front of the ship, and it happens to be the same place.What?
My ex-girlfriend is an officer in the Starfleet now?It's your ex-girlfriend.You should have known that.You never listen.Oh, no. I'm going to the Lido deck.
A very, very depressing explosion from the Borg ship as both the captain and the commander seem to not care about it the slightest.You know, we're cool guys.
We don't have to watch.We know the explosion happened.
Yeah, I was already drunk on synthahol.
On synthahol?Is that what it's called?Yes.Synthetic alcohol?
He's like, I'm done taking the rest of the afternoon off.
All the borgs fall down as the mothership is blown up.Now, meanwhile, you're still in this bar, two attractive, sexy, green aliens come up to you and says, Hey, Captain Commander, it looks like we need to have some diplomatic relations.
For the final part of your mission, give me a number for a tool to use.Uh, 13.Uh, uh, two.
Uh, universal translator.And two is going to be... Smart AI companion!Whoa!
Hello, diplomatic green people.What brings you to 10 Forward?
We were invited on by the other captain and commander of this ship but they died on the planet so now we have no one to talk to.
There was another captain and commander on this ship?
Well, we have taken a lot of our leadership things from the Klingon.So yeah, we killed them and then took their status.Oh, I forgot about that.
That's why we have this big box full of equipment.It was all theirs.That's why everyone doesn't like you on this ship.
First of all, because you just wanted to leave them to all die.Secondly, because you killed their previous captain and commander.
It's fear as a management strategy.
They couldn't hear us talking.We were on a planet's butt at the time. They don't know we were thinking about mutiny.It sounds like both of these aliens already speak common or basic or whatever space English is.What is space English, English?
They've never actually said it on Star Trek.
Um, I would say, uh, so I'm going to pretentiously order a drink in a foreign alien language to impress them.I'm going to be like, Oh, there was this great drink that I had on Titanius Nine that, uh, have you ever been there?
Here, I'll order it in the native language.
Titanium Nine is where I'm from.
And then I just pop the Universal Translator in my ear?Mouth?
Sure.I'll put it in my nose, split the difference.
And then start speaking to this young diplomat in perfect Titanianese.
And what are you gonna do?I'm gonna take this smart AI companion and
Smart AI companion, you are tasked with diplomacy between these lovely Titanians.
I don't know what love is myself, but I'll be happy to give it to you.Didn't say enthusiastic AI companion, I suppose.
Intelligence does not always come with happiness.Don't I know it.What is it?AI companion.I'm bad at diplomacy, but these Titanians really love being... Diploma?Diplomized.They like compliments.Compliment their tentacles.
You've got nice tentacles.
Wow.It feels like so easy to talk to.It feels like I'm talking to myself.
What a nice thing to say.Come here, honey.
Oh, God.Captain, you're getting serenaded berserk by your own AI assistant.
Oh, yeah.And so the smart AI companion takes both the two ladies.Oh, man.
I got to take the batteries out of that thing next time I see it.
As we do a poll, zoom out of the Captain and Commander before they do their brief mission wrap up and what they learned on their mission today, like the end of every Star Trek episode.Oh, yeah.What did we learn today, Captain?
I think we learned valuable lessons about resourcefulness.Always picking the right tool, but also always having as many tools as possible.
I agree.But Captain, next time, I think I'll drive.
And then we paused with a freeze frame.
Yeah, did most Star Trek episodes end with a freeze frame?
Well, they didn't, but the original series, over the credits, they did show images from the show.But they didn't pause on a laugh, which I think would improve Star Trek.
Well, I've got the results here of your mission from Starfleet, Starbase Command.That's great.It looks like you both netted 20 points.We both got 20 points.Teamwork makes the dream work.
I don't mind those points at all, which means that we need to award points out of 20 to you.
Uh, yeah, I don't get into the weeds about how I score my points, but, uh, I think there was, there was one number that did not get picked, uh, from that selection.
And I think it was the number 20.
It's right, the virtual reality training simulator.It's a system that immerses the users in the simulated environment.It's the holodeck.
Yeah.I like the holodeck.
Bless.Oh no, Eddie's allergic to holodecks.
He can't take photons.Did you want to give Alex those 20 points?I do, yeah.
Now we're all a team.We are all a team.Okay, then that means at the end of a contentious episode... Hang on, I just need to calculate the scores.
How do you feel about the holodeck theory?
Wait, what's a holodeck theory?
The social behavioral theory that like it's people think it's okay if we ever build a holodeck and people want to go out and do their like unearthly desires of like rage and sexual excapades.
Like it's okay because it's happening in an environment that doesn't really happen. Or is it still something that's like, oh, we shouldn't even give someone a... Yeah, I think it would be a bad idea.
As explored, I can't remember the title of the episode, but it's the episode where Geordi creates the holographic version of Dr. Leah Brahms, who's the engineer who invented the warp system on the Enterprise.And then he falls in love with her.
And then two or three episodes later, he actually meets the real Leah Broms and he's still in love with her.And unsurprisingly, she has a problem with that.But it's the 90s and they didn't know how to write Geordi as not an incel.
um so the the episode ends with her apologizing to him oh no for being upset yeah that is weird people are having so much fun talking with like fake shakespeare like through chat gpt which is harmless but like what if
There was a still alive Shakespeare that we made a Chattopadhyay version of.
I think that would get really weird.I do think the difference is maybe celebrity slash historical figure versus like a contemporary person who is, who like actually exists.
I'm going to upload all the Impostcast episodes up to the hall that can talk with fake editing.
this is what i'm worried about for you is how many people are going to be falling in love with their alex's at their houses that's right and then when they finally meet you and you don't want to make out with them well you'd probably make out with them yeah it depends
You're a people pleaser.Yeah, that's true.And how.Speaking of people pleasing, at the end of a wonderful episode of the Impossacast, in third place, with 20 points, we have Mr. Alex James.
Where everybody gets no points.
You need to know more 80s sitcoms next time, Alex.I knew him.I know you did.In second place, With 35 points, it's Mr. Andy North.Which means, in first place, with a whopping 45 points, it's Mr. Thaddeus Edwards, Captain of the Enterprise.
USS, Enterprise, H-Show, what's the biggest Star Trek fact that you know?What's the funnest one you know?
I think the funnest one I know is that Martin Luther King is responsible for Nichelle Nichols staying on the original series.
Oh, that's a real fact.That's a real fact.
She was going to leave the show after the first season because she felt that she wasn't being utilized.
That's Uhura, yeah.But I mean, she didn't have a ton of lines and she felt like she was just an operator on the bridge, but he watched the show because MLK was like,
science fiction so he watched a show with his family and it was like you know it's important that you're there because it means that like there are black people in the future and that you are working you know in the top echelon of everything you were part of the command structure so like by being there you are representing everything that we're fighting for right now
i was gonna say about how that feels kind of silly now because i mean he did say it while farting yeah okay yeah i like that because he was lactose intolerant like on the show in the later seasons right she's like i don't know like there was there wasn't much more of the show but i would say she probably got more um
sort of screen time, like definitely in the movies.Yeah, which a lot of them did.
Yeah.I like that Spock is a descendant from Sherlock Holmes.Did you know that?
Through his mother.Yeah, his real, there's one episode where he's like, oh, my great great ancestor used to say, whatever remains is however impossible must be fact.And so it's like the real Sherlock Holmes in this fictional world.
Star Trek takes place in the same fictional world that Sherlock Holmes takes place because he's Spock's ancestor.
Which also means that Sherlock Holmes was also fictionalized because Data has a program where he is pretending to be Sherlock Holmes and he gets the computer to create
an adversary that is as smart as he is, so the computer creates Moriarty, but because it's trying to create one that is as smart as Data, the computer inadvertently creates a fully intelligent life form that starts to shut down the ship.
oh i gotta watch this show i love yeah star trek is the best which season was data on or which show it wasn't the next he was on the next generation in the next generation movies and also comes back in um star trek picard oh
There's a lot of shows.I was looking up so much Star Trek.Well, make this game because I was just looking at this stuff.And like when you go down to like lists of star, I was like looking at lists of like Star Trek aliens.
And before you even get to the list, there is they have to have a key of tell you like next generation, this movie, Picard original series.And it's just like with like what acronyms go for which one about where aliens you can see it from.
People are putting a lot of information about Star Trek on the internet.Yeah.Weird.Yeah.It's not where you'd expect it.
Speaking of things that are not where we would expect them.Do you have anything that you want to point... Yeah, where would we expect you?Do you have anything that you want to point the people towards?Any plugs Thaddeus?
Ooh, in February of 2025, which probably is gonna be a week after this comes out.Yes.I am gonna be appearing in the play Fairview that's being produced by Justice Theater Project in Raleigh.
That's right.Is it named after what people see if you're standing outside their window? Kind of.
People look out the window, they see Thaddeus, it's a fair view.Shut up, Alex.
I'm trying to give people compliments, and Thaddeus is an intellectual!Yeah, that's right.You're embarrassing me in front of the smart people!I'm just jealous.Being dumb.
But I also want to plug My improv teams.I'm on an indie team called the novelty And I'm also on a metal some house team called well-seasoned and we all have a lot of fun.
When does well-seasoned perform?
We are every fourth Friday currently.
If you look at thisismetalsome.com, you'll see on the live performance calendar when Well-Seasoned is performing next.And then what was the other team?
The Novelty.We do not have a regular performance schedule, but we I don't know, I feel like we try to perform quarterly, something like that.We rehearse, we practice far more often than we perform, but we have very, very fun practices.
Do you guys have a place where you regularly perform?Is it like at the?
So far, yeah, we've been performing at Shadowbox Studios here in Durham.I'm hearing a lot of good things.Yeah, it's a cool, intimate space.It's very easy to sort of get in and out of and everything.Yeah, Shadowbox is cool.
I can't make any jokes about them because we don't know the people that run it.So I'll just say in real life.
One person is a hovercraft and the other person like Jim Haverkamp, who's a filmmaker and Alex Smith are the two who started it.But they're like excellent like theater and film people.
Cool.Look up Shadowbox.Yeah, that's right.
And live long and prosper.Right.
Yes, peace and long life.
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