The Last Waltz, featuring Our Founding Members.

A writer attempts to write a romance novel

A teenage boy is given advice by a sketchy man in an Applebees

Suspecting your husband is the devil

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to the final episode of alchemy This. I'm
your host, Kevin Pollock. Yes that Kevin Pollock? What's that? Yes?
This is the final roundup of Alchemyist that features all
the founding members and you can't believe it or stop us,
but I digress. Let's meet. Well, let's say hello to

(00:23):
our alchemist, shall we? In no particular order, Let's quickly
check in with Craig Atkowski. Cocow, how are you doing today?
Bitter sweet? I am bitter sweet. Actually, I think I'm
pretty sweet. General, I'm not I'm not very bitter about anything. Okay,

(00:48):
I've never seen sour occasionally, but I'm rarely, rarely bitter. Um.
I think you guys have to have thick skin in
this biz. Bitter this, but occasionally and rarely bitter. That's
not only a great forecast, but a good name for
your book. And sometimes salty sometimes, I'll be I right,

(01:11):
you some salty language today, so I like it are accordingly.
Oh my, there's Vanessa raglan Venete. Hi, my, oh my,
how are you? And what the hell? Oh? What the hell? Indeed?
I am mommy, yeah, yeah, yeah, good state. It's a

(01:38):
great place to be and I love the mouth feel
of my life mouth life at another great book title.
I'm so uh sweet to be with these faces at
this time. It is so I'm having very weird um yeah,
deja vu of like, oh, this is the rhythm and

(01:59):
these are the thing. This isn't it feels really? I'm yeah,
I'm a happy person to be with these people. Yea.
Was it two eighteen or nineteen that we started James Well,
two thousand eight teens when I believe it started releasing,
but we started well, it was two thousand and eight
teen when we started recording too, but that we started

(02:19):
recording in like February two thousand. Yeah, I feel like
March October was the Yeah, two eighteen. Oh my god,
it seems like a world ago. Hey, there's Chris Alvarado,
Mike Pal Chris thoughts going into today, given our three
plus year run coming to a logical end, same same, same, same, same,

(02:43):
bitter sweet. I was pouring my coffee this morning and
I was I was thinking, like, huh, this is a
this is a bummer, but it's like it's a good bummer. Yeah.
We we want, we want this, and there's plenty opportunity
for us to perform together in other capacities or as
alchemy this we ever want to do a festival somewhere
and that type of stuff. That makes me happy. But

(03:05):
you know, we do have a standing standing invitation to
Sketch Fest as a as a group, so we could
technically do that San Francisco Scotch Fest. Thank you. Um,
just fucking just like just like Vanessa said, happy, happy
to be here with this, with this group of just
fucking murderers and lovers. Oh now look out there's James

(03:28):
Z and sweet James, how are you feeling. I am
like the longest box of hash brows you could fit in.
I mean you probably have to crack that in half
and put it on two different shelves in the freezer
because it's long and they're frozen so they're hard to

(03:49):
vs threw up. For Joey, I just get such a
like an intestinal feeling from those words. That's how they
sell it at Costo. Yeah, feel like contest packaging. Thank
you James. And uh last, but I promise you he

(04:09):
will stop drinking his own power jars if you think
him least. It's Joey Greer chim chump tell us in
four thousand words or less. What all you've seen? What
all you've seen since last time you were with us? Yeah?
What all you've seen since last time you were with us?
Well you've seen? Yeah, well you've seen. First off, I

(04:31):
don't like coming in with a constraint. No one else
had that kind of qualifier. Four thousand words or less.
Number two. All right, if I'm gonna be able to
say something, I should be able to use all the
words I know, and as many of them as I
need be. Okay, that's a fact. Now everyone's talking about
how they're feeling. Let me tell how I'm feeling. I
feel like shit. I'm sick, all right, I'm sick as hell.

(04:53):
This is the last episode. Alright, I'm disgusted. I got
body aches, I got chills, a fever, I gotta running,
a sore throat, I can't. I haven't pooped in like
two days. What what else? It's coming out the top,
there's nothing coming out at the bottom. Nothing. It's all steam.
All my urine's coming out of my hand like steam, steaming,

(05:18):
steve steering. I don't know how to pronounce it, but
it's a medical term, and it's just like just releasing
from the top. So that's that's how I'm a feeling.
That's where I meant mentally, physically, spiritually, I am transcendent.
I do think I am part of the three Angels.
I am a Harold too to God's thrown and uh,

(05:39):
I will see you all in times. Okay, that's good.
That means you believe in us, right, Yeah, of course
that's very cool. There will be there will be a
baptism of fire. Well hold up, Uh, I'll take this

(05:59):
opportunity for all the scene suggestions over these last many
years from all of our listener emails and our patron
v I P S. We thank you all. James has
sent a lovely note to all the Patron subscribers letting
them know how much we appreciate their love. Um. He
did a great job with that letter, So thank you
James and his own his own upcoming project, which I

(06:19):
thought was really cool. James, Yeah, I thought, yeah, you
want to, you want to. I don't know if it
was a plug as much as it was. He offered
everyone to just move their subscription. Yeah, never stop hustling,
never stop girl, But thank you all. You were ultimately

(06:44):
the reason we kept gathering to do this as much
as we love to see each other, we were driven
by the notion that someone was out there listening. So
I didn't. I thought you meant James, and I was like,
we had to keep James by the way. As soon
as I started to talk about possibly giving into the

(07:06):
notion that this was coming to an end, everyone asks James,
gonna be okay, there's nothing to stuff that anyway. You
are loved the most. It is clear. It is crystal clear,
and that is my point. But aside from James, yes,
thank you all listeners, and thank you for telling everyone
you've ever known, and all the great reviews that James

(07:27):
love to read someone and so forth. A big thank
you to you. Our last three scenes were selected by me.
They were, uh, I'm gonna say randomly. I was trying
to get precious with it, and I thought, thankfully, there
are too many to choose from, so there's no reason
to be precious. Let's just move forward, shall we. This

(07:50):
first one comes from patron v I p Andy Montoya,
who wrote scene suggestions see no preamble, no life story,
just scene suggestions. Now I'm gonna start criticizing. I think
that's a compliment when clear and to the points the thing.

(08:11):
Yeah mm hmm. Scene suggestion a writer attempts to write
a romance novel. Thanks and take care, Andy Montoya, order up.
And this is the old point man like because it's
like not even like at the beginning of It's like
when you think of the world as the world, man,
it's like it's always something that's like, it's always bigger

(08:33):
than it is. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
because it's coming to it's going across. This is pornography.
I I hear what you're saying. You're saying, my napkin
draw into pornography. Well, can I I'm so sorry, I'm
sorry to interrupt. Um, Can I see the napkins? See

(08:55):
my porno? This is for work? Okay, ms. I know
we're having lunch, but I'm stuck and I need something
and I heard there's napkins pornography. Can give me one second.
I love you. I love you so much. Okay, Hi,
So can I see the napkins. My name is Denise

(09:15):
and my partner's name is Dennis. Dennis. I'm not going
to leave you out of this, and it is funny
Denise and Dennis. Um, I mean what you're working with.
This is some John just made up right now, took
it out. Well, I'm as literary agent. High, I'm I'm Jerry. Uh.
But what we asked for was a romance novel. And

(09:37):
what he's giving me a napkins that you tell me
what they look like? Part of me? This is my
I'm also my partner's literary agent. And she is a
famous romance novelist. This is too weird. This is but babe,
tell him, tell him what your nome to plume is.

(09:58):
Raba Beenah, sorry you're looking at her. This is beef,
holy ship, It's beef and the flesh. I'm so sorry
this I would have wore a different suit. This is
not the one I would have chose for today. A

(10:19):
collaboration between these two artists. Dennis Dennis never stopped working.
I like you, Tennis, I like you, Jerry. Hi. Sorry
to keep you waiting. Who had the cod guilty? Okay?
And who had the scrod on Dennis guilty? I don't

(10:41):
like saying guilty. She always makes me say guilty, like
we did something wrong. Oh well, we're about you, so
I like to confess ahead of time? And did you
want to a Ford top for the four of you,
because oh my god, yes, yes, yes, yeah, Jerry, what
if Jerry, what if you and I went over there
and talk some business and let we let the artists
do an artists do. I like what you're putting out there,

(11:03):
all right, So I'm gonna go over there with my scrid. Dylan,
did you give out that scrawd yes, well that's our
last scrat. They ordered a scrid. I was telling you
to see it. I got some big wi coming in
here to god, menu review of it. Okay, the scrub,
the scra goddamn sing song with a menu. Well, I

(11:25):
can't take scrawed off the menu. If somebody tells me
that they want scrawed, I can't say we're out of
scrawed when we're not out of Yeah. Yeah, welcome to
the fish market. I'm gotta help you. We got we
got daily fish, daily catches. What what do you need?
Hurry talk to me. What do you need? Um? Scrodrod?
Who the hell are you? Excuse me? Scrod Hey, you

(11:46):
want some scrite? Dude, just want some scrite? Okay, look look,
look I know I this is select. This is a
life fish. I only give it to my to my
personal cut to any scribe. What then, is it with
scrab today? I heard you say you have daily fishes? Yeah,

(12:10):
and then I was wondering if you have any scried
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm closed today. I'm closed today.
Hell is happening? What are you gonna do with all
those fish bodies? I'm gonna take them somewhere where they're
going to be used and maybe, you know what helpful?
I think the fish bodies can be very helpful for me. Well,

(12:31):
what are we gonna do with all these fish bodies
in the children's hospital? That's not I'm I'm donating to
you guys. Okay, I don't know. I'm the I'm the
good guy. Here. Does anyone have any gills? What? Does
anyone have any gills? Yes, we actually do right here.
What do you what do you need? Oh my god,
I think this is crazy, but I think it might work.

(12:53):
We have a kid whose lungs are overflowing. But I
think if I could get some gills in there, we
could make this work. Lungs you're filling with fluid. If
we get the kills there, he can breathe the fluid.
That's my idea. And I know I don't know if
it's okay. Hey, everybody, Tommy's back from his little hospital visit,
but he's back in class and wanted to ask him

(13:14):
a few words he was feeling, and um, you know,
you know what what what he's looking forward to for
the rest of the school year, Tommy welcome. Can I
ask Tommy why he looks weird? Um, I'm amphibious? Now,
what what does that mean? Explain? I'm equally comfortable on

(13:35):
land and in sea. You have a penis and a vagina?
Good what I do? But that I do? But that's
not That's not germane to this conversation. It has nothing
to do with being amphibious. How are you bringing Germaine
into this Germaine sit down? Sit down? You don't want
to start something with Germaine, Amphibian. This is bullshit, Dennis.

(14:02):
I just feel like, let's just swap for a while.
I've been working with my client for so long and
I feel like I could do something special with from
from from with with with Denise. Sorry, I'm just so excited.
I'm so excited. I don't know if I'm terribly sorry

(14:22):
to interrupt. I need to rescind that Scrod I haven't
even had a bite of it yet. Good, good, good.
I can replace it with any other fish, literally, any
any other fish, all right, starfish. I don't know if
it's actually a fish. I think that's more of a

(14:43):
colloquialism most of the scientific. Yeah, the one with the
five points that looks like a star. I'll take that,
thank you. Now. I don't pretty well. It takes a
lot of cuts. I would never I would have never
what part of that was gutsie? Do you? I don't.
I think he's right. It might not be a fish,

(15:04):
but I think he got him on a technicality. Jerry, Jerry,
how are we gonna work together? So you gotta use
my prize starfish? And that's what we're doing, my prize
pet starfish. How am I supposed to go that? I
can't serve starfish? I got you. I got your scrad Todd,
I got your scrawd Todd. Any fish, any fish? Why

(15:24):
don't you see the fish that we have? I don't
know what's the first thing he came out of my mouth? Okay,
but yeah, he wants a starfish. Uh, he wants abraised
abraise starfish. Okay, you're not gonna serve me. Are you sorry?
So that's okay? I love you. I love you too.

(15:45):
Sist seriously, Dot Jerry, what I'm saying? Where do they go?
Where do they they? Probably one went to the bathroom
and thought, as will make use of time both one
at the same time. Yeah, I mean it would make sense.

(16:12):
You don't want to sit by yourself at a table
that makes sense? Oh? Here it comes here it lightly
braised starfish with star fruit. Thank you? Can I get
to ranch on the side. Don't want to dip it
and suck on the I'm sorry. The chef is kind
of a stickler for you know. It only comes the
way it comes. No, I just want to suck on

(16:34):
the spokes dipped in ranch, You know what I mean.
It's kind of like a cr to choke essential. It's
not a lot of me, but you just suck it.
Chef Todd prides himself on the way he cooks the spokes,
so it should be enough with its own juices to
whet your chef Todd, Let me see the spokes. Let

(16:57):
me see, let me see, let me see. Oh those
look delicate? Yes, yes, slightly better, very nice? Nice. Okay,
Now you take a back to you spoke. Let me
see what do you think it needs more salt, doesn't he? Yes?

(17:18):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for and your artistry
and your honesty. Thank you. No your Hey, guys, where
were you jeering at? We're just talking about our collaboration.
Let me fix you real quick. Okay, what I got

(17:46):
some ideas? I got some ideas. It's beautiful ahead. This
is a cause for celebration. You know what I mean.
You don't have to use the holes you were given
as a concept as a concept. Can we get can

(18:09):
we get a sea horse cocktail? Please? I'll check with
the chef. Doesn't see your horse just hanging over it?
Just what we have on the scene. One scene too

(18:30):
comes from listener email from Nicole, who wrote, Hello Alchemists.
Every time I listened to your episodes, I tell myself,
oh my god, I'd love to hear them do x
Y or Z so I can piss myself at work again?
Yes again, thanks. Every time I finished an episode, I
forget or I'm too pleasantly toasted legally of course, to

(18:51):
right you guys, or I think to myself, I'm not
a patron subscriber. I have no right to suggest something
self esteem issues much so today I said to myself,
stopping a pussy and email them. Damn it. Anyway, I
have a list of ideas, but here is just one.
A teenage boy is given advice from a sketchy man

(19:13):
in an Apple's apple Bee's Thanks Apple Apple, Applebee's Restaurants, Applebee's,
thanks for the embarrassing workplace story that I will last.
That will last until I leave. Nicole from Maryland. Okay,

(19:34):
so that those are the specials? Uh, do you need
a minute or two? Or do you want to order?
I mean I'm fine, just waiting for an Anthony Uncle Ralph.
Do you want to doing order? Or I mean I
can come back. I'm pretty committed to getting something for
the two from the two for twenty on you. So

(19:56):
if we can't, if we can't decide on something to
go other than I don't know if we're actually gonna
get it on trade. We might just get appetizers. I'm
gonna give you a couple of minutes and come back,
Thank you, thank you. To drink while I'm gone. Yeah,
another ultimate margharita. Okay, okay, tomorrow huggies Okay, hey, come on,

(20:18):
pull yourself together like these are the options, just two
for twenty, just any of these. When you sent me
that weird what's app to meet you here? I agreed reluctantly. Okay,
but here I am so sorry. I have an internet
phone on way now right, so it's what's app or nothing?
All right? We're family, so thank you for I feel

(20:39):
like we've been family for a long time. To be honest,
the rest of the family thinks that you are still
living in the woods, so yeah, we don't. Don't. Don't
fucking say anything about this. I'm in the woods and
off the grid. I want to look like, is that
a gun in your belt? I mean, yeah, I live
in the woods. Like, just because I'm out of Apple
piece doesn't mean I don't live in the woods. Okay,

(21:01):
So what's this about? What do you is somebody to
tell me? Uh, well, really are you? We got a
new service. It's gonna be shott you today. His name
is Dylan, so just like take him around the ropes,
all right. I've worked at several restaurants, so I know
the routine, but I just don't know the specific routines.

(21:23):
Have you worked on Apple based before? I've worked at
a chili's, I've worked at a Ruby Tuesdays. I've worked
at a Bennigan's. You know, I find that the shortest
answer is the right answer, which is no, you haven't
worked that in Apple. Okay, so we do think a
little different. I worked at TJ Fridays as well. Okay,
so you still have not worked on is gonna show

(21:46):
you around? You see what we do around here? All right?
So this is your home, what you treated as your home. Okay, welcome,
welcome home. Is it Bianca or Bianca? And it Spianca
like he said it and like everyone says that name. Um,
that's the first question though. I mean, you know it's not.

(22:07):
It's not. Okay, and with me already he sucks with people,
Just so you know, welcome home. This is your fucking
annoying brother. I'm gonna call you Bianca. Oh go ahead,
I'm gonna call you coming upon Jesus. I don't know

(22:29):
what it means. So I wanted to I wanted to
ask you a favor and also give you some life advice. Uh,
it's you want to ask you for a favor and
then you want to give me a life advice. It's honestly,
the favor you're doing for me is the favor you're
doing for yourself In the end. It's lonely in the woods,

(22:51):
all right, there's nobody to talk to, but it's changed
my life for the better. You get your ultimate Margarita's Bhi, Guys,
I'm feeling I'm shadowing Bianca and coming apot today. My
name is Bianca, and I'm just gonna be keeping an
eye on him. Let me know if he does anything

(23:13):
bad or wrong. He's never worked at an Applebee's before
I heard you guys are having a little trouble figuring
out your two for twenty. Can I help you? Yes, yes, please, yes, please.
So the thing is, I like something kind of spicy,
but he's more of like a vegetable guy, is there?
What about the chicken sticken, chicken, that's not that's not
even here. Sorry, wait that sounds that's not an option.

(23:37):
It's so good, I mean it's it's it's slimed in
a sticky sauce. Oh my god, and that's a kick
to it. So I think that's the kicking stick chicken
like that that's not here. Just to reiterate what I've
been saying so you out loud, is that is not
an option here, um, and so you'll have to look
at our menu to see our option. Can I speak

(23:59):
to your boss? Please? Are you talking to me? Yes? Please? Oh,
I'm not I'm not her boss. It's my first day. Okay,
who did you think he was my boss? Well, he's
wearing a full suit, a three piece suit. I assume
that's how I work. He's dressing for the job he wants,
not the idiot he is. I am. I am a

(24:23):
floor manager. I've been working here for three years. I'll
just I'm gonna bring you some free apps and and
also I know this is your second margarita, but can
I see an I d Thank you so much. We're
ever looking forwards it for those apps. Don't be uncool,
don't Yeah, we were told this Applebee's was cool. You're

(24:47):
cool Applebee's. Thank you? All right? So a favorite and advice.
I need you to come out to with me and
love with me. Out there. It's lonely. No no, no,
don't say no. Don't say no. It's lonely up her,
but with another person will be great. But I need
to first gather some things from your house. No, no,
I'm in a serious relationship. I'm about to propose to

(25:08):
my girlfriend. Oh well, thank god I caught you. She's
not She's not good for you. She's gonna try to
control you. You've never met her, Yeah, but I've met
a lot of I was engaged once. Now you probably
don't know this, but you almost had an aunt. What. Yeah,
thank god I moved on to the woods. Wait, my
mother's brother almost had I don't even give a shit

(25:31):
about that, you know what I mean, because it's just
for me. It's all. It's all about this mood smoke,
you know. Yeah, yeah, and it's just good. When the
fuck is my goddamn boyfriend, like sixty minutes ago, a bitch,
Let borrow my truck, Let borrow all my extra wood,
borrow all my extra nails, should everything else. I haven't

(25:54):
seen him at days? What's that? Of course? I wanted
to say, are you gonna be yes? My ass is
so itch. It's okay. It comes with you know you
you have ass play. It's gonna get itched. Yeah. The

(26:16):
only thing she was good for was the gathering that
I did before I left her. We were six months
maybe it was six weeks. We were close to getting married.
Thank god I got away and without her, I was
finally able to quit smoking. Hi. Hi, So have we

(26:38):
decided on the two for twenty? What you guys are
gonna share? Because the one thing that he said is
we don't starve here. We wanted those free apps first,
really to help us decide, okay, foods? I thought, I
love that be right back. I was pretty smooth you
getting those free apps. That's the kind of thing we
need out in the woods. What the hell is three apps?

(27:04):
One app? One apps? There's an Yeah, I think at
least two you implied at least two apps. No, at
least two. We're doing six apps. We're doing six hats
we're gonna do. This is crazy. I know we're full Apple.
That is too cool. What's app? Oh? My god? At

(27:28):
Benegin's we called them starters. Uh, this isn't began. What's app?
I have this app short a shortened form of the
word appetiser, which is a small what like a snake? Us,

(27:51):
Mr Apataw, thank you so much for meding us here. Um,
we are a huge fan of your work, right, thanks, So,
we were thinking a comedy just a second, let me
read this text, Tolma, you were thinking of comedy, Yeah,
a comedy um, you know, set in a place. Let's

(28:11):
not set it yet. What's it about? People? Uh? Yeah,
you know what I mean? Because it's such a it's
such a it's such a relatable topic, right, yeah, well
people would relate to other people. Sure, sure, yes, see
you look at that. We were so excited. Let me
ask a different questions since I got nowhere with what's

(28:32):
it about? Um? Why do you need to tell this story? Well?
My wife is, um, a romance novelist. You might not
recognize her in person because she's a writer. Um, but
we were thinking of adapting I know who wife? Thank you.
I was going to try Denise and that would have

(28:52):
been my mistake. Thank you? All right, you want can
we get two more waters? Please? Do we get two
more waters? Ms? Barbarina? So what when? Uh? When does
this story take place? Mm hmm, Well it takes place
in a void and it and it avoid is filled

(29:13):
with body you know, you know, why don't we do this?
Why don't why don't me? And Dannis is there? Right? Yeah?
All right? Why don't mean? You? And what were the
two creatives? Honey, it'll be fine, it'll be fine. A
booth for two with this Applebie's so you're saying, hi, top,

(29:34):
what do you want? Excuse me? Can you bring over
a small bat of warm cream? So? What what do
you do? What do you like to put on your skin?
What do I like to put on my skin? Sure? Hi, guys,
I'm Dylan. I'm shadowing. Uh. Some have some complimentary asked

(29:57):
poppers from the asp ASP poppers. Sorry, I really gotta
hit both of those peas to make that clear. These
are asp ASP poppers. You've had Alipino poppers. These are
these are poppers with asph the poisonous snake. Chop up,

(30:20):
chop up one snake into little bites, and we deep
fry those bites, uh in breading with cream cheese. Look,
Uncle Patrick, I don't know. This sounds like a weird idea. Um,
don't look right now, but I think that's jut Apatow
even in the woods. You know who that is. I didn't.

(30:42):
I went to the woods not ten years ago, but
like five years ago, so you would be able to
recognize what he looks like. It's shut at over there. Listen.
The device you've been given me all day has been
a little sketchy, you know. Come on, come on, it's
not it's it's from the heart. You're telling me to

(31:03):
leave my girlfriend. And do you live with you? You
have your own noution the woods. You don't have to
share a place to me. I built my place. Yours
might be started small to start, but like, give us
some time, a couple of years, you'll have a Bianca's
looking at you. Oh yeah, I'm sorry, I got all

(31:28):
over me by guys. Thanks for your patients. I have
your complimentary appter here for you. Oh dude, that's nice,
but that's only one we were told apps. Okay, they
didn't know if you're gonna be nice or just literalist jerks,

(31:49):
but will be no biondo Where do you do you
live in the in the area? Why? I mean I don't.
I don't live far from you from here. We've noticed
you've been checking me out, and you don't have to
worry about it. You got worry about I've been checking

(32:11):
you out too, And if you live in the area,
then it's not far from the woods, you know. Oh
my god, I'm so sorry. I don't think I was.
I don't think I was checking you out. Um, And
if I gave that impression, I really do sincerely want
to apologize. It's that you seem to have some sort

(32:33):
of weeping lesions that are really cleaning your shirt. And
I was concerned, honestly about the booth um and I
was just trying to see if they are getting on
the pas. But it's poisonal. It's pis before you leave,
Before you leave? Is that? Is that Robina and Ja

(32:53):
Throbbina and and I think they're it's about to get
hot and heavy in here. She comes in here every
it's in a while, and then her I think it's
her clock. I don't know her that she comes in
with they go he goes to a different table and
then stuff goes down. But this is a cool Applebee's,
So just be cool and don't don't talk about it. Okay, okay, okay,

(33:16):
thank you. Did you guys want the ces lime chicken
that's your two for twenty? Is that similar to the
chicken chicken? I think it is. Yeah, it's analogous to that. Okay.
And if you decided which of our forty cheesecakes you'd
like for dessert? Uh wow, we didn't even think about
the Do we have to choose? Now? You? Do? You do?

(33:41):
They take to prepare so yeah, I'll don't take New
York style, right, I'll take the Scott the Scott cheese cake. Okay,
I'll do that to the Scott cheesecake. Did you write
that on the menu? I did. We don't have Scott
cheesecaket in Sharpiet the most special we should have Scott cheesecake.

(34:10):
And that is in too our very last scene. Suggestion
comes from our most prominent patron alchomaniac, Nicholas Mackauer to
Joey and Vanessa. We actually invited a couple of Alchemniacs
into the zoom for a little chat beforehand, and then

(34:33):
they could hang in the zoom on on mute but
watch and and so on, and we finally got to
meet this long time fans supporter. I feel like from
day one this guy was writing in and he was
delightful and charming. Um and uh. I just wanted to
give a special shout out to him. Yeah, he really
was a hero, I would say of Alchemy list, thank you, Nicholas,

(34:58):
And he wrote, Chris, sorry to bring this up, but
ever since your marriage vows every day has been considerably
worse than the last on a global scale. I mean,
technically that's true ship has fallen apart, Chris, since you
said yes all over the world. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know why he'd felt the need to draw a connection.

(35:18):
You aren't the anti Christ, right, totally cool if you
were just asking for anyhow a scene to remember, suspecting
your husband is in fact bills above. I want James
for this. Fuck it, Nick, m hmm, thank you so

(35:41):
much for for for for all the gifts and all that.
I think my folks should be getting in sometime next week.
But when they do, you know, popping it down. I'd
love to get dinner with everyone again. Um. And of
course you know, Marie, thank you so much for the wine,
and that's no problem I'm making myself. She does in fact, yeah,

(36:07):
you haven't seen toilet wine and teas, saying her, I
haven't drank it till you drank it, and standing. Thank
you so much again for the meal. It's been fantastic.
So we will. I'll hit you up next week or whatever,
my folks to It feels like you're short of wrapping up.

(36:28):
I didn't realize that was time for that. Uh are
we to go? Is that what's happening? This is I'm leaving?
Oh you're leaving because we could go, we could go
with right, Yeah, I don't think so. No, no, no,
we're leaving. Okay, it's just that the party's pretty much

(36:52):
so for in what way is this party over? Marty?
You see how much it's left in the jug? Marty?
Did you call her a bitch? Yeah? I don't know.
I guess I was feeling triggered by when she said
that bitchy country thing it was. And here we're going

(37:18):
to get out of here, Okay, you know you could
just go. You don't have to keep announcing it. And
also where to come with us? That's why I gotta
keep doing that. That's why worried. We are you scared?
Just it seems more as less with the toilet wine.
I feel like maybe we should have stopped one cup.
Should we walk you to your cars? I mean, how
bad are you feeling? We just took one car. Here,

(37:41):
we're good, We'll carry him. Let's carry him to their car.
Hop on, No, I'm not getting on his back. Hop
on so hot? Oh my god, it's been just pushed
into flames. What in the hell it's going on here?

(38:05):
That was sucking? Weird? You want me to fill up?
A cantego with some wine for you. No, no, no, no,
no no no. I haven't let leaving and leave me.
Hold down, hold down, you ain't leaving. Uh, tell me
what your seventh seal of worry is about the future. Oh,
I would hate to see myself spontaneously combust like what

(38:26):
if my husband? Well, you don't have to manifest it
right to me. You could just keep that to yourself.
I don't just please let me go, Please let me leave.
We have rabbits at home, rabbit count nobody nobody said
anything about rabbits. You mean like bunnies. Yeah, let's go

(38:47):
to your place and see the funny. Please don't go
to my place. We'll carry you hop on. Damn, this
is getting easier every day. You ain't it. Uh, let's
head on over of this apple base here. See what happens. Okay,
I want some pots stickers, right. I just want to

(39:10):
let you know this establishment is closed. Are you open it? Yeah? Well,
I mean it's you can see it's open quote unquote,
but I am personally boycotting it, so I would appreciate
the support in Oh, you don't work here, Well, well
I did you did? You did work here? And they don't.
They don't treat us well. And you know, plus in

(39:33):
what way do they they not treat you well? Just
curious people are generally shitty in there, right, and I'm
boycotting it, and I appreciate the support if you two
with boycotting your boy scout there was could you feed us?
I didn't see that coming. I mean she was hoping
to get some pots stickers, So I just wanted some

(39:55):
pots stickers. But you're telling that if everybody's boy scouting this, yeah,
does that mean we have to build a camp fires?
There's or there's certain knots involved and we should know
about what's your story? What? What's your story? What? Who's
asking me? I mean we're just we're getting to know
each other here. I'm a discussing employee who's boycotting this

(40:17):
established me and and and you get a local patrons
of this establishment. We live in the area. So when
we are hungry and we did not want to cooking
in our kitchen and we venture out the grocery store,
we'll come here and sometimes we did. Hello Fresh, they
bring it right to the door. You know, when you
can cook it up in your town? Are you talking?

(40:39):
You gotta get the hell out of your buddy. Get off.
You gotta get the hell out of here. Okay, off me,
I'll no, no, no, that's all right. It's I don't
worry to worry. Please come in. Uh. He's a local cook,
so he just gets cooked. Uh every restaurant that he
gets cooked. You're saying, he's not a cut from out
of town. No, he's a local car that local cut.

(41:03):
Come on it, come on it. Can I get you
a free drink? Maybe a free advertiser? I'm so sorry
for the convenience. Can we start with the table, of course? Yeah?
Both low top the top, It is both for lower
like some I know, I've been out in the woods
for a long time, but I know him when I

(41:24):
see him. Look over your left shoulder. See the horns
and that guy those a little tiny horns on his head.
You're saying that. You're saying that guy's a is a
is a devil or a demon of some kind. You
see it, You see it too, you see it too? Yeah? Yeah,

(41:45):
any who, thanks, I'm lost. I'm lost in these woods.
I'm certainly distressed by the by the horns. But I
don't know if you law so I feel like you
found something in the woods, would be you should stay.

(42:05):
You should stay and hang up for a while. I've
got an extra room in the police that built and
you can keep this. You can keep this painting at me?
Who this is? Uh? This is experimental. Well, honestly, that
was my first attempt at doing the Devil. It didn't
turn out good. I like, I want to keep the
real one with me. Well, there's kind of a ramshackle

(42:29):
place there. You've got room for me, well for now,
but if you stay with me, you're gonna have to
build your own place. And I'm expecting my nephew to
come out here soon. I think eventually it's gonna it's
gonna give the bug the bug bite to come on out.
It's not the little a bug bite, but it's gonna
start nipping out him. Well, I could be handy in
a pinch, I'll tell you that much. Well, that's good.

(42:53):
I'm glad you found me, Marvin. This is really wonderful.
I mean, my husband were just taking a stroll through
the woods. I couldn't help am not as you're beautiful, hotty.
He don't don't let them in. We were just don't

(43:13):
give him permission, vampires could come on in and say, howdy, neighbor.
Oh are we neighbors? Did you live out here in
these woods? We're local, local, local, not loco. Say local.

(43:35):
I said local. Well, it's kind of difficult to understand
what you're saying, sir. Maybe if we came in we
could hear you better. I've been advised not to invite
you guys in for fear of possibly being vampires. Vampires
they ain't real because of my husband's school powers. Yeah,

(43:57):
I'm just I'm just Jewish. That's why those are there.
Our score, pappas. Those things that they're deep fried with
cream cheese, those are good, asked papas as. Papa Lewis Um.
I don't know how to say this, but your uncle

(44:17):
Um was found completely drained of all fluid in his
home in the woods. And I'm still going all right,
we're still broken up. I know, You're just I'm still unpacking,
you see, my bags are packed. I know, but I
just found this out about your uncle, and I know
more stuff. Well, it just feels to me like what's

(44:40):
happening is my girlfriend is upset that I'm leaving her
because I'm moving to the woods. And now she's making
up a lot. Yeah, well your uncle was found drained
of all fluids because he gets damp. Heard you're gonna
go out there and get You're gonna get sucked off
in a bad way. You like that? You off fine?

(45:01):
You know, I didn't want to say this, but yeah,
oh really, right on my way out, you listen to
me go to the woods. I'm gonna I'm gonna miss
you when i'm out there. Okay, And what are you doing?
We were about to get we were about to get proposed,
do you I'm gonna miss you when I'm out there, Baby, Marty,

(45:28):
I don't understand why you won't publish a story on
all these this this local rash of fluid drainings. Well,
it's rather simple. We've had this story in here before,
so it's not fresh exactly. It's a pattern of deaths
that are affecting this entire community. My story local cuc
drained of all fluids. I'm sorry, it just feels tired.

(45:52):
You know, from like two years two years ago, the
beginning of the pandemic, everybody was drained, you know, the
fluids they're going and how is this my my conserstus, Well,
you haven't reported any mass shooting since Columbine. Yes, a B.
When the story is covered, you don't want to repeat it.
I watched the point, We've we've we've read it, we've

(46:13):
seen it, we published it, and now people want to
move on. All right, baby, I'm glad he chose to
come come with me. I think we're gonna find a
really nice community out here in the woods. Baby, it's
just your uncle. I don't know. I get the feeling
more people will be there. You know, how did you
get that feeling? Look around? Your looking your uncle was
strained of all. What the hell? What are you? I'm

(46:41):
a lady. Hell, I'm just a lady. I'm a lady,
and you're welcome to the woods. We're glad to have
you come on. This is what I'm talking about. Isn't
this your uncle's place? Are you two kids? An item?
What they call all in the paper. I'm not a child.

(47:02):
I'm twenty four. Okay, you're aggressive too, are you and Adam?
Are you hitched? Yes? Yes we are. Well we're kind
of like we're kind of in the well. We'll see. Okay,
say I've been their sister. You know what you have
to do? Looking for. You gotta first survey here. So
I let me give a piece of advice to the young, beautiful,

(47:24):
fleshy woman. Listen when them when the fella says he's
not sure, he's dragging his feet, do you know what
you gotta do, your sister. No, you gotta take his feet.
You gotta you aint him up on top of your shoulders,
and you gotta gobbling with you, gobbling with you. Take

(47:47):
your feet on top of my shoulders and then go
with you, gobble him with you, so you it's a
goblin with me. Thank you everyone who's gathered here as
we watch our dear friend Marvin mceugh take his last breath.

(48:09):
We're live streaming this right Okay, how do we know
when it's the last one. I'll let you know. He'll
he'll let us know. Um. He requested all of you, specifically,
all the characters he's meant in his life to be
in this room with him today. People, people would say,

(48:29):
People people comment, I think I like to make doubt
she's real. College you ought to be dealt with. Did
you want to say something? I just so I feel
like it was inappropriate to invite me. I only had
him at my hotel one time, and honestly I didn't

(48:50):
enjoy his company. Do you remember what room he was?
I think it was fourteen twelve or something. There's no
way to find out. You can't do even a search
without specifics, basically a ship this time. You know he's
a bad guy. Yeah, he's not a bad guy. Remember

(49:12):
remember when he was on that TV show with that kid.
It's like a reality show. Yeah, what was that? I
don't know, he doesn't remember, squat. This might be the last.
This might be the last one. No, damn. I was
just about to hey you too, the Australians back there.

(49:37):
Your way through, but your way through. I know you
had some interactions with Mr MQ. I'm going to say something.
Go ahead, yeah, I I mean I think we did.
Not Hans are preceen if we did. But regardless, I
want to be here if it's someone's final death breath
and uh just happy to be here. Right. It feels

(50:02):
like it could be a good times so that maybe
he'll go up or maybe he'll go under a sorry
no are and are are? It's not to be invoted.
We you know, eats said, but it's all sorry maybe
not said. I don't really nice, so good to see

(50:27):
so many old friends and uh and have so many
stream Oh shame, it's got a lot of viewers. I
think we gotta keep it going till that less. I
think someone's stuck on an elevator. Hold on, what's what's yeah? Yeah? Yeah,

(50:55):
yeah yeah, marm, marm. Yeah. Well we're gonna keep this
dream going. What do you want to say? I was
gonna say this place used to be a brothel years ago,
but no, there haven't been this many pimps since since then.
Uh but uh oh, so so many callbacks, I mean memories.

(51:20):
Uh but yes, Uh, I'm I've lived a good, good life.
I'm a hundred and twenty two years old and I've
I've done so many things, lived so many lives. What
was the third thing you did? What it was? Booked
my pants? Right, we're not gonna end on that. I

(51:50):
was just backing. I was the machine the hell out
of me. I'm sorry, you're a little you're a little pitchy.
You might want to work on that. I guess you here. Yeah,
to be rude, But is there a reason to believe
that ms mcugh is dying? That's a valid question. That
was the only information I had. Yeah, and and technically

(52:13):
we're all dying. But Marvin, how do you feel? I
feel fine because you look like a hundred damned dollars.
I'll tell you what. Well, that's good to hear. Yeah,
what happens when I pinched sprinkle up? Wrinkle up and green?
That's wrinkled up and it's a joke. I'm a character.

(52:36):
Oh she's a card, real cut up. But how what
happens when I pinched this tube? Well? Nothing, nothing, nothing,
I'm hard to kill, you know, that's just one of
my two Sorry my back. I don't think he's dying.

(52:59):
I think anyone watching the stream. Yeah, but they're all
really upset now that there's no death. People did tune
in for death. You're not wrong. I mean one of
us could volunteer. I suppose volunteer. Yeah, yeah, we need

(53:20):
someone on camera. I think, oh, well, listen, we could
also wait for one of them nurse people to come
in and just snuff them out as a group. As
a group, I mean it's for the fans, right, Yeah,
I wouldn't listen to the guy with the horns. That's

(53:40):
anti semitic, right there, Marvin Well, I I didn't mean
to be. I'm I'm Jewish myself. Are you do you? Guys?
Put the camera on the elevator. That guy's head is
caught in that. Don't hold the door, let it go.
Hold Look it looks like he's holding some pumper nickel.

(54:09):
Oh that is our show. Oh man, Well we tried,
we tried to move. Oh manly apologies. No, that was
that was perfection as we stumbled down memory lane only
to be uh cuckled. Ah what a damn hell wonderful gathering.

(54:33):
And man, oh man, we uh will say so long
for now. At some point. I don't know if it's
goodbye forever, but we will be allowed legally to gather
again at some point should we choose to, but we will.
We'll say goodbye to the to the fans of this
particular podcast for now. Joey, how long do you expect for?

(54:55):
How much longer do you expect to live? Um? A
couple of thousands? Okay, all right? And uh, have you
had one COVID test since you've been ill? No, I've
had three, had so I've had three and then today was, uh,
you're you're positive, which is so crazy because I had
I was sick as you can hear, and then I

(55:19):
took the test. So this is just a little COVID advice.
Two years in. It might be sick taking a test
that I'm negative, but it's gonna take a couple of
days before it like pops up as possy. Uh huh.
And these are the hometown Will you find the home
test to be a little rinky dink? Even the alleged
good ones? Did you go somewhere and have people swap
you from the outdoor? No? No, I did the Uh,

(55:41):
I did the rinky think ones. I went to the
I got the CBS, not the uh not the abbot
to buy the next ones with those orange ones? Uh huh,
that's the one I have, all right, James settled down, James, James.
Uh yeah, Jamie was testing positive and then she got

(56:01):
an antigen test because apparently can test positive also. I mean,
you're only a couple of days into this, but you
can you can test positive for allegedly months, So the
antigen tests will tell you if you're in fact contagious,
right right, Because it's all we've learned so much, haven't
we go When this podcast started, we were so stupid.

(56:23):
We didn't even know about antigen tests or PCRs and
look at all this growth we've had. I feel good
about that growth as well. We're still stupid technically, but
we do know a lot more about viruses and how
to fight them or get them, get them and survived them.

(56:44):
Uh well, Joey, much love to your family for looking
after you. I also have another podcast, yes please if
people want to come hear me scream some more. It's
called you Know What I Would Do. It's me and
my comedy partner Mike Castle, and we just talk about
different random things, from the fall of Rome to the

(57:05):
met Gala to the naming of the hot Dog. We
talk about what that is to us, all the information
we know, and then we would say, well we would
do if we were in charge of that situation, and
folks define that wherever podcasts are available exactly and you
can find it at you know, underscore pod on Instagram.
Somebody had much, somebody had the other one. So that's

(57:25):
too much. We're gonna do? What are gonna do? What's
the name of the podcast again? Do you know what
I would do? That's correct? And thank you? I feel better,
thank you. Uh yeah, I hope you're able to poop
some God, I hope I can eat something too. Let's
not rush that. You're right, start with a cracker. And also,

(57:46):
let me say this has been a blast four years
right now. I mean this has been really fun. We've
met so many great people, insane scenes. Vanessa, you're a
thousand percent right, like it is unhinged to the max.
It's been so much fun. And especially during like covid
on like it was a nice retreat, you know, it

(58:07):
was a good, fun kind of home base to come
back to and performing. Yeah, in the real scary thick
of it. It really became a weekly touchsnowe for for me.
I don't know about the rest of you, but yeah,
something I really look forward to, almost as much as today.

(58:27):
But yeah, it was once we stopped having to look
at each other, I think the show really picked up
person to look into the camera of the computer or
device or look at each other in the boxes. That
was always the difficult transition for me, what do we
look at? But yeah, thank you for that, Joey, And thanks, um, thanks, thanks,

(58:52):
thanks Vanessa. Uh the theaters coming up on five year anniversary, eiter, Um,
so many extraordinary shows. Is it's still Donny C. Typewriter
dot com. That's the place that is on the internet
for the calendar mm hm and you can see things.

(59:13):
And because of the pandemic, we started doing live streams
and so now we're doing some hybrid shows still, which
are really fun as a way to keep things out
in the world. Um, and we might be doing classes
and stuff soon. But yeah, this, uh, this whole journey
has been so special, and the timing of alchemy this
I wish I had had more bandwidth for everything. But

(59:34):
my life is mostly the theater and then the children. Um,
and it's a good life. But this is such a
fun part of it. And I thank you guys for
inviting me back to this episode. I'm almost gonna cry.
But it means a lot to um to be with
everybody because this is like such a good safe playground
and I am so appreciative and it felt good to

(59:54):
actually improvise after all these years. I imagine, yes it did, yeah,
I mean it was. It was a bit of a
departure you, um so wow, just terrific and thank you
yeah yeah yeah uh. Craigkowski coming around the horn, you
are headed into booking more shows that James was so

(01:00:21):
close to getting. Is that what I'm sensing? Uh, Well,
the Continuing Adventures Marvin mqugh will continue on the Chemistry
that podcast. Oh what about The History of the World
Part two? That's a television series you did? When does
that drop? Yeah? You know, I've got a few things
like in the books that I have no idea when

(01:00:43):
they're gonna air. Like I've got got a guest spot
on the History of the World the part two The
mel Brooks Show. I have heard no word about when
that premieres, but that's gonna be on Hulu on Hulu. Yeah,
And I'm about to shoot a a bit part in
a movie that's a drama, and you're gonna see way
more of me than you would like to. Oh. But yeah,

(01:01:07):
so I'm kind of moving away from the comedy, moving
more into the nude drama. So you're in the new
season in Bridgetain that the people have spoken and that's
what they want to see. Holding over Miami, got it? Yeah,
but this I mean to have the original cast back

(01:01:29):
today was like such a such a treat and like
to to just play with everyone and like it's so
joyous and and fun and I thank you for the
uh for keeping it alive and for for creating it,
and like what a what a great opportunity for us
all to uh to have a blast and to to
get closer as as friends and as collaborators. So I

(01:01:52):
love to you all. Oh nice, so nice. Yeah, well
you were such a corner stone Craig that um, you know,
Vanessa had a contrant in the theater and the children,
Joey had nineteen plates to spend, and we somehow pressed
on with some amazing guest alchemists. But as soon as
Craig said I think I'm a step away, Chris and

(01:02:14):
I started texting each other's thing. Well that's it. Well,
that's it. Cornerstone is checking out. We gotta go. So
thank you for being that cornerstone, Craig, Chris Buddyo pal Um,
thank you. You know you. I feel like you've been

(01:02:35):
an emotional heart and uh of the whole thing and
in a sense of family. Uh. Also, you were guest
hosting a couple of times that I think you enjoyed. Yeah,
based on some stats I saw hosts. Yeah we should
should we talk about the Yeah. Also just thanks man,

(01:02:59):
I'm this is the dream team. I remember when we
had lunch Kevin and you talked about this idea so
many years ago, and U and I just I just
was like, yeah, this is it. This is the team.
Every one of you guys like this is incredible, and
it's been incredible. I don't think I ever found my
footing in the Zoom situation. Though it's a little hard

(01:03:21):
for me, a little a little difficult for me, but
happy to have a place to come every week. Um,
and you know, we're all still doing a bunch of
shows everywhere and we'll continue to do them for the
rest of our lives. So you know, that's that's fun.
And you know, I'm kind of building my own, uh
my own improv training empire. I just sold out my
first six week class, so you know, I'm trying my

(01:03:43):
own stuff here. I don't have it landed on a
branding name, but right now we're dealing with the Chris
Verona Improv Workshops. If that's something you ever want to
give it a shot. I do in person workshops, I'm
having classes, and I still do online stuff. If that's
I just want to say that out loud so it
lives here. Yeah, I'm really I'm really proud of the
work we're doing there though it's not that funny. Frankly,

(01:04:05):
it's a little more dramatic. But anywhere, that's that, That's
what I've got going on. I just I'm not I'm
gonna see you guys forever and see you guys on
TV and on stage. But yes, let's mention here real quickly. Uh.
A gentleman named Jason Sura name, Yeah, but it's yes,
fine morse surname which would be interesting last name right. Um.

(01:04:29):
He showed us an email. I'm gonna read this real quick,
he said, Hello, funny people. I hope you don't mind,
but I logged every appearance of every Alchemy this across
every episode y'all have made and put together this dashboard
and here's a link here. Um, it's a really interesting idea.
But what from what we can gather from the small
amount and we've we've looked at it. It's just a way,

(01:04:52):
it's a hub of way of locating every episode with
every player and every combination you can think of. So
if you want to see, if you want to hear
a show with Vanessa hosted by Cole, I think you
can find these. There's an algorithm there in place. I
don't know too much about it, but check it out
at public dot tableau dot com, slash views, slash alchemy

(01:05:16):
this al comic tricksy. I think, I think if you
go to public dot tableau dot com, I'm sure you
can search alchemy this and find this really incredible, incredible,
uh database of everything we've ever done. So thank you
to to Jason for his contribution. Yeah, that's kind of

(01:05:40):
extraordinary and just a scoche creepy, but I love every
square inch of it. Um. Yeah, James, I want to
reiterate that that that database is amazing. We have just
gotten it, so it's kind of exciting and it's kind
of mysterious still. If can't mind it there, it's on

(01:06:01):
the Alchemy This pod, the Alchemy pod on Reddit, so
there's a link to it there, and I'm also going
to make sure that that's on the Alchemy This Patreon page,
which is going to So far, everybody that I've written
to has said that they're okay with it being free,
which was kind of a caveat. So all of the
Alchemy This Patreon stuff, the minis and the the live

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shows and the green room stuff is gonna be for
free for anybody on the Patreon, So any of you,
everyone listening can sign up to that. Anybody they can
sign up. It's gonna be free. Whatever the free tier is,
you take that, and I'm going to make sure that
that's living there. If for some reason they're gonna make
me take it down or I don't know what's gonna
happen in the future, but as of now, it's free
and as far as I can, as long as I

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can control it, it's gonna be free. Um. I don't
see any reason we get taken down, and I'll have
the links to the YouTube channel things with all of
the zooms uh. And I've had so much fun doing
the show. I love doing and honestly, zoom Improv doesn't
bother me as long as it's with people that I'm
connected with. I struggle with it also with people that

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I haven't worked with in the past. But I plan
on starting another podcast which almost identical borderline thievery of
the format, and it's going to be called Original Understudies, um,
and kind of the idea of like, maybe this isn't
the cast you expected, but these understudies, well they're pretty original,
and it's gonna be at Original Understudies dot com and yeah,

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so I would love it. My hope is is that
it might not be something that you can do all
the time, but maybe once in the blue moon, if
I could get any of the Alchemists to join, that
would be will blow my fucking mind, is what it
would do. Thank you for that, James, And uh godspeed?
And are you going to be okay? James? I mean

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I was. I was never gonna be okay. I think
you guys took me from a from a pretty like
I thry even this kind of world, so that it is.
It is heartbreaking, honestly, but at the same time, I'm
excited to see what comes next. I feel like always
when one thing seems to close, I have been so

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lucky that there's a dozen doors that open in front
of me. Fantastic When well said for a change, I
uh um, well, yeah, so this was a ridiculous notion
I had that I shared with Chris that day at lunch.

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I'd been to the West Side Comedy Theater enough times
to see some brilliantly uh gifted improvisers who were fearless
and fast and mostly funny, So I thought, um, what
would happen right if we didn't allow people to move
around while improvising and sit at a table in front

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of microphones. It was really stupid, uh as as that
process goes, but um, everyone kind of thrived in the
room and then yes, the pandemic allowed forced us to pivot.
So yeah, it really became or has been through this
journey an extraordinary experience in every which way. And to

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know whenever I had to step aside because of this,
that or the other thing, that uh, not only Cole
Stratton will thank him, but also members here in the Zoom,
Kristen James and Craig uh could step in as as
guest hosts, which empowered James to realize, oh I can
fucking do this and watch him, watch him sore um

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as I know all of you will continue to do.
And thank you for each of you for taking the journey.
Um and and yeah, just on a completely selfish level
that allowed me to to realize this nutty idea. And
uh so yeah and thanks to all the listeners and
viewers and Doug Bam and I Radio and yeah, Sophie

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was one of our producers early on. She was great.
Balls were on the ceiling all the time, the dogs, balls,
dog Anderson Cooper right, glass ceiling between us and the
second floor, and her dog and it's testicles did, in
fact walk over our heads several times. Thank you for
that memory, James I had somehow let it go. Uh.

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Never again, that's what we say, never again, never again.
Um yeah. God clearly don't want to say goodbyes, so
we'll say so long for now to each and every
one of you. And until next time we meet, be well,
uh joey poop, and and thank you.