October 23, 2025 • 53 mins
What does it really take to build something that lasts—through late-night doubts, hard conversations, and a global pandemic?
This week, we sit down with Scott Field, co-owner of Third Coast Comedy Club in Nashville, to trace the journey from a single improv class to a gathering place where friendships deepen, creativity thrives, and community shows up for one another. From a freezing Boston bridge to a drizzly Nashville parking lot, Scott shares how Third Coast grew—not just as a business, but as a kind of chosen family.
We talk about:
- Surviving COVID as a small business—and what it taught him
- The quiet power of consistent partnerships and shared values
- Letting go of ego and building with others for the long game
- The role of classes in forming connection, not just revenue
- The power of listening
This episode is for the builders—the people crafting spaces that hold others up. It’s for anyone trying to run a small business with heart, grow partnerships that survive friction, and stay rooted in values even when the map changes.
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SPEAKER_02 (00:00):
Uh what's something crunchier then that you've done
lately?
SPEAKER_03 (00:03):
Uh well, honestly, um I was thinking about this and
I probably overthought it.
Uh came up with 10 differentthings.
But I'm just gonna go with theone we were just talking about
um before you formally asked methat, which was I rode my bike
over here to sit with you andtalk.
(00:24):
So I guess riding my bikethrough the city.
So I think that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_02 (00:28):
Is it kind of crazy in Nashville to ride your bike
all over?
Or you generally feel like Ipeople give give way.
SPEAKER_03 (00:35):
First, I'm just gonna say, because this'll be a
uh an opening sort ofunderstanding of me as a
personality and person ingeneral.
I'm just kind of a weird person,I think.
And I say that affectionatelybecause I also don't dislike
myself, but it's more just likeI just I'm a little odd.
(00:55):
I don't find it um like I justdon't find it uh scary to ride
my bike through a city.
SPEAKER_02 (01:13):
Welcome to my crunchy zen era.
This is a weekly podcast filledwith a little fun, a little
humor, and a whole lot ofcuriosity.
I'm your host, Nicole Swisher,and this week my guest is Scott
Field.
Welcome, Scott.
SPEAKER_03 (01:27):
Yeah, you pronounced my name correctly too.
Did I?
Yeah, a lot of people, you know,they're like, uh how is it what
do I do with the second T?
No, I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_01 (01:34):
I'm like, what?
SPEAKER_03 (01:36):
Also, it's the most vanilla Scott.
I mean, and Field.
I mean, it's just very easy toYou had me.
SPEAKER_00 (01:46):
I was like, um, okay, well, I'm very proud of
myself.
SPEAKER_03 (01:49):
I know.
I was like, I'm not getting aresponse from her.
What is going on?
Okay, that makes sense.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
That's welcome.
Scott is one of the owners ofThird Coast Comedy Club.
Um, so I'm very excited to haveyou here.
SPEAKER_03 (02:02):
Yeah, it's it this is fun.
Uh I'm glad you invited me.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_02 (02:06):
So, what's a memory that you'd like to relive and
why?
SPEAKER_03 (02:10):
Oh, um.
Oh, this is a good one.
A memory I would like to relive.
Um Okay.
So this is this is in Boston,and um this is in 1996.
Speaking of winters, it was justa wicked cold day.
I mean, driving.
(02:31):
And the thing about Boston isit's right on the ocean, so even
though the water's cold, it likemakes it warm enough that you
don't quite get the snow, butyou get like frozen, pelted like
little pieces of ice particles,and it's very windy.
Uh so I was finishing up aworkout.
Um I think I was in my late 20s,um, 27 or 28.
(02:53):
And uh there was an indoor trackat BU, and uh I had met uh some
guys over there.
We did this workout with acoach, and then we were doing a
cool down, and I ran out intothe snow with these guys, and
we're crossing the Charles atlike this really sort of wide
part of the Charles River, andwe got out on the bridge and the
wind just kicked up, and like Iwas slogging through this piled
(03:15):
up snow, and I just came to astop.
And I think I would like torevisit like what was going
through my mind in that moment,because that was actually a big
transition for me.
Uh, but what I would really liketo see again was just the city,
sort of in that wintry sort ofhaze of s falling snow.
(03:36):
So the lights are all kind ofgolden, sort of along the
perimeter of the river.
It was very beautiful.
Uh it was beautiful justobjectively, I think, and I
would love to see it again.
Um, it was just a really coolmoment to hear all the snow and
feel it, and then just knowthat, like, oh, I'm about to
make a decision and just stepback into my headspace in that
(03:58):
moment.
SPEAKER_02 (03:59):
So can you tell our listeners a little bit about
Third Coast?
And we have mentioned it a fewtimes on this podcast.
SPEAKER_03 (04:06):
So Yeah.
Um, yeah, so Third Coast is it'sa small venue.
Uh it's actually, I mean, Iguess technically we're we've
we're reduced to two venues now.
It used to be three.
Um, but we have like a mainstage venue.
So it's a it's a comedy venue.
Um, and we have a bar.
Uh and by small, I mean we're wehave 88 seats in the main stage
(04:30):
area.
And then at one of our upstairsvenues, we could seat 30 to 50
depending on the configuration.
And we're um fire marshal codeapproved for both of those
numbers.
So uh up to ninety up toninety-nine downstairs.
So uh but we have to leavenumbers for the cast too.
SPEAKER_00 (04:49):
Oh, that's true, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:50):
Yeah.
But um, so but what is it?
It's it's just a comedy venue.
Um and I would say most of whatwe book uh and what appears on
stage is uh improv comedy,improvised comedy, but also
stand-up comedy and some sketchcomedy and some musical comedy.
Um we do film and video uh sortof like mini festivals.
(05:12):
There's some people in thecommunity that do that.
So we have all kinds of thingson stage.
But that's kind of our um Iwould say that's mostly what we
try to do is just have as manyinteresting, kind of fun,
creative things on stage, butcomedy centric.
SPEAKER_02 (05:28):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And and Thurkost is actuallywhere I started my stand-up
show, Cheaper Than Therapy, inthe loft, and that was very fun.
You guys have been great.
SPEAKER_03 (05:36):
How was that experience?
That's a very small yeah, okay.
It felt it didn't feel toosmall.
SPEAKER_02 (05:41):
No, I like the loft because it was my first time
producing anything, and um it'sa very it's like a box and it
feels very intimate.
Right.
Um, and we ended up selling itout, and so it was just
completely filled, and I thinkwe were up there for like quite
a while before we went on to themain stage.
SPEAKER_03 (06:00):
You know, I okay.
I remember seeing the um logothat you put together, and I was
like, who is this?
What is this show?
I'd like to see it.
I didn't get a chance to see it.
Um but that's the kind of nicething about the theater, is
there's in the community it'sway bigger than anything I can
reasonably keep track of, or ormy business partner Luke.
(06:21):
Um and uh that's really cool.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Um also I think that's the otherpart of the answer is um we're
an incubator.
Like that should be that's whatyou described, totally what
we're about, but veryappropriate for what we want to
see happen and what should behappening.
And if you compare to like otheruh like venues like that, like
(06:46):
Zany's, of course, not acompetitor venue.
Um that's they have I think six,it's a franchise, they have like
six um venues they started inChicago.
Um and that's really strictlyfor stand-up.
They they're branching out.
I'd like to think it's becauseLuke and I started Third Coast
and they added another stage.
(07:06):
So Nashville, you're welcome.
Instead of just one Zanies, yougot a Zanies and a Third Coast,
and you got a Zanies and a ThirdCoast, and now a Zany's lab.
So now there's three stages inNashville.
Which is great.
Which puts us on par with citieslike Denver or Austin.
I'm kind of being facetious.
(07:29):
Nashville has, I mean two.
SPEAKER_02 (07:31):
And how did you get into improv?
SPEAKER_03 (07:33):
Yeah, um, that was in Boston, and my old theater
was called Improv Boston, whichsadly closed uh because of
COVID.
Um and COVID's a kind of aninteresting, again, turning
point, sort of a bridge momentum for a lot of venue operators,
uh, which I can m uh circle backto uh briefly.
(07:54):
But uh it was in it was improvBoston again in my this was
after that bridge moment Idescribed at the opening of your
show.
I made a decision not to run.
Uh I thought I was a competitiverunner.
I had a sponsorship and I waslike, oh, I'm gonna do this.
But then I was like, what thehell am I doing?
I'm not actually talented enoughto run with national level.
I mean, I can run with them, butI'm not like world class, so so
(08:17):
I was like, what am I gonna do?
And then I took an improv classat Improv Boston.
Um and it was so fun.
It was like eight of us.
It was a tiny little group.
My next level class had three ofus, but they ran it anyway.
Uh Improv Boston was in a smallformer uh um hardware store in
(08:39):
uh it was actually in Cambridge,although it was called Improv
Boston.
But you know, if you've been toBoston, all those little cities
kind of run together.
SPEAKER_04 (08:45):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (08:46):
And they all just say Boston, because if you say
like Somerville, I guess if yousay Cambridge, people not from
that area might know where thatis.
SPEAKER_02 (08:53):
I think Harvard, right?
Yeah, Cambridge.
SPEAKER_03 (08:55):
MIT, exactly.
You got it.
Um so um, so that's where Istarted, and I was there
from '96 to two thousand four,which is when I moved here.
Discovered there was nothinggoing on, found some other goofy
goofers, and we started doingsome improv on our own.
Um in fact, there was a goodfriend of mine had moved here
(09:15):
from LA.
She was doing work at thegroundlings, and so we created a
little group uh that lasted forabout five years until 2010, and
then I just took a break andthen uh was kind of intermittent
for the next five years.
Um, and then met Luke, and thenwe started uh Third Coast uh in
(09:38):
a parking lot conversation in2015 and opened in 2016.
SPEAKER_02 (09:42):
So what was like the impetus behind it?
Why did you guys think thatNashville needed it?
SPEAKER_03 (09:48):
Uh well you your question presumes like some sort
of level of a thoughtfulengagement.
But it was really more like itwas really more like uh the
place, actually, I was gonna saythe building that my group was
performing in, it was calledMusic City Improv.
Music City Improv was kind ofthe leftovers from that previous
(10:10):
version called Improv Nashville,which I'd started with my friend
Emily Volman.
And um uh we were gonna lose thespace.
And the space was actuallycalled the building.
Uh, it was subsequentlydestroyed by the tornado,
leveled.
It's behind Drifter's barbecueat five points in East
(10:31):
Nashville.
It's no longer there.
Um and so uh we were gonna losethat space, and it was on the
same night that Luke, uh hisgroup, L O L Nashville, had
secured a venue downtown, and hecould tell you where it was
exactly, but it was downtown.
But then the venue operatorcalled him the week before their
(10:52):
show and said, Hey, got a lastminute booking with a band.
Their bar revenue is gonna betwice what you guys have done in
the past, so you guys are out.
And um Luke got upset, and I waskind of just like baseline
upset, but I had this previousexperience with Improv
Nashville.
We had a space on 12th South,actually, before it blew up.
(11:16):
Um it's the building next to thepark that's kind of set back.
I think that there's like aPilates studio on the second
floor.
That's where we were.
We were there for about a year.
Um anyway, uh, so I'd had thatexperience.
I thought that was fun and easy.
Um so uh and the real quick waswe were teaching a class
together.
So I was doing stuff with MusicCity, he was doing things, and
(11:40):
by doing stuff and doing things,sorry, those are vague words, I
just mean running a class.
Yeah.
So uh we were running classes,but we didn't have enough
registrants to actually make theclass.
Like I had four and he had four.
And Luke was like, hey, what ifwe combine our classes?
And I said, and I completed histhought.
I said, we'll have eightstudents.
Um uh thank you.
(12:02):
That was really dumb.
Anyway, uh so we did, and weenjoyed the experience of
teaching together.
So we did it a second time, andit was during that second time
that we both had these sort ofbad news pieces for our
respective teams.
And we were in the parking lot,it was a little drizzly, uh, but
not frozen rain, just regular,you know, run-of-the-mill, human
(12:25):
level, watery rain.
And um he's like, ah, mmm.
And I was like, what's wrong?
He's like, I'm mad.
And I was like, I'm upset too.
He's like, what's wrong withyou?
And I was like, I'm not gonnahave the space to do any shows.
He's like, I just got kicked outof a show.
Dang it.
Um, and then he said, becausethis is important because he
started, he said, I've beenthinking about just doing
(12:46):
something on my own.
And I was like, I have been too.
And then he said, Well, whathave you been thinking?
And I said, Well, here's whatI've been thinking.
And I described uh basicallyjust opening a video.
I mean, how complicated can itbe?
Answer, not really.
It's just a space where there'syou know an open area for
actors, some place for theaudience to sit, some lights.
(13:08):
Um, so that's how it started.
It was really just out offrustration.
SPEAKER_02 (13:13):
Yeah.
And were you always in themarathon village where you're at
now, or did you start somewhereelse?
SPEAKER_03 (13:18):
So that was about a year plus search.
Uh, we were about to give up.
Um, it felt like uh prices inNashville were kind of going up
as we were looking in that 12months, and we could already not
afford them when we started.
So as we went through theprocess, we were less able to
afford them.
And uh, but uh Barry Walker, theowner of that property, um said,
(13:45):
I like you guys and let us in.
Um now that was a um sublease,but there was a gene
manufacturing place called I'm aJean and Willie's, I think.
They they make like customhigh-end jeans.
And they had they actually had aplace in there where they made
them.
So, because when we first walkedin, it was just open.
So if you've been there, you youknow, the theater and then the
(14:07):
bars in the back, that wallwasn't there.
It was just a completely singleuh box, open box.
And there were parallel rows oflike these four outlet um uh uh
yeah, just like outlets hangingfrom the ceiling.
Um and that's where they had alltheir sewing machines and things
like that.
And it was like very dusty inthere, but like with fiber and
(14:29):
threads and things.
So we we took over their leaseand uh Barry allowed it and they
gave us really good termsundermarket.
But I mean, you've seen theplace.
And undermarket means there's noconditioning of the air in the
hallways.
Um it's uh lighting is poor, um,the streetscape is not super
well lit.
It's much better than it used tobe.
(14:50):
It used to be just very dark andforeboding.
And the bathrooms are terrible.
You know, bathrooms are just Iyeah, they are.
Sorry, um sorry, Barry.
But uh thank you.
But also sorry about saying thatabout your bathrooms.
SPEAKER_02 (15:04):
Was it uh uh now it is like a tourist destination.
Was it different when youstarted over there?
SPEAKER_03 (15:11):
No, because um the American Pickers people were
there, which they've since left.
SPEAKER_02 (15:15):
Oh I didn't realize that.
SPEAKER_03 (15:18):
And uh there were there was not nearly the
machinery that's in the hallway.
Um and so uh but yeah, it was itwas kind of touristy already.
And um, it does ha that thatkind of tourists was never our
customer, so it's never been abenefit to us to be there.
Uh the only benefit has beenthat we had a space that we
(15:41):
could afford it, and there wasuh uh relatively available
parking.
So and all of that's changed.
SPEAKER_02 (15:47):
So I've had a I had a few shows so I think we we
were every month for at least 12months.
And there were definitely a fewshows where we had bachelor art
parties show up.
Oh and like one of them Iremember they were just like
front row and like ready to go.
The comedians loved it.
SPEAKER_03 (16:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (16:07):
And they were so early too.
I was like, what are you guysdoing here?
Because everyone's late to astand-up show.
That's kind of cute.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (16:13):
You know, they of all the places they could go and
things they could see, that theywent over there.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (16:18):
I don't know.
I feel like it was the name.
They were like, we need therapyon this bachelorette party.
SPEAKER_03 (16:24):
So Yeah, actually, that's a uh have you thought
about that?
Like bringing it back and likemarketing it that way.
SPEAKER_01 (16:31):
For bachelorette party.
SPEAKER_03 (16:32):
Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_01 (16:33):
Oh goodness, I am not supportive of the
Bachelorette culture.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (16:37):
So that that's I'm uh to be fair, I am also not
supportive of any of that.
But uh I was just thinking,yeah, you know, if you wanted to
get some grocery money.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (16:48):
But we'll you could be subversive too.
So there could be some messagingas part of your act that kind of
just like gets in their heads,they go back to wherever they're
coming from, start living theirlives, and they're like, oh, you
know, that comic.
And then maybe they'redifferent.
I don't know.
Just spitballing.
SPEAKER_02 (17:05):
Yeah.
So uh do you currently perform?
SPEAKER_03 (17:08):
Uh yes, although I just um talked to uh my friend
and director and producer andsaid, Hey, I need to take a
break.
Uh it was the murder mysteryshow, the improvised murder
mystery show.
Um so uh he invited me to jointhat cast when they created it.
And that's really the um I meanI do have done kind of one-off
(17:28):
things here and there, buthonestly, uh since we opened
nine years ago, I haven't reallybeen a part of like a regular
performing ensemble.
SPEAKER_02 (17:38):
Is it uh related to like Third Coast taking up more
time like running it or was itsomething like that?
SPEAKER_03 (17:44):
I think it's I think it's honestly that.
I think um there's uh and and mypartner's kind of gone through
the same phase, but he's muchyounger than me.
So he was uh still had that sortof youthful energy where he
could do both, and then COVID uhhe was like, I don't think I can
do that.
(18:05):
But also he's uh over the yearstaken on more and more
responsibility um because therewas a while where I wasn't
teaching full time, I was justat the theater.
Uh, but it just was notgenerating the money I needed.
I had I have kids and I had anda house and some major expenses,
so I had to get a real job.
So you're teaching high school.
(18:25):
Turns out there's not a lot ofmoney in improv.
Yeah, so I teach high school.
Um but uh um and so we're sowe're both not really
performing.
We just and I think for well,I'll just speak for myself.
I think it's just that um I likeI'm there in that capacity of
(18:45):
like very critically aware oflike what's not clean and uh
tracking down what happened withthis customer and like um um
making sure things are are uhfull in terms of like stock and
and um you know ticketing andpoint of sale and anything
(19:07):
dramatic that may be developingamong who knows, people in the
community.
Um and then I teach in thetraining center because I just
like doing that.
That's actually really fun andrewarding for me.
But um but it's just it kind ofit I wouldn't say it's like
remove the fun.
I think I'm actually in a muchbetter headspace now.
Like I actually really wouldlike to perform again.
(19:30):
Uh but I but I'm also just verybusy with a number of other
projects.
But um but I but I could seemyself doing it.
It's just it's almost like it itI don't want to say ruins, but
it just changes it.
It's almost like you you have tointentionally kind of set aside
the business side of it.
Like I can't help myself.
(19:50):
Even every time when I was onthe murder uh mystery uh cast, I
would just start like fixingthings.
I go get a screwdriver.
If I found a doorknob loose, I'dgo tighten it.
I'm like, what are you what areyou doing, Scott?
Put that down.
Just and I just can't it's hardfor me to do that.
Like I just see everything thatneeds to be worked on.
SPEAKER_02 (20:07):
So I feel like Third Coast has a very loyal community
fan base, however you want toput it.
Um did you how did you guysbuild that up?
Was that intentional?
SPEAKER_03 (20:18):
Um I think no, we just sort of backed into it by
accident.
Um I think w obviously we wantedto have the the stage uh make it
so that it was good forperforming comedy.
And we debated for theconfiguration whether we we
should have the stage kind ofwhere the office and tech board
is or on that wall that weinstalled between the bar.
(20:41):
Um but I was like, we gotta haveit on this long wall so the
audience can be really close.
And Luke was like, Yeah, thatthat that's a much better
layout.
Um it's also just for the artform.
So that's part of it.
It's just a good space toperform and to watch and and
have that experience asaudience.
Um the bar, we felt like thiswill never pay for itself it's
(21:04):
if it's just tickets.
We gotta we gotta have a bar.
So neither of us have ever donethat.
So so that and then the bar isjust a place to hang out at
maybe before or after a show.
And it doesn't happen a lot inthat space.
Um and that's kind of one of thedownsides of that location.
Um it but it happens enough.
And um and then the trainingcenter, I mean, we've always
(21:27):
just done classes again, just asanother revenue stream to kind
of support things.
But I'll uh but uh but thebacking in is like the training
center has really become theheart and soul of the community.
Like people meet each other inthose classes, they become
friends, uh, they start hangingout with each other, and they
don't need third coast around atall.
(21:47):
They just start hanging out asfriends do.
And um and there's been that'sit just happens all the time.
And then people just, you know,it's like no explicit direct
effort to market.
We've just are keep the doorsopen.
That's it.
We just keep the doors open.
And people are like, ah, I feelgood about Third Coast.
Uh maybe they don't even uh havesome introspection, like, why do
(22:09):
I?
But it's it feels like soobvious.
Like I took a class, I met somereally cool people, I'm still
hanging out with those people.
Um and so yeah, I think you'reabsolutely right.
But it's because of those partsum and not because we had a
plan.
SPEAKER_00 (22:24):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (22:25):
I feel like I feel like I'm not really selling
myself, although I don't evenknow why I need to sell myself.
I I don't really know.
SPEAKER_02 (22:32):
I don't think you need to sell yourself.
I I'm a believer.
I took your classes there, notfrom you particularly, but I
have a massive text group to allimprov.
And I haven't even done improvfor I think it's been two years
now.
Okay.
Um, and I was only in a classand a half with them.
Sure.
But uh I would say like five orsix people from that class are
(22:57):
now they're doing the locationisland show at their coast.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (23:00):
And they're just another show I haven't seen, I
want to see that one.
SPEAKER_02 (23:03):
It's really good, it's very fun.
Um, Zita, who is part of it, wason here.
She's wonderful.
I know she's gonna listen.
She was excited to hear you'recoming on.
Hey Zita.
But yeah, I I definitely thinkso.
Like the reason I ended up doingimprov was because my therapist
(23:23):
suggested it because at the timeI was struggling a lot with some
anxiety and then Did you takethe improv for anxiety?
I didn't.
I actually just well, I just Idid stand-up and then I did
improv.
I did it the other way around.
SPEAKER_03 (23:38):
Pretty gutsy.
SPEAKER_02 (23:40):
I thought why did you do it that way?
Because I was Did you and yourtherapist just misunderstand?
SPEAKER_03 (23:46):
It was a miscommunication basically.
SPEAKER_02 (23:48):
I came back and she was like, that's not what we
agreed on.
But no, I I went to look at thewebsite at Thurcos and I saw the
stand-up class.
And improv, it's always reallyscared me because I'm like, I'm
not, I don't feel like I'm veryquick.
Right.
I felt like you're in front ofall these people you don't know.
SPEAKER_04 (24:05):
Sure.
SPEAKER_02 (24:06):
And I know there's stand-up, but with stand-up, I
was like, it said basically likeyou'll prepare, and I was like,
I can prepare.
I also think I'm not funny, andso I'm going into this with
absolutely no expectations.
Like I wanted to be bad atsomething because it it I just
wanted to have something whereit didn't matter.
SPEAKER_03 (24:26):
I love that.
SPEAKER_02 (24:26):
And then I ended up going to improv later.
SPEAKER_03 (24:29):
Okay.
And I And what did you discoverthat you were wrong about improv
or that you were right aboutimprov?
SPEAKER_02 (24:34):
I think I was wrong about improv.
SPEAKER_03 (24:36):
Okay.
Like how were you wrong?
SPEAKER_02 (24:38):
Um I really enjoyed it.
Okay.
I had fun.
I didn't feel after like thefirst class, I felt very
comfortable.
It everyone was very supportive.
Yeah.
And I thought I'd be really badat it, but at the end, um
someone said, like, Nicole, Ilove being in scenes with you
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because you make it easy.
And I was like, that's soflattering.
SPEAKER_03 (25:05):
Probably because you're a good listener.
I would say by profession, likeimprov, if you're gonna do it
really well, I think you justhave to listen.
You just have to pay attention,just listen.
Um, but yeah, I'm gonna guess.
SPEAKER_02 (25:15):
That's opposite of what I thought it would be.
Like I thought you'd have to belike thinking of like, how am I
gonna be funny?
And that wasn't at all what Ihad Mike as my um well, I don't
remember his last name.
SPEAKER_03 (25:27):
Mike Garvin.
SPEAKER_02 (25:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (25:32):
He's great.
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (25:35):
Yeah, so he's one of my best friends.
He's wonderful.
SPEAKER_02 (25:38):
I he he made everyone feel yeah so welcome
and comfortable, and it was veryclear, and he would give
feedback in a way that youdidn't realize you were getting
feedback.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (25:49):
And that's Did he give it like through the
instructions, like the setup ofthe exercises or afterwards, or
would he side coach or like howlike coach a little bit, but it
was always very likeencouraging, and he'd be like,
Oh, that was really good.
SPEAKER_02 (26:03):
What if we thought about da-da-da or something?
And it was so minimal in thefirst that I I can't even
remember a moment.
I just remember thinking, oh, Ithought I'd I thought maybe
people would be critical.
Um I had like the office in myhead, Michael Scott.
Just like put the guns away.
SPEAKER_03 (26:25):
That infamous scene.
Yeah, it's so great.
Um that's so funny.
Well, you know, we're doing theuh Nashville's uh funniest comic
stand-up competition.
Uh thank you, Scott Elam,wonderful artistic director.
He's amazing, amazing, hasreally elevated what we do at
the theater.
Um and uh I will say this Ithink this is where Luke and I
(26:47):
do a good job.
We recognize that we don't knowreally much at all.
And so we'd rather hire peoplethat do know what they're doing
and let them do it, likemarketing.
Um Emily Maynis is um ourmarketing person, and Max Kemp
does a lot of work with thetraining center, and Scott Elam
does the artistic directing andbooking, and like um and we have
(27:10):
Brit who manages our front ofhouse people in the bar, and
they're just really good.
Um anyway, uh why was I sayingthat?
Because oh, uh because we werejoking about just it's a very
different vibe, the stand-upcommunity versus the improv
community.
Like improv is just like, and Idon't know if it's it's sort of
(27:31):
like the admissions filter oflike it's improv, so it attracts
a certain kind of personality.
Um but you're absolutely right,you already said it.
Um people are just supportiveand positive.
And like when you get likeUnited States of Improv or any
kind of competitive improv,people are like, oh, you did
great.
Let's you know, go out, let's goout there and kill it, or you
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know, whatever standardboilerplate positive, supportive
thing to say.
And then stand up is just notlike that at all.
People are like, you won?
You know, or it's so different,yeah.
Yeah, it's just like uh or orthere's just not an organic,
like, hey man, good job outthere.
Now, having said that, that'snot entirely true.
(28:11):
So I don't want to castigate anart form and the people that
practice it, because that's notentirely true.
It's just very different.
I think it's almost like it'slike improv, okay, calm down,
improv.
You guys, okay, yeah, I get it.
You guys like each other.
But it's a little too much.
SPEAKER_02 (28:27):
When I went to like the I don't remember what it
what it's called, at the end ofthe classes, there's like this
party for everybody.
SPEAKER_03 (28:34):
Kind of like a jam, open jam kind of a thing.
SPEAKER_02 (28:37):
And I went after stand-up.
And I think I was like the onlystand-up there, and it was all
improvers, and I was like, whatis happening in this room?
They're just all clapping andcheering, yeah, running up to
the stage to participate.
Whereas like in my stand-upclass, like nobody wanted to go
first, and it became a joke thatwas like, all right, Nicole's
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gonna go first.
And I'm like, Yeah, because thenI can get it out of the way and
like enjoy you guys.
SPEAKER_03 (29:02):
Love that approach, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (29:03):
It was so funny.
Like, I I was totallyoverwhelmed.
It was great, but I was like,oh, this is different.
SPEAKER_03 (29:08):
Yeah, who are these people?
Yeah, um, yeah, they'reimprovisers, yeah.
They're so nice.
They'll kill you with kindness.
SPEAKER_01 (29:16):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (29:17):
Um, very different vibe, but it is.
I love it.
Um yeah, and I've you know, youuh you mentioned Mike.
Uh I've known Mike for yearsnow.
I met him at Third Coast, andthat that's just there's just so
many people that I am very fondof, and I like I'll purposefully
say that word.
I'm just very fond of a lot ofpeople, and I've met them at
Third Coast.
SPEAKER_02 (29:38):
So is there anything that really surprises you about
where you guys are at now or howyou got there?
SPEAKER_03 (29:45):
I'm um I'm surprised we survived COVID.
Uh and um honestly, it I think.
I think I just I think whatsurprises me is not like that
we're where we are now, justthat it's just I think the
(30:07):
surprising thing is just ummaybe the luck or the good
fortune I've experienced, likethe fact that I met Luke, the
fact that Luke has thepersonality that he has and the
drive and the energy that hehas.
And I think he would say thesame of me.
He's like, oh, well, Scott's avery different personality.
Uh, but we really nicelycomplement each other.
(30:29):
And I I guess I'm surprised athow almost universally we're
almost always on the same pageabout almost everything, but we
like approach things verydifferently.
Um uh yeah, I uh I'm surprisedthat we're that we're uh as
successful as we are as animprov comedy venue.
(30:52):
Um I think there's a lot oflessons moving forward.
Um I think we just have to leanmore into the being venue kind
of a business rather than improvcomedy venue.
So I think we're gonna reallylook to diversify what we're
offering, and that's alreadyhappening, but I think that's
just a strategic thing.
But uh so the short answer is II guess I'm not super surprised.
(31:16):
Um I just feel like everything'sbeen very uh strategic and very
straightforward decision-makingover the years and largely on
the same page about a lot ofthings.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (31:30):
It's I find it interesting how well you say
like you and Luke work togetherjust because as somebody in law
and the number of we call thembusiness divorces.
I know.
I I was literally asked to workon something the other week, and
someone at the firm was like, isthis something you want to learn
(31:50):
more about?
And I was like, actually no, butI will help you.
I was like, I don't likefighting.
There's a reason I'm atransactional lawyer.
Yeah.
And so it I always when I hearpeople going into business
together, it I'm always a littlebit like, oh I will say you
thought it through.
SPEAKER_03 (32:07):
Yeah.
Um and I I'm gonna say theopposite.
Uh I'm gonna flip your question.
Uh what are you not surprisedat?
I think I'm not surprised at thelevel of ignorance that's led to
success.
Like just, you know, theblissful state of ignorance.
Like, I just didn't know what Iwas getting myself into.
And you're absolutely right touse the word marriage.
(32:27):
Um, he is my business husband,he would say that I'm his
business husband.
And um, like there's so much atstake at our decisions.
Like, we're we're just neverfree to make them on our own.
And that is the definition of amarriage.
Like, you make a decision, ithas a consequence.
Um I'm actually uh legallymarried, uh, to use a term from
(32:49):
your profession.
Um, and I've signed documents,you know, justice of the peace
kind of thing.
So my wife, Gabrielle Saliba,who um uh married me in 2015.
So we were together for uh justa year when we opened Third
Coast.
And now in my defense, um,Gabrielle, if you're listening,
and we've had this discussionmany times, I didn't know it was
(33:11):
gonna be this big.
I didn't I just didn't think itwas gonna be this big.
And like once you here's theother thing is like I just that
that's an ignorance place,right?
The phrase I didn't know is is alabel for that you stick on a
place of ignorance in them.
So that's a but um it just gotbig and it got very involved and
very demanding, and I didn'tknow that was gonna happen.
(33:33):
And um so yeah, uh I don't know.
I guess I'm I'm I'm just notsurprised at at how little I
knew about any of it, and justhow fortunate I got.
Um had my partner and I notagreed fundamentally on a lot of
things.
(33:54):
And look, we we do have verydifferent opinions about things,
but we have some very similarvalues, and I think we didn't
recognize that.
We there was no values testingthat we like, we didn't do a a
depth discussion about it.
But also I think you can justsay something as a value because
it sounds nice and in the momentstrategically maybe you need to
(34:14):
say it, if that makes sense.
But is it a value that youactually have?
I mean, the the the test is likea stressful situation, like what
your values really come out.
I think for Luke and I, thething that we have absolutely in
common is we love information,we really like the straight
(34:35):
talk, we really like the realdeal uh dialogue.
Um we generally don't takethings personally, but we also
really feel it's important tovent if we need to, or like get
something out.
Um but then that now it's out inthe open.
And rather than being locked inthe headspace of somebody
privately, it's a thing we cannow deal with and analyze or
(34:56):
dismiss or make important orwhatever we need to do.
So I think just the value ofthat kind of straightforward
communication.
I don't think we realized well,Luke would probably say he
realized he had it, but I didn'trealize I had it.
SPEAKER_02 (35:09):
Do you feel like your experience doing improv
helped with your ability to likecommunicate and work together in
business?
Um I think so.
SPEAKER_03 (35:20):
Um I mean, I don't know how you couldn't be
affected by just the constantsort of reframing of things in a
uh purely listening way or or umbut it it's just very positive.
Like there's nothing judge it'slike anti-judgy, you know.
You just want to accept thingsthat it's very it's yeah, it's
(35:42):
very Buddhist, very Zen.
SPEAKER_02 (35:44):
So as you were talking about having similar
values, honestly, it made methink of a marriage again.
Because it's like I think I'mnot married, but I I do feel
like the people I know who havethese healthy marriages, it's uh
fundamentally they have the samevalue system, even if they don't
agree on everything, which noone will.
Right.
(36:04):
And that's some of my closestfriends, the people I tell
everything to are people who Iknow their values that align so
much that I would trust theirfeedback and guidance in my
life, and the other people I tryto be like, you don't need to be
talking.
SPEAKER_03 (36:22):
Yeah.
Uh that makes a lot of sense, Ithink.
Um I think especially in arelationship too, you you kind
of want to uh take care of eachother and be very loyal to each
other in a way that's likethat's very caring as a
baseline.
So um and I think I think bothof us really do genuinely care
about each other and and otherpeople that we come in contact
(36:42):
with.
So that's always very helpful umas it turns out, if you're
building something that involvespeople, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (36:51):
Yeah, and I I know from all the information out
there that like third coast isundergoing a lot of changes
right now.
Sure.
And what are you excited aboutwith this?
unknown (37:02):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_03 (37:03):
I'm excited uh about um at some point in the near
future getting out from underthe thumb of and I'm gonna
mention his name again, Barry uhthe owner of Marathon.
Uh he was like the best and theworst thing that's ever happened
to us.
I mean, he was great great forseven years.
The last three years he's justbeen increasingly antagonistic
(37:23):
to us as a business.
He just is one it's his right,he owns the property.
He doesn't need to have anybodythere at night, and that's what
he prefers now.
For whatever reasons, I have noidea.
But uh so I think the thing I'mlooking forward to is getting us
to a place where we can just runour business and not have to
worry about all this otherstuff.
(37:44):
So yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (37:46):
And have have you guys thought about like what
legacy you want to leave in thecommunity?
SPEAKER_03 (37:51):
Oh no.
Uh again, you're askingquestions as if like we need to
have a business.
I have a whiteboard at home andit has all my uh I that's true,
I do have a whiteboard, but itdoes a nothing with third coasts
on there.
It's like pay bills, you know,whatever.
Cut the grass.
Um call your kids.
(38:12):
Uh no, and and look, I maybethis is uh maybe this is the
effect of improv.
Maybe again it's that filteradmissions process of like I'm
already this kind ofpersonality, and here's an art
form that I just kind of vibewith.
Uh but I feel like the futurewill take care of itself.
Um the biggest thing I think isuh if there's gonna be a legacy,
(38:38):
it's gonna be because we'resmart and strategic about the
business.
Um and we're genuinely caringand kind to everybody that we
come in contact with.
Um I was gonna say, don't be auh but I don't know if I can say
that on your podcast.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (38:54):
We are a clean podcast.
SPEAKER_03 (38:57):
Don't be um don't be a butt.
SPEAKER_00 (39:00):
You can say that.
That's fine.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (39:03):
Okay.
Uh but yeah, don't don't dothat.
Like just let go of that.
Like figure your own baggage outand set a lot of it down.
I know you're still gonna havesome, but so the legacy piece, I
think again, this is an improvmindset.
Just trusting in that process,it will happen on its own
through no effort.
And you just pay attention toyour own authentic
(39:25):
responsiveness to things, payattention to your own uh need to
analyze and be strategic andsmart and wise about business
and hiring and management and umyou know, all the other stuff
will take care of itself.
So because I think people arejust drawn to places where they
feel safe, where they feel seen,where they feel like I can just
(39:45):
be myself.
Oh, there's these other funpeople, and I get to hang out
with them, and now we'refriends, and that's uh that's a
legacy, like that will justcreate its own.
Because then it's no longer myresponsibility to spend the time
and energy doing it.
It's just like we've alreadykind of mentioned it, like there
are so many shows going on, andI'm like the co-founder,
co-owner, and I don't even knowwhat they are.
(40:07):
I don't even know who most ofthe people are that come around
Third Coast, and it's justcrazy, but it's also really
good.
Like we'd even talked aboutgetting to a place like that.
Like someday we won't even knowpeople uh that come here.
And the community at the timewas so small that it just felt
far-fetched, but now it's justthe reality, you know.
Yeah, so yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (40:26):
So, Scott, what are you obsessing over lately?
SPEAKER_03 (40:31):
Uh what am I obsessing over lately?
Um, that is a really interestingquestion.
Um I would say uh man.
So I teach high school history.
I think I'm just obsessing overthis current historical moment
and like how I communicate thatto my kids by still allowing
(40:54):
some space for hope.
SPEAKER_00 (40:55):
Yeah.
We all need hope.
SPEAKER_03 (40:59):
I just I I I found myself in the last 12 months in
in my class saying, well, Ican't believe I'm about to say
this, but this is theConstitution says this, but this
is happening actually right now,and this is just not normal.
SPEAKER_02 (41:16):
Oh, that'd be a really interesting time to be
teaching.
SPEAKER_03 (41:19):
Yeah.
Like I have a U.S.
history class, and that just itjust comes out of my mouth all
the time.
It's like, well, uh it'ssupposed to things are supposed
to kind of work this way.
Or like norms historically havebut we're just in a weird moment
and that's not happening.
And um now it's okay.
I'm in a private school, so II'm pretty free to say and do
whatever I want to do.
(41:40):
Uh but I have friends in publicschools, and so anyway.
So I guess I'm obsessing over uhyeah, just I just want my kids
uh to have some sense of likeagency because they're they're
hopeful and they're energized bythe the possibilities, you know.
Yeah.
(42:00):
Uh whereas the reality issometimes I'm like, oh.
But yeah, anyway.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (42:08):
Do you have a recommendation for our audience
today?
SPEAKER_03 (42:13):
Um I would say so.
I'm just gonna laugh at myself.
David Grant is this author Ifeel like I just discovered like
two years ago.
SPEAKER_01 (42:25):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (42:25):
And like I'm starting to just I've just been
reading David Grant books.
Um he wrote uh this book calledThe Wager.
SPEAKER_02 (42:33):
Is it fiction or nonfiction?
SPEAKER_03 (42:34):
It's sorry, it's nonfiction.
SPEAKER_02 (42:35):
Nonfiction, okay.
SPEAKER_03 (42:37):
But it reads like fiction.
I love those kind of nonfiction,yeah.
Um he wrote uh The Lost City ofZ.
Uh anyway, he's like a amateurhistorian, journalist,
professional journalist who doesdeep dive research into like
specific things and writes aboutthem really well.
Uh so um so David Grant, uh,he's just got a whole bunch of
(43:02):
books out that are just so cool.
And they're like the the wagerwas um uh it's a sailing ship.
So it's like the sailing shipera.
So that's I don't know, maybeit's just me like it's a an
escapist kind of a thing, butlike I often feel better after
I'm reading about like how theseguys got on a piece of huge,
(43:24):
well-constructed, engineeredwood, sailed thousands of miles,
then it came apart and they weremarooned and they survived in
the you know 1600s or 1700s.
Like, how did they do that?
I would die in a month.
SPEAKER_02 (43:38):
I think I would too, actually.
We just don't have the skillsthat they used to.
SPEAKER_03 (43:42):
No, exactly.
Like, how did they do that?
And then they made it back toEngland.
Like they like a year or twoyears later, they they they
suddenly appeared in port, andeveryone was like, Oh, we
thought you were all dead.
And that's like the theme of allof his books.
Uh uh anyway, I just yeah, it'sall about explorers.
And um I I'm just kind of intoit.
(44:04):
That's my obsession.
unknown (44:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (44:07):
I've my obsession recommendation is very connected
this week because lately I'vebeen obsessing over what makes
an organization like healthy.
Okay.
And um how do you keep peoplelike happy and engaged?
And I'm interested.
Yeah, it's not a totally newobsession, but it's becoming a
(44:28):
lot more.
Um, I really love Pat Langioni'sbooks.
SPEAKER_04 (44:32):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (44:33):
Um, he talks about like how to hire the right
person, get the right peoplethere, and there he has a book
called like Death by Meeting,and I'm like, I relate this.
SPEAKER_03 (44:44):
You have a lot of meetings you die in.
SPEAKER_02 (44:46):
Yeah, we're cutting back.
So I get it's sort of a joke.
SPEAKER_03 (44:50):
Is that because you said something?
Did you say, hey, thesemeetings, guys?
SPEAKER_02 (44:54):
I did say something.
Did you?
But I don't think I was the onlyone.
Ah, and like I like a meetingwhere it's like it's needed,
it's efficient, there's anagenda.
And I also do think every oncein a while a meeting where you
where it's very intentionallylike community-based of like
we're having lunch together,we're checking in.
But it it's all very much Ithink needs to be intentional
(45:17):
because all the time we spend atwork takes us away from our
family, our friends.
So it's like death by meeting.
SPEAKER_03 (45:24):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (45:24):
Um who's the author again?
SPEAKER_03 (45:27):
Say it one more time.
SPEAKER_02 (45:28):
Pat Lincioni.
SPEAKER_03 (45:29):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (45:29):
And he also has a couple of podcasts, and I took
his assessment called TheWorking Genius, and it's all
about how teams have like peoplehave different skill sets that
they bring to a team, yeah, andhow you can help people like
lean into that to make a moreeffective team um produce like
(45:50):
the products.
So for me, actually, I mighthave even talked about this
already on here, but I'm like, Igot discernment and galvanizing.
And it like made so much senseto me about like why I struggled
with certain things of like Ican often identify like this
isn't working and it probably bebetter this way.
And then people are like, Well,how do you know that?
(46:11):
And I'm like, I just know, like,you should just listen.
SPEAKER_03 (46:14):
I'm a discerning person.
SPEAKER_02 (46:16):
I'm just discerning.
Uh, and then I like to getpeople excited about things.
Okay.
And people have said that I'mgood at doing that.
Um, but then like my worsttraits are like tenacity and
enablement.
And I'm like, if you areconstantly just delegating to me
and like get it done, get itdone, get it done, I'm like,
(46:36):
okay.
Like I'm exhausted now.
SPEAKER_03 (46:39):
Uh-huh.
So you'll say yes to a lot ofthose delegations until it's
overwhelming.
SPEAKER_02 (46:45):
And yeah, and in our in my profession, sure.
That's kind of how you come up.
And so after a while, I'vestarted to get tired and been
really trying to step more intoleading and developing business
and training people because thatis where I get a lot of energy.
(47:06):
Very cool.
So clearly I'm obsessing overthis.
That's great.
SPEAKER_03 (47:11):
No, I just learned something new.
And I feel like as a businessowner, that's great for me to
know about.
I didn't know about thisresource.
SPEAKER_02 (47:17):
So and he so his books, nonfiction, almost all of
them are written as parables.
And so I remember things betterbecause he's telling stories,
but it's based in the lessons, Iguess.
SPEAKER_03 (47:32):
Yeah.
So I gotta mention fiction,James S.A.
Corey, who wrote The Expandseries.
I'm like reading it.
Have you ever seen this sci-fi?
If you're into science fiction,it's really cool.
SPEAKER_02 (47:41):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (47:41):
And they have a new it's uh, it's two authors.
They use one name, James S.A.
Corey.
SPEAKER_02 (47:47):
Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_03 (47:47):
Yeah, they write as a duo.
SPEAKER_02 (47:49):
I didn't I don't think I've ever heard of people
doing that.
SPEAKER_03 (47:51):
I don't think I have either, but that's them.
SPEAKER_02 (47:53):
So that's cool.
SPEAKER_03 (47:54):
Uh but yeah, really cool stuff.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (47:56):
So what are you looking forward to this week?
SPEAKER_03 (47:59):
Uh let's see.
This week, um honestly, I thinkuh so this I love my job.
So it's not a problem.
Why'd you say it like that?
Don't say it like that.
Uh I'm I'm looking forward torolling out a project with my
students.
So cool.
We we do a lot of projects.
(48:20):
And I I just I've it for me, itallows me to be creative and
like think about things, butalso I get to ask them like,
what do you want to do?
How do you want to do this?
So my we just finished the unionI called 1491.
It's a new part of the U.S.
history course.
And um, so I just am like, well,let's do some research.
You you get a partner, pick yourpartner, you get to do some
(48:40):
research.
Uh, it's gotta be credible.
I gotta check the sourcing,gonna make sure it's good.
And then you're gonna make uh awall installment.
Like it's gotta be to scale.
And that's pretty much that'slike my project idea.
Yeah.
So I'll just roll that out to mykids, and I'm just so excited to
hear what they're gonna do withthat.
(49:01):
Because what I found over theyears is if I give too much,
especially with older kids, toomany details.
Uh well, anyway, now I'm gettinginto the weeds.
Anyway, I'm just excited aboutthat.
SPEAKER_02 (49:14):
Cool.
SPEAKER_03 (49:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (49:15):
Um, I I think I'm gonna try and go hiking this
afternoon.
So I'm excited about that.
Where?
I I haven't decided.
I was thinking like Percy Warneror um what's the one?
No, no, Hidden Lake.
Okay, I don't know.
It's like down by Bellevue, Iguess.
Okay.
It's not super long, but I'vebeen hearing that it's kind of a
nice spot.
(49:35):
So I wanted to go seewaterfalls, but you kind of have
to drive a little bit furtherfor that.
I don't really have to.
SPEAKER_03 (49:41):
Montgomery Bell State Park is also one that's
close by.
That's very hilly and if youlike up and down.
SPEAKER_02 (49:47):
I do like that.
I should I've only been thereonce.
I should go back.
SPEAKER_03 (49:50):
It's really pretty.
Um and I've only been there acouple of times.
Percy Warren is one of myfavorites.
I feel like I've justrediscovered it.
So I might go there tomorrow.
Are you going tomorrow?
SPEAKER_02 (50:00):
I would probably go today.
Yeah.
I like the Mossy Ridge Trail.
SPEAKER_03 (50:04):
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
And hiking, do you run?
SPEAKER_02 (50:08):
No, I have in the past, but I don't anymore.
SPEAKER_03 (50:11):
Yeah.
So you're thinking about pickingit up, maybe?
SPEAKER_02 (50:14):
No.
Sorry, no.
I uh Okay, long, long historywith running.
I I actually was training for amarathon.
It was like 10, 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_03 (50:26):
I've dropped out of two marathons.
SPEAKER_02 (50:27):
I got really hurt.
And so I got to the I wasn't inthe like I was at in training, I
was running 16 miles.
SPEAKER_00 (50:34):
Sure.
SPEAKER_02 (50:34):
And then I slipped on ice back home.
And then I just like kept going.
Cause I was like, I mean, I'mfine.
And then that of course then I'mnot fine.
SPEAKER_03 (50:42):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (50:42):
So I went through like physical therapy for a long
time.
SPEAKER_03 (50:45):
And I've did you like fall and like where you
impacted the ground with theinjury?
No.
SPEAKER_02 (50:50):
I just like slipped and pulled my sartorius.
What is that?
Is that it's this muscle likethat comes up across here.
So like my right leg is alwaysstill kind of tight.
SPEAKER_03 (51:00):
Even to this day.
SPEAKER_02 (51:00):
Even to this day.
It actually got better duringCOVID because I walked so much.
Okay.
And I'm like, all right.
So I do a lot of walking, a lotof hiking.
Yeah.
I think there's too much impactfrom running now with it shakes
up my my brain.
So the whole nervous system.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01 (51:17):
But you got very excited.
I'm like, no, no running.
SPEAKER_03 (51:21):
I yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I've always been a runner, soyeah.
But as I've gotten into my 40sand 50s, it's been harder and
harder.
So I now have a new rule.
I can't run on consecutive days.
But that's just to preserve myown.
SPEAKER_02 (51:35):
Yeah, that makes sense.
So, Scott, um, where can peoplefind you if you want them to
find you?
SPEAKER_03 (51:41):
Um Well, you gotta come and find me in person
because I'm really not online.
I have the social mediaaccounts, but I think What about
Third Coast?
Yeah, I was gonna say ThirdCoast Comedy Club.
Yeah.
Um I'll be teaching a classeither level one, two, or four,
depending on what Elam uhassigns me.
(52:03):
Um maybe I'll be at the bar,maybe I'll be in the audience in
the theater.
Be like, where's Waldo?
Yeah, kind of.
Yeah, you kind of like you haveto look at this podcast to see
what I look like so you know whoyou're looking at.
But you can also probably Googleme.
If you do, you'll find thatthere's a Scott Field athletic
field in Alabama, which is yeah.
Uh but that's not I'm not grass.
(52:25):
I'm not a hundred yards ofgrass.
SPEAKER_02 (52:28):
Thanks for clarifying.
SPEAKER_03 (52:31):
I was looking for a guy that looks like this, and
it's a football field.
I don't know who that is.
SPEAKER_02 (52:37):
Well, thank you so much for joining me today.
I had a great time with you.
SPEAKER_03 (52:40):
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_02 (52:41):
You're welcome.
And thank you guys for listeningand watching.
Please follow us wherever youlisten to your podcasts, and I
look forward to seeing you nextweek.
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The end.
SPEAKER_02 (52:49):
For listening to my crunchy zen era.
Please subscribe and leave areview wherever you listen to
your podcasts.
This podcast is produced by me,Nicole Swisher, and my good
friends Summer Harcup and LizCoulter.
Editing is by Drew HarrisonMedia, and recording is done by
Logos Creative in Nashville,Tennessee.
Thanks for hanging out.
We'll be back next week.
Uh what's something crunchier then that you've done
lately?
SPEAKER_03 (00:03):
Uh well, honestly, um I was thinking about this and
I probably overthought it.
Uh came up with 10 differentthings.
But I'm just gonna go with theone we were just talking about
um before you formally asked methat, which was I rode my bike
over here to sit with you andtalk.
(00:24):
So I guess riding my bikethrough the city.
So I think that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_02 (00:28):
Is it kind of crazy in Nashville to ride your bike
all over?
Or you generally feel like Ipeople give give way.
SPEAKER_03 (00:35):
First, I'm just gonna say, because this'll be a
uh an opening sort ofunderstanding of me as a
personality and person ingeneral.
I'm just kind of a weird person,I think.
And I say that affectionatelybecause I also don't dislike
myself, but it's more just likeI just I'm a little odd.
(00:55):
I don't find it um like I justdon't find it uh scary to ride
my bike through a city.
SPEAKER_02 (01:13):
Welcome to my crunchy zen era.
This is a weekly podcast filledwith a little fun, a little
humor, and a whole lot ofcuriosity.
I'm your host, Nicole Swisher,and this week my guest is Scott
Field.
Welcome, Scott.
SPEAKER_03 (01:27):
Yeah, you pronounced my name correctly too.
Did I?
Yeah, a lot of people, you know,they're like, uh how is it what
do I do with the second T?
No, I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_01 (01:34):
I'm like, what?
SPEAKER_03 (01:36):
Also, it's the most vanilla Scott.
I mean, and Field.
I mean, it's just very easy toYou had me.
SPEAKER_00 (01:46):
I was like, um, okay, well, I'm very proud of
myself.
SPEAKER_03 (01:49):
I know.
I was like, I'm not getting aresponse from her.
What is going on?
Okay, that makes sense.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
That's welcome.
Scott is one of the owners ofThird Coast Comedy Club.
Um, so I'm very excited to haveyou here.
SPEAKER_03 (02:02):
Yeah, it's it this is fun.
Uh I'm glad you invited me.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_02 (02:06):
So, what's a memory that you'd like to relive and
why?
SPEAKER_03 (02:10):
Oh, um.
Oh, this is a good one.
A memory I would like to relive.
Um Okay.
So this is this is in Boston,and um this is in 1996.
Speaking of winters, it was justa wicked cold day.
I mean, driving.
(02:31):
And the thing about Boston isit's right on the ocean, so even
though the water's cold, it likemakes it warm enough that you
don't quite get the snow, butyou get like frozen, pelted like
little pieces of ice particles,and it's very windy.
Uh so I was finishing up aworkout.
Um I think I was in my late 20s,um, 27 or 28.
(02:53):
And uh there was an indoor trackat BU, and uh I had met uh some
guys over there.
We did this workout with acoach, and then we were doing a
cool down, and I ran out intothe snow with these guys, and
we're crossing the Charles atlike this really sort of wide
part of the Charles River, andwe got out on the bridge and the
wind just kicked up, and like Iwas slogging through this piled
(03:15):
up snow, and I just came to astop.
And I think I would like torevisit like what was going
through my mind in that moment,because that was actually a big
transition for me.
Uh, but what I would really liketo see again was just the city,
sort of in that wintry sort ofhaze of s falling snow.
(03:36):
So the lights are all kind ofgolden, sort of along the
perimeter of the river.
It was very beautiful.
Uh it was beautiful justobjectively, I think, and I
would love to see it again.
Um, it was just a really coolmoment to hear all the snow and
feel it, and then just knowthat, like, oh, I'm about to
make a decision and just stepback into my headspace in that
(03:58):
moment.
SPEAKER_02 (03:59):
So can you tell our listeners a little bit about
Third Coast?
And we have mentioned it a fewtimes on this podcast.
SPEAKER_03 (04:06):
So Yeah.
Um, yeah, so Third Coast is it'sa small venue.
Uh it's actually, I mean, Iguess technically we're we've
we're reduced to two venues now.
It used to be three.
Um, but we have like a mainstage venue.
So it's a it's a comedy venue.
Um, and we have a bar.
Uh and by small, I mean we're wehave 88 seats in the main stage
(04:30):
area.
And then at one of our upstairsvenues, we could seat 30 to 50
depending on the configuration.
And we're um fire marshal codeapproved for both of those
numbers.
So uh up to ninety up toninety-nine downstairs.
So uh but we have to leavenumbers for the cast too.
SPEAKER_00 (04:49):
Oh, that's true, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:50):
Yeah.
But um, so but what is it?
It's it's just a comedy venue.
Um and I would say most of whatwe book uh and what appears on
stage is uh improv comedy,improvised comedy, but also
stand-up comedy and some sketchcomedy and some musical comedy.
Um we do film and video uh sortof like mini festivals.
(05:12):
There's some people in thecommunity that do that.
So we have all kinds of thingson stage.
But that's kind of our um Iwould say that's mostly what we
try to do is just have as manyinteresting, kind of fun,
creative things on stage, butcomedy centric.
SPEAKER_02 (05:28):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And and Thurkost is actuallywhere I started my stand-up
show, Cheaper Than Therapy, inthe loft, and that was very fun.
You guys have been great.
SPEAKER_03 (05:36):
How was that experience?
That's a very small yeah, okay.
It felt it didn't feel toosmall.
SPEAKER_02 (05:41):
No, I like the loft because it was my first time
producing anything, and um it'sa very it's like a box and it
feels very intimate.
Right.
Um, and we ended up selling itout, and so it was just
completely filled, and I thinkwe were up there for like quite
a while before we went on to themain stage.
SPEAKER_03 (06:00):
You know, I okay.
I remember seeing the um logothat you put together, and I was
like, who is this?
What is this show?
I'd like to see it.
I didn't get a chance to see it.
Um but that's the kind of nicething about the theater, is
there's in the community it'sway bigger than anything I can
reasonably keep track of, or ormy business partner Luke.
(06:21):
Um and uh that's really cool.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Um also I think that's the otherpart of the answer is um we're
an incubator.
Like that should be that's whatyou described, totally what
we're about, but veryappropriate for what we want to
see happen and what should behappening.
And if you compare to like otheruh like venues like that, like
(06:46):
Zany's, of course, not acompetitor venue.
Um that's they have I think six,it's a franchise, they have like
six um venues they started inChicago.
Um and that's really strictlyfor stand-up.
They they're branching out.
I'd like to think it's becauseLuke and I started Third Coast
and they added another stage.
(07:06):
So Nashville, you're welcome.
Instead of just one Zanies, yougot a Zanies and a Third Coast,
and you got a Zanies and a ThirdCoast, and now a Zany's lab.
So now there's three stages inNashville.
Which is great.
Which puts us on par with citieslike Denver or Austin.
I'm kind of being facetious.
(07:29):
Nashville has, I mean two.
SPEAKER_02 (07:31):
And how did you get into improv?
SPEAKER_03 (07:33):
Yeah, um, that was in Boston, and my old theater
was called Improv Boston, whichsadly closed uh because of
COVID.
Um and COVID's a kind of aninteresting, again, turning
point, sort of a bridge momentum for a lot of venue operators,
uh, which I can m uh circle backto uh briefly.
(07:54):
But uh it was in it was improvBoston again in my this was
after that bridge moment Idescribed at the opening of your
show.
I made a decision not to run.
Uh I thought I was a competitiverunner.
I had a sponsorship and I waslike, oh, I'm gonna do this.
But then I was like, what thehell am I doing?
I'm not actually talented enoughto run with national level.
I mean, I can run with them, butI'm not like world class, so so
(08:17):
I was like, what am I gonna do?
And then I took an improv classat Improv Boston.
Um and it was so fun.
It was like eight of us.
It was a tiny little group.
My next level class had three ofus, but they ran it anyway.
Uh Improv Boston was in a smallformer uh um hardware store in
(08:39):
uh it was actually in Cambridge,although it was called Improv
Boston.
But you know, if you've been toBoston, all those little cities
kind of run together.
SPEAKER_04 (08:45):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (08:46):
And they all just say Boston, because if you say
like Somerville, I guess if yousay Cambridge, people not from
that area might know where thatis.
SPEAKER_02 (08:53):
I think Harvard, right?
Yeah, Cambridge.
SPEAKER_03 (08:55):
MIT, exactly.
You got it.
Um so um, so that's where Istarted, and I was there
from '96 to two thousand four,which is when I moved here.
Discovered there was nothinggoing on, found some other goofy
goofers, and we started doingsome improv on our own.
Um in fact, there was a goodfriend of mine had moved here
(09:15):
from LA.
She was doing work at thegroundlings, and so we created a
little group uh that lasted forabout five years until 2010, and
then I just took a break andthen uh was kind of intermittent
for the next five years.
Um, and then met Luke, and thenwe started uh Third Coast uh in
(09:38):
a parking lot conversation in2015 and opened in 2016.
SPEAKER_02 (09:42):
So what was like the impetus behind it?
Why did you guys think thatNashville needed it?
SPEAKER_03 (09:48):
Uh well you your question presumes like some sort
of level of a thoughtfulengagement.
But it was really more like itwas really more like uh the
place, actually, I was gonna saythe building that my group was
performing in, it was calledMusic City Improv.
Music City Improv was kind ofthe leftovers from that previous
(10:10):
version called Improv Nashville,which I'd started with my friend
Emily Volman.
And um uh we were gonna lose thespace.
And the space was actuallycalled the building.
Uh, it was subsequentlydestroyed by the tornado,
leveled.
It's behind Drifter's barbecueat five points in East
(10:31):
Nashville.
It's no longer there.
Um and so uh we were gonna losethat space, and it was on the
same night that Luke, uh hisgroup, L O L Nashville, had
secured a venue downtown, and hecould tell you where it was
exactly, but it was downtown.
But then the venue operatorcalled him the week before their
(10:52):
show and said, Hey, got a lastminute booking with a band.
Their bar revenue is gonna betwice what you guys have done in
the past, so you guys are out.
And um Luke got upset, and I waskind of just like baseline
upset, but I had this previousexperience with Improv
Nashville.
We had a space on 12th South,actually, before it blew up.
(11:16):
Um it's the building next to thepark that's kind of set back.
I think that there's like aPilates studio on the second
floor.
That's where we were.
We were there for about a year.
Um anyway, uh, so I'd had thatexperience.
I thought that was fun and easy.
Um so uh and the real quick waswe were teaching a class
together.
So I was doing stuff with MusicCity, he was doing things, and
(11:40):
by doing stuff and doing things,sorry, those are vague words, I
just mean running a class.
Yeah.
So uh we were running classes,but we didn't have enough
registrants to actually make theclass.
Like I had four and he had four.
And Luke was like, hey, what ifwe combine our classes?
And I said, and I completed histhought.
I said, we'll have eightstudents.
Um uh thank you.
(12:02):
That was really dumb.
Anyway, uh so we did, and weenjoyed the experience of
teaching together.
So we did it a second time, andit was during that second time
that we both had these sort ofbad news pieces for our
respective teams.
And we were in the parking lot,it was a little drizzly, uh, but
not frozen rain, just regular,you know, run-of-the-mill, human
(12:25):
level, watery rain.
And um he's like, ah, mmm.
And I was like, what's wrong?
He's like, I'm mad.
And I was like, I'm upset too.
He's like, what's wrong withyou?
And I was like, I'm not gonnahave the space to do any shows.
He's like, I just got kicked outof a show.
Dang it.
Um, and then he said, becausethis is important because he
started, he said, I've beenthinking about just doing
(12:46):
something on my own.
And I was like, I have been too.
And then he said, Well, whathave you been thinking?
And I said, Well, here's whatI've been thinking.
And I described uh basicallyjust opening a video.
I mean, how complicated can itbe?
Answer, not really.
It's just a space where there'syou know an open area for
actors, some place for theaudience to sit, some lights.
(13:08):
Um, so that's how it started.
It was really just out offrustration.
SPEAKER_02 (13:13):
Yeah.
And were you always in themarathon village where you're at
now, or did you start somewhereelse?
SPEAKER_03 (13:18):
So that was about a year plus search.
Uh, we were about to give up.
Um, it felt like uh prices inNashville were kind of going up
as we were looking in that 12months, and we could already not
afford them when we started.
So as we went through theprocess, we were less able to
afford them.
And uh, but uh Barry Walker, theowner of that property, um said,
(13:45):
I like you guys and let us in.
Um now that was a um sublease,but there was a gene
manufacturing place called I'm aJean and Willie's, I think.
They they make like customhigh-end jeans.
And they had they actually had aplace in there where they made
them.
So, because when we first walkedin, it was just open.
So if you've been there, you youknow, the theater and then the
(14:07):
bars in the back, that wallwasn't there.
It was just a completely singleuh box, open box.
And there were parallel rows oflike these four outlet um uh uh
yeah, just like outlets hangingfrom the ceiling.
Um and that's where they had alltheir sewing machines and things
like that.
And it was like very dusty inthere, but like with fiber and
(14:29):
threads and things.
So we we took over their leaseand uh Barry allowed it and they
gave us really good termsundermarket.
But I mean, you've seen theplace.
And undermarket means there's noconditioning of the air in the
hallways.
Um it's uh lighting is poor, um,the streetscape is not super
well lit.
It's much better than it used tobe.
(14:50):
It used to be just very dark andforeboding.
And the bathrooms are terrible.
You know, bathrooms are just Iyeah, they are.
Sorry, um sorry, Barry.
But uh thank you.
But also sorry about saying thatabout your bathrooms.
SPEAKER_02 (15:04):
Was it uh uh now it is like a tourist destination.
Was it different when youstarted over there?
SPEAKER_03 (15:11):
No, because um the American Pickers people were
there, which they've since left.
SPEAKER_02 (15:15):
Oh I didn't realize that.
SPEAKER_03 (15:18):
And uh there were there was not nearly the
machinery that's in the hallway.
Um and so uh but yeah, it was itwas kind of touristy already.
And um, it does ha that thatkind of tourists was never our
customer, so it's never been abenefit to us to be there.
Uh the only benefit has beenthat we had a space that we
(15:41):
could afford it, and there wasuh uh relatively available
parking.
So and all of that's changed.
SPEAKER_02 (15:47):
So I've had a I had a few shows so I think we we
were every month for at least 12months.
And there were definitely a fewshows where we had bachelor art
parties show up.
Oh and like one of them Iremember they were just like
front row and like ready to go.
The comedians loved it.
SPEAKER_03 (16:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (16:07):
And they were so early too.
I was like, what are you guysdoing here?
Because everyone's late to astand-up show.
That's kind of cute.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (16:13):
You know, they of all the places they could go and
things they could see, that theywent over there.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (16:18):
I don't know.
I feel like it was the name.
They were like, we need therapyon this bachelorette party.
SPEAKER_03 (16:24):
So Yeah, actually, that's a uh have you thought
about that?
Like bringing it back and likemarketing it that way.
SPEAKER_01 (16:31):
For bachelorette party.
SPEAKER_03 (16:32):
Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_01 (16:33):
Oh goodness, I am not supportive of the
Bachelorette culture.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (16:37):
So that that's I'm uh to be fair, I am also not
supportive of any of that.
But uh I was just thinking,yeah, you know, if you wanted to
get some grocery money.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (16:48):
But we'll you could be subversive too.
So there could be some messagingas part of your act that kind of
just like gets in their heads,they go back to wherever they're
coming from, start living theirlives, and they're like, oh, you
know, that comic.
And then maybe they'redifferent.
I don't know.
Just spitballing.
SPEAKER_02 (17:05):
Yeah.
So uh do you currently perform?
SPEAKER_03 (17:08):
Uh yes, although I just um talked to uh my friend
and director and producer andsaid, Hey, I need to take a
break.
Uh it was the murder mysteryshow, the improvised murder
mystery show.
Um so uh he invited me to jointhat cast when they created it.
And that's really the um I meanI do have done kind of one-off
(17:28):
things here and there, buthonestly, uh since we opened
nine years ago, I haven't reallybeen a part of like a regular
performing ensemble.
SPEAKER_02 (17:38):
Is it uh related to like Third Coast taking up more
time like running it or was itsomething like that?
SPEAKER_03 (17:44):
I think it's I think it's honestly that.
I think um there's uh and and mypartner's kind of gone through
the same phase, but he's muchyounger than me.
So he was uh still had that sortof youthful energy where he
could do both, and then COVID uhhe was like, I don't think I can
do that.
(18:05):
But also he's uh over the yearstaken on more and more
responsibility um because therewas a while where I wasn't
teaching full time, I was justat the theater.
Uh, but it just was notgenerating the money I needed.
I had I have kids and I had anda house and some major expenses,
so I had to get a real job.
So you're teaching high school.
(18:25):
Turns out there's not a lot ofmoney in improv.
Yeah, so I teach high school.
Um but uh um and so we're sowe're both not really
performing.
We just and I think for well,I'll just speak for myself.
I think it's just that um I likeI'm there in that capacity of
(18:45):
like very critically aware oflike what's not clean and uh
tracking down what happened withthis customer and like um um
making sure things are are uhfull in terms of like stock and
and um you know ticketing andpoint of sale and anything
(19:07):
dramatic that may be developingamong who knows, people in the
community.
Um and then I teach in thetraining center because I just
like doing that.
That's actually really fun andrewarding for me.
But um but it's just it kind ofit I wouldn't say it's like
remove the fun.
I think I'm actually in a muchbetter headspace now.
Like I actually really wouldlike to perform again.
(19:30):
Uh but I but I'm also just verybusy with a number of other
projects.
But um but I but I could seemyself doing it.
It's just it's almost like it itI don't want to say ruins, but
it just changes it.
It's almost like you you have tointentionally kind of set aside
the business side of it.
Like I can't help myself.
(19:50):
Even every time when I was onthe murder uh mystery uh cast, I
would just start like fixingthings.
I go get a screwdriver.
If I found a doorknob loose, I'dgo tighten it.
I'm like, what are you what areyou doing, Scott?
Put that down.
Just and I just can't it's hardfor me to do that.
Like I just see everything thatneeds to be worked on.
SPEAKER_02 (20:07):
So I feel like Third Coast has a very loyal community
fan base, however you want toput it.
Um did you how did you guysbuild that up?
Was that intentional?
SPEAKER_03 (20:18):
Um I think no, we just sort of backed into it by
accident.
Um I think w obviously we wantedto have the the stage uh make it
so that it was good forperforming comedy.
And we debated for theconfiguration whether we we
should have the stage kind ofwhere the office and tech board
is or on that wall that weinstalled between the bar.
(20:41):
Um but I was like, we gotta haveit on this long wall so the
audience can be really close.
And Luke was like, Yeah, thatthat that's a much better
layout.
Um it's also just for the artform.
So that's part of it.
It's just a good space toperform and to watch and and
have that experience asaudience.
Um the bar, we felt like thiswill never pay for itself it's
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if it's just tickets.
We gotta we gotta have a bar.
So neither of us have ever donethat.
So so that and then the bar isjust a place to hang out at
maybe before or after a show.
And it doesn't happen a lot inthat space.
Um and that's kind of one of thedownsides of that location.
Um it but it happens enough.
And um and then the trainingcenter, I mean, we've always
(21:27):
just done classes again, just asanother revenue stream to kind
of support things.
But I'll uh but uh but thebacking in is like the training
center has really become theheart and soul of the community.
Like people meet each other inthose classes, they become
friends, uh, they start hangingout with each other, and they
don't need third coast around atall.
(21:47):
They just start hanging out asfriends do.
And um and there's been that'sit just happens all the time.
And then people just, you know,it's like no explicit direct
effort to market.
We've just are keep the doorsopen.
That's it.
We just keep the doors open.
And people are like, ah, I feelgood about Third Coast.
Uh maybe they don't even uh havesome introspection, like, why do
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I?
But it's it feels like soobvious.
Like I took a class, I met somereally cool people, I'm still
hanging out with those people.
Um and so yeah, I think you'reabsolutely right.
But it's because of those partsum and not because we had a
plan.
SPEAKER_00 (22:24):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (22:25):
I feel like I feel like I'm not really selling
myself, although I don't evenknow why I need to sell myself.
I I don't really know.
SPEAKER_02 (22:32):
I don't think you need to sell yourself.
I I'm a believer.
I took your classes there, notfrom you particularly, but I
have a massive text group to allimprov.
And I haven't even done improvfor I think it's been two years
now.
Okay.
Um, and I was only in a classand a half with them.
Sure.
But uh I would say like five orsix people from that class are
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now they're doing the locationisland show at their coast.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (23:00):
And they're just another show I haven't seen, I
want to see that one.
SPEAKER_02 (23:03):
It's really good, it's very fun.
Um, Zita, who is part of it, wason here.
She's wonderful.
I know she's gonna listen.
She was excited to hear you'recoming on.
Hey Zita.
But yeah, I I definitely thinkso.
Like the reason I ended up doingimprov was because my therapist
(23:23):
suggested it because at the timeI was struggling a lot with some
anxiety and then Did you takethe improv for anxiety?
I didn't.
I actually just well, I just Idid stand-up and then I did
improv.
I did it the other way around.
SPEAKER_03 (23:38):
Pretty gutsy.
SPEAKER_02 (23:40):
I thought why did you do it that way?
Because I was Did you and yourtherapist just misunderstand?
SPEAKER_03 (23:46):
It was a miscommunication basically.
SPEAKER_02 (23:48):
I came back and she was like, that's not what we
agreed on.
But no, I I went to look at thewebsite at Thurcos and I saw the
stand-up class.
And improv, it's always reallyscared me because I'm like, I'm
not, I don't feel like I'm veryquick.
Right.
I felt like you're in front ofall these people you don't know.
SPEAKER_04 (24:05):
Sure.
SPEAKER_02 (24:06):
And I know there's stand-up, but with stand-up, I
was like, it said basically likeyou'll prepare, and I was like,
I can prepare.
I also think I'm not funny, andso I'm going into this with
absolutely no expectations.
Like I wanted to be bad atsomething because it it I just
wanted to have something whereit didn't matter.
SPEAKER_03 (24:26):
I love that.
SPEAKER_02 (24:26):
And then I ended up going to improv later.
SPEAKER_03 (24:29):
Okay.
And I And what did you discoverthat you were wrong about improv
or that you were right aboutimprov?
SPEAKER_02 (24:34):
I think I was wrong about improv.
SPEAKER_03 (24:36):
Okay.
Like how were you wrong?
SPEAKER_02 (24:38):
Um I really enjoyed it.
Okay.
I had fun.
I didn't feel after like thefirst class, I felt very
comfortable.
It everyone was very supportive.
Yeah.
And I thought I'd be really badat it, but at the end, um
someone said, like, Nicole, Ilove being in scenes with you
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because you make it easy.
And I was like, that's soflattering.
SPEAKER_03 (25:05):
Probably because you're a good listener.
I would say by profession, likeimprov, if you're gonna do it
really well, I think you justhave to listen.
You just have to pay attention,just listen.
Um, but yeah, I'm gonna guess.
SPEAKER_02 (25:15):
That's opposite of what I thought it would be.
Like I thought you'd have to belike thinking of like, how am I
gonna be funny?
And that wasn't at all what Ihad Mike as my um well, I don't
remember his last name.
SPEAKER_03 (25:27):
Mike Garvin.
SPEAKER_02 (25:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (25:32):
He's great.
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (25:35):
Yeah, so he's one of my best friends.
He's wonderful.
SPEAKER_02 (25:38):
I he he made everyone feel yeah so welcome
and comfortable, and it was veryclear, and he would give
feedback in a way that youdidn't realize you were getting
feedback.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (25:49):
And that's Did he give it like through the
instructions, like the setup ofthe exercises or afterwards, or
would he side coach or like howlike coach a little bit, but it
was always very likeencouraging, and he'd be like,
Oh, that was really good.
SPEAKER_02 (26:03):
What if we thought about da-da-da or something?
And it was so minimal in thefirst that I I can't even
remember a moment.
I just remember thinking, oh, Ithought I'd I thought maybe
people would be critical.
Um I had like the office in myhead, Michael Scott.
Just like put the guns away.
SPEAKER_03 (26:25):
That infamous scene.
Yeah, it's so great.
Um that's so funny.
Well, you know, we're doing theuh Nashville's uh funniest comic
stand-up competition.
Uh thank you, Scott Elam,wonderful artistic director.
He's amazing, amazing, hasreally elevated what we do at
the theater.
Um and uh I will say this Ithink this is where Luke and I
(26:47):
do a good job.
We recognize that we don't knowreally much at all.
And so we'd rather hire peoplethat do know what they're doing
and let them do it, likemarketing.
Um Emily Maynis is um ourmarketing person, and Max Kemp
does a lot of work with thetraining center, and Scott Elam
does the artistic directing andbooking, and like um and we have
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Brit who manages our front ofhouse people in the bar, and
they're just really good.
Um anyway, uh why was I sayingthat?
Because oh, uh because we werejoking about just it's a very
different vibe, the stand-upcommunity versus the improv
community.
Like improv is just like, and Idon't know if it's it's sort of
(27:31):
like the admissions filter oflike it's improv, so it attracts
a certain kind of personality.
Um but you're absolutely right,you already said it.
Um people are just supportiveand positive.
And like when you get likeUnited States of Improv or any
kind of competitive improv,people are like, oh, you did
great.
Let's you know, go out, let's goout there and kill it, or you
(27:51):
know, whatever standardboilerplate positive, supportive
thing to say.
And then stand up is just notlike that at all.
People are like, you won?
You know, or it's so different,yeah.
Yeah, it's just like uh or orthere's just not an organic,
like, hey man, good job outthere.
Now, having said that, that'snot entirely true.
(28:11):
So I don't want to castigate anart form and the people that
practice it, because that's notentirely true.
It's just very different.
I think it's almost like it'slike improv, okay, calm down,
improv.
You guys, okay, yeah, I get it.
You guys like each other.
But it's a little too much.
SPEAKER_02 (28:27):
When I went to like the I don't remember what it
what it's called, at the end ofthe classes, there's like this
party for everybody.
SPEAKER_03 (28:34):
Kind of like a jam, open jam kind of a thing.
SPEAKER_02 (28:37):
And I went after stand-up.
And I think I was like the onlystand-up there, and it was all
improvers, and I was like, whatis happening in this room?
They're just all clapping andcheering, yeah, running up to
the stage to participate.
Whereas like in my stand-upclass, like nobody wanted to go
first, and it became a joke thatwas like, all right, Nicole's
(28:57):
gonna go first.
And I'm like, Yeah, because thenI can get it out of the way and
like enjoy you guys.
SPEAKER_03 (29:02):
Love that approach, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (29:03):
It was so funny.
Like, I I was totallyoverwhelmed.
It was great, but I was like,oh, this is different.
SPEAKER_03 (29:08):
Yeah, who are these people?
Yeah, um, yeah, they'reimprovisers, yeah.
They're so nice.
They'll kill you with kindness.
SPEAKER_01 (29:16):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (29:17):
Um, very different vibe, but it is.
I love it.
Um yeah, and I've you know, youuh you mentioned Mike.
Uh I've known Mike for yearsnow.
I met him at Third Coast, andthat that's just there's just so
many people that I am very fondof, and I like I'll purposefully
say that word.
I'm just very fond of a lot ofpeople, and I've met them at
Third Coast.
SPEAKER_02 (29:38):
So is there anything that really surprises you about
where you guys are at now or howyou got there?
SPEAKER_03 (29:45):
I'm um I'm surprised we survived COVID.
Uh and um honestly, it I think.
I think I just I think whatsurprises me is not like that
we're where we are now, justthat it's just I think the
(30:07):
surprising thing is just ummaybe the luck or the good
fortune I've experienced, likethe fact that I met Luke, the
fact that Luke has thepersonality that he has and the
drive and the energy that hehas.
And I think he would say thesame of me.
He's like, oh, well, Scott's avery different personality.
Uh, but we really nicelycomplement each other.
(30:29):
And I I guess I'm surprised athow almost universally we're
almost always on the same pageabout almost everything, but we
like approach things verydifferently.
Um uh yeah, I uh I'm surprisedthat we're that we're uh as
successful as we are as animprov comedy venue.
(30:52):
Um I think there's a lot oflessons moving forward.
Um I think we just have to leanmore into the being venue kind
of a business rather than improvcomedy venue.
So I think we're gonna reallylook to diversify what we're
offering, and that's alreadyhappening, but I think that's
just a strategic thing.
But uh so the short answer is II guess I'm not super surprised.
(31:16):
Um I just feel like everything'sbeen very uh strategic and very
straightforward decision-makingover the years and largely on
the same page about a lot ofthings.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (31:30):
It's I find it interesting how well you say
like you and Luke work togetherjust because as somebody in law
and the number of we call thembusiness divorces.
I know.
I I was literally asked to workon something the other week, and
someone at the firm was like, isthis something you want to learn
(31:50):
more about?
And I was like, actually no, butI will help you.
I was like, I don't likefighting.
There's a reason I'm atransactional lawyer.
Yeah.
And so it I always when I hearpeople going into business
together, it I'm always a littlebit like, oh I will say you
thought it through.
SPEAKER_03 (32:07):
Yeah.
Um and I I'm gonna say theopposite.
Uh I'm gonna flip your question.
Uh what are you not surprisedat?
I think I'm not surprised at thelevel of ignorance that's led to
success.
Like just, you know, theblissful state of ignorance.
Like, I just didn't know what Iwas getting myself into.
And you're absolutely right touse the word marriage.
(32:27):
Um, he is my business husband,he would say that I'm his
business husband.
And um, like there's so much atstake at our decisions.
Like, we're we're just neverfree to make them on our own.
And that is the definition of amarriage.
Like, you make a decision, ithas a consequence.
Um I'm actually uh legallymarried, uh, to use a term from
(32:49):
your profession.
Um, and I've signed documents,you know, justice of the peace
kind of thing.
So my wife, Gabrielle Saliba,who um uh married me in 2015.
So we were together for uh justa year when we opened Third
Coast.
And now in my defense, um,Gabrielle, if you're listening,
and we've had this discussionmany times, I didn't know it was
(33:11):
gonna be this big.
I didn't I just didn't think itwas gonna be this big.
And like once you here's theother thing is like I just that
that's an ignorance place,right?
The phrase I didn't know is is alabel for that you stick on a
place of ignorance in them.
So that's a but um it just gotbig and it got very involved and
very demanding, and I didn'tknow that was gonna happen.
(33:33):
And um so yeah, uh I don't know.
I guess I'm I'm I'm just notsurprised at at how little I
knew about any of it, and justhow fortunate I got.
Um had my partner and I notagreed fundamentally on a lot of
things.
(33:54):
And look, we we do have verydifferent opinions about things,
but we have some very similarvalues, and I think we didn't
recognize that.
We there was no values testingthat we like, we didn't do a a
depth discussion about it.
But also I think you can justsay something as a value because
it sounds nice and in the momentstrategically maybe you need to
(34:14):
say it, if that makes sense.
But is it a value that youactually have?
I mean, the the the test is likea stressful situation, like what
your values really come out.
I think for Luke and I, thething that we have absolutely in
common is we love information,we really like the straight
(34:35):
talk, we really like the realdeal uh dialogue.
Um we generally don't takethings personally, but we also
really feel it's important tovent if we need to, or like get
something out.
Um but then that now it's out inthe open.
And rather than being locked inthe headspace of somebody
privately, it's a thing we cannow deal with and analyze or
(34:56):
dismiss or make important orwhatever we need to do.
So I think just the value ofthat kind of straightforward
communication.
I don't think we realized well,Luke would probably say he
realized he had it, but I didn'trealize I had it.
SPEAKER_02 (35:09):
Do you feel like your experience doing improv
helped with your ability to likecommunicate and work together in
business?
Um I think so.
SPEAKER_03 (35:20):
Um I mean, I don't know how you couldn't be
affected by just the constantsort of reframing of things in a
uh purely listening way or or umbut it it's just very positive.
Like there's nothing judge it'slike anti-judgy, you know.
You just want to accept thingsthat it's very it's yeah, it's
(35:42):
very Buddhist, very Zen.
SPEAKER_02 (35:44):
So as you were talking about having similar
values, honestly, it made methink of a marriage again.
Because it's like I think I'mnot married, but I I do feel
like the people I know who havethese healthy marriages, it's uh
fundamentally they have the samevalue system, even if they don't
agree on everything, which noone will.
Right.
(36:04):
And that's some of my closestfriends, the people I tell
everything to are people who Iknow their values that align so
much that I would trust theirfeedback and guidance in my
life, and the other people I tryto be like, you don't need to be
talking.
SPEAKER_03 (36:22):
Yeah.
Uh that makes a lot of sense, Ithink.
Um I think especially in arelationship too, you you kind
of want to uh take care of eachother and be very loyal to each
other in a way that's likethat's very caring as a
baseline.
So um and I think I think bothof us really do genuinely care
about each other and and otherpeople that we come in contact
(36:42):
with.
So that's always very helpful umas it turns out, if you're
building something that involvespeople, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (36:51):
Yeah, and I I know from all the information out
there that like third coast isundergoing a lot of changes
right now.
Sure.
And what are you excited aboutwith this?
unknown (37:02):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_03 (37:03):
I'm excited uh about um at some point in the near
future getting out from underthe thumb of and I'm gonna
mention his name again, Barry uhthe owner of Marathon.
Uh he was like the best and theworst thing that's ever happened
to us.
I mean, he was great great forseven years.
The last three years he's justbeen increasingly antagonistic
(37:23):
to us as a business.
He just is one it's his right,he owns the property.
He doesn't need to have anybodythere at night, and that's what
he prefers now.
For whatever reasons, I have noidea.
But uh so I think the thing I'mlooking forward to is getting us
to a place where we can just runour business and not have to
worry about all this otherstuff.
(37:44):
So yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (37:46):
And have have you guys thought about like what
legacy you want to leave in thecommunity?
SPEAKER_03 (37:51):
Oh no.
Uh again, you're askingquestions as if like we need to
have a business.
I have a whiteboard at home andit has all my uh I that's true,
I do have a whiteboard, but itdoes a nothing with third coasts
on there.
It's like pay bills, you know,whatever.
Cut the grass.
Um call your kids.
(38:12):
Uh no, and and look, I maybethis is uh maybe this is the
effect of improv.
Maybe again it's that filteradmissions process of like I'm
already this kind ofpersonality, and here's an art
form that I just kind of vibewith.
Uh but I feel like the futurewill take care of itself.
Um the biggest thing I think isuh if there's gonna be a legacy,
(38:38):
it's gonna be because we'resmart and strategic about the
business.
Um and we're genuinely caringand kind to everybody that we
come in contact with.
Um I was gonna say, don't be auh but I don't know if I can say
that on your podcast.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (38:54):
We are a clean podcast.
SPEAKER_03 (38:57):
Don't be um don't be a butt.
SPEAKER_00 (39:00):
You can say that.
That's fine.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (39:03):
Okay.
Uh but yeah, don't don't dothat.
Like just let go of that.
Like figure your own baggage outand set a lot of it down.
I know you're still gonna havesome, but so the legacy piece, I
think again, this is an improvmindset.
Just trusting in that process,it will happen on its own
through no effort.
And you just pay attention toyour own authentic
(39:25):
responsiveness to things, payattention to your own uh need to
analyze and be strategic andsmart and wise about business
and hiring and management and umyou know, all the other stuff
will take care of itself.
So because I think people arejust drawn to places where they
feel safe, where they feel seen,where they feel like I can just
(39:45):
be myself.
Oh, there's these other funpeople, and I get to hang out
with them, and now we'refriends, and that's uh that's a
legacy, like that will justcreate its own.
Because then it's no longer myresponsibility to spend the time
and energy doing it.
It's just like we've alreadykind of mentioned it, like there
are so many shows going on, andI'm like the co-founder,
co-owner, and I don't even knowwhat they are.
(40:07):
I don't even know who most ofthe people are that come around
Third Coast, and it's justcrazy, but it's also really
good.
Like we'd even talked aboutgetting to a place like that.
Like someday we won't even knowpeople uh that come here.
And the community at the timewas so small that it just felt
far-fetched, but now it's justthe reality, you know.
Yeah, so yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (40:26):
So, Scott, what are you obsessing over lately?
SPEAKER_03 (40:31):
Uh what am I obsessing over lately?
Um, that is a really interestingquestion.
Um I would say uh man.
So I teach high school history.
I think I'm just obsessing overthis current historical moment
and like how I communicate thatto my kids by still allowing
(40:54):
some space for hope.
SPEAKER_00 (40:55):
Yeah.
We all need hope.
SPEAKER_03 (40:59):
I just I I I found myself in the last 12 months in
in my class saying, well, Ican't believe I'm about to say
this, but this is theConstitution says this, but this
is happening actually right now,and this is just not normal.
SPEAKER_02 (41:16):
Oh, that'd be a really interesting time to be
teaching.
SPEAKER_03 (41:19):
Yeah.
Like I have a U.S.
history class, and that just itjust comes out of my mouth all
the time.
It's like, well, uh it'ssupposed to things are supposed
to kind of work this way.
Or like norms historically havebut we're just in a weird moment
and that's not happening.
And um now it's okay.
I'm in a private school, so II'm pretty free to say and do
whatever I want to do.
(41:40):
Uh but I have friends in publicschools, and so anyway.
So I guess I'm obsessing over uhyeah, just I just want my kids
uh to have some sense of likeagency because they're they're
hopeful and they're energized bythe the possibilities, you know.
Yeah.
(42:00):
Uh whereas the reality issometimes I'm like, oh.
But yeah, anyway.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (42:08):
Do you have a recommendation for our audience
today?
SPEAKER_03 (42:13):
Um I would say so.
I'm just gonna laugh at myself.
David Grant is this author Ifeel like I just discovered like
two years ago.
SPEAKER_01 (42:25):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (42:25):
And like I'm starting to just I've just been
reading David Grant books.
Um he wrote uh this book calledThe Wager.
SPEAKER_02 (42:33):
Is it fiction or nonfiction?
SPEAKER_03 (42:34):
It's sorry, it's nonfiction.
SPEAKER_02 (42:35):
Nonfiction, okay.
SPEAKER_03 (42:37):
But it reads like fiction.
I love those kind of nonfiction,yeah.
Um he wrote uh The Lost City ofZ.
Uh anyway, he's like a amateurhistorian, journalist,
professional journalist who doesdeep dive research into like
specific things and writes aboutthem really well.
Uh so um so David Grant, uh,he's just got a whole bunch of
(43:02):
books out that are just so cool.
And they're like the the wagerwas um uh it's a sailing ship.
So it's like the sailing shipera.
So that's I don't know, maybeit's just me like it's a an
escapist kind of a thing, butlike I often feel better after
I'm reading about like how theseguys got on a piece of huge,
(43:24):
well-constructed, engineeredwood, sailed thousands of miles,
then it came apart and they weremarooned and they survived in
the you know 1600s or 1700s.
Like, how did they do that?
I would die in a month.
SPEAKER_02 (43:38):
I think I would too, actually.
We just don't have the skillsthat they used to.
SPEAKER_03 (43:42):
No, exactly.
Like, how did they do that?
And then they made it back toEngland.
Like they like a year or twoyears later, they they they
suddenly appeared in port, andeveryone was like, Oh, we
thought you were all dead.
And that's like the theme of allof his books.
Uh uh anyway, I just yeah, it'sall about explorers.
And um I I'm just kind of intoit.
(44:04):
That's my obsession.
unknown (44:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (44:07):
I've my obsession recommendation is very connected
this week because lately I'vebeen obsessing over what makes
an organization like healthy.
Okay.
And um how do you keep peoplelike happy and engaged?
And I'm interested.
Yeah, it's not a totally newobsession, but it's becoming a
(44:28):
lot more.
Um, I really love Pat Langioni'sbooks.
SPEAKER_04 (44:32):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (44:33):
Um, he talks about like how to hire the right
person, get the right peoplethere, and there he has a book
called like Death by Meeting,and I'm like, I relate this.
SPEAKER_03 (44:44):
You have a lot of meetings you die in.
SPEAKER_02 (44:46):
Yeah, we're cutting back.
So I get it's sort of a joke.
SPEAKER_03 (44:50):
Is that because you said something?
Did you say, hey, thesemeetings, guys?
SPEAKER_02 (44:54):
I did say something.
Did you?
But I don't think I was the onlyone.
Ah, and like I like a meetingwhere it's like it's needed,
it's efficient, there's anagenda.
And I also do think every oncein a while a meeting where you
where it's very intentionallylike community-based of like
we're having lunch together,we're checking in.
But it it's all very much Ithink needs to be intentional
(45:17):
because all the time we spend atwork takes us away from our
family, our friends.
So it's like death by meeting.
SPEAKER_03 (45:24):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (45:24):
Um who's the author again?
SPEAKER_03 (45:27):
Say it one more time.
SPEAKER_02 (45:28):
Pat Lincioni.
SPEAKER_03 (45:29):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (45:29):
And he also has a couple of podcasts, and I took
his assessment called TheWorking Genius, and it's all
about how teams have like peoplehave different skill sets that
they bring to a team, yeah, andhow you can help people like
lean into that to make a moreeffective team um produce like
(45:50):
the products.
So for me, actually, I mighthave even talked about this
already on here, but I'm like, Igot discernment and galvanizing.
And it like made so much senseto me about like why I struggled
with certain things of like Ican often identify like this
isn't working and it probably bebetter this way.
And then people are like, Well,how do you know that?
(46:11):
And I'm like, I just know, like,you should just listen.
SPEAKER_03 (46:14):
I'm a discerning person.
SPEAKER_02 (46:16):
I'm just discerning.
Uh, and then I like to getpeople excited about things.
Okay.
And people have said that I'mgood at doing that.
Um, but then like my worsttraits are like tenacity and
enablement.
And I'm like, if you areconstantly just delegating to me
and like get it done, get itdone, get it done, I'm like,
(46:36):
okay.
Like I'm exhausted now.
SPEAKER_03 (46:39):
Uh-huh.
So you'll say yes to a lot ofthose delegations until it's
overwhelming.
SPEAKER_02 (46:45):
And yeah, and in our in my profession, sure.
That's kind of how you come up.
And so after a while, I'vestarted to get tired and been
really trying to step more intoleading and developing business
and training people because thatis where I get a lot of energy.
(47:06):
Very cool.
So clearly I'm obsessing overthis.
That's great.
SPEAKER_03 (47:11):
No, I just learned something new.
And I feel like as a businessowner, that's great for me to
know about.
I didn't know about thisresource.
SPEAKER_02 (47:17):
So and he so his books, nonfiction, almost all of
them are written as parables.
And so I remember things betterbecause he's telling stories,
but it's based in the lessons, Iguess.
SPEAKER_03 (47:32):
Yeah.
So I gotta mention fiction,James S.A.
Corey, who wrote The Expandseries.
I'm like reading it.
Have you ever seen this sci-fi?
If you're into science fiction,it's really cool.
SPEAKER_02 (47:41):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (47:41):
And they have a new it's uh, it's two authors.
They use one name, James S.A.
Corey.
SPEAKER_02 (47:47):
Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_03 (47:47):
Yeah, they write as a duo.
SPEAKER_02 (47:49):
I didn't I don't think I've ever heard of people
doing that.
SPEAKER_03 (47:51):
I don't think I have either, but that's them.
SPEAKER_02 (47:53):
So that's cool.
SPEAKER_03 (47:54):
Uh but yeah, really cool stuff.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (47:56):
So what are you looking forward to this week?
SPEAKER_03 (47:59):
Uh let's see.
This week, um honestly, I thinkuh so this I love my job.
So it's not a problem.
Why'd you say it like that?
Don't say it like that.
Uh I'm I'm looking forward torolling out a project with my
students.
So cool.
We we do a lot of projects.
(48:20):
And I I just I've it for me, itallows me to be creative and
like think about things, butalso I get to ask them like,
what do you want to do?
How do you want to do this?
So my we just finished the unionI called 1491.
It's a new part of the U.S.
history course.
And um, so I just am like, well,let's do some research.
You you get a partner, pick yourpartner, you get to do some
(48:40):
research.
Uh, it's gotta be credible.
I gotta check the sourcing,gonna make sure it's good.
And then you're gonna make uh awall installment.
Like it's gotta be to scale.
And that's pretty much that'slike my project idea.
Yeah.
So I'll just roll that out to mykids, and I'm just so excited to
hear what they're gonna do withthat.
(49:01):
Because what I found over theyears is if I give too much,
especially with older kids, toomany details.
Uh well, anyway, now I'm gettinginto the weeds.
Anyway, I'm just excited aboutthat.
SPEAKER_02 (49:14):
Cool.
SPEAKER_03 (49:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (49:15):
Um, I I think I'm gonna try and go hiking this
afternoon.
So I'm excited about that.
Where?
I I haven't decided.
I was thinking like Percy Warneror um what's the one?
No, no, Hidden Lake.
Okay, I don't know.
It's like down by Bellevue, Iguess.
Okay.
It's not super long, but I'vebeen hearing that it's kind of a
nice spot.
(49:35):
So I wanted to go seewaterfalls, but you kind of have
to drive a little bit furtherfor that.
I don't really have to.
SPEAKER_03 (49:41):
Montgomery Bell State Park is also one that's
close by.
That's very hilly and if youlike up and down.
SPEAKER_02 (49:47):
I do like that.
I should I've only been thereonce.
I should go back.
SPEAKER_03 (49:50):
It's really pretty.
Um and I've only been there acouple of times.
Percy Warren is one of myfavorites.
I feel like I've justrediscovered it.
So I might go there tomorrow.
Are you going tomorrow?
SPEAKER_02 (50:00):
I would probably go today.
Yeah.
I like the Mossy Ridge Trail.
SPEAKER_03 (50:04):
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
And hiking, do you run?
SPEAKER_02 (50:08):
No, I have in the past, but I don't anymore.
SPEAKER_03 (50:11):
Yeah.
So you're thinking about pickingit up, maybe?
SPEAKER_02 (50:14):
No.
Sorry, no.
I uh Okay, long, long historywith running.
I I actually was training for amarathon.
It was like 10, 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_03 (50:26):
I've dropped out of two marathons.
SPEAKER_02 (50:27):
I got really hurt.
And so I got to the I wasn't inthe like I was at in training, I
was running 16 miles.
SPEAKER_00 (50:34):
Sure.
SPEAKER_02 (50:34):
And then I slipped on ice back home.
And then I just like kept going.
Cause I was like, I mean, I'mfine.
And then that of course then I'mnot fine.
SPEAKER_03 (50:42):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (50:42):
So I went through like physical therapy for a long
time.
SPEAKER_03 (50:45):
And I've did you like fall and like where you
impacted the ground with theinjury?
No.
SPEAKER_02 (50:50):
I just like slipped and pulled my sartorius.
What is that?
Is that it's this muscle likethat comes up across here.
So like my right leg is alwaysstill kind of tight.
SPEAKER_03 (51:00):
Even to this day.
SPEAKER_02 (51:00):
Even to this day.
It actually got better duringCOVID because I walked so much.
Okay.
And I'm like, all right.
So I do a lot of walking, a lotof hiking.
Yeah.
I think there's too much impactfrom running now with it shakes
up my my brain.
So the whole nervous system.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01 (51:17):
But you got very excited.
I'm like, no, no running.
SPEAKER_03 (51:21):
I yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I've always been a runner, soyeah.
But as I've gotten into my 40sand 50s, it's been harder and
harder.
So I now have a new rule.
I can't run on consecutive days.
But that's just to preserve myown.
SPEAKER_02 (51:35):
Yeah, that makes sense.
So, Scott, um, where can peoplefind you if you want them to
find you?
SPEAKER_03 (51:41):
Um Well, you gotta come and find me in person
because I'm really not online.
I have the social mediaaccounts, but I think What about
Third Coast?
Yeah, I was gonna say ThirdCoast Comedy Club.
Yeah.
Um I'll be teaching a classeither level one, two, or four,
depending on what Elam uhassigns me.
(52:03):
Um maybe I'll be at the bar,maybe I'll be in the audience in
the theater.
Be like, where's Waldo?
Yeah, kind of.
Yeah, you kind of like you haveto look at this podcast to see
what I look like so you know whoyou're looking at.
But you can also probably Googleme.
If you do, you'll find thatthere's a Scott Field athletic
field in Alabama, which is yeah.
Uh but that's not I'm not grass.
(52:25):
I'm not a hundred yards ofgrass.
SPEAKER_02 (52:28):
Thanks for clarifying.
SPEAKER_03 (52:31):
I was looking for a guy that looks like this, and
it's a football field.
I don't know who that is.
SPEAKER_02 (52:37):
Well, thank you so much for joining me today.
I had a great time with you.
SPEAKER_03 (52:40):
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_02 (52:41):
You're welcome.
And thank you guys for listeningand watching.
Please follow us wherever youlisten to your podcasts, and I
look forward to seeing you nextweek.
unknown (52:49):
The end.
SPEAKER_02 (52:49):
For listening to my crunchy zen era.
Please subscribe and leave areview wherever you listen to
your podcasts.
This podcast is produced by me,Nicole Swisher, and my good
friends Summer Harcup and LizCoulter.
Editing is by Drew HarrisonMedia, and recording is done by
Logos Creative in Nashville,Tennessee.
Thanks for hanging out.
We'll be back next week.
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