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July 2, 2018 78 mins

This week we welcome Shawn Wickens and Gavin Starr Kendall: founders of The Bad Theatre Fest and Bad Film Fest

Gavin Starr Kendall: @TheStarrKendall
Shawn Wickens: @shwickens

0:02:00 Our guests are the founders of "The Bad Film Fest" www.badfilmfest.com
0:02:39 Starr hails from Texas, which he has in common with Nilsa
0:03:00 Turns out Shawn has actually listened to an episode of the podcast and proves it
0:04:46 Starr Fellows a woman to New York, as one does, and falls-in with some cool artists
0:07:33 Performing arts, ice sculptures and ephemerality
0:09:55 Twigs and "True Detective"
0:10:27 The Brick Theatre and its "dangerous" beginnings
0:19:13 What's Shawn's story?
0:22:08 "I immediately thought: this guy is interesting."
0:28:18 Tell us about the Bad Theatre Fest and Bad Film Fest Mr. Kendall and Mr. Wickens
0:38:30 Where's My Cereal?
0:41:20 We're targeting people that share the same definition of the word "bad"
0:44:40 "There's things that get in that we're scared of…"
0:48:20 BadFilmFest.com - 2014's Bad Film Fest is April 11 and 12 at Cloud City in Brooklyn
0:49:40 "30,000kHz of Sound" - Shawn's Improvised Podcast - Bryn wants in
0:51:35 The Polar Vortex returns to wreak vengeance on Chicago.
0:54:00 How has stuff been going for Bryn and Nilsa? Perhaps an audition had happened…
0:56:30 A side business for Nilsa and Bryn?
1:05:00 Bryn's going to be shouting into his closet again
1:06:15 Bryn Packard in "Pain and Gain 2: More Pain, Less Gain"
1:15:45 Starr asks the hard question on everybody's mind about our twitter handle…

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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

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