About This Episode
It’s Micro Monday, and we’re bringing you a fast, funny audio comedy: History in the Making by Clinton Festa!
History in the Making was the 2023 Cary Playwrights’ Forum Playslam winner.
About the Playwright
Clinton Festa started his career as a cartoonist and writer for his campus humor magazine. His plays have been produced nationally, in Canada, and in the UK, and are published in several anthologies. His scripts for seniors are published with ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center. He wrote and directed a seven-episode podcast series called The Malone Family in the Enchanted Forest. He runs an online book drive for inmates at prisons and juvenile detention centers called Sentences Book Donations. Clinton lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and children.
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Credits:
- Written by Clinton Festa
- MAX: Joe Llorens
- DAVE: Paul Hanna
🎧 Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna
🎙️ Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna
🎨 Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna
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Episode Transcript
Hey there, Its time for another Stories Found Micro Monday. Lets
start this post Holiday week with a laugh. This week
weve got the hilarious and timely short comedy History
in the Making by Clinton Festa. Clint
is a playwright, an author, and his plays
the Experience and Picky Zombies are two of our
most downloaded episodes. So if you havent heard them yet, make
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sure to check them out right after this. Stories
Found is proud to present History in the
Making by Clinton Festa.
>> Max (01:01):
It is the end of an era. My
empire has fallen to you, Chief
Daviticus the
destroyer. underestimating
your army will be the last mistake I ever make.
>> Dave (01:15):
I will give you a Warriors death
Maximus here on the
battlefield. Get on your knees and
pray to the gods as you prepare for the cold
steel of my cruel axe
Oh, and call me Dave.
>> Max (01:31):
Thanks, Dave. All
I ask is that you don't spread lies
about me when I'm dead. Remember,
history books are written by the winners.
>> Dave (01:44):
On the count of three. One,
two. Uh, hang on a
second. What? What did you say?
>> Max (01:53):
Don't spread lies about me.
>> Dave (01:55):
Uh, after that.
>> Max (01:57):
I just don't want you to tell people I wet my bed
or married to my cousin. History books are
written by the winners.
>> Dave (02:04):
Uh, that. That's it? I thought it was.
To the victor goes the spoils.
>> Max (02:10):
Well, Dave, I suppose both are
true.
>> Dave (02:15):
But I'm a transalpine barbarian from a
pre literate society.
>> Max (02:19):
Uh, and my team built the
aqueducts. But we still lost. You don't have to rub
it in.
>> Dave (02:26):
That's not what I meant. Max, look at me.
I'm wearing a necklace made of teeth and I'm
dressed like a bear. You're saying I have
to write a whole history book now?
>> Max (02:38):
Oh, U. Um,
yes. Yes, you're the winner.
>> Dave (02:43):
So, yes, with
citations
>> Max (02:47):
in text citations. MLA format. And it has
to be peer reviewed.
>> Dave (02:52):
That's definitely not why I got into
pillaging. When's it
due? Uh, I don't even have a library card.
>> Max (03:02):
By the end of the week. And if it's a day late,
the most you can get is a B-.
>> Dave (03:07):
Ouch. That's harsh.
>> Max (03:10):
Hmm.
>> Dave (03:11):
How do I get someone else to do this for me?
>> Max (03:15):
There's only one way. You have
to lose. If you
surrender your army, let me chop
off your head. Then I'll have
to write the long peer reviewed history
textbook with in text MLA citations. Due this
Friday.
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Dave.
>> Dave (03:42):
Hang on, Max. Uh, I'm thinking about
it.
>> Ava Love Hanna (03:55):
You've just heard History in the Making by Clinton
Festa. It featured Joe Llorens as Max
and Paul Hanna as Dave. Make sure to check out
Clinton's other hilarious plays, the Experience
and Picky Zombies in two of our earlier
episodes. You can find a link to those as well as more
info on Clinton and our super talented voice actors
on our website
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storiesfound.com. happy
Monday from all of us at StoriesFound.
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