This is a head gum podcast.

Hold on to your seat. Hey, you're in for the treat. It's the very first. Hey, Rittle,

oh musical episode. This episode will not be all musical. In fact, the scene is now musical guest.

JPC. That is the most fun voice to do with musical guest,

part of mud. What's that name? Franz Ferdinand. That's who it is. It's not going to be at all singing episode.

Not an all musical episode. All right. What I thought was triangle on more of my voice. Yeah. In the moment,

I was like, let's do an all musical episode because you know, scrubs did it. And of course, that's, you know,

getting tested. We are following the temple. Yeah, you guys start rewatching scrubs. Our episodes are direct match one to one to their.

We are a scrubs fan cast. Hey, I got a question for you, Adel. If we are not doing an all musical episode, why did I get my pipes so

so stopping what? I feel like I'm wetting my pipes all day. What? What pipes? Yeah, exactly. I heard wet pipes. I said, what pipes? But they are

so stopping what pipes. And if you are a first time listener, we are a podcast that tries to solve improv and along the way, we do riddles.

Is that sound right? Now let's be clear. We say that we are an improv podcast. But you as a listener might listen to other improv podcasts.

They're out there. They're very good. And you're listening to our improv podcast. And you think, well, is it an improv podcast?

The scenes generally go on for about 45 seconds until someone breaks the reality completely. And then it's over the improv is done. Well, we are a specific niche genre of improv podcast. And that is we are over it.

Can I tell you recently I said to someone, oh, man, it's so weird that I haven't done improv in a year. And they said, aren't you on an improv podcast? And I said, I said what I said, I have not done improv in a year.

We don't do improv. Yeah, I would be like, like, oh, man, I haven't done improv in a year. And people are like, what about the podcast? I'm like, you're right. I haven't done good improv in a year.

I mean, it's more like five years for me. It's always fucking wild to see someone on social media or email to the show that's like, I can't believe I learned improv from listening to you all. And I'm like, oh, no, like, please.

Whoops. Well, I remember I remember some pivotal pivotal improv experiences for me watching things on stage in Chicago when I was like 17 years old. Oh, baby, just things click in things stick in my brain, just magic sparks fireworks. And the thought that what we do on this podcast could be that for someone else sickenst me to my fucking.

It keeps me up at night. We are raising a new generation of awful improvisers. Every generation needs an awful generation of horrible improvisers. And here we are.

As a as an improv coach and teacher in Chicago, there were for granted for like what seven years, not five years, not not a long time. You would see generations of improvisers and you would see star improvisers who were just so fucking like they so confident their voice naturally funny.

They have a delivery they have a cadence. They have a style very, very funny to watch. And then you would watch the wave of people who want to imitate them come up afterwards. And then if you're a teacher and a coach, you have to like, you have to see these the people coming through and you're like, you're doing yourself a disservice first of all because you are not that person. You don't have what they have and you never will. Yeah, because what they have they didn't earn. Yeah, well, it's also yeah, I've taught so many people who are like, I stopped them. I'm like, you did this bad thing and are like, I'm not going to do this.

Like you did this bad thing and are like, well, blank does that bad thing. And I'm like, you have to understand that person has the biggest personality in the world they can get away with anything. It's like I was watching the I was watching the golden globe last night. And I realized, I'm like, oh, all acting is is being the most attractive person out of the million people around you. That's all acting is is just being so attractive. And then they put a camera on you.

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