Welcome to the Woodbird Theater, we now present Off Book.

What's up Los Angeles? Welcome to the Birder Room. How you doing tonight?

Urban Room on Hollywood Boulevard. Well, well, if you can make it here, you made it. You've been here.

Thank you all so much for coming out. This is so exciting. Lovely to see your faces with our faces.

Welcome to Off Book, the Improvised Musical Podcast with Zach and Jess. That one's Jessica McKenna.

That one's Zach Reno. We've got Rhett Morris that feeling when the chord hits.

Oh no. We've got Dana Wiggins on the stickings.

We got filling in for Scott tonight, one of our absolute favorite pianists in the world.

That's right. We got two. No cord is too hard, Zach Morris.

Yes, great job. I got there. Really good. We got there.

By a round of applause, who has been brought here by a friend and maybe doesn't know exactly what's about to happen?

Okay. Thank you for being brave and thank you for trusting your friends.

Thank you, friends, for bringing more people to us.

To this, an improvised musical, which means that everything that we do and everything that the band plays has never been done before,

will never be done again. And if that sounds scary, thank you.

But it's going to be okay. And all we need to get started is just a word and then Jess and I will talk and then we'll launch into a musical.

And all you have to do is hang out. That's it. So we'll take a word from anywhere to anyone.

What was that? What was this right here?

A little like like Irish. Well, I don't like like Irish actually.

I like the word. I felt like that was great and I appreciated the bold way it was spoken back to us.

But I don't like like Irish. Now, I like red vines and you and I are both West Coast babies.

So do you actually, do you get down with twizzlers?

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