358. The 14th Annual Magnanimous County Spelling Bee (LIVE from Eugene)
Off Book: The Improvised Musical
Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino
4.9 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The following was recorded LIVE at the W.O.W. Hall in Eugene OR on November 3rd 2025, and is accompanied by the incomparable Scott Passarella (Keys) and the also incomparable Kyle Stebbins (Drums.) This one's got all the classics: A girl too smart for her town, a town willing to pull off an elaborate prank to help to help her, tech decks, theater romance, and of course, breaking and entering. For video of this and many many other live shows (and ad free listening) consider supporting the show at OffBookCluhbouse.com!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, Zach here with some news that I think will be of interest to this particular listening |
| 0:04.9 | demographic. So for the last five or six years, Jessica and I have been working on a full-length new |
| 0:11.4 | musical with director, writer, actor, David Wayne. And this February is the first time we are going |
| 0:18.2 | to be able to present it to the public. And we cannot wait for people to see it. We love it dearly. We're so excited about it. And if you want to follow updates on that show |
| 0:26.3 | for when to get tickets when it comes to other cities, hopefully, just to follow the journey. From the |
| 0:31.0 | beginning, you should follow the brand new Instagram account at three months later musical. That's |
| 0:35.7 | three months later musical. More updates on that soon, |
| 0:39.5 | but we're very excited about it. So I wanted to give y'all the first heads up. Okay, this is a live |
| 0:44.4 | show from our now completed tour in Eugene, Oregon. We had such a great time. The rest of the tour |
| 0:49.8 | shows should be coming out next with the Northeast and then the Southeast every other week, |
| 0:54.7 | starting now. So thank you so much to everyone who came out to see us and enjoy the show. |
| 1:02.7 | Welcome to the Woodbert Theater. We now present Off Book. Off Book. Off book. Off book. |
| 1:10.8 | They improvised musical podcast with Zach and Jess. Thank you. I'm I'm |
| 1:28.3 | I'm |
| 1:30.3 | I'm What's up, Eugene? |
| 2:02.6 | Hello, Eugene, Oregon, and the Wow Hall, or just Wow Hall. |
| 2:07.5 | Wow. |
| 2:08.1 | Wow. |
| 2:10.0 | We are so delighted to be here. |
| 2:11.7 | Thank you for sitting and grooving and chatting in this cozy Monday night. |
| 2:16.7 | There was one place that said the show was at 8, so we were trying to split the diff just a little bit, so we appreciate you. Giving people those, giving those people time to show up. Just a little bit of grace for, you know, like, hey, I don't know, we're from Los Angeles, where when there's a drop of rain, everything gets delayed two hours. We know you have it here, but, you know. |
| 2:35.5 | Anyway, thank you. |
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