Hey, wonderful's welcome to episode 356 of the podcast with my guest

Ali Gertz. She is known for many things, many of the musical, but also is the

co-host of the Round Springfield Podcast with Julia Prescott who was on the

podcast last week and thanks again Julian for scheduling this long-distance

podcast episode recording of course I'm still up here at SF Sketchfest

so glad to be able to make that happen.

I would encourage those of you who are potentially in the Bay Area to come see some shows.

This weekend I'm doing three shows that I'm really excited about. I may

be doing more that I'm forgetting but I can tell you that we do have a handful of

tickets left for this immersive experience of the thrilling adventure hour with all the work juice players,

Padre Prooster, busy Phillips, Paul Lef Tompkins.

There's like 12 of us so I'm not gonna name them all here but if you go to

S. Sketchfest.com you can check out information. We're doing a live show on stage. of Sketch

Fest.com you can check out information. We're doing a live show on stage at the Palace Theater

which was formerly known as a Speakeasy and it is a Speakeasy style environment.

We're going to be doing a bunch of immersive interactive stuff all through the space with the audience,

hanging out with them, singing with them, talking to them, giving advice.

It's goofball, crazy, it's going to be so fun and so special. We're all really

excited about it. So that's an option. You can also come see the Ret Miller

wheels off show. That's a wonderful night of music and comedy. I'm very, very excited to sing a couple of songs with Ret.

So check that out.

And then on the final weekend, I will just throw out there

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