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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I'm your host, Danny M. Levery, and with me in the studio,

this week is Leo Briggs, who's currently pursuing an MFA in dance and social justice at the

University of Texas, Austin, and H.G. Groupmire, who works as a volunteer coordinator at a hunger

relief nonprofit. Together, Leo and H.G. have collaborated on a full-length performance titled

CBS, which premieres this past June at the seven stages theater in Atlanta. Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Danny. That was a beautiful introduction.

Thank you so much. I'm thrilled. I'm also very excited to talk a little bit more about

CBS later because I don't know if you all knew this, but there's actually a little chain of

like a small mom and pop pharmacies with a similar name that I think is kind of just a fun moment

of serendipity. I've never heard of this. We have fun here. I'm also excited. I don't know. I love

thinking about what goes into bios, and I love the like, people should know this is a full-length

performance. The length of the performance is full. It is not half. Like, what would you call,

by the way, a half-length performance? Is this a formal theater term, and I'm just like exposing

my ignorance? No, there's actually no formalized rules that govern what's full-length and what's

not. I think you could actually argue CBS was not in fact full-length coming in at about 25 to 30

minutes, but you really walked it back, by the way. Well, it is full-length though in terms of the

impact. I'm going to start doing that like when my next book comes out. I'm just going to be like,

oh, this is a full-length novel. Yeah, because it is. It goes all the way to the end. Yeah.

That sounds thrilling, and I'm also excited to potentially hear a little bit more about how

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