Hello, my beautiful tower bottoms.

I just wanted to give you the heads up.

The conversation in this episode does end somewhat abruptly.

It's only because our chat went so long, I decided to break this into two episodes.

So next week, we'll be part two, but in the meantime, enjoy part one.

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Good morning, Sotomites with Zach Bowie Towers.

Mike Leibinson.

You nailed it.

I nailed it.

So I just got scolded by a listener in my podcast.

And I don't even know them was on YouTube and they go,

this host is so bad at introducing their guest. I wind up having to Google who they are to see what they do. And I like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not fit for this world, especially when everyone can say things like that. But I took it to heart. And so now I want to do like a lengthy, like, who are you? I'm the first lengthy intro yeah wow okay so you're tall we know that

run run to the youtube because mike is a certified haughty um and talented talented girl

did you do broadway thank you so much no i do i did off broadway i just did my first off

broadway ginger twinss and please tell the folk, so you're getting it? You're getting the intro of Who Bike is? No, it's, uh, but you are like a musical theater, like girly? Or is you a theater kid. I was a theater kid. It was not a musical, it was a straight, straight play with one sequence, one musical sequence. But I was a theater kid. It was not a musical. It was a straight play with one sequence, one musical sequence. Okay. But I was a theater kid growing up. I did not study theater in college. That's sort of a villain origin story for me. Oh, I started as an opera major. Yeah, I started as an opera major. In college? Yeah. Now, this is going to turn into a whole thing. It's not the intro anymore. That's okay. If you cry, you cry. I tried to transfer into musical theater at Syracuse. They did not accept me as an internal transfer. So I did my other top choice, which was TV and film. Okay. It was like the rejection and protection moment. Ultimately, you were also like, fuck opera. I did not want to do opera. I was swindled into opera by my voice teacher in high school. Because our brains weren't even closer to know. No. And he was, like, he was truly our god. Like, he was our cult leader. We were known as, like, Dr. Nitchke kids. His name was Dr. Nitchke. That's crazy. His house was Christmas year round. No. Oh yeah, he would bid on Santa's mid-voice lesson on eBay. And you were taking his word. He'd be like, hold on, Michael. Also, he had the craziest voice ever. It was like, hello, Zach. It's 304 p.m. on a Tuesday. And I'm calling to. I'm going gonna go out on a limb and say he touched people

He never touched us

Are you sure he never touched us but he did look like a bond villain

I mean sunk it you know mr. Ratburn from Arthur? Oh my god

I was like I know I'm pulling up a cartoon right now but it is uh the it's the i would say

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