Kalen, 47, Blue Man Group Performer

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Character Study, Vol. 11. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously. In Vol. 11, a conversation with Kalen, 47, a Blue Man Group performer from Las Vegas, Nevada. *** ⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠proud affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome.
0:06.4	This is The Other People Show.
0:08.0	My name is Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:10.6	It's great to be with you.
0:12.2	Thank you for listening.
0:13.2	I really appreciate it.
0:14.7	Please be sure to hit the subscribe button wherever you get your shows,
0:18.8	and you can also subscribe on YouTube follow me on
0:22.4	Blue Sky and Instagram so today is Sunday and it is time for a new character
0:30.5	studies episode character studies if you're new to the show is a series on this
0:35.6	podcast in which I have conversations with ordinary people
0:39.2	about their lives. I have a great one for you today. My guest is a gentleman named
0:45.1	Kalen from Las Vegas, Nevada. Kalen is a blue man group performer. So he is a blue man. And he's been a blue man for over 25 years. And I've always
0:58.3	wanted to talk to a blue man and find out what's going on behind that neutral facade and to just
1:04.7	like know what it's like to be a blue man. So my conversation with Kalin is coming up. You don't want to miss it.
1:13.3	Today's episode is brought to you by Mulholland Books, publisher of the novel Buzzkill by J. Robert Lennon.
1:20.0	Buzzkill is the official may pick of the Other People Book Club. That is my book club. You can sign up for
1:25.3	the Other People Book Club over at other ppl.com.
1:28.6	Get a new book delivered to your door every 30 days. I interview book club authors on this show.
1:34.9	So a quick reminder about my weekly email newsletter. You can sign up over at bradlisty.substack.com.
1:41.7	It's a great way to keep up with the latest episodes of this program. I also share
1:46.3	a list of links to things that I've been reading and finding interesting. So if that sounds good,
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