Make My Day Episode 31: Eat the Pasta with Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

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4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino (Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast) compete to cheer Josh up. Zach and Jessica create the dream slate of Broadway shows for when theaters reopen during a game of The Show Must (Eventually) Go On. They then donate their $100 grand prizes to SELAH and the Armenia Fund. Plus, pep talks for standing ovations and the period of indecision when you're deciding what to eat for dinner. Follow Jessica and Zach on Instagram: Jessica: https://www.instagram.com/jessjessmckenna/ Zach: https://www.instagram.com/zachreino/ Listen and subscribe to Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast: https://www.earwolf.com/show/off-book/ Donate to SELAH: https://donorbox.org/selah Donate to the Armenia Fund: https://www.armeniafund.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Josh Gondelman.
0:05.9	No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day.
0:09.5	The world is a stressful place to be, so every week for about half an hour, we try to make it a little more fun and a little more pleasant.
0:15.8	I'm going to play a game with my guests who are guaranteed to win because they're playing as a team and they're the only contestants, and I assign them points throughout the game based on how much they cheer me up with
0:25.2	their answers. Then, once my guests become the grand prize winners, they each win a $100
0:30.3	donation to the cause or charity of their choice, and we each give pep talks to a person or group
0:35.5	that we think could use it this week.
0:43.3	My guests today are the hosts of the Offbook podcast, which is such a delightful musical,
0:47.8	improvised podcast. They improvise a full musical every week, and I'm so delighted to have them here. Please welcome Jess McKenna and Zach Reno.
0:51.7	Hello.
0:52.5	Hi. Hello.
0:54.3	I am Jess McKenna and this is Zach Reno. This is Jess McKenna and I Reno. Hello. Hi. Hello. I am Jess McKenna and this is Zach Reno.
0:57.0	This is Jess McKenna and I am Zach Reno.
1:00.7	Thank you for bringing each other in two.
1:03.6	Everybody's getting acclimated to the voices.
1:05.7	How are you?
1:06.9	I'm like pretty good, pretty pretty well. And I fall just so firmly in the can't complain camp.
1:16.1	But I will, anyway, to say that the only thing that's bringing me down right now is that we've had a sudden re-uptick in the hot weather of L.A.
1:25.7	And, you know, it's just a, it's just a mood killer when you thought you're going to get to wear a sweater.
1:32.3	Just had transitioned for one of our Zoom calls strictly to fall.
1:36.3	We're talking flannels.
1:38.3	We're talking best.
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