Welcome to Woo Woo With Rachel Dratch, the podcast that explores The Unexplained with Humor and Curiosity.

Hello and welcome to Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch here with Irene. Bremes, as always. Hi, Irene.

Hello, sweating. Irene, today we have, da-da-da-da-da, our first witch.

Pamela Grossman. Hi, Pam. Hi, it's so nice to be with you this morning.

Well, we're very excited because we haven't had a witch on yet.

And I met you through the coolest of circumstances.

And then I scooped you up to be on the show.

But that was all sort of kismet, too.

But anyway, so as I've mentioned, I'm doing Rocky Horror on Broadway, first preview on

Thursday, March 26th.

Anyway, we had, so our director, Sam Pinkleton is just the coolest, smartest, like, he's a great

combo of, you know, revering theater and all its powers

and all it can do, but he also has a sense of humor about the whole thing, and he's like,

it's just theater, we're just putting on a show. And he balances the two so well. Well,

in his sort of like reverential yet theater campy mentality, he told us that we were going

to have sort of a, I don't know what you would call it, a spell, a blessing, a ceremony led by

Pam Grossman. And so we showed up, you know, after rehearsal, those who wanted to participate, of course I did.

And there we met Pam who did the super cool, I mean, I didn't even know what to expect, but I'll have you talk about it, Pam.

But we did this really cool, like, I don't know, I guess it was about a half hour. Kind of like ceremony, but sort of

sacred honoring of theater. But it wasn't like, I don't know, I think anyone would have gotten

into this. It wasn't like some sort of inaccessible or like, this is too weird. Like, it wasn't

like that at all. So anyway, then afterwards, Pam came up to me, said she listens to the show,

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