Ian: On that note, folks, welcome to the Fawx & Stallion season two Q and A. That's right. We're here to take your Qs and give 'em some A's.

Rob: Oh my God.

Ian: Um, we're gonna go around and introduce ourselves in just a moment. But, really quick. My name is Ian Gears. My pronouns are he, him, his, I am the, co-writer, co-director, co-producer and I play McMurphy on Fawx & Stallion. I'm gonna throw this over to Lauren.

Lauren: I am Lauren Grace Thompson pronouns, she/her, I am the co- All of those things as well. I won't go through all of them again.

Ian: Who do you play?

Lauren: Oh, I also play Sarah Fletchley

Ian: That's exactly right.

Lauren: That is true.

Ian: Alright, coming in on the top left corner of the Zoom call, we're talking to Jeremy.

Jeremy: Hi, I'm Jeremy Lee Thompson. He/him/his, I play Hampton Fawx.

Ian: Great.

Lauren: I forgot you added the middle name.

Jeremy: I did. I joined the acting union. So middle name it is.

Ian: And we're incredibly honored to be the first contract on that union status. Um, coming right down below you, another union member. We've got Rob. Go for it.

Rob: Rob Kauzlaric. He/him, I played Sherlock Holmes.

Ian: That's right, you did. Next up, Katie,

Katie: Katie, Mclean, Hainsworth. She/hers. And I play Madge Stallion.

Ian: Amazing. And Viz!

Chris: Christopher Vizarraga. he/him/his, I play James Stallion.

Ian: What a gorgeous group of people. We're so excited to talk about this. so this is the first time that we've all really gathered and talked about this since the end of the season.

Lauren: Since the end of recording, which was almost like nine months ago.

All: Nine months ago, yeah.

Katie: I mean, we were all at your wedding.

Ian/Lauren: That's true. That's true.

Lauren We don't want the listeners to know.

Chris: It was a full reunion.

Ian: Yeah, that's true.

Katie: And you shouldn't have posted about it on Tumblr then.

Ian: Yeah, we really should - I didn't realize that that was happening until the day after.

Lauren: I know. I just got so excited! I had to.

Ian: You ever been so excited at your wedding you gotta post on Tumblr?

Lauren: You know, I had to, I needed the people to know: Love? It's real. I know from the show, it seems like we don't believe that love is real, but we actually, the secret sauce is: We do.

Ian: Yep. Um, but we do have a lot of questions. All of you guys have been with the show for both seasons. Some people may not know that about you, Rob. Um, but could you tell us just a real quick here, what, what did you do in the first season of Fawx and Stallion?

Rob: What did I do?

Ian: Yeah.

Rob: I read the opening, uh, introduction and the closing credits for the whole season before that last little brief little scene with, uh, with Tom at the end of the year.

Ian: Yeah, you did. Yeah. A lot of people did not realize that - we had one person who thought it was Shawn, so I love it. Shout out.

Lauren: But it was him. It was very much Rob.

Ian: It was very much Rob.

Lauren: We knew-we had a plan from the beginning.

Ian: This is very true. Um, but our first general question here, you've all introduced yourselves already, but we'll go around. What character would you play if we were doing some sort of alternate  universe thing? We kind of had a question like this last time, but I like this idea of you can play any character over the course of let's keep it to season two.

Lauren: Yeah. Who would you play if you got to choose and not us?

Katie: Iphegenia, obviously.

Ian: Iphy Brown. What about Iphy do you like?

Katie: She's so funny and weird and I love her. Yeah, I mean, but also I would want the uh uh, Hannah–

Ian: Hannah MeKechnie. Yeah.

Katie: I would want Hannah to play her too. So it's conflicted, but yes, that's the part I would yank.

Lauren: She would play Madge, You would play Iffy

Katie: Yeah. Yeah.

Ian: Honestly, I could see that. I could see that Freaky Friday switch happening.

Lauren: Yeah, I could do a reverse- that situation.

Ian: I love that. Does anybody else have one?

Rob: Lucius Peppermint.

Ian: Oh yeah.

Rob: Yeah just the delicious, weird weirdness of it all.

Chris: You took mine.

Rob: I would love to do it.

Lauren: You can choose it too, Chris.

Ian: I was gonna say, Chris, I like that both of you-

Katie: It's boring, but you can

Lauren: We tried on about like six different accents on Lucius before settling on that one. So. Both of your versions, I'm sure, would be incredibly different.

Ian: Yeah, completely valid.

Katie: Yeah. So what accent would you do it with Rob?

Rob: Oh, I, I, I I just loved that choice. It was so weird. Yeah. I know it's boring. Katie, I'm sorry I'm being boring, but I the sort of like Transylvania, the, the British nobleman putting on Transylvania for no apparent reason. I thought it was hilarious

Ian: Great. We love it. And inspiring Dracula, you know, and as well. Chris, what accent would you use for, for that role?

Chris: The first accent that came to my head was the, um, Ian, you do this one really well, actually. It's the, uh, I think of it as the, um. The guy from Moulin Rouge. I can't. The Duke. The Duke from Moulin Rouge. Who has that "oh yes" kind of vibe 

Lauren: The go-to Hampton Fawx in disguise accent.

Ian: That's good!

Jeremy: That was my first silly Hampton accent.

Ian: I was gonna say, not Brit Kensington, but that was the guy, uh,

Lauren: oh God. Who was it?

Ian: The guy in, in like the third episode three of season one where Katie and, and-

Jeremy: we, we were playing a disaffected married couple trying to get into,

Lauren: I don't think we ever gave them names.

Ian: No, we didn't.

Katie: They had a rich backstory, but No names.

Lauren: no names.

Ian: That's our whole vibe. Jeremy. Jeremy, who would you play?

Jeremy: Uh, I, I'm really jealous of the banter of Braddock and Whittle. Um, I just think they're so dumb. I love the bits and, uh, yeah, not that I would, uh, want to supplant, uh, either uh, Wes or Jay, but, uh, I'm very jealous of the bits that they get to pull off.

Lauren: Jeremy is both.

Ian: Jeremy is both. We just rewatched the 2002 Spider-Man. So you do a real Willem Dafoe staring at the mirror, walking, beating yourself up with words. I love that. Um, this is a great question that we got here since we're all primarily stage actors, how did it feel returning to a character?

Lauren: We so rarely get to do that.

Ian: Yeah. Was your prep different or similar? Were you excited, intimidated, were there any sort of emotions that came with it?

Katie: I was super excited to do that. I have done it on stage. Uh, just a couple years ago. Uh, so, but, and it is totally different, um, because when you do it on stage, you can't really be like, well, I don't have to do this work because I did it before. Because the people who are seeing your second show are not the people who were seeing - not necessarily all the same people who saw your first show. Most people hadn't seen the first show, so you still had to establish a lot of stuff, but this was just sort of like, okay, good. We got it. Now we can get in there and muck around, muck around a bit. It was fun. You also get to see character growth that, you know, goes beyond establishing a character in the first arc of this season. So you, you get to do so much more stuff.

Jeremy: I was kind of nervous coming back to it in the way of, um, you know, if you go back and look at like, the very first editions of a comic strip, like the very first years of Calvin and Hobbes, and it looks like Calvin and Hobbes, but it hasn't quite found it yet, and I didn't, I wanted to go back and listen to season one and I did. And be like, okay, where are we picking up? But I didn't, I didn't want him to stray too far. I didn't want him become like unrecognizable or like, "oh God, it was really sloppy in season one and now he's really like, found it" so it was exciting that way 'cause I felt like I could find it easier and I felt like I had a connection to the character that was more secure but I also, I didn't want to, um, I didn't wanna stray too far from the strokes of what I was doing.

Lauren: So you didn't wanna get too in your head about it.

Jeremy: Yeah. Yeah. I, I, that totally.

Ian: Chris, did you have something you were gonna say?

Chris: I mean, yeah. It, it was so much fun to come back and, and play the same character again. Because there was so much that can be done with all of these characters in the world that you made. And I was just so excited to see what, what James was gonna do next. Um, and where his, what his progress was gonna be.

Ian: I'm glad you call it progress.

Chris: I mean, it's one way or the other.

Ian: And he, he really tests that theory over the course of 10 episodes more than any of the rest of them, I think.

Lauren: Yes, he's really right on the line.

Ian: But I like this, this follow up here about like, what sort of prep did you, how is like, 'cause we've really never talked about this, but like how is prep different for you as an actor between doing something for audio versus doing something for stage or, or film or anything?

Lauren: Do you prep or do you just kind of like find it on the day -

Ian: and we will not be offended as your directors -

Lauren: we're just curious -

Ian: who spent several hours writing this.

Katie: I do the same script work for this as. That I did, that I do on stage.

Rob: I think the main difference really is the, there's so much less time you get to spend with your scene partners in this kind of situation, right? Like the, all of the, the, the setup work, the advanced work, all that kind of scoring and marking and thinking feels the same for me. But those moments you are actually in the studio together are so precious because they're all you're gonna get. And you know, the nice thing about doing this particular project with these particular people, especially like the scenes that I had with folks, you know, they were, they were characters that I knew very well and they're people that I know very well. So, like me and Katie getting together to do those scenes between Match and Fitzy was, you know, we were carrying, gosh, almost 30 years of friendship into those, which really helps. Um, 'cause otherwise it's, it's a little, it's a little daunting. You're like, oh, this is it. This is the one chance I'm gonna get to be in the room with this person and do this.

Ian: Yeah, I know. It is so short. I think we end up spending - especially like, kind of, it's a double-edged sword. 'cause the more work you end up doing and the more prepared that you are. The quicker we're gonna get what we need out of the recording. Yeah. And then it's like, cool, we we got that in like 15 minutes. Thanks so much. You're you're good onto the next scene. Let's be respectful of everybody's time. Yeah.

Lauren: Yeah. We would, there were times during Rob you and Katie's scenes that you gave us so many more options. 'cause we would be like, Hey, can we go back and just do this, these, this two line exchange? 'Cause there was a word trip up and y'all would just keep going and do like the entire resting scene. That's right. Just 'cause you were having a good time. Yeah. And it was like, we got it we had it and, and it was, you just wanted to keep playing.

Ian: Yeah. But nine times outta 10 that, that take where you both would then just kind of go off would be the one that would end up in the show because you both had found a new wave to ride. And it was so much more fun and so lived in, like you were saying, you, you carry that history with the two of you. And so it, it was so emotionally rich, all of those scenes you were getting to do, um, from, from like a directorial standpoint, it really did feel like, like you, you all made us feel like we didn't know how to do our jobs because we were like, well, I don't really know what to add to that or what to like, do we need to mine anymore? Like, it seems like they got it.

Katie: Well, that is the goal to make you guys feel pretty dumb

Ian: And you make me feel like that all the time, Katie., Anybody else, any other different types of prep that you do for audio?

Chris: I mean, it's so much everything is just in the voice. Um, you know, on stage there's the, the presentation, there's you just in your body and like where you are in space and all these things that need to be sort of fined and finessed ahead of time. Um, and with this, it was really just like, you know, it's, it's all just, does your voice sound clear? Have you been drinking water? Are you enunciating everything? Right? Um. And Yeah. And as, as long as, you know, and fortunately have the, the words in front of us. Um, so it's, I found it just a lot more fun to just play. Um, it's kind of like, it felt a little more like you're developing a play rather than because, and 'cause we're ultimately, we're just getting these, you know, once you get it, oh great, that's it. You got it. We can move on. [00:12:00] Um, and with plays it's like, okay, we got it. Now I gotta do that consistently over and over and over and over again. Yeah. Um, and this is really just like, once once is good.

Ian: Yeah. . Yeah. A hundred percent.

Jeremy: I mean, the other thing too is that it's just, it's a lot, it's a lot more text than a, a play. Like if each, if every two episodes is a full play, how many pages was this entire season once you had written it out?

Ian: I wanna say -

Lauren: –each episode was about 45 pages.

Ian: so about 450 pages of text. Yeah. So, so just tracking it all, you know, going through and not, you know, working on enunciation and playing around with different accents that you might want us to do or, um, you know, making sure that we can enunciate through some of the tongue twisters that you throw our way. But then also just tracking the arc of the story is so much longer, and especially with a mystery. Um, making sure that at the end when we are putting it together, we're not just saying the words that are right in front of us, but we actually know what has happened . um, that it's, it's not just reading by rote, but, um, but like, okay. Did I track all of the things that Hampton put together all the way at the end? Oh my gosh. 'cause it is, it. Fairly intricate.

Ian: Yeah, it is. We, well, and thank you. We tried to make it more intricate this season than last season. Um, Katie? Yeah

Katie: I, I just wanna add one thing. Um, and counterpoint to how long Rob and I have known each other and worked together and played together. Um, coming back this season with the two people that I knew less well, I mean, Chris and I had done a show before one. Yep. And we were in a theater company together. Uh, but I'd never met Jeremy before. So coming back to season two was really, really satisfying to just be like, okay, there's no more getting to know you period. We absolutely know each other's sense of humor. Now we can get in there and play and really, really, uh, whip it up right off the, off the bat.

Lauren: And then we throw you into a recording with someone from the UK that you've never met before and you're like, Go!

Katie: –who has a real British dialect!

Lauren: Oh, I know, I know. That was really scary, you were so brave.

Katie: Rob had to do it too.

Rob: Yeah, I did.

Lauren: He did. Yeah. Sorry, I, I call, I cut you off, Jeremy.

Jeremy: That was another thing too. Uh, uh, not only did that, the three of us had worked together before, 'cause uh, um, I had done a couple of Patches shows with Chris before, uh, but I hadn't worked with Katie and, and not only getting to dive back in with the three of us, but getting to record over a fair few months, pretty much all of this season together was really, really special. Because last time, last time we did a, we did a little bit and then I had to take off and did most of my recording from a closet in Utah. And, um, yeah. And so getting, uh, getting to actually be in the room, uh, with, with Chris and Katie was really, yeah. Yeah, that was different and great.

Lauren: Yeah, I think in season one we recorded you in seven days.

Ian: Just like the ring . just great. Um, next question here. Um. This is specifically for Rob. Rob, how did your process differ from the rest of these chuckle fucks, given the fact that your character is quote unquote a name? As someone who has also played famous roles on stage, was this a similar process finding your way in, or did you just treat this like a brand new character? I know we also have that character and their alias and several other little aspects of that character, but I guess, yeah, Katie, you kind of spoke to this a little bit, I think on last year's q and a as somebody who's played Sherlock Holmes before, and Chris also has played Sherlock Holmes before in a reading.

Lauren: Jeremy, you're gonna get there. 

Ian: Jeremy, you know, God speed. I, I think you'll act again one day. But I mean, but Rob, I'm, I'm curious to hear from you.

Rob: Yeah, it was, uh, it was daunting. I am, I'm not someone, you know, there are some actors who really, really love the idea of playing the super iconic characters and just brazenly standing in front of the face of hundreds of years of expectation. Uh, I'm not that guy. I would, I would, I would, I would always choose to play a Richard II over say a Hamlet and, uh, you know, meet an audience, kind of with a, a blank slate. So that, that piece of it was daunting. And I certainly got in my head about that before we started recording. But ultimately, you know, I. I knew that when you asked me to do this, you knew the story that you were going to tell and that you, you asked me to do it because you thought that I was the person that could bring this version of this character in this very specific world to life. So I'm like, all right, gotta trust him. I totally trust him. I'll trust him. All right, I can do this. And then it's like, okay, when I don't have to worry about, I don't have to worry about the physical part and the, the appearance part, all these, these expectations of how Holmes looks and moves that an audience would bring in. I just gotta focus on, you know, who he is and, and what he sounds like. And, and then of course, you know, the, the more you talk ed to me about what the story of this season was gonna be and how specific and interesting and very, you know, just deeply you all, and this world, this character is, I'm like, okay, I'm actually, I'm, I'm actually building a new character here and I can go back and look at some of the Doyle text with an eye too finding inspiration rather than like as homework, um, needing to be directed by the words that Doyle wrote. So I, you know, I just kind of dove back in. I'm like, I'm gonna grab out of here what inspires me as I'm thinking about who this particular dude is. And, um, that, you know, once I got to that point in my freak out, uh, that was, uh, it was fun. It was liberating, it was exciting. Then I could just, you know, grab the tidbits that spoke to me about what I knew about what we were building here. I was really struck too on my, and as I was going back to some of the text about, like, the things that really stuck out to me - just about how often, like the words used to describe Holmes's laugh and response to so many things is nine times outta 10 “ejaculated,” uh, or “outburst” or “explosion.” Right? And like when I, when I kept seeing those words over and over again, I'm like, okay, that ejaculate. Outburst, explosion. I can build a character off of that. I can do that, I can do that. And you know, especially in the, in the audio medium, I was like, all right, so this is a guy who just bursts out with sounds as he feels and he thinks, and, and, um, yeah, that was sort of my, my, my root for, yeah. What I built off of there.

Lauren: Yeah. His first appearance in like, the entire cannon is him like running around the room doing high fives to everyone. 'cause he like did a science project. Like this is a fun guy. Yeah. And he's a weird guy and he's a very effusive person. and I think that's the warmth that I really love that you brought into it.

Ian: Thank you so much for sharing that. That was great. Um, next question. This one, let's go around the horn. Real important question here. This is from, these are from our listeners and we wanna also just thank our listeners so much for, uh, submitting these questions. It's really, really cool. We don't take that lightly. Like we put a call out into the void for questions from people who listen to the season. And you all were so incredibly generous with your time. The fact that you're thinking about the show beyond the runtime of it, even during the runtime of it is, is kind of amazing to us. So like, thank you for taking your time and submitting these. Um, anyway, now to, to the important questions. What would the characters think of Pineapple on Pizza?

Rob: I think Holmes is pro.

Ian: Holmes is pro Holmes is pro.

Rob: spicy and fruity. Are you kidding me–together? Yeah. He's into it. Yeah.

Katie: As long as it's paired with something salty, obviously.

Ian: Great. Okay, so we got two. Two pros.

Jeremy: I think Hampton's Pro . I think Hampton's only pineapple on pizza. This is, this is a man who, who loves his oolong hates Earl Gray.

Ian: Yeah. Chris, here we go.

Chris: Uh, if it's a trend, then I'll capitalize on it. Yes. I think he's pro.

Lauren: I absolutely think James is pro.

Ian: I think this is actually, weirdly, I'm gonna take this and build off this 'cause I, I have hard feelings about this.

Lauren: This was supposed to be a rapid fire one.

Ian: I, I know, but this is gonna be a rapid fire answer. Yeah. Um, standard triangle pizza or tavern style pizza?

Katie: Oh, triangle. God.

Jeremy: I think tavern style. 'cause bite size is better for me.

Lauren: Yes, yes.

Ian: That's, yeah, you'll get full off it too.

Rob: Triangle.

Chris: I feel like James would just, I feel like James would just look at it and be like, what is this? How? How is this supposed to work?

Katie: Like there's nothing to hang onto in the middle pieces, but

James: what do you hold onto?

Lauren: It's innovation.

Ian: Dude.

James: I have to, I have to touch the sauce. What do - no. Gross. Gross.

Lauren: But it's a trend.

Ian: I'm a hundred percent with James on this. I don't like touching the sauce. I need a clean fold. Okay.

Katie: It slips outta your, it's gross.

Ian: Yeah. It slips outta your mitts. So I know what you were going with there. What about beans on toast? Again, these are all listener questions. What about beans on toast? Do your characters like beans on toast?

Rob: No, two, two flavors of dull.

Katie: Together No.

Rob: That's, that's right.

Katie: I'm seconding that. Yeah.

Ian: Holy shit. Gauntlet thrown by American Rob Kauzlaric, playing the Brit Sherlock Holmes.

Katie: Pineapple on beans, on toast. However,

Lauren: they're gonna find y'all.

Ian: Chris, what about you?

Chris: For James. I don't know. I feel like he might, but it also feels a little, a little too provincial. Maybe.

Katie: You have a really good handle on James.

Ian: I was gonna say we are, all of this is, is calling ideas for season three.

Chris: Yeah.

Ian: Uh, Jeremy, what about you?

Jeremy: Uh, gosh. I feel like we're gonna lose any British listeners we have. If we all say no to beans on–Yes. Take the hit. I gotta say yes. Yes.

Katie: Take the hit. Yes.

Jeremy: Because sometimes tradition is important.

Rob: There we go.

Ian: Yeah. You know what, I'm gonna say it. Yes to Beans on toast. Yes. To the full English breakfast. I think it's great. Grilled tomato. Best way to eat tomato. I'll say it, Lauren.

Lauren: I'm in.

Ian: She's in beans. Beans on toast. You wanna thank all of our listeners in England um, next question here. This is from, so just another batty here as of recording this q and a. When was the last time you drank water? Love the show by the way, y'all, it's fucking amazing.

Rob: Currently drinking it.

Ian: So Rob's currently drinking it. Katie's currently drinking,

Katie: –currently drinking it also had tea, for the British people.

Ian: There you go. Chris, when's the last time you had water?

Chris: Oh, it's been a little bit, I should, I should drink some water.

Lauren: You should fix that.

Katie: You had these questions beforehand!

Ian: Jeremy. What's up with that red water you're drinking is it Gatorade, what is it?

Jeremy: There's water in it. It, it, it does contain gin. Um, I'm sorry, but, uh, no, I drank water when I got home from work today. I did, uh, I, I'm, uh, work as a tour guide and so I drank a nice big thing of water to take care of my voice when I got home.

Ian: Love it. Excellent. Excellent. This next question is from Mookar. What level of involvement do the voice actors have with the script? IE do they ever improvise or reword lines? Anybody wanna take this?

Katie: I wanna give a shout out to Mookar. And their amazing artwork on Tumblr. Yeah.

Ian Yes. Hell yes.

Rob: Amazing big fans.

Lauren: I'm glad somebody did. That's great. They're fantastic. I've been sharing it in the group chat.

Rob: Yeah. Oh my God. All the fan art delight.

Lauren Delightful

Rob: outta this world. Holy shit. Outta this world stuff. Amazing.

Katie: Yeah, absolutely incredible stuff. Art, pure art. The little still that they did of, but it's not, did you see that one? Oh, mm-hmm. Broke my heart. I just listened to that today and I was like, yeah.

Lauren: Um, as far as like as your question, um, and not your art. Um, this, um, I think that -

Ian: Have it on record: Lauren does not wanna talk about your art.

Lauren: No. Um, um, I think that we tend to lock pretty hard our scripts on like a macro level. We do quite often reword things for actors. And then we always, we try to do, I think we talked about this in the last q and a a little bit. We try to do one take that is everything exactly is written and then you whatever after that you can kind of play around. Um, so sometimes things don't feel right in terms of like the wording on something or when we got to, um, our lovely British actors, they, we got to the place where it would be, you know, math and, and he and Tom was like, I'm not saying math, I'm saying maths. Um, so we always change it for British isms if, if that is pointed out. I also think we do, I think Jeremy had a really great, uh, one that he threw in. It was the, the "you pushed one children", um, that was, that was Jeremy. Um, and then we throw stuff in, um, like on the last second, the, the beefy boys line.

Ian: Beefy boys. That was Rob.

Lauren: Yeah. Was, it was, uh, was a Rob edition. Uh, there were quite a few little lines that we twisted .

Ian: Rob, you wanna, real quick, do you wanna explain where Beefy Boys came from? Do you remember?

Lauren: It was from Ian.

Rob: I don't remember. I just think of it.

Katie: Ian says it all the time.

Rob: I say it all the time now.

Lauren: Ian said it all the time in, because we, anytime we would do a scene longer than I think a page and a half–

Ian: it was longer than a page.

Lauren: That was the Rule used for a scene. And we were like, Ian would say, all right, let's do this next one. It's three pages. It's a beefy boy, let's go.

Rob: And I just soaked it up by osmosis, and now I use it in my normal life.

Ian: Well, I'm honored. I'm so honored. I'll be honest, I never used the phrase Beefy Boy before entering the studio for this season. Wow. I, I don't know.

Lauren: You just started doing it where it came from, but something said it was gonna need to be an integral part of season two of the show.

Katie: I, I have asked to have lines changed because I couldn't say them in dialect.

Lauren: That's right. You did.

Katie: The Waterloo Slam dance. We had to make it Waterloo slam jam. 'cause I was like, we used spent like five minutes on s slam daaance, slam dance.

Chris: I do remember getting one, I uh, added one line that you guys let me do, uh, and I think in the top of episode three, um, where I'm trying to get Madge to, um, speak to the, the, the circle. And she's like saying, no, no, no. And at one, I think at one point she mentions like, and, and by the way, our marriage thing and I added the little under my breath. Again, with the marriage thing Jesus fucking Christ.

Lauren: Oh God.

Ian: Yeah. All of James' like bitchiness was alive and well in your ad libs. Yeah. So again, with the fucking marriage, which was again, another benefit of us getting to record together because it really was getting to just watch you all cook off of each other. and because we were picking up things. And we had the script there in  front of us, you all could do a little bit more of those very organic ad libs or reactions to things like that. So that, I actually think, Chris, when you did that, it really opened up a door for so many of the rest of the actors we were working with this season about being able to come up with new, essentially kind of new, um, what's the word I'm looking for?

Lauren: Isms or,

Ian: yeah, interjections. Interjections new. Um, there's, makes it really alive. Yeah.

Katie: There's a limit to it, of course, because we're doing a mystery, so you have to be careful with the text. Like there's certain times where if you say the wrong thing, it's like, Ooh, yeah, messed up this and this. They can have such ripple effects.

Lauren: It's funny, but it's, but it does also add a, a certain level of like realism to it. Like we love those moments where we can have people talking over each other. Also like there so many of the characters are kind of disconnected this season. So we, we tried to lay into like, when are people talking over each other? When do we need to fill that space and, and allow that to happen? Or like, when can it be we're yes. Anding each other? And that's the kind of story we're telling. So that was like really great that y'all felt the freedom to do that. Mm-hmm.

Rob: Yeah, I really appreciate the way you handle it. I mean, it really is come in, let's get one or two takes completely word perfect. And then you do offer us space, like anything you wanna play around with. And then oftentimes you will come back with, we actually wanna play around with some of our own lines too. And now let's try these. And uh, you know, it least just leads to a lot of spontaneity in the room as we're, as we're redoing certain sections over again. I love it. Love it. Yeah.

Lauren: Well, and Rob, you added so many, especially in episode seven, you added so many little injections and stuff.

Rob: Oh. But that was also the amazing thing about being able to be in the room with those people as we recorded that. Uh, like just responding to what they were giving in space in time was, you know, a real gift for them.

Katie: Remember the, remember the, the, the asides, the four of us in the room together, and we were all doing different asides to different people at different times.

Ian: Oh yeah. The whispers, there was a whole running bit where we were like, oh, we need to make this a whisper so that somebody else. So that we can, can,

Katie: there was, there was always two people trying to keep something from a third person.

Rob: we did so many of those, so stupid. I loved it.

Ian: Okay. Uh, this one says, this one's from Chesca. How easy or difficult is it to slip the accents on? Do you find yourself doing the voices in your day to day? that's from Nilla. Excuse me. That one's from Nilla. Um, Cheska asked a very similar question. How do you get into the accents since, if I'm not mistaken, the majority of you are American. Is it just a lot of practice over the years, or do you temporarily possess a British person when acting or a secret third option?

Rob: That's a great idea.

Ian: Does anybody want to talk about your brilliant dialect work this season?

Katie: Uh, I talk like that all the time. I can't help it. It's obsessive and annoying. I've done more British shows on stage in Chicago than I have any other dialect, any American dialect. Uh, and I, and I. I think that way when I'm in the studio with, with y'all,

Ian: Katie, fun fact. Katie's, uh, British dialect that we heard in a reading for a show that, that, uh, Chris Hainsworth wrote was the reason that we were like, we should talk to Katie about playing Madge

Katie: but, but as for how I get into character, I think of Gwendolyn Christie, I imagine her saying the lines, and then I can kind of switch.

Lauren: We imagined her when we wrote her before you even came on.

Ian: But now we just imagine you.

Lauren: Yep. Yeah.

Ian: Uh, who else wants, wants to talk about their great dialect work?

Lauren: Rob, you had to do two.

Ian: Yeah. You did have to do two.

Rob: I did, I did.

Lauren: You did like five actually.

Rob: I did, did, I did a whole bunch in that last episode. Uh, that last scene with Tom, there was just like stuff flying out of his mouth. Uh, yeah. And a bunch of like hybrids. Yeah. A bunch of hybrids and then like a Fitzy that was devolving completely out of Fitzy as it went along. Um mm-hmm. Yeah. No, I, I think kinda like Katie, I, I've, I've, I have done almost no shows, very few shows in my many career, many years as an actor, if with an American accent, A lot of dialect shows. I love playing around with the stuff. And, uh, yeah, it's a lot of work ahead of time and a lot of, uh, thought and preparation just in the hopes that when you're doing it, you can not think about the homework and just, you know, be in the moment, be in the scene with the characters.

Jeremy: I mean, I play around with 'em constantly. Um, it's, it's really, um, embarrassing.

Ian: You also have to hit quite a range as Hampton in terms of just like the, the notes that you hit.

Jeremy: Yeah, uh, um, it gets pretty high up there sometimes, um, which was partly my own doing. Um, but, uh, uh, it's um. Gosh, the, the hardest thing about going back and listening, like to season one, getting ready for season two, was hearing my accent. And does anybody else ever hear something they missed? Where you go?

All: Yep.

Jeremy: You're like it's, it years past recording it and you're like, oh no,

Rob: it's an ice pick in the skull.

Jeremy: Wait, wait. I can do better. Oh gosh. And so much of that is the accent. And then of course, having, yeah. Um, a natural, um, British speaker on the season was, um, just made us all try and raise the bar. I think

Lauren: we had two Brits.

Ian: Two Brits, two of them. Chris, what about you? Because you have such a clean, smooth, like delicious, velvety British voice.

Chris: Oh, thank you. No, I, I guess it's, um, I mean I've, like all of us, we've been watching British movies and you know, like forever. Um, and yeah, I've done a lot of. Uh, British accents and plays, uh, throughout in college and in my professional career. Um, but for me, I think the getting into it is really more, once you know the dialect, I mean, you can kind of just hop in and hop out, but for me it was more about like the attitude of each character. Um, because that kind of informs at, I feel like, at least to American Ears, it does kind of inform how that character comes across in some ways, how proper they are, how, uh, how clean it is, where it sits in the register and all of that. Um, so for me it was kind of coming back to season two. It was more like, okay, where did James sit in my actual voice? I need to remember how low down it was, how, uh, what kind of range I typically used. Um, so yeah, it was really more about, I. Just his, uh, yeah. How, how high and mighty is he right now?

Ian: Yeah. I love that. Um, great. Next question here. This is a question for, uh, the actor playing Holmes. I noticed that the actor playing Holmes was credited as a different person, Zach McKenna , during the first half of the season. How was that decision made? Did you worry people would look him up? How was keeping that secret?

Rob: That's really a question for the two of you. More than me,

Lauren: I wanna say right off the bat, uh, that Rob was incredibly fucking cool about this.

Rob: It was A fun idea as a totally,

Lauren: we are not sure how this was gonna work for the longest time. 'Cause obviously there's a huge secret, you know, behind there. And I, I think for a long time we were like, it's not fair to Rob, but you were so game to just be like, no, fucking credit me as a different person. They'll know eventually. Um, but we couldn't like tag you in anything. Um. And you were, you were so cool. So I think, yeah, Ian and I, Zach McKenna is named after two of our favorite

Ian: Two Improvisers that we really like. Uh, Jess McKenna and Zachary Reino

Lauren: of the amazing Off Book musical improv podcast. We're big fans. Um, and honestly we were not really worried about people finding out, um, out, 'cause we had a lovely bio that was written by Rob. You also wrote that amazing fake bio.

Ian: Holy shit. What a bio. The lore of Zach McKenna.

Lauren: Yes. I think we added that Zach McKenna's a dog person and you were a cat person. And I think that was the only thing we changed.

Ian: Threw everyone off the scent.

Rob: Yes, that'll do it.

Lauren: And then we threw in a bunch of fake theater companies. That was really fun. And then we used a photo that was one of the options that Daniel Millhouse sent in,

Ian: of the mascot

Lauren: of him wearing a giant mascot costume. Um, and yeah, we just, all of our photos and bios are so silly. Anyway, we were just like, eh, no one's gonna find it. He's just some reclusive Chicago actor.

Rob: Um, I think it's like, on a metal level. What a treat though, for the audience to also like, for anybody who's paying attention. Yeah. To also get to go through that experience of, Hmm, this person. Okay. He's new. He, he's new. Oh my God. No, it's actually somebody else that I, it, it's fun. Super fun.

Lauren: Yeah. We considered for a second because we do a lot of doubling on the show. like, do we just credit Rob and hope no one notices, but I'm so glad that we did it Yeah. The way that we did. 'cause I think it was worth it to have that moment where kind of no one, there were so many people who genuinely. Because of the credits we're like, I thought it might be Holmes, but then I saw that it's a different actor. Yes. I can't like, wow, you just truly believed us when we lied straight to your place .

Ian: And if we ruined anything about living in America in 2025, it's that you can't believe people.

Lauren: It's amazing the things you can do when you, you just absolutely lie to your audience and, and on a profound level

Ian: Yeah. Or lie to yourself as we learn from characters this season.

Lauren: Oh, it's, it's one of those tricks you only get away with once. And we were just like, eh, let's just have fun with it.

Katie: it was so hard, so hard to remember. Like for a while, Rob and I were on another podcast together and we were talking about doing a, a crossover promo between our show and Fox and Stallion.

And after a while I was like, oh, we really can't do that. Like we, we can't do that without giving away that you're on.

Rob: Cause as far as the world knows, I'm not on that show now.

Katie: You're not on it. Yeah.

Lauren: Yes. We were like, we need Rob to be invisible for this.

Ian: Rob was like, why would I wanna do a feed swap with a show that I was only on for 10 minutes?

Lauren: I only did a mini. That's it. I'm dead. I don't know if you've heard, I died at minute eight of the first of the second season, so I can't do that. You weren't even the credit guy this season. Because we were like, oh, that was the other reason why we, we changed the, the credits. was because we were like, pe we can't get his voice in there again. Yeah. 'cause people will notice. That it, that it's the same guy.

Ian: Yeah. Um, and also we specifically thought about like the end of episode two. Where it was like the last line is Fitz's line. And we're like, we can't have that line go into, go straight into

Rob: followed by me.

Ian: Yeah, yeah.

Lauren: plus I like meta textually the idea of like, Holmes is there, or like the season one credits are their version of what they imagine Holmes to be narrating their story. And then in that way they're still in . His shadow.. Um, it still feels like he's dictating their story. and that this season it's like cool. Who is in charge of the narrative of the second season. And that's James obviously. Um, that was a question we were just about to answer. Is someone asking us about kind of the credits choice? And that really was what, what was behind that is, is just like, who is telling the story at this point? We like the idea of kind of changing that every season, but because James was the easiest choice, because he's the one at the helm of this whole thing.

Ian: Yeah. And this, this is so much of James's uh, um, baby, unfortunately,

Chris: I was gonna say fault.

Ian: Fault, child.

Lauren: monstrosity, you know?

Ian: Um, yeah. We did kind of answer this other question here, which was, out of curiosity, if I'm correct, you guys had Shawn via, uh, the voice actor of Archie playing the, the doing the title of characters for season one, and this season was Chris for James. Uh, what made you guys do this? We pretty much just answered this, so I'm gonna use this to ask another question. Uh, Rob, how do you feel being thought that you were Sean?

Rob: I am honored. What a delight. I will take it.

Lauren: What A lovely man.

Rob: I'll take it.

Ian: This, this is the final specific Holmes question. Did you treat Fitzy as his own character or did you think of him as Holmes as you were playing him? Um, how did you approach kind of that dual role?

Rob: I really did. I did. I, I don't know that I was doing it consciously, but as I, as I saw that question on the list today, I was like looking back at how I processed that whole experience, I really did break them apart and we had the luxury of, we did most of almost all of the Fitzy stuff first. So I was able to kind of put Fitzy to bed before I really had to start playing Holmes. Yeah. And um, you know, I, I really saw Fitzy as this. I mean, he was a character that Holmes was deeply immersing himself in and was using as a suit of armor and was able to really put out in front of the world in a thoughtful way up until the point where we get to that episode six. Um, and so yeah, I kind of built who I imagined he would build Fitzy as, and then I worried about Holmes when I got to Holmes and all of the, like the little brief, you know, two or three lines that he does as Fitzy after it's revealed who he is. Uh, I did not think of as Fitzy. I thought of as Holmes grabbing fitzy out of his ass and trying to remember how he was doing it and yeah. You know, he got sloppier and messier with it as it went along because he was like, I mean, he was an emotional disaster and he was not, he was not able to wear that suit of armor. So it got, it got messier and out of his control as it went along. But yeah, Fitzy was kind of one character and Holmes was another, the way I, I ended up thinking about it

Ian: I love that.

Lauren: I, we really had to direct you in Fitzy as if he was a different character. It was one of the Trickier parts of this season, especially as Fitzy, because. I think you are such an in, like you're all such incredible comedic actors and you understand that this is kind of a heightened scale, that character and like a higher vibration that, that characters are vibrating on. Um, in terms of just like the farce level. and I think that Rob, you're incredible at like meeting people at that level. And I think when you first came in, the hardest thing was that you wanted to come in with all of the energy that Holmes has. Yeah. And we really had to be like, you have to be the most boring character on the show.

Rob: Yes, yes.

Lauren: We, you truly need to like I promise we will let you unleash. But it was so many of the notes, I felt so bad. 'cause it's just like, that's hilarious. We can't use it.

Ian: We gotta turn down the light on this bright shining bulb.

Lauren: We, we really, it's truly like, that was fucking hilarious. They're gonna catch us.

Rob: Well we had, and we had to, to find a way to make boring interesting. Like, interesting enough that it didn't feel like, why is this guy on the show? But it couldn't feel like, why is this guy on the show? Hmm. You know, he had to kind of just vanish into the scene work into the, into the scenery for, for so many episodes.

Ian: Yeah. Yeah. To the point where like, by the end of like episode four, we had people that were engaging with the show pretty vocally saying that, you know, they, they loved Fitzy as like a new member of this group.

Lauren: And that's really what we were trying to, where we were trying. because we really were just like, it's five episodes. We have to hide him in plain sight.

Ian: We just have to hide him for five.

Lauren: And I think, and I think in the writing, we had tried to, there were versions of it where we tried to hide him more and that made him more suspicious. so we had to give him an emotional reason for our characters for him to be there, which is when we started investing in him and Madge really having this relationship. And then it really became a like, okay, he's gonna be here, he is gonna be front and center, but he cannot be one close to the performance. You've given Holmes before. Right. And then two cannot be suspicious on a level of like, maybe not, maybe he's the murderer, but it couldn't be Izzy Holmes. And so it was a really hard tightrope that we asked you to walk. And I think that that was really, you, you, you did a fantastic job.

Rob: It was a fun, it was a fun challenge. And I think I, you know, I'm, I'm so grateful that you all did land on having those scenes with Madge. 'Cause that's where I really feel like so much of who the Fitzy that we know was discovered and revealed was in those scenes. Um, this, this side of, you know, of course this side of Holmes. Yeah. But that, those are the scenes were really, he was able to open up and, and be himself as a fake person.

Lauren: I think we recorded those scenes after you recorded the Holmes scenes, I think what you, 'cause you were all very out of order. And so I think what was interesting is finding the moments of like, that there were moments where Fitzy, like he's the more honest version of Holmes. in a lot of those moments where it's like, this is just him. Maybe being more honest than anything is like Fitzy is the person at the core.

Ian: Yeah. What's that Oscar wild quote? When you want to see somebody for who they are, make them pull a messy mask out of their ass or what? I don't know. Rob, you put it better about pulling some, um, next question for the voice actors, what is a favorite line of yours that your character says and a favorite line that another character says? This is from starrygeek.

Rob: I know my favorite line.

Ian: Well, we'll go ahead right now. Jeremy, I think is coming back in a second, so we'll, we'll just kind of go on without 'em at the moment. Uh, but does anybody have any lines, uh, of yours or others that stick out to you? Rob, go for it.

Rob: My favorite line of the entire season is "Can't solve everything can you" from Jeremy and Jeremy's not even in the Zoom z It's, it is, that's the best part. It is my favorite line in the whole season. It's the one that, the first time I heard it, 'cause, you know, I was barely aware of it as we were doing it. And, but hearing it in that episode, I was like, oh my God, how deliciously catty so wonderful.

Katie: Mine is James'. When he says, "just push that down, James. It's probably nothing." It's such, it's such an amazing delivery. I, when I listen to that episode, I always rewind it and listen to that line like two or three times because it's so good. Just push that down. That's so good. So well done.

Lauren: We'll be working without Jeremy for a moment. Yes, because the, uh, thunderstorm took out his internet.

Katie We're in the middle of an apocalypse here.

Lauren: Yeah, it's really crazy. A huge thunderstorm. Started like 10 minutes into recording this, so -

Ian: we're gonna keep rocking with this recording into the thunderstorm apocalypse. We are gonna wait for them to kick out our internet and you can fucking try, Weather . I, I fucking dare you to try.

Katie: I do have a runner up. Favorite line, but, but i Vz should go first.

Chris: I, my, my favorite was, um, when he, uh, James is in the midst of about to like, uh, confront Lucius Peppermint. Um, and they're saying like, James, what are you gonna do? And I'm like, I could, " I couldn't be more clearer about my plan to one, find him and two kill him. It's a two step plan." That was my, I love that line so much and I don't really know why it just felt so unhinged in,

Ian: it's a Lauren Thompson line, right? If I had ever heard of Lauren Line, that is a Lauren Thompson line.

Lauren: It's a very Me line.

Ian: Um, I want to give a quick shout out really quick to, and again, also just to, just to butter your bread a little bit. We through Chris, arguably the hardest list that either of us have ever written.

Chris: Oh my God. I loved doing that.

Lauren: The, that was an Ian Geers original, if I've ever seen it.

Ian: Thank you. It's just, it was a list of different newspapers that you say, um, I believe it's in episode three, uh, or episode two. And it's, you did it in two takes. You actually got it on the first take. And we were like, well, we'd be remiss if we didn't just get to hear this again.

Lauren: I think our only note was can you do it again and can you go faster?

Ian: And you did.

Lauren: And you did. I think there's a video of it.

Chris: Yeah. I remember like the only thing that we really had to think about was like, so how many pauses are there in this? And should it just be one thing? No, just all off the top.

Lauren: There were a couple times where we threw all of y'all really hard lines and we're like, Hey, I'm so sorry to do this. Can you do this without taking a single breath? Rob, you had one of those in, in episode one. The list of, of all the things that Hampton has has done.

Rob: Oh, those lists of great. Yes, yes.

Lauren: Where I was like, I'm so sorry to do this. Can you do it in one breath? And you were like, I can fucking try alone . and then you did. Um, yeah, there was, there was a lot of those. And I think, I weirdly think, Chris, you had that long list that you didn't have any trouble with. I think the thing that everyone had the most trouble with the entire season. Was Dilladombromcasterwitz & Assoc.

Rob: Yeah. It's hard to say.

Katie: I never had to say it.

Lauren: It's really, really tough.

Katie: Um, I also love when, um, it's either Bradock or Whittle and I can't remember, but it's in the last episode when he says, "sorry, commissioner, when he finds something funny, he laughs". Such a great line. Really funny.

Ian: Sorry, I had to pull, I had to pull up the list because there was one I, there, there were, there were little Easter eggs in here -

Katie: of my own lines. My favorite one was "Hampton" after Sherlock announces that he's been in the bathroom for six minutes and 46,

Rob: 6 minutes and 43 seconds.

Lauren: Yeah. I do think that's the bit that was added in the last like the last round. That, that was the last edit that I think was added to any script before we sent it off to actors.

Ian: An obviously important edit. Let's make a joke about how long, Hampton Take shits. I do think, Ian, back to the, because Ian has pulled up the list. We asked Chris to, to do, I do think this list was originally, I think half as long. and you, you sent me the version of the script and I think my, I was like, no notes. Can you double this? Can you do twice the amount of these? And Ian was like, I'd be delighted lauren,

Ian: happy to, um, the ones just because like I said, we, we threw some of these in there for you. Um, Rob, I think pretty clearly the one that was designed for you was Professor Buck bottom' s Starlight Periodical. Um, said so because, um, Rob had me say Buck bottom a lot in a show. Yes. A few years ago.

Rob: Yes indeed.

Ian: Um. Chris, yours was "the dearly bifold, the merely trifold, the four page new age yearly line fold". Because I know how much the wordsmith you are for rhymes.

Chris: It was so good.

Ian: Katie, yours was the grump report.

Lauren: Yeah, I love the bridge wagoner's daughter's great grandson's lament. So Stupid.

Ian: And then Jeremy's was the Literary Town Crier, the literal town crier.

Lauren: The Kensington Night Minutes. I'm obsessed.

Ian: These were so dumb. Lady Worthington' s silk Napkin Digest. These were ridiculous. Um, but that was my favorite thing that anybody did in there. I believe we have a Jeremy back.

Jeremy: I'm back.

Ian: Jeremy, we were talking about what is your favorite line that somebody else said this season or a favorite line that you said this season and we were just talking about. Uh, Chris's fantastic performance of all the different newspapers in London

Lauren: Yes, that's welcome back, Jeremy.

Jeremy: Yeah, I'm back. The thunderstorm can't keep me down, although it's still raging outside. Gosh. The, um, yeah, the list of the, the list of, um, of newspapers was incredible. I do wanna call out Rob's, um, millionaire, millionaire Shortbread rant because when, when it comes to, um, uh, Holmes' expulsions, that made a lot of sense. As you were saying that, Rob, because I remembered that particular, um, that particular recording session and all of us just covering our mouths, um, so that we wouldn't be. Laughing in the background.

Chris: Oh, his whole first I, his whole first scene as Sherlock, which is just that long monologue. Was, oh my God. It was, it just was so great to just have to sit there in silence and just let him ramble. It was so funny to just be there for,

Ian: oh, it's, it's just great to watch somebody spin out and emotionally it made so much sense and all of you have done it at some point. I mean, Chris, you get it in, uh, in, in the improv scene where you just get to like have that full scene there and, and to, again, another one of my favorite lines from that scene is, is do you know how impossible it is to love somebody, uh, like, to love somebody the way or to, to want to love somebody the way that they. When they don't love themselves, or something like that. Yeah.

Lauren: Um, you wrote it,

Ian: I know I wrote it and I'm, I'm blanking on it, but it was, it was essentially like, how do we sum up the thesis of this speech without it sounding too corny? Which is something that is very, you know, we're dealing with a lot bigger emotions this season than we were the first season. And Lauren, rightfully so, was very, um, very great about making sure that our heart was on its sleeve continually, but also wanting to make sure that it didn't sound too treacly. Mm-hmm. Um, and it didn't come off too overly emotional or, or sappy or saccharine, but, um,

Lauren: I think a lot of that came from the performances.

Ian: Yeah. Your performances by just kind of like never indulging in that and having it always come from a place of frustration . I don't know. I think the most strong emotions come from a place of frustration because you're trying to figure out what to say and you don't know how, but this feeling is so big that it's making you need to express yourself.

Lauren: Well, sometimes you, oh, the way that you avoid talking about the feeling is the most concise way to talk about the feelings.

Ian: Yeah. I love that.

Rob: Oh, I really quick, I wanna shout out Sean's. Little line after the Millionaire shortbread line where he walks in and he just says a series of, "um hmm. What? Uh uh, Nope." And then walks right back out. Love it. Nope.

Katie: Yeah. We should also shout out Tom's um, um, fuck Off.

Jeremy: Oh God. Yeah.

Rob: Oh yeah. Oh, it's incredible stuff.

Lauren: The fuck off speech. Incredible stuff. I think I listened to that like 40 times when I first cut it together. Yeah. Because it was just fucking such a perfect realization of what was on the page.

Katie: So much better than I even imagined it, and it was one of my favorite things in the script.

Lauren: Yeah. Yeah. I think I also, the, I think the line reading that lives rent free in my brain of the season is Rob, your, "I'm sorry. At what point was I presenting this as Me a Good day", also, shout out to Y Tu Brotherly Love. Yeah. Loved it.

Ian: The Tunnel of Brotherly Love worked amazingly well

Lauren: Great song.

Ian: Um, two more I wanna shout out for people who are not here, but, uh, both of them I just thought were, uh, they tickled me because they were jokes that I knew were for the person who was performing them. And they, the performers did not disappoint. One of them was Allie Babich, who plays, uh, Weatherbee on the season. Um, in her big speech in episode 10, she got to say, uh, uh, you know, the "choice between fun and safety, the choice between this and this, and the choice between to be, or two, two fun B". Mm-hmm. Um, Allie played Hamlet. And so that was a nice little homage to Ally having played Hamlet before. Yes. And then, uh, Sam Hubbard, who plays Thomas Rake, who is a big, thinner nerd, um, got to say that he, uh, learned a, a piece of acting from a production of "Petite Faust Jr." That he did a while ago.

Lauren: The combo of Petite and Junior is diabolically.

Ian: Yep. Yep. Thank you. But that made me laugh. Um, great. Next question here. This is a good one. What was the most emotional part of recording season two for you? Was there an emotional part of recording for you?

Chris: Just speaking personally. Uh, every scene, every scene that I had with, uh, with Sean, especially when we were like, you know, when we're having to tell the truth about some things, um, the, I I love doing hard on your sleeve moments with Sean. 'Cause he's just, he's such a vulnerable actor and I love the way that, um, that we just kind of play off each other in some of those scenes. Like when he's, when uh, the little bit moments of like, "you sure he is? Like, you're okay giving this up. Yeah. Fuck it. This isn't, this isn't what you wanna do". And getting to take James down to that place. Um, you know, where he's actually getting real and that he's not just. Putting on the show that he always does. Um, that just that those, those moments always felt really, I tried to make them feel as raw and as real as possible.

Ian: You absolutely succeeded.

Lauren: I think you absolutely succeeded. Yeah. It was beautiful, beautiful work.

Ian: Yeah. One of the things that we regularly hear a lot is how James is probably the, one of the easier characters to two dimensionalize for like a lot of other people. And continually you're always finding those extra layers in it and it's, it's just a beautiful performance that you're doing. Um, did anybody else have any emotional moments while they were recording? Also fine if not, also fine. If not. Yeah. So you, you, you're raising your hand. You're crying now. I can't even talk.

Katie: Um, the, the, uh, pushing the child, the buildup to that was really. Uh, rough. Um, but also I, I mean, like almost everything in the back half of the season for me felt emotional. I think for some of it I was coming off of two and a half weeks of COVID, so it was just really nice to be back in the studio and it was emotional whether I wanted it to be or not, but they, uh, Madge Fitzy goes to some real places and, and the scene on the roof, "but it's not", was really, um, a nice, great thing to get to do with ine uh, counterbalance to our season one rooftop scene.

Jeremy: It, it really is incredible to think that Katie and I didn't know each other before this because I, I, I can't imagine it. We got so like, bonded so quickly through these characters, and every time I see you, I'm just so thrilled. Um, like, like we've been friends for as long as they have. It's really incredible. um, I, I was, I was taken aback. It's, it's the episode before that I think, um, it's, it's the big freak out at Holmes.. Is that the end of episode seven? Hmm.

Ian/Lauren: Yeah. Yeah.

Jeremy: And you know, every time coming in to record these scenes, I looked forward to so much. 'cause I was like, oh, yay, I'm gonna go hang out and record silly stuff with my friends. And sometimes I would be taken by surprise by like, oh, wait, no, and see episode seven is so much fun throughout so much of it. And then it really drops in at the end there. And I remember like having to sit up and straighten my spine and be like, okay, no, I really have to drop in for this right now. And I think Lauren and Ian being like, no, "be meaner, be meaner." Like, um, really lay into him. And, and I was, um, that's, that's the day where the, where the emotionality took me by Surprise.

Rob: Yeah. Obviously the, uh, that last scene with Tom.

Ian: There's a lot going on there. Yeah. And, and it's, it, it is, I mean,

Lauren: such a tricky scene too. Such a tricky scene. But, but that we were like, we want there to be jokes in this. We want there to be moments of levity and but then we want there to be moments of, of real stuff and Yeah. You're so ridiculous at the top of that scene and ridiculous at the end. But then yeah, he does have to just lay it out. Yeah. Then you gotta drop in and you know, also figure out the breath work of moments of intimacy, whatever the fuck those are, like in an audio medium. Incredible stuff.

Ian: And then land on a Gee Robinson

Lauren: and then land on a catchphrase baby, and then you're out.

Ian: Um, that was great. Um, from the writers and actors' perspective, how difficult or fun were all of the puns, alliterations and references this season?

Lauren:, I feel like we, we, we did talk about this for quite a bit .

Ian: We just talked about this a lot. Thank you. Everything Bagel, we just answered this. Um, we also answered what was the easiest or hardest lines to record. Thank you so much, you all. Uh, thank you for these questions. Uh, I'm sorry that we're zooming past them. It's because we've answered them tangent ially,

Lauren: because we kind of just talked about 'em all at once.

Ian: Um, uh, next one. What is something that you got to do this season that you are excited or nervous about?

Lauren: We talked a lot about this already, but, but if anyone's got any extras, this is your moment.

Katie: The scene, the scene that Lottie the, those scenes with Lottie. Okay. I think I was reading the script. I was most excited about those scenes because, uh, Madge on her back foot is my favorite Madge. And, and boy does she dig a hole, uh, that she can't get out of in those scenes. That that was really, really fun.

Ian Yeah, that is true. Yeah, that is true.

Lauren: We really wanted to make that as messy for you as possible.

Katie: Yeah. You kept being like, it's messier. It's messier. She, she's more of an asshole. Yeah.

Lauren: And you and I and I, well I know that you, Katie, love Madge so much.

Katie: You have to, you always have to push me against that,

Lauren: and so I remember doing the, I do remember seeing, doing the reading and you get like really just getting like emotional and getting really into it and like, I'm right. Then we hit the, you don't know her name bit, and you were like, fuck, my girl's not in right here. That's really rough.

Ian: And then you push one children.

Lauren: One children. um, to be clear, neither of them are in the right. Lottie and mad are both awful and deserve each other.

Ian: That's another one of my favorite lines is one says we're push a child in the audience is like, what? And you're like, god damnit.

Lauren: I also like the simultaneous shut up Marjorie bit.. That where you just slowly are realizing that Lottie and Madge are both the worst. It's really nice. I I'm so glad that that came off. Well, it's very, very fun. Just two different types of bad feminist, you know.

Ian: Very true. Um, but that does bring us to, uh, we do have this question, uh, it's for Madge or Katie. Um, what's up with Lottie? How did you never cross paths?

Katie: I'm sure they crossed paths and it just mad was just not paying attention. She doesn't pay attention. I'm positive they crossed paths - 

Lauren: blinded by love -

Katie: multiple times.

Lauren: Yeah, I do. Okay. In the timeline of our show, Lottie and, and Watson got married after Madge and, and Mrs. Hudson broke up potentially. They got married right before season one? Yes. Okay. So and that would've right when you broke up? It's entirely possible. I also think as we've established in the world, Lottie's not hanging out there very much,

Katie: but even if she did, Madge would be like obsessed with Martha. So what? You know? Yeah,

Lauren: exactly.

Ian: I mean, who wouldn't be,

Lauren: I mean, we've also established they've never met Holmes, right? Yes.

Katie: Never met that guy. I dated his housekeeper.

Lauren: You were not there for him. You don't care about this man.

Ian: This is for Chris. Uh, what's James gonna do now that he has no money?

Chris: Oh, man. Um, you know, I mean, one of the things that I love about James is that I really just have no idea what is next with him. Um, so, and I mean, we've had, we've had conversations about what might be happening in season three, so I can't, I can't get too into it, but I mean, he's at, he's kind of at the ground floor again. Um, and I really love the idea of like, what's James gonna do now that there's just nothing for him to really build on anymore. Um. So, yeah, I, I have no idea. And I'm excited to go on that journey with him.

Katie: He's so resourceful. He's always has all these ideas.

Ian: Toilet paper is still doing well. Like toilet paper and ping pong is, it's gonna catch on.

Chris: It's gonna catch on. It's gonna happen.

Ian: This is the one time it didn't work. Um, Jeremy, how do you channel righteous indignation so, well,

Jeremy: um, uh, oh, I'm so glad to hear that. I do. Um, I, uh, I am a unfortunate, uh, reader of the news. I spend a lot of time keeping my own righteous indignation in check. I think, um, because I have to go to work and live in the world and not just rant about, um. Living in, if not the darkest, then certainly the stupidest timeline. Um, and people who don't know what they're talking about, um, leading us places, uh, that are bad. So I think I just, it's a great release for me. I get to, um, I I, I let to, uh, get to give Hampton some room to run.

Ian: Love it. Um, alright. Uh, one of our last questions before we get into wrapping up here. What famous character from literature do we need a recon of, or do we never need to hear from again? I think there are a lot of people who could say that we never need to hear from Sherlock Holmes again. And then we came in and were like, boom, what about this? But is there any character that's kind of getting a little run out that you're like, actually I think there's still gas in that tank. .

Chris: I feel like most of the Jane Austen's could be, could use some, some a little refresh. Yeah. Or maybe a different, just a different perspective. Yeah, because we've, I mean, we've got all the, and all the adaptations and the interpretations and, you know, I feel like we, we, we know what Mr. Darcy is, you know, if there's a, if there's anything to glean from, like giving Mr. Darcy like a fresh start, I feel like that's, that might be something. Yeah. Might be something in there.

Ian: Every time we reach the end of the line though, with an Emma Woodhouse, then comes a Cher Horowitz. So, you know

Katie: I, I'll take anything if it's just not another rehashing of the same story. I've watched three Dunes now and I've watched like 8 million Batmans. Like, I, I, I'm interested in these things, but I just don't need to see the same story told again. Like, take the character that we know and do something fun with it. I'm always up for that.

Jeremy: I think maybe Robin Hood. Like, there's, there's a, a, a, there's a new one every few years, and it's usually like, let's make him gritty and dark. And I'm like, maybe let's make him fun.

Lauren: Oh, men and tight style.

Ian: Let's make him Cary Elwes.

Lauren: Yeah, baby.

Jeremy: Um, you know, I don't need the, I don't need the Taran Eggerton, um, you know, sort of like it's medieval but also chic modern. Like, I don't, I don't need it. .

Lauren:, You're feeling more like the BBC like TV series I have seen I think where they're all dressed in free people outfits. There's a Robin Hood TV show on BBC that they did right before they did Merlin. And I swear to God, there-

Katie: I think Hainsworth has seen it. You guys can talk.

Lauren: Yeah. And Laura Pulver from BBC Sherlock is in it, like, it's a, it's a whole, Richard Armitage is in, it's the first time I ever saw Richard Armitage, but it's like. Decently silly and pulpy. I think we can go in that direction again.

Ian: I think the way, I mean, even when, when we were like doing, doing Holmes and Watson this season, um, that was a concern that Lauren and I talked a lot about, about like, you know, well, what, what else is there on the bone here hasn't Yeah.

Lauren: We not gonna bring him into the show unless we had something to do with them.

Ian: Yeah. And I think the, the big thing that you and I kind of kept reiterating again and again and again, I'm sure we'll hit on this a little bit more in depth in the, the writer's QA that we'll do, um, was just that we were looking at it as like this is a version of Sherlock Holmes, not the version of Sherlock Holmes.

Lauren: Yeah. No version of Sherlock Holmes is the version of Sherlock Holmes.

Ian: Yeah. It's Shakespeare rules as people that do a lot of classical theater. It's like no one's ever gonna be doing. The, like quintessential hamlet . we're all doing a version of Hamlet that appeals to the minds of the artists who are creating it. Like that's, and, and, and so like with that in mind, like, let's get a little less, let's take these things a little less personal. You know, if you don't like the Matt Reeves Batman Cool. It's a version of Batman. it is not the version, you know? Um, which I think really that, that was kind of the, the headspace I got to when I was watching the, the, the Joel Cohen Macbeth that came out a few years ago. Cause a lot of, a lot of Shakespeare people really did not care for that movie. Um, which, which I, I hear. Mm-hmm. But I, I really dug it as a, like, I don't really care, you know, the, the text work being what it is, whatever. I was like, this is a cool version of this story . I don't know if it illuminates the most for me. I don't know if it like, shows me something I've never seen, but I like, I like that it's here. Yeah. And I'm happy it's here. And we could only hope that that's kind of what. We were adding with Sherlock. And so I think in, in the future, if we ever do play with other literary characters or other characters in the public domain or something like this, it's gonna be with that same kind of like, cool, if you don't like this, there's a version of it out there already that you probably do like . and so just go hang out with them and watch that. Create your own or create your own. Yeah. That's cool. That's what we did. Like genuinely that's what, yeah. If you don't like it, that's fine.

Lauren: That's fine. There's so many options.

Ian: Yeah. Um, alright. General wrap up. What would your character's favorite TV shows be? Rob, I'm going to you first.

Rob: I think he would hate wa like hate watch, like, uh, elementary. That's just, theres, there's like a piece of him that I think has is like Hampton that he wants to watch and be catty and criticize and uh, I think that's what he'd do. Solve it in the first two seconds and then complain the rest of the time.

Ian: How do you think he would feel about the Morris Chestnut Watson show? That's out? Just a show that's hot Watson.

Rob: I not seen it yet.

Katie: I Don't like it.

Lauren: Oh, do you know who the Holmes is on that? It's Matt Berry.

Rob: What?

Lauren: Yeah.

Rob: Outstanding.

Lauren: Morris Chestnut and Matt Berry. Outstanding.

Ian: Do you know who the Moriarty is? Randall Park.

Jeremy: Is he 80? That's the question.

Ian: Yeah. No, it's not for me. It's um, what about you, Katie? What shows would Madge like?

Katie: Uh, well, I think, um, as far as scripted shows, she would love succession, uh, because everybody's awful and she would really enjoy feeling superior to them. But I think Madge is probably like, would be the head of like every reality show, fan club or, or like Reddit community. She would be in there stirring the shit, talking about like, oh, this person's this and this is, I think she would really, really get into a lot of reality too.

Ian: Yeah. She would never want Hampton or James to know, but god damn it would, yeah, it would be total secret. Yeah. What about you, Chris?

James: You know, I was just about to say reality tv.

Katie: Hell yeah. Oh, maybe they watch it together. No. Maybe they watch it together, but they keep it from Archie and and Hampton. Yeah. It's strictly arch thing. All secret marriage thing.

Ian: Yeah. Yeah. For their fuck It day. Those are their date nights. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. What about you Jeremy?

Jeremy: Is it terrible that I was gonna say Traitors?

Lauren: I feel like it's different. Different brand.

Jeremy: Different brand.

Ian: That's a game.

Jeremy: Yeah, exactly. It. I think, I think the game of it would, would be Hampton's thing. Yeah.

Lauren: Hampton wants people to think he's just mainlining jeopardy, but he is not,

Jeremy: he's not though.

Lauren: he's not, he's gotta get fun with it. I feel like he tried to get into severance 'cause he is like, I'm gonna solve the mystery. And then he is like, I just wanna watch the traitors

Jeremy: God. Nothing. Yeah, that's the thing. Nothing too heavy. I, I think he'd try to watch a bunch of prestige television and, and just kind of crap out of it.

Lauren: He really, he gave up after two episodes of Shogun.

Ian: Yeah, I was gonna do Shogun too. It's so well made, but I haven't gotten past episode one.

Lauren: You have to like commit to it.

Ian: I have to commit to it. I don't have the time. too busy writing this bullshit.

Lauren: There's so many characters

Ian: What kind of fan works would you like to see for the show?

Lauren: I feel like we've seen so many incredible ones. Yeah. Whatever you guys wanna make.

Ian: I feel like we're not in a position to tell you what to do.

Lauren: No. We're so lucky to get what we've seen.

Chris: I know. The, the, I think yeah, the online community that has been, uh, just like amazing. Yeah. The, all the artwork and the, the, uh, the map outs of the apartment and just everything. It's all so cool. And to see it,

Madge: there's like a line drawing of Imagine Fitzy. That is my favorite picture of me and Rob ever.

Lauren: That is to say, if you want to see your characters' fur sonas speak now or forever hold your peace guys.

Jeremy: Look, I'm already so small and pointy eared and red haired in the, uh, drawings that I've seen of me. I, I assume I'm halfway there already. Yeah, I like that.

Lauren: You're just a little red panda.

Jeremy: Exactly right. Not a fox, a red pan. Oh god. That's coming down the pipe. It's really great though. It's amazing. It's, it's so delightful to see. And it, and, and as a, as a stage actor, you're so tied to your physical form that to be able to see how people perceive just your voice is, is just really, really stunning and freeing. It's really fantastic.

Lauren: Yeah. There have been so many incredible there. They're like, we've had a few, um, like fan like animatics. That have been so incredible. 'cause it's also so cool to see like. How people think the characters move. There was like, there have been so many like really cool ones of that, that I'm always just like, oh my God, you took so much time to make this. That's, I I it's, I'm, I'm blown away. Yeah. The things that we wanna see are whatever you want. If you, I'm trying to even think of a joke one, and I can't, I just am so happy with what I think we get, you know?

Ian: Yeah. It's, we are unbelievably lucky to, to mm-hmm. Get to engage with the community, like the one that has supported the show so far. And we, we hope that you keep listening. Yeah. Um, next question here from Paul. Why do you play with us like this?

Lauren: Because it's fun.

Ian: Great. Next question here. Um, this is from Sarah. Uh, which Arthur Conan Doyle case do you think would be the most fun to have the gang solve instead of Holmes?

Katie: They would never solve it.

Lauren: Hey, hey. Come up with the real answer and I'm gonna say the person, the person who submitted this, by the way, is Sarah Galeb, who, consulted on, uh, episode nine, nine. Yeah. Uh, she helped us find all of the quotes for the quote tornado as Ian called it, the quote tornado of, of Watson Lines.

Katie: which is such a great montage.

Lauren: Yeah, yeah. Which we recorded in like 30 seconds flat. Oh my God. Yeah. Another fun fact of the season is that all of the Holmes and Watson scenes were recorded in I think 80 minutes. Yeah, yeah. Uh, because time zone changes and summer vacations were such that we were,

Ian: yeah. We had Tom for like three hours.

Lauren: Think we had three hours on the day of the Chicago Air and Water show, so we had to pause for planes. And that was one of those amazing days where that you Rob, you talked about earlier where it was just like y'all did your prep and you came in and you crushed it and it was like. Okay. That was beautiful. I'm sure you'd like to do it again. We got it. Yeah. But yeah, I think that was the last thing we recorded with him. And it was just like, go record all these random quotes.. And it turned out beautifully . um, but Sarah helped us find those quotes. She's incredibly learned and all of the text and probably has a better specific answer to this question herself than we would be able to find.

Ian: I think the Blue Carbuncle.

Lauren: Blue Carbuncle. It's Christmas. I would say speckled band.

Katie: I was gonna say speckled band, but speckle band mostly it's the one that I remember, but I It's like a bottle episode. Right. It's like all in that house. Yeah. So that would be fun to watch them

Lauren: I think that they could probably just like chill in a dark house and wait for a snake to come out. That's doable. And then they jump up on all the furniture and freak out. Yeah. That's doable. Like waiting in the dark. And then a snake pops out. Yeah, they could. They could. They could do that. Yeah.

Rob: What's the one with the daughter locked in the attic? That would be really fun for this gang to get in the middle of

Lauren: Copper Beaches.

Rob: Yep. That's it.

Lauren: I also think solitary cyclists would low key be a banger with these guys. Yeah. It's just an entire story of a dude being a creep and I feel like they, much like Holmes would be like, I don't know. I think they'd be great for all of the mysteries that are the, the ones that, where people come to Holmes and it's not a murder. They're just like, Hey, this weird thing has fucking happened to me at my job. It, it doesn't seem to be a crime, but vibes are weird. And it's probably nothing. And then Holmes is just like, no, no, no, no. That's fucking weird girl. Let's find out. Can, let's, let's keep digging -

Katie: Hampton, find Hampton can infiltrate the Redheaded League, right?

Ian: Probably. I was gonna say, this is not an Arthur Kan Doyle story, but I mean it kind of is, I guess it's based on it, but the Abominable Bride episode of BBC Sherlock -

Katie: Oh yeah. I mean obviously that would be -

Ian: a blast would be great because it's essentially just Scooby-Doo and I think that, that this gang would do well with a Scooby,

Katie: that's more, that's more our vibe.

Lauren: The closer we get to Scooby-Doo, the more accurate we become. Yes. Yeah.

Ian: This is all to say that the character that I would wanna Red Con a Scooby do. Oh, I mean, give us a shot.

Lauren: That's one where I'm like, fucking let us at it. I would write a, we would write a Scooby-Doo in three seconds flat. Oh my God. Let, we can get you a script on your desk in three days.

Ian: Let me pitch to anyone. Um, last question here. It's barely a question, uh, but I love it. Can we get the full tunnel of Brotherly Love? Uh, sure. Chris, take it away.

Lauren: Um, uh, let's just do a little intro to it. We'll, prob we'll just edit in this episode, so yeah, we'll edit it at again. And Ian, do you wanna talk at all about your, your process for this, or do you, I'll let you intro it.

Ian: Well, first let's wrap up and say goodbye to everybody and then I'll talk in a little bit.

Lauren: I just figured we could, you could edit in anywhere.

Ian: Sure, sure. I can. And then we'll do goodbyes. Uh, the Tunnel of Brotherly Love was a concept made up by Lauren Grace Thompson. Um, the, the idea that there would be this log flume, uh, and that then it would become, um, incredibly integral to the, the way in which, uh, whether it be dispatched of Dennis, um, and eventually, uh, Holmes and james and Archie. Um, and so we thought the idea would be essentially doing our dumb version of, it's a small world. What that would look like. I think Lauren thought that it would be something very different. And, uh, when I went to, when I luck, uh, not luckily honestly bad luck for everybody else. Our, uh, our composer Baltimore was incredibly busy being a fucking lawyer. Um, literally he is an attorney. He passed the bar along being a full ass lawyer.

Lauren: He composed this like this entire season while he was studying for the bar,

Ian: which is incredible 'cause the music is. Amazing. Yeah. But what it also meant was that there was, um, a couple pockets where, um, I had to fill in because, because he was busy and Tunnel of Brotherly Love was one of those. Um, and we kind of came up with the first bit as like a little bit of a strawberry fields forever, Lucy in the sky with Diamonds esque, like psychedelic rock. Arpeggio jam. Yeah. And then it turned into a fun little kind of Brit Pop b section that, um, but all the lyrics essentially were just like, how do we turn this into like the worst David Bowie impression with the, the dumbest, like honestly really suggestive lyrics,

Lauren: but that then you can take the lyrics out of, and it's actually weirdly sweet,

Ian: weirdly sweet, but we, the, but the, with the other goal of the, of it needing to be exactly two minutes and 21 seconds, which it is, um, which I'm very proud of.

Chris: Nailed it.

Ian: Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing what you can do with GarageBand and a MIDI keyboard. Um, but um, with that being said, uh, I just wanna go around one more time. and, uh, just kind of wrap up with any, uh, with everybody. Um, and, you know, give -

Lauren: do you wanna share one thing that you are, like -

Ian: a sign off question. We did this at the end of season, uh, the season one q and a. Uh, one prediction or hope for your character in the next season? Mm-hmm.

Lauren: Or in future seasons? Or in future seasons or future stories. Who know? We, we'll probably see Rob you at some point. I don't know when,

Ian: You're not gone forever, but yeah. What is one, what is one hope or something you want last year? I'll be honest. So pretty much everything everybody said on last year's episode I listened to and I said, we're not gonna do that. The one that we did get to do was Chris said he wanted James Stallion to ride a horse. And you know what? We got that motherfucker on a horse at the end of the season.

Chris: Stallion. On a stallion.

Ian: That entire thing was because Chris said he wanted to ride a horse. So we never know which of these predictions may make it into season three. Um, so please do our work for us. We'll start with Jeremy.

Jeremy: Hampton Fox will, uh, nearly drown in the shallow end of a pool.

Lauren: Oh, no. Amazing. Uh, so dark.

Ian: Let's go with Rob.

Rob: A new hobby.

Lauren: Ooh, doable. Absolutely doable. Absolutely doable.

Ian: Um, Viz.

Chris: [01:21:00] Just, I just wanna see a scene where James is at Rock bottom.

Lauren: You, I kind of already have

Ian: all but guaranteed .

Lauren: It's once a season, baby.

Katie: Uh. I was gonna say, I'd like to see Madge, uh, navigate a relationship, an actual relationship. But now I want her to save Hampton from the shallow end into the pool

Ian: that is saving a relationship. Um, great. Awesome. It has been such a pleasure getting to, uh, talk with all of you today and going to see your shining faces and see this phone icon on Jeremy Square. I'm so unbelievably honored that we get to that we got to do this show, that we get to do this show with all of you and with the rest of our cast. Thank you all so much for agreeing to do this. Um, and then we're just gonna go around now and we'll do some plugs if anybody has anything that they want to plug, um, we'll start with you. Rob, what do you got?

Rob: I'm gonna throw to Katie  because I'm having a three second delay in my audio. Katie.

Katie: Cool. So Rob and I would like to plug Dark Nexus. The Dark Nexus podcast is a, is an actual play, uh, role playing game podcast. We're, we're, we're halfway through a six act arc, so there's tons of episodes to catch up on. It's really, really fun. If you can't get enough of me and Rob you, you will, after we do that,

Ian: it's fucked up.

Katie: It's fucked up. It is the opposite of Fox and Stallion, but it's so, it's very different into its thing. It is incredible stuff.

Ian: Well, and it's also all of it's done in house, Rob. You do the music, you do the effects. all of you are such incredible voice actors, but also you're the GM play everything so well. You're the gm, um, uh, you do unbelievable recaps at the beginnings of the episodes and also in the, uh, at the tops of the acts. Uh, so it is, it is incredibly user-friendly to be able to enter. At so many different stages, um, for anybody that is, has never listened to an actual play podcast before and is maybe concerned that they, they may not get it or it may be overwhelming to them because of the amount of content there is, there are a lot of places to enter and then there's so much backlog for you to be able to go back and listen to. It is such an incredibly designed show. Um, cannot recommend it more highly.

Lauren: Yeah. And we will have the link in the description of this episode .

Rob: Thank you so much, y'all. Of course.

Ian: Jeremy, what do you got?

Jeremy: Um, I just did a short film called The Clothes on Our Backs. We're in the process now of the director being like, I'm gonna try and submit it to some festivals, so we'll see if it pops up anywhere, but, you know, keep an eye out for that.

All: Yay.

Ian: Hell yeah. Boom, boom, boom. Chris, what do you got?

Chris: I am, uh, recording this from Lifeline Theater where we are just starting tech for the war of the worlds, uh, which is running, uh, May 23rd through. mid-July. Um, I'm not sure when this episode comes out, but if it, if it comes out after that, um, I'm just gonna plug live theater. Come to live theater, because that's where we all came from. That's where we make our bread and butter go see a show,

Ian: but a live theater show that's based on a radio show. Yeah. So you're kind of going full circle with this baby. Um. Great. Lauren, anything from you? Uh, this show? Um, you wanna do Midnight Burger? You got so much stuff that you do.

Lauren: Yeah, I, I do voice acting. I'm on Midnight Burger, which is incredible. Um, specifically they're, they're Loung Leif miniseries. I play Young BertBert, um, I'm trying to think of what else I do. Um, I'm on a show called That Vampire Show where I play Kat. Um, I'm on Pasithea Powder. Two Flat Earthers Kidnapp a Freemason, which is an incredible audio comedy. I also, uh, guest directed, I don't know, this isn't out yet, but it's coming out the final season of, its The Strange Case of Starship Iris. I directed half of the episodes on that. Uh, and dialogue edited the rest of them. And I worked on Unwell. I also did some editing for their, their new show World Gone Wrong, which is incredible. Um. And I'm open for work if you need a director!

Ian: Similarly, wanna plug myself as being open for work if you need a writer or a director. Um, not too much else for me. I, I'm besides getting married and working and I had a show that closed like a month or so ago, so that was really what I was doing. Um, but in the meantime, we're just gonna keep, we're, we're gonna keep rocking and rolling as long as you guys want us to, in the words of Dirk Diggler. So, um, I wanna thank you all for listening to this. Thank you all for listening to the season. Thank you for contributing these questions and for the incredible art, uh, fan art that you do. Please continue to tell your friends. Word of mouth is still the best way that we get this show out there.

Lauren: We also have a merch store. Now

Ian: we do. It's a Teepublic store. The link is in the description of this and also on our website. So check that out. There's some really incredible designs there, um, that Lauren has done for so many great t-shirts and, and acc. We have For Ambrosius shirts, 22Fun B Baker shirts. We have all of 'em. Yep. But, uh, that's pretty much it. Thank you all so much for listening. Bye-bye.

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