Laura and Jake discuss Laura’s new fairy workshop at the WasteShed (Saturday June 30th 3-5pm) after they catch up on some “Uncle Fun: You’re the One” premiere news and events. Laura is excited to teach 7-13 year olds about the ways of the faerie and Jake is excited to see some of the larger bags of ‘tiny fairy things’ leave the house. Does Jake look like the Maxell 'blown away' guy in chair? Laura thinks so. Here's the image: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/areyoufamousyet/maxell_guy_in_chair.jpg for the curious. Also, Laura announces her new summer job at the last possible moment in the episode.

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First: Sorry about the sound quality on this one. Second: This the second of two episodes where the hosts talk about failures.

0:02:00 Jake's turn to pour his heart out. 0:02:15 "I was bored in school and developed NO study habits" 0:05:00 Let the begging begin. 0:06:40 Failing at relativity 0:12:15 Colleges want to take your money 0:13:38 Taking the leaving the gang beating… or not. 0:14:10 The hard lesson of learning how to manage upward 0:15:30 Dead teacher walking 0:16:10 "When things are hard it makes you try harder, but that's not always a good thing." 0:22:15 Nilsa had a completely different college experience 0:23:35 I don't like this anymore... 0:30:45 Cheap suits + Draconian Rules = Remedial Love and the rise of Hitler 0:34:15 "You must love inspirational teacher movies…" 0:37:40 Laura's most recent teaching experience: name deleted to protect the guilty 0:38:20 Over-preparing and bad vibes 0:43:00 "This is going to be an awkward phone call…" 0:45:20 "One of the evil-est people out there are mothers." 0:49:15 Bryn and Jake ask Laura to identify a time where she felt she'd failed 0:50:20 Laura felt like she'd failed by not following her true desire to go into theatre 0:56:20 Surrounded by mountains of practicality 0:58:05 What is a school with no clocks and bells? 1:02:50 Guilt about not bringing-in the money 1:03:30 Bryn calls-out Laura for being unwilling to talk about the things that trouble her and she's saved from answering the question by Jake getting an urgent page from his job. Alas, we may never know.

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We are back after a week off and Laura has just gotten off a plane from seeing the last ever "Spoutwood Fairie Festival" http://www.spoutwood.org/fairie-festival/2018-may-day-fairie-festival/ where she interviewed many and got lots of footage for her next documentary project. She also went to see a certain "Uncle Fun" in Baltimore and has a bit to say about that. 

Get your tickets for the June 10th showing of "Uncle Fun: You're the One" soon because over half of the tickets are already sold: http://unclefunyouretheone.com

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We talked about social media, Chels' writing, podcast, Sell Me A Pup; and graphic novel, Dead Weight with Brooklyn-based illustrator and "Lenny Letter" contributor Danie Drankwalter.    http://chelsnotchelsea.com   https://www.machineculture.com/chels-harvey/   Sell Me A Pup podcast

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Originally released Feb 24, 2014. The first of two episodes where the hosts talk about failures.

0:01:40 - Josh Force (http://forcedesignhouse.com/) is the graphic designer behind Laura's impending website. Note from the future Laura’s website is done and here: https://lauraforcescruggs.com/ Jake is very proud of the SSL/TLS certification. 0:02:15 - Laura Force: Porn star? 0:04:50 - What happened to Bryn and social media? 0:09:13 - Apparently Facebook is . Jake breaks it down courtesy of Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g 0:15:50 - The theme of this podcast is Failure. Nilsa goes first. 0:22:20 - Nilsa is a complete professional. 0:22:58 - Bryn talks about how getting laid off from Motorola was heralded by a spooky "subjectless meeting" with his boss appearing on his calendar. 0:27:20 - "Arsenic and Old Lace" may have gotten Bryn promoted. 0:30:00 - Nilsa married her college sweetheart - a division III basketball player. Oh yeah. 0:35:27 - An early mid-life crisis. 0:37:40 - It happened in tech. 0:39:55 - Now she has this theatre company 0:42:30 - Bryn's failings in relationships and jobs 0:46:30 - The School at Steppenwolf 0:50:30 - How did Bryn's marriage go from nice suburban house and wine parties to divorce? 0:54:40 - "You guys were awesome roommates." 0:59:30 - Bryn and relationship overlap 1:02:45 - Breaking the overlap cycle 1:11:40 - Laura is performing at "Loose Chicks"

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Links to tickets for world premiere screenings of "Uncle Fun:  You're The One" at Chicago Filmmakers: 2 pm showing http://chicagofilmmakers.org/screenings/2673 7 pm http://chicagofilmmakers.org/screenings/2674

Facebook event pages for Chicago Filmmakers' screenings: 2 pm https://www.facebook.com/events/210131949752110/ 7 pm https://www.facebook.com/events/212771492644835/

Website unclefunyouretheone.com Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/UncleFunYoureTheOne/ Twitter https://twitter.com/UncleFunYoureT1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unclefunyouretheonedocumentary/ Big Fun http://bigfunbigfun.com https://bigfuntoystore.tumblr.com

State Street Stuff https://www.facebook.com/State-Street-Stuff-228217517276287/

Uncle Fun was officially declared done by Laura Scruggs on Thursday March 15th, 2018.

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Originally released Feb 17, 2014.

0:00:52 Jenn Mello founder of the first networking event Bryn attended in NY 0:01:50 "Nat Geo" and other mysterious abbreviations and acronyms 0:03:50 A mysterious text to Jake from Nilsa 0:09:20 Film Interchange and the origins of it's founder (http://www.filminterchange.org) 0:14:50 "Let's talk to filmmakers about film making…" 0:17:20 "No one stands alone at my events" 0:20:45 K. Lorrel Manning and "Happy New Year" (http://happynewyearfilm.com/) 0:34:00 A tribute to the bygone Bryn-O-Plex 0:36:20 "Bring out the gun show, Bryn…" 0:38:20 Producing Class with Indie Producer Rich Guay 0:42:10 Jenn what does Bryn need to do to become famous? 0:50:50 What did Bryn think of Dan's training comment in the last episode? 0:58:38 Alexander technique 1:01:49 Voice and speech and probation 1:06:33 Film Interchange- all set for friendly world domination 1:08:15 More love for Rich Guay 1:12:45 Phil 1:14:30 "I'm having a lot of fun not working."

00:38 - Presenting: Jon Spiegel! https://www.facebook.com/jonspiegel 02:20 - Someone wants to make a movie of Jon's life! 03:07 - Ten x 9, http://www.tenx9.com 05:39 - How Jon is famous. 10:23 - Jon's favorite gigs and other musicians he's met. 18:40 - How Jon got involved with music. 26:36 - An important story. 36:45 - Storytelling! 40:17 - Jon tells a story! 45:15 - Fairy wands and Do Not Submit http://www.donotsubmitchicago.com 57:51 - Jon the playwright. 59:33 - Jon has been working with Brigid Murphy, creator of "Millie's Orchid Show." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/media/94054265-132.html 1:01:41 - Jon's circus story.

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Recorded at the Pride Arts Center on "The Condition of Femme” set minutes after their 3/16/2018 performance.

00:35 - Presenting: the playwright, director, producer, sound designer & several cast members of Circle Theatre's "The Condition of Femme.” www.circletheatrechicago.org 00:58 - Inspiration for show. 05:17 - Highlights of rehearsal process. 13:58 - Holding space for each other. 16:24 - Favorite parts of script or moments played. 22:33 - Jake's compliment & video montages. 26:43 - Interesting what makes people feel uncomfortable and why. 28:29 - Police officer moment in play and how men are learning from the show. 38:12 - Playwright Lauren Powell is calling people in, not out. 39:23 - Did Lauren consider writing male characters into the script? 49:41 - Rachel's story. 51:57 - We're taught to mind our own business, but need to look out for and truly see each other. 56:40 - A few of Laura and Jake's thoughts about the show. 58:30 - "The Condition of Femme" runs through April 1st. Tickets are available at: www.circletheatrechicago.org

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Ryan Snow hails from Stanford, California and has his B.A. in Politics and his B.M. in Jazz Studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music. He is a former member of Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds and was a professional trombonist based in Brooklyn from 2005 to 2014 and is now pursuing law.

Rosina Snow is from New York, New York. She attended LaGuardia High School and Oberlin College. She is a singer and environmentalist. She is currently working on her thesis about the environment and the divine. Check out her website at: https://rosina-snow.squarespace.com/

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