Between 2 Butts: The Podcast That Lets Nothing Slip Between The Cracks

A humdinger of an episode featuring a truly multiskilled guy. In our seventy-fifth episode, Jay, Becca and Tice are entertained by actor and trainer Marcus Lawrence. He tells us about Capitol Fringe shows with Jay, singing metal in Grethor, developing his character for In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play), doing nude scenes, fitness training for theater, being a sports freak in the theatre world, and his and Jay's shared love of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And there's so many more things-- you'll just have to listen to the episode.  

Come back with us to September 2023 when Tice, Jay, and Becca took stock of their summer adventures. Jay is riding high in his new Jeep and getting in touch with Jeep culture through the extremely wholesome phenomenon of "ducking". Tice is taking his first shots at stand-up paddleboarding, re-assessing his gym goals and STILL taking tentative looks at yoga (through sketchy online ads). And Becca remembers some of the hiccups from her adventures at Otakon with friend of the pod Ahryel Tinker, sharing tips for anyone going to a summer convention along the way. Also in this episode, Tice also gets ducked, but in a different way (at a Popeye's!), Becca is planning her next tattoo, and Tice asks Jay to redo the opening, which ends in mass confusion.

In this episode, our guest Erin Gallalee shares with Jay, Becca and Tice her advice about doing research about your character and the advantages of being a character actor and not putting yourself in a box. Then she delights us with stories about Jay making her laugh uncontrollably while watching him in The Elephant Man, the audience laughing inappropriately at her performance in Dangerous Liaisons, many ways of screaming "Victor!!!" in Frankenstein, and we cannot forget "Your Mother's Butt"! Later on, Jay turns the tables on Tice and Becca in Family Feud...can Tice help Erin win the big prize, and will Becca put up with it?

Jay is excited to complete the 9-to-5-Trifecta as he, Becca, and Tice have a chat with actress and singer Jolene Vettese! She tells stories about her history in musical theatre and experimental theatre, studying theatre and performing at Syracuse and abroad in London, trying to do "the New York thing" and getting a job with Oxygen TV, and her thoughts on the current state of community theatre. Of course, she gives us some insight into her experience playing Violet Newstead in "9 to 5" as well as Pennywise in a recent production of "Urinetown"...and she reveals from personal experience, that yes, colleges do sometimes send rejection letters in error. Also, Becca has a new tattoo, Jay has decided Tice is "sexually active in the community" for some reason, and...True Confessions!

Our seventy-first episode begins with Becca considering a small cat tattoo and Jay trying to talk her into a big one. Tice mulls over getting a tat but wonders about the cost; Jay serves up info. Job-hunting Jay then shares a video of tips (from Bryan Creely of A Life After Layoff) on how to maximize your results from LinkedIn, with everyone weighing in with reactions. After that, Tice takes us down the Dilbert-hole with much more than you wanted to know about creator Scott Adams and reasons why the comic strip has been permanently pulled from most newspapers. To give you a little taste, some of the terms that come up are "manosphere", "sock puppetry", "beta-cuck", "sheeple", and "Dilber-ito". Finally, Tice tries to hold on to his title of "Stripper" in a round of comics history trivia!

    

Becca, Tice and Jay each weigh in on the phenomenon known as Hockey Butt (and lack thereof) as our lead-in to a delightful session with actor and director Michael Kharfen, star of Superior Donuts, The Diary of Anne Frank, Frost/Nixon, and Amadeus, as well as director of A Streetcar Named Desire, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, As You Like It, Wit, and more, not to mention director of various public health organizations. In this episode, Michael shares about experiences acting, experiences directing, running, general positivity and his famous Kharfen Cookies, which are the basis of our trivia game at the close of the episode. Will Michael be able to hold on to the title of Cookie King?    

An episode we've been waiting for (and honestly, had to re-start) with guest Joey Olson! Joey is president of the Reston Community Players, and he has appeared in such shows as "9 to 5", "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Bright Star", and most recently "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" along with our own Becca Harney! Besides telling us about his illustrious theatre career, Joey also talks about his recent near-death experience, lets Tice and Jay know where they rank on the Bear/Cub/Otter continuum, ponders banging the Beast, and makes this an episode to remember in many other ways. Stick around to hear a history-making Between Two Butts (not Family Feud) Fast Money at the end of Episode 69... you'll flip!

Between 2 Butts is between guests so Jay, Becca, and Tice are choosing discussion topics at will. Becca muses over losing her credit card virginity. Tice leaves the subject of the Un-"Dilbert"ing on the table and instead decides to keep trying to make fun of "Pluggers", which allows Becca to bring up numerous family anecdotes. Jay declares his intention to grow and nurture his beard, bringing along a few tips from YouTube. Building on that, we finish off with a Beard Trivia battle, including historical notes!

GoComics - Pluggers

Matty Conrad How To Trim Your Beard - Kratos Edition - Trailer
Matty Conrad 8 Beard Growing Mistakes You Need To Avoid 

On this Between Two Butts, Tice, Jay, and Becca are joined by director and choreographer Stefan Sittig, whose recent work includes Urinetown and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the Workhouse Arts Center, as well as Man of La Mancha, Xanadu, and many others. Stefan fills us in on his journey from DC to South America to Charlottesville and Richmond and once again to DC...including how growing up steeped in samba in Brazil affected his style of choreography, how being at UVA at the same time as Tina Fey made him not able to read "Bossypants", and his current adventures in podcasting, directing and choreography. This last topic is the theme of our final game, where Jay plays Cupid for an increasingly flirtatious Stefan and puts a date with Tice on the line.   

Check out more about Stefan at his website! 
www.stefansittig.com

After a long rest, here's an episode with just little ol' us, and although some big things have happened, nothing much has changed. Jay continues to ask newlywed Becca about her married-name status and test the boundaries of what first names Becca accepts. Nothing has changed. Jay shares his newfound love of Babymetal (see links below), Becca talks The Last of Us, and Tice reveals to the group one of his Twitter follows: Nick Adams (Alpha Male), who, at the time of the recording, was very very mad about a cartoon bear and some pants. Then, as if to prove we aren't a bunch of beta-bears, we go toe to toe in Jay's test of metal trivia.

Babymetal: Headbanger

Babymetal: Catch Me If You Can

Nick Adams (Alpha Male)