Kyle saw a Jen Silverman play that broke every formatting rule he thought theater had, which turned out to be the perfect prompt for an episode about what happens when creatives stop asking whether they're allowed. Mandy goes to bat for Lynn Shelton's Humpday. Pete makes the case for The Lego Movie, unironically and at length. And Ryan reminds us that Lord and Miller cast a puppeteer as the year's most beloved alien because the guy was too good at the scratch track to replace.

Then: a pair of 24-hour plays, both written to the same brief. Pete returned with Tail, a play about two parents trying to reverse-engineer the psychology of a sixteen-year-old who has decided, unremarkably, to wear a squirrel suit. Kyle — going in a different direction — returned with Best Served Cold, a cooking-competition finale in which a disgraced contestant has plans. Both plays are read live and cold on the episode.

Then a listener asks about the difference between being vulnerable online and being performatively vulnerable online, and all four hosts — each of whom has at some point posted something and later wondered what kind of person wrote that — try to answer honestly.

Links & Notes

• Witch by Jen Silverman
• Humpday by Lynn Shelton
• The Lego Movie and Project Hail Mary by Lord and Miller
• Batman: The Audio Adventures

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