PODIENCE! IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG. AMAZING NEWS, THOUGH, WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL GAG LAIR. The lore behind the lair is too intense to discuss. Think...staring directly into next week's eclipse intense, Top Gun Mach 10.2 speed intense, "B*yonce's the greatest artist of all time" propaganda intense. In this episode we: have an intense catchup and gossip session that includes SOME CURRENT EVENTS, we exhaustively describe our "Bridgerton meets Bath & Body Works" pop up gig and we end with a fun write in from a beloved listener! LOVE U BBS! GAGGENAU!!!!!!!!

GREETINGS PODIENCE! We come to you on the DAY OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS to share our takes on the best picture nominees. Yep - we watched them all for you so you don't have to! ALSO, great news, we were nominated in the "best Oscar movie takes from gig musicians" category so you'll be seeing us scam our way to the red carpet any moment now. If you see any cops dragging away two beautiful ladies get your wallets ready for our bail fund. BUT BEFORE THAT, we have a half hour with our wonderful guest, Jason Beckmann, where we gossip, discuss what makes an Aries an Aries, talk opera, and we give you a great celebrity GHOST OF GAGS PAST and a traumatic GAG story from one of our favorite listeners. ***OSCARS talk at the half hour mark***

Greetings, podience. We come to you with a Leap Day Pod. If the only thing you do today is listen to this leap day pod, you will have had a good day. CAPICE?! The last Leap Day was in 2020 and we ALL REMEMBER HOW THAT WENT, DON'T WE!? Anyway, in this pod we talk financial advice, Caroline recalls her "for the looks" gag, we read one write in and we discuss some THRILLING classical music news items. Ta Ta for now...see you on the next one!

Happy GAG/GAL/GAY/VA-LENTINE'S DAY, podience! Do we love to celebrate one of the most popular Saints, Mr Saint Valentine? ABSOLUTELY. AND we're doing it HERE, ON THE POD, with many segments including: a roast of someone's angry orchestra reply all e-mail, two phallic gag stories, we play FMK romantic opera edition AND we read one of Beethoven's immortal beloved letters. LOTS OF CONTENT, PEOPLE!

BELOW ARE LINKS TO THE FMK OPERA TRACKS

1st one:

VISSI D'ARTE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLR3lSrqlww

NESSUN DORMA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJkCwQB2CY

VOGLIATEMI BENE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnIPF3WY_Fo

2nd one:

E Lucevan le stelle, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzb9uwfgD1w

Flower Song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1dafrlt10w&t=70s

Che gelida manina, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--L3uqoQUV4

PODIENCE! It's our first anniversary! We accept congratulatory gifts via cryptocurrency, Venmo, rolled up wads of cash, etc. In this episode, we reminisce about our pod with Benni, Marta rants about AN ENEMY SHE MAKE AT THE OPERA, we pull back the curtain on influencer and gen z gigs, we screen a vintage video titled "small, angry man yells at trumpet player in New York" AND we close it up with our top 7 moments of the last pod year. Thank you for listening and cheers to another year of pod!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E62iA6KCIQ

Hoe Rogan....I mean, Gag Economy, is back and welcomes esteemed, talented, amazeballs violist/improviser/composer Benni von Gutzeit to the pod!!! *air horn sounds* Podience, you are IN FOR A TREAT. Say GUTEN TAG—this strapping German Man will keep us LADIES on track (or will he???) as we discuss AI, the future of Music, rewrite his bio, and share fun facts about Mr. Good Time. Danke for listening, dear Podience!!

More info about Benni here: http://vongutzeit.com

Follow us on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gageconomy

Hi Bbs, as you may know we are well into the third week of January. The horror. If you, like us, feel horrified - listen to this pod. We will snap you out of it using our verbal NAVY SEAL tactics. You'll come away from this episode saying, "what are they talking about?" or "I love that one but I can't stand the other one" or "why do these women act like this?" or "someone get these shrews some adderrall" and, definitely, "was that a slur?" We talk improv group politics, we share a gag of the week, we read a write-in gag, we engage chatgpt's voice feature, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. If you didn't read that last bit like the King from "The King and I," you will explode in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - ....phew, good job. You saved yourself by listening to the pod! Hooray!!!

Is your feed packed with New Year Round-Up episodes??? Well, we've got something extra special for you, podience!!! ANOTHA ONE.

We the Gaggers give you a LIFE UPDATE (Maestro--did we watch it?? BB goes to London--did she love it??), we introduce you to the genius that is GIG MATH, and we recap the BEST FIVE GAGS OF THE YEAR.

Hold on to your aulds, bbs, they are about to get lang syned.

Happy two days after Xmas, podience! We bring to you a medium grade ADHD episode yet again! Segments include: Musician Martyr Minute, How to be a clown!, an improv quickie with an ambiguously offensive accent, we opine about the top 5 moments of our friendship, there's a call in gag story, we recap our joint gig at an EMBASSY AND we have an A+++ rant from the call in gag story mystery gentleman from before. GOSH WE LOVE OUR PODIENCE! WHAT AN XMAS GIFT YOU ALL ARE!

Hello, podience. We have been DELINQUENT, and, yet DETERMINED to bring you another episode answering the paramount question - "was it a gig or was it...a gag?" Miss Caroline is in the process of finishing her soul contract with Radio City and Miss Marta has commited to humiliating herself for the rest of 2023 by learning a new skill. NEVERTHELESS, SHE and the other SHE PERSISTED. In this episode, we have Caroline's MOMMY on third mic as we recap Thanksgiving gigs, a gig with Sponk De Ban Tits, an epic ghost of gags past from MOMMY and a painful WRITE IN GAG! xoxoxooxoxoxoxo

P.S. stay till the end for some harrowing gag flavored tea.