Great way to kick off Year 3 of podcast episodes with a trio of incredibly funny New York City comedians. On the mics this week, while visiting the Steel City for the third iteration of Norlex Belma's LexFest at Club Cafe are Rashad Bashir, Wanjiko Eke, & Bob Kitson. We talk about the skills needed to be a good host and a comic generally, we talk about the differences between NYC and LA audiences, we go over the types of rooms and scenes that exist in the Big Apple, we have a good conversation on how to respond to different types of moments on stage, and of course we take some time to talk about kittens.

I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season and were able to spend your Christmas with all your friends and family. (if listening to this the day it comes out). In 2014, I was lucky to get to take an improv class with this week’s guest, Andrea Wetherald at the Steel City Improv Theater. While studying there we were both placed on our very first improv house team, Carousel Rehab. Andrea and I talk about some of our fun and ridiculous improv scenes we've done, and our super famous improv duo, Blunder.

This episode covers some of the major changes in Andrea’s life in 2017, including the journey to become foster parents with her husband Kyle, and growing her on-site office training company, Improvising the Office.

In less than two weeks on January 6 at 8 AM Andrea is launching her new workshop titled, Improvising the Inside: The Path to Forgiveness. The one-day session will run until 11:30 AM at the Pittsburgh Mennonite Church. FREE onsite childcare is available for any participants in need.

Another year older and hopefully wiser, top two fans, Ossia Dwyer and Phil Forrence, are back on the mic for our 2nd Annual Clip Show! Join us this week as we take a walk down memory lane to recount some of their favorite memories from 2017 episodes. We also talk about what's coming up as we careen closer and closer to the century mark. This March we hit 100 episodes. Stay tuned.Tweet us @droppingbaums with any moments you think deserve honorable mention.

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Another year older and hopefully wiser, top two fans, Ossia Dwyer and Phil Forrence, are back on the mic for our 2nd Annual Clip Show! Join us this week as we take a walk down memory lane to recount some of their favorite memories from 2017 episodes. We also talk about what's coming up as we careen closer and closer to the century mark. This March we hit 100 episodes. Stay tuned.Tweet us @droppingbaums with any moments you think deserve honorable mention.

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Producer Extraordinaire and Scarps regular, Alex Clemence hoped on mic for a holiday celebration. We chat about her work both on The Mike Sasson Show and managing local retail favorite Steel City. Nothing but energy and honesty coming from Alex, makes for a fun chat and a great listen.

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Well Known Strangers, Pittsburgh's long-time, premiere improv group is having their 5 Year "Pizza-versary" show this weekend. It all goes down Saturday,10:00 PM, at the Cabaret at Theater Square. They will perform with their full current cast along with several notable alumni from their delicious run.

This week’s guest, Ben Amiri, has been with the team since its inception as a house team at the Steel City Improv Theater. We discuss some of his improv philosophies and coaching style, his other groups Irony City and Change Machine, WKS, St. Louis pizza, 48 Hour Film Festival, Monty Python Coconut Night at Row House Cinema, rocket science, Taco Bell, and The Simpsons. A very full episode. Enjoy.

I’ve been getting to know Nico Alfonso and Jeff Marra as my classmates in the Stand Up Comedy 101: Stage Confidence Class at Unplanned Comedy. After stopping by their podcast In Toon with Jeff and Nico, I thought it’d be nice to have them on Nice2See for some fun banter. We talk about their day jobs in kitchens and cars, the current run as members of The Unplanned Comedy Players, sketch influences, their cartoon love, the Pittsburgh comedy scene, and as a special post Thanksgiving treat we go over the Top 10 things we’re grateful for. 

They were even nice enough to bring by one of the advertisements from their show ft. Randy Savage.

It’s been a few months since we went back to the Art of the Covenant archives, but for the Thanksgiving week I thought it’d be a good time to go back and reflect on some of the great conversations that helped give birth to this weekly podcast. In fact, one of the things I’m most thankful for about being a podcaster in this community is having a built in excuse to get to know people I only know tangentially better during a long form conversation. This was one of my first conversations with improviser Anna C Reilly and one of my favorites from the previous iteration of my show.Being that this chat discusses the similarities between the three forms of improv and the love interests of Rory Gilmore and this week marks one year since their reunion run on Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life  and this month marks two years since this episode first aired, I can think of no better time to return to Stars Hallow and the Sky Lounge above Cattivo for a great chat from the back catalog to see how far we’ve come.“Arcade Comedy Theater's Anna C Reilly is one of the Pittsburgh comedy scene's best performers. We get into her unique origin story with ties to Green Bay clowns and Dayton area colleges. We have tons to talk on including cool guy head nods, being uncomfortable on stage and which of the men from Gilmore Girls reminds her the most of performing long form, short form and musical improv. ” - November 2, 2015 

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Joey and I talk about the creation of We Got Next, their podcast, his firefighter and husband responsibilities outside of jokes, and is one of the only NBA fans in the Steel City.

Jordon is open and honest about the vision of the NFBD movement, and his viral success of his most recent videos Confronting Racism from the Charlottesville protests and Colin Kaepernick & NFL - National Anthem Protest.