Improv is Dead

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It's that good good improv slop that you love! This week with chat'n'prov with Trent Dozier and Jesse Kendall about all thing thrifty, spooky, Soprano and more! More bad impressions for us to really sink our fangs into. This will make sense once you listen.

If you're looking to see us LIVE, you can June 24th at 8 pm at iO with Jesse and Erin Keif! Grab a ticket below and use code FUDGEFRIEND for a discount!

If you're in LA make sure you go see Mandatory Improv Thursdays nights at 7 pm at The Yard before the Yard closes its doors later this summer!

Check out Jesse in his movie Love Dump on Prime!

Performers:

Trent Dozier

Jesse Kendall

Hosts:⁠ ⁠Damian Anaya⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Tim Lyons⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠Dan White⁠⁠

Sound Design by Nick

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This week we're joined by Ariel Sinah and Meredith Weir to chat'n'prov about spy gear, LOST, Beatles Cover bands and all of our AI's becoming besties.

Thanks to DTrain389 for our opening scene request!

OUT OF YOUR EARS AND ONTO THE STAGE!

Check out Ariel and Meredith every Friday with Holy Goat at LSI in Chicago!

Performers:

Guests: Ariel Sinah and Meredith Weir

Hosts:⁠ ⁠Damian Anaya⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Tim Lyons⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠Dan White⁠⁠

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This week we've got Kyle Bethea and Miguel Lepe Jr. back on the pod and in person! We chat'n'prov about giving blood, bachelor party flights to Vegas, and some really truly terrible impressions.

Thanks to Buttsaggington for our opening scene request of:

Free Blood Day at the failing clinic

You can catch Miguel as part of Escándalo at the iO Theater Fridays at 7:30 pm!

Guests: Kyle Bethea, Miguel Lepe Jr.

Hosts:⁠ ⁠Damian Anaya⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Tim Lyons⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠Dan White⁠⁠

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Holy Heck we've got two of our personal favorites and improv heroes on the cast this week, its Brendan Jennings and Mark Ratterman of Cook County Social Club! We chat'n'prov about Disney Dad's, handling criticism, and pepperoni nips.

Thanks to Rainey for our opening scene request this week!

Check out Mark and Brendan's podcast Get It to Dutch: A Screen Writers Journey!

Hosts:⁠ ⁠Damian Anaya⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Tim Lyons⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠Dan White⁠⁠

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This week we're back at it with some more in person episodes! We're continuing our form trial so listen for the transition sound so you know when we're improvising since Tim's voice never changes!

We welcome back Devin Henderson and Erin Washington to chat'n'prov about fighting young, HR Drama, and sibling rivalries.

Be sure to check out Birdlady at iO every Wednesday night for the free show and stick around for The Family for free! Tim will be joining the Family for their show this week, May 14th!

Performers:Guests: Devin Henderson, Erin WashingtonHosts:⁠Damian Anaya⁠,⁠Tim Lyons⁠, and⁠Dan White⁠

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This week we welcome back Caroline Cotter and Shand Thomas! We chat'n'prov about must haves in an apartment, earthquakes, waterbed mold and more!

Our opening scene this week is from Spider Woman Jemma Nicole with "Is This is Date"?

Check out Caroline's Podcast Stinkers!

See Shand in the vey funny short film The Price of a Used Car

Performers:

Hosts:⁠ ⁠Damian Anaya⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Tim Lyons⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠Dan White⁠⁠

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This week Tim is joined by the gentlemen on the Word Association, Brett Lyons, Adal Rifai, and Rob White. We chat'n prov about pizza parties, annoying brands in the comments, and of course, Jaws.

Listen to The Word Association and Hey Riddle Riddle where you get your pods! Also see Rob White as part of Whirled News Tonight at The iO Theater in Chicago!

Performers:

Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠, and ⁠Dan White⁠

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The boys of Princeton New Money Ass Clowns are back for a banger this week! We chat about cringe worthy life experiences and prov is out at the BBQ, get taken to court, and spend an afternoon in class.

Performers:

Farrell Walsh

Jorin Garguilo

Louie Saunders

Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠, and ⁠Dan White⁠

If you know us, you know we love a good Spooktacular, which is why this year we really committed to the bit of renaming the pod Ear Tickler. You’ve been had! We are so sorry. This was our April Fools Spooktacular and it went Spooktacularly. This has gone on too long. We had more planned for it but life got in the way. The pod is not going to be called Ear Tickler at all, but instead, FUDGECAST. 

Why FUDGECAST? Well, FUDGE was our original name pre-pandemic and we plan on doing live shows under the name FUDGE again, so we want to tie it all in under one Umbrella. FUDGECAST, FUDGE, FUDGE & Friends etc. All Fudge, all the time. 

Now that we’ve underwhelmingly blown your mind, an important message specifically from Tim! 

Thanks so much for supporting the podand providing us with some of the funniest damn ideas to improvise too. We truly love doing the pod for you!

At the start of the year, Dan took another hiatus to work on his show and raise a family and our editor and producer Matthew decided to step away to work a new job and make a cross country move. Damian works a full 9-5 which has just left me to schedule, record, edit, produce, and promote the podcast. I did the same thing last year when they stepped away but it’s becoming a bit overwhelming as time goes on.

I genuinely love producing the pod, but I need to find a way to keep it sustainable and fun, so my actual performance on the pod doesn’t suffer. So I’ve cleared it with the boys and we’re going to go down to one episode a week (for now) that will live exclusively behind the Patreon wall (with a teaser on the main feed similar to shows like Mandog Pod). We’ve really enjoyed the in person episodes and the energy feels so much better when you’re in the room with other performers, so the plan is to do a lot more in person recordings and have those be our main episodes, perhaps filling them with more scenes and scene requests over longer conversations. That’s where we shine anyway, our takes aren’t hot enough to be a talking heads pod. 

The timeline for this is looking like the end of April to start this more slowed down summer. My hope is that this will actually free us up for more live shows, Q&A’s, and other interesting bonus content, but I don’t want to over promise just yet. Just want to give full transparency on where my head is at. 

So that’s it! FUDGECAST is a go, but scaled back slightly to accommodate my mental health, which I personally love. Hopefully in the future we can remedy that and pump out more of the good improv slop you love! 

Yours in pervertedness,

-Tim, Damian, and Dan

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