This episode Al Millar talked with Greg Frisbee. Greg tells Al about his start as a magician working in Harvard Square before moving west to San Francisco and putting down roots for many years. They talk about how much Harvard Square has changed over the years from a very workable pitch to what it is today. Greg talks about doing shows at Pier 39, performing at fairs, his rubber chicken show, and the joys of traveling with unusual props including the trials and tribulations of traveling with a rubber chicken cannon. He shares a very interesting story about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and they also talk about how although his actual name is Frisbee, and is arguably a great stage name, no actually Frisbee’s are used in his show. It’s just his last name.

Back in August 2015 a handful of performers headed out to sunny Kuwait to perform in its largest mall, The Avenues. Kiki Vita and I were two of them. I convinced him to sit down and do an interview with me one night after our shows.

He took me through his history of performing starting with doing shows with his sisters, his training as a clown where he met his wife, Amelia also known as Mable Staplegun, his first shows at South Bank in Melbourne, and he and Amelia’s involvement in helping to turn a small festival in Landshut, Germany into one of the best in Germany.

This episode is a little departure from what we usually do. What I’ve discovered digging through some old and new recordings were a bunch of short stores. Some I forgot were recorded and some I found within bio-episodes. This episode is a collection of those stories. Too short to warrant their own short story episode but definitely worth sharing with the world.

The stories in this collection are told by Mike Wood, Julio Santiago, Rob Collins, Eric Amber and Fraser Hooper.

Strap yourself in and get ready for a trip back into the history of street performing in the United States at where many consider it all started, San Francisco. Old school performer, Lee Ross sat down to have a conversation with Dana Smith. He’s a fascinating guy who, as a performer, has done it all. He shared pitches with the likes of A. Whitney Brown, Bill Irwin, Shields and Yarnell, Robin Williams, and Harry Anderson just to name a few. He talks about the rise and fall of the street scene in San Francisco, the beginnings of English Bay in Vancouver, writing novels and so much more.

Al Millar got together with Yo-Yo Guy John Higby. Not only do they meet up at festivals around the world but for many years they shared a home pitch in Boston. John takes Al through his career path that includes his start at the Denver Buskerfest,traveling around the world entertaining the troops, the formation of the Yo-Yo People, an act he performs with his wife Rebecca, his Guinness world records, and his many and varied television appearances.

In this episode, Kiwi performer and all around goof ball, Kim Potter sat down with Fergus Aitken, aka Mr. Fungus. For those who may be unfamiliar with him, in Kim’s words: He was one of the more publicly visible performers on the scene in New Zealand, along with acts like The Shenanagan Brothers, John Davy also known as Mr. Moon, Hefty Geoff and the first wave of UK imports, among them, Dave Sheridan, Nick Nikolas, and Richard Handley.

In 1992 he coordinated the "Lotto World Buskers Festival" which was part of the Intl Festival Of The Arts in Wellington. Through that and a few other festivals in Wellington and around the country, he became (and remains) one of the first performers that Joe Public was aware of by name. He's also taught mime and movement consistently throughout NZ over the last 30 years, including at CircoArts in Christchurch, as well as numerous juggling and circus festivals, so several generations have taken the basics from him and run with them.... The chops he learned at Covent Garden and brought home to New Zealand have been disseminated through several generations of New Zealand performers.

Al Millar sat down with Julio "Klown" Santiago of the USA Breakdancers to talk about growing up in the Bronx during the birth of Hip Hop, his journey from breakdance battles to street performing, creating the USA Breakdancers, working with Ciruqe, and much, much, more.

Eric Amber journeyed from Canada all the way down to southern Arizona to have a chat with Geoff Cobb (aka Thom Selectomy) about surviving cancer, working Renaissance festivals, going to clown college, cheating death as a sword swallower, his life as a street performer, and now being mostly retired, happily working on a ranch in Arizona.

Al Millar connected with Street Performing legend and one of his biggest influences, Dom Ferry, to talk about the history of street performing in Australia as well as Dom's journey through our crazy world.

It all started with an idea that David Aiken pitched to Robert Nelson during a visit Dave made to Robert’s place to Hawaii back in October of 2011 for a podcast dedicated to creating a living oral history about street performing and some of the crazy characters that populate this world. That idea turned into a website that website then hosted the very first Stories from the Pitch Podcast that was released on November 1, 2011. But how do you capture what the Street Performing community is in an audio podcast? The characters are so varied, so diverse and so many. The answer seems to have been one story, one person, one episode at a time. We, as a community, are such a rich tapestry of creative energy and talent that no one episode can capture it all and 100 episodes feels like just the beginning.Magic Brian sat down with co-founder of the Busker Hall of Fame, David Aiken to discuss the history of the project and try to make sense of the seven and a half year journey from the original idea to the release of Episode 100. As with any journey, the seven and a half years Dave spent capturing and releasing these Stories from the Pitch, were filled with all sorts of interesting challenges, learning opportunities and rewards.