This is Day 9 from The MEAT Train Tour, a chapter from Jake's upcoming book, Training to be Myself. It's about New Orleans, Father's Day, strangers, water towers, funeral directors and parking lot wars. Help Jake publish his book by pre-ordering a copy at https://www.inkshares.com/books/training-to-be-myself-an-indulgent-odyssey-of-

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Josh and Jake use episode 159 with Cait Raft & Joan Ford as a jumping off point to talk about framing scenes with the right amount of specificity, as well as finding fun in making specific choices. These bonus episodes will be put behind our 5 dollar Patreon paywall at www.patreon.com/themeatimprov after this week! So go sign up!

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Together, Joan Ford (Gay of Thrones, Nerdist) & Cait Raft (JackAM, Collegehumor) are known as Red & Yellow, but today they are telling stories and improvising on The MEAT. First, Joan tells the story of the first time she went to Disneyland after transitioning and also eating edibles. Then Cait talks about the time her house started on fire and she actually texted the words "g2g house on fire". These true stories inspire improvised scenes about A Star is Born (of course), late nights at Legoland, fashionable firefighters and a whole bunch more!

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Here's the first day from the train tour as recounted by our co-host Jake Jabbour. WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT and LANGUAGE You can pre-order Jake's book at https://www.inkshares.com/books/training-to-be-myself-an-indulgent-odyssey-of- Every pre-order gets Jake closer to publication. So if you're a fan of the Meat, The Torch Theatre train memoirs, improv, Arizona, Pamela Anderson, manifest destiny, dads dropping phones or just Jake himself, consider helping out with a pre-order for only $10.

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From our new weekly podcast The Potatoes where we talk improv approach and technique. This week we talk to Sarah Claspell about balancing the silly with the grounded. Sarah talks leaning on her grounding approach to playing with Cardinal Redbird and how she teaches to that. We also talk weird world scenes, how to take the set-up from first beats to heightened silliness in the second and third beats. Other topics include how to embrace improv styles and approaches that aren't your own, justification and some exercises for grounding the silliness. The POTATOES episodes are now part of the $5 Patreon subscription, which you can join at www.patreon.com/themeatimprov

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Lilan Bowden (Andi Mack, Lilan and Wilder, Asian AF) and Sarah Claspell (Cardinal Redbird, Everything is Rent, Asian AF) stop by to talk trips abroad and romantic nights with Shakespearean actors and living a shed during high school. This leads to scenes about landlord parents, not tripping at the airport, living in a shed, and vampire teens getting into trouble with technology. Support The MEAT at https://www.patreon.com/themeatimprov and help Jake publish his book at Training to be Myself

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In anticipation of the release, here is a chapter from Jake Jabbour's upcoming book! To get the book published, Jake has to hit 750 pre-orders by May 17th. So if you like what you heard, consider pre-ordering a copy and helping take Jake from bumbling podcast improviser to published author. For only $10 you can pre-order here: https://www.inkshares.com/books/training-to-be-myself-an-indulgent-odyssey-of- The book is titled Training to be Myself: An Indulgent Odyssey of Obsessions, and it's a travel memoir about The 2017 Meat Improv Train Tour, weddings, funerals, break-ups, education, identity, parenthood, sex follies, and low-art appreciation essays. Think Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs meets Travels with Charley. For the next four weeks, we'll be releasing bonus audio chapters.

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Josh and Jake have launched a 2nd weekly podcast called The Potatoes where they talk about improv approaches and techniques. This week the boys discuss episode 158 with Mike McLendon & Greg Gallant. Topics covered include starting in weird or absurd worlds, making sure you have the right take on something, and the concept of idiots over assholes. These POTATOES episodes will eventually become part of the $5 patreon subscription, which you can join at www.patreon.com/themeatimprov

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Greg Gallant (Speechless, Queen George) and Mike McLendon (Too Effing High, Outside Dog) are two of the best at UCB LA, and today they are on the MEAT. Mike tells a story of the time he got stuck in a slide while substitute teaching. Greg talks about a notable classmate who was written up in the New Yorker! These true stories inspire improvised scenes about an extreme weight loss program, a piss poor version of the x men, slide situations and a whole lot more!

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The SIDE DISH is a new regular series where Josh and Jake (and sometimes guests) discuss the previous episode of The MEAT and break down scenes and talk about general improv theory and concepts. This episode uses episode 156 with Andrew Stanton and Kait Thompson as a jumping off point. Josh and Jake discuss playing characters, different approaches to initiating off of monologues, and how to be an active and useful "voice of reason" or "straight man" in scenes, among other topics. If you like this episode and you want more, you can sign up for our $5 Patreon at www.patreon.com/TheMEATImprov to get access to this and every future SIDE DISH. And you thought we couldn't get nerdier...

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