Jessie Gaskell talks about her short-lived political career, eye contact etiquette, the possibility of her father being a CIA agent, taking inspiration from the West Wing, and fleeing before the winter.

Check out her hand-knit artisanal condoms: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CocKoozie

https://twitter.com/jessiestwats

Jade Catta-Preta talks about the emotional impact of musical theatre, awkwardly sexual Brazilian television, the pressures of being a child immigrant, demanding a bartending job at the Comedy Store, and her budding beverage-themed rap career.

https://twitter.com/thejademovie

Brad Conlin talks about the dream that revealed to him that he should join the coastguard, humans not being evolved enough to use toilets, chests gleaming under the California sun, and the reality that you can't feel the breeze on Facebook.

https://www.bradbradbrad.com/

Josh Ruben talks acting, cis white lattes, cushy voice over gigs, complacency transitioning into the urgency of impending mortality, finding your shortbread, and doing an absolutely brilliant copier/printer impression.

https://www.instagram.com/joshrubensnaps/

Erika Brooks Adickman talks the creative process, artistic and financial struggles, strange gaps in her otherwise impeccable pop culture awareness, and learning to channel her enthusiasm into motivating others.

https://www.instagram.com/thiserikalife/

George Kareman talks about the mysterious East Asian substance kratom, ghosts protecting their collections of vintage erotica, the illusory promise of pharmacological enhancements, and the questionable practice of jelqing. https://www.youtube.com/user/LongHairedBM

David Kerns (https://twitter.com/DavidCyrKerns) talks about the intensity of young love, competitive college romances, grinding through the tropes of a failing relationship, and the hot soccer dude who loiters in the dorm halls.

Cheryl Nichols (https://twitter.com/Cheryl_Nichols) talks about pursuing her childhood dream of being an actor, moving to Los Angeles at 22 without knowing anyone there, her physiological aversion to sound mixing sessions, a shower revelation, and a short lived obsession with becoming a really rad skateboarder.

Check out her film: http://www.cortezfilm.com

In the first ever episode of This Is (Not) It, Nick Mundy (https://twitter.com/dickfundy) talks about his burning teenage passion for an ill-fated musical pursuit.