Today's the Day

This week teacher, musician, and all-around tall human being Stefan Farrenkopf craned his neck to enter my attic and be interviewed.  Stefan is a really cool dude with some pretty awesome kids.  He also doesn't really consider himself a playwright even though he's written a lot of plays at this point.  Go figure.

After a week's hiatus, we are back with one of my most dynamic guests yet - Sue Wismar.  Sue can be seen on the Actors Theatre stage this summer as well as telling me what's what, who's who, and why's why just about anytime you take the time to pay attention to such things.

The lovely Erin Prosser took a break from being cool to be a guest on the podcast.  As a local improviser and member of FFN, not surprisingly we talked a lot about improv.  We also talked about how much I tend to sweat during shows, and how unfortunate she's been to be on the receiving end of that.

Another long distance interview with my oldest and bestest friend Arin Franz.  He's out in Washington DC now, but we talked a lot about the good old days in god-forsaken Napoleon, OH.  God what an awful place.

Mrs. Vicki Kessler nee Andronis was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule of being cool to come by and talk to me for an hour or so.  We have a lot in common.  We both have very imaginative fantasy lives about both food and murders.  We may start our own talk show soon once we both completely give up on life.

This was my first over-the-phone interview and I think it went swimmingly.  I talked to Faith Harper - PHD, sex therapist, and all around great gal.  We discussed my personal ignorance in a lot of things and how natives have no butts.

In an homage to Chris Lane and the original inspiration for this podcast, Amanda Bauer got drunk, came over, and I taught her how to play chess.  It went okay until we started talking about Tom Petty, and then things got violent.

The podcast went mobile for this special episode.  I sat down with my old improv troupe Full Frontal Nudity to talk about the show they just opened tonight - FFN's Date Night!  Pardon the audio quality, as we had 10 people huddled around a single microphone.  Come see the show February 5-6, 12-14, & 19-20, all at 8pm.  www.madlab.net for tickets!

Eleni Papaleonardos marks the fourth Artistic Director from the Columbus theatre scene to have been on my podcast.  Six more and I earn a set of steak knives!!

I completed my set of MadLab Co-Managing Directors by interviewing Jennifer Barlup.  I'd say we spent about 47% of the episode talking about made up statistics.