Its Everyday Bro (Ft. cast of iO's Blueprint)

The cast of iO's Blueprint (see below) takes on the form of IGAR having never seen or heard the show before. We set up the show in about six minutes (a new record) between teams while explaining the form to the cast who then had to immediately perform it. Jordan and Ashley from the IGAR cast joined The Blueprint cast.  

Host - James Dugan

Avery Ford - Willie The restauranter, Detective Daniels 

Molly Jones - Singer, Mayors daughter 

Allen Lucas - Earl the frycook (who I don’t think speaks?), Rex 

Janelle Soulliere - Mrs. Brown

Ryan Bowman - Garbo the mayors son, 

Jordan Reichardt - Detective Johnson

Ashley Whitehurst -  Genevieve 

Thanks to everyone for jumping into the deep end with us!  Below is the AI summary of the show FOR LAUGHS:

A mayor’s kid goes missing, the whole town fixates on a big fight, and somehow the logical next step is “Jake and Logan Paul should be my new dads.” That’s the kind of delightful derailment you get when we do a fully improvised comedy show in the full style of classic Golden Age radio, recorded live at the iO Theater in Chicago with a Foley table, narrator energy, and zero script.

We bounce through a stormy Topeka afternoon where a diner bell threatens to start a riot, then cut to a group of high schoolers rehearsing Newsies with all the gumption, longing, and petty sibling violence that implies. Meanwhile, two detectives sit in a smoke-choked bar and get so wrapped up in their intense “brother” bond that they forget they’re supposed to be solving the mayor’s missing child case. It’s fast, silly, and weirdly cohesive in the way only good narrative improv can be.

After a run of fake sponsor ads, the runaway plot finally snaps into place when Garbo shows up, considers what he’s really running from, and decides reinvention is only a boxing ring away. The finale turns the Jake and Logan showdown into a surprisingly emotional sibling argument, complete with catchphrases and metaphor, before we step out of the story to talk craft: performing on microphones, the pressure of staying planted, and why the “wrong” Foley sound can be the best joke of the night.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Station Intro

SPEAKER_02 0:00

And that's how the mayor imploded. This is KIGAR Radio. Mother, please stop calling the station. I have nothing left to say to you.

Eric Pedersen 0:23

The improvised Golden Age of Radio is a fully improvised comedy show presented live to a studio audience. Staged and performed in the full style of classic old-time radio broadcasts, today's show was recorded on March 12, 2026, at the IO Theater in Chicago, Illinois. This bonus episode features the show being performed by the cast of IO's The Blueprint, which has a new form surprise sprung on them each week, which means the show is being performed by improvisers who have never seen the show, with a little assistance from our cast Ashley and Jordan. If it sounds like the show ends abruptly, it's because we ran out of time. Live theater! And now for some improvised chaos.

Audience Prompt Jake Paul Setup

SPEAKER_09 2:09

Beautiful. Okay, that was five very fun facts about Jake Paul. I uh my favorite facts were three and four. Three was he's a boxer, four is he has a song. Um I feel like I need a little bit more information about Jake Paul. Uh who is a YouTuber? Right? Okay, perfect. Um do you admire or do you hate Jake Paul?

unknown 2:38

I think he's strong.

SPEAKER_09 2:40

Okay.

unknown 2:41

I don't like that.

SPEAKER_09 2:43

We don't like them. Okay, great. Uh is there uh uh anything like what draws you to Jake Paul then?

SPEAKER_17 2:53

I I think he's a fascinating creature.

Old-Time Radio Story Begins

SPEAKER_09 2:56

Okay. Great, fascinating creature. Beautiful. Okay, thank you very much, Layla. Give it up for Layla, everybody. And now Blueprint and Improvised Golden Age of Radio are happy to present this evening's radio production, which is titled.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Uh, the title of the song. What was the title of the song? It's everything.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

It was a dark and stormy afternoon in Topeka, Kansas. The entire town was turned out for the upcoming big fight that evening. It was uh the two people in town were sitting in the diner discussing the fight and who they thought would win, putting big money ahead of the fight. One of the women was a teacher at the local high school. Her name was Mrs. Brown. With her was one of her students who was currently failing class but hoping to graduate anyway. Other patrons in the diner mingled in the back.

SPEAKER_13 4:14

Mrs. Brown? Mrs. Brown, I I know you come here after school every day, so I I thought I'd stop by and see you. What? Genevieve. Yeah. Oh, you know my name. Of course I do. You're one of the strongest little students in my class. Oh, you said little. I was hoping you would see me as more of a Sorry, that was my I'd uh order up. We have to, Mrs. Brown. Let me let me get that for you. This is one of those places where you have to go grab it from the window yourself. Let me get it, get it, get it, get it, get it.

SPEAKER_07 5:03

Zen, I heard you. I'm gonna get it in a second. Um I got a table there, up my ass in table 10. I'm gonna get in this city. Ring that bell one more time, and I'm gonna kick somebody's ass in here.

SPEAKER_13 5:16

He says, this is my favorite place to go. I I know, I know, and I'm I'm sorry to interrupt your. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt your Zen, but I was hoping here he comes. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_07 5:30

I said I was gonna kick you with his ass in here if you read that baby with that. Now I told you table 10 is up my ass. There's there's a t it's a table of the the the twens who just finished doing newsies. And then I guarantee you they're not gonna tip me.

SPEAKER_13 5:44

Sir, excuse me.

SPEAKER_07 5:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_13 5:46

I'm trying to hit on my teacher.

SPEAKER_07 5:48

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's just Earl the Fry cook back there keeps ringing that damn bell. I'm gonna Willie overstayed his welcome again.

SPEAKER_13 5:59

No, it's okay. It's okay. I I just I need some quiet. Maybe you could This is my restaurant. But it's my coming of age story, so if you wouldn't mind.

SPEAKER_07 6:14

Alright, I'll let you I'll let you be. Just tell Eric not to ring that bell once again.

SPEAKER_13 6:20

I hope you didn't hear that. I heard everything's so like I said, I wanted to hit on you and also ask if you could change my grade.

SPEAKER_17 6:33

Alright.

SPEAKER_13 6:34

Only because you're uh fully of age. Fully, fully of age and fully consenting adult. Unfortunately, this sounds like a little bit of fun for us. Mrs. Brown, you're sweating. There's a bead of sweat coming down your temple. Beating down. I can see, I can see it, yeah. I don't may I? Yes. I reach over and I wipe that sweat from her sweet face.

SPEAKER_17 7:09

It feels incredible.

Newsies Teens And A Slap Fight

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Meanwhile, across town, a bunch of high schoolers were prepping for the upcoming production of newsies.

SPEAKER_13 7:23

These high schoolers were full of gumption and full of joy and hope. That's my cigar.

SPEAKER_04 7:33

Hey, you sounded great.

SPEAKER_14 7:36

Hey, uh, thanks. Uh I've been practicing in the mirror uh all week. Do I really sound like a genuine New Yorker?

SPEAKER_04 7:45

You do, you do! I'd buy a paper from you any day.

SPEAKER_14 7:49

Penny a pape. I I'm I'm so sorry my little brother's been tagging along.

SPEAKER_04 7:58

Oh, hey, you know, it's it's no trouble. Whoever wants to celebrate the newsies can celebrate the newsies.

SPEAKER_13 8:05

They kept making awkward eye contact. Looking away, looking into each other's eyes, looking away. And then back into each other's eyes again.

SPEAKER_04 8:21

Um you know when when we were doing the opening number, I feel like I could only I could only hear your voice. It was cutting through. Pearson.

SPEAKER_13 8:37

His his braces were doing that thing that braces do, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:45

I've undergone a lot of recent dental work.

SPEAKER_14 8:49

It's okay, you're only human. I uh I wish I could hear your voice a little bit more in the opening number.

SPEAKER_04 8:59

Well, no, no, nobody wants to hear me.

SPEAKER_14 9:01

Well, I do.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

What, really?

SPEAKER_14 9:04

Yeah, your your solo at the top of act two is what I think about before I go to sleep.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

No. I mean the And I want to hear it too. I'm the little brother.

SPEAKER_13 9:19

Shove off!

SPEAKER_02 9:21

What? I just wanted to tell him that I think he'd be.

SPEAKER_13 9:24

The two of them get into a really, really bad slap fight. Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

Oh, no, oh no. Oh gosh, oh jeez! Oh no! Oh gosh, oh geez!

SPEAKER_13 9:38

It lasts exactly three minutes long.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

All right, all right. I guess they won't hear his beautiful boy.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

Now, now hang on a second. If me singing will prevent another 180 seconds of violence. Look at Oh, hang on, the percussion's getting going. Look at me, I'm the king of New York. Well, those are all the lyrics I know.

SPEAKER_14 10:15

No, no, no, no, no. There I be, ain't I pretty? It's my city. I'm the king of New York.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

And the world will know. And enjoy it.

Detectives Flirt Instead Of Work

SPEAKER_13 10:34

Across across town. Across across town, a grizzled detective is having a drink at the local bar.

SPEAKER_07 10:52

There's tobacco smoke in my throat.

SPEAKER_05 10:55

Oh I I if I haven't said it yet, I love working on the force with him. I love working on the force with you, brother. We make a good pair, you're a man. You're my brother.

SPEAKER_07 11:06

You're my brother, brother. Yeah, I don't I don't care what all the I don't care what everybody else says about you. I love you, brother. What? What what do people say? Well, tell me what people are saying. They say they say that you you licked the frosted off the donut and put it back in the box.

SPEAKER_05 11:21

Well, that is true. I cannot deny it and I won't, because I tell the truth only to you.

SPEAKER_07 11:26

Brother, I I wouldn't care if you licked every last drop of frosted. Off of what?

SPEAKER_05 11:31

Off of what?

SPEAKER_07 11:32

Off of, off of any and everything that I own, I would still love you like a brother.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

The room is so filled with smoke, they can't see each other's faces. We can only see below below their necks. We see Detective Johnson and Detective Daniels.

SPEAKER_05 11:51

I love you so much, brother. I love you too, and and and don't think I didn't hear that lick and frosting comment.

SPEAKER_07 11:59

Brother, you can lick frosted off of any and everything that I own.

SPEAKER_05 12:04

Brother. What about what about what about off of you?

SPEAKER_07 12:08

Off of me?

SPEAKER_05 12:10

What about it?

SPEAKER_07 12:11

Brother, you could lick you could lick Frost it off of me if you wanted to, brother.

SPEAKER_05 12:16

People are gonna talk. People are already watching me like a hawk.

SPEAKER_07 12:20

Let them talk. You think I care what the rest of the force says? I don't give a rat.

SPEAKER_13 12:26

They've gotten completely off track. They're here to talk about a missing child.

SPEAKER_05 12:30

Brother, I don't give a rat's ass for the rest of the force. I don't care about my job duties at all anymore. I really don't.

SPEAKER_13 12:36

It's the mayor's child that's a very important thing.

SPEAKER_07 12:38

Brother, I couldn't care less what the rest of the force gotta say about you and me. I just love having you as a partner, brother.

SPEAKER_05 12:50

Listen, listen. I'm gonna feel I'm gonna feel better about our relationship moving forward if we don't have things hanging over our head, things like missing children and stuff.

SPEAKER_07 13:01

So you want to solve one last case and then we can ride off until the sunset and lick frost off.

SPEAKER_05 13:09

Off every inch of each other's bodies, yeah. Alright, further than that, fuck it.

SPEAKER_07 13:14

Let's solve the case.

SPEAKER_05 13:16

But I'm gonna go. I'm worried we're not gonna be as turned once we once we start talking about it.

SPEAKER_07 13:22

Brother, the way that I'm turned on right now, I couldn't imagine ever being turned on.

Fake Sponsors And Act Break

SPEAKER_09 13:28

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Garbo The Mayor’s Kid Revealed

SPEAKER_13 15:12

Back at the rehearsal space, the little the little um sibling that doesn't have a name quite yet is on stage with his sister.

SPEAKER_14 15:23

Now, you bug off so I can talk directs, but uh don't get yourself in any trouble. You know our dad's the mayor.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

You know me. Garbo never gets into no trouble.

SPEAKER_13 15:41

Garbo's name is Garbo.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

I just wanted to say, maybe, maybe this guy could join our family the way I did.

SPEAKER_13 15:52

And and with that, and with that and with that, Garbo skips off.

SPEAKER_04 16:06

Hey, where's Garbo getting to?

SPEAKER_14 16:09

I don't know, but he just hugged me and he hasn't done that in a long time. Since the last time he ran away.

SPEAKER_13 16:21

That's that's foreshadowing, a device that's commonly used in storytelling.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

Well, you almost said that like it was something what wants to come.

SPEAKER_14 16:31

Rex, pay no mind. You gotta work on Santa Fe for the big second act.

SPEAKER_04 16:36

Yeah, I gotta learn any of the lyrics of the show.

SPEAKER_14 16:42

Well, that's the thing about the lead character, Jack, is that he thinks that life outside of New York in Santa Fe is gonna be bigger and better than the big city.

SPEAKER_04 16:53

Oh, okay. So feels like I could I could get kind of close to what the lyrics might have been.

Diner Meltdown And Scalding Coffee

SPEAKER_13 17:02

We're getting awfully close to a spoiler alert in this musical, so we're gonna transition back to the diner. Where Earl is putting up all the orders he can.

SPEAKER_07 17:14

I told you, goddammit. Stop ringing that bell.

SPEAKER_06 17:19

I heard you. I gotta order a tweens at table 10, Earl. Ur Earl. Earl, don't get smart with me, Earl. Mr.

SPEAKER_13 17:31

Brown? I'm I'm sorry, I followed you here again. Hi, Earl. Hi, hi, hi, hi. Hi.

SPEAKER_17 17:41

You're you're one of the best students in my college class. You know the creed in my adult continue. Earl?

SPEAKER_13 17:52

Yes, it's a professional certificate that I'm getting. Yes. I'm five years into my career. It's just a it's just a continuing education credit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 18:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 18:01

Thanks for saying that.

SPEAKER_17 18:03

And I gotta tell you, I think every time every time I see you, I'm sort of continuing my own education. Oh wow. Oh my gosh. In love, do you get that?

SPEAKER_13 18:13

I got it, yeah. Yeah, you may be a math teacher, but you have a way with words. Um Can I get you a coffee? It's all I can afford. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. Do we hey you talking to me?

unknown 18:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 18:33

Yeah, you yeah, you, you see me here. Give hey, give me a hot your house cup of coffee.

SPEAKER_07 18:43

You uh Okay. Uh all right, uh that uh I'll bring it to you in a second.

SPEAKER_17 18:50

Yeah, bring it, bring it hot.

SPEAKER_07 18:52

I I was gonna do that anyway.

SPEAKER_13 18:55

Okay. Thanks.

SPEAKER_07 18:57

You got it.

SPEAKER_13 18:58

Wow, no one's ever ordered a hot coffee bottle. It's kinda hot. The coffee, the coffee's hot. The way the coffee's hot. The way that you said it.

SPEAKER_17 19:12

I'm so I've been stressed ever since I heard the mayor's son is missing. Me too. It's it's crazy. It's all I can think about. What what say you we hit the motel across the town and just sort of work out some of the stress. Via a couple math problems.

SPEAKER_13 19:34

Yeah, I I'd I'd love that. I I know a I know a good one. A good hotel that we can.

SPEAKER_06 19:39

One coffee coming in.

SPEAKER_13 19:41

Oh, my hot coffee's ready. I just hope we don't run into the Oh.

SPEAKER_06 19:52

It's so horny.

SPEAKER_13 19:58

I can't I can't think straight.

SPEAKER_06 20:00

Ooh, almost burned me.

SPEAKER_13 20:03

God. God, it's burning. It makes me want to take my clothes off. It makes me want to take all my clothes off.

SPEAKER_07 20:09

Burn my thumb on the edge of the blistering. Well, back to porridge.

SPEAKER_17 20:14

We should call the fire department. We could we could call for help or I just maybe we should just we could work out our stress here. Yeah. Let's work it out here.

unknown 20:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 20:35

Are you are you a I got one hot coffee?

SPEAKER_17 20:39

Oh. There's, sir, there's nothing in the cup.

SPEAKER_07 20:43

Oh, there's there's some stuff in in this thing. I poured it. Are you are you piping hot?

SPEAKER_17 20:52

When was the last time you took a day off and saw a play?

SPEAKER_07 20:55

It's been so long.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Across town, the mayor's missing son skipped right into the bar where the two detectives were still chatting the afternoon away.

SPEAKER_07 21:09

Brother, I'd I'd love the fuck out of here, brother.

SPEAKER_05 21:12

Oh my god. Oh my god. Listen, there's a place that has good. Holy shit, wait, look. Look. Brother, what is it? You're looking right at me, and that's nasty. I just am noticing that there's a child in here that looks an awful lot like the exact child we're currently trying to find.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

They can see the child because the child is not tall enough that this cloud of smoke, the only thing they can see in the bar is the child.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

Hey there, hey there, little fella. Little fella. This is an adult kind of place. What are you doing in here? This is a cigar bar, little fella. What are you doing in here?

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Well, I figured the best day of my life was when I ran away that one time, so maybe I'd give it another shot. Not on our watch.

SPEAKER_07 22:02

If we ever see somebody run away, we pick them up and take them back where they ran from.

SPEAKER_05 22:10

And we do it together, because we do everything together. I love you, bro. I love you. I think about you at night. I should be thinking about anything else, but all I do is think about you, brother. I fucking love you, bro.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

I fucking love you, bro. From the ways that you you twos you twos look, it seems like you maybe had donuts.

SPEAKER_05 22:34

I do have some donut frosted on my lips.

SPEAKER_07 22:38

You got some donut frosting on your lip.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

I don't know. If you maybe if you had one intact donut, maybe I'd stick around. But it seems like you all ate them off of each other's chests or something.

SPEAKER_05 22:51

God damn it, this whole town's gonna talk.

SPEAKER_07 22:56

Let 'em talk. Let 'em talk, brother. And get back over here and gate blinking this problem.

SPEAKER_05 23:05

Hey hey kid. Hey kid.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Yeah?

SPEAKER_05 23:08

Why what are you running from?

SPEAKER_02 23:11

What am I running from?

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Yeah, what are you running from?

SPEAKER_02 23:13

And how do we get you to stay? I guess. I guess I always thought I was running towards. And maybe I am running from. Running from the responsibility of being the mayor's son.

SPEAKER_05 23:27

You need two new dads.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

You know what? That's a great idea. I'll go down to the boxing ring where Jake and Logan Paul are, and I'll make them my two new dads. Great idea, Coppers.

SPEAKER_07 23:41

Fucking hey, Jake Paul.

Jake And Logan Paul Face Off

SPEAKER_13 23:45

Garbo skips out of the uh club and skips into a boxing ring. New setting, let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Yeah, that's right. Get punched! Two of the most masculine people you have ever seen. They are so manly, you have never seen two manlier people in the world. They are looking in each other's eyes and then looking away from each other. And they look in each other's eyes and they look away from each other. It's an awkward kind of thing, but they're boxers.

SPEAKER_04 24:15

Hey Jake. Logan, what?

SPEAKER_14 24:19

One of us is married to an Olympian. The other of us is not married to an Olympian. Neither of us are Olympians.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do to you if you keep spouting off facts.

SPEAKER_14 24:41

Everybody's saying everybody's saying brother. Right? But when am I gonna get my brother to be a brother? When are you gonna be a brother to me and not just a brother to the freaking universe, man? I punch now, you know that.

SPEAKER_06 24:57

And it looks like they are not boxing, but talking up there.

SPEAKER_04 25:01

Listen, I I'm I'm haunted every day by the desire to to punch.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

And even though they aren't and even though they aren't making as much physical contact, they're still dealing blows. Verbal ones. Yes, of course.

SPEAKER_06 25:17

It seems the emotional weight of what they're talking about is hitting harder than their fists would have.

SPEAKER_04 25:22

I feel this rage inside because one of us is married to an Olympian and the other one is not, and I'm not happy with whichever one of those I am.

SPEAKER_14 25:34

Mom and dad always treated you better, unfairly. I never understood why. And then after one of us married an Olympian.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Whoa, the way this conversation's going, it's gotta be the final round.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Oh, you think my life's so easy? You look at my grass, think it's greener than yours. My grass wilts.

SPEAKER_06 25:57

He's he's he's talking in metaphor now. It's gotta be the last one. And he's hitting himself instead.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

This is the rage inside me. I can't contain it. It haunts me. Not monthly, not weekly, not even on occasion. It's every day, bro!

SPEAKER_02 26:26

And as Garbo watches, he says to himself, boy, I don't think siblings should be like that. Maybe maybe if I go back, if I go back now, I can change change the way things are.

SPEAKER_04 26:44

You know, our lives would have been so much different if we just sang that musical theater number when we were younger. But we left that life behind, and now we punch.

SPEAKER_14 26:54

That's right. Listen, I just want you to be my everyday bro. Bro, bro, bro, bro.

SPEAKER_09 27:34

Thank you, uh, Enterprise Golden Age of Radio for joining us. Uh this part, but we do like to talk about our show, so stay on stage for just a second. Uh we like to talk about our show, and uh, we always like to start by asking uh the architect if it went the way that they thought it would. Hey Jane, hey, what's up? Did that go the way you thought it would? Oh my god, thank you. Such a good question, Janelle. Um I'd say it went exactly the way that I thought it would, except for the very first moment when Molly and Ryan sat down and said and like started acting out the scene.

SPEAKER_13 28:14

I thought we were gonna be like, no one can see you. This is radio.

SPEAKER_09 28:19

Other than that, it went exactly the way that I thought it was going.

SPEAKER_14 28:23

The second time when we went back to the second consistency.

SPEAKER_09 28:30

Uh I I didn't, I I wasn't on mic though. How did it feel for you all? It was fine. It was fine.

SPEAKER_04 28:38

It was it the the Foley table was like fascinating to me because I was trying to approach this in like MD brain. I was like, oh, you're actually sort of doing the opposite of that. It's like a very diegetic sort of like here's something that exists within the context of the scene.

SPEAKER_06 28:54

Um I just I think it's fun. I think what got me is back, I didn't know what sound anything was gonna make. I wanted to help them out in the scene, but I was like, man, I hope this sounds good in the way that like I want to.

SPEAKER_09 29:09

Yeah, Avery, and you were like, this is for sure coffee. I don't know what sound anything makes in my positive rocks on foil. It's gonna be the sound of coffee.

SPEAKER_16 29:26

Also, um, like we we never improvise on mics. And then that was like, whoa, it felt very, especially like standing at the limb of the stage, being like, I feel like a little bit of pressure right now.

SPEAKER_17 29:39

This one knocked me back on my heels. Yeah, having me at the very the very top. And then I kept thinking to myself, well, we should just turn the lights off. Because I was like, I don't know, I was trying to like picture, I was trying to get inside of uh inside of it.

SPEAKER_16 30:00

If we turned the lights off, though, no one would have seen me and Ryan. Yeah, no one would have seen Molly saying that I'm too fat over Ryan and I didn't hear half the show because we were so in carriage.

SPEAKER_09 30:19

Uh what about from members of the cast? Uh uh, how do you think we do?

unknown 30:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 30:25

That was fantastic.

SPEAKER_12 30:26

I mean, I was laughing my ass out the whole time.

SPEAKER_11 30:28

Thank you for like getting in there, like, I don't know what sound it's gonna make. Turns out any sounds pretty good. Often the exact wrong sound is better.

SPEAKER_13 30:37

This is a hard form, like you're saying. It's hard because you're doing narrative improv, which is something you're taught to do. Uh, and you're uh having to describe a lot of what you're doing, which is also really hard. This is wrong. And so it's very awkward. Yeah, yeah. And it's all, especially if you're a physical player too, it's very awkward to stand on your mic. So you guys did great and crushed it.

SPEAKER_12 30:56

Well, like and thank you everybody for bringing into it because there's one moment where you're like, you crank the squeak fucks, and everybody laughed real fucking hard. What did I do?

SPEAKER_11 31:08

Like, yeah, it's just it's new, it's funny.

SPEAKER_09 31:11

Nice. Uh what about out there? Anyone got any questions, any comments? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Um, the mic stuff before this kind of reminding me of the V2 impact show you guys didn't, because that was the main guy for Mike stuff.

SPEAKER_08 31:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:29

I would so much rather improvise a song than remember one. I guess that was my immediate thought.

SPEAKER_17 31:37

And with that show, the lobs give a lot of freedom. Yeah, wireless mic. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 31:42

So much different just being like I felt, yeah, you just improv show.

SPEAKER_12 31:48

So that was your only option.

SPEAKER_16 31:50

Yeah, I I really felt like while I was right here, I like I'm really big on when you're improvising that your shoulders are out, and I was just like tucked into this microphone, just like talking to Alan, and I'm like, oh sorry, Eric, you're just like not gonna see me the whole show.

SPEAKER_15 32:03

I just, you know, yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_16 32:05

Just being right here on mic is very intimidating to improvise. And I'm off book on newsies, and so I would have much rather done that thanks.

Credits And Where To Find More

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Anything else? Oh, yeah. After the show, fingers crossed, and report will be. And we will have this episode in RedRadio.com.

Eric Pedersen 32:35

Surprise, the recorder did work. Tonight's show was hosted by James Dugan. The opening narrator was Jordan Reichhardt. Avery Ford played Willie the Restaurantur, Detective Bandit. Molly Jones played the mayor's daughter. Alan Lucas played Earl the Brightfoot, who didn't speak any minutes. Janelle Sollier was Mrs. Brown. Ryan Roman played Garbo the Mayor's son. Jordan Reichhardt was Detective Johnson, and Ashley the Whitehurst was Genevieve. Tech support by Eric Peterson and Chuck Cotterman. Please like and subscribe everywhere. Available. Check us out the first Sunday of every month at the Buckhouse Theater in Chicago, Illinois, and more information on other shows at improviseradio.com.