Ep. 9 : Brother Big One

It's a family affair this week on Run On Sentence! 

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Why you gagging? You know she bring it to you, every ball. That's right, y'all. It's me, Jack. And I'm back with the ninth episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Well, well, well. Happy April, everyone. That's right. It is April Fool's Day, April 1st, the day that I'm filming this. It is officially Airy season. It's been Airy season for the last like 10 days, but it is now officially my birthday month. I am the king of all Aries. I am born on April 14th. Clock it. I better be getting all of the birthday comments in the comment section on my YouTube and on Spotify. Y'all better flood with birthday messages. Uh, but I am super excited. I'm turning 26 this year, as I said last week, getting booted off the family insurance. And I've heard kind of like mixed reviews from people online about your 26th year. Some people say like 26 is supposed to feel kind of like 19, where like you feel old, but like at the same time you feel really young, and it's like kind of confusing. And 26 is like a weird transitional age of like you feel like you should have more things figured out and mapped out in your life that society tells you you should at that point, but you still feel so young and like have so much more to learn, which obviously you do. 26 is so young, but I kind of maybe I'll feel different when I actually hit 26, but age is just a number, it's completely made up. I don't feel any different, I don't feel any like impending like 30 nerves coming on, like, oh my god, I'm like in my late thirty, I mean my late 20s now, approaching 30. Like, I don't really feel that uh, you know, um societal like hand at the back of my neck uh to have done more or um have more accomplished by this age. I am just here to have a good time. I'm not really here to prove anything to anyone except my own inner beings, happiness, and I'm just like constantly reaching for the next best feeling thing, and I just want to, you know, feel good always. And that is not measured by your job success, by your marital status, relationship status, monetary status, you you know, all of those things are byproducts of if you're happy or not. Sometimes, you know, you could get into a relationship when you're not in a happy place, and it tends to not work out because that's gonna be an unhappy relationship if it stemmed from a bad negative place. So my mindset is as long as you are constantly reaching for the next best feeling thought and constantly trying to feel good now, only good things can come to you because you get what you give, and if you only put out positive energy into the universe, you're gonna attract that same energy. And I'm not interested in feeling nervous or weird or unaccomplished because of my age, because age is just made up and it doesn't mean anything. So I am very excited, it's my birthday month. Let's jump into some new updates regarding my birthday. What's new, Jackie Pooh? Well, I am very excited, me and my bestie Carly. Shout out, girl. We are going to see the new Rocky Horror show on Broadway the day after my birthday on the 15th. I am a huge fan of the Rocky Horror Picture show. I've done Rocky Drag numerous times at this point. Um, it was a big part of like my queer awakening, end of high school, beginning of college. And well, I mean not that I wasn't always gay, but you know, like my when I I lost a lot of weight in like at the end of high school and was feeling more comfortable like dressing more queer or like just exploring more, you know, artsy fartsy elements to myself and Frankenfurter and Rocky Horror was a big, you know, part of that. And yeah, it just has a really special place in my heart. And I saw online that the new production that's going on to Broadway is being directed by Sam Pinkerton, who directed O'Mary. Which, if you have not seen O'Marry, run to New York. If you don't live on the East Coast, you have to make an effort to get to New York and see any production of O'Mary. It doesn't matter who you see in it. The directing of that show and the writing of that show that Cole did was some of the best art that we will see in our lifetime. It was unbelievable. I did see Jinx Monsoon as Mary. It was the best live theater I have seen ever, probably. Well, it's probably a close second to uh I saw Long Day's Journey into Night with Jessica Lang in like 2014, 2015. That was probably the best live performance art I've ever seen. But Jinx Monsoon in O'Mary was a really close second. She just absolutely burned the house down with her comedic timing and her skills. Truly one of the best performers of our generation, and I'm very excited to see what she turns out in the next handful of years. You know, now that she's really making such a splash on Broadway, I think she's going to be doing some unbelievably incredible things uh in the next couple of years. Like, I mean, she's already done so much in the last few years, but very excited to see her trajectory on Broadway. That being said, yes, Jinx was unbelievably amazing in O'Mary, but I've heard everybody else that has been in it is just as amazing. So run to see O'Mary if you have not. I think it's going to be on Broadway for quite a long time, though, and I'm very excited to see what other like guest spots they get into and who they pick to come in and be Mary. I think it's going to be one of the like cornerstone shows on Broadway for a very long time. And I can't say enough about it. It is truly unbelievable. But Sam Pickerton, director of O'Marry, is directing this production of Rocky Horror, so I was like, we gotta go see this. So we got matinee tickets on the 15th, the day after my birthday, and we're just gonna go kiki and celebrate. I can't wait to see that. I did see some of the clips from the preview dress rehearsal nights that they did last week. The costumes are I'm interested to see what the rest of the costumes in the show are. They kind of are giving me like a little bit of hesitation, at least the costumes that I saw from the like the bow sequence that people were taking videos of. Uh, specifically Frank's costume. Who's playing? I think it's Luke Evans. I don't really know who Luke Evans is. I recognize his face. I don't really have any like um key like roles that he's been in that I know of that I've seen, uh, but I have seen him before. People are raving that it's he's like incredibly hot and it's gonna be like an amazing pick for rock uh for Frank. I'll trust their opinion, but I'll believe it when I see it. I from the clip I saw of one of the bow sequences from the dress rehearsals, he looks great, but the Frank costume isn't as like draggy as I want it to be. The Tim Curry costumes in the movie are just so iconic that I don't know, they have a very special place in my heart, and it's it's not too easy to fuck up. Like the costumes were pretty tangible and easy to replicate, I feel like. I mean, I know people don't want to replicate pieces of art exactly, you know, the way they were. They want to put their own originality into it and get more artistic, and obviously, every production of Rocky in the last toll how many years has it been on Broadway at this point? Like 50? And I mean not on Broadway, but just in existence. Over 50 years. I think this is came out in 1975, so it's been out for like 51 years at this point. Every production does a slightly, you know, different rendition of Frank's costume. But this one is on Broadway. Like I was I'm hoping it's gonna be a little bit more elevated than some other ones I've seen, and at least the one costume that I saw from those clips isn't to the caliber that I'm hoping the rest are gonna be on, but I'm not gonna get ahead of myself. We'll see what it looks like in person when we go see it. So be on the lookout for that. That's not gonna be for like another four weeks that you'll hear about it in the episodes, but it'll keep you coming back. Uh but yeah, what else is new? I went to the doctor this week, first time in eight years, like I said, and we got a clean bill of health, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, that is right. I am healthy as ever. I am a little overweight because I'm the big one. Um, but that was not new information. I know I could definitely stand to lose a couple of pounds, uh, more than a few. Uh, but I really had no other alarms go off. The doctor, however, did not tell me to lose weight, which my mom could not fathom. I got home and she went, did he tell you to lose weight? Yeah, I bet he told you to lose weight. And I said, No, actually, he did not. Thank you so much for asking. Uh, and she really thought I was lying. He did not tell me to lose any weight. I think, based on our conversation, he was a very nice man. I don't think he wanted to be rude. But based on, you know, our talks about my dieting and my exercise and my um water intake, and you know, just getting the general idea of what my lifestyle looks like because I was a new patient. He probably could gather that I had enough self-awareness that I could stand to lose some weight and didn't feel the need to reiterate or double down on it, so he didn't. So no, he did not tell me to lose weight, but I know I could. And one final, very exciting update for y'all. I am getting a wig. That is right. I am getting a male hair unit install next week. I went for a consultation at a salon yesterday, and he told me that I am the perfect candidate for a male hair replacement. I am bald for those of you that don't know me and who maybe have never seen me before, if you're audio-only listeners and stumbled upon this podcast with having no idea who I am and have never seen a picture of me or video of me. I do always wear hats. But those of you who know me in person, I did lose my hair fully in the last like three years, but I started to lose my hair like 2018. I, like I said earlier in the episode, I did lose a ton of weight. I lost like 120 pounds at the end of high school between the end of high school, like from fall 2017 to March 2020, I had lost like 120 pounds, give or take. And yeah, it was not maybe the healthiest way. I went on this like crazy ketogenic diet that required eating a pretty limited amount of protein and a fuck ton of vegetables every day, and I just like couldn't stomach eating all of those vegetables. It was it was too much to handle. I did, however, like totally rewire my brain and got very into the regimen and the routine of the diet. So I was committed to eating less, eating better, and losing weight, but I was not committed to eating exactly the right amount of food and nutrients that the diet was telling me to. So I was really eating much less than I should have and kind of malnourished myself. To some, might have been considered borderline eating disorder, but I never got to that place mentally, I don't think. Uh, but if we were looking at it, you know, from a psychological standpoint, it probably was a little bit of an ED. But like I said, kind of malnourished myself, and I did end up losing my hair because of it. So it's really just on the top. I have very thick hair all around the sides of my head, which is what makes me a perfect candidate for the hair install. Um, so I'm gonna get one of those like pieces laid down on the top of my head and then cut to match the sides of my hair and fade it into it. So hopefully it'll be pretty unclockable. I'm very excited about it. I have no problem wearing hats every day, but I'm tired of like not having the option to not wear one if I want to. I mean, I've gone to weddings, I've gone to things that I can't wear hats to, that I, you know, just rocket balled. I don't really care. But it'll be nice to have a little option, you know, in those events. So I don't know exactly what I'm planning on doing yet. I did talk to him in the consultation and I said the guy who is doing the install also wears one himself, and the one that he had on his head, I was like, that's kind of exactly in my mind what I'm looking for. It's kind of a like brushed forward look, so no harsh hairline, um, you know, no clockable lace or anything. Um, I'm not looking to brush the hair back really and have a hairline. Uh I mean, but he said, you know, we'll try it for the first time. If you end up not liking it forward, I have other options that'll look good if you want to brush it back. It's totally a possibility. So we are gonna give it a go. I'm very excited. It is a little pricey. It's$700 for the initial install cut and like education on how to, you know, clean and maintain the piece, you know, in between salon visits. I did tell him though, I don't really want something like long term. I don't want it glued down 24-7. Most people get it glued, laid, and they keep it on for like two to three weeks the entire time, and then come back in to get it removed and cleaned and reapplied and like a haircut. I don't really want that. I am I kind of I told him I just want something that I can maybe tape down when I want to wear it, but like I don't want to have it, I don't want to sleep with it on. I don't want to shower with it on. Like you're I mean you're supposed to clean it. I probably will shower with it on like once a week just to clean the actual unit because it's human hair. But I don't plan on I mean, I don't plan on wearing it every day either. I totally still anticipate wearing hats a lot of the time. I you know, I just want the option. So he was like, you can probably get three months out of it then if you're gonna do that. Like I'll tape it down when I'm doing the initial install, cut it, teach you how to change the tapes, and then you can just buy tape online and do it yourself. You'll probably get much more time out of it, and then I'm gonna ask to cut this hair on the sides of my head to like a length that I can just shave myself at home if I need to. Um, I'm not really interested in like getting a like to the skin fade, you know, up. I kind of just want it one length on the side, and we'll see what happens. But yeah, it's a little pricey for the first install, but then he said, like, if I were to do it more regularly and come back every three weeks, it would be like 200 a time, which in the grand scheme of things, I don't really see it as that expensive because imagine if I had had hair this entire time for the last eight years, I would have been spending a lot more money on actual salon visits to cut and style my hair. So I've saved a lot of money over the years not doing that. So one$700 drop on this unit and a little bit of maintenance here and there, you know, every month or so isn't gonna kill anybody. So I am looking forward to it. It's also kind of on the cheaper end of other units I've looked at. I did look at a couple of other places like in October when I was going to some weddings, and I wanted to see if it was something that could like be done quickly and like I could get my hands on, you know, in a short amount of time. And the places I looked at, it was like sixteen hundred dollars to do it. And this guy is like, Yeah, those people are crazy. They probably were planning on like taking a mold over your head and like getting a special piece made. He said he is his own manufacturer, like he produces his own units and hair pieces. So he was like, I have everything in stock already, I have multiple sizes, I'll size it to your head perfect. So he was very chill, very, very confident that it was gonna go seamlessly. So stay tuned. Next week, I usually film on Wednesdays and I'm getting the unit on Thursday, so I probably won't have it next week's episode. Uh so tune in the week after that to possibly see me with hair. We shall see. But that's kind of all the updates I have for you guys for the week. And with that being said, let's get into the hoarder haul. I took my CD collection to like another level this week. I, you know, said last week we're gonna really try to start growing our CD collection because of my new beautiful glorious CD player, and the universe heard that plan and said, I got you, girl. So I found a bunch of new CDs this week and a couple of good tapes and DVDs also. Um, the first set of DVDs that I found were a couple of TV shows. I found season one of Big Love, which I have never watched before. Carly and Liv, shout-out girls. They have been in the throes of watching Big Love at the moment, and they said it's like their number one favorite show that they're watching at the moment. They are pretty obsessed with it. So when I saw that on the shelf, I said, Let me pick it up and give it a go. It is that HBO show about like a polygamist family. It's like Chloe Savini, um, Bill Paxton, the woman from Criminal Minds, the woman from Once Upon a Time. They are all amazing actors. I watched the first episode last night, um, you know, little spoiler into my content corner, and I'm pretty okay with it so far. We'll see if it like really amps up and gets a little bit more interesting. It was a little bit of a slow burn, but I also found seasons one, two, and three of Angel. I have been wanting to find Angel on DVD because I did find a spreadsheet that somebody made where you they mapped out which episodes of Buffy and Angel to watch, you know, corresponding. I don't think it like really matches up perfectly. I think it would have been cool if they made the show work that way, or, you know, made both shows, you know, something you could watch back to back, but someone did their best, it seems, on the spreadsheet and gave somewhat of a map as to how to watch, you know, both uh series back to back. I did not find season four of Buffy yet on DVD, and that is the first season that you are supposed to start watching with season one of Angel. So I still have some time until I need to start, you know, bouncing back and forth between the two. I I'm not even done with season two yet of Buffy, so I still had a whole nother season and a half, because I'm only halfway through Buffy season two, uh, to find Buffy season four and then start, you know, trying to watch both series in tandem. I might not even like Angel though, so I might give up on that pretty quickly, depending on how much I like it or not. And I did find the in the third season box set, the sixth disc is missing, which has the last couple of episodes on it. I got it anyway because I was like, I will just, you know, if push comes to shove and I don't find another season three by the time I'm watching it, I can just like stream those last couple of episodes. It's not a big deal. But I'm gonna keep that third season box set in my car with the receipt, and if I find it at another savers in the next couple of weeks, you know, before the exchange time on the receipt runs out, I'll just exchange the third season for another third season if I find a complete set, and we'll be good to go. I also found another TV series on DVD. I found out. Avatar The Last Airbender Book One Water. That was the only season of Avatar The Last Airbender that I was missing. I found seasons two and three a couple of months ago at a savers, and I went to a new Island Thrift that I'd never been to before. Island Thrift is a chain of thrift stores on Long Island, if you couldn't, you know, put the pieces together. And yeah, I went to one out uh in Nassau, where the hair replacement place is that I'm going to. Um, and yeah, I found season one of Avatar, and I found one or two CDs there also. Uh, it was not the best Island thrift, but let me tell you, there's one Island Thrift more local, closer to my house, that I go to pretty frequently, that like seven out of ten times has something worth getting. The savers that I go to all the time that has the biggest physical media selection out of all the thrift stores in my area, that is where I find most of my like diamond pieces and like best pieces of media that I find. There is an island thrift across the street from that saver. Is that back in the day, like back in high school, was the best thrift store in my opinion. It was where I found the best clothes, the best physical media, the best tchotchkis. The last five, six years, it has been shit. I don't find anything there ever. So I nine times out of ten, just don't even go. Um, but every now and then I'll throw her a bone and I'll check it out and I'll do a little, you know, quick spin through of the store, and I never find anything. I will never speak ill on that island thrift again because this week I went with my brother. We were trying to hit as many spots as possible. We decided to, you know, take her for a spin and check her out. Uh, I hadn't been in a while, and I was like, uh, we might as well. We were looking for my mom asked us to find a like big Easter dish, like some kind of like bunny ceramic or like spring themed serving dish that she could like make an appetizer with to bring to our aunt's house for Easter and leave it there. That, you know, something cheap that she didn't have to worry about getting back. And that's why we decided to go check it out, just to like see if they had some kind of dish. If they didn't, whatever, we would just be in and out. Now I'm gonna have to check there every time because I found some of the best VHS tapes I found in a while. I found almost famous on VHS at this island thrift. Me and my brother, like both sets of our eyes popped out of our heads when we saw it on the shelf. I was gagged. Uh, and then I also found Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which like goaded finds from a place that never has anything anymore. Uh, then when I tell you this place used to have a lot of good stuff, I found my Polaroid that I use all the time, full size full size or many high-quality Polaroid. I found it there in like 2017 for six dollars. I found my typewriter that I maybe I don't use my typewriter with any frequency, uh, but you know, I was very artsy and wanted to be like a hipster in high school and did get a typewriter from there for like$10. I have gotten my I got a couple of EHS players from there. I bought like two from there before I broke one, and then I got another one before this was you know years before I even got this little TV, so I don't even need them anyway. Uh, I got a DVD player there. I I found a couple of different cameras there actually that I've used quite a bit. Yeah, but it just doesn't tend to have that much good stuff anymore. But now I'll never speak ill on her again. I was very happy with those two tape finds, and then I also found on DVD Rob Zombie's Halloween at this thrift store. Also, it was just like back-to-back gagged moments in this thrift store, and then I also found one of the only tchotchkis I got this week to, you know, not to steer away from the physical media. But at this island thrift, I also found a Mac wireless keyboard for$18. I got a used Mac desktop off of Walmart's website like eight months ago, probably. Uh, it is great. It was like$350 for a I think it's like a 2018 Mac desktop. Um it's phenomenal. Love it. I just get so much more work done at a like sitting with a big desktop in front of me. I like my laptop, but I don't know. I just I don't focus as well when I'm using a laptop. I really lock in when I'm using a desktop. And it came with like a regular corded keyboard that wasn't, you know, Mac branded, and I didn't really care. Uh, you know, I wasn't gonna spend like a third of the price of the computer on a keyboard, uh, brand new. So I just decided to keep using the regular keyboard that got sent to me with the computer and the corded mouse also. And I'm glad I never purchased the actual Mac keyboard because I found this one in perfect working condition, no scratches, no dents, for$18. It works beautifully. So very excited about that. Uh, it honestly is taking a little getting used to. The width of the keyboard is a you know shorter than the bigger keyboard that I've been using the last like eight months, so I have to like retrain my my brain to like get used to the smaller width of the keyboard, but it'll be fine in time. But seguing back into physical media, I found three other VHS tapes at Savers. I found Clueless, which I have not seen for the last couple of years on VHS at any of the thrift stores I go to, but it's weird. The last two weeks I've gone, I've seen it at two different thrift stores. And both of them, like one of the boxes was like way too ratty. I didn't end up getting it, and then the other one that I saw the next week had mold in the tape, so I didn't get it. Um, and then I see it again this week and it was in perfect condition, so I picked that up. I honestly don't think I've ever watched Clueless start to finish, so what better way to watch it than on tape? And I also found Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Also have never seen it, but have seen clips of it online. And I also found Hook on VHS. I like I have said in past episodes, love physical sets and practical effects in movies, and Hook has some of the most like whimsical, fantastical, amazing physical sets, so very excited about that find. And let's dig into the mountain of CDs that I found this week. We hit a little treasure trove. I found Five Sauce, She Looks So Perfect, which was very exciting, but then actually my brother found that for me. And when I looked at it closer, it's called She Looks So Perfect, the US Tour edition. I think it's only like four songs, and I guess they're live covers of their, you know, some of their songs, but it has She Looks So Perfect and Disconnected on it, so that's all I care about. Very happy about that. I also found Joni Mitchell, the LA Express Miles of Isles. Um, I think it's also a bunch of like California live concert recordings that she did back in the day. Uh love Joni Mitchell. I think I've talked about it in a past episode. She is one of the greatest of all time, probably in my top three favorite artists, period. Not even just musicians, just artists in general. Uh, she is incredible. Uh, I also found Third Eye Blind Blue, which I don't really know some of the songs off of this album, uh, but Third Eye Blind is just that quintessential pop punk sound, so had to pick that up. We also found Maroon 5 Songs about Jane, which foreshadowing, but rest in peace, Jane don't. I can't talk about that too much. We'll get into that later. But we also found Hootie and the Blowfish Cracked Rear Window. We found Four Non Blondes Bigger, Better, Faster, More. Very exciting. We also found TLC Fan mail. And to top it all off, we found The Grateful Dead's in the dark album. So, like I said, the universe heard my request and said, Oh, you want to grow your CD collection? We got you. So I don't know how much more room I have for CDs. I the like the spot that I have had my CDs in for a long time isn't really big enough for the collection that I'm growing, and I never really intended on collecting this many CDs. I was always more of a movie collector anyway, and we're gonna have to find more space for it because we have moved on from stacking them sideways, and I've started stacking them horizontally on top of the sideways stack, and we're already kind of running out of room there, so I don't know what I'm gonna do. But that concludes the Hoarder Hall for the week. So let's jump into the content corner. I have been listening to a lot of CDs again. Like I said last week, it has been a big change of pace for me to listen to like an album cover to cover and not listen to Spotify. I have been loving it though. The I think I touched on it last week also, the sound quality of like the original pressings and recordings of these albums and not the remasters that are on Spotify are just so much better than the remasters. I have been listening to the Miss Educational Lauren Hill a lot, and my top song of the week is To Zion. That makes me feel so religious, even though I'm not religious, and I I don't know what it is about it. It just makes me want to go to church. And I have also been listening to complete flip, you know, side of the coin type of music, um, Miss World by Hole. Love Hole. Jennifer's Body is like one of my all-time fave rock anthems. And I've also been listening to Pretty Impossible by Caroline Polichek a lot this week. And my second favorite song of the week, and it's been like my favorite song of the year at this point, is White Horses by Wolf Alice. Their new album that they released a couple of months ago is you know what? I was gonna say is the probably their best album that they've uh released so far. I wouldn't go that far. I would say their first album is probably their best, but maybe that's just me being nostalgic and bias. But that first album is so quintessential, Wolf Alice, but this is a pretty close second, the the new album. It's it's pretty incredible. And for TV shows that we've watched this week, I have really been slacking on Buffy still, guys. I watched like one episode last week and I fell asleep in the middle of it, and I have to re-watch it again. I don't know what it is. I just like I love it so much, but for some reason I just haven't had the drive to watch it at the end of the night. Like I said, I watch it on my little vintage TV and I have it set up next to my bed, and I don't like to lay in my bed unless I'm like going to bed. I ref I don't know, I just don't like laying down unless it's bedtime. So uh, you know, when I'm eating dinner and watching TV, I usually sit on the couch. I like to sit up anyway when I'm eating. I do not eat in bed unless it's popcorn and I'm watching a movie, uh, which is probably like one of the worst things to eat in bed because it gets like so crummy and everywhere. But I pretty much only eat like popcorn or like a sweet treat in bed when I'm watching a movie, but I don't know. I just by the time I'm like done with my night, I just haven't been wanting to commit to like a full episode of Buffy. They're so long, which I appreciate. I love a long episode of something, you get to pack a lot of story into it. You get, you know, and especially with how many episodes they do in a season, like you can really pack in a lot. It's literally like a I can't even imagine what it was like filming this back in the day. Like they were filming a movie a week, basically. It's so crazy, but it's a lot to digest and it's a lot to take in, and it's just a big undertaking to do at like midnight or one in the morning, like right before I go to bed. It's not like a quick thing that I can watch and then go to sleep right after. It's I have been falling asleep during them because they're so long. So I just gotta start watching them earlier. Uh, but I did, like I said earlier in the episode, start Big Love last night. Um, I'm okay with it so far. It was kind of not the pilot I thought it was gonna be, especially with it being like polygamy. I thought it was gonna be a little bit more like in your face, wow factor, like stunts and uh just more like flashy and more gripping. It wasn't really any of those things that wasn't like a really good pilot, in my opinion. I I don't know when this was produced. It seems like it was maybe 2004, 2003. I I'm not totally sure. I in one of the scenes, Chloe Savini's character is like putting a credit card in to buy something over the phone, and she says the expiration date is 2007, so that's what I'm basing it off of. If your credit card is like a couple of years in advance, you know, with its expiration date, it was probably like 2004 or maybe. Um so I guess Sister Wives wasn't around at that point, so maybe just like him having multiple wives and trying to like juggle his time between them was enough of a wow factor and like a stunt where people were hooked. I think now, at least for someone like me watching it for the first time, having watched I don't even know how many seasons of Sister Wives at this point, and Secret Life of Mormon Wives, and like all of the FLDS like Mormon polygamous cult documentaries over the years, like that is just not like whoa, he has three wives, like that's just not like gaggy enough for me um to like really grip me into the series. Um, I just love all the actors though, so I and because Carly and Liv said it's so good, I am you know determined to at least watch the first season, and maybe it'll get, you know, more gaggy, but for me, somebody watching it for the first time, being well versed in polygamous shit like that at this point, it wasn't really that gaggy of a pilot. Uh, but I'm sure to you know the general public at the time when it came out, it was probably pretty gaggy. But that's kind of it for TV this week. I did watch a movie again this week, guys. I don't know what is up with me. I, like I said, tend to not have the bandwidth and the attention span to sit through a movie too often. And I watched, you know, Sleepwalkers last week and I watched a movie this week too. I decided to do some research. Like I haven't watched the movie before, I have, but um, I decided to do some, you know, ritualistic preparation for my Rocky Horror Broadway uh viewing in a couple of weeks, and I watched my VHS tape of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was the first time this tape has ever been watched because I bought it wrapped in the plastic brand new a couple of weeks ago and broke the seal and popped it in the TV and gave it a watch this week. It is just one of the best movies of all time. It never gets old. I every performance in that movie is so like unreal and not of this earth. Um they're all like the whole time I was watching it, I was just imagining being on set and watching Tim Curry work his magic in real time. I just was so jealous of everybody in that movie, all the extras, like all of the um, you know, like partygoers, and I it's like the set and the costumes and the wackiness and the absurdity, it must have just been the most fun time ever to film. And oh, I love the Rocky Horror Picture show. But that's all the content that I consumed this week. So, with that being said, let's get into the self-interview section of the pod, because if you can't interview yourself, how in the hell are you gonna interview somebody else? So, as always, Jack, thank you so much for being with us. I have the burning question of the week. What is your favorite type of performance art? Whether it's opera, dance, musical theater, regular theater, like straight plays, stand-up comedy, any type of performance art, what would you pick as your number one? Ooh, thanks so much for asking, Jack. That is a question I'm sure Timothy Chalamet does not want to hear coming his way. Uh, I would say my number one live performance art form would definitely be straight theater, straight plays. I, of course, love opera. I love musical theater. I love anything with music, singing. It does elevate live performance to, you know, a plane that couldn't exist without the musical element to it. I, you know, opera specifically, like everything about it is like a grandfather clock. It's like a big, well-oiled machine where all of the gears have to, you know, fit perfectly together, and it is just like this big, seamless, giant machine working on stage. The orchestra and the singers and the lighting and the costumes and the set pieces, like there's so many moving parts to it. And everything being sung really changes the delivery of emotion to the audience that other art forms don't have. Um obviously, dance has no words, and you're just expressing through movement, which is a whole nother type of delivery for human emotion to an audience member. Uh, but opera is the most like exaggerated form of that. But I think it lacks the levels that straight plays do. Um musical theater kind of has those levels, but it makes it corny and cheesy sometimes, with you know, depending on who the composer is and what the music sounds like when you're trying to convey those emotions through music instead of spoken dialogue. But straight plays, you're able to just r in my opinion at least, like reach into someone's heart and soul and brain more than you're able to with any of the other live art forms. Uh it's just more raw, it's more like bare and naked. There's just more uh access to dead air and dead space and like silence when you're doing straight plays. You can pause and really give space for the audience to sit with the emotion that you delivered to them that you can't with other art forms. Like dance pretty much always has music as an undertone to it. Opera, there's always music going on. I mean, yes, there's silent parts, but really never long enough uh for the audience to like really sit in. Um, and you don't uh As an actor, you don't have the reins in that situation. Like you can pause if you want, but the conductor is gonna keep you going if you pause for too long and they're gonna start the music and push forward. An actor in a straight play just they can wait as long as they want because there's nobody else, except maybe a scene partner, if they try, but even the scene partner can't do that if they don't have the next line. If it's in the middle, if you're in the middle of a monologue, if you're in the middle of you know, a s a block of lines that you're doing, if you stop and pause for a dramatic effect and to like, you know, sit in the emotion, you have the reins. Like you get to decide where this emotion turns to next. And I just think it's as an actor and as an audience member the coolest, most raw, real type of theater that you can experience. I haven't acted in a straight play in many years, but it's it's my favorite to see live, uh, even a comedy too. It doesn't have to be a serious dramatic play. Like I said, O'Mary, I think, is probably the best piece of live theater that has been produced in the last 20 years, and maybe for the next 20 years. It is unbelievable. I mean, yes, I guess she does sing her mad cat medleys at the end of that production, so but it is a play, it's not a musical. And uh yeah, it doesn't have to be a dramatic play, it can be a comedy. I'm I'm saying any type of play is th the most authentic display of human behavior and human emotion that you can experience. At least that's what I think. I love dance, I love opera, I do love musical theater, stand-up comedy is not something that really speaks to me. I know there's a lot of people that love stand-up, and they would, you know, say that that's probably their favorite form of live entertainment. I and performance art. I just something about it is just really corny to me sometimes. When it's done right, it's right. You know what I mean? Don't get me wrong. It is a really uh skillful performance art. I don't think I could do it. Uh it it takes a really specific type of person. You need a lot of talent, you need to be a really good writer and know how to deliver those lines in a way that no other performance art requires. Um, that comedic timing, but making it feel real and like it's the first time you're reading it, which I mean, yes, all theater is like it's supposed to feel like your first time, but people come in knowing shows, they have you know pre-existing biases and things they're expecting to hear. They, you know, they have seen the show before, they know monologues, they know scenes, they know songs, and stand up if you've never seen a set before the same anyway. Comedians are always like changing a joke here and there depending on what lands in one show. Everything is always a workshop, so it's always evolving and changing depending on the night, uh, which isn't the case in other performance art. So it is very unique to itself. There's nothing like it, and no, you know, hard feelings to stand-up comedy. I honestly haven't been to enough shows to have too much of an opinion on it. I would like to go to more, but from the specials that I've seen, um and you know, clips of other stand-up shows that I've seen online, it's just something that doesn't speak to me as much as other art forms, but I'm not gonna knock it. It is necessary, especially in these dark times that we are in right now, to laugh and to have stand-up, you know, in our performance art spaces, because we definitely need it now more than ever. And now that we've laid that to rest, let's get into some good old dragooning. Well, guys, I gotta say I was very disappointed on multiple levels with this week's episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. I am just about done with this show. They are just playing in our faces too much at this point. Not to skip all the way to the end. But Jane Don't getting eliminated before the final four is absolute tomfoolery. The fact that Nini Coco and Juicy Love Dionne are in the final four over Jane Don't is the most diabolical thing that I think has ever happened on Drag Race. I've been seeing a lot of people online being like, oh, Jane got Susie tooted, they they Susie tooted her ass. Susie Toot was extremely egotistical and could not stop talking about how good she was and needed to be humbled in that way, and needed to be eliminated because she wasn't that good. She didn't need to be in the finale. I was very happy when she got eliminated. Jane was the opposite. Jane actually had like the Hutzpah. She had everything. She had uh the highest win like top placement streak of everyone in Drag Race history, and was still humble. Honestly, a little deprecating at some points. It was kind of getting a little annoying. Well, she kind of gave it up in the last few weeks, like that everyone's gonna gun for me, like, oh, I'm just doing too well, like oh, everyone hates me because I'm doing so you know she kind of gave that up in the last couple of weeks, and she was like, you know what, yeah, I'm good. I deserve to be here. And especially this week, she was like I understand that maybe I wasn't the best with this week, but I deserve more than anybody to be here. So I do not think Jane deserved to go home at all. I don't think she needed to be humbled in any way and sent home. However, I am very happy in some ways because as we know, Mikey Meeks is my girl, and I want Mikey to win, and I think Mikey had a good chance of winning against Jane anyway. But I would have, you know, liked it to be a fair fight and have the two of them go toe-to-toe as the final two, while I still think Mikey totally could have and would have won against her. Now, with her gone, there is no competition. Mikey is winning this season of Drag Race, so I am very excited about that. If that does not happen, I'm never watching the show again. There's just no point because are we kidding? But that concludes the dragooning section of the podcast. And to close off the podcast, I have a very fun, spontaneous, exciting little surprise for all of you to close us out. I have our first ever special guest appearance on the podcast. My brother, Liam. He is home for spring break for Easter this week, and uh really wanted to be included in the podcast this week, even though he is a fake fucking fan and hasn't watched any of my episodes up until this point. I think he said he watched a little bit of the first one, but has not watched any of the other seven episodes. So Loki, fuck you, Liam. Uh, but I figured what better person to have on than my little mini me. So let's get Liam in the studio, shall we? G. Okay. Well, you gotta like when you're gonna talk, yeah. Hello. Bitch, I'm the fucking big one. This is fucked up, especially like having your string bean ass next to me. Bitch, I'm the big one. I'm gonna kill myself. Oh my god. Y'all, it's like that. It's like that.

SPEAKER_01 52:34

It's like that.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

Yeah. Well, Liam, welcome to the studio. Um, my brother's in the house, y'all. First official guest of the Run on Sentence podcast. Any opening remarks for the listeners?

SPEAKER_01 52:53

Um, I'm really I'm happy to be here. This um this is like I think we're making history today.

SPEAKER_00 53:04

The Debbie Ryan video, like I called up the executive of Disney and I said, I want to make history. And that's what we're doing today.

SPEAKER_01 53:14

Oh no, but the executive producer told me that I can't look like that on camera.

SPEAKER_00 53:20

Well, all I said that you had to look I all I said was you have to look decent. And you didn't change. I mean, this is fine. This outfit is fine. I I just thought, I don't know, you might want to like spruce up a little bit. I did just embarrass the fuck out of myself too, though. I went out into the hallway and somebody was in the bathroom. I saw the light on and I thought it was Liam. And I figured he was like showering or something, and I was like, bitch, you literally said you wanted to be on the pod. Like, why are you showering now? You need to be ready. And I like yelled outside the door, like, Liam, are you decent? Are you not decent? And then this bitch comes like out of his little cave in like the back bedroom, like in the dark. I was like, Yes, I'm decent. And I'm pretty sure it was like our cousin that lives with us that was in the bathroom. So I'm very embarrassed, but I see you didn't put on the good the good uh clothes for the listeners or for the viewers.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

And you're wearing the good clothes. I mean well so it's like that. It's like that. So it's like that. Um well I've shaved for this. I've shaved my neck beard, so I feel like that's I don't know. Tell us about your um experience in the arts and like what kind of like, you know, like what kind of drew you to the arts and what you know, I'm curious, like we're both kind of well, we both I'm currently majoring in the same thing as you, and I'm wondering like what um at the end of your academic uh residency at merchus, um, like when when did you decide like this isn't as far as I'm aware, like that you're just not interested in it?

SPEAKER_00 55:20

Well, thanks for like flipping this on me and interviewing me. Okay. Uh I mean, not that I had any like questions for you prepared, but like I thought we were just gonna like Kiki and now I'm uh in the I'm in the hot seat. Um I yes, have not talked about that before. Liam is also in school for opera performance. Uh imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and uh he is actually finishing up his degree this year, uh, and then he's going back for one more semester for what environmental science.

SPEAKER_01 55:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:56

Okay, nerd. And yeah, but what got me into the arts? Um, I didn't know anything else. I was like, I'm not fucking going to school for academics. That's just not happening. I if I had to, it would have been history, and I failed American history so hard that I was like, am I even good at that? So musical theater and like theater is all I knew, and it was like the only thing I thought I could get money and scholarships for was my talent, which ended up being the case. And I don't know, I was kind of like one foot in, one foot out the door the whole time. I was never really committed to opera. I honestly don't even know how it happened. It was mostly because of the voice teacher that both of us had. Uh, shout out Kelly. I doubt you're watching, but who knows? She might be. Um, she was a professional opera singer, and because I didn't really have like a clear direction of performance that I wanted to go in, she was obsessed with my voice in a classical style, and she was like, bitch, you can do this if you want to do this, like focus on classical music. So she kind of just like pushed me in that direction, and I kind of just rode the wave. And I was actively trying to leave the opera department at purchase. I was trying to get into the acting department, I did audition for the acting department. There was some collusion and sabotage between the departments, which I don't want to get into. Um, and yeah, the purchase department was like really good friends with the acting department, knew that I auditioned even though I didn't tell them, and like confronted me about it during my freshman jury. And I was like, hey, we're not talking about this. And they were like, Yeah, but you just you need to stay. And I was like, that's not up to you. And they were like, Well, you didn't get into the acting department. I think they like literally conspire to not let me into the acting department because they were like, You're gonna get acting training next year, you just don't know it from us yet. Like, you just need to give us like one more year and you'll see.

SPEAKER_01 58:04

And and they didn't.

SPEAKER_00 58:06

Well, they did. Oh, okay. There was like a it was like a stage technique for acting for singers. Like, we did take like acting much more seriously that second year, and that's what scared me about the department the first year and why I wanted to get out was because it was like just music, and I was like, that's not what I wanted. They lied to me in my like interview with them, like they said it was gonna be more well-rounded, and it wasn't just gonna be singing, singing, singing, and I wanted more acting training, and I thought they were liars. Okay, yes, one more year, and I would have seen that, but like that's not up to you to decide. It was very shady. Um, but then COVID happened at the end of my sophomore year, so like it was just messy, and performers were the only ones that were going back to like in-person classes the next year, and I didn't want to live at home anymore, so I just like stayed at purchase in the op like even actors didn't go back in person at purchase. I don't think it was like just the opera department was like really dick riding the school, and they were like, We are not doing Zoom, like we are coming back. So um, yeah, and then but it really all worked out in the end for me because I wanted to pursue like pursue directing and production anyway. Um, that was like always kind of my end goal. Even if I like had a performance career first, I wanted to direct ultimately. And with COVID and everything, COVID ended up like lowering admissions for the design department at purchase, so they couldn't designate students in the design department to like be stage managers and costume designers and lighting designers on our productions anymore. So that's how the job opportunity opened for me to stage manage their operas, which is what I've been doing the last well, I did the last three years. I didn't do it this year, but I wouldn't have gotten those opportunities if that didn't happen. So it's not that I didn't want like I I still work in theater, but opera performance was never my like path in my mind. Like I never actually wanted to be a professional opera singer, even though I was in school for it. But what about you? Why did you just like I always found it very confusing that you decided to go for opera also because I like openly hated it so much, and it was like, where did the inspiration come from if it wasn't like if I you know, I mean, like yes, I liked my friends, I liked my school, I liked my experience, but I was never like doing competitions and like show like a deep passion for opera, so like what where did that come from?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:47

Yeah, I always I think I've been thinking about it like more recently because you've definitely said before, like oh, like it's kind of crazy how like some of our experiences just like unintentionally overlap. Um and I've been like when I went to Binghamton, I was like like undeclared. I was like, I don't know, like I I'm probably gonna do like En Vi because I I think that's interesting. But also taking lessons with Kelly, she was like, you should just continue to take lessons there because and it wasn't like a conservatory vibe, but so I could like be in the music department and not like be s like just like delicate like regulated, whatever the word is. I was happy that I could be I was like I do want to keep like singing and be in the arts, but like I don't have to be like doing it, doing like it doesn't maybe have to be like my major. And then I auditioned for voice lessons through like if you're in choir, you can be in voice lessons. And they were like, We have like a spot in our studio, like you should like join, and then I was like, okay, and I was like basically riding the wave, like well, if you think I'm good, like who am I to say now? Like and then like here we are, and I'm like, okay. But I've always like I've always like similarly I've definitely grown to like like classical music a lot more, and I could see myself like having some sort of career with it, but I've always been more of a fan of musical theater, and that's like what I like have always thought about like doing if I were to have a career in the arts and like and sing. But like I don't know, like I don't I'm not like a dancer. Like I'm not getting on stage and like it's I was like, well, are they dancing classes? Like, yeah, no. But I don't know, like not every role is like a dancing role. Like I don't think that I don't think I have to be like a um I don't have to like learn how to backflip. So that's kind of like how I feel. And I don't know, I'm doing Envite because it's like it's well I think it's like important, I think it's interesting to like like I care about the environment. I don't know, so it feels like it's always been like, well, I think that's cool, and I like if I want to do something else like unrelated to the arts, that just seems like I would enjoy that as a job, and it wouldn't just be like just work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:33

Yeah, that's one thing that I never contemplated was like what else would I do? Like I just like that just never crossed my mind of like even if I wasn't performing, I was like, I would just work in arts in some capacity. But it's something I've I mean, wine obviously has come into my life, and like I've pursued other paths since then, but like yeah, I don't know. Theater is also just like so scary, especially with COVID, that kind of like changed my perspective, even if like I also did really grow a big appreciation for opera that I didn't think I was going to from being in school from it, but then and part of me did think like, oh, maybe I would pursue a career in this performance-wise, or like focus more on musical theater or some type of other live performance. But then COVID happened, and I was like, Oh, so y'all don't care? Like, oh, so we're just gonna throw like so. This was the first thing that everyone was just like, oh, well fuck that, we'll come back to that like when we can. But like that's so not important. I was just like, oh, that's terrifying. Like, and I felt that like production-related skills and like stage managing and directing could be transferred to other job forms if necessary, like event management or you know, like any type of management and any facet and hospitality, whatever. Um, I just felt like those skills on a resume would be more helpful in other job opportunities if I had to move away from the arts. So um that all, you know, kind of worked out, I guess, even though I'm not pursuing like a totally different job career yet. Um but in the long run, I think that will just present more job security, and not that I can't like because you can always perform, you can always go back to performance. Your voice is always developing and maturing. There's all different age ranges of parts that you like grow into. So, like, yeah, I might not be able to like perform parts I would have if I had started a performance career in my twenties, but like you can start performing whenever. Um, I do kind of think I want to get if I am to do another production. time soon. I have like I haven't done a production since twenty well twenty twenty two. I kind of want to do like a play again. It's funny that you asked this because I literally did my self-interview question um was what's your favorite type of performance art? Oh wait we did kind of talk about that but you know like did we? No we didn't okay I thought we did um like is it opera musical theater plays um dance stand-up comedy like any type of live performance and I said straight plays I just think they are much more like raw and emotional than other pieces of performance and like there's no fluff not that music doesn't add like an amazing layer to performance and like it expresses emotion in a totally different way than any other art form but like when it's just text there's like so much more room to play and like whether I mean it it doesn't have to just be drama I was saying it's like comedy also like I just feel like the audience connection is different um and the actor has more of like control of the reins of the production compared to like an opera where yeah you can like pause and like take space and like Anacruis or whatever and like you can kind of play with the music but like the conductor is gonna go and like you got to follow. So like you don't have control as much as you do in a play where like unless there's like another line like and yeah another actor could like come in if you're in the middle of a monologue or in the middle of a block of lines like sorry I'm in charge. Like I can pause and like let the audience sit in whatever I want them to sit in as long as I want to um so I kind of wanted to do a play.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:52

Yeah yeah I think like we should like this summer we should like go to like do like community theater and like I don't know actually I don't really know like the Northwark theater or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:08

I do have an in there my coworker cat shout out girl you don't all you also are a fucking fake fan and you don't watch this like this bitch over here. Um she directs the youth productions at the North Fork community theater and she told me oh am I gonna get her in trouble the Northwark community theater is not watching this. She told me the list of shows that they're doing for the next production year for production calendar uh they're not good. So maybe not there. There's the Riverhead faculty community theater though also which I think is also kind of shit. Maybe we could do the CM though CM Performing Arts Center.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:46

I don't they're doing cats right now and then they're they're doing um they're starting another production I think that I think that you could I think that you would be a good like programmer in that sense. Like that's what something I could see you doing. I don't know we've had like a lot of like talks or like guest um artists and like residencies of like former Bingham students but just like other people from the opera department who like and one of them has like come in and he's like had like he was a performance like major and had some performance career but like pivoted to um like audition paneling and like programming um like see like the season like what shows they're gonna do and I feel like I don't know like that yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:38

No that is sister and that is so too that is actually something that I've always dreamed of the I've directed a show before a play though um and the audition process was like my favorite thing ever. I love I that's another thing I've always dreamed of is being like a casting director. I love like pulling people's personalities apart and like knowing what parts they're right for before like words even come out of their mouths. Like I I love curating I love making playlists I love just curation in general and I think that is soty I've never even thought about that programming for like a department or a theater uh picking shows casting auditioning I think would actually be so much fun how do I get into that shout out uh sound off in the comments are there any casting agents or uh programmers um Chandler Johnson if you're he came to Binghamton um that's like his deal um yeah if you're watching this like hit up Jack Flatley I haven't actually said my last name on here yet so doxxed girl it's all right well I can see that my laptop is dying so the audio is gonna cut out soon and I think that was a beautiful first um guest appearance thank you so much sister have you seen those TikToks the nuns that have a podcast the ones that smoke no the the ones that smoke no um no it's just this like sister hood and they just talk about some like Christian shit but they are like so sweet with each other they're like so wholesome they I don't know they it's it's one main girl or sister and she brings on other sisters and I don't know they've been going kind of viral like they'll just talk about like sister what is your favorite um like activity that we do together like besides like chapel besides like anything spiritual related like what is your favorite activity that we do and then the other one will be like so I think my favorite thing that we do together is probably ultimate frisbee and then the other one's like and sister you are so good at that like they're just so endearing and so sweet. Um and they just make me want to grow closer to God no they make me just want to like be a more like humble like centered person. Yeah and just enjoy the little things. Yeah. But any closing remarks real quick um no that reminded me of also like plug yourself any recitals you have coming up that this is going to uh you know reach some people that might want to go.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:30

Right. Um so if any of you are gonna be in the Binghamton area um April 19th at 1 p.m in Kesadasu Recital Hall I'm having my senior recital. Um if you want to hear some Bach um handle schumann um a little song time um we're throwing some some musical theater in there. Um yeah but no that's uh that's that's what I've got going on and coming up. Um so keep an eye out for um the Binghamton news.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:01

Well that's all I have for you this week guys. Thank you so much for tuning in for yet another episode of Run on Sentence and I will see you next week with the 10th episode of double digits so exciting of everyone's favorite podcast. So thanks a million and I will see you next week. Bye y'all you know what and another thing