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01x05 Whats Your Favorite Dinosaur Podcast: Jurassic Episode

Nicole Melnyk Season 1 Episode 5

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"tell me how you really feel"

This episode host comedian Nicole Melnyk sits (and sometimes lays) down with cast of Jurassic Park: the Musical at Planet Ant in Hamtramck, MI. Enjoy meeting the cast, talking about dinosaurs and making your dino dreams come dino true.

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SPEAKER_03

Dino podcast.

SPEAKER_11

Yo, thank you for watching! What's your favorite dinosaur? With me, Nicole Melnick, aka your favorite dinosaur. This week, in the most momentous of occasions, we have stumbled upon the most amazing thing in Dino history since dinosaurs have been found for the first time. I'm interviewing for the opportunity of literally a lifetime, unless they get cloned and we do it again, the entire cast of Jurassic Park the Musical at Plant and Theater. Guys, make some noise! Thanks for watching. This is um What's Your Favorite Dinosaur with me and Nicole Melnick, and I am interviewing the cast of Jurassic Park the Musical. These guys, if anybody knows about dinosaurs, it's these guys. And these guys are gonna tell us about dinosaurs. Thanks for coming on my show. Thank you for doing your show.

SPEAKER_03

Thanks for having us, Nicole.

SPEAKER_11

This was so much fun. Um, an incredible play. Everyone, go around and say your name and maybe your role in the play, or and maybe something fun that you like about yourself. Is that um we want to start here?

SPEAKER_06

Sure. Yeah. Um my name is uh RJ Cash, and I play uh Ian Malcolm uh in the in the show. Uh uh Something fun about myself. Um this is like one of my favorite movies. I don't know. It really is. Jurassic Park, yeah. That's awesome! Yeah, big dinosaur fan.

SPEAKER_11

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_06

Anyways.

SPEAKER_07

Uh hi, uh, I'm uh Will Schulak and I play Dennis Nedri. Um what was that question? Something fun about me is that I am somebody who's very fun and gregarious, and I also have a positive relationship with my mother. That's cool.

SPEAKER_09

It's beautiful. Hi, I'm Mary Consiglio, and I play Lex Murphy, and I'm gonna laugh at a poop and pee joke.

SPEAKER_08

Hi, I'm Naver Nami. I play uh Dr. John Hammond, and I am a newly um discovered uh drag king, and I love it.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, that's an exclusive kid. It is checked. You heard it here first, folks. Hi, I'm Jen Horn. I play Dr. Ellie Sattler and the voice of Trexy. Um, and I am an Aquarius uh Aries Rising tourism.

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Whoa.

SPEAKER_12

Hi, I'm Courtney Kaman, and I play Tim and Clever Girl. And um What? Yeah. Did you not? No. You didn't know that?

SPEAKER_04

She transforms.

SPEAKER_12

You tra that's wild! Thank you so much. Wow. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02

I think that speaks for itself. Uh my name is Caitlin Shea, and I play Alan Grant. Uh I don't have a positive relationship with my dad.

SPEAKER_03

And that's huge, and that's huge, and that's huge, and that's huge.

SPEAKER_00

Um, hi, I'm Brendan McCarthy. I play Robert Muldoon and some other characters. I play the scientist and the dinosaur and the ranger and the lawyer Gennaro. And a fun fact about me is I've got a little dog named Taco.

SPEAKER_01

Hi, I'm Wario Catwill, and I play the T-Rex, also known as Trixie. And this is actually my first production ever.

SPEAKER_03

Whoa!

SPEAKER_05

Which way are you holding? You put it in your mouth and you eat it. Right there. Just eat it.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, the light, the light. You're actually holding it upside down. Just put it in your mouth.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, like this. Alright. I'm about to eat it. Right. This is like a flat black jelly bean. Anyway, hey, um, I'm Jake Russell. I put and I play uh black guy number one and black guy number two slash Mr. Arnold slash Samuel Jackson. Um and I want to get in shape and do some wrestling training just so I can learn how to dropkick somebody.

SPEAKER_11

That's a that was awesome. That was the cast. Well, hold on to that because that was incredible, guys. Wasn't that incredible? Um, that's awesome. I'm so glad. But then uh, so on my podcast, we talk about dinosaurs a lot. That's cool that you have seen the movie and liked the movie. Uh the because my thing is I ask people uh on my show on a scale of one dinosaur to five dinosaurs, how much do you like dinosaurs? And it might take too long to ask everybody. Yeah. So we're just gonna do a show of hands and raise your hand if you're a three or uh or above in how much you like dinosaurs. Five being the best. Five being the best. Okay, and then um show of hands if you're a three to zero in dinosaur interest. Get the fuck out of here. I'm right in the middle. No, that's awesome. So my question for you three is why do you hate joy?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, shit.

SPEAKER_12

I don't hate I just I feel like I'm a strong three. I do feel like this show helped me fall more in love with dinosaurs, but like what is your dinosaur? What is your dinosaur? Well, I think I really like a brachiosaurus. And I was really scared to say that out loud because I thought I was gonna say it wrong. Did they say it right?

SPEAKER_11

Yes. No, a lot of the times on my own show, people would be like, you're actually pronouncing that wrong. And I'm like, okay, well, whose fucking show is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_12

So I like a brachiosaurus. I'm like, wouldn't take a bullet for one, but like I'm a three. Okay. I I actually um no, that was an awesome answer.

SPEAKER_11

I meant like, what do you love instead of dinosaurs? Like me and I are watching Jurassic Park. What are you watching? My dog on Furbo. Oh, okay. Yeah. Dogs notoriously descended from dinosaurs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, cool. And you were also who I was a three, too. Yeah, you were a three.

SPEAKER_07

Go ahead. Um, I'm okay with dinosaurs. I just think that there are too many of them in our government. Yes. Government by the people for the people, not eight-year-olds shitting themselves.

SPEAKER_11

Oh, this was such a politically charged musical for what is Jurassic Park.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I it's a very like progressive show. I mean, it was a movie in the 90s that is an amazing movie, but like, I mean, Novere can speak to this more obviously, but it's it's really our own twist on it. It is a parody musical. It's so well done. It's so it's so much fun. Like, I I am blessed to be in this cast. Um, and my my favorite uh dinosaur probably is a pterodactyl.

SPEAKER_11

Okay. You people love the pterodactyl, dude. Is your favorite disease pneumonia? People go nuts for the silence piece. I pronounced the pet. Yeah, that was awesome. And then uh, so I didn't uh actually ask what your favorite dinosaur was, but I had one.

SPEAKER_07

A pterodactyl, sorry.

SPEAKER_11

No, um she still had one. Yeah, it I save that for the end. Everyone always doesn't think that I save it for the end. But that's my own fault. The show is coming up. Yeah, it's a little bit of an oversight on my fault.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, it's kind of like it's kind of like uh asking us like who's gonna come at the end of the play, but the title's waiting for Godot. Ooh, okay.

SPEAKER_11

Keep that in. Wow, that was awesome. Okay, and then um laughs like a Muppet. That's that's what my car sounds like.

SPEAKER_07

So your car sounds like your car sounds like cut chow.

SPEAKER_11

Um, and then to the people who love dinosaurs, off-rip, what is a memorable dinosaur from your childhood? Like, what was it that Stegosaurus? Stegosaurus.

SPEAKER_05

Thank you. Stegosaurus.

SPEAKER_11

From what um from what program? Yeah, who tell me a story about the you know, I call her Steggy.

SPEAKER_02

Stegosaurus was the awakening for me. Going to Gay Awakening Play. Steggy. She's got her own protective uh back of plates to keep her keep her safe. Uh, also, just shout out to Cranbrook uh Museum, who had an insane dinosaur exhibit as a kid. Uh went on a field trip and saw Stegosaurus. I was like, okay, that's it. Wow, stegosaurs.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, Stegosaurus um shit. So this is my awakening. Power Rangers was my awakening. When it had the dinosaurs, I was like, that's cool. Yeah. And then I was like, I want to learn more about dinosaurs. And my mama ordered dinosaur magazines for me and shit. And it came with like these um these like little like plastic fossils that you can put together yourself or whatever. I put all them holes together, man. That shit was fun as hell. And the stegosaurs was my favorite. The stegosaur looked cool, like what Katie said, the plates, and they had the little uh spikes on the tail and everything. So so like, because the plates protected the back, but then the but then the uh little spikes, you know what I'm saying, can like, you know, the stegosaur do a little damage, you know what I'm saying? You feel me? You know, I'm uh so like uh yeah, man, damn.

SPEAKER_12

I'm getting it.

SPEAKER_05

I'm about to cry, man. I'm about to cry. I ain't about to cry. I ain't about to fucking cry. Fuck out of here. But uh yeah, that's my that's pretty much my awakening. Um oh yeah, the dinosaur TV show too was dope too.

SPEAKER_11

Oh yeah, yeah, I'm the baby. It's in there. You guys, you nailed it. This was there were so many.

SPEAKER_05

You probably I held this wrong. You probably ain't hear none of that shit.

SPEAKER_02

I just have to say that the son in dinosaurs, New Vera and I are talking about this earlier today. I loved that that I loved his vibe. He had a uh a varsity jacket and a moha. No, no, no. Oh, the brother. But I did have the pull string baby toy, and you'd pull the string and it's a big thing. Not the mama, but yeah, the brother was cool. Another gay awakening where I was like, oh, I want to be the brother.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, the mom was gay too because you had a moha.

SPEAKER_08

The mom was very gay too. Um, I do not have feelings like that towards dinosaurs. Um, I do like dinosaurs. I was a three and above, but for me, Land Before Time, which the reference in the show, um that song, you know, Diana Ross's song and the death of the mom. It's just so typical. But like if you're not drawn in, but I will say that I hated Sarah, the triceratops, because she was a little bitch. Yeah. And I kind of hated uh Littlefoot. Um that's a hot take. I did Spike. Sorry, I did, but I did like Spike and I did like Flucky. And um I just feel like Littlefoot was just like, but you just shut the fuck up, you know what I mean? You're not gonna find this.

SPEAKER_11

That's how I feel about Sarah, and everyone loves Triceratopses, and it literally drives me crazy. I'm always rooting for the T-Rex. I'm always rooting for the T-Rex.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Sharptooth, right? Sharp Tooth.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, but also my that's I always say um BJ, Barney's like cousin. Oh, yeah. The big yellow one. Yeah. Yeah. She's a little slut, you know what I'm saying? When I was a kid, well, I was a kid, she was a kid, we were both kids.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. It's good.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah. You guys are great. Okay, awesome. What? Whoa, that's wild.

SPEAKER_12

We'll have a cast viewing party of all the darkness.

SPEAKER_11

Marathon. Okay. Oh, wait, this is the part of the show, guys, um, where I ask you. Oh, oh my gosh. These are the questions. Okay, so those are questions that I ask everybody on my show. But you guys are not everybody. This was so cool, and it was so awesome to see you guys do you uh, and it was so cool to see like a little um, and I mean this so affectionately, but a little gay Jurassic Park. Like that. Yeah, you're like, this is what Jurassic Park would have. Dude, I was like trying to figure out how I'm gonna work out the text of my fiance of like, no, it's funny because you wanted to fuck the Velociraptor. Like, that's such a good bit that it got me it, and then um, so my question is you guys I've seen the show, you guys are gonna see the show, you guys are in the show. Is there any role that you would want to play except for the role that you played? Would you guys if you if let's gender let's gender bend the gender bend?

SPEAKER_02

I had said we were talking about this last weekend, we were asking this question, and uh Maldoon for sure was a character that you know, short shorts, the whole idea of the character in this show specifically, too, just like is it's it's everyone should get to play Muldoon.

SPEAKER_09

It's a very fun, very fun character. Um I want to be Dennis Nedgery. I do. I kind of want to like roll around the stage with the Barbasol, you know?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

I think I'd wanna I'd wanna I'd wanna play Lex because I think Lex has some of the funniest funniest lines. Yeah, that would be a fun swap.

SPEAKER_06

Uh yeah, a lot of a lot of the characters are fun. I think being John Hammond would be very fun. Yeah, I love John Haman's song, and uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Um yeah, I said this the other day, but I would want to be Raptor 2 in our show. We have we have Raptor 1 and Raptor 2.

SPEAKER_11

So truly do I think that there needs to be a Raptor spin-off of Jurassic Park, the musical. You know what I'm saying? As soon as we get into it. I couldn't, I had no expectations except for like the movie. But when I saw this, I was like, this is how Jurassic Park should be introduced to the kids. And when we the three girl raptors, because it's it was such a good idea, because you're like, oh yeah, they're girl dinosaurs. It's like, of course. But then when they're like sassy and they're all doing their nails because they have claws. It's such a good bit, it's so good, it's hilarious. It's brilliant. I loved it. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my bad. Yeah, no, go interrupt me.

SPEAKER_02

Jacob, tell me everything.

SPEAKER_05

I want to after after watching Mario's performance, yeah. I want to be a I want to be a hip rolling T-Rex.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, yeah, I was waiting for it. I was like, no one wants to be the fucking T-Rex.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I will I'll be a T-Rex, man. Well, I want the like the moves and everything. The moves that was fun, and I want to fuck some shit up too. So yeah, exactly. I want to chomp on a Jeep.

SPEAKER_11

T-Rex all the way, yeah. And you have so much fun playing that role.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, yes, I have a lot of fun playing this role. I'm just grateful to be a part of this cast, all of these very talented, funny people. I I don't want to play any other role but this.

SPEAKER_10

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So much fun, and yeah, I I can't thank them enough for letting me be a part of this, honestly.

SPEAKER_11

You have the most difficult job because you have to do it without words. You have to, you're exclusively using the art of body. You kill it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's so much fun. Like the dancing. I really got into it like tonight. I get into it every night, but like tonight, the like second half of the song, I was like, oh yeah, let's do this shit. I I got I got hype as fuck, and you know, I love my my backup dancers, the lady dinos, and it's just scrape.

SPEAKER_11

That was so much fun. Awesome. And then I so I gotta just check my notes because I wrote them. Um oh wait, yeah. So this was a musical, and you guys are all you guys all have musical theater backgrounds, right? I presume, or no? No? No. Okay, well then, yeah. Wait, if if this wasn't Jurassic Park the musical, then what musical would it be? What's your what's your musical of choice? What's your drug of musical? Favorite musical? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, little shampoo!

SPEAKER_09

Little Shampoo with dinosaurs is a really good answer. It's my favorite movie. It's my Jurassic Park. What?

SPEAKER_11

That's awesome. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_06

It's a good one.

SPEAKER_05

I don't really fuck with musicals like that.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, get out!

SPEAKER_05

But have you ever heard this musical called Carmen the Hip Hopper with Beyonce? It was on MTV back in the day. That was the only musical that I watched. Like, that shit came on all the time. Probably watched like 20 times. It was pretty good. If I watched it now, it's probably trash. But that's the musical I like. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I can't peg. I've got way too many favorite musicals. Oh Me and Girls is a great musical. They made it into a musical. Yeah, just stay in your lane. We're talking about musicals right now, okay?

SPEAKER_05

I guess not really. And then chapter, fuck y'all.

SPEAKER_00

Um, I saw Chad's on Broadway this last year. That was great, along with Death Becomes the Musical, really fun. Uh yeah, we love a good movie musical.

SPEAKER_11

We love a good movie musical. It's fun to make it better. And then they go, Oh, you're gonna make it better, and you're like, Yeah, by that we mean a little bit gay. Yes, we're gonna make it better. That's what we said.

SPEAKER_00

Because when we make things better, it means we're making it gay. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11

They go together. Wow, you guys, this is so much fun. Okay, and then uh, so all my questions have to do with dinosaurs. I typically ask um if anybody this I ask people who don't know about dinosaurs, because I think it's a funny question. But I ask if there are any dinosaurs that you feel like you could beat in a fight. But I feel like we just did a whole musical about how we know that we can't win against dinosaurs in a fight.

SPEAKER_04

Right, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11

So I think, folks, don't try to fight dinosaurs. But you oh, you got an answer? Horseback's got an answer.

SPEAKER_07

Mitch McConnell.

SPEAKER_11

No, okay, that's fair. All right, you can fight one dinosaur. You can fight one dinosaur. Oh, you're killing it, dude. You're so funny. Oh, this is going so good. Okay, and then oh right, that was such a great answer. One of my friends said uh a pterodactyl, but in a in a cage match on ground, and you're like, well, that's just wrestling.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah but Yeah, remember the pterodactyl grabbed the babysitter in Jurassic World. Yeah. He's dunking her head in the line. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_11

Just put her in. That was isn't the isn't the lore that she's somebody in the play, or in the in the play. You know, the play for TVs. Um, she's in the she's connected to the film in some way, and and she was like, kill me in the movie.

SPEAKER_00

What?

SPEAKER_11

I don't know. She like asked to be I don't know anything about that. You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know. I play a dinosaur video game. That's how I so I don't even I've seen Jurassic Park maybe a couple of times. Um, but big Jeff Goldblum fan. So that's cool. Yeah, that's uh um did you like him in Wicked? I I loved him in Wicked. He did such a good job. I don't like there's too much CGI in the they like de-aged him by and then I'm like, but you were like practical effects for all of us. And you're like, pick a pick a side, but you regardless. Um wait, okay, so then this is what's your favorite dinosaur? Well, I asked my friends what their favorite dinosaur is. Everything on this show is connected to dinosaurs, about dinosaurs, or in some way transgenically connected to dinosaurs, not just in the way that we all are sharing the same earth. Um, so my question that I ask every guest on the show uh to sort of embody dinosaurs is um I'm gonna put I'm gonna ask you guys it now, is um dinosaur related. Why do you think that we're all here?

SPEAKER_01

Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not hot. I'm gonna have to take a shot at that one. Tennis. Uh why are we all here? I I think we're all here to to love each other and you know, to to really bring something to the world, you know, we're all unique. Everybody has an uh aptitude for something, uh, intelligence, whatever it may be. I believe we're all here to connect and you know, just be one, you know. But anybody else? Anybody else?

SPEAKER_11

Top that, losers. What are you here to do? Have a crack at it.

SPEAKER_05

No, I think some of us are here to do that. You know, you you you heard the song Human So Stupid. Human So Stupid. To fuck up everything. Humans fucked up every goddamn thing.

SPEAKER_11

I agree.

SPEAKER_05

They fucked up all this shit, man. Only there's only a few select uh people here that's here to actually love each other. They're all on the stage right now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That's so cute.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. That wasn't cute. That was real shit. Nah, that was cute.

SPEAKER_11

It was cute. It was real shit. That was cute.

SPEAKER_05

Anyway, uh, yeah. I don't even know the answer made sense. Hey, uh, hey, will you edit it? Let me hear it. And then I'll I'll let you know if you're gonna be. And I'll tell you if you cut it or not.

SPEAKER_11

Jacob's final cut. It's actually Jacob's podcast, yeah. So that's um well, that was awesome, you guys. Thank you for um being on the show. I have two more questions for you. Don't worry.

SPEAKER_01

Um The Pizza is getting cold. Wow.

SPEAKER_11

Did I already ask you what dinosaur you would be if you could be any dinosaur?

SPEAKER_01

No. She asked, she asked what if we could fight, if we could fight it on the show.

SPEAKER_02

No, well, because I said stegosaurus. Oh, wait, did you? Yes, we did, I don't know. We did that?

SPEAKER_11

Okay. Um, well then this was this was my there's two more questions to go. And then this question, um Wait, how would it?

SPEAKER_08

It's been two questions for a little bit.

SPEAKER_11

Oh yeah. It's because numbers aren't real. Um, we have two guys, thank you so much for guys, the cast of Jurassic Park. You know what I'm saying? This is so cool. Thank you for being on my show. Um, two questions to go. The second to last question, my question is uh oh fuck. I fuck how do you go? What's I it's it's a bit. Well, what's your what's your favorite dinosaur's favorite dinosaur? Chapel Roaring. Oh, team, shut team, chat team.

SPEAKER_03

We did it.

SPEAKER_11

So that was two, and now we have one. And then the last question. Yeah, um, the last question on the podcast, everyone can share the microphone and we're gonna go around and um and say our favorite dinosaurs. I'll start with me. Uh my name's Nicole Malik, I'm the host of the show. My favorite dinosaur is the Carcorontidodontosaurus. He's like a T-Rex, but he's got spikes, and he's a little bit smaller.

SPEAKER_05

Uh I already said Stegosaurus earlier, so I'm sticking with that. Stegosaurus with the place and the spike tail and everything.

SPEAKER_12

Mario has two mics, it's not fair. Marion has two mics. Make them kiss.

SPEAKER_01

My favorite dinosaur is the Mario Saurus, of course. No, I'm joking, I'm fucking around. It's the T-Rex. Clearly, clearly. It has to be the T-Rex, right?

SPEAKER_03

It has to be the T-Rex. I hate when people don't like the T-Rex.

SPEAKER_00

Um obviously, my favorite is the Velociraptor.

SPEAKER_11

Oh, that accent wasn't real that whole time.

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No.

SPEAKER_00

Nope, I'm American. I'm from Michigan.

SPEAKER_11

I knew it.

SPEAKER_12

I fucking knew it this whole time. Um, I also already answered, but I do like a brachiosaurus.

SPEAKER_04

I'm sticking with my little Steggyosaurus. Stegosay.

SPEAKER_01

Stegosay.

SPEAKER_04

When I was little, uh, we would have like a little chant, it would be Pacylocephalosaurus. Paclycephalosaurus, but I don't think that's the actual name of it anymore. I think they keep on changing the dinosaurs, right? Like they all the names keep on, and it's disturbing to me. I think it's like a diplosaurus or something. Oh, yeah, diplosaurus. That one. It's got like the hard head.

SPEAKER_11

They all, yeah, they all got reclassified. Yeah, a little bit like Pokemon when they did that. Exactly.

SPEAKER_08

It's Diplo. Diplo.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Um, I'm gonna go with Yoshi from uh Super Mario World.

SPEAKER_09

That's a really good line. Yeah, it's a dinosaur. Yeah, that's cool. The OG Yoshi, yep. I will be joining joining my my my brother and pal here, William. And I would say that my favorite dinosaur is a pterodactyl, because I really like birds.

SPEAKER_11

Well, a lot of birds come from dinosaurs. That one is me. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Fair, fair, fair, fair. Uh, I think I'd probably say because when I was a kid, I fell in love with the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. And I know that they're obviously, as we mentioned, much bigger. Uh oh yeah, bigger than uh the actual fossils. Um, so I would say the Utah Raptor. Because that's much closer to that.

SPEAKER_11

Because it's just a moment. You can have lots of wives.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11

You have lots of dinosaur wives. Which he can't because all the Jurassic Park dinosaurs are girls, so he'll have lots of choices of wives to choose from.

SPEAKER_06

That's very true. Many, many a wife.

SPEAKER_11

Many a wife, a wifeosaurus. Guys, this has been what's your favorite dinosaur with me, Nicole Melligan. Check out the show, check out the show. Check out the show. Check out the show. Check out the show.

SPEAKER_06

Check out the show. Check out the show. Check out the show.

SPEAKER_11

Alright, and cut. Thank you so much for doing that, guys.