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Wisps of Ash w/ Greg Ledger - Episode 20
Are You Famous, Yet?
09/03/18 • 77 min
Classic episode from Apr 7, 2014
This week Laura brings Greg Ledger, storyteller and fellow podcaster! Greg's Podcast: A Dear School 0:01:30 Say hello to Greg! 0:02:20 Obamacare may be working for Bryn shortly 0:02:50 Nilsa already has Obamacare... because she's more organized than Bryn 0:06:00 Recorded some radio spots for Engine Lab of Tampa with Brian McKenna at BToven Studios 0:08:00 This Greg had an incredible guest on his podcast... our own Laura Scruggs. Drinking may have been involved. 0:10:30 Greg tells us how storytellers do it 0:12:25 Practicing storytelling in the shower 0:15:20 Greg took a 30 year moritorium on creativity 0:18:50 Early problems with drink and fleeing the country... to paint a guy's house 0:20:05 Calgary, The Stampede, and roving hoards of intellectuals 0:23:10 Deported by the RCMP and the road to sobriety 0:25:25 Moving to Chicago and the worst phone ever 0:29:00 Getting back into artistic stuff and getting nasty 0:29:55 Writing and breakdowns 0:33:30 Schwarzenegger 0:37:55 Masking your feelings with writing may be hazardous to your mental health 0:40:15 Bag A Bag A 'Begas- the latest snack food craze and other diversions 0:50:00 We love the origin story of our podcast, we're trying to figure out how to nurture it, too 0:53:55 According to Nilsa, Bryn loves reacting to things 0:58:40 What brought Greg to improv... 1:02:00 Favorite poems 1:10:00 A rejection of popular culture 1:13:00 Nilsa auditioned for the role of... Brynn (with two n's) 1:15:00 Bryn gets to shoot a movie with a previous podcast guest... who could it be?
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
Musicals, Death, Sports, and Food - Episode 19 remastered
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08/06/18 • 70 min
01:12 - The Benefactor returns. Matt Shuemaker is Bryn’s high school friend and our first repeat guest (back from the 6th episode)! 02:18 - Yet another person comes in from out of town and paints the town red. A discussion of Rocky - the musical ensues. 05:22 - Guess which members of our crew have never seen "Rocky"? Surely not our star and focus of the show... 09:40 - "All the Way" the LBJ bio play with Bryan Cranston 13:30 - Jake tells a sports story! 20:22 - Uh... We explain the triangle offense. What happened to this podcast? 21:15 - A Death in the family http://t.co/vJGcXWf893 29:17 - Similarities between Nilsa's Dad and Bryn's Mom. 38:13 - Death chat ends with Jake transparently changing the topic to "Community." How 'bout the 2nd D&D episode, eh? 40:21 - Nilsa doesn't like one of Bryn's favorite movies: "House" the super artsy Japanese movie from 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_%281977_film%29 44:44 - Matt, still lives in the "death sty" and has become "The Grain Elevator Specialist" 48:22 - Jake talks about the apprenticeship program he's starting at work 54:26 - The Benefactor's culinary good deeds are recounted. Steaks! 59:24 - The indecipherable and delightful video Jake saw in a Korean restaurant: http://youtu.be/3O9YceKnDo4 1:07:16 - Jake's review of the Veronica Mars movie.
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
Short Update on our Last 5 or 6 Things - Episode 226
Are You Famous, Yet?
06/25/18 • 18 min
Jake and Laura sit down for an quick chat about Laura's new job at Chicago Trolley & Double Decker Co. - http://chicagotrolley.com, recent film premiere, cabaret, and fairy training events.
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
Laura, Jake, 2017, and Beyond - Episode 211
Are You Famous, Yet?
01/08/18 • 43 min
Laura and Jake discuss the previous year (2017) and their hopes for 2018.
Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
We’re Holding Out for a Hero: Captain Ambivalent - Episode 33
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11/07/17 • 72 min
06:34 - Origin of “Captain Ambivalent” 09:41 - “Precious” a song about “Lord of the Rings”’s Gollum in the style of country 15:05 - Almost all of Captain Ambivalent’s music is up on SoundClound as free samples 23:09 - How Captain Ambivalent’s costume & persona came about 28:09 -Video of Cafe Vivaldi performance in New York City 31:00 - Discussion of Capt. A’s song “Everything” 33:48 - “If I Were A Pirate Ninja Zombie” & how it is possibly the most romantic song Capt. A. has ever written 37:04 - Constructive feedback from worst performance Capt. A. ever had - a Sat. night at a pizza joint, at an intermission for a jug band performance. 50:09- Capt. A’s performance at Neo Futurist benefit at Metro - Special Guest and Neo Futurists 51:09 - “Pizza Girl” and Dungeons & Dragons 55:19 - Torturing Barbies and Capt. A.’s song about it 56:44 - Capt. A. plays “Everything” Live in studio 1:00:18 - “Crazy Picasso-Eyed Lady” 1:01:16 - Exploration of “Run, Will Robinson, Run” 1:03:00 - “Ray is not the Name of the Accordion” animation in the video by Capt. A.! 1:05:35 - Origin of the song - “Irv!” - about the inventor of dental floss
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
The Q Brothers' Burgeoning Empire - Episode 125
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10/16/17 • 74 min
Apologies for the "blow outs" and the "thumps" - it was a great interview with a few recording issues. 01:55 - How the Q Brothers started writing and performing hip hop using Shakespeare as the source text. 07:50 - GQ on how he got involved with "Drumline." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303933/ 09:40 - Video for "White Nigga from Drumline" by the Retar crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1dQOZY1KiM 10:38 - Genesis of "Funk It Up About Nothin'" and how it came to Chicago Shakespeare Theater 19:16 - The Q Brothers' heritage 27:05 - "Othello: The Remix" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/othello_the_remix_2016 28:43 - GQ gives Jake the business about having a hefty serving of salt with his pepper. 31:12 - "Othello: The Remix" was commissioned by The Globe (of London) in 2012 53:40 - The Q Brothers' shaving business and Small Flower TV: https://www.youtube.com/user/smallflowertv 1:04:35 - "Q Gents" and "Mad Summer" 1:05:49 - GQ flips the script and ask us how "Are You Famous, Yet?" began. 1:08:54 - Q Brothers Freestyle!!!
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
Bryn and Nilsa 200th Episode Spectacular!
Are You Famous, Yet?
09/18/17 • 71 min
06:54 - Gilbert Godfrey's podcast http://www.gilbertpodcast.com 07:25 - Gilbert's documentary http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/gilbert-gottfried-documentary-review-tribeca-film-festival-2017-1201807032/ 09:47 - What has Nilsa been up to? 14:50 - Nilsa was asked to join the company New York Madness https://nymadness.com Lonestar Theatre Company http://www.lonestartheatre.com 20:06 - Nilsa is also writing for "The Lost Girls Blog" http://www.lostgirlsworld.com/blog/ I am Not Your Negro, documentary about James Baldwin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/ 25:01 - Jake remembers bit about when Bryn and Nilsa would imitate each other 31:08 - Cultural events of the last few years have been hard for Bryn to reckon with and he's been writing about it. 41:15 - Jake would like to talk a little more concretely about what Bryn has been doing: played the ghost of Benjamin Spock in the play, "Baby Hubris," by Jacqui Rego http://www.babyhubris.com You can listen to our podcast episode about this here: http://areyoufamousyet.libsyn.com/jacqui-rgo-and-the-cast-of-baby-hubris-episode-182 Festival show, "From A to Double D" https://www.facebook.com/events/1915146762090057/ 47:35 - Now they're doing another run of "From A to Double D." 48:29 - And the marketing is great, with Instagram http://toptagram.com/user/fromatodoubledplay Twitter https://twitter.com/FromAtoDoubleD and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FromAtoDoubleD/ 50:30 - Bryn gets sucked into reading/watching the news. 55:05 - Softball: a retreat with the twins! 56:15 - The MTA has been falling apart. 1:01:43 - Bryn is trying to get a job now. 1:03:59 - Cats and the next CJ3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy28it0ul6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLV44zOUusY
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
Schoen Smith Does Theater/Film/Directing in New York/Chicago/L.A. - Episode 192
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07/17/17 • 53 min
01:29 - When Schoen knew she wanted to do theatre and early disc jockey experience. 07:05 - Modeling then off to college to study finance and business economics. 11:31 - First show in New York. 15:20 - Independent film experiences. 19:04 - LA CAUSA Youth Build. http://www.lacausainc.org 22:08 - How Schoen got into producing theatre. 22:34 - The show, "Elevator." http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/learn/content/348 https://thisstage.la/2010/08/michael-leonis-elevator-is-a-moving-experience/ http://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/West-Coast-Premiere-of-ELEVATOR-by-Michael-Leoni-to-Play-Hudson-Guild-Opens-729-20100821 24:56 - Venture Hill Entertainment. http://www.anmt.org/conference/conference_panelists.asp?ID=13290&PanelID=91 http://vhellc.com/about-us/ 26:21 - DOMA Theatre Company in L.A. http://www.domatheatre.com 27:20 - Some actors in L.A. don't value theatre as much as they could. 29:11 - How did Schoen get from New York to L.A. to Chicago? 33:28 - Director of Development at Collaboraction. http://www.collaboraction.org 34:09 - Schoen has been doing a lot of directing lately. "Token," a one woman show by Kaye Winks: at Collaboraction's Gender Breakdown Lounge https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Creatives-Social-Club/events/237738081/ http://collaboraction.tumblr.com Second City at Judy's Beat Lounge https://www.facebook.com/events/203741633448860/ Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin http://www.outofboundscomedy.com/artists/token/ United Solo Festival in NYC http://unitedsolo.org/us/token-2017/ *"Hoods" at Peacebook http://www.collaboraction.org/peacebook2017 Opens August 26th at the Goodman Theatre and then Hamilton Park Oct. 5th, 6th and 7th. 38:53 - As a director, how does Schoen prod actors in the right direction? 43:05 - Schoen's show in 44:21 - Schoen highly recommends visiting all of the gorgeous parks that Collaboraction works with: Hamilton http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Hamilton-Park/ Lafollette Park http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/La-Follette-Park/ Austin http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Austin-Park/ Kelvyn http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Kelvyn-Park/ 48:43 - Schoen and previous podcast guest, GQ, at Kidzapalooza https://www.lollapalooza.com/kidzapalooza/ Promotions: Schoen is the co-producer of the documentary American Street Kid http://www.americanstreetkid.com/schoen-smith http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524931/ Trailer for American Street Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vCuvi8I1-c https://www.facebook.com/AmericanStreetKid/ http://cni.castingnetworks.com/talent/profile/931015 http://www.americanstreetkid.com/schoen-smith
Mitch O'Connell Draws Everything Sexy - Episode 167
Are You Famous, Yet?
01/23/17 • 56 min
Our computer crashed during recording and the first 20 min of this episode has a lot of references to the lost part of the interview. I am very sorry about this as it does not make for an easy listen.
02:03 - Mitch O'Connell on Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/?s=Mitch+O%27Connell 05:30 - The 12 Million Dollar Shark http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3717320-the-12-million-stuffed-shark 08:11 - Jim Shooter's extremely nice rejections. 09:00 - Mitch's training at School of the Art Institute and American Academy of Art. http://www.saic.edu http://www.aaart.edu 11:09 - Son of Svengoolie. http://svengoolie.com 14:25 - Mitch hawking his wares in New York at the age of 15 or 16. "Females With Furry Things" - http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2012/01/females-with-furry-things-top-100.html "Pin the Mr. on the Man" - https://www.amazon.com/Pin-Mr-Man-Mitch-OConnell/dp/0811870812 33:04 - Fucked by Lady Luck. Mitch O'Connell's Tattoos, Volume 2 - https://lastgasp.com/d/43072/mitch-oconnell-tattoos-volume-2 36:54 - Donald Trump as a guy from They Live. http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-real-donald-trump-revealed-youll-be.html 39:10 - Goodies' illustration by Mitch O'Connell & Uncle Fun. http://traffic.libsyn.com/areyoufamousyet/goodies_mitch_Oconnell.jpg 45:51 - Black light posters! http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2012/06/black-light-posters.html 52:19 - How does being a father affect Mitch as an artist? 55:16 - Promotion for Alex White, "Goodnight Brooklyn": https://www.facebook.com/events/1082355141874663/
Mitch O'Connell links: http://www.mitchoconnell.com http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mitch.oconnell https://www.etsy.com/shop/MitchOConnell https://mitchoconnell.threadless.com/
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "The Devil Is In The Beats" - The Chemical Brothers
The Truth and the End - Episode 236
Are You Famous, Yet?
01/02/19 • 32 min
We discuss our low numbers and cost/benefit ratio. Download numbers are revealed. Laura and Jake talk about stopping regular production of the podcast. As is fitting, the sound would not work (curse you dongles) so we are using a MacPro mic and it sounds as bad as you'd expect.
See https://jakescruggs.com/blog/2019/01/01/the-truth-about-my-podcast for the data we discuss.
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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz
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