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[0:20] Bryan Plovsky: Hello, and welcome to the official Broadwaysted podcast where we're drunk on theater. I'm your host, Bryan Plovsky. And yo girl, today everything is beautiful. We're going to have big fun while we freeze your brain, especially if you shine a light and fight for me. We're not blue, Alba Diabadae. Because the man sighted me as a lifeboat that was meant to be yours. At 17, we thought, is this prom or hell? But since I am damaged and my dead gay son would just like to say, hey yo, Westerberg. Our love is God in the candy store. Joining us today are the usual kindergarten boyfriends, including Kevin, Dead Girl Walking Jager.

[0:53] Kevin Jager: Yes, the best one.

[0:54] Bryan Plovsky: I love it. Kevin's been waiting for this opening for a very long time. This is like very impressive. Like how long did it take you to break this?

[1:02] Kevin Jager: Shorter than you think.

[1:05] Bryan Plovsky: And longer than I wanted. Um Kimberly, our game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:12] Kimberly Cooper: Hello.

[1:12] Bryan Plovsky: And with us today is a powerhouse of a guest, currently starring on Broadway in Mean Girls as Janice. You might also know her from Lissa Estrata Jones. Did you ever go on her?

[1:21] Kevin Jager: You would definitely not know her.

[1:36] Bryan Plovsky: Friend of the show.

[1:37] Kevin Jager: We did it at the same time, guys!

[1:39] Bryan Plovsky: I drank earlier than I'm really okay, yeah, yeah. Uh what's your name?

[1:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: No, I'm kidding. Uh Barrett Wilbert Weed.

[1:46] Bryan Plovsky: Yay! Thank you so much for joining us.

[1:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Of course. Of course, of course. Absolutely. My pleasure to be here.

[1:51] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah, we faked everybody out a couple weeks ago because we had Tia Boyach on.

[1:54] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh.

[1:55] Bryan Plovsky: But now we actually have you. She's um like a very, very, very dear friend of mine. She's amazing. We lived together when we did the out of town trials.

[2:02] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, really?

[2:04] Bryan Plovsky: That's awesome. She brought her dog.

[2:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So I learned so cute.

[2:08] Bryan Plovsky: He's precious.

[2:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I lived with Tia and Butters, her Australian, her mini Australian shepherd.

[2:12] Bryan Plovsky: Amazing.

[2:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Butters.

[2:14] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, follow her on Instagram. It's absolutely named.

[2:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, he's a good, good dog.

[2:20] Bryan Plovsky: That's amazing. But you can follow Barrett at Barrett Wilbert Weed on all social media.

[2:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. I'm kind of, I think I'm divorced from Twitter permanently.

[2:27] Bryan Plovsky: Okay.

[2:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But people said can still follow you, so when you come back.

[2:30] Bryan Plovsky: Absolutely. Let's just start with what are you drinking?

[2:30] Barrett Wilbert Weed: What are you drinking?

[2:35] Bryan Plovsky: So that is a good question. What are we drinking? This week we're drinking Mancan Wine.

[2:40] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[2:41] Bryan Plovsky: Shut up and drink is the tagline.

[2:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love that that's a tagline.

[2:44] Bryan Plovsky: This is very good. It's one of the good. I think it's the only company that's like solely dedicated to wine in a can.

[2:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: They want it to be more like accessible and casual.

[2:52] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[2:52] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And for men, apparently.

[2:54] Kevin Jager: I guess.

[2:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But the ladies in the room are interesting.

[2:57] Kevin Jager: It's really good actually.

[2:59] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And can't it be like a little bit? There's different varietals on this table. There's white, red, white fizz, and then rosé.

[3:06] Kevin Jager: Yeah, the white fizz is good. It's weird drinking champagne out of a can, but like after the first or second sip, like you're totally into it.

[3:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, it took a minute to like.

[3:13] Kevin Jager: Yeah, but it's good. It's also lime on the inside, so that you don't get that metallic taste in it.

[3:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah.

[3:19] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[3:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Are you enjoying it?

[3:20] Kevin Jager: Staringly lime, that's really good.

[3:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's kind of good, right?

[3:22] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[3:23] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I don't think I've ever had. I've never had like um like still rosé from a can. I've had sparkling rosé from a can.

[3:27] Kevin Jager: My question was a can, do we think this is the equivalent of two glasses?

[3:35] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I don't know. Or is it like one?

[3:37] Kevin Jager: I'm with you. I was like, let's hope.

[3:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's the end of my show week.

[3:42] Kevin Jager: Oh, you can lure me into a podcast with the promise of free wine absolutely yeah that's how we lure people it's really how it works it's got wine and jokes we do have the jokes jokes to be determined to be too many jokes yeah but I want to start with some rapid fire questions for you I want to talk about um just you know things some of these things may relate to when you're in high school some of these things just may relate to your you know everyday whims yeah um whims a whims whimsy she looks a little scared I'm just giving you thinking eyes yeah I like that um Beatles or stones for the bands not like one second I was like the like the creature or the rock or do you like which would you rather have a collection of the stones do you have a favorite stone song simply for the devil in sync or backstreet boys that's a solid question uh backstreet boys me too they have better voices and I love in sync but they're better on and they're still together they are too not too I didn't say together I would go see BSB in concert yeah in a heartbeat yeah yeah and it would be just as good as it was like when I went to see them when I was a kid those harmonies they're tight they're really good they're really good they all have equally amazing voices agreed they're better at the stool song aspect of a concert than in sync maybe rethink the way you said that they're better sitting on my brain like too I was like, that sounds like a gross song yeah hogs or slap bracelets.

[5:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my gosh. How to choose uh I mean, I had both. But I I think I was a bigger, more invested fan of a slap bracelet.

[5:29] Kevin Jager: Okay.

[5:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I still am. Whenever I see one, like I get one, I'm like, it's a slap bracelet.

[5:34] Kevin Jager: Okay.

[5:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And I show the people around me. Like I did when I was a kid. Look at it. That's how it works.

[5:43] Kevin Jager: Did you watch Nickelodeon Channel or Disney Channel?

[5:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Nickelodeon for sure. All the way. Eventually I went to Disney Channel, I think like when I started to hit puberty, because they had a lot of cute boys on that channel.

[5:52] Kevin Jager: For sure.

[5:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And it had Degrassi late at night.

[5:54] Kevin Jager: They did.

[5:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But I feel like that's the natural transitional evolution. Nickelodeon's like, I mean, it's very much like it's very tame now, but I feel like when I was growing up, it was very dark and like a lot of very weird cartoons.

[6:08] Kevin Jager: Did you have a favorite?

[6:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I mean, I feel like I watched Doug as a kid the way I watch The Office now, which is just like kind of a constant.

[6:21] Kevin Jager: I literally left a party early because I was like, I gotta go home. There are some awkward moments in the streets. And watch The Office.

[6:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: There's some Doug moments that rival like the most awkward like Scott's Tots episodes.

[6:34] Kevin Jager: Oh, I can't watch Scott's Tots.

[6:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I skip it every time.

[6:36] Kevin Jager: T and I have that in common. That's one of the things that we talked about that on her episode.

[6:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my gosh. I don't even know who's here anymore.

[6:46] Kevin Jager: Netflix or YouTube.

[6:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, Netflix.

[6:50] Kevin Jager: What's YouTube compared to Netflix?

[6:52] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Some people go in. Some people go into it.

[6:55] Kevin Jager: Every performance you've ever done.

[6:58] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That's why I don't use YouTube anymore.

[7:01] Kevin Jager: Oh, I had fun researching you for Kevin's corner. I typed into YouTube and I was like, there's so many videos.

[7:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, it's an insane amount of videos.

[7:11] Kevin Jager: So what's your favorite?

[7:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I didn't. Exactly. But if I could control them, I would take 60% of them down.

[7:19] Kevin Jager: But you can't.

[7:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I can't.

[7:22] Kevin Jager: Favorite Olsen twins movie.

[7:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, yeah.

[7:29] Kevin Jager: That's an easy one for me.

[7:30] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, what is it, Kevin?

[7:32] Kevin Jager: Double Double Toil and Trouble.

[7:34] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh. But I like their older stuff, like when they were like getting into being like sassy teen.

[7:39] Kevin Jager: Yes.

[7:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um, well, my friend who is here silently in the background of this podcast.

[7:45] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[7:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Her name is Kitty Tanga. She is our bartender for the night.

[7:49] Kevin Jager: Vhemently mouthing Passport to Paris.

[7:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I might have picked up Passport to Paris is Gorge. But also, um, wasn't it like uh like what was it? The one where they go on vacation, vacation in the sun or something like that.

[8:03] Kevin Jager: Holiday in the Sun in a few.

[8:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, that's a good one.

[8:06] Kevin Jager: Starring.

[8:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I just remember like on an island.

[8:10] Kevin Jager: Yes.

[8:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And then like somehow they have delay in me being like. And your parents being like, why is this on again? Remember when I went out of the family and not ABC Family, and then not whatever.

[8:20] Kevin Jager: What is it in the free form?

[8:22] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Pretty Little Liars.

[8:23] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[8:23] Barrett Wilbert Weed: PLL.

[8:24] Kevin Jager: So good.

[8:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I just will spend my whole life trying to look like Lucy Hale. Anytime I go into a hair salon or get my makeup professionally done, I'm just constantly showing them pictures of Lucy Hale being like, make me look like this.

[8:39] Kevin Jager: That is amazing.

[8:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Kevin, this is more of just me telling you to watch Pretty Little Liars.

[8:44] Kevin Jager: It's honestly really good.

[8:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Is it good?

[8:46] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[8:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Good as in.

[8:48] Kevin Jager: There are a lot of different kinds of good.

[8:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Right.

[8:51] Kevin Jager: Yes.

[8:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Is it captivating and you need to watch every single episode? Absolutely. It's like your dirty secret.

[8:56] Kevin Jager: 100%.

[8:58] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, was it like is on the same like Warner Brothers lot as Gilmore Girls? And that means something to me.

[9:03] Kevin Jager: Yes, it was.

[9:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Every once in a while they're in the gazebo, and I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Where's Dean? Where's Dean? Where's Jess? Where's Logan? Where's all the Gilmore Girls characters? I love it. Melissa McCarthy came to the show the other day, and I really kept it together. Like I really I love her in like a deep personal way, not in a like, me God, like I love your work. I just so glad you're here. Like, I love her in a like, I'm gonna take both of your hands and just give you like a firm thank you.

[9:35] Kevin Jager: Like that's um, yeah, of course, and she was like the best person in the world.

[9:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: What's your favorite breakfast food?

[9:45] Kevin Jager: How do you choose?

[9:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um I love like a true like NYC like egg and cheese on a roll. Such a good answer. As a kid. I was vehemently opposed to breakfast food. I'm only finding out that like later in my life it's because my mother was she has a lot of fine fine qualities. Breakfast making is not one of them. And I'm finding this out later that I'm like, oh, I actually like I love waffles, I love pancakes, love bacon, pry bacon out of my cold dead hands. Like literally love all of it. Like, don't discriminate, but I think we should move into our next segment called what have you seen this week.

[10:24] Kevin Jager: What have you seen this week?

[10:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: More recently, Bert, have you seen anything lately?

[10:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: No. I wish so badly that I that I had. I watched like uh whatever video footage I can find.

[10:35] Kevin Jager: Of yourself?

[10:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: No.

[10:38] Kevin Jager: On YouTube.

[10:38] Barrett Wilbert Weed: There's a shows. Like I had like the like the band's visit like clip on repeat, because I just think like I haven't even been able to see that show. And I just think like Katrina Link is like, I'm like, where did you come from? What else can we give you? You are a goofy indecent.

[10:54] Kevin Jager: Which no, I missed it.

[10:56] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Well, it's on Broadway HD.

[10:58] Kevin Jager: It is?

[10:58] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, yeah.

[10:59] Kevin Jager: What did you see, Kimberly?

[11:01] Kimberly Cooper: I saw The Gentleman Caller at the Cherry Lane Theater.

[11:04] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Tell us about it.

[11:06] Kimberly Cooper: The Gentleman Caller.

[11:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah.

[11:08] Kimberly Cooper: I was gonna say, does that have been called? I texted carnage.

[11:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Well, it has to do with the glass menagerie and streetcar, I guess, because it's that's what I meant. I meant glass menagerie.

[11:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I like the glass menage.

[11:20] Kimberly Cooper: It is about.

[11:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I want to see a mashup called like the glass streetcar or the streetcar menagerie.

[11:25] Kimberly Cooper: The streetcar name menager.

[11:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: The menagerie name desire.

[11:30] Kimberly Cooper: I mean, if we're reading into the subtext of the point.

[11:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love your menagerie.

[11:37] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[11:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's not like a portfolio anymore. It's like, what a lovely menagerie.

[11:44] Kimberly Cooper: Springer menagerie.

[11:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. Can you call your dressing room a menagerie? So people come in and be like, welcome to my menagerie.

[11:50] Kimberly Cooper: No, that's Wisconsin.

[11:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: The menagerie of my costumes. I'm sorry, you can't go into Barrett's menagerie.

[11:55] Kimberly Cooper: No, no. I share a dressing room with uh Carrie Butler, and she is uh phenomenally passive about anything I want to bring in there or any way I want to decorate it. So if I wanted to put a giant neon sign on it that said welcome to the menagerie, she would be like, how cute. Like, or she'd be like, oh, where'd you get that?

[12:14] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Which is like what she's actually a really good impression, by the way.

[12:17] Kimberly Cooper: I have spent a long time with Carrie Butler.

[12:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That was good. She's the true best. The Gentleman Caller was great. So it's um a two-man play about um two occasions where Tennessee Williams and William Inge met.

[12:32] Kevin Jager: Ooh.

[12:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And had you name dropping a bit of an evening.

[12:37] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, you know when people say to be fair, she just saw it.

[12:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I did. But like, um, I do think you both should see it as playwrights.

[12:48] Kevin Jager: Yes.

[12:49] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Because it is about playwrights?

[12:52] Kimberly Cooper: Yes, it is about playwrights.

[12:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love this Mancan stuff. Um done play. It's not often that you see a two-hander.

[12:59] Kimberly Cooper: I picked up the wrong one.

[13:00] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Of like intellectuals, where you are just like, I believe this is how these people would talk to each other. Not like this is overly flowery language, that would never happen. I'm like, these are playwrights. They probably did speak like this even when blackout drunk, which they are for the most of the play.

[13:14] Kimberly Cooper: So on brand.

[13:16] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um, and then I saw Escape from Margaritaville.

[13:20] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[13:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, speaking of being black and drunk.

[13:22] Kimberly Cooper: No, you want to escape, you want to escape to it.

[13:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes, escape to my. So we've already talked about it, but what we already talked about it, but what I will say is that for two and a half hours, I had so much fun.

[13:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. And that's what it's meant to be. That's all it is. It's it just like knows what it is and it goes for it all in. And I really need a great time.

[13:45] Kevin Jager: Yeah. It's like meant to be like cute and funny in a blast.

[13:49] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Guys, hold on. Hold on a second.

[13:51] Kimberly Cooper: What? What is it? Everything okay?

[13:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I'm so sorry. This is ridiculous, but I just can't. I can't keep my eyes open.

[14:04] Kevin Jager: Bruh.

[14:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: God, who is it this time?

[14:09] Unknown speaker: Tis I, the mighty but humble half unicorn, half sphinx, Ajax.

[14:16] Kevin Jager: Wait, what?

[14:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Which half of you is the unicorn and which half is the Sphinx, Ajax?

[14:22] Unknown speaker: Look upon me and know for yourself.

[14:25] Kevin Jager: Yes, but if, say for some reason I couldn't see you and was curious how you were split up as half unicorn and half sphinx, and which half of the Sphinx are you?

[14:36] Unknown speaker: Silence!

[14:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Sorry. Listen, you haven't much time. I have an urgent message from our greatest allies.

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[15:02] Unknown speaker: Why don't you just let me tell it?

[15:04] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Wait, who the hell is that?

[15:05] Unknown speaker: I'm the head of the unicorn half, obviously.

[15:07] Kevin Jager: Yeah, obviously. Two heads? Seriously, if I couldn't see it with my own eyes, I'd have no idea what you look like, Ajax.

[15:16] Unknown speaker: Great name though.

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[15:59] Kevin Jager: Wait!

[16:00] Barrett Wilbert Weed: What?

[16:01] Kevin Jager: I was gonna say something, but I decided I really don't have anything to add.

[16:06] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Send him back to his world. His puns are terrible.

[16:09] Kevin Jager: No, that was a good one.

[16:15] Kimberly Cooper: Bryan. Bryan. Wake up. Seriously, this is getting embarrassing. Bryan, are you okay, man?

[16:21] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah, I just I still don't understand that sphinxicorn. Sounds like an awesome creature.

[16:27] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's only got it. Two heads, right?

[16:28] Kevin Jager: Yeah, right. One for each part. Anyway, moving on. Okay, so I have a question for you.

[16:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I'm ready.

[16:33] Kevin Jager: Because I kind of like by mistake have like followed your whole career in New York City.

[16:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: By mistake.

[16:39] Kevin Jager: Well, because when I moved to New York City in 2012, the first show that I wanted to see was Bear.

[16:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god.

[16:45] Kevin Jager: The original studio album had meant so much to me, so I bought a ticket my second night I lived here, and I paid full price, and I was like, I just paid full price for a ticket. Like I felt proud of myself.

[16:56] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Kevin didn't pay rent for two months after that.

[16:58] Kevin Jager: Yeah, it was incredible. And I bought a poster and it's on my wall, which is like my like I made it to New York moment was like seeing that show. And then after I saw you in that, obviously I'm gay, so I saw Heather's.

[17:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And then God bless.

[17:11] Kevin Jager: And then this is my mom's favorite movie. My friend, my friend Kelly and I who love to like find like random theater in New York City. We went and saw Found and Funny Found story. So I saw the show and I was afraid that I was running late. And so I got off the subway and I was like running to the theater. And there was this fierce girl in front of me with these boots like all the way up to her knees and like killing it, but like she was booking from the subway.

[17:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Uh-huh.

[17:39] Kevin Jager: And this girl turned around right before the theater, and I was like, oh my god, we're going to the theater together. It was you. And I thought to myself, I am the late person in the world. That girl, like she's in this show, so she must not come on for like 30 minutes because I was thinking like your half hour was different. And you were the third person on stage. And I was like, I am so proud of her because like you were like booking it from the subway. I'm sure.

[18:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And then you literally, it was like within 10 minutes, you were out on stage and killing it.

[18:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think I remember that day too. If it was the right, if it was the boots I'm thinking of, it's like the high heeled, like thigh high leather boots. That I have a distinct memory of I had something to do with the boots on the subway.

[18:21] Kevin Jager: Honestly, you do look incredibly familiar with the subway. I'm sure that we met roughly 10,000 times.

[18:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That's wrong. But I have a distinct memory of like getting off the subway in those boots and being like, oh my god, I am so late. Like I am gonna get so mad at me. And of course, like I got there and everyone was like, Oh, like Barrett's here, great. Fine, like two minutes late. But I literally walked in the speeder directly after you and saw that show, and you were incredible. But one of the things I've and I went and saw mean girls, but I happened to be there the night that T stepped in during previews.

[18:52] Kevin Jager: Oh well, I mean, uh, but also yeah, like those.

[18:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Which I was gonna say, like he was incredible.

[18:58] Kevin Jager: No, Twitter. And that was also like a very magical theater moment to have that happen.

[19:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, it was crazy because she T does not cover me, she covers me now. Like they've now edited her contract. We know.

[19:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But T made the mistake of telling me when we were like wine drunk in our apartment in DC. She has a photographic memory, and I've known that for a long time. Like, she has a real one, like one where she can literally look at something like this for like maybe three seconds, and she has the whole page in book, a book who used to take pictures of things, yes.

[19:36] Kevin Jager: Which is crazy, but she made the mistake of telling me in DC when we were drunk. I was like, Do you think you can do my part? Like, seriously, like if you had to if you have to do it tonight, do you think you could do it? And she was like, Oh, absolutely. Like, really, like here. She liked this part out of the story. It's like your part is like really straightforward. It's like, nah, that has changed, like, even if stuff like has changed, just like it's gonna be totally, totally.

[20:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's totally yes, I agree. And then I got the flu when we were in previews, and I hate calling out, it's the worst feeling in the world. And I literally was like up in my dressing room during preview rehearsals, like trying to vocalize, and I was like, I can't. Like, when I when I get sick, my vocal folds get really inflamed, which is the worst. And like, like, I can perform with a fever, I can perform if I'm feeling nauseous, whatever. Like, that's fine. But I if if your folds are inflamed, you can't sing, and that's it's the worst feeling in the world. And my understudy, like my first understudy, Gianna, who is also awesome, was incredibly sick as well. We had all gotten the flu. It was like something that was going around the whole community.

We'd all gotten sick, and Casey Nicola was like, I don't know who to put on for you. And I was like, just come like step into my office, don't touch me, stand three feet away from you just come step in my office and say, I have a solution. Come into my menagerie. Come, please step into my flu menagerie. My fluid or menagerie. But I was like, just please, like do what I'm gonna tell you to do. Just please just put tea on. Like, she she knows the part, I know she can do it. She's so ready. Please just put her on. And he was like, I had that thought as well. Like, do you know that she knows it? And I was like, yes. She will give you a whole like, I don't know if I can, like, sh like she'll be really nervous for 15 minutes, and then she'll be like, no, hear it us. Yep. I love hearing the side of the story.

[21:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god, that was incredible to hear that. And she's like, she's the best. And she really does like she's like swing dreams. She has she can memorize anything in like 30 seconds. It's incredible. But let's play a game.

[21:35] Kevin Jager: Let's play a game.

[21:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay, I'm really excited for it.

[21:37] Kevin Jager: Yeah, let's do this.

[21:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. I'm just gonna shuffle these while I explain what I've created.

[21:43] Kevin Jager: Shuffle along.

[21:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Thank you. I also I came up with a really witty title for this game.

[21:49] Kevin Jager: What is it?

[21:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Now I've had a can and a half of wine in the door.

[21:54] Kevin Jager: When was the last time you said I had a can and a half of wine?

[21:58] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I don't know, but it's gonna be more often. These are good. These are really good. I'm just the white one, it's good.

[22:03] Kevin Jager: Um this is called. Oh, here it is. Great. I remember it now. This is called teen slang or something I'm trying to make happen.

[22:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. Okay. I have a stack of index cards where I've written a word on top and its definition on the bottom. Okay. Have a good idea. It is either a 2018 slang term listed on a listicult called texting slang that all moms should know. Or it's something that I made up because of something I saw in my living room.

[22:40] Kevin Jager: Okay. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Okay. And one at a time, just pull one from the middle.

[22:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. The three of you, because I know what they are.

[22:46] Kevin Jager: Okay. Okay. Um, Katie, do you want to play to make it an even four?

[22:49] Unknown speaker: Yes, she does want to play.

[22:50] Kevin Jager: Yeah. I don't have a microphone, but I can lean.

[22:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Read it aloud with the definition and let me know if you think it's real or if I made it up.

[23:00] Kevin Jager: Oh great. This is a great game. I love it.

[23:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I would love to go first.

[23:04] Kevin Jager: Okay. I am very familiar with this term. The term is finna.

[23:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: The definition is fixing to do something.

[23:10] Kevin Jager: Yes, this is a southern term that Katie and I know very well. We went to school in North Carolina.

[23:15] Unknown speaker: North Carolina, Elon for everyone.

[23:17] Kevin Jager: I'm finna do this. I'm finna drink this wine. I'm finna fix it, do this.

[23:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I have never heard of this in my life when I wrote it down.

[23:24] Kevin Jager: Is that like Hella?

[23:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's like no, it's like I I'm gone. But also not because like what is finna? But like fix it's fixing to do something. So like fi which fixing means for those from the north about to or planning on.

[23:43] Kevin Jager: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So keep this because you have a point.

[23:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. I gotta find it right. This is dip, which means to leave.

[23:53] Kevin Jager: I'm gonna remember what this is true, like dip out.

[23:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, that's true.

[23:56] Kevin Jager: Yeah. I'll go. Mine is curve. To reject someone romantically.

[24:03] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like you curved them.

[24:05] Kevin Jager: Oh I didn't know we had a term for that. I'm gonna say that Kimberly made that up.

[24:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That is true.

[24:11] Kevin Jager: Because of the something.

[24:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's curved, not curbed someone.

[24:15] Kevin Jager: Correct. Transmission. What do you got, Katie?

[24:18] Unknown speaker: Mine is one, two, three, and it says it means I agree.

[24:22] Kevin Jager: One, two, three, I agree. I want that to be true, but I think it's false.

[24:28] Unknown speaker: It's real.

[24:29] Kevin Jager: That's real. That's like a texting slang.

[24:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. One, two, two, two, three, two, three. One, two, three means I agree. Isn't it easier to type I think? So if you're like, I'm hungry, and I say one, two, three, that means I'm also hungry.

[24:39] Unknown speaker: I think so. When somebody texts me one, two, three, I just think they're like stuck on the train.

[24:43] Kevin Jager: Yeah, like one changing like, gosh, that's your instructionally.

[24:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. Okay. The term is uh 1252. The definition is an ideal time for lunch.

[24:58] Kevin Jager: And I'm gonna say, although I agree, I think this is a made up, this is a made up term.

[25:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I wrote this at 1252 hours.

[25:08] Kevin Jager: So I win, right?

[25:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes, you win. That's an amazing thing. I want to make that a thing.

[25:15] Kevin Jager: So this is Oh my god, it's so 1252 right now.

[25:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Super 1252.

[25:20] Kevin Jager: Yes. So I have booked and it says swamped with homework.

[25:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I'm gonna say that's false.

[25:27] Kevin Jager: How did you know?

[25:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I thought I was proud of that one.

[25:31] Kevin Jager: Because my when when you book something, I think of it in theater terms. So I just went the opposite of that. And that's how I thought your brain worked.

[25:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And I was right.

[25:38] Kevin Jager: That's exactly how it worked. So I got pan, which means an immature boy.

[25:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um like Peter Pan, which I would say is true.

[25:48] Kevin Jager: That sounds real.

[25:49] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It could be true. Or it could be that I was looking at the Peter Pan collector's edition in my apartment.

[25:56] Kevin Jager: Wow. Is that something we should start? Like a piece of the stuff.

[25:59] Barrett Wilbert Weed: See, so that's why it's or something I'm trying to make happen.

[26:04] Kevin Jager: Oh let's play one more round, but since Baird and I are tied, okay.

[26:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You two go.

[26:09] Kevin Jager: We should do a death. We should do a uh uh an off.

[26:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I agree, it's a nuts.

[26:13] Kevin Jager: We got the bells.

[26:15] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes, yes, yes. You'll hear them read.

[26:18] Kevin Jager: Okay, so I'm gonna read it, and then you just tag in and then say if you think it's true or false.

[26:22] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay, I'm really ready.

[26:23] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[26:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Sonic.

[26:31] Kevin Jager: Everyone explain what just happened to you.

[26:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: How did that happen?

[26:39] Kevin Jager: You're just very strong.

[26:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You're a strong girl.

[26:41] Kevin Jager: Okay, I'll take it.

[26:42] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. Sonic, a very cool party or event.

[26:46] Kevin Jager: As in that was Sonic.

[26:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Barrett rang in false.

[26:50] Kevin Jager: It is false.

[26:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. I think you're right.

[26:52] Kevin Jager: Two out of three.

[26:54] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. I'm just reading a term that I recognize.

[26:57] Kevin Jager: So I immediately The Hedgehog.

[27:00] Barrett Wilbert Weed: We're not the game. That's when I was laying at my Sonic driver. Raspberry limeade. Macarena cheese bites.

[27:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay, ready?

[27:10] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[27:11] Barrett Wilbert Weed: 1174.

[27:13] Kimberly Cooper: An invitation to meet at a particular place, often a wild party.

[27:19] Kevin Jager: False.

[27:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I agree.

[27:22] Kimberly Cooper: This is true.

[27:25] Kevin Jager: Wow.

[27:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Damn, damn.

[27:27] Kevin Jager: Okay, ready?

[27:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah.

[27:29] Kimberly Cooper: Slate.

[27:30] Kevin Jager: Oh, Barrett Reagan first.

[27:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, wait, but you have to do like definition right.

[27:35] Kevin Jager: Let's start over.

[27:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Or I didn't mean that.

[27:38] Kevin Jager: Let me explain again.

[27:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think that's real.

[27:41] Kevin Jager: Oh, does she count for electric ding?

[27:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's fine.

[27:43] Kevin Jager: I think it's real.

[27:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You think it's real?

[27:45] Kevin Jager: I think it's false.

[27:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It is false.

[27:50] Kimberly Cooper: Brian Lang.

[27:51] Kevin Jager: Okay, man.

[27:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: We're basically a thing.

[27:56] Kevin Jager: It needs to be a thing.

[27:57] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I may have won now, but you will win when it becomes a thing.

[28:01] Kevin Jager: So I have a question for Barrett.

[28:03] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay.

[28:04] Kevin Jager: So you have through your career kind of been really, it's really been awesome to watch you play characters that are not typical female characters.

[28:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And I mean that you've got a badass, like I agree.

[28:17] Kevin Jager: Stronger female roles.

[28:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah.

[28:19] Kevin Jager: Is that something that you sought out from the beginning, or is that something that kind of just kind of came with like your aura?

[28:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um you never play what society deems a typical game.

[28:31] Kevin Jager: That's accurate.

[28:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's hard to like look at yourself from that perspective.

[28:34] Kevin Jager: You could watch YouTube and find that out.

[28:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think like the way the way I grew up has informed a lot of that.

[28:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like I like, you know, my my father passed away when I was a little kid, and like my mom has been a single mother and continues to be a single mother now.

[28:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um and that's her choice.

[28:58] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like she has certainly my mom is like an exceptionally gorgeous and very cool person.

[29:04] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love you so much.

[29:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: She's like very much like a first wave feminist of the 70s.

[29:09] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And so I only grew up like in a world where like we were trying to make things work for ourselves, or like she was um trying to make things work for me.

[29:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um and so that's you know, that's what I have to pull from when I'm connecting with roles, or you know, trying to put myself in that in the position of another person who I don't know.

[29:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um so I think it's it's like a weird combination of like that's my experience, and also like I have a very I think I I did not realize up until now that I have a very different like voice for musical theater.

[29:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like I that's just I have a an quote unquote like ultra contemporary sounding voice, which is it's not my only voice, but it's the one I am called upon to use the most um and I'm more than happy to use it because it's very fun to like scream that loud and that all the time um but yeah I mean like specifically like with uh with Heathers I'm really glad they picked me because I think um they could have gone a lot of different ways like with that role and they could have picked someone who is a little bit more like you pop that can go and kind of jumping off of Kevin's question um in terms of like experiences you pull from yeah uh you've started a lot of high school musicals in the case totally yes three at this point we're all in this together nuts do you pull from specific high school memories and if so what are they?

[30:38] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Sure.

[30:38] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I mean I think you know at this point I'm I'm 29 so I'm like a real adult I think.

[30:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um and uh all of those like very like harmful sad experiences have been like put in more or less put in their place um via like years and years of therapy but also like years and years of perspective and like becoming a person and understanding that like everyone is going through their own stuff uh during those formative years.

[31:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um but yeah I mean they're definitely uh I think when you experience like a a trauma early in life that can affect you a number of different ways and I know like for me it made me feel like there was always like kind of uh something very like other or in a lot of cases something very like wrong with me as a person.

[31:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um, and now I know that like that's just kind of a symptom of loss.

[31:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like, that's just kind of what happens.

[31:37] Kevin Jager: Yeah, yeah.

[31:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: If when you like lose a parent or you lose an enormous amount of stuff, you can internalize it and make it feel like it's your fault when it's not, when it's just like something that happened.

[31:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, um, but I think that uh like informs my ability to play characters who feel that way or who are actually living that way, like in reality.

[32:00] Kevin Jager: Absolutely makes sense.

[32:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like I think for Janice, she is actually living that um reality.

[32:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And like while I'm like I'm not a you know, I'm I'm not a gay person and I'm not um someone who like formally subscribes to the queer community.

[32:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Like I am a massive supporter of the queer everyone everything community.

[32:22] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um it does like I would never want to say that like I know how to play like a a character who is somewhere in the middle like with their sexuality, but I think because of like what I've experienced in my life, I know how to adopt a sense of otherness, and I know how to play that, and I know what that feels like, and I know how familiar that is and how ostracizing that can be.

[32:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um and I think it's like it's such a privilege to get to play those characters, and it's such a privilege to get to like use all those experiences um in a positive way and in a way that helps other people who are going through that like in the way that I did and also not in the way that I did, but just emotionally for sure.

[33:11] Kimberly Cooper: I was gonna say that's a great way of saying that.

[33:12] Kimberly Cooper: And I think I actually think that this is a great great segue.

[33:16] Kevin Jager: Yeah, we're actually going somewhere else right now.

[33:17] Kimberly Cooper: We have to go somewhere.

[33:19] Kevin Jager: Where are we going?

[33:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: We're going to take you there, guys.

[33:23] Kevin Jager: Tuesday in the corner with Kevin.

[33:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: They made up a theme song when I wasn't here.

[33:31] Kevin Jager: This is incredible.

[33:32] Kevin Jager: So Barrett, you're about to go to Kevin's Corner.

[33:34] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay.

[33:35] Kevin Jager: Which is where I will ask you three questions that are highly researched based on a lot of time spent on Wikipedia and YouTube.

[33:42] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes.

[33:42] Kevin Jager: Whenever you say three questions, I think of Monty Python.

[33:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: What's the name?

[33:48] Kevin Jager: What's your voice?

[33:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So good.

[33:51] Kevin Jager: Okay.

[33:52] Kevin Jager: So I'm gonna ask you really, really deep questions based on the time that I've spent this afternoon, Wikipedia and you, and also watching YouTube videos that have been posted of you.

[34:02] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Are you ready?

[34:03] Kevin Jager: I don't know.

[34:06] Kevin Jager: Correct.

[34:08] Kevin Jager: Miss Barrett Wilbert Weed.

[34:10] Kevin Jager: You made your Broadway debut in 2011 in Lysistrata Jones with friends of the show, Patty Murin.

[34:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes.

[34:18] Kevin Jager: And Jared Zirilli.

[34:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh yes.

[34:20] Kevin Jager: Mr. Zarilli is currently enjoying two new roles.

[34:25] Kevin Jager: Originating a role in Summer, the Donna Summer Musical, and originating the role as father to his beautiful baby with fellow friend of the show, Whitney Basher.

[34:34] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Whitney appeared in the musical Bridges of Madison County.

[34:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: She sure did.

[34:38] Kevin Jager: Based on the book that also inspired a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood.

[34:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes.

[34:44] Kevin Jager: Clint Eastwood is famous for saying the line You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky?

[34:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Well, do you punk?

[34:53] Kevin Jager: So Barrett, if you could be famous or known for a specific set of lyrics that you've gotten to sing so far in your career, which set of lyrics would you choose?

[35:03] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god.

[35:04] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And why?

[35:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think uh Nell's lyrics for I'd rather be me are amazing.

[35:09] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And there's there are so many like twists and turns within that song where I'm just like, you are the best lyricist we have ever had.

[35:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um but I think like the simple like I'd rather be me than be with you is like I'll take it.

[35:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: If that's like what has to go on my like musical theater like tombstone.

[35:29] Kevin Jager: So like when you're 75 and walking out on the Tonies and they play like da-da-da-da-da.

[35:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Da da da da.

[35:36] Kevin Jager: That's awesome.

[35:37] Kevin Jager: I think we need to have a new segment called Empty Tombstone.

[35:39] Kevin Jager: Are you ready for question two?

[35:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I am.

[35:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes.

[35:42] Kevin Jager: In September of 2014, you appeared in the new off Broadway musical Found.

[35:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Uh-huh.

[35:48] Kevin Jager: Yes.

[35:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: About the creation of the found books and magazines.

[35:50] Kevin Jager: Yes.

[35:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: In which you sang the beautiful barf bag breakup.

[35:55] Kevin Jager: The breakup of Zach and Kelly because Kelly fell for Smooth Guy Jeff.

[35:59] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, fuck.

[36:02] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Broke me in middle school.

[36:04] Kevin Jager: I understand.

[36:04] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But now the web series Zack Morris is trash has made me really start to realize that Kelly shouldn't have married him in Vegas in that made-for-TV movie.

[36:13] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[36:14] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Correct.

[36:15] Kevin Jager: The Disney made for TV movie Halloween Town had Devin Reynolds as a kind grandma witch with her daughter, the woman from the TV show Nashville, who's also famous to me for playing April O'Neal in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

[36:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Amen.

[36:34] Kevin Jager: I think that Barrett Wilbert Reed would be an incredible April O'Neal and a musical adaptation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[36:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh wow.

[36:42] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So I'll take it.

[36:44] Kevin Jager: If you were playing April O'Neill.

[36:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I'm not familiar, but I'm willing to learn.

[36:48] Kevin Jager: Okay, great.

[36:48] Kevin Jager: But if you're playing April O'Neill, who would you think would play the four Ninja Turtles with you?

[36:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh how did what?

[36:57] Kevin Jager: We're two-thirds of the way in, and this is the best Kevin's corner I've ever got.

[37:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So what so what four male actors would you cast as Leonardo, the very serious and stoic leader?

[37:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I just cast one of the things that I'm gonna do.

[37:08] Kevin Jager: Donatello Donatello, the like super smart science nerd, uh Raphael, the like I have an attitude cool guy, or Michelangelo, the fun down-to-party pizza lover.

[37:20] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay, let's see.

[37:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Do you guys know who Damon Duano is?

[37:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: He sound his voice sounds like um Jeff Buckley Come Back to Life.

[37:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh he just won a Lortel um this year, uh, which because I've had an entire can of wine, the name of the show is escaping me.

[37:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But um he is fantastic and very like uh very like mellow, very serious, very like uh like Italian, like dark, dark good looks.

[37:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Looks like amazing in like a white t-shirt and jeans.

[37:51] Kevin Jager: Like that's what we need.

[37:52] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So that's Leonardo, Donatello.

[37:53] Kevin Jager: Okay, Donatello.

[37:54] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Which one's on the super science nerd, like geeky nerd?

[37:58] Kevin Jager: Okay, uh Nick Blemeyer for sure.

[38:00] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Perfect.

[38:00] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[38:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um Michelangelo is like the crazy partier who loves pizza at a good time.

[38:06] Barrett Wilbert Weed: How to choose?

[38:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um I guess you, Kevin.

[38:12] Kevin Jager: Crazy Partier loves the party that loves pizza.

[38:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um, you know what?

[38:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I'm gonna go with uh Curtis Holland, who's Jason Weems and Mean Girls.

[38:21] Kevin Jager: Yep.

[38:22] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Great.

[38:22] Kevin Jager: And the final one is Rafael, who is like an attitude and is like the cool guy, like wrong side of the tracks kind of guy.

[38:30] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, what do we need?

[38:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Who do we need?

[38:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Let's streamcast Timothy Chalamet.

[38:35] Kevin Jager: Great.

[38:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Perfect.

[38:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love this.

[38:37] Kevin Jager: There is a newly published 12-minute and 16-second video called Barrett Wilbert Weed's Vocal Range.

[39:04] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh no.

[39:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Low notes, E3 through B flat three.

[39:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I don't know what that means.

[39:09] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Mid-register.

[39:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: This is below middle C.

[39:13] Kevin Jager: Okay, great.

[39:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Mid register, which is E4 to B flat 4, which is above middle C.

[39:22] Kevin Jager: Okay.

[39:23] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So that's like your belt range.

[39:24] Kevin Jager: Okay.

[39:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And then upper register, C5 to A5, which is your like wild belt range or your like head voice range.

[39:33] Kevin Jager: Before he was a classical voice.

[39:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I watched this entire thing today.

[39:38] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It was ridiculous.

[39:39] Kevin Jager: Before he edits in a climax of the ensemble of Heathers singing the repeat of beautiful at the end of the finale, while they show multiple clips of you doing your patented ball change while pushing the air out in front of you to the ground dance technique that, like, yeah, yeah, dance move over and over.

[40:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes.

[40:02] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You do that.

[40:03] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I wish you all were in the room.

[40:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That's just something that all of my friends do.

[40:06] Barrett Wilbert Weed: It's not mine.

[40:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But yeah, it shows off your incredible dance technique.

[40:10] Kevin Jager: Oh no.

[40:11] Kevin Jager: Technique is stressed by Donna Murphy's character, Juliet Simone in the movie Center Stage.

[40:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes, it is.

[40:19] Kevin Jager: A movie where fellow Broadway diva Deborah Monk's character shadily remarks.

[40:25] Kevin Jager: Juliet Simone, oh please.

[40:27] Kevin Jager: Her name is Julie Simon.

[40:28] Kevin Jager: She grew up in Perth Amboy, and her father managed a Walmart.

[40:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Wow.

[40:33] Kevin Jager: Walmart, the high cost of low price.

[40:35] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay.

[40:35] Kevin Jager: Is a documentary I've never seen.

[40:37] Kevin Jager: But Netflix has recommended to me based upon my past viewing history.

[40:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Amazing.

[40:44] Kevin Jager: You've now played two big roles in musicals based upon teen movies.

[40:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So my question is what would the teen movie about your high school years be called? And what would the basic plot line be? Funnily enough, I actually like once upon a time when I was uh 22 years old and bored, I like wrote uh a pilot for a TV show that I think would actually be really good. And it's about the high school that I went to. Um I transferred uh high schools after my freshman year. So I went to a really horrible mean prep school, and then I transferred to uh the Walnut Hill School, which is a school, a boarding school for the arts that is a lot like uh Hogwarts, truly. You have to wear robes. I wish. Um staircase moves we did it. There were no ones, I mean we're naming everything that doesn't fit her analogy.

[41:44] Kevin Jager: Correct.

[41:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Welcome to our show. It was magical in the way that it that I definitely felt like Harry Potter and I was being rescued uh from my life, and my my mother found the school for me to go to, and she was like, Did you know that this exists? And I was like, No, I did not. Please, I hope I can go there. You're a was it Barrett? You're a wizard Barrett. Uh, but it was awesome, and it was uh a boarding school where you had a major and it was a lot like college. And um, so what was your show called? Like what was the the Untitled Bear project? Honestly, yeah. Maybe. Um but yeah, in my mind it's like uh it's like the much, much, much, much, much uh cooler, serious, like high drama, but like Greta Gerwig-esque version of Glee.

[42:28] Kimberly Cooper: I love it.

[42:29] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, a Greta Gerwig version of Glee is what I want in my life. Like very dark versus dark, but also like very lovely and like heart of gold. Gleebird. Lady Glee? So it was Glee Bird for J. So before Kimberly's gonna set up our next game, but we're gonna ask a couple of questions before that. Okay. What is your favorite musical? Go.

[42:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, favorite musical. Oh my god. You have to pick one. Or we're gonna tell all the musical other musicals you hate it. Yeah. Uh I think I think I have to pick Sweeney Todd.

[42:56] Kevin Jager: Grant. What's your favorite experience seeing a show? Doesn't have to be your favorite musical, but you walked out and be like, what?

[43:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Uh Thoroughly Modern Millie.

[43:03] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, such a good one.

[43:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, on the Broadwood. I did. I saw a show where they uh kept breaking and couldn't stop, and it was really great.

[43:11] Kevin Jager: Amazing.

[43:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Incredible. It was Gavin and Sutton could not stop laughing. What was your favorite? What was your first Broadway show? Excuse me.

[43:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Uh I think it was Beauty and the Beast.

[43:20] Kimberly Cooper: There's a Tales All the Time!

[43:22] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, it is a Tales of All the Story. That's amazing. Death Row show. If you are on Death Row and you can only see one show the night before they did it, what would you see? You can go to any time period, you can uh stunt cast your show, whatever you want.

[43:36] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Uh I think West Side Story. I think I would see the original cast of West Side Story.

[43:40] Kevin Jager: Correct.

[43:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That's a really good one. Oh, correct. Because I also would just I would want to just see what it was like.

[43:45] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, yeah.

[43:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That recording is really good. Feelings right before the Jimmy Fallon said, or technically Tina Fey said, and my friend. No, my I think my emotion was like, what? Like, I think I actually just like it. Your response to Jimmy's like hugging you. It was very good. Because he didn't know what to do as he just walked up and hugged you, and your response is incredible. He just yells yes in your face. You start laughing. I didn't know. Why didn't that's gonna happen? And also they didn't tell me that we were gonna. I knew we were gonna be like goodbye, audience. I didn't know that it was gonna go on for as long as it did.

[44:20] Kimberly Cooper: Okay. What do you have for us? What is this?

[44:22] Kevin Jager: This is a game called yearbook superlatives.

[44:27] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. So it's a bit like apple to apple. Apples to apples. Okay. So you all have I don't know how many cards. I counted a bunch of cards a bunch, a handful. Yeah, we all have a handful of cards. A gaggle, if you will. Oh the gaggle. A menagerie. A menagerie. We all have a menagerie of cards in front of us. I have ten, I counted. Okay. Great. So we all have ten. Um, so they're on one side in the middle. We have a high school superlative, which don't know if you've looked at them since you graduated high school, but they've got some new weird ones out there. No, I did not approve. So I've written down the the nicest ones I could find from current high schools. Uh huh. I love it. You have a hand of show cards I've dealt you.

One person will pick a superlative. Uh huh. Everyone else will hand them someone they think fits that superlative. Okay. They'll pick the winner. That person gets the point for the round. Oh, I love this. We'll go till we're done. I'm super pumped about this. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I need to know who the life of the party is, guys.

[45:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Hold on, hold on, hold on. The three answers we have for life of the Party are Ain't Misbehavin', Jackie Hoffman. Oh, that's a good one. And Thoroughly Modern Millie. Okay. So I already know that as much as I love uh Thoroughly Modern Millie, the other two are more life of the party.

[45:51] Kevin Jager: I agree.

[45:52] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I agree. I agree so wholeheartedly. She bobs her hair. The true. Uh-huh. I follow Jackie Hoffman. Oh, and she was the life of the party. As amazing as Ain't Misbehavin' is. Who had Jackie Hoffman?

[46:06] Kimberly Cooper: Bear!

[46:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So she gets the life of the party one. Oh, yeah, yeah. You, she is. Okay, so is it my turn? Yeah. Yeah, let's go that way. So proud of us. Okay, so I'm gonna pick. So it was a really good one. And you all picked a new card from the middle. Oh, I didn't yet. Okay. Oh, okay. I have cutest couple that never was. So this either pick two cards or a card that already has two people.

[46:31] Kevin Jager: Okay.

[46:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love it. Couple one is Bryce Pinkham and A Little Night Music. Wow. Oh. Wait, yes. He can love a whole musical. The next one is Hunter Foster and Drew Galen. Oh, that's really cute. That's a really cute couple. And then Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. Very cute couple, but my heart of hearts is telling me that Drew Galen and Hunter Foster are the winners.

[47:03] Kevin Jager: Yes!

[47:06] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You don't see Bryce Pinkham. Guys, I never win any of them.

[47:10] Kevin Jager: You won the Broadway.com awards.

[47:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, that's the second thing I've ever wanted. Oh, third thing I've ever won in my life. What were the other two? Uh one a Helen Hayes for Cabaret, which I'm very proud of because that's my most favorite job I've ever had. And there's a video on YouTube of you singing. Maybe this time. So on YouTube you've got cabarets and cabarets. Hey. Right. Yes. Cabarets of cabaret. Yeah. The only other thing I've ever won was I won an egg balancing contest from when I used to ride horses when I was a kid. I won like a blue ray.

[47:44] Kimberly Cooper: You were in equestrians? Stop. That's the best sentence I've ever heard in my whole life.

[47:49] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I never did that.

[47:51] Kimberly Cooper: That's a good one.

[47:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But I cheated. What did you do? Wait, no. Mine is very silly. Okay. Mine is my special skill is a celebrity lookalike. Oh. That's a celebrity look-alike. I don't. You know that all of my cards are celebrities, right? Yeah. Well, like if they look like someone else. Yeah. Oh, very special. But I really got cuts. I don't want I don't want you to do that. I like that because the whole time I was like, who do I choose? Because aren't all these people famous? Yes. So I'll close my eyes, put them in front of my glass, and then I'll get them when you're done. Okay, so Tim Curry. Okay. Chen Kalela. Okay. Or Matthew Broderick. Oh, he does look like a celebrity. Wait, but you have to match them to us, right?

[48:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, right. Okay. Which one looks like us? I'm giving my best Jen Kalella face right now. Oh, who's Tim Curry? You. Is that who you're saying wins? Yes. Who put Tim Curry out? No! Are you kidding me? Barrett! Do you think you look like Tim Curry? I don't not look like Tim Curry.

[49:10] Kevin Jager: Is this the last round? Because if it's the last round, it should be worth three points to try to match Barrett's.

[49:14] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. Most likely to survive the Hunger Games. Oh, really good one. For everyone listening, there is the most gorgeous light happening outside. Yeah. It is like Stop looking into my eyes, Barrett. Romance, romance. Most likely to survive the Hunger Games. Oh, Michael Bennett. Not a rare card. The American Theater Wings. Or Aaron Tveit. Oh. Aaron Tveit. You know what? Michael Bennett. Here's the thing. Like, now, now is this like, is this like my dream cast? Like what I want to happen, or is this like, are we going with realism here? I think realism. Oh, what I want to happen is Michael Bennett survives everything. Never dies and is what we need forever. Once again, the bees win all the awards. I just want to say if we're actually commenting on these other two things, Aaron Tveit will survive us all.

[50:15] Kevin Jager: So you're basically saying I lost the game.

[50:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes. Unfortunately, yes.

[50:20] Kevin Jager: The alternate winner was me.

[50:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Unfortunately. I came in fourth place. So that brings us to the end of our episode.

[50:25] Kimberly Cooper: It does.

[50:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Devastating. I know, but uh blast and a half. I know. Can you can you slide over here for a second? Yeah. Um, we a while ago. I'm gonna bring my wine. A while ago. No, no, a while ago, we did a we asked a question. We wanted people to write us a five star review using puns. And Noelle on the Coast wrote us an uh a really amazing review that used all of the Heather's puns. Stop. So I I want I want Noelle on the Coast to hear Barrett. Barrett, Wilbert, we read it. Oh, fun. Okay. It's this one right here. Barrett will read from the Heather.

[51:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. So the review. It's a five-star review. The review is titled I was gonna give it a Pun Star, Capital P-U-N, but that rating doesn't exist. By Noelle on the Coast. Hey yo, Westerberg. This podcast is as beautiful as a trip to the candy store. Exclamation point. Heather, dot dot. Sorry, I mean whether you are so that's funny. Whether you are 17 or even a dead girl walking, this podcast is meant to be yours. I am damaged, but the me inside of me would call this podcast big fun. Yo, girl, freeze your brain and call for a lifeboat. I'm yelling so much because I'm in a soft because this podcast will have you asking yourself is this prom or hell? Fear not and never be blue because this podcast rules. Man, my dead gay son would have loved this podcast. Five stars granted. Was this review helpful? I think you should click yes.

[52:06] Kevin Jager: Should we do it?

[52:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes.

[52:08] Kevin Jager: We're gonna click. Was this review helpful? Yes, it was. Thanks for your feedback, is what Apple says to me.

[52:16] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So Barrett, thank you so much for joining us.

[52:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh, you are so welcome. Thank you so much for having me. You're a delight.

[52:19] Kevin Jager: Thank you.

[52:23] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You are truly a delight. But as we uh we end every episode with a quote.

[52:27] Kevin Jager: You remembered, Kevin.

[52:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: A quote. We remembered. What's that? We were it's something that someone has said before. Wow, tell us. The things I learned in high school cannot be wished away. They made me what I am today.

[52:41] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[52:42] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That is, is there life after high school?

[52:44] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, I love that show.

[52:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I mean too. If I could remember it right now, but I've had a lot of wine. That's great. You don't have too much wine when your face is warm.

[52:52] Kevin Jager: Oh, yeah. Remember on social media, you can follow Barrett at Barrett Wilbert Weed. Um, you can follow us at Broadwaysted on Instagram and Twitter. Yeah. Go to our uh Facebook fan group. Woo! Alarm! There's an alarm going off. Um, thank you. Um thanks to Jeff and Lloyd for our intro. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Lloyd. Um, this episode was sponsored by Gold Star. Oh, check it out. Remember, you can also get you you can get super discounted rates there. Um in addition, you can enter the code Broadway. Yep. Broadway Broadway at checkout. It's super easy to remember because it's blank baby. Yeah. It's give my regards to Broadway. It's Prince of Broadway. Broadway, not of Egypt. Broadway. Oh, right. Or if you're a first-time gold star e gold star, yeah.

Go to goldstar.com backslash Broadwaysted to use the code. Yeah. It's Broadway. Broadway. Um, but thank you so much for joining us, Barrett. Thank you, Barrett. But of course, I had to slide back in. Yeah, no, that's fine. No, that's fine. Um, but as we end every episode, Zoo to up bomb. Cheers. Cheers so much. Cheers. Yay.