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[0:10] Bryan Plopsky: Hello and welcome to the official Broadwaysted podcast where we're drunk on theater.

[0:13] Bryan Plopsky: I'm your host, Bryan Plopsky, and I've been thinking, you made me wait worthwhile because with a little luck, we'll come to an agreement.

[0:20] Bryan Plopsky: Isn't that enough while we play the game and step out of the sun?

[0:24] Bryan Plopsky: I've been waiting for you anywhere, but here, cause every day is happy in Hawaii.

[0:29] Bryan Plopsky: Fricky freaky.

[0:32] Bryan Plopsky: So never get married and do something because forever starts tonight.

[0:36] Bryan Plopsky: Joining us today are the usual high lovers, including It's higher lovers, but I guess I'm good.

[0:49] Bryan Plopsky: Um Kevin, Betsy's getting married, Jager.

[0:52] Kevin: She is.

[0:54] Bryan Plopsky: She was on Say Yes to the Dress before me.

[0:56] Kimberly: And Kimberly, our game master, an unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:00] Kimberly: Hello, Bryan was drinking water.

[1:04] Bryan Plopsky: Uh and uh with us today is an actor who is no stranger to the Broadway stage. You may have seen him in such shows as West Side Story, Newsies, Honeymoon in Vegas, as you might have known from the opening uh monologue, all twelve of you, that's ought.

[1:17] Brendon Stimson: Yep.

[1:18] Bryan Plopsky: I saw it for my 30th birthday.

[1:20] Brendon Stimson: Oh, really?

[1:20] Bryan Plopsky: I did.

[1:21] Bryan Plopsky: Oh, what a good present.

[1:22] Brendon Stimson: I thought it was on Say Yes to the Dress when Bryn went costume shopping.

[1:26] Kimberly: Oh true.

[1:26] Kimberly: Oh yeah, that was fun.

[1:27] Bryan Plopsky: Um and Something Rotten, he was also in. He recently appeared at the Paper Mill Playhouse in West Side Story. Uh let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to Friend of the Show.

[1:33] Brendon Stimson: Friend of the show.

[1:37] Bryan Plopsky: Brendon Stimson.

[1:39] Brendon Stimson: Welcome.

[1:40] Bryan Plopsky: Cheers.

[1:40] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, cheers.

[1:41] Bryan Plopsky: Cheers all.

[1:42] Brendon Stimson: I can't believe you ran all of those songs and like I was like, oh, I kind of recognize those names.

[1:48] Brendon Stimson: I think, what is that from? And it's like, oh my god, that's it.

[1:52] Brendon Stimson: It's your life.

[1:53] Brendon Stimson: That's right. It was all happening.

[1:54] Bryan Plopsky: Honeymoon in Vegas. Did you see Honeymoon in Vegas?

[1:57] Brendon Stimson: I did, yeah.

[1:57] Bryan Plopsky: Did you see it twice?

[1:59] Brendon Stimson: How do I know that? I saw it multiple times.

[2:00] Brendon Stimson: I only saw it once. I missed it at Paper Mill.

[2:02] Brendon Stimson: But I did see it on Broadway.

[2:04] Bryan Plopsky: Oh, I didn't really see it. I saw it and I enjoyed the show, but not the experience.

[2:07] Bryan Plopsky: Because it was my 30th birthday.

[2:09] Bryan Plopsky: And so we had gone out the night before and were out until 8 a.m.

[2:14] Bryan Plopsky: And my brother had bought me tickets to the matinee on Saturday as a like a we'll do this and then go out.

[2:21] Bryan Plopsky: And so we woke up after like three and a half hours of sleep and like trudged to the theater in the snow and went and saw it.

[2:28] Brendon Stimson: So you were ready. You were really in a great place to watch theater.

[2:32] Bryan Plopsky: I mean, if you're gonna see any musical feeling that way, it was a Las Vegas musical.

[2:38] Brendon Stimson: No, it was perfect because at one point my brother leaned over and he goes, What is happening? And I was like, they're going places, they're gonna get back together.

[2:46] Brendon Stimson: And he was like, Alright, I got it. And then we just what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

[2:50] Bryan Plopsky: Pretty much. Was it in the Nederlander?

[2:52] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[2:53] Brendon Stimson: That's the one.

[2:53] Bryan Plopsky: What happens in the Nederlander stays in the Nederlander.

[2:56] Brendon Stimson: And in my apartment.

[2:58] Bryan Plopsky: Um, but you can follow.

[3:01] Bryan Plopsky: But you can follow uh Brendon on uh social media at Brenn Stim.

[3:06] Brendon Stimson: So B-R-E-N-S-T-I-M-S.

[3:09] Brendon Stimson: That's true.

[3:09] Bryan Plopsky: Um you can see what he's doing next, what he's done before, what he's doing right now, which is podcasting. Um but let's just start. What are you drinking?

[3:16] Brendon Stimson: Uh uh Kimberly spoiled the secret. I have to drink water or I'm gonna die.

[3:21] Bryan Plopsky: Oh, what do you what do you got?

[3:22] Brendon Stimson: You sick?

[3:23] Brendon Stimson: No, I have a hangover.

[3:26] Brendon Stimson: Self-diagnosed.

[3:28] Bryan Plopsky: Oh, yes.

[3:29] Brendon Stimson: Um, I'm drinking, I don't know, Kimberly poured me.

[3:31] Brendon Stimson: Some of the side effects would being on Broadway. Look at me go.

[3:34] Brendon Stimson: All right, thank you.

[3:37] Brendon Stimson: It's not a good one. I'm J.D. on the rocks. I'm Joel Jack Daniels.

[3:41] Brendon Stimson: Nice.

[3:41] Brendon Stimson: I thought it was a good one. That was like my rugged Western voice.

[3:43] Brendon Stimson: Whiskey varietals when I was pouring the drink.

[3:48] Bryan Plopsky: What are you having, Kimberly?

[3:50] Kimberly: I made a concoction of uh passion herbal tea, uh, which is hibiscus and rose hips and everything that makes tea pink.

[3:59] Kimberly: And Percocks.

[4:02] Kimberly: Like the house mama aspire to be.

[4:05] Kimberly: No, and Jim.

[4:07] Kimberly: Like the House Mama Aspires to be.

[4:10] Kimberly: In a Moscow meal mug because it's cold. Why not?

[4:13] Bryan Plopsky: So I guess um, let's start with what have you seen this week? What have you seen?

[4:17] Brendon Stimson: Oh, or what do you think?

[4:21] Brendon Stimson: I was so ready for my part.

[4:23] Bryan Plopsky: We can we can we can so let's play. What have you seen this week?

[4:27] Bryan Plopsky: What do you see this week?

[4:29] Brendon Stimson: Oh, that's great, guys. Or we can play. What are you gonna see?

[4:32] Brendon Stimson: What are you gonna see?

[4:37] Bryan Plopsky: But then let's start with you.

[4:41] Brendon Stimson: I uh so I did see something past week. I'm very excited. Um, a uh wonderful friend of mine, Molly Job, she's in Waitress. She's a swing and she covers uh Jesse Mueller's well as other as uh other parts.

[4:55] Brendon Stimson: And um I had found out pretty late notice because they can't give any notice because thanks, Karen Macintosh. They gotta like have their stars in, but I had heard through a little grapevine that she was going on, so I was like, oh my god, I gotta figure it out.

[5:09] Brendon Stimson: And so I saw Standing Room and I saw Waitress for the first time. And I was so pleasantly, like just so overjoyed and really, really liking it.

[5:18] Bryan Plopsky: And she played Jenna?

[5:20] Brendon Stimson: She was on for Jenna.

[5:21] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah.

[5:22] Brendon Stimson: It was her debut.

[5:22] Bryan Plopsky: Like her like Broadway debut?

[5:25] Brendon Stimson: No, no. She was in Newsies with me.

[5:26] Bryan Plopsky: Oh.

[5:26] Brendon Stimson: And so, but it was her um Jenna debut.

[5:29] Bryan Plopsky: That's amazing.

[5:30] Brendon Stimson: So it was her first time and she nailed it. It was awesome.

[5:34] Bryan Plopsky: Unbelievable. You get that performed on your resume.

[5:38] Brendon Stimson: Put that ask your improvement.

[5:42] Bryan Plopsky: It's so exciting.

[5:43] Kimberly: Yeah. What a fun role to go on for.

[5:45] Brendon Stimson: It was fun being a relative term, but that's true.

[5:52] Brendon Stimson: Because I just saw that two weeks ago for the first time.

[5:54] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah.

[5:55] Brendon Stimson: She was not on.

[5:56] Bryan Plopsky: But there you go.

[5:57] Brendon Stimson: Well, she she leaves the stage once to like get like a little pregnant belly in.

[6:01] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah.

[6:01] Brendon Stimson: Spoiler.

[6:03] Brendon Stimson: It's so sneaky, though. The first time it came out, I was just like, wait, I didn't see her do that.

[6:08] Brendon Stimson: When did she?

[6:09] Brendon Stimson: Because the whole time I was like, she's not showing. This isn't real. Like, what is the passage of time? And then all of a sudden I was like, did I miss it?

[6:18] Brendon Stimson: When did you put that on? See, the secret is she actually like holds it in for like the whole time. And right when she gets pregnant, she sluts it out.

[6:24] Brendon Stimson: She's just like a lot of air.

[6:26] Brendon Stimson: It's a mini air mattress that she gets just costumes that I didn't want to be able to do it.

[6:31] Bryan Plopsky: You know those things pump of themselves every scene.

[6:34] Brendon Stimson: Yo, tech was miserable.

[6:36] Brendon Stimson: Like those air pump sneakers.

[6:43] Bryan Plopsky: Too many pumps. Let's go back.

[6:45] Brendon Stimson: Let's go back. Thank you, Holt.

[6:47] Brendon Stimson: Let's uh take it back. Reset.

[6:53] Brendon Stimson: It's just like a really emotional moment and then it just blows up.

[6:56] Bryan Plopsky: Alexa, turn off.

[6:58] Brendon Stimson: Thank you.

[6:59] Brendon Stimson: Thank you, Alexa.

[7:00] Bryan Plopsky: Alexa likes to be part of the interview project.

[7:01] Brendon Stimson: No, you can't say her name. Stop listening.

[7:04] Brendon Stimson: My name is Alexa.

[7:07] Bryan Plopsky: Thank you for telling us.

[7:09] Brendon Stimson: She's our new friend.

[7:10] Brendon Stimson: She yeah, she's shown up quite a few times already.

[7:12] Bryan Plopsky: Oh, that's good. Friend of the show.

[7:15] Brendon Stimson: Alexa.

[7:16] Bryan Plopsky: Alexa, are you a friend of the show?

[7:19] Brendon Stimson: Sorry. I can't find the answer to the question I heard.

[7:23] Bryan Plopsky: She'll never know.

[7:24] Brendon Stimson: She's like our Paul Schaefer.

[7:26] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah.

[7:31] Brendon Stimson: Um we won't.

[7:32] Bryan Plopsky: That she didn't hear.

[7:33] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[7:33] Bryan Plopsky: She's like, what? Why don't I listen?

[7:36] Brendon Stimson: Um cool. Um I don't do that.

[7:38] Brendon Stimson: Um she went on, I think, just for a couple shows that weekend, and then the other cover did the rest.

[7:42] Brendon Stimson: But um she was so good. So I'm like so pumped for her.

[7:45] Brendon Stimson: So shout out Molly Job. Uh if you guys meet her, go on, go see it. She's a star.

[7:50] Kimberly: Yeah. I love seeing understudies go on, especially like for a big part like that.

[7:54] Kimberly: Because you're like, the adrenaline must be insane to be like, I'm in the show all the time, and now I'm gonna do a completely different thing in this show.

[8:00] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[8:00] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[8:01] Brendon Stimson: When I when I saw Something Rotten, uh the understudy was on for uh Bride's uh Brian Darcy James, and he was incredible.

[8:07] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, and it's just you see these people who have like such a fire in them because they get to do what they love to do and are just as talented as doing.

[8:15] Bryan Plopsky: So you put a lot of good interesting shows, too. Kev, you see anything or are you gonna see anything?

[8:20] Kevin: Not recently. I watched The Last Five Years again of the movie.

[8:24] Kevin: It's a really good movie. I really enjoy it.

[8:25] Bryan Plopsky: Um, what do you like? Have you seen the stage production?

[8:28] Kevin: I have.

[8:29] Bryan Plopsky: What do you what do you like in terms of the differences?

[8:32] Kevin: What you know, I talk about it a little bit.

[8:34] Kevin: Totally. I I think um it's a this sounds bad, but it's a little bit easier to follow for me in the movie.

[8:40] Kevin: Um, because like what do you yeah, because you can just see like the passage of a time happening in certain specific ways.

[8:46] Kevin: Um, I also liked it, just it just seemed almost that it fit the medium really well.

[8:51] Kevin: Like it just like the story was told well. I liked the things that they did with like the the jewelry and like the things to kind of like I forgot about the always she takes off all the braces.

[9:01] Kevin: Yeah, and like and like you see her getting them throughout the movie as well.

[9:04] Kevin: Yeah, um, I really like that. I love the shout-outs to the people like Betsy Wolf, what Sherry Renee Scott was in it as well, and she like to have Sherry Renee Scott look at Anna Kendrick after she sings that like the When You Come Home to me, and having Sherry Renee Scott like very nice.

[9:20] Kevin: Like I feel like if I was Anna Kendrick, I would have just died to be like I said, I was good.

[9:25] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, but like as a fangirl, I was like, oh my god, Sherry's. I just said you were good.

[9:27] Kevin: So like I think there's a lot, like there's enough of those things thrown in, but it's enough that it focuses on the true story.

[9:34] Kevin: I think um Anna Kendrick is very honest, and I also think the Jeremy Jordan, friend of the show, is incredible, but and a lot of like his optioning up things are brilliant, like so well done.

[9:45] Kevin: And I yeah, and the dancing of the people on the street behind him, like they like do enough nods to it being a musical, but take it seriously, and that's why.

[9:53] Kevin: That's why I liked it because it was like an indie movie. Like they were like, this show is an off-Broadway small show, so it should be an indie movie, like a small intimate movie, and not like a big musical.

[10:06] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah, and so I like appreciated that they like it.

[10:08] Kevin: It lends itself to that, yeah, very, very well.

[10:10] Bryan Plopsky: Instead of being like, because you're an actor, have you done the whole long distance relationship while you're on a show and stuff?

[10:15] Brendon Stimson: Oh, yeah.

[10:16] Brendon Stimson: I thought that that captured it real really well because like the scene where she does uh Summer in Ohio, it was like the face timing and stuff.

[10:22] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, and I thought that that that was like a really good look at like the modern uh experience being an actor and having to do the regional stuff and like having a relationship at the same time.

[10:32] Kevin: Yeah, and for it being written in what, 90 years?

[10:35] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, that was the original production.

[10:36] Kevin: Oh, I don't know, you know.

[10:37] Brendon Stimson: First I was talking about this three.

[10:39] Brendon Stimson: First performance was 2001.

[10:41] Kevin: Okay.

[10:42] Brendon Stimson: Oh wow, yeah.

[10:43] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, but it seemed like it like it's crazy to think that 2001 there's been so many like changes in the world.

[10:48] Brendon Stimson: There was not an iPhone then.

[10:49] Kevin: It premiered at the Chicago North Lake Theater in 2001 and then off Broadway in March 2002.

[10:55] Brendon Stimson: And that was what the original debut was not Cherry Nee, it was Lauren Kennedy.

[11:01] Kevin: Kennedy, thank you.

[11:02] Brendon Stimson: Lauren Kennedy did the original stuff.

[11:05] Kevin: That's true.

[11:05] Brendon Stimson: That's really great.

[11:06] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, it was Lauren Kennedy and Leo Butts.

[11:09] Kevin: Yeah.

[11:09] Brendon Stimson: And then um Sherry came in for off Broadway, right?

[11:13] Kevin: Well, Kennedy had a previous commitment to do South Pacific in London, and um Scott replaced her.

[11:19] Brendon Stimson: Um that's why she was in the um the vocals on the cast recording.

[11:24] Kevin: So weird.

[11:25] Brendon Stimson: I mean, like it's it's one of those like when it rains in fours kind of situation, like so many jobs, what do I do?

[11:31] Kevin: Yeah.

[11:31] Brendon Stimson: It happens.

[11:32] Brendon Stimson: It's true.

[11:33] Bryan Plopsky: You can't really like guarantee what's gonna be the thing that was like the thing.

[11:38] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[11:38] Brendon Stimson: So you just have to like.

[11:41] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, I mean you make just like in the movie, you make choices.

[11:45] Kevin: Totally.

[11:46] Kevin: I mean, yeah, absolutely.

[11:47] Brendon Stimson: Have you seen anything?

[11:48] Bryan Plopsky: Now, when you when you first got cast in Newsies, did you know just because it was like had a following like from kids and stuff, it was gonna be a big hit?

[11:56] Brendon Stimson: We were only a so what they told us, and I mean this was a show that everybody was just gunning for. I mean, it's it's one of the movies that made me want to like dance, made me want to like do a it was Newsies and West Side, too.

[12:07] Brendon Stimson: So for me to like do those as my first Bravo shows that's incredible. I'd like hit the peak, everything is downhill from here. Like that's what it is. Um but you lived your childhood dreams, and now you're done.

[12:17] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah.

[12:17] Brendon Stimson: You win your Tony and you're like, I mean, this is cool and all, but like my first two shows were stellar, so thanks, I guess.

[12:25] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah.

[12:26] Brendon Stimson: But great speech. I mean, it was like uh maybe 1,400 people for like 14 tracks. Like it was that's it was competition. So we knew it was gonna be special because we were gonna get some special people to do it.

[12:40] Kimberly: Uh huh.

[12:41] Brendon Stimson: And then they told us it was only supposed to be for licensing. It was gonna go to Paper Mill and then immediately licensed out for high school. That was our only job. It was only gonna be Paper Mill. And then we found out on our closing day that we were gonna do the Macy's Day parade. So and then in my head, my wheels start spinning. And I'm like, okay, so why would a closed regional show that wants to license to high schools perform on the Macy's? Right. Why would you promote at that level if you still as soon as we started rehearsals for the parade, that's when the Broadway announcement came. But weirdly, I mean, not all of us had offers yet. And so we were all doing the parade, but not but not everybody you see in the parade was original Broadway company because they had to like do a few changes around in the casting, but we had to keep the Paper Mill cast in that parade.

[13:32] Kimberly: So interesting.

[13:33] Brendon Stimson: Oh, because that was part of the contract to kind of sort of. So those people on the parade are the ones that like created Newsies. So those people are like the boom boom original gangster.

[13:46] Kimberly: That's super cool.

[13:47] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. I mean, what was the stage door? I mean, Aaron Albano talked about a little bit, but like what was the stage door like for you guys after um like Newsies performance?

[13:56] Brendon Stimson: Nuts. I mean, it was from the beginning. Or like I mean, from the first preview, it was it was insane. There was so much hype about it. Because I mean, it had that cult following, it had all the stuff, and so it was our huge in our childhood, and then it was kind of like passed down as this like dance favorite for people to watch.

[14:13] Kimberly: Incredible.

[14:14] Brendon Stimson: We did the medley in eighth grade choir.

[14:16] Kimberly: Yeah.

[14:17] Brendon Stimson: Who didn't like hear that? What boy who was in the musical theater didn't sing Santa Fe at least once? Still in my book. Yeah. Still in my book, still using it.

[14:26] Kimberly: That's amazing.

[14:27] Brendon Stimson: But it's it was nuts. I mean, you'd walk out the stage door and it would be like raucous applause. It didn't matter who it was. It could be like uh we all had names for our Newsies, but nobody like said the names on stage. As in like Spice Girls, like the hot one, the like the baby.

[14:44] Kimberly: I believe you mean Posh Spice, like Gary Spice, Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Sporty Spice, and just Paprika Spice.

[14:54] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, but like that. But like it wasn't like that, where you were like We had actual I'm Surfer Newsie. I'm the stoner Newsie.

[15:02] Kimberly: You're the one that I want?

[15:03] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, exactly. We had like full out like character names, but it was never said on stage, so it was like true fancy stories. What was your character name?

[15:11] Brendon Stimson: Uh well I was Oscar Delancey when I was a Delancey brother, and then when I was a Newsie, I was Ike because we had to make a whole backstory because we had uh what was Ike's backstory? So Ike's I mean, I still feel like I still remember it. Um Ike Sweeps O'Connor. I put the quotations there there. Um, I had like a little broom solo in King of New York, like a little tap but with a broom. So I was like, alright, gotta be a backstory about a broom. It's all about a broom.

[15:36] Kimberly: Right.

[15:38] Brendon Stimson: So I say I say that Ike was uh was once a lowly, you know, kind of goat herd. He was just this like ragged guy in the street, didn't really have much going for him, and then uh a few of the Newsie boys uh saw him in the streets defending himself against these Delancey brothers with a broom. They said, Man, this guy's this guy's got skills. I bet he can sell papes.

[16:03] Kimberly: Wait, so in your backstory, you are fighting both of your characters.

[16:06] Brendon Stimson: That's what I was just kind of saying. Was it you fighting a Delancey brothers when Ike was fighting a Delancey brothers?

[16:11] Brendon Stimson: Bro, you didn't schizophrenic backstory. So it's pretty crystal clear, my whole story. Toads. Um, but you were defending yourself with the broom.

[16:21] Brendon Stimson: With my broom. And so that was that was, you know, Ike Sweeps O'Connor was then hired by uh Jacoby.

[16:27] Kimberly: Oh, that's what it was.

[16:28] Brendon Stimson: Jacoby, who ran the deli that the Newsies hang out at. Yeah. And then you got in. And then they just ship enough action. He was good with a broom. I need a good cleaning guy. So I would use the broom to clean up Jacoby after the Newsies left.

[16:44] Kimberly: Is that how it works at jobs? Because I'm just gonna go like answer phones outside of place. Help somebody get to a cab, be like, Sam, your assistant.

[16:51] Brendon Stimson: In musicals, the musicals in the in the early 1900s, sure. That's how it worked for Ike. Yeah, Ike Sweeps O'Connor.

[16:58] Brendon Stimson: I just like write this down and turn it in. We had to uh Oh my god, it was it was Newsies homework. It was a pull on there was one day we all had to like be in a circle and talk about our backstory with everyone to kind of like create this world around us of the Newsies.

[17:16] Kimberly: That's so cool.

[17:17] Brendon Stimson: Some people made it up on the spot.

[17:19] Kimberly: Oh, I would have been one of those.

[17:21] Brendon Stimson: You were first, mine.

[17:23] Brendon Stimson: I was first. I remember they turned to be like, alright, we're gonna talk about backstory. So Brendon, I was like, uh, of course. Okay. So and just like whatever came. And then that's what happened. And I chose to stick with it as ridiculous as well. I was good. Watch what it's good.

[17:40] Kimberly: But I like that you took the text and like your props and made that a part of your life. You know, it's just I just want to return to the like the true text.

[17:46] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[17:46] Kimberly: Like the story.

[17:47] Brendon Stimson: And it's in a broom.

[17:49] Kimberly: The broom text.

[17:50] Brendon Stimson: So on that note, do you go to all auditions with brooms now?

[17:55] Brendon Stimson: Just in case. Yeah, I bring it. I bring it.

[17:56] Brendon Stimson: Brendan sweeps. Because you know, special skills, it says like broom tapper. No, it doesn't do that. Some people bring a accompanist. You bring your broom too. I bring a broom. I brought my broom. If I'm going to be a chance. I know you want to just in case I'll set it over here. It's there.

[18:10] Kimberly: Yeah.

[18:10] Brendon Stimson: But uh you start your audition and then stop. Like, I mean, I'm sorry, can I just get my broom?

[18:15] Kimberly: So much of an opening.

[18:19] Brendon Stimson: Um that would be memorable.

[18:24] Kimberly: You want to call back the broom kit?

[18:26] Brendon Stimson: No, but just call back the broom. My headshot is actually just like me carrying this. Like, don't forget. Like someone caught you sweeping. Like, oh me? And it says your name and underneath it says with broom.

[18:42] Kimberly: Who needs sweep?

[18:43] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, yeah. Oh, terrible. What's the difference? You've been in revivals and you've been in um brand new shows.

[18:52] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. You've also been put in and you've also originated.

[18:55] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. Um can you kind of I've done it all, I'm done.

[18:58] Kimberly: Yeah.

[18:58] Brendon Stimson: Great. Thanks for joining us today.

[19:00] Kimberly: Thank you.

[19:01] Brendon Stimson: Um you kind of speak to the diff not necessarily the differences, but at least the different experiences you've had doing those.

[19:08] Brendon Stimson: Sure. There's definitely uh it's a little more stressful creating an original work because you don't quite know what it is yet. You're bringing something of yourself to any specific ensemble part or whatever, like for me, mostly ensemble work. But it's it's this weird thing of okay, well, I'm gonna try something new. I don't know if it's gonna work, but I don't know what they're really looking for yet because we haven't really explored the total show. So that part it's more exciting and it's more fulfilling because then you see it from like Genesis to fruition, which is like very, very exciting to see where it came from. But and then it's a little bit more like being put into like a cog of a machine for like West Side and for Honeymoon and Vegas too. They had like had their out of town, they created the show, and then I was like brought in.

[20:01] Kimberly: So for Newsies, you did Paper Mill and Broadway.

[20:04] Brendon Stimson: Yes.

[20:04] Kimberly: For Honeymoon and Vegas, you did not do Paper Mill, and then they brought you in for correct Honeymoon and some coverage.

[20:12] Brendon Stimson: You're welcome, everyone. He's on water. And I'm back. Pass over the whiskey.

[20:19] Kimberly: No, no, no.

[20:19] Brendon Stimson: He um so yeah, and so that they they had already like created the show in Paper Mill, and so they just needed to add coverage, and so I was there as a swing. So in the rehearsal process of a new show as a swing, it's it's a little less stressful, but it's more it's so crazy because they're changing everything around, and so especially as a swing starting out is so much more intense. Here's the show, kid. Okay, just change. This part just changed. This part's changed. You're still good at the show, you're on tonight. Because I've swung before and I have that swing mind and I can do it. Like, but West Side, I was they were already open, and so I was coming in as a swing and they were just teaching me the tracks. This is what it is. Here's a track sheet, it's done. Honeymoon and Vegas was like, alright, focus on these three and uh like look at this, and yeah, just kind of like as we go along.

[21:09] Kimberly: Yeah.

[21:10] Brendon Stimson: And then people would like have fittings, and so you're just like, alright, uh, go into this and be like, it just changed. I don't know what the hell you guys just did. Did you how often did you go on? How long did uh Honeymoon run and did you go on often?

[21:20] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, um the swings, I think I I went on the most just because I had covered um ensemble tracks that then covered principles. Uh-huh. And so when we had we and uh when like Rob was really sick at one point and David Joseph's bird were sick at one point, those two guys were the main covers for those tracks, and so I would go into those a few times. Um but I think we ran for well, we previewed for three years, and then two, yeah, two months.

[21:46] Kimberly: Wow.

[21:46] Brendon Stimson: Two months of previews and then did it change a lot?

[21:49] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. I think I don't even know if it was ever confirmed, but I think we wanted Ben Brantley to review the show, and I think he was away on holidays, and so we wanted to make sure he was gonna be back because he had seen it at Paper Mill, loved it, and we wanted to make sure that he was gonna see it again and get that rave. Which they got a rave, and so it was amazing. Um, but I think yeah, two-month preview period where it was it was frozen by the end of like three weeks of previews.

[22:14] Kimberly: Yeah, yeah.

[22:15] Brendon Stimson: So once opening happened, we're like, uh, we've kind of done this, but it was still like an opening night. It was still exciting. And I think we ran till Easter. So from January 15th to Easter.

[22:25] Kimberly: Cool.

[22:26] Brendon Stimson: So a good run.

[22:26] Kimberly: Yeah, absolutely.

[22:27] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, sure. I enjoy I really enjoyed it. It was a great show. It was a lot of fun. It was just 41st Street, you gotta get people down there.

[22:33] Kimberly: That's good.

[22:34] Brendon Stimson: Two blocks out of the way, guys.

[22:40] Kimberly: Right?

[22:40] Brendon Stimson: It's like but it's like hurting the tourists, like trying to push them away from the TK.

[22:45] Kimberly: That's below 42nd Street.

[22:47] Brendon Stimson: That's why Rent did so well down there, because they were like, we're going downtown.

[22:52] Kimberly: Yeah, it's so eclectic.

[22:54] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. Ooh, they wrote on the walls.

[22:56] Kimberly: Yeah.

[22:57] Brendon Stimson: It's got painted over.

[22:59] Kimberly: Isn't that so sad?

[23:00] Brendon Stimson: They got painted over right after.

[23:02] Kimberly: Do they take like a detailed picture of all of it?

[23:04] Brendon Stimson: Someone must have. I think they just told like the local one people be like, alright, paint it. Like, alright. I'm sure they took pictures.

[23:12] Kimberly: All those guys.

[23:13] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. Um. Should we should we take a break and play a game?

[23:16] Kimberly: Yeah.

[23:14] Brendon Stimson: Play a game.

[23:18] Kimberly: We don't take a break, we can just play a game.

[23:19] Brendon Stimson: Let's do one play game.

[23:21] Kimberly: I am on my way.

[23:23] Brendon Stimson: Thank you. We're gonna play dirty hands on a hard body.

[23:25] Kimberly: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[23:26] Brendon Stimson: This one I know.

[23:29] Kimberly: I played this on holiday was so bad.

[23:30] Brendon Stimson: Hands on the table. Don't look at the body.

[23:33] Kimberly: Thank you so much.

[23:34] Brendon Stimson: Alright, let's do it. Category. Okay, you ready?

[23:37] Kimberly: Yep, we're gonna focus this time.

[23:38] Brendon Stimson: We'll start with Bryan and go that way and then clockwise.

[23:42] Kimberly: I will be reading a category in rapid fire succession. They will have to say something in that category. Um if you uh mess up with a pause, a repeat, or something that is not in the category. You take one hand off the table, and that is your dirty hand. If you get two hands off the table, you are out. We go until there is one lone victory like the Hunger Games. Are you ready?

[24:02] Brendon Stimson: I'm really good now. The first half of this like show, I was not good, but now I'm good.

[24:08] Kimberly: Yeah, you're coming back.

[24:09] Brendon Stimson: What do you mean? Like the first like 30 episodes is terrible. Like, oh, this episode?

[24:13] Bryan Plopsky: I thought you added a lot to this episode.

[24:16] Brendon Stimson: Thanks, Bryan.

[24:17] Bryan Plopsky: You're welcome.

[24:19] Kimberly: Okay, first category songs with the word love in the title.

[24:24] Brendon Stimson: Can I From Broadway?

[24:26] Kimberly: Okay.

[24:28] Brendon Stimson: I don't want to go first.

[24:30] Kevin: Uh um, there's pause though.

[24:33] Brendon Stimson: No, there's he hasn't started yet.

[24:34] Bryan Plopsky: Well I said, first we're all getting started in the game.

[24:39] Kevin: Come on, Bryan.

[24:40] Bryan Plopsky: What?

[24:40] Kimberly: Do you want me to start?

[24:42] Bryan Plopsky: I'll start.

[24:42] Kimberly: No, because I can't.

[24:43] Kevin: Yeah, just go.

[24:44] Bryan Plopsky: Love changes everything.

[24:46] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, it was mine.

[24:46] Kimberly: There it goes.

[24:47] Brendon Stimson: Okay.

[24:47] Kevin: Um.

[24:49] Brendon Stimson: Uh okay.

[24:52] Kevin: One gone.

[24:53] Brendon Stimson: Unworthy of your love.

[24:54] Kevin: No, we're done.

[24:56] Kimberly: Oh, Bryan's turn.

[24:58] Brendon Stimson: That would have been my turn, but.

[24:59] Kevin: Oh, we're jumping that category?

[25:00] Bryan Plopsky: Yes.

[25:01] Brendon Stimson: That was so hard.

[25:02] Kimberly: Why is that hard?

[25:03] Brendon Stimson: Because I couldn't think of it.

[25:04] Kevin: Maybe love is in the air.

[25:05] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[25:05] Kimberly: Love is always lovely in the end.

[25:07] Brendon Stimson: From what?

[25:08] Kevin: If I loved you.

[25:09] Brendon Stimson: Oh, wow.

[25:10] Kimberly: Like all I can think of was Love Me, Love Me Not.

[25:13] Brendon Stimson: Does that count?

[25:14] Kevin: I don't know.

[25:14] Brendon Stimson: What is that from?

[25:15] Kevin: The Joey Contreras song?

[25:16] Brendon Stimson: No, that's not Broadway.

[25:17] Kevin: Oh, right.

[25:18] Brendon Stimson: Is it?

[25:18] Kimberly: All I could think of was Love Love Me Do, which doesn't count.

[25:22] Brendon Stimson: And um, I won't send Roses, which doesn't have Love.

[25:28] Kevin: That's so good.

[25:29] Kimberly: All right, Bryan.

[25:31] Bryan Plopsky: Ready to start again?

[25:32] Brendon Stimson: Yes.

[25:32] Kevin: 11 o'clock numbers.

[25:34] Brendon Stimson: Don't rain on my parade.

[25:35] Kimberly: Rose's turn.

[25:36] Kevin: The world will know.

[25:38] Brendon Stimson: The notebook.

[25:40] Kimberly: I'm not 11 o'clock number of the movie.

[25:44] Kevin: And isn't Don't Rain on My Parade an Act One?

[25:47] Brendon Stimson: So technically, like it's not 11 o'clock number.

[25:49] Kevin: I don't know that show's lying.

[25:49] Brendon Stimson: I didn't say that.

[25:50] Kevin: That show's long.

[25:50] Brendon Stimson: No, I said it.

[25:51] Kevin: So I should have been out of here.

[25:52] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, it's actually Don't Rain on My Parade.

[25:54] Kevin: Right, I'm putting my hand on the other.

[25:55] Brendon Stimson: Good at this point.

[25:56] Kimberly: Okay.

[25:56] Kevin: Come on, Bryan.

[25:57] Brendon Stimson: Ready, Bryan?

[25:57] Bryan Plopsky: It's the alcohol.

[25:58] Brendon Stimson: You need alcohol.

[26:00] Kevin: Of news.

[26:02] Brendon Stimson: Oh, you're done.

[26:03] Kevin: Oscar.

[26:04] Brendon Stimson: Crutchy.

[26:05] Kevin: Actually, Oscar was a Delancey, but I'll give you that one.

[26:07] Brendon Stimson: Ike sweeps O'Connor.

[26:11] Kevin: Jack.

[26:12] Brendon Stimson: Jeremy Jordan.

[26:15] Kimberly: Okay, my hand's up.

[26:17] Brendon Stimson: Okay.

[26:17] Kevin: Mush.

[26:17] Brendon Stimson: Specs.

[26:18] Kevin: Sniper.

[26:19] Brendon Stimson: Finch.

[26:19] Kevin: That's one.

[26:20] Brendon Stimson: That's for sure.

[26:21] Kevin: Oh, we're still going mean open.

[26:22] Brendon Stimson: You rubbed it in.

[26:23] Kevin: No.

[26:24] Brendon Stimson: That was what I was gonna say next.

[26:25] Kevin: Finch.

[26:27] Brendon Stimson: Who is Finch?

[26:28] Kevin: What was Aaron's name?

[26:28] Brendon Stimson: Aaronch.

[26:29] Kevin: Aaron Ross Powell.

[26:29] Brendon Stimson: Oh, okay.

[26:30] Kevin: That's why I know.

[26:31] Brendon Stimson: That's the one we should have known too much.

[26:32] Kevin: That's why I know it.

[26:33] Brendon Stimson: Well, we all have one hand on.

[26:35] Kevin: All one.

[26:35] Brendon Stimson: Oh, yeah.

[26:36] Kimberly: Look at this.

[26:36] Kevin: All right, the next category.

[26:38] Brendon Stimson: Random holidays.

[26:39] Kimberly: So, like not Christmas or something.

[26:42] Brendon Stimson: Oh, Earth Day.

[26:43] Kevin: Flag Day.

[26:44] Brendon Stimson: Festivus.

[26:45] Kevin: Labor Day.

[26:46] Brendon Stimson: Bastille Day.

[26:47] Kevin: Arbor Day.

[26:48] Brendon Stimson: First of the Oh, Groundhog's Day.

[26:51] Kevin: First of the Groundhog Day?

[26:53] Brendon Stimson: First Groundhog.

[26:55] Kevin: That is a really random holiday.

[26:58] Brendon Stimson: Prima nocta.

[27:00] Kevin: What?

[27:01] Brendon Stimson: That's not a holiday.

[27:03] Kevin: What is that?

[27:04] Brendon Stimson: That's from Braveheart where they used to sleep with the women.

[27:08] Kevin: I'll accept that.

[27:10] Brendon Stimson: I'll accept that.

[27:11] Brendon Stimson: Dia de los Muertos.

[27:13] Kevin: Oh, good one.

[27:15] Brendon Stimson: I'm gonna go 4th of July.

[27:17] Kevin: All Saints Day.

[27:18] Brendon Stimson: Ooh.

[27:19] Kevin: Ooh.

[27:19] Brendon Stimson: Oh, that's a good one.

[27:20] Kevin: It's got Catholic on your ass.

[27:22] Brendon Stimson: November 1st.

[27:23] Kevin: Black Friday.

[27:24] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[27:24] Kevin: Oh, that's a good one.

[27:26] Brendon Stimson: Um, I'm gonna go with the winter solstice.

[27:28] Kevin: The summer solstice.

[27:29] Brendon Stimson: Damn, that was Spring Equinox.

[27:32] Kevin: Oh, that's a good one.

[27:35] Brendon Stimson: Uh, I'm gonna go with Columbus Day.

[27:36] Kevin: The Macy's three-day sale.

[27:41] Brendon Stimson: The Macy's one day sale.

[27:43] Kevin: Oh.

[27:44] Brendon Stimson: Sleepy's mattress.

[27:47] Kevin: Okay, we're not.

[27:48] Brendon Stimson: I'll put my hand up for that one.

[27:50] Kevin: Also, I liked it when our hands are up, we were like able to high five easier.

[27:55] Brendon Stimson: Um, yep, it's me and Brendon.

[27:57] Kevin: Show's opening this spring.

[27:59] Brendon Stimson: Amelie.

[28:00] Kevin: Hello, Dolly.

[28:01] Brendon Stimson: Groundhog Day.

[28:02] Kevin: Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.

[28:04] Brendon Stimson: Come from away.

[28:05] Kevin: Bandstand.

[28:06] Brendon Stimson: Anastasia.

[28:07] Kevin: Miss Saigon.

[28:08] Brendon Stimson: Ho ho!

[28:09] Kevin: War paint.

[28:11] Brendon Stimson: This spring.

[28:13] Kevin: I don't know.

[28:14] Brendon Stimson: Yes!

[28:15] Kevin: Bryan!

[28:16] Brendon Stimson: That was a lot, though.

[28:17] Kevin: That was good.

[28:18] Brendon Stimson: We did a good job.

[28:19] Kevin: What I missed in D.

[28:20] Brendon Stimson: Well, if we went play, it's like in D.

[28:22] Kevin: Sunset.

[28:23] Brendon Stimson: I mean sunset.

[28:23] Kevin: Sunset below.

[28:25] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, that was a good one.

[28:26] Kevin: Do you know what that was just like?

[28:27] Brendon Stimson: What?

[28:27] Kevin: When I beat you in the final time as a football.

[28:30] Brendon Stimson: We're gonna bring this up.

[28:31] Bryan Plopsky: Brendon Stimson is now in my phone, guys.

[28:34] Brendon Stimson: This is a real thing.

[28:35] Bryan Plopsky: Whenever he texts me, he's in my phone as 2017 fantasy champ.

[28:40] Brendon Stimson: Like that's what I had to put him in my phone as.

[28:42] Kevin: So was that your rule?

[28:43] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, I think.

[28:45] Bryan Plopsky: I did send a message and I'm in his phone as just 2017 fantasy.

[28:53] Brendon Stimson: That was good.

[28:55] Bryan Plopsky: Um what was what's your favorite musical?

[28:59] Brendon Stimson: Favorite? Oof. Um I can break this down to like uh like favorite all time is still West Side. I think that's just an iconic piece. You can't go wrong with the story and subject matter. It's genius and the dance. You can't you can't mess it up. As long as you're like doing that Robbins choreography, it's just the best ever, in my opinion.

[29:21] Brendon Stimson: Uh it's so fun to dance, and it's so athletic, and it just has every single piece of the movement, tells something and leads to the next. It's so, so dope.

[29:30] Kimberly: West Side Story is dope.

[29:33] Brendon Stimson: Is dope.

[29:33] Kevin: Yeah.

[29:34] Brendon Stimson: For sure.

[29:34] Kimberly: True.

[29:35] Brendon Stimson: Period.

[29:36] Kevin: Quote.

[29:36] Brendon Stimson: Quote.

[29:36] Kevin: Mic drop.

[29:40] Brendon Stimson: So there, but like for the current current shows.

[29:46] Kevin: Yeah.

[29:46] Brendon Stimson: Um, so for but if I could do this, if I could say like a best show this season, I'm just gonna say, I really thought Dear Evan Hansen was like top notch for me.

[29:56] Kimberly: So good.

[29:57] Brendon Stimson: Yes.

[29:58] Kevin: So good.

[29:59] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[29:59] Brendon Stimson: I'm a little biased. My other true my best friend is playing um.

[30:05] Kimberly: I don't want to like spoil it, but it happens in like the first two seconds.

[30:08] Brendon Stimson: Oh, because your brother.

[30:09] Kimberly: Yeah.

[30:10] Brendon Stimson: Your um is playing um Connor.

[30:16] Kimberly: Yeah, Connor.

[30:17] Brendon Stimson: I can't think about real life.

[30:19] Kimberly: The one that they won't sing a requiem for.

[30:21] Brendon Stimson: They won't have a requiem.

[30:23] Kimberly: Correct.

[30:23] Brendon Stimson: Correct, yeah.

[30:24] Brendon Stimson: Correct.

[30:24] Kimberly: Is that that song?

[30:25] Brendon Stimson: Yes.

[30:26] Kimberly: Yes.

[30:26] Brendon Stimson: And listen to that song.

[30:27] Kimberly: Is that what that's about?

[30:28] Brendon Stimson: It's about the song Requiem is about them.

[30:31] Kimberly: Well, it's all three, like the family dealing with what's happening.

[30:33] Brendon Stimson: Yes.

[30:34] Kimberly: Oh, sure.

[30:34] Brendon Stimson: And the concept of the show is that you never really get to know who he actually was in real life.

[30:40] Kimberly: Right.

[30:40] Brendon Stimson: And it's how people project who he was afterwards, which involves social media and whatnot.

[30:46] Kimberly: That's not a that happens in the first like two minutes.

[30:48] Brendon Stimson: That's not like a real spoiler or whatever.

[30:49] Brendon Stimson: I think it's such a cool like acting exercise for Mike, too.

[30:52] Kimberly: Yeah.

[30:52] Brendon Stimson: To play this guy who's a big thing.

[30:54] Kimberly: Oh, just like in someone's head, kind of.

[30:55] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[30:56] Brendon Stimson: You're playing a projection of someone who would imagine that you are.

[31:01] Kimberly: Yeah.

[31:01] Brendon Stimson: Like, because all Connor's stuff in the entire show is in Ben Platt's head.

[31:05] Kimberly: Except for the first minute and a half.

[31:07] Brendon Stimson: Right.

[31:07] Kimberly: And so like you get a minute and a half of like true who you are.

[31:10] Brendon Stimson: And then the rest of it, you're like, how would this guy perceive me?

[31:14] Kimberly: Like that's it's amazing that's some inception right there.

[31:18] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, absolutely.

[31:19] Kimberly: It's yeah.

[31:20] Brendon Stimson: And I think that my head's blown.

[31:22] Kimberly: Right.

[31:23] Brendon Stimson: We haven't even seen it yet.

[31:25] Kimberly: I know.

[31:25] Brendon Stimson: Whatever Hansen does well, or at least the structure and the kind of the book and the score does well.

[31:31] Kimberly: Yeah.

[31:31] Brendon Stimson: There's no point in that show where it's just like, and now we're gonna sing a song.

[31:36] Kimberly: And we're just dancing singing lots of things.

[31:38] Brendon Stimson: Like I feel like every.

[31:38] Kimberly: Who wrote that?

[31:41] Brendon Stimson: Uh I don't but singing lots of things.

[31:44] Brendon Stimson: Um but I think that like, and that's something I really enjoyed about it.

[31:50] Brendon Stimson: That like when there feels like there should be a song, there is a song, but by no means is there like a stop and sing.

[31:57] Kimberly: It's a very much like book-driven.

[32:00] Brendon Stimson: Incredibly driven, and and uh and it and I think that is reflected incredibly well on the um cast album, which you can listen to on Spotify or buy on iTunes now.

[32:10] Brendon Stimson: It's awesome.

[32:11] Kimberly: And now the sheet music came out.

[32:12] Brendon Stimson: So, like every bear tenor is like, gimme.

[32:15] Brendon Stimson: Uh just everyone's gonna be like although musical theater BFAs all over the country.

[32:22] Kimberly: Just got inundated with waving through the window.

[32:24] Brendon Stimson: Oh, yeah, every single line.

[32:26] Kimberly: Although the smarter auditioner would sing uh a portion of words fail.

[32:30] Brendon Stimson: Go for it.

[32:31] Bryan Plopsky: Brendon Stimson, five, six, seven.

[32:36] Brendon Stimson: What is your go-to audition song?

[32:38] Brendon Stimson: Go to audition song is um I usually sing a pop song by Eric Hutchinson. It's called Oh King It's Alright with me. Something's are just meant to be that one.

[32:46] Kimberly: It's a good one.

[32:49] Brendon Stimson: Great.

[32:49] Bryan Plopsky: We'll call you.

[32:50] Brendon Stimson: Thank you.

[32:50] Kimberly: Thank you so much.

[32:53] Brendon Stimson: Can we sing broom again?

[32:55] Kimberly: So I'll bring the broom back in.

[32:57] Brendon Stimson: When you when they do type, when they do um when they type you out, does the broom always get in?

[33:01] Kimberly: Always gets in.

[33:02] Brendon Stimson: How can you not?

[33:03] Kimberly: Yeah.

[33:03] Brendon Stimson: It's amazing.

[33:05] Kimberly: Isn't that movie where like someone dances with a mop like really well?

[33:08] Brendon Stimson: High School Musical 2.

[33:10] Kimberly: Oh, really?

[33:11] Brendon Stimson: They clean up.

[33:12] Kimberly: I think it actually might have been on Glee.

[33:14] Brendon Stimson: No, there's a lot. I mean, there's a lot of stuff where people dance with brooms and stuff like that.

[33:17] Kimberly: I don't know.

[33:18] Brendon Stimson: It's let me call you sweetheart a mop dance as his Gene Kelly.

[33:21] Kimberly: What's it from?

[33:23] Brendon Stimson: Thousand Cheers.

[33:24] Kimberly: Oh, and he didn't have a few.

[33:25] Brendon Stimson: And he didn't really got nice.

[33:27] Kimberly: Nobody's answered with a broom like me, though.

[33:28] Brendon Stimson: That's was it this kind of broom that you had?

[33:31] Kimberly: Like a bush broom?

[33:32] Brendon Stimson: No, it wasn't a push-broom.

[33:34] Kimberly: It was like a like a free room.

[33:35] Brendon Stimson: You went up like a modern broom.

[33:37] Kimberly: A modern broom.

[33:37] Brendon Stimson: Got it.

[33:38] Kimberly: Well, modern times, you know?

[33:39] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, of course.

[33:39] Kimberly: So it's a thousand cheer gene kelly dances with a mop.

[33:43] Brendon Stimson: Do you have a show that you saw that made you be like, oh, I'm gonna do this?

[33:50] Brendon Stimson: So okay, so I I chose that I was gonna do this crazy biz. I think my sophomore year of high school.

[34:00] Kimberly: Late bloomers.

[34:01] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, like oh, very late. I didn't start dancing until senior year of college.

[34:06] Kimberly: What?

[34:06] Brendon Stimson: No, I'm sorry, senior year of high school.

[34:08] Kimberly: No, but still what?

[34:10] Brendon Stimson: I was asking like when you started, because if you're like newsy Westside story, I've actually like I was five and they stretched my leg over my head.

[34:16] Brendon Stimson: Nah, I mean I I did like karate as a kid, so that had like flexibility built in there.

[34:21] Kimberly: Uh huh.

[34:21] Brendon Stimson: But yeah, I didn't start like the dance training until I found out you had to do a dance portion to get into a music theater program.

[34:29] Kimberly: And you went to Syracuse?

[34:30] Brendon Stimson: I went to Syracuse, yeah.

[34:31] Kimberly: Well, my first time auditioning, this is like the quick rundown.

[34:35] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, sure.

[34:35] Brendon Stimson: I didn't get in anywhere.

[34:36] Kimberly: I auditioned at Syracuse, Ithaca, um, NYU, Geneseo, Buffalo, and like a few others.

[34:43] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[34:44] Kimberly: Didn't get in anywhere.

[34:46] Brendon Stimson: They were like, no, thanks.

[34:47] Kimberly: So I went to Buffalo as an undeclared major, re-auditioned in that fall, got in, and then already had a Syracuse set up at Syracuse.

[34:56] Brendon Stimson: Oh, you re-auditioned for Buffalo.

[34:58] Kimberly: Yeah.

[34:58] Brendon Stimson: Oh, sorry.

[34:58] Kimberly: So got into Buffalo and then re-auditioned at Syracuse because I already had the audition set up and those applications you like pay that fee. So it's like I don't want them to go to waste. So, and then over my winter break, I went and auditioned at Syracuse, got in and then spent three years there.

[35:13] Brendon Stimson: Cool.

[35:14] Kimberly: So it was like determination.

[35:16] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[35:17] Kimberly: If they tell you no, maybe you can still do it, kids.

[35:20] Brendon Stimson: That's awesome.

[35:20] Kimberly: Get out there.

[35:21] Brendon Stimson: I think I went up to Toronto when I was really young and saw Phantom, and it was pretty amazing. I was terrified, but also like it it was one of the few things that like got a huge reaction out of me. Like when the chandelier fell, I definitely closed my eyes. I was terrified of the whole thing. But I was like, this is terrifying, but it's so exciting, and I kind of want to be a part of this.

[35:43] Brendon Stimson: So that was like the first like little bug that bit, and I was like, alright, maybe uh maybe I want to try this. Uh Fiddler on the Roof, senior year of high school.

[35:50] Kimberly: I was like the On Broadway?

[35:52] Brendon Stimson: No.

[35:52] Kimberly: Oh, you were waiting.

[35:53] Brendon Stimson: I was in high school.

[35:54] Kimberly: Oh, that you did the show.

[35:55] Brendon Stimson: That I did the show.

[35:56] Kimberly: Oh, yeah.

[35:57] Brendon Stimson: I was like, oh, you came here and do the lovely trip.

[35:58] Kimberly: Yeah, just no, no, no.

[36:00] Brendon Stimson: Um, and I did that show Rochester, New York originally.

[36:03] Kimberly: Oh, okay.

[36:05] Brendon Stimson: That's a common theme of it.

[36:06] Kimberly: Oh, yeah, because anyone is if you say Rochester, then like, oh yeah, Rochester.

[36:10] Brendon Stimson: Like, we got the huge most huge name of the thing.

[36:12] Kimberly: So funny.

[36:24] Brendon Stimson: And that was like the first seed that was like planted, and I was like, oh. So then I started taking dance class, really enjoyed it, and then never really had a backup plan. So I just kind of did it.

[36:34] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, it's turned out pretty good.

[36:36] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, yeah, it's worked out. I guess you on this podcast.

[36:38] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, here we are. I've made it. What's your um what was the first Broadway show you saw?

[36:45] Brendon Stimson: First Broadway show Beauty of the Beast.

[36:49] Brendon Stimson: It was Beauty and the Beast because I was doing it. Well, it's a tale of all this time.

[36:52] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, I mean, why not? And the movie's coming out with oh I was so excited. I'm a Watson guy.

[36:56] Brendon Stimson: And you're on your birthday.

[36:57] Brendon Stimson: Oh, yeah, Emma Watson. Emma Watson's top of the list.

[37:01] Brendon Stimson: My girlfriend Haley, she knows well.

[37:02] Brendon Stimson: Friend of the show.

[37:03] Brendon Stimson: Friend of the show. She's been on the show.

[37:05] Brendon Stimson: I'm sorry, I'm not as like formally addressed. You didn't bring a cup with you.

[37:09] Brendon Stimson: She told me before, I was like, bring a cup. I was like, oh yeah, I'll totally do that. And then I left.

[37:15] Brendon Stimson: She's like, ah, I forgot about it. Like I had already had a full bottle of champagne. She was ready.

[37:21] Brendon Stimson: She's lovely as hell. And yeah, so I was doing Beauty and the Beast at my high school for my senior year.

[37:28] Brendon Stimson: I was playing The Beast. I was so small, they had to put like LeCrosse pants.

[37:31] Brendon Stimson: Oh no good beauty.

[37:33] Brendon Stimson: Oh yeah. That's the best.

[37:35] Brendon Stimson: That's a great finale backed one.

[37:38] Brendon Stimson: Yes. And so I saw the Broadway musical when I was auditioning, but I saw Beauty and the Beast stole every choice from that Broadway Beast to put into my high school.

[37:49] Brendon Stimson: Makes sense.

[37:51] Brendon Stimson: That's how you do it. Obviously.

[37:53] Brendon Stimson: What's your favorite dance move?

[37:55] Brendon Stimson: Favorite dance move?

[37:57] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. Is it the Mitzi Gainer?

[38:09] Brendon Stimson: What is a Mitzi Gaynor?

[38:09] Brendon Stimson: Oh, I'll show you.

[38:09] Brendon Stimson: Hold a minute. You gotta do it so you can see.

[38:09] Brendon Stimson: Oh, Jay's coming out to watch this one.

[38:09] Brendon Stimson: What is a Mitzi gainer?

[38:12] Brendon Stimson: And the Instagram story ready.

[38:14] Brendon Stimson: A gainer is a big thing, so I'm worried about a Mitzi gainer.

[38:20] Brendon Stimson: Oh, a Mitzi Gainer, please. Five, six, seven, eight.

[38:27] Brendon Stimson: So it's like a Charleston thingy?

[38:31] Brendon Stimson: That's the Mitzi Gainer.

[38:32] Brendon Stimson: Yeah!

[38:35] Brendon Stimson: Oh my god. Uh my favorite dance step.

[38:39] Brendon Stimson: I mean, I just like Chifuettes for Jesus.

[38:42] Brendon Stimson: No. I'm not like, I'm not a crazy turner. I don't like to do that kind of stuff, but my favorite The Newsies leap.

[38:49] Brendon Stimson: That's a good move.

[38:51] Brendon Stimson: There's a whole article about that move.

[38:53] Brendon Stimson: Really?

[38:54] Brendon Stimson: There's an article from that season that's uh it's entitled The Jump That Saved the Season, and it analyzes every piece of that jump that has every little bit of story.

[39:03] Brendon Stimson: It's like the open body, like the the poster.

[39:07] Brendon Stimson: Um with my buddy Kyle on front. And it's every little bit of like story that goes.

[39:12] Brendon Stimson: It's not Jeremy on the front of the dermy, yeah.

[39:14] Brendon Stimson: No. I was at the photo shoot, and it's literally it's Kyle.

[39:19] Brendon Stimson: I was at the photo shoot when those pictures were taken, and they pretty much just changed Kyle's face to look like Jeremy was singing the end of Santa Fe in the face.

[39:29] Brendon Stimson: But that's Kyle Kaufman doing that jump.

[39:31] Brendon Stimson: That's so funny.

[39:32] Brendon Stimson: That's so funny.

[39:33] Brendon Stimson: Oh yeah.

[39:45] Brendon Stimson: You need to retract.

[39:46] Brendon Stimson: No, right now they come through the windows like a black crew with little ears.

[39:50] Brendon Stimson: Like, hi there. You're on the rust.

[39:54] Brendon Stimson: Um the couple of things.

[39:56] Brendon Stimson: You're a bitch now.

[39:59] Brendon Stimson: So what we found out from you is um you stole the beast's choices.

[40:03] Brendon Stimson: Stole it.

[40:04] Brendon Stimson: Stole.

[40:06] Brendon Stimson: So check that off the check it.

[40:06] Brendon Stimson: Um you just divulged a lot of um Newsies stories.

[40:10] Brendon Stimson: Yes, absolutely.

[40:11] Brendon Stimson: Including um the Macy's A parade as well as I know.

[40:16] Brendon Stimson: You really?

[40:17] Brendon Stimson: I'm a hunted man now.

[40:18] Brendon Stimson: I'm a fugitive after this.

[40:20] Brendon Stimson: So you guys are harboring me.

[40:22] Brendon Stimson: Welcome. I have an air mattress.

[40:24] Brendon Stimson: We're good.

[40:25] Brendon Stimson: Um Kimberly, you had a question?

[40:27] Kimberly: Oh, I have a question that leads into a game.

[40:29] Kimberly: Transition!

[40:31] Kimberly: About fanzies.

[40:36] Kimberly: Oh, this news spawned this huge fan revolution.

[40:41] Kimberly: They should do it in the ensemble specifically, I feel like. Because I think because you all had names, people could be like, oh, he has a name.

[40:48] Kimberly: Let me find him. And then would pick them out and pick their favorite newsie from the lineup and devote themselves like cheerleaders to their assigned football person.

[40:59] Kimberly: There was always a fanzie for each newsie.

[41:02] Kimberly: Like the fancy.

[41:04] Kimberly: The fancy game, I think, was can I outfanzie someone by being so into this newsie that nobody else is?

[41:13] Kimberly: Can I be the top mush fanzy?

[41:17] Kimberly: Can I be the top Ike fanzy?

[41:19] Brendon Stimson: Were there Ike fansies?

[41:21] Kimberly: Maybe a handful.

[41:23] Kimberly: Did they know about sweeps?

[41:25] Brendon Stimson: I don't know if many people know about Sweeps O'Connor's backstory.

[41:27] Kimberly: What if the broom had all the bales?

[41:30] Kimberly: It's just like the Ike is like here and the broom is way over there.

[41:35] Kimberly: We're here to see the broom.

[41:36] Kimberly: We're starting a Twitter account for the broom.

[41:41] Kimberly: Um my question is when you were, because I assume most fancies were in high school, college aged.

[41:49] Kimberly: When you were that age, what would you have obsessed over? If like Twitter existed and Instagram, like what fanzie would you have been?

[41:57] Brendon Stimson: Besides like Steve Tasker from like the Buffalo Bills, because I'm a huge Buffalo Bills fan.

[42:02] Brendon Stimson: But besides that, I mean, I was no idea.

[42:02] Brendon Stimson: No idea.

[42:07] Brendon Stimson: The Buffalo Bills is an NFL footballer football.

[42:10] Kimberly: Got it.

[42:10] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[42:10] Brendon Stimson: I just he blacked out for his team.

[42:14] Kimberly: There are the Jets and the Giants.

[42:15] Kimberly: There's another team.

[42:16] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[42:17] Brendon Stimson: Well, the Buffalo Bills are actually the only team that play in New York.

[42:20] Brendon Stimson: Well, nobody, but New York State.

[42:22] Kimberly: That's true.

[42:24] Kimberly: Random fact.

[42:24] Kimberly: The Jets should be the called the New Jersey Jets.

[42:27] Brendon Stimson: It is a true statement.

[42:28] Kimberly: Moving on.

[42:28] Kimberly: Um her bills.

[42:31] Kimberly: You learn something new every day.

[42:32] Kimberly: What was the guy's name you were a fangirl of?

[42:34] Brendon Stimson: Steve Tasker.

[42:35] Brendon Stimson: He's he plays special teams and uh now he's a correspondent.

[42:38] Kimberly: Would you wait at the stage store for him?

[42:39] Brendon Stimson: I would.

[42:40] Brendon Stimson: I had I have an autograph picture.

[42:41] Brendon Stimson: You would fangirl for a special teams member?

[42:44] Brendon Stimson: Yo, special teams turn the games.

[42:46] Brendon Stimson: So there's a huge responsibility.

[42:49] Kimberly: I don't know what that means.

[42:56] Brendon Stimson: Thank you, Siren.

[42:59] Brendon Stimson: I was a huge end of like the Pokemon like trading cards, but I don't know who I would like fangirl over like if I met like a Pikachu.

[43:11] Kimberly: Have you met Pikachu?

[43:12] Brendon Stimson: If I met Pikachu, I would like freak the I would also freak them.

[43:20] Brendon Stimson: Oh my god, this is a real thing.

[43:22] Brendon Stimson: No, no, I'd be there to kill all of us.

[43:25] Brendon Stimson: Someone killed Pikachu.

[43:27] Brendon Stimson: I'd be the one that stepped on Pikachu.

[43:29] Brendon Stimson: Oh god.

[43:30] Brendon Stimson: You know that?

[43:31] Brendon Stimson: So I used to teach young children.

[43:33] Brendon Stimson: And there was a like one or two year old.

[43:37] Brendon Stimson: That's why he's saying it.

[43:38] Brendon Stimson: Gotta smash them all.

[43:40] Kimberly: Is that what they say?

[43:40] Brendon Stimson: Gotta catch them.

[43:44] Brendon Stimson: Anyway.

[43:45] Kimberly: So this game is called Golden Age fancies.

[43:51] Kimberly: Okay.

[43:51] Kimberly: And I'd like for you each to just come up with a few Twitter handles for some golden age stars that did not get a chance to be on Twitter.

[44:00] Kimberly: I'm going to start.

[44:01] Kimberly: Ooh.

[44:02] Kimberly: Because I made one up.

[44:04] Kimberly: Great.

[44:04] Kimberly: And then we off.

[44:05] Kimberly: Oh, except mine's just at Ethel Merman.

[44:07] Brendon Stimson: So you all can take a solid word.

[44:11] Brendon Stimson: Oh, mine was my.

[44:12] Brendon Stimson: I think her handle's going to be I'm a merman dad.

[44:16] Kimberly: So it's like at and then like just a name of someone who's a fan of something.

[44:20] Kimberly: And then we can try to be like as rapid fire as you can, but you not necessarily in order.

[44:24] Kimberly: This would be for Carol Channing. It'd be at Rasberry's.

[44:33] Brendon Stimson: That's a really good one.

[44:35] Kimberly: How about oh uh at Mary Me Martin?

[44:39] Brendon Stimson: I was trying to think of something for Mary Martin 2.

[44:40] Brendon Stimson: I was like, at how do you solve a problem?

[44:43] Kimberly: Like.

[44:43] Kimberly: Oh.

[44:44] Kimberly: Oh, um, at I'm Trouble, Robert Preston.

[44:49] Brendon Stimson: That's a good one.

[44:50] Kimberly: Um at John Wright is great.

[44:52] Brendon Stimson: Oh, good one.

[44:55] Kimberly: You're a head right now.

[44:57] Brendon Stimson: I would say at backwards in heels for Ginger Rogers.

[45:00] Kimberly: Oh, good one.

[45:02] Brendon Stimson: At Dancer with a mop for Gene Kelly.

[45:05] Kimberly: At Dancing with a Broom.

[45:09] Brendon Stimson: Put us at real Fredistare.

[45:12] Brendon Stimson: Because I feel like it would just be like no nonsense.

[45:14] Kimberly: Yeah, no not Fred Stare.

[45:17] Brendon Stimson: He would require a check mark.

[45:20] Kimberly: At I'll Capture Her Heart Singing, Bing Crosby.

[45:23] Kimberly: Wait, are we coming up with Twitter handles for like the actors or Twitter handles for like their fans?

[45:28] Brendon Stimson: Oh, is it the people or the fans?

[45:30] Kimberly: Either or.

[45:31] Kimberly: I was thinking it was for the people so that you can follow them.

[45:33] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[45:33] Kimberly: So you follow them.

[45:34] Brendon Stimson: Got it.

[45:35] Brendon Stimson: Now I'm I'm I'm back.

[45:36] Kimberly: But then we're gonna switch.

[45:37] Kimberly: And we're better.

[45:38] Kimberly: So hashtags for old musicals.

[45:40] Brendon Stimson: Hashtags for old musicals.

[45:41] Kimberly: Like hashtag fansies would be like hashtag gypsies for gypsy.

[45:46] Brendon Stimson: Oh got it.

[45:47] Kimberly: Because now they're called uh Deervan Fansons.

[45:50] Brendon Stimson: Oh wow.

[45:51] Brendon Stimson: That's the fansons they're called.

[45:53] Kimberly: Hashtag Rogers and Famerstimes.

[45:56] Brendon Stimson: Fannersteins?

[45:57] Kimberly: That's cute.

[45:57] Brendon Stimson: There you go.

[45:58] Kimberly: Oh, that's funny.

[46:00] Brendon Stimson: Um the King and Fans.

[46:04] Kimberly: Hashtag King and Fans.

[46:08] Brendon Stimson: It's not an old musical, but hashtag fans of normal.

[46:11] Kimberly: I don't know.

[46:12] Brendon Stimson: Oh yeah, that's kind of fun.

[46:13] Kimberly: Oh, the music fan.

[46:18] Brendon Stimson: Um fan of La Mancha.

[46:22] Kimberly: Fan Oh, the Phantom of the Upper.

[46:24] Brendon Stimson: I mean the hashtag shelovesme, and I also love it a lot.

[46:29] Brendon Stimson: It's a great show, and I really think it's good.

[46:32] Kimberly: Um characters.

[46:37] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, hashtag.

[46:38] Brendon Stimson: Hashtag just one emoji and then a full hashtag.

[46:42] Brendon Stimson: Hashtag call me fatom.

[46:44] Kimberly: Fandom.

[46:47] Brendon Stimson: Call me fathom.

[46:48] Brendon Stimson: Don't ever call me fathom, actually.

[46:54] Kimberly: Oh, Oklahoma!

[46:56] Brendon Stimson: That's a really good one.

[46:57] Kimberly: Oklahoma?

[46:58] Brendon Stimson: Like fear of missing out.

[47:00] Kimberly: Oh, right.

[47:01] Brendon Stimson: Good job.

[47:02] Kimberly: Thank you so much.

[47:02] Brendon Stimson: That was really good.

[47:04] Kimberly: Good job.

[47:05] Brendon Stimson: School of R O F L Nice.

[47:08] Brendon Stimson: That's the real that's a new one, but I buy it.

[47:10] Kimberly: I'm into that.

[47:11] Brendon Stimson: Oh, West Side Fanny.

[47:14] Kimberly: I'm a Westside hoary.

[47:16] Brendon Stimson: So they're a fan of West Side Story and Fanny.

[47:18] Kimberly: Yeah.

[47:18] Brendon Stimson: Oh, Fanny.

[47:19] Kimberly: Dual ship.

[47:20] Brendon Stimson: Fanny.

[47:20] Kimberly: Dual Fantasonship.

[47:22] Brendon Stimson: Dual Fantasine Chip.

[47:23] Brendon Stimson: My Fan Lady.

[47:24] Kimberly: Oh yeah.

[47:26] Brendon Stimson: Or the My Fair Ladies.

[47:29] Kimberly: No, here's what about guys?

[47:30] Brendon Stimson: Well, exactly.

[47:31] Brendon Stimson: I'm sorry.

[47:31] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, some of us like that show too.

[47:33] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[47:33] Brendon Stimson: I do I like it.

[47:34] Brendon Stimson: Fan Malian.

[47:40] Brendon Stimson: Um my god.

[47:41] Brendon Stimson: Brig a fan.

[47:42] Kimberly: Oh yeah, that's good.

[47:44] Brendon Stimson: Briggin don't miss it.

[47:45] Brendon Stimson: Oh, fanadou.

[47:46] Kimberly: Fanadu?

[47:47] Brendon Stimson: Fanadu.

[47:48] Brendon Stimson: Fanager.

[47:49] Brendon Stimson: Fan to do.

[47:50] Brendon Stimson: Fanadu's first as well.

[47:52] Kimberly: Um, this is fun.

[47:54] Brendon Stimson: Uh a fanny thing happened on the one.

[47:56] Kimberly: Oh yeah, that's a good one.

[47:57] Brendon Stimson: The phantoms of the opera.

[47:59] Kimberly: We did that already, Kevin.

[48:00] Brendon Stimson: Oh.

[48:02] Brendon Stimson: Heads up.

[48:03] Kimberly: Well, we can just say phantom for that up the.

[48:06] Brendon Stimson: Oh, for the yesing one is what I bet.

[48:09] Kimberly: Do I hear a fan?

[48:10] Brendon Stimson: Oh, yes.

[48:11] Kimberly: Sorry, guys.

[48:14] Brendon Stimson: Do I hear a fan?

[48:16] Brendon Stimson: Fan never dies.

[48:17] Kimberly: Oh, do I hear a fan?

[48:18] Kimberly: That's a good one.

[48:18] Brendon Stimson: Marilyn fan along.

[48:20] Brendon Stimson: Hello.

[48:22] Brendon Stimson: Any fan can whistle.

[48:26] Brendon Stimson: The whistlers.

[48:27] Kimberly: Hashtag the whiskers.

[48:28] Kevin: Oh, for like Oh, right.

[48:30] Brendon Stimson: Because the ring wakening was like the guilty one.

[48:32] Kimberly: Redhead was or Redhead.

[48:34] Kevin: Red was Redheads.

[48:35] Brendon Stimson: Fan Settos.

[48:36] Kimberly: Oh.

[48:37] Kevin: Good one.

[48:39] Brendon Stimson: That's a good one. There's a solid crop here.

[48:41] Kimberly: What can be for the new ones?

[48:42] Kevin: Like the fan stands.

[48:44] Brendon Stimson: The fan stands.

[48:44] Kimberly: Oh, that's a good one. I'm giving these to you guys.

[48:48] Kevin: Fanatic.

[48:49] Brendon Stimson: I think that's that must be already a thing, right?

[48:50] Kimberly: I'm sure that's like they're called the fans.

[48:51] Kevin: Everybody's.

[48:52] Brendon Stimson: Charlie and the fan factory.

[48:53] Kimberly: Ooh.

[48:55] Kevin: The chocolatiers.

[48:56] Brendon Stimson: The chocolatier.

[48:58] Kevin: The wonkas.

[48:59] Brendon Stimson: The wancas, the umpalopas.

[49:01] Kimberly: Oh, they might go with umpalumpas.

[49:03] Kevin: No, walkers is better.

[49:04] Brendon Stimson: Um, fandom fan.

[49:07] Kimberly: Oh, yeah.

[49:09] Kevin: They'll just be mean girls.

[49:10] Brendon Stimson: They'll just be mean girls.

[49:11] Kimberly: The French picture guys are like the bitches.

[49:13] Kevin: Oh, um they'll be the plastics.

[49:15] Brendon Stimson: I'm sure like the plastic.

[49:17] Kimberly: Yeah, they'll just be the plastics.

[49:18] Kevin: Yeah. What do they say?

[49:18] Brendon Stimson: Fetch?

[49:19] Kimberly: Fetch.

[49:19] Kevin: They'll be the fanches.

[49:21] Brendon Stimson: Fanches?

[49:22] Kimberly: The fetch.

[49:24] Kevin: Fanch work.

[49:28] Brendon Stimson: Um before we head out, should we play one more with us?

[49:31] Kimberly: Yeah.

[49:31] Kevin: Jay Schmidt.

[49:32] Brendon Stimson: Jay Schmidt, enemy of the show.

[49:34] Kimberly: Enemy of the show.

[49:35] Kevin: Will you come play a game?

[49:36] Jay Schmidt: Sure.

[49:37] Brendon Stimson: So what I learned at the Christmas party is that Jay Schmidt and Brendon both play a little game called the World of Warcraft.

[49:45] Jay Schmidt: Oh, huge into it.

[49:47] Brendon Stimson: Very dungeon.

[49:48] Kimberly: What are you jewelry? What's your character?

[49:51] Brendon Stimson: So are you like a war guy?

[49:52] Jay Schmidt: Yes.

[49:53] Brendon Stimson: Was it a Worgen or a So my guy's name Stampo.

[49:56] Jay Schmidt: Sweeps Stampo.

[49:58] Brendon Stimson: He does not have a broom, surprisingly. He's an elemental shaman, but an off spec resto, which is restoration.

[50:05] Kimberly: If anybody you're probably playing all the time because you're the healer, probably.

[50:08] Jay Schmidt: Nah, I switched over to Ellen.

[50:10] Brendon Stimson: You okay?

[50:12] Jay Schmidt: Oh, there you go.

[50:12] Brendon Stimson: There you go. You're back.

[50:13] Jay Schmidt: I want to look really engaged when talking about World of Warcraft.

[50:17] Brendon Stimson: Oh, it's a life.

[50:18] Jay Schmidt: I've trained to win your shaman.

[50:20] Brendon Stimson: CD magic.

[50:20] Jay Schmidt: Oh hell yeah.

[50:21] Brendon Stimson: I swing like uh lava.

[50:23] Jay Schmidt: So you're swinging in the game as well.

[50:25] Brendon Stimson: You could say it.

[50:28] Kimberly: So he's named Stampo?

[50:30] Brendon Stimson: Stampo.

[50:30] Jay Schmidt: Stampo.

[50:32] Brendon Stimson: And what do you play for? Alliance or Horde.

[50:35] Jay Schmidt: Horde.

[50:35] Brendon Stimson: I'm an orc shaman.

[50:37] Kimberly: Jay, who do you play for?

[50:38] Jay Schmidt: I play for the Alliance.

[50:41] Brendon Stimson: Are you a bad guy?

[50:42] Jay Schmidt: Well, no.

[50:43] Brendon Stimson: We're game.

[50:47] Jay Schmidt: There's a large sweeping political drama known to Azmroth because our world was actually in decay.

[50:54] Brendon Stimson: And so we actually came to the world for necessity. That's what happened.

[50:58] Kimberly: Jay, can you introduce your character?

[50:59] Jay Schmidt: Um my main character is uh Witherbell. She is a Dranei, which is also technically a Drainai.

[51:06] Brendon Stimson: She's a pretty lady.

[51:07] Kimberly: Oh, is those to do with like the blue things?

[51:08] Jay Schmidt: Yes.

[51:09] Brendon Stimson: I like playing girls in games because if I'm gonna have to stare at someone the whole time, I'd rather it be a girl.

[51:15] Kimberly: I can turn into a boy.

[51:16] Brendon Stimson: So I can just like it.

[51:17] Kimberly: Can you turn into something?

[51:18] Brendon Stimson: It's like a wargan.

[51:19] Kimberly: No, not a wargan.

[51:20] Brendon Stimson: Oh.

[51:21] Kimberly: That's actually an alliance.

[51:22] Brendon Stimson: They do this on my favorite show, Face Off. They did it at the War World of Warcraft challenge.

[51:25] Kimberly: So I feel like I learned some of this.

[51:27] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[51:27] Kimberly: Like trolls and warguns and goes along with the game.

[51:31] Brendon Stimson: There is a game.

[51:32] Kimberly: So I've brought out the Lights of Broadway show cards.

[51:32] Brendon Stimson: Lights of Broadway!

[51:36] Kimberly: And everyone's gonna get to pick one.

[51:37] Brendon Stimson: Are we playing World of Warcraft?

[51:40] Kimberly: Alright. So I'm gonna give him shorten this. I'm gonna pass this around.

[51:43] Brendon Stimson: Oh, I will.

[51:44] Kimberly: And everyone gets to take one card from the Lights of Broadway show card box.

[51:48] Brendon Stimson: Okay.

[51:48] Kimberly: And then you have to decide what your character would be in wow. That person's character.

[51:53] Brendon Stimson: Oh my god.

[51:54] Kimberly: And then um Jay and Brennan get to decide who would win in a fight.

[51:57] Brendon Stimson: Do we have to see it? This is gonna be really short because none of us actually know what this is.

[52:01] Kevin: It depends on like this, like so.

[52:02] Brendon Stimson: We're talking this current patch.

[52:04] Kimberly: Because I mean, sure.

[52:06] Brendon Stimson: Oh man. So that I don't really know any of this.

[52:09] Kimberly: So I'll go first with an I have no idea.

[52:13] Brendon Stimson: So John Goodman.

[52:14] Kimberly: Yep.

[52:15] Brendon Stimson: Okay. Is gonna play for the Alliance.

[52:19] Kimberly: Okay.

[52:20] Brendon Stimson: Maybe. And he's a Pandaren.

[52:22] Kimberly: Oh yeah.

[52:23] Brendon Stimson: I buy that. Uh that's a panda character.

[52:25] Kimberly: Panda character?

[52:27] Brendon Stimson: And he's um No wonder you love this.

[52:30] Kimberly: What could they be? Like a warlock?

[52:31] Brendon Stimson: Can a panda be a warlock?

[52:33] Kimberly: What can a panda be?

[52:34] Brendon Stimson: I think he'd be a warrior, honestly.

[52:35] Kimberly: He'd definitely be a pandorant.

[52:36] Brendon Stimson: Oh, true. So a pandarin'd be a boy.

[52:38] Kimberly: He'd be a prop warrior.

[52:39] Brendon Stimson: And he has a cool mouse.

[52:42] Kimberly: I don't know which one. Probably a unicorn.

[52:44] Brendon Stimson: He's right in Nicoda. Absolutely. I'm a nerdy guy.

[52:48] Kimberly: I'm lost. I have no idea what's happening. I'm just gonna say fantasy stuff and see if it all works.

[52:52] Brendon Stimson: Great, go back. What do you got?

[52:54] Kimberly: So I have um Karen Olivo.

[52:56] Brendon Stimson: Okay.

[52:56] Kimberly: Oh.

[52:57] Brendon Stimson: And I think that she would be a druid.

[53:01] Kimberly: Is that a thing?

[53:02] Brendon Stimson: That is a thing. Yeah.

[53:03] Kimberly: So she would be a druid. Um what kind of druid?

[53:07] Brendon Stimson: A magical one.

[53:09] Kimberly: Okay, so she's a moonkin.

[53:11] Brendon Stimson: A moonkin? What?

[53:13] Kimberly: Okay, so she's a moonkin. That's what I would say.

[53:15] Brendon Stimson: And um, she would have a special power where she would uh belt people's faces off.

[53:24] Kimberly: I buy that.

[53:24] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, yeah.

[53:25] Kimberly: And she would have like a really cool kind of like lasso thing.

[53:30] Brendon Stimson: Interesting.

[53:31] Kimberly: Interesting. Just because she pulls you in.

[53:33] Brendon Stimson: Cool.

[53:34] Kimberly: And then belts your face off.

[53:35] Brendon Stimson: Jerry Bryan, you ready?

[53:36] Kevin: I'll go.

[53:37] Brendon Stimson: I have the cast of cats.

[53:42] Kevin: This is a no-brainer.

[53:44] Brendon Stimson: This is a fair he has a horde.

[53:45] Kevin: This is a no-brainer. I have a full horde of cats.

[53:48] Brendon Stimson: Yes.

[53:50] Kevin: They're gonna stay cats.

[53:52] Brendon Stimson: This is a thing.

[53:53] Kevin: Yeah. Um there's cats in World of Warcraft.

[53:55] Brendon Stimson: And their tails are wands?

[53:57] Kevin: Can that be a thing?

[53:59] Brendon Stimson: Absolutely not.

[54:00] Kevin: So their tails are wands, and um each one has a different feature. And they always move together.

[54:05] Brendon Stimson: Oh no.

[54:07] Kevin: And um they all have like an each individual like thing they do.

[54:11] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, but no one can. Can they introduce themselves throughout the game?

[54:14] Kevin: That's their magic spells when they do that scary ass naming your cat thing.

[54:17] Brendon Stimson: So the naming of the cats is when they come together.

[54:20] Kevin: It's kind of like that's when they create this like Captain Planet-esque major cat.

[54:24] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[54:24] Kevin: And then the major cat like it only comes prime of a cat.

[54:27] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, or like um, like um it's prime of cat.

[54:30] Kevin: Yeah. Or like when the Alor Rangers come together.

[54:38] Brendon Stimson: So this like when stomping Pikachu would just be like when they come together's list, then you gotta stomp them all.

[54:38] Kevin: You gotta stomp them all.

[54:48] Brendon Stimson: So that's the cats.

[54:49] Kimberly: I buy it.

[54:50] Kevin: Alright, Jay Bird.

[54:51] Jay Schmidt: Jay, what do you got?

[54:52] Jay Schmidt: Um, I have Lonnie Price. These are amazing cards, by the way.

[54:56] Brendon Stimson: And I feel like this is amazing.

[54:58] Jay Schmidt: Lonnie Price is I think he's a blood elf.

[55:02] Brendon Stimson: I buy it.

[55:03] Jay Schmidt: Alright. Which means he's hoarded. I also think Lonnie Price strikes me as an arcane blood elf mage, in that he's very like, but I also think his addiction to magic is a little is a little harder on him than most.

[55:19] Brendon Stimson: Yeah.

[55:19] Jay Schmidt: And I feel like he's good.

[55:21] Brendon Stimson: I'm too sober for this.

[55:23] Jay Schmidt: He sticks around in Silver Moon and does a lot of like bo does a lot of library work.

[55:28] Brendon Stimson: I buy it.

[55:29] Kimberly: Oh, he probably does do a lot of library work. He's very smart.

[55:32] Brendon Stimson: Oh, he's gonna die to fight.

[55:33] Jay Schmidt: Alright, who we got?

[55:37] Brendon Stimson: Why did you say it?

[55:38] Jay Schmidt: I said, Oh, he's gonna die to fight then.

[55:41] Brendon Stimson: Librarians are always the first to go.

[55:43] Kimberly: So Mary lives to the whole music man.

[55:45] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, but no one fights her.

[55:47] Kimberly: If somebody was like, I'm gonna budge Marion, that girl would be down.

[55:50] Brendon Stimson: I'm such a music fan.

[55:53] Kimberly: So I mean Joel Gray.

[55:56] Brendon Stimson: Okay.

[55:57] Kimberly: And I think this is along the similar lines of I think, and Jay's with me, he's very much like a Cadgar, but what's a cat gar?

[56:07] Brendon Stimson: So You guys are just making up words.

[56:09] Kimberly: Because of the game where you're trying to make a feeling.

[56:11] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, but someone doesn't know Thinner be like, Fuente is not a real word.

[56:14] Jay Schmidt: See, I think he's I think he's more of a guy or uh a um a gnome.

[56:18] Brendon Stimson: You think?

[56:19] Jay Schmidt: Yeah, I think it's like a Mechotor. Like David look um, you know who he's like, he's actually like so he's a gnome.

[56:26] Brendon Stimson: I'm gonna say mage because I don't know exactly specifically, but he's like he's like a mana storm.

[56:31] Jay Schmidt: He's a gnome mage?

[56:32] Brendon Stimson: Yeah, he's a very mana storm um mage, gnome.

[56:38] Kimberly: Okay.

[56:38] Brendon Stimson: He's got a lot of like spunk to him.

[56:41] Kimberly: Alright. Who who wins?

[56:43] Brendon Stimson: Warriors.

[56:44] Jay Schmidt: I think wins.

[56:45] Brendon Stimson: I think all the cats.

[56:46] Kevin: I think the cats winning.

[56:49] Brendon Stimson: First year, like a win.

[56:53] Kimberly: Yeah, because gelicals can angelicals do.

[56:55] Brendon Stimson: Um Karen Oliva would take at least two cats with her as she goes.

[56:58] Kimberly: That's oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[57:00] Brendon Stimson: She would even know if like our.

[57:02] Kimberly: And John Goodman would just sort of plow a few down and then just keep walking.

[57:05] Brendon Stimson: It's true. Like between us four, we have no healer to like even combat against the cats.

[57:11] Kimberly: Like that's how it is.

[57:12] Brendon Stimson: That's true. I'm interested to hear if any of our listeners actually are also WoW fans. So if you are tweeting us and you listener, and get at me at Stampo at the the Venture Co Realm.

[57:22] Jay Schmidt: Where can people find you on Heroes of the Storm?

[57:24] Brendon Stimson: Uh Outlaw Panda.

[57:26] Jay Schmidt: Yeah, because you're an outlaw.

[57:27] Brendon Stimson: Yeah. And a panda.

[57:28] Jay Schmidt: That's true.

[57:29] Brendon Stimson: Great 1941.

[57:30] Kimberly: A payday.

[57:31] Brendon Stimson: So I want I want to thank Brendon for hanging out with us.

[57:34] Kimberly: Thanks, Brendon.

[57:35] Brendon Stimson: So glad to be here.

[57:35] Kimberly: Yeah, of course. Um, but we end every episode.

[57:38] Bryan Plopsky: Oh, you remember you can follow him at Brenn Stim's. Um, you can follow Sweeps there as well.

[57:44] Brendon Stimson: Oh my god. Um but um please tweet him questions about the broom all the time handle at all times tweet him broom questions.

[57:52] Kimberly: Don't forget all his Twitter handle like um you can follow us at Broadwaysted on all platforms so good.

[58:04] Bryan Plopsky: Uh please go to iTunes and give us and rate us, Jay.

[58:08] Jay Schmidt: Five stars, please.

[58:09] Bryan Plopsky: Five stars, please.

[58:11] Kimberly: Um, that's okay. Stop trying to make that every episode that line read.

[58:19] Bryan Plopsky: We the season.

[58:22] Kimberly: Oh my god, that's so we end every episode with a quick coat quote, quote quote, quote.

[58:29] Bryan Plopsky: A co quote?

[58:30] Kimberly: I've never heard of the word the letter Q that many times.

[58:33] Bryan Plopsky: I'll remind you all that Brian's been drinking water.

[58:37] Kimberly: Some philosophies pick and choose, deciding what goes in it. Some take a lifetime, some take a minute. So, on that note, let's all raise a glass to freedom.

[58:43] All: To freedom.

[58:49] Bryan Plopsky: But also cheers.

[58:53] All: Thank you for joining us. See you next time again.

[59:01] Bryan Plopsky: I don't even know. What is next week?

[59:03] Kimberly: Why should I know?

[59:03] Bryan Plopsky: I don't know. Get off my back.

[59:08] All: Cheers, all.

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