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[0:10] Elliott Mattox: This is Hungover, a new mini-series where we follow some of our favorite theater artists on their way back to the stage.

[0:17] Caleb Dicke: We're gonna be checking in with these artists before rehearsal, during rehearsal scene the process, and then afterwards during performances.

[0:24] Elliott Mattox: So you'll get a unique perspective on their journeys to getting back to normal.

[0:29] Caleb Dicke: So grab your hair of the dog, because this is Hungover.

[0:35] Elliott Mattox: Cheers!

[0:37] Caleb Dicke: Listen to that clink!

[0:39] Elliott Mattox: We've never had a real glass cleaner.

[0:41] Caleb Dicke: I know, it's been a while.

[0:42] Elliott Mattox: It's been a while.

[0:44] Caleb Dicke: Welcome to this week's episode of Hungover, uh, the Equity One mini-series where we um I'm distracted because we have wine.

[0:52] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, and I was doing the local.

[0:54] Caleb Dicke: Um, hold on.

[0:55] Elliott Mattox: The Equity One we haven't recorded in a while.

[0:57] Caleb Dicke: The Equity One mini series where we chat with some of your favorite theater artists uh on their way back to the stage.

[1:04] Elliott Mattox: I'm Elliott.

[1:05] Caleb Dicke: And I'm Caleb, but welcome.

[1:07] Elliott Mattox: And uh we have with us here today Britney Coleman.

[1:12] Britney Coleman: Hi!

[1:12] Elliott Mattox: Hello, hello.

[1:14] Britney Coleman: How are you?

[1:15] Elliott Mattox: I'm great.

[1:16] Caleb Dicke: Welcome.

[1:17] Elliott Mattox: This is our first episode.

[1:18] Caleb Dicke: Now, this is a treat because you're actually our first episode with our new wine partner Intermission Sellers.

[1:25] Elliott Mattox: We are having um the Octave.

[1:28] Caleb Dicke: We're having Octave today.

[1:29] Britney Coleman: Yes.

[1:30] Elliott Mattox: And um here is Kristen Piero and David Gordon to tell you a little bit about the wine.

[1:36] David Gordon: Let's talk about octave. Why octave? In music, an octave is a musical interval embracing eight diatonic degrees.

[1:43] David Gordon: This wine has eight grape varietals that create a blend that is sure to serenade your palate. Each note or varietal builds upon the next to create a lush orchestral sound.

[1:52] David Gordon: Octave is fruit forward, full-bodied, and velvety. Each varietal was separately aged in French and American oak barrels for three years, blended by taste, then returned to neutral barrels for a total of five years.

[2:04] David Gordon: This wine is sure to impress any level of connoisseur. We encourage you to taste the passion, excitement, and balance. Embrace it like a good piece of music and sip those harmonies.

[2:17] David Gordon: This blend is 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Zinfandel, 19% Merlot, 10% Malbec, 10% Syrah, 7% Cab Franc, 5% Sangiovesi, and 4% Petite Verdeau. A true Bordeaux blend.

[2:31] David Gordon: To order Octave or any of the Intermission Sellers' wines, you can find us at www.intermissioncellars.com.

[2:40] David Gordon: Sellers with a C. And you can find us on Instagram at Intermission Sellers.

[2:45] Caleb Dicke: What are we thinking?

[2:46] Britney Coleman: Let's take a sip.

[2:47] Elliott Mattox: Uh-huh.

[2:47] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[2:50] Britney Coleman: ASMR.

[2:52] Caleb Dicke: Oh.

[2:52] Britney Coleman: Ooh.

[2:54] Caleb Dicke: That's good.

[2:55] Britney Coleman: It's really um.

[2:56] Caleb Dicke: Do I say spice? Is there a spice to it?

[2:59] Britney Coleman: I mean, she I mean.

[3:00] Caleb Dicke: I got I got immediate, like like that kind of like um immediate reaction with my kind of gross with saliva. Just like it's very.

[3:09] Britney Coleman: I got like a sour kind of fruity moment.

[3:14] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, I got a little bit of spice in there.

[3:15] Britney Coleman: Because this is the blend, right?

[3:16] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, it's the blend, yeah.

[3:17] Britney Coleman: Okay, so there's a lot happening.

[3:20] Caleb Dicke: Smooth with a bite, though?

[3:21] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[3:21] Caleb Dicke: Oh, yeah.

[3:22] Britney Coleman: Ugh.

[3:23] Caleb Dicke: This is good.

[3:24] Britney Coleman: I love this. Like, we're getting into fall, but as fall goes on, like I want this like when like the leaves are falling.

[3:31] Caleb Dicke: And like I have a sweater on and jeans and some boots.

[3:34] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[3:35] Caleb Dicke: I'm trash, so I usually have my red cold with the pull it from the fridge, or do you put ice cream?

[3:43] Britney Coleman: No, I put ice in it.

[3:43] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[3:44] Britney Coleman: It's bad.

[3:44] Caleb Dicke: Oh wee!

[3:45] Britney Coleman: Um, but this is I would don't need to do that with.

[3:48] Britney Coleman: I would I'll just drink this at its proper temperature.

[3:51] Caleb Dicke: It's working for me.

[3:52] Britney Coleman: It's very light.

[3:53] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, it is.

[3:54] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[3:54] Caleb Dicke: I'm gonna have the whole bottle.

[3:55] Britney Coleman: Thank you so much.

[3:56] Caleb Dicke: Cheers!

[3:58] Britney Coleman: See you on the other side.

[4:00] Elliott Mattox: Goodbye. Um, so Britney is about to start rehearsals uh for the Company revival.

[4:06] Caleb Dicke: And um I had tickets to see it, like right as things were shutting down.

[4:12] Elliott Mattox: Um, because our schedule had just changed to where we could see things, so I was very sad to throw those tickets away.

[4:20] Caleb Dicke: Threw them away in the trash.

[4:22] Elliott Mattox: Well, because I don't, you know, I don't know how how many people had tickets for things, but it was just like got a refund like pretty immediately.

[4:31] Caleb Dicke: Um but it was just kind of sad. Like I had my little like ticket envelopes in my backpack.

[4:37] Elliott Mattox: March 17th on it.

[4:39] Caleb Dicke: And I just never threw them.

[4:40] Elliott Mattox: I finally threw them away because I was like, okay, enough of that time, but that time has to go.

[4:45] Caleb Dicke: Let it go.

[4:46] Elliott Mattox: Um but before we get into talking about that, uh, we first like to start our episodes by asking our guests what first got them interested in the arts when they were young.

[4:55] Britney Coleman: Oh wow. Oh gosh. Um, well, this is a fun story that I like to tell. So I was really shy and introverted as a little kid. Like I had no idea what I wanted to do or anything.

[5:05] Britney Coleman: So um I had a wonderful, very ambitious music teacher when I was in elementary school. Uh he came in when I was in third grade, and he said, instead of a spring or fall concert, we're gonna do 45-minute versions of musicals.

[5:21] Britney Coleman: So I need every student to come up and audition. We'll audition you in groups and I'll pull the leads out, and then everybody else will be in the chorus in the background.

[5:28] Britney Coleman: And um, he cast me as Mary in The Secret Garden when I was in third grade. I had no idea I could sing before that or that I even enjoyed it.

[5:36] Caleb Dicke: Really?

[5:37] Britney Coleman: Yeah, I was so shy. I don't know. My parents wanted me to be in choir. I guess they had an inkling, maybe, but I said, absolutely not. You want me to do what? Mm-mm. No, thank you.

[5:45] Britney Coleman: And it took this teacher really pulling me from out of the chorus to come and sing, you know. I need a place where I can go.

[5:54] Britney Coleman: Like I listened to the cast recording, and I think um I developed some sort of British accent when I was little too. It was just so hilarious and strange. And then the rest is history.

[6:04] Britney Coleman: We kept doing the musicals in elementary school and West Side Story, um, little Gilbert and Sullivan, whatnot.

[6:11] Elliott Mattox: That's kind of cool that like that um this teacher, and like so many teachers do, but like just adapt to what they see or what they feel students need and are able to like go against curriculum or the you know the norm of how to do things to go get so creative.

[6:32] Caleb Dicke: Um and it's funny that you tell that story because um all these wines are like dedicated to people, and Octave is dedicated to um music teachers.

[6:42] Britney Coleman: Wow, look at that!

[6:44] Caleb Dicke: Like say, look at that. Yeah, it's beautiful.

[6:47] Britney Coleman: Oh but that's that's amazing that like that was catered um like that.

[6:54] Caleb Dicke: After that first performance, you're like, Oh, I want to keep doing this, or did he have to keep pushing you along, or was it just like snapped on it?

[6:59] Britney Coleman: I think I got bit by the bug.

[7:00] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[7:02] Britney Coleman: Definitely got bit by the bug after that. I auditioned for everything after that, and um, yeah, we had a nice full circle moment when I was doing Titsy. I got to get him tickets to come see me when I was alone.

[7:11] Caleb Dicke: Oh, it's just very special.

[7:13] Britney Coleman: Oh, that's so cool.

[7:14] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. Where did you grow up?

[7:16] Britney Coleman: Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[7:17] Caleb Dicke: Okay. Okay. The top of the hand, right?

[7:20] Britney Coleman: Oh, where is that?

[7:22] Britney Coleman: So one of my pandemic activities was getting a tattoo. It's a very Michigan tattoo. We like to like, you know, get something where your hometown is. So uh I know it's a podcast. But on my left hand, you can see that there are two stars.

[7:36] Britney Coleman: I like to call these the Neverland stars. And yeah, like the second star to the right is on Ann Arbor right there.

[7:42] Caleb Dicke: Oh I love that.

[7:44] Britney Coleman: Yeah, so that's where it is. And like this is where Detroit is on the edge, Lansing in the center. Ohio's down here.

[7:51] Caleb Dicke: I know I'm from Ohio, so we won't get into that.

[7:54] Britney Coleman: It's fine.

[7:55] Caleb Dicke: I didn't go to Ohio State, so it doesn't matter.

[7:57] Britney Coleman: Okay, but we're fine.

[7:58] Caleb Dicke: We're fine, we're fine.

[7:59] Britney Coleman: Um, but there's this great deli in Ann Arbor.

[8:01] Caleb Dicke: Zimmerman's Zingerman's okay, yeah, yeah.

[8:04] Britney Coleman: Yes, yes.

[8:04] Caleb Dicke: I visited a couple times. I'm like, this deli is like amazing.

[8:07] Britney Coleman: Oh, yeah.

[8:08] Caleb Dicke: You just get plain sandwiches for $25.

[8:10] Britney Coleman: It's so expensive, but delicious.

[8:12] Caleb Dicke: Very yellow.

[8:13] Britney Coleman: So good. Yeah, whenever we have famous people or like fancy people come into town, that's where they go. Like Obama will be in town, and you see him at Zingerman's or you know, any other very casual.

[8:17] Caleb Dicke: Very casual.

[8:25] Britney Coleman: Anyone.

[8:26] Caleb Dicke: What's the what are they like known for? Like is it a specific sandwich, or is it just like the deli?

[8:30] Britney Coleman: Like I I think it's the deli overall. Yeah, they definitely have like their hits of sandwiches, like the corned beef ruben is a big one.

[8:38] Caleb Dicke: Uh-huh.

[8:38] Britney Coleman: Um, I always get the Charlie M. Tuna, that's the number 14 with the tomato bisque.

[8:43] Caleb Dicke: Oh, it's so good.

[8:44] Britney Coleman: I love a bisque.

[8:48] Caleb Dicke: I love restaurants with with numbers.

[8:50] Britney Coleman: Yes.

[8:50] Caleb Dicke: Oh, I think that's so that's such like a mood.

[8:54] Britney Coleman: It's like odd the seven.

[8:55] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[8:56] Britney Coleman: And it's like, do you or are you a number ordering person or are you a name ordering person?

[9:00] Britney Coleman: I'm really more of a name ordering person.

[9:03] Caleb Dicke: I'm like, I order the same thing and everywhere I go, unless it's like a new restaurant. So like I'm just like, I'm by the name, even if it was a number.

[9:10] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[9:11] Caleb Dicke: What do you order?

[9:12] Britney Coleman: I mean, like this is so awful. If it's the same thing. Taco Bell is my like worst fast food.

[9:22] Caleb Dicke: Do you want to do that saying no? Do you want to tell the people your dirty secret, your dark secret about uh when you order Taco Bell?

[9:30] Britney Coleman: How you ruined my current ruin my entire reputation.

[9:33] Caleb Dicke: So like I can't let people know that I'm ordering Taco Bell. Now they have this new thing where you put your name up on the board. If you haven't gone, they do that.

[9:40] Britney Coleman: Sorry, I I say Elliott M as my name.

[9:45] Caleb Dicke: So people don't know that it's me ordering.

[9:47] Britney Coleman: Like how many Elliott M's do you know? Like I only know one.

[9:52] Caleb Dicke: Absolutely dragging me.

[9:54] Britney Coleman: Savage.

[9:54] Caleb Dicke: No, so I started putting Caleb's names.

[9:57] Britney Coleman: Yeah, too confused.

[9:59] Caleb Dicke: Um, so yeah.

[10:01] Elliott Mattox: Um and did you you went to school in Michigan too, right?

[10:04] Britney Coleman: I went to the University of Michigan.

[10:06] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah.

[10:07] Britney Coleman: The Michigan Difference, go blue.

[10:09] Caleb Dicke: Go blue.

[10:10] Britney Coleman: Yep, yep.

[10:10] Elliott Mattox: Now, what was it like to go? Because I feel like so many of us go far. Caleb and I both went really far away from school. What was it like to go to school literally where you grew up?

[10:22] Britney Coleman: Truly in my backyard. Um my parents' house is maybe five minutes away from campus.

[10:26] Caleb Dicke: Nice.

[10:26] Britney Coleman: So yeah. I mean, I grew up like as you know, a punky little teenager, considering our central campus as the downtown area.

[10:33] Britney Coleman: So I knew like where all the bubble tea places were. You know, get your late night pizza and kebabs, all that fun stuff.

[10:40] Britney Coleman: Um, and then when I went to college, it was just a completely different take on the city.

[10:45] Britney Coleman: I saw from a completely different light, and I really enjoyed it.

[10:48] Caleb Dicke: It was like you live on campus.

[10:49] Britney Coleman: I lived on campus. Absolutely.

[10:50] Britney Coleman: Like I'm paying state school money, like I'm getting a full experience.

[10:54] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[10:55] Britney Coleman: That in-state tuition is like a fraction of that of state. So I told my parents, I was like, this is so fun. Aren't you so glad I'm staying in town? Goodbye.

[11:01] Caleb Dicke: We'll see you on the weekends.

[11:04] Britney Coleman: Do laundry.

[11:05] Caleb Dicke: Exactly.

[11:06] Britney Coleman: Yep. And get leftovers. That was a big thing too. Or if I needed the car.

[11:10] Caleb Dicke: Uh-huh.

[11:11] Britney Coleman: Thanks, mom and dad.

[11:12] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. Love you.

[11:13] Britney Coleman: Definitely like the perks.

[11:15] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[11:16] Britney Coleman: It's like one once you reach a certain age, like the perks of being home, and like you have to like weigh whether it's worth the time.

[11:24] Caleb Dicke: Outside of your normal independent life.

[11:28] Britney Coleman: Yes.

[11:30] Caleb Dicke: Absolutely.

[11:31] Britney Coleman: Balance.

[11:31] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[11:32] Britney Coleman: Yes. And so then if you're, you know, you're growing up in Ann Arbor, you go to school in Ann Arbor. Then when you move, I mean, what was that experience like having like been in really one place and then hitting a completely new environment?

[11:48] Britney Coleman: Jarring.

[11:48] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[11:49] Britney Coleman: Oh man. I'm so glad I visited a couple times when I was in school. We we came out to the city to go support other you mish folks in the mafia, that kind of thing.

[11:58] Britney Coleman: We call it the Michigan Mafia. Um so I kind of knew what to expect in terms of the tempo of the city.

[12:05] Britney Coleman: It just moves at such a fast pace compared to to Ann Arbor, where everybody is, you know, Midwestern and friendly and everybody drives and you know, they're helpful.

[12:16] Britney Coleman: Whereas New York, like if you blink, like you'll get run over by someone or a car or a bus or something like that.

[12:23] Britney Coleman: Um so I kind of knew what to expect, but I definitely had to adjust. I definitely moved to Queens first, which I'm sure glad I did.

[12:30] Britney Coleman: Queens has much more of like a family vibe than Manhattan. It feels college towy sometimes. Like when you're walking down, you're like, you see all the houses, and you're like, okay.

[12:39] Britney Coleman: Yeah, I wanted my my view of the sky. Like I was really intimidated by all the really tall buildings.

[12:44] Caleb Dicke: Is that a weird thing to say?

[12:45] Britney Coleman: I don't know. Maybe but it was nice to just see, you know, like two-story condos and blue skies and trees and that kind of thing.

[12:51] Caleb Dicke: So I needed a little bit of an adjustment that way.

[13:03] Britney Coleman: Um I've never lived in Astoria. I have for like a week when I was like living with you on a blow-up mattress, but Manhattan gal all the way for me.

[13:14] Caleb Dicke: I hear that.

[13:15] Britney Coleman: It's just me.

[13:15] Caleb Dicke: Yep, I'm in Manhattan now, too.

[13:17] Britney Coleman: Oh yeah. I mean, hello, please. I love that end train, but we are very gotta get home.

[13:24] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[13:25] Britney Coleman: We're very pro-Manhattan on this podcast. We will shame people who live in uh just this is how we roll.

[13:32] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. I'm not going to I'm not going to Brooklyn for happy hour. Let's just say that.

[13:36] Britney Coleman: Okay, thank you. Everybody's like, Brooklyn's so trendy, and I'm like, but it's so inconvenient.

[13:41] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, so inconvenience.

[13:43] Britney Coleman: It's just I can't do it. I always have a good time when I'm out there. It's just like getting myself out there.

[13:46] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[13:49] Britney Coleman: And getting back though. Like if you're meeting people for drinks, and then it's like you either are taking a crazy expensive car home, or you're like kind of drunk coming off and like riding the train, and it's like a train you've never seen before. It's like not my vibe.

[14:08] Caleb Dicke: No. Not my vibe.

[14:10] Britney Coleman: Oh man. So what was your like um early pandemic Manhattan life like? Did you stay in the city? Like bring us back to March.

[14:18] Britney Coleman: Oh yeah. So let's see. We were in previews for Company, and uh I was in a fitting when we got the call to say, don't come to the theater tonight because there's no show. There won't be a show for another two weeks. So just hang out for two weeks. And I went, okay, sure. So I went home and um, and then of course the calls kept coming and saying, you know, oh, four more months. Oh, uh next year, uh sometime in the spring, maybe the summer. I don't know. Um, but I got really, really lucky because March was right before, let's see, all of the spring holidays.

[14:53] Caleb Dicke: Uh the sounds of the city.

[14:54] Britney Coleman: Oh no, yeah. Sorry. Welcome speaking up, I mean, I guess let's set the scene.

[14:58] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah.

[15:01] Britney Coleman: Well, I mean, yeah. Actually, yeah. I was up in the heights, and um, that's what it sounded like. Uh so I was just in my apartment, and I got really lucky because one of my other castmates, um, Catherine, hey girl, uh, she worked for a company called Sing for Hope, which is uh arts education and empowerment, not for profit put together by a lot of Juilliard folks, and they get arts out into um nursing homes and hospitals around the tri-state area. And uh, if you've seen those um Broadway decorated pianos around town, that's also them.

[15:35] Britney Coleman: Uh and so they were doing uh what are called Sing for Hope grams. So, you know, they would send me someone who loved either Sondheim or um a Carol King fan or something like that, and say, Hey, we've got a fan of Beautiful, and it's their mother's birthday. Will you sing a song for them and wish them a happy birthday? And that was great. So I did that for many months, and that turned into um Zoom concerts for nursing homes, which was wonderful.

[16:02] Caleb Dicke: Wow.

[16:02] Britney Coleman: Yeah. Hilarious and wonderful. They just let me do whatever I want for an hour and uh got to chat with them and everything.

[16:09] Caleb Dicke: You it was just an hour.

[16:11] Britney Coleman: And then were you seeing like all squares of different things?

[16:17] Caleb Dicke: Yep, yep, yep, yep.

[16:19] Britney Coleman: And they were all dis they were all distanced, and um uh a lot of folks in wheelchairs. It was just like it was so lovely to see their heads bobbing around, and I had my own tracks and everything that I would play over Zoom, so I got very tech savvy, yeah, which is a great skill set to add to my list as we all did. We had to become our own engineers, producers, designers.

[16:39] Caleb Dicke: Lighting designers, yeah.

[16:40] Britney Coleman: Yeah, so that was that was really special. That's really kind of what I've been up to as far as like being an ambassador for Sing for Hope.

[16:46] Caleb Dicke: So that's really cool. And I mean, like what a time for and those are the people who need who needed something the most.

[16:53] Britney Coleman: I mean, yeah.

[16:55] Caleb Dicke: They were so ice. That must have been a joy light for them too.

[17:03] Britney Coleman: Mm-hmm.

[17:03] Caleb Dicke: And you you've been also able to like, you know, there's been some some work far few and far between during this time, but you've been pretty lucky to be able to.

[17:15] Britney Coleman: I've been really lucky. I worked two full equity contracts this year. That's and one non equity contract on top of that. It was a concert. Okay, it was a non equity one. Anyway, our pocket.

[17:31] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[17:32] Britney Coleman: Uh no, it wasn't on equity, it was not non-jurisdictional. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just very casual. It was a concert, yeah, yeah.

[17:42] Caleb Dicke: Well, I was like, it's a good one. It wasn't any choreography, right?

[17:45] Britney Coleman: Yeah. Wink. Certainly not. No, it was it was in a tent. It was mic in hand. All other equity actors who were part of this concert six nights a week for a month. Um, so I got to work one of those and two full equity productions. Two approved equity approved productions.

[18:05] Britney Coleman: Uh, and they were both Camelot. So that was really fun. The first one I did was in Florida.

[18:11] Caleb Dicke: Oh, we know the Oslo.

[18:13] Britney Coleman: The Oslo repertoire.

[18:15] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[18:15] Britney Coleman: Okay. I did West Side Story and I did Guys and Dolls the season after me.

[18:20] Caleb Dicke: Oh, yay!

[18:21] Britney Coleman: Okay, so then I did Music Man right after that, more or less.

[18:25] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[18:26] Britney Coleman: Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the first time I worked on that.

[18:28] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[18:30] Britney Coleman: Here we go. Just fans of the Oslo.

[18:31] Caleb Dicke: Oh, absolutely.

[18:32] Britney Coleman: This theater has such great housing. It's really nice. Amazing.

[18:36] Caleb Dicke: It's just so lovely.

[18:38] Britney Coleman: Oh, guest, guest star. Hold pause. What time is it? I feel like the folks who deliver for Amazon, FedEx, UPS, like they know which apartments are usually around.

[18:50] Caleb Dicke: Exactly.

[18:52] Britney Coleman: You've done this before.

[18:56] Caleb Dicke: Not here.

[18:58] Britney Coleman: Okay. Alright. Oh, that's funny. Okay, we're talking about the Oslo. They have great housing.

[19:04] Caleb Dicke: Yes. We love the Oslo.

[19:08] Britney Coleman: We love drama. Um yeah, love. And three months like in Florida in the middle of winter, because we are on winter contracts.

[19:16] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[19:16] Britney Coleman: Music Man was a winter contract. Glorious. Just glorious.

[19:20] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[19:20] Britney Coleman: So that took place in March, April of this year, pre vaccine. None of us were vaccinated for that. So that was when equity was still doing the you have to be six feet apart when you're speaking. We were outside. They built this beautiful outdoor stage in that little roundabout in front. And so they put the um the seats in that little roundabout area, which was pretty cool.

[19:41] Britney Coleman: Um, but we were outside, we had to be six feet apart when speaking, and 12 feet apart when singing. And it was very, very strict. Like reaching, like ham a lot too. Where I'm used to like making out with folks during the show. Very strange. But we made it work, actually. We made that text work. And um, I was really proud of that production. And that was my first show back. So I think there were seven of us in that cast, and uh we all became really close because that was the first time all of us had worked, and and just um being potted together too was uh a really important thing.

[20:17] Caleb Dicke: And especially in Florida.

[20:19] Britney Coleman: Oh, exactly. Exactly. We were like, well, okay, I guess we're traveling in packs.

[20:24] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[20:25] Britney Coleman: And you know, I think we're all kind of figuring out what this life looks like as we're like, you know, starting to do gigs where like you're being regulated tested, but you're still vaccinated. Like your life kind of changes because you're like, okay, well, I can't maybe go out and you know, do the things I might normally do or see extra people that I might normally see because I have to have a livelihood. Like I have to be able to go to work.

[20:46] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, you're like, I need to get paid and I'm making money right now, and I can't jeopardize that because I was unemployed for over.

[20:53] Britney Coleman: That was times a hundred when the vaccine wasn't even a factor.

[20:58] Caleb Dicke: Exactly.

[20:59] Britney Coleman: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we didn't even hang out in each other's apartments to an extent.

[21:02] Caleb Dicke: Sure.

[21:03] Britney Coleman: We were, yeah, we were being tested three times a week by an external company. We weren't doing our own little, you know, whatever those little lollipop tests are. You know what I'm talking about?

[21:12] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[21:13] Britney Coleman: Yeah. So the stakes were really high. We we all really wanted our um our health insurance.

[21:19] Caleb Dicke: But that's real.

[21:20] Britney Coleman: Um yeah, so that was that was really special, and and no one got sick, and I feel very lucky that we were able to do that.

[21:27] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, totally. Hoo wee. And then yeah, cut to this other production that I just finished of Camelot where I was making out with two people every bring it all. Only being tested once a week. We were all vaccinated. We were also all outside in a field in the Hamptons. Not bad, not bad.

[21:45] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, like much.

[21:45] Britney Coleman: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was that was special too, because for that production, a lot of people hadn't worked um, you know, in a year and a half. Yeah, we're going on two years now. So it was really special to to see other people experience that as well for the first time.

[22:06] Caleb Dicke: And yeah.

[22:07] Britney Coleman: Yeah, so I've been really I've been really lucky, definitely. Well, and count my blessings. What is it? Because you've also kind of had a roller coaster with getting back to because with with all the developments that we've made with vaccine and safety, you know, many shows kind of were like, we're coming back at this time, and it's like just getting like a few months earlier.

[22:27] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah.

[22:28] Britney Coleman: So I mean, what has that been like? You kind of were like, okay, now I'm getting back to work sooner than I even thought. So how are you feeling about like getting back in the room? Revisiting something you worked on two years ago.

[22:42] Britney Coleman: Yeah, so we were in previews when we stopped in March, and um uh things were so hectic. You know, you know. Previews are you're at the show all day, every day. Um things changing left and right, and this is not an easy show to mount. I mean, there's so many moving parts, and I cover Bobby, Jenny, and Sarah. Uh, and Bobby was my first priority, and uh just trying to figure all of that out. Oh, I'm also on stage every night too. Yeah, right. So that's a whole other part of like trying to do my own track versus uh, no, that's yeah, you're like watcher, but like it's just wild.

[23:21] Britney Coleman: So all of us were just so um overwhelmed, to be honest. Uh I think all of us are a little anxious coming back into this process, knowing how overwhelming it was beforehand. Like my anxiety is through the roof right now. Um, but everyone's really excited. We had a meeting over Zoom last night with our um associate choreographer, and she's gonna hold um movement workshops with us over soon these next couple weeks before we start rehearsals. They'll end in like a meditation so we can get in the right headspace, start building our stamina up. Woo wee.

[23:56] Caleb Dicke: So I'm just really glad that this team is kind of taking that into account as far as like mental health.

[24:01] Britney Coleman: Yeah, it's like it's one thing to to do the show, but to be able to show up to work every day six days a week at the level that we were at before after being at rest for two years is just wild. So we're taking it in baby steps.

[24:17] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. So grateful.

[24:18] Britney Coleman: Yeah, that's it sounds like a multiple places are doing that.

[24:22] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. When we spoke to Pierre, he said they kind of started rehearsals differently with just kind of you know, talking about the year and a half that we've had and where everyone is and all of that.

[24:33] Britney Coleman: So it's interesting to see how everyone is approaching.

[24:36] Caleb Dicke: Addressing that, yeah.

[24:37] Britney Coleman: Yeah. Yeah. I think it's an it's uh important for everyone to just acknowledge what happened and not just jump right back into it. Because that's not gonna help anything for the future.

[24:48] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[24:48] Britney Coleman: And I don't think anybody wants to jump into what it was before. I think we've all been changed a little bit for this this moment in time and I think we want to come back to an industry that's a little more caring in this direction. You know, take a deep breath one step at a time, you know, like why are we here in the first place? Like let's just touch back with with the the roots of why we are doing what we're doing for a living.

[25:11] Caleb Dicke: It's kind of amazing.

[25:12] Britney Coleman: I mean it really is and it's like such an exciting time right now.

[25:16] Caleb Dicke: Yeah to be alive.

[25:18] Britney Coleman: I mean yeah and so you're you're gearing up for rehearsals. What are you most looking forward to about getting back in that room?

[25:32] Britney Coleman: Uh I think the people I think yeah just just seeing this group of people in particular because that was the first thing that I missed in March 2020. Um was was sharing space with this group of people every day and and problem solving and being open with each other and uh I didn't realize how much of a a family they'd all become like we were really you know leaning on each other to to keep going and to give it our best when we were all so wildly exhausted.

[26:05] Britney Coleman: Yeah, um it was such a special group and I'm really really looking forward to just uh being in that room laughing, pranking each other, uh just just all the things, hearing those glorious voices ooh yeah.

[26:22] Caleb Dicke: And how special too that, like, you know, looking back March 2020, you all had been working together for a month, a month and a half, yeah, two months, something like that.

[26:32] Britney Coleman: On the show, like and now, and that's the connection you built there, and now it's so much more time knowing each other.

[26:41] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[26:41] Britney Coleman: And so, like, not only is it gonna enhance the experience, but I'm sure it's gonna enhance the product, the glory of it.

[26:49] Caleb Dicke: You have actually real life chemistry now.

[26:51] Britney Coleman: Yes, yeah, with those people, and so that's gonna be so exciting to watch.

[26:55] Caleb Dicke: I can't wait to see it.

[26:56] Britney Coleman: Yeah, I'm excited to see it too.

[26:58] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[26:59] Britney Coleman: I mean, it's such a special show for New York in general.

[27:01] Caleb Dicke: It is a true love letter to New York City.

[27:05] Britney Coleman: And um uh we were talking on our Zoom last night about uh just being alive in general and what that's gonna mean to not only us on stage, but to everyone who's in the house, just being a part of it and sharing that energy.

[27:18] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[27:19] Britney Coleman: Whoo!

[27:20] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, oh wow, I hadn't even thought of it.

[27:22] Britney Coleman: Right?

[27:22] Caleb Dicke: Exactly.

[27:23] Britney Coleman: No, neither had I until someone else brought it up, and I went, Oh my gosh, that's really the crux of our show.

[27:28] Britney Coleman: I mean, there's so many different elements, but yeah, I'm really, really excited to be able to come back and tell this story in particular.

[27:35] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, I love every I we're I'm so like new I think we all are like just so in love with New York right now.

[27:42] Britney Coleman: I feel it like everything is like New York.

[27:46] Britney Coleman: Like we're watching, we're rewatching Modern Love.

[27:48] Britney Coleman: We hadn't seen it and so we just finished the first season, and every single episode I was like, I love New York.

[27:54] Britney Coleman: Yeah, I just love New York. Like it's just like that energy, like any city, I see anything with New York in it, I'm just like, ugh, New York is amazing.

[28:03] Britney Coleman: It's the best. I felt that way with High Maintenance.

[28:06] Caleb Dicke: Did you watch High Maintenance?

[28:08] Britney Coleman: I hear it's great.

[28:09] Caleb Dicke: It's great, and it's New York based.

[28:11] Britney Coleman: It's really fun.

[28:11] Caleb Dicke: It's very Brooklyn.

[28:12] Britney Coleman: I know we talked about it.

[28:15] Caleb Dicke: I forget.

[28:16] Britney Coleman: Oh, I'm so terrible.

[28:17] Britney Coleman: I forgot her name.

[28:17] Caleb Dicke: Comedian.

[28:18] Britney Coleman: And she did a whole New York series on Netflix.

[28:21] Caleb Dicke: And it was like New York series.

[28:21] Britney Coleman: Funny.

[28:23] Britney Coleman: She's like a Jewish woman who just like is kind of grumpy.

[28:27] Caleb Dicke: Oh, oh, oh.

[28:28] Britney Coleman: Um, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[28:30] Britney Coleman: Uh uh France.

[28:32] Caleb Dicke: Fran, sorry.

[28:32] Britney Coleman: Yeah, yes.

[28:33] Caleb Dicke: Oh, Libow, nothing.

[28:35] Britney Coleman: Fran Liewoods.

[28:35] Caleb Dicke: No, that's the photographer, isn't it?

[28:37] Britney Coleman: No, that's Annie.

[28:38] Caleb Dicke: That's Annie Libowicz.

[28:39] Britney Coleman: Yeah, it's so I thought I wouldn't say Libowitz, so then it's Fran Lewitz.

[28:43] Caleb Dicke: It's the best.

[28:43] Britney Coleman: It's very New York, and you're like, love this.

[28:46] Caleb Dicke: Is it Fran?

[28:47] Britney Coleman: I'm gonna look it up right now.

[28:49] Britney Coleman: I feel like there's been a lot of New York content coming out.

[28:49] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[28:52] Britney Coleman: Yes, I'm gonna do it.

[28:52] Britney Coleman: Love you, Frank.

[28:52] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[28:54] Britney Coleman: Oh my god, wait, hold on.

[28:56] Britney Coleman: Okay, this is her Wikipedia bio.

[28:58] Britney Coleman: Frances Ann Liebowitz is an American author, public speaker, an occasional actor.

[28:58] Caleb Dicke: Oh.

[28:58] Britney Coleman: Okay.

[28:58] Britney Coleman: Occasional actor.

[29:06] Caleb Dicke: That is such a funny phrase.

[29:08] Britney Coleman: It's when you want it.

[29:09] Britney Coleman: I'm the occasional actor.

[29:12] Caleb Dicke: She doesn't have anything better to do.

[29:14] Britney Coleman: Describing me in the last year and a half.

[29:18] Caleb Dicke: An occasional actor.

[29:18] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[29:20] Caleb Dicke: Please put that in your bottom.

[29:20] Britney Coleman: Great.

[29:25] Britney Coleman: So we have some um we call these quick cues.

[29:25] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[29:28] Britney Coleman: This is our back to school questions.

[29:28] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[29:32] Britney Coleman: So bring yourself back to like the elementary days.

[29:34] Caleb Dicke: Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[29:36] Britney Coleman: What item of clothing do you treat yourself to for your first day back?

[29:41] Britney Coleman: Oh gosh.

[29:42] Britney Coleman: I mean, I would get a whole like back to school outfit, right?

[29:42] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[29:42] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[29:45] Britney Coleman: Of course.

[29:46] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[29:46] Britney Coleman: Like some really fun jeans from Limited 2 in particular.

[29:50] Caleb Dicke: We all remember Limited 2.

[29:52] Britney Coleman: Um, the sneakers that were like platform sketchers.

[29:55] Caleb Dicke: You remember those?

[29:55] Britney Coleman: Yep.

[29:57] Britney Coleman: Those were the days.

[29:57] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[29:58] Britney Coleman: Like a rainbow belt.

[29:59] Caleb Dicke: Was that we could you decorate those?

[30:01] Britney Coleman: Did they have little?

[30:03] Caleb Dicke: Or is that now?

[30:04] Britney Coleman: I think that's are you thinking of like crocs now?

[30:06] Caleb Dicke: Crocs are the ones that you have you could insert the things on it.

[30:06] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[30:09] Britney Coleman: Little charms sketchers.

[30:09] Caleb Dicke: Oh.

[30:12] Britney Coleman: I didn't have those.

[30:12] Britney Coleman: Perhaps.

[30:14] Caleb Dicke: Sound off on an area.

[30:17] Britney Coleman: Sound off in the comments.

[30:20] Britney Coleman: I don't know.

[30:20] Britney Coleman: Have the charms.

[30:22] Britney Coleman: I would do like a full outfit.

[30:24] Britney Coleman: Just one that no one's ever seen before.

[30:27] Britney Coleman: Uh-huh.

[30:28] Britney Coleman: And then you mix and match it for the rest of the year.

[30:30] Caleb Dicke: Yes, yes, yes.

[30:30] Britney Coleman: Obviously.

[30:31] Britney Coleman: And so your birthday or Christmas came along, and then you got it.

[30:33] Caleb Dicke: Like something new.

[30:33] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[30:36] Caleb Dicke: What's the most important supply?

[30:39] Britney Coleman: You have the pen with the four different inks.

[30:42] Britney Coleman: Journals or highlighters.

[30:45] Britney Coleman: I always loved a journal.

[30:46] Caleb Dicke: Love a journal.

[30:47] Britney Coleman: Yeah, because it came in different colors.

[30:49] Britney Coleman: You could pick out your collar.

[30:50] Britney Coleman: I would decorate it with um stickers.

[30:52] Britney Coleman: When I was like home at my family's place in Michigan, I brought out the tubs to go through everything to get rid of them.

[30:58] Britney Coleman: And I have a whole journal full of um spice girl stickers.

[30:58] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[31:04] Britney Coleman: I kept it.

[31:04] Britney Coleman: I don't know.

[31:06] Britney Coleman: I couldn't throw it out.

[31:08] Caleb Dicke: What's the best crayon color name?

[31:08] Britney Coleman: Oh.

[31:08] Britney Coleman: Ooh.

[31:15] Britney Coleman: I know macaroni and cheese is a color.

[31:17] Caleb Dicke: Oh yeah.

[31:18] Britney Coleman: That's great.

[31:20] Britney Coleman: But I also want to shout out nowadays, kids kids have it so easy.

[31:24] Britney Coleman: There's a whole, it's like the um crayons of the world or something.

[31:28] Britney Coleman: Where it's like all different skin tones.

[31:31] Caleb Dicke: I just saw that on TikTok, actually.

[31:32] Britney Coleman: Like, you're like amazing.

[31:32] Britney Coleman: Amazing.

[31:34] Britney Coleman: I wish I had that.

[31:36] Britney Coleman: Because my self-portraits from that age was like, not right.

[31:41] Caleb Dicke: It's a fluffy.

[31:43] Britney Coleman: Very creative.

[31:45] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, no, that's much better than the like the 16 box.

[31:49] Britney Coleman: Or the eight.

[31:49] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[31:51] Britney Coleman: The four.

[31:52] Caleb Dicke: Like it was just like the four.

[31:54] Britney Coleman: Not the not the um the plastic pack you get at the restaurant.

[31:54] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[31:59] Britney Coleman: Macaroni grill.

[32:02] Caleb Dicke: Yep, yep, yep.

[32:02] Britney Coleman: Okay.

[32:03] Britney Coleman: Uh, speaking of food, do you pack your lunch or do you buy the hot lunch?

[32:07] Britney Coleman: I got hot lunch.

[32:07] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[32:09] Britney Coleman: Wait, so bring us back to like what was your favorite day?

[32:11] Britney Coleman: Because it was always the same meal every like, but alternated weeks.

[32:11] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[32:15] Britney Coleman: Um, we used to have uh, I think it was either Friday or uh like Thursday or Friday once a month.

[32:23] Britney Coleman: Um it was mashed potatoes and like turkey gravy.

[32:23] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[32:28] Britney Coleman: And we would compete to see who could eat theirs.

[32:33] Britney Coleman: We would race for some reason, and like there were a lot of us that would do it.

[32:37] Britney Coleman: I don't know why, but that memory has stuck with me.

[32:40] Britney Coleman: Like how competitive we got about mashed potatoes and crap.

[32:44] Caleb Dicke: It was delicious.

[32:45] Britney Coleman: So wild mashed potatoes was Thursday for us, so like I like really remember this day, but also like lunch was maybe like 20 minutes.

[32:52] Britney Coleman: It wasn't a full hour for us, I don't think.

[32:54] Caleb Dicke: Like it was like a quick lunch.

[32:55] Britney Coleman: Yeah, yeah.

[32:56] Britney Coleman: Fully in the morning.

[32:57] Caleb Dicke: Oh yeah, like yeah, like 10 30.

[32:59] Britney Coleman: Yes, it's like insane.

[33:02] Caleb Dicke: Like so crazy.

[33:04] Britney Coleman: Did you guys have Domino's pizza?

[33:05] Caleb Dicke: Yes, on Wednesdays.

[33:05] Britney Coleman: Okay.

[33:07] Britney Coleman: I went to pro that was when I went to private school.

[33:09] Britney Coleman: Like when I went to high school, like we didn't have Deborah.

[33:12] Caleb Dicke: You had pizza like like dominoes at your school.

[33:12] Britney Coleman: Yes.

[33:15] Britney Coleman: But it was different than what you would get if you were, you know, just ordering it from the restaurant.

[33:19] Britney Coleman: They gave us like the school version of Domino's that always tasted so different.

[33:23] Caleb Dicke: I didn't like it.

[33:24] Britney Coleman: We had I had to rediscover it in college.

[33:24] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[33:26] Britney Coleman: In high school, we had like there was like the normal lunch line, and then there was like the express line where there were things that were more expensive.

[33:33] Britney Coleman: So it wasn't like you're kind of like swipe and you get a lunch.

[33:36] Britney Coleman: It was like you could buy buy pieces of pizza or you could buy like an encrustable or like a pre-made sandwich or something.

[33:43] Caleb Dicke: Oh my gosh.

[33:43] Britney Coleman: And so I would do pizza a lot there, and it was like CC's pizza.

[33:47] Caleb Dicke: It was nice.

[33:47] Britney Coleman: Okay.

[33:47] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[33:49] Britney Coleman: We weren't that fancy.

[33:52] Britney Coleman: But it was like you could get anything with fries.

[33:54] Britney Coleman: It was like you want this with fries and potatoes and fries.

[33:57] Caleb Dicke: Yes, potatoes and fries.

[33:59] Britney Coleman: Fries was like the side item.

[33:59] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[33:59] Britney Coleman: Classic.

[34:03] Caleb Dicke: Um favorite class period.

[34:07] Britney Coleman: Oh gosh.

[34:08] Britney Coleman: Ah let's see.

[34:10] Britney Coleman: I guess in high school, choir was always third period.

[34:15] Britney Coleman: And I think we would have lunch right after that.

[34:17] Caleb Dicke: So that little window of time was clutch.

[34:21] Britney Coleman: Singing in lunch.

[34:22] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, it's a little treat.

[34:23] Britney Coleman: You sing and then you treat yourself.

[34:23] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[34:25] Britney Coleman: We had lunch in the middle of our third block.

[34:28] Britney Coleman: So like it was like you were either at the beginning of your third, the second, third, or fourth section.

[34:34] Caleb Dicke: We're stuck on lunch because like mine was like fifth period and it was A B or C lunch.

[34:39] Britney Coleman: And I think C lunch was like the cool C lunch was the cool lunch because you got through your whole period of A and B and then you got to go to lunch.

[34:47] Britney Coleman: Um it wasn't like you had to go to class, go to lunch and come back to class.

[34:51] Caleb Dicke: Uh huh.

[34:51] Britney Coleman: You got to like forget it when you were.

[34:53] Britney Coleman: Yeah, it was tough like having the middle section of that lunch because then you had to like either go to like an hour of your class and then go to lunch and then come back for like 20 minutes.

[35:03] Britney Coleman: It was just like not worth it.

[35:05] Caleb Dicke: Not the one.

[35:05] Britney Coleman: In choir was my lunch like before my lunch period.

[35:08] Britney Coleman: So it was great.

[35:09] Caleb Dicke: Did you have that optional um like last period of the day?

[35:13] Britney Coleman: Like we officially stopped at six, but then some people could take an extra seventh period in the day.

[35:18] Caleb Dicke: Oh no.

[35:18] Britney Coleman: For like all the extra goody two shoes.

[35:20] Caleb Dicke: No, we had seven.

[35:21] Caleb Dicke: It was always seven, and you had to like I was an aide for like seventh periods sometimes, so like I had a free period, but we we did block scheduling.

[35:30] Britney Coleman: So I had four periods a day.

[35:31] Britney Coleman: And then we would switch off.

[35:33] Britney Coleman: So like we had A and B day.

[35:35] Britney Coleman: So I only had four classes each day, and they were an hour and a half.

[35:38] Caleb Dicke: Oh, that's long.

[35:39] Britney Coleman: That is long.

[35:39] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[35:41] Caleb Dicke: Like biology for like that long?

[35:43] Britney Coleman: It gave you like an extra day to do like homework.

[35:45] Caleb Dicke: That's good.

[35:45] Britney Coleman: Sure.

[35:47] Britney Coleman: Um and I had two backpacks, which was just chaos.

[35:47] Caleb Dicke: Stop.

[35:50] Britney Coleman: But it's two, I grabbed my wrong backpack.

[35:52] Britney Coleman: It's really the only way to do it because like otherwise it's like you're you're switching out books and stuff every day.

[35:58] Caleb Dicke: So it's on rotation.

[35:58] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[35:59] Britney Coleman: So we had two backpacks.

[36:00] Caleb Dicke: Okay, that's brilliant then.

[36:01] Britney Coleman: Did you label it?

[36:02] Britney Coleman: Did you write like A.

[36:03] Caleb Dicke: No, they just look different.

[36:03] Britney Coleman: Okay.

[36:03] Britney Coleman: Cute.

[36:07] Caleb Dicke: I love that.

[36:08] Britney Coleman: And you know how unorganized.

[36:10] Britney Coleman: Well, I've got Ellie.

[36:15] Britney Coleman: Um, but you know, there were some times where you know, maybe I was using a biology notebook for English just in a day if I forgot my backpack or something.

[36:26] Britney Coleman: But when I had my car, it was never a problem because I just kept them both in the car.

[36:29] Caleb Dicke: Oh you had a car.

[36:30] Britney Coleman: I didn't have a car.

[36:31] Britney Coleman: Yeah, I did when I was 16.

[36:32] Britney Coleman: Well, I I lived an hour away from my school, so I had no choice.

[36:32] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[36:38] Britney Coleman: It's fancy.

[36:40] Caleb Dicke: Last question.

[36:41] Britney Coleman: Do what you gotta do.

[36:45] Britney Coleman: I don't know, fancy, but sure.

[36:48] Britney Coleman: Um what's advice that you would give your younger self going to their first day of school?

[36:48] Britney Coleman: Oh.

[36:55] Britney Coleman: Um, stay weird.

[36:57] Britney Coleman: I don't know.

[36:58] Britney Coleman: Just be yourself.

[36:59] Britney Coleman: Like, don't try to be what you think people expect you to be.

[37:03] Britney Coleman: I this is kind of advice I tell myself as a full-grown adult, yes, too.

[37:07] Britney Coleman: But uh to start implementing that kind of thought process from the beginning, like that's okay.

[37:12] Britney Coleman: And it keeps you authentic.

[37:12] Caleb Dicke: Yep.

[37:14] Britney Coleman: And I think that's what's attractive about people is that they are like unapologetically themselves.

[37:14] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[37:21] Britney Coleman: Stay weird.

[37:21] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[37:25] Britney Coleman: Brittany, thank you so much for joining us.

[37:27] Caleb Dicke: We're so excited for you to get back in the rehearsal room.

[37:30] Britney Coleman: And we can't wait to check in with you a few more times throughout the process.

[37:34] Caleb Dicke: Um, where can people find you on social media if they want to follow along?

[37:37] Britney Coleman: Oh, everything's under my name.

[37:38] Britney Coleman: Um Brittany Coleman on Instagram, on the Twitter, on all the things.

[37:43] Caleb Dicke: You Twitter for real?

[37:45] Britney Coleman: Uh I do have a Twitter.

[37:47] Britney Coleman: I don't use it very much.

[37:47] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[37:50] Britney Coleman: I also have a website.

[37:51] Caleb Dicke: Oh, yeah.

[37:52] Britney Coleman: Can we get an intern?

[37:53] Caleb Dicke: Uh email us at Equity1Podcast if you want to run our Twitter.

[37:57] Britney Coleman: Twitter is hard.

[37:58] Caleb Dicke: It's hard.

[37:58] Britney Coleman: Okay.

[38:00] Britney Coleman: I don't know.

[38:00] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[38:01] Britney Coleman: Um you can find the show at Equity One Podcast on Instagram and TikTok and at equity one underscore on Twitter.

[38:08] Britney Coleman: Uh while you're in implying about being our intern for um Twitter, send us an email for other things at equity1podcast at gmail.com.

[38:16] Britney Coleman: Let us know what you're interested in if you want to hear more.

[38:19] Caleb Dicke: Any guests you're you would want to hear from?

[38:19] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[38:21] Britney Coleman: And while you're at that, switch over to your iTunes app and give us a five-star rate and review.

[38:26] Caleb Dicke: It helps other listeners find us.

[38:26] Britney Coleman: Yes.

[38:29] Britney Coleman: It's a it's a sorry to interrupt.

[38:29] Caleb Dicke: Please.

[38:31] Britney Coleman: It does.

[38:32] Britney Coleman: I know we say it every episode.

[38:33] Britney Coleman: It makes a huge difference.

[38:34] Britney Coleman: So if you haven't yet, just go.

[38:36] Britney Coleman: Even if you don't listen, even if you don't like it, just do five stars.

[38:41] Caleb Dicke: Five stars and then write a negative review.

[38:43] Britney Coleman: That's fine.

[38:43] Britney Coleman: Yeah.

[38:43] Britney Coleman: I'm fine with that.

[38:45] Caleb Dicke: Uh Elliot, where can we find you?

[38:47] Elliott Mattox: Uh I'm at Elliot Maddox on everything.

[38:49] Caleb Dicke: And I'm at Caleb Dicke on everything.

[38:51] Elliott Mattox: And until next time.

[38:51] Caleb Dicke: Cheers.

[38:51] Britney Coleman: Cheers.

[38:54] Elliott Mattox: Thanks, guys.

[38:54] Britney Coleman: Beautiful.

[38:54] Elliott Mattox: Perfect.