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[0:08] Jeff Malone: Hello, and welcome to Half Hour, an entertainment podcast through Two Worlds Entertainment.

[0:12] Richie Grasso: I'm Richie.

[0:13] Jeff Malone: And I'm Jeff. And we're here to bring you a casual conversation on the shows, films, concerts, and music that we see, listen to, and observe throughout our careers.

[0:21] Jeff Malone: Today's conversation may feature spoilers on the entertainment we are about to discuss. So you have been warned.

[0:28] Richie Grasso: Yes. We have a double feature on Broadway's today.

[0:32] Jeff Malone: Yes. So we are going to be starting off with one of the shows that we've recently seen. And I'm gonna let Richie take this over. So tell us what we're starting.

[0:41] Richie Grasso: Take it away, yes. Well, we uh uh we're technically we had posted on Instagram in a little bit of a spring break week, but we were threw in a little surprise episode for you. We're getting in our Life of Pi episode. We were invited by the team at Life of Pi to come check out one of their performances recently. It just opened on Broadway's to wonderful reviews. It's playing at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Uh Life of Pi is based on the novel by Yann Martel's, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, and it's directed by Max Webster. This, as some of you may or may not know, came from London. It was very, very successful there. Um, it won the lead actor who's playing Pi, the Olivier Award. Um, his name's Hiran Abisakara. Sorry about that. And um, Hiran was amazing in the role, and he is now playing the role on Broadway's. So Life of Pi on Broadway's. Um, this was absolutely incredible. This was seriously, I think one of the best things I've seen in a really long time.

[1:39] Jeff Malone: Yes. In so many ways. It's hard for me to really think of something else that comes close to this.

[1:48] Richie Grasso: I don't know. What do you feel the same way?

[1:50] Jeff Malone: Yeah, I feel like I've like made a little bit of a statement here for myself. My statement and why I think everyone should go see Life of Pi on Broadway's. I think that it's visually beautiful. And I think the puppetry alone is spectacular. And I do have to say, I think Hiran Abisakara is giving a performance of a lifetime.

[2:13] Richie Grasso: Yeah. I think like for those three things, everyone should be saying, I need my tickets right now and go check this out. And this is like before all the spoilers in our review of this. But if you got to this far, there's just so much happening on that stage that is just amazing.

[2:29] Jeff Malone: And I agree with you. I don't know what other play right now is kind of like on Broadway's that's hitting this same mark of visually beautifulness and great acting performances and just the puppetry.

[2:30] Richie Grasso: Visually beautifulness.

[2:46] Jeff Malone: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna write that down. Visual, I have a list going of the words that Jeff makes up on the podcast.

[2:53] Richie Grasso: Visually beautifulness, would you like to defend that?

[2:56] Jeff Malone: I will. I will defend it. You could have just said visually beautiful.

[3:03] Richie Grasso: I had to just, I'm sorry. I thought that was funny. You know, I have a list going of the words that are used to describe visually beautifulness.

[3:11] Jeff Malone: All right, yes. I'm coming on my A game here. It's all good, it's all good. What's wrong with beautifulness?

[3:17] Richie Grasso: Beautifulness, I don't know. But listen, this has moments to me of just everything I understand it's based off a very famous book and a very famous film. And that helps in a way with some of the marketing on this. But if I knew if this was a piece that I knew nothing about and it wasn't based on a book or a movie, it was like an original concept thing, I still would have thought this was amazing. This, I mean, there's some wonderful acting performances going on. I don't feel like it's too long. I love, love, love. I, you know, a lot of times I sit here and I really bash the set design. And I really just really loved the scenic design, the costume design, the puppet design, the sound design, the lighting design, the projection design.

Every single designer you can tell sat in many rooms many times and worked together to create that. And a lot of times I'm seeing on Broadway's lately the costumes were great, but it wasn't lit well, or the set was okay, but the sound was great, and such inconsistency and design. And here's a director and a design team that are at the front, cutting edge. And if this doesn't win, at least get nominated and win a bunch of Tony Awards this year for this incredible design work. That is to me the strongest part of this show. Every inch of that space is used perfectly in and out of the audience, the center revolving stage with the boat and the lighting. We were in kind of more in the rear orchestra, so we could kind of see, we were raked a little bit so we could see the floor and some of the designs going on. I know someone that sat up in the mezzanine and actually recommended you sit in the mezzanine to see this floor designs.

[4:53] Richie Grasso: But interesting, Jeff, I want to ask you this question because you have never read the book or seen the film, and you knew nothing about the plot. And I had suggested, why don't we go watch the film before you said, no, no, no. I said, okay, because I know the film and I know what happens. So seeing this with a blind eye, were there moments of ah, for you, were you like taken aback when the tiger is maybe not the tiger and things like that?

[5:19] Jeff Malone: Who is the tiger? Right? What and the animals? Yes, I want to know your take on that. It's good for our viewers to know that too. Because some people like don't always like to go read the book or see the film version before seeing it. Some do, I do, but not everyone does. So here's my opinion on that. First of all, I'm very happy that I stayed true to my gut that I did not go and watch the film or read the book.

[5:45] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[5:46] Jeff Malone: Because I was still blown away. I know nothing about Life of Pi. I've heard of it and I never saw it. So now that it's on the stage and going to see this, and my lovely Richie over here wanted me to watch the movie so bad. I was like, no, I really don't want to watch it. So I was like, at the edge of my seat. Yeah, when you're finding out the whole twist in this film, uh, this play. And I'm like, oh my god, no. What? I literally thought he was on the boat with the animals the whole time.

[6:22] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[6:22] Jeff Malone: And he makes you and he says that line at the end, like, what isn't that the better story to tell? Right, which is a whole thing that I want to get into. Yeah. But this is like, whoa, when you start hearing this and you're like, wow, I never would have put two and two together. And it just was so much more impactful that when I'm watching this, I'm like, wow, and they did it so well.

[6:46] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[6:46] Jeff Malone: They really did it so well. And like bringing the characters in and out, it just had that feeling of like, okay, he's on the boat, he's delirious, he hasn't had water, he hasn't had food. So is he just visualizing these things? Meanwhile, they're there the whole time. So it was really cool. I was taken back and just fully invested in it. I was also really impressed with the way that we were seeing puppets. We've seen puppets on stage before, life size puppets, Lion King, we see it. It's nothing new. But the way that animals were either killed or fighting. And then I thought the most gorgeous puppet was the turtle being opened and the red streams coming out, or the red insides coming. I was like, this is like really, really smart and really well done.

The leg that hurt zebra leg, the orangutan, all these animals and that tiger approaching the man who was performing as the tiger, multiple people, and becoming, and then I loved at the end how it ended with him and the tiger together. Like he is the tiger.

[7:52] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[7:52] Jeff Malone: And he was trying to, you know, he was afraid of the tiger. He was afraid of himself, but he was that saving other people trying to. Right. Just amazing. Which I'm gonna put this question kind of back to you. For someone who had seen the film, yeah. How do you think that this stage adaptation really lives up to the film?

[8:11] Richie Grasso: Well, the film uses, of course, all these like, you know, CGI special effect moments, and it's a very like whoa, filmic. I saw it in a movie theater, and I think I might have even seen it in the IMAX. So I feel like that was like, whoa. So it's got it's challenging for someone to say, how do we tell this on stage? Could it have been done with a ton of projections and a ton of lights and like, yeah, but no, like you, it's theater. So use actors and use puppets and tell the story. We've been using puppets for thousands of years and telling stories. Use puppets, not as full life size and people being the puppet. If the animals are supposed to be symbolic of people, then put people in the puppet costumes and make that it just so smart.

I just I think smart theater is missing so many times, and sometimes you only see these really smart, well-designed things like in an off Broadway's space or an out of town. To see this as a commercial run in a Broadway's show, I just is really great. I mean really my jaw was on the floor the whole time.

[9:11] Jeff Malone: I think that what's cool about this show too is this is a still a think piece, even though it's so visual and there's so many elements that are happening on the stage. There's still a story here that just has such a meaning. Uh, and and two big things one of religion, and two, what is your story? So, and how do you tell that story the same way that religion tells story? So it's so interesting to kind of get into what Pi is kind of pushing throughout this whole piece. And it's like, what religion am I part of? Who is telling me the better story? To where he had to take one of those characteristics later in his life after being on this boat, and how did he tell the story?

[9:52] Richie Grasso: Yeah, and it goes back to when we're younger, and you know, coming from a Catholic faith where they're they teach you stories with animals and people like Pi in our early days, but what do those stories actually represent?

[10:06] Jeff Malone: Right, which is why I kind of wanted to go deeper into this with you on how you think that was told on the stage as well, because I would have never thought to use religion and then a story of being on a boat in the same, and it was smart that it's written that way, right? And I think that there's this wonderful when the set opened up and there were levels of people in the village talking down to him, talking to him, the boat that also became the boat. Like it just was told so seamlessly. And yes, I think that this aspect of religion built in with the story of this, it is Noah's Ark-esque. There is this, you're on a boat and you have to save the animals that are left. There is a total religious undertone here. Uh I just think Noah's Ark first, because that's such a famous tale, right?

[10:55] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[10:55] Jeff Malone: But there's multiple religions being represented here. There's also this like people coming to the top I think they were going to Canada and leaving their home country to start a new life, and then when most of them can't, and what is his new life in a hospital? And all it is is people interrogating him. There's a sadness to that too. And so there's there's also like a mystery to it, and there's a sense of hope, and there's a sense of that he made he survived that, you know.

[11:24] Richie Grasso: Which speaking of survival, the fight for survival, and him learning about survival from an early age of when the father gives the goat to the tiger and how that's how life works, the circle of life. But also he had to learn to be the tiger when he was on the boat. And also the the title, the the name of this play is not just called Pi, it's called Life of Pi. So his life is him living still, right? And this he lived, he is living, and it is his life story that he's telling.

[11:58] Richie Grasso: Yeah, so life, like you say, circle of life, living, what is that? That's a big theme here, too. There's so much to talk about, and I just feel like I did feel like the audience really enjoyed it too. I feel like they were really, oh my gosh, just invested in it.

[12:12] Jeff Malone: Totally for sure. Do you um feel that Pi was the best performance?

[12:20] Richie Grasso: Because he's he was the standout performer.

[12:22] Jeff Malone: Yeah, but I do think a close second come becomes all these puppeteers.

[12:26] Richie Grasso: Yeah, that is there. We like forget that those are not animatronics, they're not real animals, they are human being actors who are crouched over and leaning and laying and moving and grunting. And that is such hard physical work. And that's an art form. If all those people could be nominated for something too, you know what they're doing up there, and he's working with them.

[12:47] Jeff Malone: Right. Um, that's a that's yeah, everyone else was nice too in the in their acting overall, the family and the friends, but I thought, and the two people who interrogated him, but overall, I really thought it was him and those puppets that led the show.

[12:58] Richie Grasso: Yeah, and then the set too.

[13:00] Jeff Malone: Yeah. As a performance, the whole entire set was living and breathing with the whole performance. I just thought it was popular there.

[13:08] Richie Grasso: For sure. Really, really impressive stuff. I I also it's funny because I always feel like we sometimes end these conversations on these shows with like something that happened to us at the theater. And we were here we go, everyone buckle up. We were in the theater, and someone was in front of us, um, an older woman with maybe it was her friends, and she was talking a lot pre-show about a million things. I'm like, okay, and then during the show, she kept talking.

[13:34] Richie Grasso: Yeah, so it's like, okay, this is not a child, this is an adult talking.

[13:39] Jeff Malone: So the man sitting next to her said, "Can you please be quiet?"

[13:43] Richie Grasso: And she got so upset and then kept talking and then kept moving and then getting upset.

[13:47] Richie Grasso: He said, ma'am, please stop. And I really thought the usher was gonna come over at some point. I then I saw an intermission, he went to the usher to complain about this woman who wouldn't stop talking, but she was causing all these movements and distractions, and we're sitting in center rear orchestra, and then he got his seat moved, it's sacked too. She's still talking, and I was like, Why are you talking? Like, you're in she was much older than me, what it looked like, and with her friends, too, clearly, people who I would think have been to shows many times before. I'm sure. I just don't understand what is so difficult about sitting still and not talking. And if you cannot do that, I understand that, like, that is difficult for youth.

Maybe that is difficult for people who struggle with things in their personal life. Then you need to realize, like, that other people are paying a lot of money to sit around and watch this and this immersive piece. And maybe you need to choose a seat location that's better. Or maybe someone should have been with you that could keep help keep you quiet. Like a parent with a child. Maybe this woman needed someone to say please you to remind her to stop talking. That's okay. Everyone has, I don't know, but I'm just blown away that people are asked to please stop talking, and they're continuing to talk and causing problems. I don't know. That was just wildly distracting. It was only for a few minutes.

It wasn't like the whole show. It was the whole show. But it was it was worse than something. It was the whole show. Literally, the fight scene is happening on stage, and the two of them were literally bickering between. Yeah, and then the people sitting next to us were like, Are you are you watching the fight that's happening on stage or the fight that's happening in the row before we're like, it was just so embarrassing, and it was really not cool. We're sitting in a Broadway's theater. This is not a children's piece where kids are shouting out loud, or it's more immersive like that. You just need to like sit quiet. And for adults to be talking, she was not stopped talking. Oh my god, do you see that actor there?

Oh my god, that was so great. Like, please stop talking. I just don't understand. It really blew my mind. And I really tried to kid in theater is completely gone. It's just gone. I don't know since we've come back from the pandemic. And then everyone shouts, everyone sings, everyone talks, everyone does this. No one cares anymore. I just don't understand people. It's a disrespectful to the people up on that stage, and it's disrespectful to the people that are around you. And so when we go to a play like Doll's House, which we talked about a few podcast episodes ago, and there's multiple signs and ushers saying you're not going back to your seat if you leave your seat. We this is there's no late seating.

You must stay quiet the whole time. Like you like that is I yeah, we're treated like kids in a field trip, but like that's how you have to speak to people now. And it's but then that audience was really great at Doll's house. Dead silent. So some things are like really, really great. And then you're at Neil Diamond and you're like, what's happening? So, like, and it's well, I mean, they're doing it to themselves. Yeah, right, because they're asking the audience to get involved. But anyway, I just had to make that comment. Please be respectful in Broadway's theaters.

[16:41] Richie Grasso: Oh my goodness. All right. And that's my sneeze segue into the next show we saw this week. We went for the second time to see the Off-Broadway revival of LITTLE SHOP of Horrors, which is really right in Midtown at a big theater. It's behind Jeff on the video there. And this yeah, we go. This starred MAUDE APATOW and MATT DOYLE. Now we did not see MATT DOYLE. We saw his understudy. Matt, we missed you. We saw you in Company. You were amazing. We were hoping for you. The understudy was great, though, in this. And we saw MAUDE APATOW. When this was announced, Jeff's birthday was last week too. So yay, happy belated birthday to Jeff on the podcast. He really wanted to see this for his birthday. He said, I gotta go see MAUDE.

And we love MAUDE in Euphoria. So we've seen this show already. We saw this pre-pandemic, so we never did a podcast episode. No, we didn't, so we can kind of talk about it. Talk about the show and her. What were your thoughts on? What are you think your thoughts on this show as a revival? And then what are your thoughts on MAUDE as Audrey?

[17:35] Jeff Malone: So what I'm really loving about this LITTLE Shop Off-Broadway revival run is that I think that this has found its home for good. For a long time. For a long time. Well, don't forget the original Broadway's run was in a small Off-Broadway theater for many years. Right. So now that this started before the pandemic, it had Jonathan Groff in it, which we saw and he was fabulous, and he spit all over the place. Love you. But I think that it just works there. I know you saw it on Broadway's.

[18:05] Richie Grasso: So I saw it on Broadway's as a kid, and it was in a big house. It was in the August Wilson where Funny Girl is now. Huge set, big plant. If you think that plant is big in the Off-Broadway, oh, it was huge on Broadway's. But it has to fill a space like that.

[18:19] Jeff Malone: Yeah. And it just, and it's, but it's an intimate venue show. It's meant to be camp and it's supposed to be small, and you're supposed to feel like you're in the shop with them and you're seeing all this, you know. That's why I think like it's in the perfect theater right now. Where it's just the right amount of seats. We were almost like in what the last row? And your orchestra, but you felt like you're gonna be able to do that. And you felt like you were there. And I just the show is so camp, it's so fun.

[18:45] Richie Grasso: Yeah, it's like it's so catchy. It's Alan Mencken at its finest. So you know his first big work, actually. I still think Suddenly, Seymour is one of the greatest musical theater songs ever written. I get chills every time I hear it. It's just gorgeous. But almost every song on the show is great. The urchins are always fabulous.

[19:04] Jeff Malone: Yeah, they carry the whole show.

[19:06] Richie Grasso: Carry it. Yeah. And I just love what they're doing. I mean, is it a stunt cast show now? Well, yeah. It's like they bring someone in, they have a great run, then they keep bringing someone in, and they cycle out the Seymour, they cycle out the Audrey, and it's just working, you know. And yes, when MAUDE was announced, I was like, we need to go because I needed to see her on stage, and we got to meet her after.

[19:30] Jeff Malone: We did meet her after.

[19:31] Richie Grasso: I we said you're a star. You're the star, Virginie's favorite thing. I love to say you're a star. But she sang it well and acted it well, and she looked great in the wig and the dress, and she just she was really comfortable up there. I thought I would have loved to have seen the dynamic between her and Matt.

[19:44] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[19:44] Richie Grasso: Because who knows what that is. I'm sure people have seen it.

[19:48] Jeff Malone: Yeah, yeah. He was just out that day.

[19:50] Richie Grasso: But he was out. So I just it was great. And I liked seeing her different take on the role.

[19:55] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[19:56] Richie Grasso: You know. What do you think about the longevity of this show? Kind of when it works, it works. Just I understand the stunt casting in a way. Just keep you know, but you can stunt cast anyone. The dentist, he was great, by the way. DREW GEHLING, he was hilarious. We saw Christian Borle do it in the original too, who was also hilarious.

[20:13] Jeff Malone: Right.

[20:13] Richie Grasso: That role is so funny. Oh my god. It was Steve Martin did it in the film.

[20:16] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[20:16] Richie Grasso: The film is so good too. And I'm I'm such an Ellen Greene fan, and I will say, I feel like all the Audreys in this revival are doing this like real girl belting.

[20:26] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[20:26] Richie Grasso: But that kitschy camp, like, ooh, C one, the whole like, yeah, the dramatic thing is just Ellen. And like it just worked for Ellen in the film, it worked for Ellen in the Broadway's Off-Broadway. And so, like, you don't need to mimic Ellen. Let Ellen did that. And I don't feel like anyone does that, and that's okay. You know, like let people make I do think sometimes people want that every single time they see the show because that's like the campiness of it.

[20:53] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[20:53] Richie Grasso: But I do like the real like take on the role as well.

[20:57] Jeff Malone: Yeah.

[20:58] Richie Grasso: So yeah, love it. There was also an announcement this week that Joy Woods, who is an original urchin from the original. Which we didn't see. The original cast of this production, um, who we saw in it, yes, um, is going to be playing Audrey starting May 2nd when MAUDE leaves. So really great stuff there. I love that a woman of color is going to be playing this role now. I also wanted to mention that we went to Pasadena back in 2019, I want to say, and we saw George Salazar and MJ Rodriguez play this um in the Pasadena Playhouse production, which was amazing too, and very different take. It was more modern, it was dark, darker than it is. And MJ was great, so to see a trans performer play the role.

Like this role can be played, like let's keep going. Like Ellen Greene is always older. I always think like, what if an older person plays it would have younger play? What a why wouldn't we have a um um a larger actress play it, right? Like we should have different types of people playing this role all the time, I think.

[21:52] Jeff Malone: You know, yeah, and that was a great performance as well.

[21:54] Richie Grasso: Richie loves LITTLE SHOP of Horrors.

[21:56] Jeff Malone: Yeah, I do, I do.

[21:57] Richie Grasso: I think it's so well written. The music is so good. And we don't see kitschy camp, you know, commentary on 1950s horror films like that. The also the plant is amazing, and that's like a lot of work for those puppeteers. Talking about puppets earlier. What's funny is actually some of the friends that we were with at this last performance, a lot of them have not seen it in a while, too. And a lot of people have only ever seen the movie. So when they see this and how the endings are very different, yeah. Everyone's always like, wait, they all went in the plant. They're all in the plant, and they became the plant, and they're singing don't feed the plants, like because now the plant is gonna take over.

[22:36] Jeff Malone: Right.

[22:37] Richie Grasso: And then when it's in the movie, they kill the plant, I think, in the film, right?

[22:41] Jeff Malone: Yes, and they both leave together.

[22:43] Richie Grasso: Yes. Because he takes her out of the plant.

[22:45] Jeff Malone: He takes her out and before she's killed. That was a change in the film. There's also a rumor that they're trying to redo this film. They keep want saying that they want to remake this film. And there was a rumor that Lady Gaga was gonna do Audrey for a long time, which I actually think could have worked, could still work.

[22:59] Richie Grasso: Yeah.

[23:01] Jeff Malone: If they really wanted to, I mean, I don't really think the film needs to be redone because it's so good.

[23:08] Richie Grasso: Good. It's such a great 80s film.

[23:10] Jeff Malone: Like, yeah, yeah. But anyway, go check that out. I really enjoyed that. And it's playing, I think it's gonna be playing for a long time. It just keeps putting people in, and it's a great, great show.

[23:21] Richie Grasso: Agreed.

[23:22] Jeff Malone: So, one more bit of news before we go to pop music drop. I know we're almost out of time. There were we so um we had said Room with Adrian Warren was canceled for this Broadway's season, and so we're like, okay, one less show to work because we have this thing where Jeff and I are gonna see, or we have so far seen every Broadway's show in this Tony season. There's a few more to come. We have a few more coming up, and of course, the podcast episodes to follow. And we're tired. I'm tired, but the James Earl Jones Theater where Room was supposed to go, is now going to hold a new play, and just under the wire, it's getting in for this Tony season. So, yes, we have another show to go see before Tony Awards. How excited are you?

[23:57] Richie Grasso: Oh, I'm excited though, because I wanted to see this Off-Broadway. It's Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan bringing the sign in Sidney Brewstein's window to Broadway's from Brooklyn Academy of Music's production Off-Broadway out in Brooklyn, and it just closed and now it's sliding in. I think it's getting in, it's gonna open like the last eligible day at the end of April for Tony Awards. I'm excited to see this because I think they're both great. I heard great things about it. So we gotta get in now to see this before June 11th, I think, are Tony Awards.

[24:24] Jeff Malone: So talk about just getting in there.

[24:26] Richie Grasso: Yeah, well, it slid in.

[24:29] Jeff Malone: This is I believe a revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play.

[24:32] Richie Grasso: So I just want to announce that and say it's opening night is April 27th. So we have another play to go see. Ready and pre.

[24:41] Jeff Malone: Yes.

[24:43] Richie Grasso: Ready and breathe. Because guess what? We're getting into the pop music drops.

[24:50] Jeff Malone: It's pop music drop time. These are my top six songs that I recommend of the week, which they all could be found at our pop music drop playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. So this is where I like to ask Richie if he thinks that these songs are going to be a bop or a flop. So, Richie, are you ready?

[25:09] Richie Grasso: Ready for the top six songs. Starting with Chapel Rowan Kaleidoscope.

[25:15] Jeff Malone: I don't usually like her, but I do like this song.

[25:18] Richie Grasso: Oh, really? Because it's slow. And because it's got good lyrics.

[25:22] Jeff Malone: Wow.

[25:23] Richie Grasso: The other songs have good lyrics too.

[25:26] Jeff Malone: No more comments on that.

[25:28] Richie Grasso: He tries.

[25:29] Jeff Malone: Kat Burns, Live More and Love More.

[25:32] Richie Grasso: Yes, I liked this.

[25:34] Jeff Malone: Great.

[25:34] Richie Grasso: I put it as a bop.

[25:36] Jeff Malone: Bop. Up next, girly with cheap love.

[25:40] Richie Grasso: Um, I really love this one. This was a my I might have been my favorite one of all six.

[25:46] Jeff Malone: It's my favorite one of all six, too.

[25:48] Richie Grasso: Definitely bop. Then we have Purple Disco Machine and Kungs with substitution.

[25:53] Jeff Malone: I put yes, bop, and I found this one for you.

[25:56] Richie Grasso: So I will take credit for that.

[25:57] Jeff Malone: He did. He immediately said, Did you hear about this new purple disco machine song? I said, Well, I didn't even get a chance to listen to the music yet, but great.

[26:04] Richie Grasso: So thanks for the find, Richie.

[26:07] Jeff Malone: Uh Georgia, it's euphoric.

[26:09] Richie Grasso: I put this as bop too.

[26:11] Jeff Malone: I like this one.

[26:12] Richie Grasso: Great. And last but not least, the Aces Solo.

[26:16] Jeff Malone: Solo bop too.

[26:17] Richie Grasso: They're all bops for me this week.

[26:19] Jeff Malone: Boom! We did it.

[26:22] Richie Grasso: We did it. Top six bops with Richie.

[26:25] Jeff Malone: Awesome. Well, we're coming close to an end here. So thank you all for listening. We hope you enjoyed this podcast. So please subscribe on our podcast on Spotify and Apple Music and leave us a review if you love what you heard today.

[26:41] Richie Grasso: We also want you to join in on our conversations and engage with us. So head over to Instagram and TikTok at Half Hour Podcast and comment on the latest post and podcast episodes. So we would love to hear from you. But and you're getting another episode in a few days because with this one was a little delayed, but we gotta keep getting our weekly episodes out because we've tons of shows coming up to get in before Tony Awards.

[27:03] Jeff Malone: So make sure you're following us. And we uh we're really doing a lot with our Instagram lately. So please follow us at Half Hour Podcast on Instagram and TikTok. Those are the two main places we're doing most of our posting and engagement. Instagram and TikTok at Half Hour Podcast. Make sure you follow us there.

[27:17] Richie Grasso: Yes. Thank you all for listening. So until next time, I'm Jeff.

[27:22] Jeff Malone: And I'm Richie saying ta ta.

[27:25] Richie Grasso: Bye.