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[0:00] Steven Ferezy: Hey.

[0:31] Dana Craig: This is the end of year cheer.

[0:34] Steven Ferezy: I wish I had a glass of champs or at Persako at the very least.

[0:38] Dana Craig: I wish I had a glass half full of anything.

[0:41] Steven Ferezy: Welcome to the end of the year.

[0:43] Dana Craig: This year kind of flew, right?

[0:45] Steven Ferezy: Did 2021 fly by because we were having fun?

[0:50] Dana Craig: Does that saying hold up?

[0:52] Steven Ferezy: Or were we distracted?

[0:53] Dana Craig: Maybe what was the one?

[0:55] Steven Ferezy: Why is it December?

[0:56] Dana Craig: I think there was a relief.

[0:58] Steven Ferezy: We started the year with a big like shoulders down moment after a long four years plus year of COVID of like shoulders up at our ears.

[1:12] Dana Craig: So we started shoulders down, but also I would like to add a roll your sleeves up.

[1:17] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, big time.

[1:18] Dana Craig: Mentality.

[1:20] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[1:21] Dana Craig: There's some choreography.

[1:22] Steven Ferezy: Now somebody is driving the car, and we can put out the fires.

[1:28] Dana Craig: Or at least start to.

[1:30] Steven Ferezy: I came back. I was in Wisconsin January, February, March.

[1:34] Dana Craig: Right.

[1:34] Steven Ferezy: And half of April.

[1:36] Dana Craig: And then I came back to New York.

[1:37] Steven Ferezy: And everyone started to get vaccinated.

[1:40] Dana Craig: Yes.

[1:42] Steven Ferezy: Exactly.

[1:42] Dana Craig: And then everyone was like, Summer is on.

[1:46] Steven Ferezy: It kind of felt like the party's back in town.

[1:49] Dana Craig: And then that was no longer the case.

[1:53] Steven Ferezy: By end of summer, Delta was around and here and this recap of 2021 is journalistic.

[2:05] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[2:06] Steven Ferezy: Ooh, it's like the morning show, which I started watching and got really into.

[2:13] Dana Craig: Yeah, it's uh it's an interesting piece of television.

[2:17] Steven Ferezy: Um and then Broadway came back in quotes in September, officially.

[2:22] Dana Craig: Yeah, the same day I tested positive for COVID.

[2:25] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[2:26] Dana Craig: Yes.

[2:27] Steven Ferezy: Big day.

[2:28] Dana Craig: Big day in your house.

[2:30] Steven Ferezy: I don't know what else to say.

[2:31] Dana Craig: Hacks got me through this year, for sure.

[2:33] Steven Ferezy: Gene Smart.

[2:34] Dana Craig: This was the year of Gene Smart for you.

[2:37] Steven Ferezy: For sure.

[2:38] Dana Craig: Sure.

[2:39] Steven Ferezy: Nothing took up more of your time this year than Gene Smart.

[2:43] Dana Craig: 100%.

[2:44] Steven Ferezy: She was my cross stitch.

[2:45] Dana Craig: She was your cross stitch.

[2:46] Steven Ferezy: She was your sourdough starter.

[2:48] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[2:49] Steven Ferezy: I hate you.

[2:52] Dana Craig: That's so funny.

[2:54] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god, that's so funny.

[2:56] Dana Craig: Um, what else?

[2:57] Steven Ferezy: Oh, wait, we added to our family new little baby nephew, and I'm there with them right now.

[3:01] Dana Craig: How is he in New Hampshire?

[3:05] Steven Ferezy: He is such a slug.

[3:07] Dana Craig: And I say that love.

[3:08] Steven Ferezy: Like he's I'm sorry, continue.

[3:10] Dana Craig: He's a lump.

[3:11] Steven Ferezy: He's a lump.

[3:12] Dana Craig: He's very quiet.

[3:14] Steven Ferezy: He loves to sleep and eat.

[3:17] Dana Craig: Sleep and eat, and that's it.

[3:19] Steven Ferezy: And poop.

[3:20] Dana Craig: But like sleep and eat is a crazy good.

[3:22] Steven Ferezy: He's really good.

[3:23] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[3:24] Steven Ferezy: He's big and bodacious.

[3:26] Dana Craig: Um how is he similar and how is he different from his brother?

[3:33] Steven Ferezy: He's he's all different from Harrison.

[3:36] Dana Craig: All different.

[3:37] Steven Ferezy: Harrison was an energizer bunny from day one.

[3:41] Dana Craig: Yeah, and like kind of scrawny and squirrely and wasn't good at eating or sleeping, like any of those things.

[3:49] Steven Ferezy: And Rivers just nailing it, and he's also like big.

[3:52] Dana Craig: And like he's the dupe.

[3:55] Steven Ferezy: He is Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski.

[3:58] Dana Craig: Uh-huh.

[3:59] Steven Ferezy: Uh-huh.

[3:59] Dana Craig: Whereas Harrison is more of a little like, I don't know, McCullough Culkin.

[4:05] Steven Ferezy: Do you know what I mean?

[4:06] Dana Craig: Does Harrison love him?

[4:08] Steven Ferezy: He does group hugs a lot.

[4:10] Dana Craig: He likes to bring us all in.

[4:12] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, he he aggressively loves his brother River.

[4:15] Dana Craig: Aggressively.

[4:16] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[4:17] Dana Craig: That's so sweet.

[4:18] Steven Ferezy: So we've been we've been doing like sledding days up here.

[4:22] Dana Craig: It's very snowy.

[4:23] Steven Ferezy: That video is out of control.

[4:25] Dana Craig: Um it's been fun.

[4:27] Steven Ferezy: How how how how how are how are mom and dad?

[4:32] Dana Craig: Great.

[4:33] Steven Ferezy: They're great.

[4:33] Dana Craig: They're stir crazy, I'm sure.

[4:35] Steven Ferezy: But um yeah.

[4:38] Dana Craig: It's all good.

[4:39] Steven Ferezy: I'm so glad you were able to uh get there and get there safely and uh responsibly.

[4:46] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[4:46] Steven Ferezy: How has your past few days been past December?

[4:52] Dana Craig: Well, Queen.

[4:54] Steven Ferezy: Funny, you should ask about my last couple of days.

[4:57] Dana Craig: Since we last spoke.

[4:58] Steven Ferezy: We have a bit of a podcast announcement.

[5:01] Dana Craig: We do the whee.

[5:06] Steven Ferezy: Breaking news.

[5:07] Dana Craig: Breaking news on CNN.

[5:10] Steven Ferezy: Uh breaking news, whatever.

[5:12] Dana Craig: Uh long story short, um, I I started a new career path, uh, sticking pins in other career paths, and I'm going down the wardrobe route.

[5:26] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[5:26] Dana Craig: And I am a dresser.

[5:28] Steven Ferezy: I have been dressing um I guess since well was supposed to be September, got COVID.

[5:36] Dana Craig: So October.

[5:37] Steven Ferezy: And I've been a busy bee ever since.

[5:41] Dana Craig: And uh over the weekend, no over the weekend, I guess Sunday.

[5:47] Steven Ferezy: Um what day was that?

[5:50] Dana Craig: The the 26th, if you're paying attention.

[5:53] Steven Ferezy: Day after Christmas.

[5:54] Dana Craig: Day after Christmas.

[5:56] Steven Ferezy: I'm sitting on my couch.

[5:58] Dana Craig: It's about 1230, 1245.

[6:01] Steven Ferezy: I have a dumpling in my mouth.

[6:03] Dana Craig: So you're happy.

[6:05] Steven Ferezy: Hey Wayne!

[6:06] Dana Craig: Hey Wayne, he says.

[6:15] Steven Ferezy: Eating a dumpling. Phone rings.

[6:18] Dana Craig: Wardrobe supervisor, come from away.

[6:22] Steven Ferezy: Get here now.

[6:23] Dana Craig: No, no.

[6:24] Steven Ferezy: Ah.

[6:26] Dana Craig: I said, fastest I can be there is an hour.

[6:30] Steven Ferezy: Fast I can be there is an hour.

[6:32] Dana Craig: Knowing I could probably do it in 45.

[6:34] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[6:34] Dana Craig: Yeah, yeah.

[6:37] Steven Ferezy: She said, okay.

[6:40] Dana Craig: So I put all the dumplings in my mouth and threw on some clothes and ran out the door.

[6:47] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[6:48] Dana Craig: And I get down there, not knowing what I'm walking into.

[6:51] Steven Ferezy: Have you ever worked her on the train?

[6:53] Dana Craig: I've learned it.

[6:54] Steven Ferezy: I have never done it.

[6:55] Dana Craig: Oh.

[6:56] Steven Ferezy: Oh.

[6:57] Dana Craig: Oh.

[6:59] Steven Ferezy: Oh.

[7:01] Dana Craig: So I get on the train and I realize how many shows are there today?

[7:05] Steven Ferezy: So I go online as if to buy tickets, and I see that there are two shows.

[7:10] Dana Craig: I ask her one or two today.

[7:14] Steven Ferezy: She's like both, please.

[7:16] Dana Craig: Great, no problem.

[7:17] Steven Ferezy: Get into the building.

[7:18] Dana Craig: I get tested immediately and go out into the house, and I see that they are in full rehearsal.

[7:18] Steven Ferezy: And I see that there are people on stage that I've never seen before.

[7:30] Dana Craig: And that is when I look at the in-out sheet.

[7:34] Steven Ferezy: And I see that we have eight swings on.

[7:38] Dana Craig: That's a whole playground.

[7:41] Steven Ferezy: Cast of twelve.

[7:44] Dana Craig: There are six men, six women.

[7:47] Steven Ferezy: Uh all six women were out.

[7:51] Dana Craig: And two men were out.

[7:55] Steven Ferezy: So all the swings were on.

[7:57] Dana Craig: Plus, one of the girls from the tour just happened to be in town for the holiday.

[8:06] Steven Ferezy: No.

[8:07] Dana Craig: The Jen Kullala track, the Beverly Bass.

[8:10] Steven Ferezy: The lead pilot.

[8:11] Dana Craig: One would say.

[8:13] Steven Ferezy: One would in a in a largely ensemble piece, one would say the uh the the lead of the ensemble.

[8:21] Dana Craig: Um, you know.

[8:24] Steven Ferezy: Sure, Broadway debut.

[8:29] Dana Craig: Walked in the building at 11 a.m.

[8:31] Steven Ferezy: She'd never been in the theater.

[8:33] Dana Craig: Steven.

[8:34] Steven Ferezy: Places call, she didn't know how to get to stage right.

[8:36] Dana Craig: She said, How do you get to stage right?

[8:38] Steven Ferezy: Oh god.

[8:41] Dana Craig: It was the most insane day I've ever had, and it was fabulous.

[8:50] Steven Ferezy: First of all, everyone nailed it.

[8:51] Dana Craig: Everyone on stage nailed it.

[8:54] Steven Ferezy: Uh I didn't fuck up.

[8:59] Dana Craig: And we did two, we did two fucking shows just like that, and then we did two more the next day.

[9:04] Steven Ferezy: Sunday, Monday.

[9:06] Dana Craig: Four shows.

[9:08] Steven Ferezy: Eight swings.

[9:10] Dana Craig: What a thrill.

[9:12] Steven Ferezy: In a show with six swings on payroll.

[9:14] Dana Craig: That's Broadway math for you.

[9:16] Steven Ferezy: This is why this is why artists don't count.

[9:20] Dana Craig: During a week when swings were front and center on social media.

[9:26] Steven Ferezy: Oh, it was rad.

[9:28] Dana Craig: People were thrilled.

[9:30] Steven Ferezy: Uh particularly after Charlotte St. Martin's choice words.

[9:33] Dana Craig: Yes.

[9:36] Steven Ferezy: Um.

[9:37] Dana Craig: You know, some people thought it was a plan a planned thing.

[9:40] Steven Ferezy: A response to her was to do a show with every swing.

[9:48] Dana Craig: Um, which I I guess isn't a terrible idea, but is also a wildly uh misinformed idea.

[9:56] Steven Ferezy: So it was wild, and after the show last night, we're like up in the on the men's floor, and we all just kind of started walking a little slower, and we looked at each other and said, What did we just do?

[10:11] Steven Ferezy: What did we just do? It all kind of hit our bodies at the same time that we moved a mountain.

[10:19] Dana Craig: Oh my god. We moved an actual mountain. I have a question. For this particular experience these past couple days, do you are you following one track and like one actor?

[10:31] Steven Ferezy: No, I am I come from a way I'm stage left.

[10:34] Dana Craig: You are a stage.

[10:35] Steven Ferezy: So anything that happens stage left.

[10:38] Dana Craig: Hi, Evan!

[10:39] Steven Ferezy: Hi, Evan. He's fine.

[10:40] Dana Craig: Hi, how are you? Mazel Tove.

[10:43] Steven Ferezy: Mazel Tough. I see the lips.

[10:45] Dana Craig: He can't hear you because I have headphones on. But he he could live read the muzzle to muzzle tough.

[10:53] Steven Ferezy: That a boy. That a boy.

[10:58] Dana Craig: He's reading actual lips right now.

[11:02] Steven Ferezy: That is thrilling. I'm so proud of you. That's so exciting. Live theater.

[11:07] Dana Craig: I miss it. I can't believe it's a lot of people. Live theater.

[11:12] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, that's my life right now. Um on on the other side of that very high uh high high, there is the low low. I've also been working a lot at The Lion King, and um we had to cancel a bunch of shows, including both today.

[11:31] Dana Craig: And uh that's hard.

[11:34] Steven Ferezy: It's hard that we were talking about this at the theater yesterday. It's the first time around, everyone was in the same boat. Everything got shut down, everybody was screwed, everyone was was displaced.

[11:52] Dana Craig: Um this time around, there's no common denominator. There's no blanket protocol across all the theaters.

[12:02] Steven Ferezy: Every theater tests differently.

[12:02] Dana Craig: Well, and then Lion King is Disney, which is a whole other conglomerate.

[12:10] Steven Ferezy: Entity. And listen, we the protocols I have seen of any theater I've been in over the last three months have been top notch.

[12:20] Dana Craig: Top notch, no messing around.

[12:22] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, this is this is not a lack of precaution problem. This is not a lack of doing the right thing happening.

[12:34] Dana Craig: This is this is COVID.

[12:37] Steven Ferezy: Um so it's hard. It's hard to see when you are doing your show. Like there's there's a guilt to it, because you know that you have other friends who can't go do their show.

[12:47] Dana Craig: It's a weird, it's a weird emotional place to sit.

[12:50] Steven Ferezy: Well, you're kind of you're dabbling in a bunch of different shows.

[12:54] Dana Craig: Uh so what yeah, I'm flying all over the place.

[12:57] Steven Ferezy: So, what else have you done? What other shows are you on?

[13:00] Dana Craig: Um, I'm wrapping up some work at the Met. I've been doing a bunch of opera lately.

[13:06] Steven Ferezy: Um, so that's been cool. We're doing Cinderella right now, which is fun.

[13:10] Dana Craig: It was your famous was your famous first word.

[13:14] Steven Ferezy: My famous first word.

[13:16] Dana Craig: And then who knows?

[13:17] Steven Ferezy: And then who knows? Life of a swing, right?

[13:19] Dana Craig: Wait, wait for Broadway to call.

[13:21] Steven Ferezy: That's my big like recent update. I've been very busy uh learning a new job and learning that new job in a lot of new capacities for a lot of different people, and uh showing up at the last minute.

[13:35] Dana Craig: It's it's exhilarating, and those are the stories you remember, right?

[13:39] Steven Ferezy: No one talks about the Tuesday night where no one called out and the show was tight and no problems.

[13:45] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[13:46] Steven Ferezy: Do you feel like a doctor?

[13:47] Dana Craig: You know, that's like being on call.

[13:52] Steven Ferezy: I'm marrying a doc.

[13:53] Dana Craig: A doc.

[13:54] Steven Ferezy: Do you have a beeper?

[13:56] Dana Craig: Oh my god, I wish.

[13:58] Steven Ferezy: I wish I had a Broadway beeper.

[14:00] Dana Craig: Let us dive right.

[14:03] Steven Ferezy: Play our annual dive right into our annual end-of-year game.

[14:08] Dana Craig: This game needs its own theme song.

[14:10] Steven Ferezy: It needs like a really And your host Merv Griffith.

[14:22] Dana Craig: With the flashlights going and all of that.

[14:26] Steven Ferezy: So basically it's called what were you doing on October 20th?

[14:26] Dana Craig: October 20th.

[14:33] Steven Ferezy: And it's basically one basket of every month of the year, and then another basket with every date of the year.

[14:42] Dana Craig: And we pick one of each and see what we were doing on that day.

[14:46] Steven Ferezy: It's thrilling.

[14:47] Dana Craig: And I'm sure it's thrilling. You can play along.

[14:49] Steven Ferezy: This year will be extra thrilling because uh during COVID, I was not busy enough to maintain any sort of day planner.

[15:00] Dana Craig: So I only have an actual calendar for October, November, December, and we'll be using my email to supplement the rest of the year.

[15:10] Steven Ferezy: And I famously use my iPhone calendar for every day.

[15:15] Dana Craig: For go to CVS.

[15:18] Steven Ferezy: Take a shower.

[15:19] Dana Craig: Take a shower, eat pizza.

[15:22] Steven Ferezy: So we'll have a great opportunity here.

[15:28] Dana Craig: It'll be fun.

[15:29] Steven Ferezy: Dana, this will be the part where you edit a lot of uh dead air.

[15:32] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[15:32] Steven Ferezy: I I know how to do my job, you absolute queen.

[15:36] Dana Craig: Okay, I did your job recently and you dug it, so you're welcome.

[15:40] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it was very good.

[15:42] Dana Craig: I loved last week's episode.

[15:44] Steven Ferezy: Last month's episode.

[15:46] Dana Craig: Well, actually, I pulled in October.

[15:51] Steven Ferezy: Okay.

[15:52] Dana Craig: Oh no.

[15:52] Steven Ferezy: This could go a lot of ways.

[15:56] Dana Craig: And it's going to be October.

[15:59] Steven Ferezy: October 15th, everyone.

[16:03] Dana Craig: Oh my god, I fucking knew it.

[16:06] Steven Ferezy: October 15th.

[16:07] Dana Craig: Fucking knew it.

[16:09] Steven Ferezy: Um I think it was a Friday.

[16:11] Dana Craig: It was a Friday.

[16:15] Steven Ferezy: God damn it, Dana.

[16:17] Dana Craig: Okay, listen, I was off that day, which was an intentional day off, because the day before was very um high stakes, shall we say?

[16:28] Steven Ferezy: We're going to be able to do that.

[16:29] Dana Craig: So I needed the the the just in case crash day.

[16:35] Steven Ferezy: I have in my calendar.

[16:39] Dana Craig: Steven at 1 45.

[16:44] Steven Ferezy: Oh, did I come see you? Was that the day?

[16:45] Dana Craig: What what happened?

[16:48] Steven Ferezy: It was the day after I saw Dana H.

[16:51] Dana Craig: So I may have come to your office to pick something up or drop something off to you.

[16:58] Steven Ferezy: Oh, I was dropping off your Dana H tickets.

[17:01] Dana Craig: That's Karen Mann.

[17:02] Steven Ferezy: Right. Because we weren't recording.

[17:05] Dana Craig: I saw Dana H the night before. I picked up your tickets from her, and we figured out a time to meet.

[17:11] Steven Ferezy: Friday was my day off. I came down to give them to you.

[17:15] Dana Craig: Literally, that's the date that I picked for right now.

[17:17] Steven Ferezy: We saw each other.

[17:20] Dana Craig: Come on.

[17:22] Steven Ferezy: And then I have a note bring back diet cokes from our office.

[17:27] Dana Craig: I was like, grab two from the fridge.

[17:29] Steven Ferezy: And then I wrote, I made spaghetti and meatballs.

[17:33] Dana Craig: Wait.

[17:34] Steven Ferezy: It just says no invitations.

[17:36] Dana Craig: Wait. Spaghetti and meatballs is what I made.

[17:46] Steven Ferezy: I'm I'm so embarrassing.

[17:49] Dana Craig: I I embarrass myself.

[17:52] Steven Ferezy: Oh shit, pick another one.

[17:53] Dana Craig: Alright, let's do another one.

[17:54] Steven Ferezy: I'm gonna keep October out, because I'm not gonna I can't believe you picked October 15th.

[18:00] Dana Craig: Okay, the next one is oh November.

[18:03] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god.

[18:04] Dana Craig: November and 16th.

[18:16] Steven Ferezy: November 16th.

[18:20] Dana Craig: Katie Thompson's birthday.

[18:22] Steven Ferezy: Um November 16th.

[18:25] Dana Craig: I was dressing turrando at the Met.

[18:29] Steven Ferezy: Steven, that's really impressive because I went to go pick up shaving cream from some house in Astoria, because I'm on the Buy Nothing Astoria Facebook group.

[18:47] Dana Craig: And someone was getting rid of nine uh canisters of the Barbasol shaving cream.

[18:54] Steven Ferezy: And I was like, those are mine.

[18:55] Dana Craig: I want those.

[18:56] Steven Ferezy: She's like, come and pick them up.

[18:58] Dana Craig: And I was like, when do you when do you want me?

[19:00] Steven Ferezy: It was November 16th.

[19:03] Dana Craig: Wow.

[19:05] Steven Ferezy: I have a thrilling life, if anyone has any questions.

[19:10] Dana Craig: For their questions.

[19:12] Steven Ferezy: Alright, one more.

[19:14] Dana Craig: Mm-hmm.

[19:16] Steven Ferezy: Okay.

[19:19] Dana Craig: Oh, September.

[19:21] Steven Ferezy: Ooh.

[19:22] Dana Craig: That's uh that's an email search.

[19:25] Steven Ferezy: September.

[19:28] Dana Craig: Doo do do.

[19:29] Steven Ferezy: September fourth.

[19:33] Dana Craig: September 4th, before Broadway was back.

[19:40] Steven Ferezy: Is that not gonna work?

[19:41] Dana Craig: Oh, maybe it will.

[19:43] Steven Ferezy: Searching your email.

[19:46] Dana Craig: Searching my email.

[19:47] Steven Ferezy: Hold on.

[19:49] Dana Craig: Do do do do do do September what?

[19:56] Steven Ferezy: Fourth.

[19:57] Dana Craig: September 4th.

[19:58] Steven Ferezy: Okay, here we are.

[19:59] Dana Craig: Here we are.

[20:00] Steven Ferezy: Here we are.

[20:01] Dana Craig: September 5, September 4.

[20:04] Dana Craig: Third dose available now for eligible people.

[20:11] Steven Ferezy: We're just gonna read your emails.

[20:13] Dana Craig: I cannot with you.

[20:15] Steven Ferezy: I hate this.

[20:16] Dana Craig: People have turned off.

[20:18] Steven Ferezy: Um I made plans to see Tony Roberts.

[20:21] Dana Craig: Oh.

[20:22] Steven Ferezy: Um.

[20:24] Dana Craig: A someone reached out to me on Ancestry.com claiming to be a relative.

[20:36] Steven Ferezy: I'm dying.

[20:37] Dana Craig: Um that's a big day, actually.

[20:40] Steven Ferezy: Let's see.

[20:40] Dana Craig: Wait, oh, I have a WordPress receipt for I'll ink to that.

[20:47] Steven Ferezy: And my Venmo August 2021 transaction history.

[20:52] Dana Craig: Oh my god.

[20:54] Steven Ferezy: I took a Mark Fisher class.

[20:56] Dana Craig: Building homebody.

[20:58] Steven Ferezy: Saturday.

[20:59] Dana Craig: I was you I was still unemployed.

[21:01] Steven Ferezy: I had my first dates like on the calendar.

[21:03] Dana Craig: They were coming up.

[21:04] Steven Ferezy: Uh unemployment ended on the 6th.

[21:07] Dana Craig: Oh.

[21:08] Steven Ferezy: So I was probably like, it was the last check.

[21:11] Dana Craig: It was everything was falling into place at the last second.

[21:15] Steven Ferezy: Not unlike the last two days.

[21:17] Dana Craig: You were scrambled eggs.

[21:20] Steven Ferezy: Scrambled eggs.

[21:21] Dana Craig: I'm gonna do one more.

[21:22] Steven Ferezy: Can we do one more?

[21:23] Dana Craig: Can we do one more?

[21:27] Steven Ferezy: a beginning of the year.

[21:29] Dana Craig: Nope.

[21:30] Steven Ferezy: Okay.

[21:31] Dana Craig: Have to do it again.

[21:32] Steven Ferezy: Frick.

[21:34] Dana Craig: June.

[21:34] Steven Ferezy: Is that good enough?

[21:36] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[21:37] Steven Ferezy: June.

[21:39] Dana Craig: Do do you?

[21:44] Steven Ferezy: June 21st.

[21:47] Dana Craig: June 21st.

[21:49] Steven Ferezy: Ancestry.com.

[21:51] Dana Craig: Somebody with that birthday.

[21:52] Steven Ferezy: I'm strict.com.

[21:55] Dana Craig: Was it real?

[21:57] Steven Ferezy: I think so.

[21:59] Dana Craig: He followed me on Instagram.

[22:01] Steven Ferezy: Whatever.

[22:03] Dana Craig: I think he works at Square.

[22:05] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god, this is a big day.

[22:08] Dana Craig: Um the 12th?

[22:10] Steven Ferezy: Okay, June.

[22:11] Dana Craig: No, June 20th, 21st.

[22:12] Steven Ferezy: 21st.

[22:13] Dana Craig: 21st.

[22:14] Steven Ferezy: I inverted the numbers.

[22:15] Dana Craig: Okay, tell me about your Monday.

[22:17] Steven Ferezy: I'm almost there.

[22:17] Dana Craig: Okay.

[22:19] Steven Ferezy: I had to move my car by 9.30.

[22:24] Dana Craig: And I I have a note that it's on Crescent behind our place, closer to 23rd Avenue.

[22:30] Steven Ferezy: Cause like, if you have a car, you forget where you parked your car.

[22:34] Dana Craig: I don't understand how people own things.

[22:37] Steven Ferezy: Uh-huh.

[22:38] Dana Craig: Whatever.

[22:38] Steven Ferezy: I'm glad I don't have it anymore.

[22:39] Dana Craig: Um You have to put a beeper on it.

[22:41] Steven Ferezy: Beeper.

[22:42] Dana Craig: I worked that day.

[22:45] Steven Ferezy: I drank a lot of water.

[22:49] Dana Craig: I posted Xander's labia luke on at Labia Luke's on Instagram.

[22:55] Steven Ferezy: This is a big you know, breaking news.

[22:57] Dana Craig: That's me.

[22:58] Steven Ferezy: Okay.

[22:58] Dana Craig: Um.

[23:00] Steven Ferezy: And that I edited our podcast.

[23:04] Dana Craig: Yes!

[23:05] Steven Ferezy: Proof.

[23:06] Dana Craig: The proof is in the proof.

[23:07] Steven Ferezy: Proof.

[23:08] Dana Craig: Edit podcast.

[23:12] Steven Ferezy: Um, I ordered cat food and cat litter.

[23:18] Dana Craig: I what else?

[23:21] Steven Ferezy: Oh, here's the Broadway briefing from that day.

[23:26] Dana Craig: Sure, that's interesting.

[23:29] Steven Ferezy: Um what were they briefing?

[23:33] Dana Craig: Just the daily news.

[23:35] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I know.

[23:36] Dana Craig: I started to scroll through it and realized no.

[23:39] Steven Ferezy: Um, I got an appointment reminder from my doctor's office.

[23:45] Dana Craig: Do do do do.

[23:50] Steven Ferezy: I got an invoice for my rent.

[23:53] Dana Craig: Wow.

[23:54] Steven Ferezy: I promise.

[23:56] Dana Craig: And that's it.

[23:57] Steven Ferezy: What day of the week is it?

[23:58] Dana Craig: I mean, that was peak.

[24:01] Steven Ferezy: Like, we had just gotten our vaccines, right?

[24:03] Dana Craig: In March.

[24:04] Steven Ferezy: Uh April, May, June.

[24:06] Dana Craig: Like it was summer.

[24:07] Steven Ferezy: People were starting to do summer things, and I don't do summer things.

[24:11] Dana Craig: And I still I was in that weird, but aren't we supposed to be staying inside thing?

[24:17] Steven Ferezy: That's a thing.

[24:18] Dana Craig: And then everyone wasn't staying inside because they could be outside, but I didn't want to be outside because it was too hot.

[24:24] Steven Ferezy: Yep.

[24:26] Dana Craig: So I really probably wasn't doing much other than emailing my doctor and ordering cat litter.

[24:33] Steven Ferezy: Uh another winter.

[24:36] Dana Craig: In a summertime.

[24:39] Steven Ferezy: Listeners, we apologize, and we promise that the end of 2022.

[24:45] Dana Craig: We'll be so much better.

[24:46] Steven Ferezy: I got my Mole Scheme 2022 Pro Planner.

[24:51] Dana Craig: I swear to God.

[24:53] Steven Ferezy: It's so good.

[24:55] Dana Craig: This is gonna be this was the piss.

[24:57] Steven Ferezy: But right now it looks so new and crisp.

[24:59] Dana Craig: It's gonna look like the original Bible by the end of the year.

[25:01] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, good, good.

[25:02] Dana Craig: I'm glad you got a full one.

[25:04] Steven Ferezy: It's gonna look like the actual Declaration of Independence, which I saw for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

[25:11] Dana Craig: And listen, I know that it is a 300-year-old document.

[25:17] Steven Ferezy: Oh, you saw it.

[25:19] Dana Craig: I saw it with my eyes.

[25:20] Steven Ferezy: You meant it was a show.

[25:21] Dana Craig: I'm like, what?

[25:22] Steven Ferezy: No, I saw it with my eyeballs.

[25:25] Dana Craig: And can I tell you that even knowing how old that piece of paper is, uh, I was surprised at its condition.

[25:34] Steven Ferezy: That ink is so faded, and that paper is so that paper, that parchment, that hide is so parched.

[25:49] Dana Craig: You just want to like slather it in some nivea.

[25:53] Steven Ferezy: Like a really dried sponge on the side of the sink, and then you run it underwater and it just like fills with life.

[26:00] Dana Craig: Fills out, yeah.

[26:01] Steven Ferezy: That's what you want it to do, and obviously you can't do that.

[26:06] Dana Craig: Um but it was striking.

[26:09] Steven Ferezy: It was striking to see.

[26:11] Dana Craig: Where's that at?

[26:12] Steven Ferezy: Oh, it's in DC.

[26:13] Dana Craig: It's in DC.

[26:13] Steven Ferezy: You went to DC.

[26:14] Dana Craig: We went to DC to see a strange loop.

[26:16] Steven Ferezy: You went to DC.

[26:17] Dana Craig: I knew that.

[26:18] Steven Ferezy: But I'm coming to Broadway spring twenty twenty two.

[26:20] Dana Craig: I hadn't spoken to you since then.

[26:23] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it was rad.

[26:24] Dana Craig: I'd never been to DC uh for more than an afternoon.

[26:27] Steven Ferezy: Cool.

[26:29] Dana Craig: Uh and we did three and a half days.

[26:31] Steven Ferezy: It was really great.

[26:33] Dana Craig: It was really great.

[26:33] Steven Ferezy: Lots of walking.

[26:34] Dana Craig: I actually just looked at my step count from DC and it was it was intense.

[26:34] Steven Ferezy: It was intense.

[26:41] Dana Craig: Amazing.

[26:42] Steven Ferezy: Um but so beautiful.

[26:44] Dana Craig: So nice to be somewhere where nothing can be very high and everything is made of marble.

[26:50] Steven Ferezy: Things can't be very high for what reason.

[26:53] Dana Craig: Nothing can be higher than the Capitol.

[26:56] Steven Ferezy: Except for the uh National Monument.

[27:00] Dana Craig: Is that uh just a rule?

[27:02] Steven Ferezy: Just a fun rule?

[27:03] Dana Craig: It's a DC rule.

[27:04] Steven Ferezy: DC.

[27:04] Dana Craig: It's a DC ordinance.

[27:07] Steven Ferezy: Seems a bit dramatic, but okay.

[27:11] Dana Craig: I mean it's the fucking Capitol.

[27:12] Steven Ferezy: You wanna um on that note, on a patriotic note.

[27:18] Dana Craig: Oh, we do we do wanna say we are going to take January off.

[27:23] Steven Ferezy: Oh right, we're doing a dry January to uh like r really try to figure out now that boosters are around.

[27:31] Dana Craig: We're gonna kinda take some temperatures and see what our uh pinned guest list uh looks like and feels about getting back in the room safely and if and how that could be possible and uh Yeah.

[27:48] Steven Ferezy: We have a few LA people that we could still, you know, do virtually, so we could do them.

[27:55] Dana Craig: But um yeah, we just wanna regroup a little bit and we will see you in February.

[28:00] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, figure out a a consistent approach factoring in uh COVID getting better and COVID getting worse.

[28:08] Dana Craig: Yep.

[28:08] Steven Ferezy: All those things.

[28:09] Dana Craig: What a what a grand time.

[28:11] Steven Ferezy: Some housekeeping.

[28:13] Dana Craig: Very happy New Year Dane.

[28:16] Steven Ferezy: Happy New Year.

[28:17] Dana Craig: I'll see you on the other side of it.

[28:18] Steven Ferezy: I can't believe I haven't seen you since before things.

[28:23] Dana Craig: Caroline or Change.

[28:25] Steven Ferezy: Is that possibly?

[28:26] Dana Craig: Oh shit.

[28:27] Steven Ferezy: October.

[28:29] Dana Craig: Since I handed you those tickets?

[28:31] Steven Ferezy: No.

[28:31] Dana Craig: I think it was maybe Caroline or Change or Caroline was before I handed you those tickets.

[28:38] Steven Ferezy: Anyway.

[28:39] Dana Craig: See you on the other side, babe.

[28:41] Steven Ferezy: See you on the other side.

[28:43] Dana Craig: Bye.

[28:45] Steven Ferezy: Bye.

[28:46] Dana Craig: I started really high.

[28:52] Steven Ferezy: I found it and I went with it.

[28:55] Dana Craig: Um bye.

[28:57] Steven Ferezy: Bye.

[29:00] Steven Ferezy: In the Room with Steven and Dana is produced by Stephen Ferrasi.

[29:04] Dana Craig: And Dana Craig.

[29:06] Steven Ferezy: Special thanks to Joel Wagoner for tinkling the ivories on our theme song.

[29:11] Dana Craig: Hit him up at Joel Wagoner.com.

[29:13] Steven Ferezy: We apologize, and you're welcome.

[29:15] Dana Craig: We'd also like to thank Jesse Wiener, W I E-N E R, for our jazzy original music sprinkled throughout each episode.

[29:23] Steven Ferezy: You can find him at jessewiener.com.

[29:26] Dana Craig: Last but certainly not least, we'd like to thank Kevin Thomas Garcia for taking all of our ridiculous photos.

[29:33] Steven Ferezy: You can find him online at KTGNYC.com.

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