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[0:00] Steven Ferezy: Take one.

[0:01] Dana Craig: Knock knock.

[0:04] Steven Ferezy: We're Steven and Dana.

[0:05] Dana Craig: We can't believe you thought I'd not work.

[0:10] Steven Ferezy: We're so glad you're listening to it.

[0:12] Dana Craig: We would never listen to.

[0:13] Steven Ferezy: I don't even want to listen to it to edit it.

[0:15] Dana Craig: I don't even want to wake up in the morning.

[0:18] Steven Ferezy: Steven and Dana.

[0:20] Dana Craig: In the room.

[0:35] Steven Ferezy: And you are rolling.

[0:37] Dana Craig: Unique New York.

[0:39] Steven Ferezy: Unique New York.

[0:42] Dana Craig: Unique New York.

[0:44] Steven Ferezy: Hi, Steven.

[0:45] Dana Craig: Hi, honey.

[0:46] Steven Ferezy: It was so good to see you yesterday.

[0:47] Dana Craig: It was so great to see you.

[0:49] Steven Ferezy: I feel like, I mean, we really have not seen each other all of quarantine.

[0:53] Dana Craig: Can we just take a time out and give a thunderous round of applause to our off-stage producer, Brittany Bigelow?

[1:05] Steven Ferezy: Mark and Meritur.

[1:09] Dana Craig: That's a lot worse.

[1:10] Steven Ferezy: We okay, so she just so she's a producer at BPN.

[1:14] Dana Craig: She helps us every single time we do a podcast.

[1:16] Steven Ferezy: She sets us up.

[1:17] Dana Craig: We talk to her beforehand.

[1:19] Steven Ferezy: And then she like is kind of behind the screen.

[1:22] Dana Craig: We don't see her while we're chatting, and we know that she's there.

[1:24] Steven Ferezy: Like if anything goes wrong, we know that Brittany will pop in and be like, yeah, before we even panic, she's like, okay, guys, so we got all of that.

[1:32] Dana Craig: It's saved.

[1:33] Steven Ferezy: Everything is great.

[1:34] Dana Craig: We're just gonna do a group refresh.

[1:36] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, like there is an airplane, and like we have to stop.

[1:39] Dana Craig: Um so we just want to shout out Brittany.

[1:42] Steven Ferezy: She's been so incredibly gorgeous through especially quarantine when we have to be on our computers.

[1:52] Dana Craig: Like this is when you know she really shines.

[1:55] Steven Ferezy: Because we really we real usually do it ourselves, um, and we set up in people's living rooms, but we haven't been able to do that.

[2:02] Dana Craig: But she just moved to LA and she's doing this from LA for everyone.

[2:06] Steven Ferezy: Congrats, Queen.

[2:07] Dana Craig: Yes.

[2:09] Steven Ferezy: So yeah, Brittany has been like the wizard of Oz for literally everyone at BPN, and we just wanna shout out some love out there.

[2:18] Dana Craig: That's a strong team over there.

[2:19] Steven Ferezy: Um we love them.

[2:23] Dana Craig: We love.

[2:24] Steven Ferezy: We love so what else?

[2:27] Dana Craig: I guess that's our episode, everybody.

[2:29] Steven Ferezy: Yep, that's it.

[2:31] Dana Craig: Seven minutes flat.

[2:32] Steven Ferezy: Well, no, we we saw each other yesterday, and it was I I literally wept in your arms.

[2:37] Dana Craig: I saw you.

[2:38] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, there was weeping.

[2:40] Dana Craig: Oh, honey.

[2:41] Steven Ferezy: Well, it was a nice morning, and then it got home mid.

[2:44] Dana Craig: Well, we saw each other on 43rd and 9th.

[2:47] Steven Ferezy: We got Stickies Chicken.

[2:49] Dana Craig: We met up for some chicken.

[2:52] Steven Ferezy: Steven, what was the order?

[2:53] Dana Craig: It was so good.

[2:54] Steven Ferezy: Tell everyone.

[2:54] Dana Craig: Oh, it was thank you.

[2:57] Steven Ferezy: It was.

[2:58] Dana Craig: I like the combination um platter, so it's like chickens and the Cajun fries, and it's with the general so ticky, so that's sticky with a T S I C K Y.

[3:13] Steven Ferezy: Uh-uh.

[3:14] Dana Craig: Um it's like this yummy, like Asian-y sauce with like some sesame seeds and some flake and some scallion.

[3:23] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, and it's salty, like you know, there's a little bit of soy in there.

[3:27] Dana Craig: Just like dousing your chicken in this delicious sauce.

[3:33] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it's not a dipping moment.

[3:35] Dana Craig: It is, it's a doused.

[3:37] Steven Ferezy: I mean, you can dip if you want, you can get it on the side.

[3:40] Dana Craig: Sure.

[3:40] Steven Ferezy: If you're weak.

[3:42] Dana Craig: I when I went in, I'd never had it before, and there was a sign of like, okay, now pick your sauce.

[3:47] Steven Ferezy: And there's like 30 seconds to see.

[3:48] Dana Craig: Floor to ceiling.

[3:49] Steven Ferezy: Floor to ceiling sauces.

[3:51] Dana Craig: One of them was like a jalapeno mac and cheese dipping sauce.

[3:56] Steven Ferezy: I have to go back.

[3:57] Dana Craig: There's a s'mores dip.

[3:59] Steven Ferezy: Like, that's not my jam with my chicken, but you could literally get chicken strips and dip it in like marshmallow fluff and chocolate.

[4:07] Dana Craig: That's outstanding.

[4:10] Steven Ferezy: There are certain moments when that could be my jam.

[4:14] Dana Craig: I'd certainly put them on the short list of like potential wedding caterers.

[4:20] Steven Ferezy: And then we were looking for drinks, and you're like, ooh, root beer.

[4:20] Dana Craig: Root beer.

[4:25] Steven Ferezy: Sorry.

[4:26] Dana Craig: Rot beer?

[4:26] Steven Ferezy: I say root beer.

[4:27] Dana Craig: Like root beer.

[4:28] Steven Ferezy: No, you don't.

[4:29] Dana Craig: Yes.

[4:29] Steven Ferezy: I'm from Wisconsin.

[4:31] Dana Craig: I don't know.

[4:32] Steven Ferezy: I root is like too much.

[4:35] Dana Craig: Have we never said root together?

[4:37] Steven Ferezy: Root beer?

[4:38] Dana Craig: I also say root 66.

[4:40] Steven Ferezy: I don't say milk either.

[4:43] Dana Craig: I say milk.

[4:44] Steven Ferezy: I say milk.

[4:46] Dana Craig: Milk and root beer.

[4:48] Steven Ferezy: Woo!

[4:48] Dana Craig: I don't even think that sounds weird.

[4:50] Steven Ferezy: What's the thing on top of a house?

[4:53] Dana Craig: A roof.

[4:54] Steven Ferezy: You don't say rough.

[4:56] Dana Craig: No, it's just it doesn't matter.

[4:58] Steven Ferezy: It's just root beer.

[5:00] Dana Craig: But I don't do the extra like root.

[5:02] Steven Ferezy: I'm not doing I'm not jet.

[5:04] Dana Craig: I'm not jetting out my chin for that.

[5:06] Steven Ferezy: Root.

[5:07] Dana Craig: So then, okay, so we got our chicken.

[5:09] Steven Ferezy: And then we like to plan our days.

[5:12] Dana Craig: And then we went to the Hudson River and parked our asses by the Intrepid Museum, which is a huge ship slash spaceship.

[5:26] Steven Ferezy: And people were paddleboarding by it.

[5:28] Dana Craig: And it was like the most gorgeous.

[5:30] Steven Ferezy: Well, because I've seen you on a paddle board.

[5:31] Dana Craig: So I was like, Dana, remember when you did that?

[5:34] Steven Ferezy: Oh, I love a paddleboard.

[5:35] Dana Craig: It makes me feel like it makes me feel like I'm doing something.

[5:39] Steven Ferezy: It's really easy.

[5:41] Dana Craig: You can have zero core strength and be a paddle boarder.

[5:44] Steven Ferezy: Hand to God.

[5:45] Dana Craig: Hand to God.

[5:47] Steven Ferezy: Um, so yeah, we had a little meeting of like a few.

[5:49] Dana Craig: Yeah, we had a lunch and then we had a rosé.

[5:52] Steven Ferezy: There was like an outside bar.

[5:55] Dana Craig: Um so we got to have rosé, and they were pouring my favorite kind.

[5:59] Steven Ferezy: I don't know what it's called.

[6:00] Dana Craig: I just know what the bottle looks like.

[6:02] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it's like a ten dollar whatever.

[6:03] Dana Craig: You can get it anywhere.

[6:04] Steven Ferezy: The bottom of the bottle is a rosé.

[6:07] Dana Craig: Like it's like carved glass.

[6:11] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, yeah.

[6:12] Dana Craig: And there were dancing fountains, and it was just beautiful.

[6:15] Steven Ferezy: And then what did we do?

[6:16] Dana Craig: We walked, ooh, mmm.

[6:20] Steven Ferezy: I took you on the theater tour.

[6:21] Dana Craig: Yeah, because I buy a bunch of our houses.

[6:24] Steven Ferezy: I had not seen Times Square since March, and it is now September 20 something.

[6:32] Dana Craig: And it's weird.

[6:34] Steven Ferezy: It's real weird.

[6:35] Dana Craig: Like all the obviously, all the shows are shut down.

[6:38] Steven Ferezy: No one's first of all.

[6:42] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[6:42] Steven Ferezy: We took a stroll and we were in no one's way and no one was in our way.

[6:47] Dana Craig: We also had nowhere to be.

[6:51] Steven Ferezy: Name a date in New York when I don't have somewhere to be.

[6:55] Dana Craig: Name it.

[6:56] Steven Ferezy: I'm usually like running to get somewhere.

[6:59] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[7:00] Steven Ferezy: And here we go.

[7:01] Dana Craig: You bring a backpack to nice events.

[7:03] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[7:03] Dana Craig: I got places to be.

[7:05] Steven Ferezy: This is my a thing I'm doing today.

[7:09] Dana Craig: But we were just Sunday strolling through the midtown as if nothing was happening.

[7:21] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, you could really like host a wedding reception on any of those theater streets.

[7:26] Dana Craig: So easy.

[7:28] Steven Ferezy: It was weird, but you know.

[7:31] Dana Craig: I I it was it was it's the time it's the time for us locals, us New Yorkers, to do the things that we avoid in our city because tourists make it hard.

[7:46] Steven Ferezy: Sure.

[7:47] Dana Craig: Now it's that time.

[7:48] Steven Ferezy: Let's hang out in midtown.

[7:50] Dana Craig: Let's like sit on the TKTS steps.

[7:54] Steven Ferezy: But usually shoulder to shoulder.

[7:56] Dana Craig: Let's take a double decker bus tour.

[7:59] Steven Ferezy: Let's go to the top of the Empire State Building.

[8:03] Dana Craig: Let's like you know, obviously we're staying home as much as we can, but these are all things that when you really decide I'm taking a day to leave the house and participate.

[8:15] Steven Ferezy: Um like all fun ideas.

[8:18] Dana Craig: Great.

[8:19] Steven Ferezy: Those are my plans.

[8:21] Dana Craig: After I left you, I well just can we just talk about the just the Broadwayness of it all, like regardless of tourists being around, like it was so heavy on my heart.

[8:39] Steven Ferezy: It was sad it's like a museum because in the train stations, no none of the ads are changing.

[8:46] Dana Craig: Nobody's buying ad space in Port Authority.

[8:49] Steven Ferezy: No.

[8:49] Dana Craig: So all the ads are like pre-quarantine coming to FX February twenty fourth.

[8:57] Steven Ferezy: Okay, well, I'm I'm sure that that show was great, but it's certainly over.

[9:02] Dana Craig: It's like walking through a New York museum of February 2020.

[9:07] Steven Ferezy: Like everything is boarded up.

[9:09] Dana Craig: Like we walked, I walked past the AMC and the Regal, the movie theaters.

[9:15] Steven Ferezy: Closed up.

[9:15] Dana Craig: The New York City gift shops, which usually have a billion people inside, closed.

[9:21] Steven Ferezy: Um it was so I mean I just saw Brad Pitt outside of Madame Tussaud's and people like walking up to take a picture, and I'm like, this is literally the status.

[9:31] Dana Craig: Like I usually find that pretty sad, but like now like it's just so now there's not even a line.

[9:35] Steven Ferezy: It's so sad.

[9:36] Dana Craig: No, it's so sad.

[9:40] Steven Ferezy: Whew, it was a weird experience.

[9:42] Dana Craig: Anyway, so after that, I left you at Columbus Circle and went to a going away for another friend who's moving home.

[9:53] Steven Ferezy: So that was sad too.

[9:55] Dana Craig: But Central Park was bumping.

[9:57] Steven Ferezy: People are enjoying the outdoors.

[10:00] Dana Craig: That's what I'm saying.

[10:01] Steven Ferezy: Like, take your city, live in it.

[10:04] Dana Craig: I was like, I don't think I've lived here for 12 years.

[10:07] Steven Ferezy: I don't think I've ever sat on a picnic blanket in Central Park.

[10:12] Dana Craig: First of all, I don't live anywhere.

[10:13] Steven Ferezy: Because when you're in Central Park, you're like between things.

[10:17] Dana Craig: Like if I have a day and I'm out, I'm we're going to the park, like I'm planning my day around it.

[10:22] Steven Ferezy: It's not, it's so rarely the destination.

[10:26] Dana Craig: Oh, for me, it's a destination where I have people here that I'm showing New York City too, but we're walking through it.

[10:32] Steven Ferezy: Of course, of course, of course.

[10:33] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[10:34] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[10:35] Dana Craig: But it was really nice to just like sit on a blanket for five hours and be okay.

[10:42] Steven Ferezy: Watch the people go by.

[10:46] Dana Craig: I really have enjoyed seeing how many people are getting out.

[10:50] Steven Ferezy: We have to get out of our houses, but even in Astoria like seeing the people in the park that weren't usually there.

[10:58] Dana Craig: Or taking walks or like exercising outside or biking.

[11:02] Steven Ferezy: It's just been so much more.

[11:03] Dana Craig: I'm like, that's great.

[11:05] Steven Ferezy: That's a that's a pro.

[11:07] Dana Craig: I'll take my pro.

[11:10] Steven Ferezy: There's a lot of cons, but yeah.

[11:13] Dana Craig: Good God.

[11:14] Steven Ferezy: Um, what else?

[11:16] Dana Craig: Guess what?

[11:17] Steven Ferezy: What?

[11:18] Dana Craig: Today, thank you, Broadway Briefing.

[11:21] Steven Ferezy: It's the 200th day that Broadway's been closed.

[11:27] Steven Ferezy: That's 200 days.

[11:28] Dana Craig: It's 200 days.

[11:33] Steven Ferezy: The last time I went 200 days without seeing a show.

[11:38] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[11:39] Steven Ferezy: What was the last show you saw?

[11:41] Dana Craig: I meant to check because we talked about this.

[11:44] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[11:45] Dana Craig: Um, well, you know what? Here, I have a calendar.

[11:49] Steven Ferezy: While you're looking that up, the last show I saw was called Dana H.

[11:56] Dana Craig: Right.

[11:57] Steven Ferezy: At The Vineyard.

[11:59] Dana Craig: And I saw that with Jamie Dumont, co-host of The Fabulous Invalid, also a Broadway Podcast Network.

[12:07] Steven Ferezy: Uh, Juggernaut podcast.

[12:10] Dana Craig: Um, and it was so good.

[12:14] Steven Ferezy: It was so good.

[12:15] Dana Craig: I remember you loving it.

[12:17] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I couldn't shut up about it. It was uh one woman, God, I can't remember her name.

[12:23] Dana Craig: Okay, listen. The last thing I saw was Vote Pray Love.

[12:27] Steven Ferezy: Let's not, yes.

[12:30] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[12:33] Steven Ferezy: Before that, the last thing I saw on Broadway.

[12:40] Dana Craig: Well, before that I saw Well-Behaved Women.

[12:43] Steven Ferezy: And I think the last thing I saw on Broadway was Jagged Little Pill.

[12:51] Dana Craig: Oh wow. Wait, I don't know if I knew that you saw that.

[12:54] Steven Ferezy: I think that's the last thing I saw.

[12:56] Dana Craig: Wow. What did you have tickets to, but didn't get to use the tickets?

[13:03] Steven Ferezy: Not a huge ticket in advance.

[13:07] Dana Craig: Not in that kind of a way, maybe a week or a couple weeks.

[13:11] Steven Ferezy: Um, you know, I was a big Today Tix user. I was uh, a lotter.

[13:19] Dana Craig: Um, and I was like a last minute or I certainly had very much intended to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

[13:26] Steven Ferezy: Oh yeah.

[13:27] Dana Craig: I really wanted to see um Company.

[13:35] Steven Ferezy: I was very ready to like buy that ticket. So every year for my birthday, it has been happening. Like my best friend Val, um, we get tickets to something, and this year was gonna be Company.

[13:49] Dana Craig: And you know, that was probably like April 28th or something, and it was very sad that was a refund, and that or not a refund, but actually what?

[13:59] Steven Ferezy: Right, no, I remembered, but you go.

[14:01] Dana Craig: Okay, so that, and then I had never seen Book of Mormon.

[14:06] Steven Ferezy: Ever.

[14:06] Dana Craig: Neither is John. I'm dying to take him.

[14:09] Steven Ferezy: So I bought a single ticket. I hate seeing theater by myself.

[14:13] Dana Craig: I bought—oh, you never have to always call me.

[14:17] Steven Ferezy: I didn't, it didn't need to.

[14:19] Dana Craig: Hello.

[14:20] Steven Ferezy: I didn't need to, but I thought I'm gonna go, I'm gonna try this experience.

[14:25] Dana Craig: Then more power to you.

[14:27] Steven Ferezy: But if you really don't like it, you never have to go by yourself.

[14:30] Dana Craig: Oh, I know. I'm, you know, riddled with people I can call.

[14:34] Steven Ferezy: But I, yeah, I bought a ticket to Book of Mormon, and that was probably set for May.

[14:42] Dana Craig: I very much lied to you. I did have tickets to something.

[14:46] Steven Ferezy: I had tickets to Caroline, or Change specifically on a night.

[14:46] Dana Craig: Specifically on a night that it was gonna be sign language interpreted.

[14:56] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god. I don't know if the listeners know that you are fluent in sign language.

[15:02] Dana Craig: Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm rusty. This is not a skill I use on the daily anymore.

[15:09] Steven Ferezy: Um, but I certainly at one point was.

[15:12] Dana Craig: Yeah. I love that fact about you.

[15:15] Steven Ferezy: Thanks, I definitely had tickets for Caroline, or Change as well.

[15:19] Dana Craig: Yep.

[15:20] Steven Ferezy: Uh, and those I did, they were like, I guess they like issued a credit so that when tickets go on sale, I didn't have to think about like, do I have the money?

[15:30] Dana Craig: Yes.

[15:31] Steven Ferezy: Like I'll be able to get those and know that I'm seeing something and it'll be fabulous.

[15:36] Dana Craig: For sure.

[15:37] Steven Ferezy: Uh, same with my plane tickets. I was supposed to do a huge old trip.

[15:42] Dana Craig: And now I have, yeah, LA, Montana.

[15:44] Steven Ferezy: Well, you want to get a car. Are we talking about that on the podcast?

[15:48] Dana Craig: I don't care.

[15:49] Steven Ferezy: I do want to get a car.

[15:50] Dana Craig: Who doesn't want to get a car?

[15:51] Steven Ferezy: Don't you want to get out of here?

[15:53] Dana Craig: I don't want to get a car.

[15:55] Steven Ferezy: You don't want to get a car.

[15:56] Dana Craig: I'd rather rent a car.

[15:57] Steven Ferezy: I don't want to maintain a car.

[15:59] Dana Craig: I don't want to drive a car.

[16:04] Steven Ferezy: I don't want to park a car.

[16:02] Dana Craig: You don't want to move your car.

[16:04] Steven Ferezy: I don't want to fill a car up with gas.

[16:05] Dana Craig: I don't want to wash a car.

[16:07] Steven Ferezy: I don't want to get one of those tree danglies.

[16:10] Dana Craig: Ew.

[16:12] Steven Ferezy: I was just thinking about that. Like, I think there's two groups of people only.

[16:17] Dana Craig: People who buy the tree danglies, because I took an Uber last night and there were three jasmine tree danglies in the Uber.

[16:27] Steven Ferezy: And I was like, this is three all jasmine flavored.

[16:31] Dana Craig: Three.

[16:31] Steven Ferezy: There was one by the in the back by both windows. And then one dangling mirror.

[16:38] Dana Craig: No.

[16:39] Steven Ferezy: It was all around.

[16:40] Dana Craig: It was surround sound.

[16:43] Steven Ferezy: Man, it wasn't a bad smell, but I'm like, I don't need that. And I don't think I'm not sure. Why three? I'm not that person.

[16:50] Dana Craig: Open your goddamn window.

[16:52] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. And if you're a smoker, it just smells like smoke, plus whatever that tree thing is.

[16:58] Dana Craig: Gross.

[16:59] Steven Ferezy: It's all gross. You know what? I think I'd use it at least once a month in a big way.

[17:06] Dana Craig: A tree dangly?

[17:07] Steven Ferezy: Or with a car.

[17:08] Dana Craig: A car.

[17:08] Steven Ferezy: I'm not gonna go like use it to get groceries, but like I will go somewhere. I will pick up my friends and go somewhere.

[17:15] Dana Craig: Number one, number one, you have some like immediate family five hours away.

[17:21] Steven Ferezy: Immediate.

[17:23] Dana Craig: Immediately.

[17:26] Steven Ferezy: So like you have a regular destination that is doable in less than half a day.

[17:32] Dana Craig: Right.

[17:32] Steven Ferezy: I could do it with my eyes closed. So that's, I hear that. I do hear that.

[17:37] Dana Craig: Mm-hmm.

[17:37] Steven Ferezy: And then in the fall, there's like the hiking moments. Let's get out of here for a second. We could like drive to Woodstock for dinner.

[17:44] Dana Craig: I totally support you getting a car.

[17:47] Steven Ferezy: What else? So we talked about car. Do we talk about your new—what do I want to say? It's not a business venture.

[17:56] Dana Craig: It is a inspired moment.

[18:02] Steven Ferezy: Creativity is flowing out of you.

[18:04] Dana Craig: You're a couple of things. I learned something about myself. I don't think we've talked about it on the podcast.

[18:08] Steven Ferezy: Well, because it's only like in soft launch moment.

[18:12] Dana Craig: Yeah, you guys, it's baby time. Building the thing so that when the thing is the thing, people can go and they see, oh, there's this thing and this thing and this thing and not just here's the thing, and they come and they see the announcement, and that's it.

[18:25] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, yeah. No, that makes sense.

[18:26] Dana Craig: Soft launch.

[18:27] Steven Ferezy: Soft launch, you guys, beta mode.

[18:29] Dana Craig: The blog part. Okay, so it's this thing. It's called I'll Ink to That.

[18:35] Steven Ferezy: Name very much stolen from a suggestion by Dana Craig.

[18:42] Dana Craig: Um basically, um, I draw now.

[18:42] Steven Ferezy: I draw now.

[18:49] Dana Craig: I've never had any uh visual art ability. I've been a stick figure and um, you know, prayer kind of artist.

[19:00] Steven Ferezy: Um, in elementary school, the art teacher for the district would come by once in a while, and I was always getting in trouble with her and the other thing that you love is a big like color moment. Like you've painted your walls. You've done geographical painting and like rip off the tape. Like you have an eye for design.

[19:20] Steven Ferezy: Well, thank you. My partner also had a lot to do with those visual elements, but um, I certainly I can always like see a thing in my head. It's the execution visually.

[19:32] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[19:32] Steven Ferezy: Speaking in terms of visual art. I fucking re-found this photo of Elaine's stretch that I've loved forever. I was like in my camera roll looking for something. And I found that. And I was like, oh, I should like try and make that some sort of like line illustration with some sort of like blobby mid-century felt tip mercury thing.

[20:00] Dana Craig: Um, something that wasn't like a sharp line.

[20:06] Steven Ferezy: Uh, so I did, like I threw her onto the iPad and I traced her, essentially. Um, trying to just use like lines and as few lines as possible because the less lines I make the less things I can fuck up. Um, like she happened, and then she was done, and I looked at her and I was like this is I like this. I like something I did. I've never drawn something and liked it.

[20:41] Dana Craig: Yeah, ever.

[20:42] Steven Ferezy: Ever. Maybe like a piece of pizza, because it's a triangle with like a little like belt at the bottom and some circles for pepperoni.

[20:51] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[20:52] Steven Ferezy: Um, I can draw a piece of pizza, and apparently I can like trace from a photo, but not verbatim. I can very much use it as a reference and draw like a stylized rendering of it. So I like sent it to you and you liked it, and then I put it on the internet and lots of other people liked it, and then like a couple of friends were like, can I get a print? And I was like, well, I'm sort of looking into it.

[21:20] Dana Craig: And they're like, keep me posted.

[21:22] Steven Ferezy: Well, because I freaking said people will pay you to own something that looks like this, whether it be a print, an iPhone case, like you're not going to be able to do it. And like Ryan O'Connor's reaction was so um like heartfelt and that. I was like, okay, so I'm just gonna like keep doing this, which is tracing pictures of people I like. I have a bunch that like I'm just sitting on right now, but I'm starting to like slowly release some.

[21:51] Dana Craig: And then as soon as so here's the fun part. Um, paper samples came in.

[21:56] Steven Ferezy: I'm picking them up tomorrow.

[21:59] Dana Craig: So I'm gonna pick a paper and then order it, and then I'll be able to—

[22:06] Steven Ferezy: Wedding cake prints.

[22:07] Dana Craig: Yeah. That's so great.

[22:08] Steven Ferezy: I'm gonna buy all of them.

[22:10] Dana Craig: They're so wonderful. And if you guys haven't figured out yet, it's just at I'll Ink to That, which is taken from—well, it's I'll drink to that. It's Stephen Sondheim, it's all the things, but it's also like there's um, you know, I'm really I'm liking the blog element to this where on the website, illinktothat.com, um, you know, I'm posting each piece and talking about it, maybe talking about why I did it, maybe talking about like why I love that picture and not some other one, or maybe it's a lot of words, or maybe it's six.

[22:54] Steven Ferezy: And I love your brain, and I love that you're writing it.

[22:57] Dana Craig: Thanks.

[22:59] Steven Ferezy: Um, it's also the only place I've decided that I'm going to post both the original picture and the art of it side by side.

[23:09] Dana Craig: I think that's a good idea.

[23:10] Steven Ferezy: I think that's a great idea.

[23:12] Dana Craig: Yeah, not to hide it. There's no shame in my game that like I am tracing. I am crediting the shit out of people. I am owning the method.

[23:21] Steven Ferezy: Owning the method, because I have so much respect for people who can do this out of their brain.

[23:26] Dana Craig: I can't. Um, but I also don't want to like get in trouble at some point for sharing some like super expensive image on the internet in any way that isn't like super well credited and clearly art in so many different ways.

[23:48] Steven Ferezy: People collage and call it art. That's like taking found materials and putting it all together.

[23:54] Dana Craig: Like it's what we do. I think yours is super unique. I've never seen anything like it.

[24:01] Steven Ferezy: And it has that what I think is so brilliant in the way that like squigs, like if you're a, you know, lights of Broadway card collector. If so, you know that his thing is so clearly squiggs.

[24:17] Dana Craig: He's so good.

[24:18] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, there's—can you believe? Wait, can you believe how long like he drew us?

[24:19] Dana Craig: He drew us.

[24:25] Steven Ferezy: I'm still dead by that. And we didn't know that he was drawing us.

[24:29] Dana Craig: Okay, so first of all, it's not like we sent him a picture and he nailed it. He picked his own.

[24:35] Steven Ferezy: He picked his own.

[24:37] Dana Craig: He had to like spend time with us.

[24:40] Steven Ferezy: I have to say that like you have such a through line of what your stuff is looking like.

[24:46] Dana Craig: So I think that's really smart.

[24:49] Steven Ferezy: Thanks.

[24:50] Dana Craig: In a branding way, and I think it came really organically, so I really like it.

[24:57] Steven Ferezy: I do want to play with like some sort of color element 'cause it's—I like color.

[25:02] Dana Craig: Color is fun.

[25:03] Steven Ferezy: But I want it to make sense.

[25:05] Dana Craig: And I haven't quite figured out how to color yet.

[25:08] Steven Ferezy: It's—I mean, I sure I know how to like color, but it doesn't look the way that I would like it to yet.

[25:15] Dana Craig: And that's because I'm still learning.

[25:17] Steven Ferezy: Can you tell us some of the people that you've drawn already?

[25:21] Dana Craig: And maybe some that is in your queue.

[25:25] Steven Ferezy: Y sure. Um, I mean readily like think people I've already like posted and you can go look at right now include um Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters, Bet Midler, um Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[25:40] Dana Craig: Yes.

[25:41] Steven Ferezy: Who else up there?

[25:42] Dana Craig: Jennifer Lewis.

[25:44] Steven Ferezy: Jennifer Lewis doing a high kick.

[25:46] Dana Craig: Her leopard print.

[25:48] Steven Ferezy: Um, Betty Davis.

[25:50] Dana Craig: I wonder if you could do like birthday cards with like text.

[25:56] Steven Ferezy: Oh yeah, there's like a million possibilities.

[25:59] Dana Craig: Like uh essentially the things I want to sell or like want to put these images on, um are like so much better than the things I can sell right now because I have to like save up money for things.

[26:14] Steven Ferezy: This will grow, trust.

[26:15] Dana Craig: This will grow.

[26:16] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, like if I can get into some serious like foiling, if I can get these women on like a black card with gold foil.

[26:27] Dana Craig: Yes.

[26:28] Steven Ferezy: Or like, um coming up.

[26:31] Dana Craig: I did do this a podcast exclusive!

[26:35] Steven Ferezy: I love it.

[26:36] Dana Craig: I love you too much.

[26:39] Steven Ferezy: I did uh all four Sex in the City gals.

[26:43] Dana Craig: It's like a little like series let.

[26:46] Steven Ferezy: And like how fun would that be to get some rose gold fucking foil and put those on some note cards?

[26:53] Dana Craig: Put those in a little box with a little bow.

[26:56] Steven Ferezy: Sell.

[26:57] Dana Craig: Oh my god.

[26:58] Steven Ferezy: Wait, can you do one that's six in the city with the six cast?

[27:02] Dana Craig: But I know people like that.

[27:04] Steven Ferezy: I haven't seen it yet.

[27:08] Dana Craig: Um, I did—opportunities are endless and I'm so excited.

[27:12] Steven Ferezy: That queen friend of mine, I just uh did her this morning.

[27:16] Dana Craig: Um for her upcoming projects.

[27:19] Steven Ferezy: You can do like personal requests.

[27:22] Dana Craig: Yeah, like I'm not like knocking down doors for commissions right now, but certainly something I'd be into.

[27:30] Steven Ferezy: It will be on the up and coming FAQ page of my website.

[27:35] Dana Craig: Amazing.

[27:37] Steven Ferezy: Amazing.

[27:38] Dana Craig: Um, but you like—I like that a somebody like likes what I'm doing enough to say, hey, like can we collaborate on this thing?

[27:47] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[27:48] Dana Craig: That it's some things people are saying, hey, I would love to do that for this project of my own. Let's work together.

[27:53] Steven Ferezy: I love that.

[27:54] Dana Craig: It's so nice to be thought of as opposed to like begging people to include you.

[28:01] Steven Ferezy: There you go.

[28:01] Dana Craig: Um, I have a question.

[28:03] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[28:05] Dana Craig: Some—I maybe most of your drawings are fabulous, gay, iconic, you know, theater-y women getting out of cars.

[28:16] Steven Ferezy: Why the cars?

[28:17] Dana Craig: That was a Ryan O'Connor prompt.

[28:20] Steven Ferezy: Was it?

[28:22] Dana Craig: Early on, because I did a lane, and he immediately sent me a picture of Elizabeth Taylor that I did for him and only for him.

[28:32] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, yeah.

[28:33] Dana Craig: It is his, and it will always be his, and only with his blessing will it see the light of day.

[28:40] Steven Ferezy: Um outside of him.

[28:43] Dana Craig: Um, but he was like, this would be such a cool series, like women and cars.

[28:53] Steven Ferezy: I'm like, thank you.

[28:54] Dana Craig: And actually, I wrote about this on the blog recently, or maybe I did and then deleted it because I started over or something.

[29:02] Steven Ferezy: But it was the perfect prompt because it was broad and specific.

[29:08] Dana Craig: It was ladies with cars.

[29:10] Steven Ferezy: So I knew the lady list in and out, so I know who my like subject search word is, yeah, and car.

[29:18] Dana Craig: And then just pick my favorite.

[29:19] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[29:20] Dana Craig: It wasn't search for Bernadette Peters and like pick the Bernadette Peters picture.

[29:26] Steven Ferezy: Also, not a ton of pictures of Bernadette Peters with cars.

[29:31] Dana Craig: She seems very Pinto.

[29:33] Steven Ferezy: And they're great.

[29:34] Dana Craig: Um, there's a few and they're great, but like that kind of evolved.

[29:39] Steven Ferezy: So I like did a bunch of the cars, and then that sort of evolved because I wanted to do a subject, and I couldn't pick a car picture, so I did something else.

[29:48] Dana Craig: Um, they're super niche.

[29:50] Steven Ferezy: Like the one you did of Bet, I think I've seen every picture of Bet that's ever existed.

[29:55] Dana Craig: But you know I hate picking the obvious.

[29:58] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, you do.

[29:59] Dana Craig: And I—you sent it, and it's clearly Bet Midler, and it's clearly from the 80s, and it's clearly around the time she did Ruthless People.

[30:06] Steven Ferezy: It might even have been on the set.

[30:08] Dana Craig: But I was like, I don't know if I know the reference photo, so I just typed in Bet Midler car, and it was one of the ones that was on the search.

[30:18] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[30:18] Dana Craig: I was like, this is brilliant.

[30:19] Steven Ferezy: Well, that's why the blog too, to like really give the history of the photo.

[30:24] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[30:25] Steven Ferezy: You know.

[30:26] Dana Craig: It's really inspired.

[30:28] Steven Ferezy: I c—I know I keep saying that, but it's—doesn't that feel good to know that you weren't like sitting on a rock for eight days trying to think of like the perfect opportunity to like before?

[30:39] Dana Craig: Well, I was sitting on my goddamn rock of a couch for six months.

[30:44] Steven Ferezy: There you go.

[30:45] Dana Craig: When you see it, or the tears making hard candy every day, watching fucking Oz and making candy, and I was dying.

[30:54] Steven Ferezy: I was slowly decaying.

[30:56] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[30:57] Steven Ferezy: Half-life was rapidly approaching.

[31:00] Dana Craig: And then all of a sudden, because like I knew what pen I wanted to use, and I knew what picture I wanted to use that pen with.

[31:10] Steven Ferezy: I was—I like had a reason to trace it.

[31:12] Dana Craig: Because why trace something is always my question.

[31:15] Steven Ferezy: Like, why trace it? If you're just gonna trace it, like use the original one.

[31:20] Dana Craig: Also, not for nothing, these translate really well into tattoos.

[31:27] Steven Ferezy: Just saying.

[31:28] Dana Craig: If you want a line minimalism drawing of Bernadette Peters throwing her head back, and it's clearly Bernadette Peters.

[31:36] Steven Ferezy: You know, or I'm also like hoping to have some mugs soon.

[31:40] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[31:41] Steven Ferezy: Who—or a mug.

[31:42] Dana Craig: Shoes.

[31:45] Steven Ferezy: Fanny packs.

[31:46] Dana Craig: Shower curtains.

[31:48] Steven Ferezy: A Fanny Bryce fanny pack.

[31:50] Dana Craig: Like, this is the thing.

[31:51] Steven Ferezy: Like, I know I could just throw these up on like Society Six and have a store by the end of tonight and like call it a day, but I'm trying to—I want more like quality assurance than that.

[32:00] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[32:01] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I'd rather like take care of my babies.

[32:06] Dana Craig: It takes a long time to build something up, and I feel like you have a—well, of course.

[32:11] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I'd rather do it this way, even though it's like turning my house into a warehouse.

[32:17] Dana Craig: Um, I'd rather do it this way for the things I can control and until I can figure it out myself, outsource like the novelty stuff.

[32:26] Steven Ferezy: So first will come the prints.

[32:28] Dana Craig: Hopefully in the next couple weeks.

[32:31] Steven Ferezy: And then shortly after that, um, I'm hoping to have like the novelty phone cases and mugs and whatever else, whatever service I land on offers.

[32:44] Dana Craig: That's so exciting.

[32:46] Steven Ferezy: It's fun.

[32:46] Dana Craig: Thank you for being so supportive and into it, Queen.

[32:49] Steven Ferezy: But you know that I'm not displaying smoke. If I like thought it was not like totally great, I don't know.

[32:59] Dana Craig: I feel like you find a way to tell me.

[33:01] Steven Ferezy: Well, also your original reaction was so genuine because you didn't know I did it.

[33:04] Dana Craig: I didn't.

[33:05] Steven Ferezy: I was like, who did this? Where'd you find this?

[33:07] Dana Craig: Because you posted it on Insta or you maybe you sent it to me in a—I sent it to you first.

[33:11] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I was like, where'd you find this?

[33:14] Dana Craig: I was like, oh, girl draws.

[33:19] Steven Ferezy: No, it's really cool.

[33:21] Dana Craig: It's really cool.

[33:22] Steven Ferezy: Thanks, Queen.

[33:23] Dana Craig: When you know, you know, you know.

[33:26] Steven Ferezy: Alright, now you know.

[33:28] Dana Craig: So, do we want to shout out our friend who has um the pins?

[33:34] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god. Is that a good segue?

[33:37] Dana Craig: Yeah, every segue is a good segue if it means landing at Tyson.

[33:41] Steven Ferezy: Um you guys, Broadway Pins.

[33:44] Dana Craig: We've talked about a million times, Tyson Armstrong.

[33:47] Steven Ferezy: He played our live show.

[33:49] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[33:49] Steven Ferezy: And I guess he was guest what?

[33:51] Dana Craig: Two.

[33:52] Steven Ferezy: Our favorite Aussie who lives in New York.

[33:55] Dana Craig: And you know, last Sunday, last Sunday was supposed to be the Broadway flea market.

[34:01] Steven Ferezy: Uh and it was online.

[34:02] Dana Craig: You know, they did acknowledge the day and they had the online auction.

[34:07] Steven Ferezy: Um, but you know, first year to like not be out in those streets.

[34:13] Dana Craig: Uh so they, Broadway Pins and Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS collabed on a new Broadway pin.

[34:21] Dana Craig: And it's really beautiful. It's a ghost light with an AIDS ribbon wrapped around it. And it's so gorgeous. And mine just came in the mail, and I'm very excited about it.

[34:31] Steven Ferezy: Um, you were wearing it yesterday. I saw it.

[34:33] Dana Craig: I was wearing it yesterday. I highly recommend you head over to BroadwayPins.com and get one.

[34:41] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. And while you're there, you can also get like fierce pins of, um, I don't want to say someone that's sold out, but like you can get there's a better Chinoeth. There's a bet. There's um, a Sondheim, there's Audra McDonald. Uh, there's Barbra Streisand. I have a Patti LuPone and a Streisand, and my bet got lost, but oh, and there's also there's a new season that I don't even have yet. I thought he was gonna bring him to dinner, but I guess he forgot.

[35:11] Dana Craig: But the new season is like Laurie Metcalf and Satan Copter and André De Shields.

[35:24] Steven Ferezy: No, that's fine. Um, I officiated a wedding last weekend, and it was one of my best friends and former roommate Emily and her husband, now husband, Andrew, and he's Jewish, not Jewish hardly at all, but like by my birth. Um, but I was like, ooh, I'm gonna be like part rabbi today, because they did the glass crush and everything.

[35:50] Dana Craig: So like under my blazer, like no one could see it. Only I knew it was there. It was like on onto my strap of my jumper. I put my Barbra Streisand Broadway pin and then my Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof pin.

[36:07] Steven Ferezy: You have one of those too.

[36:09] Dana Craig: Yeah, and I would flash it. Yes, that! And I would flash it and be like, I'm part rabbi today. Um, I don't think that's offensive. I was just trying to like get myself in the mood.

[36:21] Steven Ferezy: But they laughed. But yeah, so that's the Broadway Pins shout-out. What else?

[36:28] Dana Craig: We have a new series coming up.

[36:30] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I mean, the actual reason for this episode is to tell you this, and we've saved it for last so that we'd get the download count.

[36:39] Dana Craig: So thank you.

[36:40] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, so it's been a little bit less of in the room.

[36:44] Dana Craig: Yeah, like during quarantine. We felt it. Everyone's felt it. Feeling things.

[36:51] Steven Ferezy: So we're a little bit more in the Zoom, if you know what I mean. Like we can see each other, but you know, we're not physically together, which, you know, hurts our hearts because we like to go through people's medicine cabinets when we're there and like see what's in there, see what's in their fridge, and like sit on their floor and like they make tea and we just laugh and chat and then they kick us out when they've had enough of us.

[37:17] Dana Craig: Um, we want to like shake things up just a teensy tiny little bit as we're gonna be able to do that.

[37:29] Steven Ferezy: Um, a little more like work from home friendly until we can get back in the room, we're gonna be in the Zoom.

[37:37] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[37:37] Steven Ferezy: And this we're hoping that this new like mini-series spin-off show.

[37:45] Dana Craig: Oh my god, are we the Darcy and Stacey of our own podcast?

[37:49] Steven Ferezy: I don't know what that means.

[37:50] Dana Craig: Oh my god. If in the room is 90 Day Fiancé, we are the spin-off.

[37:57] Steven Ferezy: I get it.

[37:57] Dana Craig: Okay, so I've I'm only on episode literally two of 90 Day Fiancé. And like I work in reality TV, so every network mandate is like we want something like 90 Day Fiancé, because that's a huge, huge hit.

[38:11] Steven Ferezy: And it works so well in quarantine, all of the strikes back and the tell-alls all being remote. Having a reunion special where you have zero control over anybody in the Zoom because they're all in their own home.

[38:27] Dana Craig: Right.

[38:27] Steven Ferezy: Is brilliant television. People knocking over shit.

[38:32] Dana Craig: I get the idea. You know, they have they found a loophole.

[38:36] Steven Ferezy: Like, oh, it's a fab. If you find a loophole and make a TV show about it, you're aces.

[38:42] Dana Craig: And then they found another one because of COVID, they're like, uh, what do we do? So they call it Strikes Back, and they show the cast watching their season and commenting on the people commenting on their season.

[38:57] Steven Ferezy: It's so many hats on a hat.

[39:01] Dana Craig: Look, I've made a hat.

[39:02] Steven Ferezy: 90 Fiancé.

[39:05] Dana Craig: Darcy and Stacey Sundays at 10. Sometimes I call them Starcy and Daisy.

[39:10] Steven Ferezy: Because it's really hard.

[39:12] Dana Craig: You guys, what are you binging?

[39:14] Steven Ferezy: Anyway, we are the um, our Darcy and Stacey is kicking off with a new segment called It's not a segment.

[39:23] Dana Craig: It is a series.

[39:24] Steven Ferezy: Like this is what the podcast will be for, I'm gonna say the fall.

[39:27] Dana Craig: And there I said it.

[39:28] Steven Ferezy: So October, October, November, December.

[39:32] Dana Craig: This is our vibe. We're gonna be calling it getting cozy with castmates.

[39:36] Steven Ferezy: And with the cast news.

[39:40] Dana Craig: Get your card again.

[39:43] Steven Ferezy: And yeah. The vibe is it's a little like a little reunion-y. Like, so we're gonna bring two people on. It'll be the four of us chatting, two people who've been in a show together.

[39:53] Dana Craig: We're gonna get crazy. We have a fabulous lineup.

[39:57] Steven Ferezy: I'm so excited for our first duo. We're not gonna say who it is, but like—

[40:00] Dana Craig: No, but we are gonna say that um the focus is gonna be like talking about a shared experience.

[40:07] Steven Ferezy: They're gonna be able to do getting people together.

[40:09] Dana Craig: Yes, we want to hear, we want like to reunite these people because hopefully they loved working together, and isn't that fun to be on a fly the a fly on the wall for that?

[40:19] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[40:19] Dana Craig: But also, um, there's we're all having a shared experience right now, but I think it's um, I think shared experiences are really cool and how they change based on who's in them.

[40:35] Steven Ferezy: Um, and I think especially on Broadway when so many people are friends, but maybe we have or have not worked together to get two people who have worked together and are still friends after it.

[40:46] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[40:47] Steven Ferezy: Um, I think it's cool. I think it's such, you know, a Broadway show is such a fleeting thing, both as an audience member and as a cast member.

[40:56] Dana Craig: Like there's no guarantee. Maybe you're in it for a week, maybe you're in it for 10 years.

[41:01] Steven Ferezy: But like to revisit this little precious moment um with people who were there is gonna be really fun.

[41:09] Dana Craig: And you know, maybe they haven't seen each other all of quarantine, and maybe this is like a novel get together for them.

[41:15] Steven Ferezy: So here's what I wanna say to our listeners. Like, if you want to shoot us a DM and have us if you wanna slip and slide into our DMs.

[41:26] Dana Craig: No, like we have a great lineup, but also if you have someone or a duo that you would like to suggest, we're all ears.

[41:34] Steven Ferezy: We'll try to make that happen. If you guys have any questions you wanna like infuse these chats with by all freaking means.

[41:42] Dana Craig: What else?

[41:42] Steven Ferezy: I mean, I feel like we talked about most of the things on the list.

[41:47] Dana Craig: Yeah, I think this is just, you know, our end of summer touch base where we check in with our listeners and make sure everyone's summer went well and we let them know our plans for the fall and we let them know um other things.

[42:00] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[42:01] Dana Craig: I love you so much. It was really good to see you, and I'm excited um to see you again in a couple weeks.

[42:07] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, we have a date on the calendar.

[42:09] Dana Craig: We have for some the date with the aforementioned Val.

[42:13] Steven Ferezy: Because Val is just that extra ingredient.

[42:16] Dana Craig: She is that cherry.

[42:17] Steven Ferezy: Ooh.

[42:18] Dana Craig: She's that cherry in the old fashioned, man.

[42:20] Steven Ferezy: Val is—

[42:24] Dana Craig: Val is when like when you make the recipe and like you make it all the time.

[42:30] Steven Ferezy: So you know how to do it.

[42:31] Dana Craig: But then you make it with like the good olive oil.

[42:34] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[42:34] Dana Craig: Val's good vanilla.

[42:36] Steven Ferezy: Val is good vanilla.

[42:37] Dana Craig: Val is truffle.

[42:40] Steven Ferezy: Val's truffle.

[42:41] Dana Craig: Val is like truffle mac and cheese or the regular Kraft macaroni and cheese.

[42:45] Steven Ferezy: Val is the elevated ingredient that you paid full price for.

[42:48] Dana Craig: Yeah, you're like, oh, now that I know what truffle mac and cheese sounds, uh, tastes like, I am not going back.

[42:55] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[42:56] Dana Craig: That's it. Val is going to Madagascar and like picking your own vanilla bean without Val.

[43:02] Steven Ferezy: Store-bought is fine.

[43:03] Dana Craig: 100%. I wish for everyone to have a Val in their life.

[43:06] Steven Ferezy: It just elevates your own existence.

[43:11] Dana Craig: When someone is like, hey, you need to bring a dish to pass. I bring Val.

[43:13] Steven Ferezy: I'm like, Val's my dish to pass, and you are so welcome.

[43:24] Dana Craig: It's really funny.

[43:26] Steven Ferezy: I know what I brought.

[43:27] Dana Craig: I brought Val.

[43:28] Steven Ferezy: They bring potato rolls.

[43:30] Dana Craig: I had like a little Zoom date, and the person had asked, like, about Val, because I had mentioned, oh, Val did this, and they're like, oh, tell me about Val.

[43:41] Steven Ferezy: Cut to three hours later.

[43:44] Dana Craig: Two and I was gonna say two and a half. Two and a half hours later.

[43:47] Steven Ferezy: And then they were like, oh my god, like I think I need to meet Val.

[43:53] Dana Craig: Has my life. We have to have Val on, just so people get it.

[43:59] Steven Ferezy: Oh, 100%. She could be my getting cozy with castmates because we did theater together in high school.

[44:06] Dana Craig: Oh my god.

[44:07] Steven Ferezy: Is it like our spin on Encore?

[44:10] Dana Craig: Yeah, if someone puts it in.

[44:11] Steven Ferezy: Is it Encore on Disney Minus?

[44:14] Dana Craig: Jesse Minus.

[44:17] Steven Ferezy: Oh shit.

[44:17] Dana Craig: Anyway, Val, we love you.

[44:20] Steven Ferezy: I think she's listening to this episode.

[44:22] Dana Craig: Who knows?

[44:22] Steven Ferezy: I sure hope not.

[44:24] Dana Craig: I hope she does.

[44:26] Steven Ferezy: I love her.

[44:27] Dana Craig: And I love you.

[44:28] Steven Ferezy: I love you.

[44:30] Dana Craig: How do we do a chord with just the both of us?

[44:32] Steven Ferezy: Brittany, chord.

[44:36] Dana Craig: Bye.

[44:41] Steven Ferezy: She's not doing it.

[44:42] Dana Craig: I couldn't unmute quick enough.

[44:44] Steven Ferezy: It's better if just the two of you.

[44:46] Dana Craig: I was tired broad today.

[44:50] Steven Ferezy: In the Room with Steven and Dana is produced by Steven Ferezy.

[44:54] Dana Craig: And Dana Craig.

[44:55] Steven Ferezy: Special thanks to Joel Wagoner for tinkling the ivories on our theme song.

[45:00] Dana Craig: Hit him up at JoelWagoner.com.

[45:02] Steven Ferezy: We apologize, and you're welcome.

[45:05] 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.

[45:13] Steven Ferezy: You can find him at JesseWiener.com.

[45:16] Dana Craig: Last but certainly not least, we'd like to thank Kevin Thomas Garcia for taking all of our ridiculous photos.

[45:22] Steven Ferezy: You can find him online at KTGNYC.com.

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[45:34] Steven Ferezy: Follow us, like us, share us, pamp us out.

[45:37] Dana Craig: And don't forget to subscribe to In the Room Podcast.

[45:40] Steven Ferezy: We everywhere, so subscribe.

[45:42] Dana Craig: And thank you so much for listening.