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[0:00] Nik Walker: Hey Alex.

[0:01] Alex Smolowe: Hey, Nik.

[0:02] Nik Walker: And hey, world. We have a special, special thing. Special episode. Special episode.

[0:09] Nik Walker: So, uh, don't know if you know, but a couple weeks ago, we did, uh, what a thing that we are making more of a tradition now, a live town hall, a live town hall through the Broadway Podcast Network that went streaming onto both their website and YouTube, and we figured this would actually be a really cool episode to release to you, a couple of episodes actually, because Alex, this is kind of a two-parter.

[0:32] Alex Smolowe: It is a two-part, yeah.

[0:33] Nik Walker: I hope you got a light week ahead because we're gonna be dropping several episodes that will comprise the entire experience. It was the time. It was a time head.

[0:40] Nik Walker: We had so, so basically what we did, we invited a bunch of our friends, um, you know, actors from Hamilton, actors from, you know, TV and film, more actors from Hamilton.

[0:51] Alex Smolowe: Like, do you know anybody else?

[0:52] Nik Walker: Do you have any friends outside of Hamilton and me?

[0:55] Alex Smolowe: I do have friends outside of Hamilton U, but they're not as fun and they don't drink as much.

[0:59] Nik Walker: And, uh, you know what I mean? And so that's kind of what we did here was we put them all on the thing. So just so you know, um, we are going to be talking about, uh, you know, their careers. We have a little fun social media game that we play with them. There's a special guest that comes up in part two, but we will get to that in the part two episode of part two.

[1:17] Nik Walker: Um, but with this episode, all you need to know is that this was something that was live and videotaped. So a lot of the references that you're going to be hearing about are references that are like, uh, visual rather than auditory. So, like, uh, you know, we're sorry, but like you should have been there to watch the thing. You know, now this time is available if you just, if you Google Little Justice the Podcast, the video link should pop up in Google if you really want the visual accompaniment, get the whole experience.

[1:47] Nik Walker: Uh, you can find that on YouTube. But if not, just sit back and enjoy. Uh, enjoy our town hall. Part one. Part one of our town hall. I love that. Part one. Little Justin.

[2:00] Alex Smolowe: Little Justice.

[2:03] Nik Walker: Little Justin.

[2:11] Alex Smolowe: That was, did you pick that music?

[2:16] Nik Walker: Yes, I did.

[2:17] Alex Smolowe: Oh, you have to do this.

[2:19] Nik Walker: Oh, I have set so much stuff up for this thing. You don't even know.

[2:23] Alex Smolowe: I'm used to being the one like handling all the tech behind the scenes.

[2:26] Nik Walker: I figured you just like slap some pictures together or something, and no.

[2:30] Alex Smolowe: That was you.

[2:30] Nik Walker: Oh, I got, that was ridiculous. I have surprises, my friend. I have surprises in store.

[2:35] Alex Smolowe: Ladies and gentlemen, terrified.

[2:37] Nik Walker: Welcome. You should be terrified. This is awful. Welcome to the Little Justice Live.

[2:42] Alex Smolowe: StreamYard Live.

[2:44] Nik Walker: We are here, courtesy of the Broadway Podcast Network, the amazing Broadway Podcast Network. And we are here to celebrate the birth of a new phase of Little Justice.

[2:55] Nik Walker: Finally, after three months of doing this podcast, uh, our social media platforms are alive and kicking. Yay, Nik signed up for an Instagram.

[3:07] Alex Smolowe: Finally, we have an Instagram.

[3:10] Nik Walker: So the first thing I want you to do while you're listening to this craziness is go on to your Instagram, go on to your Twitter, look for us at Little Justice Pod.

[3:19] Alex Smolowe: There you go. It's on the ticker below the bottom. Look at that. And that's courtesy of Brittany Bigelow and Alan Seales in the producer's booth. We appreciate them. They are amazing. But please go follow that because that is, uh, that is, uh, an amaz, uh, you know, it's our new little thing.

[3:34] Nik Walker: And here's the thing: if you want to get at us, uh, during this live through, uh, you know, tweet at us, uh, ask us questions, you can either do that on the YouTube link, or you can do that on Twitter. We will be checking out, checking it and stuff.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: Oh, you're on top of it.

[3:34] Nik Walker: Oh, absolutely. I wasn't expecting it.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: Yeah, yeah, and you don't expect my bar low and you've jumped right over it.

[3:34] Nik Walker: So yeah, the bar has been jumped over, but that's the thing we're in for. You're in for a treat tonight. So ladies and gentlemen, this is a party. Uh, I'm drinking already. Do you know what I mean, Alex? Are you?

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: Yeah, you got something?

[3:34] Nik Walker: Oh yeah, cheers buddy.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: Cheers.

[3:34] Nik Walker: I got, it's an LA Lakers commemorative makers.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: Wow, wow. I like that.

[3:34] Nik Walker: It's actually all that Bristol Farms has had for about two months.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: That's great, dude. I have, uh, Sarah signed me up for a whiskey, um, a whiskey like a club.

[3:34] Nik Walker: Yeah.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: And it was, it was messed up because the, it was, it was her opening night gift to me for Ain't Too Proud. The stuff was supposed to come to my, so now it keeps coming.

[3:34] Nik Walker: Now it comes to my home.

[3:34] Alex Smolowe: Aaron Albano in the chat being ridiculous.

[4:44] Nik Walker: Aaron Albano saying ew gross. Well, thank you Aaron, I love you too. Um, but yeah, but yeah, you know, we are here to celebrate Little Justice having some social media. My cat is here, he's already licking my foot. He wants to, I'm gonna give him a brief second to say hello because otherwise, you know he'll be mad.

[4:44] Alex Smolowe: You know we have real people waiting to come on.

[4:44] Nik Walker: Oh no, I'm a royal guest waiting to be introduced. You know what the thing about that is though? I'm gonna put you down buddy and put you down now. I love you. The thing about that is the people who are waiting, yeah, just disturb me in a way, like I'm almost not, yeah, exactly.

[5:17] Nik Walker: Aaron Albano, ew gross.

[5:20] Nik Walker: I'm almost not ready to bring them on, but I will do so because, uh, we have quite a lineup, uh, tonight. So also gonna get messy. This is gonna get messy.

[5:29] Alex Smolowe: It's gonna be really bad.

[5:32] Nik Walker: Like, I just want to warn anybody watching right now. Please know this is not gonna be, this is gonna be loose.

[5:39] Alex Smolowe: Let's call it loose.

[5:40] Nik Walker: Let's call it loose is the fun word, but that's what we enjoy here.

[5:44] Nik Walker: Um, so the first person I want to bring on is a dear, dear friend of mine. Um, probably the person in this crew that I've known. Actually, in this crew, outside of Alex Smolowe, I've known this man the longest. Um, he is an amazing actor. You have probably seen him in, uh, I was Lorena Bobbitt on Lifetime as the terrifying John Bobbitt. Um, before that, he has worked in Stratford. He has worked, uh, you know, he's in Star Trek. I mean, this kid is amazing. He's one of my dearest friends.

[6:13] Nik Walker: Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Luke Humphrey, come on in.

[6:17] Luke Humphrey: Yes, gross.

[6:19] Nik Walker: Oh, I didn't see you there.

[6:24] Luke Humphrey: Gross.

[6:25] Nik Walker: Straight off the 70s VHS tape.

[6:27] Luke Humphrey: Hey, quarantine.

[6:34] Nik Walker: Is this having a, are you doing okay? Are you doing okay?

[6:36] Luke Humphrey: Oh, you're fine, you're in Canada.

[6:39] Nik Walker: Yeah, he is. It's, it's this. I'm in a utopian society, and I, what's that behind you? Is that healthcare?

[6:43] Luke Humphrey: Uh, yeah, it's, it's socialism. It's, uh, I just get paid by the government because there's a pandemic.

[6:51] Nik Walker: Oh my god. I hate it.

[6:52] Luke Humphrey: We don't want it, but I shouldn't talk about that because listen.

[6:52] Nik Walker: Yeah, you can't bring it up here.

[6:59] Luke Humphrey: I don't want to anger Trudeau.

[6:59] Nik Walker: Yeah, he's too handsome.

[7:10] Luke Humphrey: It's like, yeah, yeah, romantic interest, possibly, but he's no Trudeau.

[7:14] Nik Walker: He's no Trudeau. That's what a bar. What a bar.

[7:17] Alex Smolowe: And we will talk more about Trudeau as the evening goes on, but we want to bring in the rest of the guests.

[7:21] Nik Walker: We will. I'm sure I'll come back around. Trudeau will come back into this conversation.

[7:27] Nik Walker: Um, but we want to bring on the next guest. The next guest is the person that I've known the second longest, but he is, uh, he is my brother's darkness. Uh, you have most recently seen him in 20s on BET. Um, before that, he was in Hamilton. He was Smokey Robinson in Motown, the musical. Um, he is, uh, just an incredible actor and an incredible friend and a patron connoisseur.

[7:48] Nik Walker: Jevon McFerrin, come on in.

[7:53] Jevon McFerrin: It's so mad.

[7:54] Nik Walker: Better.

[7:55] Jevon McFerrin: So mad. Why am I here?

[7:59] Nik Walker: It really is that kind of thing. We're like, I just give you the call, and people say yes or no. Imagine having to show up every week.

[8:10] Jevon McFerrin: I know. And here's the, here's, we got a Google chat meetup, and you decided to get work together.

[8:17] Nik Walker: Can I tell you, I feel so terrible. So, so Broadway's probably Broadway Podcast Network is like, is like the, you know, they are working hard to like streamline and like make these town halls like amazing, and like, and you've some of the town halls that I've seen that they've done have produced have been incredible. And then when it's our turn, I'm always like, you're, they seen it. Have they seen your content?

[8:37] Jevon McFerrin: I'm like, no, we don't get it either. We're very confused as to why we're still here.

[8:41] Nik Walker: Um, but perhaps you, you guests will show a little bit of why. So we're gonna keep bringing you on. The next person I want to bring on.

[8:47] Nik Walker: They might, by the way, guys, there's too many guests tonight. Like, we have so many guests. It's, uh, it's kind of insane. I feel like I should have gotten on my talking in now because there's something to say.

[8:57] Jevon McFerrin: No, everyone's gonna ask questions, by the way. Questions abound. All of you will have a chance to speak.

[9:02] Nik Walker: Do I have to raise my hand?

[9:04] Jevon McFerrin: No, you'll see.

[9:05] Nik Walker: You will see. Um, the next person to bring in, uh, is, is you've seen him most recently in To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm doing all these credits off the top of my head, by the way. To Kill a Mockingbird is Tom Robinson. Before that, he was Lafayette Jefferson in Hamilton, uh, and he has put Anjuras in Le Miz. Uh, he is just another incredible performer and another brother, Kyle Scatliffe.

[9:31] Nik Walker: Come on in.

[9:38] Kyle Scatliffe: Hey guys.

[9:39] Nik Walker: Hey, Kyle.

[9:42] Kyle Scatliffe: I literally, you should have seen me. I was like, where's the center with the camera?

[9:49] Nik Walker: So good. So good.

[9:50] Kyle Scatliffe: Oh my god. Shabon looks terrified.

[9:54] Nik Walker: Well, at first, I thought you did like a screenshot background of yourself. You were just gonna come out of your background like that.

[10:04] Kyle Scatliffe: It's crazy. I just froze that as much as I could.

[10:06] Nik Walker: All right, and then to continue on, this next young man. Uh, how can I describe him? Uh, if you saw that movie Cats, uh, he was not in the film. But if Idris Elba needed a body double to play Macavity, this is who I would go to because he played Macavity in the Broadway production. He was also Charles Lee in Hamilton. Uh, he is also an amazing screenwriter, an amazing nerd like the rest of us.

[10:37] Nik Walker: Daniel Gaymon, get in here.

[10:48] Daniel Gaymon: I ruined myself already.

[10:50] Nik Walker: We're going downhill.

[10:52] Daniel Gaymon: Already, right?

[10:52] Nik Walker: And he never worked again.

[10:53] Daniel Gaymon: And he never ever worked again.

[10:57] Nik Walker: In my life. Thank you for having me. This is so, my god. It's so great.

[11:02] Nik Walker: Oh yeah. He's ready. All right, let's bring the next. And I'm telling you, too many guests. The next guest. Most recently you saw him in Bluff City Law on NBC. Before that, he was another Hamilton in the Broadway and LA and San Francisco companies of Hamilton. Um, he's also, uh, just, uh, he has more creepy seven style journals than I can count. Um, yeah, we'll get into that.

[11:28] Nik Walker: Michael Luwoye, come on in.

[11:34] Michael Luwoye: Oh my god.

[11:39] Nik Walker: Hi, how are you?

[11:42] Michael Luwoye: We're gonna get into that.

[11:43] Nik Walker: We're gonna get into that story, by the way, as well.

[11:45] Michael Luwoye: Sure.

[11:46] Nik Walker: Already everyone. That was phenomenal. This is pure chaos. This is pure chaos.

[12:01] Nik Walker: All right, this is, all right. The final person we're getting in here, this is a man who, uh, has played Lawrence Phillip for quite some time. Brilliant singer, brilliant musician, brilliant actor, Elijah Malcomb. Come on in.

[12:17] Elijah Malcomb: See, that was a nice one, right? That was smooth.

[12:26] Nik Walker: Hello there, man.

[12:27] Elijah Malcomb: Hello?

[12:28] Nik Walker: No.

[12:28] Elijah Malcomb: No.

[12:30] Nik Walker: Oh God. This is gonna become a theme on this show, though.

[12:35] Elijah Malcomb: You have to make it.

[12:38] Nik Walker: Same way, too.

[12:39] Elijah Malcomb: Oh my god. Well, gentlemen, gentlemen, it is such a pleasure to have you all seeing it. Cheers to those of you who are drinking tonight, cheers. So those of you who are not, that's still fine. Cheers. I'm already like at the bottom of my glass.

[12:51] Nik Walker: As you should. We haven't even started. And ladies and gentlemen, you should be here too.

[12:55] Nik Walker: So once again, we are here to celebrate the release of our social media, Little Justice Pod on Instagram and Twitter. Uh, you know, it's a thing, it's a thing that's happening. Uh, but you know, I brought you here because you guys are awesome people. Alex, by the way, I hope you're uncomfortable with the fact that I'm completely taking the reins of this.

[13:12] Alex Smolowe: You absolutely have.

[13:13] Nik Walker: You started introducing people by how long you've known them.

[13:15] Alex Smolowe: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[13:21] Nik Walker: Just by chance, I know Luke and Javon. I'm pretty like, luckily, I've got some connection a little bit. I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna lose all these friendships by the end of the night. We do what we're gonna do. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. So, no, I just want to check. So, first first question for you guys, and guys, again, comments are open, so throw questions at us and we'll answer them all night. How is your quarantine?

[13:45] Luke Humphrey: Shut up, Luke.

[13:45] Nik Walker: How is your quarantine going? How are you guys doing? How are you surviving? How are your hearts?

[13:53] Jevon McFerrin: Americans first.

[13:56] Luke Humphrey: Oh, wow.

[13:59] Jevon McFerrin: Wow.

[14:00] Luke Humphrey: Hard.

[14:01] Jevon McFerrin: It's hard.

[14:01] Nik Walker: I'm gonna so hard. I'm gonna start with it. Is that all we have? Like that sounds like a blessiveness.

[14:06] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah, like we're not at Nano, but we're like, please go ahead.

[14:09] Luke Humphrey: We're fine.

[14:11] Jevon McFerrin: I'd love to go to the doctor, it'd be great. It'd be so great. Um let's go. Let's start with McCavity. I don't like that you call yourself that by the way.

[14:18] Nik Walker: McCavity.

[14:25] Jevon McFerrin: That's so gross. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I got uh I got a new bike, it's a turn bike, it's a nice holdable bike. Um so as long as I'm outside, like kind of getting my air and riding my bike um with my mask on. That's been great. Um just trying to trying to stay positive, trying to yeah. I think whenever I feel myself cooped up, whenever I feel you know, anxious about what I think I'm supposed to do, I just get out like it's okay. Like get your mask, just you know, you don't I don't know anyone up here that's still here. Everyone leave everyone left New York, right? So um so it's just it's nice to be uh it's nice to be have the solitude, but also like don't go crazy by yourself, just call people up, and um it's been nice to contact family and friends, and yeah, it's going good. Ups and downs, but we're speaking speaking of calling people up. We saw this young man, Mr. Mr. Kyle. We saw you on Monday.

[15:16] Kyle Scatliffe: Yeah, that was what we see. It seems like you're doing well, seems like you're surviving as well.

[15:19] Kyle Scatliffe: Yep, yep, yep, yeah. Yep, I'm alive. I'm alive and doing well. Uh I play rock band every day on drums. Everything, yes, every day. Today uh city by David Bowie. Got a hundred percent on drums today on expert. Feeling good about that. Go off. Um, we went up 10 points right before we started this, so that's good. And uh and I'm moving and um we're we live in Jersey right now. Me and me and my fiance, but we're moving to Brooklyn.

[15:51] Nik Walker: Yeah, at the end of the month.

[15:54] Kyle Scatliffe: We're in Brooklyn.

[15:55] Nik Walker: Oh damn.

[15:56] Kyle Scatliffe: Yes, so at the end of the month. Uh close to Park Slope. But we'll be in the Park Slope area, but we'll be next to Prospect Park.

[16:03] Nik Walker: Okay.

[16:04] Kyle Scatliffe: So you got a haircut.

[16:06] Nik Walker: Yes, I did. Got a haircut today. Fresh to death.

[16:16] Jevon McFerrin: My God. I miss you, Daniel. I miss you guys so much.

[16:23] Nik Walker: Oh man. Speaking of fresh, Elijah, you are looking fresh right now. You're looking very fresh. I love the little I love the little Jersey little uh thank you, sir.

[16:30] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, the space is looking fresh too. Where are you?

[16:32] Nik Walker: Yeah, what is this?

[16:34] Elijah Malcomb: I'm at your house. This is my grandmother's sunroom. This is my grandmother's house. Um she has a sunroom. She likes to sit back here and watch her stories while she sundaes in her own home.

[16:47] Nik Walker: Okay.

[16:49] Jevon McFerrin: Okay.

[16:56] Elijah Malcomb: Excellent. Excellent. That's nice. I love that. I love that. Michael Luwoye. How are you doing, man?

[17:03] Michael Luwoye: You know, I'm doing all right. It's a pandemic, so you know.

[17:10] Jevon McFerrin: No, I really like that.

[17:11] Michael Luwoye: I mean cooped up, cooped up inside your own apartment for so long. It's it can get a little nerve-racking and everything, but I'm thankful to be able to like go on walks every now and then. See some people, saw you fools a couple of years ago like a week or so ago. But yeah, I mean, what can you do? You accept us and kind of like take it back by day. That's it. And I will say, the last time I FaceTime with this young man, he was making a an amazing like Chef Bourdain style meal of plantains and like chicken like chicken, like I was making well.

[17:45] Jevon McFerrin: I was making like a meal for like for a couple days, so I made some like chicken noodle soup, but then I was also doing salmon.

[17:50] Michael Luwoye: Meal plan, meal plan. I wish I was I wish I had any spirit to be disciplined for like meal plans and stuff like that. I feel like it started everybody got really intense about cooking everybody's baking bread and doing all yeah, and now it's just like the grocery store is too much to handle anymore, and like everyone's just giving up everyone.

[18:10] Jevon McFerrin: That was the honeymoon phase. It was like everybody was like, listen, I'm gonna make some, I'm gonna make this bread. Like, I'm really gonna make some bread because I can't make that bread right now, and I'm also gonna learn like some Japanese and maybe a little flaily. I'm gonna have to make it and then like month three, it was like murder hornets, right?

[18:32] Nik Walker: Yeah, I don't know what happened to them.

[18:37] Jevon McFerrin: We're not talking about them anymore.

[18:38] Nik Walker: No, we're not talking about them.

[18:42] Jevon McFerrin: That was September.

[18:42] Luke Humphrey: What wait would happen?

[18:44] Jevon McFerrin: They're gonna come back. Remember when it's true.

[18:52] Nik Walker: Oh god. Uh Javon, are you scared of murder her murder or this?

[19:04] Jevon McFerrin: No, no, no, no.

[19:12] Nik Walker: This is gonna be murder her next bird. We're all gonna end up like that.

[19:19] Jevon McFerrin: Four hours of the podcast that really kind of like get build momentum.

[19:22] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The podcast started.

[19:28] Nik Walker: Sorry. No, but Javon, how you how you doing with those murder horns, fam?

[19:31] Jevon McFerrin: Uh I'm great. I haven't seen any.

[19:33] Nik Walker: Excellent.

[19:33] Jevon McFerrin: So I'm not scared.

[19:35] Nik Walker: That's how they get you.

[19:46] Jevon McFerrin: I don't think any of them say all just popped out at the same time. And then nothing on the other one. You're gonna wake up one day.

[19:53] Nik Walker: Yep.

[19:53] Jevon McFerrin: Yep.

[19:56] Jevon McFerrin: Is in my apartment.

[19:58] Nik Walker: That's terrifying.

[19:59] Jevon McFerrin: That's terrifying. Well, and Luke, Luke, of course, you are in as we corrupt covered Toronto. Uh and you are safe and you have health insurance. And uh you know, it's also what does I have health insurance as much as we have health insurance?

[20:13] Luke Humphrey: Um actually um my wife has got into um she had to a bike accident, she broke her collarbone, had to go in for surgery, and um it's crazy.

[20:29] Jevon McFerrin: Oh no, it's gonna be a brag, it's gonna end in a brag right here.

[20:31] Luke Humphrey: No, she's not hospital. She didn't pay anything. She didn't wait to see a doctor, find that.

[20:43] Jevon McFerrin: Happened ever after.

[20:44] Luke Humphrey: But it was crazy going into a hospital during a during a pandemic, man. Like we're in stage three right now, but it really gave it was really eye-opening because we you know, my wife was in the fracture clinic, and predominantly it's senior citizens, right? It's people who have small falls, break a hip, and that stuff doesn't stop because of a pandemic, and so everything's being managed on top of that.

[21:04] Jevon McFerrin: So it really like I wasn't allowed to be in here.

[21:06] Luke Humphrey: Like she got into an accident. Like she was going in. I brushed her into the ER, blood everywhere, like all this kind of stuff. It was super scary, and then they're like, sir, so you have to leave. You know, it's like it's just an extra body in a in a potentially, you know, in a exposed spot. So like we just can't for these extra bodies. So you had to go, and you're like, oh yeah, this is outside of just the people who are getting sick. This has ramification for every accident, every incident, any health scare, and it just uh really struck.

[21:31] Jevon McFerrin: Oh man, also you know, that was interesting.

[21:34] Luke Humphrey: But how's she doing now?

[21:36] Jevon McFerrin: She's doing a lot better, man. She's uh she's got some mobility.

[21:40] Luke Humphrey: Um, I'm doing a lot of cooking, a lot of cleaning.

[21:42] Jevon McFerrin: Good, as you should uh I'm doing I it's I honestly I love it because it's like the most thing I've had to do since the quarantine. I'm just like great, I get to be the caretaker guy, and it's it's keeping me busy, which is you know amazing to spend time with my wife.

[21:56] Luke Humphrey: Amazing, and that's how shining started.

[21:59] Jevon McFerrin: That that is that is how this training caretaker, you know, just oh right, yeah.

[22:14] Luke Humphrey: Oh yeah, we're also isolated in a in a hotel in the middle of winter, um, with uh my inability to write. You know, oh you know, funny thing about the shining that I learned the other day was that the the black guy that's the care, like the guy that's yeah, teaches him about the shining, yeah, in the book, he apparently saves their lives in the movie. He just gets he just gets I was like, what the end of the death of the token black management Stephen King was doing us right, and then the producing company were like, nope, can't have it, can't have it, no black man in here they said no black man, they said nah five seconds in acting chest.

[23:05] Nik Walker: Well, that's that's all wonderful. You know, Stephen King world, uh, and the fact that but Luke, I'm I'm happy that we are all happy that she's doing well.

[23:17] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, man.

[23:18] Nik Walker: You're welcome too. That's good. I appreciate it. That's great. So excellent. So yeah, so guys, we have uh, you know, but uh except for Alex, you know, who who you know is is yep, on his on his whiskey. Uh we have we have a lot of actors here, you know. Um, it's uh it's it's a great thing. And I think that uh I think the one thing I want to start the chat off, you know, because we are a movie podcast, one of the things that we deal in a lot is um is storytelling. Um and I wanted to know, just kind of you know, anybody who can can start this conversation, um when did you first realize that storytelling was what you wanted to do, whether it was on stage, or it was on film, writing, whatever it was for you.

[24:02] Jevon McFerrin: Um it's just always a question I actually realized with none of you have I ever asked it. When when when was that first spark for you?

[24:08] Nik Walker: Anybody wants to go? Storytelling was a thing. Storytelling was the f when was the first time that you realized that you wanted to to be a storyteller?

[24:19] Jevon McFerrin: That's really because I feel like that's that's a different whoa. I don't know if I'm actually gonna like start answering the question, but I feel like that's different from like choosing to be an actor.

[24:30] Luke Humphrey: Sure.

[24:31] Jevon McFerrin: Or like choosing to move to the city and that sort of thing versus like choosing to like build a new story.

[24:37] Nik Walker: Yeah, I'm talking, I'm talking about three different things.

[24:40] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah, I'm talking the the percent the ladder, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[24:46] Jevon McFerrin: I think for me, I think for me, it I think that that kind of happened maybe like year, maybe like year like two, three, uh, or maybe two year two of coming to New York.

[25:05] Jevon McFerrin: Um that I was a part of for some time, um, Witness Uganda. We brought it to uh when we did it off Broadway, before we like actually started doing it, we went to Uganda to meet the students that the show was based off of and everything, and I think it's the sense of responsibility that you have once you're actually seeing this is not like the stories bigger than you are. This isn't just you being on stage and large choreography and doing just what a thing in front of a camera. It's like you're you're getting a sense that the themes inside of this story, the things that are being told have a different weight that not only are like bigger than you in the moment, but will surpass you when like past your life or your career, and seeing that aspect of it was like this is actually more important to like try to understand human behavior and also just sort of like understand how to tell the story.

[26:03] Jevon McFerrin: So it just felt like when the responsibility kicked up.

[26:08] Luke Humphrey: Amazing.

[26:09] Michael Luwoye: Yeah.

[26:09] Jevon McFerrin: Who else? Who else had that first spark?

[26:10] Daniel Gaymon: Even like I said, before the acting, you just knew you wanted stories. Stories were what you wanted to contribute to.

[26:20] Elijah Malcomb: I think I was a child. I think my brother and I, we used to we had a huge crate of every toy you could think of. And we would lay a blanket down. We would put like um like pillows underneath to make like a mountain or maybe make like an establishment or something. And we would just play scenarios. We would play with our toys. We would play whatever we wanted to play. And I remember I don't know, I just remember him he would he it's so funny because he knew I loved it so much. So he would when we got mad at each other, he would leave and go watch TV because he knew how much I liked it. And so yeah, that's uh but uh I think I I think I just always I think I always knew I just didn't know how to describe it.

I think like my subconscious knew I was gonna do like I just I loved this so much, it was the love of it that I was like, oh yeah, I'm gonna do this forever, I'm gonna keep this, but I didn't know how I was going to keep it in a way. Um and then I kind of you know through life just sort of fell into all this. But um I think that those moments um for sure kind of put me in the place of like, wow, I love this creation, I love this play, I love this whatever scenario weekend. There's thousands of them. We had like we had every toy, we had rescue heroes, we had Barbies, we had max deals, we had freaking everything. So it was just like we had so much to deal with, and so I think it's just playing with that um sparked a lot of love and joy into it that I wanted to keep for the rest of my life.

[27:55] Daniel Gaymon: Yeah, I think I think for me personally, it was a lot like Daniel. Um, I remember having a creative writing assignment in like the fourth grade, and loved the freedom of just being able to express myself and go wherever I felt like the story needed to go or whatever felt fun um for me and not containing myself and the first time feeling that freedom of not feeling like I had to fit into a certain thing, but that I could just freely express myself any way that I felt um kind of sat with me in a way that I didn't want to leave. Uh and as I got older, I would watch like I had this weird infatuation with watching home videos of just like me and my sisters and my parents at Christmas or like birthday parties and stuff growing up, and then I would walk around the house and take the camcorder and like make movies.

I remember watching like the special features on I don't know, like Chicken Run or something like that, or something where they were doing um um claymation, and I they like broke down how they made claymation movies kind of in this special features, and I was like, yo, I could do that with Play-Doh, and started doing it with Play-Doh. Um like my toys and just making movies and stuff like that. And uh it just kind of stuck with me.

[29:31] Kyle Scatliffe: That's amazing. That's amazing. Very cool. Yeah, uh, I'll go. Uh when I was younger, uh it was weird. It was like, you know, when you're doing, and I think it echoes what Daniel was saying was like you're doing something in your life kind of constantly. Uh it's almost as if your own mind is calling out to you to do something, but you don't know what it is yet. So for me, I was always more on the quiet side when I was younger, but I didn't realize I was so quiet because I was with the wrong people. So when I finally started doing theater in about 10th grade, uh I started to realize the community space was the right one first, and then I realized how much fun it was. And then the storytelling part actually came uh in the second year when I actually did To Kill a Mockingbird in high school.

Um and after doing that show, I was like, Oh, I actually really love doing this, and then kind of took off after I did Guys and Dolls in 12th grade, and I was like, I'm doing this. Uh but yeah, it kind of the community found me first before there was like the feeling of that gabbing of people, and you're like, you're all weird in the same way, and you're like, oh, this is what I've always been looking for, and then hoping that it would compound on top of itself and becoming uh something more beautiful each time than it did.

[30:56] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah. Okay. How about you?

[31:01] Michael Luwoye: Uh I think like kind of going off of what Kyle was just saying. I definitely like as a kid, I would just play with my imagination all the time. Like I'd get home from school and I'd go in the backyard, and I'd literally it probably to to people looking, just look like me walking back and forth, like in a line. But I'm having like the greatest adventures of all time, you know, you're like being like Nik Walker, or you're you're just doing whatever and you see everything. And so my parents actually were like, Oh, okay, so he's a performer. So they put me in a whole bunch of theater stuff. So then to be able to still do what I kind of saw in my head, but in a structure and seeing how it worked like that was like that was it for me I was just like oh I can do this it's really fun people come and see it everybody's like on the same team um but yeah for me I was basically like oh it's just a continuation of me being able to play with my imagination but with other people to be able to tell the story so that's that's when I that's how I got hooked really really young.

[32:12] Luke Humphrey: Yeah man I mean the imagination like I mean just hearing that like other people have that experience but as a kid I I used to live there you know like and I I just loved playing with you know and I had like no media in the house for like years um and so like it was just all stories like it was reading and it was the these just worlds that would like come into my mind and it was I I remember being around 10 where I was like I'm gonna be an actor I know this in my core but I'm gonna tell everybody I want to be a lawyer so that when I work as an actor as an adult they'll be like took the safe way out and became an actor look at that like I was trying to set up this like weird punchline for a career joke when I was 10.

Oh my god hasn't really paid off enough to put it just new man there was just something about it where I was like oh yeah it's like you know and I remember like being like doing like little plays and like you know first grade or you know or like little youth theater things and just being like, yeah, this is this is the thing that I'll be doing. But then I think to the question though, like wanting to be an actor, wanting to be a storyteller, or like wanting to serve story and recognizing, you know, what Michael was saying about like when there's a story that's larger than just being on deck, you know, and like and just sharing a moment where you're like, this story is gonna have impact. This I I'm responsible to something larger than myself.

Um that was a different transition, man. And I remember being like 16 and seeing like some a play like a Moyer play at like the um a black box theater in in uh LA and and just like having my jaw on the floor and like just going, oh, there is something about this experience this this is the vitality of this moment that I haven't found anywhere else. And that was kind of like you're done. That's it. You're that's your that's your life now. Go it's incredible.

[34:10] Alex Smolowe: That's awesome. I actually I would love how about you man? Because I know I know you're coming at this from a slightly different I mean I'm not an actor for sure but I mean I went into filmmaking. I've always written stories and stuff. I remember being in like third grade I wrote like uh I have them we found them in a box in the basement all the stories I read as a kid something about a a chicken prince and I don't know I remember being being a kid and like like you like they were saying like you lose yourself in your imagination right like the world just expands and expands. It's and and it's like you go to a movie. I remember going to see a movie and then you come home and you live that movie for the next like 12 to 15 hours right like whatever action figures you have whatever toys you have whatever books you have like you're just in that zone and you immediately want to get home after a movie so that you can build the story yourself and keep living that world like like the as a kid your imagination is so fertile like that.

So I had just boxes of action figures and I I would I would just set up stories on my bed and I'd be playing with them and I'd build like characters and all these things. And then I go to school and I'd take my blanket and I'd pull it over and then tell the cleaning lady to like leave my bed alone and then come back to school and open out back up and like pick up where I left off. And I think ever since then it's just been an extension of like figuring out how to like mature that and actually like you know make that as it's really the same thing, right? You're just making shit up.

[35:32] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah. It's amazing. That's incredible. That's I mean, and it's so crazy to hear all your stories just because um, you know, it's it it really it's that unifying factor, right? Where you know what I'm hearing in all of your stories is just the the the awe of this thing and the need to do this thing and understanding that that this is something that is not only possible, but but yeah, that necessity really isn't the kind of thing that you kind of dip your toe into. It's yeah, it's you're you're going at it from a young age. Now I want to take a pause here because um, you know, one of the things that I'm realizing looking around this room is that there's a lot of penises in this room. A lot of men a lot of guys, a lot of guys.

[36:16] Luke Humphrey: Did you just now you just now notice that?

[36:18] Jevon McFerrin: You just figured that out.

[36:22] Kyle Scatliffe: It's terrible.

[36:22] Jevon McFerrin: It's terrible.

[36:23] Elijah Malcomb: I know, right?

[36:23] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah, check, yes, check.

[36:25] Jevon McFerrin: But but I just I was just like, yo, you know, because and we're all not only are we guys, but we're all dumb guys. I say that because I love you all. We're all dumb. I would like I would love to bring just a like uh not only uh you know, women are always smarter than us, but a really, really, really smart woman. Um, an awesome woman. Uh Sasha, get in here.

[37:05] Sasha Hutchings: Oh no.

[37:05] Jevon McFerrin: Oh I want making it special.

[37:20] Sasha Hutchings: Literally so busy.

[37:26] Jevon McFerrin: Super book these days. Y'all, this is Sasha. Sasha's the co-host of uh of my my talk show the C The Chaos was our talk show on on Broadway World in which we which we use StreamYard. Thank you. Yeah, quite ridiculously. Um she she is an amazing performer. Uh you saw her in Hamilton on Disney Pl on in in on Broadway, both on original Broadway and on Disney Plus. She is also latently in Oklahoma. She is just you know resume is along my arm. Um today we had a little we had a little bit of fun today because we talked about uh we talked about uh some uh some uh some blessing wounds. How did that go? How'd that go, Sasha?

[38:09] Sasha Hutchings: Uh uh I I think some people unfollowed me.

[38:17] Jevon McFerrin: Oh no.

[38:19] Sasha Hutchings: No, I'm not gonna go there.

[38:21] Jevon McFerrin: Okay, never mind.

[38:24] Sasha Hutchings: It was it was honestly here's what I will say, and I want th you know, correct me if I'm wrong. Uh like I said, we presented the facts. We presented the facts.

[38:31] Elijah Malcomb: Nope.

[38:35] Sasha Hutchings: Wow. That's too high.

[38:40] Elijah Malcomb: We asked questions.

[38:42] Sasha Hutchings: We did ask questions, and we got answers.

[38:46] Luke Humphrey: And that is where it stands, ladies and gentlemen.

[38:50] Luke Humphrey: We don't know about the blessed one.

[38:55] Jevon McFerrin: Stop it. So there is an investment opportunity that has been circulating.

[39:02] Kyle Scatliffe: Don't call it that.

[39:03] Jevon McFerrin: Don't call it an opportunity.

[39:04] Luke Humphrey: That's the best case.

[39:08] Jevon McFerrin: It is not an opportunity. The last time when we started, Nik Walker, when he first brought it up to us, he was crying.

[39:22] Kyle Scatliffe: I have to go.

[39:24] Jevon McFerrin: I have to. Nik was crying laughing when he first brought it up to us.

[39:31] Jevon McFerrin: And we're not—here's the thing. We're not gonna use any names, we're not gonna talk about any specifics, but what I will say is we just wanted people—if people were going to invest in this thing, we just wanted them to have all the information.

[39:40] Luke Humphrey: And that's what we gave them today. I say we gave them a lot of information.

[39:45] Jevon McFerrin: And Sasha, I don't like your face on this. I don't like what we are literally about to get fired.

[39:53] Kyle Scatliffe: Like it's gonna be bad. It's gonna be real bad. I feel like Sasha and I have the same idea about this whole thing, probably.

[40:00] Jevon McFerrin: Me and Nik talked about this, and I went off for like hours. It's like what I just—it's an opportunity.

[40:11] Luke Humphrey: No.

[40:12] Jevon McFerrin: Exactly.

[40:14] Kyle Scatliffe: Nah, I'm good.

[40:15] Jevon McFerrin: I'm good. I'm good. Super good. Really good.

[40:20] Luke Humphrey: Yep. Every time I think about it, all I can think about is like the Mary Kay products that still exist in my mother's bathroom.

[40:29] Kyle Scatliffe: Yep. So much lipstick.

[40:30] Jevon McFerrin: So many. Also, also one no should be enough. Like, stop trying to coach me, please.

[40:38] Luke Humphrey: Well, but you gotta bring those two in.

[40:42] Jevon McFerrin: Bring them together.

[40:46] Kyle Scatliffe: See, I was kidding, man.

[40:48] Jevon McFerrin: Okay. I wasn't. And I still didn't do it.

[40:57] Luke Humphrey: Oh god, this is a three episode. I was like an algebra one. And so like whatever like the lowest math, whatever the lowest was that you had to do to graduate.

[41:07] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah, I sure did too.

[41:09] Luke Humphrey: I knew. I was like when was the last time you used the Pythagorean theorem?

[41:14] Jevon McFerrin: Pythagorean? It was a Tuesday, I think.

[41:27] Luke Humphrey: Oh man. See, this is why. Sasha, this is why I invite you on because this is pure chaos.

[41:31] Sasha Hutchings: This is wonderful.

[41:33] Luke Humphrey: Chaos, exactly. So now that we have the four company here, I want to get into the needy gritty. I want to go, I want to go real.

[41:41] Jevon McFerrin: So we have—we do have like a semblance of a schedule and things that I want to talk about.

[41:46] Sasha Hutchings: Oh no, no, no, no, I do. I was up, I was like 2 a.m. last night.

[41:51] Jevon McFerrin: So this game that I want to play is called Explain Yourself Fool.

[41:57] Sasha Hutchings: Do I have to refill my glass before we play?

[42:02] Jevon McFerrin: I'm sure.

[42:04] Sasha Hutchings: Okay, okay. Explain yourself, fool.

[42:06] Jevon McFerrin: Let me listen to the rules first.

[42:10] Sasha Hutchings: Maybe I'm—should we—the rules are so simple.

[42:15] Jevon McFerrin: Well, the rules are you put in 200.

[42:19] Luke Humphrey: Stop it.

[42:27] Jevon McFerrin: Mute her.

[42:29] Kyle Scatliffe: Mute. It's time to go.

[42:34] Jevon McFerrin: Came in for five minutes and we're already of this game.

[42:48] Luke Humphrey: But my best—my favorite part again is Alex has no idea what this game is.

[42:51] Alex Smolowe: I have no idea what's going on.

[42:52] Luke Humphrey: I thought you did nothing for this, and we're like, I guess we're just gonna do it.

[42:56] Jevon McFerrin: No, no, no, no, no. We're gonna do this.

[42:58] Luke Humphrey: So yeah, get Yvonne another drink, please. I did a deep dive of your social medias.

[43:07] Sasha Hutchings: Yep.

[43:09] Alex Smolowe: No.

[43:09] Jevon McFerrin: Oh Nicholas.

[43:13] Alex Smolowe: Come on.

[43:15] Jevon McFerrin: Charles.

[43:16] Alex Smolowe: Oh no.

[43:20] Jevon McFerrin: This I swear.

[43:24] Luke Humphrey: Look how tight we all got when you said.

[43:29] Jevon McFerrin: For instance, if I was to say to Britt, Britt, could you please bring up small O2?

[43:34] Kyle Scatliffe: Oh god.

[43:36] Jevon McFerrin: Oh shit. Please bring that picture up.

[43:39] Luke Humphrey: What is it?

[43:40] Jevon McFerrin: You know me, just small O2.

[43:42] Alex Smolowe: Oh small two.

[43:43] Jevon McFerrin: There's a picture. What is that?

[43:47] Luke Humphrey: So, Alex, I would like to know the context of that picture. What is this happening?

[43:51] Alex Smolowe: Jesus.

[43:57] Jevon McFerrin: Nick, you look like you're like all I have to do is like feign innocence here, and this is really bad on you.

[44:04] Alex Smolowe: Yeah, no, no, no. This is the face that's in A2 Proud.

[44:09] Jevon McFerrin: What is that?

[44:09] Alex Smolowe: Shut up.

[44:18] Jevon McFerrin: Let's just turn this back with that.

[44:21] Alex Smolowe: No, you won't leave, man.

[44:33] Jevon McFerrin: Nick, what note are you hitting? What note are you hitting in this picture?

[44:37] Luke Humphrey: What picture are you at right now?

[44:40] Jevon McFerrin: That's a high C.

[44:41] Kyle Scatliffe: It's definitely—that is somebody that loves like me.

[44:50] Jevon McFerrin: That's in a headlock.

[44:55] Sasha Hutchings: I would like to address that. Alex, what is that context?

[45:00] Alex Smolowe: That would be my sister, Shayna.

[45:04] Jevon McFerrin: Is she okay? Put her in danger.

[45:07] Alex Smolowe: That was tonight. No, um she's fine. For some reason, for some reason, when me and Nik were first friends back in the day, for whatever reason, she thought he was, you know.

[45:23] Jevon McFerrin: All right. Hey.

[45:25] Alex Smolowe: Oh, he would use that against me, obviously.

[45:29] Jevon McFerrin: Oh, he put her in a headlock, or she's used that against me.

[45:32] Alex Smolowe: Yeah, so he just had it. I don't—wow, so aggressive.

[45:36] Jevon McFerrin: No, sorry, so she—I forget exactly how it happened. I blocked it out.

[45:41] Alex Smolowe: Oh, I'll tell you how it happened.

[45:44] Jevon McFerrin: Obviously, so Shayna was visiting.

[45:50] Alex Smolowe: Okay.

[45:50] Jevon McFerrin: I don't like that.

[45:51] Alex Smolowe: No, it's great. No, this is gonna be bad feeling like an out there to have like an intervention conversation coming up.

[45:59] Jevon McFerrin: All of you could never have come here.

[46:02] Sasha Hutchings: Every single one of you because now you're trapped.

[46:09] Jevon McFerrin: And if you're Boston, dude, this is Boston.

[46:14] Luke Humphrey: Like that's the thing. Here's the thing. Like everybody has like something that they're one specific thing that they're like they're thinking of that they're like punk ass.

[46:23] Jevon McFerrin: I like how even you, you pick me, you're like, let's look at your social media, and then you just bring up a picture of you. That's—that's a move.

[46:30] Alex Smolowe: That's a weird move, man.

[46:35] Jevon McFerrin: Strange flex, strange flex, no, because the reason that I did that was because you didn't have any—well, okay. Let's go to smaller.

[46:42] Luke Humphrey: Can we go to smaller one? This is like the most controversial.

[46:48] Jevon McFerrin: Oh my god. All right, there it is.

[46:53] Luke Humphrey: Look at that hair.

[46:58] Jevon McFerrin: Come on, I actually like the hair. Can we bring that back?

[47:02] Kyle Scatliffe: Right.

[47:04] Jevon McFerrin: Nick, grow hair.

[47:05] Alex Smolowe: There's a thing.

[47:05] Jevon McFerrin: Oh, Alex, you have a knife too.

[47:07] Alex Smolowe: I do have a knife.

[47:09] Jevon McFerrin: Oh god, I didn't see that.

[47:10] Luke Humphrey: There it is.

[47:16] Jevon McFerrin: Um what to watch for on like a white supremacist like it says this is what they're gonna try to do to you listen this is what they point to all of these pictures are I just want context is all I'm looking for for instance give us the context stab kill each other of our relationship stab kill each other here's my question for you Alex who pulled the knife first who pulled the knife first no no no no it was Alex Alex do not remember I and it looks like you're the one wielding it aggressively not no no no waiting to defend myself whose house are we in whose house is my house chopping vegetables is that not oh is that if you look closely if you look closely you can see the dishwasher is open which means they are in the midst of either stalking or unstocking the dishwasher so at around 1229 okay wait this was in Boston this was in Boston we had we had gone up we were staying at your mother's house yep yeah where where I had very politely helped her with some yard chores what did you say what did you say what did you say that you did for my mother no that's not nothing this is an intervention watching this we're all like this is this needs to be private.

[49:06] Jevon McFerrin: This let's open it up. Let's open it up.

[49:09] Jevon McFerrin: Let's go to Elijah to a wiser two, please. Eli to guide let's see, we brought up for Eli.

[49:17] Kyle Scatliffe: I feel scared to laugh at anyone.

[49:19] Jevon McFerrin: Let's see. This is not about laughing.

[49:22] Jevon McFerrin: The anticipation is not good.

[49:23] Sasha Hutchings: It's just not.

[49:24] Jevon McFerrin: I don't feel right in my skin.

[49:27] Elijah Malcomb: I love every second of this.

[49:30] Jevon McFerrin: I'm like nervous right now.

[49:33] Sasha Hutchings: Phenomenal.

[49:36] Jevon McFerrin: There's no being nervous. Britt will bring up Eli 2 at some point.

[49:40] Elijah Malcomb: It's gonna sue the shit out of you.

[49:44] Jevon McFerrin: The most several system isn't even on like social media.

[49:51] Luke Humphrey: Thursday Thursday.

[50:03] Elijah Malcomb: I believe I'm the one that took that picture.

[50:06] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah, what you are?

[50:07] Elijah Malcomb: So what is the deeper context?

[50:11] Jevon McFerrin: So look, look, look. We were—what city were we in? Because it wasn't New Orleans when we had to do it.

[50:17] Elijah Malcomb: We were in that picture when we started to take the pictures.

[50:20] Jevon McFerrin: Yeah. We took the pictures in New Orleans, but it was the city before.

[50:25] Elijah Malcomb: I think—I think one.

[50:27] Jevon McFerrin: I really do. I really think.

[50:30] Elijah Malcomb: It was a two show day.

[50:31] Jevon McFerrin: Yep. Here's here's the context. It was a two show day. Kyle, Fergie, and I were at dinner in between shows, and we were just having a good laugh about how girls on Instagram are always posting like they're grabbing pictures, and the captions mean nothing with the picture.

[50:50] Elijah Malcomb: We're like, you know, as a joke, we should really start doing this.

[50:53] Jevon McFerrin: Like, we should just do this.

[50:54] Elijah Malcomb: As a joke, as a joke.

[50:59] Jevon McFerrin: You know, that's how all first trap.

[51:06] Elijah Malcomb: Wait. But wait, it was the town that I ever.

[51:12] Jevon McFerrin: We did it for—we did it for a couple of weeks.

[51:15] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, yeah, we did it for like what? Three?

[51:17] Jevon McFerrin: Like three or four weeks, we did it.

[51:19] Elijah Malcomb: One every Thursday.

[51:21] Jevon McFerrin: If you look through our Instagram and go to Thursday.

[51:25] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, we did Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.

[51:28] Jevon McFerrin: I feel like the caption for that picture, especially, it's just something stupid, like, uh, did you have crab legs today or something?

[51:36] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, it's something silly.

[51:38] Jevon McFerrin: It makes no sense. That's right.

[51:45] Elijah Malcomb: With the lip bite.

[51:47] Kyle Scatliffe: It's the lip bite, bro.

[51:49] Elijah Malcomb: Come on, Killmonger.

[51:50] Kyle Scatliffe: It's so good.

[51:59] Elijah Malcomb: And I believe I was yelling the word "ill" as I was taking the picture.

[52:03] Elijah Malcomb: I was like, oh, as we started posting those pictures, like around the time that we started posting those pictures, somebody made a fake Instagram account called Elijah's Tooth.

[52:17] Elijah Malcomb: And then just zoomed in on my teeth in the picture.

[52:21] Elijah Malcomb: And that was what I'm saying. And we still don't even know who it was.

[52:25] Elijah Malcomb: I still have no idea.

[52:28] Elijah Malcomb: Oh my god. Definitely my copper.

[52:32] Elijah Malcomb: This is why I got the wrong ear today.

[52:34] Elijah Malcomb: No one fessed up. It was a good idea.

[52:37] Elijah Malcomb: Which would lead me to my confession right now.

[52:41] Elijah Malcomb: I did not. This is my confession.

[52:44] Elijah Malcomb: No, no, listen. It was a beautiful picture, Eli. You're a beautiful man.

[52:49] Kyle Scatliffe: I would like to, if we may, go to Gaiman 2, please.

[52:51] Daniel Gaymon: Game and paying gig.

[53:01] Elijah Malcomb: Okay. How much did that pay?

[53:05] Kyle Scatliffe: Look at that.

[53:07] Kyle Scatliffe: Let's see how much it paid.

[53:09] Daniel Gaymon: Not enough.

[53:09] Kyle Scatliffe: I don't think it paid enough.

[53:11] Elijah Malcomb: That is the sunken thing.

[53:13] Daniel Gaymon: I was in the audience watching it.

[53:16] Kyle Scatliffe: Yes, you were.

[53:17] Daniel Gaymon: Yes, you were. I was watching this.

[53:19] Daniel Gaymon: And all the blacks are in the back.

[53:22] Kyle Scatliffe: What?

[53:22] Daniel Gaymon: Yeah. In the back and in black.

[53:25] Kyle Scatliffe: Hey.

[53:28] Elijah Malcomb: What's going on there?

[53:29] Daniel Gaymon: Um, no, we were doing the 2017 Tony's.

[53:33] Daniel Gaymon: It was literally the summer before everything dropped.

[53:36] Daniel Gaymon: Yeah. Literally.

[53:37] Daniel Gaymon: Um, so it was funny. It was a funny, funny time.

[53:41] Daniel Gaymon: Um, it ain't funny no more.

[53:45] Kyle Scatliffe: Did I say a funny time? Didn't I say that that's referencing to that time?

[53:50] Daniel Gaymon: Now that dude's doing serial killer videos in front of fireplaces every December.

[53:55] Elijah Malcomb: Actually, though, actually.

[53:56] Kyle Scatliffe: Oh my god.

[53:57] Elijah Malcomb: So it's not, it's like a not a good blend of reality and fiction. I'm like, my guy. This is not a, you think this is the answer.

[54:03] Elijah Malcomb: This is the answer directly to him.

[54:11] Elijah Malcomb: This is what happens when you find the publicist, man.

[54:14] Kyle Scatliffe: I know, don't find this.

[54:16] Elijah Malcomb: Moving right along, moving right along.

[54:19] Elijah Malcomb: Let's go to, can we please bring up...

[54:22] Elijah Malcomb: Oh, you guys are so nervous now.

[54:27] Elijah Malcomb: Let's bring up Nick.

[54:30] Elijah Malcomb: Oh, I gotta go actually.

[54:36] Elijah Malcomb: It looks like the man to your right is about to break character.

[54:42] Kyle Scatliffe: Right. His clippers look comfortable though. I'm not gonna lie.

[54:49] Elijah Malcomb: Talk to me, Luke. What's up?

[54:51] Luke Humphrey: My family has weird Christmas traditions, man. I don't know what else.

[54:56] Luke Humphrey: Um, Christmas in Canada. I just do want, I was financially compensated for this.

[55:02] Luke Humphrey: Uh, no, this was the Canadian premiere of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, in which I was an underpaid stripper for, you know, whatever, six months or something like that.

[55:13] Elijah Malcomb: There he is. Beautiful. Nice, nice.

[55:20] Luke Humphrey: I want to make clear, all of this that I'm doing comes out of love.

[55:23] Luke Humphrey: All of this computer. That's how we relationship.

[55:30] Luke Humphrey: That's what I'll tell myself when I go to sleep at night so I don't cry.

[55:35] Luke Humphrey: The one thing about that show that has left an impression on me that I'm still trying to get over was, um, the show originally was rehearsed and opened in Manitoba, which for those of us who aren't stuck in Canada is, uh, it's cold.

[55:52] Luke Humphrey: So I had to, like, they were like, okay, so part of the deal is you gotta be in your underwear, we want you to look fit and all that kind of stuff. I was like, okay, okay.

[55:58] Luke Humphrey: And then they're like, and we're gonna rehearse it in a place that's minus 40 degrees Celsius.

[56:03] Elijah Malcomb: Yes.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: So I was like walking back and forth to get like my groceries like a kilometer and a half each direction, and I'm not joking you, it was minus 40 degrees.

[57:28] Elijah Malcomb: Oh, should have just gone to medical school.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, man. Honestly. Where's my hazard pay?

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: I loved it. Um, because when it's really like you just dress for it, like you go outside wearing a couch. Like you wear like you're wearing like long johns, you're wearing like, you know, underwear, you're wearing thermals, you're wearing pants, you're wearing like, you know, full kind of couch.

[57:28] Kyle Scatliffe: Do you have?

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, you gotta go take the wire from my couch at all.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, man. No, and then like, but it's sunny when it's that cold, it doesn't snow. So it's, uh, it's actually beautiful clear.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: And so there's a river downtown that, um, turns to ice, and then they put art, um, exhibitions out on the river.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: So you go ice skating for several kilometers and you stop at like various little areas that have art, they have dances out there, there's restaurants on the ice, they have like community hockey games and curling games, and, uh, it's like they have the big midnight dance parties under the stars at like in like minus 40.

[57:28] Elijah Malcomb: And you're all in like...

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, although I did almost die though, I want to stress that.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: Like what?

[57:28] Elijah Malcomb: Well, here's, well, no, because like this is the thing like it's so cold, you will die unless you take measures to not die.

[57:28] Luke Humphrey: And, uh, so I was like a friend, a friend was like, hey, come meet me out. It's, um, work, it's just like, uh, about a kilometer away from your building.

[57:34] Luke Humphrey: And like I was still pretty new to kilometers, and anyways, the map didn't work, and I didn't wear long johns, and so I'm like, I thought I'm fine, I'm hustling from like a place to a place, and I got lost, and my phone was dying, I can't, like, my thumbs aren't working.

[57:49] Luke Humphrey: That was like horrible.

[57:50] Elijah Malcomb: Oh no.

[57:53] Luke Humphrey: My legs were like, were bright red. Like you're starting to get to the point where like you're like, yeah, you know what?

[57:59] Elijah Malcomb: Wait, they were out?

[58:02] Luke Humphrey: You underneath my pants? Like I wasn't wearing, I wasn't wearing a couch sufficient like quality layers, you know?

[58:08] Elijah Malcomb: It was like I live, I lived in Minnesota, dude. I understand the pain that you've suffered.

[58:15] Luke Humphrey: Pretty bad. I was also in Cats during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, so I also know.

[58:19] Elijah Malcomb: You know what?

[58:23] Luke Humphrey: Oh my god, I'm like a leader.

[58:26] Elijah Malcomb: So Sasha, do you want Sasha one or Sasha two? I'll give you a choice.

[58:26] Elijah Malcomb: You want Sasha?

[58:33] Luke Humphrey: I'm mad that you have objects.

[58:35] Elijah Malcomb: Number two.

[58:36] Elijah Malcomb: Can we get Sasha two, please?

[58:39] Elijah Malcomb: Oh.

[58:42] Elijah Malcomb: With the middle finger down the bottom.

[58:45] Luke Humphrey: Yes.

[58:47] Elijah Malcomb: That was the East Crack print for this moment.

[58:51] Elijah Malcomb: What? What's going on?

[58:56] Elijah Malcomb: That's the sunken place. I was in.

[59:00] Elijah Malcomb: Oh my god.

[59:03] Elijah Malcomb: And, uh, yeah, I don't know if I mean just the Nutcracker. Just, uh, with my soldiers, I was making racket and, um, honestly.

[59:23] Elijah Malcomb: I don't know. I don't know if I have to stop drinking. I swear, if I were ever watching the movie Get Out and he goes to the sunken place and then that's what it was, I would have just died.

[59:34] Kyle Scatliffe: Can't you see that person in any Jordan Peele movie?

[59:37] Elijah Malcomb: Yes, absolutely.

[59:38] Elijah Malcomb: Would you have been surprised if like if we had walked around the corner and that bitch was waiting for her?

[59:50] Elijah Malcomb: Oh man. Britt, just out of curiosity, can we just, just so I can see it? Can we go to Sasha one, please?

[1:00:01] Elijah Malcomb: Is that Daniel Watts behind us?

[1:00:08] Elijah Malcomb: This is Magneto and Who.

[1:00:10] Elijah Malcomb: What is that? What's hot there? Explain, explain what that is.

[1:00:16] Kyle Scatliffe: What is that?

[1:00:17] Luke Humphrey: That's the beginning.

[1:00:19] Luke Humphrey: That's the very beginning of the chaos changes.

[1:00:22] Luke Humphrey: The chaos went.

[1:00:24] Luke Humphrey: So, so what we're, we're in Motown.

[1:00:27] Luke Humphrey: I'm gonna set the scene for you and you tell what happened. We're in Motown.

[1:00:30] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah.

[1:00:31] Luke Humphrey: Okay, Motown.

[1:00:32] Luke Humphrey: That's it. That's the scene.

[1:00:34] Luke Humphrey: We were in Motown.

[1:00:37] Elijah Malcomb: That's Motown.

[1:00:38] Luke Humphrey: That's Motown.

[1:00:38] Luke Humphrey: That's just Motown.

[1:00:39] Luke Humphrey: That's it.

[1:00:40] Elijah Malcomb: Man, you know what's really sad about this is you can't see the bats.

[1:00:43] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, you can't see the bats in this picture.

[1:00:45] Elijah Malcomb: I know.

[1:00:45] Luke Humphrey: What is that? Is it a Wolverine mask?

[1:00:47] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, it's a Wolverine mask.

[1:00:49] Luke Humphrey: That's right.

[1:00:49] Luke Humphrey: That's from my book.

[1:00:51] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:00:52] Luke Humphrey: We had, yeah, Sasha.

[1:00:54] Luke Humphrey: Said tell us. I mean, tell us.

[1:00:56] Luke Humphrey: I mean, okay, so we were at Motown, right? Um, we noticed that the perimeter was not secure.

[1:01:01] Luke Humphrey: And by the perimeter, we mean the theater, the entire, like we had...

[1:01:12] Elijah Malcomb: Stop fired twice in one day.

[1:01:16] Luke Humphrey: Crazy.

[1:01:16] Luke Humphrey: But the script was not here.

[1:01:19] Luke Humphrey: The script was not secure.

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: There's still changes, they're still changes. Um, yeah, you can, I don't know, like they cut a bunch of in his dressing room and we just started putting it on. I don't remember where my crown came from. Was that in your dressing room? I've actually forgotten. I no, I think that was because that was a Christmas decoration.

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: Fair enough.

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: Okay, what is it? Is it like pencil? It's tinsel?

[1:01:23] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, yeah, pencil.

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: What are you wearing around your mouth?

[1:01:23] Elijah Malcomb: What? Yeah, so we were going around the building securing the perimeter and we costumes and there was like the, there were these fringe dresses that we wore and apparently there was extra so I tied it around.

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: Yeah, yeah, those are from Shotgun.

[1:01:23] Elijah Malcomb: Sasha, did we did we go, did we stay backstage for this?

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: No, there's more perimeter.

[1:01:23] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, so we went, did we go out into the house with this? We were in the house during a show with this?

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: During the show.

[1:01:23] Elijah Malcomb: Oh my god. Do you know I went to see Tina and I can't be in that back area without picturing us in that attire with yellow plastic bats?

[1:01:23] Luke Humphrey: Yep, yep. I don't know why you had those, but I did. I had two plastic bats and we bought, we walked the length of the one Fontan smacking the back of the line to the upper lobby to the lower lobby. We secured the perimeter. No one asked any questions.

[1:01:23] Elijah Malcomb: No, how do I have jobs? How it would work? How do you work? You find us and you like dance across that shit. I don't know.

[1:03:11] Elijah Malcomb: I'm like I'm very confused.

[1:03:13] Nik Walker: Shut up.

[1:03:14] Elijah Malcomb: I don't know how it's...

[1:03:20] Kyle Scatliffe: It's so dead.

[1:03:21] Elijah Malcomb: It's so dead.

[1:03:22] Kyle Scatliffe: Alright, who now some of these are nicer. Some of these are like are more like, like, for instance, for instance, if I was to go to like Scatliffe 2.

[1:03:31] Elijah Malcomb: Oh, sweet Jesus.

[1:03:32] Kyle Scatliffe: Right.

[1:03:33] Elijah Malcomb: It's a pretty easy one.

[1:03:35] Kyle Scatliffe: Oh, yeah.

[1:03:38] Elijah Malcomb: That's when I used to breathe.

[1:03:40] Kyle Scatliffe: Look at that.

[1:03:41] Elijah Malcomb: Look at that. That's the play.

[1:03:45] Kyle Scatliffe: The play that keeps out.

[1:03:50] Elijah Malcomb: Olivier Award nominee.

[1:03:52] Kyle Scatliffe: Christ.

[1:03:53] Elijah Malcomb: Yeah, yeah. Boom thing.

[1:03:55] Kyle Scatliffe: See that? That's just screaming.

[1:03:57] Elijah Malcomb: Screaming for three hours.

[1:04:01] Kyle Scatliffe: I did. I breathed fire out of my mouth for three hours a night.

[1:04:04] Elijah Malcomb: Now, now is this true? So you not only played that character, but you were in the ensemble before?

[1:04:09] Kyle Scatliffe: Oh right. So oh, yes, since we're all dropping uh uh fun funny hilarious secrets. So let me tell you about the first day of rehearsal where I and and and Andy Mientes and Piala said like we all show up and we are doing the first number of the show, and you know, they all of a sudden look at us and go, Yeah, you guys are in this number.

[1:04:39] Kyle Scatliffe: And we were like, what are you talking about? Like, I don't come in until we get to Paris. Like, what are you talking about? And he's like, no, no, no. In your contracts, it says as cast. And you're like, what does that mean? None of us had come across Nikki M. James hadn't come across it before. While people were calling their agents, like, are you serious? You were okay. So we were in the show. Yeah, we didn't know that you would do this. So normally, for people listening, normally if you're a principal on Broadway, you don't do ensemble, you're a principal, you do the like, you know, it's you're if you're in the ensemble, you could be a featured ensemble, but it usually doesn't go back and forth.

So in this show, you were in the ensemble as cast because that's the way they did it originally. So they had the same contract, and then you played other characters in the show until you actually were your character. So I was rowing at the beginning of the show. I was one of the beggars during at the end of the day, like singing three hours. Three like there's one of those things where you're like, you sang almost working, working, and like you, and then I would become Andros, and then when I died as Andros, I came back as a fucking waiter at a wedding. So I'm in the back of the stage, 6'5, wearing a white wig, like at the wedding, people are in the cast are going by me, and I'm just being an asshole on purpose.

That's just like, ooh, we're gonna do the wedding folks. Like, I don't care. Because I'm like, I'm dead. Why am I standing here? I remember bringing it up to them too. Being like, are you sure they're not gonna notice my big ass in the back? Like, are you sure? It won't matter. I was like, alright, I'm gonna fuck with this. Every time you soar over everyone. Oh my god. It was so funny. I would mess with everybody at that wedding, and then I would go back into my eyes costume just for the ending. So it was like that. Uh it depends on if the show was like that when they first made it. But you know, and they have to negotiate that. As a principal though, you can be until you're introduced, you can be used as anything until your character actually comes on.

And then you can also be in one additional scene. Oh yes, yes, yes. So yeah. So they got us. We didn't know. Nobody knew the five days. At the end of a lawyer. Like Casey. Yeah, yeah. So it's just saying she was on the barricade during the entire barricade party. She was there the whole time. Casey. She was just hanging out. Making jokes. At the end of the day, read your contract. That's what the level. Exactly. After that, I read it. At the end of the day, go read that contract.

[1:07:42] Nik Walker: Oh my god. Alright, let's bring up LaWay 1, please. Loyal one. This is one of my favorites. I'm actually here for this though. This ain't a bit lit. Yeah, that's that's fire, man. Like, what this is cool. So talk about that, Mike Ops. Oh my god, we got James Eichelhart in here. What is he doing? No, no, no, no. This is terrible. What's up? What's up, Michael? Talk to us. That was that was a couple years ago. That was the gifted. You know that was that was me being me being uh being like an underground mutant extremist now I was gonna guess what. Come on. Oh, James. James, don't that is dope. That is just coming in one comment you're already roasting that was what I played that was from when I played Oregon the gifted and gosh I wish that I could have kept that costume I tried to get that i pass amazing and happen wish that we could have continued that would have been my Halloween costume by this point in the quarantine that would have just been my Tuesday it's so good now now let's your imagination run free you gotta and it's and and we'll and you know see this is what I'm saying some of you all were real smart about your picks some of y'all javan you were real I there was nothing there was nothing I could do I'm gonna I mean I'll bring up I'll bring up you know let's bring up McFarn McFarn uh two please uh yeah what if you're not even you're not even you're not even in it you're not even I just wanted to bring this up all right all right bull choice look at your one I know you're such an idiot you're such an idiot I was like no man could you could you bring up could you here's what here's one that you'll like could you bring up McFarron and Walker please McFar and Walker had hair both of them had hair but I'm wondering what's what Nick what are your hands doing what's my what? What are your hands doing, Javon? I don't worry about that. Oh now, correct me if I'm wrong. Is that Ithaca? That's Ithaca, and I think it was the night of the breakup.

[1:10:29] Elijah Malcomb: Oh next year. What are we talking about? And you want me to tell the story? Yeah, go ahead, buddy. Okay. So to just make it shorter. So we met 11 years ago. And he was dating some chick. I don't know her name. It's not important. She's but she's in the story. Hey. This is bad. So he's talking about her the whole time. He's like, she's crazy. She's not important when she's the first thing that he talked about. Exactly. It's like literally the first fact we got to know. Wow. Like she's not important now. It was significant thing. She's not important now. Yeah. So uh she he's like, oh okay, so it it's during the week that he's playing uh Collins that she's gonna come up and see him in rent, right?

So she comes up uh takes the bus and she's there, and of course, like when you know that somebody has a guest in the audience or you have a guest in the audience, you might play to them a little bit more, like if you find them in the audience. So we all kind of just gave her a really dope show for herself, right? So then we all meet her afterwards, and it's like, oh my god, we've heard so much about you, can't wait to hang out later. You're like here for the weekend, right? Cool, awesome, da-da-da. And um, my girlfriend was there at the time, and so then we just went back to two on two Giles, because I think we had another show, like a matinee or something, anyway. And then I'm in bed, and he calls me and he goes, Hey man, what's her name?

Just came up here to break up with me, and she wanted to do it to my face, and she left. And she left left, she left after that. She got a call again. She left. Did Nick just stay in the house? No. So, no, wait, here no, there's more. Oh, I know, I've heard this story. And so I was like, Oh my, you know, you're like, oh my god. I was like, Nick, where are you? He was like, Oh, just walking on a bridge. See, this is that moment in screenwriting where we call it the call to action. We need your friends say, Well, it's bridge or not. So he's on the bridge that connects that you have to go over to get to the theater itself if you're like in town. So I know exactly where he is. I'm like, alright, you stay there, I'm gonna come get you.

Little did I not know that he had already called our other friend, um Adam Hose, and he told him the same thing. So when me and our friend Ryan Garcia arrived at Saybridge, Nik Walker was not to be found anywhere. And it's and it's a t it's a it's a tall enough. Did you go into panic mode? Yeah, because it's a tall enough bridge that like he could fuck your shit up and then like drown. Like you break your leg and then it's a wrap. I don't know if he can score. From after the bridge, like after you guys encountered. So I call his phone and he's like, Oh, I'm at the bar with Adam. So me and Ryan go to the bar. And then it was also like the first week that the college kids were coming back because school was about to start.

And so Nick was just like, I just want to go out and like get fucked up and dance. Yeah, it was literally like the Dane cook is like, I just want to dance. Yeah, and then he realized he was like, now I'm he's a singer first. And then we just got drunk. So that's his greatest acting work right there. I was I was now you look how he feels. I think I'm quite sure I'm like super drunk and tired at that point. You know when like you're a good friend, but you just like I gotta I gotta wait until he goes home. He's mad as shake because he was he's mad as shake because he was comfortable in bed, and let him know that he was called multiple friends to help him.

[1:15:18] James Eichelhart: James Eichelhart coming up. So then why didn't you call me Jim James? Let's go. Tony Award winner. James. James Eichelhart is here. To cause mayhem. Yeah. Oh my god. Just the worst. Yeah, man. That was it was a hard night. That was a hard night. Why did you why did you not call or text Javon and be like, hey man, I've already been picked up. We're at the bar. Yeah, like I'm not at the bridge. Come here. We and Ryan got to the bridge. And also, this is when Nick would walk around with a knife on him. And if the and so like can we can we pull that picture back up of this? Oh my god. I see the pain behind his eyes. Nick Nick has like the Black Panther necklace on. Yes. Oh my god. Oh my god. That the darkness is a good thing.

Cheryl, the comment says that she remembers it from the Hamelcast. Also, you can find it on Javon's episode of Little Justice. We go into it again. This is like a defining defining moment. This breaks up is really uh. What if he called me and he was like, told me the story, and then I'm like, bro, I'm already in bed. Like, we got two shows tomorrow. Just like walk it off. Hey, but that's a real friend. That's a real friend. No, that is the real friend. Oh yeah. You went to Spain. It's only his teeth are smiling, his eyes are not. Oh my god. So there we go. That that wraps up our first game of the evening. Our first game. The first game. Jesus. We haven't even spoken about movies yet. Little Justin. Little Justin. Little Justin. Fuck yeah.