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[0:15] Eva: Oh my god. Good morning, everybody. Good day, good night. I don't even know what time it is, but I'm really excited to have you here today. We are with my very dear friend, my favorite musical theater star, and probably one of the coolest chicks I've ever got to work with, Barrett Wilbert Weed.

[0:35] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Hello, Barrett.

[0:36] Eva: Hi, Eva, I'm your favorite.

[0:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think so.

[0:43] Eva: Nice.

[0:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think so. I think current producer, so fair is fair.

[0:53] Eva: Thanks, friend.

[0:54] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Thanks, Fred. I think I'm making real realizations here in quarantine, and I'm just going with my emotions, and I'm so excited to talk to you.

[1:04] Eva: I'm excited to talk to you too. I miss you.

[1:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I missed you as well. I gotta ask girl, where are you? How are you? Tell me about things.

[1:16] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. So I'm at my mom's house in Massachusetts in Cambridge.

[1:21] Eva: So are you taking this moment to discover old artifacts in that old bedroom closet? Like are you digging up photos and letters and you know notes you wrote?

[1:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh 100%. Yes. So I have found all of my diaries, like my childhood diaries, and some of them are hilarious. Like ever since I was a child, I've had this thing where like somebody will give me a diary or a notebook or a journal as a present, and I'll get like two pages in, and then I'll immediately buy another one and be like, no, I like this one better. This is the one. And so I have all these diaries from childhood that are like three pages long and then totally blank. And it's just like, oh cool. So I've always been like this. Um but yeah, I found all my letters I've kept. I have all these sweet little—I've actually it's been great for my memory of my childhood because I keep finding all these sweet little like love notes from like little boys who I didn't really realize I guess had crushes on me.

And in my memory, I was like never loved, and nobody thought I was ever, and then I'm finding all these letters like oh well clearly that's not true. Um, but I also have found um my entire stash of playbills from when I was growing up. So um I saved every single one when I was a kid.

[2:48] Eva: I don't do that so much anymore, but so did I, so did I.

[2:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes, so I have some like mint condition, like really well preserved like playbills that could probably be sold as like collector's items at this point.

[3:04] Eva: Oh my god. That's amazing.

[3:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That's amazing.

[3:08] Eva: Barrett, what's so amazing about talking to you right now, in addition to every reason, is this whole podcast, of course, is about nostalgia and it's about our beginnings, and it's about what made us the theater lovers that we became as adults, and you're in your childhood bedroom right now, so it's kind of perfect.

[3:34] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Wild. Oh, actually, before I painted, I had to, I was taking things off the wall and I had to like pry this like old um this really really old uh poster of Sutton Foster in Little Women off the wall and it had like fully stained the wall. Like I just taped it up there with like scotch tape.

[3:51] Eva: Oh my god.

[3:56] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god. I think you should whatever little pieces it broke into when you had to pull it off, you should photograph and send to her.

[4:04] Eva: Probably just like just dust, just Sutton Foster turning to dust in my hands.

[4:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Well, I think you know this. On my first show, we always talk through four questions, the same four questions, every guest, but of course it leads to different answers, different conversations. And the first question is what was the first show you ever saw?

[4:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my goodness. Um okay, well, it's kind of like a trick answer because I remember the first trip I took to New York City. I think I was about eight or something. I was like really little, and my mom took me and we went with um my two um best little girlfriends and their moms, and um the whole plan was that we were all gonna go see Beauty and the Beast together. Um but I think since mom and I got there a day early, technically the first show that I ever saw was the Scarlet Pimpernail.

[5:13] Eva: Oh no.

[5:14] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But I I don't remember anything about it other than someone got guillotined and I was like, how did they do that? Like it really looked like an actor really put their head in the guillotine and then they really brought the guillotine down, but then he wasn't dead and it wasn't his head, and I still don't I still don't know how they do that.

[5:40] Eva: Theater magic.

[5:41] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Theater magic. Love theater magic. But that's what I remember I couldn't tell you the plot of the Scarlet Pimpernell now.

[5:47] Eva: Like I haven't no one can.

[5:49] Barrett Wilbert Weed: No. Maybe that's why.

[5:54] Eva: But technically that's the version no one can.

[5:58] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh I love you. And and were you so bummed that that was not Beauty and the Beast? Or you sort of got it and were accepting of the Broadway show.

[6:07] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That was like, okay, so we ended up going to see Beauty and the Beast the next day, but it was just because we got there the day before that my mom was like, well, let's go get like um like half price tickets for um for something else, uh, since we have like the night free and that's what we got tickets for, so that's what we saw. But what I do remember um is my trip to go see Beauty and the Beast, which I'm gonna tell you about because I have the playbill right now that it was perfectly preserved in my childhood memory. It literally looks like I just got it.

[6:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um so yes, I remember going to see it also has there were some understudies on that day, so also the little understudy slips are in here. Um but yeah, that was um let's see what year that was. Um okay. This says it's 1996, so that's that was when I went to go see Beauty and the Beast. Um and I remember it was awesome. Um and it's an amazing show. I mean, Beauty and the Beast is it's so beautiful, and I think that was like the um that was kind of like the advent of Disney like being a major force in musical theater, you know, for better or for worse. But Beauty and the Beast was was amazing.

[7:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um I also remember that really well because my my cousin um who's she was more like an aunt to me, um, but she's my mom's cousin. Um and she has she's since passed away. She had uh a bunch of kind of degenerative—that's a hard word to say—illnesses, which really sucked. Um but uh she was uh Broadway actress all through um the 70s and the early eighties and she was in she was in the original casts of Nine and Greece and Grand Hotel. Um and she did the she did the Tony performance for Nine. She was the original Sarah Hina. Um and so she did the Italian on the Tonies that year.

[8:15] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Her name's Kathy Moss. Um and we actually looked a lot alike. Like if you actually pull up a photo of her, like we have like pretty much the same face. Um she had a much more like womanly body than I do, like she's like a like very voluptuous and like curvy and had like the butt that I wish that I had, but um like and also like amazing boobs. I just like I'm like wow, what is it like to look like an adult? Um but uh yeah, so she she uh was excited that my mom and I were starting to get into theater, and that specifically like I was starting to get into theater as a little kid, and so um whenever we'd make these trips to New York, she'd try to make them really special, and she knew um the guy who was playing the beast, and I his name is escaping me right now, so I'm gonna flip through this playbill.

[9:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But let's try take that trip down memory lane in real time, please.

[9:16] Eva: Thank you.

[9:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes. Um Jeff McCarthy uh was the beast. So she knew Jeff McCarthy, and she arranged for him to um take us backstage, and she also arranged for him to put on kind of like the there was there was like the actual beast makeup that was like the prosthetic stuff or whatever, and then I have this memory that there was like another beast head that was like uh I don't know if it was a joke, like if it was just something they had backstage or backup in case something went wrong. Maybe I don't know, but it was kind of like the like the Disney Park version of the head.

[9:56] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And I remember he came around the corner and was like, nice to meet you, like in this voice, and then took the beast head off, and I just like burst into tears and like threw it, like was just like terrified, like screaming, and was like, and I think my friend was there too, and we were both like just like these little girls, like terrified of like this character head coming off, and he's like, Oh no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[10:19] Eva: I was like You were traumatized by the beast revealing he's a man rather than the man revealing he's a beast.

[10:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, which in retrospect is super messed up. Like it's supposed to be the other way around.

[10:37] Eva: Wow.

[10:38] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But um there are some really cool people in this original cast who clearly it was like, you know, their early career as I'm looking at this cast list.

[10:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Wow, can't talk. Um and it's like it's pretty amazing to see like Mark Kutish is in the ensemble. Andrew Keenan Bolger is also in the ensemble.

[11:01] Eva: What?

[11:02] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. Andrea Burns. Um the ensemble. Who else? I mean, I'm sure everyone was fantastic, but yeah, those are the ones I'm recognizing. But most importantly, guess who was Belle?

[11:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Carrie freaking Butler.

[11:20] Eva: Really?

[11:21] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yes. Yes. Who was my dressing roommate in MEAN GIRLS?

[11:26] Eva: Oh my god.

[11:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I have to send this to Carrie. Like that is wild.

[11:34] Eva: You have to send it today.

[11:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But I yeah, I do. But I do I remember she was um fantastic. Like she I mean, obviously Carrie's so so talented and so charming and beautiful and all these wonderful things, but I do remember she was like adorable. And her little headshot is so cute.

[11:54] Barrett Wilbert Weed: First of all, she is a brunette.

[11:59] Eva: Of course.

[11:59] Barrett Wilbert Weed: She had to be. Belle's a brunette. She is so adorable. And she's um yeah, she's a brunette. Uh she has bangs and like a little sweet little bob haircut.

[12:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um and it's so funny, because I only know Carrie as like, you know, the blonde, like kind of like petite bombshell character that you know, she is today.

[12:24] Eva: But that's how we all know her today.

[12:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: But yeah.

[12:27] Eva: She started as a brunette Belle.

[12:30] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, she's our hair color for sure.

[12:34] Eva: That is amazing. What is amazing is I mean, I have to believe that you had the pinch me moments throughout your growth and success and evolution as a Broadway actor, but did you have a memory at some point while being in a show with Carrie Butler that she had a formative experience?

[12:57] Barrett Wilbert Weed: She that she that she provided your formative experience.

[13:02] Barrett Wilbert Weed: No, I've like we I never I never had like um I don't know. We never had a moment where I was like, I bet I I bet you were who I saw in Beauty and the Beast. Like, nope. I we talked about it, and I was like, you know, that was like the first real show that I saw that I have like a real memory of, and she was like, Well, I was you know, in her sweet little voice, she was like, Well, I was in that, you know, like I I don't know, I wonder if you saw me.

[13:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I was I was in that in the 90s. That was one of my first jobs. I probably did see you, but yeah, now I have the proof. I'm so glad that I held on to this play though. And also this cute baby little photo of Andrew Keenan Bolger is like hilarious. Like he I don't think there's ever been a cuter kid. He has like a sweet little blonde bowl cut and that cute little nose that both he and Celia have. Oh, I love that nose. I know, and like and he has sweet little like Dumbo ears. Like out from the side and like just like he's wearing overalls. So cute. Oh my god, it's so freaking cute. But yeah, wild. And also I remember Jeff McCarthy being like Chef's kiss, like amazing. And then I later saw him in uh You're in Town and was like, who's that?

Like amazing. I love this. This is this is why we do this podcast, because of the nostalgia of this moment and the fact that you are in your house and the fact that you are now realizing that it was Carrie Butler that you saw. I'm my mind is blown a bit.

[14:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, also like I'm I just flipped to her bio and at this point in her career it's super short. She has like this. I think this was her first big um credit. Wow. Which is so fun. Um what was the first show you were ever in?

[15:06] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god. Okay. Um ever in well, I was in this kind of like off-brand um like children's like community theater group. It was called the Boston Children's Opera, and I did it for like six years. Um, but I started you had to be old enough to read, and I remember I couldn't. So I think I was we lied, and we I think we said I was older than who was. I I believe I was like five. Um because I'm like, when do kids start reading? Like kind of like first grade, like kindergarten first grade, I think. Just depends on on how pushy your your mom is. That's that's that's that's how I determine it. My mom has always uh been a moderate amount of pushy. Like a moderate push, been very pushy with me, but a moderate amount of pushy, you know, with the people who were like in charge of caretaking for me.

But um yeah, uh let's see. So yeah, I was part of this uh this children's opera group. Well um what was so was it an actual opera that they did or they just called it the Boston Children's Opera because they're pretentious in Boston?

[16:19] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think that's I think that's mostly what it was, but um, yeah, so we did I mean technically they were operas, they were like kind of like fairy tale stories. Um like traditional fairy tale stories set to the the tune of existing operas, but then the person the people who were putting them together um wrote all these lyrics for songs and every kid had to have a solo. So the operas were like three hours long. Like every single one I think was three hours long. Like I remember like it just it took forever to rehearse and I remember all the parents like in the back of the room with like you know that like the 90s like camcorders like set up in the back and like and just like being you know having the patience of saints um watching these little kids do these operas.

But um, but yeah, but my first one was uh Sleeping Beauty, and I was a fairy in Sleeping Beauty. Um I believe I was five. I think we got me like wings from this dollar store that we went to all the time called Benjamin Franklin. Um I believe we got me wings and my mom, my mom was a a professional uh artist, like visual artist for a long time. So she has all these like just like obscenely incredible crafting skills. Um, so I remember she made me, she made me a wand out of excess fabric and like beaded material, and she also made me um like a crown with a little tul veil coming off the back. Um and we still have pictures of me in this outfit. It's like it was like lit. Like I think all the other little girls were like, cool, like what the fuck? Like Baron Baron's supposed to be like a little like have like two lines and be a little fairy and she like looks like a million bucks.

[18:12] Barrett Wilbert Weed: My mom would have done the opposite. Like what what is the opposite of everything you just described? I think it's a I think it's a canvas bag. That would have been my costume. No, yes, not crafty. Not crafty. That's amazing. Did Kathy Moss come and see you in Sleeping Beauty?

[18:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: No, definitely not. Okay. Oh definitely not. That was like no no. Um I don't know if Kathy ever came. Cause I think she was she was fairly ill for most of my um life, and um she wasn't she wasn't working too much as an actor by the time I came into the picture, which I think was why she was so excited to like, you know, facilitate these like special um things.

[19:01] Eva: How often do you think about her career influencing your career?

[19:09] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um I don't know. I think about her influencing me as a person because she and my mom were so close. And when I tell you that this woman was hilarious, like I mean, Kathy, Kathy was like gut busting, like could make you like she just had a gift, like a gift for making people laugh. And um, and so I think she she impacted my sense of humor more than anything, like um, and uh yeah, and also just like you know, my mom's from Texas and um Kathy's from New Orleans, and this it was just kind of this constant um sense of like uh I don't know, like that that charm. Yeah, southern charm and also like just like ridiculous levels of hospitality and storytelling, and like yeah, Kathy was like an exceptional storyteller, like an exceptional entertainer, like more than anything, I think that was like her greatest skill was like just any anyone who ever met her was just like so like charmed by this woman, like she was a very magical person, and um she was a a very large um kind of I don't know in influence on my life in that way.

Like I she was my favorite relative as a kid, like I just was like, when are we going to see Aunt Kathy when like when we see Aunt Kathy? And now of course, like I understand that you know, when I was seeing her, she was really she was really pulling it together for um for my benefit. Like I I really had no idea. Obviously, how can you and your kid know know how much pain an adult is in, but um but yeah, so yeah, I mean I my guess is if she influenced your life that much, that's how she influenced your career.

[21:14] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, definitely that way. I think uh yeah, I think um comedy has always been like a huge um connective force in my life. Like that that is the number one way that I connect with people is like, you know, if we have a shared I think that's why you and I get along so well. Like if we have a shared sense of like what is weird and what is funny, um like that's that makes me want to be around people and it also is like the number one way that I can tell if someone's gonna um you know, allow me to to be understood like in any situation. I think it's also like a really good barometer for intelligence because like I'm I'm of the mindset that all humans are created equally intelligent. We just exhibit that in different ways and um I think comedy is like uh is how I can tell if um I'm on the same intelligence spectrum as someone else and if we're gonna be able to like connect and work together well or have some kind of a friendship moving forward.

[22:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um yeah, you're you're a person whose jokes I always get. Like the weird stories I'm like, oh please tell me more. Like just my my jokes uh largely come from the dad joke ilk. Um so I appreciate that. But that's why but that's what's funny about dad jokes. It's like it's not that the joke is funny, it's the telling of the joke that's that's exactly. Exactly the telling of the dad joke that's hilarious because it just it proves that you have no ego when it comes to.

[22:54] Eva: That's right.

[22:57] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Or received well. Barrett, tell us about, and this is this is like this can be any example of a paid professional gig. Not even an on stage one, but your very first paid professional show.

[23:15] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah, I believe it was this festival show that I was actually the understudy in called Fucking Hipsters. That was literally the the um the title of it. Um and John Carrofa directed it. Um but yeah, but the the lead girl, she was also in a band and she was going on tour, and so there were there were two performances that she couldn't do, and so they hired me to take over for this girl. Um the plot line was was fairly interesting. It was kind of like um it was like these people are roommates, but they're also in a band together, and the lead singer is in love with the pianist who is me, but the pianist like doesn't know that and is also in love with him, but then the lead singer gets into a relationship with this like kind of random um grifter type person who fakes a pregnancy and very dramatic and you know, like all this kind of stuff, you know, all you know, all in an hour and a half. Of course, and it's it I'm guessing it was spelled F pound sign asterisk, 100%.

[24:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And upstairs. Got it. But I had to play the piano in this show, and the the conclusion that we came to for how this was gonna work since I didn't play the piano was that they just unplugged unplugged the piano when I was performing and then you know, obviously like someone in the pit was playing uh playing the piano, but um so there was there was someone's crew duty which was to bend down and pull a plug out of a power socket. I had to do it. I had to like yeah, like I because they just I remember they were just like, Oh, how are we gonna do this? And I was like, You well, we're just gonna unplug the piano before the show. We're just gonna unplug the keyboard. And they were like, What? And I was like, Yeah, and then I just went around to the back of the piano and like had to like demo.

Like I was like, Yeah, you're gonna pull this out, roll this chord up, and then I'm gonna give it to someone and we're gonna we're gonna do this. And they were like, Well, but won't people be able to tell that it's not plugged in? And I was like, I don't think it matters. Like suspension of you know disbelief like, come on, like, um this is a festival show. But I only had one official rehearsal, and so Jared, my roommate, Jared Lofton, who uh is in a lot of my my early New York stories because we lived together for five years, he was like, Okay, well, why don't you memorize everything, get all the blocking, and we will have rehearsals in our apartment because we had a big living room, and so Jared, my sweet roommate Jared would sit on the couch and he would basically just like read all of these parts he with all different voices and like, you know, he's a super talented guy.

He would read all of these different characters with all these different voices, and I would just like basically do walkthroughs of this show in our apartment like every night. Like we did it like every night.

[26:30] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god, oh my god. That was that was more attention that that show got probably in its creative development than 150%. Yes. Um and yeah, and then I I went on and I actually I did a good job.

[26:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I don't think I forgot any of my lines. And wow. Um, did you love that feeling? Like from that point on, you were like, Yep, this feels right. I'm good, and I want to keep doing this. Was there a aha moment? I mean, I think I've had many kind of like, you know, I don't ever want to refer to like someone's show that they, you know, wrote from their heart as like a practice, you know, swing for me, but that being said, you know, that show wasn't seen by that many people, and um, the next job I got after that show was Lissa Estrada Jones, and I think one of the reasons that they were willing to take a gamble on me understudying all those parts, because I understudied like four different women, um, unofficially five, I think, and I was like 22 and didn't know what the hell I was doing.

And I think one of the reasons that they gave me that job was they were like, Well, you just understudied someone in this like random uh like festival show this summer, so like at least you have like some understudy experience. I remember them asking me about it in the room being like, How was that? And I was like, it was good. I just, you know, I rehearsed in my apartment every day, and then I had, you know, one kind of put in rehearsal and I did it. And they were like, Did it go okay? And I was like, Yeah, to my knowledge, I didn't mess up anything. So that's good. Um, but yeah, I think like there was a moment um, you know, with that show where I was kinda like, okay, I can handle this. Like I can handle um like I did that, so I know I can handle that, so I can probably handle this. Um, I was just glad to like to have a job, I think. Any job. I didn't care what it was. At least the first, you know, few months I was in New York. I was just like, just let me try.

[28:46] Eva: Yeah.

[28:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I mean, who knew that people would pay you to do the thing you loved? Like that alone is a win.

[28:51] Eva: Yeah.

[28:52] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And also, you know, I couldn't get a job in summer stock work, like while I was in college for like love or money. And then I came to New York and started doing a bunch of, you know, readings and little development projects and little festival shows and small stuff, like right off the bat. And I was like, Oh, okay, well, maybe I'll work here when I couldn't really work in more um kind of like mainstream uh consumption theater um around the country. But I can't get the lead in me and my girl at the Cornfield community players.

[29:31] Eva: Yeah, I couldn't.

[29:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I mean, I really couldn't. But it's also like, you know, when that's all you have when you that's all you have access to and you can't that's what you're auditioning for and they're like, no, like over and over and over again. You're like, well, I guess I'm never gonna be marrying the librarian in the music band. Like, what am I to do? Um, yeah, and then you come to New York and it's like, oh, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do like only new work.

[29:59] Eva: Um, which you know that's it's hard to train students um to have a career in new work when uh you know obviously when you don't know what that new work is gonna be because it's new.

[30:13] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh yeah, so that was that was good. It was a good experience on the whole, but yeah, fucking hipsters for the win.

[30:18] Eva: For the win.

[30:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: If you could be in any show at any time, we're talking dream role here. What would it be?

[30:33] Eva: I you know, I really want someone I know that there was a musical of Pride and Prejudice at some point.

[30:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: There was. I really want someone to make um like a, you know, maybe I should like talk to some people about this. I really want someone to make kind of like uh not spring awakening, but you know, that kind of like contemporary spin on uh on like an a really old antique piece. I want someone to make a version of Pride and Prejudice. Um, I would love to play uh Elizabeth Bennett. It's one of my favorite um characters. She's so stubborn, and I just I love a stubborn girl because I'm one myself. I think it would be called prejudice.

[31:24] Eva: Exclamation point.

[31:27] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Fucking prejudice.

[31:29] Eva: Fucking F pound sign asterisk.

[31:38] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love it. It's actually a pretty good idea. We should talk.

[31:41] Eva: I know.

[31:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Listen, I have like I think I have like three really good ideas a year. And like, and one of them is like an idea that's actually possible. And that feels like pretty possible to me.

[31:54] Eva: It does.

[31:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yeah. Some good organizations, some good bops. That would be good.

[31:59] Eva: No, I love that.

[32:00] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love that. Is that like off off Broadway? So it's like really grungy, or do you see that on the main stem?

[32:07] Eva: I see that as like um as like a public theater run. Uh, and then, you know, coming coming to Broadway for maybe like a limited run, but then everybody loves it, and so then it gets extended, like that.

[32:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: One of those.

[32:25] Eva: I love that. I love that. I love those.

[32:27] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You know, that's kind of I mean, that's like the the spring awakening journey. Um, where people are like, What the fuck is this shit? And then people were like, oh, this is great. Like, let's keep this running, please.

[32:40] Eva: Um, I love it when that happens.

[32:42] Barrett Wilbert Weed: So we have uh we have a lightning round at the end of every episode.

[32:46] Eva: We don't tell you about it.

[32:48] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay, because you know, I like to surprise.

[32:52] Eva: Okay.

[32:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And what we do, and I love the we, right? I the the the royal we.

[32:59] Eva: I'm part of it.

[33:01] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I'm I'm here for it.

[33:05] Eva: That's right.

[33:05] Barrett Wilbert Weed: What we do is uh we put uh 30 seconds on the clock, maybe we put a minute depending on how well it's going. And I list off classic musicals.

[33:17] Eva: Uh huh.

[33:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That's going to be called titles to you, and you in a lightning round, word association way, list off the emotional theme.

[33:25] Eva: Okay, ready?

[33:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Breathe in.

[33:27] Eva: Breathe in.

[33:28] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Here we go.

[33:30] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Okay. Children of Eden.

[33:33] Eva: God.

[33:34] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Sweeney Todd.

[33:36] Eva: Love.

[33:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Funny girl.

[33:38] Eva: Beauty.

[33:39] Barrett Wilbert Weed: My fair lady.

[33:42] Eva: Bondage.

[33:44] Barrett Wilbert Weed: The Scarlet Pimpernel.

[33:47] Eva: Big old question mark.

[33:50] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Hair.

[33:51] Eva: Joy.

[33:52] Barrett Wilbert Weed: A chorus line.

[33:54] Eva: Pain.

[33:55] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Lacage fall.

[33:57] Eva: Love.

[33:59] Barrett Wilbert Weed: The last five years.

[34:01] Eva: Confusion.

[34:03] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Falsettos.

[34:05] Eva: Self-obsession.

[34:06] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Hmm.

[34:07] Eva: Good.

[34:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: You did great.

[34:10] Eva: Yeah.

[34:11] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I have to say, not everyone does great there.

[34:14] Eva: I get a lot of passive sometimes.

[34:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think I've, you know, I've seen it, but neither one of us know what it's about.

[34:24] Eva: Not even a little.

[34:25] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Not even a little.

[34:27] Eva: I think uh I for a long time I thought it was pumpernickel, so I thought it had to do with a bagel.

[34:31] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh.

[34:33] Eva: No.

[34:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yep.

[34:35] Eva: The scarlet pumpernickel?

[34:37] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Yep.

[34:38] Eva: Wait, that's like, I mean, do you think like Hello Deli has like a sandwich that's the scarlet pumpernickel?

[34:46] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think they, I mean, if they don't, they're gonna have to they hear this episode.

[34:50] Eva: What would that be?

[34:51] Barrett Wilbert Weed: That would be like if I owned like a kind of hipstery like sandwich shop, the scarlet pumpernickel would be like oh easy pumpernickel, pumpernickel bagel, yeah, salmon, yeah, cream cheese.

[35:06] Eva: But maybe like a beet cream cheese.

[35:08] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Exactly.

[35:09] Eva: A beet cream cheese.

[35:11] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Exactly. For the scarlet.

[35:13] Eva: Tomatoes.

[35:17] Barrett Wilbert Weed: A little bit of a dusting of like shredded carrots or like shredded apple or something.

[35:23] Eva: I love it.

[35:24] Barrett Wilbert Weed: And then some kind of like uh has to be some kind of cheese that goes with a bunch of reds.

[35:32] Eva: Maybe a monster.

[35:33] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I think a monster.

[35:34] Eva: I think an orange hued monster.

[35:40] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Oh my god. You, me, and the scarlet pimpernickel are gonna be having lunch sometime soon, my friend.

[35:47] Barrett Wilbert Weed: I love talking to you. Thank you for being with us today.

[35:51] Eva: Oh, my pleasure. This is such a great way to start the day. Thanks for having me. You're an utter delight.

[35:56] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Um, thank you everyone for listening. My friend Barrett Wilbert Weed, find her on Instagram. The rest of the world seemed to and have a wonderful day.

[36:10] Barrett Wilbert Weed: My first show is produced by Josh Altman, MEP, Dory Berenstein, and Alan Seals, and is part of the Broadway Podcast Network.

[36:18] Barrett Wilbert Weed: This episode was edited by Derek Gunther. Special thanks to Leslie Papa and Whitney Holden Gore at Vibacity Media Group.

[36:26] Barrett Wilbert Weed: For more info about the podcast, visit VPN.fm backslash my first show.

[36:32] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Follow me on Instagram at Eva R.

[36:35] Eva: Just the little change.

[36:43] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Small to say that it is a little scale.

[36:53] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Beauty and Ever as people and never just as sure as the sun will rise the same surprise, ever just as sure as the sun rise all last time to the song and sweet and strange I knew you can change and you will soon as the sun.

[38:45] Barrett Wilbert Weed: Certain lasting in me songs all that soul as all as rhyme beauty and all over.