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[0:13] Robert Bannon: Are you ready? It's the round table with me, Robert Bannon. Well, it's a hundred round tables on the Broadway Podcast Network. How did this happen? I don't know. Why did this happen? I don't know. What does it mean? I don't know. But we're gonna find out because I am doing something I hate. Or as my students know me to say, I loathed. Loathe. Giving away control. So I figured it was time to flip the switch and for the first time ever on the roundtable. I mean, Robbie's come on. People have come on, they planned a birthday, but nobody has interviewed me. And Adrian Garzillo is here to interview me. Hello. I think there's even a way to go. Look, watch, watch. Oh, nope. I still am on the right side. I tried to switch it around so that you know she could be on my side and I could be on your side. And if you're watching us, you saw, but if you're listening to us, it doesn't matter. Adrian?

[1:17] Adrian Garzillo: Hello!

[1:20] Robert Bannon: No, she's she's Adrian has been our Adrian Garzillo has been with us running down the award shows. Yes. And giving our hot takes and controversy. I are you ready for this, Robert? I mean, I think I've got some pretty good questions, but I want you to kind of share, you know, be a little honest.

[1:40] Robert Bannon: Listen, I'm not Oprah.

[1:42] Adrian Garzillo: You have been compared to Oprah.

[1:43] Robert Bannon: I am not Oprah. Maybe a little Kelly Clarkson. I'll take it. Or Sherry Shepard, I'll take one of those.

[1:50] Adrian Garzillo: That's cute. I like that.

[1:51] Robert Bannon: I like that. We're ready for Adrian's podcast. Adrian is the first person who brought up a podcast to me. She was supposed to do a podcast. Not Robert Bannon. Adrian Mozilla was supposed to. And I guess you'll hear my journey because this was never intended to be a thing. Well, now Adrian's gonna take her real estate license test. So we'll see what happens. Life changes every day, eh?

[2:15] Adrian Garzillo: It does.

[2:16] Robert Bannon: It does. We did a hundred of these podcasts, opposed to 250 plus YouTube interviews. You have quite an array of content, my friend.

[2:30] Robert Bannon: Uh yeah, and I'm not even as good at curating it as some people are. You know, but we're trying we're we're we I'm very proud and excited to be here on BPN for a hundred episodes and uh on the YouTube and everywhere else. All right. So I'm going to begin here. And can I just say thank you to the Broadway Podcast Network? Because I think it's wonderful that they gave you this wonderful opportunity to share even more and bring more of the viewers that watch you to the Broadway Podcast Network and see what they're about and and bring in more viewers.

[3:04] Adrian Garzillo: And then I'm I'm happy to be a little small part of that. It's very exciting.

[3:07] Robert Bannon: Yes, thank you, Alan Seals, and thank you to the amazing team of everybody at the Broadway Podcast Network for letting me join the likes of some really great Broadway legends who have shows and and personalities who have shows, and we are the premiere spot for content about theater and art. So congratulations on 100 episodes, Mr. Bannon. How does it feel?

[3:33] Robert Bannon: Um interesting. I I'm not someone who really stops to ever smell the roses. Was is that fair to say, Anos?

[3:42] Adrian Garzillo: I think that's very fair to say.

[3:45] Robert Bannon: I don't ever. It's a negative trait of mine is that I never really see the growth. Like I never say, like, wow, we've did great. It's always what we could be doing more. We could be bigger. We could have more views. We could have more streams. Why did last week we do X amount of listens and this week we're not? It's it's sometimes.

[4:00] Adrian Garzillo: You're very you're you always are very aware of the numbers. You you like to see, and it's not about the likes and things like that, but you're like, who's watching? You know, that kind of thing. Because you always we always talk about that, and I I do find that very interesting.

[4:16] Robert Bannon: But I think you do that because you care and you want to put out quality content. And I want the people who want to see it or hear it to find it. Like it is a big um pet peeve of mine that there's communities out there who may like this show or may like the people we have on, and they don't get access to it because I don't reach them. So it is an it's a never-ending battle to try to find a way to connect to people. It feels overwhelming. I feel very grateful. Um sometimes I feel like, what the hell am I doing? Like, why? I must look like a fool, but I but I cool people talk to me, so I must not be as big of a fool as I am in my head.

[4:56] Adrian Garzillo: We are all our own critic. We all have our own doubts and insecurities, and I suffer from them as well.

[5:04] Robert Bannon: Um, but I love it. I I never thought I would like it, but I love it. And when I do stop and reflect, I realize that a lot of my life have prepared me for this moment. You know, Adrian loves talk shows, but I grew up loving talk shows too. I remember John Emmett's in Richmond Park, New Jersey. He, him and Matt Rogers, we went to his house after school and set up a desk and we put on my own version of the Tonight Show. Or if you look at VHS tapes of me, my brother's football games, or I used to narrate or announce the games, even though I knew nothing about football, or I would mute the WWF and call the matches because I wanted to be uh some kind of a personality in that way.

[5:42] Adrian Garzillo: And I think what people don't realize is it's a lot harder than it looks.

[5:46] Robert Bannon: It's it's very hard to be natural.

[5:48] Adrian Garzillo: Yes.

[5:48] Robert Bannon: No, I I agree with that too. And that's a great segue. Uh, because my next question is can you let us know what goes into creating this podcast? Like what is not step by step or or what are what are you what what does it take? What what do you have to do? What is it? What is it that you can fill us in on?

[6:10] Robert Bannon: Um, I don't think people realize the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes. Like the video is the fun part. Like this is the fun part. My speaking is the fun part. The interviews are the fun part. I do get sometimes nervous with an interview. If it's somebody that I don't know what their reaction is going to be, I'm very keen on their energy. So when they come on, you can tell, like, oh, you're game and you're gonna be fun, or okay, I gotta behave myself, or you're a little nervous or passive, or not as good at conversation.

[6:41] Robert Bannon: Um, the interviews start, the the process starts where we book a guest. So my show is very interview guest based. Adrian and myself are the first time we've started to do content other than interviews where we talk about pop culture or whatever, but the guest gets booked through their publicists. Sometimes I pitch a publicist, or sometimes a publicist pitches me. The show is based on the success of the publicists, and they are the unsung hero of the round table. They are the people who pitch me press releases and ask me to have guests. They're the ones that answer my emails. They're the ones that let me on red carpets. They're the ones that let me see projects or bring me guests. And then they core, they're the middle person who really goes back to the guests and says, This is his schedule.

What time can you come on? So there's a lot of red tape and planning that goes into it. Tomorrow I have an interview with the two stars of Harry Potter on Broadway to find time where I can interview them, they can interview. It all is done thanks to a publicist.

[7:35] Robert Bannon: So then we we put up the show, the show is done. Um, and then I edit the show myself. I do all the graphics on the show myself. I upload it to BPN myself. I upload it to YouTube myself.

[7:49] Adrian Garzillo: Let's let's take a moment. You it's you.

[7:52] Robert Bannon: You are this is 100% Robert Bannon.

[7:58] Adrian Garzillo: Yeah, it is it is fully done where I pitch the guests, I interview the guests, I edit the content, I I I make the banners, I post it on social media, I do all of the editing. It's all done in-house.

[8:12] Adrian Garzillo: And episode, Robert. And I I've told you this too. I I don't know how you find the time to do that. And I just think it's a wonderful thing. And I know you have said that you just figured it out, and that's what I think is so amazing that you just like, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna figure it out. And look at what it's become. I think that's wonderful. Kudos to you.

[8:32] Robert Bannon: Thank you. It is it is a labor of love. It takes time. No one is rich from being on a podcast unless you really are a big, you know, I'm not making millions of dollars doing this show. I appreciate the commercials that are on the show. I appreciate the the ads that are on and the the advertisers. It's fun to be able to do commercials now, like my spam a lot commercial, like that's very fun. I never thought that that would be a thing, but I am um it is a and when I interviewed with Alan to have this show here, he said do two two shows a week and we have put out a show a day um on here and i'm nuts i think that's the reality i'm nuts um so for those that may like myself and and others for those that may want to start their own do you have any tips and do you have any tools um that you would prefer that you like using that you may want to share uh with the lovely uh audience out there right now yeah thank that's a good question

[8:50] Robert Bannon: I am so DIY podcast life I don't think you need uh to spend a ton of money on microphones I don't think you need to spend a ton of money on lighting I don't think you need to spend a ton of money on the best MacBook the best editing I think sometimes we focus so much on the way it looks and not on the doing we need to just do it so there are people who come on my show or that are filming it from their phone without any microphone without anything so um if you are looking to start a podcast come up with a niche come up with a name go to these are the things that I use I use be funky.com to make my graphics I know it's like a couple bucks a month people have other ways to make graphics but for me I like be funky it it's easy for me to make the graphic um the Broadway podcast network uses megaphone megaphone is a part of Spotify it is a way for the podcasts to go up and then they go out automatically to all the different ways that you listen to your podcast so if it's through Spotify, if it's through Apple, if it's through Amazon, if it's through wherever, through my website, you can it's easy for that to be done.

[10:36] Robert Bannon: My editing gets done on my MacBook with now no fancy equipment. I edit it all down on myself. If it's if if it's through garage band, if it's through iMovie, it's just something simple. I don't think it needs to look good. I don't think it needs to sound good, but I don't think it needs to be a recording studio. I think it needs to have good content. And those are the things that that mean a lot to me. And then use social media, you know, brand yourself and and use social media and use it as a way to get the word out.

[11:05] Adrian Garzillo: I love that answer. Smoke spoken like a true Kardashian there. Um, no, seriously, because you do, you're very good with your social media. You're excellent in in that capacity. And it is just start. Even if you make mistakes, just start, just do that.

[11:22] Robert Bannon: Um I've made mistakes.

[11:24] Adrian Garzillo: Well, that's actually what I kind of wanted to say. Like, what are some of the challenges that you have come across um, you know, uh in doing the podcast that you would like to share with the the audience?

[11:35] Robert Bannon: Well, when I first started, I I remember, you know, this show came about because I had another show called Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails that was done during the pandemic. And I played kind of second fiddle to somebody else who who had the idea, and we didn't neither of us knew how to do any of this. And it was not a podcast, it was a virtual talk during the pandemic. And we just did it in, I was in my basement in front of the brick wall just for fun. And I I started to just be me, but I was very stifled in that role. You know, I was very second banana to you did. You you had shared with me some really great ideas, and you just tried to kind of say, Hey, let's try this, or or let's have this person on, and you know, try and broaden people's horizons and cultures and things like that.

[12:21] Robert Bannon: And yes, it didn't work. So when it ended, I did miss the the relationship with the people who watch every week. And when I started the show and I was gonna do it on my own, my biggest fear was that I wasn't gonna have guests. My biggest fear was that no one would come on the show, and that has not been my problem. Like I I've been very lucky to build relationships with people and have and the show kind of just snowballs. So it's you start somewhere and you go. What I wish I knew better was how to vet your guests, because sometimes guests are not people we that really align with the show's vision.

[12:59] Robert Bannon: And and I wish that we could do better in terms of um learning the nuances of tone and volume and and and how to to be on on audio and video so that it's a pleasant experience. You know, I'm a loud Jersey person, and sometimes when I listen back to the audio, I go, okay, we don't need to be screaming, we don't need to be overly animated. Us Jerseyans tend to kind of be a little loud.

[13:24] Adrian Garzillo: It's just the conversation that needs to be had.

[13:29] Robert Bannon: So I I I those are things that I still learn. And red carpets. I mean, we've come a does a lot of red carpets. I always give credit to A and Mike for red carpets, but A does uh a lot of red carpets with me, and we have gotten a lot better at that as well. You know, we we Oh my goodness, leaps and bounds better. I mean, we were just literally we were just like, okay, we're gonna do this.

[13:50] Robert Bannon: And you and I looked at each other and we're like, okay, here's the phone and here's the microphone if it works. And and again, it was a learning process. So there were things that you tried it, it didn't work. And I think it goes back to what I had said to you, like what you had said, just try it. Just try it.

[14:05] Adrian Garzillo: Right.

[14:05] Robert Bannon: And we started with a $20 microphone. It was a piece of garbage. But we but we did it, you know, a $20 mark microphone.

[14:11] Adrian Garzillo: Yes.

[14:12] Robert Bannon: And my style, I hate talking about myself because it's very odd, but my but my style is very hate it.

[14:20] Robert Bannon: My style is very different than a lot of other shows. It is a very casual show. We don't do gossip. I don't want people to feel uncomfortable. I don't, you know, I what I don't want people to feel uncomfortable even on the red carpet. And I'm a lover of entertainment. So I don't want to be very stoic and I'm not Walter Cronkite. I am not um, you know, that we're trying to have fun. And if we're open a Broadway show or we're talking to an actor or a singer, I want to have as much fun as the person watching. There are serious moments, but I think when people stop at the round table on a red carpet, or if you come on here, I hope they know that you know it's a party. We're here to have a good time.

[14:57] Adrienne Colon: You also, and I think you're selling yourself a little bit short. You do your research. You really, you're almost like Howard Stern, like how Howard Stern really delves when he has his guests on. When we go to a red carpet, you have your cards, you have your stuff all ready to go. And I'm it's nice to watch being behind the camera when they come on and you talk about something that they were like, how did you know that? And this the thespian is very excited that you took the time to know that to find that out about them.

[15:29] Robert Bannon: And I also love it's exciting when it is a Broadway debut of someone, and you always bring that up and they get so excited. And I love that interaction that you have between them. And it's just really wonderful to watch. And I think we it doesn't have to be gossipy. We can we still have loads of fun. We actually gossip about those around us, not so much the celebrities that are watching on the carpet. Just saying, very small world, very small. And nobody on the Broadway podcast, I love my Broadway podcast people, Rob, you know, from the Art of Kindness Podcast is my kind of people. He gets it. He gets what this is like.

[16:01] Adrienne Colon: Oh, yes, we love Rob. Yes. And you know, like there are some great people. The Broadway Podcast Network has great people on. You know, Joel Crump has a podcast here.

[16:12] Robert Bannon: Oh yes. Like they're there, we're we're a happy place, BPN. But you know, to go to go with that point is that research is important. I don't script my interviews here. Nope. But I have notes and I think it's a conversation. But yeah, I want to know where you went to school. I want to know where you grew up. I want to know if this is your Broadway debut. I want to know, you know, what did you what inspired you growing up? Because I think that the love is in the details. So being specific gets you a unique conversation with someone.

[16:43] Adrienne Colon: And not only that, I also am gonna give you more kudos. I know you really loathe this right now, because when the strike was happening, you and I were both really nervous because we're like, what's gonna happen? Who's gonna come and talk to us? And you were able to flip it for those that were very kind and did come and talk to us because some of them are like, listen, you know, thank you. We can't, and we and you as a SAG member respected them a thousand percent. And for those that did come over, we found other fun things to talk about. And that's where you as an interviewer comes in handy. And I do think you do sell yourself a little short because you really do such a wonderful job and you make them feel at home.

[17:23] Robert Bannon: When we interviewed Marsha Cross, um, oh from Scandal, um, one of your favorite people. Oh, I can't think of her name.

[17:31] Adrienne Colon: Bellamy Young.

[17:33] Robert Bannon: Yes, uh those I love watching those moments with you and Josh Groban. I just uh Jessica Chastain, just those small little moments are what just builds, I think, more of an audience. And I again I just think you really do a wonderful job at that. And I'm very proud of you.

[17:48] Adrienne Colon: You know what's weird? Um, thank you, A. Uh what's weird about those people you mentioned? You know, I grew up being a fan of all of those people. I grew up, you know, loving Bellamy Young on Scandal. I love Josh Groban. I've sung "You Raise Me Up" everywhere. I I I but I don't get nervous. Ever.

[18:05] Robert Bannon: You never, I literally am standing there and like, well, not anymore, but like if it's a like Jessica Chastain, I mean she's stunningly beautiful, was super nice. She gave you a hug. You're like, Jessica gave me a hug. She was just so down to earth and wonderful. And I think we forget that that they're just regular people. That's it.

[18:25] Adrienne Colon: Right. But I think that's right. But that's what I think about it when I when I interview them. They are just a person who has a story to share, and they're working and I'm working, and we're just gonna have a human interaction. I think it's very uncomfortable to listen to or watch people who are not genuinely authentically who they are. When you put it on an air and you try to be something you're not, I think it's very so what has been all right.

[18:52] Robert Bannon: So we're gonna we're gonna end on a happy well, not ending, but what was your do you have a least favorite moment?

[19:00] Adrienne Colon: Oh, oh, okay, let's go. I'm ready for this. You don't have to name names if you don't want to.

[19:06] Robert Bannon: Oh, yes, we are. I love it. Um, so yeah, if I was on Watch What Happens Live, I'm not pleading the fifth, I'm answering. Yes, uh, Andy Cohen, uh, bravo. Like Robert needs to be the bartender on there. Let's go. I'm I'm pushing for it. I'm working, you gotta be on there. You gotta do it. Listen, Marge or Rachel or uh anyone from New Jersey Housewives, Melissa, have Robert on when you guys are on the show. He could be the bartender. Come on. See, hey, you're a publicist in your own head, in your own way.

[19:37] Adrienne Colon: I um, so I don't we we just talked, me and A just talked about drag queens, and I give my controversial opinion about RuPaul's Drag Race, and I never watched the show, and I'm not a good gay like that, and blah, blah, blah. So um, one uh a really great publicist uh does a lot of drag uh queens and it has become friends of mine and and gives us a lot of a lot of guests for in the world of drag and and in songs, and I never did research on this person because I didn't realize that there were canceled drag queens in the world. Like yes, so I just thought, like, if you won the show, you must be a loved drag queen.

[20:14] Robert Bannon: Oh and if you have albums that have sold millions of copies, you must be a loved drag queen. And you know, Drag Race wouldn't put someone and win that is not a nice human being. So I did have I did have Sharon Needles on the show, and Sharon did come on late. She would not show her face. She only did it via phone, and she said some really terrible crazy, crazy town things, and the publicist was on the phone with me. Oh, and when it ended, he said, thank you for handling that like a professional. That was really hard. And I put it out and buried it because I didn't I didn't. Everyone is allowed to tell their story, and just because you come on the show doesn't mean you share my opinion and we share an opinion.

You know, Aldo had the Ku Klux Klan on and got punched on the face. He didn't he didn't agree with them. It was a conversation. Oprah has had people on who doesn't agree with her, but it's a conversation. We are gonna disagree. And this is you are allowed to just have an opinion, but you're not allowed to hate on my show. No, you're allowed to be racist, sexist, homophobic on the show.

[21:27] Adrienne Colon: Right. And um I learned my lesson to to double check uh the guests a little bit that we can't have everyone.

[21:35] Robert Bannon: Right, no, and that's listen, and and again, it was a learning curve. And and that sometimes, yeah, that that's just don't forget the people are not voting for the for the winner. It's RuPaul.

[21:47] Adrienne Colon: Now A's giving RuPaul shade. Oh, little little shade. Um, so what what's one of your you and you can name more than one? Um, what's your what has been your most fun?

[21:54] Robert Bannon: I have two. Your most fun moment, and what was your most like heartwarming moment?

[22:02] Adrienne Colon: Oh, these are hard. I should have thought about this. My favorite my favorite moments, um my favorite moments uh uh interviews in this studio, as I say, as it's not a studio, but you know, like in here, um, has definitely been Lunel. Lunel is my home girl. She is the best, she was here to play, and we kicked it up like nobody's business. When she told me that she sucked the director's finger to be Borat to get Borat's role and pulled the behind the scenes, and she couldn't say she wasn't the prostitute for six months because they needed to keep the story like it was a very fascinating interview. She was very kind. How that came about. I was watching BET. Nick Cannon did a uh Christmas movie, and Lunel was one of the church people at Church Mothers, and she was so funny.

And I DM'd her, I took a picture and I said, Lunel is funny in everything she does. She reached reposted it, and then I DM'd her and said, I want you to come on my show. She sent me her publicist information, and it took like four months. But that's you know, it's always about networking, networking, networking, networking, networking.

[23:07] Robert Bannon: Uh nine out of ten times you'll get turned down, people won't answer you, but you have to be in it to win it. You have to just keep trucking along and build good relationships and good interviews with people, get you more people to interview because they have a experience. Um, I love Sherri Shepherd, uh, she's a sweetheart, and it was a great interview. I I love people seem to really love Barry Bostwick eating the hot dog. It was the most chaotic random moment. It was never planned. I did not know he was gonna eat a Frankfurter and say he was Frankfurter. I did not, I don't, or was, you know, I I don't know those moments, but those are definitely some of the moments that stand out for me.

[23:45] Adrienne Colon: What were you gonna pick?

[23:46] Robert Bannon: Me? Oh my goodness. Uh the the Frankfurter is a good one. Lunel, and I have to say, I because and I I uh had always known who she was, but I did start to follow her on social media. She is one funny lady. Let me tell you, she heard she was just on vacation. I love following her and her family. I love that she lets you in and shares, and then you do that as well, too. You share a lot of your life um as well. And people don't have to do that. And I just I thought that was really sweet, but I know she she definitely um is is a fan of yours.

[24:17] Robert Bannon: So oh my gosh, I don't know. Well, uh what about like are there any red carpets that stood out to you that you really enjoyed doing?

[24:24] Adrienne Colon: Yes, I yes. I mean, I know for A and me it was a big deal to be at the Tribeca Film Festival. We had a lot of fun at at the uh film festival. We learned you speak about learning curve. We learned about how those things operate. So those new things, um, and Broadway openings. Uh, some of them have been really amazing, you know, like what, you know, I got to speak to Barry, even if it was 30 seconds to speak to Manuel with everything. You know, what once upon a one more time, the red carpet was longer than the show lasted, but we had fun. We had that was probably that was probably my most fun. And I think because we were also kind of like indoors a little bit, so it made it a little bit easier, and a very fun festive um carpet. And Ja Ja's was one of my favorites.

[25:10] Robert Bannon: Oh my gosh, Chirag and Corey Hawkins, and oh, if I could interview Chirag. And you we saw Danielle Brooks briefly. Yes, with Danielle Brooks, and you know, uh, we Ja was a star packed carpet. It was. It's just and it it really is it it it starts out kind of slow, and then forget all bets are off. It's it's chaos.

[25:35] Adrienne Colon: It is it is a very fast moving, quick. You do not have time to think. You have to be on your feet and you have to just attack and jump. Because, you know, you have to be the greasy wheel, blah, blah, blah, whatever the expression is. That's what it's that's what it is. And I'm always looking out of here, like, okay, who's next? Who's coming? Just sometimes because I'm a little more TV than Robert is. So if I notice someone, I'm like, oh, that's so and so. Like the gentleman, uh, what's his name? Uh, who looks like Mark Ruffalo? He literally looked like a homeless person and he was on Ja Ja's carpet.

[26:09] Robert Bannon: And uh Noah Centineo, whatever his name was. And he did not come over because the strike was happening, but he waved. And, and you know, I I try to help Robert out in those situations because he is in the know, but sometimes no, I'm not he's a little behind the curve.

[26:25] Adrienne Colon: Just a little bit.

[26:26] Robert Bannon: A lot. Just sometimes.

[26:28] Adrienne Colon: So, okay, I want your top five favorite guests that you have had on.

[26:34] Robert Bannon: That's so hard. Five, that's not too member who's done this damn show. Um, that's such a good question. Uh I I'm can I cheat? Can I look at who's been you can cheat a little bit? Yeah, I mean, Robert, it's been how many episodes? So, yeah. Well, I did say Lunel.

[26:53] Adrienne Colon: You did say Lunel, so you got one, so four more.

[26:57] Robert Bannon: And I do love Sherri.

[26:58] Adrienne Colon: Yes, and it was I was very honored that Sherri came on my show because that was a really, really great interview.

[27:04] Robert Bannon: And she has her own show, so you know, I I really appreciated or you know what? Let me let me retract that because I know you have favorites, but what were your five most favorite interviews? Like the whole, not just the person, the whole interview of it uh of itself.

[27:18] Adrienne Colon: Um, I really loved talking to Kelly Price.

[27:25] Robert Bannon: Kelly Price, you know, is a Grammy, it's is a superstar singer. We sat for an hour and 20 minutes, and she told all, like she and now she's uh went crazy because she's speaking about the gospel community, and she's she is not afraid to hold back. And I love her.

[27:41] Adrienne Colon: Um, Angelica Ross is a great interview.

[27:44] Robert Bannon: Oh, lovely person, always an amazing interview, has done been on the show three times. Yes, always very excited and grateful to be on the show.

[27:52] Adrienne Colon: I love Caitlin Allen.

[27:53] Robert Bannon: Caitlin Allen gives good conversation.

[27:56] Adrienne Colon: Caitlin Allen has been on twice now and always gives good talk.

[28:00] Robert Bannon: So I'm such good energy. He his vibe is so great, and you guys really do uh a phenomenal interview. Uh Javier Munoz, who Hamilton, HIV, and cancer advocate, great interviews. Great Justin Garini is a great interviewer.

[28:15] Adrienne Colon: Oh, we love Justin.

[28:16] Robert Bannon: Yes. So, you know, I have Mark Summers was a great interview. Jodi Benson was a great interview. Anna Maria Horsford is a great interview. You know, like I have had Wendell Pierce is a great interview.

[28:26] Robert Bannon: I have had Ricky, uh, Ricky Minor, Whitney's band leader for a hundred years, sat for an hour and talked about Whitney. You know, there have been moments on the show that have been really special interviews. So I'm very grateful. Jennifer Holliday is a trip. Oh, Jennifer. So they're Chaz Palma and Terry, Isaac Mizrahi, you know, that goes on and on and on, and I'm very lucky to have had a chance to talk to them.

[28:51] Adrienne Colon: What I know we kind of we touched on this a little bit. What is the recipe though, Robert? What's the recipe that makes a great podcast? What are the ingredients?

[29:03] Robert Bannon: Um, entertainment. And you need to represent the person listening. I am not Robert Bannon who gets to sing places and go to red carpets, and I never look at myself as their level. I don't know, and it makes sense. Like I am not a comrade, even though some of them become friends, some of them are very sweet, some of them reach out, some of them are excited to talk to me, like I'm excited to talk to them, but I never will let that get to my head. I am always the fan, I am always representing the viewer. I always want to be excited to talk to them. I always want to ask questions that I think the people want to hear, and I always want it to be entertaining. I don't ever want it to be about me. I had a bad experience in the past show with a co-host that made everything about them.

This is my new faucet, this is my new shoes, this is my new this, this is my new that. That is not fun for people to watch. And if I talk about my personal life in the first 20 minutes, a la Regis and Kathy Lee, Kelly, Mark, whatever, that is the moment where it's me and you having a conversation as a viewer. I never want to take away the shine of the guests. It's their moment. They're a guest in my house, and I want to hear about them.

[30:17] Adrienne Colon: I love that. That is really great. And I think you are very because I say to you, um, you are kind of famous. I know you say no, yes, you are. When we were on the red carpet, our last red carpet, or maybe not that we did together, uh-huh, and we were just standing there getting ready, and there was a gentleman behind us, and I thought he was part of this, and you literally just got there, and he's like, "Hey Robert Bannon, blah blah blah." Hey, you know, and I said, "Oh, is he on here?" And Robert's like, "I don't know who that is," and he was a fan. You know, he had watched us, and he was talking about our Harmony Press Day where I wore very manual socks and he watches and listens to us on the round table.

Can I give a shout out to the people who watch us every single week? You know, there's a core group of ladies who are here day in and day out that have really supported this show. They're in here when nobody else is around, and I want to thank they called them, I didn't give them the name, they call themselves the round tablers, and I am really grateful for the people who have watched every week.

[31:17] Robert Bannon: Every week. That's awesome.

[31:18] Adrienne Colon: They are really.

[31:25] Robert Bannon: But I'm grateful. You are a little bit, you've come a long way.

[31:29] Adrienne Colon: Oh, that's true. Okay. From, I mean, you yourself are also a performer, yeah. Besides being an interviewer.

[31:35] Robert Bannon: So, um, that's right, go to roundfather.com, stream the albums. Speaking of your fans, because you do have a really solid fan base, and I think that's so important because, and they're so positive, uh, some of them. Um, do you have a best fan interaction? Or maybe one that might have made you cringe at one point in time? You could do the cringy one first.

[32:03] Robert Bannon: You like that one? Adrian's trying to get me in trouble. I have had to block people. Yes. Um, I guess that's when you know you've made it. I get weird DMs. I do get weird DMs. I just recently got one where someone said, "I have a girlfriend, but your face is intriguing and the way you hold your hands in the round table picture," you know, weird. Um, I've had to block someone who was sending me, Googled my address, which the address you get when you Google me is not where I live. So, but I was getting mail and I've gotten fan mail, I've gotten mail when my album came out to sign my CDs or whatever. That's really sweet and it shocks me because I used to do that as a kid. But when you send me like pictures of like dead animals and love notes and there have been scary moments.

And people are, it's Oprah used to say, I'm in people's living room or kitchen every day, so they think they know me. So when I, I understand that like I share my life, so people think we're that I know them. And as long as they're respectful and they're not, you know, the killer, um, I'm excited to talk to you. I, I, this com question makes me so uncomfortable because, well, so okay, so that's your cringiest, but do you have a favorite fan interaction or moment that you would like to share?

[33:30] Robert Bannon: You know, my fifth grade students think I'm a big deal, which I find so funny, and um, and I guess it's cute to see it in their eyes because they see me talking to people that they know and I'm a fifth grade teacher at heart. You know, like I'm a fifth grade teacher in New Jersey, and that's what I always say on the show. Like I am, Wendy Williams used to say, I'm just Wendy from, you know, New Jersey. I think that there's something to that. I, um, my favorite fan interactions are when people do stuff for me, like people have been very generous, not in the scary dead animal ways, but I have gotten some really special things. If it's Christine giving me round table coasters and Christmas tree ornaments, or, you know, lattes, uh, gives me my pride nutcracker or a piece of Broadway art or stuff like, um, as a fan of the show that we used to do quarantine cabinet cocktails, you know, she sent me, she made me a painting.

[34:22] Adrienne Colon: I was just gonna say the painting, yes.

[34:24] Robert Bannon: And that's really sweet and thoughtful. And I think that's a wonderful thing too, because you know me, I am a fan too, and I just think when you can share that because they appreciate you and be respectful, I think that's a wonderful thing.

[34:37] Adrienne Colon: Yeah, I'm really grateful. It's very sweet that people would go out of their way for that. And I know it's weird. I know you always say, like, it's weird, like I can't, and again, you're, but you, that's because you are a genuine authentic person.

[34:48] Robert Bannon: Weird.

[34:49] Adrienne Colon: And I say that about you all the time. Uh, and I will continue to say that about you. Um, so I think I'm gonna save that question for last. I'm gonna snatch my nails out of my fingers this time.

[34:59] Robert Bannon: No, no, no.

[35:00] Adrienne Colon: So, uh, okay, so here's a question. Would you do anything differently if you started this today? Like if you knew then what you know now? Would you have, would you do anything differently?

[35:12] Robert Bannon: Yes, absolutely. Um, I think I would have, I'm still not good at this. I'm not good at asking for, I'm good at asking for help about certain things. Uh, I'm not good at giving up control. And I think if there was a team with this show from the beginning where I felt comfortable delegating, like you're in charge of editing and you're in charge of social media and all that stuff costs money, which is another thing. But um, I wish I had, uh, more, I wish I was able to give up control. I'm learning to kind of let go and let God, I'm not good at it. And I am learning that in my personal life and my professional life. Like sometimes you gotta just enjoy the ride. You can't be behind the steering wheel.

And um, that's a deep reasons why we are like that. Control freaks usually come from trauma or issues or trust issues or whatever, but I wish I could just stay in the moment and enjoy the moment. I started to look back on years, like at the end of the year, like how we grew from a year because we don't see it on the day-to-day. We don't see the progress. So, um, I wish I could, I wish I could divvy this pie up a little bit more. And I still can. I still can.

[36:25] Adrienne Colon: Yes, yes.

[36:27] Robert Bannon: You, you, you have done a little here and there, which is good, but it is also your baby. So I can also attest to that where if I want to do something, I'm going to do it because I don't trust someone else to do it the right way.

[36:41] Adrienne Colon: Yeah, and that's how I feel.

[36:42] Robert Bannon: And I do understand that. I'm a very hard, uh, I'm not patting myself on the back, but I work hard. So like I, and I'm, I'm very impatient. So, like if I'm gonna want something done, I would rather just do it so it's done than wait for someone to fit it into their schedule. It's very hard for me to be like, they got it. No, I have 15 minutes, I'm gonna do it. And it's very hard for me to not be like that. And thank you for sharing that because I know that's very vulnerable to share that, and it's not easy because you know, people see the finished product and they're like, wow, you must have such a great team, and you're like, hi, it's me. Like, you know, that's that, but that's an amazing thing. But hopefully, maybe now in the future, you can figure out those avenues to do that. But like you said, it costs money to do that, which is why you need some sponsors.

[37:25] Adrienne Colon: So that's why I'd like to take this moment. It's not really a question. But Robert, are there any brands that you particularly like? Or, you know, something like that? Because you know, I know we won't say their name because they tried to get a wine or whatever. We don't need wine. We need, but we could use a sponsor, someone.

[37:47] Robert Bannon: I would love a sponsor. I, hey, I, you know, Renee Taylor. Yes. Renee Taylor of the Nanny. Yes, and me were friends for a moment. We had a celebrity feud. We have a celebrity feud. She robbed my recording equipment, and she forgot about it because we saw her on a red carpet and she doesn't even know who I am. And that's okay because she's 117 years old. But the point, the point is we were friends, and she taught me something. She said, when she goes to a restaurant, she calls the restaurant, she asks to speak to their PR, and she tells them that she's coming because she gets a free appetizer. And I, and she did it at Italy, and we did eat a free appetizer too. Wow. And then my brother was getting married, and she said, "Tell them it's a celebrity wedding and it's gonna be featured in the press and get a price down."

And I found this the funniest shit ever. That she was, what would, and that's what celebrities do. Now, I am not of that ilk, and I couldn't get my brother a free wedding. Because, and if I could get a free wedding, trust me, I'm getting married. I would get a free wedding for me. But what I, but what I do think is good is that brands, especially nowadays, have opened up their minds to podcasts, social media influencers, TikTokers, YouTubers. It's not the old school Super Bowl commercial that makes an impact as much as it used to back in the day. So would I like a brand? Yeah, I think that Broadway shows and I think that movie, you know, AMC theaters and streaming platforms and we are a place of records, we are a place that talks about entertainment.

So if you are, and I have gotten a lot of free tickets, and I'm very grateful I've gotten a lot of good experiences. If it's Disney on Ice, if it's Madame Tussauds, if it's people have, you know, I've gotten to see a lot of cool stuff, and my favorite thing is that I get to bring people I love with me. It is a joy of mine to be able to bring people to a Broadway show or bring people to a concert, and they get to see or meet somebody that they love is one of the perks of doing this. So, yes, come on. I drink a lot of diet soda.

[39:47] Adrienne Colon: I was just gonna say Diet Coke, don't be shy.

[39:50] Robert Bannon: Come on now, Diet Coke. We, you know, I go to Dunkin' Donuts every day. Every day, my fiance, come on now. My, my fiance said, I wish the people at Dunkin' Donuts would have a crush on you so they give you free coffee to keep the Dunkin' Donuts bill down. The Dunkiness is what I spend the most money on. Sponsor me. Right? Just a little something, just, or like you said, have a little commercial, you know, AMC theaters. You go, you go to the movies often. You hey, let's, you know, regal cinemas, whatever that may be. I'm just saying, you know, little something, you know, out there, just a little, a little push. Or how about Soiree? Hey there, you know, just saying.

[40:34] Adrienne Colon: I like that. They're good.

[40:36] Robert Bannon: Yes, come on, Marge. Just saying, listen, I'm trying to help you out here. You know, I always try to find that angle for you. Somebody paid me. I'm here for it.

[40:44] Adrienne Colon: Right. Um, okay. Um, do you have any favorite podcasts? I mean, I know you're very busy, so it is difficult for you to listen.

[40:57] Robert Bannon: Um, I love all the podcasts. As I say at the end, I love the Broadway Podcast Network. I love the Art of Kindness. I really do love Rob. Listen to Rob's podcast, he does a really great job. He had Carol Brennan, and I'm a little bit of a hater. I, um, I, uh, I do. I and you know, I had a conversation with a really great woman, and I listened to her podcast about moms. It's she's coming up on here, you know, that she, she and she talked to like Taylor Dane and Elizabeth Gilbert about motherhood and what is it like to be a working mom. I think that there are really great people who do conversations like that. Um, I love, I love entertainment, so I like people that do interviews or have conversations. I don't listen to a lot of podcasts, I don't listen to a lot of YouTubers and TikTokers. A tries to get me too. I don't follow it as much because I'm usually creating this.

[41:46] Adrienne Colon: You're creating the, you're creating the art.

[41:47] Robert Bannon: So, but that's where I come in because I'm like, did you listen to Smartless today? Did you hear who they had on? People send me guests and Adrian and people who've watched, you know, Robbie Benson is on the round table. Um, Robbie Benson is on the round table because Marie Langie, who watches the show every week, grew up obsessed with Robbie Benson. So if I can get Robbie Benson to come on and say to Robbie Benson, Marie's watching and she loves you, that gives me joy. You know, so you love Marie. Marie's a wonderful, wonderful friend and fan. She's a lovely lady.

[42:15] Adrienne Colon: Yes. So I do take the recommendations and I do send requests. I know. You've been trying hard, John Gallagher Jr. You've been trying really hard, I know. Um, so what is something that we can look forward to in the we're in now 2024, which is crazy. What can we look forward to, um, with the future on, uh, Broadway Podcast Network?

[42:42] Robert Bannon: Oh boy, there's about 172 uh Broadway openings happening. Um so you know, if it's the notebook, if it's water for elephants, if it's um if it's the whiz coming back to Broadway, you know, we are here for all of that. So I look forward to being on a bunch of red carpets and really ushering in this season. Really special, close to my heart opening this year is Limpika by Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer and directed by by um by Rachel uh uh Chafkin, who directed Hades Sound. Matt is going to be doing a special series with me, uh, in addition to the round table, where we're gonna talk about how he created the show and why he created the show and it kind of I saw the cast good fun cast and Ambrimon and all of these amazing um people that are gonna be in the show.

Natalie Joy Johnson is gonna be on Broadway, thank you, Jesus, because she's so amazing. Such where these people have been with the show for a long time, and Aiden is a superstar, and I'm really excited for Lumpika. So I'm ready for their opening, I'm ready for the press that comes with Lumpica, and then you know, we do have there are reality stars, and there are Broadway stars, and there are you know influencers that are all lined up to be this show, is booked over a month in advance, so it's like it is it is you know, it continues to grow, so there'll be a lot of content, and then for me, you know my pride show is coming to 54 below again and soon and my music is streaming and I'm always tinkering and thinking of ways that I can create new music and and do new things and new shows and pride, you know.

If you are in um Detroit or if you're in William Patterson University is doing a Pride Festival for the first time and I'm performing at it. Um, you know, there are always a lot of events to come. So just stay on top of it at Robert M. Bannon on Instagram or at Robert Bannon.com.

[44:25] Adrienne Colon: That's really amazing. That's phenomenal for William Patterson if you're doing that, and for you to go back as an alum, I think that's great. Uh chewy, don't eat the mac and cheese. Sorry, your dog is eating the mac and cheese off the table. Um live, live, live. We are live. Um so this is the question I wanted to save for the end.

[44:45] Robert Bannon: Oh boy. What are, and I'm only asking for five, and Barry doesn't count. Well, kind of. What are your top five dream dream guests that you could have? And what would be the one question you would ask each of them? Two-part.

[45:06] Adrienne Colon: He's literally eating the macaroni and cheese. That would drive me insane.

[45:10] Robert Bannon: Um, I uh so I had Oprah Winfrey. You know, if she's in the Illuminati or not, now she's never doing my show because I just said that. But if she's if she is she uh I had a relationship with her executive at one point, I had a I had a little bit of a relationship with her executive director, her her chief of staff, Amy. And when I was going through a really hard time, you know, if you heard my story, if you know my history, I was married, I was divorced, I had a process of coming out. I had a very difficult journey back to performing. And at one point I had gone to the Oprah Live Your Life tour in Miami and I met Oprah with my ex-wife. And we took a picture and I was so bummed that that afterwards Oprah signed it and I and all of this stuff.

And I was like, and now we have this bitter divorce, and I can't hang this picture up anymore. So I cropped her out and I sent to Amy. And Amy, uh, the day I got divorced, FedEx came and delivered me a package. And when I opened the package, it was the picture from Oprah with a note that said, Life goes on and gets better. And it's like she's a psychic. And um, and I I want to, I want to have her on, not to say, like, well, I have Oprah or that she's so famous or whatever, but I wanted to have her on to ask, you know, the journey, her journey. And in not that it's any way near mine because I'm not Oprah, but like her journey from what she used to do to how she became kind of the self-help jo, like finding your peace and your joy, and what what prompted her to be that way because I feel more in line with my purpose on this show than I have ever done on a stage.

I love to sing. My show is not inspirational in the way that this show is. My show, my concerts are like a party. Like I want you to come and have a martini and dance and sing, and they're very informal and they're very fun. And I tell body stories and I make fun of everybody and myself. It's in a different way than this. So I want to know how she transitioned into that.

[47:10] Robert Bannon: Who do I love? I love um, oh God, she's put up a one. That means that there are four more. Four more. Um music wise, they'll never come, they'll never come on this show. But I love Elton. I love Steven Tyler. Uh I love, you know, the people that that are singers that I have really loved and I i love to know their journey and how they wrote wrote their music so I wouldn't want to say to them what's your process question I ask on this show what's your process how do you write what comes first where are you do you record it in a phone like things like that i'm very into the the how to the the what makes things happen what is the things that happen i finished the stri stri stand will never do my this is a ridiculous list but i finished her book i read it all like all the good gays out there and i you know she talks so much about the the misconceptions about her being a perfectionist versus someone who just really cares and how she she's not difficult to work with she just has a very clear vision and she really lays out how hard she fought to make the movies that she made and how it was not easy for her and that's a fascinating journey and her interviews have been so good with Howard Stern or with Gail etc so I would love to sit with someone uh and have those kind of deep deep rooted conversations.

[47:26] Robert Bannon: Who else do I want to talk to? Not Barry Manilow, those are three. Clive oh you know Clive Davis well hey you know we get shady with me and Adrian but Clive you know is a controversial person as time has gone on because you know I wonder a little bit about his journey into his sexuality and you look at Barry Manilow who came out at 78 years old and you know it says Clive kind of told him to be quiet Clive didn't come out about his sexuality now you have the allegations about Diddy out there and Clive was the subsidiary parent company of bad boy diddy was still invited to the Clive party now here comes A and me in the gossip that's what happens when we so like Clive is but his story and his journey and his book moved me incredibly much so and I oh I would just want to know about Whitney. You know, we both have sure a love of Miss Witten. And and uh I mean, like I said, so this would be anyone. Would you have Wendy on?

[49:13] Adrienne Colon: Yes, that's my fifth person.

[49:15] Robert Bannon: You know, I went to the first one. I mean, I live in New York City. I live in New Jersey outside of New York City, and I go back to Wendy from hot 97 to WBLS, so when she was left for dead and was was doing gossip in Philly because of Diddy. And you know, she then I went to her very first recording, uh taping of her talk show. Me and Mike went. There was no guest, there was some soap person, soap opera star. It was the first show. They gave everyone as a giveaway a package of Q tips. I swear, I swear on my mother. It was a package of Q tips. And Wendy kind of cycled and circled around my life. Like she lived in this area. I would see her at Riverside, I would see her at the Short Hills Mall.

Uh, we would go to see her if we went to her comedy night back in the day. Yes, and her book signings too. We went to her book signings. So when she had the talk show and everyone would watch and be like, she's never gonna make it. This is never gonna be successful. Um, she she is controversial because she gives her opinion, and anyone who gives their opinion, and she's a little crazy and she's really gone crazy as God for time goes on. But having a point of view and saying it like you mean it is something that's not easy to do. And she was done it in a very entertaining way. So you either watched it and loved her or you watched it to love to hate her, but you watched. And I mean that's I I that's something that I loved about her, and I I wish her well. I I do hope she's she's getting ha healthy. Uh, I know she's she is older and has some some challenges, but I you you got me into Wendy.

[50:37] Adrienne Colon: So I was like, who is this lady?

[50:38] Robert Bannon: And then listening to her, and then you'd call in on the radio and I'd be like, Is that Robert on the radio?

[50:42] Adrienne Colon: Yes, I would call in, I would send faxes, I would write how you doing?

[50:45] Robert Bannon: How you're doing, how you're doing, how you're doing on the top, so that I got a way to her to get her attention and I would give my opinion or ask questions. You know, I love that. I I love that part of of this whole thing. There's a part of me that wishes I I'm not someone who should give advice, but like I love advice. Like ask Wendy.

[51:01] Adrienne Colon: Oh my god.

[51:02] Robert Bannon: That was the best part of the show.

[51:04] Adrienne Colon: Yes.

[51:04] Robert Bannon: I mean, when she listened the also the first 20 minutes of her doing her hot topics, no one, no one did it like Wendy did it. And no one in recently has. And that's okay. That's fine. Wendy can always be. They'll try, they try, they can't do it.

[51:19] Adrienne Colon: Can't do it.

[51:19] Robert Bannon: But when those people would stand up and she'd give them the look, it was just, but she was being authentic. She was not being fake. And an hour of a of a talk show. She would do Mondays with no guests. Not every talk show host can do an hour of television without a guest on the couch. It takes a lot of Hutzpah to talk to a camera for an hour and not have anyone else to talk to. That takes that takes a talent. It's not as easy as it looks.

[51:45] Adrienne Colon: Try to do it.

[51:46] Robert Bannon: It is not as easy as it looks. It really does.

[51:49] Adrienne Colon: Well, Robert, that was I wanted to end on a high note.

[51:53] Robert Bannon: So there you go. Congratulations. Thank you for bringing me along this this crazy ride. I can't wait to see what this this next year will bring for us. And I am so looking forward to everything. And you deserve all of this greatness that is coming to you uh with your engagement because I'm so happy for you and Darius. And I I just I can't wait for because there are so many wonderful things coming your way.

[52:20] Robert Bannon: I'm just so excited. And I'm happy to be a part of it. And I’m so grateful you're here. And I think everybody who watches it, my own family, my own friends, you know, the A's and the Mike's and all of the people, my mom's and my dads, and my brother and my sister, and all and and now my fiance who is co-signs on this crazy, he watches. I gotta give him a shout out. And I know I talk about him a lot, and I'm sure he cringes every time, but I have to give him a shout-out. I used to be with somebody who who never watched one episode of my show ever. Never listened. This man, when I got in his car, he was. I look on his phone, and the first recommended thing that comes up is the round table. He has won't listen to all hundred podcasts.

He is here every week, and he must be mentally ill to co-sign on my crazy. No, no, no. I am a kook, but I hope it's in the best way. And I'm really grateful because he has never stifled me. He doesn't want to share the spotlight. He does not want to be, he's not an attention-seeking person. He does not want to be on the show. He doesn't, but he lets me be me, and that is the greatest gift you can give someone. And I want to say to everyone out there that everything happened for a reason. Now I can kind of sit back and smell the roses because I put in years of the work. So now it's kind of a machine that kind of has taken off and does its own thing. And now I can take a moment and balance my life.

I'm grateful that this happened to me now because three years ago, when I was building this, I wouldn't have been able to do it all. Now it's kind of worked, and everything happens in its time and in its divine order. And you know, my first album is called Unfinished Business, and my second album is called Rewind because we sometimes have to look back and we need to see what we didn't finish or what we did or why, and to go forward. And I just say this to everyone. I used to say this at the end of my shows like everyone has something they want to do and they're afraid to do it, and it's about taking that first step. And for me, it led me here. And for you, it's gonna lead you to something too.

So don't be scared. We pivot, we take a chance, we move, we change. The lady I spoke to today was a lawyer. Now she hosts a podcast and does podcasts around the country. You know, she you never know where the road is gonna take you. And I and I think that that inspiration, I hope, rubs off on somebody that they get up and do what they they've always dreamed of doing.

[54:34] Adrienne Colon: I love that. That is so amazing.

[54:36] Robert Bannon: And I'm just so happy that you have someone now to share in all these wonderful things going forward. It just makes my heart very happy.

[54:44] Robert Bannon: Yeah, it is it's weird and wonderful because it's so unbelievable to me. I I hate to talk of it's something that's very private and special to me. So it's it's something that's uncomfortable for me to talk about because it's like when you guard something you really care about, but I'm also really like proud, maybe for the first time ever, uh, of this really like this is this is mine. This is my baby, like this is my relationship that I dreamed about. So I'm really lucky that I have that. And then uh and I'm really lucky that I have all of you and and this platform because it's not lost on me that it is rare air that people will tune in and listen to somebody and to be in these places. And sometimes when I look on the carpet, there's five or six or eight or ten other outlets, you know, they can have anybody and they have us. And I'm I'm grateful for the people who listen, the people who will let us be there, and uh all the people who help me. The best truly is yet to come.

[55:35] Adrienne Colon: Yes, it truly is.

[55:37] Robert Bannon: And speaking of to come, you know, if you're if you're a fan of the housewives today, Jackie Goldschneider confirmed for next Thursday. So B, oh yes. So Jackie Goldschneider from The Real House within New Jersey talking about her book and fighting her eating disorder. Plus, A and myself will be live at a bowling alley with Paul Rudd. So excited. So next Thursday, you know, watch the round table on YouTube. And and and we have MJ Harris coming on to talk about his new book, and we have Melba Moore, who's a Tony winner, who's a legend, and we have the cast of Harry Potter, and we have so much stuff on the way. So just stick around to the roundtable right here on the Broadway Podcast Network.

[56:19] Robert Bannon: That's it. We did it. Hey, tell the people what is our catchphrase at the show?

[56:23] Adrienne Colon: I said it once, but go ahead.

[56:25] Robert Bannon: End the show.

[56:26] Adrienne Colon: Oh my goodness. Is it the best that's yet to come?

[56:30] Robert Bannon: The best is yet to come.

[56:34] Adrienne Colon: And we'll see you next time right here on the roundtable.

[56:38] Robert Bannon: That's the wrong button. It's this button.