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It's “That Guy… Who Was in That Thing” meets "WTF" but with people even less well known! Sure it's fun to interview the crazy famous and ask them about the difficult years, but that's been done. Memories are plastic - we're getting the real dirt from people still crawling through it. Laura Scruggs is the playwright and Jake Scruggs is the technical guy who listens to a lot of “This American Life” and thinks that qualifies him to interview people.

Sep 18, 2017

06:54 - Gilbert Godfrey's podcast http://www.gilbertpodcast.com
07:25 - Gilbert's documentary http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/gilbert-gottfried-documentary-review-tribeca-film-festival-2017-1201807032/
09:47 - What has Nilsa been up to?
14:50 - Nilsa was asked to join the company New York Madness https://nymadness.com Lonestar Theatre Company http://www.lonestartheatre.com
20:06 - Nilsa is also writing for "The Lost Girls Blog" http://www.lostgirlsworld.com/blog/
I am Not Your Negro, documentary about James Baldwin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/
25:01 - Jake remembers bit about when Bryn and Nilsa would imitate each other
31:08 - Cultural events of the last few years have been hard for Bryn to reckon with and he's been writing about it.
41:15 - Jake would like to talk a little more concretely about what Bryn has been doing:
played the ghost of Benjamin Spock in the play, "Baby Hubris," by Jacqui Rego
http://www.babyhubris.com
You can listen to our podcast episode about this here:
http://areyoufamousyet.libsyn.com/jacqui-rgo-and-the-cast-of-baby-hubris-episode-182
Festival show, "From A to Double D"
https://www.facebook.com/events/1915146762090057/
47:35 - Now they're doing another run of "From A to Double D."
48:29 - And the marketing is great, with
Instagram
http://toptagram.com/user/fromatodoubledplay
Twitter
https://twitter.com/FromAtoDoubleD
and
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/FromAtoDoubleD/
50:30 - Bryn gets sucked into reading/watching the news.
55:05 - Softball: a retreat with the twins!
56:15 - The MTA has been falling apart.
1:01:43 - Bryn is trying to get a job now.
1:03:59 - Cats and the next CJ3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy28it0ul6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLV44zOUusY

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Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz