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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.

Nov 7, 2017

06:34 - Origin of “Captain Ambivalent”
09:41 - “Precious” a song about “Lord of the Rings”’s Gollum in the style of country
15:05 - Almost all of Captain Ambivalent’s music is up on SoundClound as free samples
23:09 - How Captain Ambivalent’s costume & persona came about
28:09 -Video of Cafe Vivaldi performance in New York City
31:00 - Discussion of Capt. A’s song “Everything
33:48 - “If I Were A Pirate Ninja Zombie” & how it is possibly the most romantic song Capt. A. has ever written
37:04 - Constructive feedback from worst performance Capt. A. ever had - a Sat. night at a pizza joint, at an intermission for a jug band performance.
50:09- Capt. A’s performance at Neo Futurist benefit at Metro - Special Guest and Neo Futurists
51:09 - “Pizza Girl” and Dungeons & Dragons
55:19 - Torturing Barbies and Capt. A.’s song about it
56:44 - Capt. A. plays “Everything” Live in studio
1:00:18 - “Crazy Picasso-Eyed Lady
1:01:16 - Exploration of “Run, Will Robinson, Run
1:03:00 - “Ray is not the Name of the Accordion” animation in the video by Capt. A.!
1:05:35 - Origin of the song - “Irv!” - about the inventor of dental floss

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