Oct 20, 2014
Guest: Warren Phynix Johnson. Equity actor, improviser, comedian, and maker of the finest hybrid mattress rap music video eva
http://warrenphynixjohnson.tumblr.com
4:35 - Nilsa’s headshot/comp. card saga continues and gets more expensive
7:55 - Warren gets real about how the longer he acts, the looser he gets
12:40 - Bryn update: he's been meeting with a potential writing partner
20:40 - Bryn and Nilsa attended Dan Harmon's live podcast recording and had a great time talking with Spencer
27:00 - if you ever want to have an air sex competition the http://www.airsexworld.com people can be quite the sticklers
28:30 - Pop-up sex book
38:45 - Warren got his first paycheck when he was 14 - from being in a play called "Kids are People, Too" that toured at various schools; he played Scrooge
42:46 - Warren went to AMDA, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy
43:00 - Warren went to Ohio for a while and took a break from performing, as college ended early for him
44:17 - Warren was the first intern for "T.J. and Dave”
46:45 - Warren's dad encouraged him to move back to Chicago and do theatre for a living and then his dad died. Warren kept his promise
47:15 - IO gave Warren free classes and the rest is history
47:57 - Warren still does video work with Second City
48:32 - See Warren's show, "Bastards of the Underground" at IO at 11:59 pm on Saturday nights and there's a taco bar, too!
53:49 - other things Warren has going on right now: show at ComedySportz on Nov. 6th and one with his all African-American group, "Blackout" and "Stealing from the King" about Stephen King with Awful People and another music video
55:35 - how Warren and Laura met - at "Bully: The Hip Hop Musical”
1:00:20 - As the teacher, Warren would do lessons involving lyrics from popular songs that students identified with, such as "Beez in the Trap," by Nicki Minaj
1:09:49 - How Warren became an Equity actor by touring with Second City
1:23:12 - Warren may visit NY soon and get Bryn and Nilsa in to the Saturday Night Live after party!
1:25:17 - Warren worked with "Pimprov" - he played the role of Papa Bear the pimp
1:27:09 - Warren was in "Touch 'n Dix," a web series, in which he played a drug dealer who pulls a gun on a cartoon parrot.
1:33:12 - "What is Laura Wearing?" segment
Podcast notes by Laura Scruggs with editing from Jake Scruggs
Our outro music, "Everything's Coming Up Roses,” is performed by Klea Blackhurst and written by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim