Spotlight 814: Alex Stone of the 50th Anniversary National Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar~

This week on Spotlight 814: Erie’s Local Podcast: 

Alex Stone, who is currently playing Pontious Pilate in the 50th Anniversary National Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, sits down with Ryan and Brenna over Zoom! 

Alex and the rest of the cast and crew of JCS will be performing at Erie’s historic Warner Theatre on October 30-31. 

Not only is he an incredibly talented performer, he is well-spoken, smart, funny, and he has a lot of great advice for our theatre community. 

Come learn about Alex and this incredible show! 

Special thanks to Ali at Broadway in Erie for helping us set up this interview! 

Apologies for the audio! Ryan was swamped at work and forgot to bring his microphone! 

Also, the first part of the episode didn’t record. Thanks, Zoom! 

Oh! One more thing! Go to Werner Books tomorrow at 9am for their ribbon cutting ceremony! Get yourself a coffee and a pastry, buy too many books, and support our friends! 

Transcript

Transcript

Ryan
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00:14

Welcome, everybody, to spotlight 8114. This is a very special episode, something we have not done yet. And thank you to broadway and erie for setting this up. We have alex stone, who's playing pontius pilot in the 50th anniversary national tour of jesus christ superstar. Alex, thanks for joining us, man. 

Alex Stone
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00:37
Hey, happy to be here. Happy to be here. Thank you for having me. 

Ryan
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00:40
Yeah, of course. We can't wait to see the show. I love Jesus Christ Superstar I've seen almost every version. It's a great show. 

Alex Stone
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00:52
Really? 

Ryan
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00:52
Yeah, I've seen a lot. 

Alex Stone
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00:53
That's great, dude. 

Ryan
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00:55
A lot of them. 

Brenna
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00:57
Yeah, it's my first time seeing it, so I'm equally excited in a different brilliant. 

Ryan
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01:03
So it's going to be fantastic. By chance, were you in the fiddler tour that came to erie last year? 

Alex Stone
·
01:11
I was. I don't remember exactly what time the year were there, but I was definitely in that production. 

Ryan
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01:17
All right, nice. Well, welcome back to erie. 

Alex Stone
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01:20
Thank you very much. 

Ryan
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01:22
That's great. 

Brenna
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01:24
Was that your first time in erie when you did that, or had you been there? 

Alex Stone
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01:29
Yes. No, I had never been there before. That was my very first time. Okay. 

Ryan
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01:33
Where are you from. 

Alex Stone
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01:36
Originally? I am from just outside Washington, DC. On the virginia side, but I live up in new york right now. Of course. 

Brenna
·
01:44
Awesome. 

Ryan
·
01:44
That's where you have to be. All right, so we're just going to go ahead and ask you some questions. And brenna, why don't you go ahead and start us off? 

Brenna
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01:53
Yeah. So, first of all, we kind of want to know your theater origin story. Like, were you interested as a kid, or how did you begin this career? 

Alex Stone
·
02:03
Totally. Well, my family was always very musically focused. We had music as a core part of what brought us together. I have one older brother, and from the get go, my family was always my folks were always doing community theater performances, and my brother and I looking at our parents, were so young, thinking it was, like, the thing to do, or even, like, a really cool thing to do. They were like, you guys want to be on stage? Great. And they would just shanghai these two young boys who were happy to be on stage anytime, which is very rare for community theater. So we just kept doing that. 

Alex Stone
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02:44
Eventually, I did a production of fiddler in my middle school, where I played a mean Tevya oh, just an incredible and my folks saw that, and they were like, oh, you're not actually this isn't just something you could okay. We'll pay for voice lessons now. We'll see what we can do. And they've been very supportive My whole life, and I really would not be where I am without my folks, like, guidance and love. They started putting me in for some programs to really hone my skills, and then by the time the high school came around, I was like, I don't really know if I really want to do anything else. I don't know if I'm good enough to do anything else. I can at least try this. 

Alex Stone
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03:26
And then I was doing the audition circuit like a lot of kids do, and I humbly got accepted into the conservatory program at Cincinnati and I went there for like four years and I graduated in 2019. And then I was in New York for about a year and then COVID hit us. But then miraculously, like a year later I did like a show or two back. I did a show in DC. And then I did a show in Orleans in 21 and then Fiddler happened. And then I was on the road for about a year and a half. I had this summer off and then I was home for a moment doing this beautiful production of Bridges of Madison County. I don't know if you guys are familiar with that show, but it's a stunning piece of work that was back home in DC. 

Alex Stone
·
04:12
And then in the middle of that, I received an offer to do this show which was truly mind blowing. I didn't think I was going to be able to work on a piece of this magnitude, nor did I even realize how beautiful this piece was going to be or how much it was going to affect me joining this. And I'm so thrilled to be able to be doing this show across the country. I'm thrilled to be even starting from back in community theater days, I'm thrilled to be able to do this job at all, even if I wasn't getting paid for it. There's some part of me that probably still want to do this in some facet, but the fact that I can pay my bills while doing this is such a gift. 

Brenna
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04:51
It's a beautiful thing, truly a lifelong journey there. And it's good for our listeners to hear the ones who are currently doing community theater. And that's where it all started. 

Alex Stone
·
05:03
It's just a stage and there's people in the audience. It don't matter the size it gets to that fact won't change. It's still going to be there. 

Ryan
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05:12
Yeah, exactly. So can you tell us what was your experience with auditioning for Jesus Christ Superstar? What was the process like. 

Alex Stone
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05:24
When I moved back to New York after the Fiddler tour? My lady, my girlfriend who I met on tour with me, which was really a marvelous experience, she sent me the listing for this audition on the audition websites. She was like, you should be auditioned for this. You're really good and you can play guitar solidly enough. I didn't think my guitar was up to par with what I thought they expected. So I was like, I don't know if I should do this. And then she was like, come on, you just do it. And if they say nothing, if they say no, then, oh well, then you just had a self tape to practice your guitar. If they say something, then, great, something will happen. So I really owe this to her more than anything else. 

Alex Stone
·
06:08
So I played some Van Morrison, and then they were like, great, let's have you come back for some. And then I sang Gethsemane on the Guitar, which was very scary. I hadn't really ever done that before or anything, or performed really in front of people is not really my thing with guitar. So I'm just not as adept at it as other people are. But I was like, you know what? This is happening anyway. I really can't back down from this. It's such a cool opportunity, you might as well do it. So then I went and I did it, and then I hadn't heard. My mindset when I go into auditions is like, do the work. Prepare your work. 

Alex Stone
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06:42
Do exactly what you must do in the room, and then once it's done, forget about it, because anything else that you could do, anything else that you could think about like, oh, did I do this wrong in the room? Everything else is completely out of your control because it's already done. So you might as well not kill yourself, think about it and just move on to the next audition. 

Brenna
·
07:00
Wow, I wish I could do that. 

Ryan
·
07:04
It's not easy. 

Alex Stone
·
07:05
It's not easy with the amount of rejections and really the amount of silence that you get from people, where it's like, great, we'll let you know, and you hear nothing from them. You have to be able to have this detachment from the stuff where it's like, I was able to do that wonderful performance in that moment. I was able to create some art for them immediately. And if it's not for them, it'll be for somebody else. 

Ryan
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07:31
When you're in New York, it's a grind. It's just like that. You have to just put that one beside you and move on to the next one. 

Alex Stone
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07:41
You're absolutely right, and it can be a hard mindset to get into, and I don't even know if I've even mastered it. Per Sam's, there's still some that I get hooked up on. But once you are able to hopefully feel that, or even it's something you feel like later down the line, you're like, oh, yeah, I haven't thought about that in a while. And then that makes you get into a better, healthier mindset for this industry. That can be pretty unforgiving sometimes. 

Brenna
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08:05
Detachment is such a big part of being an actor. Like, you have to detach from yourself, and so it's a skill in many areas of theater. 

Alex Stone
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08:13
That is true. That is actually, I didn't think about that. You're blowing my mind. 

Ryan
·
08:20
Every day. 

Alex Stone
·
08:21
Yeah, exactly. A few weeks later, after that audition, they sent me something. They were like, hey, listen, the team really loved your work. We would like to see you as pilot, but we don't have video of it. And we need the UK team to approve the final casting. Can you send us some stuff? That one I was even more nervous for because they asked me to do some finger picking on the guitar, which that was like, okay, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't even know how to do. So I like grinded for like, three days to make sure I could learn it. 

Alex Stone
·
08:53
And then a few weeks after that, I was playing board games with my brother and then I got the offer for it, and then we just went back to New York and rehearsed for three weeks, and now we're doing this. That's awesome, man. 

Brenna
·
09:06
Amazing. 

Alex Stone
·
09:06
Awesome. 

Brenna
·
09:08
Fantastic story. Well, okay. Stuff like the great part about this. Now, what have you been your biggest challenges in theater? Not necessarily with auditions, but in any part of being in this show or any show you've been in, what's been the biggest struggle? 

Alex Stone
·
09:26
Honestly, I'll bring up this show simply because this is the freshest experience that I have. Sure there's a strange amount of, I think, as were saying a moment ago, detachment that you get from trying to put on this stuff sometimes. There have been times recently when I've been doing this work where I've been thinking, this is the silliest thing that we could be doing for money. This is crazy, and people will pay to see this. This is so funny to me. And those are a moment, and I don't like feeling that way, especially if that feeling creeps on while I'm on stage. I'm like, Get that out of here. But then how do you get back in the moment with that? 

Alex Stone
·
10:06
The trickiest thing in this show that I've had to deal with so far is because my character is only on stage, like, maybe three times, at least of three times of major significance. Trying to connect those three scenes that are so spread apart from each other into one cohesive story for myself has been a bit of a struggle, so it's trying to make sure my continuity throughout all of that stays the same. But you could say that for any show, even something that is also trying is even for myself, but especially for the ensemble of this show is physically exhausting. If you guys come to see this show when we are in Eerie oh, man, oh, man, oh, man. The choreography is absolutely nuts. 

Ryan
·
10:53
Yeah, we will be there. 7th row from the front. We'll be there. 

Alex Stone
·
10:59
So I'm talking about what the creative team is expecting from the actors and the artists in this show is almost like, beyond what is physically possible, which is funny, but they emphasize being like, you don't have to give 100% of yourself into the work every day. That's crazy. And you will drain yourself so much. But what we are asking of you is if you only have 80% of yourself to give that day, or even 60% or like 30. You give all of that. You give all of that 30%, which is also a really great thing to think about, whether you're doing a weekend of shows at a community theater level or you're doing eight shows a week on Broadway. If you can only give that much, okay, you give it all you got. Give it all you got in that moment. 

Alex Stone
·
11:49
Be as 100% authentic as you can be with that 80%. If that's all, it can be marvelous, but that is what you have to give that day, and you have a responsibility to give it to the people because they are paying the same ticket as anybody else would on your best day. 

Brenna
·
12:03
Yeah, that's a really good mindset. 

Ryan
·
12:05
It really is. I saw the audition choreo I got invited into audition for the ensemble, but I was in Erie and I couldn't make it in. And I watched it and I was. 

Alex Stone
·
12:18
Like, oh, my God, that's insane. 

Ryan
·
12:23
Good on you for doing that every night, man. 

Alex Stone
·
12:27
Thankfully, it is not me. There are finer actors, finer performers who are doing that than I am. I just get up there and I sing my little song and then I'm done. 

Ryan
·
12:36
Well, speaking of which, what's your favorite song to sing? I know you have a few in the show. Which one is your favorite to sing? 

Alex Stone
·
12:48
The first song that I sing is Pilot's Dream, and I have been enjoying that one more. And the more and the more I do it, simply because it's already a confusing song to begin with. Even in the style of the show that we're doing, he is still walking on stage and being saying to himself, like, I'm like a Roman governor. I have so many priorities and responsibilities that I have to take care of every single day. I have people that look up to me. I have jobs that I must take care of. I have an entire world that is far more important than anything that happens in my dreams. Why is this one dream stopping me so much and making me real with this vision I have of this random man that I've never met before? And why can't I let it go? 

Alex Stone
·
13:40
There's so many whys about that? So he even walked like I walk on stage and I have to be confused as I'm singing this, and I've never really felt that way before in a song, really, ever. And ending the song without answers is also still a really strange feeling. Trying to make sure that seems authentic and convincing every single time has been quite a struggle. And I don't think it's ever really going to get to exactly where I want it to be, which I think is probably a good thing, because that means I'm still trying to make it the best version that I can make it. And at the same time, I'm also playing guitar, which has also been a bit of a journey for me. It's the song that I have really never stopped trying to improve upon throughout this process. 

Alex Stone
·
14:27
And it's a really important thing to always remind myself that there's always more to learn in this business. And if that song never gets to the perfect level that I want it to be, that is probably for the best. Because that means I will never stop trying to make sure it is as honest as possible. 

Brenna
·
14:46
Sounds great. I feel like it's probably common for most performers on a professional level. They never see it as the best. Further. 

Ryan
·
14:55
Absolutely. So it's not just you and the cast. We look forward to seeing your incredible performance. What's another song in the show that people their minds are going to be blown? 

Alex Stone
·
15:13
Well, the wonderful thing about this show is that there are some people, brian, I'm sure you feel this way where you're like, you know every single song in the entire show. You know so many of the lyrics. You've been growing up on this show forever. There are some people that way who are not affiliated with the arts whatsoever and they still know it and they still love it. There are some people who've never heard the show before but they come to the show because they know Andrew A. Weber and they know those three notes. The bum, bum. They know those and that brings them into the seats. So there is a palpable power that this music has a song that I think people are really going to be moved by know honestly, like the finale, like superstar. 

Alex Stone
·
15:57
Just once Jesus is getting crucified and Judas comes out and he sings that last song. You ruin it. Well, you know, spoiler guys. 

Brenna
·
16:08
Everybody knows the ending of this story. 

Alex Stone
·
16:11
Listen, I haven't watched Oranges of New Black. There's stuff out there that I haven't seen. We've had the book for 2000 years. But there's possible with coupling the singing that Judas has to do and the storytelling that he has to flow with that song. On top of the intense, amazing choreography that is happening in that moment. The exhausting level of adrenaline that the ensemble has put through while at the same time what is happening plot wise, right. Is a mountain of emotion on top of a mountain of emotion. And it's kind of jarring because you're like I don't want to applaud for this because what's happening is terrible. But I do because it's so impressive. Though, hopefully it leaves the audience in a state where it's a really memorable experience that they don't get to feel often in theater. 

Ryan
·
17:08
Yeah, those are my favorite moments when you don't know how to react. I love that as an audience member. I love it as an actor too. Like being on stage when that audience doesn't know how to react. 

Alex Stone
·
17:21
And you get something maybe different every night. You never know what it could be. 

Ryan
·
17:26
That's a beautiful thing, man. 

Alex Stone
·
17:29
Let's see. 

Ryan
·
17:30
We're going to skip the next one. Do you have any preshow rituals? 

Alex Stone
·
17:39
There's always in the overture of the show, there are these drum hits in the bump. I always do, like, chest bumps with one of my friends backstage during that. And then we do like a jump at the end. And that just is honestly to get us revved up for what we have to do, choreographically in the overture. Aside from that party, it is a dance party. 

Brenna
·
18:09
We were recently in a production of Cabaret and every single night for the show, we did a preshow dance party. And it really gets you going. 

Alex Stone
·
18:18
That's right. Because it's a great reminder that it's just like, of course we're trying to do some art here. We can't do it, A, without each other and B, without having fun at least a little bit. Otherwise the show is going to get too into us and that's just going to be so sad. So it's always important to remind yourself that you're doing the work, of course, but you at least got to still remind yourself of that childhood imagination and wonder. It's like why you even did this in the first place. 

Ryan
·
18:47
Exactly. 

Alex Stone
·
18:47
Yeah. 

Brenna
·
18:48
I love that you can't detach too much. 

Alex Stone
·
18:50
Yeah. I also take a straw and I blow some bubbles into my water and I warm up the usual stuff. 

Ryan
·
18:57
Yeah. 

Alex Stone
·
18:58
I also run through my song on guitar before. 

Brenna
·
19:01
Okay. 

Alex Stone
·
19:03
Safe, safe. Got to be safe. 

Ryan
·
19:05
Yeah. 

Brenna
·
19:07
So like we mentioned, there are a lot of our listeners who do community theater and do you have any advice for them? Especially ones who are considering hoping to make this a career one day? 

Alex Stone
·
19:20
Let me see. Honestly, it's never really too late to do, I don't know, anything that you want, really. There are some facets like, I don't think I'm going to be an astronaut anytime soon, but don't give up. Don't give up. You know what, you're right. This is just an industry that it's not just being on Broadway is like the goal. I mean, obviously that'd be wonderful, that'd be great. But as long as you can be able to do this and if you have the talent and a lot of luck to be able to make this work out, if you can be in places where you are doing your work. You are fulfilled by that work, and you get money from that work that pays your bills. 

Alex Stone
·
20:13
In some way, you might have to hustle a little bit as well, but if you're doing those things, if you're doing the work and you're getting paid for it, that's really what the goal should be. So if you're at a community theater level and you're trying to make this something where you want to go a little bit more professional with it doesn't have to be a stratospheric goal as long as it's something that you can make some monetary value from as long as it makes you happy. That is more important than anything else. You got those two things. If it doesn't make you happy, then it probably isn't going to be the lifestyle for you because it's not an easy lifestyle. There's a lot of uncertainty with it. I was just fantasizing the day. 

Alex Stone
·
20:53
I was just like, god, a house with a front yard and a dog. Man, oh, man, that sure would be nice. Wouldn't that be nice? But you do this kind of stuff because really your heart doesn't really want to do anything else, and that will put you through some situations where you may not be the happiest, but you got to still remind yourself of what it was all about in the first place. 

Brenna
·
21:19
And that's being a creative yeah, that's. 

Alex Stone
·
21:22
All about it being a little silly, being playing pretend for yeah, exactly. 

Ryan
·
21:28
I love that. 

Alex Stone
·
21:31
Yeah. 

Ryan
·
21:33
Is there anything else you want to share with our listeners before we wrap this thing up? 

Alex Stone
·
21:37
Yeah, I want to talk about the show a little bit more, if that's okay. 

Brenna
·
21:40
Yes, please. 

Ryan
·
21:41
By all means. 

Alex Stone
·
21:41
Okay, cool. This production, whether you've seen the show in the past multiple times or whether this is your first time seeing this show, honestly, I just think this production is a really great one to see of super. It's your first time because when they came out with the 71 album, it was a concept album. There was no production that they were basing that around. So people can take the idea of Jesus Christ superstar and they go wild directions with what the show looks like, what happens in the show. This production comes from the wonderful minds of Tim Schader and Drew McConaughey, who have built this piece because they love the music and they love the show so much. Every single scene has such nuance and subtlety to it. 

Alex Stone
·
22:31
Even the songs that you would listen on the album and you would be like, all right, this is the skip track. For sure. They've thought about it and then, okay, what about this? What can we do in this to make this song work perfectly? Trying to emulate the style of what you would feel like listening to that album on the record player for 90 minutes straight through, it really gives, like, this adrenaline pumping thrill ride. Honestly, for this show, that doesn't stop. It goes straight through, no intermission. It gives such a visceral feeling of harkening back to the sensation of what that 71 album was like and what that nostalgia for it feels, or if you've never heard it before, hopefully it gives this fresh, powerful, fierce vibe to this wonderful show. 

Alex Stone
·
23:23
The ensemble that is up there is a wonderful group of soloists coming together to create this piece together. There's not a lot of forward energy that's in your face, but there's a lot of fullness to all of their performances. It creates this incredibly cohesive unit of this show where every single person has this magnetism to them, and it really is just one of the finest projects I've ever been a part of. I really hope you guys enjoy that's. 

Brenna
·
23:54
Awesome. I'm so excited to see this. 

Ryan
·
23:56
Yeah, can't wait. Maybe we'll see you around Erie. 

Alex Stone
·
24:00
Please. Listen, when you come to the show, let me know, or please just come to the stage door. I'd love to meet you guys. We'll do. 

Ryan
·
24:08
Yeah, for sure. 

Alex Stone
·
24:09
No problem. 

Brenna
·
24:10
Very important. Now that we live in the day of our social media, where can people follow you? 

Alex Stone
·
24:14
Yes, of course. You can find me, especially on Instagram. You can find me at just Alex Stone. You can also go to my website, but my link is on my Instagram, so why don't you go there first? Just Alex Stone. 

Brenna
·
24:28
He's just Alex Stone. 

Ryan
·
24:33
His name before you came on here, Brenna, was Alex Stoney Bologna, and I. 

Alex Stone
·
24:38
Had to be a little bit more professional. 

Ryan
·
24:41
I told him not to change it. 

Alex Stone
·
24:43
Hold on. We got time. We got time. There we go. All right. Yeah. 

Brenna
·
24:49
Amazing. 

Ryan
·
24:50
There we go. 

Brenna
·
24:53
Nice. 

Ryan
·
24:54
Well, Alex, thank you so much for joining us, man. We cannot wait to see Jesus Christ superstar thank you very much. 

Alex Stone
·
25:00
Yeah. 

Ryan
·
25:01
And that is October 30 and 31st at the Warner theater brought to you by Broadway in Erie. And yeah, we can't wait. 

Brenna
·
25:11
Thanks so much for joining us. 

Alex Stone
·
25:13
Thank you both. Thank you so much. You've really lightened my day today. This has been marvelous. 

Ryan
·
25:17
Good, man. Good. You did the same for us. 

Brenna
·
25:21
Absolutely. 

Ryan
·
25:22
All right, well, have a great day, and we'll see you next week. 

Brenna
·
25:25
See you on stage. 

Alex Stone
·
25:27
You have a good day now. 

Brenna
·
25:28
Bye. 

Ryan
·
25:29
See you. 

Alex Stone
·
25:30
All right. 

Ryan
·
25:31
That was Alex Stone from Jesus Christ Superstar. What an awesome guy. 

Brenna
·
25:35
That was so great. He's really smart and aware and thoughtful. 

Alex Stone
·
25:41
I loved it. 

Ryan
·
25:42
I loved everything about that. And I cannot wait to see the show. It's going to be so good. I've seen Instagram videos that they've posted, and he's right. The cast is so energetic, and I just can't wait. 

Alex Stone
·
25:57
Yeah. 

Brenna
·
25:58
And we'll be talking more about that once again after we see it discuss about the show. Okay. I really wanted touch base real fast on the whole Evil Dead saga involving my dad, the moose, and a lack of responsibility. 

Ryan
·
26:21
I almost get coffee out my nose. 

Brenna
·
26:24
Okay, so everything is good now. Things have been rectified. I just wanted to thank everyone involved in the show for reaching out, including the director, Jeff Hall, who personally contacted my dad and apologized, and he shared the moose on Facebook and gave my dad credit to everybody. And so, honestly, it probably is a reach of way more followers than it would have been in the program. 

Ryan
·
26:49
Yeah. 

Brenna
·
26:51
So I'm just really thank you to everybody involved who remedied the error. 

Alex Stone
·
27:01
Yes. 

Ryan
·
27:01
And I know how much it meant to your dad and to you and to all of us, really. Like, any artist. 

Brenna
·
27:08
Yeah. Any artist who wants to just be credited for their work, we understand. Of course. Things happen, mistakes are made clear. Maybe we don't know. I also wanted to mention he was not the only person who was not mentioned in the program. There were other people who were left uncredited and I didn't know that at the time of the previous episode. So it wasn't all about that. I think other things were missing as well. 

Ryan
·
27:38
When it comes down to credit, anybody involved in the show and the production, just do it. 

Brenna
·
27:46
But again, thank you for rectified, giving credit and apologizing. Much appreciated. 

Alex Stone
·
27:53
Yes. 

Ryan
·
27:54
So it was very nice gesture and we all appreciate that. I think that's going to wrap it up. It's our very special episode. We're not going to do a what's on eight one four because it's the same as last week. 

Brenna
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28:09
Yeah. So just go and listen to the last episode if you want to be reminded of what's on. 

Alex Stone
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28:13
Yeah. 

Ryan
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28:14
And definitely check out Jesus Christ Superstar next week at the Warner Theater, Broadway and Erie. 

Alex Stone
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28:23
Can't wait. 

Ryan
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28:26
Oh, man, that was such an awesome interview. 

Brenna
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28:29
I know. Gosh look what you did. 

Ryan
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28:33
Look what I did. 

Brenna
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28:34
Look at you. Go. 

Ryan
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28:35
Alex Stone. Check him out as Pontus Pilot. Such a good show. Can't wait. All right, that's enough of me saying I can't wait. 

Brenna
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28:44
All right, I got to go frost a cake now. 

Ryan
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28:47
I have to go do actual work that I get paid. 

Brenna
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28:53
Don't even don't even talk. 

Ryan
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28:55
That was not a shot at you. That was a shot at me doing a podcast while I'm at work. 

Brenna
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29:02
Right. 

Ryan
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29:04
The cake is actually for me and I can't wait for that. 

Brenna
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29:08
Yeah. So exactly. Don't even be talking about how it. 

Ryan
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29:13
Was a shot at me because I have a lot of work to do today. 

Brenna
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29:15
Go work. 

Ryan
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29:16
Yes. So thank you, guys. Thank you, Brenna. And I will see you tonight. I will see the rest of you when I see you. 

Brenna
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29:24
All right, bye, everybody. Thanks for listening.