Robin: Yeah, okay, I’m officially recording.
Tina: Okay, I am recording too. My little cursor was not at the beginning of the thing, so I have like 10 seconds of, I’ll have to move it, it’s fine, it’s fine. I don’t know why I’m saying this, you don’t even know that, it does not affect what we’re doing at all.
Robin: I love the details though.
Tina: Yeah, okay, so yeah, I guess before we do, I was like, oh we should say who we are, and we should do all this, and I’m like, no we really should just clap first, otherwise it’ll be a lot of digging to find it. Because as we discussed, we’re not editing this out. Oh, this is the professional recording.
Robin: All the content. This is what you pay for.
Tina: Honestly, yeah, we’re just, we’re doing our due diligence by Patreon, so. Okay, let’s do the clappy thing, which I now know I don’t have to do right in front of my microphone.
Robin: That was honestly one of my favorite moments.
Tina: Oh, I’m so mad about that. Okay, 3, 2, 1, clap. Alright, 3, 2, 1. I almost used my, I have like a little dog’s voice.
Robin: I think that’s the person I’ve ever heard someone clap.
Tina: It’s about 50-50, and sometimes I’ll hear it, and there’s an obvious delay between my clap and their clap, and I’ve thought about it, I’m like, no we need to redo it, then I’m like, it’s just a guideline.
It doesn’t have to be exact, it really doesn’t. Good night. Okay, um, hi.
Robin: Hi.
Tina: Okay, so let’s introduce ourselves, I guess.
I would really, I’d like to think that we have very distinctive voices, and the people listening on Patreon definitely know who we are, you know, not taking into account that the show’s not out yet, but they clearly, very clearly all listen to Moonbase, and we’re just super amazing and super popular, so, you know.
Robin: Wilder certainly was.
Tina: Oh God.
Robin: She’s a fan favorite.
Tina: Is it? I feel like I don’t have a good beat on all of that, like, obviously, like, no, like, people love Nessa, and then the Roger and Alex.
Robin: Oh, yeah, Nessa was my favorite too, but right behind was Wilder. The quips, it is so, I’m not kidding, this is like, this is probably something we should do, like, with the fun thing, but when I was, we were doing, like, I guess I kind of called it like a chemistry read, and halfway through the audition, I realized you were Wilder, Wilder, that I kind of paused, and I paused, and I was like, oh, I think that was too long of a pause, and then it kept going, I was like, I thought I botched the audition, but I was like, holy shit, this is Wilder.
Tina: Oh, jeez, yeah, I remember you telling me that.
Robin: I’m terrible with names.
Tina: Really funny, and I, this is, yeah, weird, I can tell how this is going to go already. This is definitely something we should talk about in the next, because, okay, we’re recording Patreon interview questions today, and we have our list, we decided this was going to be the recording that we behave, we get things done, we record our little questions, and we’re doing pretty well. And we did good, we’re doing pretty well, what time are we at now?
Well, we’re like three minutes of just BSing, we’re doing great. We may or may not get in trouble sometimes during recording sessions, and did I tell you that Deej threatened? Like, they absolutely threatened that if we misbehaved, that they’re going to make us record separately. I was like, no!
Robin: I think that’s awesome, and it kind of, my instinct now, oh, I shouldn’t admit this, I’m recording, oh well.
Tina: Oh no.
Robin: My instinct now is like, I wonder how far I can push that.
Tina: Oh, well, now they’re going to be prepared.
Robin: That’s the older sister in me.
Tina: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, they really like how we record, and we’re recording together, and we play off each other, and it’s fantastic, and I don’t see them actually doing it.
But now that I’ve said that, they are absolutely going to do that. So, you know, I have to record my monologue later, and I’m recording by myself, and I am not happy about it, I mean, I am happy about it, but …
Robin: It’s weird.
Tina: Yeah.
Robin: The last two I’ve done, you haven’t been there, and it was like something was missing. I was like, what is happening?
Tina: Yeah, I had plans during one of them, but I was actively thinking, I need to pop in and do the thing. And, okay, I almost don’t want to do it now because we’re so far into this, but my name is Tina. Yeah, I go produce this show, and I am playing, I just forgot, I’m playing Yvonne. Did we ever decide it’s Yvonne, right? And not Yvonne? I think it’s Yvonne.
Robin: Oh shit, wait.
Tina: I know.
Robin: I’m so used to calling you Vonnie.
Tina: I know, okay, I play Vonnie.
Robin: Yvonne?
Tina: I think it’s Yvonne. I had this whole conversation with Whitney, who plays Charlene, and she was kind of going through like what she had been told to say. Because she asked me, and I’m like, shit, I don’t know. I also really hope, it’s Patreon, we can cast, it’s fine, right?
Robin: Sweet, fuck yeah.
Tina: Yeah. Okay, and who are you? Now that we’ve talked forever.
Robin: I am. My name is Robin, and I am the voice of Karo. Yay.
Tina: We can say who Karo is, right?
Robin: Yeah, yes, yeah.
Tina: I don’t know who this is going to go up.
Robin: Awkward pause.
Tina: We’ll say no major spoilers or anything like that. There’s some stuff that I really wanted you to put on Patreon, and I’m like, I can’t do any of that, because none of these episodes are out yet. So like…
Robin: I was thinking about how much I have to censor, and I can’t really talk about it.
Tina: I know. Oh my gosh, okay. So our cash app and PayPal are going to be in the show notes, so if you guys just send us some money, we’ll give you all the spoilers, it’s fine. Not really. I’m too chicken to do that. Okay, so we’re going to… You know… Sorry, I’m laughing at myself. Do you know who Kevin Smith is, right? Or do you?
Robin: Oh, of course.
Tina: Have you ever watched any of his stand-up?
Robin: Oh god, not in a lot… Has he done anything recent? I’ve seen some of his older stuff …
Tina: I’ve thought… I don’t think so. I have some of the older stuff. And just us approaching this, it’s going to go like his stand-up. And for anyone who doesn’t know, he’ll do these stand-up performances, and you can… I got a lot of them on Amazon for like five bucks a piece, but like my ex and I used to watch them because we watched all like the Jay and Silent Bob universe movies. And he would do a Q &A session. And usually… he would make it through one, two, maybe three questions in this like hour and a half, two hour special, because one story would lead to another story. It would lead to something else, and lead to something else, and then you’d be like, oh shit, this is… Can we have another question? And it’s just really funny, and I’m like, that’s exactly how this is going to go.
Robin: 100%.
Tina: So I’m real, real excited to see what the runtime is by the time we get to the end of this.
And if it ends up being one or two Patreon posts. Brilliant. Yeah. Yeah, that’s some… Context for anyone who doesn’t know, there was a thing for Moonbase, and I feel like I don’t remember if this was when they were a full, full, full cast, or it was just at the very beginning. But we had something kind of like this, and we’re supposed to record, you know, little things. Mine was a ramble so long they cut it into two Patreon posts, I think. And that led to deciding… We had two different little Patreon mini-series.
I think Cass had something that he did for Michel. And we literally had a series called Wilders Rambles. And I did most of the audio design on it. I wrote most of them. Cass helped me a lot, and I think Deej and somebody else did. I’d have to go back and look at the credits. But it was pretty much her explaining memes to the crew, kind of, from what I remember.
Robin: Okay, I remember this now.
Tina: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All because I won’t shut up. Quite honestly. I mean, it’s not bad, but it’s bad. It’s a problem.
Robin: I do too … I’m worse … I’m really well-behaved if I’m by myself, because that perfectionist, like, hyper-focused part of me comes out. But if I’m with someone else, and we’re both a little crazy, or neurodivergent, yeah, no, I’m gone.
Tina: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, like, you play off of people, you know? Like, oh, I can, yes, got it. All right, you know what? I’m just, I’m going to ask you the questions, and then I, because I don’t know, I feel like, it’s, I always, as a listener, and as like a consumer of stuff, I love knowing this stuff, but I’m like, like, do we just type it out? It’s so weird. Like, I normally really, really like the working online. Oh, this is going to be such an ADHD session. I just, I feel the thoughts going away. But like, in mainstream media, when they do like interviews, and they do stuff like this, like, I mean, I guess magazines, well, no, those are even usually like, in person, but then they translate it to print. So like, with everybody doing like audio remotely, and we have, we have people in like, multiple countries, and I’m just like, what’s the best way to do this? Because we were, we were given freedom, like, when they sent out questions to people, I’m pretty confident it was a, you can answer this in whatever format you want. And of course, we chose to do this, which was clearly a good idea, but you know what, it’s going to be entertaining, and it’s fun for us. So, yeah.
Robin: Exactly.
Tina: You actually probably have a real answer to number one. So what got you interested in Waiting for October, the show that we’re making, and the world that we’re creating?
Robin: So Waiting for October, I actually, I know it was like a one-shot that you guys did some time ago, but I heard about it through Discord, and I saw that there, there were going to be auditions, and of course I read, you know, I think at the time they were just looking for Karo. And I actually, I was definitely on the fence about auditioning because Karo is non-binary, and I don’t identify that way, so I usually try to keep, you know, try to make sure people who do identify the way have a chance to portray those characters, but actually it was Deej reached out and asked me to audition for Karo, and you know, Deej asks you to audition, you don’t ask why, you just do it. So I did. It was like I had a blessing to do it, and I loved what I read just from that. It was a huge monologue, a gorgeous monologue, and I really just connected with it, and so I was like, okay, I can just shoot my shot and do this. And so I did. I was actually shocked when I was cast.
Tina: I’m not. It was great. Like you have the natural storytelling vibe going on. It’s amazing. Although I do sometimes wonder if they regret it now. Be like, what did we do? But honestly, like the people that it came down to in the end, I was like, I’m going to be a problem no matter what, so I just got lucky and we click really well. For me, like coming into it how you mentioned, like we did do the one shot, it was, they had the concept for the show already, but they kind of wanted to do like a little trial run. And if I misspeak or say anything wrong, you know what, D.J. has final say over uploading this to Patreon anyway. So they’ll be like, dude, that’s not what happened. It’s totally fine. But like they did a short for MonkeyTales, the hopepunk anthology that we put out as well. And we had a different voice actor playing Karo. And there were a couple of different things, but I think mainly scheduling conflict and just different things going on because we did do that short like years ago. And it just was something we wouldn’t be able to actually do until after Moonbase finished and all of that. Did that make it any harder or any easier? Or how did that sort of like affect how you came into the part?
Robin: I was definitely not going to listen to the original. And I still haven’t. I kind of actually want to go back now so then I can judge myself after the fact.
Tina: Oh no no no no no no no. Okay, listen, but don’t you guys both have a very different, I think take like, I’m very curious. I need to go back and relisten to it and see where the similarities and, I think it was a good call not to listen first. Because you kind of have, you know, have your own incarnation of the character.
Robin: Yeah, I think that’s really important –
Tina: But now I really want to go listen.
Robin: Oh, now I do too, actually, because I need to make time for that. I need to make time for stuff I actually should do.
Tina: Yeah, have you listened to any of the anthology?
Robin: I have not actually.
Tina: I have listened. I haven’t listened to all of them. I think I’ve listened to maybe a solid half of them. Some of them, some of them are funny. Some of them are great. Some of them are real sad, like but hopeful vibes, yadda yadda yadda. There’s one of them that I did real early on in audio stuff. So like, I listened to it and I’m kind of like, I try not to be analytical, but there’s a couple of really cute ones. Like, I enjoy it a lot.
Robin: I’ll have to check it out. I mean, I’m saying it, so now I have to.
Tina: Right. So what’s up? Someone’s going to come back like in discord or on the Patreon post a couple months from now and be like, so have you listened to it?
Robin: Give me 25 minutes because that’s how long it’s going to take to listen.
Tina: Honestly, oh my goodness. Yeah, my answer for this one is not particularly earth-shattering or interesting because I was kind of like you. They were like, okay, so I’m making this show. And this is what parts that I would like you to do. Do you want to do it? And I was just very much like, you know how I turned in all of my lines late for Moonbase, even though I was running up lines from people and you still want to work with me again? Are you sure? But I was a little nervous about it because it’s, you know, one of the two leads and Wilder, like, I know Moonbase didn’t really have like a lead lead per se with the format that we had. But she was kind of the comic relief character. Like there were some serious moments and there were, you know, things like that, but it was not, it wasn’t the pressure of you’re going to have to be really good and engaging and have a good performance and things like that. You know, like, Leeman carried a whole lot of weight. Like he’s amazing and it’s totally worth it.
But I’m just like, that’s a lot of pressure. I just had to show up with a really silly accent and say silly things about memes and yell at cast. So I had it easy. And now it’s just like, oh, oh, I have to actually do a good job. Shit.
Robin: Dude, I am not going to lie. I didn’t, it didn’t click for me that Karo was one of the leads until I was cast.
Tina: Oh my God.
Robin: And then I was like, oh no, what have I done? What have they done?
Tina: Mistakes were made.
Robin: Yes. No, I definitely understand that too and just carrying that weight and oh my gosh, poor Deej has had to deal with my scheduling conflicts all month. Every single read I mean, I think we rescheduled all of them because of me.
Tina: I was, I was the cause of several of them as well. My schedule was not too bad until we started rehearsals for this play that I’m doing because rehearsal schedule is Monday night, Tuesday night, Thursday night. So I’m like, I got Wednesdays and Fridays and sometimes Saturdays. So yeah. And then we were trying to do some Halloween stuff as well because spooky season and so yes, I have been the problem child right there with you. Excellent. Okay. Surprising no one.
Robin: I’m always the problem child. I think I even introduced myself that way to Deej.
Tina: The trick is to be endearing and be like the cleric friend and help everybody and just be so whatever, great and funny that they’re like, you know, you’re the problem child, but in a good way. And it’s totally worth it.
Robin: I like to think of myself as the sweet village idiot that people find endearing but idiotic.
Tina: Oh my gosh. Yeah, that’s fair.
Robin: I think it works.
Tina: Yeah, no, absolutely. It’s gotten us this far, right?
Robin: Hey, I’m still, I’m still surviving so we’re going to call it a win.
Tina: Exactly. Oh, well, this is redundant and now I’m embarrassed. But who are you playing and what’s your character like?
Robin: Oh, you know, I’m so glad you asked. I’m the voice of Karo!
Tina: Wow. I would never have guessed.
Robin: And let’s see what, what are they like?
Tina: Yeah.
Robin: Um, um, they are a wonderful person from the world of October. Wow. I really believe they honestly have such a beautiful dynamic personality. They’re confident and unsure. They’re sweet but fierce. Hard and soft, you know, that whole like, I mean, people are in general, but I think it’s really well translated in the show. But I’m actually really looking forward to seeing how the audience reacts to them.
Tina: Oh, right. Oh my goodness.
Robin: Especially since I want to say the original, the one-shot you guys did was the pumpkin patch, right?
Tina: Yes.
Robin: Yeah. Okay. So I’m really looking forward to people meeting them, you know, a little bit of the before with the Prologue and then really getting into the nitty gritty of it. And so I guess, I don’t remember the question, but ditto, who are you? What’s she like?
Speaker 3: I feel like I just answered it and I don’t remember. I am the good child. I have the questions pulled up on the computer.
Robin: Oh, shit. I think they sent an email, give me a second, let me open it –
Tina: Oh, no, it’s okay. I can have it up. It’s fine. Okay, great. I’m the producer. That’s why they pay me the big bucks. And now that I’ve said it, they have to.
Robin: Yes.
Tina: Oh, geez. It’s fun to pretend sometimes. Y’all, we’re an indie audio drama. We do what we can.
Robin: And also what we want.
Tina: Yes. That is actually like Midnight Burger. Like they’ve said that like in the transcripts or in the scripts, like there was something, it was a kid, I think two characters kissed or did something mushy and they’re like, we do what we want here. It’s fine. And then some of the recaps and I’m like, that’s good. Because we can. Like within reason, within reason. Unfortunately, money and accessibility is very much still, still a thing as much as, as much as we can get away with.
Robin: This day and age. Yep.
Tina: Okay, the question, the question that has been asked. The poison, Kuzco’s poison. I am playing Yvonne and she is a human. She is dating Karo and they’re an amazing relationship with no problems ever. It is smooth sailing this whole time. Trust us. It’s fine.
Robin: Perfection incarnate.
Tina: Yeah, they’re just the model relationship.
Robin: I feel like this isn’t going to bite us in the ass later.
Tina: No, it is 100%. It is. Okay, let’s see. She’s a librarian and she’s, I think they both are. They’re both very stubborn in their own way. Like, you know how there’s like the useless gays category. I feel like stubborn gays fits them very well. I know I’m trying to think like, I know I’m just, it’s going to sound to you all listening that I’m just blank staring, but I’m trying to think of things I can share that aren’t like content spoilers.
Robin: Yeah, that’s, yeah. It’s like it is vague, like, ooh dynamic. I would say both are very fiercely independent given their histories.
Tina: Oh, yes.
Robin: And I think that where the perfection of the relationship really, you know, there’s no rocky bits at all that come up.
Tina: Oh, no. No, no, it’s fine. No feelings jail in this series.
Robin: Deej learned their lesson.
Tina: Yeah, so I feel like after the season we need to do another one of these because like straight up both of these characters have some sort of trauma that has to do with like their upbringing and their things like that. And like, oh man, yeah, we’re going to definitely because there’s no way we can do it without spoilers.
Robin: Yeah, we definitely need to do that after everything’s out.
Tina: Yeah, yeah, because I definitely would love to talk about that because mine is like a freakin’ copy paste from, no, that would be no, and not everybody knows. Most of our people can pretend that I’m a well-rounded individual. My friends might be a spoiler for them, but copy and paste from like my personal backstory. And it was a complete accident too.
Robin: It’s so weird because I tell Deej the same about Karo and me.
Tina: Oh, geez.
Robin: Not not identical, but certain points have hit where I’m just sitting there being like, wow, okay, method acting right now. Cool.
Tina: Oh yeah, yeah, my monologue that we’re recording tonight. Like when we did our episode, I was pretty sure I was going to cry and then I didn’t. And then the episode that I didn’t have you, there’s a little bit of that that I talk about with Gray. And my voice caught a couple times, but I didn’t. I had like the TV like one tear hanging out in the corner of my eye, but I didn’t. And now I’m like, this monologue is just going to be the problem isn’t it? Because you know, they just, they keep talking about it because that’s what you do. You, oh, we found out backstory. We’re going to explore that a little bit more.
Robin: I guess I think I felt that I felt the most emotion twice. And it was during really high peak emotional moments and I can’t, I won’t even say which episodes.
Tina: I think I know which episodes.
Robin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where I actually, I ended up re-recording for the most recent one.
Tina: The one that we’re thinking of, is that the one that I recorded the joke takes as Wilder?
Robin: Yes.
Tina: Okay. Because I kept saying damn.
Robin: The next morning I re-recorded it to combine my version of it and then Deej’s version of it. Kind of trying to meld it. But yeah, no, that moment, that was one of the episodes. And then with earlier ones, I had just recently gone back to my hometown and had an experience similar to Karo. This is great. Thank you for that.
Tina: Yeah. Okay. So yeah, we got to, we’re committing post season one. We’re like, okay, let’s get some like chocolate or tea or something cozy and just talk about the things that made us cry. Oh, it’s so fun. Yeah, it’s, there’s so much more I can say about that, but I am not going to. We’re going to stay on topic. We’re going to do that then. We’re already like, I don’t know what we’re going to record when we do our little Patreon thing, just being goofy.
Robin: Probably.
Tina: Like we’re already doing.
Robin: Yeah, but okay, I’m not even going to spoil how we’re going to do it. So never mind, but it’s going to be fun guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Robin: Everyone’s going to love it.
Tina: Okay. Yeah, I think that’s about all that that that we succinctly, guys, I talk for a living both here and at Starbucks and I can’t talk. It’s fine, but we succinctly answered those. Yes, we think?
Robin: 100%. I got something from it.
Tina: So yeah, yeah, no, exactly. And we haven’t done any major spoilers. So we still have a job.
Robin: That’s so fucking real.
Tina: It’s totally fine. I legit, I feel like I don’t know how we would, I would probably get in trouble because I know better. But I don’t know. It’s not like we’re Marvel. And if we do the spoilers and maybe people will listen. I don’t know. I feel like we’re maybe Sarah on the production team. I don’t think maybe they are. I can’t speak for that. But like DJ and I were definitely both the oops, I shared this thing early or I had this and I wanted to give it to people. So I did. So but you know, blah, blah, blah, respect, you know, and release the thing when we’re supposed to release it and somebody’s going to care about spoilers. So.
Robin: Oh, 100%.
Tina: Yeah. Number three.
Robin: The segue!
Tina: I know it’s such a good segue. I’m such a talented person anyway, whatever. How has the process been for you working with the other actors, rehearsing and recording?
Robin: Let’s see. I think I really only rehearsed with you.
Tina: Yay.
Robin: It was for all the early stuff too when we were even just doing like the prologue and I think it was episode one we rehearsed just so Deej could kind of hear us.
Tina: We rehearsed it like, I think we had so many different versions of that first episode.
Robin: Oh, I know.
Tina: Because like there was the audition one and then there was the one we recorded it and then for some reason we re-recorded it because it got rewritten a little bit. And then I don’t know. I’m just like, and then the trailer was like, essentially, I don’t know. There’s so many different.
Robin: Yeah. That was really funny to get that email. I mean, like, okay, we need promo. So I need you to basically just read this. That took all of like two minutes, but it was just really funny. I was like, I have recorded this so much.
Tina: Oh, I autistic brained that full stop. Like I saw the email and did you was like, you know, said later that they were waiting on it. And I was like, oh, yeah, it’s cool. We just we’re going to get together to do Patreon stuff and then we’re going to record this. And they’re like, Robin already did it. I’m like, I thought we were doing it together. And it was just I went back and I read it and it did not say anything about recording it together. And, you know, like you said, we’ve done that a million times. But I was just like, oh, I sorry, I’ll get right on that.
Robin: I think it was just because there are only like three lines.
Tina: Yeah. It was really short.
Robin: Should I do behind the scenes? This is what happened.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah.
Robin: I personally recorded 10 different takes.
Tina: I’m sorry, what?
Robin: I did four. Yeah, I did a total seeing how we always record two. Yeah. Yeah, I had to do four more sessions by myself because I had horrible audio clicking –
Tina: Oh, the clicking. Oh, yeah.
Robin: It was not clipping, clicking is this weird digital click that my – my – basically my computer crashed on me. And I had to invest in a new setup.
Tina: We were talking about that a little bit.
Robin: I think I was just confident about three lines, I got this.
Tina: Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah, that was very stressful. And because like some of those were really good takes and there was a lot going on, but then there’s the clicking and it’s very stressful.
Robin: I kind of wish actually I had done a really good solid clean take, but they had already chosen everything and like we’re able to like paste everything together. But I still wish I had been like, no, no, no, no, no.
Tina: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Robin: Give you a clean take.
Tina: Sometimes it’s so weird to the takes that people choose like nine times out of 10. I’m like, this is the take they’re going to use and it’s wrong.
Robin: Yep.
Tina: Like every once in a while. I’ll get it. Yeah. I’ll listen and I’m like, that’s the one that they chose. I didn’t think that one was as good, okay … So it’s just real interesting because everybody kind of has their own vision of what it’s going to turn out to be. Yeah. I think my answer is pretty much the same. I I like and this is going to go into the question for as well. I like recording with everybody. It’s a pain in the foot to make it work. But like it’s so good and I feel like you get so much more out of it because you can tell and you’re playing off everybody and I’m real bad about … I don’t do like the audible reactions and things like that. But like Dallas when we were recording and a couple of the Midnight Burger folks and Cat – who she’s on this show. I don’t think we’ve announced her role yet. I think that’s going to be like when the episode comes out. But she’s really good at like the reacting in the moment or whatever. And I’m like, I like I can adlib a little bit, but I usually don’t because I just don’t think about it. I’m like, well, that’s going to mess them up. It’s – I’m going to read with on the script. And I’m like, well, they don’t like it. And just cut it out. Like I need to get that’s like something that I’ve
Robin: See, I think you’ve been trying a lot actually. And I love it.
Tina: Uh huh. I’m getting better –
Robin: I love it when you do that.
Tina: I feel like you can you know you kind of the energy is different.
Robin: Yeah, absolutely. I feel like we do a really solid script take … with like a little bit of ad libbing. I feel like in our second takes, we do a lot more ad libbing. We’re like a lot more loose. Yes. Which is fun.
Tina: Yeah. I agree. I am a big fan.
Robin: Yeah. No, the recording with everybody. Oh man. We had one episode where we re-recorded it. Not intentionally, but we’re helping an actor who couldn’t be there.
Tina: Yes.
Robin: And when that actor was there. Oh man. I felt like my read was so different and I’m so glad I agreed to re-record because I think I did a stronger performance. I think we both did.
Tina: Yeah. I think the energy was so different.
Robin: Having them there. It was wonderful.
Tina: Yes. I think that’s not a spoiler. We can say that. This is the one with Grey, right?
Robin: Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Yeah.
Tina: No. Same. Because I was like I thought I knew how it was going to go. And we started and I was like, oh. It’s like we’re like really being like, what is the word I’m looking for? It’s like when you go out with your friends and you just kind of like talk shit and you’re a little catty and it’s just, that’s kind of the vibe. And I didn’t think that that was the vibe that we were going to go for, but it’s just kind of what came out.
Robin: We weren’t reading it like that the first time. And I think we were unfortunately rushed too because I was on a time crunch unfortunately.
Tina: God, how dare.
Robin: I think we were all trying to be very polite and trying to get me out of the booth. Yeah. But no, oh my gosh. Just energy. Wow. Just that’s the perfect way of putting it – energy. Absolutely.
Tina: Now, this is a funny question for us, but if you knew our previous show, Moonbase Theta, Out, what do you think is different here? Do you know the show Moonbase Theta, Out by chance? Robin?
Robin: It sounds familiar. I want to say…
Tina: Maybe? Possibly. You sound kind of like one of the actors. Have you ever heard that before?
Robin: You know what? You’re not the first to tell me that. That’s really funny.
Tina: Oh, God. These jokes are so fun.
Robin: But yes, I do know Moonbase Theta, Out. I would say definitely this show is on the supernatural spectrum versus sci-fi. But I think what’s kind of fun, because I don’t think this is spoilery. I think anybody who is a fan of Moonbase is wonderfully following us into Waiting for October. You’re going to find fun little Easter eggs throughout. But I would definitely say… I don’t know if this is just me. I feel like this show is also more wonderfully queer. I feel like we really embraced that.
Tina: Which I don’t know how, because Moonbase was pretty queer. Oh, God. But yeah, no, I totally agree. This one is much, much more queer. I had something that went out the window. Heck.
Robin: That is the story of my life.
Tina: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah, I feel like… And I’m sure there’s going to be overlap. I’m standing on the theory that I think that once it’s been out, that it’s going to sort of appeal to an entirely different sort of audience. Oh, I just hit my pop filter. So that’s going to be fun when it comes across the audio. I think it’s going to appeal to a different group of people, both in genre-wise, but also storytelling. Because Moonbase… Hold on. Goodness, excuse me. Okay. Moonbase, we changed the format a couple of times. Like, we started off with the, you know, micro episodes, diary entry vibes. And then we had the longer episodes that were still like journal entry single, you know. I think near the end of season two, there were a couple ones that Michel and Roger and Wilder… Michel’s… Yeah, Michel, Roger, Wilder, and I think… Oh my God, Ashwini. I think they were all kind of in the same space, but we didn’t record together. Like, we were still recording separately. But the format sort of changed up, which for some shows, it works really well on. Some shows, it does not. And then also it depends on the listeners. Like, I don’t know if you ever listened to Archive 81, but their first season…
Robin: I have a whole list I need to listen to –
Tina: Oh, I know. This one, I think, for now is finished. I don’t think they have any more going. But season one was a dude with a cassette tape player, and he was listening to these audio tapes and archiving them. You know, Archive 81. But they not only… They changed their genre. I don’t think they changed like the way they recorded, but it was, you know, more of a full cast. Season two was very like surrealist and body horror and all this stuff. Like, and then season three was wildly occult. And like, it worked great for some people. And I know some people that listened to that were just like, well, I love season one, but season two, this is not for me. So I wonder if maybe we had something like that with Moonbase, that like, you start with the one sort of format, and then you’re like, oh, it’s full cast now, but it’s not like a typical full cast. Like it’s still diary entries. And then three and four were more, more like the typical full cast things.
Robin: Yeah, it was very ensemble, with obviously like leads and secondaries and whatnot, but yeah, definitely went to an ensemble cast.
Tina: We had such a big cast by the end of that show, oh my gosh.
Robin: I remember trying to get us all together to just rehearse before we all separately recorded and that was so funny to me. There’s so many of us.
Tina: Yeah, yeah, that was a lot.
Robin: And I’m just now meeting some of the actors who, I mean, my character never really interacted with a lot of the characters, but I’m just now meeting some of the actors who are in Moonbase, but we would have had no other way of interacting and just made me realize how vast that cast was. It’s really cool.
Tina: Yeah, I feel like I talked to some of the cast regularly. It wasn’t like how like when you do theater, how you sort of like super bond with like everybody or like how some of the other shows, you just know that like all of their cast members are like best friends and things like that. Like, I don’t think I had anything like that and it might have been in part because like we didn’t record together and you know, it was so hard to get everybody together, kind of like when you try to schedule D &D or get adult friends to hang out and things like that. But yeah, it’s been neat to sort of like revisit that. Like I got to record with Tau and I don’t think that I have ever done that before. And there was somebody else too that I was just like, we worked on this. Rissa, we didn’t actually get to record together on this one, though. We had scheduling things and we recorded in separate sessions. But like there’s so many of these where I’m like, I’ve been on a show with you for five years and I have never, never done it before. But here we are. It’s kind of crazy.
Robin: Yeah, it’s weird how that happens. And I just now realized, I think there’s a couple of things I’ve worked with Cat on besides Moonbase and we had another thing we were involved in and another thing, a couple things, but we never actually like had a moment together. And it’s so funny that in this beautiful little podcast indie world, that can happen a lot.
Tina: Yeah, I, let’s see. Moonbase, obviously. And then Cat and I were both in Midnight Burger. They, she plays Verge. My brain just stopped. Oh my goodness. But it was going from like actually like having scenes and interacting with this person. And I’m like, I’ve never done this before. Usually I’m recording on my own yelling about you. And now we’re recording a thing together and it’s so funny. But she’s someone who is really interesting to watch work because like we joke about method acting, but oh my gosh, like got stuff in her hands and is doing the thing. And if like her character is doing something, she’s doing it too. Like I have like a box cigarette when she does Verge and this and that. And was kind of like coaching, I guess, and like helping me kind of do things and suggesting things and whole different ball game. Like I’m just like, oh my God, this is, I love it. But like, wow, I would not have thought to do it. So it’s common sense, but it gets not like I’m like, I would have never thought to do any of that.
Robin: See, my thing is I’m very, I guess, physically active and my face also has no chill. So I know I act a lot with my face. I feel like if we ever did a recording session where we had webcams on, I feel like people would just laugh at me. Like I get really into it.
Tina: Oh yeah. No –
Robin: Like my judgment face gets really intense.
Tina: I was like, the people that record like the voice acting videos or like the behind the scenes stuff and they’ll put them on Tik Tok or on Instagram or stuff like that. I tried once and I was like, no, no, I can’t do that. It’s the face. It’s just, it’s goofy. Like I just.
Robin: Yeah.
Tina: I’m one of those people that my face is closed captioning, but also like it doesn’t always not like match the like, I’ll make just faces that I’m like, I’m in a box. It doesn’t matter if anybody’s watching me. It’s not, it’s not a pretty face, it’s not a cute face, but it’s getting the meaning across.
Robin: Yeah. Yeah. No, I am very, I was once dubbed as to having a Play-Doh face. Oh, they make a lot of weird faces.
Tina: In a good way? Do they mean it in a good way?
Robin: It has no chill. All right. I guess we’re about to find out. We’ve never interacted on video together
Tina: No, no, no.
Robin: So this will be fun. Yeah.
Tina: Miss over there. I’m not going to spoil it, but we get to record something on video. Yeah.
Robin: Oh, wait, I guess there was that one Tik Tok I did. I think I saw you two Tik Tok. Yeah. We, if you don’t give me a deadline, it’ll not, it won’t happen. Yeah.
Tina: I am a terrible Tik Toker on like the show account. Like it’s, it’s not, it’s not, I am not an influencer. So, you know.
Robin: Yeah. No, I’d be terrible at that.
Tina: So I feel like our next recording session or whatever we, I don’t know. Do we have it? I don’t think we do have another. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. I think, I don’t know, whatever. I need to just check the little file, but we should just randomly like have cameras and turn them on and just continue to be a menace.
Robin: Do not tempt me. I’ll do it.
Tina: Yes. I’ll remind you. I’ll be like, Hey, guess what? Remember we record? Let’s do the thing. This is great. Okay. Next question, like the professional, say what?
Robin: This is feeding my soul.
Tina: I’m afraid to look at where we are time wise. Number five, would you live in our monster world? What monster would you want to be?
Robin: Ooooh. I, I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t know. I love to travel. I love to learn about different cultures and try new foods. So I know I’d visit. Yes. I don’t know if I’d live there. Maybe if I had someone to go to, but I don’t … I don’t know.
Tina: There’s. There’s hazards that would come. Cause like, are we, are we talking about like, would we up and move to live there? Or if we make a choice to live there? Have we been living there our whole life?
Robin: Exactly.
Tina: So like, if we’re living there as humans, like as us, I feel like I don’t know if I would want to go through the acclimation process.
Robin: Oof. You know, and I’m thinking of a particular episode, just thinking about that.
Tina: Yes. Yes. Um, but yeah, I feel like maybe I would, it would, it would keep things interesting. Cause this is a very, um, a very fluid world. I don’t know if that’s a spoiler. It’s a world that exists because you’re telling stories. So depending on when this comes out, if you know, you know, if you don’t know, then just sort of imagine what that would entail. Because like, I feel like you can make some, some safe assumptions and conjectures and things like that. But yeah.
Robin: That was very diplomatic. Well done.
Tina: Thank you! I can’t wait for the message. What did you guys do? Why is this so long?
Robin: Um, what time are we at?
Tina: Let me look. Um, while I’m doing that, what monster would you be?
Robin: Oh, I don’t know.
Tina: 43 minutes.
Robin: Oh shit. Okay. Yeah. We got this. You know, honestly, we’re making great time for us.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah. I almost, I need to just hop in Discord. Hey, I’m sorry in advance. Okay. What monster would you be?
Robin: What monster would I be, I, I don’t know a lot of cryptids or monsters per se. That was more my brother’s thing growing up. I like, you know, the famous ones.
Tina: Oh yeah.
Robin: But I would say it would probably have to be something very probably playful and kind of prankster-y.
Tina: Okay. Okay.
Robin: Cause I do, I’m kind of a menace at work. I like to scare people. Not like traumatized then. So like I have a really weird skill set where I am very quiet and people don’t expect me. So sometimes, you know, like, um, if I walk behind someone, I’ll just lightly say, boo, and they freak out.
Tina: So what you’re saying is you’re a bildad.
Robin: And it honestly brings me joy. I don’t know what that says about me, but, um –
Tina: A lot.
Robin: Honestly, yeah.
Tina: And karma just punched me in the face because I bumped my microphone again. I’m not allowed. I can’t do that. If I’m a smart alec like anywhere or around people, it immediately like, it just gets me. It’ll turn around and I’m like, well, now I either say something not bright or I will trip over something or just something will happen that I’m like, right. I need to not be an asshole, even if it’s in jest. Because yeah, backfires every single time.
Robin: It’s only backfired on me. I don’t even know if it would be a backfire, but it was a hilarious reaction. I worked with a guy who was very easily scared. And this one I intentionally did like I allowed, I like stomped my foot on the ground and he was washing the dishes and he sprayed me good. When I worked at Starbucks, you probably know what I was talking about.
Tina: Yeah. Oh yeah.
Robin: No, he got me good and he was not happy. I laughed.
Tina: Well, I mean, at least you were a good sport about getting sprayed. Like, you know.
Robin: Oh no, it was 100% deserved and probably a little more.
Tina: Yeah, I don’t, I don’t know enough about, I’m thinking about our characters. I’m like, maybe, maybe a bugbear. That sounds like something that our bugbear would do.
Robin: Yeah. Oh, okay. I’m down for that.
Tina: I don’t know that I would want to be a monster. I feel like … that would definitely be a spoiler … Okay. So, you know, the TV shows where like they go ghost hunting.
Robin: Yeah.
Tina: I feel like I would do that job.
Robin: Oh, so you want to be like an investigator.
Tina: Like in the context of our world. Yeah.
Robin: Like not even necessarily a monster, but … but someone who’s gathering information. Sold. Sign me up.
Tina: Absolutely. I think I feel like I want everybody else to tell us what kind of monsters that they think that we would be.
Robin: Oh my God. Right? Well, as they get to know us …
Tina: We might regret that. They’d be like, oh, guys. Okay.
Robin: Tina’s definitely this. Robin’s definitely this.
Tina: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. No, I’m fully expecting that. Patreon, that is your assignment. Mm-hmm.
Robin: Actually, I am scared and excited all the once about this.
Tina: Oh God. I think my friends Mina and Sean in real life like are on Patreon. So like when and if they get around to listening to all of this, I am 100% sure they’re going to text me something. Probably like, oh my God, how much do you talk? Yes. Umm … Is there another fictional world you would want to visit?
Robin: Oh, absolutely.
Tina: That’s it. They didn’t ask which one.
Robin: So I offered it anyway.
Tina: Which one was it?
Robin: Adventure. I hands down. I’d want to be a pirate. I’m a pirate at heart. And I to experience that would be such an amazing achievement.
Tina: Oh, see, I wasn’t thinking we were doing our worlds. I thought it was just any like fictional world. Oh, but if there’s, yeah, I don’t know if I was going to do the adventure world. I mean, it’d be fun. But I’m kind of a baby. But I like D&D. So maybe maybe the adventure world would be fun. Fantasy like with like the fantasy character types.
Robin: Yeah, I could get behind that too.
Tina: I think the romance ones –
Robin: But then like what kind of fantasy character? Like what kind of what would you want to be like Elf?
Tina: Elf is Elf tends to be my go-to. I have been meaning to try and play like a halfling. So like, I think that could be fun.
Robin: Cute!
Tina: Right.
Robin: Um, that’s I think I do have a halfling character. No, I play D &D too. Uh huh. Oh yeah. All right. I always know I don’t maybe I don’t have a halfling character. I think I’ve always had one in my mind. Like when I make this halfling, I know what it shall be.
Tina: Uh huh. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There’s a halfling. You need to sit down and make her.
Robin: Obviously, you know, because actually I have a game coming up. So maybe that’s a great.
Tina: Hey, yeah. That would be exciting. So there we go. We still need to sit down at some point and figure out how we want to try and D &D ish all of these characters because we all have so much time.
Robin: How incredible would that be if we had time? I know.
Tina: Maybe when we’re done with because like I wanted to do it. I’m like, we could do it now. And I’m like, no, we can’t because spoilers. We can’t talk about anything.
Robin: Anything. So maybe that could be a fun thing. Yeah.
Tina: Like like the off season. Vibes.
Robin: Yeah. I love that.
Tina: I put it off on purpose.
Robin: Beautiful. Honestly, well played.
Tina: Thank you. I try. We’ve talked about this already. Do you have a favorite cryptid?
Robin: Oh, I don’t. I do have a favorite one. I grew up in the Southwest of the States. So I really loved growing up and seeing pictures of the Chupacabra. I thought that thing was terrifying. But I’ve always also loved underwater and water kind of creatures. So like, you know, the Loch Ness Monster or mermaids. So probably those would be my top. But you know, I mean, it’s hard to say because like the famous ones are famous for a reason. But probably that.
Tina: I don’t think I have a favorite cryptid.
Robin: Really?
Tina: Yeah, like I don’t. I know the ones that everybody talks about and things like that. And I listened to Zoo podcast when it was a thing. I don’t think they ever finished. I think they like indefinite hiatus it, but it was literally a zoo for cryptids. And you can still find it. I think there’s a little bit of cast and crew overlap with Moon Base as well. Highly recommended, even though it’s like not a finished finish finish story. It’s so good. But like the Zoo just kind of like will randomly pop up places. And I believe it’s ran by Mothman?
Robin: I’ve got a show like that, too. That did like cryptids and monsters and stuff.
Tina: What show? Interesting.
Robin: It was called one moment, Proserpina Park.
Tina: Interesting. Well, now I have to go listen to that.
Robin: Residents of Proserpina Park.
Tina: OK, I feel like I’ve heard of it.
Robin: There’s like a couple of episodes and even the second episode I was in is very is just like three lines. But I play kind of like, well, a little trickster.
Tina: Go figure. Yeah.
Robin: And one of those, it was one of the few times I’ve actually been cast to not use my voice. Oh, I got to actually put on a voice.
Tina: Do you still remember the voice?
Robin: I’m pretty sure it was just kind of like a kid.
Tina: Oh, but that’s so cute.
Robin: But yeah, it was something like that. But yeah, I really loved doing that. I love it. Because I always get cast because I have such a really deep voice for a woman. So I usually get cast for that. And people like it for some reason.
Tina: “I have this amazing voice and I don’t know why people like it.”
Robin: I would say it’s unique. But yeah, no, that was that’s really cool, actually. But so you but you don’t have a favorite.
Tina: I don’t think so. I don’t I was like a Disney kid and I didn’t do a whole lot of like the spooky stories and things like that. So I just I don’t know enough to have a favorite.
Robin: See, I feel like I’m going to age myself when I say this.
Tina: Oh, come on.
Robin: I grew up on Unsolved Mysteries. Where it was like the original one, where it was like a little bit of like supernatural and cryptid and murder and all that. So it definitely explains my personality now.
Tina: Has it changed?
Robin: Because kind of they did the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries for Netflix, where now each episode is like just a really in depth investigation, mostly into true crime.
Tina: I’m sorry, they did a reboot of it?
Robin: I I think I don’t see the most recent season. The episode is like 45 minutes to an hour. And it’s only one case where like the original it’s an hour-long episode. But it’s like they go over like six different things.
Tina: Oh, OK, yeah.
Robin: So it’s more in depth, more investigative, which is really cool. But I do love the original.
Tina: Yeah, no, for sure. I watched a lot of the original one and like Ripley’s Believe It or Not. We watched that one a lot. Yeah, I don’t I don’t I’ll have to by the end of this have a solid favorite cryptid. Do unicorns count as cryptids?
Robin: OK, I would say so.
Tina: I like unicorns.
Robin: Perfect.
Tina: I’m going to get fired from the show. I got to I got to think of a favorite cryptid.
Robin: No, I would count it. OK, that’s Scotland’s country animal. So again, is it seriously? I love it. Look, we have the bald eagle and they have the unicorn. Who’s winning?
Tina: I know who’s winning that one. I thought for the longest time, I didn’t think a narwhal was an actual animal.
Robin: You just thought it was a sea unicorn?
Tina: Yeah, well, because they put it. Yeah, what is it? My sister has pajamas. I think it’s Tiffany, somebody has pajamas where it’s like unicorns and narwhals, like they’re being ridden and like like people are having a war and fighting.
Robin: That’s cute.
Tina: I thought they were both fantasy animals and then I kind of they were real. And I was like, first off, how did I miss this? And second off, wow, seriously? Simultaneous wonder and shame in that.
Robin: Absolutely. But I love that. Right. Wait, wait, when did you learn they were real?
Tina: I don’t want to talk about it. Unfortunately, recently.
Robin: “That was yesterday.”
Tina: Yeah, I think it was at least within the past two years.
Robin: No way.
Tina: Yeah.
Robin: Oh, my God, I fucking love that though!
Tina: Yeah, yeah.
Robin: That’s amazing. Tina, I’m proud of you.
Tina: Oh, my God. OK, what other shows and creative projects are you involved with? And where can we find you? And this is definitely not a subject change because. I’m not going to …
Robin: So back to narwhals. Let’s see. I am currently working on an indie animation project. I can’t name it yet, but as I can, like when I can, I’ll. I’ll I’ll drop that info. I recorded for a couple of other podcasts this year. So Out of Ashes and the other one is Out of Time. They don’t have release dates yet to my knowledge.
Tina: Are they related to each other? Is that just like a happy coincidence?
Robin: Not at all. They just both have the word Out in them. Oh, very cool. Yeah. Really interesting concepts for the show. One’s more action packed. The other one’s more of a family, friend, oriented story, coming of age story. It probably is would be a better description. But yeah, that’s really fun.
Tina: I love that.
Robin: As things unfold,
Tina: You’ll be posting more info. What social media accounts are you on these days? Because there’s no hub anymore. Everybody is on different websites.
Robin: I know. I technically have Twitter or …
Tina: I still call it Twitter. I’m terrible.
Robin: Yeah, so do I. I think I even listed in my email still ss Twitter, like my Twitter link.
Tina: Well, Twitter’s still in a lot of the coding. Like I don’t use it a whole lot anymore, but I’ll get like the emails and the things like that. And it’ll still say Twitter. And I’m like …
Robin: Yep. So you’re still Twitter!
Tina: Yeah.
Robin: So I do have that, but I’m not very active on it. I mostly use it for information or finding work. But Instagram, kind of, I’m just I’m a terrible millennial. You know, I don’t do the social media thing. Yeah, I’m horrendous about it. I usually like repost like we’ve been dropping trailers and whatnot the past couple of weeks. And I’m usually like two days off because I don’t. I just don’t do it very often. Like, oh, yeah, I’m doing a thing.
Tina: I’m quick at reposting. I have as anyone that follows the show’s TikTok can tell you, I’m definitely like behind on a lot of that or whatever. There’s a lot going on and I haven’t had a whole lot of extra bandwidth. It’s not great. You know, when like everything just starts to go on fire at the same time, I’m kind of how things are going right now. Like the show is probably –
Robin: That’s been my twenty twenty four.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah. The show is the least stressful thing that I have going on right now. And I feel like that says a lot.
Robin: Yes. I was just about to say!
Tina: Yeah, everything is a lot. And then, of course, everything being layered and happening at the same time is is a problem.
Robin: It always happens at the same time. Just when you just when I think it’s going to finally like at least plateau, it’s like, yeah, I’m going to pile some more shit on. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool. It’s a good time.
So how are you? You mentioned Midnight Burger, which I think is so cool when I saw that you were part of that. I was training someone at work about a year ago and he’s a huge fan of that show. So I’ve been meaning to tell him that I personally know one of the actors.
Tina: Well, I’m happy to be that person for you. Yeah, I just got into them, I think, last year. I was I was listening and I was like, because I had been meaning to there on our network,they’re on Fable & Folly. And I didn’t even know what it was about. I just received a name all the time and I kind of giggle a little bit. I’m like, Midnight Burger, how funny. And pushed it off as I do push off all these podcasts that I need to listen to. And I started listening and like, I loved it. Like every reference they drop is like for like our age group.
There was an Encyclopedia Brown reference and I about lost it. I think that is the moment I decided that I wanted to be like a Patreon supporter.
Robin: I love it.
Tina: And then I was just I’m listening and I’m like, I’ve never seen them post a casting call. I wonder I wonder if they’ll let me be like a background voice. So I like I don’t call the email people like I know I see people talk about all the time that they email their favorite people and they’re like, hey, can I be on your show? And I’m so talented and please. And I’m like, how do how do how do people do that?
Robin: I’m too awkward for that.
Tina: Yeah, I’ve never done it before. And I was just like, I can do this. Joe was in Moonbase. He had a small part. I can do this. And I sat down and I typed the email like six times and then deleted it. With pretty much just like, you know, hey, I just started listening to the show and blah, blah, blah, blah. I was – they had seen me posting on social media about it. We’d interacted a little bit. And I was just like, you know, if you I would love to find out like when you’re doing another casting call, like it would be so fun to just do like a little background voice or just be involved somehow. And he replied and he was like, oh, yeah, we’re going to after the holidays, post our season four, I think it’s season four, season four casting call or whatever. And you know, I’ll let you know, I’ll make sure you know. And I was like, I did it. I survived. It’s OK. He didn’t seem like why would you email me and ask me this? But I was yeah, I was like, oh, and I’m on this show and you were on our show and we’re on the network and this isn’t a complete random solicitation. And then when he got back to me, he’s just like, hey, we have this part. It is Deidre. She her grandpa, I think owns the bar and she bartends at the bar and is going to be this character’s love interest. Do you want to do that? And I’m like, that’s not a background voice. But yes, I’ll do it.
Robin: You’re everybody’s love interest!
Tina: Right? I know. Fictional me has a lot of game. Real life me does not.
Robin: Oh, my God, it’s so real.
Tina: Oh, yeah, at work, everybody. Like I’m on drive through like on window a lot. So like a half of the regulars are like my besties. Like, I know so much about so many people. I have a couple of them phone numbers. Some of them are coming to my play that is opening the day that we launch. Like it’s nuts. But they’re always like, I’ll talk to people and make jokes over the headset because I’m just I’m awkward. I’m going to play it off. I’m not going to pretend like I’m not like I’ll mess up. But I’m just like, look, I’m so sorry. Words are hard. But anyway, yadda yadda yadda. And they’re just like, oh, my God, you have so much rizz. I’m like, first of all, no, I don’t. These are random people that I’m never going to see again outside of the context of this store. So I can do that. If they were people I were going to see again, it would be a whole different ball game. Like so awkward. But yeah, it’s just really, really funny. I’m like, I can date all of these people. Maybe I’ll learn how to people by doing audio dramas.
Robin: Honestly, it’s weird. There’s something about acting where I feel like I learned something about myself with every character.
Tina: Oh, yeah.
Robin: Because it kind of brings something out of you that you didn’t know was it?
Tina: Yes, no, absolutely, absolutely. Like I it’s so funny. Like right now I’m with Diedre and Yvonne. Like they’re both like so much of the character like overlaps with who I am as a person. And I’m like, how, first off are they just competing? Because it’s so funny. Like there’ll be different aspects or whatever. And they’re both going through it right now. They are having a time. I’m like, I’ll do one. And it’s a super emotional thing. And then we’ll go do an episode of this show. And I’m like, oh, no, this was an emotional one too. Crap!
Robin: I love that. I love that for you.
Tina: Complete coincidental. I have my little I have a Stitch. I’ll have to do a video or video thing I’ll show you. He lives in the booth right now because of all the heavy emotional things I’ve been doing. But he was a present from my friend that I he was in a show that I produced – Order Up. It was at the community theater. And that was my producer gift. It’s this little tiny Stitch. So he’s living in here for now.
Robin: The perfect gift!
Tina: Right. I know I was like, that’s amazing. But he’s like, yeah, this is from the cast. I bought it and they don’t know what it was. But it’s from all of us.
Robin: So cute. That’s genuinely the perfect gift because I love Lilo and Stitch.
Tina: Yeah. Your picture on Instagram.
Robin: Exactly. Because this is a weird coincidence with the character, not with the story. OK, I’m just going to be serious. In high school, people used to compare me to Lilo. So some people called me Lilo. And in college, I didn’t go to college. With anybody I went to high school with. But they all called me Lilo as well. Oh, that’s so interesting. Because we have a lot of physical similarities.
Tina: I love that.
Robin: No, I’m not Polynesian or Hawaiian. I just have a dark hair and a round face. But yeah, I’ve always loved that character.
Tina: She’s the best.
Robin: She’s a little weirdo. And I get that. I was a little weirdo. I’m still a little weirdo.
Tina: I was going to say, I’m pretty sure. Like, no offense, but if you thought that you weren’t weird, surprise.
Robin: The ultimate wake up call.
Tina: “Like, man, I thought I was normal.” All of my people are weird. So like, I feel like it’s the normal on my scale, at least. So I mean, if I ever get a normal, well-adjusted friend with no quirks, no anything, I’m not going to know what to do with myself.
Robin: Honestly, same. Wow. Actually, all of my closest friends, yeah, we’re all a little weird.
Tina: Makes things more interesting.
Robin: Honestly, weird is normal to me. Like, people’s perception of what normal is and like, that’s something to obtain. That’s so boring.
Tina: Yeah. There are days where I would like maybe the events in my life to be a little more normal. But.
Robin: Oh, that I … events. Events are different than people and personalities, though. Yeah, now I feel that. Yeah.
Tina: And I am on, I think all of our stuff is actually on the website. So it’s like Monkeyman Productions backslash waiting … oh, maybe not. Maybe not. Go to Monkeyman Productions and click on Waiting for October. And we will make sure that our information is on there. Because it may or may not be as we speak.
Robin: Send it to Deej right now.
Tina: I think I sent mine. I think I sent mine.
Robin: I’m going to be honest. I probably didn’t send mine.
Tina: Oh, that’s the beauty.
Robin: I think they just copy and pasted from when I was in Moonbase Theta, Out.
Tina: Oh, no.
Robin: And I don’t think I put anything on there. I was such a small character at the time that I was like, ah, nobody’s going to give a shit.
Tina: You got one of the bonus episodes, didn’t you? Am I remembering correctly? OK, yeah, I was like, yes.
Robin: I did! No one was more shocked than me when I got that email. I was like, really?
Tina: Are we sure? I need to go back through … sorry, I was setting my water on the floor. Was yours one of the ones? Did Deej choose that? Or was it one of the choices?
Robin: No, it was one of the … I’m gonna say Beka, one of our supporters? She chose Ahnung. And I was shocked. Genuinely jaw dropped. What?
Tina: That’s so cool.
Robin: Yeah, I was genuinely, certainly shocked. And she, I believe, attended our rehearsal before we recorded. It was really cool.
Tina: I just want to make sure. Yeah, because it was Beka like BekaTerrier on Discord, correct? Or was it the other Becca? Dude, she’s got like a spreadsheet and all of these things. And it’s just amazing.
Robin: It’s incredible. Incredible. No, yeah, I felt very honored when Ahnung was chosen. Because Ahnung was such a, like such a, not an unimportant character, but such a background character in a lot of ways. But they had a really powerful moment, I think, which that was really amazing. Amazing episode. I actually thought that was the end of Ahnung’s story. And I got an email after I sent in that recording from Deej saying, hey, that’s not the end of Ahnung’s story. If you still want to be a part of this. Nice. Yeah. I’m down. I thought I was low key, politely fired just now.
Tina: So I searched through the Discord and after they did the announcement post about it, and they were like, this Sunday we’ll get to the third bonus. An incredible performance by Robin as Ahnung and Becca as Elio. And then the Beka that chose Ahnung was like, they’re so good, y’all. I was so excited to hear more Ahnung backstory, which is why I picked her. And you can’t go wrong with the bonus Elio. And just kind of like flipping through the comments in Discord. And it’s great. And I’m so happy that she shows that and that we got to hear more of that. Because I didn’t know a whole lot about the character either. So I was real happy. I was like, hey.
Robin: That’s why I was just shocked that, yeah, Ahnung was chosen. But I loved it. I mean, it was such a cool opportunity. How could I say no?
Tina: Exactly. We’re not allowed to say no. I think we’ve discussed that already.
Robin: How awkward would that be? Like, thanks but no thanks!
Tina: I don’t know what we would have done, actually, if anyone had said no. And be like, well, probably would have made up some sort of corporate sounding. They just don’t have the time, scheduling conflicts. You want to pick somebody else? Or just record it and just the audio is no. Sorry, bye. I feel like we probably, I don’t think that we have anyone that would have said no, quite honestly.
Robin: But I, yeah, I can’t imagine. I think that’s what’s kind of great about everybody involved with these shows. You can feel the love written into it. And we all want to be a part of that.
Tina: That’s such a good way to put it. I feel like maybe that’s our high note that we end on before we talk for another hour. Yeah. All right. Do you want to know what we’re at?
Robin: It took me an hour to get there, but you’re welcome.
Tina: Yeah. No, almost exactly. It’s been an hour and nine minutes.
Robin: Oh, look, I need some warming up before, you know, I drop the good stuff.
Tina: Oh, yeah, exactly. That’s going to be so fun. And I would lie and I would say that we’re going to edit this down and take out all of the, you know, unprofessional stuff or the ums and, you know, tangents and things like that. But I don’t think we will.
Robin: Give the people what they didn’t realize they wanted.
Tina: I wish actually that I had the posting and I’m sure if I asked, but I’m like, if I was the one that posted to Patreon, could it be a fun surprise for everybody? You’re like, surprise, Deej, you can just post it. You don’t have to. You don’t have to listen to it first. But I think I will like edit the audio or at least line it up.
Robin: The termination letters, we both get.
Tina: No, no, no, they’ll post them on Patreon is what it’ll happen. It’ll be, it’ll be bonus features. So it’ll be like the next post. It’ll be like the, the pink slips or whatever with our names on them. Like, y’all can’t fucking behave.
Robin: Okay. I love it. I love that for us. Future us. We’re going to have fun.
Tina: Yes. So, um, I will see you at some point when we record our other thing for Patreon, which is definitely going to be more professional in business like than this one.
Robin: 100% absolutely. Absolutely. I’m so proud of us.
Tina: This was the professional one. It’s great. Okay. Well, I’m going to get off of here, but I will talk to you later. And again, I guess we should definitely thank all of you guys for listening to the show and supporting us on Patreon. And it’s still wild to me that people do that. Like, I’m not going to lie. Like it’s like, wait, people pay to hear our stuff and support us and really, really like –
Robin: It’s really fucking cool.
Tina: Yeah, it’s absolutely amazing. Like we literally could not make the show without you guys. So I mean, okay. We could, but a lot slower.
Robin: And now you get an hour and ten minutes of us wordbombing –
Tina: Yeah. That’s, that’s a good thing. And they definitely want that it’s a reward and not a punishment. Maybe we should edit this. That’s okay. We won’t.
Robin: No.
Tina: All right. For real. I’m going to get off here before we make it two hours.
Robin: Perfect. All right. Fair.
Tina: Bye.
Robin: Bye.
