Opening: Jen and Gina discuss microphone woes, professional gamers, and taking pictures of the television.
Let Me Run This By You: Dolly Parton documentary, an idea for a new take on 9 to 5, and comforting watching in a pandemic.
Interview: Jeffrey Brown talks getting into The Theatre School, growing up in an elite musical family, inappropriate audition pieces, the pelvic clock, drumming, discipline, Ric Murphy, the legendary production of Frank Galati's The Grapes of Wrath at Steppenwolf in Chicago, learning acting anew with each project, True Blood, Henry Danger, playing at the Bop Shop, Blue Man Group, trusting yourself as an actor, fearing "getting cut" at theatre school, Don Ilko, and Camp Winnarainbow. We did not get a chance to discuss his film, Vicarious, or his inimitable turn on Doc McStuffins (plus so, so much more), so hopefully we'll have him back!
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Jeff Brown: (00:10)
And I'm Gina, Pulice.
Jeff Brown: (00:11)
We went to theater school together. We survived it, but we didn't quite understand it.
Jeff Brown: (00:15)
20 years later, we're digging deep talking to our guests about their experiences and trying to make sense of it all.
Jeff Brown: (00:20)
We survived theater school and you will too. Are we famous yet?
Jeff Brown: (00:38)
Real nook, like window. Cause not. So my chair is high now.
Jeff Brown: (00:45)
Okay. Then we both have a new thing. So, uh, I'm having, I've been having microphone problems and I went online yesterday to find, I tried to get my microphone fixed. Um, I tried to, I'd watched YouTube videos about how to fix it. I figured out what was wrong with it. And when I was watching the video about the guy who fixed it during the video, he, he, he he's using a, um, thought solder, soldering iron. And he, he just like completely melts the motherboard. Okay. So you don't know how to do this either.
Jeff Brown: (01:24)
Brilliant though. That's kind of brilliant.
Jeff Brown: (01:26)
So I go to best buy.
Jeff Brown: (01:29)
Oh no. I went there to try and fix my printer. Go ahead.
Jeff Brown: (01:33)
They had, you know, they're these microphones all sold out because everybody and their mother has started test last month. So, so the one that was left is world of Warcraft.
Jeff Brown: (01:48)
Oh my God. I love it.
Jeff Brown: (01:51)
Get gaming microphone. I love it. Why do you need to make her from here gamer? I don't know what. Yes. I don't see. This is you have to run. I don't know, dude. I don't know if you want to be anywhere in this life as a game, right? You better have good quality headphones, good quality microphone. Because you might be one of the people who gets a serious living. She's just recording yourself, playing video games and having a YouTube channel. Right. That other sit and watch you play a video game. It is the single strangest thing about this generation. It's like the only thing that I, that I don't go, Oh, I get that, you know?
Jeff Brown: (02:43)
Okay. So I'm trying to like equate it to anything that we, I don't think there is
Jeff Brown: (02:49)
The closest I could come to it and it's really not close at all. Like I just remember my mom looking at me when I was, when I would be taping radio. Oh, Oh,
Jeff Brown: (03:03)
Oh, that is yes. Yes. I taped her and I also okay. Okay. That we're getting somewhere now. We're getting somewhere. You know what I did took pictures of the television with my Kodak, Kodak. This camera when Michael Jackson was on that's similar. So cute. I took my disc, my disc Kodak, disc man, this maker, whatever. And just whatever and Kodak disc and that I got for Christmas and I wouldn't, my Michael Jackson was on at the, Grammy's doing his moonwalk. I was taking pictures. The pictures I still have. I found, I think I found one, one. You it's,
Jeff Brown: (03:39...
