Hello to all you unconventional conventions out there. Welcome to Rocky Talkie. It's a podcast about anything and everything. Rocky Horror. I'm Aaron, I'm John and I'm Jacob Aaron. Are you gonna tell us some stuff about what it's been, what you've been doing up to since you've been gone, right? You're gonna Right. That's what's next. I would recommend reading the script. I, I thought I listened earlier, I guess I didn't. We're back, baby. That's right. We are indeed back, baby. And it's great to be back at a recorded session with the two of you. I absolutely missed this. I'm completely serious. All of you can hear the sincerity and generosity in my voice. Baby, back, baby, back, baby, back, baby, back, baby, back. Hell yes. I mean, it is. It, it's been way too fucking long, right, guys. Hey, Aaron, why has it been this long since we did an episode? Well, Jacob, I am so glad you asked the answer unfortunately, is that Rocky Horror is now illegal? Actually, that might be something we get to later. The real answer is that there's just too much life shit going on, right? I mean, pretty much everybody on the team over here at Rocky Talkie has had a butt load of just real life bullshit to wade through for the past little bit and uh we needed to hit pause on the show for just a hot second while we dealt with all of that crap. And realistically, if you think about it, all these famous, like, content creators and podcasters across the internet, they do like seasonal breaks. So why don't we just consider that the seasonal break? I know. Right. I mean, we had a crazy Halloween season and then, I mean, like everybody out there in the community knows right after Halloween, you kind of go into a lull up until, you know, lingerie Valentine's day time, right, kind of thing. And that was kind of the case for us here. It was right after Halloween kind of going into the holiday season that Meg and I got hit with a bit of a kerfuffle. Our dog Dobby had to go to the doggy hospital. He's been in and out of that for a little while. He's doing ok. He is still doing ok running around peeing on my floor, you know, just like, no, that's actually been me. Oh, well, that explains a lot. That explains why the poops have been so big. No. So he's been, he's been doing good. He's on the, on the rebound, but uh he was a little touch and go there for a bit. So uh we were, we were not even doing, you know, all of our shows, Meg and I were having to split up our time going just to our regular rocky shows and things and, and cutting some stuff out, but everything's doing good with him now. So we are, we are on the up and up, John. What about you? What real life bullshit have you been up to uh on my end? A lot has happened since what end of October, early November? Nothing that I can really like fully get into. But we're the lights at the end of the tunnel. We are, we are the hot dog that got thrown down the railroad hole. What, what's the fucking, it's a hallway but like is this the kind of quality flirting we expect on the dad slit down a hallway is a euphemism for a used up vagina that's been like stretched beyond. I don't think that's what you're going for. I am. No, no, no, I am the hot dog and life has been the stretched out vagina. Ah So you've just been fucking that shit up. Yeah. And yeah, I'm trying, I can't tell if I'm, you know what realistically, I can't tell if I'm the stretched out vagina or if the hot dog has life been the hot dog the whole time. Uh Yeah, I don't know which one I am but either way my past couple months has just been a hot dog down a hallway. I'm unsure which one of those two items I am, but nonetheless, the light at the end of the tunnel I think is coming back and, and we're, we're going well, aside from the fact that I'm probably going to lose my job in like two months, but it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. We'll figure it out. Congratulations. Oh, so much. No, I'm actually very excited. I'm not gonna lie. Hell, yeah, man. Stop working with, stop working with kids. You got enough of them in your free time doing Rocky? All right, Jacob. What did you have? Did you actually have any real life shit over these past couple of months? I've really enjoyed not feeling like I had this weird thing where I was, like, feeling like this social pressure to, like, be a part of this weird podcast. My friends had thrown together and they just stopped. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They just stopped, like, texting me about it. Like, like every week I'd get like, hey, like this week the podcast and I'd be like, but yeah, I guess I fucking sure whatever because, you know, it's important to them for a few months like that just wasn't happening and I was just, like, enjoying myself. Well, that must be nice that they aren't taking advantage of you anymore. Uh Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think they have plans to like, like get it back up and running and I'm a little anxious, I guess. Like, every time I see them, I'm sort of like, is this the week they, like, tap me for help because, you know, like you want to help your friends, but there's a fucking limit to how much of your, your voice you can give to a project. So, you know, I'm, I'll update everybody. I'll let everyone know how it goes and where, where I'm at next time. All right. Sounds very understandable. And, uh keep us informed on how that goes. I would hate, you know, it's just unfair when people don't pay people for, you know, their time and their effort. So, um Absolutely. And you know, as, as a friend, you don't want to ask for money because that's ridiculous. But it's also ridiculous to just, you know, rely on the unpaid labor of the people close to you. That's all I'm saying this week on rocky talky, awkward conversations. No. Uh Jacob's doing great. He sounds like he's doing great. I'll be speaking for him from now on because apparently his record just went up. So that's taken care of. So now guys, all of you fuckers out there, we are back now and really excited to keep moving forward with the show. We've got some changes in the works for how we're going to be running and we've got some even cooler new friends and some announcements that are gonna be happening just on their way. Stay tuned. You won't want to miss it. Oh, spicy. But enough about the boring old future and things we have to look forward to. What about the shit we missed? We missed an awful lot of shit you guys? And I don't, I don't know about you people, but I'd much rather dwell on the past than focus on nonsense that hasn't even happened yet. That's fair. Yeah. We're gonna talk about what's been up with all the rocky hard casts since we've been gone. First up. Buffalo. Uh, Buffalo has a production of shock treatment and for madness. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and they had a community preshow night. Hell, yeah. They also did Phantom of the Opera, I want to say and like they, they were just going balls to the walls up there and of the opera or excuse me, Phantom of the Paradise. Let me, uh, yeah, Buffalo actually put on the stage show Phantom of the opera. Let's get our back. What kind of cast you running up there? You know, they probably could, they'd probably be able to do it like they do. They do Phantom of the opera or Phantom of the Paradise Phantom of the difference between the two. Oh, well, the difference being that you're now gonna have to sit through a two hour movie with Jessica Harper. Jessica Harper. Oh, Jacob, you know, you wonder why you weren't getting paid. Jessica Harper. You know, she plays Janet in shock treatment. She is the lead in Phantom of the paradise. She's also, I don't know, kind of hot. Look, I trust all the words coming out of your mouth is truth, but it doesn't bring any greater relevance to me for Phantom of the Paradise. You know, that's fair. That's fair. The only one of these that I had anything to do with it was the community preshow night that was broadcast over on R H P S live. Uh That was fucking awesome people from all over the community sent in a ton of fantastic videos. And uh there was a lot of really excellent talent on display from all of our friends over at ordinary kids, J C C P and R K O. Just so many people that were sending in great stuff for that. That was really, really awesome. But we want to speed through these right, Jacob, who who we got next, what else has been going on? All right, next up, we've got the Junior Chamber of Commerce players J C C P who recently performed shock treatment also just like both and Reefer madness just like Buffalo. So yeah, no big congrats out to all of our friends in Pittsburgh, both for a fantastic shock treatment and a reefer madness. The musical shadow cast that went on earlier this year. That's really cool. Congrats to All Ys out there. All right, next up is the Michigan Rocky Horror cast M R H P S and recently they did an amazing Mardi Gras show, of course they did. It's Michigan. Literally, every single theme night that they have ever done is akin to like at the bare minimum. A touring cast of a Broadway show. It is fucking ridiculous. Yeah, this, this is super cool. I know that they've got a uh Saint Patrick's show that they're also in some crazy ass the costumes for that's coming up. So that should be fucking amazing. Anybody out there go check their shit out because Becky and everyone that's works on the Meps team is just ridiculous. So, so is the Michigan cast? I'm just trying to understand. Are they like known for being really? I, I don't know, really cool in some way. Yeah, their, their costuming is absolutely bonkers. I mean, if you want to sneak peek into that, go check out our episode with Becky where we talk to her all about costuming and the shows and just the crazy shit that they do over there. All right, we will do and uh our audience if you are also much like me uncertain why uh John and Aaron had such a reaction to the Michigan cast, check out that episode as well. But moving on next up, we've got the barely legal cast out of Berkeley, California all the way over on the West Coast. They are going to do Versailles Night, La France and, and Louis the 16th and, and the bureaucracy and bourgeoisie on this weekend, the 18th. Yeah, this is uh a bit of a cheat because uh I knew this one was coming up. Becky had been talking about it. Uh when she was last on our show, she's doing uh a lot of the costuming for this one and the photos they have posted look fucking incredible. If you've ever wanted to see what like Janet would look like at the court of Louis the 15th or whatever like this. This is some really high quality costuming. Go check this shit out if you are in the Berkeley area. Absolutely. Go see this show. Absolutely. Next up, we've got one of the most renowned Rocky Horror cast, I would say R K O and recently, of course, they did Buffy and Doctor Horrible both at Total Con which I'm not even sure what that is. Aaron. Would you tell me what total is? Absolutely. It is a convention that is best described as total. I, I didn't, I didn't, I think Jesus coming fucking idiot. Obviously, it's right. It's right there on the page to Yeah, I can see it right now. I'm a stupid fucking moron. Yeah. Stands for total confusion. It is New England's largest gaming convention and their website looks like they made it in fucking 1992. It does look like a bad website. Yeah. Well, that says nothing about the fantastic performers over at Archeo who gave a wonderful Buffy and uh doctor, horrible performance there for him. I, I mean, it says that they lent their performative chops to an organization with a pretty shitty website which shows a, a bad level of decision making on their part. I think. Wow. Coming out of the gate just Jacob's like, fuck it. I'm gonna insult Roy. Like uh absolutely. And, and, and fucking Roy, you can take that wherever you want, checking it, cashing it at the bank. I'll be there waiting for you. All right, bitch. Bold words from the man no longer on this show. Wow. I did not know that our first episode back, Jacob was gonna create a villain edit for himself. Serious? Do I, do I risk letting you go on to the next cast or is there something untoward? You want to say about them? I got more for fucking arcade buddy, boy. Well, the floor is yours. Yeah. Well, you, yeah, you think you're so fucking superior up in the northeast with your fucking and your fucking three letters? Well, I got something to tell you. All right, fucking, a lot of words are spelled with three letters and, but you know, meaningless, meaningless words just like your fucking, that's, that's the, the crux. I could go on and I could, I could point out specifics and I could say, you know, mean things based on fantasy and truth. But uh that's the crux of what I wanted to get across. So uh I'm I'm here and I'm waiting, I'm waiting at uh 458. So you, you come over and you, you tell me what, what you got. All right. All right. All right. And this is where we remind you that the views of the hosts of Rocky Talkie don't actually reflect the views of Rocky Talkie, what I say, but in closed doors conversations and in text messages, I guarantee you, Meg and Aaron are in on this 100% receipts or it didn't happen? Oh, all right. What else we got going on on the east coast or that just happened next up. We've got Philadelphia's own T N P. One of the greatest named casts, the Transylvanian Nipple Productions cast. Recently. They did Monster Mania Con. Uh and it's, it, it is their 20th anniversary of working with Monster Mania. Yeah, this one's pretty huge. I've never made it down to a Monster Mania Con but I know that a ton of New York folks have either come from Philly's direction or, you know, visited and taken part in these over the years. Big congratulations to Nick and Erica and everybody over at T MP. This is a huge milestone. 20 years working with the convention is uh quite a while. So big. Congrats to all of you folks, folks out there. Yeah. Wow. Uh What not gonna lie when I first read that my first thought was that, that must be a misinterpretation on my part or a typo because there's absolutely no way some cast has been around for 20 years, right? Just, just to be alive for that long and has also worked with the same specific con for all those 20 years. That is a very impressive feat in my eyes. Congratulate everyone at T N P who's been a part of that. That is amazing to me. Good job T N P stands for the nice penis. That's right, John. Yeah, it does John. Good job buddy. Well, that's John's contribution for this 20 minutes. Next up, we have the Hulk from the West coast sins of the flesh out in Cali. And recently they announced their upcoming production of Mama Mia. We do not yet have a date for it but all you California heads be ready. Mama Mia is coming suddenly. I'm Mama Mia. All right. That one, that one was good. I'm Mama Mia too because I'm also jing shit. So I don't know if they actually announced that it's Mama Mia but there was definitely a social media post. They definitely said it was Mama Mia even if they didn't use the words Mama Mia. So like, I don't know cats out of the bad guys. Good luck with that one. I am very fucking interested in seeing how that goes. And I think in Mama Mia News we got some more stuff coming up in a little bit. But before we get to that up, we have got one of the, I think three New Jersey casts ordinary kids and they do not have any recent performance landmarks, but they do have occurrence of performance landmarks that is, they just upgraded their show schedule from once a month to twice a month. Who congrats guys. That's a great, that's an awesome milestone. And you get to perform 100% more. I'm so happy and proud for all of you. Yeah, I want to throw this one in. I think it's always fantastic to hear of uh you know, casts that are able to reach a broader audience. And nobody has been getting out there more than our friends over at the ordinary kids. Holly Adrian, everybody is doing a fantastic job. And uh this is, this is big. This is really cool. They're at two different theaters now, one theater for the, one of their shows and a different theater, the other one. So that's even cooler. Way more people in completely different areas of New Jersey are still able to uh check out their show. I love that. I love that very much. Next up. We've got a special, a little event, I suppose that I actually was a patron of, I went to F N S premed their upcoming New Jersey Con and had a showing or a performance of shock treatment which members of J C C P were at the Buffalo cast, R K O and ordinary kids. It was a great time. They did an absolutely great job. I really enjoyed watching shock treatment. Um I don't, I, I saw shock treatment. Um Shadow cast at the uh a recent A K O con and it was just as right. Um When F N s did it so good job guys. Yeah, I know, I know they put a ton of work into their props and costumes and all that. I was checking it out on social media. It looked like a grand old time and big props to everybody who, uh, who came out from the community for that one. That's super great to, uh, see everybody, uh, taking a trip to New Jersey before we all take a trip to New Jersey later this year. My favorite place in the world, New Jersey. I, what, how great if New Jersey were reviewed, it would get it three stars just like my Uber driver. Yeah. Last up guys con ticket sales for this summer's festivities are well underway. Tickets just went up in price $75 right now, but they're gonna go up again. June 1st. The hotel is available for you to book your tickets and I assume you, if you want to take a car down and just get a tour of where you'll be staying for the Con and Mama Mia, they, they are, they're teasing us about whether or not what's gonna happen or what the case is or who knows, ah, find out at New Jersey Rocky con dot com. Yeah. So this is super cool F N S announced that Mama Mia is going to be one of the super cool shows happening at this uh Con Jovi coming up in uh in August this year. Did you see Con Jovi? I did indeed. You say cock, what the fuck uh similar but not quite the same word. But yeah, no, the thing that I flagged here though, if you go to N J Rocky con dot com right now and you scroll over the shows in the header, right? You see that they're doing Mama Mia, you see that we're gonna be doing shock treatment. You can see Rocky Horror but there's also a question mark, there's a question mark. A item. What's that mean? Come on F and S spill it. What's that mean? What show are, what, what are we doing? We're doing Spice World. I got to get my shit together. What would you say, John? What would be the most ridiculous show that could go in that slot? Uh Probably everything everywhere all at once. I think that that's pretty impossible to shadow cast. Oh Challenge accepted. Congratulations to the entire cast and crew for such a successful Oscars for everything everywhere all at once. Yeah. What was it? Nine like it was like fucking everything. Yeah, seriously, I was blown away that so many Oscars went to a movie that contained so many dildos. Impressive says a lot about our, our culture. Really? It was a fucking fantastic movie. Like they, that movie deserved every single award that it got. It was so, so good, you know, I like shock treatment but not that much, but I understand. Yeah. So, yeah, I think that that is a pretty solid roundup of a lot of the things that went on. But I mean, yeah, there's gotta be a, a jillion other things we couldn't get to and a, if your cast had something really cool go on that we didn't get to mention. Message us, let us know about it. We love each and every one of you we want to mention and give shout outs to everyone. We can but we can't if we don't know about things. So just message us if you feel like your name wasn't called and it should have been and we'll get it, we'll get something out there. You're all doing amazing work. If you heard your name up here or not and I love each and every one of you except fucking R K O and Roy, you all can go fucking eat a OK? Well, that's been a lot. So uh let's kick it on over and start with some big stuff that we've been doing over here in New York City because I know that's why you guys tune in to hear us talk about us. So, oh, let's do this in chronological order. It, it'll make sense in a minute. You'll see John. Why don't you start us off. So our first big thing started back in December when one of our newer castmates, Kate ran into a notorious slut while out to dinner at a sushi restaurant. Where else am I? Right? Because of all the sushi callbacks about, like her vagina smell like. Is there, is a sushi, is there a, is there a, is there a call back with, with, um, with Brad's ever been down there? He doesn't like sushi? Oh Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Um that is. Yeah. Ok. Yeah. And there's one where like, you know, when Rocky and Janet switched her and touch her, there's some form of like sushi amalgamation there. This track, this tracks. Yeah. So Susan Sarandon has a stinky pussy. Anyway, so Kate was at a sushi restaurant and lo and behold at a few tables down, Susan Sarandon was there with a bunch of from what was described to me as young models which like good for you, Susan, you know, we are the company that we keep, which means that Susan Sarandon is a young hot model. That's always been true. Yeah, Susan Sarandon, Kate in the same location in the same area, Kate ended up going over to Susan Sarandon to introduce herself and because of the ball of anxiety that she is, was very much unable to kind of express what she does. The fact that like, oh I play you on stage, Kate is one of our, one of our Janet's Oh, I play you every 1st and 3rd Saturday at the Village East Angelica Theater. So Susan was helplessly trying to get information out of this child and was told by Susan Sarandon herself that she was a horrible disseminator of information. And when Susan Sarandon says that to you, you kind of have to go to therapy after that. So Kate went back to her table, head hung low and actually had to sit down and write all of the information out, kind of like on the little napkin so that she was able to be like, this is the information for our show. And eventually, so she did that. And at the end of her evening, she went over and gave all that information to Susan's assistant who was with her and lo and behold, a couple of days after that, Susan's assistant contacted Kate and said that Susan was interested in coming to a showing which like, oh my God, ok. So she was going back and forth with her assistant trying to figure out what days would work, what days we were performing all of that good stuff. And unfortunately, we had found out that Susan Sarandon was going to come to one of our shows the day before the show. Now from a casting and logistics perspective, if we had known that Susan Sarandon was coming to a show, we would have made sure that the cast was like, so, like, not just solid because we had bad performers but like that everybody who wanted to be involved could be involved at the level that they could be. At that point. We already had a cast. Kate wasn't even Janet that night. Oh, no, that needed fixing. Yeah. So we were like, well, at the very least we have to make sure that you're Janet because like this, you got Susan Saranda to come to a show. Susan doesn't historically come to Rocky showings. So this is kind of like a congratulations. You're going to be Janet for Susan. So Meg had to kind of go back to the drawing board and essentially let everybody know that Susan was going to be at our show and recast a good chunk of the show. We did all the floor show characters. So like all the floor show characters were double casted. So Brad Janet Rocky in Columbia, we had pre floor show and then floor show except for Brad, which was just me the entire show. Thanks Meg. I don't know how, I don't know how you pulled that one out of the hat. Sounds like a little good old nepotism if you ask me. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. So there were, there were other characters that had, you know, a few people playing those characters just so we can make sure that we could get as many people on stage for Susan as possible. So after that happened, the show happened, we had everybody there. So myself, Aaron Meg and Kate all had to usher Susan into the theater. And because we live in New York City, there are really many back entrances to buildings that aren't dreary, gross gutters. We essentially had to sneak her in through a kind of what it was a stage door, but it's directly in front of the theater. So we had to do that and we had to go like down and around into our quote unquote dressing room, which is literally just a staircase. She got to meet the cast. We pulled her into the theater, she was able to see her guests and then we shoved her into the back of the theater in the stairwell with all of her cast and she took it like a champ. She was fantastic. Made a lot of jokes at one point. She told Kate to shut the fuck up. It was hysterical. So once again, Kate is now in therapy for the rest of her life, poor Kate. And then I went out and hosted and was able to introduce Susan Sarandon to the audience. She sang a little snippet of there's a light which once again, right before she came out, she had to ask Kate what the lyrics were because she forgot them, which is adorable. Susan been a while a so she came in and did that and everyone lost their fucking mind and she thanked us all for continuing to do this for people to still come and like, you know, keep Rocky horror alive and all of that. Then she went and sat down and she watched us perform. It was super cute. Definitely something that none of us had ever gotten to experience before. Everyone had a great time. I don't even know if Kate fucking listens to this but Kate, if you're listening. Good job buddy. Yeah, this was, this was so unexpected, like, completely, you know, you always hear every, every couple of years somebody comes up with the like, oh I kind of ran into so and so it's something, something and I, I mentioned that we did this thing and they were like, yeah, totally. And then, you know, nothing ever happens of it. But which is funny because like, Kate has the charisma of like a paper bag. So the fact that she was somehow able to get Susan Sarandon after like how many fucking years of just like not making a big deal about her going to shows to be like, yes, I want to go to the show. I would love to have been a fly on that wall or a model at that table to hear that conversation seriously. Like I'm super impressed. I'm I mean, huge. Thank you to Susan for showing up and even bigger. Thank you to Kate for getting it all logistic and you know, coordinating back and forth. Like I know that was its own big stress. Ball. But uh no, it was a fantastic show. That show went really, really well. I felt we put some really great performers on stage and we got to put everybody who wanted to be on stage on there. Susan showed up she was wearing her Simpsons jacket, that iconic jacket that you, you recognize from all of the paparazzi photos that she's in. It was wonderful. Like uh I, I didn't get a whole lot of time to talk to her because I was running around doing logistic stuff and uh neither did I honestly, I, you know, I asked her like, how she wanted to be introduced. She told me and then when we were all backstage, everyone was like, so nervous to ask her for pictures. And I looked at Kate and I was brad that night and Kate was Janet. So I was like, well, we have and we were already dressed. So I was like, well, we have to get a picture. So I'm pretty sure aside from the big cast photo, me and Kate are the only people that got photos with Susan Sarandon that night because everyone was just so afraid to ask her. I'm not even in that cast photo. Like I and I understand why because like Susan has created such a personality for herself as being like this like very fiery, powerful top personality, like very strong woman in a male run society in a male run industry. She was super fucking sweet. Yeah. Did not get that vibe from her at all. Yeah. No, she was, she was very interested in, you know what we were doing. She like knew what Rocky had become, was very excited that we were still going with it and was very accommodating for everything that, you know, we kind of had to slap together at the last minute. So it was super cool. So yeah, that was a fucking incredible experience. So that was back at the very beginning of this year. And then the next day, right after Susan Sarandon came to our show, we were just like riding high from this very stressful show that got done very well. And Meg got a call from a friend of the show, Phil John who had some really, really shitty news for us and this isn't news to anyone out there. At least I I hope it's not, but uh Sapiro passed away. Boy, that, that one was a kick in the teeth. Those of you that I haven't been in Rocky for a very long time. I highly recommend you go check out our interview with Sal. He tells some wonderful stories, talks all about, you know, the origins of this thing that we do. And yeah, he passed away rather unexpectedly. Obviously, this was gonna be a big deal for the Rocky community. Sal's sister Lili came up to New York immediately and started planning everything for his celebration and Phil reached out to Meg and I about doing some technical things for the event that they were putting together, which was good for me because instead of sitting and kind of being depressed, I got to go straight into show tech kind of mode um and prepping and getting equipment together and all this kind of stuff because we wanted to make sure that the whole celebration was able to be live streamed out to the community. That was absolutely fucking crazy, getting all of that stuff together, uh Lots of running around, but we were able to put it all together the morning of that and uh got it all broadcast out that went live over on youtube. There is a of the entire ceremony up on the New York youtube channel. You can just go to shows dot N Y C or H BS dot com. There's a link there as well. If you haven't checked it out or you want to go see some people tell all their stories about Sal and just celebrate the amazing work of someone that we have to thank for everything that we do. So, yeah, that was, that was really, really crazy. It was really nice though to see the community come together. A lot of New York City faces that I haven't seen in forever. People from Eighth Street and earlier even performed and sang songs. There were some very, very touching eulogies and you know, it was overall a very good send up. I like to think Sal would have enjoyed it as well. So, uh yeah, that uh that all went off without a problem. Uh I was sitting there just staring at a live stream dashboard for the entire time. Thank fuck, nothing went wrong with that. But uh at the end of the day, it was a shitty thing that happened and we're still kind of reeling from it. It's, it's, it's tough to imagine a world of Rocky horror where Sal not around. And um that's kind of where we're at. We're all heartbroken over here. I mean, I know Lius and, and Phil are just as broken up as they can be. Um We're just really glad that, you know, the community was able to come together and be such a strong support system for everyone who's grieving during all of this. Obviously, a lot of stuff will come down, you know, out of that good news. The film that uh is chronicling Sal's journey to become the Rocky horror. Maestro is still in production. They're for, they're scheduling to start shooting this summer with that. And yeah, we're doing a memorial show in May out at Fire Island with a bunch of, you know, Sal's friends from out there. Uh He was a really active event organizer for Fire Island. We'll be going out there and doing a big show with them. So that's gonna be super, super fun. Yeah. What a kick in the teeth, man. What a kick in the teeth. Yeah. And we're sorry to say Sal wasn't the only N Y C member that we lost recently. Just this past weekend. The community learned that Perry Poley passed away too. Yeah. This one, this one was rough as well. Um Many of you out there probably weren't around when Perry was around. Perry got involved in the Rocky community back in the seventies and was an iconic fixture of the New York cast throughout the eighties and into the nineties, Perry loved photos and was notably never without his scrapbooks, uh which he absolutely loved to show off continuously taking pictures with his friends and his cast mates that he, that he loved to include in there. He worked as a makeup artist and was super active in the New York City and New Jersey drag scenes performing under the drag name, Mrs Diva Perry. He even appeared in the movie too, Wang Fu. Thanks for everything Julie Newmar in recent years, as he's been unable to perform, Perry loved sharing pictures of himself in costume with the community. And since his passing, other community members have certainly taken up that mantle, sharing photos and reminiscing of their time with them. We encourage you guys to keep Perry's memory alive by continuing to post pictures and memories. Willy nilly to any Rocky related forum, regardless of its relevance to the place that you're posting. It is literally the best way that I could think of to keep him with us. I am sure he would absolutely love that. So to perry and to sal and to everyone else that we've lost, we are so unbelievably grateful for everything you guys have done for our community. Our shows our lives truly would not be the same without your just immeasurable contributions, dedication and raw passion. We will see both of you guys on the other side. Shit is fucking rough. Seriously. Uh Hey guys, just so we're not ending this comeback episode on a total downer. Let me ask all of you, what's the thing that's happened with our show recently? That's pogged you up the most. Did you just ask me about something that has pogged me up? Uh That pogged you up the most? I wouldn't ask you about any old stupid fucking thing like pooping on the toilet that just pogged you up. A lot of things pog you up, John, I'm asking you about what's pogged you up the most. Uh I think something about our show recently that has pogged me up the most is the fact that we have recently added just like a metric shit ton of new cast members between Meg Aaron and myself. We interviewed, gosh, we had to have interviewed like at least like, well over a dozen people in the last like five or six months and they've all just been absolutely incredible. We just added like at least seven or eight new cast members these past couple of weeks and the group that we had added prior to that, we had added like six or seven. And they've all just been so committed and incredible and honestly invaluable members to N Y C R H P si was actually talking with a friend a couple of nights ago and they were somebody who had been on the cast, you know, a while ago who obviously is no longer and basically just got done to say that like, they're so little people from like their time that are actively on stage. Now, it's a completely different cast. But also like, that's not a bad thing because the people that are on stage right now are so talented are so committed. It really feels like such an incredibly cohesive group and this is the first time that I have felt that we've had a cohesive cast since coming back from the pandemic. Yeah. It's been really nuts to see just what it's like on boarding. A big swath of people kind of having a new normal, right? Because the first group we brought in right after the pandemic was like, I, I don't know what we're doing where we're going, we didn't even have, you know, a regular theater planned out at that point. But now it's like, ok, now we know how things are, are, are functioning and boy, they are just jumping in whole hog like, like it was before, you know, and, and in some respects, even more engaged. Yeah. To go off on what you both are talking about. The first night it was our most recent performance. So, about a week ago, the first night we had some of these new cast members working with us, John, you did something that I have not seen. I mean, I've not seen anyone do. I think this whole time I've been on this cast and it's insane to me that we haven't done it up until this point or at least that I've missed it up until this point. And I thought it was so awesome during dinner scene, you just made a little announcement and got everyone who was new up on stage to join you guys for a little bit of dinner scene and you had the audience say hi to each of them, each of the new people individually. And I thought it was such a good way of making them feel like more and more accepted and more a part of the community and a great way of getting them in front of the audience when you know, where we're so performance driven. I thought that was really, really nice and really smart. I, I can't wait for us to do it with the next group and the next and the next. Yeah. See it's funny. Uh First off, I can't take credit for that. That was 100% who we were talking about earlier. That was Kate's idea. She has been, oh God. Good, good idea. Kate. Yeah. She has been bitching to me for so long about how like, disorganized did her scene is and because she is relatively new to cast, I'm like, that's just how did her scene is in the Rocky community. It's, it's a time where we don't care about the show and it's very rare to find a cast that actively cares about it. So before the show, she came up to me and she was like, what if we brought all the new people up on stage during dinner scene before the song? And we did like a little introduction to them and she was like, I'm gonna go get like Happy Birthday Crowns and we can like put them all on them and stuff. And so we just ran with it and then we went out to the bar afterwards and a few of them joined us and they still had them on their head. It was such a cute way of orientating them to the cast and they thought it was really cute and really special. So I'm going to do it again this Saturday because we have three new people starting with us. So they're getting dragged up on stage during our punk Rocky show during dinner scene and they're gonna get just like they did. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. We should be doing it for all of them. It's a fantastic idea. Damn, that cake girl has got some real good ideas, don't she? Don't? Oh, my God, please cut that out because her, her head is already too big. Yeah. And I mean, on top of that, let me, let me say one of the things that certainly got me full pogged, uh, over the last little while we did two Valentine's Day shows. We did both an anti Valentine's Day and our regular lingerie Valentine's show. I like that a lot. I liked being able to split it up. I liked that we could have a fuck you, you know, to the corporate holiday and then do a like ha ha, everybody's hot and sexy, you know, kind of thing get both sides, you know, on that one. So I thought that was really fun. I think we'll, we'll probably have to do uh something like that in the future for, for Valentine's Day shows. So, yeah, those were, those were some fucking great things that we uh that we've been doing so far. But before we wrap this show up, I forcefully have inserted Rocky horror news into the uh script here. So I just want to wish you had forcefully insert something into me. Well, how do you like some N F T si could force all inside of me? Put it in N F T stands for never feeling titties. Yes. Well, Richard o'brien will be the first owner of the official Rocky Horror N F T S that are set to release later this year. Now, if you don't know anything about N F T S, congratulations. You're not an idiot. If you do know a lot about N F T Si Am sorry, N F T s are a giant pyramid scheme. So yeah, this, I I saw this, this, this came out of the announcement that like the Rocky Horror Company was doing a bunch of new stuff for the stage show this year. And uh yeah, apparently one of those is a shitty N F T scam. So uh if you out there are interested in collecting Rocky Horror merchandise, go buy something real on ebay and leave these the fuck alone. So yeah, that one happened also. This one's actually pretty cool. The 50th anniversary tour in Australia is going to be screened live to movie theaters all over Oz. Now that's super cool because the last time we got one of these was in 2015 and fingers crossed, a copy of this one leaks out there so that everybody who doesn't happen to live in Australia can actually check out the 50th anniversary tour. That's super fucking cool also. And this one's on a slightly downer note, Rocky Horror is now illegal in Tennessee. Question mark. Nobody really knows you. Well, no, this one doesn't pog me up but I felt it was worth mentioning. I think you might have a few words on this one, John. Uh Yeah. Fuck Tennessee. That was actually really, really frustrating because for those of you who don't know the lore of N Y C R H P S, my roommate slash previous leadership member, Adam uh is from Tennessee and actually got his start in Rocky Horror in Tennessee. I don't think there are a lot to fucking do that anymore. Yeah. So there was a anti drag bill that was passed in Tennessee. It's really unclear how this actually applies because of course, it's unclear how this applies. It's not intended to be a bill that actually does anything helpful. It's intended to be a bill that attacks people of our community and people of the LGBT Q community and that's fucking bullshit. So I just want to throw this one in here because like, wow, uh if you hear anything from our, our, our friends in the community down there in Tennessee, give them a good listen, give them your support. Absolutely. Tell the Tennessee government to go fuck themselves. Although they probably wouldn't be able to perform that either. No, definitely not. And lastly my roundup of bullshit news for this week, Bob Odenkirk is going to be playing Tommy Yo in a remake. Question mark of the room. You guys know who Bob Odenkirk is. Uh Yes, I'm in love with Bob owner Kirk. Honestly, it's a great casting, right? So anybody out there who doesn't know he uh played in better call Saul. Saul Saul. I didn't actually watch that show back. I saw Breaking Bad Mr Show. Uh What the fuck did sketch show with that guy? What was that show? That show? You're right. Probably. I love Bob Odenkirk. The Bob Odenkirk sketch. Go not Mr. Oh fuck there. Is it? Ok. So it's called Mr Show with Bob and David. It's not just Mr Show to hipster, ok? He was also in, he used to fucking, he, he used to write for The Simpsons. I think that's crazy. No, no, he did not use to write. For instance, he used to write for Conan o'brien and S N L. Yeah, he started as a writer to my knowledge. Nice. So this project comes from acting for a cause which is a volunteer organization that stages digital readings of classic plays and movies for charity. And uh this performance of the room is gonna benefit HIV AIDS Research Organization, Amar. And it sounds really fucking weird because apparently they filmed all of the movie like the whole movie in front of green screens that are being replaced with the actual movies locations. So I don't really know what the fuck we're gonna see here. Like maybe this is some ordinary kids level like replacement nonsense going on. But uh I think this one's gonna be fun to check out and for all of our fans out there in the room, which should be every single one of you after you saw it at R K O con. Uh Yeah, I'm pumped for this. This sounds really cool. So yes, that is gonna wrap us up in global news for today and that's also going to wrap up. Our show this week was a bit of a recap, but we've got some fantastic stuff coming up for you, including some really exciting new guests. Uh We absolutely cannot wait to jump back in with all of you guys out there. As always, if anyone has a question, they'd like us to answer on air for our ask question segment or some community news they'd like us to talk about or even just a cool story. They want to share with the community. We'd love to include it in our show. Just go to our website rocky talkie podcast dot com and fill out our contact info form to tell us about it. And if you're enjoying Rocky Talkie, please help us out by reading, reviewing and subscribing, you know, the drill at this point. And if you want even more Rocky talkie content, you got to check us out on Facebook, youtube, Instagram and tiktok, all at Rocky Talkie podcast. I haven't been able to say this in quite a while, but we will talk to you next week for real. Totally. This time it will totally be next week. Bye. I don't know if it will be next week. Bye bye. See you barely legal. Where where is barely legal located? Berkeley, California. Next up, we've got, be next up. We've got illegal barely. Uh, no, no, no, no.