Between 2 Butts: The Podcast That Lets Nothing Slip Between The Cracks

A humdinger of an episode featuring a truly multiskilled guy. In our seventy-fifth episode, Jay, Becca and Tice are entertained by actor and trainer Marcus Lawrence. He tells us about Capitol Fringe shows with Jay, singing metal in Grethor, developing his character for In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play), doing nude scenes, fitness training for theater, being a sports freak in the theatre world, and his and Jay's shared love of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And there's so many more things-- you'll just have to listen to the episode.  

Come back with us to September 2023 when Tice, Jay, and Becca took stock of their summer adventures. Jay is riding high in his new Jeep and getting in touch with Jeep culture through the extremely wholesome phenomenon of "ducking". Tice is taking his first shots at stand-up paddleboarding, re-assessing his gym goals and STILL taking tentative looks at yoga (through sketchy online ads). And Becca remembers some of the hiccups from her adventures at Otakon with friend of the pod Ahryel Tinker, sharing tips for anyone going to a summer convention along the way. Also in this episode, Tice also gets ducked, but in a different way (at a Popeye's!), Becca is planning her next tattoo, and Tice asks Jay to redo the opening, which ends in mass confusion.

In this episode, our guest Erin Gallalee shares with Jay, Becca and Tice her advice about doing research about your character and the advantages of being a character actor and not putting yourself in a box. Then she delights us with stories about Jay making her laugh uncontrollably while watching him in The Elephant Man, the audience laughing inappropriately at her performance in Dangerous Liaisons, many ways of screaming "Victor!!!" in Frankenstein, and we cannot forget "Your Mother's Butt"! Later on, Jay turns the tables on Tice and Becca in Family Feud...can Tice help Erin win the big prize, and will Becca put up with it?

Jay is excited to complete the 9-to-5-Trifecta as he, Becca, and Tice have a chat with actress and singer Jolene Vettese! She tells stories about her history in musical theatre and experimental theatre, studying theatre and performing at Syracuse and abroad in London, trying to do "the New York thing" and getting a job with Oxygen TV, and her thoughts on the current state of community theatre. Of course, she gives us some insight into her experience playing Violet Newstead in "9 to 5" as well as Pennywise in a recent production of "Urinetown"...and she reveals from personal experience, that yes, colleges do sometimes send rejection letters in error. Also, Becca has a new tattoo, Jay has decided Tice is "sexually active in the community" for some reason, and...True Confessions!

Our seventy-first episode begins with Becca considering a small cat tattoo and Jay trying to talk her into a big one. Tice mulls over getting a tat but wonders about the cost; Jay serves up info. Job-hunting Jay then shares a video of tips (from Bryan Creely of A Life After Layoff) on how to maximize your results from LinkedIn, with everyone weighing in with reactions. After that, Tice takes us down the Dilbert-hole with much more than you wanted to know about creator Scott Adams and reasons why the comic strip has been permanently pulled from most newspapers. To give you a little taste, some of the terms that come up are "manosphere", "sock puppetry", "beta-cuck", "sheeple", and "Dilber-ito". Finally, Tice tries to hold on to his title of "Stripper" in a round of comics history trivia!    

Becca, Tice and Jay each weigh in on the phenomenon known as Hockey Butt (and lack thereof) as our lead-in to a delightful session with actor and director Michael Kharfen, star of Superior Donuts, The Diary of Anne Frank, Frost/Nixon, and Amadeus, as well as director of A Streetcar Named Desire, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, As You Like It, Wit, and more, not to mention director of various public health organizations. In this episode, Michael shares about experiences acting, experiences directing, running, general positivity and his famous Kharfen Cookies, which are the basis of our trivia game at the close of the episode. Will Michael be able to hold on to the title of Cookie King?    

An episode we've been waiting for (and honestly, had to re-start) with guest Joey Olson! Joey is president of the Reston Community Players, and he has appeared in such shows as "9 to 5", "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Bright Star", and most recently "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" along with our own Becca Harney! Besides telling us about his illustrious theatre career, Joey also talks about his recent near-death experience, lets Tice and Jay know where they rank on the Bear/Cub/Otter continuum, ponders banging the Beast, and makes this an episode to remember in many other ways. Stick around to hear a history-making Between Two Butts (not Family Feud) Fast Money at the end of Episode 69... you'll flip!

Between 2 Butts is between guests so Jay, Becca, and Tice are choosing discussion topics at will. Becca muses over losing her credit card virginity. Tice leaves the subject of the Un-"Dilbert"ing on the table and instead decides to keep trying to make fun of "Pluggers", which allows Becca to bring up numerous family anecdotes. Jay declares his intention to grow and nurture his beard, bringing along a few tips from YouTube. Building on that, we finish off with a Beard Trivia battle, including historical notes!GoComics - Pluggers Matty Conrad How To Trim Your Beard - Kratos Edition - TrailerMatty Conrad 8 Beard Growing Mistakes You Need To Avoid 

On this Between Two Butts, Tice, Jay, and Becca are joined by director and choreographer Stefan Sittig, whose recent work includes Urinetown and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the Workhouse Arts Center, as well as Man of La Mancha, Xanadu, and many others. Stefan fills us in on his journey from DC to South America to Charlottesville and Richmond and once again to DC...including how growing up steeped in samba in Brazil affected his style of choreography, how being at UVA at the same time as Tina Fey made him not able to read "Bossypants", and his current adventures in podcasting, directing and choreography. This last topic is the theme of our final game, where Jay plays Cupid for an increasingly flirtatious Stefan and puts a date with Tice on the line.   Check out more about Stefan at his website! www.stefansittig.com

After a long rest, here's an episode with just little ol' us, and although some big things have happened, nothing much has changed. Jay continues to ask newlywed Becca about her married-name status and test the boundaries of what first names Becca accepts. Nothing has changed. Jay shares his newfound love of Babymetal (see links below), Becca talks The Last of Us, and Tice reveals to the group one of his Twitter follows: Nick Adams (Alpha Male), who, at the time of the recording, was very very mad about a cartoon bear and some pants. Then, as if to prove we aren't a bunch of beta-bears, we go toe to toe in Jay's test of metal trivia.Babymetal: HeadbangerBabymetal: Catch Me If You Can Nick Adams (Alpha Male)

The Between 2 Butts crew is all a-flutter because Becca's about to get married to her beloved (and often-mentioned on the podcast) Bryan. Jay plays around with Becca's possible new name and edits everyone's middle names to suit his liking, insulting Tice when he forgets that Tice already IS his middle name. We are then joined by guest Jasmine Michelle: actor, writer, cosplayer, and more, who started her theatre journey as an audience volunteer during a travelling production of "Stomp!". From that, she went on to a  production of the intense witchy story "Reunion on Gallows Hill" in high school, and later became the "theatre mom" in her crew of friends at NoVa. She also tells us about directing a play she wrote herself, acting in "Man of La Mancha",  "Murder on the Nile", and "Sherlock Holmes & the West End Horror". In addition, she talks about her own writing in a genre a friend dubbed "murder fiction", fed by a love of Agathe Christie and Edgar Allen Poe, and her experiences in cosplay, including her love of characters with red hair and her subsequent discovery of an allergy to synthetic wigs.What follows is perhaps our most-contentious-ever round of Family Feud Fast Money, in which Tice rules (in a moment that sadly did not become the episode title) that "the tits are not the lips". 

In an episode that could have been titled "Slawin' Down", "Hobo: Origins", or "Uranus Spins Backwards", Jay, Becca and Tice talk with actor and space expert Pam Sabella about her theatre, TV and film experiences both locally and in LA, including her middle school theatre teacher almost talking her out of acting (and later eating her words), doing Shakespeare without knowing what it all means, playing Mary Warren in The Crucible, and surviving as an actor in LA, including doing audience work on "Let's Make a Deal". But multi-faceted Pam is also a connoisseur of things space-related, and so the conversation includes rocket parts, Mars colonization, Elon Musk, the sounds of black holes, life in space, and whether they would rather watch game shows than us. Then we go all go to nose-to-nose in a round of Space Trivia!

After we open with some final(?) laughs at the expense of Becca's surname before her wedding, we greet Jay's and Tice's former improv teacher, as well as Dungeon Master and podcast host Dave Rockwell! Dave takes us through his introduction in elementary school to Dungeons and Dragons, his introduction to improv via ComedySportz, his return to D&D after a 25-year hiatus following the demise of DC ComedySportz, and the launch of his D&D podcast (Leaders N Legacies) when Covid forced us all to hunker down at home.  After we chat with Dave about improv, D&D, and what they have in common (a lot), Dave puts on his D.M. hat and leads us through a mini-campaign in which Jay imagines himself as a fusion between Keanu Reeves and The Mountain from Game of Thrones, and I imagine myself as a wizard Abe Vigoda as we seek shelter in a very crowded inn.

It's a casual no-guests episode! Tice and Jay exchange loving beard compliments and, as we are approaching the date of Becca's nuptials  we talk about nebulous wedding dress codes, and dress-pant sweatpants. Becca and Jay reflect on their recent performances in The Sound of Music (as the Baroness and Captain von Trapp) and their character choices-- how the Baroness is NOT just a bitch, how Jay got to show some range and explore the Captain's psychology, and...IS there a secret throuple in the Von Trapp mansion? Then Jay makes a tribute to co-star and professional opera singer Kelly Glyptis with a very metal take on "Phantom of the Opera",  aaaaand we conclude our 6-part series in reaction to "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared", at least until it starts its new series on BBC-4. To conclude we play an improv game Tice made up before the podcast, called "Back to One". DO NOT WEAR SWEATPANTS WHILE LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE! Becca expects better.  Nightwish Phanton of the OperaDon't Hug Me, I'm Scared WEB FINALE

It's an unusual Between Two Butts, in which Jay and Becca turn the spotlight on producer-of-few-words Tice Rust! We find out about his name origin, his start in improv, his forays into stage acting, his job history (including DC's very fancy Willard Hotel), and even some discussion of lumbersexuality. But this is the podcast you know and love, so we also have talk of matrimonial tandem toilets and a cautionary restroom story from Jay about feet under the stalls. Plus, an awkward error in Becca's wedding programs! Parents forbidding the Simpsons but not Ren & Stimpy! And everybody taking a turn guessing previous jobs as in the classic gameshow "What's My Line?" 

It's big episode Six-O! As we push into the sixties, Jay, Becca and Tice hang out with actor/musician Laura Mills, the Lucy to Jay's Snoopy, and maybe even a voice you have heard on the phone without knowing it.  During this episode, Laura shares tons of glorious info with us, including  her experiences playing Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, Doralee in 9 to 5,  and moms in so many productions from her youth. She also gives us the story of her meeting and courtship with her husband, her voice changing when she really did become a mom, transitioning into songwriting, and her work in local elections and mental health. In this episode you can hear "We are Virginia", Laura's tribute to Virginia Tech from the aftermath of 2007 shooting along with the story behind its creation. And in addition to all that, Laura drops a bombshell on Jay when she reveals she has recorded voiceovers for automated phone menus, which leads to her giving us a brief course in different styles of pleasant robotic voices. To cap it all off, we play an intensely competitive game of Musical Theatre Trivia, with everyone making their own custom ring-in noises! Buck-KAW!!P.S. Laura wants you to vote! So do we! Go here if you need help getting started!

Tice, Becca and Jay have a chat with one of the inspirations for this very podcast, a performer of many talents, Liz Colandene, aka Lizzy Pasta! Liz is the performing arts coordinator at the Workhouse Arts Center in Northern Virginia, an actor, musician, visual artist, and host of the Workhouse's Chat & Sip video series. In this episode, Liz talks about how she got named Lizzy Pasta, her performances in Little Shop of Horrors, Rocky Horror, and Anne of Green Gables, playing bassoon and contrabassoon, and being proposed to onstage during a curtain call. Meanwhile, Jay is dealing with laryngitis, Becca is dealing with invading hornets, and Tice is helpfully suggesting new pasta-themed nicknames for Liz. It all comes to a head as the gang plays Pyramid. Will Liz out-perform the home team on their home turf? Listen and find out! Check out Lizzy's art on Instagram, and her Twitter feed. Also, here's the clip discussed in the podcast of Liz dancing while playing bassoon!

Huzzah! Jay, Tice, and Becca are joined by seasoned Renaissance festival performers Tony and Mark Korol-Evans! In this installment of the show you'll meet two actors who have played as characters in the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Find out anything you want to know about Renaissance festivals from the people who wrote the book on it (literally!) You´ll hear which Renaissance festival was designed by Escher (all uphill!), which is the hottest Faire, perks of small Faires and large Faires, unique traits of Faires all across the country, and, most importantly...what's the gold-star-standard faire! Plus, fainting queens, privy shrouds, ways to beat the heat in costume, opera, baritone-tenor jealousy, and..what if Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots had met? In addition, we got a look into Tony and Mark's work with sexual assault victims and in intimiacy choreography for theatre, and also how Tony and Mark's son is carrying on their tradition! It's also a highly eventful episode for our hosts, with Jay and Tice both needing mid-show pee breaks, Becca muting herself while her husband-to-be moves furniture, and Jay and Becca warming up to be in "The Sound of Music". All this PLUS "Match Game" in episode 58!Find more of our guests on Facebook and support them on Patreon!  

Becca, Tice and Jay welcome an old-improv-buddy-turned-New-York-actor Shravan Amin, whose career now includes shadowy gigs with limousines and non-disclosure agreements. Join us as we remember his origins as a dance recital DJ, his beginnings in improv, his first theatre roles, and his move to New York. Along the way, we touch on the improv game Freeze, why Shrave loves doing Shakespeare, and resume hacks. Also in this episode, excitement builds for Becca's upcoming nuptials and Jay tries to insinuate unwholesome things about the handfasting ceremony. Also also in this episode is a chat with another guest, a super-villain known as the Truth-Seeker, who isn't above torture and is generally quite testy. Loyal Butt-fans, please note...just by listening, you are already a member of the Between 2 Butts House Team.

In this episode, Tice, Jay and Becca talk to performer-hair and makeup artist-cosplayer-writer Ahryel Tinker! She takes us back to her garage performances for friends and family, demonstrates her amazing Britney Spears impression, remembers how seeing "Chicago" changed her life, discusses dream roles and dream cosplays, and writing horror. We also have a running discussion in this episode about whether Jay and Ahryel are close enough in age to flirt without it being creepy. You be the judge. We round off the episode with Box of Lies, Stock Photo Edition, as requested from Ahryal and borrowed from The Tonight Show.Check out Ahryel on Instagram at tinkertotcosplay!

After a flaccid start, our podcast springs to life when Jay, Becca and Tice join local actor-musicians Jonathan and Abbie Mulberg! They tell us about being a married theatrical couple but not necessarily a package deal, acting together in Assassins and Footloose (with Jay!), a maximum-driving-radius for theatre gigs, playing creeps and douches, directing vs. acting, and stage slaps. Abbie and Jonathan are also involved in the Washington Revels, which celebrates tradition and culture through singing, dance, storytelling and more. They additionally are members of the Whiskey Before Breakfast Band, an Irish  instrumental group, so we are treated to some samples of their song. After enjoying all their stories, we spoil the mood by playing Let's Make a Match, with personalized questions by Jay himself.

Jay, Becca, and Tice welcome actor, cosplayer, and Maryland Renaissance Faire prankster Maureen Dawson to the podcast! After a brief discussion about time management and procrastination, we learn about Maureen's background in biochemistry and law, and then her move to LA and switch to acting (which includes an explanation of being paid to look credible in daytime talk show audiences). Maureen then regales us with stories of her notorious pranks at the Maryland Renaissance Faire, and her becoming an audience favorite in various roles in the Company of St. Catherine's: Lady Somerset, Lady Mary Boleyn, Meg White, Madge Shelton, and, best of all, the Ninja Pirate! After all that, Becca and Maureen have a go at the Family Feud Fast Money Round, and as always, it's a journey.

Our episode gets off to a difficult start when Becca and Tice  start showing off their coffee mugs before Jay is finished with his intro, something they learn they are not supposed to do. Tice tells Jay and Becca a modern urban legend about "Covid dick", which opens up a whole can of worms about penis size. Then we get to our main topics. Jay's "Greatest Things on the Interwebs" series has now landed on the YouTube channel "Zack Morris is Trash" and their look at the very special Jessie Spano "I'm so excited" episode. He also recalls a principal from his school days who he actually admired: Mr. Outlaw.  Becca also has a very special episode, but it's from "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" and it  goes way harder than Saved By the Bell. Then emerging thespian Tice picks up a thread from last episode and asks Jay and Becca for their preferences regarding cold reads and monologue choices for auditions. Finally, Jay puts Tice and Becca to the test to see if they can guess punchlines to poop jokes and it's a race to not come out number two!

It's our second Mary Worth live table read! But we cover so much ground before that. Before we even get to our main topics, we talk Valentine's Day rituals, high and low butt cracks, and goat yoga. Then Jay presents his latest Greatest Thing on the Interwebs ("Titanic 2: Jack's Back") and Becca presents installment 4 of "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared" (RIP, Spaghetti/Squid Guy?). And finally, Tice directs a gender-blind performance of the recent storyline from the funny pages' "Mary Worth", in which loathsome narcissist Wilbur Weston gets into a turf war with his lady-friend's cat and gets dumped for it. Will Mary Worth do the horrible thing and help patch things up between the two of them?  Of course, she will, but not without suffering through a karaoke fight. Becca Harney as Wilbur, Jay Tilley as Mary/Estelle, Tice as Various. Listen as we all increasingly overact thanks to the strip's erratic use of bold-face. You'll learn nothing, except maybe that interior monologue always sounds like Bane.

Local actor and Jay's football buddy Aimee Snow joins Jay, Becca and Tice to regale you with tales of the thea-tahhhh, including: Finishing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with a broken leg , monologues vs. cold readings for auditions (and making out in a callback scene!), judging her schoolmates for not projecting, dealing with visible bruises from fight scenes, and developing her love for Shakespeare. Aimee has acted in many Shakespeare plays including "Macbeth", "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "Twelfth Night", "Othello",  and "Romeo and Juliet", as well as productions such as "The Music Man", "The Crucible", "Rumors" and "The Quantum Suicide of Sophie Miller", and she wants you to cast her as Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing"!Then, Jay dusts off his Don Pardo voice so Becca and Aimee can play Family Feud Fast Money. It's a nail biter!

It's our 50th show and we revisit two of our beloved recurring guests: music composer and new dad Matthew Scarborough,  and Jay's wife and B2B's creative consultant Melissa Jo York-Tilley! Matthew updates us on his progress on his and Jay's colab, "Butthurt! The Musical".  He also efficiently shares every piece of music he's ever created for our podcast. Melissa talks procrastination...later. Also: Theatre-specific dreams! Jay befuddles everyone with his pet name for Melissa! 1776 Jesus! Hippie Jesus! Disco Jesus! Musical mash-ups! And Match Game! A heartfelt thank you to all our listeners as we reach our 50 episode milestone! We've got more in store for our next 50!

We open the episode celebrating our successes with new catch-phases, marriages, and Jay fresh off the high of a production of Sweeney Todd, which had been postponed since before the Covid shutdown. Jay recaps his return to the theat-ahhhhh, including a production glitch that everyone handled *just right*. Becca has another lovely installment of "Don´t Hug Me, I'm Scared" for the boys to react to, and Tice reacts to the Pratt-ification of the upcoming Mario and Garfield movies, with Jay pontificating on which trendy phrases are douchey. We close out with another game of True Confessions about Jay and a brush with fame.

A wonderful episode to play for your family around the Thanksgiving table. We begin with Jay and Becca congratulating Tice on his recent wedding and chatting about the weddings of other friends in the Between 2 Butts social circle. Then Jay is up with his latest "Coolest Things on the Interwebz" series; this time, a Jersey Bro shows us his Most Alpha Back Exercises. Becca shows us Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2, and we end up on a tangent about youth fads like "soaking" and "jump-humping", which again, is entirely chaste, so invite Grandma to hear. Before we go even further off the rails, Tice shares thoughts about the continued popularity and reincarnations of the Addams Family, and we wrap with an improv game as Becca warms up to perform with us in her first live improv show.

In this episode, actor AnuRa Harrison joins Becca, Jay and Tice to tell us how to make the most of small roles in the theatre. AnuRa has demonstrated that fact in numerous productions, including "Julius Caesar", "Barnum", "Cabaret", "Sherlock!" and others. As we go,  AnuRa discusses the story of her name, remembers the creation of "Ushanka", talks about singing in a musical when you don't really have the best voice, reveals which production helped her get her sexy back, and during which production she conceived a child (although, as Jay points out, it didn't happen on stage). Stay to the end and you'll hear us play Who Would Win in a Fight?    

We open in crisis mode, as the Between 2 Butts crew's beloved satellite member Echo may have asthma. Still, Becca switches on her tiny kitty-sized humidified and carries on as we catch up with Tice and Jay's old improv buddy Matt McDermott. Matt takes us all the way back to "Klinkenschnell, the Christmas Bell", his acting debut at age 12. Then it's on to his transition into the tech world and some mechanical misfires in a Titanic play. We then reminisce about his time in ComedySportz Improv, and his present-day activities of swing dancing, professional photography, teaching improv, and keeping a menagerie of animals in his home! Finally, we try to Make a Match together as Tice pulls out his best Charles Nelson Reilly impression in aid of an extremely time-sensitive joke.

This episode sees us actually go down a YouTube rabbit hole, starting with Becca presenting part 1 of "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared", a part-puppetry, part-animated short film with some Yo Gabba Gabba vibes, that, as Jay says, "gets a little metal". Then Jay recalls "Hanker for a Hunk of Cheese", a cartoon PSA/ad from the 70s about making snacks. After viewing and reading the comments, Tice goes off on boomer memes about drinking from the garden hose. Finally, Jay sees a video in the suggestion bar that he can't leave alone, simply called "I've Got a Bad Case of Diarrhea" (generally the opposite effect of a hunk of cheese). Next, Jay talks about being "not for everybody" and the reasons why you shouldn't try to be, and then we play an improv favorite, "Yay! Boo!"

In a somewhat overdue episode, Tice, Becca and Jay look back on old neck-names, or nick-names. Then,  Jay shares his #6th Coolest Thing on the Interwebs, a tweed-clad troubadour's "No More Fucks To Give" song, Tice shares his takes on the Jeopardy's embattled host search, and Becca reviews her experience at Awesome Con. Finally, we once again set off the lawyers at Goodson-Todman with "Let's Make a Match", Awesome Con edition! How COULD Christina Ricci best partition herself from Becca?Thomas Benjamin Wild, Esq.- Website

Jay, Becca, and Tice sit down with singer, actor, director, and teacher Christine Maxted to talk about her time in "Annie", "HONK!", "Aida" and "9 to 5" (with clips!!), along with how to not ruin your voice, and the various 'tudes of the theatre world. Also, how vocal folds look like vaginas. We then get into a game of "One-Word Song" and raise the spectre of Nanner-Puss, and to find out what that is, you better listen to the whole episode.

Our episode opens with Jay owning up to a case of the bubble-guts from his turkey sausage. Then,  Jay ponders wedded bliss and one of the Butt-partners crashes the pod and gets us on Muppet sex before we can get back on track. We do, however, compose ourselves, so we can chat with wardrobe wizard and occasional actor Larissa Norris. She´ll be telling us about her experiences with both theatre costumes and cosplay, including her first paid performance at age two, 90s period pieces, edible blood and most importantly her group cosplay with Becca and Melissa (Jay´s wife and creative consultant) as the Sanderson Sisters! And what foul play is afoot? The Butt Crew has a surprise guest waiting for Larissa, and it almost works, too! Finally, it´s Feud time once more and Tice turns the tables on Jay and makes him answer the questions. Will Jay be able to get his mind off butts long enough to help Larissa score the big prize?  

A roller-coaster episode for sure! First, Jay shares the story of "Remember the Titans" star Ethan Suplee, and talks weight loss and body dysmorphia as a continuation of his Jay-brain series. Then, Tice directs Becca and Jay through a dramatic reading of a recent storyline of Mary Worth, the long-running newspaper drama-strip about a shade-throwing old biddy fixing everybody's problems. This plot brings back memories for Jay, as it features a handsome dude who just can't stop trying to rescue dysfunctional young women, and everyone takes note of a trope in Mary Worth in which every time someone below middle-class is shown, they are surrounded by squalor, filth, decay and splintered relationships. The story escalates into a coffee-tossing slap-fight, and Tice gets so into the role of fowl-mouthed Shawna that he drops a bomb that makes Becca drop her knitting!If you want to catch up on the best of Mary Worth, or see the comics we are reading, go to The Comics Curmudgeon, where Josh reads the comics so you don't have to. His commentary on this Mary Worth plotline can be found here.And the full clip of Ethan Suplee discussing body dysmorphia and his weight loss journey on The Joe Rogan Experience  can be found here.

Lordy, Lordy...we've reached 40. Appropriately enough for that milestone, we're talking IBS and colonoscopies (although you faithful listeners know that's been our brand since Episode 1). Then, Jay introduces us to the biggest asshole in his life, his own brain, as he leads us in a conversation about self-sabotage and imposter syndrome. Along the way we talk about weight loss and other body changes and how they affect an actor, and we find out that Becca and Tice suffer from Becca Brain and Tice Brain, too. Tice shares that his favorite '90s sketch show "Kids in the Hall" is having a revival, and shows two of the classic sketches, "Is He? (Secretaries)" and "Dipping Areas". Finally, Becca talks about kitties in the MCU and Jay tests her knowledge with a lightning round of MCU trivia!

Everybody is back from vacay! (Or at least were at the time of this recording...) After we recap our holiday exploits (including Becca's encounter with a  genteel palmetto bug), Jay hands Tice the interviewer's cap as we meet remotely with long-term improv collaborator, Sarah Marsden! Join Sarah as she thinks back on making her childhood friends laugh without understanding why.  Listen as Sarah remembers meetings Jay and Tice at ComedySportz, DC, and  does her impersonations of Kristen Wiig and the Between 2 Butts crew!!  Stick around to hear Sarah describe her experiences singing naughty songs with The O'Danny Girls at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, and her latest performances at Beer Quest, in her current home of Denver, CO! (She even treats us to a song!) Make sure to listen to this episode; it's one of our silliest yet! Beer Quest, running through Aug 1, 2021

We've got a really sick episode for you this time! Literally, in Tice's case, since at the time of recording he was recovering from a stomach bug and has a raspy/sexy voice from a day of dry heaves. Meanwhile, Becca was also "playing hurt" because we recorded on a weeknight, she was worn out from work, and in her own words, was "subdued".  Jay was his usual self, and you, dear listener, may decide  whether that counts as a sickness or not.As we move beyond deciding whether Tice currently sounds more like Peter Brady or Pat Buttram, Jay shares his thoughts on the 3 most important abilities for working in theatre, and it's all very inspiring and wholesome until it turns into advice about 69. Tice comes out guns a-blazin' for "Frazz", a newspaper comic he finds very anti-inspiring. Even in her subdued state, Becca has reactions. For a game round, Jay hosts a round of zodiac trivia, and when our players rise above their mental and physical troubles, it gets ugly. 

In this episode, Becca puts on her Barbara Walters pants as she interviews her friend, actor Ahmad Maaty, who is commuting between New York City and the DMV area pursuing acting opportunities. Listen as Ahmad talks about his experiences performing in skits written by his dad,  and then "Annie" and "Tommy" with Becca, as well as studying at the Actors Studio with James Lipton (including an amazing brush with Lipton himself!).  Ahmad will also discuss challenges related to casting and race and appearance, support from his parents,  playing evil characters, and which he prefers: Acting, singing, or dancing?As the episode draws to a close, Tice, Jay and Becca assist Ahmad in a round of Family Feud-style Fast Money. With the questions hand-picked by Jay, things get weird and keep on being weird even as the closing credits music rolls...and beyond.Instagram:  @ahmadmaatyTwitter: @ahmadmaaty

This episode, local actors Matt Jordan and Katy Helper Jordan join us to discuss their acting experiences (Do you remember Matt's drunk driving PSA from the '90s? Can you get him a copy?), how they met,  and their YouTube film review channel, Movies & Mischief with Matt & Katy. Come for Katy and Matt's banter; stay for their thoughts on "Every Breath You Take", "The Peanut Butter Falcon", "Ready or Not", "The Goldfinch", "No Remorse", Michael B. Jordan and more! And if you're here for the regular B2B gang: Jay floats a new catch phrase (to the revulsion of all present), Becca proposes a hypothetical baby name,  and Tice delivers the most brilliant commentary on 1988's "The Great Outdoors" that Matthew has ever heard. All that plus concubines on episode 36 of Between Two Butts! 

In this week's episode, we show we do not care who we alienate on Between Two Butts! Whether it's Tice the Levi Man exposing his butt crack to show off his label (sorry, audio only; you'll just have to trust us!) or Becca's fiancé Brian fingering the podcast, there is much potential to drive away listeners in the first 5 minutes! And it just escalates as Jay shares his Next Greatest Thing on The Inter-Webs; Brickleberry's Republican Jesus, an animation. Offensive enough on its own, but it leads each Between 2 Buttster to reveal their thoughts on Jesus. And tasers. Moving on to friendlier territory, the gang looks back on their favorite TV cartoons and Saturday morning fare, including Gummi Bears, Angry Beavers, Saved by the Bell, and, somehow, Gordon Jump's sinister guest turn on Diff'rent Strokes. Becca shares an overdubbed GI Joe safety message known simply as Pork Chop Sandwiches, whereas Tice recalls a particularly cheesy anti-drug ad from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and we do not mean cheesy as in pizza.After a quick exchange about coffee preferences, Tice brings in his finacée, Abbie, to play the classic Word-at-a-Time improv game Casanova! Does the Levi Man have what it takes to woo his own intended? Listen and find out...

In an episode that is Absolute Fire, we hang out with Becca and Jay's long-time friend, local actor, producer, and drag queen Jonathan Fair, who is also the founder of Bright Beginnings Learning Academy.  Jonathan shares some of his hilarious stories from his experiences in auditions and in theatre (including Reefer Madness and Avenue Q). He also describes his role in producing Dragalicious, a DMV-area drag show, and his thoughts on the art form of drag. And as if that weren't enough, he reprises the stories of Charlotte's Cousin and Ass Cakes (originally seen on his livestreams) and tells us about his early education work creating his own theatre schools in Northern Virginia. Jay also makes sure to give Jonathan due credit for many of his favorite catch-phrases on B2B, including "Fix it, Jesus!"As the episode progresses, Jonathan and Jay collaborate on a drag persona for Tice, to be known as Destiny Tissé. What form will Destiny take? That, and the results of another round of Fast Money, can only be learned by listening to this episode of Between Two Butts!

Between 2 Butts comes back from a sabbatical fully vaccinated, recharged, reinvigorated, and busting 245 lb. squats at the gym...although Becca has lingering doubts about her pre-"paused" J & J shot. Jay bestows Tice (aka "the Producer" aka "the Professor" aka "the Reston Virginia Treat" aka "the Master of Old-Timey" aka "Rover/Wanderer/Nomad/Vagabond/Call Him What You Will")   with yet another moniker for his intro. You'll have to listen to find out what it is; rest assured, it's complicated. This episode it's our pleasure to sit down with Leandra Lynn, managing director of Britches and Hose Theatre and host of the Rocky Horror Minute Podcast. We discuss Leandra's introduction to theatre (with its origins in Rocky Horror and tap-dance), her theater company, and her careers in shadow-casting, cosplay, and podcasting. On the Rocky Horror Minute podcast, Leandra (and co-host Kelly Hanson) devote each episode to exactly one minute of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but on our podcast, Leandra finds herself in a game where even a minute is too long, the Family Feud Fast Money round! Talk about a Time Warp! Will she and Becca amass the coveted 200 points? Will Jay and Tice determine exactly what they win if they succeed? Tune in and find out! Links:The Rocky Horror Minute PodcastBritches and Hose Theatre Company

Here it is, Buttmunchkins: the episode we streamed live on Facebook March 26, 2021! Jay shares his 4th favorite thing on the Interwebs! Becca shares her 5 favorite movies! Tice is still loving on newspaper comic Heathcliff! Becca reads the live comments! The gang plays another round of True Confessions! Did Jay destroy the Bronze Bomber? Did Tice destroy private property? Did Becca destroy the dance floor...with dinner? It's all on Episode 32-- it may not be live but it's still arrived! 

Greetings and happy (UGGGGGGGH) Aries season  Butt-keteers! This week our guest is cosplayer Brandon James, whose handiwork must be seen on Instagram to be truly appreciated. In his handmade costumes, he has attended cons as a Xenomorph, Robin, Mr. Freeze, the Penguin, The Pale Man, Jafar, and many more. In this episode, he discusses his first childhood foray into cosplay, making costumes (sometimes in the car on to the way to the con), how to survive 8 hour days in a hot costume, scaring kids, and of course, ooze. (Becca's journalistic skills really shine in this episode as she takes the Barbara Walters seat!) Finally-- there have been many incarnations of the Pyramid gameshow franchise, including the $10,000 Pyramid, $25,000 Pyramid, and $100,000 Pyramid among others, but in this episode we play a version of Pyramid for a prize NEVER BEFORE SEEN in the long and storied history of Pyramid that you'll just have to listen to find out about! And be sure not to miss a single one of Brandon's cosplays by following him at https://www.instagram.com/brandonjamescosplay/!

Our banger Three Oh episode begins with Jay making a pledge to be nicer to Becca, and then immediately putting to the test Becca's ability to be nice back to him as he reels off a list of non-sexual words (*SPOILER*: They're sexual.) that make him giggle.  Becca, under such circumstances, refuses to meet kindness with kindness. Once that topic is put to bed, Tice picks up on a thread from our recent Friends episode and brings up several strange, unsatisfying and/or infuriating series finales (Like, did Mork and Mindy end up forever trapped in a drawing?).  Then, Becca shares some words of wisdom: "Work with your body, not on your body", and talks body acceptance as all three discuss their experiences with weight loss. Then, we take our respectability level right back into the basement with some Dating Video 1-Liners. Between 2 Butts: The podcast that doesn't care which way you swipe! Final moments of "I Married Dora", a piss-poor sitcom that, frankly, figured out the best way to call it a day.

Everyone's coming in hot in Episode 29! Jay has brought another one of his favorite Kenneth Copeland remix videos, linked below, and then Becca, Tice and Jay get out all their hot takes on Friends as Becca examines what was problematic about the show. (Between Two Butts itself, after all, is committed to providing 100% non-problematic material!) Spoilers abound, but one discussion point we think is safe for this episode description is..."Friends" might not have been that good. In the meantime, we also get into Frasier vs Cheers, and Jay declares himself firmly on the Frasier side. But which Frasier cast member does he most closely identify with? That we will NOT spoil!Tice brings our game this week from the Dr. Gameshow Extended Universe: "Dr. Why Is?", a guessing game in which you can only use Google auto-suggestions as clues.Lil KC's COVID 19 REMIX

We begin with a St. Valentine's Day flashback, as this episode was taped a few weeks ago. It turns out that sleet, hail, snow and Covid did manage to keep us all in, or at least, that's Tice's best guess since he can't remember. Then local actor Matt Baughman sits down with us to talk about his acting journey, which includes four turns as Charlie in Flowers for Algernon and a performance as Uncle Ernie in Tommy. We talk about tough directors,  Matt's transition from sports into theatre, being in shows where the star gets most of the stage time and the supporting cast doesn't get much to do, and choices you can make when the song and your vocal range don't match.Then we  learn about Matt's own podcast, "The Clink Tank", where "...guys who are experts in absolutely nothing provide advice, opinions and ideas on almost everything". And we wrap up by borrowing a game from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "True Confessions". 

This week, Tice, Jay and Becca sit down with local actor Caty Nicholson as she talks theatre, her stage debut as shy Rudolph, moving to NYC and getting the shingles, entrepreneurship, non-sex-cult marketing programs, cosmetics, and her upcoming elephant-free Indian wedding. Then, Caty treats us to many of her signature Dad/Mom jokes, which charms the B2B gang so thoroughly that they offer her a chance to win her elephant in a round of Family Feud Fast Money, in which she is teamed with Becca! Will their powers combine for victory? Tune in and find out!

We open with "(How Can I Get You) Alone?" by Heart, but once Jay has said his piece about not trying to sing like the singer who sing the song when YOU sing the song, Tice digs into a topic that he has been saving up for a long time: Heathcliff. Namely, the newspaper comic Heathcliff (who is the same as the cat from the animated series in the 80s), which in recent years has gone down a surrealist rabbit hole and built up a Twitter fandom. As Tice introduces Jay and Becca to the Heathcliff universe, we talk about the Garbage Ape, Garfield, furries, Wimpy, Mr. Magoo, phallic cannons, bubble gum, what bubble gum could be a euphemism for, ham helmets, ham skirts, and so much more. And no matter how nonsensical Heathcliff gets, one thing is made abundantly clear: Becca hates this. We then wrap things up with a rousing (or is it arousing?!) edition of the improv game Penthouse Forum. An AV Club article on Healthcliff, including links to the Heathcliff Instagram.

We live-streamed this episode back in January and saved it for our 25th episode release! Enjoy this bonus goodness!