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Jeff Urso from Duffers and Donnati's Pizza joins Pete Jansons, Joe Weiss, and Skoo Walker on The Lake Forest Podcast to break down all the big local news! We talk election victories, Oakwood Avenue madness, fake poop grabbers, beach sticker drama, new restaurants, prom season, and Duffers' big Sunday plans.Here's what we cover:

The guys dive into one of Keith's games, to find out how closely biblical principles align with America's executive orders while sipping on Yeungling and Guinness!Bible Over Brews

The guys dive into one of Keith's games, to find out how closely biblical principles align with America's executive orders while sipping on Yeungling and Guinness!Bible Over Brews

Pretty sure Whammer Sauce is cool new term that kids are saying to describe a cool person that you are talking to on your podcast. This week the guys have Brian in Skinny Calf studio, where it is decided that you have to be skinny to get 3 full grown dudes in there. Brain fills you in on growing up in Missouri, shooting bb guns and meeting his wife Cassie, maybe no "e" on that...but certainly not a "y". Bird Dog Peach Whiskey with Sweet Tea and Yeungling fuels this episode! Check Out Whammer Sauce! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gabe DeArmond and Drew King break down Mizzou's 90-77 loss to Kentucky on Tuesday night.

Recorded at the Blue Water Sports Bar and Grill in lovely Port Sanilac.  Thanks, Jeannie, for the Yeungling also, it was wonderful.

The boys drink and review Yeungling's Porter, then discuss disaster preparation. What's responsible and what's over the top? What would it take to be ready for a big snow storm, or a 3-day power outage? What if it's 2 weeks? Or 2 months? What would happen to the utilities? Would you still get gas, electricity, and water? Then they go into the disaster scenarios. Beyond prudent, reasonable precautions, what happens when society breaks down? When money isn't worth anything. When there's hyperinflation. How hungry do people need to get before they start breaking into their neighbor's house? And even if you are prepared for a long-term disaster, are you going to shoot your hungry neighbors who come begging for food? Or what if you get a bug-out location in the boonies? Will you be safe? When you think it all the way through, this prepper stuff doesn't make much sense.

When you think of Southern Miss Athletics, you think "Big Jon" Smith. A larger-than-life personality with a larger-than-life passion for his alma mater, Jon is the PERFECT hype man for the upcoming Golden Eagle Football season. We got to talk football, family, Yeungling beer, and South Carolina Women's Soccer--this is an episode jam-packed with sports and enthusiasm. If you ask us, that's the most accurate representation of who Jon Smith is. Eags by 90! If you live here, put out your black and gold, because attitude is contagious... USM FOOTBALL TIX INFO https://southernmiss.com/sports/2018/7/19/football-ticket-information.aspx#Single COMMUNITY BANK https://communitybank.net COLUMBIA FOOD + MUSIC FESTIVAL http://mcdp.chambermaster.com/events/details/columbia-food-music-festival-800 WEBSITE https://thehardystreetboyz.com PATREON https://patreon.com/thehardystreetboyz Trailer 0:00 Episode Intro 0:56" Big Jon" 1:55 Jon Smith 2:40 All the cool kids use banking apps 20:36 Food and Music! 21:47 Let Boobie Spin 22:58 USM Athletics and Family 28:20 Host/Executive Producer/Director/Writer/Editor: Drew Wooton Co-Host/Original Music: Jamie Massengale Set Design: Thomas Seibert and Lester Gire Opening Theme Videography: Tanner Davis #smttt #collegegameday #eagsby90 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehardystreetboyz/support

Friday January 28 2022 Brought to you by The Real Voice - Mel Allen. Providing voice over for commercials, podcasts, explainer videos, and more. Samples and demos at https://therealvoice.com There are a lot of great bourbons out in the world now, and there are some that are just… not that great. The problem is - it can get complicated to figure out where those affordable ones fall. Well, to help you navigate the affordable bourbon comes this list of bourbons between $10 - $20. Evan Williams, Old Tub, and Wild Turkey 101 topped this list of ten very affordable and very drinkable bottles of booze - whether you're drinking it straight or using it for cocktails. Get the list and get ready to save some dollars at https://uproxx.com/life/best-bourbon-whiskey-under-20-ranked/ It's finally happening. Anheuser-Busch is making a zero-carb beer. Bud Light Next. Now, if I recall correctly, I think had to have its name and slogan tweaked after a run-in with Yeungling - yes, and here's the link https://breweriesinpa.com/yuengling-has-accused-bud-light-of-taking-its-trademark/ ). Anyway - it's out now and the light beer comes in at 4%, zero carbs, and 30 fewer calories than Bud Light. AB has been working on this for ten years and went through 130 prototypes before landing on the bottles and cans that will be sold in six and 12 packs. Look for it on shelves February 7th https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/anheuser-busch-is-rolling-out-its-first-ever-zero-carb-beer/ And it's beer fest time, but one of the many that's shaking that up is all set to go! Beers With(out) Beards will be celebrating its 5th anniversary on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, at Brick South in Portland, ME to celebrate the achievements of women in craft beer. At the festival, you'll be able to enjoy beer from thirty-five-plus breweries that are either women-owned or owned by femme-identifying people, or that have women or femme-identifying people in prominent leadership positions. Tickets went on sale this morning at https://hopculture.ticketsauce.com/e/beers-with-out-beards and for more info on the event go here https://www.hopculture.com/beers-without-beards-2022/ Next Time: The Boozebuddy Update continues on video! On Spotify, watch alongside the podcast, or head to the YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC033VXK28YhXgJAYpHS-C_w Head to BoozebuddyUpdate.com to comment or get in touch with me! Remember - don't drink and drive, stay safe, drive sober and support the booze that supports your local community. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/boozebuddy/support

Cheese and The Judge talk about the flagship beer of America's oldest brewery in this episode. Topics include Hanukkah. root beer, and Succession! 

Brought to you by The Real Voice - Mel Allen. Providing voice over for commercials, podcasts, explainer videos, eLearning, telephone systems, and more. Samples and demos at https://therealvoice.com Checking out the 10Best lists - Vermont was well represented • Best Cidery - Citizen Cider #8 • Best New Brewery - Red Clover Ale Company #7 • Best Craft Vodka Distillery - Smugglers Notch Distillers, Barr Hill, and Vermont Spirits Distilling Co. • Best Gin Distillery - Barr Hill All the 10 Best at https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/ Tis the season for mulled wines. You might want to buy some off the shelf, or you could make your own. Traditional glögg spices include clove, cardamom, ginger, orange, and cinnamon sticks. Home mixologists can make an infusion, or simply heat the wine up on the stove with the spices to meld the flavor. Experts recommend shiraz and cabernet sauvignon, but in a pinch, Merlot would work too. More at https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/08/mulled-wine-colorado/ If Stouts and Porters are more your speed for wintry drinks, maybe look to chocolate flavors with your beer! Personally, I'd compare this list of Rogue, Yeungling, Faction, and others to a comparable beer I could find locally - but these are all a good start for the chocolatey goodness! https://uproxx.com/life/best-beers-for-fans-of-chocolate/ The Boozebuddy Update continues on video! On Spotify, watch alongside the podcast, or head to the YouTube channel. Help me get a custom URL on YouTube by viewing, liking, sharing, and subscribing at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC033VXK28YhXgJAYpHS-C_w Remember - don't drink and drive, stay safe, drive sober and support the booze that supports your local community. Thanks for listening or watching, remember to like, review & subscribe! Head to BoozebuddyUpdate.com to leave feedback or get in touch with me! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/boozebuddy/support

Mother, talent manager and business woman owning a company that carries her name, Ingrid French has been in the business of people management since 1999 and continues to be impassioned by it to date. Her company IFM (Ingrid French Management) represents clients: actors and models for television and print commercials, film, theatre and voiceovers booking for Smirnoff, Yellow Tail, Yeungling. Her talent has booked commercial campaigns for Verizon, John and Johnson, Target, T-Mobile, Bacardi, Fedex, Nike and Heineken to name a few. Television bookings include: Blacklist, Law & Order SVU, Orange is the New Black and film bookings consist of: Brooklyn, The Wolf of Wall Street, Daughter of God. This is only a partial list. All these years later after graduating with a major in journalism and minor in theater, a nurturer, Ingrid is still excited about the daily work and long hours that come with it, as she is about the New York she always wanted to live in. A realist, Ingrid still looks at the glass half full. Check her out at: https://www.ingridfrenchmanagement.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ozzie-stewart/support

Ya bois are heading down, down, all the way down to the lovely commonwealth of Pennsylvania for today's episode; home of roadside reptile zoos, fireworks stores, bingo halls and porno emporiums! It's also home to Yeungling and Conshohocken breweries, which is why we are interested in it. Suggested Talking Points: The Anomaly Film Fest The wonders of PA Soapy Taste Ropes

We're Back again!! This week we explain the absence and go on to tell you about. Dentist issues, Davin's old beer, a new @yuenglingbeer flavor, Pandemic Plane Flights, lying about a connection and Pandemic Hotel experiences. Plus much more!

On teste en direct cette semaine un gadget "vu à la télé" sensé transformer la bière en bouteille en bière pression. On compare deux Yeungling lagers du même pack. Est-ce que le Tap Pro tient ses promesses? La réponse dans cet épisode.

On teste en direct cette semaine un gadget "vu à la télé" sensé transformer la bière en bouteille en bière pression. On compare deux Yeungling lagers du même pack. Est-ce que le Tap Pro tient ses promesses? La réponse dans cet épisode.

Kid, El Pres and Sawyer yap about gobstopper oral, head and what you do to get girls to do things to you, faking massage orgasms and Endo calls in with an agenda that she won't tell us. Kid gets unselfish about the show and we tell everyone about The Fallen. Go Deep. DETAILED TIMELINE 1:00 Gobstopper for the oral 2:00 Spaghetti-fuckin-O's 3:00 All because you want some head 4:00 Sawyer in the house 5:00 Crash at the studio 6:00 Kid, you told me that  7:00 Faking the massage orgasm 8:00 Massage orgasm from Endo 9:00 Leave balls and pubes and nads 10:00 You and two other bitches to blow  11:00 Throwing beer 12:00 Puppets and the call out - WTF is up 13:00 Sawyer and the Yeungling 14:00 In the mind of Sawyer 15:00 The Radio station done right 16:00 The unselfish Kid 17:00 Money is not what it's about 18:00 Stress because of the dollar 19:00 Money and the Show 20:00 The heavy lifting after the recording 21:00 The LIVE Show 22:00 The emotional attachment to the show  23:00 Talking about titties - mixing it up 24:00 Trusting Sawyer 25:00 The Fallen 26:00 The GDS VIP Club 27:00 Zuckerburg hate 28:00 The Devil should make you think 29:00 Final Words -  The Truth Go Deep.

Episode 8 is here! Arie and Todd take no breaks as they two-step on the accelerator pedal! Your dynamic duo deep dive into a twirling tornado of brewtally candid tangents revisiting old stories from their pasts before drenching their taste buds with some surprise suds. One's a bit peachy like life, am I right? Anyway, the boy's got metal news to share, one story featuring a band we can't stop talking about. They're a complete "animal." Then we get into the nitty gritty of what's been litty on the airwaves. Last, but not least, our featured band knows how to have fun under the Artic sun, especially with a mammal that wields a bloody dangerous weapon. Episode Breakdown: Catching up with the boys :48 What we’re drinking/beer news 20:31 Metal News 29:37 What we’re jamming this past week 37:08 Featured band 47:12 This week's episode features Sketti N Butter from Narwhal Bloodbath. Narwhal Bloodbath is a Metalcore band From Bradford PA. Devin and Jesse wanted to start a band in 2016, later we found Mark and Chris and Narwhal Bloodbath was born. The entire project was centered around the idea of putting fun back into metal. We didn't want to take ourselves too seriously, or be just another depressing heavy band, so we started writing songs about pastafarianism, Black beard, Gengis Khan, and other ridiculous topics. Thematic and fun is and always will be our mantra. Narwhal Bloodbath is exclusively fueled by 4Loko, Bad decisions, Fistful Of Bourbon Whiskey, Tullamore dew Irish whiskey, and whatever other drugs our scumbag bass player Chris can get his Grubby little mitts on. Also, Chris loves Yeungling, and as far as beer goes, Jesse will drink Blue Moon but we're a whiskey band mostly. Make sure to give Narwhal Bloodbath some love via any of the following: Apple Music | Spotify | Facebook |  YouTube Jam Sketti N Butter and other gnarly tracks from previous Featured Bands on our Bands to Watch For playlist! Videos Referenced in the Episode: Brand of Sacrifice: Animal Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog 1929) Beers fueling this week's episode include Austin Eastciders Peach Spiked Seltzer (Todd's pick) and Black Circle Brewing Co's Wonder Gosen (Arie's pick.) Peach Spiked Seltzer is made with cider, real fruit, and nothing artificial coming in at 4.2% ABV. Austin Eastciders is located in Austin, TX. Wonder Gosen is an easy drinking hibiscus Gose coming in at 4.5% ABV. Black Circle Brewing Co is located in Indianapolis, IN. Artwork by megabeast Kevin Burfield! Show him some love, and get something rad, via any of the following: Instagram | Facebook Intro track "Clarity" by legends Amavasya What's the Hopwolfpack drinking and jamming this week? Let your boys know, and keep up with us, via any of the following: Instagram | Facebook Start a circle pit from the comfort of your own home with this week's Brewtal Songs of the Week  Since you're feeling good from the brews and the jams, why not leave us a review at any of the following? That'd be BREWTAL of you! Apple | Facebook  Brewtal was chopped and sliced by Arie Lombardozzi of Death Dealer Productions with additional production from Todd Bailey Brewtal is part of the Death Dealer Production family

You’ve heard the news and are likely still processing, but sometimes it helps to have a buddy to process things with. On this edition of the Cult of Colt we talk about the only thing on everyone’s mind this week: the fact that there are no good fantasy football running backs to speak of. I mean what is that?? No, but actually, this week we devoted our full attention to the mystifying decision at hand to bench the previously ordained Quarterback Of The Future in Dwayne Haskins Jr. in favor of backup Kyle Allen. Anyway that you look at it, the rationale lacks clarity, and believe me when I say that we look at it from all angles this evening. As the saying goes, this team makes us drink. Gumbi came prepared with the Hershey’s Chocolate Porter from Yeungling, I joined him with another PA-inspired beverage, the Philly Special from Iron Hill. You gotta do what you gotta do when it comes to The Washington Football team. In what has been dubbed in as many words an rebuilding year (or we can use their terminology up until yesterday of an “evaluation” year) things have kind of made sense: the coaches have assembled a series of young players who make up for an otherwise lack of earth-shattering talent with a desire to prove themselves for the years to come. They allow those players to show their mettle, they sink — or they swim, and one way or another there is a pool of evidence and tape to evaluate and make decisions based off of for the years to come. Then came yesterday’s decision to bench perhaps the singular player whose lack of experience needed the most evaluating, thereby taking what was a straightforward, albeit somewhat ugly, process, and removing the rudder directly, leaving the future directionless and floating adrift. There are now more questions than answers, and even fewer paths to finding those answers for the future. Join us as we try to make sense of that which is seemingly senseless this week on The Cult Of Colt. If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to the Hogs Haven Podcast network on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We at the You Name It show can help you make your life better. Just listen and see if we're not telling the truth!! Also, you'll learn about: Swearing Parrots, new sound clips, more about selling your blood, the deep state, death pool updates, the problems with deer hunting, too many mulligans, more about Cats and all kinds of stuff about new listener "Kyle". #Yeungling #prettylitter

Yeungling je nejstarší americký pivovar, který nepřetržitě vaří ležáky a jiné druhy piv od roku 1829. Je v městě Pottsville v Pesylvánii, kde bydlí Dušan Neumann, se kterým jsme si už několikrát povídali. Tentokrát jsme se spojili přes Skype, trochu jsme probrali poslední čísla a opatření ohledně koronaviru. Ale hlavně jsme si povídali o tom Yeunglingu. Na webcastu v obraze, tady v audiu. Hezký den :-)

In this episode Steve and Korey talk about white rappers, fixing furnaces, and how much Yeungling sucks with the sales manager and tap room manager of River North Brewing.

WE'RE BAAAACCCKKKK!!!!Crafted Commentary Episoder #2 - Skiing, Snowboarding, and Beers of New England, with special (and probably frequent) guest, Justin!!!!Guest: JustinThis episode is all about beers from Vermont… or at least, New England (social media handles later in the notes):Alchemist Heady TopperFrost Beer Works Plush Double IPALawson’s Finest Liquids in Stratford, CTThis episode was shot in the late fall of 2018. Things have changed since then. Some of the beers were sent t to us by our friends from the Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate. Since we didn't have a crystal ball, we didn't know Rome would be sold a few months later and the founders, one of whom helped get us these beers), would move on. Great people at that brand regardless. We back them. They were my first client when I went solo, before co-founding my PR firm (www.remedypr.com), and I’ll always be grateful for that opportunity.Oh, some of the Heady Topper was donated by my man Hugh Reynolds (https://www.instagram.com/hrocker/).Also, we talk a lot about Mammoth, and the first time we talk about Clock Tower bar, I call Kyler Tyler. Kyler is one of our favorite Mammoth locals, an excellent shredder and bartender, and is a Test Pilot for June Lake Brewing, a brand I had a small part in helping out in their early days. Follow Kyler here: https://www.instagram.com/kyler_end/Speaking of, beers we discuss are:Alchemist’s Heady Topper, and why you’re supposed to drink your canned beer from a can.https://alchemistbeer.com/https://www.facebook.com/alchemistbeerhttps://www.instagram.com/alch3mistb33rWe also get into Frost Beer Works Plus Double IPAhttps://www.frostbeerworks.com/https://www.facebook.com/frostbeerworks/https://www.instagram.com/frost.beer.worksLawson’s Finest Liquids in Stratford, CT.https://www.lawsonsfinest.com/https://www.facebook.com/pg/LawsonsFinestLiquidshttps://www.instagram.com/lawsonsfinest#lawsonsfinestliquidsBesides our theme, each Crafted Commentary guest has to discuss what's rad, and what's sad.Rad:- Technology, and the great things it brings us, such as the Heady Topper Heady Spotter Twitter handle)- Earning beers.Sad:- The sh*t that comes with technology.- Not treating your bartender, server, etc., as a human.Other beers mentioned:Magic Hay #9Belching BeaverYeunglingModern TimesMaui Brewing

In this episode we are joined by Amy Rain.  We drink beer with Yuengling's ice cream. We try Lemon Rye from Adelbert's, Govalle Tropical IPA from Friends and Aliies, Peach Fructum Bonum from Save the World, the Whiskey Barrel Aged Double Pecan Porter from (512) Brewing over Yeungling's vanilla, butterbeer, and black and tan.  And as always Amy gets a bit too PG-13 and Clint hates everything.   www.AmyRainMusic.com   Music for the show: Evil Eye/ The Stranger Rides Tonight by Daddy Long Legs is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.   Bottle of Beer by simon_mathewson is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.  

In this Episode we are joined by Nick Baker and Cody Leyva to discuss more Warhammer 40k, AoS, Kill Team, and Dust 1947!!!!Our usual silly hijinks are fueled by Yeungling and Monks Meade this episode! John couldn't make it because of TPS reports or something like that due at his job. 

Beer lovers rejoice as Yeungling comes to Kentucky! Jack talks to Wendy Yeungling about the brand's debut.

Marty Yingling is a retired Master Chief Seabee and one of the most influential Chiefs in the Naval Construction Force still to this day. He is currently a District commander for the VFW a Purple heart recipient.

Wesley: Hi, I’m Wesley.Robyne: and I’m Robyne.Wesley: and this is Obstructed View. Robyne: Today we’ll be discussing Dracula by Three Day Hangover. Dracula was presented at the McAlpine hall at West Park Church.Wesley: This performance was done immersively with a bar that was integrated into the performance.Robyne: If you don’t know the story of Dracula, we’ve linked a synopsis in the show notes. This piece by Steven Dietz and Lori Wolter Hudson is a liberal adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel. Let’s jump right into design.Wesley: So we have scenic and lighting design by Christopher and Justin Swader, sound design by Toby Jaguar Algya, and costume design by Caitlin Cisek. Robyne: I really liked the costumes. I loved how they found ways in all of the design elements under what I assume to be a very low budget, to really honor the story and the period from which this story comes. I found the proffesor’s costume to be very well contemporized. I found both Mina and Lucy’s costumes to be fitting of their characters. And all of the men seem to be fairly well dressed. I only didn’t necessarily care for Renfield’s costume, but it worked within the story and the design. Wesley: I thought the costuming worked well for what they were achieeing here. My only point of issue was Dracula, I thought his was a bit more on the grotesque side, a bit too flamboyant, a bit too 1970s. And when you’re contemporizing almost all these characters, he came off a bit dated and that was something that I couldn’t just grasp why.Robyne: I found that in the greater style of the piece that it fit, that he was a little dated. It didn’t bother me too much but I totally understand what you’re saying. I did think that the teeth work was wonderful, those prosthetic teeth up close looked great. Wesley: Yeah, teeth were great. I enjoyed the make up work.Robyne: I also like what they did set wise with dressing the room as they did. I understand that they couldn’t build a full set but there were a lot of things I liked about it. As you said when we first walked in to the room, I really liked how there was only one portrait on the wall. I really liked how bare most of it was, it really helped with the foot traffic in the immersion.Wesley: I, on initial impact, I appreciated the space greatly. It was large, it was cavernous, I liked the scarcity of what they used. There was a bit of difficulty of deciding where we can and cannot sit, I noticed a few people stumbling around trying to find a place to find a seat. But there was nothing really that distracting. I appreciate how they had to work with the sparcity of the space, transporting us from one world to another during the performance, though I wish there was a bit more integration into the actual foundation of the space itself. I never felt as though I was brought into a world with the hall around me, I felt as though I was always dealing with specific set properties being brought out in front of me. That with how statically they had the audience stand for great swaths of the performance where seats could easily do.Robyne: The immersiveness lost it’s fun when the scenes started to run over five minutes; I found myself standing for large periods of time. And the worst part of this production for me was the other audience members. Given that this was an immersive, Bar Theater piece, I was fully prepared for a lot of the interactions I was going to have, but there seemed to be a lot of clueless audience members who kept backing into one another, there were a lot of spilled drinks, there were a lot of elbows, and a good deal of that was unnecessary. While there was a lot of guidance given by either the cast out of character or by other members of the production team herding us along in this small room, there still was a lack of clarity in what was habitable space and, I agree, we were standing for far too long without moving. We should have been able to sit at certain points.Wesley: I’ve been in immersive situations where you finally form a bond of community with the audience around you experiencing the piece. For example, when I saw Speakeasy Dollhouse at the Player’s Club or, probably one of my favorite of these, A Serious Banquet, by This is Not a Theater Company, I felt as though I made friends that evening, experiencing this theatrical production, being immersed in this world with them. Here everyone else seemed a little bit intrusive. And given how big the hall was, I really felt lost with them.Robyne: In this style you have a spectrum and on the one end you have something like A Serious Banquet which is a party that everyone is invited to, and on the other end you have Sleep No More, which is completely isolationist.5:00This fell somewhere in between without any real intention of how this piece is suppose to interact with the audience and how the audience is suppose to interact with each other. It felt as if no attention was paid as to what we were suppose to feel.Wesley: Granted, I don’t feel as thought the immersivity was suppose to be a gimmick, but it didn’t feel integral.Robyne: There were fun moments with the sound design and a lot of the practical, from-the-audience sounds. There was this howling bit they kept having us do that had a great deal of diminishing returns at the end. There was an expectation I felt that the audience was supposed to be much drunker than we were.Wesley: The interaction with us felt like a necessary evil on their part as if they had to follow through with the immersivitiy and so the scenic design of this world never really managed to put it into a framework in which the immersivity was a necessity to the story telling. Robyne: I did not feel that the immersiveness was used to transport us into this world and to make this interactive, to feel like we were involved in the world. I didn’t really know why we were being immersed in this. This may have just as easily been done in a proscenium and it may have worked far better.Wesley: Lighting design by Christopher and Just Swader as well, I had no real issue with.Robyne: The, again, clearly were limited on what they could do both financially and in the space. It worked fairly well. There’s a moment of audience interaction, that we’ll discuss later, using the lighting that was probably the highlight of the show. Overall, lighting was fine.Wesley: Yeah. They had a couple nice effects: the red that backlight Dracula when he entered, it had a nice 1980s Pop-film kind of vibe to it. We recognize this was a very limited budget production, and for what they were probably able to work with on that level this was excellently achieved.Robyne: Dracula is presented in this downtown, nerd, bar theater style that holds a certain amount of irreverence for the material, usually a great deal of irreverence for the material, and is filled with anachronisms. I have seen a great deal of this sort of theater and it is usually blunt and less funny than it thinks it is, and unfortunately I found that prevalent throughout Dracula.Wesley: There was a lot of joy in the performers getting a chance to perform but I felt no love for the characters, no love for the material –Robyne: There is a great deal of finesse required to pull off a show of this nature very well. A lot of the references felt very heavy handed, a lot of the modernization of the script felt blunt. There’s a number of times where they pull out their phones and the dialogue doesn’t sound like humans of today’s world discussing the use of technology. There was just some very rough moments of, I could almost feel the collaborators asking, “Well, how does this sound? This works.” With no smoothing out of the language.Wesley: The pop-culture references, they were so unnecessary. The anachronisms never gelled well. They felt like a style that was meant to feel novel but I have seen it so many times before that it just felt stale, and rather than making this show feel more timely, it just felt more dated.Robyne: There were a number of them that worked but they were just unfortunately buried beneath seven more that didn’t.Wesley: There were also many times that they would reference the bar, and drinking, and being drunk, which, it was funny before you’re legally able to drink. Like they’re the sort of thing that people would say in a college movie. Here, it as so self congratulatory and invaise. Robyne: It is a necessary part of the production, it is an intential design element and that can be a great deal of fun, but there is a fun, in-character way to discuss this and there is a forceful reminder that the ticket cost is low and you should be drinking and it’s part of the production. Which is totally fine but there is a way to convey that without swearing at your audience, which can be fun but in this instance absolutelywas not.Wesley: There was one instance I enjoyed and the was January Lavoy playing Yeungling. Her coming out as this sort of meta, product-placement character –Robyne: That anachronism, that contemporization, that kind of meta-theatrical element is what this entire style is built upon. And January was not only wonderful in that role, and I would almost say tongue-in-cheek, very self-aware, character,10:00but the renaming of Van Helsing, and having her constantly bringing that element of the drinking into it, having the audience partake in the drinking as part of the story telling, was wonderful. Having her offer beers as weapons was a great addition, was more of what I was hoping to see in this production. But the bruskness of having your characters remind the audience that the bar is open during intermission, the constant, “Time to take a shot!” felt like a younger, recent post graduate, theater company.Wesley: It felt like an app they were able to get for a cheap price but in order to be able to do anything with it you need to buy all the upgrades in it. It felt like we were being held hostage to this bar. Rather than it being a joyful part of this world we’re in, it felt like a necessary evil to appreciate this thing that I was entirely unable to appreciate on any level of sobriety. That’s not to say that the performers were drowned by the piece.Robyne: January Lavoy’s Professor was wonderful, was just the embodiment of how great this style can work. I also really enjoyed Nemuna Ceesay’s Mina, it felt like a wonderful modernization of this character, holding kick-ass American feminist ideals while also still honoring the source material. I thought Miranda Noelle Wilson Lucy and Jonathan Finnegan’s Seward were both great and I loved their relationship. A lot of the modernization and meta aspects of their relationship, the constant back and forth about what level their relationship was, whether they were lovers or friends, I thought worked very well most of the time. Justin Yorio’s Harker felt slightly out of place, he was much more serious than the rest of the cast, as Harker is but it just, it just didn’t sit quite right in the irreverent, meta-style. Paul Kite’s Renfield, while I don’t like the character he portrayed, that rapid lunatic, in the stereotypical pop-culture sense, I felt he portrayed that role very well.Wesley: The rule of diminishing returns with almost every aspects of this production for me grated especially Paul Kite as Renfield. I could always appreciate his commitment and his capabilities but by the end, what was once charming became intolerable. Jokes were hammered and hammered and hammered and almost none of them became funny again.Robyne: Again I felt the audience was expected to be much drunker and louder than we were. It wasn’t clear whether the production was suppose to take place in a loud, noisy, drunken bar, ad the actors were supposed to be fighting over the audience to be heard. That wasn’t the case, we were paying very close attention. So the often repetitive text became blows, over and over. We only needed to hear that the floor was lava once for Renfield, which is a shame because the man was literally standing up on a piano and that is a great image, seeing that, and the idea of his childishness played in that way, was really great for me. And then it just got repeated and it was so unnecessary. All the repition was so unnecessary.Wesley: As I said when we left, I was never the audience for this production. The drama was meant to be an aspect of their performance but not an essential part of its success. I didn’t find anything besides the drama to take my attention and because of that I felt so apathetic to their performance. Their commitment to these characters, their commitment to their performances was fantastic. Whether it was the improvisational extremes from Paul Kite or if it’s the more reserved Justin Yorio, I could appreciate that they each brought an aspect of their craft to their performance. But in terms of the actual telling of the story, there was little I could grasp on to. And there was so little novelty in humor or in storytelling for me to have a good night with.Robyne: I felt that this production really suffered from something I see a lot which is the lack of a strong, critical producer. Somebody who has a greater sense of the show in mind who can also level some of their experience and economy towards the work itself, the language, the humor, the staging.15:00Every moment a well utilized, talented producer who the company trusts, can really bring that out, or a co-director, or an assistant director, just somebody to offer a contrary voice to not allow so much of this to run off the tracks.Wesley: A lot of this story was unnecessary, a lot of this dialogue could have been easily noticed to not gain a response in terms of humor and gotten rid of and would have given us more time to be immersed in the space they were creating.Robyne: There was also only one level of humor, they only offered us low-brow and a great deal of low-brow humor. There wasn’t a mixed bag, there wasn’t high-brow humor coming from Dracula and low brow humor coming from Renfield, which I felt was a shame because that would have been a wonderful balance.Wesley: There was no character delivered with a real wit to them. They were all given to us as either satirical images of their characterization or satire of storytelling. They were never in themselves clever characters.Robyne: or simply characters given witty dialogue.Wesley: Granted, I cannot say I’ve seen a Three Day Hangover performance before, though I will say here I don’t feel as though I saw any aspect of Dracula that night and I was hoping I would. I was hoping I would get a sense of the portrait of Bram Stoker involved in this. I feel as though that portrait would have been rolling its eyes and at best smirking.Robyne: There were moments in this production that could have lended themselves wonderfully to very meta performance structure, where the one portrait of Bram Stroker is involved. There were moments where they could have broken the style and really gone for actual horror. When you are standing in that room full of people in the dark and you feel people moving around you, there are all the elements you need for some true horror. But we never got that, it was always the same one note, and it went on relentlessly and for too long.Wesley: You read Dracula a while back and I asked you when it was done, “Does Dracula have a sincere sense of mystery and sexuality to it?” and you said you think it does.Robyne: Right. So something I really loved about the first act of this production was there seemed to be a very clever adaption of the sexual commentary from Dracula, which, in its time, in its place, was a very risqué novel to come out. The description if the encounters, the very sexual nature of Dracula’s existence, his appearance, was initially well handled and seemed to just vanish into this myriad anachronistic reverential material.Wesley: When they did attempt sexuality it came off like the lovers in Midsummer. It didn’t come off as people with actual sex drives. They might have been going for the cloistered sense of the Victorian but I found nothing about their existence to be grounded in actual sexuality. Every aspect of it felt like characterization. Which just brings me back to why do Dracula? Why do this piece if you’re not going to commit to any aspect of the source material? The story itself isn’t enough, there needs to be some aspect of Dracula you find enticing to put on stage. And it wasn’t the mystery, it wasn’t the sexuality, it wasn’t the politics, and it wasn’t any aspect of the death. It was on a Scary Movie level, “Hey, here’s a thing. Let’s make fun of it.”Robyne: It almost felt as if it was a Mystery Science Theater or a Rifftrax version of a new Hollywood adaption of Dracula. I felt as if I was sitting around watching that episode with kids from high school who I didn’t really like.Wesley: The audience was not the best.Robyne: As an audience member I didn’t know exactly what I was being invited to, which is a huge aspect of these immersive bordering on interactive pieces. There was a lot of fun that we were invited for. When Dracula first comes out, when Michael Borelli first comes out as Dracula, and he has a marker and he “bites” peoples necks, that was fun, and went on just long enough. And Borelli had that playful, very self aware, I almost want to say folksy Dracula, that “TRANSYLVANIA” thing going, which felt completely inaccurate but funny because of its inaccuracy and worked within the world. But was not on the same level as January Lavoy’s Professor pulling out Yeunglings and shooting them off, that is a different level of fun. 20:00Wesley: And an aspect of this performance was their self-referentialness, which I always found more fun if this was improv. A lot of the jokes they’re making, a lot of the things that were happening came off as though this would be great in the spontaneity of improv. But knowing that this was scripted, practiced, and rehearsed in that space, I’m not sure for how long but for any amount of time, it came off as gimmicky and patronizing to me.Robyne: yeah, it was, again, all one note. And that’s fine for a style but you have to be aware that you’re going to alienate a great number of your audience. And unfortunately I was a both a person who loves this style but also a person who was put off by this piece. There was an absolutely wonderful moment in this production.Wesley: Yes there was.Robyne: Which, spoilers, once Lucy has been turned by Dracula and the rest of the company is there to end her second life, they kill the lights and they ask us to turn on the flashlights on our phones to act as the sun. Then there is a second moment of Seward and Lucy singing Total Eclipse of the Heart, which was this wonderful, bizarre, anachronistic, hyper-meta theater style choice that absolute perfection.Wesley: It was hilarious because it was still good craftsmanship. It said something about the characters it said something about their situation, it said something about the world we were in, and it was smart too. The idea that they would be singing Total Eclipse of the Heart, to a vampire was hilarious. And I adored Miranda Noelle Wilson in that role. If this show ended in that scene this review would be going very differently right now because that scene was hilarious and heartfelt and beautiful and it came off with love of the source material.Robyne: And the moment right before that, was a great choice, where she comes through the doors, covered in blood all over her white dress, singing Come Little Children, the song from Hocus Pocus that Sarah Jessica Parker sings coming to steal the children, and it almost felt like this was going to be a commentary on darkness and vampires and those moments were wonderful in that sense. But the ending just kind of happened.Wesley: Not only did it just happen, it just happened for a very long time. The coda after the actual climax of Lucy’s death took forev-Robyne: Dragged. It dragged. And I really wish we had not seen the death of Dracula. This very easily could have been forty minutes shorter. You cut at the end of that and you finish not knowing where Dracula is. You don’t tell the whole sotry and you leave – If you are ending with that monologue about ‘once darkness is introduced, despite the fact you know it isn’t real, it will always haunt you’, because society is obsessed with vampires, that would have been a wonderful place to leave off, with that monster still out there. But it jus- it was so long.Wesley: And then were dealing with, honestly, less interesting, more grounded characters that don’t compel us in the same way that these two did simply because these two, their characters, more match the style for which they are portraying. A lot of the style I don’t like because it’s what I call ‘Fun as Aesthetic’, we’re showing you fun instead of actually having fun ourselves or making sure you have fun, we’re forcing this sense of fun upon you without actually committing to creating it in the world. But there, in that death of Lucy, it was all there for us.Robyne: We were involved, it was a great reference, it was a great concept, the acting was wonderful in that moment, the whole, everything came together, every element of this production was there.Wesley: And it almost makes me more angry because is shows you what the rest of this production could have been.Robyne: Right. And at that point, after that, you’re dealing with an audience that’s been standing, not walking around and moving but standing, for two hours, that’s sobering up and those things all combine to drag out.Wesley: All those things combine to make this ending that much less engaging.Robyne: So then I guess the question is, Wesley, is Dracula worth the $15 ticket?Wesley: No. Because it’s not just the $15 ticket but the amount of drinks you’d have to get from the bar to make this experience successful.Robyne: I would argue that this is a very specific style and if that is your cup of tea, then it is absolutely worth the $15 ticket. It is fun, irreverent, nerd, bar theater, and as long as you are not going in for a reverent retelling of Dracula you can have a lot of fun at this production.Robyne: As always, you can find us at Obstructed-View.com, on facebook at facebook.com/ObstructedViewPodcast, on twitter @Obstructed_View, on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/obstructedview, or email us at TheObstructedViewPodcast@gmail.com.Wesley: I’m Wesley.Robyne: And RobyneWesley: And remember,Robyne: Blood will have blood.

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Due to the condensed schedule to start the season, we had to wait a couple days longer than usual to record our latest podcast because of Sam's hectic writing schedule for the Indian. But much like wine, White Castle, and the resultant farts from combining those two, some things just improve when they're allowed to age a bit. For this edition we once again welcome Al Cimaglia of Hockey Independent and XM Radio, this time to discuss the Hawks predictably up and down first 10 games of the season. Also among the things discussed: Sun Chips, Yeungling, and things found on my epitaph. Your role in this is very clearly defined.