December 6, 2023 • 38 mins
Lacey & Amber have two things on the brain, finding a place to enjoy live smooth jazz and attempting to justify the existence of their unused gym membership. When comedian Gianmarco Soresi joins the mix in celebration of his latest special featured as part of Netflix's Verified Stand-Up, things take a symphonic turn. The Expert quiz becomes a collaborative extravaganza, since it's about everyone's favorite topic: Broadway musicals. In Can You Stand It, Lacey admits that someone's lucky charm grosses her out, Gianmarco reveals his favorite splurge and Amber is still not leaving anyone in suspense.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everybody, we're feeling great because now me and Lacy
you are roommate. It's the ever Lacy lay in Amber shoe. Lacy,
did you like that song? Well, I hit the microphone
and my headphone shot out of my ears. But yeah,
(00:22):
I loved that song. It was actually positive. Everyone helped.
Amber stinks. I don't stink. I don't my new stinky roommate. No, no,
she does not stink today, don't even stink. Smells great,
smells great, smell a little bit. I'm not gonna lie.
(00:42):
It's never perfect. It's never perfect, guys. Okay, welcome to
the Amber and Lacy Lacy and Amber Show. This podcast
is a special special time in all of our lives
where we get to know a new friend through fun, games, laughter,
good natured ribbing, and a little bit of pressuring. So, Lacy,
(01:04):
how you doing. I'm doing great, guys. I just moved
to New York. Now we are in tiny I'm not
gonna say it's tiny town, but maybe it is a
tiny town to most outside of Manhattan, and I love it.
We're doing a good job. Amber. Uh. Still living at
(01:26):
the cheesecake factory daily every day. I can't change that.
Every day trying to find a little you know, jazz spot,
and I'm not finding it. So Amber and I have
just you know, searching around town for new hangouts. That's
been my thing. Now. Listeners, when you become a black
(01:46):
woman of a certain age, you're gonna crave jazz. So true.
I know it sounds crazy, so true, and you may
be thinking to yourself, not me, Oh buddy, yes, you
like freaking smooth jazz. You ma a linen, all white linen,
in a folding chair in the park, listening to jazz
(02:08):
on the ground. You wait till they turn that Cardi
B song that you're listening into. Now they play it
on that saxophone. You're gonna You're not gonna want to
listen for anything else. It doesn't make any sense. And
Amber and I, I think we discovered that we were
both doing this with it, like a year of each
other started. She was like, I have a confession to make.
I'm listening to smooth and I listen to smooth jazz
(02:31):
sitting down in a park. Bring you a little chair.
You're sitting in the sun. Jazz man's playing up there.
It's embarrassing. You can do. Yeah, it's nothing you're this
is going to happen to you. I'm sorry, try to
fight it. Yeah, so that's coming for you, Okay, that's
one of the things you can look forward to getting older.
Another thing is you're gonna get a little bit heavier, okay,
(02:55):
and there's nothing you can do about that. I didn't
want to believe that. Yeah, meither, but me and Amber
turn into batcats. Amber, what did we do the day
I moved here? Where did we go? We went to
the gym and we bought gym memberships? Amber? How many
times have we been since we got them yet? Thank
(03:20):
you for asking? Zero cats. We've actually been negative times
because I put Jim on the calendar to put it
on the calendar, like once that day passes, you got it,
you can't relive that day time machine. I'm sorry, but
we're a little bit bad guys for getting better, though,
(03:41):
we're going to change. This is a promise to everyone
in America. If you're in Canada, too fucking bad. No,
we're got promising Canada got it's so fucking good. You know.
This is a promise starting the second What the second
(04:04):
or what? Oh? I thought you meant the second of January?
Because I can't. I'm busy that day. I am. This
is what I think. I think during the month of December.
I don't have a lot of work I have to do.
And we are going to live at the gym. Okay, everybody, buddy,
(04:24):
We'll be making gains, will be squatting cars. I don't know. Okay,
So Lacey used to be a bodybuilder. It's so sad
when you say you used to be. Sorry, I used
to want to get in the competition now because neither
(04:50):
do I I don't. But we both used to be
And this is true. Just cut as fuck fucking prison
ripped it truly truly muscular people we were.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We were.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's easy to get it back. It really is our
muscle memory. We'll get it. I mean, we have just
been living, living our best lives. And that's true. That's true.
We've been eating and eating and eating. Yeah, it's we
need an adult to come in here and be like,
what stop it? And you better be strong because I
(05:23):
like three dinners. I'm into three dinners now. The thing
is if you could just stop eating at nighttime, but
it's the night the sun setting is what activates my hunger.
If I didn't eat until nighttime, I'd be fine. My
eating is what activates my hunger. Once I eat, I
can't stop. I'm like, I'll just have two more surface.
(05:45):
But guys, Lacy was always like this, always, always the eating,
this bug. I think I ate more mud Yeah eat this, yeah,
more than a grown man. And that's more, way more more.
You know, when you go on that first date and
you're like, don't be a pig, don't be a pick
because you don't want them to see how much you
can eat. And I remember going on this first date
(06:07):
and I had pasta and trip and he had pasta
and trip. And he was big, big dude, not like
fat fat, but just big muscular dude. And he said, man,
I could still eat. And he said I know you
probably couldn't. I said, man, I could still eat. So
then we went to a second location an orange steak.
(06:28):
He said, oh my god, you ate that whole steak.
I said, listen, guy, you said you could eat again,
I told you, But what I wanted that was a
good date. Man. Whow we had two dinners. I could
age some more. But I was like, let's not be
a pig. Yeah, Dane girl, Yeah, you're really good at
(06:48):
eating thank you. I told people I'm a professional eater.
She really is, Mam. I wish you could eat competitively,
but there's nothing I would win. The competitive food that
people eat is fucking discussed. It's terrible. I don't want
to eat a thousand hot dogs. No, but if you
give me some pizza, fucking some pasta, some scrimps, some
(07:12):
pizta pazza and oh no I can't talk. Oh that's okay.
I'm only doing a podcast. Guys, thanks for tuning in today,
because if you don't, then what's the point. Today? We
have a really special show. We have a guest who
(07:35):
I love, and I think we're going to force him
to love both of us. He already loves me, yes,
thank you, No, I don't want him to. Today's guest
is a guy you're gonna absolutely love. You want to
know why, because we already love him. His name is
John Marco Siasi and we love him. Sweet guy. He's
(07:56):
a sweet little baby. He's my best friend. What we
grew up together and what a lot of people don't
know that. I'm not gonna ask him if he's Italian
because that's racist. It is I really want to and
he does guys, I just made that up. I don't know. Guys,
We're terrible, but you're great. You want to know why
(08:18):
because you tuned in, So hold on to your butts
because when we come back, we're gonna meet John Marco. Yay.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, Hey, everybody, we are in for a treat because
today we get to spend time with our friend and
(08:46):
we cannot wait to introduce him.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So here goes. He's a very funny stand up comedian,
with his stand up most recently featured on Netflix's Verified
stand Up. He's the host of the podcast The Downside
with John Marcos Arasi Another then John Marco's a racy
Welcome to the show, John.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Marco Beer, Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Big fight on how to pronounce your name? Big fight everyone?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Everyone? I know, I guess Scorsese a lot, yep, all
sorts of things you did great.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I want it. I want it to be sc I
don't want to lie to you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Sure that was way too was.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Fighting for and I was wrong. And because you exist
outside of this podcast, I've called you score racy out
and about in the world, and I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's great. I mean, whoever that is is getting a
lot of offers for corporate events.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Good for him, he's everyone's favorite stetup. But I'm so
sorry before we get to our first game, John Marco,
what are all of your feelings?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh gosh, a lot, a lot of feelings, you know.
I think with holiday stuff coming up, I'm kind of
navigating that. There's a lot of feelings. Resentment, stubbornness, you know,
That's that's where my mind is at.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Resentment. What are you resenting?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, the type thing what always happens. I always say
they're going to have to come to me this year
in New York, I travel for my whole living and
I just want to stay put for a holiday. And
then I always capitulate. Right in the last day. My
dad will call and I'm like, okay, Dad, I'll come home,
but not this year, not this year. So I'm just
I'm fortifying myself to stay here.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
They haven't called you yet. You might not be invited.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Listen, my dad will wait till day of wait till
day of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
John Mirco, you can come up to my house and
you can have Thanksgiving here.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I'm flattered. That would be lovely.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're invited now, it's probably just as far where's your
family yet?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
My dad's in Maryland, Potomac, Maryland. Very dull, very boring.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
How would you get their drive a car?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can't even drive. I have a driver's license. I
don't know how I can parallel park once in two
thousand and six. That's all I'm able to do. And
I I'm fingers crossed for self driving cars. Not a
big Eelon Musk fan, but I am hoping for him
to nail that one aspect of his vision.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, guys, wouldn't it be great? I would love
a self driving We're a hundred years behind. They've got
to perfect that way more.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I know they do it now, and like San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You know, people are still getting into accidents.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And they also they had a problem. They the people
were they were making love in the cars, and so
they are not kind of alert.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Of course they are said making love.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't know. I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure. You know,
I think I'm a cursor, but I have an inbuilt
sensor until i'm given.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You do not cuss here fucking.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
In these cars? They were eating? Asked they were they
were sixty nine, It was not it.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Was not eating ass, but that is what would want. Yeah,
that is what he would have wanted. He did say
that earlier. John Marco, thank you for telling us your feelings.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Sure, anytime, I really do.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Think you should come up here. If these people don't
get their act together, come up here. Well, I'll send
you the address. Okay, Guys on the Amber and Lacy
Lacy and Amber Show, we subject our guests to an
expert quiz where we take a subject, our guest is
an expert on and we quiz them. It's kind of
right there in the title. Now, if we win, we
are the cutest. If the guest wins, then they are
(12:28):
the cutest. John Marco, we hear you know a lot
about Broadway, but pre twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's very because I went to college for musical theater
and I was I was. I was a musical theater boy.
And then college really beat the joy and the love
out of it for me, and I kind of dropped off.
What I really dropped off listening to musical theater. I
felt pain when I watched it because I wanted I
(12:57):
kind of wanted to be up there, but I was done.
So I I do think that my knowledge up to
that point is pretty good for musical theater.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This kid, Wait, does this mean you can sing?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I mean I used to be able to. I haven't
taken always lessons give us. Okay, let's let's see. I
have often.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Walked down the street before, but the pavement always stayed
beneath my feet before all that one shine up seal story.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
High, knowing I'm on the street where you and that
towering feeling? All right, good, good, glad we have what musical?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is the street?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Lady, my fair lady?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And I did a musical theater camp. Patrick Wilson, who
played that role on Broadway, he was there and after
like his masterclass, I said, I said, Patrick Wilson, I
sing the song. Sometimes, what do you think the character's
objective is here? And he said, they were doing the
scene change, so you just have to distract the audience
from them doing the scene change. And I was like,
I was like, that was such a big acting lesson
for me. And sometimes it doesn't have a fucking objective,
(14:22):
just distracting people from things.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Movie, I don't know that's right. I'm doing the whiz
right now, and buddy, I'm like, stretch it out. But
did you see on the Tonys. I think it was
two years ago during the in Memoriam when Billy Porter
sang on the street where you live, but he sang
it in a minor key, and he sang on the
street where you lived.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh my god, I did not see that, but I
would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I cried myself sick. It was so freakin good. I
love that. I would say, on the Street where you
Live is one of my top ten songs, best songs
of all time, favorite song, absolute favorite songs. And that
was the quiz you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Hell, yeah, we're done.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, we got a quiz for you and our producer
Becca will take it from me.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Hello, alrighty, are you guys ready for five.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Hundred hundred minutes?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
How do you measure measure a Broadway fan? It doesn't
too many syllables, but let's see who knows the most
about Broadway?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
But twenty and pre io.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I thought you were going to say five undred questions,
but instead you took.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
A questions that would have made more sense, but me
hilariously writing I didn't get there.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I didn't go to be here a long time. Well,
this quest are you ready for the first question?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
It's kind of an easy one in which Broadway musical
does Jack sing There's a Giant in the sky?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Is it a a little night in music?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh? Oh oh? Is how it works? Do I go beat?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
We got The.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Questions are different, they're not all multiple choice, but you
got it?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
All right, guys into the woods?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Everybody? Well, Lacey didn't. She didn't know. I know in
my heart. We'll give Lazy a half a point, half
a point. See how we're right here. There's no rules,
got it?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
They gave me a point for thinking.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's that's my nature a media. I'm like, so, how
do I win this game? One hundred percent? How does
everyone know that I am the picture? Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right, next question, because I don't need to explain
in the woods, y'all.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Y'all got it?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Jeopardy style.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
This musical was one of the first Broadway musicals the
center on a homosexual relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It is He's my mister and I'm his mister.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Boom, I know this.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
That all open on Broadway in nineteen eighty three. It
broke barriers for gay representation on Broadway. Tells the story
of a gay couple. George, the manager of a Saint
Tropez nightclub, featuring Drag Entertainment and Alvin his romantic partner
is Star Attraction, and the farcical adventures they ensue with
Georgia's son, John Michael brings home his fiance's ultra conservative parents.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
To meet them. The show's Act one finale, I Am
What I Am, received praise as a gay anthem and
has been widely recorded.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And it was the inspiration for what famous movie with
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The Bird Bonus, Let's eat I get half of points?
That's everyone go point. You never know where to come?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Next question, can you guess the song that was added
deputing the Beast when Tony Braxton joined the Broadway production
in nineteen ninety eight, and bonus can.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You sang it? One hundred percent? One hundred percent? Uh?
Let's think. Oh, I got it. It's just a nerve,
said beast man. I really thought it was gonna be serious.
The song you just wrote like crazy? Wait? But wait,
though we could figure this out, we can't.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I can't A song that was added Yeah, I don't know.
It would be do you want to hear?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I do you want to change in it?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is this from the movie?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And just the Joe Barco. Did you see Beauty in
the beastone b nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, I didn't see it on Broadway. I saw like
a community theater production in Maryland. So no, I don't
know if they did the Tony Braxton remix of that one.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, it's not I'll give it to y'all.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
It is a Change in Me, which was written especially
for Tony Braxton when the R and B singer joined
the production in the role of Bell, and has been
included in the musical ever since.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Probably did probably have seen it, maybe, and I can't
sing it for maybe because I cannot sing.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can sing it. There's a change, a change in
I mean we like to make up, probably, and that's sound.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
There's been a change in me. It kind of moving
on though what I used to be I still depend
on for now. I realize that good can come from bad.
That may not make me wise, but oh it makes
me glad, and then.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
It goes on. Oh they can't be wise apparently. No,
I mean she wasn't really wise for loving the beast,
all right?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, she calls in love with her her it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
From munch hous In syndrome. M it's a little bit
more Stockholm. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
The Beauty and the Beast is like I can fix him.
It was an entire musical.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And he took my dad.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But you know, and he took my dad. He did
he put him?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Question?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Don't which probably musical featured a helicopter on stage? Was
it a South Pacific b Miss Sagon c?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Miss got it?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
When most people think of Miss Saigon, two things come
to mind. The wartime love story between Chris and Kim
and the helicopter, the technical highlight of the show that
evacuates the last Americans in Saigon from the mbsc roof
while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese people look on in despair.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
That is really that's the thing they remember. Because the
thing that I remember when I heard Miss Sagon is
a British white actor playing of Vietnamese person. That's the
thing that I called from that original product, the.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Racial injustice of Broadway. Yikes, all right, next question, Jeffrey
sob The musical is the longest running musical in Broadway history.
It is Phantom of the Opera. I didn't give Lacey
a chance to answer. Lacy, what would you have answered
you did. I know, so I'm like y'all answered together.
(20:41):
Normally there's three screens.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's okay. I'm giving myself to half a point. That's
on me, and Lacy does get half a point for
that you skipped Lazy, she gets half a point.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's the rules of the rules, Lacey and Abert me.
Let me ask you. So that production is pretty tired.
It's Chicago has been on for a long time. But
they do a lot of like, you know, guests come
in for a week, two weeks. Would you go in
and do a role in Chicago? Would that be something
you would do?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, I would. If they had a role I could do.
You know what I mean? Because there's naked Lady number
one and Naked Lady number two I care for.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That could be the lawyer. The lawyer they go, they
go everywhere with that lawyer. Everyone's playing Billy Flynn. Yeah,
I mean a lot of like stars. I sure did
Billy Flynn at some point, that's right, the guy from
Science held. Everyone's done Billy Flynn.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I want to be Billy Flynn. I don't want to
be Mama. Sorry. Sure, there's a lot a good song.
I don't care for that song. It's not fun, but
oh yes, oh yes, they both reached for the good baby.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
That puppet song, I want to be the puppet.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh Man, one of my favorite. I didn't think I
wanted to be in Chicago, but now I know I do. Yay,
all right? Next question, true or false? Harold Hill's profession
in the music band is a gambler.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
False? A gambler No false, He's a yes.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
In the music man. He's a gamp. He's the he's
selling them, he's selling he's selling instruments.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Right, he's a music man. He's a what he's what.
He's a music man with a big trombone.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He's a he's a he's a grifter. Okay, so Amberscott grifter, Lacey,
do you have a theory he's selling fake instruments. You
are all instrum vaguely correct. Yes, he is a con man,
which is a grifter.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The instruments are real. It's the teaching that's that's true,
and that's where he gets his money exactly and then
buy those instruments. I think he's gonna come a conman. Harrows.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Hill poses as a boys band organizer and leaders, selling
band instruments and uniforms to naive Midwestern townsfolk and promising
to train the new band, then skipping town before the
instruments arrived.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So John Marco was wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, yes, I played it in eighth grade. Okay, I
know this role right now.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I mean, he's not a gambler.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah, he didn't say what the question was, true or false?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Whatever? The music man was a gambler. Oh, I thought
the question was.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
The question was, and den Marcot was right, and the
don't y'all were more right because you said grifter.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So there you go, right there.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So I didn't know you you added on to the
true or false. I thought it was just one or
the other. I was very upset at the revival of
the show because they had Hugh Jackman play the music man,
and that's too good looking of a person to play.
You can't have good looking people play these parts. He
goes into the library. Oh why does Marian fall in
love with him? I know why he's fucking Hugh Jackman.
(23:36):
Give me a break. He didn't need to be a break.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
He just got to be Hugh Jackman exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, Hugh Jackman was not going to be a grifter.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Just gets to show up and say you're welcome. Yeah,
he gets a looking of Hugh Jackson.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Why is Jean Valjehan imprisoned in Layman.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Because he stole bread? Bread spread steel bread?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was multip choice. By k new y'all were just
going to answer it, so I just let y'all, let
y'all go. But yes, it says said nineteenth century France.
Limb Is is a story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant,
and his desire for redemption after serving nineteen years in
jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his
sister's starving child.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's harsh. Oh good?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
That beauty and the beast question was like a million
times harder than it was Like, that was like the
final level of Jeopardy.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Like I know, some of these I scattered in and
I was like, damn, this is kind of hard.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
But I didn't kind of do it in an order
that made sense.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I just wrote them as I was, Uh, these next few,
I'm like, this is so hard.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
We'll see, we'll see what kind of gambling operation does
Nathan Detroit run in Guys and Dolls?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
A poker game, craps, horse racing.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Okay, we got one for horse racing. Are you all
ready for the answer?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Oh actually no, no, no wait wait wait wait no no,
no horse racing. That's just the song. It's Lucky a
Lady tonight. I guess crap? Is it crabs? Dice? It's craps, craps?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Lazy and John Marco are ragged. It's craps.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Nathan is having difficulty finding a location for his notorious
floating Craps game due to police pressure from Lieutenant Brannigan.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Fun fact, so, Nathan Lane that's not his real name.
He changed it to Nathan because his original name was
already taken by Equity, and he played Nathan in Broadways
Guys and Dolls, and that's how he got the name Nathan.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
That is where the point. That's where then actually gets
a point for that. Sorry, we got two more questions,
well really one more question. The second one is kind
of like a fun one, but Jeopardy Style, which musical
was an all black cast, broke the record for most
Broadway performances.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The lanking other white people in the lanking, probably, I.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Think so, I think like timon, Yeah, I'm going the
porgy and best or.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The I mean the w yes, poor game best, it's
not the Whiz.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, there wasn't long, super long running. I don't, I
don't think like nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It's the color purple. Okay, so we're saying the color purple,
are saying pory in best? Yes, not a yellow? Right? Oh?
Shuffle along, Shuffle along?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
What years was that?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Shove Along?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Premiered on Broadway nineteen twenty nine or nineteen twenty one
and mark the first full fled Broadway musical with an
all black cast playwright, composer, and lyricist. The show was
a hit, running for a then record four hundred and
eighty four nights on Broadway. It launched the careers of
Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills, Freddie Washington, and Paul
Robison and became such a hit it caused curtain time
(26:45):
traffic jams on West sixty third Street, yayo, and the
final Oh this question? Everyone has to sing a song
from the woods?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Are you all paying? Sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's what people want to say from me.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I wrote the Whiz. I'm like I'm writing I want
to go last. Okay, he's on down, he's on now. Rude.
Say it with me, John Marco, I know you're gonna
choose that one if.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You what's it? If you can't at step Papa, come on,
he's on down, He's on down down the rule.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Good job, ever go Now, I am writing The Wiz.
It's touring America right now. It lands on Broadway in
March of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
In our version of the Wiz, we have an extra song,
a trunk song from uh, the original Wiz that goes
like this, I wonder wonder why do do do do
do do? He laid this trip on me. Do do
do do do do do? It's wonder wonder why And
(27:53):
it's a song from the Wiz and it's really cute
and Dorothy things that in. Okay everyone it you don't know.
This man was add facts in and all that, which is.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
What we love.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's why you're the expert. And this was your expert.
Quiz y yay, good job, thank you, okay, John Marco
one and that makes him the cutest. Okay. It's time
for us to take a quick break. And while we're
doing that, we need you to multitask, keep listening, check out,
and make sure that you watch John Marco's Netflix special
(28:32):
and his podcast, The Downside Pod. Okay, we'll be right back.
All right, we are back. We're having a great time
getting to know you, but now we want to look
deep inside your soul and learn something about you that
(28:53):
you love a lot. This segment is called can You
Stand It? And it's a time where we tell everyone
about something we've got or something we've just learned about
recently that we love so much that we just can't
stand it. So is there something that you've discovered, you know, like, Lacy,
do you have one?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I do?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And it's a gross can you stand it? Now? One
of my really good friends, Mickey, she's out there, she's listening.
She loves sports. You know, I don't care about sports
at all, and I just happen to see something about
her favorite quarterback. I think is Patrick Mahons does not
wash his underwear and he wears it on game day
(29:31):
and the only time he washes it, I think is
if they lose. This has disturbed me. This is something
you hear about, like you'll see it on a sitcom
and it's silly. People are actually out there with their
lucky underwear, and I'm disturbed. By this. And if I
ever see him, he's in a million commercials, he's in subway,
and I just see him and think about the underwear.
(29:55):
I feel sad. That's gross. And if he's doing it,
everybody's doing it. Everyone's out there. Your tolls are gonna
stink anyway. You're running around, you're sweating. But if you've
won four times in a row, guys, it's not worth it.
You've got to see a doctor. Something's gonna happen to you.
That's all I tear, guys, And I'm sorry I shared that.
(30:16):
Hope no one's eating out there, but these are issues, Okay,
John Mickworld, how many times have you worn this underwear
in a row?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I mean I I you know, in a crisis, in
a crisis, I'm on the road. I didn't. I underpacked
and maybe the next day, but not at workout. After
a workout that's done. Super Bowl, the super Bowl. Those
are going in the trash. Those are burn I'm burning them.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, any luck they had is gone. Luck isn't filth.
And that's what I'm gonna say. Yeah, I'm gonna send
them a shirt that says luck is not filth. I
would say, luck is cleanliness. It is. That's all I have. Guys,
that's my standard. Do you have anything that you love
so bad?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We're just gonna be very very fun. But as I said,
I travel a lot. I like healthy snacks. It's tough.
It's tough to get healthy snacks. And I recently found
these things. They're called Brahmi luppini. They are it's Italian,
it's from Italy. They're lupini beans, and they're flavored and
they're they're low. They're very little of a fat or
(31:24):
sugar or anything, and they're just flavored garlic and rosemary,
hot chili. And so I've been eating them like once,
one bag a day. So I really do want to say,
I can't stand how much money I'm spending on these
Brahmi lupini beans, because they cost a lot, because they're
from Italy.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think directly you're saying, you're saying beans, but you
said bag.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a bag. It's a bag of pickled lupini beans.
And they're they don't go bad, and you can travel
with them.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
You need I need these. You know, I go on
the airplanes and what are the snacks. It's I flew,
I was in France. I performed in France, and I
flew back. They had three different helpings of chocolate on
the one fight. I said, I can't, I can't do this.
I don't have to eat my chocolate on the plane.
I need some Brommy Lupini beans, and I whooked them out.
And I may be in France, but I'm going to
Italian today.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The in the room, you got gas, don't you. I mean,
let's just talk about it. Okay, we talked about mahomes pants.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Look, let's go on to avoid the gas. You gotta
afford first class. But if you're back in business class
with me, you gotta. You gotta deal with it. It's
worth it at least there, at least the Brommi Lupini.
It's different flavors, so you know, maybe it's garlic and
rosemary gas. Maybe it's maybe it's hot alope chili chili gas.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
This does make me want to try.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It, really, I'm serious, try it.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's really good lupini beans. Gonna get him ment the groceries.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, but like it's like I get it at the
like nice little store in the East Village grocery store.
So they're there, They're out there, and I just looked
it up. I can't get it online. Yeah, Luppini, check
it out, Luccini.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Lupini. Not a rapper. I would have thought, Okay, so
my can you stand it? It's really special. Now. I
also travel a lot, and anytime I travel, I'm like, oh,
I really I really wish something i've familiar. If you
say this, we're kicking you off. I'm not gonna say
(33:26):
what you think. So whenever I'm out of town, I
like to go this one. Jesus. Something that you don't know, sir,
is that she says this for almost every can you
stand it? I am sorry that she she loves cheesecake Factory.
I think she's trying to become, you know, one of
(33:47):
their spokespersons or something. I should can someone out there
in the United It doesn't have to be anywhere in
the world. Help my sister find another fucking restaurant. Then
that she's egg factory? Now is it?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Is it good? Because I went when I was like,
you know, in middle school, that was like a thing
you did after you saw Casper in the movie theaters.
You would go to the cheesecake factory. But is it
is it is it? Okay, it's sine, it's stop. It's fine,
it's the norm. It's a normal restaurant. And yos is
(34:23):
why I'm not getting this endorsement.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Gesa Factory the best food in the entire world.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's normal. It's normal. We know what you've heard. It's normal.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
That might be their new thing. It's normal. Come on in.
Anyone can eat here. It is so good, John Marco,
there is nothing you can order there that tastes bad.
And that's true. They do not miss.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It's above TGI Fridays. That's what you're talking. It's above
a TJ showed it. Okay, okay, that's good. I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
But do you need to be going there four times
a week? You absolutely do not not enough. If you
think I'm joking, she lives there, she can walk in
and be like my usual. They know her there, she'll
be like, that's a new worker. That's Timothy. He just
started two weeks ago. It's too much, Okay, it's too much.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What flavor? What flavor cheesecake are you getting?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Oddly, I don't really get a lot of cheesecake the
cheesecake factory, but my favorite used to be Dutch apple cheesecake.
They stop making it, I know, so I had to
learn how to make my own cheesecake. Amber does love
to make She's been making cheesecake since she was tiny.
She would always make us cheesecake at home, So she
does know how to make cheesecake really, and maybe that's
(35:38):
why her heart is tethered.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I haven't seen cheesecake in a while. I feel like
it's kind of a fallen out of favor. I haven't
seen one in a good long while.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Cheesecake.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, maybe I'm going to the wrong parties, but I
haven't seen one at a bit.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Cheesecake doesn't travel well. You can't just be leaving it
out and stuff. It gets warm and that makes you sad.
Come to the cheesecake factory with us. We'll be there
tomorrow if some cheesecake. So, yeah, we will be there tonight.
And that's not a job.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That shold Dumoise should have you there every day, like
spotted at the cheesecake factory for the fifth day.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
They can just write that ahead of time. I'll be there.
I will definitely be there. How dare you say it's
not absolutely excellent?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You know it's good.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
That was good, it's good, it's great. Okay, I apologize.
Don't cry because I'm gonna apologize to me, apologize to
the cheese oh boy, And next week we will be
talking about the cheesecake factory. And guys, that's that. We
didn't cry. We made a new friend. Thank you, Jean Marco.
(36:49):
Thanks that wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Okay, No, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Keep up with by following him on Instagram at at
John Marco. So RACI you want to put an extracy
in there, keep getting second seat, John Marco, do you
have any parting words for everyone listening?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Oh god, I just I remember what my high school
basketball coach always used to tell me. You miss one
of the shots you take.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
And then he kicked you off the team. Guys, follow
John Marco and follow us at Amber Refinant at Lacy
lamar One. If you like what you heard, say something
nice and rate and review us. And if you didn't
like what you heard, eat shit again. Dad. I did
(37:49):
not say that. I know you know our voices. That
was Amber. I didn't say that. I love you. I'm
just kidding. I love you.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Bye bye bye bye
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Still inst
Hey, everybody, we're feeling great because now me and Lacy
you are roommate. It's the ever Lacy lay in Amber shoe. Lacy,
did you like that song? Well, I hit the microphone
and my headphone shot out of my ears. But yeah,
(00:22):
I loved that song. It was actually positive. Everyone helped.
Amber stinks. I don't stink. I don't my new stinky roommate. No, no,
she does not stink today, don't even stink. Smells great,
smells great, smell a little bit. I'm not gonna lie.
(00:42):
It's never perfect. It's never perfect, guys. Okay, welcome to
the Amber and Lacy Lacy and Amber Show. This podcast
is a special special time in all of our lives
where we get to know a new friend through fun, games, laughter,
good natured ribbing, and a little bit of pressuring. So, Lacy,
(01:04):
how you doing. I'm doing great, guys. I just moved
to New York. Now we are in tiny I'm not
gonna say it's tiny town, but maybe it is a
tiny town to most outside of Manhattan, and I love it.
We're doing a good job. Amber. Uh. Still living at
(01:26):
the cheesecake factory daily every day. I can't change that.
Every day trying to find a little you know, jazz spot,
and I'm not finding it. So Amber and I have
just you know, searching around town for new hangouts. That's
been my thing. Now. Listeners, when you become a black
(01:46):
woman of a certain age, you're gonna crave jazz. So true.
I know it sounds crazy, so true, and you may
be thinking to yourself, not me, Oh buddy, yes, you
like freaking smooth jazz. You ma a linen, all white linen,
in a folding chair in the park, listening to jazz
(02:08):
on the ground. You wait till they turn that Cardi
B song that you're listening into. Now they play it
on that saxophone. You're gonna You're not gonna want to
listen for anything else. It doesn't make any sense. And
Amber and I, I think we discovered that we were
both doing this with it, like a year of each
other started. She was like, I have a confession to make.
I'm listening to smooth and I listen to smooth jazz
(02:31):
sitting down in a park. Bring you a little chair.
You're sitting in the sun. Jazz man's playing up there.
It's embarrassing. You can do. Yeah, it's nothing you're this
is going to happen to you. I'm sorry, try to
fight it. Yeah, so that's coming for you, Okay, that's
one of the things you can look forward to getting older.
Another thing is you're gonna get a little bit heavier, okay,
(02:55):
and there's nothing you can do about that. I didn't
want to believe that. Yeah, meither, but me and Amber
turn into batcats. Amber, what did we do the day
I moved here? Where did we go? We went to
the gym and we bought gym memberships? Amber? How many
times have we been since we got them yet? Thank
(03:20):
you for asking? Zero cats. We've actually been negative times
because I put Jim on the calendar to put it
on the calendar, like once that day passes, you got it,
you can't relive that day time machine. I'm sorry, but
we're a little bit bad guys for getting better, though,
(03:41):
we're going to change. This is a promise to everyone
in America. If you're in Canada, too fucking bad. No,
we're got promising Canada got it's so fucking good. You know.
This is a promise starting the second What the second
(04:04):
or what? Oh? I thought you meant the second of January?
Because I can't. I'm busy that day. I am. This
is what I think. I think during the month of December.
I don't have a lot of work I have to do.
And we are going to live at the gym. Okay, everybody, buddy,
(04:24):
We'll be making gains, will be squatting cars. I don't know. Okay,
So Lacey used to be a bodybuilder. It's so sad
when you say you used to be. Sorry, I used
to want to get in the competition now because neither
(04:50):
do I I don't. But we both used to be
And this is true. Just cut as fuck fucking prison
ripped it truly truly muscular people we were.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We were.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's easy to get it back. It really is our
muscle memory. We'll get it. I mean, we have just
been living, living our best lives. And that's true. That's true.
We've been eating and eating and eating. Yeah, it's we
need an adult to come in here and be like,
what stop it? And you better be strong because I
(05:23):
like three dinners. I'm into three dinners now. The thing
is if you could just stop eating at nighttime, but
it's the night the sun setting is what activates my hunger.
If I didn't eat until nighttime, I'd be fine. My
eating is what activates my hunger. Once I eat, I
can't stop. I'm like, I'll just have two more surface.
(05:45):
But guys, Lacy was always like this, always, always the eating,
this bug. I think I ate more mud Yeah eat this, yeah,
more than a grown man. And that's more, way more more.
You know, when you go on that first date and
you're like, don't be a pig, don't be a pick
because you don't want them to see how much you
can eat. And I remember going on this first date
(06:07):
and I had pasta and trip and he had pasta
and trip. And he was big, big dude, not like
fat fat, but just big muscular dude. And he said, man,
I could still eat. And he said I know you
probably couldn't. I said, man, I could still eat. So
then we went to a second location an orange steak.
(06:28):
He said, oh my god, you ate that whole steak.
I said, listen, guy, you said you could eat again,
I told you, But what I wanted that was a
good date. Man. Whow we had two dinners. I could
age some more. But I was like, let's not be
a pig. Yeah, Dane girl, Yeah, you're really good at
(06:48):
eating thank you. I told people I'm a professional eater.
She really is, Mam. I wish you could eat competitively,
but there's nothing I would win. The competitive food that
people eat is fucking discussed. It's terrible. I don't want
to eat a thousand hot dogs. No, but if you
give me some pizza, fucking some pasta, some scrimps, some
(07:12):
pizta pazza and oh no I can't talk. Oh that's okay.
I'm only doing a podcast. Guys, thanks for tuning in today,
because if you don't, then what's the point. Today? We
have a really special show. We have a guest who
(07:35):
I love, and I think we're going to force him
to love both of us. He already loves me, yes,
thank you, No, I don't want him to. Today's guest
is a guy you're gonna absolutely love. You want to
know why, because we already love him. His name is
John Marco Siasi and we love him. Sweet guy. He's
(07:56):
a sweet little baby. He's my best friend. What we
grew up together and what a lot of people don't
know that. I'm not gonna ask him if he's Italian
because that's racist. It is I really want to and
he does guys, I just made that up. I don't know. Guys,
We're terrible, but you're great. You want to know why
(08:18):
because you tuned in, So hold on to your butts
because when we come back, we're gonna meet John Marco. Yay.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, Hey, everybody, we are in for a treat because
today we get to spend time with our friend and
(08:46):
we cannot wait to introduce him.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So here goes. He's a very funny stand up comedian,
with his stand up most recently featured on Netflix's Verified
stand Up. He's the host of the podcast The Downside
with John Marcos Arasi Another then John Marco's a racy
Welcome to the show, John.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Marco Beer, Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Big fight on how to pronounce your name? Big fight everyone?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Everyone? I know, I guess Scorsese a lot, yep, all
sorts of things you did great.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I want it. I want it to be sc I
don't want to lie to you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Sure that was way too was.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Fighting for and I was wrong. And because you exist
outside of this podcast, I've called you score racy out
and about in the world, and I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's great. I mean, whoever that is is getting a
lot of offers for corporate events.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Good for him, he's everyone's favorite stetup. But I'm so
sorry before we get to our first game, John Marco,
what are all of your feelings?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh gosh, a lot, a lot of feelings, you know.
I think with holiday stuff coming up, I'm kind of
navigating that. There's a lot of feelings. Resentment, stubbornness, you know,
That's that's where my mind is at.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Resentment. What are you resenting?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, the type thing what always happens. I always say
they're going to have to come to me this year
in New York, I travel for my whole living and
I just want to stay put for a holiday. And
then I always capitulate. Right in the last day. My
dad will call and I'm like, okay, Dad, I'll come home,
but not this year, not this year. So I'm just
I'm fortifying myself to stay here.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
They haven't called you yet. You might not be invited.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Listen, my dad will wait till day of wait till
day of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
John Mirco, you can come up to my house and
you can have Thanksgiving here.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I'm flattered. That would be lovely.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're invited now, it's probably just as far where's your
family yet?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
My dad's in Maryland, Potomac, Maryland. Very dull, very boring.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
How would you get their drive a car?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can't even drive. I have a driver's license. I
don't know how I can parallel park once in two
thousand and six. That's all I'm able to do. And
I I'm fingers crossed for self driving cars. Not a
big Eelon Musk fan, but I am hoping for him
to nail that one aspect of his vision.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, guys, wouldn't it be great? I would love
a self driving We're a hundred years behind. They've got
to perfect that way more.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I know they do it now, and like San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You know, people are still getting into accidents.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And they also they had a problem. They the people
were they were making love in the cars, and so
they are not kind of alert.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Of course they are said making love.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't know. I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure. You know,
I think I'm a cursor, but I have an inbuilt
sensor until i'm given.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You do not cuss here fucking.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
In these cars? They were eating? Asked they were they
were sixty nine, It was not it.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Was not eating ass, but that is what would want. Yeah,
that is what he would have wanted. He did say
that earlier. John Marco, thank you for telling us your feelings.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Sure, anytime, I really do.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Think you should come up here. If these people don't
get their act together, come up here. Well, I'll send
you the address. Okay, Guys on the Amber and Lacy
Lacy and Amber Show, we subject our guests to an
expert quiz where we take a subject, our guest is
an expert on and we quiz them. It's kind of
right there in the title. Now, if we win, we
are the cutest. If the guest wins, then they are
(12:28):
the cutest. John Marco, we hear you know a lot
about Broadway, but pre twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's very because I went to college for musical theater
and I was I was. I was a musical theater boy.
And then college really beat the joy and the love
out of it for me, and I kind of dropped off.
What I really dropped off listening to musical theater. I
felt pain when I watched it because I wanted I
(12:57):
kind of wanted to be up there, but I was done.
So I I do think that my knowledge up to
that point is pretty good for musical theater.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This kid, Wait, does this mean you can sing?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I mean I used to be able to. I haven't
taken always lessons give us. Okay, let's let's see. I
have often.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Walked down the street before, but the pavement always stayed
beneath my feet before all that one shine up seal story.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
High, knowing I'm on the street where you and that
towering feeling? All right, good, good, glad we have what musical?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is the street?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Lady, my fair lady?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And I did a musical theater camp. Patrick Wilson, who
played that role on Broadway, he was there and after
like his masterclass, I said, I said, Patrick Wilson, I
sing the song. Sometimes, what do you think the character's
objective is here? And he said, they were doing the
scene change, so you just have to distract the audience
from them doing the scene change. And I was like,
I was like, that was such a big acting lesson
for me. And sometimes it doesn't have a fucking objective,
(14:22):
just distracting people from things.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Movie, I don't know that's right. I'm doing the whiz
right now, and buddy, I'm like, stretch it out. But
did you see on the Tonys. I think it was
two years ago during the in Memoriam when Billy Porter
sang on the street where you live, but he sang
it in a minor key, and he sang on the
street where you lived.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh my god, I did not see that, but I
would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I cried myself sick. It was so freakin good. I
love that. I would say, on the Street where you
Live is one of my top ten songs, best songs
of all time, favorite song, absolute favorite songs. And that
was the quiz you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Hell, yeah, we're done.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, we got a quiz for you and our producer
Becca will take it from me.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Hello, alrighty, are you guys ready for five.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Hundred hundred minutes?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
How do you measure measure a Broadway fan? It doesn't
too many syllables, but let's see who knows the most
about Broadway?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
But twenty and pre io.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I thought you were going to say five undred questions,
but instead you took.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
A questions that would have made more sense, but me
hilariously writing I didn't get there.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I didn't go to be here a long time. Well,
this quest are you ready for the first question?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
It's kind of an easy one in which Broadway musical
does Jack sing There's a Giant in the sky?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Is it a a little night in music?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh? Oh oh? Is how it works? Do I go beat?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
We got The.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Questions are different, they're not all multiple choice, but you
got it?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
All right, guys into the woods?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Everybody? Well, Lacey didn't. She didn't know. I know in
my heart. We'll give Lazy a half a point, half
a point. See how we're right here. There's no rules,
got it?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
They gave me a point for thinking.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's that's my nature a media. I'm like, so, how
do I win this game? One hundred percent? How does
everyone know that I am the picture? Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right, next question, because I don't need to explain
in the woods, y'all.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Y'all got it?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Jeopardy style.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
This musical was one of the first Broadway musicals the
center on a homosexual relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It is He's my mister and I'm his mister.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Boom, I know this.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
That all open on Broadway in nineteen eighty three. It
broke barriers for gay representation on Broadway. Tells the story
of a gay couple. George, the manager of a Saint
Tropez nightclub, featuring Drag Entertainment and Alvin his romantic partner
is Star Attraction, and the farcical adventures they ensue with
Georgia's son, John Michael brings home his fiance's ultra conservative parents.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
To meet them. The show's Act one finale, I Am
What I Am, received praise as a gay anthem and
has been widely recorded.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And it was the inspiration for what famous movie with
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The Bird Bonus, Let's eat I get half of points?
That's everyone go point. You never know where to come?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Next question, can you guess the song that was added
deputing the Beast when Tony Braxton joined the Broadway production
in nineteen ninety eight, and bonus can.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You sang it? One hundred percent? One hundred percent? Uh?
Let's think. Oh, I got it. It's just a nerve,
said beast man. I really thought it was gonna be serious.
The song you just wrote like crazy? Wait? But wait,
though we could figure this out, we can't.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I can't A song that was added Yeah, I don't know.
It would be do you want to hear?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I do you want to change in it?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is this from the movie?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And just the Joe Barco. Did you see Beauty in
the beastone b nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, I didn't see it on Broadway. I saw like
a community theater production in Maryland. So no, I don't
know if they did the Tony Braxton remix of that one.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, it's not I'll give it to y'all.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
It is a Change in Me, which was written especially
for Tony Braxton when the R and B singer joined
the production in the role of Bell, and has been
included in the musical ever since.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Probably did probably have seen it, maybe, and I can't
sing it for maybe because I cannot sing.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can sing it. There's a change, a change in
I mean we like to make up, probably, and that's sound.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
There's been a change in me. It kind of moving
on though what I used to be I still depend
on for now. I realize that good can come from bad.
That may not make me wise, but oh it makes
me glad, and then.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
It goes on. Oh they can't be wise apparently. No,
I mean she wasn't really wise for loving the beast,
all right?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, she calls in love with her her it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
From munch hous In syndrome. M it's a little bit
more Stockholm. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
The Beauty and the Beast is like I can fix him.
It was an entire musical.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And he took my dad.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But you know, and he took my dad. He did
he put him?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Question?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Don't which probably musical featured a helicopter on stage? Was
it a South Pacific b Miss Sagon c?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Miss got it?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
When most people think of Miss Saigon, two things come
to mind. The wartime love story between Chris and Kim
and the helicopter, the technical highlight of the show that
evacuates the last Americans in Saigon from the mbsc roof
while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese people look on in despair.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
That is really that's the thing they remember. Because the
thing that I remember when I heard Miss Sagon is
a British white actor playing of Vietnamese person. That's the
thing that I called from that original product, the.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Racial injustice of Broadway. Yikes, all right, next question, Jeffrey
sob The musical is the longest running musical in Broadway history.
It is Phantom of the Opera. I didn't give Lacey
a chance to answer. Lacy, what would you have answered
you did. I know, so I'm like y'all answered together.
(20:41):
Normally there's three screens.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's okay. I'm giving myself to half a point. That's
on me, and Lacy does get half a point for
that you skipped Lazy, she gets half a point.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's the rules of the rules, Lacey and Abert me.
Let me ask you. So that production is pretty tired.
It's Chicago has been on for a long time. But
they do a lot of like, you know, guests come
in for a week, two weeks. Would you go in
and do a role in Chicago? Would that be something
you would do?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, I would. If they had a role I could do.
You know what I mean? Because there's naked Lady number
one and Naked Lady number two I care for.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That could be the lawyer. The lawyer they go, they
go everywhere with that lawyer. Everyone's playing Billy Flynn. Yeah,
I mean a lot of like stars. I sure did
Billy Flynn at some point, that's right, the guy from
Science held. Everyone's done Billy Flynn.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I want to be Billy Flynn. I don't want to
be Mama. Sorry. Sure, there's a lot a good song.
I don't care for that song. It's not fun, but
oh yes, oh yes, they both reached for the good baby.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
That puppet song, I want to be the puppet.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh Man, one of my favorite. I didn't think I
wanted to be in Chicago, but now I know I do. Yay,
all right? Next question, true or false? Harold Hill's profession
in the music band is a gambler.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
False? A gambler No false, He's a yes.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
In the music man. He's a gamp. He's the he's
selling them, he's selling he's selling instruments.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Right, he's a music man. He's a what he's what.
He's a music man with a big trombone.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He's a he's a he's a grifter. Okay, so Amberscott grifter, Lacey,
do you have a theory he's selling fake instruments. You
are all instrum vaguely correct. Yes, he is a con man,
which is a grifter.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The instruments are real. It's the teaching that's that's true,
and that's where he gets his money exactly and then
buy those instruments. I think he's gonna come a conman. Harrows.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Hill poses as a boys band organizer and leaders, selling
band instruments and uniforms to naive Midwestern townsfolk and promising
to train the new band, then skipping town before the
instruments arrived.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So John Marco was wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, yes, I played it in eighth grade. Okay, I
know this role right now.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I mean, he's not a gambler.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah, he didn't say what the question was, true or false?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Whatever? The music man was a gambler. Oh, I thought
the question was.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
The question was, and den Marcot was right, and the
don't y'all were more right because you said grifter.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So there you go, right there.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So I didn't know you you added on to the
true or false. I thought it was just one or
the other. I was very upset at the revival of
the show because they had Hugh Jackman play the music man,
and that's too good looking of a person to play.
You can't have good looking people play these parts. He
goes into the library. Oh why does Marian fall in
love with him? I know why he's fucking Hugh Jackman.
(23:36):
Give me a break. He didn't need to be a break.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
He just got to be Hugh Jackman exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, Hugh Jackman was not going to be a grifter.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Just gets to show up and say you're welcome. Yeah,
he gets a looking of Hugh Jackson.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Why is Jean Valjehan imprisoned in Layman.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Because he stole bread? Bread spread steel bread?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was multip choice. By k new y'all were just
going to answer it, so I just let y'all, let
y'all go. But yes, it says said nineteenth century France.
Limb Is is a story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant,
and his desire for redemption after serving nineteen years in
jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his
sister's starving child.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's harsh. Oh good?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
That beauty and the beast question was like a million
times harder than it was Like, that was like the
final level of Jeopardy.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Like I know, some of these I scattered in and
I was like, damn, this is kind of hard.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
But I didn't kind of do it in an order
that made sense.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I just wrote them as I was, Uh, these next few,
I'm like, this is so hard.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
We'll see, we'll see what kind of gambling operation does
Nathan Detroit run in Guys and Dolls?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
A poker game, craps, horse racing.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Okay, we got one for horse racing. Are you all
ready for the answer?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Oh actually no, no, no wait wait wait wait no no,
no horse racing. That's just the song. It's Lucky a
Lady tonight. I guess crap? Is it crabs? Dice? It's craps, craps?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Lazy and John Marco are ragged. It's craps.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Nathan is having difficulty finding a location for his notorious
floating Craps game due to police pressure from Lieutenant Brannigan.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Fun fact, so, Nathan Lane that's not his real name.
He changed it to Nathan because his original name was
already taken by Equity, and he played Nathan in Broadways
Guys and Dolls, and that's how he got the name Nathan.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
That is where the point. That's where then actually gets
a point for that. Sorry, we got two more questions,
well really one more question. The second one is kind
of like a fun one, but Jeopardy Style, which musical
was an all black cast, broke the record for most
Broadway performances.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The lanking other white people in the lanking, probably, I.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Think so, I think like timon, Yeah, I'm going the
porgy and best or.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The I mean the w yes, poor game best, it's
not the Whiz.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, there wasn't long, super long running. I don't, I
don't think like nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It's the color purple. Okay, so we're saying the color purple,
are saying pory in best? Yes, not a yellow? Right? Oh?
Shuffle along, Shuffle along?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
What years was that?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Shove Along?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Premiered on Broadway nineteen twenty nine or nineteen twenty one
and mark the first full fled Broadway musical with an
all black cast playwright, composer, and lyricist. The show was
a hit, running for a then record four hundred and
eighty four nights on Broadway. It launched the careers of
Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills, Freddie Washington, and Paul
Robison and became such a hit it caused curtain time
(26:45):
traffic jams on West sixty third Street, yayo, and the
final Oh this question? Everyone has to sing a song
from the woods?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Are you all paying? Sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's what people want to say from me.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I wrote the Whiz. I'm like I'm writing I want
to go last. Okay, he's on down, he's on now. Rude.
Say it with me, John Marco, I know you're gonna
choose that one if.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You what's it? If you can't at step Papa, come on,
he's on down, He's on down down the rule.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Good job, ever go Now, I am writing The Wiz.
It's touring America right now. It lands on Broadway in
March of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
In our version of the Wiz, we have an extra song,
a trunk song from uh, the original Wiz that goes
like this, I wonder wonder why do do do do
do do? He laid this trip on me. Do do
do do do do do? It's wonder wonder why And
(27:53):
it's a song from the Wiz and it's really cute
and Dorothy things that in. Okay everyone it you don't know.
This man was add facts in and all that, which is.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
What we love.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's why you're the expert. And this was your expert.
Quiz y yay, good job, thank you, okay, John Marco
one and that makes him the cutest. Okay. It's time
for us to take a quick break. And while we're
doing that, we need you to multitask, keep listening, check out,
and make sure that you watch John Marco's Netflix special
(28:32):
and his podcast, The Downside Pod. Okay, we'll be right back.
All right, we are back. We're having a great time
getting to know you, but now we want to look
deep inside your soul and learn something about you that
(28:53):
you love a lot. This segment is called can You
Stand It? And it's a time where we tell everyone
about something we've got or something we've just learned about
recently that we love so much that we just can't
stand it. So is there something that you've discovered, you know, like, Lacy,
do you have one?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I do?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And it's a gross can you stand it? Now? One
of my really good friends, Mickey, she's out there, she's listening.
She loves sports. You know, I don't care about sports
at all, and I just happen to see something about
her favorite quarterback. I think is Patrick Mahons does not
wash his underwear and he wears it on game day
(29:31):
and the only time he washes it, I think is
if they lose. This has disturbed me. This is something
you hear about, like you'll see it on a sitcom
and it's silly. People are actually out there with their
lucky underwear, and I'm disturbed. By this. And if I
ever see him, he's in a million commercials, he's in subway,
and I just see him and think about the underwear.
(29:55):
I feel sad. That's gross. And if he's doing it,
everybody's doing it. Everyone's out there. Your tolls are gonna
stink anyway. You're running around, you're sweating. But if you've
won four times in a row, guys, it's not worth it.
You've got to see a doctor. Something's gonna happen to you.
That's all I tear, guys, And I'm sorry I shared that.
(30:16):
Hope no one's eating out there, but these are issues, Okay,
John Mickworld, how many times have you worn this underwear
in a row?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I mean I I you know, in a crisis, in
a crisis, I'm on the road. I didn't. I underpacked
and maybe the next day, but not at workout. After
a workout that's done. Super Bowl, the super Bowl. Those
are going in the trash. Those are burn I'm burning them.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, any luck they had is gone. Luck isn't filth.
And that's what I'm gonna say. Yeah, I'm gonna send
them a shirt that says luck is not filth. I
would say, luck is cleanliness. It is. That's all I have. Guys,
that's my standard. Do you have anything that you love
so bad?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We're just gonna be very very fun. But as I said,
I travel a lot. I like healthy snacks. It's tough.
It's tough to get healthy snacks. And I recently found
these things. They're called Brahmi luppini. They are it's Italian,
it's from Italy. They're lupini beans, and they're flavored and
they're they're low. They're very little of a fat or
(31:24):
sugar or anything, and they're just flavored garlic and rosemary,
hot chili. And so I've been eating them like once,
one bag a day. So I really do want to say,
I can't stand how much money I'm spending on these
Brahmi lupini beans, because they cost a lot, because they're
from Italy.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think directly you're saying, you're saying beans, but you
said bag.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a bag. It's a bag of pickled lupini beans.
And they're they don't go bad, and you can travel
with them.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
You need I need these. You know, I go on
the airplanes and what are the snacks. It's I flew,
I was in France. I performed in France, and I
flew back. They had three different helpings of chocolate on
the one fight. I said, I can't, I can't do this.
I don't have to eat my chocolate on the plane.
I need some Brommy Lupini beans, and I whooked them out.
And I may be in France, but I'm going to
Italian today.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The in the room, you got gas, don't you. I mean,
let's just talk about it. Okay, we talked about mahomes pants.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Look, let's go on to avoid the gas. You gotta
afford first class. But if you're back in business class
with me, you gotta. You gotta deal with it. It's
worth it at least there, at least the Brommi Lupini.
It's different flavors, so you know, maybe it's garlic and
rosemary gas. Maybe it's maybe it's hot alope chili chili gas.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
This does make me want to try.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It, really, I'm serious, try it.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's really good lupini beans. Gonna get him ment the groceries.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, but like it's like I get it at the
like nice little store in the East Village grocery store.
So they're there, They're out there, and I just looked
it up. I can't get it online. Yeah, Luppini, check
it out, Luccini.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Lupini. Not a rapper. I would have thought, Okay, so
my can you stand it? It's really special. Now. I
also travel a lot, and anytime I travel, I'm like, oh,
I really I really wish something i've familiar. If you
say this, we're kicking you off. I'm not gonna say
(33:26):
what you think. So whenever I'm out of town, I
like to go this one. Jesus. Something that you don't know, sir,
is that she says this for almost every can you
stand it? I am sorry that she she loves cheesecake Factory.
I think she's trying to become, you know, one of
(33:47):
their spokespersons or something. I should can someone out there
in the United It doesn't have to be anywhere in
the world. Help my sister find another fucking restaurant. Then
that she's egg factory? Now is it?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Is it good? Because I went when I was like,
you know, in middle school, that was like a thing
you did after you saw Casper in the movie theaters.
You would go to the cheesecake factory. But is it
is it is it? Okay, it's sine, it's stop. It's fine,
it's the norm. It's a normal restaurant. And yos is
(34:23):
why I'm not getting this endorsement.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Gesa Factory the best food in the entire world.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's normal. It's normal. We know what you've heard. It's normal.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
That might be their new thing. It's normal. Come on in.
Anyone can eat here. It is so good, John Marco,
there is nothing you can order there that tastes bad.
And that's true. They do not miss.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It's above TGI Fridays. That's what you're talking. It's above
a TJ showed it. Okay, okay, that's good. I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
But do you need to be going there four times
a week? You absolutely do not not enough. If you
think I'm joking, she lives there, she can walk in
and be like my usual. They know her there, she'll
be like, that's a new worker. That's Timothy. He just
started two weeks ago. It's too much, Okay, it's too much.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What flavor? What flavor cheesecake are you getting?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Oddly, I don't really get a lot of cheesecake the
cheesecake factory, but my favorite used to be Dutch apple cheesecake.
They stop making it, I know, so I had to
learn how to make my own cheesecake. Amber does love
to make She's been making cheesecake since she was tiny.
She would always make us cheesecake at home, So she
does know how to make cheesecake really, and maybe that's
(35:38):
why her heart is tethered.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I haven't seen cheesecake in a while. I feel like
it's kind of a fallen out of favor. I haven't
seen one in a good long while.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Cheesecake.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, maybe I'm going to the wrong parties, but I
haven't seen one at a bit.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Cheesecake doesn't travel well. You can't just be leaving it
out and stuff. It gets warm and that makes you sad.
Come to the cheesecake factory with us. We'll be there
tomorrow if some cheesecake. So, yeah, we will be there tonight.
And that's not a job.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That shold Dumoise should have you there every day, like
spotted at the cheesecake factory for the fifth day.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
They can just write that ahead of time. I'll be there.
I will definitely be there. How dare you say it's
not absolutely excellent?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You know it's good.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
That was good, it's good, it's great. Okay, I apologize.
Don't cry because I'm gonna apologize to me, apologize to
the cheese oh boy, And next week we will be
talking about the cheesecake factory. And guys, that's that. We
didn't cry. We made a new friend. Thank you, Jean Marco.
(36:49):
Thanks that wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Okay, No, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Keep up with by following him on Instagram at at
John Marco. So RACI you want to put an extracy
in there, keep getting second seat, John Marco, do you
have any parting words for everyone listening?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Oh god, I just I remember what my high school
basketball coach always used to tell me. You miss one
of the shots you take.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
And then he kicked you off the team. Guys, follow
John Marco and follow us at Amber Refinant at Lacy
lamar One. If you like what you heard, say something
nice and rate and review us. And if you didn't
like what you heard, eat shit again. Dad. I did
(37:49):
not say that. I know you know our voices. That
was Amber. I didn't say that. I love you. I'm
just kidding. I love you.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Bye bye bye bye
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Still inst
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Welcome to "Decisions, Decisions," the podcast where boundaries are pushed, and conversations get candid! Join your favorite hosts, Mandii B and WeezyWTF, as they dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often-taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday, Mandii and Weezy invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, they share their personal journeys navigating their 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that resonate with your experiences, "Decisions, Decisions" is your go-to source for open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections—tune in and join the conversation!