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The last of our in person LA recordings and this one is with our very good friends and long time prov buddies Clare Ruddy and Shand Thomas! We chat'n'prov about our emotions, ham plates, sandwiches and more! Support the pod and join out Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and join out Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! Trevor Haaker and Will Stiles, A couple of the Mud City boys, stop by the pod for a little chat'n'prov about liminal spaces, low level judges, and alien invasions! We're doing Mud City on June 6th and you can get your tickets now! Mud City Improv Festival is a Chicago-based improv festival that aims to celebrate the massive improv hub that Chicago is. We are excited to announce that our final and ultimate show for the fest this year will be hosted in the Heath Mainstage at the The Den Theater, with one of the greatest lineups of improvisors Chicago can offer! This year the festival will consist of 12 shows spread across six of Chicago's biggest improv theaters. The festival also aims to connect college improv teams to the Chicago improv community. This year’s festival will take place June 4th-6th at various venues in Chicago, with three nights of performances, workshops with veteran improvisors, and the opportunity to meet other college improvisors from across the country. Check out SWAMP on the gram! Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠

Support the pod and join our patreon for bonus eps, back log eps, and exclusive premium content! Dan Lippert is in the house alongside LA's very own and pod favorite Caroline Cotter! We chat'n'prov about the 13th Warrior, call in radio shows, getting stuck in the bathroom, and blood girls. We've got a LIVE show this Saturday night at LSI and its only $5! Listen to ManDog Pod for more Lippert goodness. Be sure to check out Big Grande! Check out Caroline at UCB in AssssCAT Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and join out Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! *WORM HOLE OPENS* GAHH! Finally, after a full year of kicking around the prov-verses, we're back as Improv is Dead. This is no joke! While it is related to April Fools, because of the April Fools paradox, we really are Improv is Dead, the REAL audibly enhanced improv podcast. We sent those FUDGECAST guys back to their own Damin-verse on their proper Tim-Line. Now we're back to chat'n'prov with Dan about nipple covered TikTok trends, Georgia Girls, and our trip to LA where Damian ate mediocre street corn. It's good to be back! Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠, Dan White Sound Design by Nick

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Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Mark Ratterman pops by the pod again for some chat'n'prov about getting our cards read, running for fun, and new hip haircuts. Check out Marks pod with Cook County Social Club "Get it to Dutch: A Screen Writers Journey Sign up for Marks Cook County Workshop at iO Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Elim Almedom and Daniela Aguilar are Women of a Certain age every Thursday night at LSI in Chicago. They pop by the pod to chat'n'prov about being fashionably late, making yourself at home, and a club for bad dreams. Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Our guest today is a producer and performer on one of the hottest shows in Chicago, the consistently SOLD OUT Friday show at LSI ft. Holy Goat. Not only is she a hilarious improviser, she’s also an incredible illustrator who’s done work with The Chicago Bulls, White Sox, Bears and more! You can follow her work and shows on IG @arielsinhaha, returning to the pod, it’s the very funny Ariel Sinah. Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! The fellas get into talking Blink 182, how much life is left and what we want to do with it. It sounds deeper than we get unfortunately. Sound Design by Nick Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠, and Dan White

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Lauren Frost is back to get her prov on! Lauren does shows all over Chicago including the famous Wednesday night free show at iO with Birdlady and Dumb John. She also co-hosts one of the hottest spots to get your indie team up to play at Open Stage Thursdays at The Western Bar and Kitchen. Starting March 19 you can check her out with her duo Lerin and 3 Actors Living in a Cave during their Thursday night run at LSI. Her stand-up and characters were recently featured in The Lincoln Lodge’s Future of Comedy Festival. She’s got a big laugh, big glasses, and has taken all the improv classes. The very funny improviser and comedian, Lauren Frost.! Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week we've got two folks making their pod debuts in a big way! Grace Goze Grace is a self proclaimed improv pervert and alumna of The Second City’s 2024 Victor Wong Fellowship. She performs weekly with High Stakes Productions and currently her Harold team and first all-POC house team at iO, D.A.R.E. Dropouts Presents: After School Special is happening every Saturday at 9:30 pm. She also hosts, writes, and produces her very own late-night style talk show (that we had the privilege of being on) Good Graces Tonight. Cadence Messier Cadence is a local improv and sketch comedian by night and dog walker by day. Follow on instagram @cadence_messier and catch the debut of her all female sketch team, The Carries, at Bughouse Theater in March! She also performs with The Wretched as an iO House Team at The iO Theater. Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Our guest today is hitting his record 6 time appearance on the pod which means we get him roughly once a year and even that blows my mind. You’ve seen him in countless Film and TV projects from The Great and Powerful OZ to Get Hard. He’s one half of an iconic improv duo you can show to you parents and say “see, this is why I do it” to help make them understand with TJ and Dave and you can currently catch him in his new movie alongside Matt Trudeu, Meir Steinberg, and Michael Shannon called BULLS streaming on Apple TV+. Heck of card player, helluva a magnet fisherman, and one of the all time great improvisers, It's TJ Jagodowski. Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠, Sound Design By Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week we FUDGE out to chat'n'prov about Tim's foot health, Dan's VR obsession and Damian being Mandela effected by Avatar. Minnesota Ways to Help Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠, and ⁠Dan White⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! The Minneapolis Edit Ways to Help Stand with Minnesota A Minnesota Built, constantly updated resource hub connecting you with mutual aid, funds, legal supports, food assistance, rent help. and volunteer opportunities, MN NOICE Statewide directory of organizations that support immigrants and refugees across Minnesota from legal help to community service Community Aid Network MN Organizes weekly free food distributions across the Twin Cities and supports volunteer participation. Our guest today is quite possibly one of the funniest people we’ve ever had the privilege of performing with. In 2016 she was stretched out by Orlando Bloom on Netflix’s EASY, she’s had roles on Chicago Med and PD, for years she absolutely put on a clinic at Second City on their ETC stage providing them with countless characters that they will cash in on for years to come. She’s truly one of a kind, it’s Laurel Krabacher. We chat'n'prov about what makes a bf a bff, TV roles, and getting set on fire for a big finale. Sound Design by Nick Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠, ⁠Tim Lyons⁠,

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! If you’re a true improv pervert you’ve seen this episodes guests perform in every out house, pent house, hen house and dog house around the country. You’ve seen their work in TV and Film from Southside, and Work in Progress to SHRINK and Trial of the Chicago 7. They’ve produced countless live shows around Chicago including the famous Spitballin variety show! Together they form SAND, an absolute tour de force of improv talent, it's Mike Brunlieb and Thomas Kelly! We chat'n'prov about casino's, sexy TV's, and the latest and greatest headphones you can guy on the market right now! Sound Design by Nick