Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Shipwrecked Podcast. We have a lovely conversation with our Mark Twain today, Alphalic. And first, we have some updates for you. Alphalic. Well, Alphalic. We had a wonderful, wonderful meetup at VidCon on Saturday, thanks to those of you who came out. It was so nice seeing you. It was really great meeting all of you and seeing some of you again and seeing all the cool Po' Party stuff you've got.
already. Po Party shirts. Yes, Rachel with her Po Party shirt that she made, which we loved. Also, if you were there, you might have gotten a sneak peek at a brand new thing. We've got a new logo made by Corey Lubowitch, and we're really happy with it. And that was on the handout we were handing out of Bitcoin. We've been editing with Joe, and we are almost picture locked for episode one. Whoa, great. It looks so good. That means we still have to do sound and music, and color, but the edit is almost done, and it looks great.
This feels fast to us. It's very fast. So much more to go. Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. I was like, wow! And then I was like, oh, there's 10 more episodes. And so much more to do. And a trailer. But it's still exciting. Yeah, we're excited. Any other cool things going on this week? I'm trying to think if there's any other cool stuff happening this summer, like, right now. Oh, the Spies Are Forever. Spies Are Forever. It's coming out every Tuesday on YouTube. Watch that. Mary Kate's in it. And, of course, Joey and Lauren. And our guest, Al Fallick. And Brian.
And Brian. Everyone in Spies has had something to do with this. We just gotta get Joe and Tessa in here somehow. Well, you never know. There's a lot of offers out there. It's really good. It's really, really good. So check out Spies are forever if you haven't. It's pretty good. On the Tin Can Brothers YouTube page. And they're just great peeps. Clearly we like them and we like working with them. They are very, very wonderful to be around. Yeah. And a bunch of them are in Chicago right now for Starkid's summer season and we miss them. We miss them a lot. Because it's really nice to be around good people. Speaking of good people, Alf Alec.
Hey, Al. How are you? Welcome to the Shipwrecked Podcast. Live in front of a studio. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for being here. Of course, my pleasure. We just loved having you as Mark Twain so much that we wanted to ask you to be on the podcast. Yeah, thank you for doing that. Yeah, seriously. How was it being Mark Twain? How was the jacket? How was the accent? How was all the research you did? Well, all the research I did, well, it started at, well, it actually didn't happen. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I was about to pull a fast one. I'm a smooth talker. I appreciate your answer. I can't do it, yeah.
But it was a lot of fun. You guys are so much fun. I loved feeling like a big baby in a giant jacket. The diaper jacket. The diaper jacket. It was a lab coat for the most giant evil scientists. Yeah, exactly. Like an evil gorilla. And we were like, this will fit out. We had like 20 pins in it. Going for like pinstripey linen beach suit.
Yeah, that's what you think of Mark Twain when you think of a white suit. He was the first beach bum. Always with a margarita. Exactly, yeah. Over on the Venice boardwalk, writing. Looking for gold. Yeah. And bodybuilding. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Well, for those of you who might not know, I met Al doing Spies Are Forever. No, that's not true.
What? We met doing the Tin Can Brothers YouTube video. He was a waiter. I was a waiter. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We totally forgot about that. But we like, meh. Yeah. How could I forget your wonderful performance as the waiter describing marshmallow over meat over a plate? It was really good. It was really funny. I'm going to act like that. I'm ready to look at that. Yeah, it's a classic. You poured it? Yeah. Sean's drinking 15-year-old scotch. Wow. I'm just underage. He's 120 degrees. Sean is 19. I'll marry a 13-year-old son. His cousin. Oh, okay. So it's okay. That's okay. Keep it in the family. We're all drinking water.
Did you spell on yourself? No. Oh, okay. We're all drinking water, and Sean's over there just swishing his scotch around. I just wanted to try it. That's fair. Is it good? No judgment. I'm okay. I like wood if it wasn't 130 degrees in here, yeah. Today in Los Angeles, it is somewhere between 106 and 115, depending on where you are.
My car had 120 when I was in Burbank. Are you serious? I got in my car today and thought it was the end. I thought I was going to die. I was like, this isn't a safe temperature. And my heart started beating and I got chills all over. My car had 3500 and then I realized I was looking at it. Yeah, I thought for a second my car was the sun. So yeah, it's hot. Dear listeners. Dear listeners. Oh, dear listeners. We'll get a delusional in here. Yeah, probably. By the end of this podcast, we're all just like screaming. Speaking in tongues. We all become Lewis Carroll. Oh yeah, that's right. How did you get involved with the Tin Can Brothers?
I met, so I went to University of Michigan for musical theater. Many Michigan people. Many Michigan people, but none in this room except for me. It's really rare that I'm not in a room with Michigan people just because of how things have worked out. It's nice. Oh yeah, you're right.
And my freshman year, you're not supposed to audition for anything your freshman year, first semester, especially at Michigan. But, you know, you remember my nickname is Rebellious Al. Yeah. Everybody knows that about me when they first meet me. That's why my Twitter handle is Rebellious Al. You know, with an app before it. And so I auditioned for this improv team called Wits End, which Joey Richter was on. And I had no, I didn't know about any of the Starkid stuff at all.
Had that already started happening? Yeah, that had already started happening. Darren Criss had already graduated by the time that I got there. And Joey was a senior. So they had already been through. Because you were a baby. Because I'm a baby. I'm a little one. I'm a little baby. I'm a big diaper baby. That's why I actually have two accounts on Twitter. You can follow me at BigDiaperBabyAl. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh. Rebellious diaper baby is too long. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It is the image I wanted to. Can't wait for that crossover figure. Yeah, exactly. You got a motorcycle jacket and a diaper. Oh, yeah. How cool is that? Like, man, what a cool baby that would be.
But anyway, I did this improv with Joey, and then he graduated, and I was there for another three years. But then by the time I moved out here, they were like, hey, you're out here, and we do stuff. Do you want to come just, like, be in something? And I was like, that sounds great. And that was the waiter video that I was in. Oh, that was it? No, I didn't realize that. They talked about you like you were a legend. Mary-Kate came back from filming that, and she was like, this alphalic guy, my God. God, Jessica. She's just a legend. She's so rebellious. Next.
Twitter handle. Wait, you were about to say something. I don't remember. I have no. So is that why you went to Michigan? Because I was a star kid. No. Um, no. I went because of musical theater. Are you from? I'm from Houston, Texas. Wow, I totally forgot that, if I knew that. He's from Texas, too. Uh-huh, he's from Dallas. I just thought of you as being from Michigan because you went there, but that's not true. That's a lie.
Yeah. You're from Texas. Thanks for owning up to it. I don't have an accent. I don't have anything that I think that, like, makes me feel like I'm Texan. Except for, I'm pretty left-leaning, but I, like, have sympathy towards the right because I grew up with all those people, you know? I feel that. I'm from Arkansas. Yeah, you get it. It's like, it's like, I don't, like, hate the right. Yeah. Because it's like my buddies. It's like my childhood, you know? And then my other thing is I say y'all. Right, I say y'all as well. Yeah. Which is just a very, it's just a good word. It's just an efficient word. It's so easy. Yeah. I don't understand. It's just, yeah, why not use it? It's just crazy. We went out to dinner last night with your friends. Oh, yeah, from Arkansas. And, um.
They use y'all really well. Really? Just as its own exclamation. Y'all! Oh, so cool. Also, they both have more accent than I do. Accent especially. I wish I could do that. I wish I could just start saying y'all, but I don't have any claim to it. Y'all. It's just like a... Do you want to try it right now? Yeah. Okay, we can just... Everyone close your eyes. Just say something crazy. And he'll say y'all. Oh, wait. I thought you were going to try saying y'all. Oh, you want me to say something crazy for you to say it. Okay, got it. Guys, I think my Ouija board is haunted. Y'all.
It's so Boston. No, I'm sorry. I didn't feel it. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I'm so sorry. I thought, I just imagined we were all going to go, yes, you did it. That was just this pregnant moment. Now, if you're around me and my people enough in life, you'll probably get better at it. You say dunks as an exclamation. Dunks! Dunks! Say that again on the Ouija board. Can I think of a different thing? No. Okay, okay, okay. This is Meisner. Guys, I think that my Ouija board is haunted. Dunks!
It feels good. Did you play basketball or something? No, Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin' Donuts. I played on my church league for one season, and they won the two games that I didn't show up to, and I made two buckets all season, and they were both banked three-pointers that had no business going in. One time somebody passed the ball to me, and I got scared and ducked. You did a George Michael. I knew you were going to say that.
Sarah's got ESP. I thought either you were going to say that you dunked or something like that or that they pass the ball to you and like... You know that moment when, like, Ultron tries to grab Thor's hammer, but he, like, do you know what I'm talking about? Of course. It would have been like that. Like, he tried to grab the ball, but instead the ball, just, the inertia was too strong and you were too small. And then I also went through the hoop. And then you went through the hoop also, and it was a six-pointer. And then it was a face jam. And then it was a face jam. And then it was a face jam. Aww. Aww. Anyway. This is a favorite dream of a podcast. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I hope I'm not, I'm trying to, like, okay, okay. It's just so hot. It's just really hot. Coming back to that, that's how you, yeah. So that is bad. I became involved. So we turned on the air conditioner, because it's just.
You were just dying. It's very hot. You don't want to die, don't you? Another short trip. Down here. I passed out, and here we are. Here we are. Here we are. Anyway, Al, you've got a new exciting project you've been working on. I do. Can you tell us about it? Yeah. Well, I wasn't ready for that. Okay. I guess we'll just jump right in. So the show's called Movies, Musicals, and Me. An Evening with Me, Halpert Evans. That's such a long title. I know, I love long titles. You know Dr. Strangelo is my favorite movie? I didn't know that. What a fun tidbit about you, Al. Thank you.
And it, um, and, um, anyway, I wonder if they can hear the winking in our eyes now. Um, um, but anyway, so, in the world of the show, Happy Devins is, like, an old Broadway star. And he's traveling the country. Like, maybe Tinkin, or maybe Brian Stuxmichael, or something like that. Or, like, um, you know, like, Sean Prasad will be. Right? I'm just trying to be supportive. Um, thanks, at least someone is. Ugh. Ugh. Um, and so, he's touring the country, giving this, like, one-man show.
And here comes a guest. We have another guest. Come in. Hey. Are you just melting? Okay, great. We'll never get through this enough. I'm going to continue.
So he's doing this one-man show, and he sings some of the songs from his Broadway career, from his storied Broadway career. But in the world of the show, it's sort of a satire of where Broadway's at, creatively. So all of the shows that he's singing from are from the fictional movie musical adaptations. So he starts off singing something from Forrest Gump the musical, and then he starts going chronologically, so he sings from Home Alone the musical, which was his first Broadway role. We have a great Hulk song, we have a great Yoda song, we have a really funny Terminator song. So it's a one-man show, but there's two characters in the show, because it's Halpert Evans and Courtney, his accompanist.
who's going to be played by Clark Backstresser, who is one of the composers of Spies Are Forever, and he's one of the composers along with Pierce of this show. So awesome. It's going to be really, really fun. How many performances are you doing? We're doing three in Chicago, but we have an eye towards producing it later here, probably. Oh, here. That's great. That's exciting. That's really fun. And you were just in New York working on that with them, yeah? Yeah, we...
We got word that we were going to have these performances before we had even really written the show. We just had the synopsis and a general idea. And then we found out we were going to do the performances, so we're like, okay, I guess then it's not a joke anymore. We should take it seriously. There was a Michigan concert going on in New York because the head of the program was retiring. So I went up for that, and that was like three days. And I was like, well, I'm there. I might as well just get a one-way ticket and just stay for a couple weeks and finish it up. Very cool. Sweet. Did you talk about that on your Tin Can Brothers podcast? I think that I did, yeah. I listened to that. Yeah. You said some mean things about me.
Well, it was true. Now I don't remember what they were. I said, I was talking about how, well, the Tin Can Brothers are notoriously... Oh, yeah, that's right. They're really tough on people in rehearsal. They're like, on several occasions, Joey would be right here in my face, just yelling in my face, spit all over my... Yeah, me too. And it would happen to you too, and you would leave the rehearsal just falling. Yeah, I didn't do well. Yeah, you didn't do well. Yeah, I didn't have the emotional stability to deal with it. It's fine, I'm never going to make it in this town. Probably not. But you know what? You seem to have...
adjusted well. I really bounced back. You moved on from the experience. The trauma, let's face it, Spies Are Forever was a trauma. Yeah, it was a traumatic experience. It was a traumatic experience for all of us. Except for maybe, except for maybe Brian. Yeah, probably Brian. I think Brian kind of got a kick out of all of that. He has a weird sadistic sort of, yeah. During it, so. Yeah.
Anyway. We don't want to get into it. It's just too... Well, and also he's in the room. Well, thank you, Al, for joining us on the podcast. It was a sincere pleasure. Anytime that you guys want me to. Oh, yeah. Can you give us one last? Oh, yeah, okay. I think a little different. No, it was great. That was you, like, trying to remember your line. Yeah, you'd be like, I don't know, one of your lines would be like...
Mark Twain, good to see you. I'm like, ah, good to see you too. And then you were doing Bill Cosby. And then I was doing a little Bill Cosby, and then it, you know, then that happened, yeah. Al, before you go, who is your personal favorite author?
That's a good question. Oh, you know who it is right now? I don't know if any of you guys have read him, but George Saunders? No. George Saunders. Who dat? He's a short story writer, and he's written some really amazing things recently. Read 10th of December. It's a collection of short stories. Okay. Oh, and where can people follow you? There's at Big Bad Diaper Baby. Of course. Of course. And at AlFal99. That's just my thing for everything. And Rebellious Al. And at Rebellious Al. And at Bachelorette Fan.
yeah we'll go follow Al and yeah thank you thank you thank you um I'll be I wander the streets uh looking for munches nice little tasty treats like you know exactly and I'll find I'll find you yeah just put a cupcake on the sidewalk and Al will be there soon call me breadcrumb me if you want to reach me you guys can pass me on okay good Well, thanks, Al. Thank you, Al. Guys, it has been a pleasure. Before we all go, can we just all say one nice thing about me? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Guys, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for everything. Ladies and gentlemen, good night. Thanks, everyone, for listening to the Shipwrecked Podcast. Make sure to follow us on all the medias and subscribe to our YouTube channel and subscribe to this podcast. If you're not, that's weird. How are you listening to it? And join us next week for a talk with our new logo designer, Gora Lubavitch. Yay!
Thank you.