A Tribeca -- uh, TriFECTa -- of Announcements!
Alden and "Seth" are here with three very special announcements! Turn your calendars to June and get ready for Freshness!
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[intro: The Young Old Derf Chronicles theme plays and underscores the conversation]
ALDEN: Hey everybody, it's Alden here.
MOUJAN: [deep and gravelly voice filter] And This American Life's Seth Lind.
ALDEN: Uh, yeah, and Seth Lind. Um, happy May the Sp8th, everybody!
MOUJAN: Happy May the Sp8th, y'all! Boom, boom, boom, boomtown! As Seth would say.
ALDEN: As Seth would say?
MOUJAN: As I, Seth Lind, would say.
ALDEN: Hold on a second, are you actually Seth?
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MOUJAN: A hundred percent, I'm Seth Lind, Seth middle name Lind!
ALDEN: [bewildered] You don't even know your middle name? Okay, alright, hold on, I see what's happening here. We got a voice filter.
MOUJAN: There's no voice filter, I'm [trilling] big boy Seth Lind! [voice filter beeps and drops out] I am the hottest, oh, hi Alden, it's Moujan.
ALDEN: Oh, hey Moujan, I'm glad you're here too.
MOUJAN: Yes, thank you.
ALDEN: You don't have to pretend to be Seth, you know, to make an announcement on the feed.
MOUJAN: Alright… I just thought… Seth is like, more of a bigger announcement, like, more people if they listen to his deep, deep voice—
ALDEN: His dulcet tones?
MOUJAN: —they’ll, like, respect it more compared to my little voice.
ALDEN: I understand.
MOUJAN: And I know this is a big announcement, so I really wanted to up my game.
ALDEN: Sure.
MOUJAN: Like, uh, up it by being Seth Lind.
ALDEN: No, no, Moujan, you're you, and that's enough.
MOUJAN: [quietly] Okay. Thanks, Alden.
ALDEN: You're right though, we do actually have some big announcements for all of you this May the Sp8th. May the Sp8th, obviously for those of you who don't know, it's May the 8th, but… [laughing] Should we explain this to people who don't…
MOUJAN: If you know, you know.
ALDEN: If you know, you know, and if you don't know, honestly, that's brain space you could probably be using for better things.
MOUJAN: [laughter]
ALDEN: So, yeah, we do have some awesome announcements. Moujan, would you like to announce the first thing?
MOUJAN: Okay, this is a pretty cool one. We're very excited about this. We’re an official audio selection of the Tribeca Festival, which is a big festival run by Robert De Niro, as far as we know.
ALDEN: Yeah! Ever heard of it? We will not be meeting Robert De Niro, but our show is an official selection.
MOUJAN: Yes!
ALDEN: We actually finished episode one of The Young Old Derf Chronicles ahead of schedule, specifically to submit it for Tribeca. And it's going to be heard for the first time ever by the Tribeca judges. So we're super excited about that.
MOUJAN: Yeah!
ALDEN: Now, the episode won't be played in its entirety at the screening, it's actually a two minute trailer that we've put together, the episode is only for the judges. But if you happen to be in town, if you happen to be coming to Tribeca anyway, obviously we'd love to see you. It'll be a great event with a lot of other cool shows and interviews with the creators of those shows.
MOUJAN: And that's going to be on June 11th at 2:30 p.m.
ALDEN: Right.
MOUJAN: We'll put more information about all the tickets and everything on our website and in our social media.
ALDEN: And on the Tribeca Festival website as well. Now, listen, we're not going to ask you to travel across the country or across the world to come see a two minute trailer. But we do have a couple additional announcements that might pique your interest.
MOUJAN: Yes. And Alden, why don't we make them in descending date order, ending with the biggest of them all?
ALDEN: Great. That's a great idea. Go ahead, Moujan.
MOUJAN: So first you got June 11th.
ALDEN: Right.
MOUJAN: That's the Tribeca show. And then on June 8th, Sunday, June 8th, we're going to be having a show at UCB, not as members of Zyxx, but as members of Zyxx who aren't doing Zyxx stuff. Doing a very fun show to honor podcasts called the We Have a Podcast show. It's an improvised parody podcast show where we're going to create a brand new podcast on stage, kind of satirizing everything you know about podcasts, featuring us and some of our other podcast friends.
ALDEN: Yeah. And also, if you haven't been to New York or haven't been to UCB in a while, this is at their new space on 14th Street. They just had their grand opening. It's a really cool space. So we are really excited to be back in the UCB doing a show with old friends and new friends. So again, that's June 8th, 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at UCB's website or on our website! And so, Moujan, let's continue with our descending chronology here.
[Alden and Moujan smack their hands to make a drumroll]
MOUJAN: And this one, I think this is the big one. I think we need to do a drum roll for this one. Descending order.
ALDEN: So on June 7th.
MOUJAN: The day before.
ALDEN: The day before, for those of you keeping score. And this one is a classic Mission to Zyxx live episode featuring the entire crew. That's going to be at 1:30 p.m. at Caveat in Manhattan. And of course, it will be complete with live sound design by Shane O'Connell, special guests aplenty, weird trivia with even weirder prizes and all sorts of other stuff.
And of course, since it's during the day, we'll also have plenty of time afterwards to hang out with you. So come on down. That one's going to be super fun. All seven of us are in town for Tribeca. So we will be there at the show at Caveat on Saturday. And we really hope to see you there. It's going to be a blast.
MOUJAN: Yeah.
ALDEN: Of course, it will be a brand new episode. Is it going to be a sequel?
MOUJAN: Who knows?
ALDEN: Post finale? Pre finale? Random season? Who knows? Come find out.
MOUJAN: And not only that, for both the improv show and the UCB show, you can also live stream it. So if you don’t happen to be in New York, you can get a live stream ticket and you can watch it from the comfort of your home. Yeah.
ALDEN: So come say hi in person or on the Internet. And it's going to be great, I can't wait to do another live show, it's been so long. So I really hope to see you guys there.
MOUJAN: Uh-oh. Wait. Alden, I think there's a knock at the door. I think somebody's here!
ALDEN: Oh, okay. Yeah, who is it? Open the door.
MOUJAN: [deep and gravelly voice filter beeps on] Hey, yo, yo, boys. It's me, Winston Noel!
ALDEN: Wow! Wow, Winston. That's so weird. You sound just like Seth did a little bit ago!
MOUJAN: It's Winston. I can't wait to be at these shows as Winston Noel. Because as I always say, as Winston Noel, I'm pum-pum-pumped!
ALDEN: [laughter] Wow! I don't think I've ever heard Winston say that even a single time. But actually, Winston, since you're here, why don't you tell us all some facts about yourself so we can get to know you a little better?
MOUJAN: Sure. I'm seven-foot-nine.
ALDEN: Okay. That doesn't sound right.
MOUJAN: I own a farm in upstate Nebraska.
ALDEN: I don’t—do they call that upstate?
MOUJAN: I have three pigs, six kids, eight jobs.
ALDEN: This is Winston from the show? Are you sure?
MOUJAN: My job is to juck!
ALDEN: [laughter] Okay. Now, that is actually true. That's actually true biographically about Winston.
MOUJAN: [voice filter beeps off] That was hard. Back to Moujan.
ALDEN: Hey, Moujan!
MOUJAN: I'm sorry. That was a hard one.
ALDEN: Wow.
MOUJAN: I was trying to channel what Winston would be, and I'm not sure if I got it right.
ALDEN: That's pretty close. That's pretty close! Well, solid gold bits just like this one and more coming at you June 7th and 8th.
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ALDEN: We really hope to see you there in person or online.
MOUJAN: Yes!
ALDEN: We can't wait. And happy May the Sp8th!
MOUJAN: Yeah.
ALDEN: And may the Sp8th be with you. Always.
MOUJAN: Yes. May the Sp8th be with youth.
ALDEN: Okay. That's it. Thanks! Bye!
MOUJAN: [voice filter] Seth out!
[The Young Old Derf Chronicles theme plays briefly and fades out]