Curious Matter Aftershow - The Exile Part 4 (with guest Amy Vorpahl)
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Hello, CMA Universe. Welcome to the Curious Matter After Show. I'm Alison Hayslip for any noobs out there. And I am Jonathan Pezza filling in for Sandeep this week. And welcome to our fourth after show of the season where we ask our amazing cast to spill their deepest, darkest secrets. And occasionally we actually talk about this crazy show that we're a part of. Yeah.

Yep. Okay. Tonight we are going to go behind the scenes of The Exile Part 4, Daughters of Mars. This one was intense. No joke. I think that's kind of our thing now. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. Let's get this show on the road and bring out our guests.

- Three! - Aw. - No! - I know. - Why, why do you do this to us, Jonathan Pezza, why? - I don't know. - Everyone, we're back after a wildly dramatic episode and joining Jonathan and I is of course Tiffany Smith and three herself, Amy Vorpahl. - Yes. - Man, what a performance.

Thank you for joining us. - Thank you. Oh, it's so good to be here. - Yeah. Again, you may know Amy from her performances in Dimension 20 and other dropout TV appearances, Faster Purple, Warm Kill Kill, and her work as a celebrity DM and writer for Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons and Dragons, and like all just the good nerdy juiciness that you do. Not to mention fantastic voice acting. - She's been in all three seasons, all three seasons of the show. - You've been in all three seasons of CMA?

Yes. Only Jonathan can say that. And probably every member of Jonathan's family since he put Sundeep. Sundeep's been in all three seasons. There you go. Yeah. And well, the funny thing is, is like the greatest gift, I think, of being able to do the season was that

All of the troupe who've been with me, like friends who like had never done voice acting at the beginning of this are all still in this show. They're all everybody around us. Like it's so great. Matt Hoban was got to be in a scene with Kevin Smith in this episode. And he's been with us since the first season. And it was like a dream come true for him because he like literally traveled down to Jersey from Rhode Island on a road trip in high school to go visit like the quick stop. So.

- You're making dreams come true, Jonathan. - I know, that's the cool thing about the fact that this has grown the way it's grown. It's still the troop as it gets bigger and bigger. And it's been really crazy each new person joining in and getting to listen to what it is we do and then being super excited. - Yeah, it's like, oh! This is very high quality.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. People don't think it's what it is until they listen. It's incredible. Before we really dive into the questions and the burning questions everyone has in chat, we have to play our game, Jonathan. Yeah, we do.

We got some good ones. You guys ready? So, if you haven't been here before, we're going to play a little game. We're going to test your sci-fi sound prowess. Okay, so we're going to play Name That Sound. We're going to play a sound from a sci-fi, a sound effect from a sci-fi movie. You have to tell us what it is and what movie it comes from. And Jonathan, I'm going to let you do the sounds because every time I do it, it's a disaster. I get to play stuff. All right, here we go. Number one. Number one. Everybody ready? Here we go. Here's the first one.

Come on, guys. We know this. We know this. Amy looks confused. Tiffany looks like a maybe? No? I never know. I always get the Velociraptor. Definitely not a Velociraptor. On the last episode, it would be a Velociraptor. Okay, yeah. D-Man said the movie, but we need to know what it is from the movie.

Oh, I know what it is. I know. It's not actually a TIE fighter. You're very close, Critter Nation. All right, playing it again. From Star Wars. The other one. It's the other one. Yeah, we got it. Superman.

There we go. Superman, X-Wing. Yes. Yeah. Quad lasers. Quad laser cannons. I got very confused because I was like, that's from Superman? Oh. There are no X-Wings in Superman? Yeah, that's what it sounds like when he shoots laser beams out of his eyes. You've never heard that before? They just reused it. Yeah. Something like that. All right. I'm going to be fascinated if anyone gets this next one because I can see what it is, but I haven't even heard it yet. And I have no idea what it could possibly sound like. This is the challenging one.

- Oh, I think I know. - Man, it's right at the end there. - Yes, we have a winner. It is the Dune Ornithopter. - D-Man!

Yeah. Nice. Good job, De'Arian. That was good. I just watched a documentary about how this was made, actually. It's pretty rad. They actually use real insects, a real beetle, and deepen it. But there's this other thing. The sound designer invented this gadget, which is like a rubber band on a kite. And he whips it around in circles like this. And it makes this thing. It's so cool. Oh, I was going to say.

That's the kind of thing where I'm like, how do people's brains work that way? They just get an actor and they go. That's exactly right. Well, that's what we learned they did for the Predator a couple episodes ago. Like it was just the Predator is Optimus Prime.

He just, he did all those voices. I will say, I will say humans doing weird breathing is like creepy enough for any, any crazy sound effect. Well, like even R2-D2 was a voice. Like people don't realize that underneath all that was actually a voice and a vocoder and a bunch of different stuff. The chicken from Moana is Alan Tudyk. Yeah, he does them all. The chicken. Like, like,

Everyone's a voice. That guy has made a career in the last 10 years of just playing the unplayable thing. I know. It's incredible. He's one of the most talented people I've ever worked with. Amazingly talented. But like...

Literally, what was it? Last holiday season when Wish was coming out. That was the Disney movie that came out on the holidays. Was that last holiday season or the season? Whatever. Whenever it was. A few months before, I was watching a movie and a trailer for Wish came up. And there's like a goat in it or something like that. And literally, I'm watching the trailer and I just leaned over to my friend and I was like, and the goat's voiced by Alan Tudyk. As a total joke. And then literally, the credits pop up and the goat is voiced by Alan Tudyk. And I was like, what? What?

He's like the weird giant dinosaur bug in another recent Disney film. Raya. Oh, the Raya? Yeah. That weird roly-poly bug that just goes... That's him. That's also Alan. Yeah.

Check. That's the sound of money. Oh my gosh. Yeah. All right. Well, let's start talking about aspects. And Loki was like, I'm going to go get my squeakiest toy. That's why I had to walk away. Yeah. He's like, it's time to rejoice. Right. Yeah.

uh let's let's dive into this episode yeah oh my gosh shall we amy so much happened first off tiffany you guys we got introduced to three and then three just got ripped away from us three we hardly knew thee okay yeah i like it uh but then also we've discovered that children can breathe on mars what's happening just some of them only some of them yeah

Things are changing. Things are changing. Darwin is our, you know, nature finds a way as they say in Tiffany's favorite movie. Yeah. Happens to be the daughter of, uh, well, I'm not real, not real life, but Trisha and Kevin Smith, which is so fun. Yes. So that was the voice of Bonnie. The voice of Bonnie was Tian win. Who's who plays every child character in our show. And it was amazing. Wow. That was so cute.

Yeah. I mean, this one, I think just hearing it, I feel like we've had episodes where it was like a heavy cast, like a lot of people. But this one, I feel like was the most cast and had the most like emotional stuff to do in one episode. And so it was really fun, like pulling in some friends to do stuff where it's like Allison already said this earlier, but Amy's been a part of the troupe for Carious Matter for all three seasons and then just kind of.

on a wish being like hey kevin do you want to do a voice on this audio drum loki no sorry y'all he's like please pay attention um on a like wish just being like hey kevin were you would you be willing to come in and do this and he texted me in like five minutes and was like sure i was like do you want to read it and he's like no i'm good i was like are you serious um and we ended up like

Yeah, and it was just like one of those days too where it's like when we went to record, we had booked a space and then stuff changed. And so there was a lot of last minute changes that happened on the day of recording him. But once we got him in the booth, it was great. It was super fun for me because I sat in the booth with him because it wasn't our regular booth that we recorded at. We went to a different studio. And so I got to sit across from him. And same thing with Trisha, that I actually got to read the scenes like right across from them, which I think

was one a lot of fun for me but I think it also adds to the emotional performance for those scenes. Yeah they have like a very like intimate they the the way they communicated in this and the way you guys kind of interact has an intimacy that we haven't gotten in the show yet just that that and it really worked just like how all of that came together. So Amy since you've been in all three seasons

Have you only played one character per each season? Because I know how Jonathan works and I can imagine that there's some others. The first one, I was like a Tilda Swenton-y type mother demon creature that had a big monologue at the end that was like, you know, I'm the big bad thing.

thing but also I'm justified in doing it um and then the second one was a comedy I don't I mean it really was and I was like insane I was just a I was very emotional and and a real like like you know nasty word for a lady like I was just uh truly truly gnarly um landed myself in jail um

and should have been in jail, but just yelled a lot. It was just so nasty. And then this one, I think this is the character that's the closest to me, but not that I've killed a whole bunch of people and I don't care about people's lives, but she's just actually really grounded if you take the circumstances into context.

So, but yeah, what's really weird hearing it back is like, I was not, I had zero volume. I felt like, oh God, I hope they can hear me. You know, like in the booth, there was like, I don't know if you were doing this too, Tiffany, like where you're like, hello, am I even vocalizing? It was just so, so quiet. But as it turns out, like, yeah, even in a like a really, really low toned whisper, my voice still came out. I don't know. That was surprising to me.

I mean, I think sometimes when you're in the booth, you don't know what it's going to sound like. Yeah. You're just kind of really having to trust, like when I'm recording, obviously with Jonathan and just like trust that he's hearing what we need to hear and certain things where it's like, he can tweak things or change things. I mean,

There are certain times where it's like, I'll listen to a first edit. Like, especially on this one, there were certain things where, because drama been so in it. And so listening to it constantly that sometimes it's like, I have to give it a listen and be like, Hey, like the music, the song that we have at the beginning. I remember listening to this episode and just being like for a minute for me, because the song was so cool.

I was like, it felt like I was listening to their mom's show for a second. I was like, because he'd been listening to it so much, he like knew exactly what it was. So it's crazy because sometimes it's Jonathan hearing something that we don't hear in the booth. But then on the flip side of that, it happens where it's like me listening to it back and being like, oh, well, for fresh ears, it sounds like this.

Yeah, the objective ears have been so helpful. Like, yeah, I thought this time I would try, I broke my own rule this episode, which was like, that I figured out at the beginning of the show that every time we come into the show and we're with Ran and doing all that, we have to be in world and it has to be a vignette. It can't just be

a floating voice in space on the radio. And then at the beginning of this episode, the music started that way. And then slowly, like the world materialized around you. But by the time it materialized around you, you would felt like you weren't in the show. And so we needed to like be in world right off the get go. And so, um,

Yeah, that was a great note. And we got the bumps. So there were all these pauses and stuff in the car drive because I couldn't find good car bump sounds like the dum-dum-dum, like you go over a...

a uh like a speed bump or or you know a small crater or whatever you're like working like and so the mars rocks and so every every once in a while in that you need a dump dump you know what i mean in the in the car to break up the dialogue and uh and it wasn't there and and in that but the moment it's in there that all that dialogue was like yep that's how it's supposed to be

Yeah. Amazing. Again, when we listened to it back, I was like, it's always funny because when you have actors have to say things that you know they know full well, where it's like, you know, I did a play recently and I had to be like, I don't know what Blade Runner is. And so for Amy to have to be like, Darth Vader? What? Oh my gosh. I forgot to say my favorite line of the episode. What is it? Oh, laser swords sound cool.

I don't know if it surpasses the meatball line, but it might be my second favorite out of the whole show. It's going to end up being like a t-shirt per episode with Allison's favorite line.

Yes. Jonathan, I do appreciate all the humor you threw in there. Mine is three. I got your six. That's my favorite. I giggled when I wrote that and then we giggled in the booth when we did it. Yes, exactly. Whoa. Landing an account this big will totally change my landscaping business. It's going to mean hiring more guys and more equipment and new trucks for the new guys to drive the new equipment in.

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I'm easy peasy. He goes, do you want to do it again? And I said, yes, I do want to do it again. And he said, that's time it's going to be bigger and better. And I said, I don't care. I'll do it anyway. Yeah. I mean, it did get really exciting when I was like, oh, you really mean it's going to be bigger and better.

I see you with the casting and having Tiffany as a producer. But I will say my experience has not really changed. I've always been in a small, dark, scary closet in wherever Jonathan has lived. The basement at first. Yeah, with him on the other side. Not doing a good job for us to get other actors later when you describe it that way. You get to go into a dark, scary closet in Jonathan's home. Yeah.

The booth is nicer now. Well, I think we're all used to this after the strike. Like, when have we not been in a dark, scary closet doing stuff on a microphone? But yes, my experience the whole way through has been pretty similar. It's just that I could see the trajectory of how much bigger...

the production and the cast and the effort being put into it is. - So you said that Three is the character you've done in this anthology that is most like you. So what was important for you to get across with this character?

Oh, I mean, I think it's actually really well written. I mean, the short answer is that she's just a girl, you know, like she's not a badass, really. She's just kind of she's surviving, but she's just she's also like completely traumatized. She's making some choices for herself. But at the end of the day, like I think she's a little jealous of the other child. Like, oh, OK, you know, like.

Like, okay, this is where things are going. Like, my life could have been different. But the other characters were, like, really heightened, I would say. And then this one is, you know, with the weird... I'll say weird, but, like, the little dialect thing choices and stuff and how nitty and gritty it all is. At the end of the day, she's got some toys that make her a little more badass, but she's just...

she's pretty normal and she's definitely vulnerable and breakable and squishy and she knows it. So yeah, I think getting across some of these marks, you know, and here's what I'll say about the writing of it that's really cool is you hear this voice and it does sound robotic and she comes in with tough guy attitude and then it's like when she takes her helmet off and you can hear that, oh okay, they're actually going to have a rapport. That's when the voice changes and it's not

It's the voice and the tone. It's like, okay, we're actually getting a human being here, not this robot facade that she's putting on. And I think the tone, yeah, the audio just enhances that theme. I just realized we haven't discussed where you currently are. Like, we have behind the scenes. Yeah, we got to explain this. People watching this are probably like, is she in a hotel room? Yeah.

Yeah, but I'm wearing a dress. But yeah, talk to us about what you're doing because you're at Gen Con right now. So talk to us about what you're doing there. I'm at Gen Con. Okay, great. This is the best Gen Con I've ever done because I finally get... I get a room to myself. Look, this is my bed and also that is also my bed. I love it when I get the two beds because I'm like, one bed's for me to sleep in and one bed's for me to dump all my clothes out on. I don't want...

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I was going to say to fart in. That's the fart. But at Gen Con this year, I'm playing Magic the Gathering Commander with Command Zone people at a Game Nights Live. And that's partnering with Wizards of the Coast. And then I'm also playing music shows. So I've got a couple of albums. They're all nerdy D&D music. And I'm playing...

a couple of shows Thursday and Saturday and then I'm also doing Roll for Sandwich Live. I don't know if anyone... Oh, yeah. I'm sure there's some crossover affairs, but...

Jacob Powell, uh, does roll for sandwich where he just builds a random sandwich based on die rolls. And, um, and I, I get to do it with him live. So I think, I think the whole job is eating sandwiches and talking about how good or not good they are. There are worse things in life. Right up my alley. Exactly. Yeah. So it's going to be a really, really fun Gen Con. Mostly it's going to be the magic thing. um, Hey, and all of, I will say all of the friends that I have gone to Gen Con with for a decade, um,

two of them do work for Command Zone and then the other three have been like, oh, they'll stay in the rooms and stuff and then they've somehow been

included in the Game Nights Live now and so they're like banner holders and like entourage dancers and it's like oh the gang's all back together so it feels like yeah this is the crew of people that once a year will go to Big Bear or like Arrowhead and just just dive into the vice of food and games and drink for like four days and so it's like the rider dies yeah it's really fun

I love it because like it's I mean like what we talked about this with this show in particular it's like having cast come in where it's like this friend recommended this friend recommended this friend this friend knows this person where it's like Amy texted me and was like I was talking to all the command zone guys and they were all saying hi and I'm like I love it because it's like yeah this

You were a topic of conversation tonight because it was Olivia Gobert Hicks is here too. And anyway, yeah, it's a great, the Venn diagram's a great big circle. And your music performance is actually with another one of our cast members. Ooh. Yeah.

Yes, Blythe Renee. Yeah, she's a dear friend of mine. And they moved actually recently, so they're not in LA anymore. But, you know, still a lot of love. And I'll see her. Yeah, I'll definitely be singing songs with her. She decided this season, we were talking about parts. Blythe last season played the...

played the, uh, the Hunter's Guide, which was amazing. And so, so I was like, do you want to come back and play every robot in the season? And she's like, yes. So every robotic voice in this season is Blythe. Oh, she's our Alan Crudick. Oh my gosh. She, she,

She should be her. She's got pipes, man. Like I can sing, you know what I mean? But she can sing. Like that girl is out of control. Like don't, if you go to karaoke with her, do not go after her. Cause it's one of those like, what? Like, like, like jock, uh, Broadway jock pop voices. She's amazing. Love it.

Yeah. Well, thank you for joining us during Gen Con. I feel very honored that you like set up in your fancy hotel room to chat with us. I know. Yeah. Well, this is just the minor look. You're like, look at my hotel room in Indianapolis. I do have a very important question for you, though. What do you think it takes to make a great sci-fi story?

Oh, I actually have a lot of point of view on this. I think your great sci-fi story should have something allegorical to modern day. Like something that's metaphorical, that has a metaphor to something that actually is going on. I have written some stuff where it's like,

autobiographical in a way or like everyone's expecting me to write something like that like romance and dating and what that's like and there's a lot of pressure there and I have changed my mind that I think that you need to have like a direct connection to the source material. I actually think fiction including science fiction

delivers way more truth and has a way like, like easier to handle being a core real truth and relationships and themes than like autobiographical stuff. I'm not going to, I'm not going to be hard and fast in it because I have seen some autobiographical stuff that's like, oh damn, that hits. But I think, I think here's what I think. The, the themes can't help but come through when you're doing sci-fi. I mean, fingers crossed if you're doing it right. And I,

And because of that, like you get a lot of freedom to kind of push limits and say things that maybe you don't feel comfortable, like just getting on our Instagram live and going, hey, you know, this sucks, doesn't it? You know, so I think this I think this 100% can relate back and you can't draw the lines like wake up. But yeah, that's what I think.

Yeah, that's my answer. A bit of a metaphor to what's actually really going on. I think that's exactly why Star Trek was so successful and has been so successful for like literally decades upon decades because that's what they started off doing. Yeah. Which I think a lot of people kind of missed. All Star Trek at the beginning was just commentary on modern day issues and, you know, critiques of things that you didn't hear about throughout the time. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, look, D-Man even said it for a reason. Star Trek and Doctor Who have so much state power. Well, it's not just sci-fi either. There's a lot of what-if genres, right? So like, you know, because horror falls into that. Yeah, for sure. The what-ifs. And the more they're connected to something visceral and real that we actually understand on a personal level, the more impactful and entertaining they are.

For me, I'd always, Star Trek was one of the first things I like got obsessed with as a kid with my family, but also in comic books where it's like,

all of the genre stuff, sci-fi, horror, all of those things. It's like it opens up a space for you to be able to talk about things that sometimes are uncomfortable. I always go back to this graphic novel called The Pride of Baghdad and it was about the war but it was about all of these, the pride of lions and like how they were surviving in Baghdad and it's like,

because it was lions, it just opened up this whole other conversation to be able to be had in a way that was so different than just saying like, this is how I feel about this. This is how I feel about this thing. And so it's like, I think they're in every kind of genre stuff. If it's,

done to the best of its ability I think it will open up conversations to be able to have those moments to say like how do we feel about this like I mean how do we feel about the idea of I mean and this book was written so long ago but it's like the idea of people talking about colonizing Mars or colonizing the moon like how do we actually feel about that what would that look like how would it though with all of the other countries and places in the world thinking that they should own part of it and what that would look like um

So I think it's like, I think with sci-fi hopefully, like I said, it just opens up conversation. For sure. I love that. So that's done really well. The other thing that is done really well here that I think is very necessary, and this is for all genre, is a definition of magic. And that means just like what the world building is. And fundamentally what that means to me is access to materials, right?

and knowing like what is, is it metal? Is it plastic? Is it stone? Are things made of bone? Like what are things made of? And then what, what's the accessibility to those materials, which is like so weird. But as a dungeon master, I'm like always thinking about that. Like, Oh, rubber's not, that's pretty synthetic. We're not going to do that glass. Okay. Glass is fine. Okay. We'll do a glass, you know, like windows and stuff like that. Um,

But if they have, you know, metal is kind of, there's a hierarchy to metal. And that, I mean, we see it here even in this episode that like, oh, there's collagen. There's also they're farming the food the way they're doing that. And then they're also farming people. You know, there's like these materials that, the accessibility to materials is a very, it's something that I'm like hyper-

It's like one decision. Like when you're Dungeon Mastering or Worldbuilding, it's kind of one decision, but you have to make it. And then it has to mean something. And, you know, in that is currency as well. But anyway, that tickled my bone. That made me happy. It's okay. We've already said the show is rated R. Well, it made me very happy.

We already talked about partying in one video. This is an explicit podcast. It's fine. We're already rated. What podcast is it? That's right. When you know what that is, then the audience can relax. They're like, oh, got it. That is an important resource. That is a less important resource. Who has access to that? Everyone can calm down when they know what is going on. That's why it drives me insane when a sci-fi show breaks its own rules.

I'm like, I will buy anything you set up for me. But the moment you break those rules, you've lost me. Yeah. Unless it's part of the story. Right, right. Only women can use magic, except it's one man. Jumping into this, one of the cool things was like, we are children of abundance, especially in the United States. We do not...

We understand cultures of scarcity. We don't. Like, we're getting the tiniest, tiniest taste of what that might potentially feel like just with, like, the things that have happened in the economy over the last few years. But, you know, when I was like, well, if they're going to Mars and they're doing this crazy thing, it's not going to be a culture of abundance. It's going to be a culture of scarcity. And situational...

Those situations define sociology. Our cultures are built up by the way we live day to day. And so I did my best across the board with every character to ask, like, how does Mars impact who they are as a person? And can they...

can they show us that in a way that doesn't require exposition? Cause like we, there's a lot of exposition because you have to, but how many different ways can a character present their perspective through the, the reference that comes from that culture of scarcity across a bunch of different things? Like the farmers, they fight the soil because the soil on Mars is toxic and

Making it usable is something that takes generations. These farmers have spent generations getting the soil inside of their greenhouses to be fruitful. And so for them, the concept of fruitfulness is essential to them as people. It's not religious, but it feels a little religious because that's the central great work of their lives is growing.

you know, creating and maintaining fruitfulness inside of those greenhouses.

Well, I feel like that's a great segue to get to our rapid fire with Amy because now she has to think about how she would survive on Mars. Oh, here we go. Hint, hint, hint. So, Amy, this is just for you. This is our rapid fire. We call it the exiles list. I'm going to ask you five questions super fast. Just first thing that pops into your mind is what we want. Okay. All right. You ready? Okay. Here we go. Yeah. Welcome to the exiles list. If you were exiled on a foreign planet, what would you bring? Music. Music.

One sci-fi show, book or movie you would bring with you? Oh, I can't remember the name. The one that lots of books, many books, a big detective, the detective who like, who turns into a crazy. No, no, no.

Oh my God. What is it called? The Expanse. The Expanse. Oh, yeah. But the book. The book. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Okay. One food you'd bring. Gummy worms. What? Let's just be honest. Yeah. You will last exactly 16 hours. All day.

- I know, I know. It was the first thing that popped into my head. But look, you know, you get the sugar, you need the other. - You'll have the best 16 hours of your life. Okay, do you think you would survive on Mars or in the world of the exile?

Oh, I think I'd be adaptable. I don't think I would thrive. There's a lot of me that's a soft girl. But yeah, yeah, I think I'd figure it out. I'd figure it out, but I don't think I would thrive. I think I'd, I think it'd be pretty on the lower echelon. But, you know, yeah.

I mean, you'd have to figure it out after the gummy worms were gone. I mean potatoes. I mean potatoes, y'all. There you go. Potatoes. It's always potatoes. And one final question. Would you ever choose to live on Mars? No.

No, again, I think I'm just a bit of a soft girl. You know, like my hardness is like, oh, I go to Muay Thai classes where we pretend to give each other up. And let's be honest, like we do, we hit each other. But, you know, the gloves have pillows on the end of them. So you're fine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. What are we saying on Earth? I like the internet. Amy would be like the bruiser and then I would have food. Allison and I would be like, we have potatoes. And we would be bringing the food and Amy would be like,

Amy's the price of our bunch, apparently. And we just make sure she gets sleep at the end of the night. I'm your spastic child, yeah. She crashes real hard. Yeah. It's 8 p.m., bath time and then nighttime, okay? I get the zoomies and then I pass out. Speaking of which, our biggest critic just died.

made an appearance in the background. I don't know if you guys were, for those who were here for the first episode. Is it your child? He like snuck in to basically be like, wrap it up. Wrap it up, guy. Wrap it up, dad. Yeah. Come on. Well, yeah, we are right at the end of our show though. Tiffany, as always, thank you for joining us. Amy, thank you for giving us your time during your awesome Gen Con weekend. We hope you have a blast out there. Have fun with all your shows. Thank you.

Oh my gosh. Lovely to be here. Yes. And it is time to wrap up, wrap things up for this installment of the after show. Thank you to everyone who came out to be a part of the live experience. The show will be taking a brief hiatus for August with our next mini-sode releasing on August 27th.

And you can come out and join us live for our next after show on September 3rd at 7 p.m. Pacific time to listen with other fans and get a chance to interact with the cast like you were doing tonight. Once again, that will be September 3rd, 7 p.m. Pacific on twitch.com slash effing funny. Thank you again to our guests, of course, and to our technical team and Death Queen Vex and all of our mods. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We want to hear your feedback. So make sure to reach out to us. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram under the handle at CM Anthology or online at www.cmanthology.com. I was going to say thanks to Allison and Jonathan both for hosting tonight.

Allison for coming back from Comic-Con and hopping on the show. Yeah, of course. Oh, yeah. Y'all had the cons. The nerd cons are going wild. They've been busy. Y'all are killing it, too. Both of you. I can't believe Jun-Con's the weekend after Comic-Con. That was, I don't know who in nerd hell planned that for us, but man, they sure did.

All right, please make sure to like, review, and subscribe and or comment on your favorite podcast app. The Exile is based on Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey, a literary work in the public domain. And the show is produced in accordance with U.S. copyright law. Curious Matter Anthology is produced by the Knightsville Workshop in association with FFUNNY Productions. Copyright Knightsville Workshop 2024. All rights reserved. Have a great few weeks and we'll be right back here with some pretty great new episodes coming up in September.

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