A Delight with Lauren Radel

(episode 6)

GIANA: Hi friends! We did not use our usual microphones for this episode and recorded straight into our computers, so the sound quality is going to be a little different than you're used to. Just a heads up. Have fun!

[simple ukulele melody]

JAMIE: It's The Broadly Entertaining Podcast for all you Femme Broads, Them Broads and Dude Broads out there.

GIANA: We've got some fun, games, and feminism coming at you, and, thanks for letting us entertain you. Let's party!

[ukulele continues]

JAMIE: Hello and welcome! I am Jamie and I would 100% choose a donkey over a giraffe.

GIANA: I am Giana and I have some pretty remarkable friends, I must say.

LAUREN: (from a slight distance) I'm Lauren and I cook!

[laughter]

GIANA: Yeah! Perfect.

[ukulele fades out on a strum, closes with whistled melody of podcast theme jingle]

JAMIE: This is technically the seventh episode of The Broadly Entertaining Podcast, though we numbered the last one five-and-a-half, so now we are officially messing with reality.

GIANA: And that's good. Reality could usually use a little messing with. Also one could argue that reality doesn't even exist.

JAMIE: Oooh, trippy man! Trippy…

GIANA: Those of you out there who've listened to every episode so far we— first of all, thank you. That's amazing.

JAMIE: Yeah. Huge, huge thank you, and we can't wait to get those voice memos from you telling us your favorite, and your least favorite, parts.

GIANA: Oh, that's a good reminder, because I was gonna say you may notice that we continue to make tweaks and changes as we work towards a hopefully better and better product for you to enjoy every month.

JAMIE: Yeah we do. Yeah we do! Oh for instance you can hop over to the Broadly Entertaining YouTube channel where we have been sharing video versions of the last few episodes. Still working out some technical kinks in the process but it is for sure a different experience than the strictly audio version. I got dressed up for today.

GIANA: Oh! I wore this shirt.

JAMIE: Nice. “Give a crap.”

GIANA: Give a crap already! / JAMIE: For those of you who aren’t looking at the video.

GIANA: Exactly! Yeah, give a crap, already.

But, not the least difference is getting to see our Silly, smiling faces in addition to hearing our sweet and melodic voices.

JAMIE: Oh so melodic. I mean, you, sure, but that's definitely not the first word people use to describe my tone.

GIANA: Oh boy. Well, we can let our listeners judge for themselves, I suppose, and then tell us about it when they give us their feedback, in the comments and suggestions and requests and the questions that they want us to answer.

JAMIE: Yeah!

That was— that was me recording something, that was a voice memo recording, by the way, for people who are like, “Is she miming lighting a match in front of her face?” Alright, driving it home, driving it home. Friends, you can email BroadlyEntertaining@gmail.com with any thoughts you want to share. Type ‘em out, send a voice memo, whatever you prefer.

GIANA: And if you send a voice memo, let us know if we can include it in a future episode.

JAMIE: Ooh, good call. Consent is key.

GIANA: Yeah it is.

JAMIE: Yeah. So, speaking of new things and changes to the format, we have our first guest in today's episode. [bright ukulele chords] Yes! We will be joined in just a little bit by the incomparable Lauren Radel. She is a talented chef, a dear colleague and supporter of Broadly Entertaining, and really just an overall good person.

GIANA: We are so grateful for this time with Lauren and very excited to introduce to her to those of you that don't know her yet, because we've worked with her a couple of times. Perhaps you went to the pop-up with chef Lauren Radel at the… Stillhouse Distillery?

JAMIE: The Van Brunt Stillhouse in Brooklyn.

GIANA: At the Van Brunt Stillhouse in Brooklyn. She did an amazing job. I don't know if you remember this, Jamie, but she cooked a three, or was it a four? Three or four course meal? For two seatings, on campfire stoves like a boss. It was incredible. She's a dear dear friend of mine. I had the pleasure of quarantining with her in the first quarantine, and we became very close so I'm excited to have her on the show today.

JAMIE: Yes! And not just a camp stove, mind you, because once the sun went down there was a headlamp involved. [Giana laughs] And it was still delicious fine dining food—on bamboo plates—but it was such a treat, such a treat.

You know we love capable women, especially when they use their skills to do good in the world, and of course Lauren is no exception there. In addition to the stellar work we are lucky enough to have had her do for BE events, she has worked with and contributed to World Central Kitchen, and personally always looks for ways to contribute portions of her own earnings to causes and communities that tie to the event at hand.

GIANA: We are so eager for you to all meet Lauren and for ourselves to get to spend some time with such a fun friend, of course.

JAMIE: Yes! It's going to be such a delight. Yay! And who doesn't need a delight?

GIANA: I mean, we all need a delight.

JAMIE: Amen. / GIANA: Everyday.

JAMIE: I am going to pull the focus back to us for a minute, though—as though we haven't been the only ones talking this whole time [they laugh], but can we talk more about doing good while having a good time in the context of Broadly Entertaining?

GIANA: Well we sure can, of course. It is right up our alley, that's what we do!

JAMIE: Yeah. Exactly. Which is why I thought maybe we could each share one favorite example of when we as a company lived or live up to that goal.

GIANA: Well, I mean, it would be silly for me to not mention our Party, Period., which was a concept by one of our— actually perhaps our very first contractor, Hope Morawa. She came to us, we were like, if you can do anything, if you could use us in any way, this party company, our planning, like, whatever. What would you want to do? And she's like, “Well, I kind of thought about doing a period party,” and she told us about what it was and you and I, like, fell in love immediately and that to this day is still one of my favorite events that we put off— we put on.

We put it off sometimes. During Covid we had to put it off a little bit, but when we put it on it's an amazing time, it's always a rager! We have live bands and DJs (those are plural versions of those words), and all sorts of fun. So I'm excited to do that again soon. Hopefully we won't be putting it off for much longer before we put another one on.

JAMIE: Yeah!

GIANA: Raising money for menstrual equity. Raising products for folks that need them—on the streets, in prisons, you name it. So that's how you get into the party, is a box of tampons or pads or a donation that goes towards things. So, love that, love that!

JAMIE: Yeah! A small contribution toward ending period poverty and you get to come party with the Broads and their friends and amazing musicians and always in an awesome bar or venue. So yeah, that's a good one. That is a great one, actually. I'm gonna kick that up a notch, Giana. That is a great one. 

I am going to talk about our SCOTUS Special, which we may have mentioned in passing in previous episodes, but, in short, our SCOTUS Special is for queer couples getting married. You know, some of us feel like we're losing some rights and we feel like some rights are on the line. Ya know, nothing is written in stone, so if you are a queer couple getting married and you come to Broadly Entertaining we will very happily donate a portion of your officiation fee to the queer-focused organization of your choosing.

I have a wedding coming up in October and I am donating a portion of our officiation fee to an organization in Austin called Out Youth. We have donated to the National Center for Transgender Equality. We have donated to The Trevor Project; we have also done fundraisers for them, they are a great organization. But we basically put this into effect, like, the day Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in. Sworn in? Approved by the Senate? I don't remember the exact timeline, but you know, it just felt like one of those, oh man things are on the line, moments, and so we're very happy to be able to take what we do and give back good to a community that we love, and are part of to a certain degree.

GIANA: Absolutely. That's right.

Well go us. You know. I— if I may lean a little bit into the bragging and patting ourselves on the back, but go us. It makes me feel good to do that kind of work.

JAMIE: Yes. 100% and brag and pat away. You know, obviously we don't do it for the accolades (or hopefully obviously) but it is important to talk about it so people know where we're coming from, and maybe even to encourage our listeners and viewers to donate to or volunteer to causes and groups that they support, and you know, sometimes it just takes a little nudge hearing about what somebody else is doing.

GIANA: Mm hmm. [ukulele starts to fade up in the background] Well. I’m bringing us back around. It is time, my friends, to bring Lauren to the digital stage.

[ukulele plays, and ends with a flourish]

JAMIE: And there you are, right off the bean bag and in front of the computer screen. Hello, Lauren, hello! Thanks for joining us.

LAUREN: Thanks for having me.

GIANA: Well, friends, this is our official introduction to chef Lauren Radel, dear friend and woman of many many talents. She is a fellow organizational buddy. We like to plan things and make lists together—

LAUREN: Love a list.

GIANA: it’s one of the things that we have in common with one another. It makes it easy to work with each other, which is great.

[everyone laughs a little]

LAUREN: Hello!

JAMIE: Yay! Should we just dive on in and we'll let everyone get to know you through some questions we ask you? And you can share as much or as little as you want to share!

LAUREN: That sounds fantastic.

JAMIE: We have talked about what an amazing chef you are, how talented we think you are, how you are so capable of working in all the environments, but how did you get there? How did you end up being a professional cook? Did it, you know, were you like, at the Playskool kitchen everyday as a 3-year-old or was it a later in life thing? Tell us about it.

LAUREN: So I actually— My parents owned restaurants when I was growing up, so I grew up in a restaurant. My dad and my grandfather were butchers and then they went into the restaurant business, so there is a strong tie to food. It runs deep in my family. But yeah so I grew up in— When I was born, we went to the restaurant before we went home from the hospital [Giana and Jamie laugh] so it's like, it's just in my blood.

My parents ended up selling the restaurant, I think I was a preteen, and then I just always was drawn to food and then after college I took a tour of Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena and thought I was just taking a tour and then signed my little life away and started like a month later. That kind of began the career but I've always cooked. Like even in high school friends would come over to my house and I would make food. You know it was just always my gift to people, was to feed them.

GIANA: That's nice. You’ve fed me lots of times and it's great every single time.

Did you have any mentors? Like, you said— You mentioned that your dad and you have like familial ties but like— Maybe those are it, maybe there are more. 

LAUREN: So I think like, my work ethic starts with my family and attention to detail and quality control. Like my dad used to go every morning and pick out every piece of fish and meat that was served to customers. So every morning, you know like at 4:00 AM, he would go to the fish market, to the butchers downtown. He was— he knew them because he had been in the business for so long, but still it was just like, quality was always number one. And so work ethic I definitely think is tied to my family, but they're not cooks. They don't cook; they were restaurateurs and they’re entrepreneurs.

I've been really really fortunate to have really wonderful bosses. The first restaurant I worked at professionally was Celestino Drago and that kind of was an introduction into fine dining cooking, and that was really interesting and fantastic. Then when I moved to New York I had a chef, Ben Pollinger, and we were at Oceana and that was kind of… that was kind of a life changing job because the people that I worked with were so good. Like everyone was just really good and they cared, and it was slightly competitive but in a really nice, fun way. There was pressure but it was, you know, you could handle it, you know, like it was okay. But it really— I learned so much working there. I feel like that was a really great base for me, and I felt comfortable in a kitchen after that. I really felt comfortable after that.

And then I worked with Sara Jenkins after that, and she, to this day, is a very dear friend of mine, and I learn from her every time I'm in the kitchen with her. Like, she's just a pleasure to work with. She cuts no corners on just making sure that you are putting the best of the best on the plate for every person.

Then also another person that has been a huge influence on my career is Amanda Freitag. I worked with her for a few years as her chef de cuisine at her restaurant and then we’ve worked since on a lot of different projects. She is my girl, like… she's my girl! She's amazing. We're very different people and have very different directions in our careers, but I learn from her every time I’m with her. She brings so much to the table that is so not in my wheelhouse, you know? So, it's really nice.

GIANA: Mm hmm.

JAMIE: Yeah. There's a lot in what you're saying about Sara and Amanda specifically that reminds me of my working relationship with Giana. I feel like when I am working with Giana on an event there's always something that she does or thinks of that I'm like, “Yeah, that is great! So glad to be on a team with you.”

GIANA: Ohh, stop it. Come on!

LAUREN: I like being on a friend team with her, too. [laughs] She does the same thing for me in life, all the time.

JAMIE: Aw, you blushing?

Alright, well, so we have some of your past experience, and I do want to ask if you've been watching The Bear but you know everybody is talking about that so we can talk about— Oh you want to answer that question?

LAUREN: I do because I— Okay so on Friday I will have been a non-smoker for a month, after 20 years of smoking. So I got hypnotized and it's been successful, but, that particular show which has been recommended by so many people, I feel like might be a very strong trigger for me, so I'm just gonna wait a little bit longer to start it, because I just want to be smart about it, because I feel like I will understand everything that's g— like, I'll feel it. So, I’m going to give myself maybe another week or two.

JAMIE: Yeah, that's fair enough. That’s fair enough. They do also smoke a lot in that show so…

LAUREN: Of course. I mean, I was that per— I feel like everything I've heard about it: that was my life, you know? Or a version of it, you know, so…

JAMIE: I hear ya. Yeah, I hear ya.

GIANA: Well going from your influences and who has influenced you, I know that these two— ‘cause I get the pleasure of hearing about your work and what you do with everybody all the time, all the time. Which is great for me, but I know just recently you acquired something that is really exciting and connects to one of those two ladies. Do you want to talk about it?

LAUREN: Yeah I do. I have partnered with a few people one of them being my husband and then also our friends, the Perlmutters, Todd and Adrian. We purchased a building in Parksville, USA, and it's going to be called Marlow and Eddie’s Community Market where we're bringing in a bunch of, well, a few—the building is not ginormous—but a few local vendors: food, drink, farming, just really highlighting the area. We are opening a business in there, as well, as one of the vendors, and we were very very fortunate and we're very excited to announce that we’ve acquired Porchetta. I know that people that are from New York City for sure know this, I mean, it's an infamous sandwich shop in the East Village and it was Sara Jenkins’. She had unfortunately closed the doors, I think seven or eight years ago, but the product is so fantastic and the world needs it and she has her hands full with her own projects right now, so I'm taking it on and we're bringing it back—

GIANA: Yeah!

LAUREN: —and Porchetta will be back in the world.

GIANA: That’s exciting.

LAUREN: It's very exciting.

JAMIE: That's super exciting!

GIANA: And, really close to my house, which is— I live out in the woods and so anything that close to my house that's gonna be that awesome and delicious, I am 100% for.

LAUREN: Yeah. I'm very excited for this project. I mean it's also a very full circle type thing, like, just being able to continue to share Sara’s recipe, even though, you know, with my skills in business and operations. I think it's gonna be really awesome and I'm honored to be able to share this product.

We will be at New York Food and Wine Festival this year, October 13. We're doing the aperitivo event in Industry City so all you New Yawkas, get ya tickets.

JAMIE: [in exaggerated NYC accent] Yeah! Alright, we'll make sure we drop a link in the show notes so everybody can get the info, for the New York Food & Wine Festival!

LAUREN: Yeah!

JAMIE: Well, speaking of, you know, feeling good and feeding people, we mentioned earlier that you don’t just do a job and run away with the money. It is important to you to contribute back to the world in ways that you are capable, and we would love to hear a little bit more from you about what that looks like.

LAUREN: One of the things that I've—again in this freelance time that I've had in the last six or seven years—is kind of be able to explore cooking different cuisines from different cultures, different countries, and I also have been very fortunate to do a fair amount of traveling, so I've been able to taste foods and really see what has piqued my interest and then what I want to c— You know like, when you're in a restaurant you— it’s not a bad thing but you get stuck kind of cooking the same menu over and over again, and when I do these pop-ups I'm kind of able to cook whatever I want. And so what I've done is, I would pick a country that is interesting, either I've traveled to or I've heard about or maybe it was, you know, there's something going down in the news. Like, you know, there's a lot of trouble in these countries and so I really want to highlight what's happening there and bring awareness, really. So I'll do a pop-up, let's just say— I’ve done a couple Syrian pop-ups and one of the dinners that we did there was a family that was being sponsored by a church— I was not affiliated with the church but I was affiliated with helping the family, so proceeds from that dinner went to helping the family.

I would say that when I'm doing these pop-ups, the style is a little bit different in how the fundraising goes because I really try and take a lead from the actual country and how they dine. So if it's a very family style meal maybe we'll pull some money from the total of the check. If it's something that seems a little bit more individual, something like that where you might course it out, then maybe one of the dishes we pick and the proceeds from that goes to the charity.

I really think that refugee awareness and fundraising is kind of my—I feel like everyone has something that just like touches them, and that is really something that… It makes me sad and so I want to help in any way that I can. If I can give some money when I'm cooking then I do, so that's just kind of how I do it. [ukulele coming up in the background]

GIANA: Awesome.

JAMIE: Yeah.

GIANA: Well, should we play a little game?

LAUREN: Yeah!

[ukulele flourish]

GIANA: In all of The Broadly Entertaining Podcast we always try to have at least one game time segment, right? So it should be with you!

LAUREN: I love games.

GIANA: How’s about a good old fashioned Would You Rather?

LAUREN: Okay.

GIANA: OkayI Jamie?

JAMIE: Yeah! Great, 'cause it just so happens I came prepared with a couple Would You Rather questions [Giana and Lauren laugh] just in case that was the game we were gonna play. We like to be very well prepared here.

LAUREN: I love preparation. [laughs]

JAMIE: Great, so for those of you who don't know the rules to Would You Rather?, it is an either/or question; we are going to present two options and Lauren has to choose one of them. Lauren, you are free to ask questions and delve a little bit more deeply into each of the questions but at a certain point we will put a cap on the exploration and it will time to make a decision. [Giana laughs]

Because it can be— you can get real deep sometimes, you know?

GIANA: You can go deep. Yeah, you can go real deep.

LAUREN: Okay.

JAMIE: Okay, so, would you rather… never cook for yourself again or only be allowed to eat dishes with whatever your least favorite food is (which I feel like I should have asked you that first)—

GIANA: Tomatoes. / LAUREN: Tomatoes.

JAMIE: But you can prepare it any way you like. What was it?

GIANA: Tomatoes. / LAUREN: Tomatoes.

JAMIE: Oh tomatoes, okay. So, would you rather never be allowed to cook for yourself again, or you're only allowed to prepare dishes that have tomatoes?

LAUREN: Okay. Can the dishes that have tomatoes… Can I like… Well I I feel like maybe I would choose that, because there's different ways to have tomatoes and I don't dislike tomatoes in every form, so I think that maybe… Because I like— I want to cook. I think I'm way too controlling not to… [Giana laughs]

JAMIE: Fair enough! / LAUREN: Like, to hand it off completely… / GIANA: Yeah, yeah. Fair enough.

JAMIE: Yeah. The only rule is that tomatoes have to be involved. It's totally up to you everything else about the dish.

LAUREN: Yeah, I think I would do that one.

GIANA: Spaghetti and meatballs every night, yo!

LAUREN: Yeah-yuh!

[Giana laughs]

LAUREN: Pizza.

GIANA: Chicken parm, which is actually one of your favorite meals of all time.

LAUREN: It is.

GIANA: It's one of her “last meal” choices.

LAUREN: It is.

[ukulele flourish]

GIANA: Alright, decided. Question one, decided.

LAUREN: Yeah. Yeah.

JAMIE: Would you rather… own your dream restaurant in your dream location, but you have to work seven days a week and you're just barely scraping by all the time, or, have a completely balanced and well-funded life working for someone else and you never get to make contributions to the menu or management?

GIANA: I know the answer.

LAUREN: Uh, yeah. My own restaurant, I’ll work eight days if I need to.

[Everyone laughs]

JAMIE: Boom! Alright.

GIANA: Yeah. Yeah. Alright, well I have one that's not food related to close this out.

LAUREN: Okay.

GIANA: Would you rather—and this one goes for you too, Jamie, you can answer this one, too—would you rather your transportation option only be a donkey, or your transportation option only to be a giraffe?

[A thinking pause, underscored by gentle ukulele]

GIANA (cont’d): The floor’s open for questions.

LAUREN: How quick do— giraffes are pretty fast, yeah?

GIANA: They can be pretty fast.

LAUREN: Giraffe.

GIANA: Giraffe.

JAMIE: I'm gonna go with the donkey because I feel like donkeys are used to that kind of, like, long haul just keep going, and they could fit in any environment. I'd be worried about bringing a giraffe into a city. I mean I should probably be worried about bringing a donkey into the city, too, but…

LAUREN: [laughs] I mean I will say that it would probably be, like I have more experience— I've been horseback riding, so I feel like that ride would be familiar. Like, sitting on a donkey, but also like… Eeyore! You know, like, it's slow, like Eeyore.

GIANA: She does like to go fast.

LAUREN: I like to go fast.

[Jamie laughs – ukulele has continued scoring underneath]

JAMIE: We are going to just take a short break to hear a word from our sponsor, Broadly Entertaining Game Nights!

[musical transition with a shaker]

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[uptempo ukulele strums to transition]

JAMIE: Now it is time to celebrate women in our ongoing segment… BE a Feminist!

[short whistled melody over a simple percussive rhythm]

JAMIE (cont’d): I will kick it off this month with a shout out to The Bridge Collective. The Bridge Collective is a very small organization based right where I am in Austin, Texas, and they serve to give emergency contraception, pregnancy tests, condoms, reproductive health information, to people who need it. Mostly teenagers and college-age folk, and they're partnered with Jane's Due Process which is another Texas organization that is focused on reproductive justice and health. The Bridge Collective is an awesome organization.

We— I first joined up with them to hopefully drive people to abortions but that was right before SB8 took hold in Texas, so now we mostly deliver Plan B and… et cetera et cetera, but they have gotten a boost of interest recently and we have a lot of requests coming in, so they probably need some money, so I want to give The Bridge Collective a shout out! So if you’ve got 5 bucks, 10 bucks, 50 bucks to spare and you want to donate it to a reproductive justice organization on the ground in central Texas, go to TheBridgeCollective.org

GIANA: How about you, Ms. Lauren?

LAUREN: So, on your last episode, I believe it was? You guys had shared some documents about abortion awareness and this clinic that was happening, just really helping guide people that want to help and how to do that. And so there was a group of gals and a couple gentlemen who are strong supporters of women and their parts, and we went to this clinic together and it was really inspiring. It was really cool to be with a group of people that were wanting to help.

The reason that I thought it was really great was because there are different levels of activism and this kind of helped guide you in what you can do at the level that you're at and the time that you have and the resources that you have and everything. So we had come together after this clinic and we've come up with a few ways that we can help. We've started on phase one; we have a couple different things that we're doing and the first thing is we're actually sending packages, like care packages, to the people that are working in abortion clinics. Like, thank yous. Coffee and cookies and they're all donation products, and so we're putting these care packages together and I believe the second care package is being sent out this week. We have a bunch of different independent abortion clinics that we are sending them to.

Phase two is, what we're going to be doing is raising some money for post-abortion packages, like pads and gas cards and money. You know, just things that patients might need. But you know, raising some money and sending it to the clinics because they really know best. Like, I'm not an expert. I'm not a doctor, you know, surprise surprise. [laughter] So that’s phase two.

Phase three is, we're also working with some local bars in the East Village, and we will be starting with a bar that I'm very close with. My husband has a bar in the East Village called Double Down Saloon and we will be sponsoring an independent abortion clinic, so there’ll be small fundraisers. We haven't started yet but it is in the works and happening, and so the idea is that we kind of start with Double Down, we figure out what things, like what works best, and then we’ll outreach to other bars. Because there's nothing more punk rock than saying a big “F you” to the government and helping people that don't have help. So that's what we're doing.

But it was inspiring, and all the information that you guys sent on your last episode, that whole document package is so incredibly useful, so…

GIANA: Check it out again! / LAUREN: Check it out.

JAMIE: Yeah, awesome! We'll drop that link again, and for those of you who haven't heard the last episode yet, it was the Operation Save Abortion gathering put together by Abortion Access Front. So we are just sharing information that other amazing people have put together.

That's so cool, I love that you have a phase one, two and three. That’s amazing.

LAUREN: Yeah.

GIANA: Yeah! You listened to them!

LAUREN: We listened!

[laughing]

GIANA: My BE a Feminist segment today is just a poem I wanted to share with you all, that I found and thought it was great. It's called Fire and it's by Nikita Gill.

Remember what you must do

when they undervalue you,

when they think

your softness is your weakness,

when they treat your kindness

like it is their advantage.

You awaken

every dragon,

every wolf,

every monster

that sleeps inside you

and you remind them

what hell looks like

when it wears the skin

of a gentle human.

[reflection pause]

LAUREN: Amazing.

JAMIE: Beautiful.

GIANA: Yeah…

JAMIE: Thanks, thanks for sharing that. [ukulele melody begins to fade up in background] And thank you again, Lauren Radel, for joining us, and to all of you out there for listening, or watching on YouTube. Check our show notes for links, a transcript of this episode, or more information on Broadly Entertaining events and offerings mentioned in today’s show.

LAUREN: The Broadly Entertaining Podcast is written and produced by Giana DeGeiso and Jamie Rosler of Broadly Entertaining.

JAMIE: Oh, well done! We should hire you to do this for every one.

Giana writes and performs all of the theme music and segue songs, and is also our sound mixer and audio editor.

GIANA: And Jamie puts together the transcript, and the video version for YouTube, and a lot of the organizing that goes on before writing a podcast episode.

JAMIE: Aw, thanks bud.

GIANA: Mm hm.

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JAMIE: You can always find out more at BroadlyEntertaining.com and follow us on Instagram [at] Broadly Entertaining. Thanks for joining us, Broads! We’ll talk to you again soon. Bye!

GIANA: Bye!

LAUREN: Bye!

[bright ukulele flourish to close, followed by whistled jingle]

outtake - GIANA: Perfect. Perfect.