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Starting May 3rd – Meaningless Minutia: The Podcast

Hello, how’s everyone doing and I hope this finds you doing well. Just letting you know that I started a new podcast called: Meaningless Minutia, that begins May 3rd.

A fun show that explores interesting, yet meaningless factoids such as: Why’s it’s illegal to hunt camels in Arizona, Can you really buy a flying bicycle and many other bizarre subjects.

If this sound like your cup of tea you can subscribe at either:

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/…/meaningles…/id1561531444…

Or Stitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/show/meaninglessminutias-podcast

Or just go to the website: https://meaninglessminutiapodcast.com

And listen to it there.

It’s short and fun and hopefully you’ll enjoy it.

Virtual Read of Mr. Ribbitz @ The Bay City Players

Proof Theater People Should Never Take Themselves Too Seriously

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Aesop adaptation Challenge: The Bear and the Travelers

My writer’s group Eclectic Voices challenged each other to write our own adaptation to one of Aesop’s Fables. The Bear and the Travelers is the one that I picked.

The Bear and the Travelers 

By Jeff Folschinsky

Okay, I’m going to just lay this all out there, and you can just make up your own damn minds. Because I know there’s a lot of hullabaloo going around and I just want to get my side of this told. 

You see, me and my buddy went hiking. Not how I would have normally chose to spend my Saturday, but my friend you see, he’s really into this outdoorsy stuff. And, if I’m being really honest with myself, I needed to drop a few pounds, so what the hey, walking seemed an easy enough way to accomplish that. 

Anyway, I’m not sure where we are, since he was driving and I was sleeping one off on the trip up to; well, wherever we ended up. It was very woodsy I can tell you that; kind of scenic; gorgeous backdrop of Americana if you like that type of thing?  

Kind of hot; I was sweating like a pig in heat, excuse the visualization. My fault completely, my buddy told me to bring a hat but I forgot, so I ended up borrowing his Bruce Springsteen Born to Run commemorative bandana. Not really my style but beggars can’t be choosers.

So anyway, we ended up deep in these woods, and the one thing that my buddy neglected to tell me, is that this idyllic, beautiful, semi-serene surroundings was filled with animals. Not just any animals minds you, but big animals; really, really big animals; bears to be more precise. 

Yep, heard them off in the distance and my buddy said, “oh, bears, maybe we’ll get to see one” 

Now, I’m all for enjoying the great outdoors but coming in contact with a 600 plus pound death machine is not my idea of enjoyment. My buddy though, he didn’t seemed phased by the idea.

That was until we actually did come face-to-face with a  big black 600 plus pound death machine. 

Now, I’m not sure what the normal protocol is in a situation like this, but running seemed liked a good call. So when my buddy said we should get out of here, that’s exactly what I did. I guess this was the wrong thing to do because I heard him yell, “no, wait—” and then, “oh hell,” and then heard him catching up behind me. 

We stop and looked back and that bear was coming at us. Not running at us mind you, but coming at us at a nice leisurely pace. I guess he thought it was a nice day so why not make the most of it. 

Well, I saw that bear a coming so I did what I thought was the most logical thing. I hightailed it up the nearest tree I could find. I assumed my buddy would be following after me but when I looked back he was just standing there winded. Yep, mister mountain man was hell on wheels when it came to walking but throw a slight sprint into the mix, and he’s done. I yelled out, “get up the tree you big dumb-dumb,” but he just sat there breathing heavy. 

This is when he got the bright idea to drop down on the ground and pretend he was dead. I guess that’s what you’re supposed to do when a bear comes up on you, because they don’t like dead bodies. Which I can’t blame the bear for, because I mean; who likes dead bodies? Still I thought my buddy was a goner when that bear came up on him. 

The strangest thing happened though. The bear came up to him, and paused for second as if he were contemplating the situation. Then the bear looked up at me in the tree and then back at my buddy, and paused for another second. The bear then put his mouth to my buddies ear, and I was like, “oh my lord, here it comes,” but nothing happened. The bear just grunted and walked away. 

Well, I just stayed up in that tree until my buddy got up and called me down. When I got down, we just silently walked back to his car. I couldn’t stand it though so after a few minutes I asked him, “hey, that bear got pretty close to you. It was almost as if he was telling you something.” 

“As a matter of fact he did tell me something,” he replied. “He told me to never again travel with a friend who would desert me at the first sign of danger.” 

Needless the say we didn’t say much on the way home. Later on I asked my buddy about what the bear said again, and he repeated what he said before. He followed it up with saying that, “the moral is, that misfortune test the sincerity of friendship.”

Seemed kind of harsh, but I guess the truth often is, but considering everything I told you. Doesn’t that bear seem a little too judgy?

Needless to say, I don’t go hiking with my buddy no more.  

    

The Adventures of Pistol Pete

Here some fun silliness. My buddy Mark Bate wrote this and starred in it. I recorded and produced it and did some of the voices, along with Ariel Funk and Sean Kozma. It’s called the adventures of Pistol Pete.

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Triangles. Opening March 27th

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So, I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that my play, Triangles will be opening on March 27th as part of Force of Nature Productions 5th Season. It will be directed by Paul Millet, who directed my first full length play The Unsinkable Bismarck.

This marks Paul’s first directing effort since stepping away from Unbound Productions (The Creators of the wildly popular theatrical halloween event Wicked Lit). Paul’s comes up with a unique way for the audience to experience the show and I can’t wait for everyone to see it.

https://www.fonproductions.com/triangles.html

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Production Team for New Play I wrote.

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Scrapping Scrap Metal

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Natures Flower Bed

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