Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to Theme Party the Podcast. I'm
your party host, Moretta Mose In case this is your
first time listening to a TPTP episode, here is what
we're doing. Every season, I pick a theme and our
team comes up with their own ideas for an audio
drama that somehow fits that theme, even if it only
fits if you squint at it from far away. Once
they've made their episode, I invite them on to talk
about it. I am thrilled to be here with today's
party guest, Lindsey fun Lindsay is a South Florida based
voice actor and she's a fellow co founder of Lengthy
tangent Our Audio production House and serves as a producer,
an award winning sound designer, an actor, and many other roles.
Fun fact, we were working on our website lately and
I'm pretty sure Lindsay had the most production credits out
of everybody in the group. Lindsay, please say hello hello now, Lindsay,
I want to know if you agree with what kind
of party I think you would be now. I think
the party you would want would be a small group
friends get away where the goals to do quiet activities
and eat good food. Tasty food catered. Some probably include
cooking classes. Small groups mean only the best of the
best get invited away means a break from the every
day for more than a few hours. But I think
your personality is more of a friend's giving friends in
the kitchen together than eating a delicious meal, maybe playing
some D and D or board games after, and then
everybody skidattle's. Do you agree or no?
Speaker 2: I agree that the personality that most people get would
fit with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so the personality that I.
Speaker 2: Like to present to the world, you know, sure, I
think that my personality probably the one that is on
the inside, probably more suits like a dark slumber party.
Speaker 1: With like a scary dark Is that like an evil
slumber party? What's dark about it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Like like physically dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the scary movies.
Speaker 3: Like physically dark.
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, nobody can see you eating, so that
you can just shove the popcorn in as fast as
you can. I don't know what it is about popcorn,
but it's just, you know, no one should watch me.
Speaker 1: It's also ninety percent air, So is there any other
way to eat it other than shoveling it into your mouth?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But then we paid somebody afterwards. In my personality party,
we paid somebody afterwards to come and vacuum away the evidence.
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah cool. The theme for this
season is family traditions. Did your story fit the theme?
Yes or no?
Speaker 3: Yes? I think that it definitely did, rightly allowed to not.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: That's the joke of that question, is that every time
I ask it, everybody's gonna say yes, fingers crossed.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, yes it did. Hopefully you've listened to it already,
the listeners.
Speaker 2: The whole point of my episode is that there is
a family tradition, and I was sort of playing off
the concept of when an octopus mates and has children,
it dies, right, So you can't really have family traditions
in the traditional sense, but still incorporating that into the
idea of there is something that's passed down to these
octopuses in their family lineages, and there I found a
way to bridge the gap so that there could still
be selling passed down and still use that biological fact.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, your episode title, for people who don't already know,
is The Reach. Would you care to read us your
tagline and your log line?
Speaker 3: Sure? When trash rains down, Revenge rises.
Speaker 1: Up, I like it and your log line.
Speaker 2: In an underwater civilization, a rebellious young octopus races to
finish a mech suit to honor her late mother and
protect her kind from the surface.
Speaker 1: World excellence, and that's exactly what the story was.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what the story was.
Speaker 1: Lindsay's roles in making this episode included writer, director, casting,
sound design and engineering, production coordination, producer, and voice actor.
Let's listen to a sample of your work.
Speaker 4: I am one of the chosen. Each of us works
alone in parallel building machines we can use to bring
about the end of the humans and save octopus kind.
Speaker 3: Last thing I need is.
Speaker 4: Aha perfect, Thank you PLoP.
Speaker 1: Let's do this, Lizzy. What inspired you to interpret the
theme of the season the way that you did.
Speaker 2: There's this video. It's very funny. I wish can I
look up the creator's name is u?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, because I want I want to give him credit. Okay,
So it's it's Keys I t s k E y ees.
Speaker 2: He made a song about stop littering because the Octopi octopuses,
he says, OCTOPI, We'll start using the trash to build
mechsuits to attack humans, and I thought the idea of
that was so funny.
Speaker 3: I got such a kick out of it.
Speaker 1: We'll be lucky if it's just the octopuses, to be honest,
because like, who knows what else is down there?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I mean I understand where he's coming from
because they're very smart and they're very deck stress. They
can utilize things very easily. But you know what, there's
a lot of smart sea creatures.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, now that I'm thinking about that, it
reminds me of the Orca whales.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: There was like this fashion trend that they had going
around where they would put salmon dead salmon on.
Speaker 1: Their I heard about this, and I was honestly waiting
for it to come out of the sea and go
landside and for people to like do like a parody
fashion trend of that of some kind. I wouldn't be
surprised if somebody did somewhere and it just didn't catch.
Speaker 3: But I mean, you could always start.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you think I'm any kind of a
fashion icon, but uh, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Well, you can always try. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Church Show Shoes, Sha Share maybe next episode.
Speaker 2: So Yeah, that video just was hilarious to me, and
for a while I've been sitting on it thinking, Oh,
I gotta do someling with this idea. That would be
so funny in an audio fiction format, and so I
was like, I'm gonna make a.
Speaker 1: Fit on that note. What was your biggest challenge slash
obstacle with making your episode?
Speaker 3: Oh, the sound design. Definitely the sound design.
Speaker 2: So I fell into sound design because of Peculiar Radio
and like the tangent things like that.
Speaker 3: You know, I edited my own audio.
Speaker 2: All voice actors know how to edit audio, but when
it comes to actually doing sound effects and sound design
and things like that, that was new to me.
Speaker 3: And so I had to learn it on the job.
Speaker 2: I had bigger ideas in my head than I think
I was one capable of doing and had the resources
to do. In my head, it was very SpongeBob. It
was very like when SpongeBob walks and he goes with
his feet, it like makes like a farting sound, and
like when they open a door there's bubbles and just
like SpongeBob rules in general, and I would have loved
to be able to implement some of those sound effects
and I did some research research.
Speaker 3: I watched SpongeBob like what's.
Speaker 1: New, Yeah, and that's where I searched.
Speaker 3: I mean I watched it anyways.
Speaker 2: So, and there's so many sound effects that don't fit
the action unless you're seeing it happen. And so without
that visual I couldn't put in random farting sounds. I
couldn't put in like a whoop, because nobody would have
the visual reference of what that would be referring to.
Speaker 3: So I had to go SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I think you could still have gotten away
with the farting noises and just left the listeners wondering like,
why is everybody so gassy in this episode? And maybe
it's the clamcakes.
Speaker 3: No, I could have You're right, Yeah, it was a
choice and I chose not to.
Speaker 1: Next, I want to ask you what is your opinion
on surprise parties? And has someone ever thrown one for
you or have you ever thrown one for someone else?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: So I have gotten a surprise party, but it wasn't
a surprise. It was supposed to be a surprise. I'm
very nosy, and I push and I push, and I
push and I dig. My husband likes to say that, like,
he can't surprise me because I'll say, oh, I want
you to surprise me.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you I don't want to know
what you got me.
Speaker 2: But then I will find back channels and find like
ways of figuring out what it was. Even though I
really wanted to be surprised, I'll figure it out. I
don't know why I do this to myself. It was
my baby shower for my first was supposed to be
a surprised and it wasn't. I knew it was coming
a long time. Have I thrown one? I attempted to. Yes,
I am pretty good at surprises myself, like for other people.
Speaker 1: Well, that's because you know how you yourself look to
spoil the surprises, so you know what to avoid, Yeah,
to keep other people from falling to the same thing exactly.
Speaker 2: Except I did not know that this was coming. So
I planned a surprise birthday trip. As you know, you
were invited, and it was supposed to be, Hey, we're here,
look surprise, We're in New York. It's your birthday, And
I mean, I'm not mad about it anymore. One of
the people who was going to meet up with us
in New York was like, are you excited about Lindsay
and whoever? Coming to the person we were surprising, and
he was like what And so I think it just
didn't cross his mind.
Speaker 3: Because he wasn't in the planning state.
Speaker 2: He was just invited to come to the party and
he lived there, so you know, it wasn't a whole
big to do.
Speaker 3: So I think it just didn't occur to him. So
I was sad.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't explicitly labeled as a surprise to keep
from this other friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is why I don't hold it against him.
I'm not mad about it. It was just a little disappointing. Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 3: In the end, it was great.
Speaker 1: Also a hilarious story at this point.
Speaker 3: That's why I keep it in my back pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was a great time. We had great
We had a lot of fun there. We attempted to
make matza al soup, but we could not make it.
Speaker 3: The right way. What do you mean? I thought it
was good.
Speaker 2: That was not peak mats of ball soup. Oh that
was mushing together ingredients the wrong ingredients in a bachelor's kitchen.
Speaker 1: With what we had, I thought it was delicious.
Speaker 2: So, well, we're gonna we're gonna do it again one day, okay,
one day soon.
Speaker 3: My biggest regret is not bringing the Motza meal with me.
Can you have known? He promised me? He promised me.
Speaker 2: He's like, Oh, it's a Jewish area, they'll have mozza
meal at every grocery store.
Speaker 3: How many grocery stores do we go to?
Speaker 1: I don't even remember, at least one big one.
Speaker 3: No, we went to like five grocery stores.
Speaker 1: Did we really?
Speaker 3: Yes? We did.
Speaker 1: That is completely gone from my brand memoria of this
whole thing.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: We went to like five grocery stores and they all
had matz of all mix, mats of ball mix. It's
not Mozza meal. Okay, we're getting sidetracked, but I have
to go out. Creates a very fluffy, very like fall
apart in wats of ball. It doesn't have a mouth feel,
it doesn't have any like resistance when you cut into it.
Absolute abomination. But Motz of meal doesn't have any baking
soda in it or anything that would make it fluffy.
And so it's a much firmer Manza ball. And I
prefer a firm mats am I allowed to say that, Yeah,
you can bleep it out if I can't stick a
fork in it, turn upside down and eat it like
a lollipop.
Speaker 3: It's too soft.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 2: I hope somebody understands. Somebody out there listening will understand
what I mean. It has to be firm.
Speaker 1: If you would like to comment on the texture of
your Matza balls, feel free to email Lindsay at theme
party at lengthy tangent dot cut.
Speaker 2: I don't want hate mail, though. If you like a
soft matsible, she.
Speaker 1: Will tell you how you are and politely decline any
future messages. Yes, excellent, Lindsay, what was the last party
you hosted or attended and what was its theme? If
any I think.
Speaker 2: The last party was the one in Orlando. We had
a big group trip of all of our voice acting people.
I think that was the last party I went to.
Speaker 1: I'm honored to be a part of so many of
these parties that you're talking about today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't know a life. What do
you want from me?
Speaker 1: What was your favorite part of that party?
Speaker 2: Then? My favorite part of that party was seeing everybody
coming dressed up and adhering to the theme that I
explicitly made them do.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what was the theme it was fancy.
Speaker 2: I was expecting a lot of people to be like,
you know, I'll just wear whatever.
Speaker 1: Because there were people flying in and traveling a long way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think they would do it, but people
brought fancy clothes and just looking around seeing everyone all
fancied made.
Speaker 3: Me so happy. I was so nice being around people too.
That was fun. Yeah, but seeing the fancies was also fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lindy, how did you choose the names of your
characters and did you try doing it another way before
that didn't work for you?
Speaker 3: So I am very good at naming things.
Speaker 1: You really are.
Speaker 3: I really am.
Speaker 2: When I was first naming things, I knew that I
wanted to do like ocean themed obviously, and like Coral
right off the bat, but that's a no brainer.
Speaker 3: Octavia that came later.
Speaker 2: Her name was something different before, and I also for
like Scylla, I dug into some like mythology things so
that it could be keeping in with the ocean water theme.
Speaker 3: Jem is that ocean themed? I don't know. Don't ask me.
Speaker 1: I don't know how could we shoehorn that into being
ocean themed?
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking like treasure at the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, yeah, played by Anthony Romanelli real Gem, real.
Speaker 2: Gem, and Octavia's name initially was going to be Melva,
which I think is funny, And you make fun of
me for this, because I don't know why my brain
tends to name things in that sound that naming scheme.
Speaker 3: When we played D and D we had funga and
moldam G andng you mean, oh, G and G.
Speaker 2: Yes, we played ghouls and grottos available now on Patreon.
So when I play video games, a lot of my characters,
like I have Hilda Helga.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of two syllables that end in an uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I think it's just easy and you can mix and
match the endings and the beginnings.
Speaker 1: I love it. In your experience, what has been the
biggest hint that it's time to leave or end a party.
Speaker 3: When the communal food comes out?
Speaker 2: I mean, so, I'm not a big party person in general,
especially if it's like a party of acquaintances. If I'm
really really not super friendly with everybody, I leave as
soon as I can, as soon as there's an opportunity,
I'm out. But something that I hate, can.
Speaker 1: I interrupt and ask if you're an Irish goodbyer, or
do you make the effort to say goodbye to everybody
or oh so.
Speaker 2: As a kid, I had to always be reminded make
sure you say goodbye to everybody, because if I had
the choice, I would just leave. And it's not that
I hate people in general, Like it's not that I
hate the people that are there. I just so am
so socially awkward most of the time, and I'm so
conscious of it that saying goodbye to people brings a
lot of anxiety. There's just a lot of uncertainty that
makes me just want to bypass it all.
Speaker 3: And just leave. So yeah, no, I would love to
just leave a place.
Speaker 2: But what I hate more than that is communal food
or like a pot luck or something like that. I
don't know what you've done in your kitchen, how you cook.
I don't know if you're tasting the food as you're
eating it and then putting the spoon back in. I
don't know if your cat walked across your countertop while
you're cooking. So if you're bringing pot luck, if there's
food that everybody's breathing on, I'm I'm good.
Speaker 1: Would you rather starve. If you have to hang out
at that party, then partake in that food or will you?
Speaker 3: I won't partake. I will not partake.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's severe, so right when it comes out the
communal food, even if it's fresh right out of the fridge, or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they had it catered and like a reputable company,
and I don't mean catered like your Aunt Susie catered it.
I mean like a restaurant catered it and they bring
it in.
Speaker 1: You don't know my aunt Suzie.
Speaker 3: Do you have an aunt Susie.
Speaker 1: I don't, But if I did, you don't know her.
Speaker 2: Well, if a restaurant brought it in and I watched
the restaurant bring it in and I watched them unwrap
the foil in front of my eyes, and I see
the behaviors of the people who were in line before me,
I'll probably have some. But if it's been sitting out
before I got there, or if I know that your
Aunt Susie brought it from her Toyota and it was
sitting in her trunk that came from her house where
her cats are and where her fingers are.
Speaker 3: No, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: This sounds like a you know too much situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've seen too much. I've seen too much.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: I don't need food poisoning. I am terrified of food poisoning.
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy. I have zero qualms about pot luck.
I am wary of like your potato salads, your other
like sauce based things sitting out that should stay hot
or should stay cold that are not either in a
crock pot or on ice or something like that. That
gives me the hebgb's, especially if it's not early on
in the day or early on in the event. Rather. Yeah,
if I'm just not sure how it's been treated that day,
I'm otherwise pretty well set to just take a little
bit of everything and try everything. I will claim that
I don't recall a time that I've ever had food poisoning.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, you know, I don't think I have either,
So I'm not like scarred from it. I'm just terrified
of it happening.
Speaker 1: It sounds terrible, like I know people who've had it.
As far as I know, I've never had it.
Speaker 2: So it's absolutely terrifying. But there's like another element too.
I don't know what ingredients you used, either, and I'm
very picky. I have a phobia of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise, okay,
and they're very easy to hide in things.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Every passover or every time my mom makes a brisket,
I'm like, did you put ketchup in it?
Speaker 3: This year? And she always swears she didn't put ketchup
in it?
Speaker 2: And I have to really really like look to see
if I can see any blobs because she'll try it.
I don't think she has a long time. I think
she's given up on it. But you could hide it
in anything. And I also don't want to like harass you.
I don't want to go up to you, like list
every ingredient that you put in this thing. I'm not
gonna do that to you. I'll just not yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not super familiar with cooking brisket. Is ketchup a
common brisket ingredient?
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, there's a whole like a spectrum of
common brisket ingredients. Ketchup is one of them. Some people
do grape jelly, some people do coke. Like if you'll
put it in a pot roast, people will put it
in a brisket. It's basically the same thing. I'm sure
you've seen pot roast. That's like coca cola in pot roast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've done that, befoar.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll love just a you know, an onion
soup mix. Stick it in the oven for like four hours,
and I'm happy with that. Common ingredients.
Speaker 1: Well watch out, I guess.
Speaker 3: You can never be too careful. It'll get you.
Speaker 1: Well, this is my hint that it is almost time
to end the party. Lindsay, it's been a pleasure chatting
with you. But before we go, can we please tell
the people what you're promoting or celebrating right now?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am celebrating our crowdfunding campaign.
Speaker 3: On indieg go. Please please, if you have anything to.
Speaker 2: Spare, we would be please thrilled to take your contribution.
We have a team of over forty at this point, actors, writers,
sound designers who put in a lot of time. A
lot of their free time is spent making these what
I think are amazing podcasts, and we would love to
compensate them for their time. So, if you have anything
you could spare, and if not, share it on social media,
you know, put on your stories, send it to a friend,
say hey, please help.
Speaker 1: We've got some good perks on there.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just we're not just begging for free bunny.
We'll give you stuff for your money, like we've got.
Speaker 2: We're given a lot of stuff, and it took us
a long time to figure out what we were given.
Speaker 3: We a lot of thought went into those.
Speaker 1: It really did. We have different things for people that
either want to make podcasts themselves and need some documents
or help, or just you know, want to talk to
somebody about it. There's stuff on there that's available as
options for them. We've got artwork, we've got music. There's
something for everybody in there.
Speaker 2: We'll record a message for you and one of the
character of your choices voice yep oh. And we also
have a Patreon. We do have a Patreon if you
wanted to join that. There's awesome stuff on there as well.
We have bonus episodes from Peculiar Radio that nobody has
listened to unless you were a contributor to the first
campaign or a patron. Very fun episodes. I loved making.
They're very, very funny. There's some of my favorite things
from Peculiar Radio are in those specifically, and also you
could get our ghouls and Grottos one sheet game, which
is very fun to play.
Speaker 1: That's right, It is very fun to play. I think
that I have not played the TTRPGs before in my life,
but I think they seem fun. And our dear friend
was willing to make a TTRPG to coincide with an
episode of Peculiar Radio, and we got to play it
as just like our normal selves, playing other characters that
have nothing to do with Peculiar Radio. And it was
a blast. It was so fun.
Speaker 3: So yep, Molda and Funga two sisters. That's where that
was born.
Speaker 1: That's right. And where can people find you?
Speaker 2: You could find me on Instagram at Lindsayfonpoter pod r.
Speaker 3: I'm mostly there.
Speaker 2: You can also check out my website www dot lindsayfon
dot com. I don't know why you would go there,
but if you want to, you could hear from my demo,
you could see my face and read my bio.
Speaker 3: There might be some more links on there.
Speaker 1: Lindsay is a very talented voice actor. You should go
check out her website. I try, I try. Lindsay also
is one of the co owners of LTM. It's a
voice acting group. It's a server on discord. They host
voice acting workouts. So if you are a aspiring voice actor,
or a voice actor new to the industry, or just
a voice actor that's been doing it for a while
but wants to try something new to shake up the routine,
it's an awesome way to practice scripts with other people
and get feedback and have practice giving feedback. They host workshops,
they organize get togethers with other people in the industry,
and it has done a lot for me as far
as increasing my skill set and increasing my confidence in
the industry and stuff. So I thank you very much, Lindsay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2: I mean there have been so many people who have
come and then you know, surpassed me. You know, it's
been great to watch people jump on having no experience,
just kind of you know, referring to themselves as an
aspiring voice actor, and then now seeing them working regularly.
Speaker 3: It's been very fun to watch.
Speaker 1: That just leads me to thank Lindsay for coming to
my theme party. Thank you also to Bad Machine for
making our show's music, and to Alyssa Esteban for our
show art and for story development. Another huge thank you
to my friend Lindsey Vun and everyone else involved in
making the reach If you want to learn more about
this episode and all of our shows, you can visit
our website Lengthy Tangent dot com. We've also got that
Patreon page we were talking about for everything from Lengthy Tangent,
So pop on over there and see what we've got
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review if you enjoyed the show. Our next episode will
be a little spooky. It's called The Collection of Moira Graves,
produced by Alisa Petrie. Once again, our theme for this
season has been family traditions. I've been Moretta Mo's and
this has been an interview episode of theme Party, the
podcast Celebrate Creativity.
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