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John Madrid's avatar

"I am in the drift, girl!" is the line of the week and I won't hear otherwise. The interview format is doing so much. Sophie trying to keep it on the worksheet while Mel is already deep in the Waffle House mythology. "Built like a Middle-American Jean Claude Van Damme with a faux-hawk sharp enough to cut a g-string" is absurd and precise in exactly the right proportions. You keep switching registers on me, Alex. Every time I think I know what you do, you do something else. Really fun read.

Alex Shifman's avatar

I contain multitudes and some of them are mature and serious and some of them are smashing action figures together

John Madrid's avatar

David Bowie of Substack!

Alex Shifman's avatar

If just for one day

M.A. Knight's avatar

This is a movie

elie lichtschein 👽🛹's avatar

wow alex, i loved this. super inspiring and imaginative. i want to see the tv series you write for this

Alex Shifman's avatar

Your mouth to gods ears

Nick Buchheit's avatar

This feels so effortlessly written and it was a flat out joy to read. 10/10. Dragon swept me right off my feet.

Wendy Russell's avatar

Really love watching you write something just that little bit different, though with your fingerprints all over it. So glad you did audio, becaue when I read it I totally heard it in your narration style...

MORTAL COMBAT!!!

Didrik's avatar

Two things:

1) I SAW WARPED TOUR 99.

2) I cracked when the girl died.

GREAT!!!!

Alex Shifman's avatar

So did I trying to read the thing

Trevor Cohen's avatar

Lolz I got Anchorman fight scene mixed with Ninja Turtles with Sum 41 playing in the background. WAFFLE COMBAT!!!

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

Bloody hell, this was hilarious. Worst of it is, I can actually imagine it happening. You certainly know how to give us a fight scene! Radical Joe might stick around our house a week or so - 👌🏾 jokes.

Alex Shifman's avatar

it’s what we all have to call coffee from now on

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

The kids will want to call it RJ.

M.A. Knight's avatar

A FILM

Rosie B's avatar

Highly entertaining! The audio is so fun.