Don't Push The Moose | The Slightly Sleazy Speakeasy

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Christof Laputka (0:50)

Hey everyone, this is Christof.

Robin Shore (0:51)

And this is Robin.

Christof Laputka (0:52)

And today we've got something a little different for you. Not just my voice, which I seem to have lost, but actually a different series that you may not expect to see in our feed. This is something that we created kind of in secret, and we thought this might be a nice time to share it with you.

Robin Shore (1:11)

Yeah, this is called Don't Push The Moose. This is the first episode of it. We've got a few more that we're going to be sharing with you over the next few weeks. And it's a fun little sketch comedy series. We kind of created in between recording our bigger, more immersive stuff like Invenios Expeditions and Rapscallion Agency. You all know us for these big sci-fi action pieces, but we've wanted to do some lighter comedy stuff for a long time. Our original plan when we finished the first 50 episodes of Leviathan Chronicles was to create a 50 episode comedy series. Now that fell by the wayside, but one of the things that came out of it is Don't Push The Moose, which you're about to hear right now.

Christof Laputka (1:53)

That's right. We were going to do this other series called The Underwear Incident, and within it, we were going to have these little comedy skits, these little vignettes, and we're going to call that Don't Push The Moose. And we ended up having so much fun doing it that we just say, maybe this would be the whole series. So whenever we have an extra like 20 or 25 minutes in the studio and the actors are there, we just decide to have a little fun and be goofy. And this is just something that we would do at the end of the day to make ourselves crack up. But we wanted to share with you guys a little bit about this fun new series. They're all little skits and we had a lot of fun making them.

Robin Shore (2:31)

Yeah. So I hope everyone enjoys them. Like I said, we're going to have a few episodes of this coming at you for the next couple of weeks. Our goal is to someday make this a larger sketch comedy series. So we'd love to hear what people think of these. If that's something you'd be interested in, please let us know. If you're listening on Spotify, please leave us a comment. Let us know, do you like this format? If you're not on Spotify, if you're listening on somewhere else, connect with us on social media or join us on Patreon and send us a message there. We'd really like to know what you guys think of these episodes.

Christof Laputka (3:03)

Speaking of Patreon, Patreon is the best place to connect with us and learn more about the Leviathan universe. We have some of these Don't Push The Moose episodes on our Patreon page, but we're also going to be doing something called writing sessions. So I'm going to be working on the next slate of Leviathan content live online. And all those details are available on Patreon. So even if you join as a free member, you'll be able to log on right with me and ask me questions about Leviathan, science fiction, everything that we're doing. And I'd love to connect with you guys. So go to patreon.com/leviathanchronicles to find out more about Don't Push The Moose, to tell us about the new episodes you want to listen to and to support us to make sure that we keep making more episodes of Don't Push The Moose.

Robin Shore (3:47)

OK, so without much further ado, let's play the episode. The first thing you're going to hear is our Don't Push The Moose theme song, which is, I think, a really fun theme song. You'll hear there's a lot of different voices in this theme song. And you know what? If you want, your voice could be part of the Don't Push The Moose theme song in the future.