So What Are You Into?

This week we’re doing something a little different. Instead of bringing our usual Intos, we’re talking about the frustrating, messy, and often invisible process of trying to make something good. While deep in post-production on Miss Holloween, Curt has been wrestling with the gap between what he can imagine and what he can actually accomplish with limited time, resources, experience, and energy. T...

We’re back! After a summer spent making theatre, James and Curt catch up on Poe Party and StarKid’s Tomb Quest, the exhaustion of doing a show, understudies, staying present onstage, and the strange miracle of live theatre actually coming together. This week James brings FX’s Adults, which leads us into a conversation about why we miss sitcoms, characters who are allowed to be messy and cringe, an...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week James brings a growing appreciation for intimate, stripped-down music performances, the kind that remind us why we connect with artists in the first place. From acoustic concerts to MTV Unplugged, we explore why vulnerability and imperfection can sometimes create a more powerful experience than spectacle. Curt, meanwhile, falls...

This week writer, actor, and producer Sinead Persaud joins us to talk about Widow’s Bay , the new horror comedy series that became the jumping-off point for a much bigger conversation about creativity, collaboration, and building worlds. What starts as a discussion about horror comedy turns into an exploration of writers’ rooms, worldbuilding, and the strange experience of watching someone else re...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week James brings Blue Prince and Curt brings Inside , two games that unexpectedly lead us into a conversation about curiosity, uncertainty, and the value of not always knowing where you’re headed. Along the way, we discuss the Tony Awards, cruise ships, artistic validation, and the strange ways our tastes evolve over time. What begi...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week James brings One Cut of the Dead, the beloved Japanese comedy horror film that is best experienced knowing as little about it as possible. We talk about spoilers, audience expectations, and the rare stories that completely transform once you understand what they’re actually doing. Curt brings Backrooms, and we dive into liminal...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week Angela Giarratana from Smosh, Starkid and Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists joins us for a conversation about comedy, horror, theater kids, internet comfort creators, and the strange emotional process of growing into yourself creatively. Angela is a comedian, actor, writer, and Smosh cast member whose work also spans proj...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week we get into West End theatre, indie horror films, nostalgic video games, AI art, and the strange emotional reality of trying to make things for a living. James talks about choreographing The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals for the West End and what changes when adapting a beloved cult musical for a completely new audience and scale...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week writer, actor, and Shipwrecked Comedy co-founder Sean Persaud joins us to talk about adapting Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, the beloved 2016 web series, into a full stage musical premiering this summer at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Los Angeles. What starts as a conversation about adaptation turns into somethi...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week James brings Boy Band Confidential and a conversation about the machine behind 90s and early 2000s pop stardom. We talk about boy bands, nostalgia, exploitation, bad deals, and what it looks like when young artists are shaped by people with more power than them. Curt brings the process of pitching a feature film before it exists...

George Primavera joins us this week. He’s a Dungeon Master and storyteller whose work spans live performance, immersive storytelling, and tabletop games, including projects like Realm, Hero Club, and his work with Smosh vs. Dread. He builds worlds and shapes stories in real time with other people. The conversation moves from what we’re into right now into a deeper look at how stories actually get...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week we get into weird art. The kind that shouldn’t work, but does. Curt falls down a rabbit hole with a French-Canadian duo making microtonal, alien-sounding music that feels completely unlike anything else right now. It’s chaotic, technical, a little unsettling, and somehow incredibly satisfying. James brings in professional wrestl...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. Ali Gordon joins us to talk about writing her novel We Have Reached the End of Our Show , and what it means to protect an idea while it’s still forming. We get into the creative instinct to share too early, how outside feedback can shape or derail a project, and why sometimes the best thing you can do is keep something to yourself until i...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. This week we get into nostalgia, reboots, and the strange moment we’re in where so much of culture is either being revived, reimagined, or just repackaged. We also get into a bigger question underneath all of it: what actually moves us forward. Through Project Hail Mary , we talk about the idea that hope isn’t naive, it’s necessary for su...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. Riker talks about making his first feature and what it took to actually start before everything was in place. We get into collaborating with friends, not waiting for creative permission, and how the process of making the film showed up at a moment when he really needed it. This week’s Intos: Riker brings: • Directing his first feature Sta...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. Hosted by James Tolbert and Curt Mega, So, What Are You Into?! is a low-stakes conversation podcast built around cultural curiosity. Each episode we start with the things we’ve been genuinely into lately and see where the conversation goes. This week’s Intos: James brings: • The Oscars James comes in with a full reaction to this year’s Os...

James brings experimental and immersive theatre. Curt brings surreal, dreamlike cinema. James talks about the power of live performance and why theatre still feels culturally vital even in a world dominated by screens. We get into the electricity of a shared audience, the vulnerability of performing in front of a room, and why certain art forms still carry a sense of legitimacy in the cultural con...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone. Hosted by James Tolbert and Curt Mega, So, What Are You Into?! is a low-stakes conversation podcast built around cultural curiosity. Each episode we start with the things we’ve genuinely been into lately and see where the conversation goes. This week the conversation circles around immersive moviegoing, the future of theaters, and the str...

Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone.  Hosted by James Tolbert and Curt Mega, So, What Are You Into?! is a low-stakes conversation podcast built around interpersonal cultural commentary. Each episode, we bring the movies, shows, music, ideas, and random cultural obsessions we’ve genuinely been engaging with lately. No homework required. Not reviews. Just honest, sometime...