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Lower the Bar

Join two 1st generation friends as we attempt to crack wise and discuss pop culture, growing up in immigrant households, and discuss geo-political issues at a 3rd grade level. Disappointing our parents since the mid to late 70's.
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Now displaying: June, 2016
Jun 29, 2016

In this week's episode it happened again, we talk tacos. Then Sam, Gabe and Augie talk about camping and yard sales. Sam introduces us to the weird sport called Jugger inspired by the 1989 movie The Salute of the Jugger (released as The Blood of Heroes in the US). The guys end the show with some improv fun about a couple at a yard sale, while there the wife decides she may not be happy with her husband’s thrifty ways.

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Jun 21, 2016

In this week's episode Sam, Gabe and Augie talk about things that scared them as kids, the clown from movie based on Stephen King’s ‘It’, sharks, tornadoes etc. Gabe and Sam review the movie X-men Apocalypse, there are SPOILERS FROM THE 45 MINUTE MARK TO THE 60 MINUTE MARK. If you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want it spoiled, skip from 45 minutes in to 60 minutes in.

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Jun 16, 2016

In this episode we meet Katie Self. Katie is a So Cal native and tells us she was smitten with her now husband at young age...maybe too young of an age. We ask her the Lower the Bar questions and Sam, Gabe and Katie ends with some improv fun about a man asking for a daughter’s hand in marriage.

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Jun 7, 2016

In this week's episode we are visited by Augie's better half, Melissa. Melissa heard Augie and Gabe questioning her choice in cookies 2 episodes back and is on this show to defend herself. Please let us know what is your favorite type of cookie.

Gabe shares a story of what happened when his son got a caterpillar with the intent to care for it until it becomes a butterfly and sets it free. Augie and Melissa also share about a dog they recently got for Augie’s mom. The guys end the show with some improv fun about 3 cousins and why one doesn’t want to take off his shirt when playing shirts and skins...chess.

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Jun 1, 2016

In this episode we meet Lynn Braswell, wife of Dan Braswell who was a guest on the show about a month ago. Lynn tells us how they got together from her side and gives some practical advice about using roommates as training grounds before you get married. We hear how Lynn made her way from Indiana to L.A. with a 4 year stop at Ball State. Lynn tells us about “Cold Tangerines”, a play Lynn is in that she adapted from a book. Here how Lynn reaches out to the author and the who process about adapting the play. We ask her the Lower the Bar questions and Sam, Gabe and Lynn ends with some improv fun about a the last person audition for a play.

You can see Cold Tangerines at the L.A. Fringe Festival June 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 25th; click here to buy tickets http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/3416?tab=tickets.

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