Recorded live!

A one-night podcast festival

We started this event as the initial baby step towards our dream of one day hosting a state-wide podcast festival across Texas. Live podcast shows? Sounds weird. But it’s a lot of fun! So check our calendar to find out when & where the next one is!

Brenda Valdivia, event host & Mocking Bird founder, commences the Fourth of July-themed Recorded Live! (complete with postage-paid voter registration cards & RWB flowers) with a homegrown rendition of Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts”, and the lineup: o… — Brenda Valdivia, event host & Mocking Bird founder, commences the Fourth of July-themed Recorded Live! (complete with postage-paid voter registration cards & RWB flowers) with a homegrown rendition of Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts”, and the lineup: opening act — Matt Bessar-approved improv comedy podcast troupe Can’t Tell Us Nothing, and headliner — movie-shrinking comedy show Honey, I Shrunk the Binge!

Joe the sound manager at Rudyard’s not only holding it down for the microphones & lights on stage, but also recording the entire event for our podcast listeners at home.

Award-winning & nationally touring opening improv comedy act Can’t Tell Us Nothing troupe members Antoine, Tandi, Amechi, and Jon interview their guest Nick Cooper (Free Radicals, Houston DSA). The comedians jump back and forth between scenes &a… — Award-winning & nationally touring opening improv comedy act Can’t Tell Us Nothing troupe members Antoine, Tandi, Amechi, and Jon interview their guest Nick Cooper (Free Radicals, Houston DSA). The comedians jump back and forth between scenes & characters made up on-the-spot, and the guest interview whose answers inspire the next comedic scene.

Antoine, Tandi, Amechi, and Jon from Can’t Tell Us Nothing ask their guest Nick questions to learn more about him & set up the next scene. — Antoine, Tandi, Amechi, and Jon from Can’t Tell Us Nothing ask their guest Nick questions to learn more about him & set up the next scene.

Amechi & Jon from Can’t Tell Us Nothing probably improvising a scene. It looks like Amechi has a giant flower in front of his face. — Amechi & Jon from Can’t Tell Us Nothing probably improvising a scene. It looks like Amechi has a giant flower in front of his face.

What a well-framed photo of Antoine, Amechi, Tandi, and Jon from Can’t Tell Us Nothing with their guest Nick. — What a well-framed photo of Antoine, Amechi, Tandi, and Jon from Can’t Tell Us Nothing with their guest Nick.

Recorded Live! headliners Cody & Ned who host the Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! podcast storm the stage in all-American sandlot garb with their guest Conner Clifton (Effin’ Rager, You Now have the Floor) — Recorded Live! headliners Cody & Ned who host the Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! podcast storm the stage in all-American sandlot garb with their guest Conner Clifton (Effin’ Rager, You Now have the Floor)

Cody & Ned from Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! with their guest Conner. — Cody & Ned from Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! with their guest Conner.

Artsy fartsy fisheye from Rudyard’s camera output of Cody & Ned from Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! — Artsy fartsy fisheye from Rudyard’s camera output of Cody & Ned from Honey, I Shrunk the Binge!

A mysterious, unidentified guest watches along with Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! as the hosts live-review the never-heard-of Sandlot 2 based on only the first & last 10 minutes of the movie. — A mysterious, unidentified guest watches along with Honey, I Shrunk the Binge! as the hosts live-review the never-heard-of Sandlot 2 based on only the first & last 10 minutes of the movie.