THE PERM. MUST. WAIT. We start this episode discussing the Olympics (GO USA AND BEYONCE AND CELINE AND SIMONE AND EVERYONE!) then we dive into how a bill becomes a law!!! What a great episode to set up some wonderful characters for the Parks gang to add to their crew! And we don't know about you, but seeing Ron start a healthy relationship is so emotional! We decide we'd love a road trip with Ben, the amazing Jamm (Jon Glaser!) joins the cast and of course Diane, our super cool badass lady shows us how it's done! Also, shouts to Andy for making this happen! AND shoutout to Autumn Butler, the perm expert, who was the ACTUAL makeup artist for Parks and Rec! So fun!

Rest in Peace to the wonderful actor James Greene, who played Milton. You will live in our hearts forever. <3

Thank you all so much for listening, don't forget to rate, review, share with your friends and Venmo @hollyxconstant for all your giving needs. 😂😂😂😂

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Hi everyone! I'm back! And it's free! And I don't think I cursed once... wtf?
I talk about what's been happening this year of 2024 - job searches, how acting/singing/podcasting might not be the money-making career for me ever and that could be okay, grief, cultivating relationships and just life transitions all around. My goal for the years to come is to be happy/content NOW and not wait for it, so. Anyone else?
I hope it's not a bummer and more of a reminder that we're all in this together! DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! CLICK HERE TO CHECK WHERE YOU NEED TO GO AND FOR TENNESSEE RESIDENTS, DOWNLOAD THE APP OR WEBSITE "GO VOTE TN"!

Thank you for joining in the therapy sesh and I hope you all have an awesome day!
Also, it's my birthday month - and if you want to venmo @hollyxconstant, I'm really open to that. 😂😂😂😂

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SO MANY GUEST STAR VOICE MEMOS! So many incredible visuals and government tax opinions!!!! And Madi is here!

For the first hour, we hear from 3 guest stars that were in our Season 5 premiere of Ms. Knope Goes to Washington.
First, *Jenny Anne Hochberg* @jenny.anne.hochberg incredible BTS of shooting in DC, giving Leslie a fist "pound", telling Pratt that she's a pretty princess after getting hair/makeup, and more deleted scenes that we didn't get to hear! Make sure you check out her acting classes here!
https://www.jennyannehochberg.com/about-8
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5181988/

Second, *Jessica Hansen* @jessacts, who is an amazing voice actor and coach and was so sweet to send me a voice memo even though her incredible new studio isn't set up yet! Learning about John Hay from the Hay-Adams hotel being in Abe Lincoln's administration, John McCain leading her around on set, and shooting for 10 or 11 takes!
Her Coaching Studio: SigSound.net
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2430582/

Third, *Amy Tolsky* @amy.tolsky, loved learning about Dean Holland's direction informed her performance, compliments to the best hair and makeup team, plus you can watch her on Quiz Lady (with Awkwafina and Sandra Oh) and an iPhone 15 commercial! She also has some amazing projects that she has coming up. :)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866212/

THANK YOU ALL!

Then after an hour of the best voice memos ever from the first episode of Season 5, we venture into Soda Tax! We discuss cringe Ben, the insane amount of sugar consumed PER MONTH, and we watch Andy defeat external goals while Chris learns internal goals are just as important. :) We also learn where Tom got that golf cart *eye roll*

Lastly, we get an amazing voice memo from *Bobby Reed* who played the purse stealer in the townhall! He has an incredible bio on IMDB (below), tells us what this episode was originally called and reminds us that Kyle Newachek, the director, IS TALL! Oh ps - he gets paid the most from these residuals and that makes me happy that Parks pays him.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715327/

Incredible details and I'm so forever grateful! Thank you all for joining!

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Season 5 premiere baby! We're going to DC! Join me (Holly) as I take us through new camera operators for this season, where scenes in DC were shot and more commentary about how Ron can't just kill a pig in front of kids. Love that we get to see some history from Washington (why is it called a National Mall, why does the color of the Washington Monument change?, what Smithsonian were they even at?) and that we get to see Chris be a fair, appropriate leader to Ron. :)
Oh side note, I go live on Insta halfway through, so that'll be fun to hear.

PLUS we get an amazing voice memo with behind-the-scenes juicy details from Ben Zelevansky who played Ranger Patrick in Ramsett Park!!! #rangerpatrickheads
He also has roles in Modern Family and Brooklynn 99 for those in the comedy universe and does a ton of wonderful self-produced projects.
You will not want to miss what he has to say (Rob Lowe actually sweats what?!) Please check out his website and follow him on Instagram so you can check out all the amazing projects he has coming up!

https://www.benzelevansky.com/
https://www.instagram.com/benzelevansky/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2298389/


Thank you to Madi for sending in a wonderful summary and notes (with baby Hockaday in tow) <3
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CITY COUNCIL B*TCHES! ...Jerry didn't vote.
It's all coming to a close, and yet it's all beginning! Aubyn Philabaum, who plays Dana the bartender, joins us by sending in an amazing voice memo! Thank you for sending this to us after a 12 hour day on set in line for your burrito, you deserve it! (Check out Aubyn's work including a new movie below!!) Amazing stories to hear of Nick Offerman remembering you and more!

Also, let's bask in the glory that is Leslie's speech (shouts to Ben for writing and shouts to Leslie for adding on). We need to hear this right now. Full circle sliding her picture into the boys club that is no longer just a boys club. 🤩

PS We get SO close to not Ann and Tom being officially over, but... the tag did not save us.

Other fun facts/tidbits:
-Dave Matthews is from South Africa and he formed Dave Matthews Band in Charlottesville where I'm from? What?!
- Donna is incredible at her job - not enough credit is given, she's literally saved the office so many times
- Those extras in the Leslie speech moment were incredible
- Nostrathomas is so not a Tom line - that's a definite Mike Schur Harvard guy line. Listen to hear who Nostradamus is if you don't already know. :)

Aubyn (Dana):
Aubyn's Instagram!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3849371/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t20
Kate Hugo Diamond Detective Movie!

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Welcome back Madi!!!! And welcome back Park Pals to the SEASON FINALE!!!! I'm calling this the Deleted Scenes extravaganza because there were so many juicy cut moments! (Ron bringing his own whiskey and taking a shrimp plate, a lot of amazing guest stars, why Chris thinks it's okay to ask Ann if he can sleep with Jen again - gross)

First, we catch up a bit with Madi going over some motherhood moments, then dive deep with an exciting promo from back when this originally aired (almost to the exact date) - this aired on May 10, 2012 and we recorded May 11, 2024! 🤯🤯🤯

Then we talk to Randy Kovitz, who played Terrence the voting commissioner! Please follow him below! He told us INCREDIBLE stories about jumping on a plane with a fast turnaround time, how he learned his lines on the plane (classic) and how he has his wonderful wife to thank for convincing him plus his puppeteer friend who let him stay with him in LA. Amazing. He also teaches at Carnegie Mellon!

Then we get an email from Burly (PLEASE follow him and his show Grip and Electric below! It's SO GOOD) who shares some BTS details of the day on set! I also get a deleted scene where Burly is rocking his Knope 2012 campaign shirt (I'll post the photo on Insta) Thank you Burly, you always send the BEST emails and congrats on Ford v Ferrari!

Then we learn about the butterfly ballot and how it was inspired by a true story between the Bush/Gore election and how there really was a porn star elected to the Italian parliament, so Brandi Maxxxxx you can still win someday! (and you will 😉)

Burly's show called Grip and Electric!

Randy Kovitz- IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468414/

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We're jumping in right where left off, with a cut scene from the classroom reading at Groffle the Awful Waffle AND the tea on how exactly Groffle crossed the syrup river!!!! There's also tea on who owns the Newport Mansion in real life (OMG), more cut scenes, in fact a whole tag, with Donna (JUSTICE FOR DONNA!) and a Jury Duty rant!

Thanks SO MUCH to Brenda Canela for sending in an amazing voice memo about her time on set ("did Groffle use a boat of some kind?") and all the behind-the-scenes details! Please follow Brenda below!!!!!!

Brenda's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brendacanelaofficial/
Brenda's IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1312332/

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We had so many juicy details for this one, we had to split it into 2 parts!!!! And our favorite and only Kris Carr is here! The best!!!

- THE Brad Leland aka Fester Trimm from the Debate episode and from Friday Night Lights fame stops by to share his amazing stories and BTS of someone the crew who was actually named Fester!
- Norm Hiscock emails us to confirm the tea on why Leslie hates libraries!
- Danielle Kennedy who plays the reporter breaking the news of Nick Newport's death stops by with amazing BTS of why she couldn't have lunch with the cast (it has to do with filming senior yoga with Jane Fonda omg!)
- AND we do a breakdown on Mike O'Malley!!! (Bill from the rental vans - did you know he was thought of for Ron Swanson?) SO MUCH!

We also talk about the process of Jerry getting slammed with pies, parasocial norms (the "I...sad" statement was based on Paul McCartney's reaction to John Lennon's death and the reporters are BRUTAL), and how Parks really gets the cringe in this episode by bringing back "Get On Your Feet".

Great writing, great guests, great pod. Enjoy! Don't forget to rate and review! Join us next week for Part 2!

Brad Leland (click here for his IMDB!) is in a movie called The Last Whistle with Jim O'Heir (from 2019), Love and Death with Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons, LaRoy, Texas with Steve Zahn, Accidental Texan with Bruce Dern and Thomas Haden Church. Working Texan actor right there!!!!

Danielle Kennedy (click here for her IMDB!) is filming a new series with Ted Danson called A Classic Spy, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey with Colin Farrell and Margot Robbi comiing out 2025 and Rockbottom where she plays Agatha Sprinkles, the oldest living rock groupie with Jon Bon Jovi and Tom Everett Scott! AMAZING JOB DANIELLE!

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