Rollo Romig

I Survived Theatre School

Intro: Boz comes into some unexpected money, the "prudent reserve", validation, martyrs, King Babies, passive aggression vs aggressive aggression, Mommy Dead and Dearest, Munchausen by proxy
Let Me Run This By You: the pervasive and dangerous bias against medication.
Interview: We talk to Rollo Romig about a terrible one year theatre school experience, being inspired by his high school teacher (who also taught Keegan-Michael Key and Kristin Bell) stumbling around to find your talents, "beware the psychic vultures", the cult of youth and the myth of early success as being more common than it really is, finding his truth as a writer, wading through positive feedback to find the truth, Drama Club as a repository for misfits, writing about India.

TRANSCRIPT:
Speaker 1 (00:00:08):

Jen Bosworth-Ramirez
I'm Jen Bosworth -Ramirez

Gina Pulice.
and I'm Gina Pulice.

Jen Bosworth-Ramirez
We went to theater school together. We survived it, but we didn't quite understand it.

Gina Pulice.
20 years later, we're digging deep talking to our guests about their experiences and trying to make sense of it all.

Jen Bosworth-Ramirez
We survived theater school and you will too. Are we famous Yet?

New Speaker (00:00:30):

Network is only good today.

Gina Pulice (00:00:33):

Your network is always good in my mind. You know, it could be because we got 18 inches of snow last night. Well, total, there's a total of, um, Oh my God. 18 inches at midway airport, which I'm not going to. So I don't care, but we're all just going to be crushed under the weight of, of like just our lives. I think that's very accurate, but you know, but on a good note, so, um, we came into, this is so crazy how this happens and I sh I won't say their names, but, um, we, we came anyway, someone said to us, where are you? A relative? Said, where are you? Are you still in the Midwest? Are you in California? Because we are, have, um, we're stakeholders in a company. And they said, because we sent you a check for $18,000, do you, would you like to get it? Wait, wait, wait.

Jen Bosworth (00:01:32):

So, so miles, the life is very random. It's so random. So miles we have a stake in, uh, what I believe is a timber company is a timber it's timber. So we have timber stocks or something. I look remember how you don't know how the stock market works. I don't know how this works. There's trees somewhere that I own, which is really bad because who owns the trees, but we do. And, um, or parts of trees, I suppose we own a certain branches anyway. Um, so we just got some kind of dividends situation and I just fell on the bed when I heard. Cause that's wonderful. That's amazing. But what, like, it's something that was willing to you. Oh, so family is miles, nothing to do with me. This is all miles, which is interesting because my, my mom passed away obviously and she left me some dough.

Jen Bosworth (00:02:28):

And so I always thought my family was the, was the high end, mighty family. And now miles is stepping in to say, he said, you didn't marry so bad. Did you? I said, so does he? And he had no, no idea, no clue. Oh. And they couldn't find you cause they're trying to send it to California. Oh my God. So wait. So, so we have a check coming to, um, how exciting, it's exciting. We're going to put it in our prudent reserve, which is our savings. We call our savings per reserve. Okay. That like a financial

Gina Pulice (00:03:00):

Term or is that just what you guys like?

Jen Bosworth (00:03:02):

I think that's like a, uh, actually a 12 step term so that we use that for within the prudent reserve. So we're putting it in the prudent reserve.

Gina Pulice (00:03:10):

Uh, so that's not as fun as life you're going to get to go buy something that you want. Yeah.

Jen Bosworth (00:03:14):

I mean that, you know, if we run into trouble, if I don't, I mean, I'm going to get a gig, we're going to get it. There's going to be money soon. But if I don't, yeah,

Gina Pulice (00:03:23):

Yeah. Reserved, you got to have a prude and reserved. I like that term a prudent reserve. So does that also apply like interpersonally, like you're supposed to have a prudent reserve. Okay. It's like a boundaries sort of thing.

Jen Bosworth (00:03:35):

It's like boundaries and it's like, um, um, make you feel solvent and like it, you, you can take care of yourself, kind of like that you're independently taking care of yourself self.

Gina Pulice (00:03:47):

Okay. That makes so much sense because I think a lot of what drives people's internal panic and hysteria and makes them turn to things like alcohol and drugs is this out of control, feeling this, you know, this feeling of lack of safety. And it's obviously ironic because like there's nothing that the thing that makes you safe about taking drugs or drinking, but yeah. People, yeah. That's, I love that proof reserve.

Jen Bosworth (00:04:15<...