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​The Clarinet, Red Carpet Walk, & New Orleans
(Original airdate: Sept 18, 2016)

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Marco: Shane Jacobson, welcome to the podcast

I have the great pleasure of welcoming to the podcast Shane Jacobson, who's carefully putting down the glass he's drinking from because he doesn't want to make a noise on the glass table where recording. Welcome, Shane.

Shane Jacobson:  Okay, thank you.

Marco Timpano: Thanks for having me, Michael. I think it was fantastic. Good. Um, Shane, we met kind of by awesome chance, if you will. You have a show, uh, you have a movie at tiff, which stands for the Toronto International Film Festival, for those out there who aren't familiar with tiff. And I was doing some interpreting for a film that you were at with a high. High school friend of mine.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah. So coincidental we'd already. We met. Your friend and I met in New York years ago and we wound up picking movies at TIFF to see. I think we bought for four. We bought tickets to four movies and one of them was a super early screening on Wednesday morning. And you got it. Turns out that was the one that you were translating for.

Marco Timpano: Yeah, I did the intro for. And you, um, are in town because you have a film at the festival, correct?

Shane Jacobson:  I do. I do. It's going to have a gala premiere on Friday. And congratulations. Thank you. Thanks.

Marco Timpano: That's exciting.

Shane Jacobson:  It is exciting. I have to pinch myself.

Marco Timpano: You get to walk the red carpet.

Shane Jacobson:  I get to sneak around the red carpet.

Marco Timpano: If I can give you a tip. Um, on the red. Have you been on red carpets before?

Shane Jacobson:  Very small ones.

Marco Timpano: Okay, well, try not to trip on

Shane Jacobson:  the red carpet now. That's all I can think of. Um, I'm wearing, uh, comfy shoes, uh, no heels. So I think that's a good chance.


Who are you wearing right now on the red carpet

Marco Timpano: I think it's only appropriate that at this very moment I ask you, who are you wearing right now? Not on the red carpet, but who are you wearing?

Shane Jacobson:  As we record this process, I have, uh, Levi's and I want to say Old Navy.

Marco Timpano: Oh, well, you wear it so well.

Shane Jacobson:  Thank you. Well, uh, yeah, I tried it on, uh, all by myself.

Marco Timpano: Good job. Uh, yeah, I know. Stylish.


You can see Shane on American Crime Season 2 and True Detective Season 1

Now I want to mention that, um, you can see Shane on American Crime Season 2 and True Detective Season 1. You're really into these kind of crime detective acting I like to do.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah, I don't know if I like. Oh, no, I like to do.

Marco Timpano: Sure.

Shane Jacobson:  Super serious. I usually play jerks in suits. That's my go to. Yeah. If you need a surly detective or an angry doctor wanting to kick you out of somewhere, go to me. Yeah.

Marco Timpano: If you want to see exactly what Shane is describing, you can go on his Twitter. Shane underscore Jacobsen, and that's Jacobsen spelled

Shane Jacobson:  with an e. Yes, the Norwegian way.

Marco Timpano: Norwegian. Do you speak any Norwegian?

Shane Jacobson:  None at all. No, I. My grandpa, uh, my dad's dad is from Norway. Tall, blonde, blue eyed guy. And I am not that I am none of those. So there you go.

Marco Timpano: You can also follow him on, uh, Instagram to see how not Norwegian he looks. That's right at that Shane. Cool.

Shane Jacobson:  Handle that, Shane. Thank you.

Marco Timpano: Thank you.

Shane Jacobson:  I had to separate myself from the other Shane, which he's an Australian actor named Shane Jacobs son. S O N. Okay.

Marco Timpano: My Instagram account is therealmarco Timpano. And the reason I have the real Marco Timpano is I also have Marco Timpano on Instagram, but I can't remember the pattern password. And so I can't access the Instagram account I have with my name on it. And so I then had to create one that makes it seem like there's another Marco tin panel that has the handle Marco tin panel, but it's really this one who sits before the microphone speaking to you, who stupidly can't remember,

Shane Jacobson:  uh, the other password. You're one in the same.

Marco Timpano: So I am both Marco Tampano and the real Marco.

Shane Jacobson:  You are various Marco Tympanos, which should be your third handle, maybe various Marco. I like that.

Marco Timpano: I might have to do that before because here's the thing with the podcast, right? Someone hears it and all of a sudden they scoop it up and I can't have various Marcos and panels.

Shane Jacobson:  Oh, I'm sorry.

Marco Timpano: No, it's great. Okay, thank you.


Shane plays the clarinet, correct? I played in fourth grade

So now that we've put all that business aside.

Shane Jacobson:  Yes.

Marco Timpano: We were talking clarinets before, and Shane, you play the clarinet, correct?

Shane Jacobson:  I played in fourth grade. I played clarinet for maybe half a Year I wanted to play trumpet.

Marco Timpano: Okay.

Shane Jacobson:  I wanted to play trumpet and I begged my mom and dad to let me join the band and play trumpet. But my dad had a clarinet in the attic and he said, no, try clarinet for a while and see how you.

Marco Timpano: How you like that.

Marco Timpano: The hip instrument.

Shane Jacobson:  Oh, it was such the popular. Yeah, it was a hit. Yeah.

Marco Timpano: When was the last time you played the clarinet?

Shane Jacobson:  Fourth grade.

Marco Timpano: Oh, See, and for the Canadian listeners, that would be grade four, because we do it the other way around, but.

Shane Jacobson:  Okay.

Marco Timpano: Was there anything you enjoyed about the clarinet? I enjoyed.

Shane Jacobson:  I got the chance to march in the band.

Marco Timpano: Oh, in grade four or the fourth grade?

Shane Jacobson:  In grade four. Uh, no, actually, wait. Yes. Oh, my gosh. That's right. I guess I did.

Marco Timpano: That's amazing.

Shane Jacobson:  I didn't realize that that's really young to go because I grew up in New Orleans. So for Mardi Gras parades, all the bands, you get to march with the floats. And I must have marched in a small parade because I remember learning the song and practicing it over and over so that I could march and play at the same time and follow the guy in front of me. Yeah.

Marco Timpano: And was that a challenge to play march and follow?

Shane Jacobson:  It was. I was horrible at playing, but I could march and follow.

Marco Timpano: Well, you know, too pretty well.

Shane Jacobson:  It was okay. Yeah, yeah, I remember. I totally forgot about that.


Henry Cuesta was the clarinet guy on the Lawrence Welk Show

Marco Timpano: Have you ever heard of the musician Henry Cuesta, speaking of clarinets?

Shane Jacobson:  No.

Marco Timpano: Okay, so Henry Cuesta used to play. He was the clarinet guy on the Lawrence Welk Show. Do you know the Lawrence Welk Show?

Shane Jacobson:  You remember this?

Marco Timpano: Yeah, I used to watch Lawrence Welk with my grandparents when I was a child. Because Lawrence Welk, for those of us who don't know who he is, is this band leader from North Dakota who would put on a German accent or he had a German North Dakota accent, um, that he would put on. It wasn't his actual accent, but because people wanted to hear it, that's what he did. It was this old, tall,

Marco Timpano: German esque

Marco Timpano: looking guy who was the band leader, who had the Lawrence Welk show where he would have different, um, musicians and singers and dancers and do a boring variety show. I don't know how else to describe it.

Shane Jacobson:  Was it a less hip Sonny and Cher show?

Marco Timpano: I remember the far less hip.

Shane Jacobson:  Okay.

Marco Timpano: Like if, um, Sonny and Cher was heroin, um, Lawrence Welk was drama me. So there you go. So, uh, that would be how I would describe it, but it had its audience. And I'm sure for a lot of people who need to sort of listen and sleep and relax. The Lawrence Welk show today would be a perfect thing to be. That would be ideal, you know, having on. But Henry Cuesta was the clarinet guy. And he was the clarinet guy. And the only reason I know that Henry Cuesta was Lawrence Wilkes clarinet guy is I was at. I was a waiter at a country club when I was 17. And this was one of those country clubs, you know, in Dirty Dancing, where you see these people going to these, like, Catskill type places where people would sit for cocktails and watch. Uh, it was one of those places. So it seemed like stepping into the past when I was. So Henry Cuesta would come and play for two weeks at the country club. And every old woman in a smart frock and her husband dolled up with the fanciest tie, would come and just cut up a rug dancing to the clarinet player.

Shane Jacobson:  From Lawrence Weld to the sweet sounds of the clarinet.

Marco Timpano: And he would play his signature. His signature clarinet song was. Do you want to guess? Or, uh, what was. What was your song that you played and marched with? Let's see if it's.

Shane Jacobson:  If it's the Henry. Same one. Uh, what's the. It was from 2001. Zuf. Zuff. Oh, I can't even say it.

Marco Timpano: Oh, I love it.

Shane Jacobson:  Um, and I could play those three notes pretty well. After that, it sort of trailed off. That was our. That was our hit song. And I think Eye of the Tiger maybe.

Marco Timpano: Oh, amazing.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah.

Marco Timpano: If there's. If there's no song that I would much that I would rather hear on the clarinet.

Shane Jacobson:  On the clarinet. It translates so well.

Marco Timpano: Uh, uh, it's kind of the song that was made for the clarinet.

Marco Timpano: It really was.

Shane Jacobson:  I think he did write it for the clarinet first.

Marco Timpano: Henry Cuesta's song, if I'm not mistaken, was Amazing Grace. He would wail that. Or not wail that. He'd play that song so gracefully on the clarinet. And he. And he was, as far as clarinet musicians that I know go, present company excluded, he was the top.

Shane Jacobson:  I m. Could see that being a great song. I would like to hear him do, uh. What's the, uh, New York theme? It's, um. Um. All I can think of is Aaron Copeland now. Okay. Or any kind of like, old, you know, men in trench coats and top hats sort of clarinet y city sense sounds.


Any other wind instruments do you play? No. I used to take piano lessons

Marco Timpano: Any other wind instruments do you play?

Shane Jacobson:  No. I don't know why I thought about that.

Marco Timpano: Might be something you could pull out of your wagon if someone wanted to hire you to be in a film playing A wind instrument. I think you'd be able to do it.

Shane Jacobson:  I could do it. Give me a week. Yeah, give me a week, actually. Yeah, I could call up. I have a friend. I have a friend who plays. Plays wind instruments, uh, in Broadway shows in New York. I could call him up. He could teach me whatever song you want. If we're gonna do the, uh, the Dirty Dancing clarinet, you know, version of that. Yeah, give me a week. I could do that.

Marco Timpano: What if we want that on the recorder?

Shane Jacobson:  Give me a week and a half.

Marco Timpano: Oh, you'd think it'd be cool.

Shane Jacobson:  We have to learn what a recorder is. Exactly.

Marco Timpano: It's, I think, the, um, the basic version of a couple clarinet. It's a very. It's just a little wing.

Shane Jacobson:  The little super kind.

Marco Timpano: No, that's a piccolo. If I'm not thinking or like. No, wait a second. Um. So as far as I know. And I'm no great musician, obviously.

Shane Jacobson:  Me either.

Marco Timpano: Uh, well, you play. You play more than I do. I used to take piano lessons, but at the time that I took piano lessons, my teacher would smoke. It's when you could smoke anywhere and I couldn't see the notes because there was so much smoke in the air. And so as a child, it was really difficult. And, uh, as a result, I don't smoke and I don't play the piano.

Shane Jacobson:  This sounds like.

Marco Timpano: Yeah.

Shane Jacobson:  Psychological way of not making you not play piano, I guess.

Marco Timpano: I guess.

Shane Jacobson:  Well, someone didn't want you to play piano m. Or smoke. Fair.


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Marco Timpano: Well, I guess one good thing and one not so good thing came up. But, um, you mentioned earlier that you grew up. Up in New Orleans.

Shane Jacobson:  Yes.

Marco Timpano: Tell me about what it's like growing up in such a cool city or what we perceive as such a cool city.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah. And I didn't appreciate it as a cool city until I left.

Marco Timpano: Sure.

Shane Jacobson:  I went to high school and college there, and I couldn't wait to get. I mean, college was fun, actually. I appreciated that. Sure.

Marco Timpano: I bet.

Shane Jacobson:  But it just seemed like the city I grew up in until I left. Um, I thought everybody had Mardi Gras parades. I thought, you know, every year you go and catch things from afloat and there's music playing and people partying.

Marco Timpano: Um,

Shane Jacobson:  it was super hot in the summer and a lot of swimming.

Marco Timpano: But I really appreciate.

Shane Jacobson:  Now I. Yeah, well, I would take my grandpa, the Norwegian would take me to the Gulf of Mexico to go swimming.

Marco Timpano: But certainly you appreciate the history. History now.

Shane Jacobson:  I do. I do. I realize. Because I realize, I think what I miss about it once Uh, I left. I went up to New York City and I missed Cajun food and spicy food and mostly food.

Marco Timpano: I imagine the city's very musical too.

Marco Timpano: Right.

Marco Timpano: Speaking of instruments.

Marco Timpano: Right.

Marco Timpano: Yeah. I understand that you can. On a Saturday or Sunday, you can find a jazz brunch just about anywhere in this city.

Shane Jacobson:  Pretty much anywhere. Yeah, we did. Um, my mom likes that, so we would go, yeah, have jazz brunch. Um, bluegrass. I started liking blues. And even, like, if you go a bit further south into Cajun country, there's Cajun line dancing and two stepping, I guess our version of it, really, which I discovered in college. And that was exciting.

Marco Timpano: So it stands to reason.

Marco Timpano: Social.

Marco Timpano: Sorry. It stands to reason that you would want to play the trumpet. Being a child.

Shane Jacobson:  Ah.

Marco Timpano: Who grew up in New Orleans. Um, and, you know, having those sort of instruments that are so quintessential when you think about jazz and when one thinks about places like New Orleans or Chicago, the trumpet goes hand in hand.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah.

Marco Timpano: I wonder what kind of trumpet player you'd be today if your father had a trumpet rather than a clarinet.

Shane Jacobson:  Can you imagine if he only had a trumpet? Or my brother, actually, my brother wound up playing drums. He's a drummer. That would have been my second favorite. But, uh, I think the drums and the trumpet seem to be the most New Orleansy of the instruments. It just tickles something in my brain that, oh, it sounds like home. Yeah.

Marco Timpano: Wow.

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Marco Timpano: It's interesting how a city can have a sound that you associate with it.

Shane Jacobson:  Mhm.


New Orleans and Baton Rouge are two places I really want to go visit

Marco Timpano: Now do you get back to New Orleans?

Shane Jacobson:  I try to usually. Maybe every other month, every three months or so. Pretty often I get to. I still have family down there and yeah, I like to visit and eat.

Marco Timpano: It's one of the cities that I really want to visit.

Shane Jacobson:  You haven't?

Marco Timpano: I haven't been. And it's one of, um, Amanda, my wife's been to almost every state. She's got nine left. And so when you get to the last nine states, there are some that are like, really exciting and some that are kind of like, oh, that place. I won't mention it because I'm sure we might have listeners there.

Shane Jacobson:  Uh, but we're talking about California.

Marco Timpano: Yes.

Marco Timpano: Um, no. And I'm excited because one of the states she hasn't been to is Louisiana. And I have a love for all things Cajun for the cuisine. New Orleans is a city that. New Orleans and Baton Rouge are two places I really want to go visit.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah. I have a question. Yes? Do you think is there more of a connection or a similarity, uh, between that. Because the Cajun we come from the Acadian French that came down from Canada.

Marco Timpano: That's right.

Shane Jacobson:  To our place. So do we. Are we related?

Marco Timpano: You know, that's a fantastic question and I bet there's scholars who could answer this in a way better than I will, but I'm going to regardless. And yes, there is a king connection between New Orleans and the Acadians that left, uh, that part of Canada and who ended up there. And, uh, though I'm not French Canadian, I certainly have a love for Acadian things, and I would just love to see that culture and what happened in Orleans and what the distinction between French Canada and Louisiana is, what the differences are and the similarities. Have you had opportunity to go to French Canada at all?

Shane Jacobson:  I have. It was maybe 15 years ago that I was up there.

Marco Timpano: Um, did you notice anything? Did anything strike you as like, wow, we do that. Or there was something about some of

Shane Jacobson:  the architecture, some of the. Not even the accent. I mean, that seems totally different. Fleur de Lis. And I think there's a. There's a visceral kind of, like, relaxed. Not even relaxed is the word, but m. Oozy. Oh, gosh. Awful with vocabulary.

Marco Timpano: Oozy's great.

Shane Jacobson:  Just like an ooze about being in your skin that I felt there.

Marco Timpano: A different pace. A different sort of a different pace. Ah, yeah, sure.

Shane Jacobson:  I saw that.

Marco Timpano: Yeah, that makes sense to me. Yeah.


So when I land in New Orleans, where should I go first

So when I land in New Orleans.

Shane Jacobson:  Yes.

Marco Timpano: Where's the first place I should go?

Shane Jacobson:  Ooh, I would say go to Oak street uptown, near Audubon Park.

Marco Timpano: Don't.

Marco Timpano: Shane.

Marco Timpano: Don't give me the touristy place to go where? If I was with you.

Shane Jacobson:  Okay.

Marco Timpano: And I said take me there. Yeah.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah.

Marco Timpano: Where would you take me? And I don't want to see something too. I don't want to see something too touristy. I want to see something where you'd like to go in New Orleans.

Shane Jacobson:  I would go. Giacomo's is a restaurant on Oak Street.

Marco Timpano: Okay. So always Oak Street. We gotta go to Oak Street. Definitely Oak.

Shane Jacobson:  I mean, the street itself, it looks like a little, quaint, Pleasantville kind of street, but that's.

Marco Timpano: We go.

Shane Jacobson:  Because Giacomo's is there.

Marco Timpano: Amazing.

Shane Jacobson:  And we can get a Bloody Mary while we put our name in, because there's always a crowd. Get a Bloody Mary at the bar, and you can walk outside with it. Uh, and once we get in, Jacques is the chef. He's always there in kind of board shorts and his chef outfit running around all the tables. If you're into Bushmills.

Marco Timpano: Okay.

Shane Jacobson:  We do a shot of Bushmills with Jacques.

Marco Timpano: Why not? Listen, if that's what I got to do, I'll take the hit.

Shane Jacobson:  And then we start with alligator cheesecake.

Marco Timpano: Yum.

Shane Jacobson:  Yes.

Marco Timpano: Two things. I love both the animal and the. And the dessert.

Shane Jacobson:  And the dessert. And, uh, I like the stuffed pork chop. You can get an etouffee or the stuffed pork chop is. It's stuffed with crab meat, uh, dressing.

Marco Timpano: If I was a pig and I was to die, I would want to be stuffed with crab meat. So I think that's just.

Shane Jacobson:  I would want that for you.

Marco Timpano: Ah, it would be the best way to go.

Shane Jacobson:  Or maybe not the best, but if you're in New Orleans.

Marco Timpano: Pig.

Marco Timpano: Yeah. I, um, think just about any animal, any mammal, when they die, deserves to be stuffed with crab meat, I think. I think there's nothing wrong. Didn't the Egyptians used to do that before they mummified? I digress. So let me say this, Shane. If you take me for a Bloody Mary, then you have to allow me to take you for a Bloody Caesar. Are you familiar with Bloody Caesars?

Shane Jacobson:  Is this with Clamato?

Marco Timpano: Yes. It's not just Clamato. I'm hesitant. You're making a strange face.

Shane Jacobson:  I am.

Marco Timpano: And it's.

Shane Jacobson:  It's.

Marco Timpano: It's a delightful drink that one finds in Canada, where you take an ounce and a quarter of vodka. Worcestershire. Shire sauce. I never say that. Right. Worcestershire.

Shane Jacobson:  Say it all the way.

Marco Timpano: Worcestershire. You know, I throw in all the.

Marco Timpano: All the letters there.

Marco Timpano: Tabasco to your liking. So three. Three. What is it? Dabs. Three dashes. Thank you. Of, uh, Tabasco till 17. Whatever your heat preference is, you rim the glass with celery salt. So that would be the first thing you do. Celery salt rim. Actually, the first thing you would do is rim the glass with lime, then dip it in celery salt, flip the glass over, throw in some cubes, Worcestershire sauce, dashes of Tabasco, ounce and a quarter to an ounce and a half of vodka, clamato juice, which is tomato juice.

Shane Jacobson:  That's where I'm concerned with.


Shane recommends starting with the classic and then exploring the variety

Marco Timpano: From person from New Orleans, where you have some of the best seafood in the. In the world. Should not be scared of a little bit of clam juice in here. It's nice and salty, too, so there's plenty of sodium in there. And, um, you would then have a. Traditionally, you'd have a celery stalk in there. Some people put pickles. You can put any sort of gherkin you may like. Some people put hot peppers and, uh, freshly ground black pepper on top. Maybe a little bit of salt just to really harden those arteries, and away you go. And a little bit of lime wedge.

Shane Jacobson:  That does sound really good. I do like Bloody Marys that have that salad consistency on top for sure. So all of those things sound great. I'm willing to try that.

Marco Timpano: Okay.

Shane Jacobson:  I'm Willing to try.

Marco Timpano: So what we'll do is we'll take you for a Bloody Caesar, and then the next time we have you on the insomnia project, you will have to let us know what you think of that.

Shane Jacobson:  Okay.

Marco Timpano: Is that a deal?

Shane Jacobson:  Let's do it.

Marco Timpano: And I'll have Bloody Mary. Yeah. We're actually shaking, which no one can see, but we actually did it.

Shane Jacobson:  We did.

Marco Timpano: We did.

Shane Jacobson:  Now, I've been to a Bloody Mary. My sister took me to a place where there were, uh. There was a slice of bacon in the Bloody Mary, a bit of cheese and a mini hamburger, a slider on top. What's. Have you had? Crazy things on top of a Bloody Mary.

Marco Timpano: You know, I mean, I've had. Certainly you can go for Caesars that have, like, shrimp and horseradish, and you name, like, a million different things in it. But I just. I tend to be a person who likes, um, the classic way to do things. Like, I prefer to start with the classic and then veer from. But I'll always go back to the classic because I feel like sometimes it's all show, no substance.

Shane Jacobson:  Gotcha.

Marco Timpano: Yeah.

Shane Jacobson:  You want. Do you want that base level that you can then vary to, ah, see if what you like or not like

Marco Timpano: and return to that base level? And I think that goes true for just about everything. I like to start, you know, at the baseline and appreciate the baseline of whatever it is.

Shane Jacobson:  Yes.

Marco Timpano: And then veer from it, because oftentimes you'll be introduced to something, um, that is a variation or a grander version of something before you actually have the original. So it kind of spoils you or can cloud your judgment, and you don't see the purity of what the base of the new item is.

Shane Jacobson:  Right.

Marco Timpano: Shane, I have to apologize. I feel like I've been just yammering at the mouth and haven't given you the opportunity to speak about blood.

Shane Jacobson:  No, I got arrested for bloody, uh, Caesar. I got, uh, tips on go to the baseline first, see what it is, and then explore the variety.

Marco Timpano: And I got, you know, go to Oak Street, Giacomo's. When I'm in New Orleans. And am I saying it right? How do you say it?

Shane Jacobson:  I say New Orleans.

Marco Timpano: New Orleans.

Shane Jacobson:  I do.

Marco Timpano: Okay.

Shane Jacobson:  I think everybody says New Orleans. The song, the, uh. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? That might be the only place that you can hit the New Orleans.

Marco Timpano: It's like Newfoundland. Some people say Newfoundland, but that's not.

Shane Jacobson:  If.

Marco Timpano: That's not if you're from there or, for example, how would you say the city that we're currently recording from.

Shane Jacobson:  I think I've been practicing.

Marco Timpano: Okay.

Shane Jacobson:  I tell people I met, uh, I'm in Toronto.

Marco Timpano: Yeah, that's not bad.

Shane Jacobson:  You don't say that.

Marco Timpano: Last teal.

Marco Timpano: Last teal. You'll know if you're from this city.

Shane Jacobson:  Right.

Marco Timpano: You will know when someone is not from here, by the way they say the name of the city. So if you pronounce the second t, Toronto, then nine out of 10 times, you're not from Toronto. Some people say Toronto. Yeah.

Shane Jacobson:  Locals say Toronto.

Marco Timpano: Some people do.

Shane Jacobson:  Really? I guess some of the New Orleans locals say New Orleans.

Marco Timpano: Yeah. We have a restaurant called Gnarlings.

Shane Jacobson:  Do you?

Marco Timpano: Yeah, we walked by it, actually, earlier. I should have pointed out Cajun. Uh, it's trying to be Cajun. I don't know if it is, but you would have to be the judge of that.

Shane Jacobson:  I'll be the judge of that.


You've seen five movies in three days. Wow. How many movies have you seen

Marco Timpano: So you're in town for Tiff. How has your Tiff experience been?

Shane Jacobson:  It's been good. It's been exciting.

Marco Timpano: How many movies have you seen?

Shane Jacobson:  I've seen five so far.

Marco Timpano: Wow.

Shane Jacobson:  Five in three days.

Marco Timpano: Wow, that's pretty intense. Good for you.

Shane Jacobson:  It's been an intense schedule.

Marco Timpano: So you've had, like, a busy tiff.

Shane Jacobson:  It's been busy today, and tomorrow I have more relaxing things to do, like a nap.

Marco Timpano: Amazing.

Shane Jacobson:  Yes.

Marco Timpano: And this podcast.

Shane Jacobson:  And this podcast.

Marco Timpano: Hopefully, uh, it'll come after the podcast, and it'll help lead into it.


Shane Jacobson is in a new movie called Strange Weather

So can we talk about. Can we mention the movie that you're in?

Shane Jacobson:  The gala?

Marco Timpano: Yes.

Shane Jacobson:  Yeah, I'm in a movie called Strange Weather, which is interesting enough. Uh, Holly Hunter is in it, Carrie Hoon from Leftovers, and Kim Coates, Sons of Anarchy is also in it. And it was a cool, cool, quick experience for me. Sure, they filmed for, I think, four weeks, but I was in just one of them towards the end. So I got to be the new kid at summer camp when they had already bonded and they were really. I showed up at a cast party, took a shot of tequila, and then we got started with. With talking about scene and work, and it was a cool experience.

Marco Timpano: Congratulations on that. I can't wait to see Strange Weather. I'm gonna try to get tickets to the gala and just watch you walk the red and hopefully not trip on the red carpet.

Shane Jacobson:  And teeter.

Marco Timpano: And teeter. Well, Shane, I want to thank you so much for being part of the, uh, program today.

Shane Jacobson:  That was really fun. Thanks for having me.

Marco Timpano: Oh, the pleasure was mine. And you can see more of Shane on his Instagram account, which is thatshane. I had the pleasure of talking with Shane Jacobson and it's spelled the Norwegian word way, which is Jacobsen Jacobsen and his Twitter handle is ShaneJacobsen. As always, the Insomnia project is produced by Drumcast Productions and we recorded this particular episode in Toronto. We hope you enjoyed and were able to listen and sleep Sa.