Sep 23, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
What if becoming who we were made to be is inseparable from belonging? In season 11 (if you can remember that far back), we explored rupture and repair—the ways our relationships shape us, and how…
Pepper SweeneyHost
I was thinking of when I was younger and I was an apprentice in theater, right? And
They picked 12 people out of the whole country to spend a year doing nothing but theater, every aspect of it, onstage, offstage, backstage, all the things.
And when I walked into that theater for the first time, I was nervous and scared.
And the only reason why we got those three is because on the other days off that we had, were like a few others, they called us in and we were dumb enough to answer the phone.
You were either in a play, understudying a play, or working, whatever, and then you would have classes after the theater from all these you know, Tony Award winners and Emmy Award winners and all this stuff.
The classes would usually start around 12.30 or 1 in the morning and go till probably 3 or so.
probably maybe six or eight months there, right? I mean, you're living and breathing with these other 12, other 11 people plus your teachers and the actors that are coming in all the time.
I was thinking of when I was younger and I was an apprentice in theater, right? And
They picked 12 people out of the whole country to spend a year doing nothing but theater, every aspect of it, onstage, offstage, backstage, all the things.
And when I walked into that theater for the first time, I was nervous and scared.
And the only reason why we got those three is because on the other days off that we had, were like a few others, they called us in and we were dumb enough to answer the phone.
You were either in a play, understudying a play, or working, whatever, and then you would have classes after the theater from all these you know, Tony Award winners and Emmy Award winners and all this stuff.
The classes would usually start around 12.30 or 1 in the morning and go till probably 3 or so.
probably maybe six or eight months there, right? I mean, you're living and breathing with these other 12, other 11 people plus your teachers and the actors that are coming in all the time.
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