Hi, I'm Joseph Fink, podcaster and novelist, and this is the show where I talk with John

Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, about what it means to be a fan, to be an artist, and to be both of those things at once.

Throughout this season we will be talking to some mutual friends and interesting people working in all forms of art. Today we talk with

Anya Kister and Iris Explosion who are both New York City-based burlesque performers. We talk about the Mountain Goat themed Burles show that Anya organized

an Iris performed in and also about a bunch of other cool stuff. Anya has organized a sequel

to the first Mountain Goats burlesque.

I only strip to the Mountain Goats too,

this Saturday at the Parkside Lounge in New York.

Hopefully see y'all there.

Anya and Iris, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me.

My pleasure.

So, Anya, Iris, part of what I thought might make you guys interesting

guests other than that you're interesting people is that you've done burlesque's

shows, you've done one based on Welcome to Night Vale and you've done one based on Mountain

Goats.

A few welcome to Night Show shows now.

Yeah, well, yeah, we kind of commissioned you all to come back and do it again.

We're a very niche collective of Burlesque performers who have done those two shows.

But I guess, yeah, I was interested in sort of the relationship between Burlesque and other forms of art and kind of making Burlesque

based on other forms of art.

Sure.

I mean, you produce the shows on you.

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