Asperger's Are Us Page #5

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Well...

- All right, New Michael Nees

to take a break, that's fine.

- That's really,

that really like

sensory up the wall.

- Okay.

I'll stop.

All right.

- Yeah, I'm feeling all awkward,

'cause my sister's home.

See this is why I can't

do it at my house.

- We gave you the option...

- No, you didn't!

You said we have to,

"Where else is it gonna be?

"It has to be at your house!"

- No, I asked.

- I'm not, I'm not

talkin' about you!

- Okay!

- It's been going

fine, New Michael.

Do you need us to go...

- I understand rehearsal's

been going well so far.

I'm saying that I feel upset.

And my sister hasn't been

home the whole time, either!

- Do you need us

to go downstairs?

'Cause I'm hungry, I

could eat something.

- I want you guys to leave.

- I'm not gonna leave.

It's 5:
30.

We have an hour and a

half, we need to rehearse.

- Well I'm leaving, then.

F*** you guys!

Like I can't handle this.

- All right.

Keep working on this.

That's always how it goes.

All right.

Ethan, are you all right?

- Well, I'm not

happy, but I'm doing okay.

- New Michael just

gets sensitive

when his family's home.

- Yeah, and well,

he doesn't need to act

like it's everyone else's fault.

- I get frustrated,

I can't handle it.

I had to leave.

I feel awkward doing rehearsals

and stuff in my house.

And now it's a

little overwhelming.

You know, I just want

it to be done now.

- I'm gonna log out,

we have to leave now.

- Well hopefully New

Michael won't kill us tomorrow.

- I know,

he's probably gonna be pissed,

he's gonna be more sensitive

than normal when he arrives,

it's gonna make

rehearsal more difficult.

- Later!

- Didn't want to be

doing rehearsal here,

and like I was having a really,

really bad sensory issue.

I guess I kind of

feel like a jerk

getting upset about

things, but it's like,

I mean it is really

annoying having-

it's just a big inconvenience

having it at my

house, that's all.

Like here's this huge

huge prop that I wasn't

expecting to be here, but,

I'll just put it over here

in the corner, I guess.

That wasn't a good choice by me,

at all.

- All of this stuff that's hard,

that's difficult for us,

this is what we get for

starting Asperberger's Are Us.

Like these are challenges

we have as Aspies,

we can't do multiple

things at once.

This is why we get extra credit

from people who don't

know anything about us

and just know about the

concept of the troupe,

this is the price we're paying.

So I guess in the end,

it works out pretty fair.

How many people go to

the Special Olympics

'cause they want to see somebody

break a world record?

I wish more people did.

Certainly, some people there

can be really quick or

really good at their sport.

But

it is the challenges

that interest them,

and this is one of the

challenges we have to face

that makes this show insane

for us to have booked.

So I don't appear

To need your help

I'll look like I'm okay

I'll tell you the truth

I'd love to be a different way

I love playing songs

to 20 people every night

But I'd rather play to packed

houses under stage lights

I'd rather quit my job

As a professor

And just do this all day

'Cause this is

what I was born for

But I'm not complainin'

I love performin'

And entertainin'

And I make a good livin'

And I get the groupies

And some of them love me

But why aren't I famous?

Why aren't I famous?

Laughter, really.

And also about

improving people's

standards for comedy,

if anything, that's

the takeaway message

from what we're doing.

Everyone always asks, you know,

"So the point of

you guys isn't to

"teach everybody

that autistic people,

"that autistic

people can be funny?"

And like, no, that's

not the point.

Like, we're together

'cause we think we're funny

and we like what we're doing,

and we want it out there.

We want to sail a

flotilla to Spain.

That's really what we've

been working on for

for the last three years, yeah.

I'm glad you get it.

They cut that from

the NPR interview,

'cause they didn't get it.

Buh-bye.

We're not trying to

connect with the audience.

Our goal is to be funny

for our own entertainment.

If you enjoy it,

that's wonderful.

If you don't, I'm

sorry that you didn't!

The audience gives you

positive reinforcement,

and that's awesome.

But, if they don't,

you get it from

succeeding at your goal

of being hilarious

for your own sake.

And so if your material is good,

and you don't screw it up live,

then you won!

And I love winning!

Almost as much as

I love swinging.

We want to sell out Earth.

We want aliens to

come to the show

and be turned away

because it's full.

But we're realistic,

so if the aliens get

in, that's okay, too.

- Well today,

I will be talking to

K-Strass on the phone.

- K-Strass is back with

us again from Zip-Zap.

We thank you for

joining us this morning.

- All right, K-Strass,

good morning,

thanks for coming on!

- Thank you, how are you?

- Good!

- And you go around to

schools with yo-yos?

- Teaching kids

about being green!

- Actually, I've only

been in one school so far.

Mm-hmm.

- And I'll be honest,

it didn't go so hot.

In fact, it was literally

a major disaster.

- Oh no!

- What I say is, you know,

life has a lot of ups and downs.

- Mm-hmm.

- And...

Let's bring it back home

for a clean landing,

10-4.

Then...

- Oh!

- Oh, you all right?

- Could we, do you have a clip?

- A clip?

- Like did Joe send a clip over?

- No, we don't have a clip.

That's what you're doing.

A clip of what

you've done before?

- Yeah.

- Never forget the first

time I saw K-Strass.

Noah sent me an email

with two of the videos.

I walked upstairs to my bedroom,

and I was literally

hysterically laughing

in bed and thinking about

it the rest of the night.

Here it is!

Hello!

- Is this New Michael?

- Yes, yes this is New Michael.

Is this Mark?

- This is Mark.

This is New Mark.

- Oh, oh great!

Was your father Old Mark?

- Yes,

Mark Senior.

New Mark Se-

Old Mark Senior.

- Oh.

We share-

I never knew somebody

else who did that.

- No one else does

that, New Michael.

Just you.

- Yeah.

You can do the,

you know, just I'll be literally

every other character

except for Shapeshifter,

who will be K-Strass.

- I just want to thank you guys

for thinking of

me for doing this.

That means a lot.

- I'm not,

Yeah, well, I mean,

it means a lot to us

to have you doing this for us.

I mean we're all

really, really big fans.

All right, talk to

you in a minute.

- All right.

- Bye.

- All right,

I'll talk to you then.

- All right.

You know, I almost feel

a little like giggling,

'cause his voice actually is

just like K-Strass's voice,

and like I feel silly saying,

if it makes me giggle

remembering K-Strass,

it's like I'm

talking to K-Strass!

- They really kind of took

to the K-Strass character.

This is a character that

you would meet in Wisconsin.

You know, somebody that

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