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FIRESIDE JANUARY LIVE RIGHT NOW!

Came hang out for a bit why don't ya!!!

Boop.

Bop.

Bip.

LINK: https://youtu.be/_NOmumWIu4I

Little BONUS post: EPIC HOW TO

So, back in the day, I used to host/produce a little series called EPIC HOW TO. We covered a bunch of topics from HOW TO BE A HACKER to HOW TO FIGHT A SHARK... and WIN!

Anyways, I recently was gifted with the opportunity to do another episode...AND we got the original animator back... you may know him... ANDY MOGREN! 

Hopefully we can do more of these in the future. They're just fun. And ya learn a little something. Anyways, please give it a watch and I hope you enjoy!

Joe

EXCLUSIVE: Climate Change & Copernicus (VIDEO)

Honestly, most of my personality is built off various things I remember from some documentary I probably watched like six years ago. I'm a millennial. Deal with it. Some of my personality is remnants from books I've read, but let's be honest, books are just documentaries for people with too much time on their hands. And when it comes to time, ain't nobody got time for it, I always say.

This video is about climate change, a subject I know so little about that it feels guilty to even include in the title. However, as an influencer, it's my job to shed light on things I kinda sorta saw and was like "Oh wow okay." Most of the time this is relegated to hot vacation destination spots or, like, fitness teas, but not for me. For me, I'm going to take my limited knowledge about a subject and combine it with a sudden existential panic about the persistent destruction of the planet and try to draw a parallel to a dead guy I was reading about the other week. Like and subscribe, double tap.

Really, this video is a confession about my own apathy in the face of an inconceivable threat, as well as the silliness of what it takes to get people to care about things they can't directly see or aren't directly affected by, kinda like how some people don't accept they're broken up with until they see their ex with a new partner. We're visual creatures, and apparently highly capable of self-delusion-- at least that's what I tell myself, but who could trust him? 

I hope you're enjoying these little one-off videos! Let me know what you think in the comments if you're just chillin' on a Wednesday. In the meantime, shoutout to Copernicus, I'm like not even afraid to say that. Copernicus, you look like every guy I stop next to in traffic. 

-Elliott

And That's A Wow From Us, Dawg

Y'all, what the heck even? 

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you guys for helping us make the Movie Movie Game Kickstarter a massive success immediately. It took literally eight minutes to reach our goal, and now we're in yet another beautifully Dazed and Confused moment that is a direct result of our incredible community. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

The truth is, imho, Movie Movie Game is the kind of idea that deserves a massive amount of success. The launch of the Kickstarter, for me, showcased what can happen when every member of a team works together alongside their audience. From the badass trailer Kevin edited together, to the smooth and sexy livestream Steve orchestrated, to the mock-ups and literal banners Ryan Farroki provided for us, and finally to, of course, Joe creating an undeniable game that we believe has very real legs. It couldn't be going any better, literally or symbolically, and I really believe that's a testament to the magic that's still in store from The Valleyfolk.

Speaking of stores, look forward later this week to a merch sale, which we'll have discount codes for and provided to you later in the week. The Valleycast will be up tomorrow, as well, for all patrons-- after we record it in like an hour. As for the Kickstarter, we've also added a tier that allows people to choose which expansion set they would like in addition to the standard game. An update has been posted about it if you were among those asking for the tier.  There will also be a new Hey Elliott's Talking video on Wednesday, so stay tuned for that hot hunk of content. 

Now, the weekend is over, and it's time to put the celebration on hold so we can focus on growing this thing. Ideas are already piling in for our next game, and it all smells like a fresh new direction after a very stale year. We're looking forward to going on this journey with you, which is JUST BEGINNING, so buckle your dang stinking seatbelts and don't forget to turn your cell phones off during the movie. There's popcorn in the lobby.

-Elliott

PRE-LAUNCH PAGE: Movie Movie Game Kickstarter Launches FRIDAY 11/13!!

Ah, this week is Friday the 13th. What a terrifying day to launch a Kickstarter for the smash hit game, Movie Movie Game! But why wait till Friday to start getting excited/terrified? That's, like, a really good point, Elliott. Thanks, Elliott. 

Pre-launch page has LAUNCHED! If you're on Kickstarter already, head on over to the pre-launch page below and click the green link to be notified when we officially go live on Friday (the THIRTEENTH)! The bees are dying, so let's generate all the buzz we can for this game. I'm sorry for saying that, but here I am, not deleting it. Hm. 

Official URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thevalleyfolk/movie-movie-game-0

Bitly URL if you're into that: bit.ly/MovieMovieGame

HERE WE GOOOOO!

-Elliott

EXCLUSIVE: STEVE'S SOURCEFED AUDITION LIVESTREAM VOD

(let's make up for the podcast being late this week)

Hey Patrons! As you know, we teamed up with HEADCOUNT.ORG to help get people registered to vote and we met our SECOND GOAL!!!!  As promised, Steve released his SourceFed Audition on a livestream ANNNNNND Kevin showed some of his early work and I showcased a "lost/forgotten/privated" Barats and Bereta video. It really was a good time. 

We know not all of you could attend SO WE'RE POSTING IT EXCLUSIVELY RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!

Do enjoy, and if you have yet to check your registration through our link, you should do so... cause we are VERY CLOSE to getting Elliott to dye his hair.

http://www.headcount.org/thevalleyfolk 

KEEP IT HEALTHY AND HAPPY!

Joe

PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Sex Cults, Bloodletting, & Other Funny Things

SURPRISE, Y'ALL!

Welcome to 2020, where the bar for high-budget documentary series has been raised to the point of no return. Can we ever go back to the time before Tiger King? No, and that's a new normal I can get behind. The Vow, from HBO, is about a cult BY stupid people, FOR stupid people, and I do not know how I'm not supposed to find it all very funny.

This video is the first in a series I'll be posting exclusively here on Patreon. Now, I have a confession to make: I'm too kind to The Vow in this video. I finished the series this past Sunday, when the finale aired, and since then it's become clear that I'm not alone in insensitively mocking some of the dorkier elements of this Very Serious Story. Have you guys watched it? It's basically a how-to guide for sociopaths, and it indirectly shows how easy it is to just target frickin' LA peoplee. The ways in which the cult's leader, Keith Raniere, hooks his prey is through some weird mix of negging, pop psychology, and actual basic truths that are spoken as though they're unique to him. "Fear keeps us from  achieving things." Wow, cool, thanks, Keith, you evil, evil dork. You gonna brand me now? Dork. 

Anyway, I don't know what this series is. I know that this video is about The Vow, and I know there's one on Lindsay Graham, that champion, and there's another on climate change, just because I like to keep things sexy. Tomorrow I'm filming one that's just a letter to my past self, so these are gonna be all over the place, whatever I wanna talk about, and they're just for YOU GUYS here on Patreon. My MO moving forward is to use this Patreon as a safe place to talk about whatever the heck I wanna DANG IT and I hope we can have some fun chats about it moving forward. 

In conclusion, The Vow is a terrible documentary series and I recommend avoiding it at all costs. Like a cult itself, it will suck you in, and just when you think you're in control, you realize you can't get out, and then you feel like the one being permanently branded by the blazing hot iron of mediocrity. Also they kinda made the evil dude less evil than he was for some reason? Maybe money? Screw The Vow, screw Keith Raniere, and most of all, screw me for being duped by the allure of yet another documentary series. Who's the fool, you know? The fool, or the fool who watches all nine episodes of these fools? 

If you wouldn't mind, please let me know what you think of these little videos. I hope they help take your mind off whatever stress you have going on, but if they don't, maybe you should try bloodletting? Also, can you think of a time you found something... funny... that maybe... you... shouldn't... find funny? Heh!

New video next week! They'll get better, too! You can practically see the dust falling off me since it's been so longed since I talked to a camera. Anyway, who am I kidding, this is art and it's perfect. 

-Elliott

***Direct link: https://youtu.be/6bzLqB_V2OQ ***

**Also, we are doing a live stream today at 2PM for Steve’s SOURCEFED AUDITION VIDEO since y’all have already gotten us 2/3 of the way through our headcount campaign!** Head over to http://twitch.tv/thevalleyfolk later today!

New Fundamentalists (if you're into that kinda thing)...

Hey, y'all! Hope you're having a great week! Gonna be recording a new Valleycast soon, but in the meantime, Peter Rollins and I are back with a new episode of The Fundamentalists. Finally! In this episode, we talk about sacrifice, and about what that means in today's world. It's a good (no-- GREAT) episode, especially since Pete and I haven't gotten to hang in a bit. I think you'll enjoy this episode (audio should be available on Spotify and iTunes shortly). 

Friendly reminder that full versions of The Fundamentalists are available on The Valleycast channel, and also: just sayin', maybe keep an eye on this podcast. It's about to take some weird directions, and I can't wait to tell y'all more about it. Big things. Heh heh! Muahaha! Eeeeh...

Now, let's all hold hands and have a lovely week together. Hope you're enjoying your Monday and not feeling too overwhelmed! 

-Elliott

Q and A Time: This Week’s Valleycast with Grace Helbig

Hey, guys! Elliott here. This week’s podcast is gonna be a bit different, since we got wrapped up filming other stuff. Spoiler: Joe’s killing it. But this week it’s gonna be just me and another YouTuber named “Grace.”

So for this Valleycast, drop ANY QUESTIONS YA GOT down below, for me, Grace, or even Joe and Steve and I’ll just answer for them rudely.

Want bad advice? Unproven life hacks? Baseless opinions? Let us know in the comments below! And also, let us know how YOU are doing!

-Elliott

EXCLUSIVE: FIRESIDE CHAT TODAY! 3PM Pacific

Hey everyone, I truly hope your day is one of rocking and bopping, and if it's not, we'll try our best to help ya out later with a FIRESIDE CHAT! We wanted to reach and touch base and just hang for a bit. Hope to see you there! In the meantime, we released CATS: The RPG, Episode 1 yesterday and Episode 2 goes up today! We hope the feline frenzy is tickling you like dah nip. 

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyVPHAIYb4

See you later!

JOE

CATS THE RPG IS COMING!

Friends, patrons, Jellicle cats! I’ve been hinting at this for a while, and now it’s finally happening! Cats the RPG will premiere on The Valleyfolk channel starting Monday with the finale airing on Friday. So to be clear, FIVE EPISODES of the Cats RPG will be posted every day this week instead of Your Show, and the Friday sketch video. So you’ll get an entire week of this insane Dungeons and Dragons style Role Playing Game, featuring Valleyfolk pals and new faces! It’s going to be very insane and very fun, I’ve spent the past 3 weeks making sure this thing works and is funny and also entertaining! With the help of SourceFedNERD editor Drew Coombs, this thing is going to be quite an adventure! Get ready for the most JELLICLE adventure since Cats was in theaters like 4 months ago!

Love,

-Steve

YOU GOT THIS! (and you got this week in review)

Hello. Hi. How are ya? Good day
Hope laughter and light have been coming your way
And you bask in small moments of joy and of play
'Cause YOU GOT THIS 

Sadness and anger and fear have their say
Listen and learn from their words, it's okay
We're all holding court with the black and the gray
But YOU GOT THIS

Everyone else seems so far and away
But together we stand in the now of today
Bound tighter and wiser after the fray
WE GOT THIS

--

Keep your heads up, your hearts full and your helping-hands active. Hope your week has been manageable and hopeful. If not, YOU GOT THIS. If you need a distraction, we got you. Here's some laughter from our week at The Valleyfolk.

HIP HOP HELIUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdycsWlSqWw
Noah Grossman, Keith Leak Jr, Trisha Hershberger and Whitney Moore suck down some helium with us and recite rap lyrics. Best be wearing sunglasses cause we are blasting forth a new, brighter shade of WHITE.

HEATHER (Joe's wife) on HER FIRST PODCAST EVER! | The Valleycast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMscmFNg7s
The lovely, my wife, sat down with me for her first ever podcast. We talk kids, slapping her mom for a million dollars and what we've been doing with our time during quarantine. I think we were both a little nervous. And fuqin' cute.

HOW (not) To BE DEPRESSED | YOUR SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWz9TTfB_kc
Malcom Barrett joins us this week on YOUR SHOW and it's madness. It's joyful madness. Steve provides an answer to a prompt in this episode that is the catalyst for what might be my favorite reaction-type-moment from the new wave of YOUR SHOWS.

The One Ride DISNEYLAND is MISSING | YOUR SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B13vMdMkZo
Kevin provided some wondrous editing moments in this video. Praise Kevin. Praise Kevin. Praise Kevin. We shall decimate the frail IN THE NAME OF KEVIN!!!

Do Audio books count as READING? | YOUR SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIVzU8dE0Y
According to some commenters, this episode is slightly controversial. Rest assured, I stand by my point as I am certainly just talking about the semantics of a verb. I wish nothing but happiness and information ingestion on whatever terms make you happy.

Steve Reveals (horrible) SECRET TALENTS | YOUR SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vctCU2U60
Steve presents stupid-human eye tricks. We endure. 

STREAMS

Star Trek Bridge Crew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFC9cTeeRVU
Brett Register teams up with Steve with hopes that they don't annihilate all of space and time.

Animal Crossing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVUyI2EmW8
I think Steve is trying to sleep with everyone on the island. I don't know.

Thank you all for watching. I hope you and yours are getting through this crazy with a lot of love and a lot of health. Stay tuned, we're still able to release for the next few weeks AND we're still trying to shoot new vids in whatever way we can. For instance, we just knocked out MOVIE MOVIE GAME: QUARANTINE EDITION and a new sketch with two special guests. Look at us go. OKAY, BYE!


Joe


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WEEKLY RECAP BE BACK

Hey Patrons, I'm gonna attempt to do weekly recaps again. I post these on YouTube's community page in an attempt to usher our vids to those the Sub-box neglected and lied to, but I figure they contain enough information that perhaps they belong here to. Let me know if this is something you'd like me to continue here!  Thanks and here it is:

Hello friends. I hope, from the gooiest depths of my heart, that you and yours are finding health and safety and moments of laughter and light as we navigate this nightmare together. I know the weights of anxiety and fear and uncertainty are teaming up to create a mighty load to bear, but guess what... YOU GOT THIS! I know you do. And if you don't right now, that's okay, because at some point, YOU WILL. You're more unbreakable than you give yourself credit. Sure, some cracks and fissures might have blasted open but that's just LIFE PHYSICS, baby! Those gaps are going to fill up with the warm juice that is your fortitude and courage and eventually solidify, making you whole again. And you'll be stronger and wiser and will have cool fissure-tracks running up and down your dope body, making you look like a sexy video game sub-boss.  YOU. GOT. THIS.

And I GOT THIS- The return of the weekly recap. We've been attempting to continue to operate at as close to full-steam as possible to help you get through it all with some dumb distractions. The return of Your Show (and our move to try and get ahead on shoots) has allowed us to do so. Here is a recap of this week's dumb.

DEAR HANK AND JOHN: The Truth About the Green Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5YfLTI5u4

These two frauds have been gallivanting through the slender wheat stalks swaying upon the open plains of YouTube and the Literature world unchecked for far too long. Finally, a courageous soul by the name of CHET GREEN, has emerged from the shadows to bequeath knowledge to the masses. Listen to Chet as he spits truth about the sinister workings fueling the Green Empire. 

WE MADE THE WORST WOULD YOU RATHER | Your Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juzMRJpEySM

It's a simple, disturbing question that I won't repeat here. But it did find conception deep within my thought-pockets and that has me all sorts of worried. Elliott and Steve's improv at the end of this journey is a BEST OF moment in this new era of Your Show.

THE HOT SPAGHETTI SONG | Your Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKEmd8L-LSs

I don’t think we stumbled upon a new game for when we answer prompts- SINGING ROUNDS. We don't know what the questions are or where they will go, but there is one rule: Ya gots to sing. The story is real, the pain it burned, and the song is... a song? ALSO... Elliott's got a sexy elbow, right? Like... damn. 

The I'M GLAD I'M NOT THAT KID Story | Your Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXt2BUyw1DI

Sometimes new experiences fill us to our bodily-brims with TOO MUCH inside stuff. And sometimes that stuff spews forth in a glorious release that you'd rather forget, but sometimes, that story is recounted on an internet show for the whole world to experience anew. Annnnnnnd.... OWL PLANE. 

Las Vegas LIFE HACKS | Your Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGYP2Nrwzo

Sure, we wax about how to enjoy Vegas without dying... but more importantly... the THREE FOUR Song fell out of our mouth-holes on this episode. 

And to round it out -

GRACE and ELLIOTT on THE VALLEYCAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sed8b5qAD6w

STEVE'S Continued Adventures in ANIMAL CROSSING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW4rU8DpJMY

Whew! That's a lot. I hope you enjoy these tiny distractions and that they gift you with a laugh or two. Big shout outs to our small but mighty team that keeps the wheels turning here at the VF with all their editing and hard work. Much love to Kevin, Kait, Ryan and Andy! 

Wishing you all nothing but the good stuff,

Joe

LIVE PATRON FIRESIDE CHAT TODAY! 4pm(PST)

Hey all! I’m sure you’ve seen Elliott’s LENS video already but just in case you don’t watch those, we’re doing a patron only fireside chat later today at 4pm(PST)! Hope to see ya’ll there!! <3

-Steve

STATE OF THE VALLEY ADDRESS

Hello, Citizens of the Valley!

Elliott here.

Boy, we picked a heck of a week to return full-force! After months of filming and preparation, we unleashed a torrent of content last week that was incredibly well-received. While our views are down, our hearts are full, and we literally owe it all to you, our patrons. So, on behalf of everyone here (figuratively, that is, as I’m the only one in the office right now besides this Tom Hanks cutout that keeps coughing on me), THANK YOU. I know a lot of “thank yous” can sound like lip service, but the reality is that this is a dream job, and having your support has enabled us to continue to take risks and “go for it.” And that was before all this uncertainty, which has only cemented how fortunate we feel to be able to do what we do. So again, thank you. 

The Valleyfolk was created out of trust-- trust that we, as a group of weirdos, could support one another creatively and emotionally, and trust that our audience would come along for the ride. Well, you not only came along for the ride-- you jumped in the front seat with a fresh Gatorade and a spoonful of peanut butter. In doing so, you turned this pipe dream into an actual community. How dare you. 

Over the past year, I’ve started thinking of the relationship between The Valleyfolk and our patrons as a transparent iceberg, in which what you see is raw and honest, but not necessarily exhaustive of everything that’s going on. If we were just “YouTubers,” we might show you the whole thing. But we take the job of creating an escape for people very seriously. Maybe too seriously, which is very comedian of us. Still, certain times call for certain measures, so I want to try to offer a bit more transparency now in terms of where we’re at mentally. There are far bigger concerns in the world right now, so please take care of yourself and be responsible. This is only meant to be an update, with a little more bluntness than usual, so we can touch base while we’re all weathering this insanity. Also, this from my perspective, so I don’t know how much it’ll align with Steve and Joe, but they’re not here right now, so this is about me, bitches. 

The first thing I want to say is that Joe and Steve are killing it right now. Whether it’s writing, production, brainstorming, administrative, whatever, recent times have brought out the best of them in many ways. I can’t necessarily say the same for me, but I think I’m finally getting there. To be frank, I’ve been operating with a low-grade depression, which is especially frustrating from a creative standpoint. Joe and Steve have, as well, but we’ve all handled this a bit differently. Self-doubt and timidity are very real monsters for us right now, as I’m sure you’ve picked up on, but we’re fighting our butts off and that feels incredible. In my opinion, we’re winning. I’ve always felt like we are an eight-cylinder Ferrari that’s driving with only six, and a global pandemic doesn’t exactly help that. But all of the anxiety is manageable when you’re grounded in the belief that you’ve got something, whatever it may be, to offer. In short, yes, I’m scared that this could all go away, but you know what? I’ve bet a lot in my life on the idea that painful decisions-- the ones that scare you to death, the ones people may not fully understand-- cause the most growth. What form that growth takes remains to be seen, but I’m personally excited to find out, and for that, thank you. It’s not about the money, nor has it ever been. It’s what it represents, which is a weird, slightly demented version of faith-- one that we all share. So as we say in the south, bless your heart, honey. 

Now, some updates (and please staple a big AS OF RIGHT NOW on these things…):

The Schedule: Our new posting schedule is rad as heck, and it won’t be changing. So if you’re at home and bored, we’re here with all sorts of stupidity sure to lower your IQ. We’re like hand sanitizer for your brain, just not nearly as expensive. However, we are not filming new stuff this week, and we are instead focusing on writing weirder, more ambitious projects, while Kevin and Kait edit from home. This is basically a reshuffling of our normal flow, with emphasis on pre-production and post-production over, you know, sneezing on each other. In the end, I think this period will result in the best stuff The Valleyfolk has made thus far. And if ever there was a group of dudes who should stay at home for public safety, it’s our nasty butts. 

The Business: As we’ve hinted at recently, we’re in the process of making the biggest moves we’ve ever made here at The Valleyfolk. Do you play roulette? I play a lot of electronic roulette, because I’m so cool or whatever, and The Valleyfolk is putting it all on black right now, so to speak. The only difference is we’re approaching things with wisdom and passion, not fear or self-preservation. And it feels really awesome. I’ve never been prouder of this thing, and that’s saying something, because I’m lowkey proud af of The Valleyfolk-- and that’s including the painful stuff, the missteps, all of it. We are a beautiful mess, and I’d have it no other way.

The Creative: For those who might think The Valleyfolk is now ONLY short-form Your Show videos, rest assured, it’s the opposite. I’m writing some weird stuff right now that I think you guys are going to really resonate with-- or at least be entertained by, who knows. Joe’s coming up with quarantine-friendly sketches that are silly and weird and he keeps texting me to read it and YEAH I WILL JOE I’M WRITING A PATREON POST RIGHT NOW, and Steve has been churning out more gold lately than frankly I’m comfortable with. Someone stop that man. We’ve set ourselves up to be able to showcase our skills in all new ways, and no stupid virus is gonna stop us from contaminating the world with our hearts and souls and farts.

So to wrap this thing up, we’re going to continue to be here creating and uploading content through this time, while making sure our employees are safe at home. We’re not petering out or hiding behind our uncertainty, nor are we allowing ourselves to be dictated by views, vitriol, or viruses… if only alliteration killed germs. Anyway, we hope you all are doing well, and that you enjoyed today’s Your Show, which is right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16YVmLdbD0

See you REAL soon. 

With horniness,

Elliott Morgan (of The Valleyfolk)

LIVE: Warm Up With Us Over A FIRESIDE CHAT.

Going live in FOUR! THREE! SOON! FUN!

DANCE OFF!!!!

Joe and I made a very awesome video today and couldn’t wait to post it and show everyone. It’s just some dumb weird fun! ENJOY!

PS. TOUR VLOG WILL BE UP TOMORROW PROBABLY! <3

-Steve

NEW SKETCH! FEATURING ELYSE WILLEMS!

Oh man it's a weird one! I was HEAVILY influenced by one of my favorite sketch comedy groups STELLA, and if you know them you'll see the influence! I hope you all enjoy it and share it and give it lots of love in the comments! 

We want to make this kind of stuff regularly, but it takes lots of time and lots of work from Kevin and or Kait, so please be patient as we progress! And thank you for your continued support, without you we can't do this at all. <3 

LOVE YOU ALL! 

-Steve

LIVE FIRESIDE CHAT TODAY!

Hey everybody! NEW YEAR NEW EVERYTHING! We're hitting the ground running in 2020 and want to start doing these things again! For those that don't know, the Fireside Chats are live streams where we address YOU the PATRONS and discuss upcoming projects, answer questions and just have a nice conversation with our most precious bb's, YOU! 

LOTS of fun stuff and changes coming up this year and we want you guys to be the first to know all about it!

The stream will start around 4pm(PST), 7pm(EST) on YouTube, so stay tuned for the secret link!

<3

-The Valleyfolk

YOUR SHOW: It's ULTRA-MEGA PROMPT TIME

Folks, big changes are ahead. I can't say what some of them are, but ONE of them involves the wall behind us in the above picture, and some of the changes involve WAY MORE CONTENT IN 2020. 

ALSO! We have a tour coming up! Grab your tickets for San Fransisco, Denver, Salt Lake City, Tacoma, AND/OR Spokane right here: 

San Fransisco 1/18: https://sfsketchfest2020.sched.com/event/XpsX 

Denver 1/20: https://comedyworks.com/comedians/the-valleyfolk

Salt Lake City 1/21: https://wiseguyscomedy.com/events/the-valleyfolk

Spokane 1/22: https://spokanecomedyclub.com/shows/115518 

Tacoma 1/23: …https://www-tacomacomedyclub-com.seatengine.com/shows/115517

NOW! Please hit us with the best dang prompts you can think of, and our minds will collectively congeal to create a cataclysmic clusterfrick of comedy! 

See ya soon! 

-Elliott

Santa Steve Has Arrived!

Hello friends, it's your pal Steve here! Just wanted to share with you guys that the latest Santa Steve video is UP and ready for you viewing pleasure! Or displeasure! 

This one's a little different if you've watched it already, and I'm very proud of how it turned out. Kevin and I tag-teamed the edit, I cut the beginning and he cut the *SPOILERS* Santa on the Street stuff. It was rough for me trying to lock down an idea for this one, as it's like the 6th one I've done. I won't lie, I was feeling fatigue at the thought of making one this year. Sitting in that chair for HOURS while a constant flow of people come in, crushing my lap, ME doing my best to be funny, and tow the line between "too much" and "just enough", to  hope some of the footage works. It's not easy, especially when there's a crowd watching me from behind the camera, waiting for a big moment, with slight worry about where I'll go with a bit. It's simultaneously the most fun, and the most work.

Anyway, I'll save all the BTS stuff for one of my 12 podcasts or something, but this year it was really fun to do something new and refreshing with the old goat, and it looks like you guys are enjoying it, so I'm very pleased. Thank you to everyone who supports us here so we can keep making these things. Truly, thank you.

P.S. While I was coming up with ideas for what to do with this one, I had an INSANE idea for something we can try to do with Santa next year (if we make it!!!!) that has me so excited for the potential I'm already writing a ton of ideas down. And I've NEVER done that with Santa Steve. I really, really hope we get to it!!!

Best, Love, Happy Holidays and...

MMMMMHMMMMMMM Patrons!

-Steve

UPDATE: YOUR SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT & TEEEEEEASE

Quick update for all of you that are yearning for some churnin' .... out of YOUR SHOWs. We were planning to go live today, but alas, our main man Mr. Plachy was infiltrated by a bit of a bug (give him love... send him gifs of old ladies dancing without any context that you know he's sick). As such, we're not rushing him or the product. And to further such the as suchiness of the situation, we're making the call to give sloppy birth to the episode tomorrow, so it's at it's 100% bestiness. HOWEVER, we're trying to improve here on our end for you on your end, so please enjoy this little teaser showcasing our couch antics with WHITNEY MOORE and our Movie Movie Game shenanigans with ANTHONY CARBONI. Also, tease within a tease... a double tease with cheese... there is a THIRD secret special guest that drops by in this episode so bring an extra pair of pants, ya animals. 

Merry Friday,

Joe

The Valleyfolk Special Christmas Edition ‘YOUR SHOW’ Prompts: Electric Boogaloo!

Hello friends! It’s that time of year... CRISMISS! We’re going to be shooting a special Xmas episode of Your Show TOMORROW and we need your holiday themed prompts! Just post your questions, scenarios, dares, well wishes, regular wishes, Christmas wishes, and more, here! We’ll harvest them like young winter plums, careful not to bruise, and serve them up chilled with a side of yellow gravy and a hot glass of sparrow milk! Mmm!

ALSO: there will be A LOT of secret special guests popping in! I’ve been coordinating with regulars and some NEW FACES to join us on the couch for a fun, experiment of holiday cheer! So ready your guest themed prompts too if you wanna!

THANK YOU ALL! And MARY HOLLERDAISE!

Love,

Stee

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Valleyfolk LIVE! (TOUR DATES)

Sketches. 

Stand-up. 

Meet and greets.

Q and As.

Songs.

WE ARE GOING ON TOUR.

We are spending a week in January traveling around the country in hopes of meeting you guys. So here are the details:

Saturday January 18: San Fransisco; Sketchfest (WITH SOME OF OUR HEROES, CHRIS AND PAUL SHOW): https://sfsketchfest2020.sched.com/event/XpsX

Monday January 20: Denver; Comedy Works: https://comedyworks.com/comedians/the-valleyfolk

Tuesday January 21: Salt Lake City; Wise Guys Comedy: https://www.wiseguyscomedy.com/events/the-valleyfolk

Wednesday January 22: Spokane; Spokane Comedy Club: https://www.spokanecomedyclub.com/shows/115518

Thursday January 23: Tacoma; Tacoma Comedy Club: https://www-tacomacomedyclub-com.seatengine.com/shows/115517

AND! We'll have discounts available for patrons as soon as possible wherever possible (unsure yet as that stuff depends on locations), but for those who want something in 2020 to be excited about, we're getting the word out now! 

See you soon!

-Elliott, Joe, & Steve

The State of the Valley Address

Wow! WHAT A WEEK!

Hello, all, and I know we say this all the time but now it feels especially appropriate: thank you for being here! Thanks to those who’ve stuck with this Crazy Train as it veered almost completely off its tracks, and thanks to those who jumped off and then back on when you realized the conductors hadn’t actually lost their dang minds! “Vroom vroom, here comes the train wreck!” we once said when The Valleyfolk first launched, and here we are. #WreKd

There’s not a lot to say about the events of last week that has not already been said, but I tend to be pretty long-winded, so please indulge my rambling for a second. First of all, y’all, Kevin and Kait deserve all the good things in life. They both handled the good and the bad stuff last week with patience, maturity, and elegance, all while dealing with their own personal shtuff (that’s short for “sh*t stuff”). We’re so lucky to have them, and walking into the office on Monday last week, we all hugged each other, cried a little, and like, leaned on one another? I don’t know. It’s sappy and weird to talk about but it meant a lot. 

The final thing I want to say is that we’re all handling this in our own ways, and that includes you all, me, Joe, Steve, Lee, everyone. Everyone is doing their best, but sometimes people’s “best” kinda sucks in certain ways. Or it’s painful. Or it’s sloppy. So, on behalf of all of us here at The Valleyfolk, thank you for believing in us, and if you’ve decided to no longer be a subscriber, patron, follower, fan, etc: That’s okay, too. We are working on getting refunds to anyone who’s asked for them, and we are slowly making our way through your messages on here-- most of which are incredibly kind and thank you for that. For those on the fence, all I’ll say is: we got this. There is a fire under our flat, hairy butts now that is already resulting in some of the best stuff we’ve ever done, even as we all move forward at our own speeds. 

SO! Let’s all hold hands and support one another as we walk into the future, because the future is bright, so bright Steve is still wearing his sunglasses. Here’s what we are working on:

• Shelves: Joe’s method of healing has resulted in, and I’m sorry if this sounds like a brag, so many shelves. We now have new shelves, and older shelves that have been re-organized. Shelves have been assembled, disassembled, cleaned, and re-arranged for maximum workplace tranquility. He calls it "Shelf-help." Honestly, I’m so proud of Joe for funneling his anxieties into something productive, like shelves. So many shelves. I’d give him props for it, but honestly I think he’d just put them on a shelf.
• Dayvin’s Back: If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6Ddw2nlRM . I’m holding off on watching this video until it gets posted on Thursday. Big fan of this and weirdly proud of everything about how this trailer was uploaded. The stupid file name title? Come on. We’re havin’ fun.
• Touring: One of my favorite things about doing live shows is actually getting to meet the people who watch us, but noooow we want YOU to get to know US, and that’s going to happen with a little tour happening at the beginning of 2020! Whoo! Dates soon, and patrons will get discounts whenever possible! 
• Updated HOT TAKE: I’m gonna do less newsy type topics and try to pivot to stuff that I’m a little more into/excited about. This is in no way an example of something that deserves its own bullet point, but I’M excited about it, and this is MY blog post, and I happen to love the way that Elliott writes, and this is Joe typing this. Let’s see, what’s the next bullet point on my To-Joe list. Joe, Joe, Joe, this is Joe.
• MERCH! We're hard at work on all sorts of new merch, as well as working on ways to build more merch that coincides with our upcoming weird freakin’ videos. Y’all will get discounts, of course, and YA GONNA LOVE IT. We're trying to world-build here, and that's very fun.
• New Patreon/REBRAND stuff: We know we’re looking old, okay?! We know death encroaches as slowly as it does quietly, the butterfly effects of our decay reverberating across the cobwebbed-lines halls of our fading minds. So we’re gonna make this place look dope, with new tiers, a new Patreon video, and we’re gonna get back to building this community! So… it’ll be fine. Until, you know… it isn’t. Also, this process is across the board. New Your Show set for the new year, new banners, new Valleycast intro we just got in from Andy Mogren, and just a general new-ish vibe across the land. And shelves. I'm talkin' surface area, babyyyy.
• New GUESTS! If you think for one second we aren't going to have so many guests in the NEAR future, ya' wrong and I don't care who knows it. This week on the podcast we have Ane Baker, who went from being a sex ed teacher to a filmmaker, and that's getting uploaded in like five minutes and it's super interesting. And we're going to keep bringing in new folk and getting to know them with you, and I think that's rad. 
• New BOARD GAME VIDEOS: I REALLY like these new videos we’re doing. Some of them are sponsored (shout to the lord, all the earth!) and others aren’t, but I don’t know. They’re weirdly enjoyable to watch and kind of addictive. Anyway, SHA BE FUN.
• Counseling: We’re gonna do some corporate/business counseling. Whoo! High-five! Joe, Steve, and I all go to therapy already, but we’re hoping to work through things better as we move forward and better communicate and support one another. I’m very excited about it and excited to see how the progress bleeds into the creative stuff you see. Or maybe it won’t, who knows! (It will)
• So much more! Want to know the other things that you probably can imagine but it’s more fun to not talk about? Well, here’s one-- Oh, sorry, that’s our time for today. See you next week!

In short, we’re getting back to work and looking ahead, and we hope you can come along for the ride. We’ll try to swerve the train a little less in the future, and we’re gonna start by not leaning so heavily into this metaphor. 

See ya soon! 

-Joe Bereta, fan of Elliott Morgan

Owning our mistakes

Thank you to those who are still with us, and nothing but love and understanding to those who are hurt by our screw-up.

We love you, and we respect you, and we aren’t going anywhere.

-Elliott

As soon as we can <3

‪We hear you, we see you, we appreciate you. We are going to address your questions and make some announcements as soon as we can ❤️‬

We WON BRING THE FUNNY?! | The Valleycast, Ep. 78

GUYS! We are all mostly zombies right now, but please please PLEASE enjoy this nugget of madness we recorded on Monday, and THANK YOU for your patience as this episode was NOT uploaded early because if we DID we could've gone to COMEDY PRISON! Down below is a link to the VIDEO and the SOUNDCLOUD! Wow! You guys are amazing and stay tuned for a veeeery special treat! 

-Elliott

AUDIO: https://soundcloud.com/thevalleyfolk/78-we-won-bring-the-funny

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/CWknL06YbMU

HERE WE GO!! VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

Please head over to vote up to ten times for The Valleyfolk to WIN THE ENTIRE FIRST SEASON OF BRING THE FUNNY ON NBC!

It is time, friends. (VOTE NOW for us on BRING THE FUNNY!)

Use the hashtag #FunnyVoteValleyfolk on Twitter and head to http://votevalleyfolk.com to make your weird, darkly humored voices heard! Fun! 

We love you. This is all so fun and silly.