Food Fight: Live from SXSW Edu

Full Episode description

Hi, listeners! I’m so glad you’re here, because this week we’re sharing something a little different and very cool with you!  

Do you remember the episode called “Food Fight”? It’s about the time Vac and I were pirate-sitting the Burn Voyage and mean Captain Deen took over the ship. She wasn’t happy that the pirates had all brought special ethnic foods from home, and she tried to make everyone eat her asparagus dumplings instead. 

But the crew all stood up for each other, and—with the help of a big, delicious mess—taught Captain Deen that people’s ethnicities are an important part of who they are, and that the tastiest meals (like the greatest pirate crews!) are diverse.

Well, recently the team behind the scenes here at The Imagine Neighborhood™ had a chance to get on stage and share that story in-person with a new group of friends at an event called SXSW EDU (pronounced “South by Southwest ee-dee-you”). It’s a big gathering in Texas where people from all over meet up to share the things they like—and we really like sharing stories about the Neighborhood!

What was extra fun about telling the story of “Food Fight” to our new friends is that our team got to pretend to be different people in the story! Vac got to be himself, but Michal pretended to be me, Melly pretended to be all the pirates, and Bilal pretended to be Captain Deen. We had a blast using our imaginations and making the story fun and exciting for the audience. We hope it’s fun and exciting for you to hear it in this new way, too!

Thanks for checking out this special episode, and remember, you can use your imagination and play out stories from The Imagine Neighborhood, too—and if you do, we’d love to hear about it!  

Have a great week, everyone!

• Scotty