We Liked You First

13/08/2021

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/A-Study-in-Ugly-Neon-Blue-by-Jared-Mendenhall-Re-Release-e15fpgt

Hey everyone we hope you enjoy listening to to "We Liked You First" as much as we like producing it! We're looking for new writers for season three! If you have a short story that you think would fit great on our podcast like "A Study in Ugly Neon Blue" did send it our way! We'd love to work with you!

Hey everyone we hope you enjoy listening to to "We Liked You First" as much as we like producing it! We're looking for new writers for season three! If you have a short story that you think would fit great on our podcast like "A Study in Ugly Neon Blue" did send it our way! We'd love to work with yo...

05/08/2021

Hey everyone we hope you enjoy listening to to "We Liked You First" as much as we like producing it! We're looking for new writers for season three! If you have a script that would make a great audio drama like "Crossfire in Chinatown" did send it our way! We'd love to work with you!

Hey everyone we hope you enjoy listening to to "We Liked You First" as much as we like producing it! We're looking for new writers for season three! If you have a script that would make a great audio drama like "Crossfire in Chinatown" did send it our way! We'd love to work with you!

23/07/2021

Hey everyone we just wrapped up or second season with a cast interview detailing some of our favorite moments! We hope you enjoyed this season as much as we have!

We'll be back soon and with more amazing work from some more amazing writers! If you or someone you know maybe Interested in submitting something they wrote or performing with us on one of our future episodes you can email us at:

[email protected]

We'll see you soon in season three!

We hope you loved Season Two of "We Liked You First!" Enjoy this interview with the cast as we discuss some of our favorite things from this last season!

29/05/2021

Hey everyone! Today is the last day of the W.L.Y.F. mini Sketch Comedy Festival! We are excited to present to you "Stuck in Line" written and directed by Patrick Carlile!

Patrick Carlile has been a featured writer on this podcast earlier this season as the writer of "Star Crossed," which was performed during our live event by the incredibly talented cast of "We Liked You First." If you haven't had a chance to listen check it out ASAP!

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Star-Crossed--Act-One-by-Patrick-Carlile-Live-Recording-essmm5

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Star-Crossed--Act-Two-by-Patrick-Carlile-Live-Recording-essoep

This sketch was performed by,

Madeline Bird
Ky Trupp
Sierra Peery
Andrew Peery
Patrick Carlile as the Sleeping Man
Jack Rogers as the Guardian of the Line

Thank you for joining us! We hope that you have enjoyed our work!

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Stuck-in-Line-by-Patrick-Carlile---W-L-Y-F--Mini-Sketch-Comedy-Festival-Day-6-e11piua

Waiting in too long of a line can do terrible things to a man! They seem to take on a life of their own! Enjoy the final day of the mini sketch comedy festival with "Stuck in Line!"

27/05/2021

We hope you have been enjoying our Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Welcome to day #5! Today we are excited to present the sketch "Speed Hating" written by Ethan Buckley and directed by Patrick Carlile and McKenna Steel!

This Sketch was performed by

Madeline Bird as Sam
Wallis Moulton as Charlile
Sarah Yanagita as Clem
Tanner Rahlf as Jessie
Connor Wood as Max
Ky Trupp as Alex

Come back tomorrow for the last day of our Mini Sketch Comedy Festival!

Welcome to Day #5 of the W.L.Y.F. Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Speed Dating is one thing! Speed Hating is another matter entirely! Come join us again for more sketch comedy tomorrow!

26/05/2021

Hey Everyone! Welcome to Day #4 of the We Liked You First" Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! We hope you've enjoyed the sketch comedy so far and we know you'll like this one too!

Today we proudly present "Last Minute Man" by Cynthia Gonzalez, directed by McKenna Steel!

This Sketch was performed by

Tanner Rahlf as the Villain
Wallis Moulton as the Damsel in Distress
Ky Trupp as Last Minute Men

Come join us again tomorrow for some more Sketch Comedy!

Welcome back to Day #4 of the "We Liked You First" Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Today meet the Hero Last Minute Man as he sets out to save a damsel in distress, just a little too early! Come join us again tomorrow for more sketch comedy!

24/05/2021

We're taking a short break from our Mini Sketch Comedy Festival to share this interview with Jared Mendenhall!

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Interview-with-Jared-Mendenhall--author-of-A-Study-in-Ugly-Neon-Blue-e11fc92

He is the author of "A Study in Ugly Neon Blue" and the author of "Homes and Watts" from season one! If you haven't had a chance to listen to them yet go back and take a listen!

Homes and Watts:

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Homes-and-Watts-by-Jared-Mendenhall-eldhug

A Study in Ugly Neon Blue:

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/A-Study-in-Ugly-Neon-Blue-by-Jared-Mendenhall-e10b3gp

We're taking a short break from our Mini Sketch Comedy Festival to bring you this awesome interview with returning writer Jared Mendenhall, author of A Study in Ugly Neon Blue." We are so glad to have been able to work with Jared more than once on our podcast and we hope you enjoy this interview!

23/05/2021

Today is day three of the We Liked You First Mini Sketch Comedy Festival!

Todays sketch is "Inventing the Wheel" by Jack Rogers! Directed by McKenna Steel!

This is not Jack's first time on our podcast! He has been featured as a writer in season one as the writer of "Turtles VS Ninjas," "The Business Meeting." and "Brotherly Bank Robbery."

If you haven't heard them yet, check them out!

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Turtles-VS-Ninjas--The-Business-Meeting--and-Brotherly-Bank-Robbery-by-Jack-Rogers-ekl9kr

He has also been featured as an actor in "The Metal Fantasy Epic Parts One and Two."

Thanks for joining us again Jack!

This sketch was performed by:

Tanner Rahlf as Ooga
Sarah Yanagita as Booga
Connor Wood as Boogie
Christian Randell as Balooga
And
Wallis Moulton as Dooga

Come join us again tomorrow for some more sketch comedy!

Welcome back to the We Liked You First Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Today we present "Inventing the Wheel" by Jack Rogers. Join these sophisticated Neanderthals on their board meeting as they discover efficient transcontinental travel! Join us again tomorrow for more sketch Comedy!

21/05/2021

We're back with day #2 of the W.L.Y.F. Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Today we present for your listening pleasure "The Terrible Adventures of Superlative Man and Boy Crow, in Bow Crow is Born!" by Tanner Rahlf.

Tanner Rahlf is a very talented writer, actor, and comedian! This is his second time being featured as a writer on this podcast, take the time to listen to more of Tanner's writing by revisiting this season one episode:

Mountain Berry Crunch!

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Mountain-Berry-Crunch-by-Tanner-Rahlf-emml1t

Directed by Patrick Carlile and McKenna Steel

Performed by

Tanner Rahlf as Bradley the Boy Crow
Connor Wood as Reginald the Superlative Man
Christian Randell as the Baron of Badness
Madeline Bird as the Narrator

Come back tomorrow for some more fun sketch comedy!

Welcome back to Day #2 of The W.L.Y.F. Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Today we are very excited to share with you a sketch written by Tanner Rahlf! One of the main cast members of "We Liked You First" Bradley is the innocent, albeit annoying, son of legendary superhero Superlative Man and wants nothin...

20/05/2021

Hey Everyone! This week we are excited to announce day one of the We Liked You First Mini Sketch Comedy Festival! Everyday fro the next week we are releasing hilarious sketch performed by some incredibly talented actors!

Today we are excited to present "Ranch Man" by Blake Brust and directed by Patrick Carlile

Performed by

Andrew Peery as Jerry
Patrick Carlile as Kevin
Jack Rogers as Cop #1
Sierra Peery as Cop #2

Tune in tomorrow for some more incredibly fun sketch comedy!

Hey Everyone! Everyday for the next week we're going to present to you a hilarious piece of sketch comedy from six incredibly talented and very funny writers! Today we are excited to present "Ranch Man" by Blake Brust! Jerry is a nefarious criminal bent on stealing a priceless diamond, but not witho...

17/05/2021

We were really lucky to get to work with such an amazing talented writer! In the pictures you can see the actually trees and the kids who the story was written for! We hope you enjoyed "Raising Trees!"

J.LeeKey is a creative writing graduate student at Brigham Young University. Many of her visionary works including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and photography have been published in-print and on-line around the world by such as Zimble House Publishing, Wingless Dreamer, Beyond Words and many more. She’s currently working on a fourth YA novel as well as another juvenile fiction novel. j.LeeKey balances raising her five children, graduate studies, teaching, editing and publishing, a chronic illness, and various civic duties with the salvation of writing fictitious realities for readers of all ages.

Listen to "Raising Trees" here:

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Raising-Trees-by-J--Leekey-e10b2c4

Listen to an interview with J. LeeKey here:

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/Interview-with-J--Leekey--author-of-Raising-Trees-e10rbe9

17/05/2021

We are super excited that Jared Mendenhall came back this season and shared more of his work with us! We hope you enjoyed "A Study in Ugly Neon Blue!"

Jared Mendenhall is currently a Senior at Utah Valley University. He is studying both Creative Writing and Journalism. He has been fortunate enough to be working as a writer for the UVU Review this past semester. He has always wanted to be a pirate but he doesn’t really like parrots and lacks the requisite peg leg. So, he writes, usually about pirates, and he dreams.

Jared has also been published in two of UVU’s publication journals, those being Warp and Weave and Touchstones. His short story, Alice, Where is Alice, won first prize for prose in the Fall of 2018. He is a huge fan of books, mainly because they smell good. He also loves music, of the punk and rock varieties, and movies of all sorts. Basically, he is easily entertained.

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/A-Study-in-Ugly-Neon-Blue-by-Jared-Mendenhall-e10b3gp

16/05/2021

Last week we had the opportunity to work with this wonderful guest actor! Meet Curtis Casperson who played the villainous Principal Murphy!

Curtis loved working on "We Liked You First"! He has been performing since he can remember. He has studied Theatre Education for nearly four years at BYU-Idaho and performed in many main stage productions there. He loves music, theatre, musical theatre and storytelling in general! He is his happiest when he is making someone smile!

13/05/2021

ANOTHER EPISODE OF "WE LIKED YOU FIRST IS HERE!" We are super happy that we get to welcome back Jared Mendenhall and present the adaptation of his short story "A Study in Ugly Neon Blue"

https://anchor.fm/we-liked-you-first/episodes/A-Study-in-Ugly-Neon-Blue-by-Jared-Mendenhall-e10b3gp

This short story was adapted for the podcast by Patrick Carlile and Jared Mendenhall and was directed by Connor Wood.

Featuring Main Cast Members

Tanner Rahlf as the Narrator
Austin Jordan as Jimmy
Kendra Green as Irene

and our Guest Star

Curtis Casperson as Principal Murphy

Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoy this awesome episode!

Enjoy this special short story adaptation of "A Study in Ugly Neon Blue" by Jared Mendenhall. Someone has been breaking into the school's record offices, but don't worry! Jimmy is on the case!

06/05/2021

We're excited to present another episode of "We Liked You First!" This week we are excited to present the short story adaptation of "Raising Trees" by J. Leekey, a wonderful story of the impact a mother has on her children.

This story was adapted for this Podcast by Patrick Carlile, Jared Mendenhall, and J. Leekey.

Featuring Main Cast Members:

McKenna Steel as the Daughter
Sarah Yanagita as the Mother
Kendra Green as the Child

and a huge thank you to Kira Prince as the Narrator

We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Enjoy this short story adaptation of "Raising Trees" a story by J. Leekey. Enjoy the story of a young mother imparting wisdom to her children from their grandmother.

05/05/2021

We'd love to thank the third of our amazing guest actors this last week on "Murder Prom" by welcoming back Karli! You may remember her from her amazing performance as Reese from "Mountain Berry Crunch!" Thanks again for joining us on "We Liked You First!"

Karli has been performing for crowds large and small since the age of three. She has a degree from California State University in Musical Theatre, and has been involved in various performance workshops all over the country. She grew up in Cedar City, Utah and currently resides in Nampa, Idaho. She has made a career of acting like a fool in public, and has won several awards for her character portrayals on stage. Now if Spielberg will just realize that he desperately needs her for his next movie, she'll be all set!
Karli spends her free time playing make believe with her cuter-than-a-button toddler and avoiding making dinner until the absolute very last moment every day. She has also been known to spend entire days voluntarily trapped in the pages of a book.

03/05/2021

We're excited to introduce you to another of our amazing guest actors from this last weeks episode "Murder Prom!" Meet Kira Prince, the wonderful actress who played the role of Betty! Parts 1 and 2 of Murder Prom are out now! Give them a listen!

Kira Prince is from the beautiful coastal state of Oregon. She graduated from Brigham Young University Idaho in July of 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies, Performance Emphasis. Kira did improv with both Comic Frenzy and Unscripted and is currently in the cast of A Bit of Funny: An Improvised Podcast. She also works in Portland on various film sets, such as Hulu’s “Shrill” and Netflix’s “Metal Lords”.