People Love Our Shit

In the two days since we uploaded Shit People From Des Moines Say, we've had more than 50,000 views.  Given the local angle and the fact DSM proper has a population of only 200k, we're overwhelmed by the numbers.

We're also flattered the positive feedback.  For a YouTube video, there have been relatively few comments ordering us to hang ourselves or riddled with racial and gender slurs.  We really appreciate all the nice things people have said about the writing, performances and technical stuff.  This was a fun project, but we still tried to make it look great.

We're also grateful for the media folks who have featured our work.  We're told the video got some airplay on Murph and Andy's radio show, and Keith Murphy also posted it on his blog.  An article from Joe Lawler was briefly on the Register's homepage, before more sound news judgment prevailed.  Lastly, and most importantly, we were in The Juice.

Here it is again:

Shit People From Des Moines Say

About a month ago, Jill Haverkamp approached me with the idea to do a Des Moines riff on the Shit... Says meme.  We gathered a crack team of cast and crew, much like a montage from an '80s Action Movie, and this is what we came up with.

We had a blast making the video and are flattered at all the positive comments and social media whatnot today.

By way of Special Edition Bonus Content, here's a photo Jill took while we were shooting at Mars Cafe.  We had to retake this picture a dozen times until I got my hand up in exactly the "Director Pose" I was looking for, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

I'm grateful for everyone who lent their time and talents to put this together, but especially Dan Welk for shooting the thing and Andrew Roger for assembling the footage we threw at him into what you see.