The Day Before
‘The Day Before’ is a scripted storytelling podcast that examines how Covid-19 and LA’s stay-at-home order affects a handful of Angelinos. How the places and spaces we know as familiar really do play a foundational role in our harried lives. In ‘The Day Before’ a cafe in Silverlake is such a place. A hip coffee shop that attracts a bustling morning crowd in need of a caffeinated pick-me-up, a strong noontime power-lunch rush, and a wind-down evening throng in search of a cocktail, beer and bites. The kind of place where the regulars are the cool kids club you want to be a part of. Where a DJ spins records, street art adorns the walls, and the baristas ooze a cool charisma that somehow questions your own personal style. The Day Before. Stay-at-Home is soon to be a governmental order. A surgeon, entrepreneur, comedian, nightlife manager, and a newly cohabitating couple are all forced to deal with tomorrow’s uncertainty, as most of us can recall back in March. A journalist, who calls this cafe his second home, is interested in talking to these individuals, asking them about Covid, their affinity for this communal space, and the prospect of it going away along with so many of life’s norms.
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Episodes
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
A smarmy bachelor managing one of Hollywood's hottest bars reveals surprising depth as he fights to stay sober with a non-stop workflow and AA meetings.
Written by: Gordon ClarkVoice talent: Bret Green, Annabelle Watson, Gordon ClarkEditing and sound design: Jon CianoOriginal outtro music: Joe Levi
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
A rising-star stand-up comedian joins his comic friends to decompress after their night's set. Once his drunken cadre leave he opens up about his career fears and what a world when he can't be on a stage making audiences laugh will look like.
Written by: Gordon ClarkVoice talent: Ryan Alexander, Joe Levi, Gordon ClarkEditing and sound design: Jon CianoOriginal outtro music: Joe Levi
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
LA is tough on young lovers. Bloated rents, killer traffic, stiff competition for high-paying work. But you're young, wholly in love, what more could you need? Well, in the face of a pandemic and panic buying craze... you might need toilet paper.
Written by: Atala ArceVoice talent: Atala Arce, Jake B. Taylor, Gordon ClarkEditing and sound design: Jon CianoOriginal outtro music: Joe Levi
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
To attorney, entrepreneur, and all in all Super Mom Julia, forecasting all of life's spontaneous challenges is a point of pride. She is the consummate Alpha. But everyone has their breaking point.
Written by: Atala ArceVoice talent: Sena Khoda, Gordon ClarkEditing and sound design: Jon CianoOriginal outtro music: Joe Levi
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
A married couple, a surgeon and a business owner, utterly happy, tussle over their wildly different takes on the fast-growing pandemic, as science and economics are front and center in this emotional episode.
Written by: Gordon ClarkVoice talent: Brant Rotnem, Jeremy Glazer, Gordon ClarkEditing and sound design: Jon CianoOriginal outtro music: Joe Levi
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
The Day Before looks examines the lives of various Angelinos inside of an east LA cafe just before the state's stay-at-home-order.