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John Cole/No. 11
Cap City Mob, Battle Group Theta
11 (AKA “Lem”) cowrote and starred on the Cap City Mob’s latest release, Saints of Tribal Science. His delivery is clean, hard, and aggressive and he brings his past experience as an MC to the table. He also consults on various other projects, including some skits written for the Stubborn Things podcasts.
Randy Kitchens/No. 14
Cap City Mob, Battle Group Theta
No. 14, although the second-youngest of the team, has a singing voice that belies his experience. From his appearance on Saints of Tribal Science to his harmonizing on a Beatles-cover EP with the Geese, 14 is shy, quiet, and subtle, but has devious sense of humor. He also serves as a lyric doctor for the Mob, touching up several songs including “R3ckl3ss.”
Mark-Allen West/No. 19
Stubborn Things
19’s got comedy chops that no man can deny. Starting out as regular sidekick for the now-defunct Stubborn Things podcast, he quickly moved up to the front of the stage, bringing his own wild energy to every ‘cast. It was his influence that shifted Stubborn Things into the comedy-only podcast now named Ready Demolition, after the erstwhile former band. He’s best known as the voice of Auntie Lolo, the Hawai’ian cougar, as well as the creative mind behind the Movie Masochist.
Kane Gruber/No. 22
Cap City Mob, Geese, Gentlemen Robot, Ready Demolition, Stubborn Things, Gruber & Leigh, Battle Group Theta, The Obscene Psychedelic Sounds, Megakelvin
Musician, writer, performer, producer, director. He is the guy who started this whole thing and quite often is the catalyst for activity. The rest of the team may come up with some of Order 50’s best stuff, but 22 is the energetic center at our core.
Lisa Gruber/No. 28
Cap City Mob*, Battle Group Theta
Singer, performer. 28 has lent her voice to several projects, including the one-time two-person band Unified Field Theory, where she was the lead singer. She has also been the voice of Li’l Baby Piggy, an old-radio-style comedy skit. She seems like the grown-up of the team, but she’s still just as horribly immature as the rest of us underneath it all.
Mikey Gruber/No. 44
Geese*, Megakelvin
44’s only 12 (going on 13) but he’s done his part on a few songs, including the intros to the Geese’s “Theme” (which was written about him) and their cover of ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down.” He’s also the lead singer of the pop-rock duo Megakelvin. If you want to know where the future of Order 50 lies, it’s here with the silly, funny, talented 44.
Brian Kitchens/No. 66
Cap City Mob, Battle Group Theta
66 has been a part of the Mob since he co-founded it in 1999. He’s contributed to ever Mob release since then, varying from full-on MC to lyric doctor and even hype man (his “Aw, yeah, ya done fucked up now” is a classic Cap City line). 66 is the laid-back conscience of the team.
Thomas Leigh/No. 69
Cap City Mob, Gruber & Leigh, Battle Group Theta
69 is the Celtic Threat, the Mad Piper, the keyboardist half of Rù-Rà, an electro-Celtic duo with his wife, as well as the baritone MC known as T-Juice. 69 cowrote and performed on the Mob’s hit album, but also co-recorded two albums’ worth of comedy as half of Gruber & Leigh. His linguistic skills are also top-notch. Whatcha see is whatcha get.
IN MEMORIAM
Pat McAdams/No. 42
Ready Demolition, Cap City Mob*, The Obscene Psychedelic Sounds
Pat was one of the funniest, sweetest individuals we’ve ever known. He was brilliant and weird, creative and clever. He ran live-action roleplaying games for several conventions, going back nearly twenty years, and built up a sizable following as the best gamemaster in the South. He was also an accomplished musician, haing played in several bands, including the Accidents, Toxic Spleen, and the nascent Ready Demolition. He succumbed to a heart attack on 10 May 2008 in Tallahassee, Florida, and is still terribly missed.
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