Bastion reporter Rachael Mason is dipping into her pool of awesome friends at iO (last time it was iO Theater owner and guru Charna Halpern herself!) and is gifting us with both this terrific 30 minute Bastion interview podcast with the amazingly talented Susan Messing, AND a picture of our intrepid reporter allowing her interview subject to fluff her knocker. Never let it be said that the Bastion girls aren't willing to do almost anything for a laugh.

From Messing's iO bio: "She has performed for over eighteen years with Chicago's iO Theatre, and created and teaches their Level 2 Curriculum which is used in Chicago and LA's iO West. At the legendary Second City, Messing wrote and performed in two mainstage revues and directed their National Touring Company."

Also, here's Messing, along with Jill Benjamin, Kate James, and Gillian Vigman, at the closing night party for the 2007 Chicago Improv Festival, rattling off the best zingers from 9 years of the Golden Girls: