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Your `apply` on line 24 and `interpolate` on line 29 aren't doing anything. You can just remove them with the same effect.

Apply returns an Output, so the console output makes sense

this was just an example. my actual usage is a bit more complicated. I'm trying to match the role name in a loop in another part of my program. Shouldn't I be able to do an interpolate and assign to a variable then print it out?

Generally, no. Interpolate returns another output, not a raw string. You can't convert any output to raw value: the value might not be known at the point when you ask.

so is there any way that I can take a list like `["foo", "bar"]` and match them to an output value?

yes, i think this is what I need. Thank you!