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are kids in this world. Hi,

2:55

it's Jess Fisher. I love that

2:57

intro so much. I

2:59

am GZM Director of Audience Engagement and

3:01

host of GZM Rewind. Yes, I did

3:03

change my job title. I love that job

3:06

title, Jess. I also love how you

3:08

type, you know, literally just changed it

3:10

in the document. I

3:12

talked to Ben about it

3:14

recently, but I did actually,

3:17

I didn't just do it. That's really funny. I'm

3:20

here with my Rewind co-hosts and

3:22

GZM co-founders, Chris Carey and David

3:25

Christman. Usually we're listening to shows

3:29

that have already happened, but today

3:31

we are once again going to

3:33

be headed into the future. I love to

3:41

see it on Broadway in a week. So I'd

3:43

love to kick

3:48

this off with this beautiful question

3:50

from Becky. Becky

3:52

is a superfan subscriber. Wait, wait,

3:54

wait, wait. We're gonna play people stuff they've never

3:58

heard. We're gonna be playing stuff shows

4:00

that are coming out. Yeah, that's true. Shows

4:02

in 2024. Yeah. That's true. In case anybody

4:04

wasn't there. No one has heard anywhere. Yeah.

4:07

Not even Jess. I heard a

4:09

little bit right before. I heard a little bit before. But

4:12

I hadn't until five minutes ago. As she

4:14

was changing her new title. It's

4:17

true. Yeah,

4:19

but I just wanted to ease us in because

4:21

before we look forward, I do

4:23

think we have to look back a little.

4:25

Okay. Think about how we arrived at the

4:27

spot we're standing at today. She

4:31

said it backwards. The

4:33

hand is fading out. It works

4:36

for the future and the past. Right.

4:38

Back to the future. So

4:40

Becky wants to know, what was your inspiration

4:43

for creating GZM? On Rewind number 40, Dave

4:45

says he's grateful for his job where he

4:47

gets to make great shows where craziness happens,

4:49

but problems get solved and we generally have

4:51

happy endings with people who like each other

4:53

and work together. Love that. That's

4:55

exactly why I love GZM content. So how

4:58

did GZM come about? What was the first

5:00

show? Thank you. I always think,

5:02

you know, Dave, before we get into it, I always

5:04

think this week was a great example when we were

5:06

in the studio recording the crowd sounds for 4th and

5:08

Inches. And Dave and I always look

5:10

at each other and we're like, I guess this is our job. This

5:13

is our job. Everybody, everybody, go like pretend like you're

5:15

being tackled. There's like eight

5:19

people. Some

5:22

people who may have never seen

5:24

football before. He's like. Clocking in

5:26

at the podcast factory. But

5:30

I think Dave and I

5:32

have slightly different memories of how

5:34

Gen Z came together. Conflicting? Yeah.

5:36

Well, started with Marsh Patel. First

5:38

of all, Marsh Patel was made

5:41

before we were a company. And

5:43

then we made several shows before we were Gen

5:45

Z media. Marsh Patel was

5:47

just, it was going to be a

5:49

show. And We made the first few episodes and

5:52

then the thought at that time was we were going

5:54

to shop it around and see if anybody wanted to,

5:56

you know, get on board and make the rest of

5:58

it. And Then at that point. Nobody was

6:00

doing audio fiction are very few people or

6:02

season and so we just made. We decided

6:05

to make the whole show he was funded

6:07

are sold under did ourselves. wow I didn't

6:09

realize Yeah! We sat down in my little

6:11

tiny studio which was in my my old

6:14

house here in Maplewood without literally a room

6:16

off the side. who the living room whenever

6:18

from their. Wow. And then

6:20

Mars Patel took off the cat. Was.

6:23

Sitting Ali's best of lists and

6:25

when landline body. next thing you

6:27

know we've got a business and

6:29

we're making more sense if you're

6:31

and then at that time days.

6:34

I think we made a couple shows for other people.

6:36

We. Did we made our first

6:39

shows were for Panoply here. They

6:42

were aren't never heard somebody more they

6:44

were are shows but they paid us

6:46

to produce them but they own a

6:48

we made to suggest a mazer switch

6:51

unfortunately does not live on Cesium says.coms

6:53

yet Someday? haven't. Heard that one? yet? Really

6:55

good. Yeah, I've heard that and you know all

6:58

through these times. Like we said, we were learning

7:00

how to do it, you know? And it was

7:02

just the three of us really and didn't. You

7:04

guys meet there's some sort of like

7:06

writers group or something. Yeah, so I

7:09

met Ben when I moved here to

7:11

New Jersey. My book had just come

7:13

out and been a big that but

7:15

gray area. And. Ben had a book

7:18

a children's book that had come out the.books

7:20

He has a dog book and sit on. The

7:23

money with my my life. And

7:26

to his old a plane book. Honestly? Assess

7:30

Assess. And hence

7:32

mine was like. Adults

7:34

Short Section: Book. And. oh

7:37

and and benches a children's book and we

7:39

met at a sort of little get together

7:41

and started talking and then to sort of

7:43

kept in touch and i think it's met

7:45

at a writers group or writers group came

7:47

out of that you know where you'd spring

7:49

you're writing in or but he sort of

7:51

autism and then and then he met dave

7:53

elsewhere dave you are on that side of

7:55

the yeah we i was invited to some

7:57

some was having like it was like drinks

7:59

for YA and kid

8:01

authors or something. And

8:04

I felt the story before, but I

8:06

noticed throughout the night that Ben was looking at

8:08

me all night and whenever I'd

8:10

talk, he was paying a lot of attention to what

8:12

I was saying. And I

8:14

was like, huh, this guy's really interested in what

8:16

I have to say. And I think he was

8:18

interested because he had this thought of doing it,

8:21

audio fiction, and when I said that I've worked on

8:23

soaps and we had done radio stuff, I think he

8:25

was like, hmm, that's interesting. And he said, I met

8:28

this guy, this other guy. And that's when

8:30

I met Dave. You know, the

8:32

funny thing is, Dave, I remember the same thing from when I

8:34

met Ben. At that time,

8:36

I had just gotten this gig with a guitar player,

8:38

a big sort of famous New York jazz guitar player

8:40

who I was, you know, like if you had asked

8:42

me before I moved to New York, like who do

8:44

I wanna play with, he would have been like, you

8:46

know, my top five. It sort

8:48

of felt like the culmination, like the top of

8:50

my jazz, bass playing jazz career in New York,

8:53

cause I had, he had called me and I

8:55

had played like a couple weeks with him. And

8:58

I was talking about it and of course,

9:00

Ben was watching me from the corner and he came

9:02

over, he goes, you played with him, I

9:04

love him. So he of course,

9:06

Ben knows a lot about a lot of different things

9:08

and so he was, he had heard

9:10

of him and was, you know, oh yeah, you know,

9:12

he had been to see him, you know,

9:15

he had a regular gig, this guy down at, in

9:17

the West Village and so he had been down there. And

9:19

so he was just very interested and I was like, who's

9:21

this guy, he sure knows a lot about this, you

9:24

know, he's a kind of skier, skier famous jazz

9:26

musician. So

9:28

that, yeah, that was, that's one of my

9:30

earliest recollections of meeting Ben. That's

9:33

nice. Yeah. There you go,

9:35

that's an answer. Yeah, so I mean, that's some pretty,

9:37

yeah, I mean. Good question, Becky. It is

9:39

a great question, Becky. And I know

9:41

everybody wants to know what's coming next, what's coming next,

9:43

but let's also reflect really quickly what

9:46

this year was. I mean, you

9:48

know, the company has been around now

9:52

for what, six, seven years? I've

9:55

been. Five

10:00

for Gen Z Media, but we, yeah,

10:02

Mars Patel's seven or so. And

10:05

I'm coming up on my fourth

10:07

year. It popped up the other day for me. I

10:10

couldn't believe, like I think a Facebook thing came up and

10:12

I was like, yo, wow. I couldn't

10:14

believe it. And this has

10:16

been a really incredible year. And I

10:18

think, like, I think y'all will agree,

10:20

I think we really exploded this year.

10:22

Like we have had to gain some

10:24

incredible team members because it's just the

10:26

workload of it all. And

10:29

we're creating shows at a rate we

10:31

didn't know was possible. And we

10:33

still, we actually still, we still don't think it's possible. But

10:37

I think the ideas are just flowing and

10:39

the partnerships are growing and it's just been

10:42

absolutely incredible. And I think the content that

10:44

was created this year was just so top

10:46

tier. I could not believe it. It

10:49

wasn't just one amazing show. It

10:51

was multiple amazing shows. Yes. Headline

10:53

by the return of six minutes, obviously. Yes. How

10:56

many people work, I mean, even tangentially, at

10:58

Gen Z now. I mean, I always tell- How

11:01

many people? I have no idea. I always

11:03

say 20, at any given time, 20 to

11:05

like, maybe not 30, but

11:07

it's like- Between freelancers,

11:10

freelance writers, freelance editors. We've gotta

11:12

be 30 composers. Yeah,

11:15

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still small.

11:17

Yeah, and if you add actors, it's- We're so

11:19

new. But to me, for what we

11:21

do in this sort of niche thing, it always seems

11:23

like a lot of people, you know, to do what

11:25

we do, it takes a

11:27

lot of people. Yeah. It takes

11:29

a village. It takes a village, absolutely. Yeah,

11:32

we started with, well, we really started

11:34

with GZM Modern Show. I think that was the first thing that came out,

11:36

because I think it was literally January 1st. Yeah.

11:40

I loved that show. I thought it was so funny.

11:44

And then, was it the return of six minutes? I

11:46

believe so, yeah. Which, I mean, the

11:48

fans are going crazy. I still don't know what's

11:51

gonna happen. You're gonna

11:53

know soon. I'm gonna know. It's very

11:55

soon. I'm gonna know in about a week. And I

11:57

think what's so fun about six minutes is that the

11:59

original series- is just so good

12:01

clearly. We've amassed millions of

12:04

fans and I just think this

12:06

stepped it up even more which is so hard to

12:08

do with a sequel after returning for so long. Like

12:11

y'all did a great job. Nightingale I think is

12:14

one of the most such things that can be

12:16

created. I

12:18

think Nightingale we hit a new level on

12:20

Nightingale for me just like it's just yeah

12:22

it's just a beautiful... all of all

12:25

the Gen Z, all the things I mean

12:27

there's so many things along with the people

12:29

that make Gen Z great but and Nightingale

12:31

sort of seems to be a real pinnacle

12:33

combination of it you know. Yep

12:35

but now it's won one award and has been

12:38

nominated for a Kids Choice Award. It's

12:40

true. Mm-hmm yeah it's true and I think

12:43

we did something really fun with Mina and Lucy

12:45

in which we we took on a

12:47

new genre like kind of absurd

12:49

horror comedy and nailed it absolutely nailed

12:51

it. I thought Mina and Lucy was

12:53

played with tone and and style in

12:56

a way that I haven't seen us

12:58

do and like I just think it

13:00

opened doors for us. I think it's

13:02

so I loved it. We're getting better at

13:05

the comedy right Dave? It was something yeah something in

13:07

the beginning we shied away

13:09

from but we found hard to do. Really?

13:11

I think Bart Satel is very funny. Yeah

13:13

yeah but I mean like straight up. I

13:16

think that's right. I mean this is the

13:18

fun of working with outside writers too is

13:20

that someone like Lauren brings in a different

13:23

sensibility and different way of writing

13:25

and it's great because only

13:27

so many ideas that we can have. And I wasn't

13:29

necessarily meaning the comedy in the writing because I think

13:31

there's always really great funny things. I

13:33

wasn't offended. No no I

13:35

also have found it's hard to do

13:37

comedy in the sound design and

13:40

you know like how do you play it? Do you

13:42

play it cartoony? Do you play it real? Like what's

13:44

funny? You know what I mean? Yeah those are always

13:46

questions we asked ourselves. Yeah I

13:48

feel that. And then we did a couple partner

13:50

shows. Yes we did. Yeah. Who

13:53

Went Wow which we're working on another season

13:55

of which is lots of fun to work

13:57

with the Tinkercast folks. The great legacy.

14:00

of Arthur. Yeah. That

14:03

was great. It's true. All those memes.

14:05

Boy, what a year. I see so

14:08

many Arthur TikToks. They're really funny. What

14:11

a year. It's true. It's been

14:13

such a big year and what's so funny is

14:15

it's like, it's funny how we mark our time

14:17

in years. Like it feels like we're starting anew

14:19

in like two weeks even though we're really just

14:22

continuing because we are just working.

14:26

Just meaning like, you know, on

14:28

these shows. Like we're currently working on them, we're continuing

14:30

to work on them. So why don't we show the

14:33

listeners what we're working on. Sure. Just

14:35

before we do, would you like to know, I

14:37

want you to guess how many recordings I was

14:39

on today. Yeah, Dave had a

14:41

marathon day. Three? More? No.

14:44

Four? This is number nine.

14:48

No. Oh

14:50

my gosh. Yes. That

14:53

is crazy. Some were short ones and these

14:55

all pick up. Dave

14:57

and I were communicating behind the scenes. How about

14:59

we were working on a few

15:02

ideas for the show as he was in recording.

15:04

Oh wow. Oh

15:07

my gosh. Well, I'm glad you're here.

15:09

I have another

15:16

one after this. Yeah, that's right. I

15:18

just came from my own personal recording session

15:20

because I am a professional voice actor and

15:23

I'm currently in that studio. I don't

15:25

say the booth where you are just sounds

15:27

really good. I'm sure it does. It's

15:29

beautiful. I feel amazing. Not in the closet

15:31

right now. Well, is this where we

15:33

play the top secret stuff?

15:37

I think so. I think it's time. What do

15:39

we start with? I think we

15:41

should start with the show that's coming up first.

15:44

This show is literally coming on

15:46

January 1st for early access subscribers,

15:49

our super fan and family subscribers.

15:51

Winnie Taylor's fourth and inches. Should

15:53

we set up this clip? Because this isn't because

15:55

typically we play the opening or the closing, but

15:57

this is sort of in the middle of the.

16:00

episode which is a really fun scene. Dave, you want to

16:02

say that? Yeah, and it gives you

16:04

a real sense of what this show is about.

16:06

Now, some of you may say, I don't know

16:08

about football, football is not my thing, and this

16:11

is GZM's first sports show, which is a real

16:13

challenge because we weren't sure. We had to do

16:15

a lot of experimentation to figure out how are

16:17

we going to do sports in audio because it's

16:19

obviously a visual medium. So how do you have

16:22

a football game that you can't see? Now, of

16:24

course, it works on the radio, but it took

16:26

a lot of experimentation. But what I want to

16:28

say is that even if you're not a football

16:30

fan, there's a lot of stuff in here for

16:33

you because it's a story about father and

16:35

daughter. This is about Winnie

16:37

Taylor is a girl who comes to live with her

16:40

father in Cleveland. She hasn't lived with him in a

16:42

while, but her mom's passed away. And

16:44

he was a retired quarterback. And he's

16:46

kind of, he went out not so great in

16:49

his career. And now she's here to inspire him

16:51

to maybe get back in the game. Yeah,

16:53

I have to say working on this, I

16:56

feel like this is one of our best.

16:58

Oh, really? That's so exciting. Post

17:00

and music wise and just like, I

17:03

mean, like Dave said, just cracking the

17:05

code of how to do a football

17:07

game. Well, the other thing

17:10

that's new here is that this might be,

17:12

I think this is probably our first show

17:14

that doesn't have any sci-fi or fantasy elements

17:16

unless I'm forgetting something. Wow. I think you

17:18

might be right. It's the most grounded show

17:20

that we've ever done. And I think Dave,

17:22

I think that's why I can't get through

17:24

a scene without crying. Yeah, really?

17:27

Oh, man, y'all. And

17:29

this is one of them. So in this scene,

17:31

yeah, let's set up the scene,

17:33

Dave. So Winnie has had this idea that she

17:35

wants to get her dad back into the league.

17:37

So she's gone to see the coach of the Cleveland

17:40

football team, who was Derek's

17:42

college coach and she calls him Uncle Fitz.

17:45

And she secretly got him the chance

17:47

to go back on the field. And now this is the

17:49

first time they're seeing each other after Derek has been to

17:51

practice. And Coach Fitz is played

17:53

by? Coach Fitz played by

17:55

Tony Todd, who is a legendary

17:58

actor. This. Clip

18:01

is called fifty yard line. Q

18:03

V Wine My dad. Eric

18:06

Taylor. Listen when we need to talk about about

18:08

me going to kill sets. You gonna

18:10

tell me about how wrong it was how known as a

18:12

find that sense or try to run from security. Is

18:14

you climb the fence? That's right. I

18:17

said it's a very true dangerous one. And

18:19

I don't care if I do it a hundred times. Mom.

18:22

Always said sometimes you speeded a push to

18:24

know what was good for you. Well

18:27

the Sudanese. Pissing. Are

18:30

you done? And Done. To.

18:37

Get innocent. It. Ended

18:39

said. Are you going to

18:41

drop mean the river? Yes, I'm

18:43

going to drive my truck to the Cuyahoga

18:45

River and dumped my daughter Is. May

18:49

are we yelling. Tradition

18:51

your mother and I stab back in college.

19:00

Yeah we'll have to burgers to

19:02

large fries and. To

19:05

large them. You should

19:07

not be disclosed to again. Like

19:09

I said is to this year

19:11

but you know, twenty years old

19:13

anymore. Thanks for the

19:15

reminder of reasons. That does

19:18

me. In

19:21

that case, I want to milkshake to

19:24

for woman strength. In

19:26

To Chocolate Milkshake! So.

19:36

This is what you did before every home

19:38

game. Sat at the fifty yard line and

19:40

Crest Fast said. First time I brought

19:42

your mother I thought she was wounded on

19:45

me on the spot. Fast food and football

19:47

when exactly her idea of a perfect nice.

19:49

Now as he was more of the

19:51

top as an art museum tape seems

19:54

pretty good to me. that he needed

19:56

Louisiana fries is gonna be letting. Your

19:58

feet on Sunday since. The Z

20:00

line is huge and they're gonna be trying to send

20:02

you right back into retirement. You think

20:04

they're gonna catch me? Huh. You're

20:07

not as fast as you used to be, Taylor. I

20:10

was never as fast as I used to be. I

20:13

would have lost in speed. I'd

20:15

make up for it being absolutely

20:17

terrifying. You're right. I

20:21

shouldn't be eating any of this. Okay,

20:23

let's see what you got.

20:27

What are you talking about? There's

20:29

a ball right there. I'm

20:31

gonna run the tightest post you've ever seen. Winnie,

20:35

I told you my arm is tired. Is that hot? Here

20:37

I go. Come on, number 10. I'm open.

20:40

Good. Kids out. Taylor

20:42

to Taylor. The first father-daughter kind of a league. History has a

20:44

ground school. Get out of your mind. Do you know that?

20:48

The announcer part. No, the announcer part wasn't in

20:50

when you listened to the pilot for the marketing

20:52

meeting. No, it wasn't? No,

20:55

it really got me. Oh,

20:58

you're gonna make it. I'm gonna

21:00

make it. I'm

21:05

gonna make it. Oh, I'm gonna make it. Oh,

21:09

I'm gonna make it. Oh,

21:11

I wasn't? No, it

21:13

really got me. Isn't

21:16

that gorgeous? Oh

21:18

my gosh. The whole show

21:20

is like that. I'm tearing up.

21:22

I'm literally crying right now. It's

21:25

amazing. It's so good. They

21:28

have such a chemistry. Don't

21:31

they? It's just really fantastic. They

21:35

really do. Well, gosh. Well,

21:38

that comes really soon. Literally, when you're listening

21:40

to this, it'll probably be out within the

21:42

week or if not, like a little

21:44

bit more than a week. I'm not sure what day we're dropping this.

21:47

I also have the theme. Okay, go for

21:49

it. I have the theme song. So, you

21:52

know, a lot of times we do theme songs

21:54

and I'll do a whole

21:56

tune and then it gets cut

21:58

down and different things change. I thought it

22:00

might be kind of interesting to see how the

22:02

theme song has changed. I don't think, Jess, you've

22:04

ever heard the full version. No, not any of

22:07

it. Here's the full version. I don't play the

22:09

whole thing, but I'll play a little bit of

22:11

it. You'll just sort of hear, you know, I'm

22:13

sort of like working around. This is a great

22:16

singer friend of mine I had in and sort

22:18

of wrote the song. We worked it out with

22:20

him. So here's how it started. How will

22:23

they find you on

22:26

this trailer for me and the

22:28

song? And

22:31

if they tell

22:36

you just

22:39

exactly what you

22:42

want, you know you can't

22:44

go home again. So

22:49

that's the song. You're

23:18

just dropping singles, dude. That's

23:20

just like a great song period. Not

23:24

like the Nightingale song. You're just like dropping fire tracks.

23:27

Thank you. I love, you make

23:29

me sound so hip. I don't even know what a fire

23:31

track is. What

23:33

did you say in the slack today made me laugh really hard.

23:35

What did I say? I said that

23:37

goes so hard. Yeah, because it was

23:40

a fourth in inches. The credits. The

23:42

credits, which go so

23:44

hard. You'll see. You'll

23:47

see. So here's what it turned

23:49

into. So short of version, but Dave and I

23:51

had this idea about sort of trying to get

23:53

the story of Derek Taylor. But here it

23:55

is. If

24:00

you got the big name, you got it. Buffalo

24:02

is the last. In the

24:05

other states, one of them, they're in

24:07

the other states. You

24:18

don't get to use my hands. I'm not going to use

24:20

my hands. I'm not going to use my hands. I'm

24:24

not going to use my hands. You're

24:30

going to use my hands. I'm not going

24:32

to use my hands. I'm not going to

24:34

use my hands. I'm not going to

24:36

use my hands. I'm not

24:38

going to use my hands. I'm not going

24:40

to use my hands. The

24:46

center, Taylor takes his step. Mattelley gets tangled

24:48

up at the center, and the ball is loose. It's

24:51

a fumbled. No, this is unbelievable.

24:54

It's like he was cuddling with his

24:56

own teammate. And that Taylor Tustle will

24:58

end the game for Cleveland. Hard

25:00

to imagine a worse ending for

25:02

Derek Carlin. Wow,

25:09

it does such a good job with the story.

25:11

Yeah. One of those announcers

25:14

was me screaming like a maniac. Really? Yeah, that was

25:16

a... Touchdown! Touchdown,

25:18

Taylor. Wow, that's cool.

25:21

Yeah. Wow. So anyways, really excited

25:23

about that one. We are in the thick of it. I

25:25

am in the sick of it. That

25:28

worked all day on it. The thick of it. Yeah,

25:30

exactly. The thick of it. The thick

25:32

of it. So, you like your own song? That's

25:34

a back yardigan song. Yeah, yeah. It's

25:36

a back yardigan song. Yeah, yeah. It's a back yardigan

25:38

song. I love it. Okay,

25:40

well, that's not our only show coming up. That's

25:43

not our only show coming up. What else we got?

25:45

We've got Discovering Dad. Discovering

25:47

Dad. Which I barely

25:49

know what it's about. Yeah. Discovering

25:52

Dad, which came to us from Kara Holden,

25:54

who's the writer of Middle School The Worst

25:57

Years of My Life. Great writer. Oh. was

26:00

actually a screenplay that she'd written a few years ago

26:02

and we turned it into a podcast. And

26:06

it's the story of two kids who

26:08

have a dad that's kind of like

26:11

a little nerdy. He's a middle school

26:13

science teacher and they think he's uncool.

26:15

He's very overprotective. And it turns out

26:18

that he used to maybe be like

26:20

Indiana Jones. He was an adventurer and

26:22

he's been keeping all this secret. A

26:24

lot of dad stuff, huh? A lot

26:27

of dad stuff just kind of happened

26:29

in this little chunk. Yeah. Yeah.

26:32

And we're going to hear the moment where they discover that he

26:34

may not be everything they think he is. Here

26:37

it is. We've been brought. Let

26:41

me get back in the car and we'll call it. What

26:46

happened? I saw a

26:48

dog. What happened?

26:51

I have the knife. You're

26:54

so slightly dead. Get out of here and

26:56

call for it. You took my phone. There's

26:59

another one. It's

27:02

my bad. Leave them all. And

27:04

no one gets your knife.

27:06

Knife twirling. What

27:09

are you? Some kind of ninja? No, we have

27:11

a middle school science teacher. Remember, Jess, use your tools.

27:13

Not toys. Teachers,

27:16

don't act like

27:18

that. Get

27:21

out of my

27:24

house. How

27:29

are you?

27:37

Yeah. Like, what? I

27:39

think, I mean, how y'all do action with an

27:41

audio drama and you can see everything.

27:44

It's crazy. There's

27:46

some fun directing sessions where

27:48

we're like, okay, now

27:50

he takes a swing at your head. Now he's hitting you with a

27:53

frying pan. Now there's a knife. Wow.

27:55

He has a lot of that. I mean, it

27:57

sounds so exciting. And the cast is really sweet. I'm

28:00

very excited about the cast. It's a fun cast. Christopher

28:03

Seiber. Christopher Seiber, yeah. Yes. Broadway

28:06

star, Tony nominated, I believe. Adam

28:09

Godley. Also Tony nominated.

28:11

Also Tony nominated and star of

28:14

Succession. Also, Alexa Neeson

28:16

plays Jess, and she's one of the

28:18

stars of Fear the Walking Dead. Oh,

28:21

wow. Really cool. I have the theme to this

28:23

one, too. Oh, you do? Go for it. Here

28:26

it is. My new

28:28

art, one of our new Gen Z composers,

28:30

Daniel Nissenbaum. Interestingly, I

28:32

met Daniel through a friend of mine that I cycle

28:35

with a lot. I said, I have this neighbor. I

28:37

have this neighbor who's like an amazing writer. And so

28:39

we got, we went out for coffee. And

28:42

yeah, and here's the theme. Thank

28:57

you. Thank

29:28

you. Thank

29:35

you, Thank you.

29:46

Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? That's

29:48

fun, right? That's so cool. That's

29:50

my new ringtone, the whole thing, the entirety of

29:53

it. Yeah, it's very, very fun. Wow.

29:56

That is so cool. So, we'll be getting a lot

29:58

of questions. Thank you. about

30:00

season three of Becoming Mother Nature. Now, I

30:02

don't know if we've ever announced that it

30:05

is about, drumroll. Father

30:07

Time. Father Time. Father Time. And

30:10

we teased it at the very end of Keeping

30:12

the Reaper. Yeah, we did because- Oh, okay, we

30:14

did. Yeah, because Max, who was our special guest

30:16

the other day on Rewind, he knew. Oh, he

30:19

did know, he did know. So Father

30:21

Time, tell us more about him.

30:23

We're getting there. Her. Her,

30:26

exactly. She. Yeah, yes.

30:28

Father Time. We're in New York, and

30:31

it's fun. We're getting near the end of

30:33

the scripts, and it's a really fun story. We're

30:35

in New York, we're all over the place. We're gonna

30:37

meet some historical figures. We're gonna end up in ancient

30:40

China. So it's another timey-wimey. It

30:42

is timey-wimey for sure. It is Father

30:44

Time. It's Father Time. It's

30:46

Father Timey-wimey. Father Timey-wimey, are we

30:48

gonna have our other favorites of

30:51

the universe, of the natureverse? We

30:53

will definitely hear some of our favorites return,

30:55

yes. That's very exciting. I

30:58

love this universe, and I'm so excited for more of

31:00

it. I really think it's like our

31:03

little marvel. You know what I mean? It is,

31:05

it's our baby marvel. It really is. It's

31:07

our baby marvel. Yeah, it's so sick, I'm so excited. And

31:10

speaking of Isabelle Denison, people

31:15

are very excited about the

31:17

Casey books. From Aaron, who

31:20

is a supercast subscription. When

31:23

will the release date be for the six minutes

31:25

books about Casey? We do

31:27

not have an official release date yet, although

31:29

the book is just about done. However,

31:31

we have something very exciting to share. What

31:34

could it be? Oh,

31:36

I can't wait. This is a chapter

31:38

from the book, read by none other

31:40

than Jess Fisher. What? Yes.

31:44

Holy cow. Jess is like a better- Well, we did it with an

31:46

AI, but no. Yeah, Jess is like an AI. Jess

31:48

is like a better go finder, hang on. Go get your

31:50

reading glasses. Get your reading glasses, put them on. Oh,

31:53

they're on. Okay, good. And

31:55

we now give you Jess Fisher. Six

31:58

minutes before. Well. I always

32:01

hated the music they played in the elevator. And

32:04

not just because it was sappy and generic,

32:06

but because it was so creepy?

32:10

I wasn't sure why it made my skin crawl.

32:12

I just knew that every time I

32:15

stepped inside one of these metal boxes,

32:17

I got this crazy sense of impending

32:19

doom. Especially today.

32:22

147CD, report to level 45 immediately

32:24

for performance evaluation, the voice had

32:27

said. I

32:30

knew what that meant. Testing,

32:32

to see if I'd started developing

32:35

abilities. Purge. Was

32:37

I finally showing signs of being different?

32:40

Special, like the other trainees on

32:42

the floor who had recently celebrated their so-called

32:44

birthdays? Or was I doomed

32:46

to be the normiest of all normies

32:48

until... Well I

32:50

wasn't sure what Whittier Corp did to kids

32:53

who couldn't perform. What

32:55

if this was it? I didn't

32:57

know how old I was, but I knew I'd recently

32:59

hit a growth spurt. What if this

33:02

was my last chance to show that I was super

33:04

strong? Or super stretchy? Or

33:07

I don't know, at least not just super

33:09

nearsighted? I took off my glasses

33:11

and wiped them against my uniform as the elevator reached

33:14

level 45 and then stopped with

33:16

a loud bang and a shudder. What

33:18

was that? Another bang. Another

33:21

shudder. And then the car

33:23

began to freefall. No! No

33:26

no no! I screamed, frantically pressing the

33:28

buttons. My stomach lurched as

33:30

the numbers rocketed down. I

33:37

squeezed my eyes closed and thought of all the things I'd never get to

33:39

do. Never get to see the world

33:41

outside of Whittier Corp or fly on a plane or

33:43

go to a movie theater or taste chocolate. Never

33:46

learn if I had real parents or a family

33:48

or how I ended up in this metal death

33:50

trap on my way to becoming human hamburger. The

33:53

numbers were skipping floors now as we picked up speed.

34:00

I braced for impact and suddenly felt

34:02

a ball of energy ignite in my

34:04

chest. The energy expanded, shooting

34:06

down my arms like bolts of hot

34:08

lightning. What's happening?

34:11

I opened my eyes and lurched into the control

34:13

panel. Ten, six,

34:15

two, L. Plummeting

34:18

past the lobby and down into the basement world

34:20

where I lived and trained. I

34:22

screamed as an electric charge burst from my hands

34:25

and into the elevator wall. Sparks

34:27

rained down from the overhead lights like

34:29

fireworks. And then the cab

34:31

screeched and slammed to an abrupt slump, knocking

34:33

me to the floor. I

34:36

gasped for breath, feeling my face and

34:38

body to make sure everything was still there. I'm

34:42

alive? I'm alive! The

34:44

elevator door slid open and I tumbled

34:47

forward onto solid ground, crawling right into

34:49

a pair of heavy black combat boots.

34:52

147CD, said the bearded face smiling down at

34:55

me. Happy birthday. That

34:58

was the moment that Casey developed her powers for the

35:00

first time. Pretty cool. Makes

35:02

me want to know who the person with

35:05

the boots is, like what that character is.

35:07

I can't wait to meet more characters. There's

35:10

a prologue and there's a really interesting character in there that

35:12

I'm very interested as well. Like

35:14

it's going to be a whole new cast

35:16

of characters, but it's in the world. Yeah. Yeah.

35:18

I like how you said the not epilogue. You were

35:21

about to say that. The not epilogue. The pre-emplogue. You

35:23

know. Yeah. But

35:26

yeah, it's coming. We're trucking

35:28

on it. We're making it happen. And

35:30

yeah. And speaking of the universe of

35:32

Six Minutes, Smoot

35:34

is ending. Yes. Is

35:36

that the end of all of our happiness? No,

35:40

it is not. Just beginning. Season

35:42

four of Six Minutes is coming.

35:46

So what is it about? Well, I

35:48

can't really give that away because you haven't heard episode 69 and

35:50

70 of... Oh,

35:52

that's true. This season of Smoot. I think we can talk

35:54

a little more about it when you've heard it. When you've

35:57

heard the finale. Yeah, we don't want to give anything away.

35:59

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Because yeah, we talk

36:01

more about it. Yeah more

36:03

cliffhangers More excitement more of

36:05

your favorites more new characters as well are

36:07

coming. Yeah more questions so exciting

36:10

And then what are we rewinding next? Well,

36:13

the next thing that we're rewinding is

36:15

uh, oh you mean talking

36:17

about that I'm thinking only from data. You know how

36:19

crazy it is. Yes. I'm thinking day to day the

36:21

next thing we're rewinding is the finale The finale is

36:23

six minutes. Yes But after that what's the next show

36:26

where we're going to rewind fourth and inches Yeah,

36:28

we're gonna be doing it as it comes out. It'll be

36:31

fun We're gonna have to bring a lot

36:33

of tissues I know seriously,

36:35

right? I should record myself just like crying

36:37

at my desk every week And

36:39

then after that our current plan is to

36:42

rewind becoming mother nature and then I believe

36:44

cupid And then we're gonna figure it

36:46

out from there. We're gonna do hopefully by then we'll

36:48

be back six minutes We'll be back six minutes. Yes,

36:50

and then we can be doing you know, the

36:52

smoot or if it's called something else rewind in

36:55

order Um, and yeah,

36:57

so if we've got some major fans, uh, One

37:00

of those shows is your favorite show be sure

37:02

to write into jess and yes. Yes We're looking

37:04

for fans for becoming mother nature rewind Asap

37:07

if you want to be a fan on a

37:09

brand new show like fourth and inches so you're

37:11

hearing it, you know Yeah, right for the first

37:13

time that'd be kind of fun, right?

37:16

I think so. We'll call it be like jess Be

37:19

like jess be like me. I love it So

37:22

I really like this question from becky

37:25

becky sent us two questions Any

37:27

plans for more takes on classic literature or

37:30

stories treasure island sleepy hollow mean and lucy

37:32

are all fantastic And I want more I

37:34

would love a jesium version of a christmas

37:36

carol seconded But I would I could see

37:38

a great story of ben linkle donkey Hotel or

37:40

little princess second and second and second all modernized,

37:42

of course with the element of time travel hints

37:45

of what's to come Thanks

37:48

This is going to be so such useless information But

37:50

and dave hasn't even heard about this and I can't

37:52

I can't even tell you of the one that i've

37:54

been thinking about For the last three months and I

37:56

haven't brought it up to dave yet You

38:00

know, Enough. On Friday at the dinner yeah

38:02

it's the it was you under under the

38:04

and is of it's anyway. A vicious undercover

38:06

me I use in my brain and I

38:09

either a have forgot to tell whenever we're

38:11

hanging up or before this isn't for an

38:13

hour be think like this. it's a it's

38:15

not like that but it's It's not what

38:17

you would commonly. Is Not. When you would call. Well

38:21

an answer to back is quest as well.

38:23

We do have one in development to protect

38:25

the can't. Talk about it. If we accept that

38:27

we can talk that isn't very exciting than. Him

38:29

and then them and several other services

38:32

are. Section isn't all about who is

38:34

zero information. And

38:36

listen, I've been talking a bit about

38:38

times on. And

38:41

I'm still. I'm still working. For you guys and

38:43

I'm put in, I'm put it in the hours

38:46

and put in in the works. We actually just

38:48

got a pilot from a Superfan. That time phone

38:50

is hosted by a doctor. Burke had Sun. And

38:53

moon is the. Only started to subtitles

38:55

you fancy present Mason Genius idea.

38:57

I loved it! My favorite part

38:59

was him saying that he had talked about

39:01

time phone at the production meeting system is

39:03

this is him and stuff down. As

39:08

good as the sensitive meals

39:10

like. Staring

39:12

at boxes on a screen sizes and I

39:14

think what I think what might help kick

39:16

all this time from stuff off as maybe

39:19

four when we start rewarding. Some stuff

39:21

and see. To her out on gonna come up

39:23

with the time phone like intro. like it like

39:25

another movie. I saw. And played during article

39:27

you likely have played during i realize it's

39:29

it's civilization if we just keep adding one

39:31

little elemental at I mean mostly avast as

39:33

have a cell be like hey guys any

39:35

I did the opening scene to the of

39:37

time and is like where you want to

39:39

take it next. I'm loving a

39:41

that there might be found listening being like

39:44

unhealthy and I'm thinking as or gun and

39:46

time phone and. Services

39:49

just a bit and we're just going

39:51

to be edited. I have already made

39:53

a serve as the best to see

39:55

some the show The Physicists or and

39:58

I think that oh. Ah

40:01

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40:03

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40:06

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40:08

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40:28

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