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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. Sarah
way Kelly's is an actor, writer and

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director and you've seen her in The
Walking Dead, prison Break and many others.

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Paul Adelstein is an actor, writer
and director as well. You've seen

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him in prison Break, Private Practice, Chants, and many many others.

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The two of them have a new
podcast called though. It's called about prison

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Break, and you guys are sitting
down with this. We'll start with you.

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Sarah. You're sitting down and you're
going over all the episodes of prison

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Break. That's right. Yeah.
Our podcast is called prison Breaking with Sarah

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and Paul because I'm Sarah, he's
Paul, and we played Sarah and Paul,

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And it's a chance for us to
take the fans through the memories and

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the behind the scenes kind of moments
that we haven't talked about before on the

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show. We bring in actors and
directors and writers who are with us,

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and you know, I think the
idea is to bring the fans together,

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the people who watched back in two
thousand and five when it was live,

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and the people who've been watching on
streaming services that maybe just binged it like

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last week. So, Paul,
have you had a lot of people come

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up to you and ask about some
of these things you cover in the podcast.

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Oh. Yeah, that's one of
the reasons we decided to do it

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was, you know, since it
started airing all those many moons ago,

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it's been NonStop. I think it's
one of the things that's amazing about Prison

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Break is the fandom at the time
was super intense. People would stop you.

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It was really the first thing I
was consistently stopped for, and then

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I thought, well, you know, the show's over, that's going to

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tail off, and it just never
tailed off. And in fact, I

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would say in the last ten years, it's gone up. Somebody walks up

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to me in an airport, I
think, oh, I wonder what show,

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and I would say, over fifty
percent of the time, it's Prison

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Break. I'm like that show was
so Longer're like, oh no, me

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and my kids just discovered it or
I watched it and now my kids are

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into it and we're all watching it
together. So we really felt like there

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were so many questions and so many
details and behind the scenes details to dive

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into that people were really into we
Want. We thought that was a great,

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a great impetus to do it.
And Sarah along with Paul Edelstein,

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Sarah Wayne Kelly's and it's called prison
Breaking with Sarah and Paul and you you're

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going from an acting kind of you
know, you're used to memorizing lines and

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acting out either on stage or in
front of the camera, but you're going

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from that to audio. Did that
present any challenges for you? Well,

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you know, I think we had
the great good fortune of Paul being a

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musician as well, and I got
to say I got to blow them up

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here a little bit heat so entertained
and maybe partly terrified most of the choster

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excuse me one. You had this
wonderful band called the Ponsi Labs, and

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they would stress up in costume when
they would play these saying gigs. And

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we got to know Paul as this
like straight laced, terrifying secret service agent

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on set. Then he invites us
all to this show and we're like,

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oh wow, we're in like this
crazy rocky horror picture show kind of experience.

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And so my way of saying that
Paul is very experienced with audio and

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he has been sort of holding my
hand and walking me through it when I

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go, but I don't know where
the button goes. Well, Paul,

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where did you Where did you get
your experience in audio or is it just

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are you just relying on your theatrical
background. I grew up The year I

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joined the theater company in Chicago was
the same year I joined the band,

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and I've been doing it ever since. And you know, with the advent

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of home recording systems, I spend
a lot of time down here when I'm

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not acting, noodling around. So
podcast was a good extension of that.

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And you know it's not hard to
get even without lines written, it's not

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hard to get actors to talk about
themselves. So Sarah and I have plenty

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of material. Sarah, Wayne Kelly's, Paul Aedelstein, and the podcasters prison

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Breaking Hurt on the iHeart Radio app. I might add, and anywhere you

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get podcasts where they go through the
series of Prison Breaking give you the behind

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the scenes conversation of what went on, how it went on, And Sarah,

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I was going to get to that
because my experience in radio, and

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when people ask me, hey,
I want to get into radio. First

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thing of force, I tell them
is really I'm trying to get out.

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But the next thing I try to
tell them is you probably you probably should

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major in theater or acting of some
way, because that teaches you how to

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present yourself, and it teaches you
how to create that theater of the mind.

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You know. One of the things
that I think, I mean,

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listen, I got started in podcasting
with a podcast called Aftershock that was a

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was a scripted podcast, so a
little bit like an old school radio drama.

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And one of the things that I
learned there that we've really worked on

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a lot is editing. And I
think in audio. You know, there's

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a big podcast boom right now.
And I say this with love to folks

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out there who have podcasts, but
we don't want to hear your ms and

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oz. We want to you know, part of what makes television fantastic and

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movies fantastic is good editing. And
you may have an hour long conversation and

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only thirty five minutes, So that
is really something that needs to be on

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your podcast. And that's something that
we've really been kind of working hard on

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is distilling our conversations down into one
of those stories that people really want to

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hear and how do we convey that
to them in a way that has a

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structure and that has music behind it. Paul actually wrote all the music for

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a podcast, which is very cool. And you know that's been a bit

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of a journey too, because I'm
sure you know, as you know,

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people don't want to hear your ramble. They want you to carry get to

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the point. Yeah, the magic
happens in the editing, no question about

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that. And Paul Eedelstein, along
with Sarah Wayne callish, Paul, do

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you do the editing or you have
somebody help out with that. We do

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have somebody to help out. JR. Schmidt does putting together the overall thing,

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putting in the music, putting in
our tags and all that stuff.

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I do the editing of the conversations, which can get a little rambly.

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We wouldn't want to subject to anybody
to that, so I do run through

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that. Me and Sarah go through
it and cut out the boring bits and

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kind of try to highlight the stuff
that the fans are going to love.

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Sarah Wayne Kelly's Paul Aedelstein and the
podcast is prison breaking with Sarah and Paul,

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And is there, Sarah a reoccurring
something that you didn't think of about

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when you were pretty. When you're
producing Prison Break, that came to light,

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that bubbled to the service that you
had forgotten about. Well, you

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know, I mean, one of
the things that's really interesting is film and

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television and Hollywood have changed a lot
since two thousand and five. So when

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we started this show, I mean, first of all, listen, it

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was basically the first thing I'd ever
done. It was the very beginning of

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my career. I was learning how
to work on camera. And so there's

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a lot of conversations about we shot
on film and what was that difference when

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you're carrying a giant, heavy camera
with these super heavy mags on them.

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But there was also a difference of
Hollywood. Women were treated differently and there

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were different availability of roles for you
know, actors who weren't white. And

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part of the conversation that we're having
with the creatives is what was it like

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back then to work in a different
Hollywood and what are the ways in which

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we have all tried to be a
part of the evolution of Hollywood. And

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I think that conversation, you know, hopefully has some meaning and some residence.

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Prison Breaking with Sarah and Paul at
Sarah Wayne Kelly's and Paul Edelstein who

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were in the TV series and they
give you the behind the scenes in the

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podcast heard on the iHeartRadio app and
everywhere you get podcasts. Guys, thanks

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for joining me today and we'll be
listening. Thanks so much. Lee,

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you have a great one I have
agree on. Thank you. Thanks for

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