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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. Sarah way Kelly's is an actor, writer and
director and you've seen her in The Walking Dead, prison Break and many others.
Paul Adelstein is an actor, writer and director as well. You've seen
him in prison Break, Private Practice, Chants, and many many others.
The two of them have a new podcast called though. It's called about prison
Break, and you guys are sitting down with this. We'll start with you.
Sarah. You're sitting down and you're going over all the episodes of prison
Break. That's right. Yeah. Our podcast is called prison Breaking with Sarah
and Paul because I'm Sarah, he's Paul, and we played Sarah and Paul,
And it's a chance for us to take the fans through the memories and
the behind the scenes kind of moments that we haven't talked about before on the
show. We bring in actors and directors and writers who are with us,
and you know, I think the idea is to bring the fans together,
the people who watched back in two thousand and five when it was live,
and the people who've been watching on streaming services that maybe just binged it like
last week. So, Paul, have you had a lot of people come
up to you and ask about some of these things you cover in the podcast.
Oh. Yeah, that's one of the reasons we decided to do it
was, you know, since it started airing all those many moons ago,
it's been NonStop. I think it's one of the things that's amazing about Prison
Break is the fandom at the time was super intense. People would stop you.
It was really the first thing I was consistently stopped for, and then
I thought, well, you know, the show's over, that's going to
tail off, and it just never tailed off. And in fact, I
would say in the last ten years, it's gone up. Somebody walks up
to me in an airport, I think, oh, I wonder what show,
and I would say, over fifty percent of the time, it's Prison
Break. I'm like that show was so Longer're like, oh no, me
and my kids just discovered it or I watched it and now my kids are
into it and we're all watching it together. So we really felt like there
were so many questions and so many details and behind the scenes details to dive
into that people were really into we Want. We thought that was a great,
a great impetus to do it. And Sarah along with Paul Edelstein,
Sarah Wayne Kelly's and it's called prison Breaking with Sarah and Paul and you you're
going from an acting kind of you know, you're used to memorizing lines and
acting out either on stage or in front of the camera, but you're going
from that to audio. Did that present any challenges for you? Well,
you know, I think we had the great good fortune of Paul being a
musician as well, and I got to say I got to blow them up
here a little bit heat so entertained and maybe partly terrified most of the choster
excuse me one. You had this wonderful band called the Ponsi Labs, and
they would stress up in costume when they would play these saying gigs. And
we got to know Paul as this like straight laced, terrifying secret service agent
on set. Then he invites us all to this show and we're like,
oh wow, we're in like this crazy rocky horror picture show kind of experience.
And so my way of saying that Paul is very experienced with audio and
he has been sort of holding my hand and walking me through it when I
go, but I don't know where the button goes. Well, Paul,
where did you Where did you get your experience in audio or is it just
are you just relying on your theatrical background. I grew up The year I
joined the theater company in Chicago was the same year I joined the band,
and I've been doing it ever since. And you know, with the advent
of home recording systems, I spend a lot of time down here when I'm
not acting, noodling around. So podcast was a good extension of that.
And you know it's not hard to get even without lines written, it's not
hard to get actors to talk about themselves. So Sarah and I have plenty
of material. Sarah, Wayne Kelly's, Paul Aedelstein, and the podcasters prison
Breaking Hurt on the iHeart Radio app. I might add, and anywhere you
get podcasts where they go through the series of Prison Breaking give you the behind
the scenes conversation of what went on, how it went on, And Sarah,
I was going to get to that because my experience in radio, and
when people ask me, hey, I want to get into radio. First
thing of force, I tell them is really I'm trying to get out.
But the next thing I try to tell them is you probably you probably should
major in theater or acting of some way, because that teaches you how to
present yourself, and it teaches you how to create that theater of the mind.
You know. One of the things that I think, I mean,
listen, I got started in podcasting with a podcast called Aftershock that was a
was a scripted podcast, so a little bit like an old school radio drama.
And one of the things that I learned there that we've really worked on
a lot is editing. And I think in audio. You know, there's
a big podcast boom right now. And I say this with love to folks
out there who have podcasts, but we don't want to hear your ms and
oz. We want to you know, part of what makes television fantastic and
movies fantastic is good editing. And you may have an hour long conversation and
only thirty five minutes, So that is really something that needs to be on
your podcast. And that's something that we've really been kind of working hard on
is distilling our conversations down into one of those stories that people really want to
hear and how do we convey that to them in a way that has a
structure and that has music behind it. Paul actually wrote all the music for
a podcast, which is very cool. And you know that's been a bit
of a journey too, because I'm sure you know, as you know,
people don't want to hear your ramble. They want you to carry get to
the point. Yeah, the magic happens in the editing, no question about
that. And Paul Eedelstein, along with Sarah Wayne callish, Paul, do
you do the editing or you have somebody help out with that. We do
have somebody to help out. JR. Schmidt does putting together the overall thing,
putting in the music, putting in our tags and all that stuff.
I do the editing of the conversations, which can get a little rambly.
We wouldn't want to subject to anybody to that, so I do run through
that. Me and Sarah go through it and cut out the boring bits and
kind of try to highlight the stuff that the fans are going to love.
Sarah Wayne Kelly's Paul Aedelstein and the podcast is prison breaking with Sarah and Paul,
And is there, Sarah a reoccurring something that you didn't think of about
when you were pretty. When you're producing Prison Break, that came to light,
that bubbled to the service that you had forgotten about. Well, you
know, I mean, one of the things that's really interesting is film and
television and Hollywood have changed a lot since two thousand and five. So when
we started this show, I mean, first of all, listen, it
was basically the first thing I'd ever done. It was the very beginning of
my career. I was learning how to work on camera. And so there's
a lot of conversations about we shot on film and what was that difference when
you're carrying a giant, heavy camera with these super heavy mags on them.
But there was also a difference of Hollywood. Women were treated differently and there
were different availability of roles for you know, actors who weren't white. And
part of the conversation that we're having with the creatives is what was it like
back then to work in a different Hollywood and what are the ways in which
we have all tried to be a part of the evolution of Hollywood. And
I think that conversation, you know, hopefully has some meaning and some residence.
Prison Breaking with Sarah and Paul at Sarah Wayne Kelly's and Paul Edelstein who
were in the TV series and they give you the behind the scenes in the
podcast heard on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere you get podcasts. Guys, thanks
for joining me today and we'll be listening. Thanks so much. Lee,
you have a great one I have agree on. Thank you. Thanks for
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