WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:20.879 Okay, hello, welcome everyone to unbelievably our fifth behind the 2 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:26.480 scenes special. I'm j Michael Dangelis, co creator, co executive producer, 3 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:33.799 co writer and co director, but sole marketing manager of 4 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:34.840 mission rejected. 5 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.479 Thank god, you don't want me messing around with. 6 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:43.399 That marketing now, Good God, I truly don't. And I'm 7 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:48.159 joined today by my two partners in the porch room. 8 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:53.880 I've got Pete Barry, Hello, universe, and I've got John P. Dalgan. 9 00:00:54.600 --> 00:01:00.479 Greetings, all, greetings, all this fine, sunny warm where I 10 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:01.799 am Spring Friday. 11 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:07.079 And of course, also a core part of the writing 12 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.879 and creative team is Paige Klinecki. We'll be hearing from her, 13 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.760 as well as a whole bunch of our cast members 14 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:19.760 later on in the show. So, after five years of 15 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.599 doing well, after four years of behind the scenes shows, 16 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.079 we weren't quite sure what people wanted to know anymore. 17 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:32.239 We had been interviewed, we had interviewed each other, we 18 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.359 had the cast interview each other behind our backs, we 19 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:40.959 had we interviewed other podcasters, and we were just not 20 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.400 sure what we could talk about in this fifth year. 21 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.200 So we threw it out to the audience. We put 22 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.680 a poll out there. We asked our Patreon members, we 23 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.040 put a poll out on our social media, put out 24 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.560 a call for questions, and we got a lot of 25 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.120 great questions from our fans. So today we're going to 26 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:04.680 do our best to answer our fan questions. Well, we're 27 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.840 gonna dive into some specific questions, but we also got 28 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.479 some great questions for our cast, and they were kind 29 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.879 enough to record their answers. So I'm gonna throw it 30 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:18.319 over to our cast, who all have some thoughts about 31 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:19.800 what their characters look like. 32 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.520 Hey, everyone, this is Dave Stanger. I play Bowden Moncrief, 33 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.879 and the first question I see is how do you 34 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:35.319 view your own character physically. I think I might have 35 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.199 mentioned something along this line in a previous behind the 36 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.840 scenes episode, but I tend to picture him as sort 37 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.360 of like this amalgamation of a couple different celebrities that 38 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:51.360 I know, and the one that is foremost in my 39 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:56.479 brain for Boden is Rob Low. You can google who 40 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.599 he is if you're not sure, but he's definitely who 41 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:03.800 I picture any time I'm trying to kind of get 42 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:08.639 into character for Boden, and sometimes maybe a little bit 43 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.479 of a younger Alec Baldwin and maybe to a lesser 44 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:18.120 extent John Ham, but someone of their ilk. I think 45 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.800 for Boden, someone I tend to picture some guy with 46 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:25.719 dark hair, chiseled, looks kind of an aging pretty boy. 47 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.280 But yeah, I think Roblow would be a great touchstone 48 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.639 if you're if you're wondering who I picture for Boden 49 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:34.199 w And. 50 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:36.960 So this is a really good question. I don't think 51 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.560 I really have very clear pictures for any of the characters. 52 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:40.560 In my head. 53 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.000 And maybe that's because I don't Maybe that's because I 54 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.840 don't think I have the most visual imagination. I think 55 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.120 it's more conceptual. So the characters for me are are 56 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.840 kind of like in dreams, when you have like a general, 57 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.479 wiggly outline of a person with general features emerging, but 58 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.439 they're not like fully formed. And I think Glory is 59 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.000 even harder for me to picture than any of the 60 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.319 other characters, because I don't really see myself as Gloria, 61 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.000 Like in my head, she's just a fully separate person 62 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.319 from me. She has different dreams and different fears and 63 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.080 different tendencies, and I'm just playing her. But at the 64 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.399 same time, it's also weird to think of my voice 65 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.839 coming out of someone who looks very different from me, 66 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:21.480 so it's just hard to picture. 67 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:22.839 And I don't know. 68 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.439 Maybe that's a cop out, but I don't think I 69 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.839 have a clear answer. But that's why I really love 70 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.519 seeing the fan art so much. I really love seeing 71 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.120 how all the fans and how you all see her 72 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:34.920 and bring her to life, because that really helps me 73 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.759 fill in these gaps that I have in my imagination, 74 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.160 and it's fun to just see all the very different 75 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.199 versions of her that come out. 76 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:47.639 Wow, this is Faith Dowgin and I play Zelda Anders. 77 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.560 These are really fun questions. So the first one from 78 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.839 Jace from the Philippines is how do you view your 79 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:02.199 own character physically? I think i'd have to say that 80 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:07.560 Zelda is definitely taller than I am, because I am 81 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.759 only five two and I have always wanted to be taller. 82 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.600 But she's not super tall, maybe five six, a nice 83 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:22.639 average girl height. And she's fit because even though she 84 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:30.079 hates going to the gym, she hates pilates, she hates cardio, 85 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:37.680 she knows that she probably will be in some sort 86 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.160 of situation where she should probably be strong and tough. 87 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:47.680 She does love kickboxing. Zelda's a big fan of kickboxing. 88 00:05:49.560 --> 00:06:00.839 And she wears amazing clothes like Calvin Klein and basically 89 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.079 Calvin Klein. Basically her entire wardrobe is Calvin Klein because 90 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:13.639 it's always in fashion, it's comfortable, it's practical and yeah shoes, 91 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:20.680 oh shoes. So she wears converse a lot and practical shoes. 92 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:23.600 Zelda's a practical goal. 93 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:24.480 Wo. 94 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:28.040 Hey, this is Bob Killian. I play the Admiral and 95 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.639 a host of other characters Jase. For me, the Admiral 96 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.279 is as big and as imposing in person as he 97 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.680 is on the podcast in his voice. When I do 98 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:41.279 the Admiral, I do a lot of hand gestures and 99 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:45.399 moving around and a lot that just to throw myself 100 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.639 around when doing the Admiral because I feel like the 101 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:52.279 Admiral is so imposing physically in my mind. And so Yeah, 102 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:55.040 which is really fun to play. I really enjoy it. 103 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.399 I'm pretty sure there's a picture on the Mission rejected 104 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.720 website of me doing facial expressions or something with the Admiral. 105 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:01.920 Wow. 106 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:07.079 Hi everyone, this is Nozla and I am the voice 107 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:13.959 of Mackenzie McGrath. So how do I view McGrath physically? 108 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:23.399 I think McGrath is an enigma hard to figure out. Physically, 109 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:30.439 I think she is surprisingly fit and strong and quick, 110 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:38.160 even though she does absolutely nothing to train herself. Like 111 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.439 train physically, she does nothing. I don't think she works out. 112 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:49.560 Her workout is grabbing another bag of chips. But I 113 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:56.639 don't think she ever has trouble as much as Skip 114 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:03.639 does whenever there is an exercise wond So she's everything 115 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.360 I wish I was. Basically, I think McGrath is genetically 116 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:13.319 gifted that she doesn't need to lift a finger, but 117 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:14.639 she's so strong. 118 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:16.199 Wow. 119 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.279 This is Chris klinecky. I you see him as pronouns 120 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.480 and I play Skip Grainger, who also uses him as pronouns, 121 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:24.959 And I'm very happy to be here answering some of 122 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.600 the questions that we received for this special episode. Jason, 123 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.240 That's a great question, really fair one too, especially since 124 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:36.000 we exist in the audio world. Honestly, for me, I 125 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.559 am so delighted and humbled every time I get to 126 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.799 see one of our listeners who has some artistic flare 127 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.120 do a rendition of any of our characters, including Skip. 128 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.600 Every time I see a new Skip, I think this 129 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.039 is fantastic when it comes to how I view my 130 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:55.600 own characters. Skip Grainger physically. Honestly, at this point between 131 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:59.799 seasons five and six, it's essentially the conceptual midpoint between 132 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.480 the various iterations of Skip Granger that I've seen in 133 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:06.519 the artwork getting from season one all the way through recently. 134 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.720 I just kind of picture, you know, a hodgepodge if 135 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.320 you will, of those sorts of features altogether. That just 136 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.279 makes me smile. That being said, if there are any 137 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.440 listeners out there listening to this particular episode who have 138 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.919 some artistic flare and are thinking, I haven't seen a 139 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.440 version of Skip that agrees with what I have in 140 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.600 my head in terms of the image, this is of 141 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.240 course not a request, not by any stretch of the bine. 142 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:34.799 But if you're looking to change how I viewed Skip Granger, 143 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.200 I would say, add your own take on Skip Granger 144 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:42.440 to the mix and we'll go from there. Now, I'm 145 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.039 not asking you to make pictures of Skip Granger. 146 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:44.960 I promise. 147 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.840 I just if you do, it will certainly be incorporated 148 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.320 in my own sort of mental image of the character. 149 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:54.919 That's a guarantee. 150 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:56.559 And we're back. 151 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:03.200 Well, thank you cast for those insightful answers. We're gonna 152 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.639 be hearing again from them. Shortly. But let's uh, let's 153 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:13.080 take a question for us. Uh So Wedge from Minneapolis 154 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.840 asks us what's changed in production process or pipeline since 155 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:20.720 between season one and season five? 156 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:27.799 Well, a lot, we know we we we didn't know 157 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.440 what the hell we were doing when we started, and 158 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.879 if we had, frankly, would we have started this. 159 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.240 No, And there are some lessons we still haven't learned. 160 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.320 Like there there are a lot of There are some 161 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:39.200 lessons I refuse. 162 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:41.600 There are a lot of creators who we talk to 163 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:46.240 who are just a guest that we do not have 164 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:51.759 a complete season written before we before we start releasing episode. 165 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:53.679 I was like, what, who's a guest at one? And 166 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:58.519 everybody's a gas all the time, dismay. 167 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.360 The other thing is the division of labor has changed 168 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:04.360 quite a bit. Seasons one and two. Pete edited and 169 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.039 mixed every episode, every every single and three. 170 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.519 Three. Don't take it away from me, man, for sure, 171 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.000 the season four you started sharing. 172 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:21.360 Was season four. I could have sworn. I could have 173 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:23.240 sworn the c I A at the CIA episode. 174 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:27.399 In my memory, it's all good, You're right. 175 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.600 That was season four. So yeah, so Pete, Pete edited 176 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.720 and mixed all of the first three seasons, which was 177 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:35.240 rapidly becoming. 178 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:40.279 A completely that was fine, right, like, yeah, it was, 179 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:41.679 it was, it was a lot. Yeah. 180 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.600 But but then John, uh, you know, stepped up really 181 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:46.120 really well. 182 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:46.240 Well. 183 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.639 Season three was when I started, was when I started 184 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:54.600 editing and mixing the Patreon bonuses to take off. That's 185 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.159 what I was thinking, and after I had cut my 186 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.840 teeth on Reaper doing that. Yes, the the c I 187 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.639 A at the CIA episode was the the first one 188 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.799 that I had that I mixed entirely on my own. Uh. 189 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:10.559 And since then we've gone into an alternating mostly alternating 190 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:12.679 Pete does one I did. 191 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:17.159 Yeah, this year, I think you you gave me some 192 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.559 some leeway to like grab a couple of episodes. 193 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:20.799 I was, I do this. 194 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.080 Yeah, so if you if it's an episode that you 195 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:26.799 wrote that was would normally have been me to edit, 196 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:28.240 Like what was which one was it? 197 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.440 I think I wonder so I'll have to think back 198 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:34.480 on this, but I think five o nine might have 199 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.519 been the first episode that I wrote and I'm like, okay, John, 200 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:38.559 you can you can take us one. 201 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:40.399 I put me wrong on that one though. There might 202 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:41.320 be another one. 203 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:42.919 But there was one that there was one that you 204 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:46.799 wrote that you definitely edited to in a row because. 205 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:51.679 There was one clear right five O nine I did. 206 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.840 I did take five, which one was a different one. 207 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.120 Five and nine was the Cornfield one. 208 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.480 That's right, that's right, because you had the you had 209 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.480 the idea for what the sounds of mission of the 210 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:01.480 missile base, where. 211 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.039 Yeah, I didn't want to have to be to like 212 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:08.799 burden you with creating a north By Northwest spoof where 213 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:10.399 I was like, I know, I have some plugins that 214 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:12.519 maybe it'll make this plane sound like it's coming yes, 215 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:14.200 right at you, and I don't know. 216 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:18.480 Well, I mean, let's so uh. There's a huge change 217 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.279 between season one and season five that we've not mentioned, 218 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:29.080 which is every episode from the first episode through two 219 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:35.679 O two was recorded in my apartment with the cast 220 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.919 as many of the cast members together as possible, and 221 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.919 then we would grab and even then, so like if 222 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.759 if a Philadelphia based cast member couldn't come to the record, 223 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.399 they would still come to my apartment to record at 224 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.120 a later date. So if Dave couldn't come on a Sunday, 225 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.679 he would come like the next Tuesday after work and 226 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:58.919 do it. Or if actually had to miss one or whatever, 227 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:03.720 we would get to get either and record at my apartment. 228 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.799 Except for the few unlucky ones who recorded at your 229 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.879 place of work, like poor Natty Leech who almost got 230 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:14.200 arrested Hilarian fighting Zelda. 231 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:16.080 A motor boat. 232 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:17.320 Yep. 233 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.480 And when that was reported, the response. 234 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:25.639 Was no, no, that's just Michael and Natty. It's fine. 235 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.879 So yeah, and then our guests would have to record 236 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.879 in uh that. You know, that was a challenge, particularly 237 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.120 when we you know, early on, because we would have 238 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:45.000 you know, clean or at least equally uh equal, I 239 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.080 was equally bad, but everybody sounded the same because we 240 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.080 all recorded in the same place on the same kind 241 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.840 of mice, and then we would have guess that maybe 242 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:58.600 had much lower quality. So yeah, so everybody in the 243 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.679 room would be of you know, sort of balanced because 244 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:03.039 it was all in the same room and on the 245 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.320 same kind of mics. But a guest coming in early on, 246 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.960 some people were recording into their telephones and it was 247 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.120 just it was very, very noticeable. So we learned, all right, 248 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.159 we've got to be able to get if they don't 249 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:20.000 have equipment, we've got to be able to bring them 250 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:23.039 to my place or John's place, repeats place where we 251 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.799 have equipment and then of course, and I remember I 252 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.279 had all huge problem being like we I could hear 253 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:31.600 the echo in your apartment. 254 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:33.320 I was like, how do we get rid of this echo? 255 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.039 And I won't go into the details of what I 256 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.360 did when I came to records episode three and four, 257 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.240 but I was like, can we stop the echo in 258 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:39.720 the apartment? 259 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:41.519 We learned to live with it. It was like, yeah, 260 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.120 you know what, it's fine. 261 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.720 Right, particularly on when like ninety nine percent of the 262 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:48.879 cast had the same echo, right, so it was like 263 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:53.600 they're all in the same place. But you know, then, 264 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.039 as you know, I was sure everybody knows. Like we 265 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.320 went to record, uh, the third episode of season two 266 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.960 and the word pandemic was in the air, and only 267 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:10.600 a handful of us got together to do that. One 268 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.759 Swinefeld was Swinefeld. Yeah, so John you were there, Kayden 269 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:16.840 was there, I think was Bob and Paige. Paige, who 270 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:19.080 had already moved to la was back visiting and then 271 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:24.120 got stuck on in Philadelphia because she couldn't travel back 272 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:28.360 because of the pandemic for a long time. So we 273 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:33.919 had to scramble to decide how to go on. Everyone 274 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:38.600 had the will and desire to go on. So we 275 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:44.639 shipped everybody microphones and we taught everyone how to use 276 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:50.120 audacity or Reaper, and that's how we and then we 277 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:52.279 all just got on. We would still get together and 278 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.399 it's still the way it works. We get together on 279 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.679 our discord channel, and we recorded as many people together 280 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:01.720 as possible, even though everyone is in their own place. 281 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.920 And there's a question about this later, so we'll put 282 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.279 a pin and we'll come back to how how that 283 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:12.599 process works. And it's a double edge it's a double 284 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:19.240 edged sword. I think it's I think we absolutely do 285 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:24.279 lose a little something. It's a little intangible something when 286 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.640 you're all in the room together, right, It's just it's 287 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.920 like John Saiswitz. You know almost everybody in the cast 288 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.519 as a stage actor. They know how to play off 289 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.319 each other and they do it well virtually, but something 290 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.359 else happens in the room. You can see each other's faces, 291 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:45.960 you get that energy that that can be very helpful. Now, 292 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:51.160 this is not to say that it's just different. It's 293 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.720 just different. It's not better or worse, it's just different. 294 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.160 I miss seeing everyone. I miss the camaraderie. 295 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.359 But once you move to the remote version, we have 296 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.880 been able to incorporate a lot more like just have 297 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.359 the mindset to incorporate people from all around the world. 298 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.960 Oh for sure, Oh for sure, people from England, people 299 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.640 from you know, like we get people from all over 300 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:17.920 to be on the show, and it is a little 301 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:21.440 more standardized when everybody's talking into their USB Mike. Then 302 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:27.000 it's like I got to balance the environment of Mike's 303 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:33.119 apartment versus someone who recorded this in Ontario. Right, So 304 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.599 there is like some you know, I would like to 305 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:37.119 say that there is a positive that comes out of 306 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.400 it that you're like, yeah, you sort of broaden your 307 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.400 horizons in terms of what this recording process could be. 308 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:45.720 And in certain cases you were. 309 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.200 Like, well, the recording didn't come out quite as well 310 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.640 as I would hope from this person across the country. 311 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.640 But you either learn techniques to sort of overcome that 312 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.960 or you start to realize, like I always strive to 313 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:02.079 get the best possible audio into an episode, but there 314 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:03.519 are a couple of times where you're just like, you 315 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:07.160 just gotta thread the needle, and you know, and and 316 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:09.279 and like you said, John, like sometimes you're like, there's 317 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:09.839 a work around. 318 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:11.200 This person's always on comms. 319 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.640 Yeah, like we'll just do that more and dropping in. 320 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:18.960 If you drop in a sufficiently loud background ambiance, that 321 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:21.720 tends to as long as it's not drowning anybody out, 322 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.000 it tends to cover a lot of Also, I have 323 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:28.640 found audiences as long as it's not egregious, as long 324 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:34.640 as you're not actively like having to change the volume 325 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:37.759 of whatever you're listening it on every time a different 326 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:42.759 character comes on, if it's audiences are very forgiving. I've 327 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:45.640 noticed it with myself. Like some of the other shows 328 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.960 that I listen to, they don't record in the same room, 329 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:53.000 and you can tell. And like an episode of a 330 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.000 show comes on and I'm listening and a new character 331 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:00.640 shows up, I just go, oh, I bet that. I 332 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:05.680 bet that actor was recording remotely or on their own 333 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:07.759 one day. And then I think goes out of my 334 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.759 mind and I go right back into the illusion of 335 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.799 the show. 336 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:16.720 There's no one way to do this, and uh, a 337 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:19.880 lot of people we've talked before, there's different ways to 338 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.440 do it too. Some people say just put it all 339 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:24.440 on the actors and say, here's the script, give me 340 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:27.279 three different versions of each line, and I'll pick other 341 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.359 people get on and direct. So it's different and this 342 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.279 is a nice dovetail because we've actually started to address 343 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:38.039 this already. But here's our second question. Kim from Virginia 344 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:44.359 aka Liz Lemon asks how does recording from different locations 345 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:48.279 impact your process and what do you adjust? 346 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.319 So I am going to try, I am going to 347 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.319 try and stop and I do this at least once 348 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.119 in every episode, and I'm going to try to stop 349 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.839 writing lines that multiple characters say and sink at the 350 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:09.960 same time. Thank god, man, No, no, no, that's always 351 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:11.839 if the characters aren't if the actors aren't in the 352 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.839 same room reading together. That never, that never. 353 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:19.119 Works out, that trick never. 354 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:23.519 So to Mike's point, yes, sometimes we put it all 355 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.440 on the actors. Like you said, we give us, give 356 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:29.200 us three, three readings of each line. 357 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:29.839 David S. 358 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:30.839 Deer is the best at that. 359 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:32.880 David David S. 360 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.720 Dere is absolutely an a is just a master. 361 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:37.440 Of the three. 362 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.880 The three because they're all completely different, they're all completely valid, 363 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:46.039 and it's never more than three. It's never more than three. 364 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:50.559 I'll tell you an amazing David S. Dear story. He 365 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:57.279 because he featured so prominently in five point twelve. He right, 366 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:59.680 he said, I'd love to I'd love to do it 367 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.480 with you if you could direct me my pleasure. I 368 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:05.119 love hanging out with David. So we got on and 369 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.519 we did it, and we spent a long time, not 370 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:10.160 an hour and a half, two hours, going through all 371 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.200 five twelve and I gave him direction and suggestions, and 372 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.920 then we got to the end and he went none 373 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.799 of that recorded like he was. But he was like, 374 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:24.240 no problem, I'm gonna let you go. I'm gonna reset 375 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:27.359 up my recording. I remember your notes and I'm gonna 376 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:29.359 I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna do it just 377 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:33.519 like we and he it was exactly like we did. 378 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.079 Say I don't remember, I remember it. It was pretty 379 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:37.039 traditional David. 380 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.640 It was he just and he he and he knocked 381 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.599 it out in about thirty minutes. He texted me, Okay, 382 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:47.519 it's done because he just retained. But he's John absolutely pleasure. 383 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:49.119 I can hear it in his voice. 384 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:53.680 He is he is a Vulcan. I'm convinced David Astier 385 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:54.440 is a Vulcan. 386 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:55.759 What I've noticed in Pete. 387 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:59.480 I don't know if you've noticed this either, is David. 388 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:02.799 You gotta obviously you listen to everybody's whole track before 389 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:06.200 you pick the shoes. Yeah, David's David's best stuff can 390 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.720 cut out anywhere. It could be the first read, it 391 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:08.680 could be the second read, it. 392 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:09.440 Could be the third read. 393 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:14.400 Chris is almost always the third read. 394 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:16.960 Oh, Nozla. 395 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:21.799 Nozla is almost always the first read. Like it takes 396 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:25.480 it takes Chris. It takes Chris to to read. Well, 397 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:27.319 not if you're if you're directing them. 398 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:28.759 If you're directing them, it's. 399 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:30.880 Usually the last lead. But if they're recording on their own, 400 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:34.839 it takes Chris two reads to get into it, and 401 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:37.480