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BPS 421: Behind the Scenes of Sharknado Turning Sci-Fi Madness into Storytelling Gold with Andrew Shaffer · Bulletproof Screenwriting™ Podcast

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  Speaker 3: This is a very important podcast because we're gonna teach
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  Speaker 3: you in this episode to how to survive as Sharknato. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Sharknado three is going to air on the Sci Fi
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  Speaker 3: get even quicker preparation for battling this shark Nato. I
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  Speaker 3: know you're all very interested, so I'm gonna get right
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  Speaker 3: into it and without further ado, here's the interview with
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Schaeffer, author of How to Survive a Shark Nato.
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  Speaker 3: Shooting Me Today is Andrew Shafer. Andrew is a humorist
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  Speaker 3: and New York Times best selling author who works include
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  Speaker 3: the Great Philosophers who failed at Love The Good Reached
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  Speaker 3: Choice semi finalis Fifty Shames of El L. Gray t
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  Speaker 3: and sci fi is How to Survive a Shark, Nato
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  Speaker 3: and other natural unnatural disasters. Andrew, how are you doing today, sir?
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  Speaker 4: I'm awake. It's about three pm here on the.
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  Speaker 3: West Coast, so very cool. So could you just give
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit about your background and you know,
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  Speaker 3: how you guys started as an author?
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  Speaker 5: How I gets started as an author. I've always sort
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  Speaker 5: of been I was always into reading as a child,
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  Speaker 5: and I sort of thought that the natural thing then
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  Speaker 5: was to start writing.
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I realized early on that not everybody
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  Speaker 5: who who reads books, you know, gets the inclination to
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  Speaker 5: also write them. It just felt like a very natural
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  Speaker 5: progression to me. But early on, as a child, I
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  Speaker 5: was very much into horror and science fiction. Any type
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  Speaker 5: of mystery, any type of genre of fiction was really
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  Speaker 5: what I sort of devoured at the time. Then I
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  Speaker 5: took a little detour in terms of I went to
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  Speaker 5: college where I studied at at the University of Iowa
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  Speaker 5: with writers workshop students there, which is a very it's
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  Speaker 5: much more of a literary.
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  Speaker 4: Fiction sort of.
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  Speaker 5: Training, and I got into that for a little bit
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  Speaker 5: a while, but I found myself sort of gravitating more
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  Speaker 5: back towards.
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  Speaker 4: Genre fiction and young adult.
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  Speaker 5: Just stuff that that was sort of more entertaining, I thought.
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  Speaker 5: And that's kind of where I find myself right now,
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  Speaker 5: is going from maybe sort of more of literary nonfiction
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  Speaker 5: books moving more into genre stuff like the How to
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  Speaker 5: Survive a Shark Nado.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool, and that's a very important book because
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  Speaker 3: we all know shark news can happen. So I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to ask you, how did you actually pitch this book?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, did you actually pitch it to Sci Fi
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  Speaker 3: as as like, because I know in the book you
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  Speaker 3: cover other of their movies too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean the great thing about this was I watched
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  Speaker 5: Shark Nado, the first movie, and I let my agent know.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, if you know, if there's like a
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  Speaker 5: novelization or something, I'd love to do that. Of course
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  Speaker 5: there wasn't with the first movie, but then she heard
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  Speaker 5: that Random House and the Sci Fi Channel we're looking
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  Speaker 5: to do something with the second movie, some type of
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  Speaker 5: tie in, and they had the idea to do a
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  Speaker 5: survival guide sort of like the Zombie Surraval Guide by
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  Speaker 5: Max Brooks, and it was something that I did, so
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  Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't think originally, you know, they
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  Speaker 5: thought really thought of me because I wasn't writing any
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  Speaker 5: type of genre stuff at the time. I just had
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  Speaker 5: a parody come out though, fifty Shames of Earth Grade,
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  Speaker 5: so they kind of said, well, you kind of do
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  Speaker 5: the humor writing, and I did a sample for it.
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  Speaker 5: They ended up liking it and asking me to write
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  Speaker 5: the book then, so it came together pretty fast.
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  Speaker 4: I had to watch about, I don't know, it was like.
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  Speaker 5: Thirty or forty different sci fi movies to actually write
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  Speaker 5: the book and sort of ties them all together, sort
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  Speaker 5: of in one universe.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, excellently. So you know, when you did actually pitch
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  Speaker 3: the sci fi were they really open to using all
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  Speaker 3: their other movies as well. We had a.
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  Speaker 4: List to go off of.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I had some that I wanted to use
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  Speaker 5: that we weren't able to, but they had a list of,
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  Speaker 5: you know somewhere probably about fifty or sixty that they
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  Speaker 5: had licensing that we could work with, and then there
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  Speaker 5: was just a munch that were off limits. So it
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  Speaker 5: was basically I had to go with what they gave
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  Speaker 5: me and then sort of narrow it down from there,
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  Speaker 5: and then we actually ended up creating a bunch for
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  Speaker 5: the for the guide books. So there's about ten or
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  Speaker 5: twelve in there. I think that are actually unique and
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  Speaker 5: original to the book.
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  Speaker 3: And what's cool is because if you haven't seen all
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  Speaker 3: the sci fi movies, you can actually go through and
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  Speaker 3: try to figure out which ones are created and which
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  Speaker 3: ones are actually real movies.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's the funny thing. I've had some people
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  Speaker 5: pick up the book and go, how did you come
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  Speaker 5: up with some of this crap? I'm like, I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: You know you can actually go either like there should
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  Speaker 5: be a movie about this, And I'm like, well, guess what,
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  Speaker 5: you know. You you can go see a Korana Conda
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  Speaker 5: movie and it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: So, h could you elaborate, you know, on some of
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  Speaker 3: the monsters that you wanted to use but you couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't even really remember exactly which ones
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  Speaker 4: we couldn't use off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 5: But I know that you know, there were We had
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  Speaker 5: to sort of narrow it down to to what what
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  Speaker 5: was sort of we didn't want to have, like like
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  Speaker 5: thirty different shark based ones, you know, So there were some.
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  Speaker 4: But we used used most of the.
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  Speaker 5: The big sci fi channel movies that that they've done
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  Speaker 5: that were kind of hits, like Shark to Puss and Pirana,
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  Speaker 5: Conda and stuff, even Stone at Out. So it was
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  Speaker 5: so it was there wasn't really a lot that was
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  Speaker 5: left on the cutting room floor.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, okay, interesting. So you know, so when you're
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  Speaker 3: writing this book and you're piecing this all together, did
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  Speaker 3: you actually watch each individual movie and sort of make
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  Speaker 3: a list and make a lot of notes on each Oh,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I had to watch every movie that we included three,
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  Speaker 5: four or five times to really pick up everything that
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  Speaker 5: was going on and kind of look at different angles
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  Speaker 5: and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So it was really I approached.
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  Speaker 5: It sort of like I did my non fiction books,
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  Speaker 5: which was just a lot of research, and then I
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  Speaker 5: had to try to figure out scientific explanations for how
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  Speaker 5: some of this stuff happened in the real world.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, they're.
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  Speaker 5: That's not something they're thinking about really when they're making
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  Speaker 5: the movie. They're thinking to make something entertaining, but to
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  Speaker 5: write it down in a book, I was like, I
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  Speaker 5: need to come up with reasons why you know, sharks
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  Speaker 5: can survive when flying around inside of a tornado? You
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  Speaker 5: know what, how do I make that sort of believable?
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  Speaker 5: And so I like talked to like a marine biologist
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  Speaker 5: for that, and I was like, it was like, how
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  Speaker 5: did you know is this you.
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  Speaker 4: Know not it could this happen?
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  Speaker 5: But but what's a logical way to make this, you know, happen.
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  Speaker 3: So when you when you interviewed that marine biologist, did
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  Speaker 3: hear she know what shark Nada was before you talk
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  Speaker 3: to them?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, the biologists spoke to She was
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  Speaker 5: a she was a huge fan of these sci fi
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  Speaker 5: movies actually, and and was, you know, really thrilled to
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  Speaker 5: answer my questions and stuff. She's like, she's like, we
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  Speaker 5: really love them. They're yeah, they're I don't want to say, uh, he's.
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  Speaker 4: The word terrible. I forget what word she used, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean they're just they're just entertaining.
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  Speaker 5: You can turn your mind off while watching them.
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  Speaker 5: And you don't have to worry about the scientific stuff
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  Speaker 5: behind it. And I said, it's just just for pure
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  Speaker 5: you know, entertainment value.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was just you know, when you brought
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  Speaker 3: that up, I was actually wondering, you know, if if
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  Speaker 3: if she hadn't heard of that, and you just went,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, you know, could a shark and a
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  Speaker 3: tornado come together? And she would have been like, could
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  Speaker 3: you get this crazy man out of my office? Please?
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, So some of that stuff, you know, was
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  Speaker 5: was a lot of fun to sort of research, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and then there's other stuff. I mean, I think there
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  Speaker 5: was one movie that I watched that I watched it
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  Speaker 5: probably ten times, and I couldn't figure out anyway not
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  Speaker 5: only to make the science work in real life, but
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't figure out how the science worked.
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  Speaker 4: In the movie.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, this movie doesn't really make much sense.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, I'm probably gonna cut this one.
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  Speaker 4: Out of the book.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you know, you now you wrote this
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  Speaker 3: book during the UH and it coincided with the release
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  Speaker 3: of Sharknado two. So you know, so now with Shark
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  Speaker 3: Hair three coming out, you know, I wanted to ask you, what,
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  Speaker 3: what are some of your expectations about Sharknair three.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I really didn't have any expectations even for
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  Speaker 5: the second Sharknado because I hadn't I hadn't seen it
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  Speaker 5: ahead of time or read the script or anything.
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  Speaker 4: So the second one itself was kind of a surprise.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of, you know, had an idea of that
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  Speaker 5: it would kind of be a little bit more meta
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  Speaker 5: than the first one, and it was. And so the
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  Speaker 5: third one, I'm you know, I was I'm kind of
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  Speaker 5: hoping it goes a little bit back to.
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  Speaker 4: Basics.
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  Speaker 5: But which is you know, really taking the concept as
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  Speaker 5: seriously as possible.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's something that once it gets.
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  Speaker 5: To meta, it becomes if everybody's in on the joke,
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  Speaker 5: you know, than than the joke itself.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that funny anymore?
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  Speaker 5: So I kind of like, see and we're serious, But
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  Speaker 5: but I don't really know what direction they're gonna take it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I want to say, a more personal Sharknado film. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: that's where you have to reboot the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I really want to see a more like
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  Speaker 3: uh David Lynchian Sharknado film, you know. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I completely agree with you on that point.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, I also noticed that in the second
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  Speaker 3: one there was a lot more celebrity cameos, like pretty much,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like every time they went somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: there's a celebrity I hear. Now there's like even more
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  Speaker 3: celebrities and Sharknado three.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's everybody wanted to wants to, you know,
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  Speaker 5: be in on it, be on on a joke.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: If it's a situation where the celebrities are just contacting
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  Speaker 5: them and say I'll work for no money or something,
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  Speaker 5: and they're like, how can we refuse that?
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  Speaker 4: You know, they really can't say.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if even Hasselhoff wants to be in your
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  Speaker 5: movie or something, they for no money, it really can't
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  Speaker 5: say no to that. It's not like they're recording these celebrities,
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  Speaker 5: I would think. So, I mean, yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 5: just gonna have It's definitely gonna have more celebrity cameos.
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  Speaker 5: If you tried to play a celebrity cameo with drinking
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  Speaker 5: game or something with Sharp Nato too, you would have died.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there were so many that are coming so
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  Speaker 4: fast you didn't even know. You know, you can't even
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  Speaker 4: tell who was an actor, who was a celebrity.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It came pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Fast and curious it did. And I think you're right too.
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  Speaker 3: I think there might have been called people who who
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  Speaker 3: attempted to do a drinking game and the results probably
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  Speaker 3: weren't so well for them. So you're jumping back to
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  Speaker 3: your book, you know, in the chapter you have an
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  Speaker 3: entire you know chapter obviously just to shark nado. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, I have to answer a question, is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how do you survive a shark nado?
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  Speaker 4: How do you survive a sharpnado?
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people said just don't watch it, but
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I mean this simple answer of you know,
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  Speaker 5: how do you survive a sharknado? Is some people think, oh,
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  Speaker 5: well I survive I survive it by uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: going to the basement, same way and survive a tornado,
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  Speaker 5: which really doesn't work because a lot of times during
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  Speaker 5: a sharknado you also have associated flooding with that. The
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  Speaker 5: only way to really escape it is to just drive
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  Speaker 5: as fast as possible out of town, which if you're
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  Speaker 5: in LA or someplace elsewhere, there's going to be a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of traffic jams or something that's just not going
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  Speaker 5: to be possible.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, there's there's really no good answer that
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 5: The answer in the book is you know, stand and fight,
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  Speaker 5: you know, grab a chainsaw, grab.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever you can, and you know, and and.
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  Speaker 5: Fight back when these things flying at you. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: But I but personally, I'm I'm not like a survivalist
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  Speaker 5: or anything. I mean, I had to research survival stuff
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  Speaker 5: for the book, but I don't, you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so bad about falling in real life, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and like I don't have like a unnatural disaster, kid,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have, you know, three palettes of bolbed water
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  Speaker 5: stored up here, which I probably should.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: After reading that New Yorker article on on earthquakes on
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  Speaker 5: the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 4: This week, so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I read that same article. Apparently in fifty years,
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  Speaker 3: Seattle is just going to be nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Seattle is going to get the worst of it.
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  Speaker 5: I think Portland, where I'm at, it's you know, it's uh,
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  Speaker 5: there's going to be some some stuff fall off the
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  Speaker 5: wall or something.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, it's not it's not gonna be too
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  Speaker 4: bad in Portland, I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And just in case he doesn't know what Andrew
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  Speaker 3: and I are talking about. I'll link to that in
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  Speaker 3: the show notes so you can read up on that
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  Speaker 3: and then uh, you know, get scared to death. You'd
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  Speaker 3: be like, oh my god. So you know, uh, Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: I've had some some fan questions come in if you
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  Speaker 3: don't mind answering a few, sure. So the first question
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  Speaker 3: I received was, Andrew, what was the most unstoppable monster
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  Speaker 3: that you researched for the book.
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  Speaker 4: The most unstoppable monster was the ghost shark.
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  Speaker 5: Because there's just really no good way to stop a
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  Speaker 5: ghost trage like like there. It was actually a movie
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  Speaker 5: too with with the guy from uh Bowl from Night Court.
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  Speaker 4: I was in this movie and.
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  Speaker 5: This shoke appeared manifested anywhere there was water, so it
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  Speaker 5: was in a swimming pool, one came out of a toilet,
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  Speaker 5: another came out of a bobble of water, and there
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  Speaker 5: was no way to get away from it anywhere, you win.
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  Speaker 5: I was just like, and it never got full of
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  Speaker 5: eating people, so it.
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  Speaker 4: Just went around and around this.
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  Speaker 5: Eating people and stuff. And I'm like, how do you
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  Speaker 5: stop this thing? And I'm trying to think of you
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  Speaker 5: know there you basically it's you have to do some
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  Speaker 5: elaborate ghost trapping or something. But but really it was
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  Speaker 5: like it was like on on on, you know, on
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  Speaker 5: one to one level, you know, on an individual level,
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  Speaker 5: there was nothing you could do to stop it besides
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  Speaker 5: find the the whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Talisman it was in the movie. So yeah, ghost try.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty frightening stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 3: See, I'll have to check that movie out because I
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  Speaker 3: had no idea that was actually a real movie.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, it is amazing. It's just just the
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: number of uh number. There's there's this amazing bikini car
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: wash scene where where the ghost Sharp materializes out of
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: a bucket of water.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's just crazy.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Uh. So you know, a follow up question is, you know, Andrew,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: are you playing on writing a sequel to the book?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, uh And basically I think, you know, I don't.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know what else I could say about Sharp
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Natos or actually about most paranormal threats or supernatural stuff
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: like that. But but I am working on another book
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: that will hopefully be sort of along the similar lines
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: as far as horror goes.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, very cool. Could you tell us a little bit
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: about it or you want to keep it hush hush?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Uh, It's like super hush, hush, right now.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, so all right, and then on to the next
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: question we had come in from Michelle the trainer, who
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: was a big fan of the show. Uh, is Andrew
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: a scuba diver?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Conservationalist or so? I'm sorry that was the first part
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: of the question. Sorry, I was just reading or reading reading. Uh,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: so are you a scuba diver? Andrew? No, I'm not.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: No, No, I've never gone scuba diving.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: And uh. The second part of that was any plans
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: for Shark Depuss?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Well, I like survival for the shark to puss.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Shark.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Depus is in the book, but in terms of uh, there's.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: A new movie coming out Shark de Purse Versus Whale
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: woof which is the third Shark Depus movie, and and
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: which are which again if you haven't seen the Shark
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Depus movies, those are phenomenally entertaining as well. But in
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: terms of how to survive as shark de plus again,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: it was like I started to write some of some
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: of these and I was like, the best thing you
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: can do is just to to move as far away
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: from the coast as possible.
• 20:04
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• 20:10
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  Speaker 5: Because a lot of these threats in the book that
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I wrote about were all like sort of water based threats,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, unless you like live in Florida or
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: La or something or along the coast, you're fine. But
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: then you get inland. And then I said, then you
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: find yourself in Nebraska, and I mean, I don't know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So so I the next question that came in was
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: if Andrew is going to create his own sci fi monster,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: what kind of monster would he create?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Well, I think that what kind of monster I would create.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I had an idea for one that was not used
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: in the book, and it was called a wolf blizzard,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: which was a pun on the CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer,
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: and it was just a blizzard of wolves. And that
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: actually got rejected for the book because they were like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: it's it's the pun is too far. Like it's They're like,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: there's like an there's like a line that we would
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: never go past, and you just passed it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: And I was like, oh my god, I.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Can't believe I found the line where you will not cross.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: So but I would still like to to. I was like,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I was like I'm going to go write this script.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: So for all the aspiring writers listening to this, Andrew
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: has just shown you the line in the sand that
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: sci Fi channel will not cross.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, So Andrew, I wanted to ask right now, you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: what are your future plans on publishing. I know there's
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: a project that's very hush hush, but is there any
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: other projects you work you one, or anything else you
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: could tell us about right now?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm also working on a on a young adult
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: novel that That's something I've been working on for a while.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: I've got a few things that are like in the pipeline,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: but it's just like you get a fine, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: find the right sort of place for them at a
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: publisher or either self publish it or whatever, and and
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: just got to wait for sort of the stars to
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: align and until that happens, like I don't have any
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: good news to announce. It's kind of boring, Like it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: something my mom calls me all the time and says, oh,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: when's your next book coming out?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't know.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: It'll be the first one to know, don't worry.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: So, Andrew, I wanted to ask you to you know
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: your your book Sharknado was on sale. Is it still
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: on sale right now? Yeah?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: As of today it is for us for like a
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: dollar in a ninety book. I don't know how long
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: the sale is going to last.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: So okay, so when this is up, I'm, you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: hopefully I will link to Andrew's book in the show notes.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll If it's not on sale, it's still a
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: relatively goodbye. And I guarantee you it's it is. You know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: it's entertaining, it's hilarious, and look at me. I've learned
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: a lot about the Sci Fi Channel movies because I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I you know, I've learn about Ghost Shark today.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a value at any price, you know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: And the book is like forty megabytes because it has
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: a bunch of drawings in it, so you know, that's
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: about twenty times the size of another final download for
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: a regular pros book.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: So I mean, you know, that's what a deal.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, Because when I was flipping through it, I
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: went to obviously, I went to the Shark Nado chapter
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: and greeting me is a you know, a black and
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: white hand drawn picture of of a shark Nado right,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: right right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, and the book's got recipes, you know, excerpts
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: from classic literature that I have completely trashed, such as
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Mobi Dick.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's got a lot of stuff in there.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: It's got something for everybody. So, you know, Andrew, in closing,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: you know, is there anything that we didn't talk about
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: today that you wanted to mention or any any you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: closing thoughts or final thoughts.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: No, my mind is, My mind is completely blank. I
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: do it like this meditation class right now. So I'm
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: learning to sort of wipe away all thoughts in my mind.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: You know, normally I would have one hundred things to
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: talk about right now, but right now it's just.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Like it's I'm I'm learning to zie out and go blank.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: All right, Andrew, where do you'll find you out online?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: My goodness? Anywhere?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Twitter, Facebook, Google. You know, al someone has to do
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: is Google my name Andrew Schaeffer s H A F
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: F E R. As long as they spell it right,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: they can by me, you know, which is you know,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: kind of disturbing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: But I'm all over the place, and and I'll make
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: sure to uh to link to all that in the
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: show notes too. I'll link to your website and your Twitter.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Uh, you don't. You don't have to just make them
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: work for it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Work for it, Okay. I will not link to Andrew's
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: uh info in the show notes, so you will have
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to work for it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Then.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, it will be the first time, but I will
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: not I promise you I will not link to that
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: in the show notes. Andrew Wannessy, thank you very much
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: for coming on again. Everyone. It's how to Survive a
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: shark Nado and other unnatural Disasters. That it's I will
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: link to the I will link to this and the
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: show notes, but it's right to the kindle version. And uh,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: is there a physical version of this book?
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: To Andrew, there is there is because you know, once
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: once a short nado or some other type of disaster,
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: it hits and you need the physical version, you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: and you can be able to charge your phone or whatnot.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: So you know, I always advise people to get the
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: e book and the physical version and it just to
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: be on the safe side.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: See, that's why you're the publisher, because that's that that
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: is forethought, my friend. Yes, yes, exactly, yeah, you won't
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: have that's right, so you know, the physical the ebook,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I have you know. If it does the power goes out,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I won't be able to find it, so I'll have
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: to look into the physical version now too.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Andrew, I want to say thank you so
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: much for coming on. Everyone in the book is How
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: to Survivors Shark Nato. Andrew, thanks again for coming on,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: and again feel free to you know, drop me an
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: email anytime and I love to have you back sometime.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Great chat with you.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Oh you too, my friend, take care of everyone.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I want to thank Dave so much for doing such
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: a great job on this episode. If you want to
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: get links to anything we spoke about in this episode,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: head over to the show notes at Bulletproof Screenwriting dot
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: tv for it slash for twenty one. Thank you so
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: much for listening to guys. As always, keep on writing
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: no matter what. I'll talk to you soon.
• 26:56
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• 27:00
  Speaker 1: group screenwriting dot tv.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hmm