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The Red Weather Podcast From Actor Rider Strong Murder Mystery Love Affairs And More · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: good morning party people. Hey, how's it going, man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing fantastic. How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh good, it's early, but I'm waking up. Man. I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting through my pot of tea, so the caffeine's kicking in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. When you're doing the tea, that means
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  Speaker 1: you're reaching for that that little element of hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go here, because creativity is on the opposite
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  Speaker 1: side of this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love the way that you're working your words with
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  Speaker 1: the red weather, in the way that you're part of
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  Speaker 1: the story. I love that because that's the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that I'm learning and doing all my research about podcasting
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  Speaker 1: is that listeners want to feel like they're part of
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  Speaker 1: your life, not not a third party or even a
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  Speaker 1: fourth party storyline that's made out of journalism.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this is something that I learned the hard way
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  Speaker 3: by starting.
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  Speaker 2: The first podcast I did.
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  Speaker 3: I started in twenty and twelve, I want to say,
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  Speaker 3: doing back in the infancy, okay, And my idea was
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  Speaker 3: to do a book podcast is called Literary Disco, and
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  Speaker 3: it was my friends and I and what we thought
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  Speaker 3: at the time was, well, if we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: talking about books, we should present ourselves as book experts.
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  Speaker 3: We need to show off how smart we are and
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  Speaker 3: how much research we've done.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is that's.
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  Speaker 3: The worst approach people really want is they want you
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  Speaker 3: to get up there like Joe Rogan or you know,
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  Speaker 3: name your podcaster and say I don't know anything, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious about it and I want to look into it,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what people respond to. And it was a
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  Speaker 3: real lesson for me that you took me ten years
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  Speaker 3: to learn that the more you're honest about, like what
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  Speaker 3: you don't know, that's what that's what draws people in.
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  Speaker 1: So then would you say that's part of a glue
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to telling the story of and a Trainer,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, you had me when it's like seventeen
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  Speaker 1: year old nobody found right away. I'm taking back to
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  Speaker 1: my own personal life in Billings, Montana, when there was
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  Speaker 1: a missing thirteen or fourteen year old girl and they
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  Speaker 1: found her at the lake all of a sudden, I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, writer, you're onto something here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, no, that's horrible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I you know, I just wanted to I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to get back to well first, Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 3: taking the audience back to my own adolescents and my
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  Speaker 3: own stupidity as an adolescent was always the point.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think that works. That works for
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  Speaker 2: me doubly.
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  Speaker 3: Because like, on one hand, it's just like a good
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  Speaker 3: narrative position to take as it draws people in. Also
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  Speaker 3: because people think of me still as a teenager because
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  Speaker 3: they grew up with Boyman's world and so like I
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  Speaker 3: have this sort of like you know, cheat code that
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  Speaker 3: when I say, you know, do you remember when I
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  Speaker 3: was fifteen, everyone kind of does, so, so it was
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  Speaker 3: an easy thing for me to do particularly, But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I do think that, like, you know, hopefully, I've had
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  Speaker 3: a couple of people say to me like you know,
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  Speaker 3: friends who have listened, or you know, acquaintances who have said, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, listening to the Red Weather made me go
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  Speaker 3: back and like pull out some of my old diaries
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  Speaker 3: and like my old journals and poems I used to write.
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  Speaker 2: And I love that and I hope that that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the more you know the old writing lesson
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  Speaker 3: is like the more specific you are, the more universal
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  Speaker 3: it becomes in a weird way. And so I knew that,
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  Speaker 3: like if I went back into my life as specifically
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  Speaker 3: as possible, even with a fake crime, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: actual missing girl is made up, but the rest of
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  Speaker 3: it is very specific to my childhood and real memories
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  Speaker 3: and real friends. And the more I could lean into that,
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  Speaker 3: in a weird way, even though I grew up in
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  Speaker 3: this kind of you know, unique situation of being a
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  Speaker 3: child actor of being in the Redwoods, being surrounded by
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  Speaker 3: sort of communes and this kind of weird scene, it
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  Speaker 3: would actually make it more universal the more I leaned
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  Speaker 3: into the specificity.
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  Speaker 1: But this Isn't it felt all normal? Did it not?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's the one thing that I'm learning about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we can all stand on the outside and oh, point
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  Speaker 1: our fingers oh oh oh. But then when you're living
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  Speaker 1: in it, it's like, why are you oweing me?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is how we.
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  Speaker 3: Live exactly, and I think that that, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: initial impetus for the red Weather was me.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly at forty six or forty five.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever I first started doing this, realizing like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: what was going on with like my like my one
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  Speaker 3: buddy who lived I knew his parents had started a
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  Speaker 3: commune and then it had fallen apart, but like I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know the details. We never talked about and we're
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  Speaker 3: still friends, but we never talk about it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm just going to sit down
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  Speaker 3: with him for a couple hours and interview him because
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, like what was his parents doing, Like
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  Speaker 3: why why were all these parties there?
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  Speaker 2: And like I knew drugs were in, but like I
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  Speaker 2: just didn't ask. It was just normal, so he didn't didn't.
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  Speaker 3: And then there were kids that I went to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I went to this really small hippie school out in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the woods, you know, in part because
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  Speaker 3: I was acting at the time, but a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the kids who were going there were going there because
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  Speaker 3: they were being kept out of public school because they
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  Speaker 3: were in some sort of religious commune situation, and like
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  Speaker 3: I never asked them about that. I just knew that,
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  Speaker 3: Like there were multiple kids who were related in some way,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, in retrospect, it turns out because they
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  Speaker 3: were all fathered by the same guru who was leading
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  Speaker 3: their their family, you know, their their families. They had
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  Speaker 3: different moms, but they all the same dad, and that's
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  Speaker 3: why they were all half Indian. And I was just
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure this out, like why were they related?
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes they referred to each other as cousins and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes as brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Your sisters, and I just didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of the red weather was me like
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  Speaker 3: just being like, wait, is that normal?
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  Speaker 2: I need to go back and like ask some people about.
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  Speaker 3: This, and that's you know, yeah. But I agree, man,
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  Speaker 3: like when you're a kid, you're just in it. You
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  Speaker 3: never question it.
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  Speaker 1: I love the idea that that you put in diaries
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  Speaker 1: and journals because to go back there. But my question
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  Speaker 1: is when you went back in there to do the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: to read what you put on the paper, did you
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  Speaker 1: go in there as the actor or as the person
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  Speaker 1: who laid the ink into those veins? Of that tree.
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  Speaker 2: God, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: As mostly I would say, mostly as an actor, I
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  Speaker 3: think I was. Yeah, I think I was mostly like,
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  Speaker 3: what's going to be the most effective.
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  Speaker 2: Way to.
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  Speaker 3: Convey this and to make Yeah? Yeah, So I would
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  Speaker 3: say it was more of an acting exercise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But when you're digging up the pass, though, aren't
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  Speaker 1: you in essence saying, Oh, I've got to live this now,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, I've got thirty two years of daily
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  Speaker 1: writing inside this room, and it's like, if I step
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  Speaker 1: back to nineteen ninety eight right now, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: carry it with me for the rest of the day.
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  Speaker 1: How the hell did you survive this?
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  Speaker 2: No, man, it was it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was very I would say like once I came up,
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  Speaker 3: I came up with the idea of making it like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a fictional true crime thing, where I was
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  Speaker 3: I needed to deliver the most exciting story I could.
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  Speaker 2: The material the like the real material then.
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  Speaker 3: Took second place. It was like, Okay, I need I
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  Speaker 3: need to first and foremost. I needed to just make
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  Speaker 3: this an exciting mystery. I need this to have like
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  Speaker 3: a roller coaster ride of like ups and downs, and
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  Speaker 3: so a lot of that was just super fake, super fictional,
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  Speaker 3: and and so it was more about structuring the story
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  Speaker 3: and taking that raw material and finding a way to
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  Speaker 3: contextualize it. So when I would interview people, like talking
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  Speaker 3: to my dad about.
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  Speaker 2: A story, he used to always tell, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I'm asking him questions about this story, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to apply it to a completely fake situation. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, there was a level of remove there that
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  Speaker 3: was that made it easy. I was more concerned about
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  Speaker 3: how people would feel about once it was all put together.
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  Speaker 2: Like the people that I interviewed, a lot of their
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  Speaker 2: words are taken out of context. You know. I asked my.
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  Speaker 3: Brother about a girl we grew up with, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a real person that I'm asking him about, and he
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  Speaker 3: has a real answer, But then I apply that to
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  Speaker 3: a fictional character, and and so that's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a real it's a real trip.
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  Speaker 3: For even my friends and family to listen to who
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  Speaker 3: are in it. They've like been calling me being like,
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  Speaker 3: but hold on, but this part was real. And I
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  Speaker 3: love that. I love that even they can't quite parse
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  Speaker 3: it all together, you know, what's what?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Tony Bean, one of my the guitarist
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  Speaker 1: that was in our in our garage band still hates
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  Speaker 1: me to this day because he said that I got
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  Speaker 1: him wrong in my book Halloween seventy eight. I said
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  Speaker 1: it was based on a true story. Tony, It's not
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  Speaker 1: really you. I can't believe you would do this to me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, did you go.
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  Speaker 2: Through that too? No?
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  Speaker 3: No, most, for the most part of my friends are
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  Speaker 3: like super supportive, and I haven't so far, I haven't heard.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I've heard some grumblings from my town in general,
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  Speaker 3: like people sort of like, what does this say about
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  Speaker 3: our counter? Is this a reflection of you know? But no,
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, like all the people that I
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  Speaker 3: interviewed that I work with to make this are preally
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  Speaker 3: happy with it and and and get it and enjoy
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  Speaker 3: the ride.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with writer Strong coming
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  Speaker 1: up next the name of his podcast, The Red Weather.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with actor writer or Strong. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that you do quite well with The Red
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  Speaker 1: Weather is the fact that you do what what We've
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  Speaker 1: always been trained in broadcasting and they might do it
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  Speaker 1: in acting to who, what, where, why, when and how.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't focus on that, you have no story.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got a story here, man, because you're you're
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  Speaker 1: answering every one of those questions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot like I don't think I realized
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  Speaker 3: when I first had the idea and knew, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously I had a lot of material because it was
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  Speaker 3: based on my own life and my own friends and
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  Speaker 3: all that. But when I started organizing it, I realized
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  Speaker 3: how hard crime writing it is like mystery writing, because
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you're going to point fingers at somebody
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  Speaker 3: and say like, oh, maybe, you know, maybe this person
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  Speaker 3: had something to do with her disappearance, that better be
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  Speaker 3: a fully realized story because if you can't just point fingers,
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  Speaker 3: you have to like make it really plausible. Otherwise the
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  Speaker 3: audience is going to know it's a red hairring, it's fake,
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  Speaker 3: it's not, you know. And so I had to get
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  Speaker 3: my facts very my My fake facts had to be
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  Speaker 3: very good, and they had to line up with my
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  Speaker 3: fact facts very well, like my memories and the actual
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  Speaker 3: things about my town or my life.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a lot of work.
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  Speaker 3: I would say this was This was probably six months
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  Speaker 3: of outlining and eight months of writing, and then only
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  Speaker 3: after that only about a month of recording and then
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time editing, you know, I would say
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  Speaker 3: another three months editing.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a big, you know, a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: But the outlining and the writing was the most complicated
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  Speaker 3: because it is ultimately a mystery. It's ultimately a you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of like a a crime novel more than even
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  Speaker 3: a true crime podcast. So I had to structure it.
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  Speaker 1: A you know what's going to happen writer. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to be walking along in an everyday world and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, your I because you've done the homework
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  Speaker 1: and you've now lived what it's like to investigate things.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to spot something that a police department didn't,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to start coming to you because you've
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  Speaker 1: got that keen sense of investigation inside of you. Do
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  Speaker 1: you not feel that when you listen.
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  Speaker 3: To this, No, I'm a horrible detective for Red Weather.
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  Speaker 3: Which is part of the fun, is that like this, Yes, No,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to. I wanted to, like basically, through the
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  Speaker 3: course of this season, you know, learn how to be
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  Speaker 3: you know, I wanted I definitely wanted to writer the
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  Speaker 3: narrator of this podcast, to be a horrible journalist and
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  Speaker 3: a horrible detective at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: I think that, you know, because that is the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Like when I was thinking, like what would I do
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  Speaker 3: if I was going to investigate a crime, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I would want it to be live and I just
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  Speaker 3: walk right into the police station. Well, it turns up
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  Speaker 3: that's the wrong jurisdiction because where my proper it is
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  Speaker 3: this not even in this proper town of Sebastapull, California.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the shape, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, well, that's great, that's going in
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  Speaker 3: the podcast, like that's going to be seene one. So
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  Speaker 3: like I completely flail, and I think that that's endearing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean to the point we were saying earlier about
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  Speaker 3: like when you admit that you don't know anything, it
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  Speaker 3: actually draws people in. That's that was kind of the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. It was like, I need to be a
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  Speaker 3: bad detective and then you know, hopefully by the end
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  Speaker 3: of the season, I've learned a few things and I've grown.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, if there's a season two, I'll probably be
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  Speaker 3: a better detective.
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  Speaker 1: Wells as an investigator, that writer and that producer, you
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  Speaker 1: scare the living Bajiebis out of me when Anna is
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  Speaker 1: walking alone, because in my heart, as a father and grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going what the hell's going on in this story
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  Speaker 1: because I can't stop buying pick a rup. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we did in the seventies. If you saw somebody walking along,
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  Speaker 1: you picked him up and you took them home. You
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  Speaker 1: aren't doing that today, which then causes that shiver while
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening to the red weather.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's a it's a spooky vibe and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean now, I mean the other thing is like
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  Speaker 3: a story like this can only take place pre cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't, you can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't tell stories like this anymore because everyone's pretty
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  Speaker 3: safe these days, and kids have a way to contact
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  Speaker 3: their parents, even in you know, the most isolated situation.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that, like I'll you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of intentional that I go back to the nineties, because
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  Speaker 3: you can't have a mystery like this without If it
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  Speaker 3: was taking place in the twenty teens, for instance, it
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  Speaker 3: just wouldn't exist. So good for good for today's teenagers
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  Speaker 3: that they're safer and less likely to be murdered or kidnapped,
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  Speaker 3: but way less interesting storytelling wise.
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  Speaker 1: So was l Rick Light a real person, mister Eric Lipsky, No, No,
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  Speaker 1: completely made it really, Oh my god, what a believable
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  Speaker 1: See that just shows your writing skills right there, because
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  Speaker 1: I totally believed in mister Eric Lidsky.
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  Speaker 3: You know, here's the real story is, I wrote, I
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  Speaker 3: wrote about this character.
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  Speaker 2: I created this character.
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  Speaker 3: I wrote several pages of dialogue that was just lectures,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because at one point I find his like
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  Speaker 3: a ten tape lecture series, and so I just wrote
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  Speaker 3: a brief, like, you know, a series of like little
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  Speaker 3: lectures about how his philosophy on trees and psychedelic drugs
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  Speaker 3: and and I. But the whole time I was writing it,
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  Speaker 3: I knew that in I had this actor named Chris Lemke,
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  Speaker 3: who's an amazing actor.
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  Speaker 2: He was he was a child actor in Canada.
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  Speaker 3: Same era as me, and he's never quite made it
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  Speaker 3: as like a huge television star or movie star, but
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  Speaker 3: he is a he is a known actor, and I
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  Speaker 3: just think he's brilliant and he's a very committed I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't say full method, but he's a very committed actor.
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  Speaker 3: And so I presented him with these pages and this situation,
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  Speaker 3: and I gave him a radio shack microphone from the
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  Speaker 3: nineteen nineties and a tape recorder, and I said, what
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  Speaker 3: do you think about being el Rick. Could you just
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  Speaker 3: take these these and go do some lectures for me
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  Speaker 3: based on these three pages that I wrote, And six
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  Speaker 3: weeks later he turned in four full tapes full of
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  Speaker 3: lectures of him in character. Oh my and yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: so what you actually get in the Red Weather and
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  Speaker 3: the third episode of Red Weather is not anything that
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  Speaker 3: I wrote. It's actually stuff that he improvised that I
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: then had to listen to and I pulled from to
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: create the episode. He's a genius and it's just made
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: it made it made it so much more real. Exactly,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: it made it because I am genuinely listening to it
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: trying to piece together what this guy was all about,
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: because I didn't know he as an actor, had gone
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: off and just recorded himself in the desert. He recorded
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: himself in the woods, and he really did just talk
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: into the mic, and so it was beautiful as it
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: was a beautiful like full circle moment.
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  Speaker 2: As a creator, writer, actor like it just made it
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  Speaker 2: so real.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of different actors who came to
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  Speaker 3: me with that kind of approach and made this thing
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  Speaker 3: really elevated in.
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  Speaker 1: You share a quote that really touches me, You being
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  Speaker 1: up there in the in the red forest, and I'm
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: hearing the Carolinas in a forest that has white pines
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  Speaker 1: and elms and beautiful things that care lot of brings,
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  Speaker 1: and you say something here, then I think is going
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  Speaker 1: to really change me. One human hour is thirty tree hours.
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  Speaker 1: We planted seventeen hundred trees. I'm going to be out
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  Speaker 1: there with seventeen hundred trees talking to them about you
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  Speaker 1: got thirty hours ahead of me, mister tree? What do
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  Speaker 1: I need to learn?
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  Speaker 2: That's so funny that it was weird. I did come up.
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  Speaker 3: I had written when I was writing this philosophy for
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: l Reck, and I came up with this idea.
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  Speaker 2: Of tree time.
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  Speaker 3: It turns out it is an established thing that people
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  Speaker 3: have written about, have talked about, I know, and I
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: always just thought about it because, you know, growing up
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  Speaker 3: in the Redwoods, there would be two thousand year old trees,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: three thousand year old trees around us, and I remember
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: at one point thinking, you know, if the oldest species
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  Speaker 3: on Earth has chosen this part of the world to
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  Speaker 3: live in and survive for this long and basically the
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: greatest threat that redwood trees ever faced were humans, right,
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  Speaker 3: like we're the ones that destroyed what otherwise would have
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  Speaker 3: still be a pristine old growth redwood forest.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that means that's a pretty good place
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  Speaker 2: to live.
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  Speaker 3: That means like that's a pretty stable in ecologically speaking,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: that's probably a pretty good spot to live in the
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: good soil, good weather.
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  Speaker 2: So that was always my thought.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, the trees kind of have a better idea
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  Speaker 3: of what you know, a longer term sense of reality
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  Speaker 3: and the earth cycles than we humans do. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I wrote that into the thing. And then it turns
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: out that there have been a lot of philosophy like
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: philosophical discussions about tree time. Like literally, that phrase is
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: an existing thing. I didn't even realize.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, trees are my life. Trees and rocks, man,
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  Speaker 1: Native Americans will teach you those are the storytellers. Go
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: sit by a rock and tell me what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, man, I couldn't agree more.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: everything that you're doing?
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: First of all, they got to stop by the red
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: weather because it is quite the experience for the driving
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: or if they're listening at work or even at home,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: because it really pulls this in and as your grandmother
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: would say it acted ate your imagination.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah no, thank you, man.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I really hope that it like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's like.
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  Speaker 2: A movie in your mind. That's what i'manking for. Yeah,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: thanks man. I yeah, no, I you know, I did
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  Speaker 2: everything on location.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: There's no studio work. It was all you know, just
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: running around and really do living it. So I'm glad
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: that that translates. No.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, I'm on Instagram.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: That's kind of my big social only social media, forward
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: front facing version of myself.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I still I'm still doing Podmeats World.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: We're watching Bloying the World, so that podcast is ongoing
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and we have episodes coming out every week.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: But yeah, no, Otherwise, if if.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Anybody listens to Red Weather and wants to hit me
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: up on Instagram, I'm I really appreciating the feedback right now.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: It's a very very personal, very weird story, so.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Getting getting feedback is just it's super heartening.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you got to come back to this show anytime
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in the future. The door is always going to be
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: open for you.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Writer.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Row, you'd be brilliant today. Okay,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: yeah you too, thank.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: You, thank you, Yes, sir, just wants to let you
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: know I always sit by the Lenape rock here in
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  Speaker 4: Manhattan whenever I do their trails, and I sit and
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  Speaker 4: I listen to whatever they have to say, because we
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  Speaker 4: still have some of the leftover caverns of where the
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Lennape tribe was when they were here in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Oh see, now you've got my attention. Okay, So Righter
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and I are coming up there to do a podcast
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: about those rocks.
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  Speaker 4: Literally in the middle of the Inwood Park, and it
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: literally says this is here's a landmark of where the
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Lenape tribe was. And then if you continue to walk
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: just a little further in, it'll take you to where
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: the caves were. But the city Parks Department put rocks
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: in there, but they it's there and even see still
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: see the trail of how they went down alongside the formations.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I love that stuff. Right, I love that stuff too.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Sad at this past Saturday. I'll probably do it again
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: this Saturday. That's amazing, dude.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have fun today. Okay,