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It's “That Guy… Who Was in That Thing” meets "WTF" but with people even less well known! Sure it's fun to interview the crazy famous and ask them about the difficult years, but that's been done. Memories are plastic - we're getting the real dirt from people still crawling through it. Laura Scruggs is the playwright and Jake Scruggs is the technical guy who listens to a lot of “This American Life” and thinks that qualifies him to interview people.

May 25, 2015

1:00 - Tricky for Nilsa to do two jobs at once!

4:13 - Voice-over gig Bryn did out of his place

5:34 - Bryn's fun national commercial audition with new agency

6:36 - Bryn is working on the second episode of CJ3 Likes a Nice Catsy

7:36 - Bryn has already interviewed a cat for the third episode at former podcast guest's Christine Lin's place

8:40 - Pitch meeting with Jerrod Bogard, called "The Good News"

14:18 - Laura asks Bryn about what goes into making a pitch

17:17 - Jake asks how they even got the pitch meeting in the first place

19:33 - There is a 10 to 1 ratio of rejection to success at each step of getting a movie script made

23:57 - "Mr. Show" didn't make just one pilot episode, because people wouldn't get what they were doing from one.  So they made four eps as a “pilot.”

32:29 - The name of the movie is “This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

41:40 - Bryn got to do additional shooting on sequences for a new series for a show that will be on Morgan Spurlock's network!

51:23 - Jake brings up Dan Harmon's Story Circle (again) as advice to Bryn on how to structure a story.

58:00 - "Punk Grandpa" at Planet Connections in New York

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Edited/Notes by Laura and Jake Scruggs. Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?” - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "The Devil Is In The Beats” - The Chemical Brothers