"all right man we should probably jump into Rick and Morty at some point um before we do that uh how about you just like give your background of up until Rick and Morty so I didn't really know what I w..."

"which I'm going to reveal some biographical information you go that's not really an epiphany uh I decided to do standup now my dad owned a stand-up comedy club so I was going to stand-up comedy clubs ..."

"opened the door and he was just like just like sitting there like just emanating energy and he's like hey is it's your birthday I'm like yeah like cool you want to come back to my hotel room and watch..."

"really I went to Community College forers in a transfer to Michigan State where all I did is watch TV constantly and say I just want to write a TV show uh and specifically I wanted to write an animate..."

"and then just doing it with your friends yeah which you have a rapport you have an understanding it's like being in a band I hate using that metaphor that's just I actually like using that metaphor bu..."

"and so we're angry we're like people are going to people are going to respect us and validate that we know what we're doing we're funny and so yeah so I saw this guy make a comedy video in the standup..."

"then I found out about Channel 101 which is this uh should I explain what that is for your audience yeah people won't know what that is okay so it's still going after 15 years so Channel 101 was uh st..."

"have any competition but but no because anyone with a pure heart and soul which Dan and Rob do have creatively and and most of us who became their peers uh that that sort of came to Channel 101 have t..."

"was rejected and it was the most heartbreaking experience and then I submitted another one and it got in but it didn't get voted back okay and so that's what happens it just made you work harder you g..."

"you know listen it's a curse and a blessing to have your employers also be your friends let me yeah no I know the feeling um so I think that like you've done a bunch of interviews on Rick and Morty an..."

"not 50 years let's not I've never seen a Lost in Space episode but uh 25 yeah and uh on top of that one of our writers Mike McMahon seems to read every sci-fi book and graphic novel and I I mean you k..."

"element like oh they're all trapped in the house and they're all suspicious and then it was like oh what if we do the D I think Gman pitched the idea of well what if this is a way to do a clip show so..."

"or are you just like yeah that was you know that was one of those moments that you know when you're when you get to so far in a script and you're trying to figure out what that I can't remember that w..."

"of that you know um so oh well yeah go I don't want to Ramble On too much I forget that no no you're doing great what's the uh title of the episode where it's like world within world within world with..."

"recipe so I can't remember it was always the charact they go in and a character comes out I think we actually for the final version there the character never leaves but there's a version where they so..."

"it's just it's trying to figure out how to get it so we've just we're doing something that hasn't been done by either Simpsons or South Park or Futurama which is not an easy uh uh cone path you know w..."

"something by the way there's a there's a feeling that I get that's a combination of of self-loathing and self uh uh um what's the opposite of self-loathing um confidence self confidence but I'm trying..."

"well I was wondering about that with like I mean maybe maybe not South Park or Simpsons or something but like you know an older uh you know piece of fiction where it's just like let's do something alm..."

"but that's or genre or sub genre and I think that's because I didn't even think of that as being a a fugitive spoof because it wasn't it's just it's like you said it's like the Rick and Morty take on ..."

"to a pickle and then he sort of gets trapped and he ends up involved in a situation one thing one twist leads to another and he's totally screwed and he's doesn't have the he doesn't have the same res..."

"Room Escape type deal yeah yeah okay and and so then um so all the gadget you talked about the portal gun and stuff like you know the aliens have random gadgets when they go to a different world every..."

"feels and looks different and there's a flavor to it but I like the I'm I'm pretty into the alien design so I've I've gotten involved I've gotten I've I've you know talked to Art directors and you kno..."

"it'd be funny if they're like on the table like like you know three apples high like in Jerry's face with a gun and and everyone's like no no no it's like a a life with a gun like that's going to be t..."

"done like a I don't know if it's like a director's cut animation where you're like I kind of wanted them to look like this so can you you know edit that in and then throw it in as an extra like a yeah..."

"yeah yesterday yeah that's that's a a a game where you're it's a virtual reality game where you're you're you're a clone of Morty so when you appear in the game you're in the garage and Rick and Morty..."

"mean I forget that I forget what color hair Beth has like in my mind for some reason she's a brunette and I always forget that she's a blonde because most of my experience of the show is in my head I ..."

"things well that's not us is this Adult Swim yeah I think they're driving it I mean I I certainly you know I don't um I was sort of involved I consulted a little bit on the some of the web content tha..."

"what Justin and danab saying and that's true for the VR game too because I figured like you just have this room of nerds and they're like oh we should make a VR like the accounting game too that was l..."

"I think that what's fun about anytime you do content like a video game is being able to actually show other aspects that the show might not show you know the show is more we've talked about how we'd b..."

"seeing what what sticks wow that's a metaphor I have heard before what's that yeah that's metaphor throwing a lot at the wall and seeing what sticks that's spaghetti oh thanks man that's what sticks u..."

"blue dot well um this has been awesome this really great Co you got everything you needed uh yeah I think so I mean is there like are there any words of wisdom you want to share for people who aspire ..."

"now uh is it's such a weird time because Dan and Justin and I are all within the same sort of age range and and man we grew up in a world where you know all we wanted was superhero movies and sci-fi s..."

"make money but uh but but you you know like I you know and it's hard because it's like I there's there's ideas I have for shows I'm like this is the kind of show that I've never seen before which is m..."

"living off of is pretty crazy have you been able to like discern why it has such an outsized impact for like just this random show yeah I I well no I've really tried to figure it out because I I thoug..."

"family as opposed to maybe a Family Guy which you're like I don't know they're just characters bouncing off each other uh this actually plays in real family Dynamics and then it's just also pretty to ..."

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