107: This Is Us & Interview w/ Executive Producer/Director Ken Olin
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about the hit show of the year, This is Us, and interview the show's executive producer and director, Ken Olin. In addition to the This is Us bonanza, we have a very special co-host! Susie's sister, Gretchen joins the show to take Sarah's place while Sarah is on vacation. We talk about our obsession with This Is Us, and Ken Olin. We go over the show's first season (spoiler alert!), what we think will happen, and which characters we would be if we were on the show. Finally, Susie interviews Ken and asks what it's been like to be a part of not one, but two cultural phenomena. He was a star of 80s cult hit, thirtysomething and now works behind the camera on This Is Us.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:13.9 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Brain Candy Podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Suzy Meister and you're not going to believe this. |
| 0:21.1 | You really won't. |
| 0:22.8 | We have a guest co-host today. |
| 0:26.9 | It's Johnny Beniannis. |
| 0:28.5 | No. |
| 0:29.5 | It is my dear, dearest sister and friend, Gretchen Meister. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:41.1 | Wow. |
| 0:42.1 | Can you believe there's more or where Suzy can't go? |
| 0:45.6 | I really think that this might be too much for everyone to handle. |
| 0:48.8 | I don't want to overwhelm everyone. |
| 0:52.1 | What do you really? |
| 0:53.7 | It's really hard to pencil you in. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, so yesterday it occurred to me that we sort of have to do an episode and Sarah |
| 1:05.7 | is in Puerto Riki. |
| 1:07.9 | Wow. |
| 1:08.9 | And I was like, crap, I don't know what I'm going to do. |
| 1:12.3 | I don't know how I don't have anybody that is as hilarious and adorable as I am. |
| 1:18.0 | And then I said, oh, but wait. |
| 1:20.2 | Yes, I do. |
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