Adam Savage – Part 1 – “Hands-on Thinking” – TWP068

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We covered Isaac Newton's monstrous nature, the inevitability of calculus, pottery, Clive Owen's need for a foil, aesthetics as a point of view, lessons from Steven Soderbergh, following the story's lead, relinquishing control, Sir Anthony Hopkins' need for George C. Scott's tension, and how audience feedback improves creators.

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0:00.0	Oh man, is this your workshop?
0:02.0	This is, yeah, this is my workshop.
0:04.0	This is part of it.
0:06.0	First of all, thanks for joining us.
0:17.0	Anytime.
0:18.0	We just figured it has been a minute since your
0:24.4	was it 17 or 18 that I did your podcast
0:27.6	few things have happened since then
0:30.0	there's like a big blank spot in the middle
0:34.4	something happened
0:36.0	I don't remember but we saw you in the before times and...
0:40.3	You know what?
0:41.3	You will appreciate this, Anson.
0:43.3	Um, 2020 was supposed to be the year of the con for me.
0:47.3	I had logged eight cons doing photos and autographs.
0:52.3	It was like an early... I had always done the sort of other celebrity
0:57.0	row where they were free and it was a lottery and then you know christen my right hand was like look
1:02.9	the fans want something transactional they want to have access to you so i'm like great let's do a
1:06.8	whole bunch of cons we signed up to do eight I got paid in advance for all of them and then
1:10.9	COVID. So in the fall of 21, I did nine cons in 10 weeks. And didn't get COVID amazingly.
1:22.7	Yeah, it was it was a whirlwind. We went to everything. Fan and Ags, Fusion, everything. It was,
1:27.3	it was a fun, it was a fun couple of months.
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