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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Bonus! Bubble's Jordan Morris & Nick Adams

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hey all! Just popping in to give you a special treat this Thursday. You've probably heard about it already, but Maximum Fun - the company that makes Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and more - just produced its very first scripted series. It's called "Bubble," it's sort of a sci-fi sitcom and we're all *extremely* proud of it. The show follows four twenty-somethings working the same side hustle to make ends meet. They're contract workers for an app called Huntr. The app hires people to kill the monsters that occasionally slip through the town's protective barrier. On this special bonus episode of Bullseye, you'll hear Jesse talk with creator Jordan Morris and writer/producer Nick Adams. It's a discussion not just about the show but about cities, why people live in them, and the insane lengths some of us will go to just to stay. Give it a listen and, if you haven't already, subscribe to Bubble! You'll be glad you did.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. Hey, guess what, guys? Special bonus treat for all

0:21.0

of you podcast listeners. Maybe you've already heard about it. My company Maximum Fund

0:25.5

just put out our first ever scripted series. It's called Bubble. Very, very proud of it.

0:32.2

Bubble is a sci-fi comedy series set in a city called Fair Haven, which is a lot like, I

0:37.5

don't know, Portland, Pick your Portland, Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, except for

0:41.7

a few big differences. For one, Fair Haven is somewhere else, not on this earth, and

0:49.4

two, the town is literally surrounded by a bubble covered in a protective bubble. Our

0:56.0

show follows four twenty-somethings working the same side hustle to make ends meet. Their

1:01.8

contract workers using an app called Hunter. The app hires people to kill the monsters

1:09.0

that occasionally slip through the town's protective barrier. Bubbles part, ass kicking

1:14.2

comedy, part commentary on how far people will go to live in a hip expensive city. So

1:19.4

sort of like, broad city meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was an executive producer on

1:24.3

the show, probably the most ambitious thing we've ever done at Max Fun. One of my favorite

1:28.0

things about making this show was that I got to work on it with some really amazing

1:31.7

people. For one thing, there's the cast, Mike Mitchell, Alison Becker, Eliza Skinner, Keith

1:37.4

Powell, Cristella Alonso, plus like a laundry list of guest stars that you wouldn't believe.

1:43.4

Judy Greer is the least of it. And also the show's creators, two of my closest oldest friends.

1:50.0

Nick Adams, he's a writer-producer on Bojack Horseman, and he's written on many other shows.

1:55.2

And my friend and Jordan Jesse Goe co-host Jordan Morris, who created Bubble. He's also a

2:00.9

seasoned comedy writer. He's worked on it at Midnight among many other things. And that's

2:07.9

who you are about to hear from. I talked with Nick and Jordan about creating the show,

2:12.5

living in a big city and making ends meet about how living in places like L.A. or New York

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