What up everyone, Chris here with another kind of producer's choice bonus episode, you know,

one of the benefits of this job is using the general popularity of this show to convince

people we really admire to talk to us and these two gentlemen are no exception for me.

Doc Hammer and Jackson Public are the creators of the venture brothers, premiering as a

one-off pilot on adult swim in February 2003. Over the course of 20 years, seven seasons,

four specials and now one feature length film, the show is grown from a loving

a parody of Johnny Quests to one of the most sprawling, ambitious, hilarious, and often

touching animated programs to ever grace the small screen.

The venture brothers touches on and spooves on themes of masculinity,

arrested development, belonging, and to quote another fave of the show, how the tradition of all

dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. All of this fed through

Doc and Jackson's hyper-specific pop culture reference blender and formed into insanely tight

joke-filled and action-packed 22-minute episodes. So I love this show. I remember staying up late

sneaking adult swim in 2003 and catching the pilot as it aired and getting that feeling

like Will likes to describe like a diamond bullet of something broadcast out of the void made

directly and exclusively for me. I've grown up with the venture brothers, it's been a huge

touchstone of my sense of humor and my first solo interview podcast that I ever put together was

an interview with Doc and Jackson that I convinced slate to let me do back when I worked for them in

2013. So this one is kind of a full circle interview for me and why I'm giving you my whole

deal with the show up top. If you like the venture brothers, I hope you enjoy hearing from Doc and

Jackson and if you don't know the show, they give you a very concise pitch of how to start watching

in this very interview. Oh, and just coming over the transom last night, apparently max the place

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