The Truth.

This is The Truth. I'm Jonathan Mitchell.

And lately, we've been releasing conversations in between episodes, talking with the writers

about where these stories come from and the ideas inside them.

And today I'm talking with writer David Bluff Band, who wrote Midnight Screening.

And this will be a spoiler-filled conversation.

It's really meant to be

listened to you after you heard the story. So if you haven't, you'll want to go listen to it first.

And we'll talk with David after the break. This interview will be available on the main feed

for four weeks. And after that, it'll be exclusively available on our premium feed, which is where

we keep all of our interviews and bonus material.

And that's also where you can listen to the show, add-free. Go to the truthpodcast.

Dot supportingcast.fm. There's a link in the show notes.

I first met David Bluff Band last summer when he played the lead role in our story Operation Skill Shot,

which was written by Hunter Nelson. And one day when we were recording a scene in my living room,

David leans over to me and asks how he can write a story for the show. And that's how midnight

screening was born. He decided to base the setting of the story on a real theater in Brooklyn that offers a

weekly midnight screening. There's this theater in Brooklyn called Film Noir Cinema that has one of

those types of screenings that is like you go in, you don't know what is going to be playing,

and then the lights go down, and you're like,

oh, whoa, I guess I'm watching, like, them or anything.

Have you been to a lot of those screenings?

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