Hey everyone, joining me today in the mansion is John Cameron Mitchell,

Obi-Wanning writer, director and star,

head-of-wing in the Angry Inch, director and writer of Shortbuss,

and creator of a new project that's not a film.

It's a podcast.

The answer is dead.

Anthem homunculus.

What is it?

It is a alternative autobiography,

meaning it's somewhat about my life,

but it's a fake version of my life.

And it's alt.

It's alt, which is now can be right winged.

Alt is used by everybody.

And it is a audio...

I think of it as like an audio cinema.

It's an audio TV show in terms of its density.

A lot of narrative podcasts tend to be two people in a room

or one person speaking like Night Vale or Homecoming or Comedy.

But we wanted to bring what we learned in film and cinema

and theater into the audio form.

Kind of in the way it happened in the 30s,

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