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Today on Happy Second Fused, David Chase takes the sopranos to the big screen with

the many saints of Newark. Hey guys, Josh Horowitz here with another edition of Happy Second Fused

and a new guest to Happy Second Fused, someone I'm not sure I ever thought would be on the podcast,

to be honest. Primarily because he's known most for his television work that has come in the past,

he hasn't been doing, he hasn't had a lot of like produced work in recent years, and he also

just generally doesn't do a lot of interviews, but happy to say the great David Chase is the guest

on Happy Second Fused this week. If you listened to last week's show, you know I'm a fan of this new

work, the many saints of Newark. This is the sopranos prequel of sorts, it tells the story

of young Tony soprano played by Michael Gandalfini, yes the son of James Gandalfini,

but also of Dickey Maltesante, played by Alessandra Nevoa, last week's guest, and features of

fantastic ensemble, including Raleota, fantastic. I'm curious to see if he gets some awards

love for this because he's really good in it. Vera Farmiga, Corey Stoll, the list goes on and on.

Anyway, the guest though this week is David Chase, who's somebody that fiercely intelligent,

I mean it doesn't, I'm not using hyperbole to say this guy is really responsible for

changing the face of television. The sopranos just changed the paradigm of what you could do

on TV and the ambition and the kinds of heroes you could depict and the complexities,

the violence, the profanity, all of it. I mean it was all like wrapped up in this kind of perfect

show on HBO back in the day and I would say you do not get the likes of, you know,

breaking bad and mad men and I could list off dozens of others without what was created by David

Chase and the company that made the sopranos. So this was thrilling to have him on. He is,

he's kind of a tough interview in some ways and I knew this going in. He's, you know,

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