Death by Lightning with Bradley Whitford and Mike Makowsky
How Was Your Week? with Julie Klausner
Forever Dog
4.6 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Julie talks with writer-creator Mike Makowsky about crafting the Netflix hit Death by Lightning, then gets a "surprise" drop-in from Bradley Whitford as they discuss Garfield, Guiteau, and why this story feels uncannily current.
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| 0:00.0 | Forever |
| 0:02.0 | Dog |
| 0:04.0 | Dog |
| 0:05.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | Pets are |
| 0:09.0 | To never turn |
| 0:11.0 | to |
| 0:12.0 | you can't |
| 0:13.0 | I'm going to |
| 0:14.0 | I'm going |
| 0:16.0 | I'm going |
| 0:17.0 | for me |
| 0:18.0 | and I'm going |
| 0:19.0 | to be Hello, hello. Hi, everybody. It's Julie Klausner back for another episode of How Is Your Week interview edition. This is exciting. We've got a two-for-one on the show. How do you like them, apples? We have two guests. It's just like the olden days when I was like starting this show back in 2011 and I thought, |
| 0:55.5 | how can I do everything? |
| 0:58.6 | How can I give the people a monologue and then two, do you remember back in the day when How Was Your Week had two guests? |
| 1:06.9 | There were like two interviews per show. |
| 1:09.6 | I've done too much. |
| 1:12.3 | But now, today, I've done the exact right amount |
| 1:17.5 | because I bring to you on this week's show |
| 1:21.9 | an interview with Mike Mikowski, |
| 1:25.5 | the writer, showrunner, creator of Death by Lightning, a limited |
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