Ep 261 - Casting Call with Joel Thurm

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Lipstick Nancy, Inc. & Glassbox Media

Comedy

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Legendary casting director Joel Thurm holds absolutely nothing back as he tells us tales from his days casting some of the biggest movies and TV shows of the 70s and 80s, including “Grease,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and “Taxi.” And then we do some high-level one-on-one market research for our podcast with a “lucky” listener - it’s our “Focus Group of One.” GUEST Joel Thurm Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director HOUSE BAND David Traugh SPONSORS NUTRAFOL: For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our US listeners ten dollars off your first scalp care order when you go to nutrafol.com/scalp and enter promo code PAULA. LOMI: Turn your food waste into dirt with the press of a button with Lomi. Use the code PAULA to save $50 at lomi.com/PAULA HELIX: Helix is offering 20% off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners! Go to helixsleep.com/PAULA. This is their best offer yet and it won’t last long! With Helix, better sleep starts now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.5	Let's get this party started.
0:48.2	Three, two, one.
0:51.5	All right, everybody feeling good?
0:53.6	Oh, yeah.
0:54.4	Yeah. All right, excellent, excellent? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
0:55.2	All right, excellent, excellent.
0:56.7	And I don't see any reason to delay proceedings for any reason.
0:59.8	Do you, Paula?
1:00.4	Not that I can think of.
1:01.6	Have we gone over the safety protocols?
1:05.0	Oh, we should probably do that before I do the introduction, yeah.
1:07.6	If we start to descend, a mask will drop down in front of each of you.
1:12.1	The emergency exits are located directly behind Bonnie.
1:15.8	My emergency exit is this silhouette of me in the wall, this hole, totally shaped like my body.
1:22.8	I used it last night. By the way, on the 4th of July, my dogs were not scared, but my cat and ash was.
1:30.2	And not so much by the fireworks as she's just really stressed out that our democracy is hanging
1:38.1	from a thread. A lot of animals get very sentimental at an Independence Day and fearful for our
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