Episode 142 - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The brain behind BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, is with us this week. He dives right in, talking about the privilege of being a white man in today's entertainment industry, his “professionally Jewish” parents, how ADHD affected him as a teenager, developing his creative voice, the loneliness of first moving to Los Angeles, the enduring impact Gary Shandling and The Larry Sanders Show has had on him, what he actually meant for BoJack Horseman to be, being a show-runner, six season into “BoJack”, the joy of writing a book, whether he's equipped to handle the responsibility of being an artist in 2019, and, finally, how meeting his wife has made him less cynical .

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Your voice is not like a gem that needs to be discovered.
0:19.6	It's like a catamari ball that you build out of like rolling around and you know reading
0:27.0	other things and seeing other things and trying on different pieces of clothing and
0:31.3	seeing how they feel on you and doing your impression of something
0:34.7	you saw once or attempting to do a thing that you like or the opposite of a thing you don't like and
0:40.8	arguing with that thing and wrestling with it and it's you you build it you don't find it.
0:46.8	That was Raphael Bob Waxburg I'm Sam Fregoso and this is talk easy.
0:53.0	Welcome to the San Francisco so and this is talk easy.
1:27.0	Welcome to the show. So, Hey everyone. For about five years now I've been watching this show called Bojack Horseman. Voiced by Will Arnett, The Titular Horseman is a washed-up sitcom star from the 90s who may be planning a comeback. Here's a bit from the
1:36.8	trailer.
1:38.8	Oh is it this guy?
1:44.0	Oh my God, he's got a gun.
1:46.0	Relax, it's a lighter.
1:48.0	How much lighter fluid can I take on the plane?
1:50.0	And before you answer, remember I'm a celebrity.
1:53.0	I'm a monkey.
1:54.0	Why don't you refill your bird feeder, huh?
2:00.0	Yeah, who's a bird got a blow to get some seed around here?
2:05.0	You'll never guess who's here.
2:07.0	Bojack Horseman, he got a little fatter, but it's definitely him.
2:11.0	Why so gloomy, Rumi?
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