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The Treatment

Frank Spotnitz: Amazon's 'The Man in the High Castle'

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Frank Spotnitz joins Elvis Mitchell to discuss his Amazon Original Series The Man in the High Castle, a visual adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political side shows on the campaign trail.

0:05.6

Ted Cruz wrapping the bacon around the semi-automatic weapon to cook it.

0:10.6

I understand that trade is not a sexy issue.

0:13.1

Nobody knows where the Republican Party is going to land.

0:15.5

I mean, it's kind of like a country road.

0:16.8

No one knows where it will end.

0:18.0

In many ways, Marco Rubio is the Michael Jordan of American politics.

0:22.8

I'm Warren Alney.

0:23.6

To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.

0:26.7

Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:31.5

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.

0:46.0

Music and KCRW.com. It's The Treatment. Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:48.5

As somebody who's read a book on occasion, and I know that's hard to believe for those of you who are longtime listeners.

0:53.3

One of the first books that ever kept me awake all night long was Man in the High Castle,

0:58.9

and the incredible, and actually frankly quite terse Philip K. Dick book is being adapted into a series.

1:06.6

The man responsible for sitting across me, Frank Spottnett, you know from his work on The X-Files,

1:10.5

some of the greatest parts of the mythology ever, including my mentor, first of all, Frank, thanks so much for being here.

1:14.9

Thank you very much for having me.

1:15.9

And did you have a similar experience? Because finally, I'm sure you were. And I was so used to

1:29.0

the good guys winning. And here's a book where not only did the good guys lose, they lost a long

1:33.9

time ago, and it's about living in defeat. And it just, it really stuck with me that there's no

1:40.6

inevitability to the good side winning. You can't count on the right thing happening.

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