Giving Imaginary Advice

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever searched for my podcast, you probably came across a show with a similar title: Imaginary Advice. I quickly became a fan of Imaginary Advice because the host Ross Sutherland walks the line between fiction and reality, often playing a fictional version of himself doing slightly fantastical things. I talked with Ross about his creative process, and we hear an edited selection of his mini-series Ten Thousand Years, where he and writer Lenni Sanders imagine what if the happy ending from Groundhog Day had not been a game changer for Billy Murray’s character Phil Connors. What if it was just another day, and the days piled up for thousands of years? The episodes of Imaginary Advice we discussed are: https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/45-seinfeld https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/63-tony-gang-flame-war-5th-birthday-episode https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/52-the-man-who-saw-tomorrow-4th-birthday-episode https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/70-sex-and-the-city-the-return-part-1 https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/71-sex-and-the-city-the-return-part-2 https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/73-ten-thousand-years-part-2 This episode is sponsored by Skillshare and BetterHelp. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you’re interested in advertising on Imaginary Worlds, you can contact them here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tab for a cause is a browser extension that lets you raise money for charity while doing
0:04.9	your thing online.
0:06.6	Whenever you open a new tab, you'll see a beautiful background photo and a small ad.
0:11.6	And part of that ad money goes towards a charity of your choice.
0:15.6	It's free and incredibly easy.
0:18.1	Transform your tabs into a force for good in just 30 seconds.
0:22.4	Sign up at tabforacaws.org slash Imaginary Worlds.
0:30.4	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:34.2	our disbelief, American Malinsky.
0:37.9	If you've ever searched for my podcast, you probably came across another show with a
0:42.3	similar name, Imaginary Advice.
0:46.0	Imaginary Advice was created by Ross Sutherland.
0:48.9	He is a fiction writer and a playwright in the UK.
0:52.2	And our shows aren't that far apart in content.
0:55.6	We both explore our relationship to stories and how it's sometimes hard to tell the difference
1:00.1	between the real world and the world that we imagine it to be.
1:04.2	But Ross's podcast is mostly fiction.
1:07.1	And he often plays a version of himself doing slightly fantastical things.
1:12.4	And I am constantly amazed by his creativity and how he keeps reinventing his show
1:18.7	with every episode.
1:20.9	Like in one episode, his character trains an artificial intelligence bot to do stand-up
1:26.8	comedy.
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