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Interview w/ Dan Lanigan: The King of Prop

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8573 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dan Lanigan, host of Disney+'s Prop Culture, joins Kevin to discuss the show, his love of props, and much much more.

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0:00.0

When you wish upon a lot.

0:04.9

Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.

0:09.2

Disneyland.

0:13.9

Just go to action park with no other park like it.

0:16.9

Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.

0:22.7

Paramount's Kings Island. We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.

0:26.9

Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.

0:35.5

Now, here is your host.

0:37.5

Hello, and welcome back to the defunct land podcast.

0:39.7

My name is Kevin Perger.

0:40.8

Today, I am joined by a very special guest, Dan Lanigan, the host of prop culture.

0:46.2

Dan, thank you so much for coming on.

0:48.0

Thanks for having me.

0:49.0

I'm a big fan of yours, and I love what you've been doing with your videos and your podcast. So thanks for having me on. I'm honored. Well, I'm honored to have you on. That's how this, you got to, I'm honored to have you on. That's, you can't, you can't throw it back in me. No, I'm honored to be on your show. No, I'm honored. Well, no, the, uh, you know, I, I, I said it before we started, but I turned on prop culture, you know, I'm a, I'm a, I'm on it. Well, no, the, you know, I, I said it before we started, but I, I turned on prop culture, you know, I'm a, I'm kind of an avid Disney Plus watcher. I'm just very interested in, you know, how any streaming service begins and, you know, what they decide. But I was, yeah, I, I, I saw the trailer and I was like, okay, I'll give it a shot. And I saw there was a Muppet episode. And that's where I was like, uh-oh, I got my defenses up. I was like, yeah, I know everything about the Muppet movie. And then I watched it and it was so endearing and heartfelt and authentic. And, you know, the thing that and, you know, we'll get into, you know, the work,

1:45.0

but I just wanted to compliment you out of the gate is the thing that I love about, and I don't care about props is another thing. Like, I don't not care, but it's one of those things that like, no, no, I get it. That like, I get it. Seeing someone that is so passionate about something and so authentic and so and what the

2:01.2

Muppet episode really did for me was like, okay, you're willing to to just go so deep. Like

2:07.9

when you interviewed one of the the costume people for the Muppet workshop. Yeah. Well,

2:13.7

no, I appreciate that. You know, the thing about it is, is although I come from, let's say, I come from,

2:22.2

I really don't come from the world of reality and docu-series TV, I have spent some time in the last,

2:29.0

you know, eight years working in this industry.

2:32.5

I personally wanted to come to this show, or I've always wanted to do this industry. I personally wanted to come to this show,

2:37.0

or I've always wanted to do this show,

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