Introducing: We Disrupt This Broadcast

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We Disrupt This Broadcast, a new podcast from The Peabody Awards and the Center for Media & Social Impact, features intimate interviews with award-winning television creatives shaping the future of entertainment with disruptive new narratives and fresh approaches. Join us as we explore how our favorite critically-acclaimed TV shows are re-imagining the world and tackling the big issues that move us forward. Upcoming guests include Quinta Brunson, Damon Lindelof, Ramy Youssef, Pamela Adlon, Charlie Brooker, and more. The podcast is hosted by Gabe González (comedian, writer and actor) with episodes releasing the second Thursday of every month.

For more about the show, go to peabodyawards.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:07.4	Hi, listeners.
0:08.6	If you're a fan of shows like Abbott Elementary, Watchmen, Black Mirror, and Better
0:14.2	Things, then we have the podcast for you.
0:17.2	We Disrupt This Broadcast is a podcast that boldly asks, who are the risk-takers that help reinvent and reimagine the kinds of stories we see on TV?
0:26.6	Produced by the Peabody Awards and the Center for Media and Social Impact,
0:30.6	each episode features interviews with creative visionaries such as Quinta Brunson,
0:36.6	Damon Lindelof, Pamela Adlon, and many more.
0:39.9	Join comedian and host Gabe Gonzalez to explore how the most compelling shows and the creative powers behind them are upending the status quo.
0:48.8	This podcast also features commentary from experts such as NPR TV critic Eric Deggans and Pillars Fund managing director Arij Makati to unpack the real-life impact of these stories. Listen to We Disrupt This Broadcast now, available where you get your podcasts. Here's an episode of the show. We hope you enjoy it.
1:24.0	Welcome to We Disrupt This Broadcast, the brand new and soon-to-be hit podcast from the folks at the Peabody Awards and Good Laugh, powered by the Center for Media and Social Impact.
1:29.1	I'm Gabe Gonzalez, a comedian, writer, your host, and most importantly, a product of 90 sitcoms. Before I knew about therapy, I let Clarissa explain it all. But between then and now,
1:34.8	a lot has changed in the TV landscape. We disrupt this broadcast, spotlights the entertainment
1:39.7	that drives those changes, stories that break the mold, disrupt stereotypes, and shake up tired industry
1:47.0	trends. Stories that challenge our culture and reflect our actual lived experiences. And we'll do all of that by diving in deep with the people at the very center of it all, the disruptive visionaries behind the TV you and I love, television creatives, and showrunners,
2:05.4	and occasionally chatting with experts about how these shows are actually impacting the real world.
2:10.4	Today's Disruptor is the creator and star of Abbott Elementary, Quinta Brunson.
2:14.1	Revolutionaries are actually huge optimist.
2:18.5	They believe that the world can be a better place, and they're radical about that belief. They believe it's so hard that they make change happen. You need those kinds of people,
2:23.6	or else our world would just fall apart. Let's be real for a second. Abbott Elementary's
2:30.9	cast and writers have breathed new life into the mockumentary format.
2:35.0	They've created moving storylines, characters that we've fallen in love with, and comedy that
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