Noah Hawley

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Television and film director Noah Hawley joins Rhett from his home in Austin, TX to discuss his circuitous journey of writing three novels before his first novel sold, Kurt Vonnegut’s impactful influence on his creativity, and growing up in a household of artists. Noah and Rhett discuss the making of the final season of Fargo, and Noah walks us through a conceptual trick that he used in the first season of the show. Noah Hawley is a television director, producer, and author from New York City. He created and wrote the FX television series Fargo and Legion, and has also written five novels. Noah previously worked on the television shows Bones, The Unusuals, and My Generation. He is set to create a new television series based on the Alien film franchise, which he discusses with Rhett in this episode. Noah’s new book Anthem is out now, check it out here. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIrhus.
0:03.9	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.1	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.8	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	We started up and we ain't going to starve.
0:17.0	Oh, I like you like it a night.
0:19.5	That's when they got wheels off. No. Noah Hawley is my guest on this episode of Wheels Off.
0:29.0	Noah Hawley, you may know him from his work on the television show he created and runs Fargo.
0:37.0	You may know him from his novels, most recent of which
0:39.7	is Anthem, a novel that just came out. His one right before that was before the fall,
0:45.1	which was a giant bestseller. He's got movies, Lucy in the sky with Natalie Portman. He's got
0:52.3	other television shows. He's got everything. He does itman. He's got other television shows.
0:55.7	He's got everything.
0:57.3	He does it all.
1:02.7	He and I are both alumni of Sarah Lawrence College.
1:05.4	Although I dropped out, he graduated.
1:13.6	He went on to do so many cool things and to hear him talk about his approach to creativity and his journey through the creative life, his creative life.
1:18.5	It's pretty inspiring.
1:19.8	I'm so grateful that he agreed to let me pick his brain.
1:23.7	And what a brain it is.
1:25.5	Please welcome to this episode of Wheels Off, the great Noah Holly.
1:35.8	Welcome to Wheels Off, Noah Hawley.
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