NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING: And the band played on
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
From “The Graduate” to “Clueless,” this LIVE episode is all about movies with iconic soundtracks.
Guests: Writer/director Paul Feig (“Another Simple Favor,” “Bridesmaids”), actor/writer Edi Patterson (“The Righteous Gemstones,” “Knives Out”), writer/producer Lauren LeFranc (“The Penguin,” “Impulse”).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Knows Anything from The Blacklist, L.A. Studios and The Anchler. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host, Franklin Leonard. |
| 0:06.9 | This week's show was recorded before a live audience. |
| 0:11.9 | To begin, I'd like to take you back to a time when music was precious. |
| 0:17.2 | Sure, you had the radio. |
| 0:19.6 | You could rage your parents' vinyl. but when it came to true discovery, |
| 0:23.2 | you really were limited to spending hours in your understocked local record shop. |
| 0:28.4 | There was no Google, no Spotify, there was no immediate gratification. |
| 0:33.1 | When you sat down in the dark in the opening notes of the psychedelic furs, pretty in pink, filled |
| 0:36.7 | the theater, you just knew that you would spend the next few months trying to get your hands |
| 0:40.7 | on every post-punk British bootleg album you could. And of course now we live in the insufferable |
| 0:45.9 | hell of your 13-year-old niece, you spleen named Kate Bush to you after a... |
| 0:51.3 | Happened to me. Uh, a weekend, Stranger Things binge binge and learning the choreography to a girlfriend in a coma |
| 0:58.0 | TikTok dance, it's all at their fingertips. |
| 1:01.0 | But here at nobody knows anything from LA Studios, the Blacklist, and the Angler, we are nothing, if not nostalgia. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm your host, Franklin Leonard, and tonight we are listening to the good stuff. |
| 1:11.9 | Before I bring out our guest, I should note that we are keeping score here tonight, but |
| 1:15.1 | not that kind of score. |
| 1:17.5 | We're saving that for our John Williams' Ennio Morricone face-off episode. |
| 1:21.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:22.8 | Tonight we are talking about iconic movie soundtracks, that perfect mix of songs that you played at full |
| 1:28.3 | volume on repeat until your parents cracked the CD in half. That also happened to me. |
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