NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING: Beginner's Luck

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This episode of NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING is all about breakthrough stars. We'll focus on film and television debuts and first-timers who struck gold, because if there's anything we’re certain that Hollywood loves, it's someone who's younger and more talented than the last young and talented person.

Guests: Actress and singer Jasmine Cephas Jones (“Hamilton,” “Blindspotting”); writer and actor Tommy Dewey (“Casual,” “Saturday Night”); and writer Liz Hannah (“The Post,” “The Girl from Plainville”)

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING is a production of The Black List and LAist Studios, in partnership with The Ankler. This episode is presented by FX.

Support for this podcast is also brought to you by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes L.A. a better place to live.

New episodes premiere Tuesdays and you can listen to the show on the radio at LAist 89.3 on weekends.

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0:00.0	Our event series with Get Lit continues in the new year at the Crawford in Pasadena.
0:05.0	Join us for an evening of spoken word performance featuring some of LA's best young poets.
0:09.9	It's the Proz Bowl, March 21st. Tickets at LAS.com slash events.
0:15.6	This is Larry Mantle.
0:16.7	2025 marks the 40th anniversary of air talk on LAist 89.3. We've discussed the biggest
0:23.3	topics of the day for decades. Thank you for joining me for the biggest conversation
0:27.9	in Southern California for 40 years. I'm Franklin Linder, the host of Nobody Knows Anything.
0:33.5	This episode is presented by FX.
0:38.8	There are a million ways to feel bad about yourself in Hollywood.
0:42.3	You will stay up all night wondering why you can't be as talented as Mahershla Ali as handsome as Glenn Powell or as prodigious as Aaron Sorkin.
0:50.0	The next day, though, you can...
0:50.8	That was targeted, but it's fine.
0:53.2	Oh, boy.
0:54.1	The next day, though, at least you can sign up for acting classes.
0:57.1	Get a jaw implant or down six red bulls and start reading the Wikipedia page for neoliberalism.
1:02.2	But no matter how much cow blood that one tech guy ingests, you can't actually change your age.
1:07.7	And if there's anything Hollywood loves, it's someone who's younger and more talented
1:10.9	than the last young and talented guy.
1:13.7	I envy you.
1:14.9	You have an astonishing purity, Miss Thanatogynus.
1:18.8	It's a quality I've always found exceedingly attractive in the young.
1:24.2	Being a boss is a young man's game.
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