NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING: Movie magic

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Scrub down your cauldrons and polish your wands — this week on NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING we are delving into the world of magic! Or, at least, the world of movies and TV shows about magic.

Guests: Writer Justin Halpern (“Abbott Elementary,” “$#*! My Dad Says”), actor/writer Mary Holland (“Ghosts,” “Nightbitch”), and writer Kim Rosenstock (“Dying for Sex,” “New Girl”).

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0:00.0	Support comes from Los Angeles International Airport. People Move or Trains start rolling early next year to improve your travel journey, making it simple and fast to get to your LAX destination in 10 minutes or less when they open in early 2026.
0:14.2	Learn more at LAWA.org slash LAist. Support for LAIS comes from the Venda Museum, now presenting counter-surveillance, an exhibition
0:24.1	on control and the art of resistance, free and open to the public Friday to Sunday, 10 a.m.
0:29.5	to 5 p.m. Learn more at W-E-N-D-E Museum.org.
0:36.9	Here in Hollywood, we've been known to work a little magic.
0:42.3	See a guy get thrown through a window.
0:44.3	That's sugar glass.
0:46.0	Need blood, spurting from an open wound.
0:49.0	Corn syrup and red number five.
0:51.3	Mmm, delicious.
0:52.8	Superman, spoiler alert, not really flying faster than a speeding bullet.
0:56.8	That's just Usain Bolt and a bunch of mirrors.
0:59.3	Our crews are wizards at bringing the impossible to life.
1:03.5	But have you ever seen Crafty bring someone back from the dead?
1:07.9	Or a producer sell her soul in exchange for an A-list star. Don't answer that.
1:12.1	I have. It's horrifying. Uh, you never know when a witch or a wizard is hiding in plain sight. So
1:17.0	scrub down your cauldrons and polish your wands because this week we are dipping our toes into
1:21.1	the world of magic, but just where it bumps up against ours. I've always prized myself on my
1:26.2	ability to turn a phrase.
1:28.3	Words are in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.
1:33.3	How do you get so famous then, eh?
1:36.3	Magic.
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