Presenting Don't Explain

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Brian is in the booth recording Season Three of World's Greatest Con but in the meantime, Dog and Pony Show Audio has a new series for you: Don't Explain.

Every time you go to the theater, you're experience an onslaught of movie tropes. Every romantic comedy has the down-on-her-luck best friend. Every action movie has the badass one-liners. Every Oscar-bait drama has that tear-jerker ending.

But where do those tropes come from? How do audiences become so aware of Hollywood's bag of tricks, parody movies can become a massive genre on their own?

This series explores the birth, death, and rebirth of one of the most successful cinematic genres ever: the rockstar biopic. In this episode, we start from the beginning, focusing on the earliest established tropes of the genre.

Lady Sings the Blues, The Buddy Holly Story, and 8 Mile.

The first episode is available now in this feed and the reminder of the season is ready to binge on the Don't Explain feed on all podcast platforms.

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0:00.0	It's up you beautiful rogues, Brian brushwood here from inside the booth where I am about
0:07.7	to begin recording episode one of season three of world's greatest con.
0:14.3	Things are about to start moving very quickly, but first I wanted to share something very,
0:19.0	very special.
0:20.4	Last season, two of my favorite episodes, both the who wants to be a millionaire and the,
0:25.5	I don't know what do we call it, the liar man episode.
0:29.7	Both of those were written by Will Saddleberg, and he has a brand new project hot off the
0:34.7	presses that you're going to absolutely love.
0:38.8	It begins with the idea that every old, tired trope, every cheesy line you see coming from
0:45.4	a million miles away, every theatrical conceit, at some point, before it was a cliche, it
0:52.8	was brand new and an innovation.
0:56.8	You see the same thing in the world of cons.
1:00.0	Only in this case, Will breaks it down in the world of movies.
1:04.7	So this week, while I'm in the booth, I want you to listen to the first of three episodes
1:10.2	of Don't Explain.
1:12.3	After you hear this first episode, you know you're going to want the next two, so jump
1:15.8	over, subscribe right away on the podcast app of your choice.
1:20.3	Buckle up, and we'll see you sooner than you think.
1:27.6	Every cliche, every eye-rolling trope, from every story you've experienced in every format,
1:36.6	began as an innovation.
1:50.2	But like all evolution, the path to the present is uglier than we want to remember.
1:55.9	These are no different, battered egos, big swings, easy money, and glittering glamour.
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