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Today in the Red Chair is John Favreau, a filmmaker who has directed films ranging from

Elf to Iron Man to the Jungle Book.

You may also know him as an actor who starred in the hit comedy Swingers and had a recurring

role as one of Monica Gellers' boyfriends in Friends.

Now he's getting into virtual reality, directing a VR film called Nomes and Goblins that

debuted earlier this year.

John, welcome to Recode Decode.

Thank you.

So I just was at your office trying out Nomes and Goblins, which I thought was fantastic.

Thank you.

And we're going to get into that in a minute because I thought it was one of the more

successful VR efforts and much more imaginative than a lot of stuff I've seen, which is a lot

of shoot them up or you're falling out of an airplane kind of thing.

So we're going to talk about that in a minute, but let's talk about your background a little

bit.

So if you have a sense, you're extraordinarily successful Hollywood, creator, writer,

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