Rob McElhenney: Always Sunny, Mythic Quest, more!

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Guest host Jordan Morris chats with actor, director Rob McElhenney about his career. Rob's the creator and star of what will soon be the longest running American sitcom of all time— It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It's a show about five friends who are just about the most terrible people you've ever met and their weekly antics as they run a bar in South Philadelphia and try to scam their way out of and into just about every situation imaginable. His latest series is called Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet. It's about the gaming industry and he's re-teamed with a few of his Sunny writing partners. We'll talk to Rob about growing up without a Nintendo in the house, bringing honesty to his projects and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his show's production. Plus, we'll chat about some of his favorite games growing up. That's on the next Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:11.0	Coming to you from my house in Los Angeles, it's Bullseye.
0:23.8	I'm Jordan Morris in for Jesse Thorn.
0:26.3	I'm the co-host of Jordan Jesse Goh here at MaximumFun and I'm also a comedy writer.
0:30.7	I created the Fiction Podcast Bubble.
0:33.0	I am really excited to be here.
0:35.5	My guest Rob McElhaney created what is about to be the longest running live-action sitcom
0:40.9	in American history.
0:42.9	Ever.
0:44.1	The name of the show is of course, it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
0:47.3	A sitcom about the misadventures of five truly awful but kind of lovable Philadelphia's.
0:53.9	And while the characters don't really grow or change as people, the show's grown in popularity
0:57.8	with pretty much every season.
0:59.8	So how do you top that?
1:01.9	Rob started this new show Mythic Quest, Raven's Banquit.
1:05.2	It's a comedy set in a video game studio.
1:07.6	The game they make, which is called Mythic Quest, is a wildly popular fantasy game.
1:12.7	The only thing is, pretty much everyone at the studio hates each other.
1:17.2	Rob plays Ion, the creative director.
1:19.4	He's self-important and kind of insufferable.
1:21.8	He has a carefully groomed beard and wears lots of rings too.
1:27.0	The cast and crew from the show recently teamed up to do a special quarantine edition,
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