Super humans

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Creating superheroes. Kurt Andersen talks with “Superman” writer Gene Luen Yang on “Boxers & Saints” and “American Born Chinese.” Plus, the complicated — and sometimes divisive — issue of cosplay characters dressing up as a character of a different race. And producers Brendan Baker and Chloe Prasinos talk about all the work and (and a 3-D recording gizmo) that went into making their new podcast, Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Long Night.”

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.4	I'm Kurt Anand.
0:11.2	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.5	This first level of garden.
0:14.8	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.7	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.4	Very well done.
0:19.5	Editing is all about timing.
0:21.2	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.8	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:26.2	Studio 360.
0:28.3	It's good.
0:28.8	Anderson.
0:32.7	Tell me his name again.
0:34.2	The Annas.
0:35.3	The summer blockbuster season has just started with The Avengers, Infinity War,
0:40.8	which sold $640 million worth of tickets around the world in its first weekend,
0:46.7	the biggest movie opening of all time.
0:50.0	And in this hour of Studio 360, we are leaping into the world of comic books and superheroes as well.
0:56.7	He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population.
1:01.9	If he gets his hands on all six stones, Tony.
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