The Latest From Dog And Pony Show Audio... Don't Explain
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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 | Hello everybody, your old pal, Justin. |
| 0:03.2 | Robert Young here. |
| 0:04.6 | I have a little treat for you guys. |
| 0:08.3 | This is a little bit out of the norm, but we do have a brand new program that is debuting this week in the dog and pony show audio family. |
| 0:21.2 | We've all worked on it really hard over the last few years, but if you |
| 0:26.4 | enjoy World's Greatest Con, then I think you're going to enjoy this. It's called |
| 0:31.3 | Don't Explain, and it's hosted by Will Saddleburg. The premise is this. |
| 0:36.3 | Every eye-rolling trope that you've ever experienced in any kind of movie, it started somewhere. And at that time that it |
| 0:48.5 | started it was probably pretty brilliant. Watch the messy path from an initial idea to something that we all know by heart on this season of Don't explain where |
| 1:03.0 | Will takes on the rock star biopic. |
| 1:06.6 | From Lady Sings the Blues with Diana Ross, |
| 1:09.5 | oh so many years ago, all the way up to Elvis that just came out this summer we have the entire |
| 1:16.6 | story of a genre that is so parodable a parody almost killed the genre. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm going to give you the first episode of it right now |
| 1:28.0 | and then when you're done with that, you can get episodes two and three |
| 1:31.0 | on their own feed, which can be found anywhere that you find |
| 1:36.2 | your podcast just search for Don't Explain. But enough of my Yammer and here we go |
| 1:42.4 | episode one of Don't Explain. |
| 1:45.0 | Every cliche, every eye rolling trope from every story you've experienced in every format began as an |
| 1:58.0 | innovation. First thing we better do is split up and search the school for clues. |
| 2:02.1 | Oh I have a bad feeling about this. |
| 2:04.4 | Any last words? |
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