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com backslash Halloween's pod. Hope to see you there so we can give you one more scare. We could do an entire

spin-off series on Larry Cohen's life. I'm not even joking and we could go on for years and years.

It's really not hyperbole to say that. He's prolific. That's an understatement. This is a guy who was essentially born to be in this industry.

The kind of Hollywood icon that Tarantino might put in one of his movies a visionary cut from a cloth

They really just don't make anymore in Hollywood or any industry for that matter

What are you would agree with that Vanderbilt, right? I mean, or Mac, like, what about, he seems to be an anomaly these days, right?

I'm fascinated with Larry Coen. Well, I am fascinated, like, I think I'm going to compare to Larry Cohen to Prince here for a moment, because I think I'm going to compare to Larry Cohen to Prince here for a moment because I think he's one parts equal like born into him talent.

Yeah.

But also he put in all the work required to make it because he started on television.

He created shows.

He wrote work for shows.

And when you watch it documentary, he talks about not getting credited on certain programs, but not letting that bother him because he knew

that they had gotten them a good start. I think NYPD was one of the shows where they really didn't get,

he felt he didn't get enough credit but he didn't care because he knew that got him started in the industry and allowed him to do everything else that he wanted to do.

And I don't, and he never stopped.

Yeah.

Because there's so much stuff out there that you don't know that Larry Cohen wrote.

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