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To Kill A Mockingbird

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul cross-examine 1962's Southern drama To Kill A Mockingbird! They compare the slice-of-life storytelling to later filmmakers like Richard Linklater, reveal Brock Peters' on-set nickname, and ask whether the film can be considered separately from the book. Plus: author and professor Wayne Flynt talks about his friendship with Harper Lee in her later years.   For Vertigo week, what other disorders could be the title of a Hitchcock film? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's show is brought to you in honor of the new season of special guest Lauren Lapkiss.

0:05.1

That is out right now on Stitcher Premium.

0:06.8

Now, if you have podcast, you know Lauren Lapkiss and if you know Lauren Lapkiss, you know that she is the ruler of all podcasts that she surveys.

0:14.0

And if you know that, you know that she needs a challenge because she could talk all day on the mic.

0:18.0

So she has come up with with special guest Lauren Lapkiss and the premise of the show is wild.

0:22.8

What she does is she invites a guest every week and the guest comes up with a theme of what the show is about.

0:27.4

And they don't even tell Lauren she has to wing it. It's like improv the podcast.

0:31.2

I mean, if you want an example, I would just start with the episode that she does with Mary Holland.

0:34.8

Mary Holland comes in and she's like, Oh, hello, welcome to my show. It's about being a failed beauty queen.

0:40.0

Right? Tell me about how you were a failed beauty queen and Lauren just has to rule with it.

0:44.4

So it is freeform. It's wild. It's crazy. It is the way of seeing a podcast master develop even new, powerful, mighty, mighty strengths.

0:52.6

And if you want to start listening to a special guest Lauren Lapkiss right now, well, you should.

0:56.0

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0:58.6

So if you want to try a free month, the Citro premium, we're going to do right now is you're going to go to Citro premium.com and use the promo code unspooled and you will get a free month of this amazing show.

1:08.2

A bazillion other amazing shows. You can listen to podcasts like nonstop. You can listen when you sleep.

1:13.2

You can listen to all the time. You'll go crazy. So go to Citro premium.com and use the promo code unspooled and start listening to the.

1:19.0

Hey, guess who has a new podcast out right, right, right, right now.

1:24.0

It's a name you know, and it's the name you love. It is Bill Nye, the science guy. And he has a new podcast out now called science rules.

1:30.4

Yes, I grew up at Bill Nye. I worship Bill Nye. And this is the show where you know, you remember being a kid and you had like a million questions and you were like annoying your parents like, oh, I want to know this.

1:39.2

I wanted to do this. This is the show where Bill Nye answers all the questions that you didn't realize have been rattling around in the back of your brain like since the end of time.

1:46.0

Will I ever be able to upload my brain to a computer, which is one thing I'm absolutely hoping to do just to like haunt people forever.

1:53.0

Also, here's the question I think about every week like should we stop eating cheeseburgers to combat climate change.

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