Why Rhett and Link are Making a TV Show (On Their Own Terms)

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Colin and Samir

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On February 6, comedy duo Rhett and Link uploaded a video titled "We're Done." After a decade-plus of trying to pitch film projects to traditional Hollywood studios, they announced that they're opting instead to produce a TV-style show with the team they've built at Mythical...and distribute it directly through their YouTube channel. A couple weeks later, Publish Press writer Nate Graber-Lipperman went to Mythical's studio in Burbank to learn more about the show — and talk to Rhett and Link about their complicated history with Hollywood. This interview was part of "The Year Creators Went Hollywood," the cover story for The Publish Paper: Volume 2. It's a 28-page print zine we made that features original stories, artwork, and photography — get your copy here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our entire lives, we've run up against the rules
0:02.6	of the way things are supposed to go
0:03.9	and been told that you can't do it the way
0:05.6	that you're envisioning doing it.
0:07.3	We had to have an experience that disillusioned us
0:10.4	for us to take a different trajectory.
0:13.0	Some people in a small room,
0:15.5	they have our fate in their hands.
0:17.8	But what we didn't realize,
0:19.6	because we hadn't done it yet, you can put your fate
0:21.6	in the hands of a much larger group of people. There's nothing wrong with being angry. It's what
0:27.2	you do with it.
0:35.0	What's up podcast listeners? This is Samir. Hey, everybody. This is Colin. And this is Nate.
0:39.2	We are joined once again by Nate for an audio exclusive episode. This is all part of the published press volume two zine. Is that what we're calling it?
0:51.4	Nate calls it a zine. I would have called it a newspaper, but I think that's just because I'm...
0:55.5	Oh, the published paper.
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:56.6	I think the published paper is cleaner than the published press newspaper, though.
1:00.1	You're right.
1:01.8	The published paper.
1:02.7	Yeah.
1:03.6	This is all part...
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