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Working: The Masters Behind the Puppets

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Working, host Karen Han speaks with Marc Petrosino and Michael Latini, the founders of cutting-edge puppets and props studio Monkey Boys Productions. Marc and Michael have been crafting creatures and costumes for more than 16 years, and their work includes making dancing meatballs for Saturday Night Live and various iterations of Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors. They recount the stresses of meeting deadlines, constructing intricate puppets, and the art of collaboration. After the interview, Karen speaks with co-host June Thomas about the mysteries of puppeteering and their experiences of collaborating on creative work with a partner. Do you have a question about creative work? Call us and leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?

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Or this beach is too sandy.

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My name's Christine.

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And my name is Sandy.

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And where the host of Beach to Sandy water to wet.

0:11.5

A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off-the-wall reviews on

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the internet.

0:16.3

We find the funniest, real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services

0:21.4

and Trader Joe's, to caves, toddler beds, and spirit Halloween.

0:25.6

You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be set on the internet.

0:29.2

How else would everyone know that some caves don't have Wi-Fi?

0:32.1

We hear about the good, the bad, and that one-time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo

0:36.1

instead of a Halloween costume.

0:37.8

And believe it or not, we got to the bottom of it.

0:40.5

Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:43.5

Beach to Sandy water to wet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:48.6

You know, enough 70 and 80 hour weeks of SNL where it was just like, this is going

0:57.1

to kill us.

0:58.1

This isn't going to be fun anymore.

0:59.7

And we're going to like, wind up turning it away.

1:01.8

You know, we got in this industry to be performers and builders.

1:05.7

But now so much what we do is administrative.

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