Nov. 26, 2025

Ultimate Home Theater Guide; Lil Jon, Dakota Fanning, Sarah Snook, Jason Clarke

Ultimate Home Theater Guide; Lil Jon, Dakota Fanning, Sarah Snook, Jason Clarke
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(00:00:00) Ultimate Guide to Home Theaters
(00:12:47) Home Theater Value and Performance
(00:18:48) Audiophile Insights on Home Audio Systems
(00:25:40) Home Theater Speaker Technology Overview
(00:28:51) What are the points / dots in Home Theater Systems?
(00:32:53) Where do I start for a Home Theater System?
(00:37:10) Klipsch, Onkyo & Premium Audio Home Theater Systems
(00:40:23) Lil Jon X Hyundai
(00:53:04) Apple TV's The Last Frontier with Jon Bokencamp
(01:01:28) Apple TV's The Last Frontier with Jason Clarke
(01:08:32) All Her Fault's Abby Elliott & Jake Lucy
(01:15:58) All Her Fault's Sarah Snook & Dakota Fanning

In this electrifying episode of Pop Culture Weekly, host Kyle McMahon first dives into the Ultimate Home Theater Guide with industry leader Marcus Buckler (Premium Audio Company / Klipsch / Onkyo) then dances with the stars with iconic rapper and producer Lil Jon, goes to The Last Frontier with writer / director Jon Bokencamp and acclaimed actor and executive producer Jason Clarke,  and then they talk about how it's All Her Fault with Abby Elliott and Jake Lucy and the talented actresses Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning. Join us as we dive deep into the world of high-fidelity audio, cutting-edge automotive collaborations, and thrilling cinematic adventures, offering insights that blend technology, storytelling and celebrity flair.

Kick off your home theater journey with Klipsch / Onkyo's Marcus Buckler as he unravels the secrets to creating the ultimate home entertainment experience. This is your Ultimate Home Theater Guide. Discover how investing in quality audio equipment, from basic soundbars to sophisticated 7.2.4 systems, can transform your media consumption. Marcus shares his personal evolution in the world of high-fidelity audio and highlights the importance of components like soundbars, speakers and audio video receivers in crafting a cinematic atmosphere at home - on any budget. 

Next, get ready for an engaging conversation with Lil Jon, who shares his thrilling collaboration with Hyundai on the luxurious 2026 Palisade Hybrid. Lil Jon's infectious enthusiasm for hybrid technology and his surprising journey into the automotive world will captivate listeners. From discussing the SUV's impressive features to his passion for fitness, this segment blends cars, music, and lifestyle with the vibrant energy Lil Jon is known for.

Then, venture into the rugged landscapes of Alaska with interviews with Executive Producer Jon Bokencamp and actor Jason Clarke as they takes us behind the scenes of Apple TV+'s action-packed series "The Last Frontier." Learn about the challenges and exhilarating moments faced during filming, including horseback riding and shooting on icy terrain. Jason shares his experiences working on the series and highlights how Alaska itself becomes a dynamic character within the narrative.

Finally, delve into the creative process with interviews with Abby Elliott and Jake Lucy as well as Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning as they discuss their roles in the gripping limited series "All Her Fault," now streaming on Peacock. Discover how they navigate the balance between personal experiences and on-screen portrayals, and how the source material influenced their performances. This conversation offers a peek into their preparation and adaptation processes, adding depth to their compelling characters.

Don't miss this captivating episode of Pop Culture Weekly, where technology meets storytelling, and pop culture magic unfolds. 

Check out The Ultimate Home Theater Guide here for everything you need and on any budget to get yourself the best system for your space.

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, I've got your

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ultimate guide to home theaters with the great people from

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Clips and Ankio and Little John and Sarah Snook and

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so much more.

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Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from iHeartRadio,

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your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity interviews on

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all the movies, TV, music, and pop culture u CRABE Weekly.

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Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Nick.

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Nickana No, Hello, Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon.

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I of course am Kyle McMahon, and.

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This is pop Culture Weekly, the show where I talk

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to your favorite actors and musicians and filmmakers and occasionally myself,

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you know, because therapy is expensive.

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Today's episode is stacked. And when I say.

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Stacked, I mean the only thing with more levels than

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today's guest lineup is the number of movies I have

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on my watch list for work. But before we dive

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into that, we're talking home theater. Yes, the religion, the lifestyle,

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and the occasional money pit that has eaten my savings

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one beautifully immersive upgrade at a time. So if you

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know me by now, and of course you absolutely do,

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because you've been with me for years. You know, my

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home theater journey has been a saga like Lord of

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the Rings Extended edition saga like should this man be stopped?

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Saga?

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It's so overwhelming. And you know, I started with the

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soundbar cute like it was fine. It made noises that

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you know came from the movie. But then one day

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I was like, Kyle, do you deserve better? And the

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answer was obviously a resounding yes, because you know, self

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care is important. So enter my friends at Clips and

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on Kio, the dynamic duo of Holy app Why does

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my living room sound like a freaking movie theater? Like

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clip speakers literally legit for any budget. They have entry

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level systems, high end systems. They even do like really

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expensive giant movie theater chain system so like they've got

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it all. You want something basic, They've got ya. You

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want something that rattles your soul and your neighbor's dishes,

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They've got that too. And on Kyo receivers like, look,

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if you want your system to actually work the way

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that Dolby intended instead of sounding like a microwave having

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an identity crisis, on Kyo is where it's at. And

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I've got a whole Ultimate Guide to Home Theater blog

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post which is linked in the show notes, so make

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sure you check out that for like your actual written

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guide that you can go a print out or whatever.

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But I'm talking like crystal clear audio, beefy power, an

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intuitive setup, and more options than a freaking cheesecake factory menu.

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And now, due to my friends at CLIPS and on

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Kio and their amazing guidance and their wonderful help, my

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current system is seven point two point four because I

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believe in God and they'll be at most. And today

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we've got someone who knows this stuff on an expert level.

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So when you're like, what was he talking about seven

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point two point four, I didn't know either until I

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talked with Marcus. So we're gonna kick things off with

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Marcus Buckler, who this guy understands CLIPS and on Kio

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way better than like anybody in the business. This man

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is a genius with home theater systems with you know,

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uh audio and audio equipment.

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So let's talk with him. The training manager for the

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Americas at clips and on Kio and Premium Audio. Do

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you want to know only Marcus Buler So I am.

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Really excited to talk to Marcus Buckler, training manager at

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Premium Audio Company, and we're gonna be talking all about

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home theaters and you know how that plays, how that

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can play or does play into our lives. How are you, Marcus,

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I'm doing well, awesome. Thank you so much for joining me.

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I really appreciate it.

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So give me a little bit problem happy to be here.

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Thank you.

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So, first of all, you know, I've been exploring this

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whole ultimate guye to home theaters, you know, the best

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of the best and the different levels that there are.

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As I started learning about this, you know, I have

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all about their movies or their albums or whatever. You know,

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it struck me that I didn't realize how wide the

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spectrum of home theaters are. Where you could be in

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a apartment and have a home theater system, or you

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could be in a mansion and have your own dedicated,

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you know, home theater room. Tell me a little bit

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about that and how well, first of all, how did

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you get into this?

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Oh man, let's see. So I started out working for

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a big box retailer just in the wintertime, right before holiday,

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part time job. I didn't know anything about home theater.

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My college roommate talked me into it, so I tried

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it out. I learned about first like the different types

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of TVs, and then I got in like this audio

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room space where they sold like really high end audio stuff.

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And I remember the first demo I heard was.

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An Eric Clapton song on a big pair of Martin

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Logan speakers, and I was like, WHOA, I.

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Had no idea.

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Like most people, it's if you've never heard your favorite

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song or just a song that like emotionally moves you

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on a big Hi Fi system. I mean, it's life changing.

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It's just like the first time you drink a good

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glass of red wine, right you can't go back because

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that's it was amazing. Or a fast car you don't

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You didn't know that you can get that pull in

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your chest on a fast car until you experience it,

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and then you're like, oh my gosh, and you chase

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that forever. Hi Fi is no different. It's it's a

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never ending rabbit hole where you can go from I

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mean you can go from literally millions of dollars. I've

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seen systems in the hundreds of thousands that shows. I

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was at Munich this year, there's a million dollar system there.

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But again for a listener, don't let it intimidate you.

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One of my favorite things when I'm doing a training,

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like as I grew through my journey and Hi Fi

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and retail, I remember today's customer is different than like

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we were.

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I'm gonna date.

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Myself, but wherehen we were kids, Like my dad gave

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me a small two channel system, you know, like a

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boombox from a pizza place we had.

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I put in my room.

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then I hunted around the house for more speakers. I

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plugged it all in. It eventually blew up. But like

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today's customer, they don't really get that right. Like most

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of them, their first audio experience is these little white

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pods that come with a cell phone from a fruit company, right,

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that you put in your ear and if I want

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to listen better, I get the pro version of those pods, right,

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And that's that's awesome audio to me, and it is

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very very good. But as you grow into like spatial audio,

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which means like speakers in front of you a room

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that sounds great and then you know your favorite you're

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playing your video game, you're watching TV, a movie, or

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listening to some vinyl. You know, like it's a it's

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a life changing experience. Don't don't let it intimidate you,

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because you can start small and grow into these things.

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And so that's kind of like my journey as I

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started small box or big box store, became a manager

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that I was a brand manager for a company called

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Magnolia Home Theater, which I trained, so I trained associates

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across the southeast US. I'm out of Atlanta, and then

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eventually my journey took me to a manufacturer, and I've

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worked for I've actually worked for quite a few manufacturers

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most of the time, because you work for one and

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then they get bought by a bigger company and they

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add more brands to you. And then a couple of

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years ago I landed here at Premium Audio Company with

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just it's a great place because we have the legendary

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clips brand, and then they bought Ankio, so now we

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have two. We have an amplifier brand and we've got

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our passive speaker brand. Both have been around since the

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same year. They both started in nineteen forty six. So

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that's a little bit of my journey. But also a

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little bit of my training history with people like, don't

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be intimidated by this stuff. It's a it's a journey,

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so start small, grow into it.

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There's a lot of options.

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viewers and readers from all you know, walks of life,

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all budgets. If I'm you know what, what is interesting

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for me? How I got interested in this? Uh was

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I bought a house and I've obviously always.

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And my goal was when I bought a house, I

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wanted a home theater, dedicated home theater room. So h So,

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I finally got my first house three years ago or so,

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and I started, you know, really thinking about it because

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I was at a friend's house that had this awesome system,

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and I was like, I'm hearing things that I didn't

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even hear in the movie theater, you know, and it

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really just envelops you in the sound, which then envelops

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you in the movie, you know. And so for me,

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somebody that's such a huge movie buff, I'm like, I

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that's what I want. But then I started getting overwhelmed

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with I'm like, oh my god, what is that? What

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is that there's you know, five point there's seven point

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there's seven point one, seven point two. Like you know,

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I got ridiculously overwhelmed, and I'm like, Okay, I don't

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even know where to start, you know, do I start

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with the budget?

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Do I start with a the space I have? Where

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would somebody start?

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So it's important to know, like how it all works,

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because like movie theaters clips, we do movie theaters.

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I think we're in.

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You can find us in I think half the movie

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theaters in the US and a quarter worldwide. Wow, that's

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kind of a hard space. There's a lot of people,

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a lot of speakers. When you're thinking about your home,

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it's about you most of the time.

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That is a couch.

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So in that listening position, what I want to make

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sure I have is if I'm listening to music, all

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music is recorded in at least two chances, So you

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want a left and right speaker, and you want to

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invest some money into those speakers because you're probably going

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to have them for a really long time. And then

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the most important speaker when it comes to watching video

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content like a movie or a TV show, is your

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center channel. It's all of your dialogue. And that dialogue

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was recorded to come out of a center channel speaker.

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So it's important to make sure you have a good

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amount of money, depending on your budget, for a left

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and right and then a matching center and then when

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it comes to surround sounds one you can add those later.

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Three channel system upfront and then add surrounds as your

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budget goes. But only about twenty percent of the audio

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is going to come from the surrounds, right, because it's

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only firing when something has happened in the background, that

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helicopter flies overhead or the car crash. You know, it's

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it's not all of the audioce So they don't have

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to have four giant towers and a center channel or

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you know, six giant towers around you. You can get

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away with smaller speakers for your surrounds.

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And there are different price points for these, right, Like,

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I don't need to save fifty thousand dollars for those

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three you know, the left and right and center. I

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can invest in a decent system. And this is more

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of a question. Can I invest in a decent system

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with a smaller budget.

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One hundred percent?

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One hundred percent And I'll tell you this when you

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start on that let's just just for argument high five.

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So I'm listening to music and I'm trying to get

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high resolution. I'm trying it the most detail I can.

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And you go to shows or stores and you experience

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these products you're going to you just get blown away

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by how good it gets as you go up and

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if you've been doing it for a long time. What

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impresses me these days is playing those entry level price

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point systems and just being wowed by how much how

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much value you get out of these products, Like they

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can play loud, there's good detail, you know, and you

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can spend You can spend one thousand dollars or a

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couple thousand dollars and still get a really good experience.

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So any budget can give you home theater. Not to mention,

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there are sound bars, and we make some sound bars

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these days that do Dolby at most right. They have

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upward firing drivers. The subuffers are built in. They decode

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anything you throw at it and virtualize the sound so

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you can get away with We've got a sound bar

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for three hundred and fifty bucks that'll knock your socks

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off and it takes up no real estate. Really, it's

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like two feet and you can add wireless surrounds to it.

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You can add you can add a couple of wireless

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subs for I like to say, a couple more ugga dugas,

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like people love base. Yeah, so sublifers are definitely going

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to make an impact.

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But yeah you can.

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You can have a system for one thousand bucks.

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You can have a system for two thousand and as

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you grow, you know that that curve is that rate

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of diminishing returns, right like you can spend fifty thousand dollars,

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you know, at that end of your audio journey and

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be like, yeah, you know that speaker wire gave me

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just that little nuance, you know, like I just didn't

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hear that before and now you know it brought it

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to life for me. Or that that cartridge on my turntable.

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You know, the amplifier, the receiver, especially you're a movie buff,

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the receiver processor makes a huge difference because it's it's

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it's the brain. It's decoding all of that information and

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sending it to your speakers so you can get away

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with a decent budget. One of my trails of thought,

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and this has just been my opinion. So the listeners

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can tell me I'm wrong. But if you build a budget,

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let's say five thousand dollars, I'm going to spend a

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good amount of money again on that front stage left

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right center, and whatever I spend on that front left

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right center, about half of that money I want to

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spend on my receiver, my AVR, because then I'm going

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to make sure I have plenty of power. Right, we

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have this there's this idea that I can overpower a speaker. Well,

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you can play the speaker too loud, like louder than

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it's supposed to play. But speakers love power, all of them.

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And the more power you have, the more effortlessly you're

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gonna get that sound at a lower volume that you

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normally would listen to. And it's I always use fast cars.

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I'm a car guy. But like if you put a

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four cylinder engine in a semi truck, you know you're

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gonna blow up that engine.

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It's just not gonna it's not gonna do what you

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want it to do.

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But if you put a big engine in a small car,

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barely touch the gas, it is just gonna effortlessly move.

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And that's what you want your system to do. You

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want it to be in that sweet spot, that happy

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place where it's got the right amount of power for

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that speaker and it gives me the volume that I

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want to listen to most of the time when speakers

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get damaged if they try to play into too loud

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and it didn't have enough power, and that's the problem.

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Okay, So, so are a lot at you there to

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go back on sound bars for a minute, because then

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I want to get into the processors or the receivers

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for sound bars.

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So and you guys offer a wide range of them.

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A sound bar and again I'm asking, but from what

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I from what I understand, it kind of has.

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I don't want to say, uh.

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Home theater in a box, but it kind of is

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that right, it's like a one and done sort of

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thing and it goes under your TV or above your

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TV or whatever. And does that does that give you surround?

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Like? What is that considered?

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Yeah, so if you start with just a sound bar,

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you're gonna want to have a sound bar. Again I'm biased,

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but whatever brand you're shopping for, make sure it comes

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from an audio company like that's what they do because

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the internals are going to be different. You know, there's

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a lot of a lot of companies make soundbars. They're everywhere,

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and they're all over the place with price points, and

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if you read the box, you know the box is

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going to tell you it's going to have a great experience.

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No matter what the brand, it's their job to sell

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it to you. But if you go to a sound

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bar with a company that that's all they do is audio,

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the internals are going to be better, So the virtualization

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of that sound.

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You know, I'm listening.

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I watched top Gun Maverick last night on the clips

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our flexus Core two hundred sound bar, and it has

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upward firing at most drivers, and when the planes go over,

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it's just a sound bar, no surrounds. You know, it

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sounds like they're above me. And then that sound bar

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has built in subwifers, so I don't have a subwulfer

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in the room, and I still get that full, like

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that thick, thick base that I need from a jet

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when it's taken off. If you go with sound bars

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that use a lot of plastic, really simple drivers and

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cheap internal components, it's just not going to do that.

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It's not going to play as loud for as long.

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It's not gonna last as long and the fidelity is

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not gonna it's just not gonna be there. Right, It's

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gonna be better than the TV sound probably, but it's

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not gonna be You're not getting your money's worth, really yeah.

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Yeah, And and by the way, that's why I want

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it to come to you guys, because you guys are

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the best of the best. So that's what I'm like,

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if I'm going to dive into this, and I want

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to bring you, know, the audience with me on this journey,

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Like we're going with the best. So and I love

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that you guys have different price points for different budgets

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and different needs.

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So is a.

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Soundbar like is that what somebody in an apartment should

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be using? Or can somebody in an apartment do a

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home theater?

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Like? What is this soundbar? Who is that best for soundbar?

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Really?

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Is best for budget?

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Okay?

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You know, if I'm trying to I'm trying to stay

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under that thousand dollars threshold. A good sound bar system

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that's maxed out, you will just be incredibly impressed with it.

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I mentioned are our Flexus system. That's something we did

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that is very unique. So that is a soundbar that

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is the first time that we used our on Kyo

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brand to build the internals, so it's got the same

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internals or same internal ish as our AVRs in a soundbar,

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so it's heavy and it decodes it really well. One

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of the things about soundbars to remember is a really

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good audio company or even a TV manufacturer that does audio,

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they can make a great audio system that plays loud,

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but it doesn't mean all the components work that well.

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I've seen some amazing big brands, big audio brands come

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out with soundbars and then the HDMI switching doesn't work

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that well, or you know something some third party piece

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they purchased didn't do what you wanted to do. So

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again I'm biased here, but our new soundbars with the

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Onchyo stuff inside is incredible, and you stay at that

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price point of six hundred dollars on the bar. If

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you want to add a sub, knock yourself out. Now

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you got a sub and a soundbar, you're at a

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thousand bucks for an apartment. That is a great solution.

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But I do a lot of trainings around a little

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bit globally, but mostly here in the US, and one

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of my favorite places to train is New York City,

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so I have an account in New York City. They

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do amazing stuff big foot traffic, and when I go

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there for a training, I bring smaller speakers that are

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not a soundbar. Remember if you were to take a bookshelf, So,

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for example, you've got reference bookshelves, right, so take your

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reference bookshelves, turn them on their side next to the

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center channel, but the other one on side. It is

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the same footprint as a really big sound bar, but

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all your drivers are bigger, so you're going to have

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way better fidelity when it comes to music. Better for movies,

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more effortless volume, right, three channel, left, right center. You're

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gonna want to add a sou to balance it out,

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but then you run it into an audio video receiver,

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and that is removing all of the electronics away from

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the speaker. So one of the downsides to a soundbar

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is all the electronics are very close to the driver

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of the speaker, and electronics make sound. It we call

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it noise and distortion. That's a phrase. It's overused in

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this industry. Everything is noise. We're going to remove the noise,

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but electronics make electronics sounds. So if it's kind of

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like that electricity hissing sound, and you can get filters

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on a power center. You can go down that.

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Rabbit hole forever.

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But if you just remove that box away from the speaker,

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now you're not putting more noise and distortion into the system.

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And that piece is it's dedicated to do one thing.

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Receive the signals, process it, and then kick it out

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and you're gonna get a lot more power and different

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types of power. So that's the other thing about soundbars

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is most of them that I can think of all

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Class D amplifiers, which are great. They've come a really

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long way. Class D is what's in your cell phone,

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you know, your tablet. They're really small and efficient. They

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don't put off a lot of heat. But if you

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want really good power, you've got to have something that

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stores a little bit of the energy. And when you

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do that, it's ready to go faster, and again it

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has less noise in it, so you get.

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A better sound.

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And that's why you'd want like an apartment. I would

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tell anyone if your budget's a soundbar, great, but for

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not a whole lot more money I can get you,

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for example, like yours, your reference bookshelves, then I'm gonna

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get you a center. We're gonna get you a small

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ten inche sub and you know, we've got a AVR.

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You've got the sixty one hundred from MONKEYO. The fifty

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one hundred is on sale. I was just at a

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best Buy yesterday and a customer bought it and it's

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five hundred and twenty five dollars.

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Wow.

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And that's a that's a really good, you know, network

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receiver with airplay and chrome cast and does atmost and

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you can plug six devices into it, whereas most sound

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bars only have one maybe two HDMI inputs. Yeah, so

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all your devices are going into this thing and you're

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going to have a way better experience for sure.

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And so the receiver itself is basically, I think from

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what you're saying, is handling all of that away from

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the speakers themselves and basically delivering saying, Okay, this sound

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you go to that speaker, This sound you go to

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that speaker along with power.

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Is that how it works?

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Yep?

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Okay, So you're all your HDMI inputs, your processor, digital

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to analog converters. Not all of those are created equal.

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There's so many, right, and that makes a big difference.

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Because we live in a digital age. Well, all speakers

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are analog, all of them. So if you send a

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digital signal to it, it has to convert it to analog.

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And it's just like a computer if you have a

450
00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:03.079
If I'm a big gamer, I don't. I don't want

451
00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:05.920
a basic computer. I need a gaming laptop because I

452
00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:08.839
need that processing power. It's the same when I'm sending

453
00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.400
a digital signal with music. I need to make sure

454
00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:14.559
my inputs are good, that i've I can handle the signal,

455
00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:16.400
and then it can put out the fidelity that I

456
00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:16.839
want it to.

457
00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:20.960
Okay, that clears that up for me. I love that.

458
00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:23.680
All Right, we're gonna take a quick break. Don't go anywhere,

459
00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:26.079
grab a snack, pet your dog, or just sit in

460
00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:29.480
silence while you reflect on just how cool Marcus is.

461
00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:36.200
I won't judge ye, all right, see it in sixty.

462
00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:39.799
All right, welcome back.

463
00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:42.880
Thanks for supporting our sponsors and help paying the bills.

464
00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:46.240
You know, so you said our mains essentially are the

465
00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:49.079
right and left and center. And then as we start

466
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:52.759
adding things and quickly I'm going back for a second,

467
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:55.400
you said, typically you would keep those around for a

468
00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:57.759
long time. And I have noticed that because as I

469
00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:02.519
was doing research, I've seen people on you know, Facebook, Marketplace.

470
00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:04.359
And on Reddit talking about uh oh.

471
00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:06.559
I picked up a pair of these speakers, and the

472
00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:09.119
speakers are like ten years old, and I had always

473
00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:13.160
wondered like, well, why are they like so excited about

474
00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:15.559
something ten years old or five years old? And then

475
00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.200
I guess from what I'm understanding now from you, is

476
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.759
that a speaker, especially since they're analog and will always

477
00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.480
be that speaker is always going to you know, if

478
00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.160
it's a great speaker, it's going to be a great

479
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.039
speaker today or ten years from now.

480
00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:28.559
Is that right?

481
00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:32.920
Yeah, But it's it's like buying a nice antique car, right,

482
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:35.599
you buy a vintage car that wasn't taken care of.

483
00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.279
You've got problems. You have to redo it.

484
00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:41.880
Speakers still have drivers, you know, there's a rubber surround

485
00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:44.759
and if they're not taken care of, you'll get dry rot.

486
00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.319
And if that seal breaks it doesn't sound good. You

487
00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:52.799
got to replace it. But crossover technology, I don't want

488
00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:55.799
to get too technical, but yes, there is a piece

489
00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:59.000
inside of a speaker that is called a crossover and

490
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.000
that is the easiest way to explain it. That is

491
00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:04.920
the traffic cop so if I've got a high frequency, right,

492
00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:08.039
I send that to the tweeter. Mid frequency, I send

493
00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:12.039
it my mid range driver base to the woofer or subwoffer,

494
00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.960
depending on your system. But that technology has come a

495
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.519
long way as well. So I'm not a big vintage

496
00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:23.000
speaker person unless it is like you really really took

497
00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:25.119
care of it, you know, the gentleman. It's a great

498
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:27.319
story from just yesterday. But the guy that bought the

499
00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:29.759
Honkey receiver, he has a pair of clips heresies from

500
00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:33.599
nineteen seventy five. Wow, and yeah, he's like, I was

501
00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:35.920
gonna put him on Facebook marketplace, but then my son

502
00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.119
was like, I got you have to give those to me, Dad,

503
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.160
And he's like, all right, I guess we'll keep them

504
00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:43.599
in the family. But he stored them well, kept them

505
00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:46.279
in great condition. You know, you can buy other parts

506
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:48.519
for speakers if you want to keep them forever. But

507
00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:50.720
I tell a lot of people, get if you can

508
00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:53.640
buy the new stuff, you'll be so impressed with the

509
00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:56.599
level of performance you can get. Right if you pick

510
00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.160
up you pick premium audio company. Yeah, you start at

511
00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:02.920
that entry level price point with a premium company and

512
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:05.319
you're going to have a great experience and then you

513
00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:07.880
know where that speaker's been. There's no scratches on. It's

514
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.039
brand new, that is yours, you know, by the biggest,

515
00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:14.160
baddest speaker you can for your budget for that front stage.

516
00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:16.519
And you're not gonna you're not gonna regret.

517
00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:18.960
That well, and it seems like what you're saying is

518
00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.359
that you know, since I want to invest in those

519
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:25.039
three in particular, those are going to be a part

520
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.680
of my system in five years and say it's not

521
00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.079
something you know, I think a lot of us are

522
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.400
used to just kind of disposable electronics, you know, where

523
00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.240
oh my buds that go in my ear in a

524
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:38.960
couple of years, the battery is going to be crappy.

525
00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:40.799
I spent three hundred bucks on them. I'll just buy

526
00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:43.720
a new one. These like, if you invest well now,

527
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.759
they are going to serve you throughout your kind of

528
00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:48.799
home theater journey.

529
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.240
From from my understanding, absolutely.

530
00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:56.000
And as long as you stay with the same brand

531
00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.079
and style of speaker, you can add to it and

532
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:02.640
you're gonna have the same type of sound. It's called

533
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.960
timber matching. It's making sure that like if you've got

534
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:08.920
the reference speakers that's an aluminum tweeter. I want to

535
00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:11.519
make sure that the next set I buy, if I

536
00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:14.680
buy the reference, you know, next generation, get the ones

537
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:16.799
with the aluminum tweeter, and all have the same style

538
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:19.519
of sound all the way around, and it sounds the same,

539
00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.160
so that you don't have that bright sound in the

540
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:23.799
back and then a warm sound up front.

541
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.400
Everything matches and you can build onto that.

542
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:26.720
Again.

543
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:29.799
You build that front stage and you have an AVR,

544
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.880
you know, the the sixty one fifty one hundred. You've

545
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.440
got plenty of channels you can add to it. So

546
00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:39.920
you're building onto the system without ever growing out of it.

547
00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:41.279
Gotcha.

548
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.480
Okay, So so now we've covered sound bars and the

549
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:52.480
center stage receivers. So what is the five point the

550
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:53.400
seven point?

551
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:56.920
You know, are those just adding additional.

552
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:01.160
Sound sounds, I don't want to say sounds, but speakers,

553
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:02.079
I guess yeah.

554
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:05.440
It Well, when the movie was recorded, you know, someone

555
00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:08.240
listened to the whole movie with their board and they said,

556
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:09.640
this is going to go over here. And a lot

557
00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.319
of movies the content is edited, you know, it's added in.

558
00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:16.559
It wasn't recorded right there, so they add it in.

559
00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:20.279
And you can get an incredible experience today by making

560
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:22.200
sure you experience that, which is if I have a

561
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:24.839
let's start with five dot one, so I've got five

562
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:29.480
speakers right left, right, center, two surrounds, and then the

563
00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:30.880
dot one is always your.

564
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:31.720
Sub will fer level.

565
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:36.039
That's a low frequency goes straight to the sub and

566
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:40.960
that that also helps the speaker not try to play

567
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.519
lower than it can. You're giving that to the sub

568
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.279
will for to take over. And the sub will fers

569
00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:50.359
today are incredible. They effortlessly give you lots of base.

570
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:53.039
But a five dot one is a really simple system.

571
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:55.759
When you go to seven dot one, then you're just

572
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.839
adding two more speakers, which are your immediate right and

573
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.319
mediate left, and then you've got two behind you, so

574
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.519
you've got four surrounds and then your front stage one suboffer.

575
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:10.039
When you go to at posts, you're adding that that

576
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.960
dot system. So at most well that's where you see

577
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:16.119
like a seven dot two dot one.

578
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:23.039
Okay, so the high channels are they're the ones that

579
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:25.400
are on the ceiling and point down is that right.

580
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:28.240
To two schools of thought. So you've got a couple

581
00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:31.400
flavors here. You can either have toppers on your speaker

582
00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:33.519
that reflect off the ceiling.

583
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.920
So if you have an apartment.

584
00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:38.400
Again, I don't want to cut holes in an apartment

585
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.200
I'm renting, not going to be a good not gonna

586
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.079
do what I leave. Let's reflect it off the ceiling

587
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:46.519
with the atmost topper that sits on top of your speaker,

588
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:48.839
it's about a forty five degree angle, and then it

589
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.240
just reflects down to your listing position. You can get

590
00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:54.400
an incredible atmost experience that way, and you can do

591
00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:57.160
uh most systems can do four of those, So you

592
00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.680
can do four at most toppers and then have a

593
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:03.279
five channel surround sound and have an awesome experience.

594
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:05.519
And what's the second school of thought?

595
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:09.279
Second school of thought is I put speakers in the ceiling,

596
00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:11.960
so that and that's that's the best way to do

597
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.000
it because you can control it more. You're sending that

598
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.759
that driver directly to the listening position, and it's just

599
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.400
way more immersive, at least in my experience. There's there's

600
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:25.680
some great examples of upward firing drivers and reflection, but

601
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:28.200
if your ceiling's too high or you have like a

602
00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:32.079
vault to it, it's just going to change the experience

603
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.680
a little bit. Whereas if you have in ceiling speakers,

604
00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:37.640
fire them down and then run. You know, you have

605
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.000
built in room calibration with all of our AVRs. You

606
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:42.880
calibrate it for the seating position.

607
00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:43.400
It is.

608
00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:47.319
It's a life changing experience, especially for a movie buff

609
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:48.000
like yourself.

610
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.839
Yeah, yeah, I'm My project, you know over the next

611
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.759
couple of weeks is to really fine tune everything, put

612
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.279
it all together. And you know, because I'm just so

613
00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:03.519
excited now talking to you about just all the different options.

614
00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:06.160
And you know, I was confused about the what is

615
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.559
it dot one dot two or whatever?

616
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:13.480
So that's yeah, so five dot two, dot one dot

617
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:17.240
two that yep, you've got. Your first number is your speakers.

618
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:20.960
Second number is your utmost channels. Next is your subs,

619
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.559
which you can add more than one sub because they're

620
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:26.799
all getting the same signal, so you could split it off,

621
00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:28.480
have a sub in the back of the room, in

622
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.640
front of the room, and sometimes they balance each other out.

623
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:34.279
Sometimes they just add a lot more base.

624
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:40.400
Okay, so what do you think bottom line for somebody

625
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:43.480
you know that wants to jump into this, because it

626
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.480
can get I mean, now I'm much more educated than

627
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.640
I was a half hour ago. But where's the best

628
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.039
place for them to start? So, like, if I go

629
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.079
to premium audio company's website. Will that direct me into

630
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.480
building a system? Do you guys already have recommended systems?

631
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.000
We do, so we have. You can go to images

632
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.680
that's like an all in one type package. Also, you

633
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:11.160
can get packages online. So if we love to go

634
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:12.799
to our dealers, you know, you can go to clips

635
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:16.200
dot com. But if you go to any dealer, local dealer,

636
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:18.680
you know, go take a listen to what you like

637
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:22.319
to hear. Hopefully it's a clip speaker. We have a

638
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.720
pretty big following a lot of people. A lot of

639
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.400
people listen to clips absolutely, But again, really think about

640
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:31.599
your budget and then what I want you to do

641
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:35.160
is if if you have a spouse, talk to them

642
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.720
about that budget. First you're on the same page because

643
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.160
if you show up with a ton of speakers and

644
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:43.759
you didn't talk about it, they're going right back. But no,

645
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.160
look at that budget and then do some research and

646
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.599
then go back to your budget. One of the things

647
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.119
I tell people all the time that are like, hey,

648
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.200
here's my budget. How did you get to that number?

649
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:58.240
Is that just all you have to spend? Because when

650
00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:01.160
you start doing research, you know you're gonna see, oh,

651
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:03.079
you know, I need that I'd like to start with

652
00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:06.039
that at least, and that budget grows all the time.

653
00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.960
So take a look at your budget, do some research,

654
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:11.639
then go back to the budget. If I go to

655
00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:14.280
clips dot com and I'm looking at the reference line,

656
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.320
you know we build that for that entry level price point.

657
00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:21.039
You don't have to buy the biggest ones we have,

658
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:23.400
like you've got the the R eight hundreds. Those are

659
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:26.679
that's a big speaker. But you can go to the smaller,

660
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:31.440
the smaller UH speakers that have like a six inch driver.

661
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.320
You have eight inch and we even make one called

662
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:38.159
the six oh five and that's got a at most

663
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:40.559
speaker built into it. Oh wow, So you can't even

664
00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:43.159
see it. It's built in and it plays through a

665
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.880
grill off your ceiling. That that is one of the

666
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.199
best pound for pound speakers you can get because you

667
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:51.960
will get every penny that you spend on a speaker,

668
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:53.519
You're gonna get a great experience from it.

669
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:54.719
You will not regret it.

670
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:58.199
And then the center channel, UH, you've got a front

671
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:01.280
ported center from in the reference line, which means you

672
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:03.960
can put it flat against a wall and not take

673
00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.239
up a lot of real estate and you'll still have

674
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:10.519
four drivers and a tweeter. So that dialogue, if there's

675
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.840
one thing crip clips does incredibly well vocal presence. I mean,

676
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.199
you're watching TV movies, you know again, I've watched Top

677
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.159
Gun Maverick last night, and no matter what's happening in

678
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.719
the background, that dialogue is right there. And that's a

679
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:27.159
big part in movies because if you only have a

680
00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:31.559
left and a right and you're blending that information, whenever

681
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:33.440
there's a whisper, you got to turn it up. Yeah,

682
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:35.159
and then action scene happens out it's too loud.

683
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:35.800
I got turned out.

684
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.199
So you want to make sure that you spend a

685
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:41.719
good chunk of that budget on let's say thirty percent

686
00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:45.480
on the left, right, center, plant thirty percent on your

687
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:49.880
power and then look at the rest. You still got

688
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.800
to buy some wire. You got to make sure you

689
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:55.519
have the right cables, and then however many speakers you

690
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:58.199
want to do behind you goes off your budget, and

691
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:01.880
then next year that bonus go back to it.

692
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:03.239
Build onto the system.

693
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:06.880
You know, it's it's it's a great experience. And if

694
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:09.920
you are on a budget where it's a soundbar, do

695
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:13.039
not think of that as a negative. You have zero

696
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.239
audio and now you have one hundred percent more audio. Yeah,

697
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:18.920
so soundbars are a great solution for an entry level

698
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:22.360
price point. You buy that Flexus Core one hundred, three

699
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.400
hundred and fifty bucks two built in subs so you

700
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.079
don't have to have a sub right away. It decodes

701
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:32.440
Dolby at most now it virtualizes it again. But let's

702
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:34.840
say next year you want to add surrounds. You can

703
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.760
add surrounds, you can add a wireless sub. You get

704
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.119
that big bonus. Guess what you do at that soundbar.

705
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:42.440
That sound bar is now going in the bedroom and

706
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.239
in the living room. I'm gonna buy an AVR and

707
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:47.679
I'm gonna buy a big center channel and a couple speakers.

708
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.800
So it is a journey that the customer is going

709
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.400
to go on, and do not be don't be shy

710
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:58.559
about buying something at that lower price point and getting

711
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:02.079
started right. It's there for a reason and a lot

712
00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:05.119
of customers love it. So you can always save good

713
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:08.239
audio products. They're gonna sound great for a very long time.

714
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:11.360
Awesome, Marcus, thank you so much.

715
00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:12.960
I think this is going to be so helpful and

716
00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:15.480
it was so helpful to me and I can't thank

717
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:20.039
you enough for you know, breaking it down for us,

718
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.800
you know, so we know where to go now and

719
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:26.440
have a great basis to jump in. And of course

720
00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:28.639
I would hope they do it with Clips, sure on

721
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.679
Kio or Teig. I mean again, if you're going to

722
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:33.360
do it, why not go to the best of the best,

723
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:33.920
you know what I mean.

724
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:38.119
We do it and we make something for everybody. We

725
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.559
have gaming systems, we have sound bars, and we've been

726
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:45.039
doing it longer than most audio companies. On Q and

727
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:48.960
Clips were both founded in nineteen forty six, and we

728
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:51.119
have a phrase at the office we've been pissing the

729
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.719
neighbors off since nineteen forty six and that's what we

730
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:56.280
do and that's what we want our listeners to do.

731
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.519
The other thing about Clips to remember too, this will

732
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.840
be my last part, is if you haven't heard a

733
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:03.920
Clip speaker before, you probably haven't.

734
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.480
Didn't know it?

735
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.000
Yeah, because they're in businesses all over the place because

736
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:11.920
we're known for efficiency. So as a customer, I would

737
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:13.760
not be doing my job if I didn't. Let you know,

738
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.760
the main thing behind a Clips product is they don't

739
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:18.239
require a lot of power.

740
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:19.599
Paul W.

741
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.320
Clips wanted the most efficient speakers so that the least

742
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.840
amount of power was needed to give you fidelity, so

743
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:28.719
you don't have to spend a lot of money on

744
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:32.119
the AVR. It really helps out to have an efficient speaker.

745
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.800
I'm going to get a lot of volume for very

746
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:36.719
little power. And then on the flip side of that,

747
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:39.920
we talked about that distortion piece. The less power I have,

748
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:42.000
the less distortion I'm going to send to the speaker.

749
00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.719
So for a budget customer, I mean, you cannot go

750
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.559
wrong with the entry level stuff we have, and then

751
00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:52.679
again we have something for everybody sound bars, desktop systems,

752
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:56.719
So knock yourself out, do your research, check your budget,

753
00:38:57.559 --> 00:38:58.599
and then do more research.

754
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.480
Marcus, thank you so much. I can't thank you enough

755
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:03.840
for speaking with me.

756
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:04.840
Awesome.

757
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.519
Well, it was my pleasure to be here. Hopefully I

758
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:09.960
answered some questions. I know every now and then we

759
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.079
can get a little technical, but keep it simple.

760
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:19.039
Awesome, isn't Marcus amazing?

761
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:23.760
Like, dudes, a legit genius couldn't have made it any

762
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:28.039
easier for me to understand home theater setups and systems

763
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:30.840
and all the different options, because you know, for me

764
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:34.559
and I'm a junkie, like, it was overwhelming looking into

765
00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.239
all this stuff. You know, I'm like, what is good

766
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:41.039
for my space? What do I deal with this budget?

767
00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:43.440
Like where do I start if I have three hundred dollars?

768
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:45.400
Or where do I start if I have three thousand dollars?

769
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.920
Like where do I go? And Marcus just broke it

770
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.920
all down for me and us. And again, I have

771
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:58.360
that Ultimate Guide to the Home Theater on the website

772
00:39:58.400 --> 00:39:59.920
and it's in the show notes. So just click on

773
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:03.320
that link and you'll get all the good stuff and

774
00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:08.079
links to get the systems that we're talking about and more.

775
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:09.599
So check that out.

776
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:18.800
And now we are jumping from the Ultimate Home Theater

777
00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:22.119
Guide and the wonderful people at CLIPS and a Kio

778
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:27.360
two and this is real Lil John who's gonna be

779
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:31.880
talking with us about his brand new collaboration with Hyundai. Listen, Like,

780
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.239
if you told younger Kyle that one day he'd be

781
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:38.159
chatting with Little John about cars, I would have said

782
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:40.679
what and he would have said yeah, and then we

783
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:44.480
both would have screamed okay, because that's how conversations with

784
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:45.159
Little John go.

785
00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:47.760
In my head. Here he is the one and only

786
00:40:48.199 --> 00:40:49.000
Lil John.

787
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:54.000
Man.

788
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.800
What's that truck in the background? What kind of truck

789
00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:57.000
is that?

790
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:02.239
Where Oh, that's that this side, you're right.

791
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:03.719
Side with that?

792
00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:06.559
That's I had no idea, to be honest, I'm.

793
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:08.400
I know.

794
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:13.079
I'm outside of my studio. I'm on location at a

795
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.199
place called freight Land, which is this haunted attraction in Delaware.

796
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:18.559
They've got all kinds of crazy stuff here. So I'm

797
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:19.840
working with them on something.

798
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.519
And what you say, like a Halloween vine?

799
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:25.000
You like this?

800
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:28.679
Oh, it's my favorite. I'm a huge horror fan.

801
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:30.199
Oh my goodness.

802
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:31.519
Okay, are you not?

803
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:34.440
I don't. I don't do the hind Houdes and all

804
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:38.800
of that. Note good, I'm good.

805
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:43.559
But what you do do is you do? You are

806
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.920
working with Hyundai on You just did a commercial with

807
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:50.559
them for an exciting new vehicle that they have. Tell

808
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:52.119
me about that. How did you get involved with them?

809
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:53.199
Uh?

810
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:59.000
It's the palis Ad and it's the luxury suv. They

811
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.599
had an idea because they've done a campaign before way

812
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:07.920
it was like called like okay Hyndai and I am

813
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.719
synonymous with the words okay because of Dave Chappelle and

814
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:17.199
my music, So they reached out to me and I

815
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:20.119
thought it was a great idea. I loved it, and

816
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.599
that's how we made it happen, and it was it

817
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:26.599
was like easily rolling off the tongue. Once I saw

818
00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:29.159
the car for the first time and I got in

819
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:30.639
the car, I was literally like.

820
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:36.039
Okay, Honda, like y'all doing it, Like this is nice,

821
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:41.239
Like that really means, it really means, like this is nice.

822
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:46.239
Like I wasn't expecting that Hyindai, but okay, y'all do

823
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:49.719
and that's what and that's what I got, the vibe

824
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:51.880
I got when I got in the car, so I

825
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:58.119
was really shocked and impressed at how luxurious the car was.

826
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.119
Even the way the car looks, the grill on the car,

827
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:07.679
it's impressive. It's a fly suv. I wait to get

828
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.639
one so I can just whip around the city, go

829
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:12.440
to the gym, and do what I gotta do in

830
00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:13.119
my Hyundai.

831
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:17.599
And it's a hybrid too, which is amazing, you know

832
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:18.119
what I'm saying.

833
00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:21.440
And that's it's crazy because I've been looking at you know,

834
00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:27.039
electric versus you know, I mean, yeah, electric, fully electric

835
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.400
versus just a regular gas and then hybrid and I

836
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.480
was like, and then Hondai came with this, and it

837
00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:36.679
was like perfect because I wanted to move for a

838
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:40.000
hybrid I didn't want to go fully electric, so I

839
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:42.440
think the hybrid is the best way to go because

840
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:44.840
you get gas and you can get electric. I think

841
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:49.119
it gets like six hundred miles on the charge, you know,

842
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.239
plus you got gas, like I mean, so it was

843
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.039
it's crazy how this all came about, and it was

844
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:56.559
actually what I was looking for.

845
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:00.480
And how was the shoot you know, that was the

846
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:04.039
production of that, you know, for shooting the campaign? Like

847
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:04.840
where you.

848
00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:08.159
Know, were you were you.

849
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.840
Enjoying all this time in this car like you know,

850
00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:13.599
I mean it's brand new. It's it's I don't it

851
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:14.960
hasn't even hit yet right.

852
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:18.519
In the streets exactly when it hits on the streets.

853
00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:22.239
But yeah, it was my first time getting in the car,

854
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:25.840
and I you know, I had to like of course

855
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.559
sit in the car and enjoy the car like and

856
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.079
it was it was it wraps around you. It's like

857
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:39.679
it's really luxurious, and it's like I enjoyed I could

858
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:43.159
relax in the car, you know, I just they like

859
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:44.920
cut and you can go back to your trailer. And

860
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:48.119
I think I was just chilling in the car because

861
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:50.920
the car was just that comfy, you know what I mean. Yeah,

862
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:54.320
And it's comfy. I shot in one of the social videos.

863
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:56.760
I shot all throughout the car, so I was in

864
00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:59.119
the driver's seat, I was in the passenger seat, I

865
00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:02.079
was in the backseat, and it was comfortable in all

866
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.519
of the seats too. So it's not this one person's

867
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:12.000
getting the most comfort. It's the full vehicles. It's luxury throughout.

868
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:12.880
That's dope.

869
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:15.039
Yeah, it's a it's a really nice car. I was

870
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:15.719
really impressed.

871
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.280
So you and I were heading out to the gym

872
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:26.360
in a twenty twenty six Hyundai Palisades Palisades Hybrid. What

873
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.639
are you playing? What's what's the playlist there?

874
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:33.320
I mean some people need certain music to get pumped up.

875
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:38.079
I'm pumped up because I come. I'm coming to get working.

876
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:41.920
We can be in the hotel gym. We could be

877
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.960
outside on a playground, we could be in my.

878
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:48.599
Living room if we ready to work out.

879
00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:50.320
I'm in a zone.

880
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:52.079
I'm coming to work.

881
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:56.159
Some people gotta go to the trendy gym and this

882
00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:59.400
and that. I don't care if they got weights, they

883
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:03.320
got machine, or if it ain't nothing but a pull.

884
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:05.119
Up bar, and we're gonna get it in.

885
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:09.960
We gonna get because that's where I'm dialed in like that.

886
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:11.880
I come to work, I don't come to play it.

887
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.480
All right, So how about you know we're in that

888
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:20.159
Hyundai Palisade hybrid chilling, just going on a you know,

889
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:23.760
chill ride. What what are you switching to?

890
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:24.039
Then?

891
00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:29.000
I like a lot of Uh. I've been listening to

892
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:32.159
the John Baptiste album where he did over the Beethoven.

893
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:34.480
Mm hm, he's amazing.

894
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.639
I went and saw him in Vegas amazing live too.

895
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.840
Yeah, he looked his team looked out on for me

896
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.280
and my woman on some tickets, my partner and we

897
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:48.039
had a great time. But I would listen to I

898
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:49.440
think it's Beethoven Blues.

899
00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:51.920
I think that's the name of the album.

900
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:55.199
We'll We'll, We'll be popping out because I like I

901
00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:57.840
listened to a lot. I listened to old school hip hop.

902
00:46:57.880 --> 00:46:59.719
I listened to some new stuff. I listen to a

903
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.480
lot of jazz. I listened to some blues. I listened

904
00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:04.400
to like Edna James, I.

905
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:04.920
Listen to.

906
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.440
So like Yeah, but that's one that kind of plays

907
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:12.840
a lot in my house, and that skot of like

908
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:14.599
new age piano.

909
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.000
Like music.

910
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:20.679
I listened to a lot even in classical too. Listen,

911
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:25.239
we played classical for my daughter. So all kind of

912
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:29.280
music get played in the house, Salsa, every nice.

913
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:29.920
Yeah.

914
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:33.920
So you know, streaking of chilling, you have a meditation

915
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:39.719
album coming out, you know what. It's not that I

916
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:42.440
would think somebody, you know, if I was like, yo,

917
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:45.280
did you get that new Little John, I don't think

918
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:48.320
they would immediately think like, you know, now a say

919
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:54.400
type of you know, meditation album. What what has led.

920
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:55.119
You to this?

921
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:56.320
Well?

922
00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:59.639
This is my third project.

923
00:47:58.840 --> 00:47:59.000
Uh.

924
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:04.280
The the first one was we did what's the name?

925
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.239
I can't even remember the name of the freaking album.

926
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:09.599
This is the third. Total Meditation was the first album,

927
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.880
and then Manifest Abundance Affirmations for Personal Growth was the

928
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:19.519
second album. And this album is remixed meditation. So I

929
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:24.079
recorded this album kind of about two three years ago.

930
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:28.840
When I recorded the other stuff and we this one,

931
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.440
me and my partners were like, oh, this is amazing,

932
00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:34.760
but I was I was like, this cannot come first

933
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:38.440
because basically this album is I took a bunch of

934
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:41.480
songs that I produced are that were my songs that

935
00:48:41.559 --> 00:48:45.000
I was on artist on and I turned those into meditations.

936
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.440
So like we're we're putting the first single out as yeah,

937
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:51.800
and it's like say yeah to life.

938
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:52.719
You know what I mean.

939
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:56.719
So it's like, so we flipped it and like it's

940
00:48:56.760 --> 00:48:59.440
the music is totally different. Shout out to Kabar Sego.

941
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.679
He produced all of this, the music and the album

942
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:09.159
and it's like meditation music. But so imagine, yeah, the

943
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:14.519
music flipped to you know, meditation like we did Lovers

944
00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:17.480
and Friends and Lovers and Friends just like a jazz

945
00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:24.719
jazz but it's like jazz meditation music. You know, It's

946
00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:28.360
just it's awesome. It's something different, and I think it's

947
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:30.920
something that's going to really connect with people. And it's

948
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:34.039
probably gonna go crazy on TikTok because people love the

949
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:35.119
crack jokes.

950
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.880
So they had some jokes about it.

951
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.719
But and that's why I didn't want to put that

952
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:42.880
album out first, because I want.

953
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:45.360
To take this serious yeast.

954
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:50.079
When they heard Total Meditation, they were like, okay, this

955
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.360
They didn't know what to expect, but they were like, okay,

956
00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:56.679
this is actually it actually is calming and soothing. And

957
00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.000
you know, I had so many people who come to

958
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:02.639
me and say, I never meditated before, but you know,

959
00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:05.039
you brought this to me, and I was able to

960
00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:08.679
I was actually able to meditate or help me sleep.

961
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:11.639
Someone even came to me and said it helped them

962
00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:14.280
get through some grief that they were going through. So

963
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:18.000
I'm just happy to be out here and inspire with

964
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:21.480
not just the meditation, with the weight loss, because so

965
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:25.079
many people, even in the weightlifting, so many people say, ah,

966
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:26.880
I can't do it. I can't go to the gym,

967
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:28.760
I can't do this, I can't do that. I'm fifty

968
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.199
three years old, i got a ten month old daughter.

969
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:35.400
I'm in the studio, and I'm on the road doing shows,

970
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.840
and I was able to compete, So it's no excuse

971
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:43.599
for anybody else. And you know, chef on the road

972
00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:47.239
with me. I have a trainer, but I'm you know,

973
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:49.639
I saw some people like say, oh, he can do

974
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:53.320
it because he got this, that, this and that. No, still,

975
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:56.599
I gotta do the work. Yeah, dedicated, I got to

976
00:50:56.639 --> 00:51:00.239
eat right, you know, And it's hard. All of that

977
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.440
is extremely hard on the road and especially also trying

978
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:09.079
to work out on the road because something traveling. I'm tired,

979
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:12.559
I'm exhausted. And if you work out when you're exhausted,

980
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:16.599
you defeat the purpose because you can't have growth and

981
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:18.960
you can you can potentially hurt yourself, you could potentially

982
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:23.519
get sick. So it's a balance. It's a struggle. It's hard,

983
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.559
but it's a lifestyle change for me, you know. So

984
00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:30.639
it's you know, help with now for me is everything,

985
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:33.519
you know. I have my daughter's here, she's ten months old,

986
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:35.880
and I look at it like I got to be

987
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:42.000
there for her first day of school. Yeah, college graduation.

988
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:46.280
I gotta be there to walk her down. So I

989
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:48.360
can only do that if I take care of myself,

990
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:51.719
you know. So I hope, I hope I can inspire

991
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:56.079
other people to do the same. Stop eating the fast foods,

992
00:51:56.320 --> 00:52:00.000
stop eating the processed foods, watch what you're putting into

993
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.440
your body, and you know, take the proper supplements and

994
00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:08.079
you can live along, healthy.

995
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:08.000
Happy life.

996
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:13.760
Yes, sir, and physical I love that. I love that

997
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:16.320
so much, Little John, thank you so much. Come back

998
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:18.880
on the show Man, we'll talk about your album. I

999
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:21.239
can't wait to hear that, a mix of Deepak and

1000
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:22.559
Oprah and John.

1001
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:29.360
And uh and that that comes out in October, the

1002
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:31.400
October twenty.

1003
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:33.599
Ninth, yes sir, October twenty nine.

1004
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:41.559
And then Awesome and then the Hyundai Palisade Hybrid that

1005
00:52:41.639 --> 00:52:43.840
campaign is out right now and you're on the road

1006
00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:46.519
with Mariah Carey. Thank you so much.

1007
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:51.679
Brother, Yes, sir, thank you.

1008
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.239
Get low, get Lo, get Lo, getting Lo.

1009
00:52:55.679 --> 00:53:00.159
All right, Little John, love Little John, and love our

1010
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:03.880
friends at Hyundai. So we're going to switch gears and

1011
00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:08.079
dive into The Last Frontier, the new Apple TV Plus

1012
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:11.199
series that gives big I need to binge this in

1013
00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:14.239
one sitting vibes. I'm telling you it's really really good.

1014
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:17.039
First up, we were joined by co creator, writer, and

1015
00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:21.440
executive producer John baching Camp to talk about how The

1016
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:25.199
Last Frontier came together and how he went from creating

1017
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:29.119
The Blacklist to now ep ing The Last Frontier.

1018
00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:35.320
Here he is, John backing Camp. Thank you so much

1019
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:36.280
for speaking with me.

1020
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.360
John app for sure it yeah, thank you, Tom So.

1021
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.119
First of all, congrats on the Last Frontier. It is

1022
00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:49.760
really compelling. I am loving every second of it. What gig,

1023
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:50.840
of course?

1024
00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:51.599
What gave you?

1025
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:53.440
Why this project?

1026
00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:57.159
You know, why were you drawn to this project?

1027
00:53:57.440 --> 00:53:59.400
I think I was really drawn to the scope of it, right,

1028
00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:04.559
the idea something so remote and yet so beautiful, and

1029
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:10.840
the problems that the rugged nature of Alaska would present

1030
00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:14.800
to a planeload of inmates who are incredibly ill equipped

1031
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:16.840
to be in this landscape.

1032
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:19.840
Right, that's part of it, you know.

1033
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:23.239
The The idea of trying to do something that's that's

1034
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:27.199
action forward, that's very frenetic, that has an incredible pace

1035
00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.159
to it was also interesting to me. And yeah, I

1036
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:31.960
think that's sort of the jumping off point probably.

1037
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:37.559
And you know, you're no stranger to prestigious fan loved

1038
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:44.199
successful series with The Blacklist and all. Was this something

1039
00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:45.559
that was on your radar?

1040
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:48.039
You know what I mean?

1041
00:54:48.519 --> 00:54:50.920
The Blacklist was on for a long time. Was this

1042
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:53.880
something kind of cooking up in the background, or.

1043
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:55.119
You know how that's funny.

1044
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:58.920
It's funny. I've written a bunch of things that have

1045
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.800
some of them. Some are sitting in a on a

1046
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:05.000
shelf in my closet. Some probably never should be made,

1047
00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:07.239
there's all. You know, there's always these ideas and you

1048
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:09.519
never know what one's going to connect for whatever reason.

1049
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:12.159
This is an idea that I had kicked around with

1050
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:14.960
my dear friend Rich to video back in two thousand

1051
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:17.599
and six. Right, this is forget. There was no Apple

1052
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:20.639
TV plus, there were no iPhones. Everyone's on a flip phone.

1053
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:25.719
It's a long time ago, right, and and so as

1054
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.840
as I was leaving Blacklist and looking forward to what

1055
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:30.280
else would be fun to do, this felt like a

1056
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:33.440
series that also had just a little bit of a procedural.

1057
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:33.559
Feel to it.

1058
00:55:33.559 --> 00:55:36.440
It felt it felt comforting in that way, and yet

1059
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:39.440
the scope of it is so much bigger and sort

1060
00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:43.039
and how and it has also that sort of serialized

1061
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:45.280
mystery at the heart of it that it just felt

1062
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:48.679
like a natural next step. You know, it's a it's

1063
00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:52.760
it's comfort food. It's something that is definitely there's probably

1064
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:55.280
a little DNA of the Blacklist in it, but it's

1065
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:58.079
its own. It's its own series that lives and breathes

1066
00:55:58.119 --> 00:55:58.760
on its own.

1067
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:03.000
And do you, you know, as you're kind of cooking

1068
00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:07.239
this up, if you will, are you kind of thinking,

1069
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:10.960
you know, Frank and the inmates and that.

1070
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:11.480
Sort of thing.

1071
00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:14.679
Are you in the earlier stages, are you kind of

1072
00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:21.400
putting together I want this protagonists kind of as a

1073
00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:24.159
character not you know, not obviously fully fleshed out at

1074
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:26.360
that point, But are you saying like, I need somebody

1075
00:56:26.360 --> 00:56:30.000
who's empathetic but strong for that, you know, or does

1076
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:32.039
it kind of come organically over time?

1077
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:35.679
Well, nothing comes organically to me. It's always super painful,

1078
00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:42.159
but the you know, in this it was it was

1079
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:44.760
sort of the concept first, But then I think very quickly,

1080
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:46.519
when you sit down with other writers and you start

1081
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:48.960
looking at, Okay, what's the story going to be, that

1082
00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:52.320
concept sort of falls away. It's a it's a an engine.

1083
00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:55.519
It's something that launches us and gets us going. But ultimately,

1084
00:56:55.599 --> 00:56:59.679
I think the people, the characters, what they're confronting that

1085
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.039
because not only in the riding, but in the viewing

1086
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:04.840
of the show, the thing that's more important and probably

1087
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:08.119
the only thing people remember is these characters, right. And

1088
00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:11.760
so as much as it was a blast to sort

1089
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:13.559
of come up with as big of a situation as

1090
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:16.239
we could that would launch us into a sort of

1091
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:19.400
heightened world, then I think you immediately try to ground

1092
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:21.360
it and figure out who are the people that we're

1093
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.840
going to go on this ride with, what is their

1094
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:26.840
sort of point of view, what are they up against?

1095
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:29.039
And that's where all the that's where all the juice is.

1096
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:34.639
I think, had you been to Alaska before, Yeah, I'd

1097
00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:37.719
been once years ago. I went up there on a

1098
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:41.280
family vacation. I was mesmerized by it. I flew on

1099
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:45.320
one of these little float planes, you know, and mosquitoes,

1100
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:48.559
the size of like seagulls and everything about it was

1101
00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:52.119
just larger than life. And I've been very romantic about

1102
00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:54.199
it since, but I haven't spent a ton of time there.

1103
00:57:54.920 --> 00:57:58.719
And did you kind of you know, well, so this

1104
00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:01.519
was before like two thousand and six when you started

1105
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:02.599
kind of thinking about that.

1106
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:05.199
Yeah, probably, yeah, yeah, okay.

1107
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:09.920
So as you're you know, putting this together, are you

1108
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:13.039
kind of taking some of those things that you remembered,

1109
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:15.800
you know, on your trip and being like, you know

1110
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:16.920
that stuck out in my mind.

1111
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:18.960
I want that and very much, so very much.

1112
00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:21.760
I remember vividly staying at this place where they had

1113
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.280
I don't know what they technical called them, the dogs

1114
00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:26.599
that are part of the idea rod right, This family

1115
00:58:26.679 --> 00:58:28.360
had these dogs and they were all chained up to

1116
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:30.159
these little huts and they're all barking when you go

1117
00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:32.639
out at night, and I thought, wow, what is that

1118
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:33.360
like that.

1119
00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:35.480
Those sort of pieces, they're just to me.

1120
00:58:35.519 --> 00:58:37.039
There's sort of little pieces that maybe go in an

1121
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:39.760
email to myself or little pieces that stick in your mind.

1122
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:43.559
But then that's what's almost therapeutic about going through writing

1123
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:48.199
the series. You're grabbing little pieces of memories, of trips,

1124
00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:51.599
of things that stuck out or felt strange or dangerous

1125
00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:54.000
and trying to put them into this soup and make

1126
00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:54.679
sense of it all.

1127
00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:59.519
Do you I'm just curious about, you know, as you

1128
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:03.639
are doing a project like this, do you start to

1129
00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:10.079
kind of you know, for instance, the characters themselves are obviously,

1130
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:13.239
you know, integral, and they're so well written and fleshed out,

1131
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:19.599
but Alaska, you know, the scene itself kind of becomes

1132
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.519
a character in a lot of ways. You know, do

1133
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:27.639
you know that kind of going in, like obviously it's

1134
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:32.000
part of the premise, but it really is integral.

1135
00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:33.239
To the entire story.

1136
00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:37.760
I know, Look, I have a good point of reference

1137
00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:40.599
for that because I did not know that going in.

1138
00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:44.360
So many times people say, you know, oh, the location,

1139
00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:48.079
the landscape is a character in the story, and I

1140
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:49.880
was nervous about that because I didn't really know.

1141
00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:50.360
What that meant.

1142
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:53.360
I knew visually what that meant, but not necessarily what

1143
00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:56.039
it meant to the characters. And through working we had

1144
00:59:56.079 --> 01:00:00.840
a consultant from there who helped us with a lot

1145
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:03.039
of sort of indigenous points of view on the show.

1146
01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:07.159
But he was talking about Sam Alexander started talking to

1147
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.920
me one day about how you have to be the

1148
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:14.199
community is very important. You might be stuck thirty miles

1149
01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:16.400
away from anything, and the only person that's going to

1150
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:18.320
come by on the road is that neighbor who you

1151
01:00:18.360 --> 01:00:19.880
really don't get along with, but he's going to be

1152
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:21.519
the one who's going to help you out, right, And

1153
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:24.639
so there are problems in a place like this that

1154
01:00:24.679 --> 01:00:26.400
you can't buy your way out of, you can't pick

1155
01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:28.480
up the phone call your way out of, and you

1156
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:32.559
have to depend on people, right, And so that community,

1157
01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:34.880
that's what I became really interested in it. And so

1158
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:40.000
when we talk about the sort of the landscape being

1159
01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:42.159
a character in the show, it really is, but again

1160
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:44.960
only through those people who are existing in this place.

1161
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:46.920
And I thought that was a really interesting point of view.

1162
01:00:48.039 --> 01:00:49.119
It is, and it.

1163
01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:51.920
Comes across beautifully and a great way for everybody to

1164
01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:53.320
see The Last Frontier.

1165
01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:54.360
John, It's really great.

1166
01:00:54.440 --> 01:00:55.280
Hey, thank you so much.

1167
01:00:55.320 --> 01:00:56.639
I appreciate you taking the time to chat.

1168
01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:59.239
Thank you, and I hope to see you for more.

1169
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:06.599
Cool care, Take care, John bukin Camp.

1170
01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:11.400
Awesome guy, awesome show, and you've got to watch The

1171
01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:14.519
Last Frontier. Gonna take a quick break, but when we

1172
01:01:14.559 --> 01:01:18.079
come back. We're staying in that Last Frontier with its

1173
01:01:18.119 --> 01:01:20.679
star and executive producer Jason Clark.

1174
01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:28.280
I'll see you in sixty Welcome back.

1175
01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:31.239
We're continuing with The Last Frontier and we've got its

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01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:34.519
star and executive producer Jason Clark, who is one of

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01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:38.440
those actors who just disappears into every role. Meanwhile, I

1178
01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:41.719
can't disappear anywhere because I'm too loud and tan. You

1179
01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:47.199
know Jason from things like pat Cemetery, Terminator, Genesis, and

1180
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:51.079
that little movie called Oppenheimer. Now he is going to

1181
01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:55.360
talk to us about Apple TV plus is the Last Frontier.

1182
01:01:55.400 --> 01:02:02.239
Here he is, Jason Clark. Thank you Jason for joining me.

1183
01:02:02.280 --> 01:02:02.960
I appreciate it.

1184
01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:04.639
Good mate. How are you. It's a great setup you

1185
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:05.440
got going on there.

1186
01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:11.119
Oh, thank you, I appreciate it. Congratulations on the series.

1187
01:02:11.239 --> 01:02:13.719
I really really loved The Last Frontier.

1188
01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:15.480
Oh I love him that, I really do.

1189
01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:17.199
You guys watch a lot of stuff and it's just

1190
01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:21.079
you know, it's I really respect it because you've been

1191
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:23.719
watching it, you've gone through it, you're inundated all the time.

1192
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:25.719
So thank you very much. I enjoyed it.

1193
01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:28.119
Too, And that's what I was going to ask you

1194
01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:28.880
what you know.

1195
01:02:29.039 --> 01:02:35.239
Obviously it's it's a drama, thriller, action, But was it fun.

1196
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:40.519
To to had a ball man? I rode horses, cadoos, planes,

1197
01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:42.519
you know, thunderbuggies.

1198
01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:43.360
You know.

1199
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:45.559
It was you know, six and a half minute action

1200
01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:49.199
sequences with Sam Hargray's one of the legends of you know,

1201
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:52.840
of action and stunt work. It was, you know, we

1202
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.679
shot in mountains and dogs, sledding, and it was it was,

1203
01:02:57.760 --> 01:02:59.480
you know, there were very rarely a day that I

1204
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:02.599
didn't come home. I'm feeling good, like feeling like I'd

1205
01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:05.320
put in a lot of hard work. You know, there

1206
01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:07.639
was sweat on the brow, I'd rolled up my sleeves.

1207
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:10.239
I had a great bunch of cast and crew and

1208
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:12.760
riders and directors around me, a great crew in Montreal,

1209
01:03:13.079 --> 01:03:15.679
and I felt like we'd done something. And then when

1210
01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:17.559
I watched it, I watched all ten and I very

1211
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:19.440
rarely watch a lot of stuff that I do.

1212
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:21.559
I wait usually quite a while to do it. So

1213
01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:22.079
that's well in.

1214
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:26.360
The distance, and I was there was an ease to it,

1215
01:03:26.440 --> 01:03:28.000
do you know what I mean? And I don't mean

1216
01:03:28.039 --> 01:03:29.920
that in a shallow way. I mean there was just

1217
01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:32.280
an ease to man. I really enjoyed that episode.

1218
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:32.760
There you go.

1219
01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:33.480
Yeah, you know.

1220
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:35.159
I asked my you know, my son, my ten yure

1221
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:36.599
and say, what do you think of that? He said, baas,

1222
01:03:36.599 --> 01:03:37.199
watch the next.

1223
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:38.840
One and you go. And there was something in the

1224
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:40.199
same way that we shot it. There was a lot

1225
01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:43.039
of confronting things. It was very difficult shooting something this

1226
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:48.840
ambitious for this long. But you know, I mean, holy moly, dude,

1227
01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:51.679
it's some days you just go, I'm on a this

1228
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:52.960
is you know man?

1229
01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:56.599
Anyone? Yeah?

1230
01:03:57.239 --> 01:03:59.960
Did you was it there any difficult?

1231
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:02.679
Is? I mean, you know, it's it's cold, it's dark,

1232
01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:06.079
it's you know, did you did that affect you or

1233
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:06.960
your performance?

1234
01:04:07.079 --> 01:04:09.960
Or how did you deal with that for your performance?

1235
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:11.679
Of course, there's a lot of things to you know,

1236
01:04:11.719 --> 01:04:13.920
the big I'll give you. I'll give you a small story.

1237
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:15.599
But you remember that scene where we get out of

1238
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.599
the helicopter with a big fight, right, yeah, memory, my

1239
01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:21.000
go to load my gun and my gun's jammed and

1240
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:22.599
there's well there's nothing on a reload.

1241
01:04:22.679 --> 01:04:24.760
Okay, that was all one you know what I mean?

1242
01:04:25.159 --> 01:04:28.039
So yeah, I had to get up and do after

1243
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:30.679
emptying on the ground, get up and it was slippery,

1244
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:31.760
it was flat, hard ice.

1245
01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:36.119
And the guy that ran at me and Gator rolled me.

1246
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:39.679
He's he was the heavyweight jiu jitsu champion of the world,

1247
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:43.639
Lee Villeneuve, a wonderful man, the strongest man I have

1248
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:45.320
ever felt in my life, by none.

1249
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:47.800
And we'd rehearsed it a couple of times, you know,

1250
01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:49.360
in carpeted places on it.

1251
01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:51.239
But he rolled me.

1252
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:52.280
We did the role.

1253
01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:53.840
That was all great, because that was the important but

1254
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:55.960
I well, he picks me up to roll me. I

1255
01:04:56.039 --> 01:04:58.519
gotta let it go as I'll do my knee very

1256
01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:01.079
dangerous and once again this this is three minutes, three

1257
01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:04.920
enough minutes into the sequence, so shit's breaking loose already.

1258
01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:09.559
But when he go, when he's hit me in all that,

1259
01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:12.239
before he gets shot, he picked me up, and for

1260
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:16.719
whatever reason, I thought, holy shit, I'm further off the

1261
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:19.679
ground than I should be, you know that, for whatever

1262
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:22.199
it is, because I knew he was gonna slam me down,

1263
01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:24.920
and he slammed me, and you can see it my

1264
01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:28.199
head bang and the whole tent were just like, you know,

1265
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:30.320
I didn't enough. They thought, oh my god, you know,

1266
01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:34.320
Jason's knocked out, and I was dude, and I thought,

1267
01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:36.760
and he grabbed me again. I thought that was off script.

1268
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:39.039
You shouldn't be up, so I hope he's I did, Lord,

1269
01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:42.679
do not pick me up again, Man, do a d

1270
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.159
But then Dom comes out of nowhere and shoots him,

1271
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:46.840
you know what I mean. And it's on but you

1272
01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:48.920
can see me. There's then getting up and I really

1273
01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:52.119
was seeing stars. But like at that point, there's something

1274
01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:54.679
about the old doctor theater. You can't stop because we're

1275
01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:57.280
pulling this off, so you have, you know, get my

1276
01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:59.679
beanie down on my head because I can't leave that down.

1277
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:02.960
So there was things like that, you know, that were

1278
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:04.760
you know, there was just things that would happen, and

1279
01:06:04.760 --> 01:06:06.280
you kept going because of the start and you had

1280
01:06:06.280 --> 01:06:08.760
to and you wanted to. The other part was just

1281
01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.440
you know, eight months eight months in front of a

1282
01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:15.559
camera gets pretty weird, you know what I mean. It's

1283
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:20.119
like in your business, it's just you have a strange relationship.

1284
01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:23.519
Then after a while, you know, like you're always on camera,

1285
01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:26.960
you know, you're always and it's the relationship with yourself

1286
01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:31.519
as well, because it's like, you know, you to kind

1287
01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:33.960
of forget the reality of this tunnel you're in, you know,

1288
01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:37.639
and that was hard, you know, and then just you know,

1289
01:06:37.719 --> 01:06:39.880
and then just just just sticking to it, man, you know,

1290
01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:42.119
I mean making sure they didn't get seek, making sure

1291
01:06:42.119 --> 01:06:44.239
I didn't get any injuries, making sure I knew my lines,

1292
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:46.840
making sure that everyone else was okay, you know, and

1293
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:49.519
that everyone was happy, you know, because it was it

1294
01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:51.880
was a you know, it was a massive circus that troubled,

1295
01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:55.039
you know, everywhere, and worked for long hours and had

1296
01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:55.639
a lot of fun.

1297
01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:58.079
Well, it really shows.

1298
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.800
I can't wait for everybody to see The Last Frontier.

1299
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.559
You are a gem in it and everything you do.

1300
01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:05.679
So thank you, Jason, I thank you, Mike d I

1301
01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:07.800
appreciate it. Have a great day.

1302
01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:16.079
Enjoy you too, Jason Clark, love him love the Last

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01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:19.320
Frontier and it is available right now on Apple TV.

1304
01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:22.599
I highly suggest you watch it, and then of course

1305
01:07:22.679 --> 01:07:25.400
let me know when you do. If you're on the

1306
01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:29.960
iHeartRadio app, you can use the talkback button and send

1307
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:33.840
a voice memo to me. If you're not, you can

1308
01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:37.360
go to podcast dot popculturewekly dot com and hit that

1309
01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:40.400
microphone button to leave me a voice memo and you

1310
01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:44.480
might just hear it right here on Pop Culture Weekly.

1311
01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:48.840
All right, we go from one thriller to another as

1312
01:07:48.920 --> 01:07:52.840
I chat next with Abby Elliott and Jake Lacy about

1313
01:07:52.880 --> 01:07:56.360
their new project, All Her Fault, which is a limited

1314
01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:59.840
series on Peacock based on the book All Her Fault

1315
01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:05.239
Andrea Amara, which basically is where a mom goes to

1316
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:08.440
pick up her son from like his first play date

1317
01:08:08.599 --> 01:08:12.320
with a new friend, but the woman who answers the

1318
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:15.800
door has never heard of her son.

1319
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.319
It's really crazy, really good.

1320
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:22.840
The vibes are like suspense, drama, mystery, and the occasional

1321
01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:26.199
I can't trust anybody, you know, just like family holidays.

1322
01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:30.439
In any event, let's kick off All Her Faults with

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01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:36.560
Abby Elliott and Jake Lucy. Thank you Jake and Abby

1324
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:37.159
for joining me.

1325
01:08:37.239 --> 01:08:38.319
I really appreciate it.

1326
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:40.239
Thanks for having me so much.

1327
01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:41.479
Thanks of course.

1328
01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:45.880
So first of all, congratulations on the project. It is

1329
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:51.199
captivating and I can't wait to talk about it with people.

1330
01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:54.840
How did you both, you know, were you familiar with

1331
01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:57.760
the source material with the book beforehand, and if so,

1332
01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:01.960
did you read it and did that play into your

1333
01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:05.239
you know, doing your characters?

1334
01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:08.960
I I did not. I didn't read it, but I

1335
01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:14.159
love this genre of story, whether it's you know, on

1336
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:18.159
TV or reading a book or audiobook. I listened to

1337
01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:20.640
a lot of audiobooks. But uh, but this is the

1338
01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:23.359
kind of thing that I love. But I am glad

1339
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:26.399
that I didn't read it because apparently my character Leah

1340
01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:29.800
is very different in the book, and you know, there

1341
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:31.520
aren't too many similarities.

1342
01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:40.199
So well, I mean there are, but like with Leah later, but.

1343
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:45.239
Yeah, I just, uh, I was excited to dive into

1344
01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:48.319
something new and different for me coming from comedy, this

1345
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:54.840
is like, you know, something I've never done before, and and.

1346
01:09:54.920 --> 01:09:57.479
Yeah, I I was. I was thrilled to work with

1347
01:09:57.520 --> 01:09:59.119
these amazing actors.

1348
01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:03.000
How about for you, I read the book, but but this,

1349
01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:06.359
you know, the script is just like the the thing

1350
01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:07.119
you're going off of.

1351
01:10:07.159 --> 01:10:09.359
At no point of you, like, you know, Megan in

1352
01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:10.920
the book, it says.

1353
01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:13.439
Like, you know, but it weren't similarities, that's right.

1354
01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:16.920
Yes, there's discrepancies between the material, yes.

1355
01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:18.720
But not to know that.

1356
01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:25.640
But but there's like there will be Like a good

1357
01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:31.359
example is in the book, Peter is like fifteen years

1358
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.880
older than Marissa, and so then there's this kind of

1359
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:41.880
like paternal aspect and this kind of generational difference between

1360
01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:46.880
Marissa and Leah and Colin, and then Peter is sort

1361
01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:51.800
of removed from that in a way, and his really

1362
01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:56.079
his point of view on Colin is very clear in

1363
01:10:56.159 --> 01:11:01.680
the book that Peter is like, why is this dead

1364
01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:07.640
weight hanging around my family? And that wasn't as clear

1365
01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:11.000
early on in the scripts, but it was nice to

1366
01:11:11.079 --> 01:11:13.760
have that information because it does come out later that

1367
01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:17.560
Peter's point of view on Colin is like, you're a loser,

1368
01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:21.840
Like why are you involved with anyone in my circle?

1369
01:11:22.399 --> 01:11:25.159
You're dragging them down. And so to have that.

1370
01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:27.720
Little piece to even if it's just a look or

1371
01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:29.640
in the back of my mind and doesn't wind up

1372
01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:33.479
in the edit like that vibe will affect something where

1373
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:36.359
the dominoes kind of make sense as they fall later.

1374
01:11:37.079 --> 01:11:41.279
But but yeah, it's just it's like those little things

1375
01:11:41.279 --> 01:11:44.039
he blew it. What I'm trying to do is nag you.

1376
01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:46.479
And we could go back in time.

1377
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:51.439
Let's just so I guess.

1378
01:11:51.520 --> 01:11:52.920
I guess I wouldn't know because.

1379
01:11:52.640 --> 01:11:54.359
I well, I was.

1380
01:11:56.199 --> 01:11:56.720
Told not to.

1381
01:11:56.880 --> 01:11:58.159
That's that's all I'm gonna say.

1382
01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:00.600
No, I got you, And it was clear that this

1383
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:01.560
was a different thing.

1384
01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:06.279
But project, and you know, one of the things I

1385
01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:09.680
was going to ask the both of you. Is uh

1386
01:12:09.720 --> 01:12:11.840
and I am you're kind of answering it now in

1387
01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.960
between your interaction, but it is, you know, a heavy project.

1388
01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:17.960
Did you have moments of a levity?

1389
01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:20.159
Which I think in the last five minutes you guys

1390
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:22.239
have shown me there there may have been a time

1391
01:12:22.319 --> 01:12:25.920
or two that uh that you found did you did

1392
01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:29.079
you grasp on to those moments? You know, those funny

1393
01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:34.399
moments between each other, you know the cast, uh, because

1394
01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:37.960
it is heavy material, yeah, or is it like cut

1395
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:42.800
and then you're like, you know, it's a party. No.

1396
01:12:42.920 --> 01:12:44.880
I think that there were some days where we kind

1397
01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:49.239
of sat in it and you know, especially kind of

1398
01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:54.560
you know, in the beginning one of the first kind

1399
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:58.840
of scenes, well, I guess it's yeah, we went chronologically,

1400
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:02.600
and but but the stuff in the house we shot later.

1401
01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:06.680
So like all the kind of setting things up that

1402
01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:08.800
we shot first, and that was really great because we

1403
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:10.880
got to know each other and got to know the cast,

1404
01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:14.439
and then like the stuff where we're all together in

1405
01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:18.279
the house that was shot later, and that those scenes

1406
01:13:18.279 --> 01:13:21.520
were a little more tense because that's when the revelations

1407
01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:26.319
start kind of unfolding. And and but you know, as parent,

1408
01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:31.000
like I'm a parent, Jake is a parent, and to

1409
01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:33.720
have like to cut and to be able to have

1410
01:13:34.279 --> 01:13:37.680
you know, that friendship kind of already formed, and you know,

1411
01:13:37.960 --> 01:13:41.039
to know when to joke around and to know when Okay,

1412
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:44.119
Abby's like really in it right now she's like having

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01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:45.199
trouble with that scene or whatever.

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01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:47.880
I'm not going to like bother her, and like.

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01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:50.840
You know, like the that's like the primary thing I

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01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:54.640
think is like reading the room. Yeah, if somebody's got

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01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:58.119
you know, some of these scenes really are a small

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01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:00.760
piece in setting up this very heavy story, but the

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01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:05.159
actual scene itself is not particularly heavy or dramatic, and

1420
01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:08.239
so you handle that one way and then other days

1421
01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:11.560
it's like, oh, someone really has to like hit this thing.

1422
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:13.680
It's very specific, it's emotional.

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01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:16.119
It's all that you just want to like give people

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01:14:16.119 --> 01:14:18.880
their space to do their work and read the room

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01:14:18.920 --> 01:14:20.680
and kind of follow their lead.

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01:14:20.520 --> 01:14:22.279
In that moment to go like do you want to

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01:14:22.920 --> 01:14:25.079
mess around in between or is that helpful to just

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01:14:25.159 --> 01:14:26.079
kind of raise off.

1429
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:27.720
A little or do you want to be left alone?

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01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:31.319
And you know, yeah, and also for me at least,

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01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:36.079
like I want to it's a lot of I just

1432
01:14:36.119 --> 01:14:36.640
keep saying this.

1433
01:14:36.680 --> 01:14:39.039
I sound like I'm just whining about takes, but like

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01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:41.920
it's a lot of takes. It's a lot of coverage

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01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:46.039
to get like a wide, a three shot, a two shot,

1436
01:14:46.159 --> 01:14:49.600
a tight to a single an ECU. Like you're doing

1437
01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:54.199
a lot of takes and to stay like it's happening

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01:14:54.239 --> 01:14:59.560
the first time. For me, I want some like levity

1439
01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:02.880
and create activity and joking around in between because it

1440
01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:05.920
keeps my brain, it keeps my energy up.

1441
01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:07.760
And you're trying to keep like.

1442
01:15:07.680 --> 01:15:12.159
The emotional life alive but maybe not full, and then

1443
01:15:12.279 --> 01:15:15.600
also just be like responding organically so that you're.

1444
01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:18.119
Not I don't know.

1445
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:21.960
Yeah, he takes where you're like, I don't know, you

1446
01:15:22.079 --> 01:15:24.159
think you've really hit something, but then you watch it

1447
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:25.880
back and you go just looks like an actor who's

1448
01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:30.119
like really into their own crying, which that's pretty boring.

1449
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:33.039
So you know, you want to like find this balance

1450
01:15:33.079 --> 01:15:37.039
of how to keep it full emotionally and alive at

1451
01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:37.640
the same time.

1452
01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:40.880
Yeah, thank you both so much.

1453
01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:43.399
I can't wait for everybody to see it, so, like

1454
01:15:43.439 --> 01:15:44.960
I said, I can finally talk about it.

1455
01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:46.239
I really appreciate you both.

1456
01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:47.960
Dude, thank you so much.

1457
01:15:48.119 --> 01:15:49.359
Nice talking to you.

1458
01:15:49.359 --> 01:15:51.199
You as well, have a good day. Thank you.

1459
01:15:51.640 --> 01:16:00.880
Thanks Abby Elliott and Jake Lucy if that weren't We've

1460
01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:03.920
also got Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning to round out

1461
01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:09.279
this absolute marathon of an episode to powerhouses, to legends,

1462
01:16:09.760 --> 01:16:12.479
and two people who have their lives together way more

1463
01:16:12.520 --> 01:16:12.920
than I do.

1464
01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:17.479
So let's dive right in. Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning,

1465
01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:22.399
thank you both for joining me. I really appreciate it.

1466
01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:28.439
So the series, first of all, congratulations, it really is incredible,

1467
01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:31.359
and I wonder especially for you.

1468
01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:34.960
I'll start with you, Sarah, being a.

1469
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:40.359
Parent, did this you know, kind of have even heavier

1470
01:16:40.520 --> 01:16:44.239
weight than maybe another role did as you're filming.

1471
01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:48.960
Yeah, it definitely gave me an insight track to what

1472
01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:52.199
it would feel like to lose your child, because.

1473
01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:53.600
All of a sudden, I have one to lose.

1474
01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:57.039
So yeah, I would say that definitely there's a there's

1475
01:16:57.039 --> 01:17:01.039
a there's a deep feeling and a ignition of what

1476
01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:06.159
it would be like to have your child disappear. But imaginatively,

1477
01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:09.640
I really had to separate her from my experience on

1478
01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:14.239
set because useful to draw on, but not useful to

1479
01:17:14.319 --> 01:17:16.640
have in the moment too much.

1480
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:16.920
You know.

1481
01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:22.239
Yeah, And Dakota for you, you know, you are playing

1482
01:17:22.279 --> 01:17:22.840
this kind.

1483
01:17:22.720 --> 01:17:25.920
Of support person, and.

1484
01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:31.119
How do you draw from that for you know, as

1485
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:35.279
you're preparing to dive into the character, you know, do

1486
01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:38.479
you do it as okay? You know, do you take

1487
01:17:38.520 --> 01:17:41.680
from your your close relationships like, oh, if this was

1488
01:17:41.720 --> 01:17:43.399
my best friend, this is what I would do, Like

1489
01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:44.920
how does that process work for you?

1490
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:58.039
Well, Kyle, I think you're describing out Yeah, you know,

1491
01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:03.439
I mean being in any any character, any story. You Yeah,

1492
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.359
you draw from what's useful from your own experience. But

1493
01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:09.520
you know, sometimes you're you're playing someone who's at a

1494
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:11.439
different stage in their life or a different kind of

1495
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:15.000
personality or whatever. So yeah, you draw on, like Sarah said,

1496
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:18.000
the things that are helpful from from your own experiences.

1497
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:20.720
And then being an actor is really about just having

1498
01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:24.840
like a wild imagination and being able to just imagine

1499
01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:34.000
these scenarios however intense or crazy or otherworldly or paranormal

1500
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.560
or you know, I mean all all kinds of different things,

1501
01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:43.680
and just yeah, being being really like immersed in the

1502
01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:48.600
script and the story and the and tracking all the relationships,

1503
01:18:48.720 --> 01:18:50.720
especially in something like this which just has kind of

1504
01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:54.640
a thriller or mystery element you're you're sort of always

1505
01:18:56.399 --> 01:18:59.960
orientating yourself about, like, Okay, who knows what I know

1506
01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:02.600
this yet? This hasn't been revealed yet, you know, so

1507
01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:05.000
it becomes a little technical in that way too.

1508
01:19:05.039 --> 01:19:07.199
It's like, oh, I haven't been told that yet. Never mind,

1509
01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:09.039
like I shouldn't have said that line that way.

1510
01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:09.279
You know.

1511
01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:12.760
It's it's so you know, you're thinking about all kinds

1512
01:19:12.760 --> 01:19:16.880
of things, and yeah, using what's helpful from your own life,

1513
01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:19.680
and then also just you know, making stuff up too,

1514
01:19:20.560 --> 01:19:21.119
And do.

1515
01:19:21.039 --> 01:19:24.520
You did you did either of you read the source

1516
01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:25.760
material first?

1517
01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:29.720
And if so, did you find that helpful or not?

1518
01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:31.039
Yeah?

1519
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:33.880
I read the book beforehand, and in sort of in

1520
01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:36.920
part of signing on to the project, I read the

1521
01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:40.159
book and it was great. It was useful actually because

1522
01:19:40.159 --> 01:19:43.239
it helped as a and Andrea was very keen to

1523
01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:46.359
let us elaborate and expand the world of the book.

1524
01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:50.359
And so the book exists in a in a as

1525
01:19:50.399 --> 01:19:53.000
its original form, obviously, but then we've taken it further.

1526
01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:56.000
We've we've explored a lot of the more social themes

1527
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:59.319
in there. We've we've developed more characters, we've changed a

1528
01:19:59.399 --> 01:20:01.720
bunch of the care a little bit where Brian is

1529
01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:06.039
slightly different and Colin is slightly different, and that's that's

1530
01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:07.640
nice because you get to you.

1531
01:20:07.640 --> 01:20:08.279
Have a real.

1532
01:20:09.640 --> 01:20:12.079
Firm foundation and then you can leap off from it.

1533
01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:13.920
I love that.

1534
01:20:14.039 --> 01:20:16.439
Thank you both so much. I can't wait for everybody

1535
01:20:16.479 --> 01:20:19.399
to see this. I really appreciate your time. Thanks Chyle,

1536
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:21.479
thank you, and I've learned about acting.

1537
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:31.319
Take care. Thank you, Sarah Snook and Dakota Fannie.

1538
01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:36.760
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01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:39.520
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01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:48.279
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1550
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