The Well – Page 2 – A Podcast about Creative Inspiration with Branan Edgens and Anson Mount

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023

Eric Zala – “Raiders of the Lost Youth” – TWP060

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Eric and his buddies decided they would make a shot-for-shot remake of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. The only problem? They were just kids. But they had a secret weapon at their disposal: they were just kids.

Interested listeners may watch the fan film itself, and see those moments as described, at threaderskids.com

Special thanks to John Hudgens. Additional music for this episode provided by Audiorezout under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International license.

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

The Drop – Part 16-Athena Part 2 with Bilge Ebiri

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We are not finished talking about ATHENA by Romain Gavras. This time we let film critic Bilgi Ebiri do all the talking. We also get into marketing versus promotion and how even a film like ATHENA can get lost in all the noise.

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

The Drop – Part 16-Athena Part 1

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In this installment of The Drop Branan and Anson discuss and highly recommend the astonishing film ATHENA by Romain Gavras and film critic Bilgi Ebiri stops by to help us articulate what makes this such an amazing film. Also, Branan and Anson perform an original play written by artificial intelligence.

December 5, 2022

Jello Biafra – “How to make Jello” – TWP059

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One of our cultural heroes, Jello Biafra is a legendary figure in the punk rock scene and a spoken word artist and politician. He joins us to discus how he found his unique voice and how to weather the slings and arrows of our chaotic political reality. His solution? Wicked humor.

October 27, 2022

Howard Berger & Marshall Julius – “Masters of Makeup” – TWP058

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Just in time for Halloween Branan sits down with author Marshall Julius and legendary makeup FX maestro Howard Berger to discuss their new book, and Branan gets nostalgic and wistful thinking back upon his own almost makeup career.

September 3, 2022September 1, 2022

The Drop – Part 15

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We were so taken with S.S. Rajamouli’s landmark film, RRR, we deciated a whole Drop to it! Also, odd news stories and a subtle plea for a new watch.

July 4, 2022

WHATRYADOIN’ – Jack Hitt, Part 3 “Crystal Ballz”

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Back in April of 2020 author and journalist Jack Hitt sat down with us to discuss the beginings of the pandemic and make a few predictions. Over two years later we emerge from our basements and closets to check the accuracy of those predictions and we are once again visted by the ghost of Ignaz Semmelweis. What did we get right and what did we get wrong? Have any lessons been learned?

June 21, 2022October 27, 2022

Vijay Gupta – Part 2 – “The Call” – TWP057

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Imagine getting an anonymous phone call. The person on the other end tells you that, not only has your work been recognized by group of world recognized artists and innovators, but they are also going to inject your bank account with enough money to change your work and, yes, your life. That’s what happened to Vijay Gupta. Here’s our episode about Vijay’s induction into the MacArthur Foundation’s Fellows program and the strange history of the so-called “Genius Grant.”

Vijay’s album “When the Violin…” can be found here.

May 30, 2022

Vijay Gupta, Part 1 – “Saying Yes” – TWP056

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When a virtuoso violinist realizes he has yet to develop his own artistic voice, nor any idea of how to accomplish that task, he is face with a choice: continue a lonely descent into angst, or learn to say “yes”. Here’s the story of how he chose the latter and developed a powerful friendship in the process.

You can find Vijay’s album “When the Violin” here.

You can find out more about “Street Symphony” here.

You can find Steve Lopez’s book “The Soloist” here.

May 15, 2022May 16, 2022

The Drop – Part 14

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In this episode Branan and Anson discuss: An evil & drugged cat, The STAR TREK: SNW premiere, SEVERANCE, TOP GUN 2, PAM & TOMMY, Robert Egger’s THE NORTHMAN, Cixin Liu’s The Poetry Cloud (can be read here) And Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats by Adam Sharp.

Cat illustration by Louis Wain