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Episode notes What’s it like to work with Pee-wee Herman? You probably know what it’s like to watch Pee-wee – whether it’s Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure or his 2016 Netflix movie. It’s a unique, kind of magical experience. A world where anything can happen – you talk to a chair, or maybe dance and sing with Little Richard. But what was it like to work with Paul Reubens? The man behind Pee-wee.

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Episode notes Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey will be forever linked together – thanks to one show: The Office. The sitcom is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The show began in 2005 as an American reboot of the BBC series of the same name, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. But in its nine seasons, it became something else, entirely: one of the most popular sitcoms of all time.

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Episode notes Jane Borden is a writer with bylines in Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine. Jane is kind of obsessed with cults. She enjoys reading books on them, watching documentaries, and vintage news pieces on the subject. She’s into all sorts of cults. The ones that broke the mainstream like the Manson Family and Jonestown.

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Episode notes Lisa Kudrow’s big break was on the massively successful sitcom Friends. She portrayed the street-wise, but kind of clueless Phoebe Buffay. She’s one of Friends‘ most beloved characters. Kudrow’s since gone on to balance that sweetness with darker themes. She earned an Emmy nomination in 2005 for her role in The Comeback – she played an actress more or less defined by her narcissism and received another nod for the same show in 2014.

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Episode notes The Craziest Day of My Entire Career is a segment where folks join us to talk about some truly unbelievable stories from the entertainment industry. This time around, we’re joined by comedian and writer Mike Drucker. He recently wrote the book Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games. It’s part memoir, part exploration of the history of video games – a topic about which Drucker knows and cares deeply.