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Stephen Buchanan

·1 hr 27 min·5 clips

"99% of stuff isn't going to get made," Stephen says about pitches and pilots.

Stephen Buchanan drops into a loose chat that opens with a technical mistake. Chris explains that they spent about 20 minutes recording before realizing the mics were not on, and that the camera audio from that stretch has been added to the end of the episode as a bonus. That false start gives the whole thing a slightly scrappy feel. After they reintroduce Stephen and reset the conversation, the talk moves into dance videos. They get stuck on clips of people moving absurdly well, including the kind of video where someone is dancing while chopping wood. Buchanan says he cannot dance at all, though if somebody shows him a move, he can usually copy it. That becomes part of the joke about talent, imitation, and why they like watching people who can actually dance. Casey Frey comes up next. They laugh about his strange, exaggerated flirtation bits, but the bigger point is that he is very talented and has a weird energy that lands. Vine follows. They try to remember how the app worked, whether there was a way to get to the end of it, and which creators they liked back then. The memory is fuzzy in a very old-internet way. Later, the chat turns to film, and Pan's Labyrinth gets briefly mixed up with Labyrinth before the mistake is corrected. The episode never settles into a formal interview shape. It stays in the lane of loose comic conversation, with small corrections, callbacks, and detours doing most of the work. The bonus camera-audio ending only adds to that slightly rough, good-natured feel.

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A mic-failure episode that keeps its scrappy comic timing.

Stephen Buchanan leads a loose comic conversation that starts with a technical miss, since the mics were off for about 20 minutes and that material carries through to the end as camera audio. The result is chatty, sideways, and a little scrappy in a way that fits the mood.

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A Stephen Buchanan episode with a false start: they spent about 20 minutes talking before realizing the mics were not on, then added the camera audio as a bonus.

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