Bumping to add this.

I have to give props to SNL's digital short team here.  They do a great job of taking a purely audio story and visualizing it in a way that seems authentic to what SERIAL would be if it had a video component.  This is to say nothing of Cicily Strong's really spot on Sarah Koenig impersonation.

Short answer: know your kid.  Know what their limits are, what frightens them, makes them laugh, makes them cry.  Most importantly, know WHY.  My son watched MMA with me when I know its not going to be a bloody fight.  He's not phased by that.  Andy Serkis' voice in the new Star Wars trailer?  TERRIFIED HIM.  Hands over ears, eyes shut, "NO, NO DADDY!"  So what does that (and my countless other observations) tell me?  He's not afraid of the physical.  He's not afraid of stuff happening to our bodies.  But tone and mood can wreck him if I don't present it well.  SO...I act accordingly.  I show him stuff that's within his comfort zone, but up to the edge of it, with the goal of expanding it.  Because that should be the goal of all us parents.  Media is out there and younger an younger kids are getting bombarded by it and with an unprecedented amount of access to it.  It's going to be out of my hands sooner than later.  All I can do is not insult his intelligence, lead and occasionally push, and most importantly of all, digest and discuss everything we see together.  I say, take them to Hobbit.  TALK about beheadings and why in that scenario its ok.  Drew McWeeny just showed DIE HARD to his kids, and his oldest accidentally let a "Yippe Kai Yay MOTHER FUCKER," before realizing what he said.  Drew calmly responded, "Buddy we don't ever say that word.  John McClaine is fighting terrorists, he has an excuse."

Whats the worst that happens?  A discussion?  We should be welcoming all that.

Here's one I saw (extraordinarily illegally, I might add) after recording but it's already in my too 5 for the year.  A Korean Documentary called, "MY LOVE, DONT CROSS THAT RIVER."  Purely devastating.

I've been public about it, but the Boogie Nights commentary is great.  It's so casual, people are cooking, there's a baby somewhere, but in the middle of it all people are having a great conversation about the film.  It fit for the ensemble nature of the film.  Just a lot of fun.

I have an allergic eration to hearing my own voice, but in terms of WAYDM commentaries I've been on, I think the ones I can stand to listen to are Twilight, LOTR, Alien, and The Prestige.  Of commentaries I wasn't on but I really dug, Raiders was great.  Abyss was the very best of the man called Trey.  There's a million I'm leaving out, but off the top of my head those are good ones.

I mentioned this on our end of 2013 show.  I am in love with this movie.  Brie Larson is a keeper, folks.

I'm absolutely addicted from EP 1.  I'm calling it now though, I don't think for a second we're gonna get a conclusive answer to the mystery.  I'm ok with that but I think the internet is going to shit in it's own mouth once the last episode drops.

It was the first movie I took my son to in a theater and what an awesome choice.  It's really something special.  Vastly superior to Frozen with great characters, a story that doesn't pander to kids, and carries an awesome pro-science message.

WE ARE THE BEST

Pure joy.  I missed this in it's limited run at Cinefamily, much to my horror.  It's a real simple premise: two 13 year old girls in Stockholm want to form a punk band, mainly to piss off dudes they hate, and they do.  Along the way they recruit a classically trained Christian guitarist and the three form a bond that anyone who was ever 13 and kinda hated the world could relate to.  It moves really well and every performance is the right balance of chaotic and disciplined.  I was really moved by it in the end, and can't recommend it enough.  Currently on Netflix streaming.

Here is the new trailer I cut all embedable like.

Jerry Lawler.

Here's my pod from the first week.

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Some insight:

I start my week on a Tuesday, where at 8:30 I received a 15 minute string out with the basic structure from my story producer.  By 2 pm that day, I had an 8 minute rough cut with music, brill, chyrons, and those TV mortises (which are important for reasons I'll get to later).   Did a round of internal notes from the EP's, and showed it to them again by end of day.  They gave me another round of notes to my cut (now 6 minutes in length) and I left for the day.  By Wednesday at noon, I had addressed those notes and screened it for our exec at Bravo.  After a round of notes, I screened it again at 7 pm, and after his final round of notes, shipped it off to Bravo in New York for final notes.  Thursday I addressed net notes, did two more screenings and locked timid day.  Then I did part of another segment and Friday we locked the entire show.

Per the rules of fair use, we cannot edit the show we feature.  Everything must be in chronological order and we cannot full screen jump cut without showing a cutaway or the tv mortise.  So to keep the story clear, while being funny and entertaining, it can be challenging.

WE ARE LIVE.

The pledge video was harder to put together than I thought.  Many last minute notes that ran head first into some real life stuff.  Still, I'm incredibly proud to be part of the team.

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