David McCloskey
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
And so all six of them will, in a very short period of time, be able to get some veneer of a cover story together.
Whereas boring insurance salesmen... Or being a nutritionist, you've got to learn about nutrition.
There's going to be a technical...
Maybe depth required there that wouldn't be as required on the Hollywood side.
And there's the great line from John Goodman in the film where Ben Affleck, the Mendez character, says, can you train someone to pretend to be a director?
And John Goodman says, you can train a rhesus monkey to be a director.
It's so good.
So, Hollywood...
Hollywood crews are typically international.
So, you know, a group of Canadians coming in, headed in out of Iran wouldn't look strange.
Of all the groups potentially going to Iran in January of 1980, a group of Hollywood eccentrics scouting desert locations in the middle of a revolution.
It seems like something Hollywood types might do.
No offense to our friends in Los Angeles.
And so, the cover is kind of fun.
It also gives, again, the idea that
These houseguests might need to lean into the cover and make it their own.
It makes it fun in a way that maybe being a petroleum engineer isn't.
Although we're bashing all kinds of occupations on the pod today, aren't we?
I know.