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David McCloskey

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

What?

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

What's the theme park?

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Damascus Station, the theme park.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

I start with a theme park and then the story just kind of gets built around it.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And there's concept art of what the theme park would look like.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And Barry Geller, when he was asked why it wasn't built, said it gives a whole bunch of reasons that he's basically like, it was going to cost a half billion dollars.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

It was just going to, it was insane.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

It had like levitating trains on magnets and stuff.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

You can find them.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

the art online.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

It's quite amazing.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Now, the screenplay and the park had unfortunately, all of the financing for this had collapsed when Geller's business partner was indicted for embezzlement.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And so, the screenplay, the concept drawings by Jack Kirby have basically been sitting

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

on the shelf and Chambers has copies of this at his home.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And he hands the stuff to Mendez and it's pretty – I would – we got to create a link to this at the show notes because the concept art is wild.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

It's geographically ambiguous, I would say.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And the slightly scantily clad woman, when I went deep,

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

in my researches on this.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

So the big shape, the big kind of people in this Pavilions of Joy picture, those are 10,000 foot statues.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And then beneath that is the cityscape.