Jeremy McBride
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 6 Aug
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I mean, Africa is basically going to be China one day.
They've done all these projects. I don't know if you like any of the other movies that were done about these scientific experiments people have in their homes in the 70s and 80s, bringing chimps and reintroducing them into the wild. It doesn't work. It ends horribly.
Yeah, we know those guys.
But think about, you asked a question about retroduction or these attacks that occur. There was a story we didn't include. It was just too tangential, but... There was a neighbor of the Missouri Primate Foundation, the chimp party place where all the animals were bred. At a time in the 90s, she had 42 chimps living in the house in a single property. One escapes.
A 19-year-old boy recognizes his dog in the backyards being attacked by a chimpanzee. He grabs a gun, shoots the chimpanzee. He gets charged with destruction of property. It's a felony. Oh, my God. He went to prison. Oh, my God. For six months. Gets out. He missed the birth of his daughter. That's insane. And his name is Jason Coates. It's a really interesting story. Who the fuck tried that?
And then guess what? Here's what happened. Two years ago, I think, he gets his record expunged finally at 40 years old. And now he can't get work. The guy's like a contractor and he couldn't get work. That's so crazy. Defending his property. He shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place.
Well, you have to have some discretion in the process of casting subjects. I mean, it's a choice. But I also think the idea is it was also kind of far away from where we were going with these themes. Right. Well, it seems like you could do multiple series. Oh, my God. We could continue with this thing. It's harder. It's getting harder and harder to do.
Our insurers didn't even know. But I started making a film about the sixth extinction. Big cats in America. Yeah, okay.
I think I was telling Eric this, you know, it's so we could ask this question a lot about, you know, the state of, you know, non scripted, unscripted shows, documentaries and this this dramatization that you're seeing is a trend. People making very cinematic movies. real stories, dramatic recreations.
And Eric and I, we're talking about it a lot because so much of our content is so much more surreal than anything we can even make up or recreate. And that's what's so surreal about our process and also just the stuff we capture. It's stranger than fiction.
Yeah, and we also have, you know, Eric, we're also fortunate to have an incredibly talented team that can help, you know, create these experiences in a way on screen that make it authentic. Well, and it's also the editing process. Editing, of course. We had a great team. Incredible group of guys, of teams.
It would be very helpful. It seems like you guys are doing well. It's pretty organic. It's pretty organic. I think there's also, you know, you follow the core story, which was Tanya's story. We kind of knew that we had it. the minute the missing chimpanzee happened, or the supposed death occurred. So that was the story. Where is the chimp?
And through that story, we're able to kind of latch on all these other things. Now, what you don't know is we shot these other stories, you know... out of sequence. Travis came at the very end, so we had to figure out a way to weave it into episode two, weave it into episode four. We knew we really wanted that in to serve as thematic connection to Tanya's story.
How do we spend less time on these things is what we've realized. It's exhausting. It's worth it, though.
It's about 1,300 hours, roughly.
Yeah. Now, that's just primary camera. It's like summarizing the days. I mean, multiple cameras, multiple things happening in a day, right? We're very efficient. It's an 8- to 12-hour day. We're capturing a lot of stuff in that day.
There's a process. There's a field process to ingest that has kind of the notes that we have for the day. What happened? What's interesting about the day?
No, what kind of made it... What made it more complicated... Like, we got our star. Well, you know, what's so interesting, Joe, and I want to come back to this about... You know, I saw you get a little emotional with the Buck story because I... It was really a hard one for us to tell, but an important one to make sure we got that in. But we missed it. We missed the cover.
We were going to go, Eric and I were going to go to Pendleton to cover what was happening with Buck because we knew there was a violation that occurred from the state of Oregon that basically said, Tamara, you have to do these improvements. Otherwise, we're taking the animal away from you. And that had happened. We thought we would cover the response to that. Four days later, Buck was shot.
And we said to ourselves, and I remember this so vividly, we have to trust our instincts. When we are into something, let's cover it, film it, send someone out and cover it if we need to.
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