Sean Evans
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163 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Sean Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I do. I'd like to see something. Something titanium.
Yeah, it's a totally full schedule. It's been a really busy year, but yeah, just an itinerary that's packed for the next couple days. God, that sounds awful. They'll shove me into a room, take a bunch of pictures, do this interview, sit on this panel, do a bunch of stuff. You know, I'm leaning into this year, so... You know, I was at the Oscars last weekend.
We did Sundance the weekend before that. The whole calendar has filled up, and I'm just kind of leaning into it right now.
I think that's something that comes with growth. But right now, this is my first time kind of going through all of this.
So I'm plinko-balling through it, and then I'll review it afterwards and figure out what we need to do.
Right. Yeah. I'm learning all those things.
Yeah, it does. I never take for granted this unique magic carpet ride that I've been on. And I'll also say that a lot of it came by accident. We had this idea, but I don't think we realized the degree to which hot sauce is a disruptive element.
All the hours spent really committing to the interview, the way that it would kind of make this what's it like to have a beer with this person show that people have been trying to invent for a really long time.
Right. Yeah, I think. Yeah, people. And sometimes I kind of miss even just this, like this is fine. You know, you don't have to add some sort of high concept to it. I remember watching maybe it was before a Monday night football game and it was Sims doing an interview with someone with Patrick Mahomes and they're doing this interview and then they mixed into it like playing catch with each other.
And I remember that being just a distracting element, but it comes from a place of people sitting around in a boardroom being like, well, we can't just do an interview. We have to introduce some sort of high concept to it, which maybe it's gone a little too far.
Yeah, and I think it also just distracts you from the formality of an interview.
It's so bizarre, just the concept in general, that you'll sit down, oftentimes with someone that you're meeting for the first time. You'll have to create this rhythm, this energy, this rapport, and this sense of trust with someone. And then you're doing it in this ridiculous context of having all these cameras pointed at you and it being a show. That just, in its architecture, should...
probably brick 90% of the time, you know, like interviews should have like a 90% fail rate when you just look at how they're designed. But I think just the, um, act of sharing a meal with somebody, that's something that can kind of create that trust and then the hot sauce and then just being disoriented by the whole thing. I think you just kind of forget that you're on an interview show.
Plus the way that we shoot, it's like deep in the room, the black curtains, all of that stuff you can kind of disappear into a void.
Well, thanks. I appreciate the compliment. Well, half compliment.
Yeah, I think, you know, interviewing is just it's something that I don't think anyone's naturally good at in the beginning. And I think you only get better by the reps and all the hours that you have to put in. So that's always what I've just tried to tried to stay committed to is the next interview, trying to make it a little bit better than the next one and just keep building those things.
Um, I think be naturally curious and enthusiastic when you're doing the kind of interview that I'm doing. If you're talking to a movie star that has a movie coming out. Um, I think it's the, the best thing, the way that I do it is I just try to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. So if we're interviewing a musician, I'll listen to all the music, make a playlist.
That'll become the soundtrack to my life for a week. Um, if they've, if they have a whole filmography, you know, end your night with like a little double feature and yeah. really soak in their output as an artist. Because I think in a lot of ways that can communicate who they are as a person just as much as anything that you would read in a profile or whatever.
And then obviously you should do that other work and really dive into all the stuff. And then you have so many resources on YouTube, so many interviews, so many things that you can reference in order to get a better understanding of the person that you're talking to.
But I think overall, people that begin, they'll probably just make a list of questions and just try to fill up that sheet and think that's kind of enough or whatever.
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