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Revisiting a Webby Award Honoree: Kid Cudi and Paul Reubens on The Talkhouse Film Podcast

In this episode, now a Webby Award honoree, the hip-hop star, a lifelong Pee-wee Herman fan, sits down with his idol and friend.

6:00 AM EDT on April 11, 2017

On the occasion of the episode becoming a Webby Award honoree, Talkhouse podcast producer Elia Einhorn and Talkhouse Film's Editor-in-Chief Nick Dawson revisit the very special conversation from 2016 between hip-hop star, actor and longtime Pee-wee Herman fan Kid Cudi and Pee-wee himself, Paul Reubens. In addition to the full original talk between the two — which touches on how they first met, Reubens' journey to bring Pee-wee Herman back to the big screen, Cudi's strong dislike of skunks (and recent encounter with a mountain lion), and a discussion by both of future creative projects — you get to listen to the full backstory of how this unlikely episode came together. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at thetalkhouse.com/film.

The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink
2. “Breakfast Machine” – Danny Elfman (from the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure)

Episode engineered by Sam Duell, edited by Mark Yoshizumi and produced by Elia Einhorn.

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