{"id":2201,"date":"2009-01-31T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2009-01-31T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:48:03","slug":"you_never_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"You Never Know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, I blogged about the episode of This American Life<\/i> (the Showtime series) that featured Mike Phillips<\/a>, a writer and geek who also happens to have spinal muscular atrophy. Mike is unable to speak and Johnny Depp served as Mike’s proxy voice. In the latest edition of The A.V. Club, TAL<\/i> host Ira Glass reveals how Depp came to be involved with that particular episode<\/a>:

We were about three weeks away from having to have the whole thing
\nfinished and ready to go on TV, and the president of the network, Bob
\nGreenblatt, said, “Hey, have you tried this other star [Depp]?” We thought,
\n“No, because what chance would we have?” Bob said “No, no try him, try
\nhim.” So basically, I sent an e-mail to his sister, who is his manager,
\nand his sister forwarded it to him, and we got a response five minutes
\nlater, saying yes.<\/b><\/p>\n

Remind me to ask Depp to do the audio version of my first book. Both of us will be pushing old age by the time I get anything published and he might need the work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, I blogged about the episode of This American Life (the Showtime series) that featured Mike Phillips, a writer and geek who also happens to have spinal muscular atrophy. Mike is unable to speak and Johnny Depp served as Mike’s proxy voice. In the latest edition of The A.V. Club, TAL host Ira […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-zv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}