Podcast appearances and mentions of Roger Nygard

On this week's episode of WeeklyTrek, TrekCore's news podcast, host Alex Perry is joined by Roger Nygard for a supplemental interview special. This week, we discuss Roger's work directing the Star Trek fan documentaries Trekkies and Trekkies 2, in connection with Roger's new book, The Documentarian: The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business. We talk about the genesis of Trekkies, how it was filmed, what happened to the stars of the documentary in the intervening decades, and how the film comments on the Star Trek fandom.  *** Do you have a wish or theory you'd like to share on the show? Tweet to Alex at @WeeklyTrek, or email us with your thoughts about wishes, theories, or anything else about the latest in Star Trek news!

Is there apathy for Agatha All Along? Hollywood is burning, an all female Star Trek and loads of news. Plus an interview with The Coddling of the American Mind filmmaker Ted Balaker and Roger Nygard discusses his book The Documentarian. Hilarity ensues?

This week on the blog, a podcast interview with Director/Editor Roger Nygard on his new book, “The Documentarian.”LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Buy “The Documentarian” Here: http://applausebooks.com/books/9781493086221Roger Nygard Website: http://rogernygard.com/Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastTRANSCRIPTWhere did you first get the documentary bug?Roger Nygard: It was a big mistake. I didn't plan for it. It is sort of like, “Oh, I'll try one bump of heroin. What could hurt, right? Just once.” I made a documentary called Trekkies because an actress I met named Denise Crosby (who was in my first feature film), we had lunch a few years later and she pitched the idea to me. “Hey, someone should make a documentary about these Star Trek fans.” Because she'd been going to conventions as an actor and said these people are entertaining and we couldn't believe no one had done it yet. It seems so obvious and “Yes, of course.” So, we brainstormed a little bit. We'd never done this before. How do you, uh, we have no idea how to make a documentary. But, you know, as the naive often say, how hard can it be? And then you dive in and it's really hard, especially if you don't know what you're doing.And we just stumbled into it, watched a bunch of documentaries, absorbed what we could, made a lot of mistakes, which I learned from, and then put in a book about how to make documentaries, I made the mistakes, so you don't have to. So, I just kind of stumbled into it. What was the biggest challenge you faced on that one, looking back on it? Roger Nygard: It's always, the biggest challenge is always finding the money to pay for it. Every time. Even for Ken Burns, he said it was a challenge raising money. You'd think a guy like, in, in his career at this point, with dozens of films, they'd be writing him checks, but he says he still has to go searching for the finishing funds on every project. One of the things when I saw Trekkies for the first time I was really impressed with--well, first the humanity that you treated every subject in it with. But also, your balance of the humorous and the serious elements within it. I imagine you found that in the editing, am I right? Roger Nygard: I guess so. I mean, it's something innate. I don't really consciously set out to be, “I'm going to be balanced,” or “I'm going to be funny.” It's what I look for in my own viewing. I look for films where the filmmaker is not lying to me. I want a genuine take on something. They can take a position. In fact, it's better when you take a position with a documentary. You should have a point of view. If you are just presenting both sides equally, you're much less likely to have an audience than if you take a stand, make a position and lay out the evidence and let the audience decide.But I look for that in a film, and so my films, I guess, are an embodiment of me. I'm the filmmaker. You're getting my perspective on the world. Any piece of art is the artist's perspective on the world. They're saying, “here's how I see the world.” And my documentary is me looking at people. I'm amused and I'm obsessed and I'm interested in human behavior.I find it fascinating and really funny. And so that's what happens when I process what I'm making. And then, of course, then in the editing, that's where I'm refining that point of view. So, when you sit down with someone, what techniques do you use to make your interview subjects comfortable and willing to open up to get the sort of responses you need?Roger Nygard: First, you want to start off with some flattery. Obviously. “Thank you for being here. I loved your book. It's such a good book. I loved your movie. I loved your acting. I loved whatever. I love that broach.” You, find something to compliment.And people love it. You bond with someone who likes you. We like people who like us. And so that interview is going to be a connection between two people and it's nice when it's like a friendly connection where they're not hiding their true selves. So, you want someone to feel comfortable enough so that they'll open up and give you the real stuff and not try to present, to pre edit their image. Those interviews don't work so well when someone's trying to make sure that they're going to come off a certain way. They need to be open and you're gonna take what they give you and edit it and make them look good, ideally, or at least give them a genuine, honest portrayal. But you want them to feel comfortable.Another way to do that is to share something about yourself, before you start. Maybe a tragedy you experienced, if you're talking about their tragedy. Or a funny event that happened to you. But keep it short, because they are there to talk, you're there to listen.So, mainly, you ask a question and then just shut up and let them fill the space. How long did it take you to learn to shut up? Because I'm not sure I've learned that yet. Roger Nygard: It's so hard. Especially for men. Men are the worst. I mean, I made a documentary about relationships, and that's almost the number one thing I learned from marriage therapists is that your partner needs to be heard. And men typically try to fix things, because that's what we do, right? But your partner doesn't need you to fix them usually when they're telling you something. Let's say you've got a wife, she's complaining about her boss, she doesn't want you to, to say, “Oh, why don't you quit? Why don't you do this? Why don't you do that?” That's going to make her feel worse. She wants you to just, just show empathy. And so in an interview, you want to do the same thing—show empathy—but don't intrude, just nod, “hmm, hmm, yeah, oh that's, that must have been awful, tell me more about how that felt.”Instead of interrupting and trying to guide them, just ask the question, leave the space, provide silent empathy, because you don't want your voice all over their soundtrack. How much pre-interviewing do you do and do you like that or not? Roger Nygard: I used to do a lot of pre interviewing. On Trekkies, we did a lot because it was expensive to shoot film. We made that in 16mm film. Oftentimes, we would rehearse what they're going to say and get the soundbite we needed kind of ready. And then say “action,” have them say it, and then cut, and then move on. Or maybe say it in a couple different ways. But now, it's much more typical to just let the camera roll, because we're shooting video, with maybe multiple cameras.And I think that's a better way generally, because you might get things you didn't expect. I'd rather have a lot of extra footage that I can't use and yet get that moment that I wouldn't have had otherwise, than if I'm trying to save video. But that said, you want to know what you're going there to get. You don't want to shoot a bunch of things that are useless, because you've got to sit in the editing room, or your poor editor has to go through all of this stuff. So, you do need to plan it out, and there's nothing wrong with preparing the person, pre interviewing them. You know, early in my career, I was a PA on a documentary that HBO was doing here in the Twin Cities. It was about hockey goalies, I think, and suicide. And I'd never been on a documentary set like that. And the director of it literally would say, “when we talked on the phone, you said the following sentence, would you say that again?” Which appalled me at the time, because I thought, “let him really talk.” But then like you say, he was shooting 16 and he had to get what he had to get. But now, a million years later, having done hundreds of corporate interviews, while I'm absolutely on your side of let the camera run, you also need to know what it is you want to get. But also, I remember, we were wrapping up an interview with a father of someone who, I think she had become ill, but she was fine now. And I said, “OK, well, that's just been great, Dave. Thank you for talking to me.” And the sound man—I was about to say cut—and the sound man said, “John, um, I just feel like Dave wants to say something else.” And I said, “well, yeah, we're still rolling. Go ahead, Dave.” And then he said the sentence that we needed for the whole video. And the sound man had seen that because he was paying attention to the person that I was interviewing. I had not seen it. And I got better later on at seeing that, but it's finding that balance between we're done and we're almost done, but you're about to do something brilliant that I guess you can only get from having done it.Roger Nygard: I agree. Yes, I've oftentimes said to someone, “That was a great story or a great thing you just said. Could you say it again? Because it's so important, I want to have you try again. And maybe we'll get it a little more concise this time?” Or if in your mind, you're thinking they didn't quite deliver it the way you wanted.I might even suggest, “Why don't you start by saying ‘That time I was riding my bike …' and finished the sentence.” I'll guide them, because I'm editing, I'm pre editing in my head. How am I going to use this soundbite? Can I use it? Is it usable? Or should we try again? That's very common and they like that, because they want to come off well and they want a second chance to say the thing better. So, everybody wins. And by the way, did you meet Gump Worsley? I did not. This was a high school hockey thing, it wasn't a professional hockey video. But I was surprised that at the end of the day they gave me all the film to take over to the lab. I'm just a PA. You're giving me everything to take to the place? It seemed like they were giving an awful lot of trust to this kid who didn't know what he was doing. But you raise an interesting point, because as you're interviewing, you are both directing and editing at the same time. I think if you're good at it, you're figuring out, yes, no, yeah, I can use, no, I can't. And that's a weird dichotomy. How do you balance both those things? Be in the moment, but also be in the editing suite at the same time in your head?Roger Nygard: That's the hardest thing, especially if you're a one-man band, or a one-person band, or maybe it's you and a sound person. But often, it's been just me with the person that I'm interviewing. And so I've got to make sure it's in focus, I have to remember to turn off the autofocus, I've got to ride the levels, ride the volume, I've got to remember to ask the question, and I have to listen to what they're saying, in case I want to go with a follow up. Doing all these things at once. I've got to remember that—if the lighting changes during the shot—I've got to fix the lighting because the sun moved. So many things are happening. And so, you just practice. You get better every time you do another one, and it starts to become second nature. But the most important thing, after making sure it's in focus and the sound is good quality, is to listen to what they say, exactly like your sound person. What a great advantage to have someone who is paying attention like that and a good team member to remind you.Every interview should end with, “Is there anything else you'd like to add? Is there anything that we missed or is there anything else you'd like to say?” Many of the best soundbites I've collected came in those moments when it was unprompted by me. They gave me what they needed to give me. I remember being on one shoot for an NCAA athlete. She was a basketball point guard, I think. And we're about halfway through the interview and I asked a question and her response was this. She said, “Well as I said before, oh wait, I shouldn't say ‘as I said before,' because I bet you're going to cut this up. Let me redo that and I won't say ‘as I said before.'” And then she said the statement. She finished the statement, and I turned to the crew and said, “You guys do this much more than I do. Has a subject ever said that? And they said, “No, no subject has ever been that aware of the process that they were in that they fixed on the fly what they're saying, because they knew you couldn't use it.”Roger Nygard: Those interview subjects are rare. One technique you talk about in the book is something that started with Errol Morris and ended up being used in corporate America, corporate videos quite a bit. We called it The Interrogator, but that's not quite the word that he used. What did he call it? Roger Nygard: Oh, the Interitron. We call it just the Interrogator, and it's where you've set up a system wherein they're not looking at the camera, they're looking basically at a screen, which is in front of the camera, and they see your face, and so it is a conversation. And with many subjects, I found that that really helped break down any sort of barrier, because it's really hard to talk to a camera, it's much easier to talk to someone sitting next to the camera, and the closer they are to the camera, the better your shot's going to be. But having them look right at your face was hugely helpful. Roger Nygard: There is a connection that happens, according to Errol Morris, that brings unexpected, well, I don't know, what do you want to call it, electricity between you and your subject. Maybe that you might not have when the camera's intruding on the relationship. Have you ever run into situations where there wasn't a pre-interview and it becomes very apparent very quickly that this isn't going to go anywhere? If you have, what's your response to that and how do you handle that? Roger Nygard: Oh, yeah, there are many times. Especially when I was shooting The Nature of Existence. I had 450 hours of footage. I interviewed 170 people. Something like that. Because I was fishing, I don't know what I'm going to get. And everyone is qualified to have an opinion on why do we exist. So, it's worth casting my lure into that part of the lake, even though I'm not sure that there's fish there, I didn't pre fish it. And when that happens, I just do the interview, and then I thank them and tell them it was great. And then I just don't use it, because there's nothing usable in there and it's part of fishing, right? Not every cast brings in a fish. Your Minnesota viewers are going to understand this metaphor. Well, I think fishing's internationally understood. I've never seen anyone do it outside of Minnesota, but I've seen pictures. So, you mentioned, The Nature of Existence. We've talked about Trekkies, you've talked about the relationship documentary. Where do you get your ideas for what to follow? What's going to be your next project? Where does that come from? And how do you know when you, when you have a good fish on the line? Roger Nygard: When you become obsessed with an idea, you have a message that is bursting to get out of you, and so you are compelled to see this through to the bitter end. Because it might take two years, or four years, or seven years.The Truth About Marriage took seven years. Trekkies took one year. Trekkies 2 took 18 months. The Nature of Existence took four years. The idea has to captivate me enough, and obsess me enough, get me there. And then I'm hoping the audience will be just as interested in what I'm obsessed with as I present it to them. That's probably the most important ingredient to the success of a documentary, is your choice of subject matter. What do you mean? Roger Nygard: Because otherwise you might be making a whole movie that's something no one else is gonna be interested in. Or you're doing it for some reason other than you are captivated by it. Because you're the filmmaker, you're the artist. It's your enthusiasm, your excitement that's going to come through and be felt by the audience. But while you're doing that, in your case, you are producing, directing, and editing your projects. When do you know that it's done? I mean, on The Nature of Existence, you said you interviewed, what, 170? How do you know, “Well, that's it, I've got all the pieces?” How do you make that decision? Roger Nygard: Yeah, it's hard sometimes because I had no idea where I was going to end up in with some of these films. I'm sort of like an investigator setting out to solve a crime, and so once I solved the crime, then I know where my ending is and I know how to get there, where to get to. I just have to answer the question. For example, The Truth About Marriage. My question was, Why are relationships so hard for people? That's the mystery I solved. And once I had solved it for myself, by talking to enough marriage therapists, and couples, and married people, and divorced people, a divorce attorney, etc. I had settled in on an answer. And so that's what I present at the end of the film, is what I learned while seeking out that question. That's a concept documentary. With a narrative documentary, it is easier to know your ending because it's a story of someone's life, probably, or a slice of someone's life. Or a trial with a verdict. Okay, the verdict is the ending. Or, maybe it's basketball. And so, do they win or do they lose at the end? That's your ending, and you're working backward from that. If it's a biography, if they've lived a good three act structure in their lives, you've probably got a good documentary there.If they haven't, you either have to manufacture it or find a way to present it. And many documentaries have succeeded despite a lack of a story structure and despite a lack of a solid core question. It's better to have the insurance of a solid story structure, but if you don't have it, you might yet still succeed.Like, I think Trekkies is an example of this. It's a flawed documentary, which does not have a narrative structure. And there's no solid core question asked at the beginning. But it was a grand slam as a documentary because it was so funny. And it had a core group of people that were going to automatically be interested in the film. So, we had those two high cards despite the fact that we didn't have what typically a great documentary has, which is a narrative structure just the same as a screenplay has.It feels like sometimes you're just rolling the dice, not you, but a documentary filmmaker, that you're gonna go into something and something's gonna happen and you're gonna end up with either The Jinx, where he confesses on tape at the end of your documentary, which you certainly could not have put in your pitch if you're that director. Or the folks who were working on the Alec Baldwin documentary about his trial, where the judge threw it out on the first or second day. At that point, you no longer have a documentary.What would you recommend someone do when they're going out to pitch a documentary to investors or the network or whatever on the idea of something? How do you sell something that doesn't exist yet, even in anything more than like a one page document? Roger Nygard: The best way to sell it is to make them feel the story in the room. You act it out and you bring the excitement because you're excited by it. And maybe you've done one interview already as a test. That's often where I get the feel when I'm interviewing that person. I feel it. I feel like I've got something here or I feel like it's not going anywhere. I started a documentary about Scott Hanson, local Minneapolis comedian, and we did one interview, and I just didn't feel it, because I think he was trying to present an image of himself. He wasn't willing to be open. And so I didn't get excited, and we didn't really keep going. The first interview, the first footage we shot of Trekkies, we felt it. We knew we had something. The first interview I did about this existentialist question, Why do we exist? I loved talking to people about this the way you do in a dorm room in college when you're talking about the big questions Why are we here? And what's our purpose? And what am I supposed to do with my life? That gets me excited. It gets people excited in life and death talking about death. What happens when you die? Does the soul exist? If so, where is it lodged inside your brain? Is there a compartment? You know, just fun, fun questions So, I knew, I had a sense that that was going to turn out okay, even though I didn't know my ending when I started because the idea was so gripping.I mean, it's gripped people, existentialist philosophers, for centuries. I'm not the first person to ask this question or try to figure it. I'm just one of thousands or millions, who knows? So, I was tapping into something I thought, it felt like to me. I felt it. But when you're in a pitch meeting, as you're asking, you have to make them feel the excitement either through your core question or the character description. If it's a character piece, then you are going to tell a story about this person. Who is this documentary about? I asked Ken Burns about that. How do you make a documentary about things like a bridge? His first film was about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. And he said, “You can't. You cannot make documentaries about things. It has to be about people.” And so that documentary is about the family, the Roebling family, that built that bridge and their struggle to complete the job through difficulties and challenges and near death experiences. That makes it interesting and exciting.If you love the film— like a film about an octopus, right? It's not as exciting unless you learn about the person who gets infatuated with a particular octopus, and it's his life. Or a documentary about a TV show. It's going to have a limited interest to fans of the TV show. But if you want a wider audience, you do a film about the fans themselves, about the people.The stories are about the people involved. Someone who collects owl figurines like my aunt did. She would have been a great subject. The owl figurines, who cares? You know, it's a five-minute short. Look, a bunch of owl figurines. But the person, the mindset behind someone who thinks they have to fill their house with owls. That's interesting.And it gives you lots of cutaway shots, too, which is nice. Roger Nygard: Always get your cutaways. Yes. For your documentaries, you're directing and editing, but in the case of the Comedy Store series, you were just, I don't mean to say just an editor on it, but you weren't directing it. What is that process like? I dealt with in corporate all the time. I would go out and interview the subjects and I'd bring it back to my editor and say, “Hey, here's my notes, here's the best stuff, have at it.” And he would create something great that wasn't what I had necessarily intended, but he found the best stuff in the footage and turned it into a five minute story.In the case of The Comedy Store, you're probably handed hundreds of hours of interviews with very interesting people and very funny people. What was your process for creating all those segments and deciding, this goes this stays? Because I'm guessing you could probably have done a couple more hours of just stuff that's funny. Roger Nygard: Sure, we could have done more episodes. There was plenty of footage. I was hired by Mike Binder, who I had worked with before. I had edited his feature films in the past. And he had never made a documentary.So, when he first asked me, I was busy. I was cutting Curb Your Enthusiasm. And I said, “I can't do it. But if, you know, if you can wait 11 months, I'll be free.” So, he hired another editor and started on the footage. And when that eleven months was over, they had crap. They had nothing. They had the beginnings of an episode, but he was flailing around trying to figure out what to do.So, I said, “I'm available now, let's do it.” So, I jumped in, and the first thing I showed Mike was my rules for doing interviews. I said, “Mike, you gotta just shut up. Ask the question and shut up. Let them fill the space. Especially when it's awkward. That's great. They'll come up with things they wouldn't have said if you had just been quiet.” That's number one. Number two, each episode needs a theme. And this is the biggest problem that I've seen, the biggest mistake that documentary filmmakers will make, is they don't know what their theme is. What is a theme? It's the idea or the premise behind the moral of the story. It's the idea you're trying to express.And each of the five episodes has a different theme. One is called The Wild Bunch. And it was about the wildest comedians who ever performed at The Comedy Store. And we used some footage from the movie The Wild Bunch. Once it had a theme, then I knew what to cut, and how to link things together.And once Mike started revising his outlines with that in mind, they started to take shape. And cutting the episodes made sense. You need to know your theme. I would write it down on a piece of paper, put it on the wall, because that's your roadmap. That's where you're going, and every scene should be connected to that theme in some way. Or if it doesn't, it probably doesn't belong in that episode or in the movie.And it actually probably made it a whole lot easier to edit, because you could just immediately go, nope, nope, yep, nope, nope, nope, nope, yep. Roger Nygard: It's your road map. Otherwise, you're just surrounded by a forest of footage and what do you do? I mean, there are tricks, like you start putting like with like and grouping them in your bins. And eventually you might start connecting like segments with like segments as you're building scenes. But when there's a narrative, it's easiest. There's an episode that's about the comedy strike, which happened. And so that gave us a very specific timeline of what's happening and who caused the strike and what they were asking for. Now we've got protagonists and antagonists. The antagonist is the owner of the store, Mitzi Shore, who doesn't want to pay them what they want as comedians. And that makes it easier from a narrative perspective, because what is a narrative, right? You have a protagonist, or a small group of protagonists, and an antagonist, or a small group, and a goal.The protagonists have a goal, and there's obstacles to that goal. Now we watch to see how they succeed or fail. That made that episode much clearer. One part of the book that I found just fascinating and I'm wondering if the publisher gave you any pushback on it, because it is sort of its own mini book right in the book. Which is the whole process of coming up with a distribution deal for Trekkies. It's a long segment, but it disabuses you of any glamour of Hollywood of, “Oh, we went to Sundance and they loved the film, and we signed it, and two months later it was in theaters. This is pages and pages and pages of the process of taking what you know to be a valuable asset and getting it to the right people and getting it out. So, first question is, did the publisher push back on that at all? Roger Nygard: No, they were remarkably compliant, helpful. Because I'd done one book with them already, and they felt pretty happy about me doing a second one in a similar vein, and I had case studies in that book also.But not like this, this is four chapters.Roger Nygard: You're right, the four chapters after, I say at one point, at the end of chapter 10 or whatever it was, “Okay, the how to make a documentary part of the book is over. The next four chapters are, once you have finished, here's a case study in trying to sell your documentary.” Because it took us nine months. From our first distributor screening to sign a contract. There is no immediate, you know. I mean, Sundance turned us down. And so, you have to persevere despite these problems toward a sale. The Sundance mega sale is like winning the lottery. And you're not likely to win the lottery. So you need backup strategies and backup plans. And we had tried lots of things, and it took us a long time and a lot of difficulties in fighting amongst ourselves to finally get to a point where we succeeded and got such a successful sale. Those chapters—I mean, the whole book is great for anyone who wants to make a documentary—but it's also really good for anyone who wants to make a thing. Particularly a film or a TV show or something.You're trying to make a pilot, you're trying to do something. It's unvarnished as to what it takes to do these things, and then you get to those four chapters, you realize this is for anybody who's got a film under their arm, whether it's a short or a feature, here's what you need to be prepared to face.I've always said that the problem with independent filmmaking is that we only see the successes. It's like having a cancer study where they don't tell you about the ones who died. We only tell you about the ones who lived. And this is a great, because look at this: this is what they did and they all lived, but there's so many that died because people don't understand the process. And that's what I love about that section of the book: it really just says this is not easy and you need good people on your side.Roger Nygard: And persistence. It's a marathon. You need to make sure your film sells. No one else is going to have the motivation to push your film over the finish line more than you. You gotta be in training to be that strong. You gotta make your short films, you gotta suffer a little bit, and that just makes you stronger.We were motivated to succeed. Despite being turned down by Sundance and Telluride and Toronto and the New York Film Festival—all the big ones at the beginning of the season turned us down. We finally got some success with the Hamptons Film Festival and the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, and we were able to use those to help us get where we wanted to go. But boy, it would have been so much nicer if we got into Sundance, and it was the rave of Sundance, and it was easy.But here's a plan for those where that doesn't happen: There's a film agent I interview in the book, Glenn Reynolds, who said, “I don't need film festivals to sell your movie. Filmmakers like to go to film festivals, but there's just buyers, and it comes down to the product.Is it good? Who's in it? What's their social media reach now? And, oh, okay, you did a film festival. That's great. That doesn't hurt necessarily, but these first three, and the poster. What's the hook? What's the marketing going to do? Those are more important than how many film festivals.” We did 50 film festivals. The buyers don't really care. But if you picked up some rave reviews, and won some awards, that shows that someone else has validated your work. And so that's what you're hoping for. And you're not doing that in a vacuum. If I remember the timeline, you're working on your feature Suckers in there somewhere as well, that's happening at the same time.You once said to me something like, “It's good to have a lot of irons in the fire, you just don't want to have too many because you'll put the fire out.” You don't remember saying that? Roger Nygard: I do, yes. That sounds like me. Yeah, it is you. It was you. And I've remembered that ever since. And have tried to have a number of irons in the fire, but not too many. I think you sort of just say it in passing, in that section, that you're also working on Suckers, and that's happening. But you've always had sort of multi paths happening at the same time. How has that helped your career as both a documentary filmmaker, and a TV director, and a TV editor, and now an author?Roger Nygard: Yeah, you need to continually reinvent yourself and be trying new things and have multiple projects and have the stamina to, to work on them all and push them forward. Because that's who you're competing with. You're competing with people who are like that. They're working just as hard as you are.I mean, a workaholic is just someone who works harder than you do, right? If you accuse someone of being a workaholic, that means you're probably a little lazier than they are. Okay, that's fine. Maybe you can make what you need out of life, not working as hard, and my hat goes off to you. But that doesn't work for me. What works for me is—maybe it's that Scandinavian work ethic I picked up growing up in Minnesota—I feel like a complete loser if I haven't put in my work during the day. By the end of the day, I better have pushed that ball down the field some more, or I'll feel, you know, guilty. And so that helps motivate me. So, I work every day on something. Whether it's writing the book, or making a documentary, or editing a feature, or editing—right now I'm editing a Netflix series. Doing all those things. And my delayed gratification carrot is hanging there for me: Once I finish, I'm gonna go to Bali. So, I go to Bali every year once I've earned it.And now you might say, “Oh, you're crazy! No one should work that hard. I'm tired.” Well, it's a very competitive world, and so you need to work just a little bit harder than the one you're competing against. Yes. I believe it was William Goldman who quoted a basketball coach saying to their player, “Anytime you're not practicing, the guy you're going to go up against is, so you need to get out there and practice.”Roger Nygard: It's no different in the film business. Film business is the same, if not even more cutthroat. Okay, two last questions on this, and then I'm going to let you go. So, what's the biggest mistake that you think someone starting out as a documentary filmmaker is likely to make?Roger Nygard: One of them is to give up your ownership. You should always keep, if you can, own your projects. Own your product. Because it's a property. And if you own it, then you can continually relicense it over your lifetime. I know a filmmaker who made the biggest mistake you can make, which is he sold his movie in perpetuity to a distributor. Now it's gone. He'll never get it back again. So you want to license whatever you've made to a distributor for two years, four years, five years, seven years. With Trekkies, we had a 20 year license, 25 if unrecouped. But that's because they paid us so much money, they bought that many years, but it was still a license.And so Trekies came back to us a few years ago and so we restored it to HD. It had never been released in HD yet, and we've licensed it to a new company for another period of time. You did the same thing with Suckers, didn't you? Roger Nygard: I did it, I bought it, yes. The company, the same company that I made Trekkies with made Suckers with me. And they set up a corporation to own the film, which is typically what they do, every film has a corporation that owns that film. And that's where the money from the investor goes. And that's where the profits, if any, come out of. And in that case, Sucker's never reached profit while they owned it. It cost about a half a million to make, and it probably made back $250,000 from an HBO sale and an IFC sale and home video. And we had a distributor that went bankrupt who, so we had to chase them.But at the end, probably like 15 years after we made the film, the company that I worked with, Neomotion Pictures, they were going to close their doors. They were retiring or going off to do different things, and they were shutting down the company they had made that owned the film. So, if they just shut down the company, then suddenly it goes into the public domain, because there's no ownership. The entity that owned it no longer exists. Nothing owns it. Meaning everybody, anyone can own it. So, I said, Wait, guys, sell it to me,” which they did, “And I will restore the film,” which I did. I paid for the restoration. I collected what elements remained, some had been thrown away, but enough of the key elements still existed, so I was able to re-scan it and remix it and marry it together and find a distributor. And actually I put it on, it's on Amazon Prime. I put it there myself. So, I collect the money directly now, after putting my money into it. So, be an owner. Own your films. And if you can't, be a co owner. So at least you're part of where the money goes first. I mean, ideally you want the money to go to you and have all your profit participants chase you for the money, instead of you chasing them for the royalties. Okay, one last question. Someone has read your book, they've properly packed all their gear, they're going off to begin shooting. What's the one last piece of advice you'd give them before the door on the airplane shuts?Roger Nygard: Buy a copy of The Documentarian for everyone on your crew. That's the first part of the advice. And have them all read it. Be prepared for your interview, practice at home before you get there, set up your camera and your audio and do a practice interview so that it's second nature by the time you get there. Maybe do a test interview on, on someone who's not your main interviewee so that you have done a dry run and you've tested all the equipment, you've tested your questions, you've refined your approach. And so you're ready for the big day. Well, this has been great. Roger, is there anything I've forgotten to ask you? Roger Nygard: Yes, the names of all my projects. The last book was Cut to the Monkey, about editing and comedy. And this book is called The Documentarian. And I am working on another book, and I will probably, until the day I keel over. Hopefully I'll die fishing up in Canada. And they won't find you for days and days and days.Roger Nygard: It would be only fair if I fell in the water and the fish ate me after I've been eating them for years.

The Documentarian - Roger Nygard, ACE Roger Nygard's The Documentarian is the ultimate go-to source for making and selling documentaries, answering every question and containing crucial strategies every filmmaker needs to know to succeed as a documentarian. Included are insights from experts and award-winning documentary filmmakers such as Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), Liz Garbus (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib), Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision), Errol Morris (The Fog of War), Sam Pollard (4 Little Girls), Michael Tollin (The Last Dance), Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies), Marina Zenovich (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind). The book includes a case study profiling the making and selling of the documentary Trekkies; what it took to push it to a record-setting sale to a major studio, with a huge payout to the filmmakers. This book is inspirational and leaves people—after reading a chapter or finishing the book—feeling more inspired to go forth with their own struggle. Roger Nygard, ACE Roger Nygard has balanced humor and seriousness in his documentaries Trekkies, The Nature of Existence, The Truth About Marriage, and The Comedy Store. Nygard has also directed TV series The Office and The Bernie Mac Show, and edited Emmy-nominated episodes of VEEP and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Roger wrote a book about editing comedy called Cut to the Monkey. He didn't learn his lesson, so he did it again; his new book is called The Documentarian. Despite reports to the contrary, Roger has never been indicted OR convicted. It's important to have goals. Writing The Documentarian In our discussion with The Documentarian editor and author Roger Nygard, ACE we talk about: The biggest mistake new doc makers make It's not a pitch, it's a project Working backwards to move forward The intrinsic link between the interview and the edit Editorial shortcuts through the material minefield The Credits Visit Extreme Music for all your production audio needs Get your own copy of The Documentarian Listen to Roger talk about his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm and his other book Cut to the Monkey See the latest new features in Avid Media Composer Subscribe to The Rough Cut podcast and never miss an episode Visit The Rough Cut on YouTube

I sit down with Emmy-nominated editor Roger Nygard, ACE to explore his new book The Documentarian: The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business. We dive into the essential steps for making and selling documentaries, from concept development to securing deals with major studios. Roger shares his own journey in the film industry, including the story behind his hit documentary Trekkies, and offers advice from top filmmakers like Ken Burns, Davis Guggenheim and Errol Morris. This episode is packed with insights to help you succeed in the documentary world!SHOW LINKSClick here to purchase The Documentarian: The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business (affiliate link) Click here to purchase Roger's first book, Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies (affiliate link)Level up your editing career with the All Access Pass to the Hollywood Editing Mentor Community: https://hollywoodeditingmentor.com/community/Watch the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/F9tRrJ0jR-UCheck out our free content and other resources! >>> SUBSCRIBE and leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! >>>Original Music: "Apollo's Haze" and "Do You Want" by JesusdapnkFacebook: www.fb.com/jesusdapnkSoundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/jesusdapnkInstagram: @jesusdapnk

This week on the blog, a podcast interview with director and editor Peet Gelderblom on his collage feature, “When Forever Dies.”LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/When Forever Dies website: http://www.whenforeverdies.com/Watch it on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whenforeverdies/806226783Watch it on the Eye Film Player: https://player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/when-forever-diesEli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastInterview Transcript I do want to just spend just a minute or so talking about When Forever Dies. But oh, my goodness Peet. Where did that come from? And how do—I realize you could probably talk for an hour about it? How did you come up with that? And the very process of putting it together is mind blowing. How would you describe it to someone who hasn't seen it?Peet: Yeah, When Forever Dies is an archival fiction and it cobbles together scraps of existing films to tell an entirely different story of its own. And that is the story of the relationship between a man and a woman, and how this relationship sort of degrades over time. And it's really experimental in the way that it takes shots and bits and scenes from completely different movies and also completely different genres. It can be advertising, documentaries, animation, love silent films, everything really, and it still manages to tell a whole story. You know, you say it's experimental, as someone who has seen it, it's experimental for a few minutes. And then you understand the experiment. And it's then a normal narrative, you get it. I mean, you use some interstitial cards that help bring us along. Peet: I say that, because I've always believed that experiment in accessibility shouldn't be a mutually exclusive. It's actually, it's a roller coaster ride of a film and it's in a very, in a lot of ways, it's actually very traditional because I'm using the rules of continuity editing, but I'm using the rules against themselves a little bit, because I take from different films, and then I create, you know, sometimes the opposite meaning out of different shots. Yeah, but what gave me the idea was just I saw a way to do this. And it has evolved, of course, with maybe the start of it was the Raising Cain recut, and making movie mashups after that—video essays—but it all comes from my editing background. I've edited lots of trailers and promos for Universal Pictures and Comedy Central and all sorts of TV channels. And then I was also able to take from different series and different films, you know, put different shots together and create this new through line that didn't exist before and I always enjoyed doing that and I just thought, wouldn't it be really cool to try and do this for a whole feature film?As it turns out, it was really cool. You know, we recently had on the podcast an editor named Roger Nygard, and Roger edits, Larry David's show Curb Your Enthusiasm, he edited Veep and he's a filmmaker like you. He directs and he edits and he put he also makes his living as an editor. And he said that the thing that taught him the most about filmmaking and about editing was editing promos, where you had a you know, you had to do it all in 15 seconds. And he said you'd learn the most about filmmaking when you have that sort of requirement to work within those boundaries and still tell a story. Peet: Yeah, it's the shortest way to tell a story and you really need or you really learn about what things what elements you really need to make something happening on the screen.With When Forever Dies what's the music on that post-scored or where did you edit to the music? I couldn't really tell, it was all seems so seamless.Peet: Wow, thank you. Well, it's a little bit of both. I decided I wanted to have a sort of backbone because there was no backbone besides the story that I had made up. So, I actually edited everything on music. Some of the music I made myself but there's also a lot of Creative Commons music and music that was replaced later on by something that our composer did.Well, it all feels of a piece. It's all just together in perfect. So, I will definitely recommend to listeners that when it becomes available, When Forever Dies is...Peet: Yeah, it had a very good festival run and then one audience award in Colombia. We're looking into, you know, other, yeah, we're looking into how it could be distributed right now. But obviously it's a weird film. It's difficult to place it.Yeah, it is. It's different. But then once you get the rhythm of it, you're totally in and you get it. Peet: Yeah, that's also been my experience with that audience really, audiences really love it when they see it. But I think the trick is to how do you get them in the film theater.

This episode features conversation Roger Nygard who directed Trekkies which is a film about the devoted fans of Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek".Kingdom of Dreams is a podcast about cinema and art of storytelling.  The Podcast series will interview people involved behind the scenes, may it be screenwriters, directors, animators, producers etc.      

This episode will go where no other episode has gone before!! Well no not really but we did watch Trekkies, the 1997 doc directed by Roger Nygard about the cultural phenomenon that is Star Trek fandom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/threedudespod/message

THIS VOYAGE, the Treksperts, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, Agent X) and DAREN DOCHTERMAN (vfx producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition), are joined by director/editor ROGER NYGARD, the director of the delightful documentary about Star Trek fans, TREKKIES, starring Denise Crosby. And find out whether the trilogy will continue with Trekkies 3 and maybe you'll even get a little love for Curb Your Enthusiasm. Also: Mark and Daren do a post-mortem on Terry Matalas appearance on the show last week. Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!! And this summer, it's THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE KILLED HIS DOG, the complete oral history of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action in hardcover and digital. Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed. "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 #TheCage #StrangeNewWorlds #SNW #Voyager #Janeway #Enterprise #TheSearchForSpock #StarTrekIII #BSG #TMP #Trekkies During the pandemic, we are still recording remotely and not in the studio. As a result, the quality of the audio may not be up to our usual high standards. We trust you will nursemaid us through these difficulties. Please stay healthy and safe... and keep on Trekkin' - ingloriously, of course!

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Tune in for a very special episode of The Parkway Podcast! Acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Roger Nygard joins the team to discuss his 1997 documentary Trekkies and his upcoming movie marathon at The Parkway Theater on Saturday, June 25, 2022. Recapping six of the rare films to be shown, you can hear all about the film journey of Roger Nygard and how he found his way into the world of documentaries. Lastly- the team wraps up this incredible episode with a challenging Curb Your Enthusiasm Real or Fake Plot game! We are looking for feedback! Get in touch with The Parkway Podcast by leaving a voicemail at (612) 822-8080.

Filmmaker Roger Nygard (“Trekkies,” “Suckers,” “The Nature of Existence”) on cutting comedy, the need for editors to also be filmmakers, creativity and why sometimes you have to cut great jokes. LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastRoger Nygard Website: http://rogernygard.com/Cut to the Monkey (The Book): https://www.amazon.com/Cut-Monkey-Hollywood-Behind-Scenes/dp/1493061232The Truth About Marriage (Trailer): https://youtu.be/VeFI_4WC2OI

Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentists drill in Federation garb and the debate over "Trekkies" vs. "Trekkers" rages on with the release of Trekkies: 25th Anniversary Edition from Shout! Factory. Available for the first time on Blu-ray May 24, 2022, the release features a new 4k scan restoration, as well as the new documentary featurette A Trek Back with the film's narrator Denise Crosby and director Roger Nygard. Fans can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com Denise Crosby of Star Trek: The Next Generation hosts this often-hilarious documentary about the Star Trek "fan-nomenon." Featuring interviews with hundreds of devoted fans and such Star Trek cast members as James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, Kate Mulgrew, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner and George Takei, the film creates an entertaining and endearing portrait of the landmark series that has touched the lives of people around the world. "We're so thrilled to be celebrating the 25th anniversary of our film with this newly restored edition" said director Roger Nygard. Denise Crosby added, "We can't wait for fans of this iconic series to re-visit, or discover for the first time, how generations of fans have been brought together via their shared loved of these stories."

Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentists drill in Federation garb and the debate over "Trekkies" vs. "Trekkers" rages on with the release of Trekkies: 25th Anniversary Edition from Shout! Factory. Available for the first time on Blu-ray May 24, 2022, the release features a new 4k scan restoration, as well as the new documentary featurette A Trek Back with the film's narrator Denise Crosby and director Roger Nygard. Fans can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com Denise Crosby of Star Trek: The Next Generation hosts this often-hilarious documentary about the Star Trek "fan-nomenon." Featuring interviews with hundreds of devoted fans and such Star Trek cast members as James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, Kate Mulgrew, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner and George Takei, the film creates an entertaining and endearing portrait of the landmark series that has touched the lives of people around the world. "We're so thrilled to be celebrating the 25th anniversary of our film with this newly restored edition" said director Roger Nygard. Denise Crosby added, "We can't wait for fans of this iconic series to re-visit, or discover for the first time, how generations of fans have been brought together via their shared loved of these stories."

Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentists drill in Federation garb and the debate over "Trekkies" vs. "Trekkers" rages on with the release of Trekkies: 25th Anniversary Edition from Shout! Factory. Available for the first time on Blu-ray May 24, 2022, the release features a new 4k scan restoration, as well as the new documentary featurette A Trek Back with the film's narrator Denise Crosby and director Roger Nygard. Fans can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com Denise Crosby of Star Trek: The Next Generation hosts this often-hilarious documentary about the Star Trek "fan-nomenon." Featuring interviews with hundreds of devoted fans and such Star Trek cast members as James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, Kate Mulgrew, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner and George Takei, the film creates an entertaining and endearing portrait of the landmark series that has touched the lives of people around the world. "We're so thrilled to be celebrating the 25th anniversary of our film with this newly restored edition" said director Roger Nygard. Denise Crosby added, "We can't wait for fans of this iconic series to re-visit, or discover for the first time, how generations of fans have been brought together via their shared loved of these stories."

Today, we welcome director & editor Roger Nygard to the show! His long list of credits includes Trekkies (1997), The Office (2006), The Truth about Marriage (2018), Grey's Anatomy (2018), Who is America (2018), Veep (2016), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2007), and many, many more. Roger chatted with our host, Giles Alderson, about how he got into editing in the first place, how he directs and edits documentaries and how he raises money for his films, his pitching strategies, and his famous documentary Trekkies. He also talks about the difference between editing comedy vs drama as well as the difference between editing TV vs feature film, his editing process in general, and his new book, Cut to the monkey. We had an amazing time with Roger. This conversation is a true masterclass for all directors, editors, documentary filmmakers and all filmmakers in general out there, really – it's incredible. So, sit back, relax and enjoy this week's episode with Roger Nygard.   EPISODE LINKS Check out Roger's book Cut to the monkey Take part in the Web Series Challenge | Action Xtreme Ltd Support THE DROP - Short Film | Indiegogo Get your tickets to see Riptide + director Q&A - The Castle Cinema   PATREON Big thank you to: Lee Hutchings Marli J Monroe Want your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on filmmaking? Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects! Our new 4 tier structure is in place. Come join the community! https://www.patreon.com/thefilmmakerspodcast   MERCH Spread the Word with Our Merch T-Shirts, Hoodies, Mugs, Masks and Water Bottles all now available in some very cool designs.   SUPPORT THE PODCAST Read & Sign Up for The Wrap Up – Our weekly Newsletter with news and information from the world of film Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us out and write us a review (a good one!), tell your friends and CHOOSE FILM. Get in touch? Email us thefilmmakerspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter Facebook and Instagram Check out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.com   CREDITS The Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced and written by Giles Alderson @gilesalderson Edited by @tobiasvees Social Media by Kalli Pasqualucci @kallieep Marketing Huw Siddle Logo and Banner Art by Lois Creative  Theme Music by John J. Harvey Part of the www.podfixnetwork.squarespace.com   WATCH OUR FILMS The Dare UK | Trailer The Dare Canada and USA A Serial Killers Guide to Life | Trailer Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot Winter Ridge UK The Isle Fanged Up The Marker Star Wars: Origins   MORE FROM OUR FRIENDS Follow our Regular Hosts @LucindaRhodes @DirDomLenoir @35mmdop @philmblog @IanSharp1 @Cjamesdirect @dan710ths Follow Make Your Film for Live Events @makeyourfilm20  Follow our Movies @thedaremovie @Food4ThoughtDoc @FangedUpFilm Raindance events www.raindance.org The Filmmakers Podcast recommends Performance Insurance Music from musicbed.com Giles Alderson's website

This week, Alrik and Liz chat with filmmaker and editor Roger Nygard about his feature documentary Trekkies and howhis evolved to include fiction filmmaking, comedy editing, and writing books. We also discuss the Distributor ReportCards from The Film Collaborative. Enjoy! For 20% off your Jambox subscription use code MMIH @ jambox.io Check out the ISA at: www.networkisa.org This week's article:

I'm thrilled to be joined by editor and director Roger Nygard for an insightful discussion all about the editorial process. Roger is known as an editor for his work on television series like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, Who Is America, and countless others. But he is also an established director, lending his talents to The Office and The Bernie Mac Show, all while spearheading his own feature film projects too. Throughout the interview, Roger shares his wealth of knowledge on the storytelling process, drawn from over 30 years of experience working in Hollywood. We discuss how filmmakers can "shoot for the edit", Roger's specific creative workflows, and loads of practical editing tricks. Roger also details his own history as a director and editor, along with lessons learned from working in the edit bay with great talents like Larry David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Links from the show: Roger Nygard - Website For more exclusive content like this, click here to sign up for my newsletter.

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Emmy and ACE Eddie-nominated editor Roger Nygard, ACE has worked with some of the funniest people in the business and has edited episodes from series such as CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, VEEP, and WHO IS AMERICA?His new book, CUT TO THE MONKEY, not only serves as a guide to editing comedy, but also to having a successful career as an editor. Roger shares stories of his journey through Hollywood - revealing the techniques behind how the experts find the funny in any project - that will leave readers feeling inspired and better prepared to deal with their own struggles.The book also features contributions about writing, creating, and editing comedy from some of the biggest names in the comedy business, including Judd Apatow, Sacha Baron Cohen, Larry David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and many more! Click here to get your copy of CUT TO THE MONKEY!Learn more about editing comedy:Ep. 22 - Building Trust, Cutting Comedy, and the editing of TED LASSO with Melissa McCoy, ACE and A.J. Catoline, ACEHelp keep the mic on by donating to the Hollywood Editing Mentor Podcast!Original Music: "Apollo's Haze" and "Do You Want" by JesusdapnkFacebook: www.fb.com/jesusdapnkSoundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/jesusdapnkInstagram: @jesusdapnk

Reviews of Jackass Forever, GameStop: Rise of the Players and the doc about David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune, Sleeper Must Awaken: The Making of Dune. Plus filmmaker Roger Nygard talks about working with Larry David and his book, Cut To The Monkey.

Author / Editor / Documentarian - Roger Nygard ACE Cut to the Monkey author, Roger Nygard has logged many hours in the editing rooms of some of the biggest names in comedy.  It was those sessions with the likes of Larry David, Sacha Baron Cohen and Judd Apatow that inspired him to organize their thoughts, and his own, into a book that can help even more experienced editors confidently take on comedy projects. ROGER NYGARD ACE Roger Nygard is probably best known for his highly-successful and acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the Universe. Nygard's previous documentary, The Nature of Existence, addressed the impossible subject of the world's philosophies, religions, and belief systems. Nygard has made several other award-winning films, including the car-salesman cult-film, Suckers, and a profile of UFO fanatics, Six Days In Roswell, and now the documentary The Truth About Marriage. His work as an editor includes "Grey's Anatomy," "The League," and Emmy-nominated episodes of "VEEP" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."  Nygard has also directed television series such as "The Office," and "The Bernie Mac Show". Writing Cut to the Monkey In our discussion with Cut to the Monkey author, Roger Nygard ACE, we talk about: Working backwards to find the best takes faster Studying the classics Staying in the wides and staying on the joke The importance of being a filmmaker first, editor second Navigating the Periodic Table of Nonsense The Credits Get your free 100GB of media transfer at MASV Visit ExtremeMusic for all your production audio needs Get your copy of Cut to the Monkey today Check out the free trial of Media Composer | Ultimate Subscribe to The Rough Cut podcast and never miss an episode Visit The Rough Cut on YouTube

It's a guest twofer this week! First, we are joined by TV editor extraordinaire Roger Nygard, who has edited 22 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm (including this one) to take us through the episode and what didn't make it in. You can buy his book on editing comedies here. Then, in a Pretty Pretty Pretty Good first, we have a guest just for the Postman, as Brad Grunberg aka Jonas The Roofer drops by to talk about his experience on this week's episode and help us answer your questions. You can check out his Curb audition tape here and some behind the scenes footage from the show here. Original Air Date: November 28, 2021 Synopsis: Larry navigates the complexities of requesting a new chauffeur, letting his roofer do his job, and imparting some constructive criticism to his chiropractor. Send us your comments, questions, feedback and suggestions at CurbPostman@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @asinensky @achester99 @PrettyGoodCurb Give us a 5 Star Rating and Review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pretty-pretty-pretty-good-a-curb-your-enthusiasm-podcast/id1497313159 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pretty-good-curb-pod/support

Topics: Andrew Cuomo charged with sex crime; Amazon isn't efficient, it's evil; Exxon must go; Democrats blow it on Build Back Better Guest With Time Stamps: (2:37) David Does the News (1:36:43) Matt Lech (co-host of Left Reckoning and Literary Hangover podcasts, producer at the Majority Report) (1:56:28) Professor Ben Burgis (his new book is "Cancelling Comedians While The World Burns") (2:35:57) The Herschenfelds: Dr. Philip Herschenfeld (Freudian psychoanalyst), and Ethan Herschenfeld (his new comedy special "Thug, Thug Jew" is streaming on YouTube) (3:00:18) Dan Frankenberger's "Community Billboard" (3:12:15) Emil Guillermo (host of the PETA Podcast, and columnist for The Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund) (3:44:00) The Rev. Barry W. Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) (5:03:39) The Professors And Mary Anne: Professors Mary Anne Cummings, Adnan Husain, Ann Li, and Jonathan Bick (6:05:12) Roger Nygard (director, editor, and writer) on his new book "Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies" (6:44:02) Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America introduces us to Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus author of "Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution"

TOPICS: What YOU need to know about limited liability companies like Rust Movie Productions, LLC; Alec Baldwin fired Thursday's fatal shot on a non-union set; Protesting safety conditions, IATSE crew members walked and were replaced by scabs just hours before Baldwin accidentally killed his cinematographer; How independent movies are nothing more than money laundering union busting tax scams for the rich and powerful who need to hide money from the government, creditors and investors SPECIAL GUEST: 4:29:07 Catherine Liu (Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Irvine) on her book "Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class" Guests With Time Stamps: (2:19) David Does The News (1:50:27) Dutch Merrick (Propmaster, Armorer, former IATSE president) on film set weapons safety (1:50:27) Roger Nygard (director, editor, and writer) on his new book "Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies" (1:58:00) Jon Ross (comedy writer and gentleman farmer) (2:36:13) Mark Breslin (founder and president of Yuk Yuk's, largest comedy chain in North America) (3:01:11) "I'm On My Way" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel (3:03:47) Howie Klein (founder and treasurer of The Blue America PAC and author of Down With Tyranny) (3:34:48) David Cobb (environmental activist and Green Party Presidential candidate) (3:50:04) Dr. Harriet Fraad (host of "Capitalism Hits Home") (4:29:07) Professor Adnan Husain ("Guerrilla History" and "The Majlis" podcasts) with Catherine Liu (Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Irvine) on her book "Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class" (5:42:21) Professor Mary Anne Cummings (physicist and parks commissioner Aurora, Illinois) (6:09:10) Professor Mike Steinel (Jazz historian and Dylanologist) with Ray Hair (President of the American Federation of Musicians) and Mary Ellen Goree (violinist and elected chair of the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony ) on San Antonio Symphony management's proposal to slash the size of the orchestra from 71 full-time musicians to 42, and cut salaries nearly in half.

Filmmaker and author Roger Nygard speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about his new book, The Truth About Marriage. The post Roger Nygard #885 appeared first on Paul Samuel Dolman.

For the final episode of our Trek Trilogy, we're honored to be joined by Trekkies director Roger Nygard! The filmmaker responsible for our favorite documentary takes us behind the scenes of Trekkies and its sequel to reveal the origins of Gabriel Koerner, Spiner Femme, The Filker and more and answers obscure questions no one's been obsessive enough to ask until now! Put on your Starfleet best and join us for this fascinating discussion! Stay updated on Trekkies news and explore Roger's other work at rogernygard.com.

Are you getting back out there after being married or in a relationship? Or perhaps you have yet to find your special someone? If either sounds like you, then this episode has your name all over it. This episode's guest, Marni Kagan, gives us incredible tips and advice on dating in our midlife years. Marni is a featured expert in Roger Nygard's documentary, The Truth About Marriage. She is a professional matchmaker in Manhattan and has a passion for helping people find love.  We hope you enjoy the episode.  Connect with Marni on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marni.galison Book: Love Signals https://amzn.to/3kl8ejS And if you're enjoying the show, please consider leaving me a 5 star review on the podcast platform of your preference. Thank you! Are you tired of trying every fad diet? Sick of spending hours at the gym with little to no results? You need the FASTer Way to Fat Loss, the online program that will empower you to transform your life through effective, cutting edge fitness and nutrition strategies. No supplements or gym memberships required.  Learn all about the FASTer Way to Fat Loss here (affiliate link): https://www.fasterwaycoach.com/#Lisamustard This episode is brought to you by my favorite activewear line, Zyia Active.  Want high quality activewear that doesn't break your bank account? I sure did and went looking for leggings, joggers, sports bras and tops that fit my budget and were soft, wrinkle resistant and would match just about anything I already had in my closet. And now Zyia Active makes up about 80% of my wardrobe. Want to learn more? Head to lisamustard.com/active-wear. Don't think this is just for women, they have mens' and kids' clothes too. Our family is loving the quality and I love the price tags!

Today's Man Alive podcast guest, film director and producer Roger Nygard, spent seven years creating the documentary The Truth About Marriage. This is the first documentary he has appeared in, though he has created many others, including the well-known Trekkies! (Fun Shana fact you might not have guessed: I've always considered myself a Trekkie though according to Roger I'm not an actual Trekkie because I've never been to a convention!) In this documentary Roger interviewed well-known psychologists, including John and Julie Gottman, and Pat Allen, as well as other therapists, sociologists, couples and singles with a variety of views on marriage. He and his experts share about common breakdowns that occur in marriage and how to have the best chance at success. Whether you're married now, or want to be someday, Roger brings important information and perspectives to break free from the norm of people struggling to keep marriage alive and exciting these days!     In our conversation we discussed: How people tend to sabotage themselves and create dissatisfaction in relationships Simple ways to maintain relationship well-being over time What it takes to be happy on your own, rather than depend on your partner for it The root causes of relationship struggles What made Roger's best date ever and led to the best sex of his life! I REALLY enjoyed this conversation with Roger and highly recommend watching the documentary after you listen.  Connect with Roger Nygard http://rogernygard.com/ http://thetruthaboutmarriage.com/   Connect with Shana James    shanajamescoaching.com/3ways   Curious what you'd need to become a better leader and lover? Take the quiz For Women: Modern dating doesn't have to be a nightmare for women

Today's Man Alive podcast guest, film director and producer Roger Nygard, spent seven years creating the documentary The Truth About Marriage. This is the first documentary he has appeared in, though he has created many others, including the well-known Trekkies! (Fun Shana fact you might not have guessed: I've always considered myself a Trekkie though according to Roger I'm not an actual Trekkie because I've never been to a convention!) In this documentary Roger interviewed well-known psychologists, including John and Julie Gottman, and Pat Allen, as well as other therapists, sociologists, couples and singles with a variety of views on marriage. He and his experts share about common breakdowns that occur in marriage and how to have the best chance at success. Whether you're married now, or want to be someday, Roger brings important information and perspectives to break free from the norm of people struggling to keep marriage alive and exciting these days!     In our conversation we discussed: How people tend to sabotage themselves and create dissatisfaction in relationships Simple ways to maintain relationship well-being over time What it takes to be happy on your own, rather than depend on your partner for it The root causes of relationship struggles What made Roger's best date ever and led to the best sex of his life! I REALLY enjoyed this conversation with Roger and highly recommend watching the documentary after you listen.  Connect with Roger Nygard http://rogernygard.com/ http://thetruthaboutmarriage.com/   Connect with Shana James    shanajamescoaching.com/3ways   Curious what you’d need to become a better leader and lover? Take the quiz For Women: Modern dating doesn’t have to be a nightmare for women

Erik chats with Back to Back and Trekkies director Roger Nygard about his career, comedy, and shooting movies like Suckers and documentaries like The Nature of Existence. Topics include the power of pre-sold movies in the 1990s, how he put the comedic element in Back to Back, and the way film distribution has changed in the last few decades. He also explains why comedians like Jake Johannsen and Bobcat Goldthwait end up in his films. He also discusses Michael Rooker, Daniel Benzali, Denise Crosby, and what it will take for Trekkies 3 to get made. Erik asks about the restoration of the first Trekkies and getting films ready for the 4K video future. Also, Nygard talks about booking Richard Dawkins for an interview.

Roger Nygard is perhaps best known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the Universe. Nygard’s previous documentary The Nature of Existence, addressed the subject of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems. Nygard has also directed television series such as The Office and The Bernie Mac Show. His work as a film editor includes Grey’s Anatomy, The League, and Emmy-nominated episodes of Who Is America? and Veep and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Nygard has made several other award-winning films, including the car-salesman cult-film Suckers, and a profile of UFO fanatics Six Days in Roswell, and now the documentary The Truth About Marriage, accompanied by The Truth About Marriage book. Most recently he co-produced and edited The Comedy Store, a documentary about the comedians who came though this world-famous LA club, as well as editing scenes from Borat 2 (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm). Roger on Twitter and Instagram. Find me on Instagram or Twitter. Check out Trends with Benefits. My chat with Anya Kaats is here, and my chat with Brett Newski is here. Please consider supporting this podcast. This Amazon affiliate link kicks a few bucks back my way. Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range;"Life Upside Down," by Brett Newski; "Smoke Alarm," by Carsie Blanton.

Roger Nygard is a film director and producer. Among countless other works, he directed the documentary The Truth About Marriage, exploring marriage, divorce, and the secrets behind healthy relationships. In this episode, Roger dives into the science behind motivation. How do you get what you want out of your relationship? How do you motivate your partner? Roger explains how our hormonal changes influence those around us and the benefits of being self-aware about these biological processes.

This has been a crazy year and we think it is super important to reflect. Taking time to reflect is so key to integrating and embodying all the work we have been doing to become our most IGNTD selves! We are looking back on our favorite parts from our favorite episodes of 2020, so in case you missed them or want to go back and revisit we’ve got them all piled up here for you.    [ ] Review of the Month! Leave us a review for a chance to win a package from us with IGNTD and Philosophie goodies.    [] Millana Snow Interview / Breaking down racism in daily interactions    [] Shannon McClay of The Financial Gym Interview / There is so much shame around money, here’s how to break free from it and find success   [] Rick Doblin Interview / MDMA heals physical and mental trauma   [] Roger Nygard of The Truth About Marriage Interview / The #1 thing relationship experts say that most long lasting relationships share in common. 

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What influences our personal genre? How do movies and television contribute to our personal narrative? My special guest Roger Nygard and I discuss the subject. Roger is a renown and Emmy nominated director, producer, documentarian and writer of movies and television. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theresa-sayers/message

"Soulmates are a problematic concept. You have to lower your expectations a little bit because society has given us all these expectations of what the perfect partner is like which are impossible for anyone to meet. It's better to find someone that you can both grow into soulmates over time and look at them from that perspective. Search for someone that you can finally be yourself around without any fear, retribution, or shame. Someone who celebrates who you are is going to want to be with you and you're going to want to be with them." - Roger Nygard Get 15% off your CURED Nutrition order with the code WELLNESSFORCE   ---> Get The Morning 21 System: A simple and powerful 21 minute system designed to give you more energy to let go of old weight and live life well.   JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | *REVIEW THE PODCAST* Wellness Force Radio Episode 374 Film director and producer of several productions including the documentary, The Truth About Marriage, Roger Nygard, shares what makes relationships work, how to increase your chances of finding a soulmate, why polyamory is sacred for some couples, how and when to have difficult conversations plus the concept of The Gottman Institute's Four Horsemen and ultimate relationship deal-breakers.   What makes us happy in relationships? Why do relationships fail?     Join us as Roger shares the best tools to help keep your relationship alive, how to handle conflict better, and the No. 1 piece of relationship advice.   CURED Nutrition Get 15% off your CURED Nutrition order with the code WELLNESSFORCE It's taken me over a year to find the right hemp and CBD company to introduce to the Wellness Force Community and I could not be more thrilled that it's CURED Nutrition! CURED Nutrition is a movement inspired by nature and grounded in a shared desire to leave a lasting impression on you, our community, and this world. Together, they're a collective of heart-centered human beings who are inviting you – the conscious creatives, dreamers, and healers – to join their family. Learn how CURED hemp and CBD products can enhance your daily wellness routine. Try Cured Today They're Colorado-based organically grown hemp products that have been engineered to transform your approach toward an elevated life. Tap into your inherent potential – your greatest mind-body alignment – and nourish it with the supplements you were designed to thrive on. A greater existence is waiting.   Listen To Episode 374 As Roger Nygard Uncovers:   [1:30] The Secret To Happiness Roger Nygard The Truth about Marriage: All the Relationship Secrets Nobody Tells You by Roger Nygard The Truth About Marriage Film Exploring what it means to be with someone emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The quest for finding our soulmate and the journey it leads us on. When his curiosity for the truth about marriage and finding a soulmate started. Why the first few years of our life are crucial in our personal development but that doesn't have to mean we're held back from making choices later on in life. Unpacking the number one secret for happiness in relationships: Accepting who and what you are and doing the same for your partner. Why so many people in relationships become frustrated because they cannot reach expectations and ideals that we, society, our parents, and even our friends have set for ourselves. How the human species has become out of sync with who we are at our core. Exploring the positive experiences that happened during his childhood that have impacted his filmography career. Unpacking what the key to success actually is and what it isn't.   [15:30] Why Are Relationships So Difficult? The Nature Of Existence Julia Sweeney Why happiness is a side effect of having a purpose in life, not a goal. Unpacking the science behind why we're the happiest when we're in the present moment. How expressing ourselves creatively every day will build upon our joy. Exploring the big question: Why are relationships so difficult? Why the obstacles we find in relationships really aren't our fault. Examples of what we can do right now to change and make our relationships stronger. Why we, especially men, are such horrible listeners. The fact that sometimes our partners don't want us to give them solutions, they just want us to listen to what they're going through and be supportive. Why the masculine brain is wired to only handle 30 minutes per day of an emotional conversation before "flooding" or feelings of overwhelm happen. Drs. John and Julie Gottman 046 Dr. John Gray How men can recharge their batteries with quality alone time and then reconnect with their partner. The Truth: Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind by Neil Strauss   [26:30] How To Attract A Mate Why he chose to have Neil Strauss be a key part of his movie, The Truth About Marriage. The fact that we never stop growing and maturing. Why humans will always be complex creatures and there will always be something new to learn about our partner. How he chose the couples and singles for his documentary in order to really show the lesson he wanted to teach. What has changed in the lives of the people he interviewed including Don Blanquito who went from being very single to getting married and having a child. Which gems Josh has taken from The Truth About Marriage and applied to his own relationship. How you can communicate better in your relationships and stop trying to be a mind reader. Why premarital counseling is an excellent form of therapy to increase your relationship's happiness and longevity. The guideline, Personal Priorities Checklist, that he includes in the back of his book for you to go through with your partner to get to a mutual priorities checklist.   [34:30] Why Relationships Fail The Gottmans Institute: The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling 302 Mark Groves 366 Mark Wolynn How The Gottman Institute is able to predict if a couple will stay together or not. Unpacking The Gottman's Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling. The big question to ask yourself about your relationship: Do you and your partner hold contempt for one another? Why, for every negative reaction with your partner, you must have 5 positives to make up for it. The power of being vulnerable with your partner instead of trying to make up for things with materialistic items. Joe Rogan & Chris Ryan on Open Relationships The formula for cultivating passion in your relationship especially if you've been together for a long period of time. How getting back to your masculine or feminine polarities will help rekindle a relationship. Why we're wired to reduce our passion especially physical intimacy in long-term relationships as compassion increases so we can raise children but it doesn't have to stay that way. Unpacking how to be present with your masculinity or femininity. How cell phones are hurting our relationships and how we can be more present with our partners.     [43:30] Can A Polyamorous Relationship Work? Why it's so important to be open with your partner about your needs in the relationship. The devastating impact of being in a relationship where the other person makes you feel ashamed of yourself. What he's learned from spending time with a polyamorous couple during the making of The Truth About Marriage. Why the polyamorous couple in his film was so successful with each other because they were 100% open with one another. Exploring why everything we do is in the name of either love or fear. Why Josh feels triggered by the idea of a polyamorous relationship after his past experiences and not being able to accept and forgive the mistakes he has made. What Roger's views on polygamy and polyamorous relationships are now after the filming of the movie compared to before. The sacred respect that does exist for people in a polyamorous relationship. What the practice of "capitalization" is in a relationship and how you can use it to support your partner.   [50:30] Do You Value Your Partner Enough? Breaking down the unintended consequences of technology striving forward in the name of progress. Why one of the Gottman's Horsemen, Contempt, is such a deal-breaker for many relationships. How to get out of your Contempt rut by actively participating in the relationship in a positive way and valuing what your partner has to say or offer. The history of marriage and why it was based on other reasons such as survival, transaction, or resources until 160 years ago. Why the Disney fairytale relationship is the absolute bullshit story. Unpacking what real love even is including both Roger's and Josh's definitions of it. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley Dr. Pat Allen The power of valuing your partner's different strengths rather than criticizing them for their weaknesses.   [55:30] How To Have A Difficult Conversation & Handle Conflict Better How we can learn to handle conflict better in relationships with constructive discussions. Why men hate being ambushed about things their partner wants to discuss with them and it's better to schedule important conversations. The importance of removing the word, "should," from your vocabulary when speaking with your partner. How to end every conflict to make the conversation so much better for both of you. The immediate downfall in conversation when someone says, "You always do this." Why you should choose "I" over "you" and talk about your feelings rather than putting the other person down. Why there will almost always be someone in a relationship who is more logical and the other more emotional. Exploring the value in simply just acknowledging that your partner is hurting and offering how to help them.   [1:06:30] How To Keep Your Relationship Alive Tools that we can use to help reset our nervous system and get into these states of clarity. The importance of honoring active intention in your relationship now and in the future so that it doesn't deteriorate. Why it can be so scary to show who you truly are in a relationship especially if you lack self-love. His take on couples therapy and why he believes it should be mandatory for everybody from Day 1 of a relationship. What work you can do to increase your chances of finding your soulmate. Why it's so important to be 100% yourself around your partner. Examples of inner work that you can do to reveal to yourself who you are at your core. Ep. 205: How Breathwork Clears Anxiety and Stress, with Josh Trent of Wellness Force Radio Why you have to know what it is that you want before you actually begin doing the inner work. Roger's personal relationship struggles and what he's doing to work on himself. The #1 relationship advice you should be following in 2020: Ban criticism and don't focus on "fixing" your relationship until we get back to normal because we're not seeing things in a normal way while in lockdown. breathwork.io M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community     Power Quotes From The Show   The No. 1 Relationship Deal -Breaker "The Gottmans are able to predict with 90% accuracy whether or not couples will stay together and how happy they will be just after watching them for five minutes based primarily on one thing they're looking for: the existence of contempt from either partner because that shows that you're not a team. Contempt is such a deal-breaker because if your partner doesn't value you or your opinion then you don't feel like you or the relationship are valued. You start to feel like an object or that the relationship is transactional; you're not in it together. It's the togetherness that leads couples to last and seeing themselves as a unit or a duo." - Roger Nygard    Why Are You Really In This Relationship? "You need to get out of the contempt rut and be actively participating in the relationship in a positive way and valuing what your partner has to say or offer. If you don't value that person, why are you partners with them? That's the existential question of relationships. What are you getting out of the deal? A lot of people are together transactionally; they're in it for other reasons than for valuing each other as a human: money, resources, staying alive. That's what most of human history was. This idea of getting married for love is only 160 years old." - Roger Nygard      Why Do Religious Couples Actually Last?   "One of the things that all experts agree on is that if you're someone who is thinking of getting married right now, the best thing you can do to increase your chances for longevity and happiness in a relationship is premarital counseling to enter the relationship with a better understanding of the rules of the game. Most people don't do this and experts have found that religious couples tend to do better than non-religious couples in marriage. It's not because they're religious; it's because they're forced to do premarital counseling by their religion so they get a better understanding of each other. Do you know everything about your partner? You'll never know everything but you should know some basic things especially the core values that you both hold." - Roger Nygard      Links From Today's Show  The Truth About Marriage Film The Truth about Marriage: All the Relationship Secrets Nobody Tells You by Roger Nygard The Nature Of Existence Julia Sweeney Drs. John and Julie Gottman 046 Dr. John Gray The Truth: Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind by Neil Strauss The Gottmans Institute: The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling 302 Mark Groves 366 Mark Wolynn Joe Rogan & Chris Ryan on Open Relationships The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley Dr. Pat Allen Ep. 205: How Breathwork Clears Anxiety and Stress, with Josh Trent of Wellness Force Radio Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes breathwork.io M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community Roger Nygard Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn YouTube   About Roger Nygard "The Truth About Marriage” tracks down the experts and discovers surprising scientific facts behind what makes happy relationships work, and what we can do to increase our chances of finding a soulmate.   Roger Nygard is perhaps best known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the Universe. Nygard’s previous documentary, The Nature of Existence, addressed the impossible subject of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems. Nygard has also directed television series such as “The Office” and “The Bernie Mac Show.” His work as a film editor includes “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The League,” and Emmy-nominated episodes of “Who Is America?” and “VEEP” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Nygard has made several other award-winning films, including the car-salesman cult-film, Suckers, and a a profile of UFO fanatics, Six Days in Roswell, and now the documentary The Truth About Marriage, accompanied by The Truth About Marriage book. Currently he is co-producing and editing “The Comedy Store,” a documentary about the comedians who came though this world-famous LA club.   Build Immunity. Breathe Deeply. A simple, powerful 21 minute morning system designed to give you more energy to let go of old weight and live life well. 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In this episode, we’re thrilled to be joined by Roger Nygard!   If you don’t already know Roger by name, you’ll certainly know him by his work! He’s been a part of so many incredible shows and movies over the years from Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, and Veep to The League, Grey’s Anatomy, Trekkies, The Comedy Store, and much, much more. He has also worn many hats over the years too, from director to writer to editor and producer.   In his most recent film, Roger shifted his focus to marriage and relationships with his documentary, The Truth About Marriage. And what is so incredibly fascinating about this work, in particular, is that he worked on it for seven years, transitioning in and out of relationships of his own.   In this episode, Roger shares with us all of the invaluable insights he has acquired over the course of these seven years as well as the compelling common threads he has noticed in both relationships and marriage. We talk about how to change and grow together as a couple, what successful relationships and marriages have in common, the most common pitfalls an otherwise good relationship or marriage can fall into, and his best tips for ensuring a long, happy marriage.   This conversation with Roger was super fun to record and we’re sure you’re going to enjoy hearing his stories and insights just as much as we did!   IGNTD Specials: IGNTD Live Online Groups (Free for 14 Days) IGNTD Subscription ($43 per month & 30 days of Live Groups included) IGNTD “Once an Addict” Campaign   Topics Discussed: [:34] About today’s episode with Roger Nygard! [:57] Are you team Sophie or team Adi?! [2:51] What we love about Roger and our interview with him today. [5:52] We would love to hear your feedback! Be sure to screenshot this episode and share your favorite takeaway from this week’s episode with us on social media. [7:31] Welcoming Roger Nygard to the podcast! [8:17] Was Roger in a relationship during the course of making the documentary, The Truth About Marriage? [9:10] Roger shares what got him started with creating his documentary, The Truth About Marriage. [10:04] Why and how a relationship will naturally deteriorate over time unless you do this one thing. [11:05] A funny story from before we were married on the topic of marriage. [12:11] Did being in and out of relationships affect the creation of the documentary? [13:02] Roger shares a major takeaway he has learned since creating the documentary that greatly increases the chances of a long, happy marriage. [16:01] The importance of counseling and putting in the work. [17:42] Why you absolutely cannot wait to get help only when a relationship is in trouble. [19:00] Roger’s goal in creating the documentary and writing the accompanying book. [20:03] Roger’s #1 relationship tip in combatting unrealistic expectations and interacting through our masculine and feminine. [26:22] How we check in with each other daily by holding space and practice active listening. [29:00] What Roger has learned about relationships as a director, writer, editor, and producer over the years. [32:27] Looking back on his life, where would Roger say the ideas that show up in his work come from? [34:40] How Roger finds the comedy in serious and tough life situations. [35:59] Roger’s advice on what we can do to improve our lives (both individually and in a relationship) during the pandemic. [40:05] Why starting over is not always the solution. [43:33] Sophie reads a powerful quote about relationships from Rising Woman. [44:12] What’s next for Roger? What subject is he interested in exploring next? [46:20] What is the best advice Roger has ever received? [48:32] What is Roger’s proudest moment to-date? [51:29] What is Roger’s hardest moment to-date? [53:23] How does Roger practice self-care daily? [56:44] What ignites Roger? [1:00:47] Thanking Roger for joining the podcast! 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Why do people keep getting married when fifty percent of them break up? In this episode we talk with documentary film maker Roger Nygard about his recent film, The Truth About Marriage, in which he interviewed experts from all walks of life to better understand the complexities of love + sex that are unique to our modern way of living. We dive in to explore what strategies could benefit relationships in the long term, as well as, talk about the various types of relationships that exist. In this episode you will hear: The challenges of modern day relationship formats The importance of energetic polarity in developing attraction What experts from all backgrounds have to say about marriage + how to bring back passion in long term relationships The important key factors needed for the success of polyamorous relationships Sex in polyamory + monogamy. Which are we as humans designed for? Dr Cat’s + Roger’s personal experiences in learning about love along their journey Roger answers some of your questions on air about building passion after being in a long term relationship, factors to make yourself more sexually attractive, + starting the conversation with your partner about your desire for opening the relationship. THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Roger Nygard's latest book and documentary "The Truth About Marriage" examines how we can all make relationship happier. Nygard has directed TV series such as “The Office” and “The Bernie Mac Show,” and has edited Emmy-nominated episodes of "Who is America?" “VEEP,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Nygard has made several award-winning films, including the car-salesman comedy-drama, "Suckers," and has profiled UFO nuts in "Six Days In Roswell," Star Trek fanatics in "Trekkies," and existentialism in "The Nature of Existence." Currently he is co-producing and editing “The Comedy Store,” a documentary about the comedians who came though this world-famous LA club. http://thetruthaboutmarriage.com/ http://rogernygard.com/ https://vimeo.com/blinkmovies https://twitter.com/RogerNygard https://www.instagram.com/RogerNygard Want more? Click here to access my FREE digital guide all about harnessing the power of your fantasies. http://eepurl.com/gGn4xP Check out SexLoveYoga.com and EatPlaySex.com for more juicy articles, guides, erotic audio stories, + more! Be sure to check back every second Wednesday (#humpday – how appropriate) for a new episode, share + subscribe! I LOVE reading your reviews in iTunes, it helps me gain points in the podcast stratosphere! To leave me a review for the podcast, open Eat Play Sex in iTunes your phone + give me those juicy words. I so appreciate you.

Are you contemplating a new marriage, struggling with your current marriage, wondering why relationships are so hard and asking yourself if marriage is right for you? Join us for Part 2 with Award Winning Documentarian, Roger Nygard, as we discuss his latest film, “The Truth About Marriage” in which he explores the mysteries of relationships and why people get married, even though 50% of marriages fail. He discovers scientific facts about attraction and psychology and shares his insight into how love, romance and sex affect your marriage.

Are you contemplating a new marriage, struggling with your current marriage, wondering why relationships are so hard and asking yourself if marriage is right for you? Join us for Part 2 with Award Winning Documentarian, Roger Nygard, as we discuss his latest film, “The Truth About Marriage” in which he explores the mysteries of relationships and why people get married, even though 50% of marriages fail. He discovers scientific facts about attraction and psychology and shares his insight into how love, romance and sex affect your marriage.

Are you contemplating a new marriage, struggling with your current marriage, wondering why relationships are so hard and asking yourself if marriage is right for you? Join us with Award Winning Documentarian, Roger Nygard, as we discuss his latest film, “The Truth About Marriage” in which he explores the mysteries of relationships and why people get married, even though 50% of marriages fail. He discovers scientific facts about attraction and psychology and shares his insight into how love, romance and sex affect your marriage.

Are you contemplating a new marriage, struggling with your current marriage, wondering why relationships are so hard and asking yourself if marriage is right for you? Join us with Award Winning Documentarian, Roger Nygard, as we discuss his latest film, “The Truth About Marriage” in which he explores the mysteries of relationships and why people get married, even though 50% of marriages fail. He discovers scientific facts about attraction and psychology and shares his insight into how love, romance and sex affect your marriage.

Are you getting back out there after being married or in a relationship?Or perhaps you have yet to find your special someone? If either sounds like you, then this episode has your name all over it. This episode’s guest, Marni Kagan, gives us incredible tips and advice on dating in our midlife years. Marni is a featured expert in Roger Nygard’s documentary, The Truth About Marriage. She is a professional matchmaker in Manhattan and has a passion for helping people find love.  We hope you enjoy the episode! Connect with Marni on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marni.galison Book: Love Signals https://amzn.to/3kl8ejS And if you’re enjoying the show, please consider leaving me a 5 star review on the podcast platform of your preference. Thank you! Are you tired of trying every fad diet? Sick of spending hours at the gym with little to no results? You need the FASTer Way to Fat Loss, the online program that will empower you to transform your life through effective, cutting edge fitness and nutrition strategies. No supplements or gym memberships required.  Learn all about the FASTer Way to Fat Loss here (affiliate link): https://www.fasterwaycoach.com/#Lisamustard This episode is brought to you by my favorite activewear line, Zyia Active.  Want high quality activewear that doesn’t break your bank account? I sure did and went looking for leggings, joggers, sports bras and tops that fit my budget and were soft, wrinkle resistant and would match just about anything I already had in my closet. And now Zyia Active makes up about 80% of my wardrobe. Want to learn more? Head to lisamustard.com/active-wear. Don’t think this is just for women, they have mens’ and kids’ clothes too. Our family is loving the quality and I love the price tags! So head over to my site to check it out.

Roger Nygard is an auto enthusiast and award-winning filmmaker including his car-salesman comedy-drama, "SUCKERS." He has profiled UFO nuts in "Six Days In Roswell," and "Star Trek" fanatics in "Trekkies," and existentialism in "The Nature of Existence." Roger’s latest book and documentary "The Truth About Marriage" examines how we can all make relationship happier.

Roger Nygard's latest book and documentary, "The Truth About Marriage: How to find love, stay together, and keep the passion alive" examines how we can make relationships better. You can learn more about the movie here: http://thetruthaboutmarriage.com Learn more about his book here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-truth-about-marriage-all-the-relationship-secrets-nobody-tells-you/9781944068936?aid=9136 Roger has directed TV series such as “The Office” and “The Bernie Mac Show,” and he has edited Emmy-nominated episodes of "Who is America?" “VEEP” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Additionally, he has made several award-winning films, including the car-salesman comedy, "Suckers," an exploration of existentialism in "The Nature of Existence," and he has profiled UFO fanatics in "Six Days In Roswell," and "Star Trek" fans in "Trekkies." You can find his personal website here: http://rogernygard.com Follow him on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/rogernygard ___________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas. Sign up for my weekly newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91. It's easy and takes five seconds. Check out a list of 100 of my favorite books here, including many my guests have written and recommend reading: https://bookshop.org/shop/LDLB --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/longdistancelovebombs/message

Welcome to April! I hope this finds you happy and healthy and safe and well. And home! We are all fine here high atop the Mulholland Drive view shelf. We are home and doing what we are supposed to are doing (which is not much) and I hope you are doing the same. My guest is Roger Nygard, an incredibly talented director and writer best known for the hit documentary Trekkies. He also made a brilliant film called The Nature Of Existence and his new documentary is called The Truth About Marriage. It's incredibly entertaining and genuinely informative (and I say that as someone who was married). Speaking of marriage, we have a True Tales deep dive into the very same subject, as well as a look inside one of the most f'd romantic comedies ever – The Graduate. Now, this episode was recorded BEFORE the explosion of the coronavirus, so it doesn't hang heavy over the conversation. Hopefully that will seem more refreshing than bizarre. Regardless, let's now get on with our filthy business….

This week, Roger Nygard, director of "Trekkies," "Trekkies 2,” and "The Nature of Existence" joins John and Ken. What does it mean to be a fan, a true fan, and a normal fan? Roger has traveled the globe talking to Trekkies and Trekkers alike, in search of answers. Bring your level of fandom and enjoy!   Be sure to join us live! We're on the Mission Log Facebook page facebook.com/missionlogpod every Tuesday at 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern

The Self Help Comedy Hour with Ed Crasnick #13     Special Guests: Denise Crosby, Roger Nygard, Karen Kilgariff and Cathy Ladman Terrific show talking with actress/producer and Star Trek The Next Generation legend, Denise Crosby. Not only is she Bing Crosby's grandaughter, she left the show and came back as her own daughter! I can't even be here as myself. Plus Director of the Trekkies movies and award winning editor of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Roger Nygard. And quadruple threat Karen Kilgariff sings one of her amazing songs. And a little therapy with great comedian and actress Cathy Ladman. Hope you like it, or your money back! Come for the celebration, stay for the fear of abandonment-