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Felicia Day joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new Audible Original series, Third Eye. The comedy audiobook is a love letter to sci-fi and fantasy that tells the story of Laurel, a “Chosen One” wizard grappling with the fallout of failing from a decade earlier. The new series also features the voices of Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Sean Astin, Lily Pichy, Danny Pudi, Alan Tudyk, London Hughes, Christopher Judge, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
Meredith nerds out on the Easter eggs and inside jokes of the show and Day explains how she chose which language to use for the spells the characters cast. She also covers how she originally envisioned a TV show to follow up her series, The Guild, that reflected time she felt like a failure who didn’t live up to professional expectations.
Elsewhere, the actress/writer discusses the music she was listening to while creating the story (Trey Anastasio, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, First Aid Kit), why it’s so easy to trash the 2000s, and her preference for the darker British-style comedy to smug Americanized comedy.
“I always lend myself to British comedy a little bit more than American comedy,” she explains. “American comedy is so self-satisfied, like How I Met Your Mother.”
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