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when Important to Zyxx It first appeared in 2017, the podcast area was completely different. There were fewer offers, and more money was spent with companies rushing to know how to take advantage of the growing means. While many large podcasts focus on news and investigation reports, Zyxx – Comedy improvised about a group of foreign diplomats A journey through the galaxy in search of adventure – I felt as if it was strange to the spirit of classic radio drama.

The offer was like sending love to Star Wars and Star TrekThe most popular narration (and ridiculous) beats. And while nostalgia was a large part of ZyxxAttractive, exact sound design and inspired offers, which make each episode make each episode look like something of the future podcast.

when Important to Zyxx It ended in 2022, creators in the exhibition need – Jermy Bent, Allie Kokesh, Seth Lind, Winston Noel and Moujan Zolfaghari – to a break and time to know what they want to do after that. In the end they fell Derf old old records; He was appointed to the same universe Important to Zyxx It is characterized by many voices of the original, but it is a completely different type of series (miniature), which is a more modern group about science fiction.

When I recently sat with Ford and Lind before Derf old old records‘The first time At the Trebika Film Festival for this yearThey told me that their new podcast is, in part, in response to the way the studios have become obsessed with expanding their well -known privileges with Prequels. but Derf old old records It is also the creative team’s way to show fans how important their continuous support is.

This interview has been edited and intensified for clarity.

If we look back, how it was Zyxx Fandom has evolved, do you say, and how did the fans participate on the show?

Aldeen Ford: When we started in the second season, Patrion started helping to finance some of the most ambitious aspects of display and payment (sound designer) Shin (Oconilel) for the work that he was increasingly put in each episode to make it larger and avoid. We really linked this to our listeners in a way that I do not think we were really expecting it in the first season when it was just an offer that was there and I loved it.

Seth Lind: The thing that surprised us was the extent of the interest of many fans in the show. When we started making it, we wanted it to be funny, we wanted people to like them, and we wanted to be common. But we did not really dare hope that it would become important and significant to people. We heard from people saying: “I was in the deepest depression in my life and this was the thing that I aspire to,” or “my partner died and this is the first thing that made me laugh.”

Soon the end of the show, a group of fans made us this heavy book that they called to Zain, who was a group of art and messages that say what the show means to them. Things like this made us feel responsible towards our fans. The width is violent and can become very blue, but we have always worked to protect his heart and make him feel from a good place. If something looks like it was piercing, we will cut it, and while the characters could mean as individuals, but like the offer as a whole he could not. I think these instincts led to Vandum cultivation really cared about each other. This community made it impossible to make the offer.

to: As science fiction lovers, we all know how much it is very closely frustrated when you admire something that does not land on the plane or is canceled very early. And so for us, as soon as we got a few seasons we invested in making them as good as possible. Especially in the back half of the fifth season, we were like, “What are the ways to conclude this offer so that everyone who listens and cares about it is satisfied with that?” Of course, this is an impossible task because you will not do anything that makes everyone happy. But I think we have ended it with our own conditions, which you can say more than many offers.

to: There are some different reasons. The fun reason is that we all know how much Star Wars There is now. I do not complain, but I think it has become a kind of his cliché that there is no character, regardless of how absurdity or triple, deserves its fully removed series as it explains every possible aspect of the back aspects.

You are not a noise for the Glup Shitto series?

to: ((He laughsI mean, yes, I am looking for a trilogy b. But yes, we thought that if we would do something else in Zyxx The universe, it will be fun to do things exactly Star Wars He will do – something like Obi OneOr a MandalianOr a Boba fat series. I felt a satirical simulation of this type and the tray around it properly for us in general. But the other reason is that Justin (Tyler) is a man we all love and is a fan of fans.

SL: DERF is the closest until OBI-Lan is in this universe, and that he is able to describe it as “old man’s old deer” completely sold me on the idea of ​​offering a offer about it. Because, like, this is very stupid, and “DERF story when he was a little less age” is the separation that no one asked. But I also remember Justin very early in the first spouses’ episodes, Alden gave some comments about the show, saying, like “Pleck should be important.”

In the early seasons, Blake – who was the alternative audience – was a kind of punching bag, and it was a kind of joke that it was important. But Justin was like, “like this everything, this man must actually be a person who ends up to be important and must have an arc for his follow -up.” I think this really helped the show to find his voice, which is a large part, which helped us to continue many seasons.

an act Andor Inform your approach to drafting Derf old old records?

to: One of the challenges we presented to ourselves is to present a new type of offer. We do not want to re -invent the wheel or anything, but we wanted to do it Deerf It is clearly different in the material and the structure of the original offer. With the new show, it is basically a novel from the first person where everything is largely informed of the DERF perspective. From the point of view of improvisation, we dealt with it less than the model Zyxx Coordination where we start on the ship, we get a task, then we are on the planet of the week.

with DeerfWe thought, what if we dealt with it more like “Damn about” where we just enjoy with DERF in these new settings with a lot of walking, exclusives, and the longest scenes where the West things happen, and we are not concerned about paying the plot or the strict triple structure? It was very difficult to conduct editing and production more difficult, but it is really achieved for us, especially because we are not just an exchange of the painting Important to Zyxx. I don’t know if Andor I was trying to do this by mixing the structure and style, but I think this is the key to making us creatively eager to make this thing.

He was You are open to more Zyxx behind Derf old old records?

to: definitely. I think this show as a limited series I really felt was a good and sustainable way to keep things continuous. We all talked about doing this new offer, as you know, seeing how listeners respond, then re -evaluating our work burden to see if doing more in the future is logical with our lives now. If we continue to make offers in Zyxx The world, likely to be in such ways where we will reach something, we can produce 10 episodes, work for a year to make something, then reassemble its ranks to see what the next thing is.

Derf old old records He does not yet have a fixed release date. But if you are interested in seeing Important to Zyxx The crew performs and produces a loop directly, tickets are still available to The next direct offer to warn in New York CityWhich will also be done directly.