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- So we do a series at Gizmodo
called "First Fandoms".

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- [Alison] Oh.
- Where we talk to people

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about the things they were obsessed with

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when they were a kid.

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- Ooh.
- Danny DeVito talked about

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how he was obsessed with "The Shadow",

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and Rainn Wilson was
really into "Star Trek".

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- Ooh.
- What was the media property

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that you were obsessed with?

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- Oh gosh.

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Well, I don't feel like it's gonna be

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the answer that you want,

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but it's the answer you're gonna get.

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Okay, here's one I can think of.

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It's Kevin Smith movies.

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- Really?
- Yes.

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So when I was in middle school,

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my friends and I were obsessed
with Kevin Smith's movies,

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and basically it started
with "Clerks" because

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we got my friend's
neighbor's older brother

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to rent "Clerks" for us,

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and we were probably 12 years old.

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We watched it at my friend's house

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in the afternoon after school
when her parents weren't home.

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I don't know if you've
seen "Clerks" recently,

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but it is the dirtiest.

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It's like everything that
they talk about is very taboo,

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especially for a 12, 13-year-old.

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We lost our goddamn minds

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and thought it was the
coolest, edgiest thing.

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I think also it was just, you
know, if I reflect on it now

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thinking of the art behind it,

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it's showing me that art could be

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really dangerous and exciting.

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- That's his (beep) metal face.

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Olaf, girl nice?

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- Skrelnik.

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- That's (beep) up, man.

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- What did he say?

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- I don't know, man, but
this guy's a character.

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- And then I was just
on the Kevin Smith trip

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and "Mall Rats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma."

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It was just like forever the fan,

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I watched all the movies
and I was really into them.

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- "Clerks" also was just a
movie put together by a guy.

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He maxed out his credit cards to make it.

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He used his friends as actors.

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- Totally.
- Did that inspire you to see,

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"Oh, anybody can be an actor.

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Anybody can make films and TV?"

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- I think so, definitely.

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By the time I was in high
school, my friends and I,

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my high school boyfriend
had a video camera

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and we would shoot our little movies.

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One of the first ones, it
was like a "Scream" spoof.

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That's another franchise that
I was really obsessed with,

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the "Scream" franchise.

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And we made our own film called "Yell."

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