Alia Shawkat & Mackenzie Crook

Alia Shawkat & Mackenzie Crook

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Alia Shawkat came by the Bullseye studios and holy moly, what a brilliant, funny human being! You know her as Maeby Fünke from TV’s Arrested Development, which just dropped its fifth season. She also leads the TBS series Search Party these days. But Alia just starred in a really interesting film - it’s called Duck Butter, and it tells the story of two women who fall in love and decide to spend the next 24 hours together, awake and totally present. Then, Mackenzie Crook. You’ve seen him before - maybe it was as Gareth on the original UK version of The Office. Or maybe you saw him in Pirates of the Caribbean or Game of Thrones. But his passion project is Detectorists - a three season British show he stars in and create. It’s finally come to the states in its entirety via Acorn TV. It’s a show about metal detecting, relationships, and the English Countryside and it’s one of our favorite things on air. Finally - we know nobody can break the laws of physics. But if we had to pick one person who might be able to, it’d be NFL running back Barry Sanders. Jesse tells you why.