Eric Kripke

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Guys, uh, got a email from Eric Kripke.

I hope that's how you say your name, Eric.

He, uh, created The Boys.

He dragged the other Michael, not Dean Michael.

While the original five-season narrative arc envisioned by Eric Kripke concluded with Sam's sacrifice, the story of the Winchesters was far from over.

Over the next ten seasons, as the show evolved under different creative leadership, Sam and Dean faced threats that expanded far beyond classic mythology.

Purgatory, the Leviathans, the Mark of Cain, the Darkness, and eventually God Himself, operating under the name Chuck Shirley.

What else do you have? Most writers in Hollywood freeze, apologize, or ask to reschedule.

But in that exact split second, creator Eric Kripke made an off-the-cuff pivot that changed television history.

He scrapped the reporter, tapped into his childhood love for classic Americana, and pitched two brothers cruising the country in a classic muscle car, chasing monsters and dealing with their own explosive family baggage.

No matter how weird it got.

That emergency pivot didn't just save the meeting.

It laid the first brick for Supernatural, a show that would run for 15 years, cross 327 episodes, and become the longest-running live-action science fiction series in American TV history.

To understand how Supernatural was actually born, you have to look past the 15-year legacy and go back to Toledo, Ohio, where Eric Kripke grew up obsessed with urban legends.

As a kid, Kripke wasn't just interested in traditional film monsters like Dracula or Frankenstein.

But I'm replacing everything from crickets to wind to traffic to And guns and vehicles, everything that you hear in a TV show or a movie, 95% of it is replaced from set.

I think you said in previous interviews that Eric Kripke likes to hear several options for each soup.

When there isn't one objectively correct sound, what are the sort of changes between those versions

that you're giving it? So we're given some direction.

There will be spoilers, so many spoilers.

But if you're familiar with the show or just aren't worried about having any of it spoiled, and if you aren't squicked, repulsed, or grossed out by the idea of Sam and Dean being together together, then we'd love it if you'd join us as we talk about what showrunners Sarah Gamble and Eric Kripke, the creator himself, have referred to as the epic love story of Sam and Dean.

Welcome back.

Today we are talking about Season 2, Episode 15, Tall Tales, which originally aired on February 15th of 2007.

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I played a nurse and it was my very, which actually was really cool because later on I ended up working with Eric Kripke, who was the showrunner on Supernatural, was the showrunner on Revolution, which I then booked years later.

But it was my very, one of my very first jobs was Supernatural.

I played a nurse there.

So there was five seasons on support.

And in between, I was like Kripke's assistant for a little while and a little bit of Sarah's assistant.

I co-wrote one with Bob Singer when I was still writer's assistant.

And then I wrote one, still writer's assistant, in season eight, torn and frayed.

Probably just sent out like, hey, we're looking for this.

Yeah, like I've gotten those where it's like we're just looking for someone if you know of anyone good and it's like a friend of a friend.

So I sent my resume directly and I think it helps that I went to USC and like Kripke went to USC.

So I was like, finally, my student loans pay off.

You don't want them to go all the way to the point where the artist, or where the fans need to agree with your art, right? You don't want them to be, um, whoever, you know, uh...

Who is it, Kripke? Who is it that...

It's Eric Kripke that created The, The Boys, right? Am I crazy about that? I always get him and Tim Kring mixed up.

Tim Kring is the guy who did Crossing Jordan, which I love, and of course, um, he did Heroes, which is great.

Um, but Er- you know, it's like they want you to judge the art the way they see it, right? But you have to find a middle ground.