Apr 23, 2026 · 51 min · 16 segments
We're back with something very exciting- a chat between Harbingers creator Gabriel Urbina and our dear friend Lauren Shippen, creator of the Bright Sessions and more! She's here to talk about her new…
Lauren ShippenGuestGabriel UrbinaHostEleanor HydeHostHey, this is producer Eleanor, and I want to tell you about a favorite show of mine.
When Gloria loses her restaurant, she answers a Craigslist ad for a waitressing gig at a diner outside Phoenix, and then discovers that it's actually a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner that appears somewhere new in the cosmos every day.
Nobody knows who built the diner or how it works, but somehow wherever it lands, there's always someone who could really use a cup of coffee.
Now, this show is like if you took one cup Douglas Adams and then one cup Terry Pratchett, and then to that you add a little Kurt Vonnegut and some Ursula K.
You mix that until combined, put it in a pan, bake for one to two hours, and then you get this incredible show, which is full of big cosmic ideas told through small human moments.
And then you tap tap with your fork and you break through that crust and it can really sneak up on you emotionally under there.
OK, so if you're trying to get into the show, this is one of these ones that has an enormous catalog.
So you can either start right at the beginning or I suggest you check out episode 12.
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Hey, this is producer Eleanor, and I want to tell you about a favorite show of mine.
When Gloria loses her restaurant, she answers a Craigslist ad for a waitressing gig at a diner outside Phoenix, and then discovers that it's actually a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner that appears somewhere new in the cosmos every day.
Nobody knows who built the diner or how it works, but somehow wherever it lands, there's always someone who could really use a cup of coffee.
Now, this show is like if you took one cup Douglas Adams and then one cup Terry Pratchett, and then to that you add a little Kurt Vonnegut and some Ursula K.
You mix that until combined, put it in a pan, bake for one to two hours, and then you get this incredible show, which is full of big cosmic ideas told through small human moments.
And then you tap tap with your fork and you break through that crust and it can really sneak up on you emotionally under there.
OK, so if you're trying to get into the show, this is one of these ones that has an enormous catalog.
So you can either start right at the beginning or I suggest you check out episode 12.