Chief Magic Maker
with Jason Saft
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Michael Clayton
How the hosts frame Jason's job: the fixer who arrives when a home cannot be sold.
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Modern Family
Summoned for the line about realtors: there's a difference, nobody knows what it is.
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Pee-wee's Playhouse
How Jason describes his 24,000 square foot warehouse of props and collections. Jason Saft
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432 Park Avenue
The kind of job Jason refers elsewhere, preferring a dilapidated brownstone he can sink into. Jason Saft
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Heated Rivalry
Jason suspects it has reshaped the show's booking policy; the dialogue gets savaged anyway. Jason Saft
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The Six Million Dollar Man
"We can rebuild him. We have the technology." Jason Saft
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The Dukes of Hazzard
Jason testing which of his childhood references the hosts are too young for. Jason Saft
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The only reason one host knows the bionic man exists: Andy's action figures.
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The Bionic Woman
Offered as the camp counterpart, and the one that mattered to young Jason. Jason Saft
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Stranger Things
What the abandoned mall photograph hanging in that East Village apartment looked like. Jason Saft
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Succession
Jason studies its sets before staging apartments for people who live like that. Jason Saft
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Ultrafragola mirror
Jason's example of the truly trendy object: hotel lobby selfies and cheap dupes. Jason Saft
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Noguchi coffee table
Learned in college, then Design Within Reach made it impossible to see freshly. Jason Saft
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Eames Lounge Chair
The chair he wanted in his twenties as proof of arriving, and no longer wants. Jason Saft
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Press Your Luck
Jason's model for bidding at auction: no whammies, and then a whammy. Jason Saft
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Maralunga sofa
Dan's current auction fixation, undone by wild variance in price, color and condition. Dan Rosen
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Beavis and Butt-Head
Jason's parting flattery: the intellectual version, which the hosts want to trademark. Jason Saft