No way in hell was Michael Shannon actually going to sit down and chat at Duck Duck Coffee, thought owner Kat Naden.
It’s tough to blame her for that skepticism; it was early 2024, and Naden had been contacted more or less out of the blue by a local man named Billy Nord, who asked if he could host a live talk show with the actor at her shop.
Nord is a former resident of New York City who spent a lot of his time there producing shows—“live stuff, weird stuff, stuff in basements and bookstores and things like that,” he says. His production work included a live talk show for character actor Kevin Corrigan where “random people” would stop by—random people, in this case, being actors and comics like Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, and Vincent D’Onofrio—but he moved to Minnesota during the pandemic, started a family, and “fell out of the whole producing thing.”…