Andrew Marvin@siracusa I hear it as an em dash.
“It’s a podcast about filmographies—directors who have massive success and…”
John Siracusa@andrewmarvin I don’t think that’s an appropriate use of an em dash. More accurately, it would be “…about the filmographies of directors who…”
@siracusa Right, agreed on that construction.
It could be that the podcast is about two things. It’s about filmographies. It’s about directors.
But a comma alone wouldn’t feel right in a list of only two things, so the dash gives a stronger break.
Alternatively, and in my ears, it feels like Griffin is interrupting himself to clarify:
Griffin: “It’s a podcast about filmographies—“
Listener: “Which ones?”
Griffin: “—[those of] directors who have massive success…”
And that’s an appropriate em dash to me. But it’s a spoken thing, so the em dash is just how I would try to capture the delivery in writing. It sounds like a stronger break than a comma, and it lets “directors who…” be a dependent clause attached to the complete sentence of “It’s a podcast about…”.
(I’ve thought about this before! 😅)