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Peter Jessop talks about the Kickstarter for his new animated series called ‘Hard Drive’. Support the Kickstarter by going to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newwaveshow/new-wave-pilot 0:00 SEG 1- Voice actor Peter Jessop (https://www.peterjessopvoice.com/) talks about the Kickstarter for his new animated series called ‘Hard Drive’ and why it takes $750,000 to create a 22 minute pilot. He also talks about casting the show. 19:57 SEG 2-Voice actor Peter Jessop talks about appearing as Vision in the Avengers cartoon, collecting Marvel comics as a kid, missing out on working with Kevin Conroy, the challenges of voicing video games, Fallout 4, whether his kids are impressed by his job, and getting back in the studio after working all year in his home closet. 38:38 SEG 3-Voice actor Peter Jessop talks about voicing military roles, whether he collects toys based on his characters, and coming up with enough 80’s jokes for 22 episodes and maybe even multiple seasons of ‘Hard Drive’. Thanks to our sponsors Marcus

Gary Jones talks about his prolific film career including working on special effects for ‘Evil Dead 2’ and ‘Army of Darkness’ and of course writing, directing, and producing his latest film ‘Escape from Death Block 13’. Check out the film at https://www.deathblock13.com/ 0:00 SEGMENT 1 - Gary Jones talks about writing, directing, and producing ‘Escape from Death Block 13’, his love for 70’s action films like ‘The Mechanic’ and ‘The Getaway’, why ‘Escape from Death Block 13’ was one of the hardest movies he’s ever worked on, creating the visual effects for ‘The Sandman’, and why improv can make a film feel more real. 14:32 SEGMENT 2 - Gary Jones talks about working on ‘Evil Dead 2’ and ‘Army of Darkness’ with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell AND ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. 24:25 SEGMENT 3 - Gary Jones talks about learning every department on the film set from the ground up and when he decided to attempt writing and directing. 34:33 SEGMENT 4 - Gary Jones talks about the time

Paul, Grant, and Rob from Cloud 9 Comics and More talk about buying people’s comic and toy collections. Visit their website at http://www.cloud9comicsandmore.com/ 0:00 SEGMENT 1 - Paul, Grant, and Rob from Cloud 9 Comics talk about what price collections are going for, what items are currently the most valuable, spotting key comic book issues, and the most popular toys. 20:00 SEGMENT 2 - First producer Joey_Vee reviews ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ and then Paul, Grant, and Rob from Cloud 9 Comics talk about how COVID affected sales of collections, spotting counterfeits, their specific areas of expertise, future movies and TV shows that will affect collectible prices, and the movies they are the most excited for. 52:32 SEGMENT 3 - Paul, Grant, and Rob from Cloud 9 Comics talk about memorable interactions they’ve had with comic book creators and the highest priced books in comics right now. Thanks to our sponsors Marcus Theatres (https://www.marcustheatres.com/) and Historic St. Charles, Missouri (https://www.disc

Isabelle Engman & Gerardo Garcia Jr. talk about creating the music for The Amazon Original Blumhouse Film ‘Madres’. Check out the trailer at https://youtu.be/GNusqV6dUfY Roman Molino Dunn (https://romanmolinodunn.com/) talks about creating the music for ‘Snakehead’. Check out the trailer at https://youtu.be/JILrh-Ct7ac 0:00 SEGMENT 1 - Isabelle Engman & Gerardo Garcia Jr. talk about creating the music for The Amazon Original Film ‘Madres’, meeting at a scoring program at USC, and why they work together so well. 12:00 SEGMENT 2 - Isabelle Engman (https://www.isabelleengman.com/) and Gerardo Garcia Jr. (https://www.gerardogarciamusic.com/) talk about growing up loving music, their favorite instruments, favorite movie scores, and favorite genre to score. 18:13 SEGMENT 3 - Roman Molino Dunn talks about creating the music for ‘Snakehead’ and why COVID canceling the film festivals ended up working out for ‘Snakehead’. 27:45 SEGMENT 4 - Roman Molino Dunn talks about how other creators discover his work and c

Paula Rhodes, James’ former co-worker and Hazelwood Central grad, talks about becoming a working actor in Hollywood, appearing in the Resident Evil video game series, and coming home to St. Louis to show off her new film ‘Delicate State’ at S.L.I.F.F. Check out the trailer for ‘Delicate Sate’ https://vimeo.com/625660689 Bret Hoffman, the director of marketing for Marcus Theatres, talks about all the cool movies currently out and the most exciting ones coming to theatres soon. He also shares his favorite holiday movies. 0:00 SEGMENT 1 - Paula Rhodes talks about directing and starring in the movie ‘Delicate State’ which will play at the St. Louis International Film Festival at The Tivoli on Saturday, Nov 20 at 2:00pm. Find out what it was like being pregnant while writing, starring, and directing ‘Delicate State’. 10:35 SEGMENT 2 - Paula Rhodes talks about Yuri Lowenthal appearing in ‘Delicate State’, how she found people to appear in the film, and the hardest parts of directing a film. 22:35 SEGMENT 3 - Bret H

Brian Volk-Weiss, the founder and current CEO of The Nacelle Company, the production company behind a new documentary series on The History Channel called ‘The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek’, talks about everything that went into creating the show. Find out more at https://www.history.com/shows/the-center-seat-55-years-of-star-trek 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Brian Volk-Weiss talks about why choosing the narrator is one of the hardest parts of making a documentary and why he had to convince Gates McFadden to be a producer on the show and then eventually the narrator. 10:30 SEGMENT 2: Brian Volk-Weiss talks about why Star Trek documentaries always gloss over certain topics, how Lucille Ball is the mother of Star Trek, and how Star Trek the Original Series almost never got made. 19:08 SEGMENT 3: Brian Volk-Weiss talks about how ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ literally changed his life, crying on set during an interview, and which series he is the least familiar with. 33:18 SEGMENT 4: Brian Volk-Weiss talks about th

0:00 SEGMENT 1: Dre Ellis of Prophecy Comics (https://direct.me/prophecycomics) returns to talk about the Kickstarter for his comic ‘Heavy is the Hand’. Dre talks about how he found the artist for his comic, getting support from strangers via social media, converting his film script to a comic book, and plans to compose the music for the film adaptation. 21:40 SEGMENT 2: Max Casella (https://www.instagram.com/max.casella/) talks the film ‘That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes’, immediately agreeing to appear in any film his friend Onur Tukel asks him to be in, and how hard it is for indie filmmakers to get noticed nowadays. 36:23 SEGMENT 3: Max Casella talks about his love for theatre even though it doesn’t pay, reinventing himself after playing Vincent "Vinnie" Delpino in Doogie Howser M.D., dealing with rejection, and lending his voice to the Jak and Daxter video games. Thanks to our sponsors Marcus Theatres (https://www.marcustheatres.com/) and Historic St. Charles, Missouri (https://www.discoverstcharles.com/)

B.K., Walt, and Alan from B.K. on the Air simulcast live with Geek to Me Radio to discuss the greatest contributors to the horror genre and rank their top 5 not scary ghost movies. Composer Dan Dombrowsky talks about creating the music for the film ‘The Estate’ starring Eliza Coupe from ‘Happy Endings’ and Eric Roberts from ‘The Dark Knight’. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: B.K., Walt, and Alan from WBHF’s B.K. on the Air joins James live for a Halloween simulcast. The gang gives out awards to the greatest contributors to the horror genre and rank their top 5 ghost movies that are not scary. Follow their show at https://twitter.com/bkontheair 24:09 SEGMENT 2: Daniel Dombrowsky (http://www.danieldombrowsky.com/) talks about composing the music for ‘The Estate’, making music for sociopaths, and whether he misses performing live. 37:01 SEGMENT 3: Daniel Dombrowsky talks about honing his composing skills on every new project and staying productive during covid. Thanks to our sponsors Marcus Theatres (https://www.marcustheatres.c

Larry Quiggins talks about re-opening his beloved comic shop Bug’s Comics (https://bugscomicsandgames.com/). Larry also shares what made him fall in love with comics in the first place and plans for the grand opening October 29th-31st at 1664 Bryan Rd O'Fallon, MO 63368 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Larry Quiggins talks about opening the first Bug’s Comics location back in 1990, teaching theatre, selling and collecting toys, opening his latest Bug’s Comics location, getting into comics as a kid, partnering with his original employee Tim Spakowski, his favorite Batman stories, and plans for the grand opening during Halloween weekend. 15:43 SEGMENT 2: Larry Quiggins talks about how the pandemic has affected prices for comics and toys and how comic book movies and shows affect prices. 30:38 SEGMENT 3: Larry Quiggins talks about his 50,000+ comic collection, how he sources inventory, and dealing with distributors. 44:02 SEGMENT 4: Larry Quiggins talks about how The Avengers Club discount works for frequent buyers and his favor

Jim Ousley, writer of ‘The Atonement Bell’ (https://twitter.com/AtonementBell) and horror obsessive, joins James to review ‘Halloween Kills’. Composer Xav Clarke (https://linktr.ee/xavclarke) talks about working on the cartoon ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory’. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Horror-comic writer and friend of the show Jim Ousley (https://twitter.com/JimOusley) joins James to review ‘Halloween Kills’ and to talk about how it connects to past installments in the series, whether the same day release on Peacock affected the box office, and the future of the franchise. 17:50 SEGMENT 2: Composer Xav Clarke (https://www.xavclarke.com/) talks about creating the music for the Apple TV cartoon ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory’, auditioning for the job, the importance of performing live, voice acting, working on songs for ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’, and whether time constraints help or hinder his projects. 29:58 SEGMENT 3: Composer Xav Clarke talks about finding the tone for ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factor

D’Andre Ellis (https://twitter.com/Prophecy_Comics) talks about his kickstarter for ‘Heavy is the Hand’ (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hithcbs/heavy-is-the-hand-issue-1-of-comic-book-series) Writer Christopher Cantwell (https://twitter.com/ifyoucantwell) talks about his experience writing Iron Man comics. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: D’Andre Ellis from Prophecy Comics (https://www.instagram.com/prophecycomics/) talks about adapting his movie script into a comic book, the Kickstarter for his comic, and the creators who have inspired him. 21:30 SEGMENT 2: Writer Christopher Cantwell talks about getting his start in indie comics, getting tapped by Marvel to write for Doctor Doom, pitching for Iron Man, and how long he plans to keep writing for Marvel. 31:20 SEGMENT 3: Christopher Cantwell talks about which Marvel characters he was allowed pair up with Iron Man, taking Tony Stark to space, keeping the Space Friends together, his admiration for Tom Brevoort, his new JFK conspiracy story for Boom Comics, working with Kar

In this 2nd part of a 2 part interview, comic writer, editor, and creator Tom DeFalco talks about Thor, Hasbro, collecting comics, and the crowdfunding campaign for his new book ‘The R.I.G.H.T. Project’ with Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema. Also, James shares a roundtable interview from Terrificon with Howard Mackie, Paul Kupperberg, and D.G. Chichester. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Tom DeFalco talks about his problems with the DC films, coming up with the Acts of Vengeance crossover, co-creating New Warriors, and creating the character of Thunderstrike Eric Masterson in the Thor comics. 10:45 SEGMENT 2: Tom DeFalco talks about which of his characters deserved to be more popular, working with Hasbro to create comics like G.I. Joe and Transformers, how he feels about his legacy, collecting things that he has worked on, hurricane Sandy wiping out most of his collection, his plans to attend future conventions, and how J. M. DeMatteis convinced him to start going to conventions. 20:43 SEGMENT 3: Tom DeFalco talks about the indiegog

Ryan Cooper, Special Events Producer for The City of St. Charles, gives the backstory on the huge Halloween festival in St. Charles called Legends and Lanterns (http://legendsandlanterns.com/) and shares what is new for this year. Writer Marcos Gabriel (https://twitter.com/MarcosAGabriel) talks about his new horror film called ‘The Old Ways’ (https://theoldwaysmovie.com/). Find out how he used his latin heritage to put a new spin on the exorcism genre. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Ryan Cooper, Special Events Producer for The City of St. Charles, gives the backstory on how Legends and Lanterns came about, researching real Main Street St. Charles haunted history, additions to this year’s festivities, sensory friendly experiences, and new characters that have been added. 14:55 SEGMENT 2: Ryan Cooper talks about the New Orleans inspired masquerade ball called The Bayou Bash happening as part of Legends and Lanterns on October 29th at the St. Charles Foundry. Ryan also shares how the planning for Legends and Lanterns is a year

In this first part of a 2 part interview, comic writer, editor, and creator Tom DeFalco talks about his start on Archie Comics, creating characters for Marvel, his work on Spider-Man and Thor, and working on stories for Spider-Girl, Green Goblin, and the Hobgoblin. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Tom DeFalco talks about all the different types of writing he did before comics, starting at Archie Comics, growing up loving all comics, Riverdale on The CW, the live action Spider-Man movies, introducing the Hobgoblin, avoiding retconning characters, and the One More Day Spider-Man storyline that led to petitions from fans. 14:26 SEGMENT 2: Tom DeFalco talks about creating the Spider-Man characters Black Fox and Silver Sable and revisiting the Clone Saga. 22:10 SEGMENT 3: Tom DeFalco talks about being known more for Spider-Man than Thor, how he became editor at Marvel Comics, pitching ideas vs being assigned ideas, and how Spider-Girl was meant to be a one-shot. 31:52 SEGMENT 4: Tom DeFalco talks about starting Dazzler’s solo book

0:00 Ash Patino (https://ashestoashtv.com/) talks about her documentary ‘PTSD: The Walking Wounded’, why she was drawn to working with veterans, the challenges of making a documentary, how to spot the signs of PTSD, editing down 60 hours of footage, when her love of film started, and her next project about the boy scouts. 27:57 To celebrate the beginning of the Halloween season, James shares how ‘The Changeling’ (1980) is one his all time favorite horror films and gives details about the Legends and Lanterns Festival in St. Charles, Missouri (https://www.discoverstcharles.com/events/legends-lanterns/). Thanks to our sponsors Marcus Theatres (https://www.marcustheatres.com/) and Historic St. Charles, Missouri (https://www.discoverstcharles.com/) Amazon Affiliate Link -   http://bit.ly/geektome Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3Y0D2iaZl Patreon -   https://www.patreon.com/GeekToMeRadio Website -   http://geektomeradio.com/ Podcast -   https://anchor.fm/james

Author Brian Heiler (https://twitter.com/Plaidstallions) talks about rack toys; the cheap licensed toys that can be found at drug stores and five and dimes. Check out his book “Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings” from Nacelle Company Publishing at http://racktoysbook.com/ 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Brian Heiler talks about his parents being involved in the distribution of rack toys, getting locked in a drug store, reading his dad’s toy publications, playing with his dad’s toy samples, what Christmas was like for Brian, the types of movies and TV shows got rack toys, and the types of people that collect rack toys 10:10 SEGMENT 2: Brian Heiler talks about bonding with strangers over rack toys, weird water guns, why there is so much bizarre Marvel rack toys, and why monster toys are so crude. 20:24 SEGMENT 3: Brian Heiler talks about the Universal Monsters craze, rack toys as seasonal stocking stuffers, updating the book for the 2nd edition, the book selling for $100 on Amazon while it was out of print, and Brian Volk-Wei

Pat Fraley (https://patfraley.com/) talks about his upcoming appearance at Unicon in Las Vegas October 1st-3rd, 2021 (https://www.unicon.vegas/), his online voice acting courses (https://patfraley.com/pf/product-category/hsc/), and his amazing career voicing characters for TMNT, GI Joe, TaleSpin, The Centurions, BraveStarr, and more! 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Pat Fraley (https://twitter.com/PFraleyteaches) talks about voicing cartoons in the same room as his fellow cast members, when it’s okay to change a line in the script, how Pat’s courses teach students how to wow a casting director in the first 4 seconds of an audition, and the differences between how directors act whether it is a cartoon, video game, or narration gig. 16:56 SEGMENT 2: Pat Fraley (https://www.youtube.com/user/PatrickFraley) talks about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cast reuniting at Unicon in Las Vegas October 1st-3rd, the most interesting fan interaction he’s ever had at a convention, how animation really exploded after He-Man debuted in 1983,

Herdis Stefansdottier (https://www.herdisstefansdottir.com/) talks about composing the music for the FX on Hulu show “Y: The Last Man”, adapted from the Brian K. Vaughan graphic novel. Michael Kramer (https://www.michaelkramermusic.com/) talks about composing the music for the Netflix kids show “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Herdis Stefansdottir talks about how intimidating it was to tackle the music for a show that will last multiple seasons, feeling lucky that the producers liked her reel, leaving law school for music, missing performing live, whether her parents always supported her artistic pursuits, and begging her family for piano lessons when she was 8. 12:53 SEGMENT 2: Herdis Stefansdottir (https://www.instagram.com/herdisstef/) talks about feeling overwhelmed in music school, being inspired by other female composers, where she hopes her career will be in 5 years, whether she wants to be a teacher, and what advice she’d give to aspiring composers. 21:09 SEGMENT 3: Michael Kr

Adam Hall, the brand manager for Boulevard Brewing (https://www.boulevard.com/), talks about their new Space Camper IPA and the comic book based universe they are building around their future beers. Yuri Lowenthal (https://twitter.com/YuriLowenthal) and Parvesh Cheena (https://twitter.com/Parvesh) share stories from their amazing acting careers and take some time to catch up with each other live on the air. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Adam Hall from Boulevard Brewing (https://twitter.com/boulevard_beer) talks about what an IPA is, The Space Camper comic universe, taking inspiration from the West Coast Avengers, beers with short shelf lives lending themselves to a limited release, whether the art will change year by year, new characters and new identities that will be added, whether there will be toys and comics made, why Boulevard is donating 7% of the profits back to carefully chosen programs that help to save the earth, and using the finder tool on their website to find Boulevard products. 13:30 SEGMENT 2: Yuri Lowenth

Writer/Director/Producer Joel Soisson (https://twitter.com/JoelSoisson) talks about his film “My Best Worst Adventure”. Video game legend Walter Day (https://thewalterdaycollection.com/) talks about his predictions for the future of gaming. 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Joel Soisson talks about his obsession with horror, racing Cambodian water buffalos, filming in southeast Asia, picking up a parasite, making “Dracula 2000” with Bob Weinstein, Christopher Plummer, and Gerard Butler, and what draws him to “The Prophecy” series. 16:15 SEGMENT 2: Joel Soisson talks about what makes him want to produce a film, what a producer does, why writing and directing is more fun than producing, wanting to be an animator and cinematographer, staying busy during COVID, and working on a “Magnificent Seven” remake with Danny Trejo. 28:23 SEGMENT 3: Walter Day talks about partnering with Old School Gamer Magazine at Planet Comicon’s Planet Entertainment Zone (PEZ) where they held the Retro Gaming Olympics. Walter also discusses how every new