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Are You Creative?EP37 - MAGAZINE CREATIVE DIRECTOR - Ben WatkinsWhat does an art director do? They make things look nice! Having visual ideas, organising photoshoots, video, social media, layouts, typography, Ben even designed the HEAT Magazine logo…. Ooooo! Telling the story visually is essential. The features editor will assign a celebrity and a small time frame to shoot images for the magazine. The art director has to have ideas, and arrange the photography shoot. A creative director will lead people on their team to come up with great ideas. How do you ask celebrities to do crazy things for photos on set? Working with Alan Carr and making si...2025-05-121h 14
Are You Creative?EP36 - CABINET MAKER SKATER - Jim RandsFurniture maker. Cabinet maker. Just don’t call him a carpenter! What does it all mean? Jim started out making cabinets next to Liam Howlett from The Prodigy’s house… that’s like Essex’s answer to Buckingham Palace surely! Jim started his creative journey polishing furniture, and then learned more about how to make it. When do you know you are ready to set up on your own and become self-employed? Applying craft, skills and unique materials to create bespoke cabinets on massive budgets for wealthy people. Jim also makes art from wood. Usually by identifying potential in knotted wo...2025-05-0952 min
Are You Creative?EP35 - PUNK ROCK ROLE MODEL - Lily MeffMEFF ARMY! Singer and guitarist in the punk rock band The Meffs. Born and raised in Colchester. Going from playing Hot Box to 100 people to Alexandra Palace to 10000 people in just a few years - WHAT A LIFE! What is the optimal strategy for a pre-stage wee? Recording at Frank Turner’s studio on Mersea Island. How not to do gang vocals! WHAT!? What’s it like supporting Alice Cooper? And Primal Scream? When does a duo become a band, even if it’s two people? How does Lily get a huge guitar tone and make enough noise to not ne...2025-05-021h 07
Are You Creative?EP34 - WITCH RESEARCHER AND CURATOR - Emma WardallCo-founder of Essex Witch Museum. Researcher, historian, marketing genius, and part of the creative force behind the project to bring Essex’s witch history to life. Everything Emma has ever done in her career is coming in useful on the journey to create a new museum. Adelle invents Witchipedia - let this be a permanent record. What is a ‘familiar’? It’s a demon in the form of an animal which will do their evil bidding. Like Satan the Cat/Toad/Dog. Who belonged to Agnes Waterhouse. Sent after a neighbour for not giving them any cheese. Witch trials happened...2025-04-201h 06
Are You Creative?EP33 - A MAN OF LETTERS - Repeat Beat PoetWriter, spoken word artist, journalist, DJ, historian, researcher, poet, slam poet, life-long student. Peter deGraft-Johnson is The Repeat Beat Poet, aka PJ, and Mr. Loose Egusi (his afrobeat DJ name). Talking about flâneurs, Argentinian funk, plumbing, and other random things. Slam poetry is a fake-competitive parlour game of poetry, where two poets go head to head in front of a very vocal and involved audience. The line between poets and rappers has gotten thin. Poetic writing can elevate theatre, drama, film, music - The right words, in the right order, being delivered in the right way. We feel f...2025-04-131h 03
Are You Creative?EP32 - COSPLAY CRAFTER - Emily WhiteThis is the way! Cosplay is when you dress as a popular character from film, TV, games. Cosplayers usually start by buying costumes, and then realise it’s cheaper and more fun to make your own and customise it. Emily is involved with Chelmsford Takeover with Essex Cosplayers and Chelmsford For You. The whole town centre gets taken over by characters and vehicles, with chances to learn about craft and meet creators, and get selfies with RoboCop (next event Saturday 12th April 2025). Featuring the famous cosplay conga, where you can see George Lucas (not the real one), Transformers, Star Wa...2025-04-051h 07
Are You Creative?EP31 - NAMER AND MICROFICTION WRITER - Ben StanburyCompetitive story writer, namer, brander, and editor/designer of Menticulture magazine. Overall creative legend, and nicest bloke in Essex. Originally from the glorious hill of Danbury. Ben trained as a graphic designer as a mature student. Now he runs his own naming and brand agency The Identity Bureau. Naming is finding what a company is going to call themselves. A name that’s memorable and describes the company. A good name should be easy to say, easy to spell, easy to remember. Company names have the most brand longevity, outlasting multiple logo refreshes etc, so it’s super important to g...2025-03-2950 min
Are You Creative?EP30 - PARANORMAL PODCASTER - Bethan Briggs-MillerOne of the hosts of the Eerie Essex podcast (with Ailsa Clarke), all about paranormal happenings and traditional stories of mysteries and the unexplained in Essex. Is the Loch Ness Monster a ghost dinosaur? Old Roughy the poltergeist in Great Waltham. Ghost cats in pubs. How do Bethan and Ailsa research their podcast? Start with the paranormal database, books, British newspaper archive. Weird Norfolk podcast from the Norfolk Folklore Society inspired them to start their Essex podcast. Black Shuck the East Anglian dog is a brilliant regional myth. Part cryptid, part entity, a black dog with blazing red eyes...2025-03-241h 13
Are You Creative?EP29 - POET AND CULT SURVIVOR - Leon The PoetObservational poet with luxuriant hair from Witham. Leon started poetry in 2016, and became Leon The Poet in 2022. He was a songwriter first, and got inspired by spoken word like Kae Tempest. His first book was published in 2024 - ‘Sometimes I’m The Bull, Sometimes I’m The China Shop’ - with a brilliant cover by Essex artist Jackson Bollocks. The book looks more like a music album than a poetry book. Leon finds that poetry has a more focused audience than when he used to perform music. He wants to make poetry more accessible for a wider audience - not just...2025-03-1554 min
Are You Creative?EP28 - COMEDY FILMMAKER - Joe McGowanThis one’s a bit sweary! Joe writes, directs and edits sketches and shorts that screen globally. He also has a background in commercials and branded content. He’s had viral successes with his films. How do big American productions end up being edited in Joe’s house in Romford? Because he’s awesome! Can you learn to be funny? Or are you born funny? Joe worked a lot of corporate video jobs before realising that he could specialise in comedy. Joe took a media course at Havering Sixth Form and learned film-making and editing and found his passion. Then wor...2025-03-0551 min
Are You Creative?EP27 - DRAG SUPERSTAR - Ella VadayNick Collier AKA Ella Vaday is The Drag Beast from Dagenham East. Is Dagenham Essex or London? It’s Essex innit! Ella appeared on Season 3 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK in 2021, and has since shot to drag stardom. Nick trained in musical theatre and dance when he was 16. And after graduating performed in Wicked, Book of Mormon, Cats, Fame among other West End smashes. Ella has now been performing in Pantomime, so how does Nick act as Ella acting as an Ugly Sister - it’s drag inception! Being in drag gives you so much more permission to be...2025-03-0355 min
Are You Creative?EP26 - COMMUNITY FARMER AND FILM MAKER - Marley KarazimbaFilm-maker, Marley lives on a three acre farm, designs permaculture, and specialises in community supported agriculture (CSA). Marley also co-runs a community cooperative cafe in Colchester. He’s been commissioned by Culture Essex to make a film for Extraordinary Essex with the working title ‘Don’t Fight The Land That Feeds You’ about the people of Essex and the land that nourishes them. Marley is interviewing people ranging from farmers with hectares of land to small growers with allotments. In CSA people can pay a share towards harvest by subscribing to seasonal veg boxes, or volunteer on the farm in excha...2025-02-1257 min
Are You Creative?EP25 - INDEPENDENT VENUE MANAGER - Jon HughesJon manages Hot Box in Chelmsford. An independent community venue for music, poetry, chess, comedy, drag, retro gaming and other things. At a small venue everyone has to muck in and do all the jobs. Venue is 110 capacity, but has seen huge acts like Fat Boy Slim, Frank Turner, High Fade, The Meffs, Beans on Toast, Native James. Norman Cook has come back to DJ many times, and once to help raise funds to save the venue. Venues and events make memories for the staff and crowd. How starting a new venue fired up a creative community in the...2025-02-071h 06
Are You Creative?EP24 - FIGURATIVE ARTIST - Nat GuinamardFigurative drawing. With special guest co-host Adam Whitaker. Nat’s collection of art ‘An Untamed Line’ is currently exhibited on Chelmsford Museum’s Gallery Wall. She makes a rough shape on paper with water and then inks in the figure. How does life drawing online differ from drawing from a photo? And how short time limits lead to the best art? Sixty second drawings have a lot of energy. Ink never behaves the same way, so the art can be unpredictable. Imposter syndrome in art and judging your own output. Life drawing tips. Moving your eye as little as possible...2025-01-1752 min
Are You Creative?EP23 - BASS CULTURE ADVOCATE - Jean-Claude LionbeatOwner of Lionbeat, a company that advocates for bass culture and black music. Jean-Claude was born and raised in Brentwood. Bass culture happened when the sound systems from the Caribbean travelled to Europe and eventually African diasporic culture. Bringing people together with a uniform love for bass. People immigrated to Britain and brought over sound system culture - Bass and dance was a ritualistic behaviour for these people. Peace, love and unity in the dance. Lionbeat is the ‘barristers for bass’. Jean-Claude initially went to university to study law, and wanted to move as far as pos...2025-01-071h 23
Are You Creative?EP22 - ADVERTISING LEADER - Elliot HarrisCreative director for advertising and entertainment. Elliot is 1000% creative! Why do younger people not like advertising as a creative career? People are paying to avoid adverts, and using ad blockers. People are watching telly in a different way now - no longer are people sitting at the same time to watch the same scheduled show. Elliot loved the Benetton adverts when he was younger, and how it played with culture and broke the mould. Oliver Toscani was the creative director and photographer behind these adverts. Elliot was inspired by music and art, raving, parties, putting on events, making flyers...2024-12-141h 13
Are You Creative?EP21 - OPERA SINGER - Donna LennardProfessional opera singer. Donna’s origins story, she was spotted as a talented singer by a teacher who took her to a French chateau to perform Mozart arias - this was of course acceptable in the late 1980s. Opera has music, drama, costume, and the power of an orchestra - opera is massive! In opera the singers also act, there’s a lot to be good at. Donna’s first professional opera gig was at the Royal Opera House. Donna has been performing modern opera works, like The Little Prince performing as a mad robot calculator character. Donna has perfor...2024-12-0853 min
Are You Creative?EP20 - COMIC BOOK WRITER - Phil ChapmanCreator of the independent comic series System Error. How to start creating a comic. Why does the System Error robot have such a big head? Creating a recognisable silhouette is essential for character design. Phil started drawing with biro, then pen, dip brush pens, and then creating digitally. Note: Phil has very clean hands, no ink! Digital is faster, cleaner and easier to adjust. Phil uses Procreate for black line work and Photoshop for colour. Phil LOVES Procreate and recommends investing the £13 to get it. System Error is about a robot called ITTO and why things went wrong in t...2024-11-3054 min
Are You Creative?EP19 - VIDEO GAME CREATOR - AJ Grand-ScruttonAJ is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dlala Studios making video games in Witham in Essex. Dlala Studios made the Battletoads sequel in 2020 and more recently Disney Illusion Island starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. Illusion Island is available on the Nintendo Switch. How did AJ start a computer games studio from his Mum’s garage in 2012? Starting as a programmer as a Game Content Developer at Jagex, then at Bossa, then winning a BAFTA, then starting Dlala Studios with Craig. Dlala have now been nominated for two BAFTAs for Illusion Island - Best British Game and Best Fa...2024-11-2153 min
Are You Creative?EP18 - ARTIST - Miss MeatfaceArt as escape and a therapeutic outlet. Kat Toronto is Miss Meatface. Garry Vanderhorne the wrestling promoter told us about her in EP1 of Are You Creative? Miss Meatface is a photographic alter-ego for Kat. She was an escape for Kat to express how she was feeling at a dark time in her life in 2015 - like an art therapy. Kat uses latex masks to remove her identity and create the anonymous character. Kinky and kitchy. 1950s typical domestic scenes, made playful and surreal with latex. Miss Meatface was born in America. Kat studied photography at art school. And...2024-11-0951 min
Are You Creative?EP17 - VIOLINIST - Elodie Chousmer-HowellesPROFESSIONAL violinist! Making money doing the creative thing that you love. Life as a musician can be hard. It’s not a 9-5 job, and there is a lot of practicing! Streamlining practice, and finding the time to do it. Diminishing returns in practicing. Setting goals for quality practice. What is score reading? Being inspired by an older sibling learning music and attending her cello lessons. Big up Classic FM - no adverts though please! Being inspired by BBC Young Musician of the Year. Attending a Nicola Benedetti concert and getting creatively inspired as a six year old. And Je...2024-10-2853 min
Are You Creative?EP16 - CREATIVE ENIGMA - GoldyThe Marilyn Monroe of Essex. The most chaotic episode ever. Goldy does EVEYRTHING creative! New rave. Nick’s Pot Trumps cards are now in the Chelmsford Museum recent additions cabinet. Is Chingford in Essex? Can you ever really refer to yourself as creative? Is Goldy the most glamorous person in Essex? Like a Parisian flamingo with mermaid legs - in the best way! - OFFICIAL! Editor of an aesthetics magazine, and presenter of awards and shows. Creating TikToks and doing the socials to promote shows. Spotting AI cats on the internet. Being a wrestler, a crochet-er, and a pin-up mod...2024-10-2452 min
Are You Creative?EP15 - STUNTMAN - Andy Pilgrim BONUS EPISODESpecial audience questions edition from Essex Podcast Festival.What’s the coolest stunt Andy has done? A high fall. How high? 100ft! What’s your favourite movie you’ve done a stunt in? Grimsby was the most fun film to shoot. What stunt did you do in Harry Potter? Andy was a student as a 30-year old man, and a Death Eater and had to go to Wand School to learn the actions. Have you ever done a stunt so crazy it made you reconsider your career choice? Andy broke his ankle as a Whit...2024-10-2110 min
Are You Creative?EP14 - STUNTMAN - Andy PilgrimStunt performer and stunt coordinator. Has the best imdb page in the world - FACT! Including loads of 10/10 films, and also falling off a cliff in Emmerdale. Getting burned by a dragon on Game of Thrones - Dracarys!!! Learning to be set on fire by scuba diving. Andy’s stunt origin story. Gymnastics, high-diving, judo, theatre. Assessing risks on set to make it safe for you and actors. South Essex Gymnastics Club - is it Kingsmen recruitment for stunt performers? Coming up through the profession with David Holmes, Daniel Radcliffe’s double in Harry Potter and the star of the...2024-10-1145 min
Are You Creative?EP13 - CRAFT BREWER - Dan HarveyCraft brewer and founder for Radio City Beer Works and Radio City Social venue. Creating beer alchemy with just four ingredients to make loads of different flavours, colours, bitterness, gravities. Beer magic! Learning about wort and brewing process. Being self-critical for growth and improvement. Aromas, head retention, drinkability - all the factors to consider in brewing. Having a flavour vision in your head and working out how to achieve it. Hops and different fruit flavours in them. Knowing how to extract the different flavours from the hop oil at stages of brewing. Beer drinking as a hobby for craft...2024-10-041h 04
Fish Jelly#180 - The Lonely Passion of Judith HearneGay homosexuals Nick and Joseph discuss The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - a 1987 British drama film directed by Jack Clayton, starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins.
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Are You Creative?EP12 - MUSICIAN - Adam SandersAdam is MUSIC BOY! Musician, music teacher, studio owner, producer, rockstar! Being in pop-punk tribute bands, and coming up with puns for names - Blinked-182, Dookie and Half-Real Lavine. Supportive parents, and living out their rock fantasies. Starting young and finding music. Is 8 too young to learn guitar? NO! Seeing Adam playing drums at Teddy Rocks with pyrotechnic flames on stage - ultimate rockstar. Starting to learn drums at 10 and getting Grade-8 by 13 - Yep, he’s a prodigy! Grades maketh not the drummer. The student became the teacher - doing a postgrad PGCE and learning to teach. Teaching a...2024-09-2252 min
Are You Creative?EP11 - PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTER - James CallaghanJames's journey from photography into high-end film processing and printing. Owner of BlueSky Printing and London Film Lab. Working for Björk! BJÖRK the Icelandic music legend! Printing on special papers and hand finishing artwork. Being a paper expert and choosing the right paper for a print. Setting up colour managed environments (yeah we’re going deep into printing!) Does Bjork want paper made from swan feathers? James’s other premises London Film Lab off Brick Lane - a special analog film processing facility. Taking away snobbery and making high level film processing available to everyone. Colour grading photos...2024-09-1532 min
Are You Creative?EP10 - AUTHOR - Sade FadipeSade’s journey from school teacher to author. Being a top 50 children’s book in the US - A Fun ABC (US edition: A Visit to Grandad). Leaving London for Nigeria. How Sade’s experiences growing up in both London and Nigeria built the foundation for her first book. Working as a Reading Consultant in Nigeria. Donated books and lack of representation of Nigerian children’s lives and experiences. Funding for books, but lack of appropriate reading material. Creating an example text to demonstrate creating stories, rhythms and rhymes. Any teacher can make up stories. Accidentally finding a publisher. Finding...2024-09-1043 min
Are You Creative?EP9 - PHOTOGRAPHIC SCIENTIST - Jack HolmesPhotos for the first manned Moon mission. Photo finishes for horses. The first televised Queen's speech. Jack's done a lot! Making photographic film to send to the Moon. Being lead scientist of Ilford special projects. High speed cheese. Yellow light. Radiation. Seeing if it was safe for humans to land on the Moon. High speed film image quality trade off. Silver halide science! Testing film with all the bad radiation. Getting film back from the Moon without disturbing the results. Why isn’t the Moon photo on Jack’s wall? Was Jack’s photo the most important photo of that y...2024-08-1735 min
Are You Creative?EP8 - RETRO KNITTER - Maddy MooreBy order of the Peaky Blinders. What comes first - the button or the sweater? Knitted turbans. Is knitting like computer programming? Making sweaters for Wonka. Etsy costs for craft creators. Boo to fast fashion! Making handmade affordable. The 1930s and 1940s body shape. Decoding old knitting patterns. Finding the right yarn. Collecting a horde of buttons. Being born in the wrong decade. A creative journey through dance, film, fashion to becoming The Sweater Girl. The supportive retro knitting community. Knitting for mental health. Retro machines. And making sweaters for Peaky Blinders! WOW! What an inspiring guest. Thanks Maddy!2024-08-0144 min
Are You Creative?EP7 - TRANS INFLUENCER - Adelle BarkerTrigger warning: Early talk about s*lf h*rm. Gay jobs vs Day jobs. Being on a fancy video shoot for a TV ad. Coming out as a trans woman at work. Getting pro make-up. Unmasking. Identity. Air quotes in different fonts. Being in The Sims in real life. Is Sangita an energy vampire? Pretending to be geezer Dads to fit in. Adelle’s media empire of #not stuff. Adelle and Jordan Grey’s parallel trans journeys. Supportive managers at work. Deadnaming. The awkward teenage dressing up stage. 'My trombone is brilliant!' Nick. Tights filled with rice as boob...2024-07-2653 min
Are You Creative?EP6 - PIERCER - Cat ChudykMaking belly button piercing inclusive for all body shapes. English sushi. Staring at people’s ears. Bespoke ear curation. Natural vs unnatural stones. Alan & Ron’s jewelry designs. Copycats copying Cat’s jewelry. Four dimensional jewelry shapes. Finding inspiration for designs in nature. Inclusive body jewelry. Ear transplants. Needles vs guns. A whole needle portfolio? Turning people away can be good for business! Cat remembers ears. Having multiple ear piercings is so hot right now on the red carpet! Naming jewelry after friends - jewelry friends! Pawsome! Snochs. Schnarvels. Tragus. Schnagus. Daith. Daves. All the bits of ears. Tiny little...2024-07-0846 min
Are You Creative?EP5 - ACTOR - Carlos BylesBecoming an actor. The journey from creative awakening to reality. Jaiden Smith in Karate Kid to Top Boy. We are Creative Gods! Is panto more fun than telly? Ice skating skills. The Brit school. Pretending to be a sausage like Benedict Cumberland. Music with Adele. Meeting Jessie J. Casual school visits from Tom Holland. Being a tree. Supportive teachers vs unsupportive teachers. Shrek auditions. Positive support networks. Coconuts for horse hooves. Finding an agent. Dealing with rejection from roles. Tips for a great first impression in casting. Carlos the Frozen Sausage. Being resilient. Being in Top Boy! Method acting...2024-07-0150 min
Are You Creative?EP4 - HORROR FILM MAKER - Jim DexterBuilding a supportive film making community with the Independent Horror Society. How much would it cost to make a feature film about a killer swan? What’s a DOP? Introducing Nickipedia. Do you need to go to University to work in film? Advice for making your first film. Finding collaborators. Learning from YouTube. Dolphin impressions. Bill vs Ripper. Best gore in a horror film. Bill Kill 3: Triple Bill. Learning to make practical special effects ‘Just buy some bits!’ The problems of having a kid’s brain with adult money. Making fake sweat and tears. And making 6 minute 6 second films in 66 hou...2024-06-2348 min
Are You Creative?EP3 - STREET ART FESTIVAL MANAGER - Candy JoyceOrganising a street art festival. Don’t mess with a mother seagull! Twig art. Learning how to spray paint. What’s an Open Reach box? The London Police and their cheeky LADS. Making Chelmsford more cultural and civic pride. Chexit. Running out of walls to paint. The barriers to organising a street art festival. Scotty Brave’s Grayson Perry portrait. More seagull attacks. Graffiti gang vs The Wicker Crew. Razorbeak of Tindall Street. Doodle walls. The smell of spray paint. Fat Boy Slim in a wicker spray can. Spray paint BINGO! Advice for young artists and street artists starting out. 2024-06-1938 min
Are You Creative?EP2 - PUBLISHING DIRECTOR - Keshini NaidooHow to get into books? What’s a bad first sentence? Alan Kazam and the alternative Harry Potter universe. Nick pitches 'Robo-Tindal: Judgement on Chelmsford'. How BookTok has sent physical sales through the roof. Boardroom sausagefests. Fiction Girl and her sharpened commas. Female-run publishing and smashing the glass ceiling. Working with literary agents to get your book seen by publishers. Do judge a book by its cover! Naughty AI robots writing books. South Asian drag queens. And Sangita is pretty much horizontally chilled with the post-holiday vibes - so she doesn’t talk much for the second half - just...2024-06-1050 min
Are You Creative?EP1 - WRESTLING PROMOTER - Garry VanderhorneHow did Garry set up an inclusive wrestling scene? Is wrestling creative? How do you turn a human man into an evil duck? What is Sangita's wrestling name? How did Garry help to mould Essex legend Will Ospreay into the AEW Superstar he is today? Bacon balaclavas? World Records for wrestling? Would Mr.Bean make a good wrestler? Can you wrestle in tweed? And how do you get into wrestling as a performer or promoter? And wise creative advice for anyone looking to get into performance arts!Thanks to our amazing guest Garry Vanderhorne from Lucha Britannia.2024-06-0945 min
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My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureOur Favorite 90’s Cartoons!At one time, Saturday morning was the only reason kids of every age trudged through their dreary week day lives. Because Saturday morning meant Saturday morning cartoons! There is a generation of kids and young adults that have no idea what I’m talking about. […]2020-12-1256 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureOne-Shots! Comic Reviews: TMNT Presents The Last Ronin #1Looking for comic book reviews that don’t pander to one company or the other? Wanting some honest first impressions from geeks that know what they’re talking about? Needing a podcast series that isn’t afraid to show emotion regarding the topic of conversation? You Found […]2020-12-0724 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureUnderstanding DC Comics Continuity: The Dark Years – Part 1Change can be a good thing. It brings growth. Expansion. Understanding. And appreciation for what came before. But change can also bring fear. Anger. Darkness. After the continuity altering effects of The Crisis on Infinite Earths, The DCU enjoyed a period of peace and […]2020-12-041h 16
I Hate Sand: A Star Wars PodcastNick Stanner: Mandalorian StuntmanWe had the absolute pleasure of chatting with real Mandalorian stuntman--Nick Stanner! Nick shares a ton of behind the scenes stories of Mandalorian, as well as his other stunts from Ozark, Black Panther, and Stranger Things. You don't want to miss this one!
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Our top stories for this episode include looking at the latest alien invasion targeting Marvel Comics in Empyer, examining how Amazon’s deal with the apocalypse in Wonder Woman: Dead Earth from DC […]2020-08-121h 07My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureSummer Special Spectacular!As children, summer time meant sleeping in and staying up late, going out into the world, looking for harmless mischief, reading stacks of comics and debating with your friends “who’s the coolest primate character, The Mandrill, Gleek, Cy-Gor, Detective Chimp, or Gorilla Grodd?” Summer […]2020-08-051h 17My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureInterview with Agent Shield creator Rik Offenberger – A Video Podcast EpisodeWhen it comes to comic book superheroes, everyone knows the big names: Superman, Captain America, Batman, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Spider-Man. But sometimes it’s fun to dive into new universes and discover brand new characters who don’t have 80+ years of […]2020-07-3156 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureThe Story Continues – Comics That Resume Stories From Films & TV ShowsHave you ever walked out of a theater, after just watching a great movie, and asked yourself…”I wonder what happens next?” What about when your favorite TV show ends or, worse yet, gets canceled? Do you find yourself daydreaming about where the characters went […]2020-07-2955 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureChoose Your Own Justice League – A Video Podcast!In the DC Universe, the Justice League is known as THE team of super heroes. With a reputation like that, one would think that to gain membership would be the height of ones crime fighting career. But did you know, there are some heroes who […]2020-07-0900 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureIs It Worth It? – Legion Of Super-HeroesWelcome to another edition of Is It Worth It? Where we select something from comic book pop culture and inform YOU, our loyal Listers, if it’s worth your time and money, or not. For this episode, we will be taking a journey into the […]2020-07-0141 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCurrent Issues – Episode 6 (May/June 2020)Welcome to another edition of My Big Fat Pull List’s Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include a discussion regarding the return of comic books back in shops, DC Comics decision to break ties with Diamond Publishing, the unfortunate passing of the […]2020-06-2451 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureObserve & Report: TITANS Season OneGreetings Listers! Today on My Big Fat Pull List we are going to explore the world of Titans! No, not the mythical kind, we’re talking about the DC kind. Not to be confused with the animated Teen Titans, DC’s Titans is a darker, more […]2020-06-031h 18My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“Star Wars: Marvel Comics Cannon!”There are a number of book, television and film properties that have spawned worlds of endless imagination and wanted exploration. The battlefields of Middle Earth, the sprawling grounds of Hogwarts, the hidden highways of the Land of OZ. But none are more endlessly expansive […]2020-05-181h 16My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“For The Love Of LEGO!”Have you ever imagined what it would have been like if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were chosen to take the One Ring to Mordor instead of Frodo and the hobbits? Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Iron Man worked […]2020-04-2938 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCurrent Issues – Episode 5 – Quarantine Edition – (March/April 2020)Welcome to this special Quarantine Edition of Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include a peek inside our daily lives as we deal with no new comic books and practice self-distancing while Surviving The Pandemic, an attempt to predict the future in […]2020-04-2252 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureOur Favorites – Erik Burnham On IDWs Ghostbusters!The love of comic books and pop culture associated with them have shaped us into the geeks and nerds we are today. The experiences we have revolving around our favorite (insert name of awesome thing here) are what bind us together in this community […]2020-04-0835 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureMost Wanted: Exiles!Have you ever been on vacation and looked over and seen a familiar face but when you approach that person you realize they aren’t who you thought they were? Well that is exactly what it feels like to travel through the multiverses as a […]2020-04-0139 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureIs It Worth It? Usagi Yojimbo from IDWThat new comic book series, is it going to be a waste of money? That new TV Show, is it going to be a waste of time? That new movie, is it going to be a waste of BOTH? Well we here at My […]2020-03-1828 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureX-Men X-periences!The X-Men. Once an obscure comic book loved by a group of devoted fans. Now a profitable franchise with fans around the globe. It doesn’t matter if you’re exposure to Marvel’s Merry Mutants came from comic pages, trading cards, action figures, animation or feature […]2020-03-111h 03My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureUnderstanding DC Comics – Episode 3: A New EarthThese days, Comic Book reboots have become a normal part of the industry. Origins reworked, storylines updated and histories retconned. It’s become as synonymous with comic book storytelling as tights and capes. But that wasn’t always the case. In 1986, following the reality altering […]2020-03-041h 32My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCurrent Issues – Episode 4 – (Feb. 2020)Welcome to our fourth instalment of Current Issues, where your hosts talk about what THEY think are the most important news items going on in the world of comic books and pop culture. These topics are triple fact checked and double researched, for You, […]2020-02-261h 06My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureDoes Continuity Matter In Comics?In organized fandom, “continuity” can be a trigger word for many fanboys and fangirls out there. Continuity is what ties a universe full of stories together. But it can also be a detrimental roadblock for anyone attempting to understand and digest 30, 40, 50…hell, […]2020-02-1249 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureComic Book Movies Overlooked For Awards!As comic fans, the idea of a live action film representation fills us with glee. Especially if it’s a property we’ve been following for awhile. But until recently, Hollywood hasn’t always had the source material’s best interests at heart. That being said, there are […]2020-02-0532 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureStar Wars: The Disney Trilogy!In 1977, a movie was released that changed the world of filmmaking and fandom forever. That movie was George Lucas’s Star Wars. It was groundbreaking and had all the right ingredients to create a universe filled with epic stories and larger than life characters. […]2020-01-292h 07My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureComic VS Adaptation: WantedMovies and television based off of comic books are a staple in modern entertainment. The quality may vary, but the quantity can not be denied. When the source material is adapted, it’s not uncommon for changes to be made. Some time even major changes. […]2020-01-1550 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCurrent Issues – Episode 3 – (Jan. 2020)Welcome to the year 2020 and to My Big Fat Pull List’s third instalment of Current Issues, where your hosts talk about what they think are the most important news items going on in the world of comic books and pop culture. These topics […]2020-01-0858 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“Understanding DC Comics – Episode 2: Crisis On Infinite Earths!”Major events are something of a regular occurance in modern superhero comics. We’re use to seeing at least one company wide crossover event happening each year, as well as smaller events taking place inside individual titles. But none compare to the historical significance of […]2020-01-011h 56My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureOur Favorites – Green Lantern: Rebirth (2004)The love of comic books and pop culture associated with them have shaped us into the geeks and nerds we are today. The experiences we have revolving around our favorite (insert name of awesome thing here) are what bind us together in this community […]2019-12-1836 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureMost Wanted: Darkwing DuckHe is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the wind beneath your wings. He is the scourge that pecks at your nightmares. He is DARKWING DUCK! While you most likely know him from his television series, DW is more than just […]2019-12-1139 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCurrent Issues – Episode 2 – (Nov./Dec. 2019)With the world of comic books and pop culture ever changing, how are fans meant to keep up with trends in the industry? Is the new EVENT from the Big Two worth reading? What’s the story on that show from that network about that […]2019-12-0459 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“A Revisit To Marvel 2099!”The Future. Is it a destination, an ideology to strive towards, a conscience feeling of the passage of time? All of the above? The future is a great setting for storytelling. It doesn’t matter if it’s post-apocalyptic, beautiful utopia or somewhere in between, when […]2019-11-201h 39My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“Understanding DC Comics – Part 1: Crisis Of Continuity!”The DC Universe. It can be a complicated and sometimes convoluted place. There are hundreds of characters, both heroes and villains, all with rich origins and histories. But after eighty years of stories, the DC Universe doesn’t have the easiest continuity to understand. Why […]2019-11-061h 21My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“10 Key Characters In Horror Comics!”Horror comics are a staple in the industry. Monsters, ghouls, zombies, vampires, they’re everywhere, in beautifully bright splattered gore and crimson carnage. Over the decades, the characters appearing in Horror comics have captured the imaginations of readers and gathered a following stronger than any […]2019-10-241h 36My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCurrent Issues – Episode 1 (Sep./Oct. 2019)With the world of comic books and pop culture ever changing, how are fans meant to keep up with trends in the industry? Is the new EVENT from the Big Two worth reading? What’s the story on that show from that network about that […]2019-10-1647 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture“Don’t Call It A Relaunch!” – Volume 3 BeginsIn the comic book industry, the hip thing to do nowadays is to take a book, doesn’t matter if it’s a team or solo title, end its run and then start up a brand new volume. And not just every once in a while, […]2019-10-1241 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureHistory Of The Mighty Crusaders – Episode 5 – “New Crusaders And Beyond”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]2019-09-301h 12My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureHistory Of The Mighty Crusaders – Episode 4 – “The Impact Era Begins!”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]2019-09-231h 08My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureHistory of the Mighty Crusaders – Episode 3 – “The Red Circle Relaunch!”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]2019-09-161h 00My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureHistory Of The Mighty Crusaders – Episode 2 – “Too Many Superheroes!”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]2019-09-091h 06My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureHistory Of The Mighty Crusaders – Episode 1 – “All The Way With MLJ!”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]2019-09-021h 14My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureOur Giant-Size Annual #2This is it. The end of another geek filled volume of My Big Fat Pull List Podcast. But every ending is just a new beginning in disguise. While Mister X, Smurphy and Pistol Danger tie up dangling plot threads, YOU, the fans, will get […]2019-08-2257 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureControversy In ComicsNothing stays the same forever. Everything grows, everything evolves, everything changes. Without change, things become stale, stagnant and boring. But change is scary. People fear change because they have no idea what to expect. Or worse, they think they know what to expect and […]2019-08-051h 17My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureTop Ten Favorite Announcements From SDCC 2019San Diego Comic Con. THE comic book, film, television and pop culture event of the year. For some, a yearly chance to let their geek flag fly. For others, a live altering experience like no other. For most, an unattainable goal, an unreachable star. […]2019-07-271h 16My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureEulogizing The X-Men Films SeriesFilms based on comic book properties are nothing new. Hollywood has been making them for decades. As movie making technology progressis, the more fantastic a film based off of a comic can look. In the 70’s, we believed a man could fly in Superman. […]2019-07-111h 21My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureThe Art Of It All: Some Of Our Favorite Comic Book ArtistsThe number of visual art forms is staggering. Film, Television, live Theater, sculptures and paintings. None of those get us more excited than comic books! They may have been deemed the cause of juvenile delinquency over an half century ago, but today, comics are finally […]2019-05-2132 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureThe Write Stuff – Some Of Our Favorite Comic WritersThe act of telling a story, much less an interesting one, is not easy. Yes, we’re taught to place words in an order so they form sentences, and those sentences are meant to create a narrative others should be able to follow and understand. But […]2019-05-1444 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureObserve & Report: The Spectacular Spider-Man!Few characters have stood the test of time like Peter Parker, the masked web head known as Spider-Man! With a plethora of comic books, film series and animated adventures, you’d have to go out of your way to NOT have encountered something attached to the […]2019-04-1622 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureMost Wanted: G.I. JoeIf you were a child of the 80’s then it was a safe bet you experienced the Mega Marketing craze of that decade. A cartoon show would debut and with it an eye catching line of toys and a tie-in comic book. With so much […]2019-04-0928 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureReboots, Reimaginings & Alternate RealitiesLong running film, television and comic book series all have the same problem. How do they keep their properties fresh? There’s a laundry list of possible story ideas that could be used, but which ones will satisfy the fans? How creatively drastic to they need […]2019-04-041h 04My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureThe Kree/Skrull War!The Kree/Skrull War. The star-spanning saga that laid the groundwork for New Avengers: Illuminati, Young Avengers, Secret Invasion and MORE Marvel history-in-the-making! Annihilus, Ronan the Accuser, the Super-Skrull and alien fleets have targeted Earth, and the Avengers must defy them all – If they can […]2019-03-251h 06My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureDeath In Superhero ComicsDeath is a fact of life, but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. No matter the connection, family, friend, co-worker, the loss of someone from your life has an impact. The same can be said for fictional characters. When we invest our […]2019-02-2739 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureCrisis On Infinite Award ShowsThe Academy Awards has given out honors to all kinds of films over the last 91 years since it’s inception. Dramas, comedies, war films, westerns, romances, musicals and animation. Horror films and fantasy films have also had their days, although few and far between, in […]2019-02-221h 29My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureComic Event Fatigue!This will change things…FOREVER! It’s phrases like that which grab a comic book readers attention. When we’re told that a character that we’ve grown up loving for so long is going to be put through a core shaking, life altering event, we grow concerned. What […]2019-02-0545 minMy Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop CultureOverused Tropes In Comics!Why are there so many commonly used tropes in comic book stories? The tragic origin story, we fixed things because of time travel, it wasn’t me, it was my evil gender swapped clone, and so on and so on. It’s not that these plot […]2019-01-2952 min