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How dare you? That's the first question KJ asked Ally Carter, whose name is “synonymous with hilarious action and heart-pounding romance” (TRUE). Is KJ outraged? Hell no. It's a legit question. Ally's books are so so much fun, with wild action scenes befitting a Bond movie (or a Jason Bourne, OBVIOUSLY) and plots that trot the globe while dancing backwards in high heels and KJ really wants to know—how did Ally give herself permission to just go there? To write the dreamy, wild, sure it could happen but also we don't even care because we're so in it story that scares many of us (especially ex-journo KJ, who wastes far far too much time on such non dramatic questions as “but how would someone with that job pay for health insurance? and “technically, how much snow could that unit make in one night?). Also asked: how did you learn to write action so well? Do you take all kinds of crazy self defense classes? Or dissect movie fight scenes in slo-mo? Are you fun to watch a spy movie with, or terrible?I would have asked her if she used to BE a spy…but then she would have had to kill me.LINKSNational Spy MuseumThe Blonde Who Came In from the ColdThe Most Wonderful Crime of the YearThe Blonde IdentityAlly CarterAlly's rec: Netflix: The ResidenceInstagram @theallycarter The newsletterHey everyone, it's Jenny Nash. This episode happens to feature an Author Accelerator book coach. Author Accelerator is the company I founded more than 10 years ago to lead the emerging book coaching industry. If you've been curious about what it takes to become a successful book coach, which is to say, someone who makes money, meaning, and joy out of serving writers, I've just created a bunch of great content to help you learn more. You can access it all by going to bookcoaches.com/waitlist. We'll be enrolling a new cohort of students in our certification program in October, so now's a perfect time to learn more and start making plans for a whole new career.Transcript below!EPISODE 460 - TRANSCRIPTJennie NashHey everyone, it's Jennie Nash, founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, the company I started more than 10 years ago to lead the emerging book coaching industry. In October, we'll be enrolling a new cohort of certification students who will be going through programs in either fiction, nonfiction, or memoir, and learning the editorial, emotional and entrepreneurial skills that you need to be a successful book coach. If you've been curious about book coaching and thinking that it might be something you want to do for your next career move, I'd love to teach you more about it, you can go to bookcoaches.com/waitlist to check out a free training I have—that's bookcoaches.com/waitlist. The training is all about how to make money, meaning and joy out of serving writers. Fall is always a great time to start something new. So if you're feeling called to do this, go check out our training and see if this might be right for you. We'd love to have you join us.Multiple SpeakersIs it recording? Now it's recording. Yay! Go ahead. This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone. Try to remember what I'm supposed to be doing. All right, let's start over. Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers. Okay. Now, one, two, three.KJ Dell'AntoniaHey, I'm KJ Dell'Antonia, and this is Hashtag AmWriting the weekly podcast about writing all the things—short things, long things, pitches, proposals, fiction, nonfiction. We're the podcast about getting things done. And I'm going to be solo this week because I am interviewing, and I'm so excited to interview one Ally Carter, whose name, I'm stealing this from her bio, because it was such a great line—is synonymous with hilarious action and heart-pounding romance. And as someone who's read much of it, I can vouch kids. So Ally's most recent big book that you've probably seen around was The Blonde Identity . Her current book that you're going to want to go straight out and grab is The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold, and her other book that she wrote just for me—because it was like exactly what I needed in a book in that moment and I really appreciate it. I'm glad other people got to read it, but it was really, for me— The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year those are her adult books. She's got a ton of young-adult books, also with heart pounding action and hilarious...wait, heart-pounding romance, hilarious action. I feel those are exchangeable. And even some middle grade if you've got some kids who might be reading in those lines. So Ally does all the things, and we're going to find out how, and immediately be able to do it ourselves. Ha! Ally, thanks for coming.Ally CarterThank you so much for having me, KJ. I appreciate it.KJ Dell'AntoniaWe are super excited.Ally CarterI also wrote The Most Wonderful Crime [The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year] just for me, because it's— that's like, I love a mystery, and I pick them up, and I'm like, this would be great. Where's the romance? And then I love a romance, and I pick it up, and I'm like, where's the mystery? And so that's, that's how Most Wonderful Crime [The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year ] came to be. It is two great genres better together.KJ Dell'AntoniaAlso, it's writers in a—like writers in a mansion, with secrets and surprise identities, and things people can do that no one knows they can do, which is my jam. Yeah, really enjoyed it.Ally CarterThank you.KJ Dell'AntoniaThank you for that. Not that I didn't I love The Blonde Identity. My daughter has it right now, and she's super excited, because I can give her The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold, early, because I might have gotten an early copy. So she'll be reading that on the beach next week after she finishes the first one.Ally CarterThat is some good cool mom points right there.KJ Dell'AntoniaWell, it is, yeah, and they're rare. But that is a great thing about your—I mean, my daughters are 21 and 19, so they're older, but I would have given the blonde books and The Most Wonderful Crime to, you know, a 16... ?... like, they're not—not that I don't actually give some pretty steamy stuff to my kids, but if you're not somebody who does that, they're steamy, but they're not—anyway...Ally CarterYeah, there are books that, like, grandma and mom and daughter can all read togetherKJ Dell'AntoniaYeah, I was just going to say I would give them to my mom too. Yeah. I mean, they're just super fun. Because sometimes the better test is not “Would I give it to my daughter?” It's “Would I give it to my mom?”Ally CarterYou're exactly right. Agreed, agreed.KJ Dell'AntoniaSo my first question is this: how dare you?! Okay, and now you're like, wait, what?! No, seriously, like, your books are—the plots are so out there, and glorious, and outrageous, and the action scenes are wild, and they're sort of everything you fantasize about in a spy romance novel. And as a former journalist, I spend a lot of time sitting around staring at my plot thinking things like, yes, but how would this person have health insurance? And I feel like you've transcended that. So can you talk to me and all of us about how you've, you know, embraced this world of the wild, glorious, fun, and outrageous in your plotting?Ally CarterYou know, that's a—thank you. First of all, that's a lovely compliment. I really credit it toward, you know, how most things are in my life and my career—it was total accident and sheer dumb luck. So 20 years ago—I realized not long ago—like, literally 20 years ago this spring, I saw it. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You. And I was, you know, big dumb kid, didn't know what I was doing, sheer dumb luck, had this amazing idea. And most of all, I had an amazing idea at a time when the YA [young adult] genre was just expanding exponentially—like the shelves of shelf space at Barnes and Noble was getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And so it was a big tent, and there was room for everybody. And so I was lucky in that I got in there. I was especially lucky because I had a brilliant editor named Donna Bray. And Donna could see, like the shift coming—like, she could see Twilight and the, like, the move to paranormal, and the move to, you know, moving away from contemporary fiction to genre fiction. And she was like, we have to get this out fast. And so we crashed it. And so I sold it in, like, April or May of 2005, and then I had to go to copy editing in October, and I had—I had 32 pages.KJ Dell'AntoniaSorry, (laughing)Ally CarterAnd a day job!KJ Dell'AntoniaOh, my goodness!Ally CarterSo I had the summer of absolute deadline. I would come home from my day job, I would eat a fast dinner, and I would write till midnight. But this was also back, like, before we really had smartphones in our pockets all the time—definitely pre, like, social media—and so that's what you did. And I'm like, man, if I did that every day, think about how much writing I would get done today.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterBut because I was so fast, the turnaround there was so fast, I didn't have time to, like, go down a rabbit hole of, well, exactly what type of nylon cord would they use to rappel into such and such—you know, I just got—I made it up, and I got away with it. And so I realized that, you know, I would—I did do a lot of research on actual tradecraft.KJ Dell'AntoniaRight.Ally CarterSo the things like the girl—there's a scene where the girls have to go through the boy's garbage. And there's this—you know, there are scenes where they're, you know, planting bugs and those types of things. Those—I watched documentaries, I read a lot of, like, actual decommissioned, sort of old CIA handbooks and things.. The International Spy Museum has a wonderful reference section, and you can actually order...KJ Dell'AntoniaOh, that's cool.Ally CarterOld, like, World War Two training manuals and things. It's really greatKJ Dell'AntoniaI did not know that.Ally CarterSo I did do that. What I did not do was I didn't worry about, like, the brand name of what you might call it. So as a general rule, I tell my readers, like, the more specific something is in the book, the more likely it is I made it up. So when I'm like, well, then she did the one death ski maneuver—and, like, I don't know what the one death ski maneuver is, but they don't either—I made it up. But the actual sort of bones of what the school would teach and how they would teach, it was very accurate.KJ Dell'AntoniaWell, it must have come in handy because you have another school in the current book.Ally CarterYeah. And it's—it was a little harder, because it is, you know, it's not for kids, and so it has to have a little bit more of an air of sophistication. And I wanted to base it off of the actual CIA training facility, “The Farm,” which is at Camp Peary—which is in the book, what I couldn't figure out were things like, do they sleep in apartments? Do they have a dorm? Is there a are there barracks? Are there, you know, is there, like, a big cafeteria? Are they?KJ Dell'AntoniaVery few people will know what's real, and they can't tell you, right?Ally CarterThey can't tell me. And so I actually, when I was on tour for The Blonde Identity, I was in D.C., and I did a wonderful event, had hundreds of readers there, and they were like my Gallagher Girls who had grown up and now they all are spies. I mean, they like, literally work for the CIA. They're literally with, you know, "I'm with Homeland Security." You know, several of them were like, I can't actually tell you where I work, but you were very popular there and so, and I actually did a like, show of hands, like, if you can say so, how many of you have been to The Farm and, like, multiple hands went up.KJ Dell'AntoniaOh, wow!Ally CarterAnd I'm like we're talking when this is finished. So I got a little bit, but not very much, you know. And I guess the thing also with “The Farm” is, you know, they bring in, like, their actual undercover operatives to train there, but there are a lot of different groups that also use that facility. So, for example, I think I'm not dreaming this. I think this is true. Like, if you are an ambassador or an ambassador's family, and you and you are going, maybe not like the ambassador to London, but if you're going to, like, you know, someplace that could be a little bit dangerous, they'll send you there for, like, evasive driving training and things like that. So you get a little bit of training. So it's not just spies who train at Camp Peary, it's multiple groups.KJ Dell'AntoniaI have a new life goal now, which is to never need evasive driving training.Ally CarterRight?! And see, I kind of want to learn how to do it. I don't want to need it…KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah no, no but no, it's not to need it. I don't want to need it.Ally CarterI want to know how to do it.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah. Well, yeah, you could, you could use it. Yeah, I just—it. I miss—your books inspire the writer in me to remember, like you said, that very few people care what brand of nylon rope you would use to repel, and from there, it's a pretty short step to, you know, whether or not you can really stop a cable car halfway.Ally CarterYeah.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah, we're and we're not going to but.. It's just...Ally CarterAnd the way I see it is, if you are the person who knows what brand of rope it is... even if i get the rope right, i could get everything else wrong.KJ Dell'AntoniaYou're either not reading this, or you don't care.Ally CarterYeah. There... This is, this is not for them, probably.KJ Dell'AntoniaOr if it is, it they've they're there, like...Ally CarterThey're there.KJ Dell'AntoniaThat's fine.Ally CarterYou either buying in or you're out. And that's fine. And I—and nothing but respect to the people who do know that? Because now, I grew up on a farm, and so I can't read, like, cowboy books, because I'm like, oh gosh, geez Louise, of course, your barn burned down. You put that hay in there way too soon—you are you really baling green hay?KJ Dell'AntoniaThey're literally haying in my field right now.Ally CarterRight. You know, I'm like, seriously, seriously. This is, you know, you're, you're, you're not. You didn't do a semen test on your bull? Like—you know?"KJ Dell'Antonia"You are not milking that cow. I know how you're supposed to hold your hands."Ally CarterExactly!KJ Dell'AntoniaSee I did.Ally CarterYeah, I'm, I'm not, I'm not here for and so I'm, like, this is the same thing. Like spies have no reason be reading me. I have no reason reading the things that I do know about. Because it's, you know, it's, it's just, you're also, it's not exciting to me. And so I'm sure most spies, you know, there's a line in...KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah it's not a fantasy.Ally CarterYeah, so…KJ Dell'AntoniaIt can't be a fantasy, because you're too stuck on, you know, the...Ally CarterExactly, and so...KJ Dell'AntoniaThe reality that our hay baling chute is broken, and therefore we will need multiple people tomorrow to go around and pick up each individual bale…Ally CarterYeah.KJ Dell'AntoniaAnd put it on a flatbed truck, and drive to the barn, and take each individual bale off the flatbed truck, and then stack them in the barn. Y'all are missing my arm gestures, but Ally knows of which I speak.Ally CarterI know, I know those gestures. You got to buck it up with your knee. It's a whole—it's—it is not easy work. It is very hard work. And so…KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah, I'm hoping not to go out there, but I know I will.Ally CarterOh no, you don't want to do that, and you will itch for days.KJ Dell'AntoniaI've done it. I've done it for years and I know I'm going to end up there. It's my birthday tomorrow too.Ally CarterOh no, that's not the…Yeah, so it's the reality. I think it's very easy—also, when reading, as a reader—I hate it when it's very clear that an author has done a ton of research and they're not going to let it go to waste. Yeah. And so there's like, you know, they'll introduce the thing, and then they'll have, like, a paragraph explaining all of the things that they have learned. I'm like, this serves no purpose whatsoever.KJ Dell'AntoniaI also thank my editor for my leaving out the entire history of Prohibition-era alcohol rules between Kansas and Missouri in The Chicken Sisters.Ally CarterYep. See, if you, if you want to write that, the nonfiction is right there, you can— you've got it. So I like to do enough research to inform the story. And, you know, there are definitely things, you know, scenes and lines and wonderful things that have come from the research. But I never do research just so I know, like, what kind of rope it is.KJ Dell'AntoniaRight.Ally CarterI—you know, that's that I think then, then, then also, are you doing research, or are you procrastinating?KJ Dell'AntoniaWell...Ally CarterBecause I think most people are just procrastinating.KJ Dell'AntoniaWe all know the answer to that. So how about the action scenes? You write such great action scenes, but I am also not a reader who's like picturing, well, clearly at this point, he's upside down and her hand. You know, that's not how I read anything. I just kind of go (shwoop) through that. So how do you handle writing them? Are you like slowing down action films so you can dissect the movies?Ally CarterNo, I really don't like writing action scenes. They are hard, and it feels like I've done everything, like they're okay. Well, hey, here we are. We're doing that again, but there. They are. They come with the job. And so I think most of all, you just have to remember, sort of the blocking of it. Like, okay, who is where? The other hard thing that that comes and, you know, movies have it so much easier. Like, you don't need a name for the for the six bad guys, that black Willow...KJ Dell'AntoniaRight,, the one on the right, and the one behind... Yeah, yeah, no.Ally CarterAnd so I'm like, Okay, but how is the reader keeping these different so, you know, like, well, one of them has a has glasses, and the other one has a goatee. Okay, well, then from that point forward, I the author just call them glasses...KJ Dell'AntoniaGlasses and goatee. Right.Ally CarterAnd so you have to remember, like, okay, glasses is down. Goatees still at large, you know, or whatever.KJ Dell'AntoniaIs there a special copy editor for that?Ally CarterThey're not special, but that is definitely can fall into a copy editor's purview, especially things like during that fight sequence. Okay, well, it was 100 pages ago, but it was also yesterday that your heroine got shocked. Is she really fighting at full strength? Oh, ouch, you know. So that type of thing, because, again, reader wise, that's, that was, I've, that was the midpoint. I'm to the climax now. But timeline wise, no, that was yesterday.KJ Dell'AntoniaRight.Ally CarterAnd so the...KJ Dell'AntoniaAnd probably with some readers, reader wise, that was an hour ago.Ally CarterYeah! So...KJ Dell'AntoniaI mean you know, we're eating this up.Ally CarterExactly.KJ Dell'AntoniaSo much faster to read than to write.Ally CarterSo you have to think about those types of things. Like I wrote that two months ago, but nope, it's still right there.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterSo that's the kind of thing that, you know, again, you can't really worry about in a first draft. Like, let that. That's future-use problem.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah. Now, in contrast to, you know, the wild plotting and the crazy, enjoyable, delicious action, your people feel, you know super, super real. They have, ah, big reasons for being the way that they are, but the feelings feel real. I think that is an amazing um, contrast. Do you start with the, do you start with, like, you know, the person's flaw, or what it would there's some term of art for this which I have forgotten. Or do you start with, I need a person who, or does it vary book by book?Ally CarterThank you. I, you know, it's I spend a lot of time with that.KJ Dell'AntoniaThat's why they work.Ally CarterThank you.KJ Dell'AntoniaNo, seriously, no one. I mean, The Blonde Identity would maybe be fun if it wasn't also, like, you really want her to figure out who she is, and you really want to know why is this happening, and what is up with and like, you want all that for the character you believe in, in her.Ally CarterAnd that's always I find as much about tone as anything, this particular sub- genre, it can go wacky or kooky really fast, like it's very easy. You know, I like to say that spy movies exist on a spectrum that range from get smart to Zero Dark Thirty.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterAnything along that spectrum is a spy movie. But those could not be more different. And so are we? Are we doing like James Bond, like he's cool and suave, but he also has gadgets, or are we doing like he's, you know, kind of bumbling with gadgets? Or are we doing it's very realistic?KJ Dell'AntoniaWell are we doing Roger Moore James Bond, or are we doing … um…guy who now models for…Ally CarterDaniel Craig?KJ Dell'AntoniaThank you—oy vey—Daniel Craig, which are very different. James Bonds really…Ally CarterVery different James Bonds, because I've heard people the James Bond people talk about the Daniel Craig, James Bond doesn't exist without Jason Bourne.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterThat's who they looked at and so all of these things, you know. And so when I'm trying to figure it out, and I think that's one of the hardest things about genre bending romance, whether you're bending fantasy and romance or horror and romance, or romance and mystery or romance and action, or whatever, you could only really write in the Venn diagram space, where there's overlap. And so I couldn't, you know, the realistic version of this is not something where people are falling in love, like it's, you know, it's too dark. And it's definitely not a comedy, definitely not a comedy. So you're, you have to find the place where, no, they're in real, actual peril. This is really terrible. This is... they really might dieKJ Dell'AntoniaAnd they understand that.Ally CarterAnd they understand that they get that and also, but they still have time to, you know, okay, well, now I'm going to, you know, now we're going to slow dance, you know, you still have to find those times. And the other thing is, you know, you have to figure out just where on the spectrum you want to be and lean into that. Like, if you want to write, like, the kooky, sort of Agent Cody Banks of it all, then you have to do that. But then you have to realize the other parts of the spy kind of world that you can't touch. And so it's—you're just—you're always threading needles. It's, it is a, it is a task of, of absolutely threading needles all the time.KJ Dell'AntoniaI think that, yeah, when it comes to tone, where on the spectrum do you want to be, is like, like maybe one of the greatest questions that I have heard. And it's just one that, you know, I think we all wrestle with.Ally CarterWell, and I've had people that really don't—people who should get it—who don't get it. So, you know, I was in a meeting one time with some Hollywood producers who were looking at some of my stuff, and I said, “Well, tonally, where do you want it to be?” And they were like, “What do you mean?” I said, “Well, do you want it to be like, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Smith or Bourne Identity?” And they said, “Well, those are the same thing.” And I was like…KJ Dell'AntoniaNo, no, no, no!Ally Carter“This meeting is over. Thank you very much”.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterIt's... I don't understand how people don't get that, but to me, I spend 90% of my time worried about it. Oh, I remember now what I was going to say earlier. I got my start—and I'm never going to be, like, a full-time or big-time of this—but I've done some screenwriting. . And so there's a screenwriting podcast [Scriptnotes] by two guys who are very big, very dominant—dominant—screenwriter. One of them did, like, the Charlie's Angels movies and the Aladdin remake and all those. The other one does The Last of Us and a bunch of big, like, HBO shows. And, um, they always talk about "the Want song". So in every Disney musical, the first—the first song—sets up the world. It's "Belle," you know, like, you know, wandering through town. The second song is the "whatever she wants." And so, you know Moana, you know, "See the line where the sky and the sea meet, it calls me"—like, Moana wants to travel. She wants adventure. And so I spend a lot of time, when I'm setting up these characters, thinking about what their "Want song" would be. And so, like, for The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, her "Want song" is, "I want to be Eleanor."KJ Dell'AntoniaRight.Ally CarterYou know she wants to be Eleanor Ashley [from The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year], who is my, like, fake off-brand Agatha Christie, and so that's, that's what you have to think about a lot like, you know, what Alex [from The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold] wants is to sort of be free like she wants, she wants to be enough. She wants to pay her—you know? She has paid her debt for—you know, sort of having been born strong and healthy, where her identical twin has been born very, very sick. And so she, she wants—and she wants to never lay eyes on Michael Kingsley [also from The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold], ever again, who was her, you know, on again, off again, partner, slash love interest. And so that's—you know, that I always start with that, what is their wound? What is the thing that hurt them in the past that they're trying to get over? And what is their want?KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterAnd almost always, what would they realize over the course of the book is that the thing that they want is not the thing that they need.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah.Ally CarterAnd so that's, that's an Ally Carter book. That's an Ally Carter character progress.KJ Dell'AntoniaThat's it. Now everyone can do it.Ally CarterYeah.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah. Oh, but if it were that easy, everyone would do it, right? Um, no, this... this is amazing and delightful. I hope really helpful for people. I got distracted by taking some notes on what you just said. So, people—for me, for the Post-its on my computer, as well as, oh my gosh, so many Post-its, so many Post-its—let's talk just a little bit about the difference between YA [young adult] and adult when you're—fundamentally—I mean, some people sort of switch genres entirely. You were writing very similarly toned books for different audiences. How? How do you think of that evolution?Ally CarterThat's—in a way—yes, I did switch audiences. In another way, they're the exact same readers. And so that's—that's an interesting and weird thing about YA is, about every three years, you have to make all new readers because they have grown up and they've aged out of you. And even if they haven't aged out of you, they have what I call "cooled out of you."KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah, yeah.Ally CarterAnd they're like, I liked those books when I was a little kid, and so current me can't possibly like those books, because those are little kid books. And so I was on the phone during the pandemic with my friend Rachel Hawkins and Rachel had written YA for a long time, and then she switched to adult. And I was talking about... do I...? What do I...? I need to sell something. Do I sell another middle grade? Do I sell a YA [young adult]? Like, what do I sell? And she says, you sell an adult. You sell an adult book that appeals to your Gallagher Girl readers. And I, I said, oh, Rachel, I've spent, you know, 15 years building a career in YA, I've got, you know... And she said, your readers aren't there anymore. They are the girls who read you when they were 12, ten years ago, and are 22 now. And I'm like, oh, that's right, they are. They've grown up. And so I—and I had the idea for “the spy twins” and had tried to do it as YA, and then at one point I even tried to do it as middle grade, and I could never make it work. And the problem wasn't, one of the twins wakes up with amnesia and somebody's trying to kill her—that I could pull off. The problem was, how and why is her identical twin on the run? And what does she have? And, like, you know, she...KJ Dell'AntoniaShe needs a longer history than you can have as a teenager.Ally CarterYeah, exactly. Like, is she actually working for the CIA, like, because then again, we get into Agent Cody Banks territory, then it's, you know, well, we've got a super-secret branch of the CIA who recruits kids. I'm like, no, you don't that's stupid. Like so...KJ Dell'AntoniaAnd she's been there since she was 10, and now she's on the lam.Ally CarterExactly.KJ Dell'AntoniaYou know, and then at age 12, she went rogue.Ally CarterYeah. And then you've got, like, well, no, you know, it's a Parent Trap situation, and one of them was raised by a spy and one of them was raised by ordinary people. I'm like, oh, maybe... I don't know, but, you know, I just couldn't quite make it work. And so I was talking to Rachel, and I said, what am I supposed to do? Just dust off that old spy twin idea, except now, instead of a super-secret organization, she's just on the run from the CIA? And then I was like, wait a second.KJ Dell'AntoniaWell yes!Ally CarterIf she's 30... she can—so every single problem and logic challenge that I had with that premise went away once those characters became 30. And so I just—and it was the easiest writing I've ever done. I feel almost guilty about how easy that book was to write; because I'd been, I'd been working at it and hammering at that idea for so long. And so it was almost like, instead of starting it at the beginning, I started it at the end of the writing process, where you have that one, like, little linchpin thing that you think, oh, but what if I do this? And then the whole plot just...KJ Dell'AntoniaRight.Ally CarterSo I started it there. I started at the...KJ Dell'AntoniaWow!Ally CarterDomino moment. And I'm spoiled, because it'll never be that easy again. But that's, that's how the transition went. And, you know, it's been great because my readers, they're so excited to see me. It's like, they're, I hear from readers all the time, they're like, you know, it feels like you wrote this just for me. I grew up with you, and now you're writing books for me again, and that has been very full circle and very, very fulfilling.KJ Dell'AntoniaThat, that's great. Well, you're writing them for me too. So, love that, and I think for a lot of our listeners—who I really think are going to enjoy this episode.Ally CarterThank you.KJ Dell'AntoniaSo before I let you go, can I ask you what you have read and loved lately?Ally CarterOh, sweet mercy. I have been so underwater, on a—on a book, and it's been the kind of—it's been the kind of deadline and the kind of book... You know how the old adage is so true that you never learn how to write a book—you just learn how to write the book you're writing right now. And so this one has just... and when I get that way, I don't enjoy reading because my inner critic can't turn off. But I will share a show that I loved, and I—they just announced that they're not doing a season two, and I'm heartbroken over it. And that is, on Netflix, there's a Shonda Rhimes show called The Residence, and it's a murder mystery set at the White House. You know, somebody drops dead during a state dinner. And it's got kind of a kooky detective and a wonderful, colorful cast, and it's very, very funny, but it also—it threads that tonal needle, where, like, no, no, there was a murder. This is still serious, but, oh, by the way, I'm going to go look at the body, but first I saw a bird I want to check out, you know. And so it's just—tonally and voice-wise—it does really amazing things. And so if any of your listeners are looking for a really great, like, eight-episode series, it's great. I could not recommend it more—The Residence on Netflix.KJ Dell'AntoniaThat sounds super fun. Well, I am in the midst of The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold. So, you know, I don't normally recommend a book until I know if the writer is going to stick a landing. But I feel quite confident in this one, and have enjoyed—as you can obviously hear from the podcast—the rest of Ally's work. So I am going to just push all of you listeners to, you know, head out there, grab the new one, grab the old one, and have a good time with them.Ally CarterAww, thank you.KJ Dell'AntoniaYou're welcome. Thanks so much for being here. Oh, should people follow you on social media? Do you do anything fun? Are you...?Ally CarterI do nothing fun. I'm not fun at all. I'm mostly on Instagram; I guess at this point I'm the Ally Carter over there. I have a couple of kind of defunct Facebook pages that I update occasionally. I just updated it for the first time, evidently, in two years. So that was fun. I'm on Threads very seldom. I used to be on Twitter and I still have that account I don't update it very often. Um, but yeah—and of course, my newsletter, like the newsletter is—I think we need to come back. We all need to get back to the newsletter, because it will deliver the news directly to your inbox. And so if you want to make sure you don't miss any like, you know, tour events, which, by the way, I'm coming to Boston on tour in a couple of weeks. So looking forward to that a lot. I think its Lovestruck Books? Is that Boston?KJ Dell'AntoniaProbably yeah.Ally CarterYeah.KJ Dell'AntoniaThat's the new romance bookstore there. I've been with Sarina a couple of times, and yeah, it's a great—it is a beautiful store. Like, every detail. Their bathrooms are phenomenal. That's how wonderful this store is. So, very cool. All right, I will link up the newsletter in the show notes, and yeah, about, you know, once every week, I decide to just cancel all the rest of my social media and only do my AmReading email. And then I imagine what my agent would say. And yeah, I don't do it, but...Ally CarterIt's, you know, and I feel like I'm such a broken record, like, oh, you know, go buy my book. Oh, go, you know, I'm going to be here on tour. Oh, this is how you get signed books. But—and I just say over and over and over again—and then inevitably, and this really happened to me one time, I was sitting at the LAX Airport waiting on a flight home, and I got an irate message from a reader that I never come to LA. And I was like, I did an event here last night—like, I was at the Barnes and Noble at The Grove or wherever—last night. And so we said, we—it feels like we are just beating a dead horse letting people know about these things, but it's so easy for things to get lost. And so...KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah! Jess tells the story—that's one of my other co-hosts—about, you know, someone who had come up to her, really one of her biggest fans, “Good new book.” And, “I get your idea, I love this, and I love that you wrote, like, knew a lot.” And then she said, “Oh, well, did you enjoy my latest book?” And they're like, “You have a new book?!”Ally CarterIt happens every time. And so, you know, it's—it's just part of the business at this point.KJ Dell'AntoniaYou've got to do it—it's just part of the business. All right. Well, thank you again...Ally CarterThank you.KJ Dell'AntoniaAnd as always, listeners until next week keep your butt in the chair and your head in the game.Jess LaheyThe Hashtag AmWriting Podcast is produced by Andrew Perella. Our intro music, aptly titled Unemployed Monday, was written and played by Max Cohen. Andrew and Max were paid for their time and their creative output, because everyone deserves to be paid for their work. This is a public episode. 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Who wins in a 1v1: Thanasis or Bronny?Was keeping Doc Rivers the biggest non-move of the offseason?And IS LUKA JACKED NOW!?In this episode of Hoopatheticals, hosts Jez and Thom dive into the latest NBA off-season drama, discussing trades, player performances, and team strategies. They conduct heat checks on various teams, analyze the worst off-season moves, and even engage in a fun segment called 'Rhyme Out' where they share poetic takes on the league. The conversation culminates in a detailed Bucks chat, reflecting on the team's off-season decisions and future prospects, while also promoting players in a segment called 'Agent Cody Banks.'Chapters00:00 Introduction and Off-Season Anticipation01:06 Heat Check: Not Having Cash at a Cash Only Bar05:23 Heat Check: NBA Off-Season Moves - Warriors07:30 Heat Check: Jordan Clarkson to the Knicks09:18 Heat Check: Men's Health Luka Vs Off-Season Ben Simmons11:06 Heat Check: Duncan Robinson to the Pistons13:00 Heat Check: KD to the Rockets14:52 Heat Check: Should the Bucks Trade for Zion?16:56 Shots Fired: 1st Team All "Worst Off-Season Moves"17:31 Bradley Beal and the Retiree Clippers19:14 Malik Beasley20:25 CP320:55 Deandre Ayton23:29 Alexander-Walker Leaves the Wolves25:33 Sandro Alert!26:58 Rhyme Out: Championship Edition33:02 Bucks Chat: Evaluating the Team's Off-Season35:25 The Dame Era as a Bucks Fan39:25 Biggest Non-Move: NOT Firing Doc Rivers42:53 Giannis to Point Guard Rumour44:22 Thanasis to Return?!44:42 Rapid Fire: Trade Rumors and Player Prospects45:39 Josh Giddey to the Bucks?46:41 Agent Cody Bank: Lebron & Bradley Beal50:31 Thanasis vs Bronny 1v1. Who you got?51:17 Final Thoughts

This week, we dive skateboard-first into the early-2000s spy kid fever dream that is Agent Cody Banks. From gadget-packed backpacks to inexplicable CIA recruitment policies, we unpack all the absurdities, charm, and midriff-heavy fashion choices that made this movie a formative experience for a very specific generation. Is Frankie Muniz the teen Bond we deserved? Why is the CIA so bad at hiding? And does this movie still hold up? Hit play and find out!Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GMWKSLeave us a voice message by going to https://anchor.fm/moonstreetQuestions or Comments?Email us at grownmenwks@gmail.comInstagram: @grown-men-watch-kid-shitFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/GMWKS/

In this powerful episode, Damian sits down with acclaimed filmmaker Kerry David, whose journey spans from temping at Paramount Pictures to working with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and ultimately founding her own company, KDC Films.

London's calling i denne lynhurtige opfølger til 2003's Agent Cody Banks! Vores teenage agent er tilbage og denne gang skal en tur til London, men der bliver ikke tid til sightseeing. Verden skal reddes endnu en gang, heldigvis får Cody hjælp fra et medlem af S Club 7. https://www.ikassenshow.dk/2025/07/i-kassen-1174-agent-cody-banks-2.html

Malcolm er ikke længere in the Middle, nu er han i CIA. Frankie Muniz spiller Agent Cody Banks. En teenage agent, der får en vigtig opgave: Han skal hjælpe med at redde verden, ved at charmere en pige! Det skal vise sig at blive en større opgave end som så, selv med hele CIAs arsenal af eksperter bag sig. https://www.ikassenshow.dk/2025/06/i-kassen-1172-agent-cody-banks-2003.html

Go to http://hellofresh.com/critic10fm now to get 10 free meals with a free item for life. It got enough love to get a sequel, but the young spy flick doesn't exactly age the best. Nostalgia Critic checks out Agent Cody Banks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tMJtMjVbZ0 https://www.tiktok.com/@benedictionsfromthevoid/video/7508023297485917486?_t=ZP-8wfcI8GdUDv&_r=1 1:30 - The News 5:25 - Jerks of the Week 23:27 - The Goonies 27:59 - Con Air 28:39 - National Lampoon's European Vacation 35:54 - Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 39:35 - Pee-Wee as Himself 48:13 - Weird Science 52:48 - Synecdoche, New York 53:32 - The Thing (1982) 58:30 - Creepshow 1:00:50 - Black Bag 1:03:36 - Celebrity Bear Hunt 1:06:30 - new Fear Street movie 1:08:57 - Lilo & Stitch 1:33:29 - Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning 2:12:27 - Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Will there be a new NBA champion this year? Or will the Celts infuriate every other fan base again by going back to back?In this episode, hosts Jez and Thom dive into the current state of the NBA (and NBL Finals), discussing playoff predictions, player performances, and team strategies. They analyze various teams, including the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks, and Cavs, while also exploring the concept of 'herky jerky' players and their impact on the game. The conversation culminates in a segment called 'Shots Fired,' where they define and discuss 'empty calorie' players in the league. In this episode, the hosts delve into the current state of various NBA teams, focusing on the Wizards' lack of direction, the empty-calorie performances of players like Walker Kessler and Trae Young, and the struggles of Zach Lavine and the Kings. They also highlight Tyrese Maxey as a bright spot for the 76ers and discuss Scotty Barnes' potential amidst the Raptors' identity crisis. The conversation takes a creative turn with a segment called 'Rhyme Out,' where the hosts share poetry related to the NBA, before concluding with a discussion on the future of the Sixers and the legacy of Joel Embiid. In this conversation, the hosts discuss the current state of the NBA, focusing on coaching changes, team dynamics, and playoff prospects for the Milwaukee Bucks. They analyze player performances, defensive strategies, and offensive issues, while also considering ideal playoff matchups. The segment concludes with a fun 'Agent Cody Banks' game where they pitch obscure NBA players.Chapters00:00 NBA and NBL Finals: Dellevedova Check-In02:19 Bank Shot: NBA Stocks and Player Performances04:43 Lakers: Buying or Selling Stocks?07:43 Celtics: Analyzing Their Playoff Potential12:46 Knicks: Selling Stocks on a Troubled Team14:43 Cavs: Holding Steady on Playoff Prospects20:08 Herky Jerky Players: The New NBA Trend22:57 Shots Fired: First Team All Empty Calories23:57 The State of the Wizards and NBA Teams27:00 Empty Calories: Walker Kessler and Trae Young30:40 The Struggles of Zach Lavine and the Bulls35:09 Tyrese Maxey: A Bright Spot in a Dismal Team39:30 Scotty Barnes and the Raptors' Identity Crisis40:07 Rhyme Out: Poetry in the NBA46:20 The Future of the Sixers and Embiid's Legacy46:56 Coaching Changes and Team Dynamics49:07 Bucks Chat: Playoff Prospects51:42 Player Performances and Positives54:04 Defensive Strategies and Concerns55:43 Offensive Issues and Coaching Styles - JJ Reddick vs Doc Rivers01:00:05 Ideal Playoff Matchups01:03:37 Agent Cody Bank: Get your Player the Bag!

Send us a textEpisode 518"The Fugitive", "Terrifier 3" and "The Munsters"Actor: Daniel Roebuck.The very kind Dan Roebuck joins me to talk his lengthy acting career from Matlock to Rob Zombie and his role in the iconic "The Fugitive". Plus Dan clears the air once and for all as to what happened with his casting in "Home Alone."Having made his feature film debut starring in the teen comedy Cavegirl Daniel Roebuck quickly realized that there was only one direction to travel in his career. Up!Soon after Cavegirl, Roebuck established himself as one of the industry's youngest character actors with his haunting portrayal as the teenage killer, Samson in The River's Edge.Daniel Roebuck was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, At the age of 10, he started performing in talent shows doing impressions of movie stars he loved. He joined a local circus two years later and made his debut as one of the youngest clowns in the country. Roebuck's clown act eventually segued into a magic act and he performed that throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.His film credits are myriad, having starred in blockbusters like The Fugitive, US Marshals,and Final Destination, as well as popular titles including Agent Cody Banks and it's sequel, That's What I Am, Money Talks, Flash Of Genius and so many more.Lately, Roebuck has enjoyed working in a number of horror movies - his favorite genre. He has collaborated with filmmaker Rob Zombie on Halloween, Halloween 2, Devil's Rejects, and Lords of Salem (as well as a commercial for AMDRO, the insecticide). He also appeared in Don Coscarelli's cult favorite Bubba Ho Tep as well as the director's Reggie's Tales and John Dies At The End.Daniel has also been a familiar face on television for nearly 3 decades, he was a regular for three seasons on the evergreen hit drama, Matlock, portraying attorney 'Cliff Lewis," the junior partner of the law firm headed by Andy Griffith's beloved character, 'Ben Matlock.' Interestingly, his landing the role was the fulfillment of a promise made several years earlier with his first appearance on "Matlock" in its inaugural season. At that time, Roebuck was told that Griffith had been so impressed with his work that he would be back as a regular on the show. It took five seasons, two more guest shots as different characters, and a change of networks, but Griffith kept his promise and Roebuck indeed became a series regular.As a television guest star, Daniel has played countless characters. Some of his most memorable are a cop who literally turns into a pig on Grimm, a Romulan on Star Trek, Next Generation, a gun toting hostage taker on NYPD Blue, a cranky studio owner on Sonny With A Chance and a grieving father on Glee. He played other memorable roles on New Adventures of Old Christine, NCIS, Ghost Whisperer, CSI, Boston Legal, CSI Miami, Law And Order, Desperate Housewives and Hot in Cleveland.On the popular show, Lost, Roebuck portrayed the infamous Dr. Leslie Arzt, the aggravating science teacher whose explosive exit in the finale of the first season remains one of television's most surprising and talked about moments.He has starred in dozens of TV Movies. Perhaps his most famous turn was his critically acclaimed portrayal of Jay Leno in The Late Shift. Welcome, Daniel Roebuckwww.mmcpodcast.com#thefugitive #robzombie #horror #homealone #homealone2 #homealone #christmasmovies #themunsters Reach out to Darek Thomas and Monday Morning Critic!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mondaymorningcritic/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mondaymorningcritic/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mondaymorningcriticMondaymorningcritic@gmail.com

Terrifier 3.On this episode we are joined by Daniel Roebuck. Daniel Roebuck is an American actor and writer. In film, he is known for his roles as Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in The Fugitive and its spin-off U.S. Marshals, as well as Mr. Banks in Agent Cody Banks and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.Mark and Me is now on YouTube - Please subscribe here https://www.youtube.com/@markandmePlease support the Mark and Me Podcast via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Markandme or you can buy me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/markandme.The Mark and Me podcast is proudly sponsored by Richer Sounds.Visit richersounds.com now to shop for all your hi-fi, home cinema and TV solutions. Also, don't forget to join their VIP club for FREE with just your email address to receive a great range of fantastic privileges.The Mark and Me podcast is also proudly sponsored by Vice-Press.If you are a fan of films and pop culture, check out Vice Press. All of their limited edition posters, art prints & collectibles are officially licensed & are made for fans like us to collect & display in their homes. Vice Press work directly with artists and licensors to create artwork and designs that are exclusive to them.This year, Vice Press also launched Vice Press Home Video, dedicated to releasing classic films on VHS. And yes, they play! Get 10% off of your first order using code MARKANDME10 or head to vice-press.com/discount/MARKANDME10All artwork and designs are produced by Dead Good Tees - Dead Good Tee crafts graphic T-shirts for true horror and movie enthusiasts. Drawing inspiration from classic movies, iconic villains, and the darker side of cinema, their designs offer a subtle nod to the genre's most unforgettable moments. Visit www.deadgoodtees.co.uk

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I'm not a financial advisor; Superpowers for Good should not be considered investment advice. Seek counsel before making investment decisions.Watch the show on television by downloading the e360tv channel app to your Roku, AppleTV or AmazonFireTV. You can also see it on YouTube.When you purchase an item, launch a campaign or create an investment account after clicking a link here, we may earn a fee. Engage to support our work.Devin: What is your superpower?Kerry: People, when I'm interviewed, continually say to me, you're fearless, you're fearless, you're fearless. But I'm not fearless at all. I think my superpower, if I have one, is that I will lean into things that scare me. I may appear fearless to other people, but I'm not. Trust me! I feel the fear, but I'm never going to run away from fear. I will lean into fear.Author's note: North Carolina, especially Asheville, but also including the broader region, was devastated by Hurricane Helene. Please consider joining me in making a donation to Rotary International, where the funds will be distributed locally where needed and will be matched by the Rotary Foundation.In today's episode, I had the honor of speaking with filmmaker Kerry David, who has dedicated her career to telling impactful stories through her lens. Her latest project, "Open Secret," delves into a difficult subject—systemic child abuse and the corruption that allowed it to continue in North Carolina schools. Despite the heartbreaking topic, Kerry finds and showcases the resilience of individuals fighting to make a difference.Kerry's journey with this project began unexpectedly when she moved to North Carolina. Initially hesitant to take on another heavy subject, Kerry ultimately decided to lend her talents to highlight a story of immense courage. “The film really is about the courage to challenge something in your community that isn't working despite this being detrimental potentially to your own self,” she shared.What makes this project truly unique is Kerry's decision to raise funds through a regulated investment crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder. This approach allows people from all over the country to participate in the movement against abuse in schools. “Allowing people everywhere to invest in this film is a way of helping to maximize your audience, maximize the impact, maximize the reach,” she explained. By involving the community, Kerry aims to spark a national conversation and prevent future tragedies.This opportunity to invest in a project that combines social impact with powerful storytelling is rare, and Kerry's passion shines through every frame of her work. If you're moved by this story, consider joining the effort to support change—just as Kerry has done.tl;dr:* In today's episode, Kerry David shared her experience transitioning from working at Paramount Pictures and with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to starting her own production company and directing impactful documentaries.* Kerry discussed her latest project, "Open Secret," which explores systemic abuse in North Carolina schools and the courage of community members who fought against the corruption that enabled it.* Kerry emphasized her superpower of leaning into fear, recounting a challenging decision to change filming locations for safety during her previous project, demonstrating her ability to balance courage with prudence.* The episode highlighted Kerry's initiative in founding the nonprofit Over and Above Africa, which supports anti-poaching efforts and raises awareness through film.* Kerry explained her decision to use crowdfunding on WeFunder for her latest film to involve and empower communities nationwide to tackle systemic issues beyond North Carolina.How to Develop Leaning into Fear As a SuperpowerKerry's superpower is her ability to “lean into fear.” She doesn't ignore or try to eliminate fear—instead, she faces it head-on, refusing to let it control her decisions or actions. This willingness to confront fear, rather than shy away from it, allows Kerry to push boundaries and take on challenging projects that make a difference in the world.One powerful example of Kerry leaning into fear came during the production of her last film. She and her crew were scheduled to travel from South Africa to Uganda, but just days before, a nearby kidnapping involving three British citizens left her in a state of intense fear for her team's safety. Despite initially wanting to go ahead, Kerry made the difficult decision to pivot and film in Vietnam instead. This decision, rooted in both courage and concern for her crew's safety, ultimately kept them out of harm's way.To develop this superpower, Kerry suggests several actionable strategies:* Evaluate the consequences of not acting. Consider how avoiding a fearful situation could lead to missed opportunities or negative outcomes.* Honor your moral compass. When you know something is the right thing to do, face the fear and act anyway.* Start with small acts of courage. Practicing courage when the stakes are low helps build confidence for larger challenges.* Accept that fear is normal. Understand that feeling fear doesn't mean you're weak—it's an opportunity to show strength by moving forward despite it.By following Kerry's example and advice, you can make leaning into fear a skill. With practice and effort, you could make it a superpower that enables you to do more good in the world.Remember, however, that research into success suggests that building on your own superpowers is more important than creating new ones or overcoming weaknesses. You do you!Guest ProfileKerry David (she/her):Filmmaker and Philanthropist , KDC FilmsAbout KDC Films: My company is KDC Films.  Now in our 11th year, we produce, write, direct and fundraise for feature films and documentaries - soon to expand into series. Website: WeFunder.com/OpenSecretInstagram Handle: @OpensecretthefilmOther URL: OverAndAboveAfrica.comBiographical Information: Kerry David is an award-winning filmmaker with an extensive career in film production. She began at Paramount Pictures, later working for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman on major projects such as "Mission Impossible 2" and "Eyes Wide Shut." She then launched her own production company, producing films including "Agent Cody Banks," "My Date with Drew," and "Like Dandelion Dust," which won over 35 festival awards globally.Kerry has directed impactful documentaries like "Breaking Their Silence," focusing on women fighting against poaching, and "Open Secret," highlighting corruption in a North Carolina school district. She also founded Over and Above Africa, a nonprofit supporting endangered species and communities in Africa. 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Free Agent Lebron James... where is he going and why will it be the Lakers? In this episode of Who Patheticals, Jez and Thom discuss the NBA playoffs and share their thoughts on the Eastern and Western Conference Finals. They express their disappointment with the Eastern Conference, which has been plagued by injuries and lackluster performances. They also discuss the potential of the Dallas Mavericks and the struggles of Rudy Gobert. The hosts engage in a fun segment called 'Worst Fake,' where they argue for unexpected scenarios involving LeBron James and the New York Knicks. Overall, they provide entertaining and insightful commentary on the current state of the NBA playoffs. In this conversation, Thom and Jez discuss potential destinations for LeBron James, the future of the Milwaukee Bucks, and play a game of 'Agent Cody Banks' where they act as agents for obscure players. They also share their final thoughts and answer a rapid-fire question. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Discussion of Eastern Conference Playoffs 06:49 Discussion of the Dallas Mavericks 13:28 Critique of Rudy Gobert's Performance 19:07 Worst Fake Segment 24:34 Discussion of LeBron James' Impact on the Lakers 25:06 LeBron James' Potential Destinations 29:10 The Future of the Milwaukee Bucks 34:09 Agent Cody Banks: Obscure Players Edition 40:43 Would you rather Bowl someone Middle-Stump, or be Hot from Behind the Arc?

Jenna Jean details the rest of her and Agent Cody Banks relationship, and Mackenzie goes over the findings from her investigation. Click here to join our Patreon! For only $5 a month you will get 2 extra episodes a month, monthly virtual live events, and access to our community page! If you've been dogfished and want to share your story on the show, email investigate@thedatingdetectivespodcast.com or contact us through our website using this link This episode of The Dating Detectives is sponsored by Dipsea. For listeners of the show, Dipsea is offering an extended 30 day free trial when you go to DipseaStories.com/ TDD This episode of The Dating Detectives is sponsored by HungryRoot. Right now, Hungryroot is offering The Dating Detectives listeners 40% off your first delivery and free veggies for life. Just go to Hungryroot.com/TDD, to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies! This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Get your incredible, temperature maintaining, silver infused sheets for 40% off, PLUS a free three piece towel set, by going to trymiracle.com/TDD and using code TDD at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BÉIS. Right now, BÉIS is offering our listeners 15% off your first purchase by visiting BEISTRAVEL.com/TDD ***The following Program contains names, places and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. The following Program is provided for entertainment purposes only and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for support.

On this week's episode Jacqueline introduces Meghan to the world of Agent Cody Banks, turns out Jacq has a thing for kid spy movies. Follow LTP on Social Media

In this episode of Hoopatheticals, Jez and Tommy discuss the recent performance of the Milwaukee Bucks and the impact of Pat Bev on the team. They also analyze the defensive struggles of Brook Lopez and the contributions of players like Bobby Portis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo. The hosts then move on to a heat check segment, where they share their thoughts on the Celtics, LeBron James, and Dante DiVincenzo. Finally, they discuss teams with challenging fan loyalty, including the Brooklyn Nets and the Detroit Pistons. The conversation covers the struggles and disappointments of several NBA teams, including the Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Charlotte Hornets, and Utah Jazz. The hosts also play a game of Two Truths and a Lie and conclude with the Agent Cody Banks segment. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Check-in with the Bucks 03:05 Impact of Pat Bev on the Bucks 05:58 Brook Lopez's Defensive Struggles 07:58 Discussion on Pat Connaughton 10:03 Heat Check Segment: Celtics, LeBron, and Dante DiVincenzo 22:55 Blake Griffin and the Detroit Pistons 23:39 The Tragedy of the Toronto Raptors 25:11 The Pitiful Charlotte Hornets 27:19 The Confusing Utah Jazz 29:36 Two Truths and a Lie 32:42 Agent Cody Banks

It's a musical battle! Gabe Baker, playing for The Center for Refugee Services, and Bettina Campomanes AKA Valiant Vermin, playing for For Our Farmers, take on some complex conundrums from the world of Encyclopedia Brown! Will their sleuthing skills match their melodic mastery? Listen and find out! Cases: The Case of Nemo's Tuba, The Case of the Toy Locomotive, The Case of the Black Horse, The Case of the Ring in the Reef Clues & Evidence: gossip, Wiz Khalifa, adults problems, Agent Cody Banks 2, Mystery Time & Architecture Corner, carousels, scuba-deep divable, tides concerns, too norma Stream Bettina's song I played: https://open.spotify.com/track/3xGk6qslEIF9MGEr7eaGje?si=ac58fa6d75bb419b Stream Gabe's song I played: https://open.spotify.com/track/1er7D7srRJ0u52uCtZambU?si=ac76afaeb98e427b — Thanks for listening to Meddling Adults! If you want to help the prize pool grow, become a member of our Patreon. If you want to learn more about the show or interact with us online, check out the links below: PATREON: patroen.com/meddlingadults ONE-TIME DONATIONS: paypal.me/meddlingadults  WEBSITE: meddlingadults.com TWITTER: twitter.com/meddlingadults INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/meddlingadults FACEBOOK: facebook.com/meddlingadults — CREDITS  Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Mike Schubert Producer/Editor: Sherry Guo Music: Bettina Campomanes, Brandon Grugle Art: Maayan Atias, Kelly Schubert Web Design: Mike & Kelly Schubert

Agent Cody Banks is on a mission to get his mojo back and stop an evil group from completing their evil plan of  releasing evil nanobots, a classic kids movie. Oscar and Carl relive this classic to figure out who would watch it.Contact us with film recommendations and questions through our email: askwwwtpodcast@gmail.comFind us through:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@whowouldwatchthisInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/whowouldwatchthis/TikTok: @podcastwhowouldwatchthis

Diesen Monat sprechen wir über TRÄNEN DER SONNE, LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER - DIE WIEGE DES LEBENS, AGENT CODY BANKS und SWIMMING POOL. Unsere Filme des Monats sind NICHT AUFLEGENEN! und SPUN. Viel Spaß mit der Folge!

Oh, we're really in it now, Trival Jenkins. Check out our friends over at Party of One Podcast Visit wetterkelp.com to defeat the TERFs!Follow Kat on itch.io at zaftikat.itch.io and get its latest games!  If you'd like to support us monetarily, you can do so on Patreon or on Ko-fi for a one-time donation!Follow Kat and Kira on their respective tumblrs at zaftikat.tumblr.com and sapphire-mess.tumblr.com respectively Intro and outro music for this episode is Dance on all the Cellphones by Sounds Like an Earful.   ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this episode, Steve and Tananarive talk to screenwriter Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class, Agent Cody Banks, Fringe, Sarah Connor Chronicles) about how he broke into screenwriting, the "feast or famine" nature of Hollywood, and how he bounces back and keeps his balance during tough times. Also his thoughts on the state of the WGA Strike!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most people remember Frankie Muniz from his starring role on the long running FOX series, “Malcolm in the Middle” and going on to movies like “Agent Cody Banks” and more. But what many don't know is that he's been involved in auto racing since 2004, becoming a full time racer in the ARCA Menard's series this past January…and in that short time, he's the points leader!!! And he's deadly serious about winning the championship in his debut season…but first he has to take on Kansas Speedway this weekend!!We caught up with Frankie this morning and quickly discovered that this isn't some actor playing race car driver…as he says “This is my life! This is what I was made to do!”

On this week's episode we finish our trilogy of teen spy movies with Agent Cody Banks. I miss D.E.B.s. Also on this episode, Suesie has some rewrites for the movie. Frank talks about the hotness in the Mummy starring Brendan Fraser that isn't related to the desert. Intro and outro is Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill. Check out our sponsor this week at Tallo.com/teengirltalk!We have shirts! Find them here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teen-girl-talk-podcast Please rate, review and subscribe to the show on iTunes E-mail: realteengirltalk@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teengirltalk/ Twitter: @TeenGirlTalk3 I Hope I Can Make It Through: https://ihopeicanmakeitthrough.podbean.com/ Suesie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susieboboozy/ Frank's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siriwouldchallenge/ Frank's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcUttxP0ujvc6HXBz-4kIw

Annabelle & Jeff are back and discussing the the Scandoval of it all, as well as some of their own personal experiences with the group. They also dive into this week in the year 2004, which includes Mel Gibson, 'Toxic' by Brintey Spears and Agent Cody Banks 2. 

That's right. We watched ‘Agent Cody Banks' talked for over an hour about it, and all agreed that at the very least it definitely wasn't the worst thing we've watched for our podcast. Fix yourself a martini (or more appropriately this week a soda pop) and join us as we discuss this 2003 family-friendly super spy romp starring professional NASCAR driver Frankie Muniz! We'll talk about how the CIA using children as deniable assets is actually kind of believable, how Keith David is way too attracted to a hologram training bot, how some actors (like, I don't know, Ian McShane?) can still be charming as they phone in their performances, and as a Bonus list our favorite movies starring TV actors.

We return this week, or at least two of us do, to inflict terrible ideas onto one of our favorite people in podcasting: Wil Williams!  Sarah kicks us off with a high school student's nightmare made somehow even worse, and we turn it into a spy heist thriller in the grand tradition of Agent Cody Banks. Then Zach takes us to a terrible idea that fortunately never reached 30,000 feet, but we imagine the terrible story and tonal chaos that would ensue if someone brought a gun onto an airplane... inside of a chicken.  Finally, we have a great conversation with Wil about finishing up the final season of Valence, how characters shift and reveal new facets of themselves across mediums, the importance of accountability and collaborators, the references that can help capture the feeling of a fictional world, and more.  Plus: a superspy double agent, a sound designer's dream, the goth girls/barbie girls alliance, #rawchicken, and stealing from Little Miss Sunshine.   Today's Bad Ideas™: Idea #1Idea #2 If you want to check out Wil and more of their work, you can check out Valence online or on your favorite podcatcher, and also check out Wil's website. Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's honestly somewhat refreshing to see a movie be genuinely, wholeheartedly and earnestly racist against the English. I've never felt real hate like this before and I can only respect it. Anyway this movie is shit  ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT As mentioned in the episode, the UCU has a fighting fund that you can contribute to here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/fightingfund If you do feel you have money to spare, please consider supporting your local food banks with money or time! donate to the Trussell Trust here: https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/ or the Independent food aid network here: https://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/donate There are several ongoing strike funds that could do with some donations, and several can be found here: https://www.cwu.org/ Additionally, please consider joining a renter's union like ACORN, as rising mortgage rates will surely result in rising rent, here: https://www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join ------ Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------   *WEB DESIGN ALERT*  Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/   Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com and https://twitter.com/killjamesbond

This in episode, the guys take a look at 1996's Harriet the Spy, featuring Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Eartha Kitt, and Venssa Lee Chester. None of us had seen this before, which was actually quite surprising to realize. We were all expecting a sort of Agent Cody Banks style sleuth thriller, but what we got was an honest, slice of life story about a young girl growing up. Harriet fancies herself as a spy and keeps tabs on her friends and neighbors, but when her notebook falls into the wrong hands, she quickly becomes the local foe and enemy to her friends and classmates. What will she do to earn back their respect? How do three men in their thirties feel about this movie, after seeing it for the first time? Will Chris make a sudden reappearance? Find out this week on TT. facebook.com/throwbacktheaterpodcast throwbacktheaterpodcast@gmail.com Write to us with a movie review for a free sticker!

Episode 67 of Inside Quotes! This week, Jonathan picked the 2003 film “Agent Cody Banks”.   Conversation includes: DVDs in Kellogg's cereal boxes, novelty shock toys, spy movies for kids, and the time Jonathan used this movie to get a date.   Take the Agent Cody Banks trivia quiz: https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Movies/Agent-Cody-Banks-143453.html   Show Notes: Merch: Inside Quotes T-shirts, Hoodies, Stickers, and MUGS! https://www.teepublic.com/user/inside-quotes Social: @insidequotescast  https://linktr.ee/insidequotes Artwork by Bryce Bridgeman: @Groovybridge: https://www.instagram.com/groovybridge/

The new season is here! We really loved this premiere! It's a great new cast with some wild characters, and THE BEAST that is Jeffrey Probst is hungrier than ever. Theme music: "Kemushi" by Jon Björk Twitter: @wpfpod email: worthplayingforpodcast[at]gmail[dot]com Recap of Survivor Season 43, episode 1.

The sibs endure 2003's Agent Cody Banks. We discuss how terrible this movie actually is, how weirdly the adult woman handler is dressed around children, and how little chemistry Frankie Muniz and Hilary Duff have. Email us at latchkeysibs@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Theme song: Produced by Gray Baker and Mitch Grimenstein; Mastered by Alex Mills Edited by: Holland Baker --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latchkey-sibs/support

This week we continued our Hilary Duff series with Agent Cody Banks. Which when viewed in 2022, as an adult, BIG YIKES. The early 2000s were very questionable for children's comedy movies, I guess? Elizabeth was new to this movie, and you can hear her full thoughts in the episode. Next episode we're watching Cheaper by the Dozen and y'all are in for a TREAT! Thank you to our listeners/followers/subscribers for your support! Follow our Instagram for updates and leave us comments/suggestions for each week's podcast! @dcomcoolandcollected

This week we continue our Hillary Duff series with The Lizzie McGuire Movie. Elizabeth and I (Kelly) gush about all the iconic scenes and lines from this cinematic masterpiece. AND of course talk about one of everyone's favorite friends to lovers relationship: Lizzie & Gordo. Next episode, we'll be back with Agent Cody Banks. Thank you to our listeners/followers/subscribers for your support! Follow our Instagram for updates and leave us comments/suggestions for each week's podcast! @dcomcoolandcollected

Agent Cody Banks drops by to give his 2 cents on Gun Reform, The MJF Promo, The NBA Finals, The Johnny Depp Trail, Jada Pinkett and Much More

The tale of the tape for ep 26 starts with, Tyler swinging for the fences on iconic album covers and why everyone but him is stupid for not knowing them, we talk beach water sports, Agent Cody Banks, We talk more open mics I'm too scared to do, Tyler makes me tell a very silly messed up joke I've been plotting on, going into work sick, crazy people on the side of the road, girls gone wild! Tyler makes us objectify women (gross) We talk following someone and if they don't follow back you have to unfollow. Love you team! thanks for the views here and YouTube, Go sub to the patreon and were on twitch now https://www.patreon.com/bingebros (https://www.patreon.com/bingebros) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC735rIKJpFy6VXDyw5P5-dQ/videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC735rIKJpFy6VXDyw5P5-dQ/videos) https://www.instagram.com/thebingebrospod/ (https://www.instagram.com/thebingebrospod/) https://www.twitch.tv/veganperc30 (https://www.twitch.tv/veganperc30)

Cody Banks is just your average teenager - NOT! In this episode, we go deep undercover and share the best and worst of Agent Cody Banks. Featuring Brittni Geeves and Some Assembly Required's Harrison Houde.

In this episode, we talk with filmmaker and endangered animal activist Kerry David. She is the founder of Over and Above Africa - a non-profit organization she launched in 2014 that has been instrumental in helping countries in Africa have an upper hand in the war against illegal, criminal animal poaching. We also talk about the magic that occurred when she followed her passion for living outside of the chaos of Hollywood and what happened next. ONLINE AUCTION: June 1st - 13th, 2022: https://www.overandaboveafrica.com/#auction-2022 Social Media: @OverAboveAfrica Website: https://www.overandaboveafrica.com/ Kerry has been working in the film and television industry for over 25 years. She began her career at Paramount Pictures in Business Affairs learning the contract side of filmmaking, followed by three years working exclusively for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman honing her physical production knowledge. Films with TC & NK include; Mission Impossible 2, Without Limits, Portrait of a Lady, Peacemaker, Practical Magic, The Blue Room, and Eyes Wide Shut with legendary director Stanley Kubrick. Armed with this experience, Kerry started her own production company. She co-produced the award-winning DVD Deposing the Usual Suspects, followed by Agent Cody Banks and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. She subsequently produced Perfect Romance for Lifetime Television, followed by the critically acclaimed, feature documentary; My Date with Drew. MDWD won multiple awards around the world, including the Audience Award for Best Feature at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Best Feature at the NY Gen Art Film Festival, and the Audience Award at The Locarno International Film Festival and attained a worldwide, theatrical release. Next, she produced Expert Insight: Short Game Golf with Jim Furyk & Fred Funk, which won a Telly Award for Outstanding Instructional Content and Cinematic Excellence. Kerry's next feature was adapted from the New York Times bestseller Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury. Friend and Oscar nominee, Stephen J. Rivele (Ali, Nixon) adapted the book, and the film was released by 20th Century Fox, starring Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper and Cole Hauser. Like Dandelion Dust premiered at the prestigious Deauville Film Festival in France with a 10-minute, standing ovation and won the Premiere Audience Award for Best Feature. It went on to accrue 35 other film festival accolades. She produced her fourth documentary, Making Miles - The Miles Davis Story and followed that up by producing, writing and co-directing Seeking Happily Ever After, which was one of only 25 films accepted into the Sundance Film Lab. It was also used by Stanford University's law department as a case study for fair use practices and was distributed by Lionsgate Films. From 2010-2013 Kerry took a leave of absence from Hollywood to build an orphanage in Ghana, West Africa. She worked with a talented team in Ghana to build a Musical Village for Orphans, which launched in 2013. Of her time in Ghana, Kerry said; "Working with the kind people in Ghana will remain a highlight of her life." In 2014, at the forefront of the crowdfunding campaign phase, she raised over $500,000 for various non-profits, productions and artists. She was pulled away after learning the silent war on endangered species due to commercial poaching and human/wildlife conflict. Moved to action, she launched her Non-Profit; OverandAboveAfrica.com. In 2017, she wrote, directed & produced the multiple award-winning feature documentary, "Bill Coors: The Will to Live" followed by a request to create a 40-minute, educational version for two University curricula in Denver. In 2019 she completed writing, directing and producing her passion project, the feature documentary; "Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War". BTS won seventeen film festivals, including Jury Award & Audience Award for Best Documentary at San Diego International Film Festival and the Durango Film Festival. www.BreakingTheirSilence.com. In 2020 - She started filming the feature documentary, "Open Secret,". OS is a shocking story detailing corruption and collusion among key individuals who covered up systemic racism and child sexual, emotional and physical abuse throughout an entire school district. The history of this abuse dates back decades. The very people tasked with protecting these children abandoned them at every turn, allowing some sexual predators to remain in their positions for years. Now in editing. Her feature film, "The Road Ahead," will air on Hallmark in August 2022. In addition to her award-winning film work, Kerry gave a TEDx Talk about her experience filming Breaking Their Silence. She's been a guest speaker, panelist, and moderator at artist's groups and schools such as University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, Pepperdine University, ROTC, and the New York Film Academy.

We change up the format a bit to take a look at 2003's "Agent Cody Banks," and things get a little heated. throwbacktheaterpodcast@gmail.com facebook.com/throwbacktheaterpodcast

It's a real family affair as Mitch brings along his sisters Paige and Devon for talk of a childhood classic. The nostalgia has a powerful grip on the triplets as we dig into the insane proliferation of early 2000s spy entertainment, propaganda at the book fair, Video Now, and bus dentistry. Coming soon to London, Ontario: Agent Cody Banks 3. Mitch, Devon, and Paige are living up to the family tradition of not plugging anything. Art by Jade Dickinson: @jadesketches on Instagram | @jadesketches on TikTok Find us on Twitter & Letterboxd: @theymadeanother / @tmao | @mrcoreyprice | @grahamthemallow // Listen to MK Podquest with Corey and Neal: https://anchor.fm/mkpodquest Find us on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, RadioPublic, Breaker, Overcast and more as "They Made Another One?!" Reach us via email: tmaopodcast@gmail.com Music from filmmusic.io "Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Ever been curious what Frankie Muniz has been up to since the early 2000s? Ever wonder about the history of Highland Park Texas? Then this episode is for you, bitch.

Drew Dietzen from We Bought a Mic joins us as we get joker-fied revisiting everybody's favorite child spy Cody Banks! Special thank you to SUPER YAKI for sponsoring today's episode of Zillennial Canon, use code SUPERZILLENNIAL for 10% off! Follow us on Twitter @zillennialcanon and Instagram @thezillennialcanon for memes and updates. Adam: @adam_notsandler Kyra: @garlicemoji Leave us a movie memory at ‪(631) 319-0112‬ or at zillennialcanon@gmail.com. ---Check out some more friends of the canon at https://linktr.ee/zillennialcanon--- Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Marisa and Sam revisit a movie Marisa had fond memories of from her childhood, the 2003 film Agent Cody Banks starring Frankie Muniz and Hilary Duff, and quickly realize that it has not aged well. What's with the weird energy between Cody and Ronica? And is anybody going to address that Natalie straight up murdered that dude? Plus, why Cats is Natalie's favorite musical, and why pistachio is the Cats of ice cream flavors.

We watched the absolute CLASSIC Agent Cody Banks: Destination London, Executive Produced by Madonna and Jason Alexander. Read that again. Yeah, wild huh?

Sorry for missing you last week, but we're back with another hilarious episode! Ben Kirsch stopped by along with returning guest, Mike Massaro. While we start on track when talking about Bill Cosby or the stoner Olympic chick, we somehow end up talking about Agent Cody Banks. So nothing too out of the ordinary I guess. Go like, share, and subscribe so I don't have to sell drugs anymore

The inimitable Kylie Armstrong is our FOCUS Fridays guest today!! We cover olive oil, Agent Cody Banks, mission work, taking a leap of faith, and so much more. Kylie's energy and passion for her work and community is simply contagious. We know you'll love her just as much as we do! Kylie Armstrong is the Ministry Operations Manager for Culture of Life Family Services (COLFS) in San Diego, California. She oversees all ministry programs within the organization including support programs for women in crisis pregnancy and pro-life education curriculum for the community. She started with COLFS in January 2020 as the Ministry Operations Assistant, and stepped into her current management role in December 2020. Before working for COLFS, Kylie served as a missionary for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) at UC Santa Barbara from 2017-2019. During her time as a missionary, she was blessed to lead a mission trip to Mexico City where she received the call to pursue pro-life work while visiting Our Lady of Guadalupe. Kylie is currently pursuing a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Divine Mercy University, and applies her counseling knowledge to her work with clients at COLFS on a daily basis.

We're back with a new episode, talking about our childhood crushes... But honestly, relationships are a big deal. Because from relationship with God and one another, everything else flows. What does it look like for us to have a vision for function, health, growth? And not just for our relationships, but SO THAT our relationships would create space for Jesus to work. more at reallifechurch.com/earnthetitle sponsor us at 1-800-BRING-US-FREE-STUFF (not a real phone number)

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All about the pitch! This week our special guest is Stephanie Palmer, who wrote the definitive book on pitching, Good in a Room. Stephanie Palmer helps creative people learn to pitch ideas and sell their projects. Stephanie founded Good in a Room in 2005 and is the author of the book Good in a Room (Random House, 2008). She has been featured on The Today Show on NBC, The Early Show on CBS, KTLA, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and in Inc, Atlantic, Variety, Script, and Speaker magazines. She has led workshops for organizations including Google, William Morris Endeavor, Merrill Lynch, Warner Brothers, UCLA, USC, National Speaker's Association Graduate School, Asia Media Festival, International Creativity Conference, The Screenwriting Expo, and The Great American PitchFest. She is the moderator for the American Film Market's annual Pitch Conference. Previously, Stephanie was the Director of Creative Affairs for MGM where she supervised the acquisition, development and production of feature films, and heard over 3000 pitches. Some of her projects included 21, Legally Blonde, Be Cool, The Brothers Grimm, Agent Cody Banks, Agent Cody Banks 2, A Guy Thing and Good Boy. The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the “Top 35 Executives Under 35.” She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and lives with her husband and son in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She shares examples of successful film and TV pitches on her blog: www.goodinaroom.com/blog. Follow her on Twitter: @GoodInARoom Like her on Facebook: Facebook.com/GoodInARoom Buy Gray's book for only $4.99! Look for it on Amazon – How To Break In To TV Writing: Insider Interviews. Didn't get your questions asked? Make sure you follow Gray on Twitter (@GrayJones) so you can get the scoop on who is being interviewed and how to get your questions in. Also check out our TV Writer Twitter Database to find Twitter addresses for over 1,200 TV writers. Find our previous episodes and other resources at www.tvwriterpodcast.com or on Gray's YouTube channel. First published November 11, 2012.