Podcast appearances and mentions of Burt Reynolds

Luke is trying to navigate a delicate situation with one of his neighbors, and Andrew is NOT helping. Plus, a listener unearths the infamous audio of Burt Reynolds reading Moby Dick, and it lives up to its baffling reputation. And Luke finally unleashes his two Subway Takes-esque opinions into the world. But is the wo rld ready?

What if the real secret to a lasting writing career isn't talent or luck, but learning to thrive in the mess? Why are in-person events worthwhile even if the maths doesn't add up? How do you protect your creativity when the machines never sleep and the community is at one another's throats? With Mark Leslie Lefebvre In the intro, Has AI Already Killed Non-Fiction [Tim Ferriss]; 9 ways that AI would disrupt authors and the publishing industry over the next decade; Pivoting towards The Transformation Economy; and Who do you serve? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Mark Leslie Lefebvre is the author of horror and paranormal fiction, as well as non-fiction travel and books for authors. He's also an editor, professional speaker, and the Director of Business Development at Draft2Digital. His latest book is Stark Realities: Stacked Up Lessons Every Writer Needs to Know About the Business of Writing and Publishing. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why print and in-person events are making a comeback for indie authors The case for (and against) licensing your voice clone through ElevenLabs Why we keep selling books in person when the numbers rarely add up Measuring success by creative satisfaction rather than money Being honest about author earnings and the fear of being truly seen Managing stress, divisiveness, and the noise around AI You can find Mark at MarkLeslie.ca. Transcript of the interview with Mark Leslie Lefebvre Jo: Mark Leslie Lefebvre is the author of horror and paranormal fiction, as well as non-fiction travel and books for authors. He's also an editor, professional speaker, and the Director of Business Development at Draft2Digital. His latest book is Stark Realities: Stacked Up Lessons Every Writer Needs to Know About the Business of Writing and Publishing. Welcome back to the show, Mark. Mark: Oh, hey, Jo. It's always an awesome time chatting with you. Jo: You've been on the show lots of times over the years, but the last time was in September 2024, when we talked about selling books in person. So give us a bit of an update. What does your writing and publishing business look like at the moment? How do you manage it alongside the day job and everything else you do? Mark: Oh my God. Well, sleep is—no rest for the wicked, maybe. I'll sleep when I'm dead. It's so funny, it was just this last weekend in Waterloo. I was at Waterloo Book Fest, and somebody came up to my table—another author from one of the other tables—and said, “I heard you on the The Creative Penn Podcast. And then when you mentioned something about Waterloo, I said, ‘He can't be from Waterloo.' And then when you mentioned the skeleton, I said, ‘I know where he lives.'” Jo: That's scary. Mark: So I love the fact that there are so many of your listeners all over the world, and that's usually how people know me. No matter what else I've done, it's like, “Oh, you've been on Joanna Penn's podcast.” I'll say, “Yes, I have.” You know what's really funny? The last time I was on the podcast, we were talking about A Book in Hand, which I was supposed to release that year. Jo: Yes. Mark: I just added another 5,000 words to it this morning. Jo: Wait, it's still not published? Mark: No, and it's so funny. I actually have the first 60,000 words of it with an editor right now, and I told her I'd get her the rest of it, which I thought would be another 20,000 words, by the end of June. But I think it's going to hit 100,000. Here's the weird thing that happened with this. This is trying to accumulate my life of book selling, as well as doubling down on doing in-person events in the last several years. I thought I was going to have the book done in 2024. I ran into some issues where I didn't back it up properly. It was an old version, and I accidentally overwrote the only version I had. Jo: So, for everyone listening, Mark—how many decades have you been an author and a publisher? How come you're still missing deadlines and still not backing up your work properly? Mark: Yes, this is a lesson: no matter how long you've been doing something, you can still make boneheaded errors. So if you, dear listener, have made mistakes, just know that this old guy who's been doing this since the mid-'80s still makes mistakes like that. Don't beat yourself up. I probably did something worse. Anyway, that book I thought was going to be maybe 40, 45,000 words, it's going to be bigger than Wide for the Win—close to 100,000 words. Here's a really important lesson I learned in that, Jo. I thought the book would be something. It became something else. Through my own experiences of doing more in-person events, book signings, and library event. Also in talking to awesome folks like Johnny B. Truant, Katie Cross, Todd Fahnestock, and so many other authors I know, and seeing what Ben Wolf is up to, and a whole bunch of different people who are doing in-person events. In creating case studies for how they interact specifically with a bookstore or library, or how they do in-person selling—I really think the book wasn't ready then. It's like the recipe wasn't ready. I still needed to play with some things. I do sincerely have faith, since I got it into the editorial process, that this will be the year the book actually gets released. Jo: As you said, there are some really good lessons there around sometimes the book not being quite ready. I'd bought an early version from the StoryBundle, which is how I got this book as well, actually. Mark: Yes. Jo: That's another tip for people—storybundle.com. You can go and find some great bundles there. I was also thinking, as you were talking, that maybe one of the reasons this book about in-person events has got so big is because that's a real trend in the community. It feels like indies, we've moved… Back in the day, I said, “I'm not doing print. No way.” This was the early days of digital, because print was really hard back then. So I was like, “Oh, and we've got all the advantages doing digital, so I'm just going to focus on that.” It feels like the pendulum has swung, perhaps even more with the ease of mass production of digital with AI. The focus on print and in person is getting stronger and stronger. Do you think that's happening? Mark: Oh, yes, 100%. I did print in 2004. It was really hard back then, so that's gotten easier. I think there are a few reasons. One of the reasons is, yes, digital made it so much easier for indie authors to get out there and break into the community. But the reality is that print books still outsell e-books in general—overall—despite the fact that indie authors can make six and seven figures a year from selling e-books alone on a single platform. So print has never really gone away. It was just never something indie authors attended to. They were in a different business than traditional publishers were in. And second, obviously I've got these gorgeous books that you've created on Kickstarter, because I like the beautiful books. I've never stopped buying print books. I actually buy more print books. I read more because of audiobooks and e-books, but I buy more print books, especially when I can get a nice signed copy. Then the other reason comes back, again, to your advice—something I've been following for the longest time, and you've long been saying. I do repeat this, and I try my best to offer attribution to you every time I use it: to double down on your humanity, particularly in this age of digital generation and the ability for even non-writers to leverage tools to create content. I think it's so much more important for me, as a creative who will never be able to catch up with the machines, to exploit my humanity. I mean, we both have digital voices of ourselves, right? There's a digital Mark Leslie Lefebvre voice that people can use, and I'm making money off it because people are able to license it through ElevenLabs. But when I'm there in person, so far the holograms aren't good enough to fool people. I think I'm not just selling a book to somebody; I want to create an experience where, “Oh, I'm talking to the author, and we're signing a book together, and we're taking a selfie together.” For me, there's that tactile experience that's really enriching. And it may not be something that lines my pockets as easily, because the investment is more significant. For every $10 I make, it costs me six or seven dollars, as opposed to an e-book, where the cost is amortised in the most beautiful way over millions of copies. Jo: There are a few things there. First of all, let's talk about that ElevenLabs voice licensing, because, as you say, I also have a voice clone. Bones of the Deep, the latest book, that's my voice clone. I haven't gone with the licensing, partly because you don't have control over what someone can do with it. So, for example, someone could create Nazi content, or content that I might not agree with, in my voice. So how have you got over that? Because part of me really does want to license my voice, and the other part doesn't. Mark: This is a great question, Jo, and I'm glad you asked it. It's the same reason I don't worry about people stealing my books—adding DRM onto my e-books and things like that. I may as well make some money off it, because let's be honest: you and I, our voices are out there. Thousands of hours of our voices, right? In your podcast, my podcast, in various interviews we've done over the years. The technology exists for someone to make a copy of my voice themselves anyway. The tools exist. They can do it easily, so why not do it myself and at least make money? I'm actually getting money deposited into my account. Not a lot—maybe $30, $18, something like that every week. Again, I've taken a lot of my non-fiction books that I haven't had the time to record myself, as I like to do, and I can at least load those to ElevenLabs and make my voice the default voice. But wouldn't it be great to be able to listen to my book in your voice? It would sound so much better. Because you can do that. When you listen to a book on that platform, you can choose my voice if you'd rather hear it in my voice, or you can choose Burt Reynolds' voice, or some other folks who've licensed theirs. Again, for me, the whole concept of wide publishing has always been important. It's another small revenue stream that's adding to my numerous revenue streams. So I guess that's how I've justified just licensing the voice. If someone's going to do something with my voice that I can't control, they can do it regardless of whether or not I put it out there myself. Jo: I agree with you. That could happen, and neither of us is famous enough that it's likely to happen anyway. I do quite like the idea of people using our voices, say, for other books for authors, because that would make sense—that's where we fit in the niche. I will rethink that, because I think it's interesting. I wanted to come back to print books. You said sometimes there are easier ways to line your pockets, and I think that's funny. So, getting into the book, this leapt out at me quite near the beginning: Why do we keep doing this when the maths almost never adds up? Mark: Oh, I have a perfect example of that from an event I did a couple of weekends ago in Burlington, Ontario. I think it was a $60 table fee. It was a new event. I believe I made $90 or $95 in sales. So even after the costs of printing and all that stuff, I really didn't make money. I made my table back, which is always a good thing. There were a few encounters I had with people who were really excited to find my Canadian Werewolf series of books, and just so thrilled to get started. Among the four of them, they bought one copy, but they were going to pass it amongst each other. You know what? Okay, they bought a single copy, and I was like, “Well, the e-book is permanently free online. You don't even have to buy a copy”—which is anti-selling. I just want them to read the book and enjoy it. But if they read it and pass it along and start talking about it, they could become readers for a long time. It's an eight-book series, with the ninth book coming out later this year. There was another encounter I had that day. A woman and her teenage daughter came in, and they were looking at my traditionally published books that I buy at a reduced price from a local bookstore and resell. They were looking at these true ghost story books I had, and they were pointing: “Do you have that one?” “Yes, I have this one, I have that one.” And the mother's like, “Well, she collects all your books, and she wants to make sure she has them.” We had this conversation, and she was so excited to meet me in person and to get a signed copy of the book. That experience was such a vanity moment for me as an author. We're lonely. I'm a big loser. Nobody's buying my books. We're always down on ourselves. So that investment of time and energy, in order to get that little pat on the back or that feeling of, “Wow, I really connected with someone who likes my stuff”—those moments are really precious. They're difficult to explain if you only look at the world in a financial way. I guess I'm fortunate enough that I do have enough income from numerous streams, including the consulting I do part-time, that it's okay if not every bookish endeavour leads to more money in my pocket at the end of the day. I can still have these authentic connections with people, which I think is one of the reasons I'm a storyteller. Yes, it's the stories I have to tell, but it's also putting the story into somebody else's hands and eyes and heart and mind. Jo: You're very giving like that. You have that sense about you, whereas I'm just a curmudgeon in the corner. Mark: That is not true. Jo: It is, generally. I don't do events like you do for readers. Mark: But that's because it takes a lot out of you. Jo: Yes, but that doesn't matter. Why do I write? I write for me. Mark: Ah, very good. Jo: At the end of the day—just being entirely selfish about this—when people say, “Oh, if you won the lottery, what would you do?” I'm like, “Well, I'd do pretty much what I'm doing now.” Mark: Yes, I'd just do the same. Of course, I'd write more books. Jo: I'd write more books. So this is where I'm trying to get to for people as well: measuring success in a different way. You were talking about measuring success by how that girl loved your books, and how you feel when someone says they love your books. With Bones of the Deep, this thriller I've just done, I feel like I had the benefit of that book before anyone even read it. As soon as it was finished, I made a nice proof copy from BookVault, and I held it in my hand and said, “I made this. I'm proud of the story, I wrote the story, and it's outside my head now.” I feel like I'm creatively satisfied in that moment. Then, of course, the Kickstarter was great, and I love that the books are going out around the world, but— I think the happiest I felt was that moment of finishing—that creative satisfaction of holding the book in my hand. You know what I mean? Mark: 100%, Jo. I cannot agree with you enough. I love so many aspects of writing. Yes, the connection with people is amazing. But I often say this when I'm doing my one-on-one consulting with authors: focus on the projects that mean the most to you, those passion projects. The process of writing, and the painful rewriting and editing and all the things you go through—when you finish that book, like you said, you hold it in your hands and it is a thing of beauty. It's a huge achievement. You've won. Whether or not you sell a single copy, you've won by doing it. Everything else is gravy: the sales, the money in your pocket or not, the reviews, positive or not, the people who say, “Oh my God, Bones of the Deep, thank you for writing this book. I'm so glad you introduced this into the world and into my life.” Anything beyond the creation itself, which is a pure joy—I love it so much. It's just why I get up at 5:30 every morning and write for hours before the rest of my day begins. I try to get stuff done before the rest of the world wakes up. I want to get the writing done first, when I have the most energy to give myself to the page. Then the rest of the day is kind of gravy for me too. Jo: You talk there about giving yourself to the page, but in Stark Realities— You talk about the fear of truly being seen. What do you mean by that, and how do you manage that feeling? Mark: For anyone who has written anything—fiction, non-fiction, memoir in particular, since it's a bit more closely tied to reality—it's exposing yourself to the world. I'll never forget an interview I did with Canadian science fiction author Julie E. Czerneda, who, before being a fiction writer, was writing biology textbooks, but her real passion was science fiction and fiction. When her first novel came out, she said, “It's like standing naked on the front lawn.” When you release a book, even a novel, people look at it and they're going to judge you and rate you. I remember early on, Jo—we knew each other through Twitter, I think, where we initially met, and then interacted with and finally met in person at London Book Fair. I think you and I have a very similar reaction. When people know us as positive and upbeat and out there helping authors in the community, and then they read our fiction, they go, “Well, Jo, you burned a nun alive on page one.” Or, “Mark, what kind of… they're drinking from the skulls of dead people? What the heck is going on with you two?” We are exposing parts of ourselves in our fiction and non-fiction. That's a fear I embrace, but also never get over, if that makes any sense. I write scary stories because I'm a big chicken. So maybe the entire process is just cheap therapy for me. Or not cheap, because it's an expensive pastime, isn't it? Jo: It certainly can be, but I agree. I struggle with fear of judgment still. I think it's also because we do this in public, which comes back to the financial side of things. We do a lot of this in public, and then people judge us on our author businesses too. You could look at Bones of the Deep, which was just on Kickstarter, and compare my Kickstarter to another author's Kickstarter for a fiction book, and judge one or the other person based on numbers. I feel like this is because you and I have done so much in public—for me, almost 20 years, and for you, like 40 years or whatever. Maybe 30 years. You look that old. Mark: Listen there, dearie. Get off my lawn. Jo: Yes, get off my lawn—with those skeletons you have on your lawn. Mark: Yes. They're no longer in my closet. Jo: They're not in your closet. I wonder if that also plays a part of it—the pros and cons of doing this business in public. Mark: Yes, that is a part of it. One thing I try to be very clear about, because there's so much FOMO and so much out there about people thinking that everyone else is making a million dollars from their books and “I'm the only loser who's not”—I try to be clear that I have never made more than a mid-five figures as an author from my author earnings, ever. I haven't yet hit six figures. One of the reasons I try to be transparent in sharing that is I don't want people to think that everyone else is a six- and seven-figure success story, and they're the only one who's only made $100 last year on their books. The reality is, 90 to 99% of the people who are writing and publishing are not going to earn a significant amount of money. I realise I'm also very, very lucky that I've earned this much, and it's taken a long time. I just shared this in a Substack post I posted yesterday: it was 10 years of rejections before I got $5 for my first short story that was published in '92. It wasn't until 2001 that I finally made pro rate, six cents US a word, for a short story that, ironically, Julie Czerneda bought from me back in the day. For me, I've been lucky that it's always been a long, slow slog. It's been a marathon, and I've never instantly sprinted across any dramatic finish line. I've had some really phenomenal moments—doing a book signing in a Costco, walking into Walmart and seeing my books there. Even last night at the Burlington Public Library, going, “Wow, they have eight of my books here—four of my self-published books and four of my traditionally published books, in two different sections.” I was like, “That's kind of cool.” So I've had these amazing moments as a writer, but I've never had the blockbuster—the Brandon Sanderson, or even the Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman, kind of moments. I still think I've had a very fortunate and lucky journey. Even if I wasn't making the money I'm making, I'd still be writing, and I'm sure you would be too. Jo: Oh, yes, for sure. I actually think the thing most of us would probably let go is the marketing. If we won the lottery, we'd carry on with all the creative stuff, the writing, the community stuff, and we'd just literally do no marketing at all. Mark: Well, yes, of course. Or potentially say, “Oh, here, ad agency, here's some money. You just run it, whatever. Let me know if it works or not. I don't care.” Jo: That's a much better idea. Mark: At least I've got the extra disposable income, so I may as well, because I'm helping the world when my books are out there. I know my books will help people. I really honestly think that as storytellers—whether it's fiction or non-fiction, we're still storytellers—what we do in writing and podcasting and all the things we do, the re-sharing on social media, is really helping connect people. I think that is one of the most profound things we can do as writers. And I mean that the writing, in and of itself, is a reward. Jo: Like you said, we met on Twitter when Twitter was what it was back in the day. I do very, very little social media now. But you just mentioned your Substack, and you also have your podcast, Stark Reflections. So how are you balancing what you put on each? I only do this podcast now. I don't even blog. I write books, obviously, and then I do the podcast. So what are you doing differently on Substack to the podcast, and what part do they play in income and marketing? Mark: Great question. I realise most people have never heard of me, or read or listened to the things I put out into the world. And I've been a longtime fan of “reduce, reuse, recycle my IP.” My podcast is not as long-running as yours, but I'm in my ninth year, and I've not missed a single Friday in the full eight years, or eight and a half by now, that I've been doing this. Every week I reflect on what I learned from an interview, or I'll reflect on something you've posted and say, “This episode is not an interview, but Jo said this last week, and I'm going to talk about it.” The podcast itself takes a lot of work. I still do all of it myself, and I know I probably shouldn't, but I like doing it, so it's one of those tasks I enjoy. I also have reflections that aren't going to come out vocally but might come out in writing. Sometimes in the morning I'm not in the mood to write the novel or the non-fiction book I'm writing, but I'm writing some tangent. I just let the creative monster go. I find that re-sharing… I might have reflected on something for a couple of minutes at the end of an interview, but I really want to expand upon it, so I write the Substack article. I try to reuse some of that content. Someone's going to enjoy seeing it on a short video clip I share on YouTube, or whatever the platform is. Someone else is going to listen to it on a podcast, wherever they listen to podcasts, and someone else is going to want to read it. It could be the same information, just shared in a slightly different way, to potentially get it out to other people. So for me, it's part of that wide publishing mentality. I'm trying not to completely duplicate the work, although I am duplicating some of it. I'll give you an example. Hey, Canadian listeners—if you have not registered for Public Lending Right in Canada, please put something in your calendar for February 2027, because the deadline's over. It was May 1st of 2026. Put it in your calendar for next year. I even had somebody at this writers' event I was at this last weekend say, “You mentioned something in a presentation you did for the Canadian Authors Association about Public Lending Right, and thank you, because now I get thousands of dollars a year from this.” So just look up Public Lending Right. I've been saying stuff about Public Lending Right for at least 10 years now. Every time I get my beautiful multi-four-figure cheque from them in February every year, I post on social media and remind authors to check it out. I know it exists in the UK, and it exists in 36 countries in the world—just not the US. Jo: Not the US. Mark: They don't have a programme like this, probably because the big publishers—and probably one of the authors' associations—think that libraries are cannibalising book sales, which is not true. It's been proven time and time again, and that lobbying has prevented it from happening. Whereas here in Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers' Union of Canada worked hard to make this happen. Anyway, I talk about something like Public Lending Right and I feel like I must have said this so much that people are sick of it, but every single time I mention it, someone goes, “Oh my God, thanks for saying that. I never heard it.” That's a good reminder, especially for folks like you and me. We know the basics. We know what an ISBN is. We know KDP Select means you can't put the e-book on any other retailer, or even sell it on your own website. We know all these things, but it's hard for us to remember that there are folks coming to this for the very first time who've never heard it, even though we feel like, “Oh my God, I've said this till I'm blue in the face.” I think I got that from retail. When I worked in retail, I recognised that somebody's going to come in and ask for “that blue book that Reese Witherspoon was talking about,” or Oprah was talking about, or whatever. And you do your darn best to help them figure it out rather than mock them. I try to take the same approach when people ask me those questions, because I'm trying to remember what it was like when I honestly did not know the answer, and having someone take the time to help me. I've been very, very lucky that I've had a lot of people take the time to help me. I'll never forget—God rest her soul—Nancy Kilpatrick, a horror writer here from Canada who passed away a few years ago. She gave me a blurb for my very first book in 2004 because she'd acquired one of my short stories for an anthology she'd edited. I was trying to call my short story collection an anthology, and she very kindly took me aside and said, “It's not an anthology if it's a single author. An anthology is a…” Jo: I didn't know that until, like, last year. I got that wrong as well. There are lots of words like that. I want to circle back, because you didn't really answer earlier about the time management. You just mentioned YouTube, on top of Substack and all the things you do. You also have a day job at Draft2Digital—it's part-time, right? You also do part-time at the university, teaching publishing, right? You do all kinds of things. How do you manage your time with all of that? Mark: Well, I mismanage my time more than I manage it, Jo. That's the God's honest truth. Fortunately, most of the things I have that aren't scheduled—like, scheduled to do this lecture at this time, or scheduled to have this meeting at this particular time with Draft2Digital—most of my work is very flexible. I do not work a regular 9:00 to 5:00, Monday to Friday. Well, I never did. I always worked way more. But I have a very flexible schedule. Every single day is a work day, and every single day is a play day for me. So I'm very, very lucky. I do schedule in the very important things, particularly where somebody else is reliant upon me—meetings and connections and stuff like that. Then I make the time first thing in the morning to get the writing done. Everything else is not as important, and it's part of… I guess it's part of playing. You know, like the social media sharing. I don't look at social media as marketing. I just look at it as another way to connect with people, with other creatives, and with readers potentially, all six people who read my stuff. I probably could do a better job of managing my time. I've tried several times over the years to adapt processes to make it better, but I consistently default back to what I do, and so far I guess I've been getting away with it. So I was like, “Do I want to waste more time trying to come up with a process, or do I just want to roll with it?” Because so far I haven't killed myself doing it, and I've been enjoying the journey. So, if it ain't broke… Jo: I think that's the point, if it doesn't feel like it's broken. Having known you for a long time now, and we work together—obviously we co-wrote The Relaxed Author—you do work very, very differently to me. You definitely are a little bit more chaotic. I'm chaotic in some ways too. Mark: Oh, you're very generous. “A little bit chaotic.” Thanks. That was generous, Jo. Jo: You're chaotic in your work practices and scheduling and all that, which I couldn't cope with very well. Even though I feel like a part of my brain is very chaotic—the creative side, I guess, can be quite chaotic—I think I'm actually quite controlling and very scheduled in my work practices. As you say, for someone else on the outside, it might feel to me like you have too many balls in the air. But if you don't feel that, then that's the way of working that works for you. So this is another important thing, isn't it? You can't adapt to what other people say your life should look like. It's what feels good to you. Mark: Oh, for sure. One thing I know about my procrastination tendency is that panic and fear motivate me. So, a deadline—”I have to get this into a publisher by this date, I have to get this manuscript to an editor by that date”—I'm motivated by fear. And I'm afraid of everything, so I guess I'm always motivated. Jo: But I also know that when you hear the word “deadline”—and I know a lot of people who do this—the deadline means you get it in on the deadline, or the day before the deadline. To me, a deadline means I have it ready a month earlier. Mark: I love that. I've done that a few times and shocked myself. I actually had a pre-order up—with the audiobook, the print, and the e-book—a month in advance, and I didn't know what to do with myself. I was like, “Well, what am I going to do now in the next month?” Jo: Work on the next thing. Mark: But I'm so used to working on it up to the last second that I was kind of like, “What do I do?” That actually caught me by surprise, and I honestly felt weird. I was like, “I've never felt this before.” I'm really lucky. I know you have a very supportive and amazing partner, and so do I. My partner, scarily enough, is maybe a bigger procrastinator than me, so she never gives me a hard time. She supports me, and I do the same thing with her own work. I'm up all night with her at the last minute so we can get something turned in. So, fortunately, we really understand one another, and we don't give each other a hard time. We just go, “Well, got away with it again. I guess I'm not going to change my ways.” Jo: We made it. And again, that's the point. You and I could stand up in front of people, both hold up the last book we wrote, and say, “We made this,” and our processes are completely different. Our brains are completely different. We come from different countries. There are lots of things that are different, and yet we both made a book. So hopefully that encourages people. You don't have to do anything that we're telling you, or anyone else tells you. But if you want to be an author, at some point you have to produce a book. Mark: Exactly. As Brian in the classic Monty Python film gets them to say: “Yes, we are all different.” Embrace that difference. I think that's such a powerful reminder that there is no one process for getting anything done. Jo: Given that we co-wrote The Relaxed Author back in 2021—and we did that because we had another show, and we were talking, and we said, “Oh, everyone's stressed and the anxiety levels are really high, and we think there's a better path”—we co-wrote that book, which I think is still a very good book. Definitely people should get it. Interestingly, I think the stress and anxiety might actually be higher now than it was. So what do you think the main stresses are in the community now? You also see a lot with Draft2Digital, I guess, as well. Mark: Oh, for sure. Honestly, Jo, I'm so glad we wrote that book, because I actually pick it up every once in a while to remind myself of the things we tried to help others with. Again, it's therapy for me as well, so I'm so glad we did it. I think we're 10, if not 100, times more stressed. The world events and things going on, the divisiveness—not just in the world in general, in politics and everything else, but the divisiveness in the author community. The witch-hunting that happens, people trying to tear down other authors either because they're successful, or because, “Oh my God, you dared use a new technology.” All of these things are happening, and everyone's at one another's throats. I need to pick that book up and reread it. I'm a lot more stressed than I was. I'm just getting over shingles, which is… Jo: Oh. Which is actually related to stress as well, isn't it? Mark: It is, yes. I was in LA for Writers of the Future—I'm a judge for that science fiction and fantasy conference. I went right from LA, like a week in LA, which was a phenomenal experience getting to mentor the winners. And I mean, come on, it's a free trip to Hollywood, hanging out with Kevin Anderson, having beers and stuff like that. Then I came back to the Toronto Indie Author Conference, run by Tao Wong, here in Toronto. I went right from the airport—didn't even go home—straight to the hotel, because I kicked into another conference. We did a display on how to set up an in-person booth, so I ended up having to hand-bomb boxes, blocks down the street from where I was parked. My chest was really sore when I got home on the Monday, and I thought it was because I hadn't used these muscles, because I'm not in the best shape. Then I took my shirt off and went, “Oh, there's a rash there.” Liz goes, “You have shingles.” Because the pain in my chest, which I thought was the muscle, was actually underneath. I'm one of those lucky people that it's taken the full five weeks, and I'm still in pain even afterwards. So, again, public notice: if you're an older person like me, and there's a vaccine available for shingles, you may want to consider it. Jo: Yep, get it. Mark: Oh my God, it hurts. But, yes, the stress, I think, is higher—even though I didn't know I was feeling it. It was happy stress, right? I was stressed out because I'm there in Hollywood, helping people and doing some good things, and then I'm doing the same thing, interacting with some amazing authors at the Toronto Indie Author Conference. I didn't feel anxious stress. I was happy stress. Is that a thing? Jo: I think possibly… your physical body masks stress, physical stress, because you enjoy all of that stuff. Whereas someone like me, I'll feel it quicker and withdraw. Although I say that, back probably a decade ago, Jonathan would say to me, “You're going too fast, and you're going to hit the wall. And when you hit the wall, it's not going to be fun.” And I did hit the wall. Then, probably in 2021—I mean, that was when I just started going into menopause, and obviously we had the pandemic, and I wrote Pilgrimage, and I was doing all those walks, which I think really helped me. I learned a lot about maybe stopping that before it happened. Becca Syme obviously talks a lot about this too. But I find it interesting with you, because I think you're so positively happy with these events you do that it might mask your physical symptoms in a different way. That's really hard to watch out for. I'll give a tip to you and everyone else listening: schedule the calendar, and look at your calendar and go, “I can't go back-to-back-to-back. I have to put in some rest days.” Mark: Well, thank you. You know, Jo, you and Becca Syme are two of my best unpaid therapists. I appreciate that. Jo: You just don't listen, Mark. Mark: Or sometimes I do. Jo: Just coming back to the community, and the divisiveness there is primarily over AI at the moment, I think that's one of the biggest things. And the arbitrary lines as to what you're allowed to use it for and what you're not allowed to use it for, which is just kind of crazy. Obviously, you know I've opted out of that whole discussion now. How do you think we can move through this [divisiveness over AI], move on? We remember when it was trad versus indie, and then it was wide versus KU. So this will pass—it's just hard, when you're in it, to know when it might pass. Mark: Yes. I think the more generic advice—for whatever may come, whatever has come—is: why are you doing this? Why are you a writer? Heads down, focus on what gives you pleasure, and do that, because everything else is noise. All the marketing tactics and strategies, and all the people yelling at one another. Write your books. Do the things that motivate you. Do the things that give you that intrinsic reward. It's hard to ignore. I get it, it is hard to ignore. I have difficulty ignoring the haters and the yelling and the screaming that happens, but I do my best. Like this morning, when I was in the throes of my manuscript and I looked up and went, “Oh my God, I've got to shower. I'm going to be talking to Jo soon, I should comb my hair”—which I have none of. Because I was so in my book that everything else melted away. That, for me as a storyteller, as a writer, is one of the most beautiful places to be. Jo: I think you're absolutely right. I have a little thing that pops up in my calendar sometimes which says, “If you're feeling all of these things, just go create something.” The moment you refocus on creation—whatever that means to you—things change. It changes the energy. That, or go for a walk. That's my other tip. Mark: Outside. And I have to say, Jo, Pilgrimage is still one of the most profound and powerful books you've written, and you've written a lot of amazing ones. Jo: Oh, you're very sweet. Mark: That one really resonates, not just for me, but with Liz. Because one of the things we often do when we get stressed is go for a walk, ideally in nature. The vitamin N. I think there's something really profound in that, and it really helps me a lot. And again, sometimes going for a walk listening to your podcast, or an audiobook, or sometimes just attending to the environment. A tip I picked up years ago from Brooklyn author Denis Hamill was: go for a walk with your character. Listen to what they see. What do they comment on? How do they approach this environment that you've seen a million times? How do they see it? What do they notice that you don't notice? That's such an incredible experience of creativity—when you're not writing, but writing. That really helps me a lot. Jo: Oh, nice one. Okay, so your latest book is Stark Realities, but you have so many more. Where can people find you and your books and your podcast online? Mark: Jo, you can find everything you want to know about me—and stuff you don't want to know about me—over at MarkLeslie.ca. It links to all the other places from there. Jo: Brilliant. Thanks again for your time, Mark. That was great. Mark: Thanks so much, Jo. Bye-bye. The post Creative Satisfaction, In Person Print Book Sales, And Author Mindset With Mark Leslie Lefebvre first appeared on The Creative Penn.

Today we're firing up our engines for a full-throttle comedy ride with Stroker Ace (1983), starring the one and only Burt Reynolds. Directed by Reynolds' long-time collaborator Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run), Stroker Ace has become a cult classic over the years. Everyone loves Lugs (Jim Nabors)!In the film, Reynolds place 3-time Winston Cup champion, Stroker Ace. A hotshot both on and off the track, Ace finds himself trapped in a fried chicken sponsorship conundrum as he drives for Clyde Torkle (Ned Beatty).

Oscar-winning actress Sally Field gets real with Ben Mankiewicz. Drawing on her memoir In Pieces, she discusses her fraught relationship with ex-boyfriend/Smokey and the Bandit co-star Burt Reynolds and his similarity to her abusive step-father. During The Flying Nun she was introduced to the Actors Studio where she transformed from a sitcom actress Hollywood had written off into someone who could fight for Norma Rae, fight Spielberg twice for Lincoln, and win both battles. In the Super 8 she praises the work of Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and reveals she rarely cries at movies. Films Mentioned: Remarkably Bright Creatures Smokey and the Bandit Sybil Norma Rae The Way West Places in the Heart Lincoln Gone with the Wind Them! The Searchers One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Charade Steamboat Bill, Jr. The Enchanted Cottage A Letter to Three Wives Hooper Absence of Malice Steel Magnolias Forrest Gump Hud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The inkwells are dry because we have two new pitches for the Expendables series as we try to ensure that the series lives on as it should. You'll hear which of us sets their sequel in outer space, which of us creates a prequel, how Kurt Russel gets involved, and why Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson, among others, creep into a pitch. Thank god for our Time Machine! Enjoy! Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate Lampe Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heather Sahami

Please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Cindy Mitchum, youngest daughter of legendary character actor John Mitchum and the niece of screen legend Robert Mitchum. Cindy has just rereleased Them Ornery Mitchum Boys: The Adventures of Robert and John Mitchum, a rollicking look at the lives and careers of her famous dad and famous uncle as they move through decades of adventure, war, celebrity, vice, loyalty, and loss, while also crossing paths with such legends as John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, John Carradine, Joi Lansing, and many, many others. Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is available in hardcover and in paperback through Henry Gray Publishing, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. Our complete conversation with Cindy will air in a few weeks on TV Confidential.  Cindy Mitchum is scheduled to appear at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.

Burt Reynolds poured water on Marc Summers on the Tonight Show. The Black Crowes are upset by people chanting USA at their shows. Rover believes a man is still mad at him for not paying him to run out onto Browns field. 

Rover drives on the wrong side of the road. What did the landlord say to JLR? The youngest-ever signed Real Salt Lake player is suing for $100 million, claiming he was sexually harassed and bullied as a minor. JLR now believes his phone is listening to him. Rover says Duji is wasteful. Man runs out onto the court during the Spurs vs. Knicks game. Duji finally decided on a car for Gia. Charlie pulls dashcam video of Rover's illegal activities. 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found with a DNA sample from a mystery juvenile male who she allegedly had sex with aboard a Carnival cruise ship shortly before her death. A woman text a girl to hook up while her husband was out of town. What shocked you about your significant other? Burt Reynolds poured water on Marc Summers on the Tonight Show. The Black Crowes are upset by people chanting USA at their shows. Rover believes a man is still mad at him for not paying him for running out onto Browns field. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Burt Reynolds poured water on Marc Summers on the Tonight Show. The Black Crowes are upset by people chanting USA at their shows. Rover believes a man is still mad at him for not paying him to run out onto Browns field. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rover drives on the wrong side of the road. What did the landlord say to JLR? The youngest-ever signed Real Salt Lake player is suing for $100 million, claiming he was sexually harassed and bullied as a minor. JLR now believes his phone is listening to him. Rover says Duji is wasteful. Man runs out onto the court during the Spurs vs. Knicks game. Duji finally decided on a car for Gia. Charlie pulls dashcam video of Rover's illegal activities. 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found with a DNA sample from a mystery juvenile male who she allegedly had sex with aboard a Carnival cruise ship shortly before her death. A woman text a girl to hook up while her husband was out of town. What shocked you about your significant other? Burt Reynolds poured water on Marc Summers on the Tonight Show. The Black Crowes are upset by people chanting USA at their shows. Rover believes a man is still mad at him for not paying him for running out onto Browns field.

Steph DeWaegeneer and I look at an episode of King Of Queens with Burt Reynolds as a guest star. Burt plays Doug's old football coach. How well does Burt fit in? Have a listen and see what we think. You can support this podcast with my Patreon page with the link below. This podcast can be found on Cross The Streams Media platform. www.patreon.com/scottwhite www.scottyblanco.com www.instagram.com/scottspodcasts www.youtube.com/scottwhitecomedian www.crossthestreamsmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life comes at you fast. Apparently way faster after age 30. On today's episode of The Rizzuto Show, the crew dives headfirst into the terrifying realization that June is basically here already and somehow we're halfway through the year. One minute you're sneaking into clubs with fake confidence and terrible decisions… the next minute you're googling “why do my knees sound like microwave popcorn?” Welcome to adulthood, baby.This daily comedy show gets philosophical for roughly six minutes before immediately derailing into Burt Reynolds chest hair appreciation, Sally Field drama, and the deeply important question of whether Barry Gibb secretly teaches funk magic at Hogwarts.Also in today's chaos:Ozzy Osbourne's family is building an AI avatar version of Ozzy that could eventually talk to fans forever. Totally normal. Definitely not dystopian at all.Taylor Swift sends signed guitars to an 8-year-old girl after a paper airplane request goes viral.Russell Crowe explains why autograph seekers need to calm the hell down.The gang debates the difference between old-school celebrity roasts and today's “who can get canceled first” format.Roxette announces a tour and suddenly everyone's emotionally sprinting back to the 80s.Yellowstone spin-offs continue multiplying faster than raccoons behind a dumpster.TV's most shocking character deaths get revisited, reopening emotional wounds nobody asked for.And yes… someone accidentally thought Barry Gibb was dead. HE IS NOT. The Bee Gee king remains alive, tan, moisturized, and presumably shirt-unbuttoned somewhere in Miami.There's also a surprisingly passionate discussion about The Brady Bunch Movie, Vincent Price deserving his own St. Louis street, and why Travis Kelce drinking beers at a basketball game somehow became national news.Basically this episode has everything: existential dread, celebrity gossip, nostalgic movie tangents, weird AI conversations, TV spoilers, and middle-aged panic wrapped into one beautiful disaster of a daily comedy show.If you love sarcastic humor, weird news, celebrity chaos, and hearing grown adults argue passionately about Burt Reynolds and Hogwarts funk classes, congratulations — this daily comedy show was made specifically for your damaged brain chemistry.Follow The Rizzuto Show → https://linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → https://1057thepoint.com/RizzShowHear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Message us ANONYMOUSLYFor our first foray into the world of PTA, returning guest: Sam Bullington (Waching Mr. Pearson) presents to you, and himself "Boogie Nights" (1997 dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, and Burt Reynolds. OK, pump the brakes, before we start...this is a commentary about predatory practices in the entertainment industry as a whole (What? No!)?! We go deep on the real life ramifications of the joys of drug use, putting various acts on tape(s), the explosion of popularity of VHS cassette itself, and the ones we watched at school. Also, how big does the needle have to be for all these drops; 16, 17 inches? Listen now! For your health!Also with Sam: Grand Budapest HotelSupport the show**All episodes contain explicit language**Main Artwork - Ben McFadden'Review Review Intro/Outro' Themes - Jamie Henwood"What Are We Watching?" & "Whatcha Been Doin'?" Themes - Matthew Fosket"Fun Facts" Theme - Chris Olds/Paul RootLead-Ins Edited/Conceptualized by - Ben McFaddenProduced by - Ben McFadden & Paul Root ("Shelf Help" - Paul Root)Podcast/Program Concept - Paul Root

We continue our look at the year 1977 with an iconic car, an iconic laugh, a girl called "Frog", a sheriff named Justice, and 400 cases of Coors beer. Send us Fan MailTwitter @dockingbay77podFacebook @dockingbay77podcastdockingbay77podcast@gmail.compatreon.com/dockingbay77podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/@DockingBay77podcast

(00:00-23:18) Doug's going with Game 7 OT as the lede. Poor Buffalo. Doug's never seen Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Breaking down Ps, Ts, & As. Does Papers have a job interview today? Get a touch up before going to the lake. Was that a premature whistle in Buffalo? Audio of Sean McDonough's game-winning call in OT. Lindy Ruff, handsome guy. Colorado geography. Ken happened on ATMA.(23:26-42:49) Mixed reviews on the lede. The Tarps Off boys are gonna be back in Busch tonight. Forecast may cause some issues tonight. Do menthol cigs make for a raspier voice? CITY SC vs. Houston in the US Open Cup. That sounded like soccer word salad. Bring relegation to US sports. Bathing suit area. Burt Reynolds and Mark Summers.(43:00-56:01) Nina Sky. Doug's Mt. Rushmore of singing entertainers. Wheelhouse. Rebrand it as Cuckold's? Jackson's flaunting his vocabulary. Jackson needs a life caddy. We can't figure out what Wheelhouse used to be. Chairman's getting frustrated.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Doug's going with Game 7 OT as the lede. Poor Buffalo. Doug's never seen Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Breaking down Ps, Ts, & As. Does Papers have a job interview today? Get a touch up before going to the lake. Was that a premature whistle in Buffalo? Audio of Sean McDonough's game-winning call in OT. Lindy Ruff, handsome guy. Colorado geography. Ken happened on ATMA.Mixed reviews on the lede. The Tarps Off boys are gonna be back in Busch tonight. Forecast may cause some issues tonight. Do menthol cigs make for a raspier voice? CITY SC vs. Houston in the US Open Cup. That sounded like soccer word salad. Bring relegation to US sports. Bathing suit area. Burt Reynolds and Mark Summers.Nina Sky. Doug's Mt. Rushmore of singing entertainers. Wheelhouse. Rebrand it as Cuckold's? Jackson's flaunting his vocabulary. Jackson needs a life caddy. We can't figure out what Wheelhouse used to be. Chairman's getting frustrated.Happy birthday, Lainey Wilson. Jackson's Mt. Rushmore of female country artists. It's time to be recapped on wrestling with Larry Nickel. Tornado tag match. Top 5 Countries but it sounds like he's making it up on the fly. Doug has sleazy takes.Lassoing up some cattle. Starring John Dutton. Loneliest Girl. Audio of Lance Lynn on Cardinal Territory talking about the tarps off weekend and the start of seeing "a different type of atmosphere" at Busch Stadium. Mt. Rushmore of popular local stadium traditions. Tarps off > The Wave. Dan Janson is back. Dan went tarps off on Saturday and Sunday. Can you go tarps off with the son? Coulda been Jackson. Chicago is clamoring for Papers. Chairman still rattled from hanging up on The Colonel on Friday.Doug, is this Firestarter by Prodigy? Sittin' on a feather. Your Friends & Neighbors. Arnie from LA Law. We got Hamm cucked by The Courtney Show. Cardinals 8th in The Athletic's latest power rankings. Oli Marmol will be in studio with BK & Ferrario at 11:00. Was Arenado a problem in the clubhouse? Have a great day, crackers.Why'd you request this, Doug? Kicking around reincarnation. Simulation theory. Jack and Jill meatloaf. You needn't remind us. What's the point of anything? Would you rather get swept or lose a Game 7 at home? Who was the cute boy chewing on a towel? G'on, leave us be. Craig Berube interviewing with the Oilers. Where will all the Battlehawks P1 go? Is the reason Jackson is single because he likes the NBA?Look, Doug, it's Brody. Nothing better than being on The Morning After. Brody's excited about the Tarps Off Movement. This isn't your older brother's NL Central anymore. Don't have to face Skenes in this series. Mizzou and SLU getting together in November. Brody doesn't wanna be one and done in the tournament. James Harden Fever.Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTDDoug wants a little pick-me-up. Audio of A's pitcher J.T. Ginn losing a no-hitter and then two batters later, Zach Neto and the Angels walk it off. The Maddux. Now let's hear the Angels play-by-play call and see if that's any better. Possums loose in Angel Stadium. Do you wear a hat on a first date? What about to a ball game? Kiss cam logistics.Market Moves. Not good when the PIF pulls out of a venture. Salt the earth for a rival golf league. Aaron Rai was the first Englishman to win the PGA in 107 years. Radar not looking good for the Cardinals and the Doggies games tonight. No trunks allowed at Busch. Smoochin' in the Boys Room.And the winner of the Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Adam and Dr. Drew discuss how the world seems to have lost its sense of fun and reflect on how much happier and more adventurous life felt in decades like the 1980s. They get into the importance of fulfillment, why modern kids spend more time indoors playing video games, and Gavin Newsom's latest plan to provide free diapers. Later, Adam shows Drew his newest AI-generated Burt Reynolds as Jennifer Newsom video, leading to a breakdown of Jennifer Newsom's most bizarre moments.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Leslie A. Rasmussen wrote TV comedies for folks like Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, and Drew Carey, while working on popular sit-coms such as Major Dad, Roseanne, ALF, The Wild Thornberrys, Sweet Valley High, Evening Shade, Norm, and The Good Life.After leaving the TV industry to raise her boys, Leslie obtained a master's degree in nutrition and ran her own business for ten years.She's been published over twenty times in the Huffington Post and speaks on panels discussing female empowerment.Leslie's debut novel, After Happily Ever After, has won over fifteen awards, and her second novel, The Stories We Cannot Tell, has won eleven awards.Her latest novel, When People Leave, was released in May 2025. I've read When People Leave and can tell you it's a highly engaging, superbly crafted tale about death, grief, and the unraveling of a family mystery that involves three sisters going on the road together, all told with a light touch and great heart.

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This week we continue our Paul Thomas Anderseason with his San Fernando Valley epic, Boogie Nights. We talk about the inception of this film as a short, then later as a long ass script that had Hollywood abuzz. We also discuss the real-life influences for the film and the porn scene of the 70s and 80s. After we discuss the background, we dive into the film itself and talk about everything we love about the film. Finally, we end the episode with a pair of double bills for your viewing pleasure. Thank you so much for listening!Support us at Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/DoubleBillChillCreated by Spike Alkire & Jake KelleyTheme Song by Breck McGoughFollow us on Instagram: @DoubleBillChillLetterboxd: FartsDomino44

Send us Fan MailBreaker, breaker, podcast listeners! What's got 400 cases of bootleg Coors, a screeching black Pontiac Trans Am, and the most magnificent mustache in cinematic history?This week on ‘Entertain This!', we are putting the pedal to the metal and crossing state lines to revisit the undisputed king of 1970s vehicular mayhem: ‘Smokey and the Bandit'.Join us as we ride shotgun with Burt Reynolds at his absolute peak-swagger, cheer on Sally Field as the ultimate runaway bride, and marvel at the sheer, unadulterated comedic genius of Jackie Gleason as the relentlessly frustrated Sheriff Buford T. Justice. We're breaking down how a movie with a plot that essentially boils down to "fetching beer very quickly" became an absolute cultural phenomenon.  In this episode, we discuss… The Power of the Stache: Analyzing the undeniable charisma of Burt Reynolds and his iconic look. The Lost Art of the CB Radio: How handle names and trucker slang became the original social media.Buford T. Justice: Why Jackie Gleason's legendary improvised insults steal the entire movie.Fact or Fiction: Is it actually mathematically possible to drive from Texarkana to Atlanta and back in 28 hours?Whether you're a classic car aficionado or just someone who appreciates a good old-fashioned police chase, this movie still fires on all cylinders. So grab yourself a Diablo sandwich and a Dr. Pepper, hit play, and listen in. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there!Support the show

Chaos at the White House Correspondents Dinner You can't have an assassination attempt without conspiracy theories America unites behind Trump's ballroom. How corrupt is it, how much taxpayer money will he use, and what the hell does he even want it for? Trump loves suing people, like a little weasel baby. Watch out, Comey!  The week in Pete Hegseth: no flu vaccine required for troops Kid Rock addresses troops and flies around with Hegseth Melania calls for Jimmy Kimmel's firing; FCC to investigate ABC/Disney affiliate licenses Trump to put his face on passports Trump fires all 24 members of the US National Science Foundation Governing Body US bringing back firing squads Corruption runs rampant, farmers can't afford fertilizer, billionaire tech bros: who do they think they are? Plus: Freedom, John Hinckley Jr., Kash Patel, and would Burt Reynolds like Trump? Get 20 Extra Minutes with Jackie & Dunlap over at http://patreon.com/redstateupdate Theme by William Sherry Jr. Art by Yoni Limor Photos by Robyn von Swank Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, BlueSky, all of it I reckon

Welcome to an EPIC length episode as Jim builds a fence and is mightily disturbed by a coffee table, Darren appreciates some Doom Patrol and Lee has a back to basics nature experience with his family that is less singing around a camp fire and more Burt Reynolds in Deliverance. Then after some Midnight Sky feedback its on to this weeks film.   The third in the spaceman / space daddy issues season as Jodie Foster clashes with science, faith and a very big Sky satellite dish set up to make Contact. Media discussed this week   History of 80s Horror - Shudder The Coffee Table - Shudder / Amazon Prime Terror at Oakheart - Xbox / PC Doom Patrol - Amazon Prime Midnight Sky - Netflix Frameless Immersive Art Experience - No.6 Marble Arch The Boys - Amazon Prime Contact - Amazon Prime / VOD

Dr. Drew brings up newly reported side effects tied to weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, sparking a broader conversation about health trends. Adam goes on a series of classic rants—covering everything from food delivery culture to his theories on social dynamics and everyday habits. The guys then get into a deeper discussion about morality in modern society, differences in how men and women approach fitness and health, and react to a clip of Camille Paglia on why there are no great female artists. They wrap things up by revisiting Adam's Burt Reynolds experiment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A Burt Reynolds extravaganza- 1978’s HOOPER 1982’s BEST FRIENDS 1983’s STROKER ACE 1986’s HEAT Email us: Cinemaxers@talkradioone.com

A Burt Reynolds extravaganza- 1978’s HOOPER 1982’s BEST FRIENDS 1983’s STROKER ACE 1986’s HEAT Email us: Cinemaxers@talkradioone.com

Welcome to PTBN Pop's Movie Review of The Day! Every weekday we will be reviewing a movie whether it be currently in theaters, featured on streaming or just a film that we hold near and dear to us. On today's episode, Steve Riddle is reviewing “All Dogs Go To Heaven” from 1990 starring Dom DeLuise, Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Judith Barsi & Charles Nelson Reilly.

Fire up the CB radio and grab your gear! This week on Hollywood Hangout, your host Boxman is back in the driver's seat, and we are thrilled to welcome back the one and only Derk for another high-speed deep dive.In this episode, we're hitting the road to dissect the 1980 sequel, Smokey and the Bandit II. While the mustache is just as iconic, the road trip is a whole different beast this time around. We break down the return of the legendary cast—from the chemistry between Burt Reynolds and Sally Field to the tireless pursuit of Jackie Gleason's Sheriff Justice.On the itinerary for this episode:Cast & Characters: We look at where our favorite bootleggers are at the start of the decade and how the sequel handles their evolving dynamics.The Script: Breaking down the most memorable (and perhaps questionable) quotes from the film.The Turbo Trans Am Trap: We discuss the real-world fallout for fans who rushed out to buy the 1980 Turbo Trans Am, only to find it didn't quite live up to the cinematic hype.The Legend of The Bandit: A look at the rise and fall of Bo Darville. Is he still the hero we remember, or has the road finally caught up with him?Whether you're a die-hard fan of the franchise or just here for the 80s nostalgia, join Boxman and Derk as we decide if this sequel is a classic cruiser or if it ran out of gas.Check us out every Thursday at 9:30 PM EasternYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hollywoodhangoutpodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ymX0HRkWB45ja11B2I6fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hollywood-hangout/id1132940251Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/4647345?country=usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodHangout/

A look back at the year 1978 with Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, and Jan-Michael Vincent in Hal Needham’s stuntman’s epic… HOOPER. Also, Russell Crowe in BEAST and Riz Ahmed in HAMLET. SUPPORT US ON AMAZON – CLICK HERE [...]

A look back at the year 1978 with Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, and Jan-Michael Vincent in Hal Needham’s stuntman’s epic… HOOPER. Also, Russell Crowe in BEAST and Riz Ahmed in HAMLET. SUPPORT US ON AMAZON – CLICK HERE [...]

This episode is a listener's request. Kristoffer Harrington and I look at the straight to video movie The Hunter's Moon starring Burt Reynolds and Keith Carridine. This movie has never had a Blu-ray release. Does this movie deserve it? Have a listen and find out!! You can support this podcast with my Patreon page with the link below. This podcast can be found on Cross The Streams Media platform. www.patreon.com/scottwhite www.scottyblanco.com www.instagram.com/scottspodcasts www.youtube.com/scottwhitecomedian www.crossthestreamsmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good ol' boy Randy Pearson (McKinnon) is in deep trouble. The IRS is circling. Gangsters want their money. And the only people left in his corner are his long-suffering wife (Blount) and his estranged gay twin brother. Enter Tino Armani (Goggins), a mob fixer with impeccable fashion sense, gourmet Italian tastes, and a strangely prophetic worldview. What follows is a madcap Southern caper that blends redemption, farce, and spiritual reckoning in equal measure that had critics and audiences alike praising its offbeat charm.Part shaggy-dog crime comedy, part meditation on forgiveness and grace, RANDY & THE MOB has grown into a cult favorite, especially among fans of McKinnon and Goggins' later film and television work where their fascination with flawed, spiritually searching Southern characters would continue to flourish.Directed, co-written, and co-produced by McKinnon, who also starred and starring Goggins who also co-produced, the film features an ensemble cast including Lisa Blount, Tim DeKay (Bosch: Legacy, Oppenheimer, White Collar), Bill Nunn (Sirens, Spider Man 3), Paul Ben-Victor (Nobody Wants This, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, The Chosen), and a memorable special appearance by Burt Reynolds.The Limited-Edition Collector's Edition Blu-ray of RANDY & THE MOB features more than an hour of bonus programming including THE ACCOUNTANT, and a 24-minute long "Making-of" featurette with cast & crew interviews.Here's the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QjL7BNnAY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Good ol' boy Randy Pearson (McKinnon) is in deep trouble. The IRS is circling. Gangsters want their money. And the only people left in his corner are his long-suffering wife (Blount) and his estranged gay twin brother. Enter Tino Armani (Goggins), a mob fixer with impeccable fashion sense, gourmet Italian tastes, and a strangely prophetic worldview. What follows is a madcap Southern caper that blends redemption, farce, and spiritual reckoning in equal measure that had critics and audiences alike praising its offbeat charm.Part shaggy-dog crime comedy, part meditation on forgiveness and grace, RANDY & THE MOB has grown into a cult favorite, especially among fans of McKinnon and Goggins' later film and television work where their fascination with flawed, spiritually searching Southern characters would continue to flourish.Directed, co-written, and co-produced by McKinnon, who also starred and starring Goggins who also co-produced, the film features an ensemble cast including Lisa Blount, Tim DeKay (Bosch: Legacy, Oppenheimer, White Collar), Bill Nunn (Sirens, Spider Man 3), Paul Ben-Victor (Nobody Wants This, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, The Chosen), and a memorable special appearance by Burt Reynolds.The Limited-Edition Collector's Edition Blu-ray of RANDY & THE MOB features more than an hour of bonus programming including THE ACCOUNTANT, and a 24-minute long "Making-of" featurette with cast & crew interviews.Here's the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QjL7BNnAY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Families carry stories — some we share openly and others that remain hidden for years.In this episode of Girl, Take the Lead!, Yo Canny sits down with award-winning author Leslie A. Rasmussen to talk about her latest novel, When People Leave, and the powerful role family relationships play in shaping who we become.Leslie's newest book follows three sisters who return to their childhood home after the unexpected loss of their mother. As they search for answers, they uncover long-held family secrets and discover how differently each of them processes the same experience.In their conversation, Yo and Leslie explore the complexity of sibling relationships, the emotional layers of family dynamics, and how storytelling can help us better understand our lives.Leslie also shares her fascinating career journey — from writing television comedies for stars like Roseanne Barr, Burt Reynolds, Norm Macdonald, and Drew Carey, to becoming an award-winning novelist whose stories explore identity, family bonds, and the resilience we discover in life's most difficult moments.At the heart of the episode is a reminder that the stories we tell — and the ones we uncover — shape how we see ourselves and each other.In This Episode You'll Learn About:How sibling relationships influence the way we experience life's challengesWhy family secrets often shape our understanding of the pastHow storytelling can help us process complex emotionsThe importance of community and connection during life's transitionsLeslie's journey from Hollywood television writer to award-winning novelistWhy following your creative passion sometimes requires taking risksLeslie A. RasmussenLeslie A. Rasmussen is an award-winning author and former television comedy writer who has written for well-known comedians and shows including Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm Macdonald, Drew Carey, The Wild Thornberrys, and Sweet Valley High.Born and raised in Los Angeles, Leslie graduated from UCLA before launching her career in television writing.After stepping away from the entertainment industry to raise her two sons, she earned a master's degree in nutrition and ran her own business for ten years. During that time, she continued writing humorous essays and has been published more than twenty times in the Huffington Post.Leslie is the author of three novels:After Happily Ever After — winner of more than fifteen awardsThe Stories We Cannot Tell — winner of eleven awards and featured on NPR and XM radioWhen People Leave — released in May 2025She frequently speaks on panels about female empowerment and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Women in Film, and the UCLA Alumni Association.Leslie lives in Southern California with her husband and two sons.Memorable Moments from the EpisodeOn family dynamics“Sisters can argue, tease each other, and still know that the bond between them will always be there.”On storytelling“Fiction can help people see themselves in the characters and feel less alone.”On life's unexpected paths“You never know where your life is going to end up.”Leslie's Advice to Her 20-Something Self“Keep writing, follow your passion, and take more risks. Even if you fail, you might succeed.”Connect with Leslie A. RasmussenWebsitehttps://www.lesliearasmussen.comListeners can purchase signed copies of Leslie's novels directly through her website.EmailLeslie@Lesliearasmussen.comFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/lesliearasmussenauthorInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/leslierauthorTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@leslieauthorLearn more about Girl, Take the Lead!https://girltaketheleadpod.comExplore the Girl, Take the Lead! Heartfelt Cards & Gifts Shophttps://girltaketheleadpod.com/shopReflection QuestionWhat stories from your family have shaped who you are today?

Welcome to PTBN Pop's Movie Review of The Day! Every weekday we will be reviewing a movie whether it be currently in theaters, featured on streaming or just a film that we hold near and dear to us. With April Fool's Day this week, we're tickling our funny bones and covering classic comedies (pre-1990) this week. On today's episode, Andy Atherton is reviewing “The Cannonball Run” from 1981 starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr.

Buddy Lee Hooker is the son of a stunt rider, and the siren song of the family trade has made him one of the biggest legends in Hollywood stunts, an authority on the stunt world, and a 70 (!) year veteran of the industry. He's curated Criterion's new “Stunts!” Collection, and brought us one of the few films that offers an honest look at the life of a Hollywood stuntman (stuntman, stuntman…): Hal Needham's 1978 film HOOPER, starring Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent. Then Jordan has one quick thing about the hotly anticipated action film THE FURIOUS – the trailer just dropped last week. Check out the Stunts! collection on Criterion Channel Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production of Maximum Fun. You can watch video editions of our new episodes on our YouTube Channel!Need more Feeling Seen? Keep up with the show on Instagram and Bluesky.

Grab your Stetson and jump into the driver's seat! This week on Hollywood Hangout, your host Boxman is joined once again by the incomparable Derk to take a high-speed trip back to 1977. We're breaking down the ultimate bootlegging classic: Smokey and the Bandit.In this episode, we dive deep into the chemistry that made this movie a legend. From the effortless cool of Burt Reynolds and the charm of Sally Field to the unforgettable, high-decibel fury of Jackie Gleason's Sheriff Buford T. Justice, we're looking at why these characters and performances still hold up nearly 50 years later.What's under the hood of this episode:The Legends & The Quotes: We revisit the best lines from the film—the ones that defined an era of cinema.The Cultural Impact: We discuss the massive real-world "Bandit Effect," including the skyrocketing sales of the Pontiac Trans Am and the CB radio craze that swept the nation.A Lost Genre: We have an honest conversation about the "Good Ol' Boy" era of filmmaking and why Hollywood just doesn't make these types of breezy, high-stakes, practical-stunt action comedies anymore.Whether you're a lifelong fan of the Snowman or a newcomer to the legend, join us for a nostalgic look at a time when all you needed was a fast car, a long way to go, and a short time to get there.Check us out every Thursday at 9:30 PM EasternYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hollywoodhangoutpodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ymX0HRkWB45ja11B2I6fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hollywood-hangout/id1132940251Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/4647345?country=usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodHangout/

You would think that a hockey movie starring Burt Reynolds and Russell Crowe would be a slam dunk, right?  We are going to find out on today's brand new episode.  Is Mystery Alaska one of the most underrated sports movies ever?  Is Little Richard the best national anthem singer?  Could you live in a town where the only things to do are play hockey and fornicate? •0:00:00 - Introductions •0:03:30 - Memories of first viewing •0:07:00  - Pertinent movie details  •0:12:00  -  Critical and fan reviews •0:19:00 - Scene by scene breakdown  •1:27:00 - Modern day ratings —————————————————————— SPONSORS-  **ASPCA-  To learn more about Pet Health Insurance, visit http://aspcapetinsurance.com/breakfast  **BIG GROVE- Check out our beers of the episode here- http://BigGrove.com  **PROGRESSIVE- Visit http://progressive.com  **NordVPN-  Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to http://nordvpn.com/breakfast to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 additional months on top! It's completely risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! **FABLETICS-  Get 80% off everything when you sign up as a VIP! Just head to http://Fabletics.com/confused  **LITTLE SLEEPIES-  If you're expecting or dressing little ones, check out Little Sleeps.  You can visit http://littlesleepies.com and use promo code GOODNIGHT for 10% off of your first order.  **WAYFAIR- Find furniture, decor, and essentials that fit your unique style and budget. http://Wayfair.com   —————————————————————— **Support us at http://patreon.com/confusedbreakfast for bonus weekly episodes, voting on upcoming movies, giving your modern-day ratings on our movies and much more. **Mail us something   The Confused Breakfast PO Box 10016 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-9802 Special thanks to our executive producers- Josh Miller, Starling, Dylan Mick and NicMad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The PHP Podcast streams live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: Internet Woes & Technical Difficulties Eric continued his saga with connectivity issues, dropping multiple times on Zoom calls and even during the podcast. After trying everything from coax cable converters to different network setups, he’s considering just running a new network cable to his office. The Wi-Fi experiment during the show… didn’t go great. First Waymo Experience John shared his first ride in a Waymo self-driving car! While the wife wasn’t thrilled about having to walk to a specific pickup spot, the experience was pretty impressive. One weird moment: the car got confused by a bus at a 45-degree angle and started creeping into the left lane. Overall verdict: comfortable, cheaper than Uber, and no awkward small talk required. Eric’s Coding Adventure In a rare “Eric writes code” moment, he debugged a POC project by littering the codebase with 15+ write-to-log statements (because who needs X debug?). The culprit? A renamed variable he forgot to update elsewhere. Classic. John was horrified to learn there’s no static analysis running. The demo went well… until someone asked to see the customer interface. MySQL 8.0 → 8.4 Upgrade Planning John’s been preparing for the MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 upgrade (8.0 is end of life). The previous team left amazing documentation, but there’s one major issue: the DBA rejected converting from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4 character set because the tables are so massive it would lock them for way too long. That’s a problem for future John. AWS S3 Cleanup – 75 Million Files! John tackled a years-old problem: phone call recordings stored as both WAV and MP3 files in S3. The cleanup script identified 75 million WAV files to delete, which took a day and a half to process. Potential savings: $100/day. Joe asked about intelligent tiering, which… yeah, probably should look into that. PHP Tek 2026 – 68 Days Away! The conference schedule is live! Four tracks (three PHP Tek + one JS Tek), hotel rooms at the discounted rate are going fast, and Eric admitted he skipped Scale this year because he was just too exhausted. Focus is on PHP Tek now! Laravel 13 Dropping March 17 Laravel 13 is dropping on Tuesday with a focus on moving from protected properties to attributes. According to the article, there are no breaking changes (we’ll see about that). Overall, it’s a light upgrade with some new features but nothing earth-shattering. March Friday the 13th Anniversary Eric and Beck’s dating anniversary! They started dating on March Friday the 13th, 1987, when Eric picked her up at 5 PM for a midnight showing of a terrible Burt Reynolds movie called “Heat” (which apparently doesn’t exist according to IMDB). The whole show tried to help figure out what movie it actually was. Spoiler, it was called HEAT PHPUnit 13 Released Sebastian Bergmann appeared on PHP Alive & Kicking to talk about PHPUnit 13. The big change: array of assertions. The show also features a hard deprecation of some older methods. Check out the release for all the details. OpenClaw/Archie AI Success Eric’s thrilled with how the team is using the OpenClaw AI agent for daily standups. Team members are not only doing their morning standups but updating it throughout the day and even asking it to check for security alerts. The engagement has been way beyond expectations. Now Eric’s fighting the temptation to buy a Mac Mini to run it properly and get it back on Ollama, saving on API costs. Links from the show: PHP Tek 2026 – The Premier PHP Conference WiFi Mapping User Guide – Turn your router into a see-through-walls device WiFi Mapping Demo on X Laravel 13 drops March 17 — here’s every new feature with code examples X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch.social/@phparch Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/phparch.com Discord: https://discord.phparch.com Subscribe to our magazine: https://www.phparch.com/subscribe/ Host: Eric Van Johnson X: @shocm Mastodon: @eric@phparch.social Bluesky: @ericvanjohnson.bsky.social PHPArch.me: @eric John Congdon X: @johncongdon Mastodon: @john@phparch.social Bluesky: @johncongdon.bsky.social PHPArch.me: @john Streams: Youtube Channel Twitch Partner This podcast is made a little better thanks to our partners Displace Infrastructure Management, Simplified Automate Kubernetes deployments across any cloud provider or bare metal with a single command. Deploy, manage, and scale your infrastructure with ease. https://displace.tech/ PHPScore Put Your Technical Debt on Autopay with PHPScore CodeRabbit Cut code review time & bugs in half instantly with CodeRabbit. Music Provided by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.12 appeared first on PHP Architect.

We speak with James Neibaur and Gary Schneeberger, co-authors of "The Burt Reynolds Films." Neibaur has announced that this book - his 39th - will be his last, although he is planning to continue writing articles, essays and reviews - and will continue to do commentary tracks for home video releases. Burt Reynolds actually had starring or co-starring roles in 48 films. His best-known films include "Deliverance," "Smokey and the Bandit," and"The Longest Yard." For five years straight, beginning in 1978, Reynolds was the #1 box office star in America. His late-career resurgence included an Oscar nomination for "Boogie Nights" in 1997.

Send a textIs NASCAR Evolving In The Right Direction? The guys discuss the current state of NASCAR and discuss it's history and advertising.Buy the guys some guzzoline! https://buymeacoffee.com/getoutndriveThe Get Out N Drive Podcast is Fuel By AMD ~ AMD: More Than Metal https://www.autometaldirect.com/Visit the ‪AMD‬​ Garage ~ Your one stop source for high quality body panels for your restorationhttps://www.autometaldirect.com/amdgarageFor all things Get Out N Drive, cruise on over to the Get Out N Drive website. https://getoutndrive.com/Be sure to follow GOND on social media!GOND Website: https://getoutndrive.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/getoutndrivepodcast/X: https://x.com/getoutndrivepodFB: https://www.facebook.com/Get.Out.N.Drive.podcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getoutndriveRecording Engineer: Paul MeyerSubscribe to the ‪Str8sixfan‬​ YouTube Channel:  @Str8sixfan  #classiccars​ #automotive​ #amd #autometaldirect #c10 #restoration #autorestoration #autoparts #restorationparts #truckrestoration #Jasonchandler #podcast #sheetmetal #mecum #bobbyadams #mecumscandal #carauction #classiccarauction #usedcar #buyaclassiccar #sellaclassiccar#tradeschool​#carengines​#WhatDrivesYOUth​#GetOutNDriveFAST​Join our fb group to share pics of how you Get Out N Drive: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getoutndrivepodcast/Follow Jason on IG: https://www.instagram.com/oldecarrguy/Follow Jason on fb: https://www.facebook.com/oldecarrguySubscribe To the OldeCarrGuy YouTube Channel:  @OldeCarrGuy  Follow John on IG: https://www.instagram.com/customcarnerd/Recording Engineer, Paul MeyerSign Up and Learn more about National Get Out N Drive Day: https://nationalgetoutndriveday.com/Music Credit:Licensor's Author Username:LoopsLabLicensee:Get Out N Drive PodcastItem Title:The RockabillyItem URL:https://audiojungle.netItem ID:25802696Purchase Date:2022-09-07 22:37:20​ UTCSupport the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/getoutndrive#ClassicCarSupport the show

This week on Oil & Whiskey, we're joined by Ron Jones and the crew from Ron Jones Garage for a wide-ranging conversation that goes way beyond just the cars.We get into what it really means to build cars as art not transportation. Fabrication vs. CNC. Skill vs. creativity. Can you actually “quantify” craftsmanship? Or is it all part of the secret sauce that makes this industry what it is?The guys talk about trusting clients who hand over the keys and the checkbook, building cars that stir up strong opinions online, and why sometimes the most polarizing builds are the ones that matter most.Of course, it wouldn't be Oil & Whiskey without:• The ongoing Burt Reynolds vs. Sylvester Stallone debate• Favorite car movies (and some strong opinions)• Wild speeding ticket stories• Shop life, hustle mentality, and allocating your “resources” the right way• And maybe a few bottles getting killed along the wayGrab official Oil & Whiskey gear at oilandwhiskey.com. Good time, bad advice, great shirts.

Episode Description: What happens when the biggest football game of the year lands on the most romantic night?

The Munsons are joined by Jim from the FilmRage podcast for a deep dive into one of the most fascinating humans we've ever covered: Charles Durning. We kick things off by half-seriously contemplating a future Munsons episode sponsored by the Feral comic series before quickly realizing Durning's real life was already more unbelievable than fiction. This is a man who literally stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II and killed Nazis—an absolute legend—then somehow went on to become a professional ballroom dancer with a bullet still lodged in his hip. We make the case that Hollywood should immediately greenlight a biopic of his life, especially when you consider his theatrical dominance: over 200 plays, a Tony Award, and induction into the Theater Hall of Fame, placing him among an elite group of just four Munsons to earn that honor. Even more incredible, he didn't land his first major film role until age 50, thanks to a standout theater performance. From there, we explore his long-standing working relationship with Burt Reynolds, marvel at how effortlessly genuine every performance felt, and celebrate his astonishing range across decades of characters. By the end, it's clear we weren't just talking about a great actor—we were talking about a true character-actor titan, whose career and life story feel almost impossible by today's standards. How does he rank on the Munson Meter? Listen to find out.

From her first job right out of high school on a USO tour through Asia during the Vietnam War to Maude to screen queen classics, Adrienne Barbeau has costarred with snakes, rats, bugs, Swamp Things, a man-eating ape and Batman!Adrienne joins us to talk about iconic roles, larger than life co-stars (like Rodney and Reynolds) and how at 80, she's doing everything BUT riding into the sunset.At 19, she moved to New York City with a clear promise to herself: She would give theater her absolute all and settle for her backup plan, if need be, only at age 25. By then she was starring on Broadway as Hodel in Fiddler On The Roof with costar Bette Midler as Tzeitel.Adrienne shares firsthand stories from the birth of Grease (MUCH edgier at its inception), where she originated the role of Rizzo. She recalls the electric audience response during previews, and how, fueled by that enthusiasm, producers pushed forward despite harsh critical reviews. From there, Adrienne was discovered by Norman Lear and offered the part of Maude's daughter Carol in the first All In The Family Spinoff.  She found Bea Arthur to be an artist who exemplified collaborative grace,  always putting the show ahead of any individual performance.Adrienne opens up about her curious relationship with Burt Reynolds… in fact, a psychic saw her dating a man who was laying on a bearskin, even before she had met him or he had done that! She then shares stories from the chaotic set of  Cannonball Run, where she was trying to take the work seriously while many cast-mates were mostly taking alcohol. We talk about her collaborations with John Carpenter and George A. Romero. We delve into Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (which turns out to have surprising literary roots in Heart of Darkness). We play a sizzling round of IMDB Roulette and hear about Adrienne's latest project, the short film Oddities.The episode closes on a meaningful note as we say goodbye to Fritz in his final episode as co-host, and welcome Lisa Arch, who will be joining Weezy for our next episode.In current media--Weezy: Song Sung Blue, in theaters and streamingFritz: Marty Supreme, in theaters and streamingPath Points of Interest:Adrienne BarbeauThere Are Worse Things I Could Do by Adrienne BarbeauAdrienne Barbeau on WikipediaAdrienne Barbeau on IMDBAdrienne Barbeau on InstagramAdrienne Barbeau on FacebookOdditiesAdrienne Barbeau Amazon Author PageSong Sung BlueMarty Supreme

Opie and Ron the Waiter roast NYC's brutal Arctic freeze while ice slabs choke the Hudson River, flu ravages families, and Ron rocks a Burt Reynolds bathrobe like it's red carpet. From Bills fans mourning another playoff choke (and linking it to Jessica Pegula's tennis exit) to basement bug freakouts and wild tangents on shredded climbers and sugar mamas, this episode delivers non-stop, no-holds-barred laughs and real-talk chaos. Download now, crank the volume, and join the unfiltered madness—your morning needs this level of savage fun.

Rich breaks out his NFL Power Rankings to rate the top ten storylines heading into the Seattle Seahawks vs New England Patriots Super Bowl LX. Actor Ted McGinley joins Rich in-studio to promote the new season of Apple TV's feel-good ‘Shrinking' comedy, shares his best memories of his days on ‘The Love Boat,' ‘Fantasy Island,' and ‘Dynasty,' and a great story about getting picked up at the airport by none other than Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam opens the show venting about how people constantly miss the mark when following instructions, especially his. He then shares the latest installments of his Burt Reynolds AI videos with Dr. Drew, who absolutely loves the bit and dives into why the experiment works so well.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.