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We follow up last episode with the second half of our discussion with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson - this time we're talking James Bond, John Stewart, and the Incredible Hulk! Plus a meaningful discussion on patriotism, and Anthony & Doc make a pitch to work with PKJ ;) Creators on the Couch - Phillip Kennedy Johnson 3 Intro Superman One last question: Metallo giving everything for his sister - where did that idea come from? James Bond (11:52) Based more in Fleming novels vs. films? Was there a particular Bond you had in mind while writing? What makes him such an enduring character, in light of the constant reboots and takes on him? Admittedly only read first half - could not access God & Country John Stewart (23:12) Given your military background, did you gravitate towards John vs. other Lanterns? Focus on John's family life - mother with dementia and loss of younger sister Revenant Queen - like her speech style (35:18) Obviously it's ongoing, but how far out do you have mapped storylines? Incredible Hulk (39:05) This story is much more monster-oriented than previous Hulk runs - was this intended to shift away from internal/mental focus like the Ewing run? Body horror - story and art focus on the pain and effects of transformation What inspired Charlie? Feels like more than just audience surrogate What's next for you? (52:24) Ending Next episodes: Speedball, Deathstroke Plugs for social References: Marvel Team-Up #145 - PKJ (2:55) GonnaGeek Network Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

We bring on Ted Anderson, writer of Side Effects, to talk about his OGN that combines mental health and superpowers in a very unique way - don't miss it! Intro Background How long have you been plotting the story in your head? (10:10) Side Effects Impetus for writing the story Hannah - relatable college kid drowning in everything Reluctant hero syndrome with the powers Are the powers real or imagined - the book plays with it Dr. Jacobs - put upon mental health professional (37:15) Changing medication frequently - how accurate is that? (20:15) Ella - solid supportive character (44:40) Friendlier than almost any roommate I had in college Iz - Got her own baggage (49:50) Her manic episode towards the end reminded me of Nadia's in Unstoppable Wasp - Jeremy Whitley gave quote on back Situations in school - what was source of the obstacles? (56:00) Tara & Dave - how did you hook up with them? (60:10) Next stories? (65:05) Ending Next episodes: Kang the Conqueror, Animal sidekicks, Claire Voyant Plugs for social References: Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney - Ted (8:40) Barking by Lucy Sullivan - Ted (9:00) Ted's Twitter Ted's Tumblr Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook TikTok  Patreon TeePublic Discord

The Transport Minister says targeting Kiwis' supports is the best way to get through a difficult period. The Government has announced half price transport and the fuel excise tax cuts will finish at the end of March, as Treasury predicts a recession and continued high inflation next year. For public transport, Michael Wood says they're directing help where it's most needed. "It's very clear that as we head into 2023, there will continue to be real pressure on cost of living for people here in New Zealand and around the world. We've had to make some decisions today about the ongoing discounts on fuel and public transport." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to this week's episode. Next year is looking like a amazing year for some anime. But one of the biggest animes is coming to a end that year. What you guys think, is MHA might end in 2022 also how you liking the 2022 anime line up so far? Hope you guys enjoy! Podcast Community Discord https://discord.com/invite/8u3YSX5EFY IG: Two_for_one_special Twitch: agentcarpet --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sauce-bae/support

This week on A Lively Experiment, a top aide to Dan McKee finds himself the target of an ethics complaint, will there be back splash on the Governor? And  more then 40,000 Rhode Islanders will lose unemployment benefits next month , we sit down with the director of Labor and training to talk about whats ahead.Support the show (http://ripbs.org)

The US President Joe Biden has confirmed America is sticking with its August 31st deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The US President Joe Biden has confirmed America is sticking with its August 31st deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Intro Background (1:42) Comic book death - the Comet was the first superhero to die in the comics, in Pop Comics #17 (July 1941) - created by Jack Cole for MLJ Comics, the precursor to Archie Comics, John Dickering was a scientist who injected himself with a gas that allowed him to fly at the expense of uncontrollable rays that shot from his eyes. He was killed by henchman of a gangster he helped incarcerate. Matt’s point - the in-universe acknowledgment both Marvel & DC have introduced that death isn’t permanent, and how that’s starting to affect people Exhibit A: X-Factor. There's a 30 some-odd issue arc where Siryn flat-out refuses to acknowledge that her father Banshee was killed in a plane explosion battling Vulcan. She totally laughs it off at first, because he's an old MI-5 agent, and he's had to fake his death a couple of times before. When the rest of the team offers its condolences, she asks who's up for Chinese food. She's going to get a notice in a couple of days that he's just fine and he's in hiding for black ops reasons. When Cyclops delivers Banshee's video will and she has to face the possibility that it's the real deal, she switches her coping mechanism to "OK, but he's an X-Man, and X-Men are always dying and coming back to life, so he's only dead for now. He's not REALLY dead. He'll be back." This goes on and on for years. And sure enough, one Celestial Death Seed later, he's alive and well on Krakoa. Exhibit B: Blackest Night. Just, all of it. An in-universe explanation of why the cycle of death and resurrection are just part of the job description of superheroes and supervillains, apparently. Exhibit C: Final Crisis. Superman gives a eulogy for Martian Manhunter in which he says he'll be praying for him to be resurrected. Exhibit D: Astonishing X-Men, The Cure: When Shadowcat finds Colossus alive and well, she is lucid enough to quickly run through the gamut of all the possible explanations: "You have to know, if you're a clone or a robot or an alternate universe thingie, I can deal, but if you're some shapeshifter or pscionicist watching me twitch, I will kill you with an axe." Finding someone you thought was dead is alive is so common that there's a checklist to go through. Exhibit E: Spider-Man Unlimited. The obituary writer at the Daily Bugle tells Ben Urich that the worst part of his job is having to write an obituary for superheroes. They're just going to come back to life, and then he'll have to write a retraction. Exhibit F: The most recent one. The Incredible Hercules #129. Herc takes Amadeus Cho to Erebus, the region of the Greek underworld that is adjacent to the mortal realm. It's presented to Amadeus as a casino where we see a litany of dead comic book characters who don't feel like being "all the way dead" yet whiling away their time gambling for the right to be the next one to come back to life. Does this have a timely real world analogue in psychology? For denial of mortality, terror management theory, and risk assessment? Did we not all just spend the last year witnessing front and center the wildly divergent levels of comfort people have with the very concept of death? Some people outright thinking nothing can happen to them or anyone else they know? Some people taking the fatalistic attitude of, "well, SOMETHING's gonna kill me"? I feel like the ability of human beings to take stock of proper risk assessment of things that are dangerous and/or potentially lethal, compounded with the things that could harm or kill them but are so remotely unlikely as to not even really exist? That's a pretty big timely topic right now. Issues (10:35) 5 stages of grief Denial - Siryn (for Banshee) Anger - Nightcrawler (for Jean Grey) (16:38) Bargaining - Spider-Man (for Aunt May) (26:00) Depression - (32:00) Acceptance - (36:18) Dealing with deaths of heroes vs villains (45:15) Dealing with deaths of supers vs non-powered individuals (54:48) Break (63:40) Plugs for Take a Knee for Marvel & DC, The Real Brains, and Jeremy Whitley Treatment (65:00) Set up a plan with a grief counselor to check in on emotional state following the passing Ending Next episodes: Erica Schultz, Nebula, Victor Zsaz Plugs for social References: Max Landis Death & Return of Superman (NSFW) - Anthony (3:30) Arthur Conan Doyle/”The Final Problem” - Doc (7:30) Misery - Anthony (8:45) Patreon TPB review with Rey - Anthony (10:40) Capes in Court episode - Doc (13:39) Jason Todd episode - Doc (22:04) The Black Swan - Doc (43:24) Antifragile - Doc (43:25) Hunter S. Thompson - Doc (62:17) Billy Joel “I Go to Extremes” - Anthony (72:10) Wheaton’s Law - Anthony (74:58) Hamilton - “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” - Doc (75:31) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 03-03-21.

Intro 3rd Anniversary - first episode came out March 7, 2018 First episode of BatMarch - more exciting episodes to come Background Batman & Commissioner Gordon (6:54) Gordon gives Batman cover in GCPD - Batman is Jim’s work spouse Both men provide the other with an honest ear (14:30) Batman & Barbara Gordon (18:51) ...it’s complicated Barbara as Oracle - reminder of his failure (25:26) Batman & Lucius Fox (32:49) Blending professional and personal lives Batman & Superman (40:16) VERY different views of how to accomplish the same goals, yet willing to still work together Batman & Joker (48:56) Nature of their relationship? Ending Next episodes: Professional roundtable, Batman by the fans Plugs for social References: 112 - “Peaches & Cream” - Anthony (0:38) Venom episode - Anthony (1:02) 100th episode - Anthony (1:38) Joker episode - Anthony (49:44) Batman & Dracula: Red Rain - Doc (52:20) Mick Foley - “testicular fortitude” - Anthony (56:03) Gonads and strife (NSFW) - Doc (56:19) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

Intro Reminder to email voice clips to capesonthecouch@gmail.com for Batman episode Background  How PKJ got started in writing Last Sons of America What was impetus for story Commentary on white America Jackie & Julian - Jackie ever the “older brother”, Julian the “smarter” one (13:00) Harper Rowe - double agent of sorts playing the long game (18:55) Kill a Man (22:00) Commentary on hypermasculinity of MMA world Duality of title - not just death of DJ Bellyi, but of James’ secret Xavier Mayne - difficulty of living with what he did, plus the stigma (38:43) How the ending was crafted (41:07) Discussion of the artwork (46:00) The Last God (47:38) Where did you come up with the idea of parallel timelines for the story? How much work was put into world building for additional stories? (53:07) Superman & Alien (58:46) What can we expect from the Superman run? How much of the existing Alien mythology is going to be in the book? (65:04)  Ending Next episodes: Levana Blackburn (Lunar Chronicles), Superman: Red Son, Black Mask Plugs for social Phillip's website References: Last Sons film option - PKJ (20:55) Emile Griffith - Doc (23:26) Superman Annual 10 - PKJ (61:08) Ariel’s review Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

Ok it's a few days late but I had Xmas to do ok? It's the end of one of the crappier years in living memory, but gaming kept us going. Join Dan and Christi as they finish season 2 with another long one. I'm thinking we're congenitally incapable of keeping it brief, so maybe 90 minutes is the target we should stick to. An hour seems impossible! This episode we talk about! The new gen! It's here! It's ace! Nobody can get one!! What's coming next, after The Game Awards (without the awards bit)! What ON EARTH happened to Cyberpunk?! Random gibberish! We'll be back in February with Season 3, after a well-earned break during the traditional gaming lull that is the new year. On that note, we hope you've had a great Xmas and have a wonderful new year. May it be better for all of us. See you in 2021! Note: a couple of news items broke after recording that change things a little. Sony fixed their PS4/PS5 game identification issue for one thing. I've left these unedited as it's a record of what things were like at launch though. -Christi You can see the fruits of Christi's creative boredom at our Youtube channel Please do say "hi!" over there! And also over on Twitch! Sending good vibes from all at Clod of War. Stay safe, and get gaming. We may be distancing but we're not distant. ❤ Our excellent new theme tune is La Calahorra, by Rolemusic. It was made available via Creative Commons License ( attribution 4.0) on freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/ We also used an additional sound effect called Jingle Bells.wav from freesound.org by Jared Gibb on a Creative Commons 0 licence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clod-of-war/message

IT'S OUR 100TH EPISODE! We've got awards! We've got mailbags! We've got... a rap song? Listen now! SHOW NOTES: Intro Thank you’s Awards/AMA One thing you want on a billboard (06:40) Favorite thematic episode (11:34) What’s next for the show (14:21) Favorite Dr. Issues pun (23:34) Have you ever considered diagnosing a Transformer? (26:05) Worst vocal performance (28:05) What are you watching/reading (31:04) What character do you want to do but mythos is too shallow/deep (37:16) Favorite DC episode (42:21) Excited to see on the big screen (44:03) Favorite non sequitur/pop culture reference (46:02) Favorite humorous skit (49:16) Favorite in-universe treatment (52:18) Christmas or Halloween movies (53:10) Favorite Marvel episode (57:32) Favorite non-Big 2 episode (59:10) Best vocal performance (60:21) Most well-adjusted character (63:20) Favorite dramatic skit (67:49) Favorite overall skit (68:26) Patreon thank you’s (70:52)  Podcasting thank you’s (77:45) Recap rap (86:03) Favorite episode overall (91:00) Ending Next episodes: Two-Face Plugs for social References: Simpsons Planet of the Apes - Anthony (02:48) "I Know My Calculus" by 2Gether - Anthony (23:53) The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel - Doc (34:45) Chip n Dale’s Rescue Rangers - Anthony (38:02) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

What do Captain America, Exodus, and Sleepwalker all have in common? They're strangers in a strange land! Come to a weird place with us as we examine what it's like to be in the unknown! SHOW NOTES: Intro Reminder to vote in awards show Background  Stories about characters displaced in time or space are innumerable Superman - last son of Krypton Captain America - man out of time Shining Knight (Sir Justin) - member of King Arthur’s Court, revived in 1941 and joined the Seven Soldiers of Victory (24:22) Exodus - born in 12th century Paris, sealed away in a tomb by Apocalypse (30:32) Martian Manhunter - last of his kind, aloof from mankind (34:47) Sleepwalker - displaced from the Mindscape, where everything changes based on subconscious needs and desires of inhabitants - to him, Earth is strange (40:22) So many more examples Real world analogues (48:56) Refugees/Immigrants/Exiles Coma patients Transitions with cognitive impairment Prisoners/detainees Break (72:27) Plugs for Ignorance Was Bliss, Play Comics, and Saladin Ahmed Treatment In-universe - Doc becomes Al (73:40) Out of universe - (76:41) Ending Next episodes: Black Adam, Hank McCoy, Mental Health Avengers Review read: Brian Wayne - Always a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show! Great concept and extremely entertaining! Plugs for social References: Tolerance paradox - Anthony (19:15) Apocalypse episode - Anthony (30:35) Back to the Future Part II - Anthony/Doc (33:56) Consilience: The Unity of  Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson - Doc (35:55) Doctor Manhattan - Doc (39:36) Christopher Titus - Doc (44:45) Projective identification - Doc (46:30) Ethnic enclave  - Doc (53:30) "If I Could Turn Back Time" by Cher - Doc (62:15) Lost scene about Red Sox - Anthony (65:09) "Measure of a Man" by Elton John - Doc/Anthony (87:20) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

It's time for another thematic episode - how do support systems impact rehabilitation of comic villains? And what techniques can we apply to the real world to reduce recidivism? This one gets a bit heady - strap in & listen now! SHOW NOTES: Intro Thanks to new Patron Dan Message from fan Jacob - “your podcast helped me get through some really s**tty times in the last couple weeks. I’m just wrapping up my undergrad degree in psychology, wanting to do something with addiction, and Doc’s way of speaking about psychiatry & practicing has genuinely reaffirmed why I wanted to take this path. When I didn’t really feel like studying for my exams I’d find an episode where you examined a character with said disorders or behaviors I was being tested on” New review - EmeraldGod - Doc and Anthony break down superheroes to a level that makes you go hmmm. They allow us to dive into the minds of characters to not only reveal a little about the character and how they see the world, but they also open them up and show us how we can make them more relevant and real. In a world full of would-be icons, this show helps bring modern-day mythologies upfront and personal. Thanks, guys for a great show. I am hooked. Background (06:50) Support systems in comics, formal or otherwise - specifically related to rehabilitated villains Good job: Emma Frost, Hawkeye, Plastic Man Harley Quinn - on the line (19:18) No good: Hal Jordan/Parallax, Angel/Archangel, Magneto (24:30) Ravenscroft & Arkham (40:25) Break (48:17) Plugs for Bedknobs & Broomflicks and Play Comics, plus Gail Simone Treatment (49:34) What parallels can we use to address recidivism in the real world? Ending Next episodes: [REDACTED], Eeyore, Reader Plugs for social References: Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo - Doc (03:52) “Mr. Bassman” by Johnny Cymbal - Anthony (03:55) Now and Then, Here and There - Doc (03:59) Lupin III - Anthony (04:21) Astro Boy - Anthony (04:22) “Things that Make you Go Hmm” by C+C Music Factory - Anthony (05:34) Hawkeye episode - Anthony (08:28) Harley Quinn episode - Anthony (19:30) Harley Quinn: Black & White & Red - Anthony (19:35) "Money, Cash, Hoes" by Jay-Z - Doc (34:22) “Money, Power, Respect” by the Lox - Doc (34:27) Magneto/Professor X episode - Anthony (36:23) Mental Health Avengers Age of Access Pt. 2 - Anthony (63:00) National Alliance on Mental Illness - Doc (67:04) Boondocks Theme - Doc (75:20) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

For our 75th episode, we flip the script - Anthony's the expert and Doc's asking questions. Primarily: how do you estate plan in a world where death isn't permanent? Find out some real life estate planning tips, plus Anthony pitches a new comic book! Listen now! SHOW NOTES: Intro Social distancing – next few episodes will be recorded remotely New patron – Tasha – new Mayor level patron Review read – Dino Gangof1 from Huuuh? Podcast - “More than a comics podcast. Delves deep into superhero psyche. Always a great listen. A new must in my book.” Shoutout to Happier Podcast - Gretchen Rubin helps listeners find a happier life Issue – how to handle estate planning in a world where death is not permanent (09:45) Examples: Jean Grey, Superman, Wolverine – countless heroes have died and returned Furthermore, non-powered individuals have returned from the dead as a result of the actions of heroes E.g. Avengers: Endgame and the fallout of “the Snap” seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home What happens to their stuff – finances, personal effects, etc. What tools could be used: Primarily trusts Laws passed regarding resurrection Draw distinction between powered individuals and humans Break (41:35) Plugs for Popcorn Psychology & Bedknobs and Broomflicks, plus Al Ewing Real-life legality (42:27) Declared death in absentia Property held in trust Call to action: Get an estate plan (62:00) Ending Next episodes: Kamala Khan, Secret identities, Shredder Reminder of TPB review for Patrons at Local Official level & up – this month Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft References: "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from Hamilton - Anthony (17:01) "Dick in a Box" - Doc (21:45) "Bring out your dead" from Monty Python & the Holy Grail - Doc (54:48) Vince McMahon faked death/Chris Benoit murder-suicide - Doc (58:00) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord

No two ways about it, this one is a doozy. Anthony & Doc were supposed to talk about terrorism in comics. They end up solving real world terrorism. In a manner of speaking. This one pulls no punches - listen now! SHOW NOTES: Intro Shoutout for 90s Court – Lisa & Andy argue a court case about two aspects of 90s pop culture, and the fans vote on who wins – find them wherever you listen to podcasts Review read – Luzz 5 stars on Apple Podcasts - “I’ve just finished listening to the Bane episode and I really like the format & content. Keep it up guys!” Background (04:31) Terrorism in comics has existed as long as the medium – secret organizations hellbent on global domination, mad scientists looking to usurp the world order, connection to Axis powers in WWII… lengthy history In the 60s, AIM and Hydra were two big organizations in Marvel Comics, while the Council and H.I.V.E. (Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination) existed in DC Other publishers wrote similar timely stories – The American, written by Mark Verheiden for Dark Horse, depicted a superhero killed trying to stop a hijacking in Beirut As we’re almost 2 decades into the War on Terror, depictions of terrorism in comics are deeply rooted in real world geopolitics, while still providing social commentary on modern events – current run on Captain America has a character called Scourge killing police and innocents in an attempt to besmirch Steve Rogers V for Vendetta – Alan Moore’s unscrupulous hero functions essentially as a terrorist against an authoritarian government Watchmen – Ozymandias’ plot to unite humanity against a common alien foe is accomplished through terrorist methods Questions What makes a terrorist? What motivates them? Is there a world in which there is no terrorism? How are terrorists treated psychologically? Ending Next episodes – The Tick, Abe Sapien, Yorick (Y: the Last Man) References: Rocky IV speech - Doc (69:08) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord

It's our first ever live appearance at Rogue Comics! And we covered the gentle giant Colossus! We compare and contrast his relationships with Kitty and Illyana, plus a Q&A with Piotr himself! Don't miss it! SHOW NOTES: Intro Thanks to everyone for coming to Rogue Comics! New patron - Stephanie! Plug for Play Comics – Chris and a guest play games based on comics, and determine how accurately the game depicts what happens in the comics (3:41) Background (4:45) Colossus (Piotr Nikolayevich Rasputin) created by Len Wein & Dave Cockrum in Giant Size X-Men #1 (May 1975) Piotr was born on a Soviet collective farm with his family, including his sister Ilyana (Magik) As a teen, he saved Ilyana from a runaway tractor, and discovered he had the ability to turn his body into organic steel Joined the X-Men when Professor Xavier put together a team of mutants to rescue the original X-Men on Krakoa, and stayed as a member of the team At one point, he helped save the Fall People in the Savage Land, and started a brief romantic relationship with a woman named Nereel, that resulted in a child named Peter, although Colossus doesn’t know he’s the father Later started a relationship with Kitty Pryde, but ended things shortly thereafter Temporarily paralyzed during battle with Riptide, and was unable to return to human form for a time After Ilyana dies from the Legacy Virus, Colossus joins Magneto’s Acolytes for a while Rejoined the X-Men Sacrificed himself to spread cure to Legacy Virus – later revealed that his body was stolen by an alien to experiment on him – rescued by X-Men and restarts relationship with Kitty until she sacrifices herself to save the Earth from Breakworld World War Hulk – battles Hulk, who breaks his arms while in metal form Gains the powers of the Juggernaut for a while after Cyttorak takes them back from Cain Marko – Magik offers herself, but Piotr intercepts Then gains the power of the Phoenix Force during Avengers vs. X-Men, only to lose it when he and Ilyana battle each other – Ilyana reveals that was part of her plan all along, because she wanted him to feel pain & regret – she frees him of Cyttorak’s influence while in Limbo, and he told her the next time they met, he would kill her Issues (16:45) Relationship with Ilyana - dangerous Relationship with Kitty (25:30) Duality of nature (33:33) Break Plugs for Varmints! and AnxZenity Treatment (44:30) In-universe Out of universe Q&A with Colossus (NOTE: This was originally going to just be for the attendees, but Anthony & Doc couldn't find time to schedule a recording of a regular skit, so you lucked out!) Ending Next episode - history of psychiatry in comics Robbie Reyes - Episode 66 Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord

Anthony and Doc cover Ollie Queen's former sidekick ROY HARPER! From abandonment to drug addiction to child death, this is a very heavy episode - there's even a content warning at the start. This is not a light and fun one, but it's worthwhile to listen to. SHOW NOTES: Intro Background (3:08) Roy Harper created by Mort Weisinger & George Papp in More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941) Originally known as Speedy, sidekick to Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow Raised by Brave Bow, a Navajo medicine chief after his father died, he was adopted by Green Arrow and became Oliver’s sidekick Became a member of the original Teen Titans, and dated Donna Troy before they broke up Famously became addicted to heroin in “Snowbirds Don’t Fly” in 1971 – abandoned by Ollie and taken care of by Black Canary until he got clean Fell in love with villain Cheshire, and they had a daughter (Lian) that Roy didn’t know about until much later Rejoined the Titans and adopted the name Arsenal – after the Titans broke up, he lead a group called the Outsiders for a while Joins the Justice League under the name Red Arrow, until the villain Prometheus cuts his arm off, and the Electrocutioner blows up Star City, killing Lian – with a cybernetic arm built by Cyborg, he goes to the prison and kills the Electrocutioner – has temporary heroin relapse New 52 – Lian no longer exists and his arm is intact, and he is now good friends with Jason Todd – now merely an alcoholic instead of a recovering drug addict, he is a member of the Outlaws – killed in a rehab center by Wally West Rebirth – his past of being Speedy and drug addiction were restored Issues (11:58) Abandonment & father issues – birth father died, then Brave Bow dies of cancer, then Ollie left him – this is what led to… Drug use – constantly dealing with effects of addiction, and fears relapse Paternal regret – great father to Lian, but wasn’t there when she died, and has nightmares about it (38:02) Break Plugs for Into the Knight and Talk Me Into Treatment (47:11) In-universe Out of universe Skit (63:35) Ending Next episode: Ghost Rider (?) Confirmed at Rogue Comics, Cranford NJ, 11/13 at 6:30 PM References: Hank Pym episode - Anthony (21:08) Sackler family - Anthony (38:21) Multiple Man episode - Doc (38:34) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord

Part 1 of our New York Comic Con interviews! Anthony chats with Cullen Bunn, Howard Mackie, Meredith Finch, Jeremy Whitley, and the inimitable Gail Simone! Listen to what they have to say about the characters they've created and written! SHOW NOTES: Intro Cullen Bunn (3:20) What’s he working on Moon Knight – what did he want to focus on writing Marc? Is Khonshu real or not? How did he come up with the various Priests of Khonshu in the Acts of Evil annual? How did he come to write Moon Knight originally? Who’s his favorite personality of Moon Knight? What does he hope to see in the Disney+ show? Howard Mackie (12:37) What was inspiration for Danny Ketch? What aspects of Danny are based on Howard? Danny’s relationship with his mom What baggage did Danny carry because he lost his sister in his origin? How did he differentiate Danny from Johnny Blaze? How did he differentiate Ben Reilly and Kaine from Peter Parker? What’s coming up next? Meredith Finch (26:44) Wonder Woman – what did she want to tell through Diana What perspective did she bring as a woman writing Wonder Woman? How did she write Diana with the burden of being a hopeful character? What other stories did she want to tell with Diana? Xena – what would she do that Wonder Woman wouldn’t do? Rose – who is Rose and what is her story? What is her next project? Jeremy Whitley (36:03) Did he choose to put Maker as the villain of the book or was that an editorial decision? How did Rikki Barnes end up in the book? What does Jeremy like about the Maker as a character? Julie Power – was she intended as POV character? Julie vs. Maker – dealing with heartbreak in different ways Family – themes recurring in the book What’s next? Gail Simone (48:45) Tell us about Seven Days, the new book Ending Next episode – part 2 of NYCC interviews, then Roy Harper References: Into the Knight Moon Knight Annual review (03:03) Maker episode (35:43) Sliding Doors - Jeremy Whitley (38:30) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord Listener Survey

Our second thematic episode focuses on survivor guilt! How does Emma Frost cope with all of the horrible things she's encountered? What impact does being the Last Son of Krypton have on Superman? Anthony & Doc break it all down - listen now! SHOW NOTES: Intro Shoutout to And a Bag of Chips, the podcast that’s all things late 90s/early 2000s – hosted by Lisa Foiles of All That and Drew Background (2:20) Survivor guilt is the idea that a survivor of a traumatic event feels guilty for surviving when others have died First identified in the 1960s, and was featured among several Holocaust survivors – also common among armed forces personnel, victims of natural disasters, and survivors of terrorist attacks Can take several forms: guilt over things they didn’t do or could’ve done, guilt over things they did to survive, and mere guilt over living when others died Can manifest in anxiety, depression, suicidality, nightmares, mood swings Examples Emma Frost - New X-Men 138-139, Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 13-18, X-Men: Manifest Destiny 2 First, Jean and Emma have a psychic battle after Jean discovers Emma’s psychic affair with Scott, and drags her through everything she’s done wrong Then Cassandra Nova manipulates Emma into helping Cassandra destroy the X-Men, and is aware of what she’s doing – brings up her survival of Genosha’s destruction Then, even when she’s headmistress of the school and in the good graces of the team, she still feels that she doesn’t belong, and that her past will be rubbed in her face at any moment Cyclops (18:22)   After Avengers vs. X-Men, feels guilt over killing Xavier, and is basically on a suicide mission to redeem himself Superman (25:50) Last Son of Krypton says it all Batman (30:28) Guilt for not being able to save his parents – so much of what he does & who he is centers around that Walking Dead (35:13) Rick feels guilty abandoning Lori and Judith murdered by the Governor’s crew Treatment (45:04) Ending Next episode – Hawkeye (Fraction run), Roy Harper Listener survey Discord Live episode coming in October at Rogue Comics Live at NYCC References: I, Robot - Anthony (4:00) Triple H - Doc (5:32) Scott is a dick - Anthony (6:20) Stepford Cuckoos episode - Anthony (6:41) Inception - Anthony (7:42) Led Zeppelin - "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper" - Anthony (55:32) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord Listener Survey

To tie in with the Absolute Carnage storyline, Anthony & Doc tackle Carnage himself, CLETUS KASADY! What treatment is there for a deranged, amoral serial killer bonded to a symbiote? Doc has the answers! Listen now! SHOW NOTES: Intro Shoutout to Cage’s Kiss podcast – Every episode covers another Nicolas Cage film Background (02:36) Cletus Kasady created by David Michelinie and Erik Larsen in The Amazing Spider-Man #344 (March 1991) Created because Michelinie wanted to kill off Eddie Brock in ASM 400, but he was too popular – Aunt May killed off instead Born in Ravencroft Asylum, but his heart stopped for a few minutes until he was revived by an ancient evil who foresaw that Cletus would be the one to free him As a child, he pushed his grandmother down a flight of stairs and killed her, threw a hair dryer in the bathtub with his mother, and killed his mother’s dog with a drill His father went to jail for beating his mother, so he was raised in an orphanage, which he burned down after killing the administrator Grew up to become a serial killer, and shared a cell at Ryker’s with Eddie Brock – when the Venom symbiote rebonded with him, a piece broke off and merged with Kasady, creating Carnage Spider-Man and Venom teamed up to defeat him, and the symbiote was thought to be destroyed, but it was bonded to his blood “Maximum Carnage” - he broke out of the Vault and joined other villains to take over New York, until he was defeated by a collection of heroes Later being held in the Raft – escaped, but grabbed by Sentry, flown out of the atmosphere, and ripped in half Repeatedly captured, breaks out, and kills again AXIS – morality inverted and becomes a hero who sacrifices himself to save humanity from the inverted X-Men Absolute Carnage – symbiote returns and bonds with the aforementioned ancient evil to wreak havoc Issues (10:20) Displays Conduct Disorder as a child – intervention could have prevented further problems Nihilist mindset – believes laws are meaningless, and only chaos is true freedom (26:15) Symbiote and its impact on his mental state – (34:30) Break Plugs for Deleter, Play Comics, and Popcorn Psychology Treatment (39:55) In-universe Out of universe (47:10) Skit (54:29) Ending Next episodes - Ultimate Reed Richards (Maker), Survivor's Guilt We have a Discord! Anthony's fundraiser night at George & Martha's Listener survey References: Doc's column for Adventures in Poor Taste - Anthony (01:12) Eddie Brock episode - Anthony (03:52) The Bad Seed - Anthony (06:30) Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage - Anthony (08:24) Sentry episode - Anthony (08:37) Blazing Saddles - "'Scuse me while I whip this out" (NSFW) - Anthony (11:45) The Dark Knight - Hospital scene - Anthony (31:50) Charles Manson family - Doc (47:20) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord Listener Survey

As last season’s 5 FREE APPS TO MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE episode was so incredibly popular I thought that I’d continue with a couple of episodes this season on similar themes. Today I will present 6 awesome FREE extensions for Google Chrome. But before I get into that though, last week’s show looked at TOXIC PEOPLE and how their negatively charged behaviours can disrupt your life and work and ultimately destroy your productivity and your love for life. These toxic personality types included ENERGY VAMPIRES that suck the life force from you, CONTROL FREAKS that make your life a misery by trying to control what you say, what you do and even what you think. Then there are the manipulators who also try to control you but this time with underhand tactics and techniques like shaming, guilting and gaslighting. I highlighted what to watch out for with these sorts of people and ultimately how to deal with them. Now please feel free to get in touch and let me know how you are getting on with the calls to action that I suggest at the end of each episode. Also if you have a moment, please go to the contact page and message me to let me know what you are struggling with in your own life and work. I’m very interested in what productivity techniques you are adopting or what matters you are struggling with as if I can get a grip on your real-life problems I can tailor future episodes to tackle them. Remember that as a solo podcaster I have to come up with all the content that you hear here and your suggestions for futures shows, especially as I near the end of this season and am starting to think about the next would be most welcome. And if you’ve missed any of the shows please also remember that every episode already released can be accessed directly via filmproproductivity.com or on any number of the free podcasting apps that are out there. THE LESSON Some people say that they can run their business from their phone, and it’s undeniable that the power we have with cell phones or mobile phones as we call them here in the UK is significant, but as a regular organiser of film productions and as a filmmaker, a podcaster and producer I simply can’t operate without a computer. I use computers every single day because without them I’d find it near impossible to create, communicate and coordinate. And I have seen people successfully operate to a degree using Android Tablets or iPads but they take this to such a level with plugin keyboards etc that I will argue that they may as well use a laptop or a desktop machine anyway. And everything I will be recommending today is a connected to Google Chrome. That browser is available COMPLETELY FREE for both Mac and PC and even has versions which work on Android, IOS and Linux. I recommend it over all the other web browsers for 5 GOOD reasons.   With one click, it loads web pages, multiple tabs, and applications with lightning speed as it is designed to be the fastest web browser available. It allows you to type both searches and web addresses in the address bar which Google calls The Omnibox. This in itself increases speed and efficiency. It is clean and simple. The omnibox and multi-tabbed browsing make navigating the web very easy. Also when you close chrome, it will remember the tabs you had open so you can pick up right where you left off. Chrome also comes equipped with a built-in PDF viewer which you can use to print, resize, and save PDF’s. Security and Privacy. Chrome keeps you safe and sound with its built-in malware and phishing protection. It has safe browsing technology and will show you a warning message before you visit a site that is suspicious. Chrome also automatically updates, so you always have the latest and most up-to-date version. If you are sharing a computer with other people, you can add multiple users to keep your bookmarks, apps, and extensions separate. Anything you update on one device will instantly update everywhere else you sign in to Chrome browser. Once you sign in, you decide what you want to sync. It’s incredibly efficient and as someone that’s used many many browsers over the years, I can assure you that Google Chrome is simply incredible for your productivity. The final reason - the reason I’m talking about it at all today is that Google Chrome is extremely customizable. Use the Chrome Webstore to add apps, extensions and themes. Apps and extensions give you the latest in productivity, games, education, etc. Themes allow you to bring your browser to life with colours and graphics and you can even create your own themes.    Google Chrome in itself is, of course, my first recommendation but that’s not what this episode is all about. Once you have chrome you have an option to personalise it with add-ons such as Google Chrome Extensions.   So as you know today I will be making recommendations for extensions to Google Chrome, but first things first: What exactly are Google Extensions? Well, EXTENSIONS are small software programs that customize the browsing experience. They enable users to tailor Chrome functionality and behaviour to their individual needs or preferences and as such an extension must fulfil a SINGLE PURPOSE that is narrowly defined and easy to understand. A single extension can include multiple components and a range of functionality, as long as everything contributes towards a common purpose. All Google Chrome extensions are published to the Chrome Web Store and I will provide links to everything that I talk about here in the show notes. Alternatively, if you are using Chrome, just search for the CHROME WEB STORE and browse in the store itself. New York Times Bestselling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices, Sharon Salzberg said Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.  And the first extension that I will recommend is one which will kill all those distracting websites but only for 30 minutes and it’s called FOREST, the full name is actually Forest: stay focused, be present. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focused-be-pr/kjacjjdnoddnpbbcjilcajfhhbdhkpgk  There’s a ton of these sort of anti-distraction extensions out there but this is the one I use, and it has never failed me. Like most of the others, it’s based on a time management system called The Pomodoro Technique which was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. That technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Forest uses that principle and provides an interesting solution to save you from Internet addiction. Basically, you set it up by typing in the websites that most often distract you. For reference, my blacklisted sites are youtube, gumtree, ebay, twitter, facebook and reddit. Once you’ve set that up with your own custom list you are all set to go. It sits like all other extensions in your browser bar and when you feel you need to work without distractions you click it. When that happens a pop up appears to indicate you have planted a virtual seed in the Forest app and over the next 30 minutes, that seed will gradually grow into a tree. During the next 30 minutes you will be blocked from visiting those sites and if you decide to override it, the little tree will start to wither away and die. With this interesting mechanism, your own sense of achievement and responsibility will drive you to stay away from the distractions with no pain. It’s a self-motivated and interesting method to help you beat Internet addiction. It helps you to cultivate (literally) your personal pattern of time management by making good use of 30-minute chunks of time to fully concentrate on your work and finish it effectively. I’ve never actually done it but you can also share your trees with friends or colleague which I can see the benefits of. Hans Hofmann said “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Next on my list is an extension called JUST READ. This is an incredibly useful extension which does one thing and does it well. It simplifies web pages. It removes ads pictures and other distractions from whatever website you are on and just shows you the text, in an easy to read and well laid out format. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-read/dgmanlpmmkibanfdgjocnabmcaclkmod  When you give it a click you remove distractions like the page's styling, ads, popups and comments and can read the article in a customizable, simplified format - like a read mode but better! No login required and it’s completely free! Another thing that it does, which they don’t advertise though, is that it makes locked text on a website available to copy. As someone who likes to chuck in the occasional quotes and that means that I can copy and paste that text into my podcast notes. “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” Said Austin Freeman and can easily repeat that here as I used JUST READ to simplify the page I stole it from. It’s a really useful extension and that’s why its number 2 on my list here. This list btw is in no particular order. Number 3 on my list, and I also rated it highly in my useful apps episode is the POCKET extension. I love Pocket in all its forms. It’s basically a way of bookmarking orsaving yourr favourite articles, videos etc, for later reference. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-pocket/niloccemoadcdkdjlinkgdfekeahmflj It beats, hands down the other competitors for ease of use and it syncs across all devices – iPhone, iPad, Android and more. Basically when you find something in Chrome that you want to view later, put it in Pocket. That involves just clicking the pocket button on your browser bar. It then automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or other computers so you can view it at any time, even without an internet connection. You can add tags to it and pocket will even suggest recommended related content which if you are researching a podcast, for example, is really kinda useful! It’s completely free but you can upgrade anytime to Premium for a more powerful Pocket experience. If you use pocket regularly you’ll likely need to put aside a bit of time each week to catch up on what you’ve stuffed in there along the way but don’t worry, unless you delete it you will be able to access your pocket saves indefinitely. One last thing is that when you click to view your pocket list, it gives you previews of everything you’ve saved, so unlike in a bookmarks folder, you can find what you are looking for very quickly. It’s a fast, efficient and totally awesome Google Chrome Extension. NEXT UP is an extension called ONE TAB. Albert Einstein “Out of clutter, find simplicity.” and that’s EXACTLY what this extension will do for your browser. If you’ve ever found yourself with too many open tabs, you just click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once. It's really useful if you are midway through researching something and want to ensure that it’s all there the next time in the same format. Also when your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome. The information about your tabs is never transmitted or disclosed to the OneTab developers, but the exception to this is if you intentionally click on the 'share as a web page' feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others. Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the 'share as a web page' button. ONE TAB is one of those really functional, yet simple, add-ons that you never knew you needed. I love it. Fifth on my list of recommended productivity extensions is MOMENT. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/moment-1-personal-dashboa/lgecddhfcfhlmllljooldkbbijdcnlpe  Following along with the theme of simplicity all this really does is give a clean and modern look to your default Chrome homepage. When you call up a new tab it comes up not as the default Google search page but as a simpler and more appealing page which you have customized. With this app you can either turn an image of your own into a background for the new tabs or choose from a selection of hi-res photos and videos from its recommendations – This will become your default Google background image. It’s basically like a desktop background for your browser. I use a stream running through a forest video, which is nice and calming. In the top right corner, it has a HUB icon that when pressed offers you the choice of reopening recent pages or bookmarks or sessions. You can also access via another tab any number of apps that you have chosen from a full list when you set it up. Finally, it offers a todo list which I don’t use as I already use another todo list app called to-doist, which is also one of my very regularly used Chrome Extensions. Lastly, it gives an option to use an onscreen note taking app which occasionally comes in handy. The main reason I have this though is just for the calming image and simple customizable tabs which it offers. It might not make you that much more productive, in all honesty, but it will make you a little happier and a little bit calmer along the way - as the Dalai Lama says “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence - that's very important for good health.” The 6th and final extension that I want to talk about m here – I have more but let’s not get carried away. The Sixth extension is, and if you’ve not been using it you should do, is Grammarly. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grammarly-for-chrome/kbfnbcaeplbcioakkpcpgfkobkghlhen  Grammarly offers a host of features that are incredibly helpful in editing any writing, whether it’s a social media post, a call sheet, a script or a novel and it’s FREE. It’s freeeeee! Incidentally, it can be installed in any browsers, obviously Google Chrome, but also in Firefox, Safari, and Edge, and it will automatically check any writing. For example, it can mark mistakes on emails and forms as users write in the browser. It scans the whole document for any mistake, including grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. Anyone can use it anywhere, but it does require users to be connected to the internet so that it can properly identify mistakes. It then informs the writer of the document what steps can be taken to improve the writing, and it's up to the user whether to heed the advice akin to a professional's. Grammarly will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful. Adding Grammarly to Chrome means that your spelling and grammar will be vetted on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly everywhere else you write on the web. Once you register your new account, you will start to receive weekly emails with personalized insights and performance stats which is useful too, and if it annoys you, you can just ask it to stop. It’s a contextual spelling checker which detects correctly spelt words used in the wrong context. It can fix hundreds of complex grammatical errors, including subject-verb agreement, article use, and modifier placement, to name just a few. Grammarly adapts to your needs and writing style, giving you the confidence of mistake-free communication every time you write. Forbes magazine says “Grammarly quickly and easily makes your writing better and makes you sound like a pro, or at least helps you avoid looking like a fool.” and The Harvard Business Review: “...good grammar is instrumental in conveying ideas with clarity professionalism, and precision...Good grammar is simply good business.” SUMMING UP Douglas Adams said, “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Well, the technology that I list here today does just work and I encourage you to try it. I could list another 5 or 6 Google Extensions off the top of my head, but that will have to do for now. If you find yourself very often working online like I do or working through a web browser where you access your working email etc then these extensions will make life easier and far more productive for you. CALL TO ACTION A link to every chrome extension that I’ve talked about here and a full transcript of this episode is available at filmproproductivity.com and may appear on your podcasting apps too. Please be aware though that some podcasting apps will remove links from the RSS feed. If you want to guarantee that they will be there go to the official website which I have full control of. What I’d say for a call to action is load the extensions, one at a time, and them out and see how they work for you. They’re all free but some have some in-app purchases which can be used to expand their capabilities. I however only use the free versions. As with all technology you’ll have to spend a few minutes getting to know what it offers, so I’d strongly suggest that you try them one at a time – If they work for you then great but if they are not your cup of tea, it’s as easy as right-clicking them on your Chrome browser and tapping remove from chrome. ENDING Next week’s episode, will be talking about why filmmakers should shoot with what they’ve got and why keeping up with the Jones’s or lusting after the next big thing, is a really bad habit to get into. I’ll end today’s show with the words of Pablo Picasso who said  - “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” Now, take control of your own destiny, keep on shootin’ and join me next time on Film Pro Productivity. The podcast music is Adventures by A Himitsu. You can view the show notes for this episode at filmproproductivity.com If you’re struggling with something you think I can help with or would like to tell me how you are getting on then please get in touch via the contact page on the website. Alternately you can get me on Twitter @fight_director or follow the show @filmproprodpod Please support this podcast by subscribing, leaving an AWESOME review and spreading the word. If you can get just one new person to tune in I’d really appreciate it.   Sources: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769?hl=en-GB https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-quotes-on-simplicity/    

  Today we’ll be delving into a business productivity system called the 4 DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION aka the 4DX which I believe will be applicable to the world of creatives like film pros. I won’t make this too long an episode as the system is fairly quick to follow but before I go onto it let’s look back at last week’s episode and which talked about Protecting Your Mental Energy. Mental energy you see is over and above time and money and skills and everything else, IS YOUR MOST FINITE AND VALUABLE ASSET. When you’re mental energy is depleted you are less able to be effective and just one side effect of this is that you can be easily manipulated. Have a listen if you missed it and get protecting your own MENTAL ENERGY. You can thank me later. ANECTDOTE In the words of that famous philosopher, LL Cool J, Stay focused - go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. I’ve talked a lot in the show about how focus is important if you want to get things done, and to get things done you really need a strategy, and if you have a strategy it must be designed to work towards your goals. Today I’m going to discuss how to execute on the strategies which will lead to you achieving your goals. The difficulty we face once a strategy is decided you see is EXECUTION OF THAT STRATEGY or the delivery if you don’t quite follow, your strategy. I am just about a third of the way through researching, writing and recording this season and I have a plan to get it all done, but it’s a tight and driven schedule of work and life gets in the way really every day. Today I’m slipping as I’m recording this right at the last possible minute. Nothing catastrophic will happen tomorrow but if I continue to miss the scheduled process goals for my main goal, roughly an episode every 4 days then by the time I hit my target date, I’ll be behind by at least a couple of episodes. Now I can pick them up after and the audience won’t really know if I am clever about that, but I have another series of new goals which land on the 1st of March, so if I miss my season 2 launch date it will bang into those goals and they will be put back. If I’m not careful my focus will change from aiming for success to just ensuring that I don’t fail which is a different matter. There are lots of things messing me up today. Last night I got an unexpected email about the second Dead End film and had to give up time then and again this morning to deal with it and I didn’t sleep well as it was involved. My car is off the road and that’s slowing my schedule too. I’ve scripts to read and communications to make and hoovering and shopping and life, in general, to contend with and come the 11th February I’ll be back shooting at the BBC so my time will shrink even further. In reality, I need to record as many episodes as I can before that date, which at time of recording is just 19 days away, so really one every three days and these things take time – in effect I’ve so much going on that I’m suffocating and my ability to take action is diminishing. My time and energy is getting sucked away. That situation that struggle of life and work and other things, disconnected from my main goal - is described in the Sean Covey, Chris McChesney and Jim Huling book THE FOUR DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION which calls it THE WHIRLWIND. When putting together the book they surveyed over 200,000 leaders around the world to find out why they struggle to execute - the answers varied, but the authors realized all their answers had one thing in common. The main reason leaders and teams routinely fail to execute promising strategies and important team goals are because they spend all their energy dealing with the whirlwind. The FOUR DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION is a system which cuts through that whirlwind of everyday life etc and I’ll be referencing the book throughout today's show. As always I’ll link to it in the show notes with a full transcript. AMAZON AFFILIATE LINKS US: https://amzn.to/2H0PNQU UK: https://amzn.to/2EuoVHu LESSON The book says “The real enemy of execution is your day job! We call it the whirlwind. It’s the massive amount of energy that’s necessary just to keep your operation going on a day‐to‐day basis; and, ironically, it’s also the thing that makes it so hard to execute anything new. The whirlwind robs from you the focus required to move your team forward.” – unquote And it goes on to say that “The whirlwind is urgent and it acts on you and everyone working for you every minute of every day. The goals you’ve set for moving forward are important, but when urgency and importance clash, urgency will win every time." Dwight D. Eisenhower said that “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” I‘ll post the image for this in the show notes but he had a priority system which I’ve mentioned on the show before but never actually delved into. You can only benefit from the Eisenhower Method if you are willing to commit to making radical categorization of your daily tasks. This Method requires that you group your tasks and activities into four priorities, separated in a visual layout. So it’s a box if you can imagine with 4 quadrants. Priority 1 tasks are both urgent and important. Priority 2 tasks are important but not urgent. Priority 3 tasks are urgent but not important. Priority 4 tasks are neither urgent nor important. And here is how you can handle your tasks based on those Principles. Important/Urgent quadrant 1 tasks are DO TASKS – Get them done immediately and personally e.g. crises, deadlines, problems. I focus on these important things and take into consideration when they’re due. Important/Not Urgent quadrant 2 tasks are DECIDE TASKS and are done personally e.g. calling friends and family, researching, planning, gym, strategy. Unimportant/Urgent quadrant 3 tasks are DELEGATED TASKS e.g. interruptions, meetings, booking flights, some research, possibly some social networking. Unimportant/Not Urgent quadrant 4 tasks are DELETE TASKS just dropped e.g. time wasters, trivia, spam email, telemarketers, or you could include checking social media or watching TV. I’ve found that every time I’ve let urgency trump importance, I’ve regretted it. – Unquote, Trent Hamm So, that’s been a little aside but within what I am talking about here that may turn out to be quite useful. Coming back now to THE FOUR DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION the writers of the book discovered through their interviews that executing a promising idea or important goal amid a raging whirlwind requires discipline. It requires the discipline to deal with urgent items while remaining focused on what’s important. The sad truth is that this becomes a struggle which is almost always won by the Whirlwind, which dooms your strategy from the beginning. Why is this? Well, according to the Four Disciplines of Execution methodology, it’s because even the boldest strategy for moving forward won’t have an impact unless you centre it around execution. In the Whirlwind which is just all of the things, you need to do on a daily basis to keep things chugging along. They need to get done, but they don’t actually move the needle on your strategy. This leads to a struggle for attention. On the one hand, you have this Whirlwind of daily activity that demands your attention. And on the other, you have the high-priority responsibilities that will ensure your strategy is met. The Four Disciplines are all about realizing this and putting in place the practices you need to make sure the most important work gets done first. When combined, these four disciplines will allow you through determined action to achieve their goals on a regular basis. So what are they? Well, I’m going to refer partly to a summary produced by www.ProductivityGame.com here and combine it in with some more info. Jim Huling says that “Execution starts with focus.” and Jim Rohn said “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” - Discipline #1 is THE DISCIPLINE OF FOCUS. The first discipline requires sustaining the whirlwind at its current level while you advance towards what it calls one WILDLY IMPORTANT GOAL or WIG - W.I.G. A Wildly Important Goal, it actually says one or two but let’s keep it simple –remember the more you try to get done, the lower the odds of success of each of the goals you seek to achieve. Extraordinary results can only be achieved when you are clear about what matters most.  As simple as this principle may sound, few ever master it. To find your wildly important goal, DON’T ASK: “What’s most important?” If you ask that question, you’ll inevitably focus on the whirlwind because everything in the whirlwind seems important. Instead, ask yourself: “If everything else remained at its current level of performance, what one achievement would make everything else seem secondary?” In other words, if you didn’t need to worry about anything else for the time being, what one goal would you focus on right now? Try using the Eisenhower matrix if you are having trouble. And whatever that goal is you must be specific about it. The way they put it is that you must move from X to Y by (insert date here) So as an example again, my current goal is to Launch Season 2 – to get from where I am now as I record this on the 23rd January  and get from the 4 episodes I have recorded already, to 12 episodes recorded by the 24th of February. I have a super clear goal. The book says “Once you stop worrying about everything else going backwards, you can start moving forward on your WIG.” unquote Discipline 2: MEASURE LEAD BEHAVIOURS. With unlimited time and resources, you could accomplish anything.  Unfortunately, your challenge is usually the opposite. There are two measurements you can focus on while executing: LEAD BEHAVIOUR measurements and LAG RESULT MEASUREMENTS. Lag result measurements are measurements of the results you want. Lead behaviour measurements are measurements of the essential or critical day‐to‐day activities that lead to the results you want. With this podcast, if I create more content (lead behaviour) I’ll get more people listening, and more subscribers. And that’s a (Lag Result) In sales, for example, more sales calls (lead behaviour) lead to more sales (lag result). If you‘re learning a new skill, say the functions of a new camera, then the more time spent studying it and using it (lead behaviour) leads to more confidence in working it and faster operation of it (lag result). Measuring results can be frustrating though because it takes time for your actions to produce measurable results. That’s why they are called lag results. If you measure a value you can’t immediately improve, your willingness to execute will diminish. However, when you focus on a metric you can influence every day or every week, like a lead behaviour, you’ll sustain your level of execution. Seeing daily/weekly signs of improvements will increase engagement and drive the execution of your WIG. Your WILDLY IMPORTANT GOAL. Discipline 3: KEEP SCORE - Without a scoreboard, you or your team will lose track of your measurements, forget the score, and lose the will to win. Therefore, you need to create a scoreboard that includes your WIG (title), your lag measurements (line chart from left to right), and your lead measurements (bar chart below the lag measurements). I’ll post an example in the show notes. If you’re improving the lead measurement, and that lead measurement is corresponding to improvements in the lag measurement, then you’re winning. It’s suggested you write this up somewhere it can be seen I’ll be trying it out on one of my many whiteboards. The thing about keeping score is, well think about it in sporting terms. How much more engaged to fans and players get when their goals start to get scored. It really lights a fire to win. So disciplines 1, 2 and 3 according to Franklin Covey are nothing more than creating a winnable game and discipline 4 is how we play that game. Author Catherine Pulsifer said “at the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves - our success is a result of what we do.” and Discipline 4 is the discipline of accountability. No matter how brilliant your plan or how important your goal, nothing will happen until you follow through with consistent action.  4DX brings the practices that drive accountability and follow through, despite a whirlwind of competing priorities. The fourth discipline of execution requires setting up weekly accountability meetings with teammates or peers (not bosses or managers) but as a freelancer I suggest you put aside a session per week, I have half an hour on Friday afternoons in my diary, to assess how you are getting on, write up your progress and hold yourself accountable to stay on course. This is half an hour a week where you can also work on your life and career in a period where you are not living and working in it. Holding regular weekly accountability sessions like this or with people at your level (called WIG sessions) ensures you stay in the game. When you set up reoccurring weekly meetings with teammates or like‐minded peers to discuss your efforts, you strengthen your commitment to execution. During your WIG sessions (When working in teams these are usually 15‐minute weekly accountability meetings), do three things: report on last week’s commitment, or write it up if you are an individual, review the score and describe or detail in writing the actions you took to advance your WIG, and Commit to a lead behaviour improvement or a specific deliverable for your next week. SUMMING UP The book says If you ignore the urgent, it can kill you today. It’s also true, however, that if you ignore the important, it can kill you tomorrow. I hope that my potted version of the system has been of interest to you and I think it’s a really cool angle to approach getting things done. The book, of course, expands monumentally on the simple principles which I have highlighted here and as I said before, there will be a link to it in the show notes. I’ll end with a quote from Paul J. Meyer who said that “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” CALL TO ACTION Your call to action this week is to decide on a WIG or wildly important goal and figure out your X to Y by a specific date. If you are uncertain of your WIG then see if you can cut through that whirlwind of life and work and whatever you have on by applying the Eisenhower matrix to it. Move forward with your strategy towards your WIG and execute using the 4 principles I have detailed here. ENDING Next week I’ll be talking about a subject which I am sure will hit a mark with most creatives. It’s a long episode but you’re going to get a lot out of it. The topic will be Bad Collaborations, or Collabo-Haters as I have coined them. Until then please take control of your own destiny, keep on shootin’ and join me next time on Film Pro Productivity. The music you can hear right now is Adventures by A Himitsu You can view the show notes for this episode on the official website at filmproproductivity.com Please follow the show on Twitter @filmproprodpod or Facebook @filmproproductivity or catch me on my personal accounts on Instagram and twitter @fight_director Thanks for supporting the show by subscribing, telling people all about it and forcing them to listen at gunpoint if necessary and please leave an AWESOME review. Sources: Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJDliThj7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADORZuvw9pw https://www.thesimpledollar.com/separating-the-urgent-and-the-important/Thanks: A Himitsu   Music: Adventures by A Himitsu https://www.soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music released by Argofox https://www.youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE Music provided by Audio Library https://www.youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8 ––– • Contact the artist: x.jonaz@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/ahimitsu https://www.twitter.com/ahimitsu1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFwu-j5-xNJml2FtTrrB3A

  EPISODE 11 – Committing to a Twelve Week Year   “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” — Fitzhugh Dodson On this week’s show, I will be discussing the concept of the twelve week year, how I used it to get out of a creative rut and how it can be used to focus your vision and complete goals quickly. It’s a bit longer than usual episodes but it’s filled with valuable and important stuff. Before I go on to that though, in last week’s episode I set out to discount the myth that multitasking is somehow a more productive way of working than just doing one thing at a time. The ONE THING AT A TIME PHILOSOPHY is not the easiest thing to do, and I perhaps find that especially true for creatives. As we constantly find ourselves thinking of more and more things we could develop or work on within ourselves or our creative projects, be they films or whatever, we often trip over the last idea we had with a fresh new one and short circuit it. Multitasking does exist of course, as any mother or father working from home with a toddler at their heels will confirm, but in productivity terms, it’s incredibly inefficient and as we get older we simply become less and less able to pull it off. If you missed the episode do scoot back and have a listen as it’s got some good food for thought in there but if you did and have been giving it a try, as always please get in touch via twitter or the website links and let me know how you are getting on. If you have a particular element of your life or work that you are struggling with then please get in touch and I’ll see if I can work up a new episode to help you to deal with it. ANECDOTE Sadly I lost my brilliant dad at the start of 2017 and just a few months later I lost my amazing mum too. It was not a good year and by September I found that I was struggling to get things done in both life and work. I always seemed to be a step behind and I was firefighting my way through everything last minute, that’s if I got things done at all. I’ve talked about firefighting a few times here and YOU CAN WORK THAT WAY BUT what it does is that it takes your attention away from larger problems and those problems play heavily on your mind. It also makes your goals secondary to whatever the current problem is that you are dealing with. It got to the point several times in the years leading up to my own first twelve week year where I had to just stop and those that follow my twitter feed will know this, I have to shut it down to allow me to focus on what is absolutely vital. The white noise that I talked about in episode 3, just saturated my thoughts with 10’s If not hundreds of small to large sized tasks and commitments and I got heavily bogged down and kinda lost. Of course, now I have ways to avoid this, but that’s really because I was able to get myself out from under a host of problems by committing to a 12 week year and in turn that started me on my way to high-level thinking. It’s worth saying that even productivity systems can become white noise if you try to follow too many at once, but I found the 12 week year and basically, with a fairly thin understanding of it I threw myself in. I’ll go into it in detail a little later but I usually describe it to others as taking your new year’s resolution, what you want to achieve by that same time the following year instead of putting it 12 weeks away. For example, let’s say you want to make a short film. You say. I want to write, shoot and edit a short film by this time next year that’s my vision, that tells a story that I want to tell, or you want to learn how to edit by this time next year, or you want to make a change in career by this time next year, or you want to lose a few pounds or here’s one, you want to launch a podcast by this time next year. Instead of saying by THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, the traditional way you instead put that goal just 12 weeks away. So a twelve week year simply takes the focussed energy at the start and end of a new year’s resolution - The first six weeks and the final six weeks of the year and misses out the middle bit. The 9 months of the year where you got distracted from your vision. It focuses your time and energy and makes achieving your goals a real possibility. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” — Earl Nightingale My goal when I set my own 12 week year up was to clear the decks of incomplete projects, unfinished personal matters and promises to help others out within that time and I largely succeeded. I successfully killed off projects that were going nowhere, completed tasks that had been lying unfinished for well, some of them, years and I either end lined or escaped from all but two other matters. One was a project I’d been dragged into and that the producer simply wouldn’t let go, and I found myself in the end, out of politeness, agreeing to extend my involvement – I shouldn’t have done it but I did, and the other was an insurance claim for water getting into my house which in the end I simply had to concede to as a kind of half agreement with them a few weeks later – by that stage it had been two whole years unresolved and the 12 week year put real pressure on them. I learned that corporate matters like an insurance claim are very difficult to get working to your speed. Everything else though and I’m talking some 11 or 12 quite complicated matters, as well as many many smaller ones, got resolved within the 12 weeks. Of note is that NONE of the people that I gave deadlines to for the release of my voluntary creative involvement, actually completed or indeed really even started their projects within the 12 weeks I gave them to do so. These were creative projects which I can only assume were started by people on a whim, and they had called me or invited me on board and this was before I taught myself to say no of course, but they never went anywhere. It’s not that they couldn’t keep up with the pace that I set, THEY COULDN’T EVEN TAKE THE FIRST STEP ONTO A PACE – THERE WAS NO PACE. I’d been sweating and giving up mental energy to these projects when the people who apparently were driving them were really just waiting for me to do it for them. That realisation and my higher level self’s acknowledgement of it made saying no to future involvements all the easier. I did try another 12 week year just after the first, trying to pull together within it both this podcast and a web series and that 12 week year failed, well kinda failed and the reason was that I was 1 – Uncertain of exactly what I wanted to do with this podcast and my goal was therefor unspecific, And 2 – That the project I’d let slide on the previous 12 week year slammed right into my one and took all of the spare time that I’d worked so hard for, off of me. I had to manhandle that project to completion and if I hadn’t it simply would never have shot. In effect, I dropped my own project in favour of someone else’s and killed my second 12-week plan myself. All really out of politeness. I’m quite aware as I work on these episodes that at times I may sound harsh, or unsupportive or negative even but I have deep regrets from wasting my time and energy with experiences like this, and I must tell you that giving up your own hopes and dreams to commit to furthering someone else’s vision, no matter how nice they are, is not a good thing for the soul. I’m currently nearing the end of my 3rd 12 week year, and my goal with this one – to launch a podcast on the subject of productivity by the end of September 2018. How am I getting on? THE LESSON So committing to and completing a 12 week year is really pretty difficult but if you can get through it, and NOT GET DISTRACTED you will achieve a hell of a lot. I present this episode as I know just how powerful it is and I absolutely believe in it. The TWELVE WEEK YEAR IS a PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM created by BRIAN P MORAN and his business partner MICHAEL LENNINGTON, outlined in a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK (link in the show notes) and an accompanying website of the same name that debunks traditional goal setting, using annual goals, as an ineffective goal-achieving approach. The 12 Week Year Is Not About Mustering More Discipline, Willpower, Organizational Skills, or A better Mindset, it is simply a focussed approach to goal setting which takes your long-term vision and brings it closer. Please buy your copy through one of my Amazon Affiliate Links. I get a small cut and it helps keep teh podcast costs down a wee bit.  AMAZON US: https://amzn.to/2RUaj98 AMAZON UK: https://amzn.to/2yfN3tW RESEARCH ON NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS suggests that when you set one and commit to it on the 1st of January that it is very likely that you might put in a good effort towards that yearly goal for 5 or 6 weeks at the start of the year, hitting the gym or writing down ideas etc. but by the time you are 6 weeks in, that LIFE AND WORK AND OTHER MATTERS will have taken your focus and frayed it, diluted it and you’d probably have abandoned your goal to deal with what was immediately on your plate. It goes on to suggest that maybe towards the end of the year you pick it back up again, and say to yourself, well I must do that thing that I said I would, and you might return to the gym, or perhaps you may have decided just to let it go. AN IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE TWELVE WEEK YEAR The 12 Week Year is a highly practical guide for taking you from thinking about the things you should be doing to push your business or your project or your life forward to actually doing those things. I’m basing my next section on an article by Carrie Dils called How to Squeeze a Full Year out of 12 Weeks. I did a good bit of additional research but I really liked her conclusions. There are 4 stages to this: Firstly you must SET “PILLAR” GOALS “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” ― Diana Scharf Now I’ve kind of avoided getting specific on goal setting so far in this podcast but the time has come for you to start thinking long term. The whole point of higher level thinking is to intelligently move yourself towards your own goals be they short or long term. And you need to start thinking about it if you haven’t already – The question is this - What is your long-term vision for your life? Where would you like to be true about your life in 10 years. Would you like to be debt free? Would you like to have a family? Would you like to achieve a certain salary? Own a holiday home? Move your career to a significant place? This will be your pillar goal. Take your time with this. Get to grips with it. I’ll revisit goals again and again on this show. For now, the idea is to pick 2-3 core goals for each 12-week cycle that serve your larger vision. Did you know that - If you write a goal down the probability of you doing it goes up 80%? Write a compelling vision of the ideal future that you’re working towards. The second stage is to GET RID OF ANNUALIZED THINKING Imagine getting a week’s worth of progress made in one day. Think critically about the tasks that are truly most important to your goals and spend your time on those things. What can I focus on in the next 12 weeks that are in service of my Pillar goals? Plan the daily or weekly tasks that serve those 2-3 primary goals and if your daily activities aren’t supporting those goals, you’re doing the wrong thing. Create habits to make taking regular action as easy as possible. Here are some examples that serve my current goal of creating this podcast. Create the website that supports the podcast. Learn how to submit to iTunes. Create test episodes to learn from. And how have I tackled these? I stopped my involvement in other peoples creative projects in order to focus on my goal. I tried three different word press designers, wasted time with them, and I eventually took over and built it myself in Wix. I researched how to get onto iTunes by following you tubers and listening to podcasts that talk about the subject. I hired a friend with a podcast to advise me on creating this one, and I recorded tests and rerecorded episode 1 three times before settling. I narrowed my focus, out with the day to day work of fight direction which is incredibly busy this year I must add and I focussed only on my podcast goals in my spare time. I deliberately avoided being drawn into other ideas and projects that took my fancy. Thirdly - DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING. Planning is some of the most productive time you can have. You have to set focused tactical goals. Plan what strategies and actions will move you closer to your goal and your future success. To achieve a year’s worth of work in the next 12 weeks requires a style of planning and execution that forces you to shed the low-value activity that keeps you stuck. Engage with the word tactical and don’t be afraid to say no to things that will distract you or slow you down. You have to make a detailed plan, with dates to hit - and stick to it. My detailed plan for his podcast has three elements to it: 1 Be ready by the 12th of September – My ideal launch date. 2 Have 15 episodes researched written and recorded by that date. Today is the 7th and I am on episode 11. I will put off recording 12-15 as I’m not in Glasgow so cannot complete. I will however complete by the 20th. 3 To launch with a website which will support the show and is simple to look at but offers the opportunity for expansion. The website planning is very complex in itself. I have been getting up early - between5.30-6am in order to complete a little bit of work on the podcast every day. As I near the end, it is slotting into every spare moment that I can find, between risk assessments, travel and fights. Lastly – YOU SHOULD KEEP SCORE Make your goals SMART That is (Specific. Measurable. Actionable. Relevant. Time-sensitive.). If you can’t measure progress, how do you know how you’re doing? Keep score so you know what’s working and what’s not so that you can make adjustments along the way. It enables you to celebrate wins and consciously identify problem areas. Here are some common problems that you may face along the way. COMMON MISTAKE #1: Trying to change everything at once - This is the number one mistake people make. Start with one thing and do it well. Once you get a few wins under your belt, you’ll gain skill and confidence with the system and you’ll be able to achieve even more. COMMON MISTAKE #2: Not having a strong enough “why” You absolutely MUST have a compelling personal vision. This is the “why” behind what you want to accomplish and achieve. It provides the motivation to follow through and take action, even when you don’t feel like it. Don’t get caught up trying to please someone else or copy someone else. Find your own why. COMMON MISTAKE #3: Not tracking your actions. This is important because you are what you repeatedly do. You are always building habits, either by intention or by accident. Tracking is a daily reminder that you’re growing. COMMON MISTAKE #4: Going it alone - If you’re serious about achieving your goals, the best thing you can do is tell others about it. There’s an African proverb that says, “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” So share your vision & goals with a friend or a colleague. In the productivity world, there’s something called an accountability partner. I’m sure if you put some effort into it you can find someone who it would be mutually beneficial to share with. SUMMING UP Brian P. Moran says in the 12 week year that “the number-one thing that you will have to sacrifice to be great, to achieve what you are capable of, and to execute your plans, is your comfort.” I’ve gone into some detail here but the book covers this topic very well. Follow the link in the show notes to get yourself a copy. It’s got so much value in it that I’ve really just had time to touch upon here. In the interest of honesty, I have to admit that I have deliberately put back my launch of Film Pro Productivity from the 12 September to a bit later in the month. The reason for that? I’m directing fight sequences simultaneously on 3 different television shows now and one is on the Island of Shetland at the top of Scotland, one is on the Isle of Skye to the North West and the other is in Central Scotland, In Glasgow. I simply can’t make my own launch date as I have to follow the work. If I launched on the 12th, which tbh I can, then I would not be able to promote it. I have delayed a little to gain a lot. This twelve week year episode is my first foray into the subject of goal setting. I hope that you’ve found it useful and inspiring. “One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.” — Karen Casey CALL TO ACTION I’m not going to suggest that as a call to action for next week you begin a 12 week year – all I ask is that you think about how it could work for you and start deciding on your life and work goals. That’s enough for now. ENDING Next episode I’ll be talking about Timewasters and How to deal with them – I’ll try and make it a shorter episode! For now though, thanks so much for listening – and I urge you to take control of your own destiny, keep on shootin’ and join me NEXT TIME on Film Pro Productivity. The music that you are listening to right now is Adventures by A Himitsu. You can view the show notes for this episode at filmproproductivity.com/episode11 If you’re struggling with something you think I can help with or would like to tell me how you are getting on then please get in touch via the contact page on the website. Alternately you can get me on Twitter @fight_director or follow the show @filmproprodpod Please subscribe to the podcast and if you are in the caring/ sharing mood then I’d really appreciate it if you would spread the word and leave an AWESOME review.   Sources: https://carriedils.com/book-review-the-12-week-year/ https://12weekyear.com/ http://www.asianefficiency.com/systems/12-week-year-mistakes-2/ Thanks: A Himitsu Music: Adventures by A Himitsu https://www.soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... 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The Avengers: Infinity War special - THANOS! Anthony compares Infinity Gauntlet to Beauty & the Beast, Dr. Issues talks God's Debris, and the most far out couch skit yet! SHOW NOTES: Introduction Background (07:48) Created by Jim Starlin in Iron Man #53 (1973), originally an Iron Man villain Moved on to become adversary of Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) Killed by Adam Warlock, but resurrected by Mistress Death Thanos Quest - On the search for Soul Gems (later renamed Infinity Gems) to please Death, who is his obsession (12:18) Infinity Gauntlet - Acquisition of ultimate power over all facets of reality, defeated by own hubris and Nebula Infinity Gauntlet = Beauty and the Beast (17:15) Infinity War - Allies with Warlock and Avengers against Magus and his own doppleganger Infinity Crusade - Once again allies with Warlock, this time against Goddess Infinity Abyss - Created five clones/experiments, but they attack him and he is forced to destroy them Annihilation - Allies with Annihilus until he realizes Annihilus wants to destroy universe, gets killed by Drax Thanos Imperative - Becomes the new avatar of Death, fights Guardians of the Galaxy, and is imprisoned within the Cancerverse by Nova (Richard Rider) Thanos Rising - a backstory prequel that explains his mother tried to kill him at birth, his obsession with Death, and ultimately him killing his mother Infinity - Thanos has a son who is half-Inhuman (Thane), goes all Creeping Death on Inhuman boys between 16 and 22 Secret Wars - Killed by God Emperor Doom Civil War II - Resurrected by Galactus, discovers he is dying, and kills his father Mentor after he is unable to provide a cure Issues (35:49) Obsession with Death - done out of love Isolation (42:48) Petulance (43:26) Destructive relationship with family (45:23) Nihilism (48:25) Greed and ego (51:32) Betrayed by subconsciousness - unworthy of power (54:42) Treatment (60:39) In-universe - dare God to do better Dr. Issues discusses God's Debris (61:04) Anthony mentions "The Egg" (65:10) Out-of-universe (66:51) - Existential therapy Understand the connections between people (72:15) Thanos on the Couch (79:20) Ending - Next week's episode - LOKI! (84:48) Special links: "The Egg" - Mentioned by Anthony at 65:10 God's Debris - Mentioned by Dr. Issues at 61:04 iTunes: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: hereTwitter FacebookE-mail

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