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The gang is back after a week off and there's tons to talk about. This is Thanksgiving week so we talk about the travel weather for our area. Rando gets up on his soapbox about the winter weather hypers starting back up. This week's Stormdar Weather School is about Lake-Effect Snow. We've got a ton of "in other news" tidbits this week. Shera's got some Thanksgiving fun facts, and she gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

This week on the Toy Power Podcast, it's time to talk about a film that tries to encompass seven centuries of Time into a single film / storyline.  The film is of course the Eternals.  This is a FULL Spoiler chat, so please be aware of our discussion.  With a few Acadamy Award Winnings up her sleeve, does Director Chloe Zhao, have what it takes to make a traditional Marvel Comic Book Film?  As the lads try to highlight the very diverse cast, they are often sent on tangents whilst they dissect the film itself.  What would it be like to be a being of the age of seven thousand years?  Those Post Credit scenes - we chat about the excitement of what this means, as well as what to expect moving forward for the MCU....  We give it a rating out of 19 DVG style to really establish what we thought of the film.Then our other major segment of this ep was put forward a few episodes ago: Two Toy lines Mashed-Up.   Ben has: Centurions X TMNT - Air Vehicle Frank has: He-Man X TMNT - Play Set Trent has: Star Wars X G.I. Joe - Sea Vehicle This is a bit of a wacky segment, you be the judge on who did it best....  Then in rounding out the episode, we do a quick round table of Reading Watching Playing. Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Thomas, Chris, and Dusty discuss the life and achievements of the Queen of Drag Rupaul Charles and talk about the animated streaming television series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power a reboot of the 1985 classic

It's time to get back into the latest toy news and we have a bit of a backlog to clear as we talk to some of the new hotness that has us excited. There's a bevy TMNT news including the wildest crossover from NECA. We finally get to talk about the juggernaut that is HasLabs and the first action figure we know of that has a drool accessory. Ghostbusters fans have stood UP while the future of Masters spins off into uncharted territory. There's Mogwai, Todd McTarlane (you read that right) and an anniversary for Marvel Legends that will hurt you in the age muscle. Can Hasbro do the impossible and make a cell shaded figure look good? Then it's a brief update on the progress of Darren's collection. Huge shoutout to @GreenlightComics for helping us and Darren's parents. And along the way, we collect two new Patreons! Cowabunga!  Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we talk about the wonderful weather that will last a few days before the next Cold Front sweeps through the area. The tropics are rather calm in the Atlantic there's a couple of Tropical Storms in the Pacific. Corey's got some interesting "in other news" tidbits and Shera has a few fun facts. She also gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

PSA: This was recorded before Darrens passing. He was unable to make this recording so please keep that in mind when we refer to the great man. Today on the show, we chat to long time Patreon DoesTEN and find out what the toy-life is like all the way in Georgia. He is doing our dream job: working in vintage toy store! To say we are jealous, is putting it lightly! So you can imagine the crazy stories of random toys that wander in, special finds and some hilarious hijinks that happen in this magical place. DoesTEN is also the worlds biggest (only?) Swamp Thing fan. The secret origin story of this passion may surprise you... We then head to quick round of Tennis which results in more non-answers that score a 0 in tennis, but a 10 on the laugh-o-meter. Then we setup a future episode with a mash-up selection wheel involving some of our favourite properties. Spin me away baby! Check out their store @WizardsVideoGames Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes when the He-Manning gets too He-Manly, you need a She-Ra.   Special thanks to Benny Goldstein for editing this episode! Find us at all the finest podcast places: Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dj-phillips/your-inner-child-is-an-idiot Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-inner-child-is-an-idiot/id957660267 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4BHABEvxH02VSCkhvKX2HQ?si=NHxzzArHSxGnxFUvTEpbNQ Thank you to our Patrons for defending the honor of Grayskull: Travis Vance, Josh Frigo, Dramatically Placed Hot Dog, Larissa Maestro, The Supreme Ruler of This Podcast, Beth Surmont, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Damon's Australian Accent, Dan McIntyre, David Mort, Dr. Malcom's Heaving Bosom, Heather Tuggle, Jacob Grimm, Jeremy Powlen, Just Cuz, Hizoner the Mayor, Jonathon Day, Karen Curd, Kevin from Cleveland, Lindsey Nell, Particle Man, Scalfasaurus, T. Smith, The Zesty, Tyler Richardson, Amy Parman, Caroline Amberson, Dan McIntyre is the Worst, Emeka Obika, Emily Bucago, Jackson Eppley, Jarrad Holbrook, Jason X, Jessica Hurtado, jgoodcause, Jirah Cox, Joshua Nicholson, Justin Shea, Kristin Carter, Manstrocity, Toxoglossa and Vincent Jorgensen

We talk about the frost and freeze potential coming later this week along with the Christmas season starting up in Branson! A couple of the models are hinting at a snowflake or two Wednesday morning. Will it happen? Listen and find out! We're finally out of a drought here in Branson we've got a few more "in other news" tidbits to share. Shera has a few fun facts and she gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

hey y'all. with things at snake mountain being kinda up in the air still, i figured i'd drop a little something into the feed in the meantime. it's something i worked on a bit on the side when i popped over to etheria. perfuma and some of the other princesses over there wanted to try their hand at podcasting, so i gave them a hand. i think it turned out pretty good. they gave some advice, they talked about stuff... one of them really liked punking this cat lady for some reason... anyway, you should listen and subscribe. i think it's only available in etheria, though, so... uh... good luck? [Some Sound Effects and Music from Gfx Sounds. https://gfxsounds.com/free-sound-effects] Cast: Riley: Kit Mulkerin Perfuma: Meganbob Adora/She-Ra: Claire Mulkerin Bow: Jason Dania Catra: Annie Craton Grizzlor: Andrew Ihla Ram Man: Jay Edidin Sea Hawk: Dan Mulkerin Hordak: Chris Sims

After a bit of a hiatus, Trent, Frank & Ben are back behind the mics again to chat about the legend that was Darren Filsell. Our co-host, our friend, our positive minded hero. We give you an update on what the three of us have been up to and how we are helping Darren's parents make the most of his vast collection, as well as generally helping them too. A huge thanks to everyone whom so generously donated towards Darren's GoFundMe to help with funeral costs. Huge appreciation to all the other podcasts shining the light on Darren. Listen to the Eulogy that was so perfectly delivered by Trent. Then as a way to reminisce on some fun memories, we look back at some of the zany things Darren brought to the Podcast. There's even a little bit of Toy News that we think Darren would have been so excited about. In rounding out the episode, we have a realistic take on how we personally feel about collecting; since Darren has passed.This is a somber episode. It will hit you in the feels; but that's only natural with loosing such a legend. RIP Daggas. Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this interview I talk with Dargo of Basilisk Pop Shop at Laredo Toy Show "Halloween Edition". We talk about the various things he sells in the world of pop culture, including Marvel, POPS, retro Star Wars, and cool holographic trading cards sets to name a few. We also talk about some of his favorite series he enjoyed watching while growing up. Series such as TMNT, Silver Hawks, He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats etc. Dargo lastly discusses his love for Sci-fi shows such as Farscape, SG1, Stargate-Atlantis, and more! For more info visit : https://business.facebook.com/Basiliskpopshop/

MONSTER HIGH DOLLS, GARRETT SANDER in the house.  Conceptual Creator of Monster High Dolls and Principal Designer with Moose Toy on In The Doll World doll podcast. www.inthedollworld.com/creatorsGarrett's wonderful creative spark was initially ignited by his parents, who never said certain toys were for boys and girls, so he grew up playing with  all kinds of different toys growing up! From He-Man and She-Ra to Barbie and GI Joe figures.  Which gave him a huge canvas to dream about wanting to create toys.One of his professors heard him talking about wanting to go into toys.  She connected him with a USC Art School alum who she knew was working at Mattel. Although he secured an interview at Mattel however he was still in school and couldn't start working just yet, but they said they would keep him in mind - and they did call about a year later, he interviewed again and in 2004 started as a Packaging Designer at Mattel!It was on the My Scene Team that Monster High was born.He was able to work in various departments, one was the entertainment team where he also worked on Barbie: Dreamtopia, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures, with the DreamWorks team on She-Ra.We also get a peek into what it's like being on the inside and get to hear what is truly needed to bring these toys and dolls to market within a big company. You also get to hear who really determines what goes on the doll and toy shelves. After 14 years a job opening came up at Moose toys, a small Australian based toy company so he made the leap where he has created others amazing toys within that company and so much more.To learn more about Garrett Sander, his dolls and Moose Toys, you can visithttps://www.instagram.com/garrett_sander/https://www.moosetoys.com/Follow and like In The Doll World on social media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inthedollworldInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inthedollworld/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/inthedollworldLinktree: https://www.linktr.ee/inthedollworld #InTheDollWorld #dollpodcast #dollpodcasts #tammyfisheritdw #georgettetayloritdw #garrettsander #monsterhighdolls  #inthedollworldpodcast #inthedollworldyoutube #inthedollworlddollpodcast 

This week we talk about the severe weather that pretty much missed us in Branson. Looks like we might be setting up for the first frost? Listen and find out! The tropics are fairly boring this week. The Stormdar Weather School is about the nor'easter. We've got a lot of interesting "in other news" tidbits. Shera's got some cool fun facts and she gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

Deep into the Spoopy season as the boys talk about some of the latest haunted attractions in the area, finally give thoughts on She-Ra, and go over the the truly horrific things during this month, the regular news cycle. All of this and more in this treat filled episode of Gayme Boys!

Corey is at work this week so Rando and Shera run the pod. Fall apparently has fell and temps are perfect in the 70's, and will be nice and Fall-like all week. We're getting closer to our first frost so this week's Weather School is all about frost and freeze. Rando has a couple of "in other news" tidbits and Shera has a bunch of fun facts. She also gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

We Make Books is a podcast for writers and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, and concerns for us to address in future episodes. We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast Episode Transcript (by TK @_torkz) [Upbeat Ukulele Intro Music] Rekka: This is We Make Books, a podcast about writing publishing and everything in between. Rekka is a published Science Fiction and Fantasy author, and Kaelyn is a professional genre fiction editor. Together, they'll tackle the things you never knew you never knew about getting a book from concept to finished product, with explanations, examples, and a lot of laughter. Get your moleskin notebook ready. It's time for We Make Books. We Make Books Ep. 71 Transcription Kaelyn: Today we're talking about villains and antagonists, and why they're not actually the same thing, except in the cases that they are. Rekka: Yes, exactly. K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: Perfect. I think that nails it. Sometimes they're not the same thing, sometimes they are. K: Yeah, and we'll kinda get to this but, most villains are antagonists - most, not all. Not all antagonists are villains. And in fact you will likely, in any given story, have multiple antagonists, not all of whom are the villain. I went through and really dug up all of this stuff; shockingly, the word ‘hero' is the one with the most definitions attached to it, and most different con - R: We're not talking about heroes today! We're not! K [overlapping]: Well we - but we have to, because we don't get villains without heroes, and we don't get antagonists without protagonists. Both villains and antagonists are defined and really only exist so that they can oppose or create conflict for the hero or protagonist. It kinda makes you wonder, if left to their own devices, maybe they're just a mad scientist in a lab somewhere. R: Maybe they're the hero of their own story. K: Yeah, and then suddenly someone shows up to fight them and now they're the bad guy. [laughing] R: “I was perfectly lawful and good until you showed up!” K: Exactly, yes. The basic difference between a villain and an antagonist is that an antagonist is somebody who is there to contend or oppose the main character, typically the protagonist of the story. They're there to create opposition. A villain is doing that, but they're evil. R: [laughs] K [laughing]: What they're doing is, the opposition that they're creating is either causing harm, causing suffering, will destroy the human race. It could be something more on a micro scale, where they've kidnapped the daughter of the main character; maybe they're trying to get their lemonade stand shut down so that they can sell lemonade that's gonna turn people into lizard people. An antagonist at the surface is just somebody who's doing things that's causing problems for the protagonist. They don't necessarily have to be evil. R: They could just be a rival. K: Yeah. Or any number of other things we're gonna get to here, but. And in fact as I mentioned, as you're reading a book, you're frequently gonna come across antagonists that are not actually evil. There's gonna be an antagonist who's the villain who may be evil at some point, not always, but there will be people that are antagonists. I will use an example that we love to use: Gideon the Ninth. Harrow definitely serves as an antagonist to Gideon through the book. But Harrow is not evil. R: Right. K: That's a great example of a villain operating without the audience knowing that the protagonist is coming into direct conflict with them because, we don't really find out who the villain of the story is until the very very end of it. Then we can look back and go like ‘Ah yes I see all of these things now.' The villain in the story, and spoilers if you haven't read Gideon the Ninth, but also if you listen to this podcast and you still haven't read it - R: You obviously are never going to read it at this point. K [laughing]: Yeah. The villain turns out to be Dulcinia, who is impersonating another character - and I stayed away, when writing notes for this and getting into the philosophical of what is evil and what is not - for these purposes we're gonna call her motives evil, in that she is trying to hunt down and destroy a lot of different people for her own reasons. The conflict that we come into there actually causes the antagonist and the protagonist in this, Gideon and Harrow, to sort of team up to oppose the actual villain, which by the way is a very common writing trope. Antagonists are a necessary component to any story even if they are not the source of central conflict. R: Yeah, because - and I know you're gonna lean into this example - but in Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy feels like he is central to everything in Harry's life, even though most of the time he just shows up to spew some awful thing he's overheard his parents say and then go away again. K: Draco is a good example of an antagonist who goes through a lot of different forms. Draco in the first few books of the series, he kinda shows up to make some comments and then leaves. He's not really doing much. Even in the second book when he's talking about the Chamber of Secrets and the heir of Slytherin and he actually is sitting around going ‘God I wish there was a way for me to help him' - well, okay, that's what minions do. Small antagonists. R: Most of the time everything that Draco Malfoy does or says is just to reinforce the fact that he's a jerk. K: Yeah, Draco just sorta pops up to remind all of us that there's Voldemort out there and his followers are terrible, because we don't see or interact directly with Voldemort for a lot of these books, so Draco's there to kind of remind us that he's out there. But then we finally get to book six, when Draco is given a very specific task to do: kill Dumbledore. And those listening at home, ‘okay well doesn't that make him a villain?' Well - does it? Because first of all he doesn't really actually wanna do this, but he has to. Second, he doesn't do it. At the end, he's not the one who carries this out. So again, everything's relative here. Because to Harry, he is just this thing that Harry feels he needs to track down and find out what's happening. You could go so far as to argue that Harry is creating his own conflict here, because if he just left Draco alone and went about his life trying to find these Horcruxes, things would've gone a lot smoother. R: [laughs] K: Dumbledore keeps telling Harry, ‘Hey. I got the Draco situation under control, don't worry about it.' Not in so many words and maybe if he had, again, things would've gone differently - R: You know what, communicating clearly is the antagonist of a plot. K: Okay. So that's interesting that you say that, because antagonists are not always people. R: Mhm. K: Antagonists can be certain external factors that the protagonist has to contend with. A good example of this is nature, in something like the movie Castaway. It's not evil - R [overlapping]: Okay. I was gonna say Deep Impact, like the meteor is not a villain, the meteor is an antagonist. K: Yeah. Exactly. It's not evil. The meteor or nature or something is not saying like, ‘Yes, I will destroy the world, and then also Tom Hanks.' [chuckles] R: If it can twirl its mustache, it might be a villain. K: It's just there, and it's something that the characters have to contend with. It can also be something supernatural; the thing I thought of off the top of my head was The Nothing in NeverEnding Story. It's operating unconsciously, if you will, in the sense that it doesn't seem to have nefarious purposes. It's just existing, and it's just growing. The characters are opposing it, they're trying to find a way to stop it, but it's not evil in and of itself. R: A hero trying to stop global warming is not fighting a villain. Unless - K: Ah, there's some villains in there. R: Yeah never mind, I take all that back. K: An antagonist can also be something like a society or an unjust system that the hero has to live and function in. The example that came to mind was Les Miserables. The main character, Jean Valjean, is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread because his sister and her children were starving. And we as the audience are meant to understand here that, while Javert - I believe is the name of the officer - is doing his duty by arresting him because he did commit theft, we understand that it is the dire circumstances of his society and his country that caused him to do this. His whole struggle and story is not only trying to lift himself up and overcome this system, but trying to one, make good on people he had hurt and things he had done in the process of this, but two, help other people that are also stuck in this system by hopefully coming up with a way to better it in the long run. I won't say overthrow it because he actively avoids that whole - R [overlapping]: Right. K: - part of the process in this story, but he is in his own way trying to get things to a better place. R: Yeah. K: I went through and just like, some ideas of antagonists who are not necessarily villains. We talked about Draco Malfoy - I will go to my grave saying that Draco is not a villain, he is first convenient exposition, and then an antagonist and an unwilling one at that. One of the ones I also thought of was Catra, from - R: Ah! K: - the first half of She-Ra, she kind of serves as sort of like a minion antagonist. R: Uh-huh. K: Her character evolves, and we'll talk about that as we continue to go through this. But she's an excellent example of just an antagonist. R: And again kind of like that rival thing - K: Yes. R: - like in anime or certain role playing video games, you always have the rival show up, and then by the end you are working with them to fight the actual villain. K: Another category is the conflict creators: people who are not evil, they don't have nefarious plots, but they're making the life of the main character unbearable. Mr. Darcy - R [overlapping]: [giggling] K: - from Pride and Prejudice is an excellent example of this. I threw the Lannisters on the list, and I'm sticking with the books - R: Right. K [laughing]: Not the TV show. R: So in this version, the Lannisters haven't managed to accomplish much yet. K: Yeah, exactly. Because, really, what are they doing? Are their motives evil? No, their motives are promoting and securing the prosperity and wellbeing of their family as much as possible. Now, they're doing things that again, evil being relative, we might look at this and go ‘oh they're evil.' I will choose the beheading of Ned Stark as a good example there. That's only evil to us because we like Ned Stark. R: Right. K: Because we look at him and see a good, just man who is being undone by his own kindness and mercy. The Lannisters look at him and go, ‘this guy's an idiot, and not only that he's a threat.' R: Mhm. K: ‘If we send him to the wall do you think his family is gonna go, ‘ah ok no problem, no harm no foul.'' Yeah, Joffrey's an impulsive little shit, who should not have done that and obviously messed up the plans of a lot of different third parties there, but from the perspective of the Lannisters he's right. R: Mhm. K: There was no reason to spare Ned Stark's life. R: It does start with the two incestuous Lannisters pushing a child out of a window though, so. K: Yes, and we can - that's a whole other episode about - R [overlapping]: [laughing] K: Well, trust me, I could do a whole episode about the evolution in literature, writing, and various media of using sexually-based components of character's personalities to demonstrate that they're evil. R: Mhm. K: But yes, this isn't to say that Jamie and Cersei themselves aren't evil, but the Lannisters as a whole are conflict creators. R: Okay. K: And within there they're all opposing each other in certain ways, but they're all kind of presenting a united front. R: The Lannister corporate machine. K: Yeah exactly. Casterly Rock incorporated. They're all presenting a united front in the promotion and wellbeing of their own family. There's obviously a lot of stuff going on there that we the audience know about, but pretend you're an outside observer in Westeros. Apart from some slight patricide - R: [laughs] K: - but that's okay, because that was the member of the family who we just barely put up with and obviously there was something wrong with him and we probably should've thrown him down a well a long time ago. R: Are you talking about Tyrion or are you talking about Tywin - K: Both, but from the perspective of the Lannisters, Tyrion. [laughing] R [overlapping]: [laughing] K: You can recover from that one, because of course there was something off about him, look at him. Never mind that he's the smartest and, actually, most caring member of their family, but y'know. That's not important, apparently. I made up an antagonist category that I'm calling “general pains in the ass.”  R: [laughing] K: [laughs] Where they are not necessarily doing anything, but their existence is just infuriating to the point that it's creating conflict for the protagonist. The one that I always love to point to is Gary from Pokémon. R: Mm. K: Who's just Ash's rival but it's a very hilariously one-sided rivalry.  R: Right, right. K: [laughs] The other one that I think is very good is actually: Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask in the anime. Because he is also trying to get the rainbow crystals.  R: Right. K: In a pain-in-the-ass antagonist - I would throw Rei in there. R: [laughs] Yeah, there you go. K: Again, the anime - the manga did not go into this, but they're constantly fighting over who's gonna be the better this-or-that, and who's doing the better job, and again, it creates conflict for Usagi because Rei is hyper-confident and very good at this, and Usagi is not, at all.  R: Right. It has more to do with Rei just constantly criticizing her and making her progression slower than anything else.  K: Yeah, you'll notice there's a lot of overlap here because apart from being a general pain in the ass in that scenario, Rei is also a conflict creator.  R: Yeah. K: The last one that gets a little philosophical is the protagonist themselves. Holden Caulfield is of course the standout example here, but I would take anybody that can't get out of their own way and put them on this list. One of the thoughts I came up with was Anakin Skywalker.  R: Okay. K: More with the Clone Wars TV show as a better example of that, but you certainly see it through the prequels as well. Has a set of morals and code that he lives by that is in direct conflict with what the Jedi are teaching him and telling him to do. R: Mhm. K: And that's an excellent case study into a descent into villany by having a singular goal and taking more and more extreme measures to meet it. R: Like Draco, there's somebody that is coaching him and trying to lead him in a direction that he wouldn't have chosen on his own almost at any point.  K: I'm not sure I agree with that, because what we see Anakin do over and over again, his singular motivation-- and this is, by the way, his antagonistic component-- is “protect my friends and loved ones.” R: Mhm. K: And so he's willing to take more and more extreme measures that in some cases are going to get him in trouble, he's going to have to go in front of the Jedi Council and go ‘I'm really sorry I did that, but I did save Obi-Wan, so I think it all works out in the end.' And you've got Yoda silently screaming in his head, going ‘This is not what Jedi are supposed to do, this is dangerous.' R: Yeah. K: But then also, it gets him to a point where his moral code is coming into conflict with what is important to him. So, yes I killed a bunch of people on a spaceship, but I saved all of the Senators and the Jedi on it. Well, now I've killed a bunch of children because I thought it was going to save my pregnant wife.  R: Mhm. K: And we're getting to a point where he can't differentiate those two things from one another because in the end you're still saving something or someone important.  R: Right. But I still think that - K [overlapping]: Oh, yes, having Palpatine - R [overlapping]: that progression -  K: - breathing in his ear for the whole time was not helping. [laughing] R: Yeah, that was an outside influence that encouraged that progression. K: Absolutely, yeah. So, that's another antagonistic force - that is an external factor, people attempting to influence the protagonist.  R: Mhm. K: So, we talked a lot about antagonists, and as we said, most villains - not all - most villains are antagonists but not all antagonists are villains. In order to be a villain, you gotta be evil. You have to be a quote-unquote “bad guy.” And you've gotta be doing something that is bad, something that's hurting either a people, or an entity, maybe nature, or a planet itself. Typically, you've got selfish motivations here. R: Mhm. K: Sometimes you have no motivations, and we'll get into that, because the pure evil villains are one of my favorite villains. But, villains are working to destroy a heroic purpose or protagonist. They may not know that that's what they're doing, but they're doing it. Some villains go their whole story without realizing that there's somebody working their way up to opposing them, because their protagonist is such a little miniscule blip on the scale of this evil plan here that they didn't even know someone was opposing them. Villains, they have to be bad. They don't exist in a vacuum. Y'know, we used the idea of the mad scientist who doesn't know he's the bad guy -  R: Mhm. K: - until someone shows up to fight him. If that guy's just left in his lab making some little itty bitty Frankenstein monsters to run around and help him with his experiments and things, then he never leaves and nothing bad ever happens, and the new Frankenstein monsters are happy with their existence, he's not a villain! [laughs] However, if he's oppressing those little Frankenstein monster guys, or maybe they're escaping out into the world and doing bad things to people that they encounter, that then starts to move him into the realm of villain.  R: Now, what if he's in his lab and his experiments are destroying the planet outside the lab, but he never leaves and he never realizes, and the Frankenstein [ed.: monster]s are happy?  K: Yeah, so this is where it gets weird, because what he's doing is evil but he's not doing it on purpose.  R: Mm. K: I'm trying to think what the classification for that would be. An unwilling villain, essentially. Maybe more of an antagonist at that point. I'm trying to come up with an example of something where somebody shows up and informs a scientist or creator doing something that what they're doing is having a negative impact on the world around it and they had no idea.  R: There is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where they go to a planet where the people on the planet basically take some of the children off the Enterprise because they can't have children themselves, and the crew is able to convince them that it's their very powerful computer system that's causing radiation that's preventing them from being healthy, and that it would happen to the kids too if they stayed, and so on and so forth.  K: Yeah, I'm trying to - like, this one isn't necessarily as good an example, but in Ender's Game, at the very end we find out that the conflict, this whole giant conflict, kind of began almost on a misunderstanding that the human population encountered alien life in the form of bugs that were a hivemind.  R: Mhm. K: And the bugs killed all of the humans they encountered not understanding that there was a life form out there that wasn't a hivemind. Because from their perspective, it didn't matter if a few soldiers got killed, they were just essentially vessels for the larger collective consciousness. They didn't understand the - R [overlapping]: Right. Individuality. K: Yeah. So, that started them as an antagonist, but then this war escalates and escalates and, that one I don't know if we can come up with “villain” and whether sides are evil, at that point, but. With villains, they might not even need to know that they're directly opposing the main character. The biggest difference between the villain and the antagonist is that sometimes, but not always, the antagonist forms more of a plot role. It's somebody to be there to create conflict, to move the story along, or to motivate the protagonist. It's somebody who may provide opportunities for growth for the protagonist as well, again through opposition. K: Everything is opposition and conflict for antagonists. Antagonists, they can be friends or friendly rivals of the protagonist, but they are a plot role, they are helping to develop and move the character and the stories along. A villain is a character type. This is a potentially necessary component of the story, depending on the type of story that you're telling, and they have a role to serve within that. They have to be the central point of conflict for evil reasons, to give the character something moral and good and just to fight for and overcome. If this sounds contrived, or this sounds pedantic, I don't know what to tell you because this is literature. [laughs] R: [laughing] Yeah. K: This is - you will find this across all of human history in literature, the conflict between good and evil. That is the central focus of it. And listen, what we consider good and what we consider evil varies from culture to culture, time to time. Heroes don't fit a certain set of criteria across all cultures. If you go back and read any Greek myth, and what they consider to be heroes, most of these guys were assholes. Like, really bad people. But they did heroic things, and they lived in ways that were acceptable to the ancient Greeks.  R: Mhm. K: So therefore they were heroes. The Greeks are really interesting in that they did not write what was idealized, but what was true. So even though we know that the way they conducted their society, the way they lived and acted, is abhorrent to us, at the time it was acceptable. Not only acceptable, but encouraged.  R: Right. Perhaps even seen as heroic behavior.  K [overlapping]: To that end—yeah. To that end, evil is the same way.  R: Mhm. K: I'm gonna throw one last monkey wrench [laughs] into this - the villain, as we kept saying, most villains but not all are antagonists, because sometimes the villain's the protagonist. The villain is only the antagonist when they're not the main character of the story, when they're just serving as the sense of conflict. But sometimes in stories, the villain, who is evil and is doing evil things, is the protagonist, is the main character that we're following. Two of my favorite examples of this are Light from Death Note and Dexter from Dexter. Light is a teenager with a god complex who I wouldn't even say “starts off trying to do right in the world,” because if you watch the series really he's just experimenting using bad people until he gets the plan figured out. But, for those who are unfamiliar, Death Note is an outstanding anime that I highly recommend about a teenager who comes across a notebook that is stolen from a Japanese death god and learns that the names he writes in the notebook will die. And he gets more and more specific about specifying “will die at this time,” “will die in this way,” et cetera. And enters into this whole cat-and-mouse psychological thriller thing with himself and the police that are trying to stop this serial killer that they don't understand.  R: Right. K: The whole thing turns into this god complex of him establishing rules of what he thinks are right and wrong and threatening the entire world with what would basically be instantaneous death at his whim if they don't adhere to it. So let's be clear, Light is evil. He is killing people because they're not acting the way he wants them to. But he is the main character and the protagonist of the story, and if you watch it you find yourself cheering for him outwitting the police, outwitting this detective. One of the detectives, by the way, is his father. And you're still goin,g “Come on, Light, you can get yourself out of this one!” Dexter Morgan from Dexter is another good example. Dexter is a serial killer. Dexter has kill rooms where he duct tapes people to tables, ritualistically stabs them, chops the bodies up, and drops them in the water off the coast of Miami.  R: Mhm. K: Dexter also has a complex set of morality that he adheres to, and Dexter is a little bit different because he doesn't want to do these things, he wishes he wasn't like this, but he knows that he is and there's nothing he can do about it. The books are a little stranger about this than the TV show. So he's channeling his awfulness into only killing murderers.  R: Right, and the rules of morality that he follows are not actually his morals.  K: Yeah. R: They were given to him. K: Yes. As a way to hopefully help maintain and control him. But he's still killing people. And he's still operating outside the justice system. He's very careful about gathering all the evidence and knowing “yes, this person's definitely a murderer,” but he's still serving as judge, jury, and executioner without giving anyone the benefit of due process. In his mind it doesn't matter why you killed somebody. You killed somebody. And it's coming less from a place of morality than an opportunity to be an outlet for his own base urges. Villains can be protagonists. Just because somebody is the main character of the story doesn't necessarily mean that they're good.  R: In fact, I feel a little bit better about some books thinking about it that way. [laughs] K: Yeah, absolutely. And, look, there's a whole thing you can get into with the hero vs. the antihero, and what is considered heroic and what is considered acceptable; god, I think there's been entire books written about this, with Superman as a core component there. It is very nuanced to kind of sort these things out of where the line is between hero and villain, and even more so where the line is between antagonist and villain. At what point do you stop being just an inconvenience or a pain in the butt that someone's gotta deal with and become somebody who is an active threat to not just the protagonist but potentially those around them as well? R: I know a book can have antagonists and villains, we've established several that do. Can you have a book with more than one villain?  K: Absolutely!  R: How do they not just sort of shrink down to become antagonists, then, if there's more than one? Or is it just because of their behavior being evil? K: Let's go back to another favorite of ours, Avatar: the Last Airbender. I would make the argument that both Azula and Ozai are villains. I think there are definitely people who would take Azula and put her more in the antagonist category; I disagree, she's evil, she has evil motivations. She also wants to conquer and subjugate the entire world and is willing to burn it down to do it. Hers and her father's ideologies and motives line up pretty closely. The difference is that Ozai sits in this palace and we don't see him for most of the series, and Azula's out there running amuck. R: So one can be a subordinate of the other, and they can both still be villains. K: Absolutely, yeah. And villains can work together, we got the superhero team ups on villains all the time. Dunno if you ever watched Venture Bros. - R: Yeah. K: - but the Guild of Calamitous Intent is one of my favorites, not that they're all teaming up against the same protagonist there. But yeah you absolutely can have multiple villains; one who is working under or for the other. You could have minions that are villains, as long as their intentions are evil. To that end with Avatar I would say Ty Lee and Mai are antagonists, not villains. Because they're minions who are kinda just there to do what Azula says but like, they don't necessarily want to burn down and subjugate the rest of the world, they're just sort of along for the ride. I think with multiple villains, a lot of times when you see that you're kind of dealing with an ensemble cast, and everyone's gonna sort of have a little area they have to go break off into. But not always, look at Star Wars. Yeah, Darth Vader was redeemed at the end, but you had two evil villains one right after the other, and again we're kinda seeing the same power dynamic as Azula and Ozai. K: To kind of round all of this out, villains are evil. And they usually have to have some sort of evil motivation or plan or action to match this. They might be so evil that they aren't even aware that everyone knows they're evil and is trying to stop them. Villains do not necessarily have to come in immediate direct conflict with protagonists in order to be villains. They can just be out there doing their little villain evil plan thing and not even know that someone's coming to fight them to the death until that person shows up to do so. They don't have to be directly opposed to the protagonist. In some cases, they can be the protagonist. But they've gotta have bad intentions. R: For the thrill of having bad intentions. K: Some of it can be for the thrill. The pure villains, those are my favorite ones, the ones that we never quite find out why they're doing what they're doing, they're just doing it. I use the example of Maleficent, from the original Sleeping Beauty movie, not the Angelina Jolie with lots of backstory and sympathetic character origins. Maleficent shows up, she's mad that she didn't get invited to the party but we kind of all get the impression that there's a reason she wasn't, but nobody quite knows what it is or what's going on here. R: Because we knew she would make a scene! K [laughing]: I think it's because she showed up and cursed the princess. R: So they saw that coming, you're saying. K: Yeah maybe. R: Even though the exact way to prevent that, according to Maleficent, would've been to invite her. K: The logic gets a little circular there, to be sure. [laughs] But yeah so, the villain is a character type, it's not a plot role. The villain is not always necessarily there to advance the protagonist or the plot. They certainly can, but they're not doing it directly all the time. R: Mhm. K: This is, villains are one of those sometimes-but-not-always-except-for-this-and-then-that-happens kind of situation. Antagonists on the other hand, they're not necessarily evil, they can be actually just regular cool decent normal people who happen to have a conflicting agenda with the protagonist. They just want different things. Last week we did MacGuffins. The antagonist may just be running around after their own MacGuffin, and for some reason that's causing problems for the protagonist. Maybe they also want that MacGuffin for a completely different reason, one that is mutually exclusive of what the antagonist wants; they can't team up there. Or maybe they just also wanna have the top spot at the dojo, and so they're gonna be in conflict with the protagonist there. The thing that makes the antagonist an antagonist is that they are opposed to the protagonist, and they will cause conflicts with the story's main character. It's a plot role, and it doesn't necessarily speak to the character's personality or motivations. They are there to create and cause conflict for the main character to either resolve, oppose, or fall to. R: So when I proposed this topic to you, I kind of thought of antagonists as mini-bosses and the villain as the big boss, thinking of video games and the way that's usually structured. So, this is unexpected. K [laughing]: Listen, an antagonist can be a mini-boss. It's all about motivations. R: But they can also just be that person living their life that has always bugged you because they microwaved fish in the lunchroom that one time. K: That person might be a villain. R: [laughs] Just wanna contradict me at every turn. K: I dunno, somebody who microwaves fish, that seems like evil intentions to me. [laughing] R: Look, they live with the consequences of that decision for the rest of their life. K: That's very very true. Anyway, so, Rekka any - R: Can an antagonist be the protagonist? K: No, those are mutually exclusive yeah. There's somebody who is not evil and they're the main character of the story, they're the protagonist. R: So they don't have a goatee or a mustache to twirl, and they're the main character, then they're the protagonist every time. K: Yes. The primary component for being the protagonist is that the story is about you, you're the principal character. If you are serving in an antagonistic role as the protagonist, you're still the protagonist, you're just a jerk. R: So when I get up and look in the mirror in the morning and I say, “Hey, butthead,” I'm still the protagonist of my life. K: You are both the protagonist and antagonist of your own life, yes. R: That feels accurate. K: [laughing] I think most of us are. R: Yeah. K: Well we said, a good example of an antagonist is the character themselves. R: Yep. Alright, I think I get it. K: We can always come back and talk more about it, because this one was fun to do some research on and get some thoughts together. R: So you would say that a book or a story plot requires an antagonist but doesn't necessarily require a villain. K: Yes, definitely. R: And the protagonist is completely optional. K: Yes, we're just gonna have a bunch of antagonists running around causing conflict for each other. Well, I think that's pretty much every murder mystery, so. R: So if it's a third person omniscient, and there is no main POV, we can have a book with no protagonist. Got it. K: I feel like you're trying to trick me into something but I don't know what. [laughing] R: I'm antagonizing you, I'm sorry. K: It's an important thing to do. R: As an editor you need to have your feathers ruffled every now and then. K: It creates conflict, and conflict creates growth. R: And plot. K: And plot. [laughing] But yeah thank you so much for listening everyone as always, hopefully this was helpful information, I know this was a lot of mincing of minute details, but - R: Yeah I mean maybe this was the episode you never knew you never wanted but - K [overlapping]: [laughs] R: - if there is an episode topic that you do know you want, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @WMBcast, and you can also find us at patreon.com/WMBcast. And we'd love to hear your suggestions for topics or questions. If we have confused you in any way, then you can blame Kaelyn, and also let us know and we'll try to fix that. Thanks everyone! K: Thank you so much.

Quite a podcast this week... severe weather and a few tornadoes from a powerful system dominated the first part of the pod. Fall-like weather is starting to move in so get those jackets ready! The tropics aren't very exciting in the Atlantic but we've got our eye on Pamela in the Pacific. This week's Stormdar Weather School is all about CAPE. Corey and Rando had some interesting "in other news" tidbits. Then, a surprise guest interrupts the pod so chaos ensued... Shera had a bunch of cool fun facts and she gave us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

On September 11th and 12th Mark & Dan traveled to Anaheim California for Power-Con, the nation’s premier convention for all things She-Ra and He-Man! In the third and final chapter of The Best Power-Cons of Our Lives trilogy, we sit down with Rob Lamb. Rob Lamb is an exceptional screenwriter, storyboard artist, animator and graphic … Ep# 40 – Rob Lamb / Power-Con 2021 Read More » The post Ep# 40 – Rob Lamb / Power-Con 2021 appeared first on The ESO Network.

Ep# 40 - Rob Lamb / Power-Con 2021 On September 11th and 12th Mark & Dan traveled to Anaheim California for Power-Con, the nation's premier convention for all things She-Ra and He-Man! In the third and final chapter of The Best Power-Cons of Our Lives trilogy, we sit down with Rob Lamb. Rob Lamb is an exceptional screenwriter, storyboard artist, animator and graphic designer who has worked on many iconic Filmation series such as Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, BlackStar and He-Man & the Masters of the Universe where he wrote the fan favorite He-Man episode, “Into the Abyss.” In addition to his Filmation Studios achievements, Rob storyboarded an episode for Disney's iconic Darkwing Duck and has been a Concept Artist for the video gaming industry as well animating game trailers for promotions. 00:00:25 Rob Lamb pt.1 00:07:45 Rob Lamb pt.2 00:20:49 Rob Lamb pt.3 00:29:07 We ♥Power-Con! TOTAL RUNTIME: 00:33:47 Power-Con https://thepower-con.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ThePowerCon/ @ThePowerCon Rob Lamb Website: robertartwriter.com Facebook: @roblamb retroragslimited.com The ESO Network https://esonetwork.com #esonetwork Pops For Patience popsforpatients.org retroragslimited.com Mark McCray The Best Saturdays Of Our Lives tbsool.com The Best Saturdays of Our Lives Podcast tbsool.com/podcast @MarkMcTBSOOL markmccray072@gmail.com thebestsaturdaysofourlives.com Instagram: instagram.com/best_saturdays_of_our_lives Facebook: facebook.com/tbsool #tbsool Dan Klink Instagram: @dan_klink Twitter.com/TheRealDanKlink facebook.com/Dan.M.Klink Thunder Talk thundertalk.org FIND US ON Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @thundertalkpod JOIN THE THUNDER FAITHFUL @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/578372072758335/ Emaill thundertalkpodcast@gmail.com #thundertalk

This week on Fans of Power the crew toss out all of their choices in casting a She-Ra movie in 1988. Joe digs himself into a hole, Tyler's audio is wonky, Rebekah may never bake for Joe again and Nathan having survived the challenge last week declares himself the hot sauce king. We also share some devastating news that Joe may never recover from.

This week we take note of the Facebook outage since it affects our posting. Fortunately it all came back and it's business as usual. The nice Fall-like temps are teasing us that Winter is just around the corner. The tropics have slowed down just a tad and Hurricane Sam is one crazy storm! This week's Weather School is about the atmosphere. Corey and Rando have a few interesting "in other news" tidbits and Shera dazzles us with her fun facts. She also gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

So this is an interesting episode we recorded at the tail end of the last UK ‘lockdown'. We first discussed animation we had re-connected with to help us through the situation, and then new shows and films we had gotten into.  At the time of writing lockdown is no longer the status quo in the UK, but it is still the norm elsewhere in the world and the episode provides a still-resonant analysis of ‘comfort viewing'.  Plus there are of course a great range of animation tips for you to check out! Or let us know your thoughts if you are already in the know… Timestamps (after any adverts): ‘Re-connection': ·       1:30 – Aria the Animation ·       7:45 – She Ra and the Princesses of Power ·       13:05 – Neon Genesis Evangelion (and other ‘apocalypse' shows)    ‘New': ·       18:40 – Totally Spies / Carmen Sandiego / Kim Possible  ·       23:35 – Harley Quinn ·       33:58 – Disney films (Bambi / Basil the Great Mouse Detective / Black Cauldron / Hercules / Zootopia / Treasure Planet)

You may know Bobby Moynihan as Vanessa's former castmate on SNL or Uno Pizzeria's most famous bartender, but before all that he was a big fan of Saturday Morning Cartoons. On this incredibly educational episode of How Did We Get Weird?, we discuss the origins of He-Man, She-Ra and the Masters Of The Universe franchise. We also reminisce about Bobby's many creative projects, Jonah's love of Sodalicious fruit snacks and how one Utah newspaper's snarky article took down a delicious Keebler cookie before it ever had a chance to shine.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On September 11th and 12th Mark & Dan traveled to Anaheim California for Power-Con, the nation’s premier convention for all things She-Ra and He-Man! In today’s episode we bring you our interviews with two pioneers whose contributions to the animation industry are immeasurable.  With eighty-seven art department credits to his name, Michael Swanigan stands as … Ep# 39 – Michael Swanigan & Larry Houston / Power-Con 2021 Read More » The post Ep# 39 – Michael Swanigan & Larry Houston / Power-Con 2021 appeared first on The ESO Network.

Ep# 39 - Michael Swanigan & Larry Houston / Power-Con 2021 On September 11th and 12th Mark & Dan traveled to Anaheim California for Power-Con, the nation's premier convention for all things She-Ra and He-Man! In today's episode we bring you our interviews with two pioneers who's contributions to the animation industry are immeasurable. With eighty-seven art department credits to his name, Michael Swanigan stands as one of the greatest storyboard artists of all time. Along with his work on both She-Ra and He-Man, Michael is a prolific author and has held positions as story director, storyboard supervisor and designer during his storied carrier. Larry Houston is the Emmy-nominated Producer/Director of The X-Men Animated series of the nineteen-nineties. Having the distinction of being Filmation Studios first African-American Saturday Morning Storyboard Artist, Larry has served in a directorial and supervisory capacity on numerous hit series and is credited for expanding the world of He-Man Mini-Comics by adding and designing more multi-cultural diverse heroes and villains into the He-Man mythology. 00:00:24 Michael Swanigan 00:15:18 Larry Houston 00:38:14 True Pioneers TOTAL RUNTIME: 00:41:39 Power-Con https://thepower-con.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ThePowerCon/ @ThePowerCon Michael Swanigan Purchase His Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Michael-Swanigan/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMichael+A+Swanigan https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841682/ Larry Houston https://www.larry-houston.com/ Instagram: @larrytoons54 Twitter: @xmendirector https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396860/ Vince Alvendia https://eggdropramen.studio/ The ESO Network https://esonetwork.com #esonetwork Mark McCray The Best Saturdays Of Our Lives tbsool.com The Best Saturdays of Our Lives Podcast tbsool.com/podcast @MarkMcTBSOOL markmccray072@gmail.com thebestsaturdaysofourlives.com Instagram: instagram.com/best_saturdays_of_our_lives Facebook: facebook.com/tbsool #tbsool Dan Klink Instagram: @dan_klink Twitter.com/TheRealDanKlink facebook.com/Dan.M.Klink Thunder Talk thundertalk.org FIND US ON Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @thundertalkpod JOIN THE THUNDER FAITHFUL @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/578372072758335/ Emaill thundertalkpodcast@gmail.com #thundertalk

We're back after a week off and we catch up on the Cold Front that came through last week and gave us Fall-like weather. The Atlantic tropics are in full steam with Hurricane Sam and a couple more systems right behind. This week's Weather School is about Barometric Pressure and how it can affect you. We've got some "in other news" tidbits along with Shera's Fun Facts. And, she gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

It's double Thundercats Reviews here on the Radical Retro Rewind Podcast with Ryan and David! The episode we start with today is "Lord Of The Snows" where we meet The Snowmen of Hook Mountain! David and I also discuss the time She-Ra also had to climb a mountain on her series and more. "When a meteorite the Thundercats can use to replenish their dwindling energy supply crashes on Hook Mountain, Lion-O must win a duel with the fierce Snowman before they can have it." Original Airdate: September 25, 1985 Thank you to the "ThunderCats Wiki" for the plot synopsis. Please Like

Hey Gabbers! We've got a special adventure episode for you! Join Guestie Bestie Peter and I as we give you some of our highlights of our trip to California for the annual He-man and She-Ra convention Power-Con, Universal Studios, and Disneyland! Don't forget we still need your stories of the paranormal. GabbingwithGayson.com https://www.facebook.com/GabbingwithGayson/ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=49756468&fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gabbingwithgayson/support

On September 11th and 12th Mark & Dan traveled to Anaheim California for Power-Con, the nation’s premier convention for all things She-Ra and He-Man! Also in attendance were several key animators and creators responsible for bringing the world of Master of the Universe to life. Today we present Tom Tataranowicz! Along with more accolades then … Ep# 38 – Tom “T” Tataranowicz / Power-Con 2021 Read More » The post Ep# 38 – Tom “T” Tataranowicz / Power-Con 2021 appeared first on The ESO Network.

Ep# 38 - Tom "T" Tataranowicz / Power-Con 2021 On September 11th and 12th Mark & Dan traveled to Anaheim California for Power-Con, the nation's premier convention for all things She-Ra and He-Man! Also in attendance were several key animators and creators responsible for bringing the world of Master of the Universe to life. Today we present Tom Tataranowicz! Along with more accolades then we can count, he served as both storyboard artist and assistant storyboard supervisor on both shows as well as director on She-Ra. Tom T was gracias enough to grant us an amazing interview during our time at Power-Con! 00:00:24 Tom T Interview – part 1 00:13:59 Tom T Interview – part 2 00:32:37 Shout-Out Deborah Zak TOTAL RUNTIME: 00:35:48 Biker Mice from Mars Reunion & Fundraiser - LIVE Autograph Signing September 25th - 12pm PST / 3pm EST YouTube.com/Streamily Streamily.com/BikerMiceFromMars 100% Proceeds To Support Jim Ward & Family #alzheimersdisease #BikerMicefromMars #voiceoverfamily #animationfamily Tom Tataranowicz tomt@g7animation.com The ESO Network https://esonetwork.com #esonetwork Mark McCray The Best Saturdays Of Our Lives tbsool.com The Best Saturdays of Our Lives Podcast tbsool.com/podcast @MarkMcTBSOOL markmccray072@gmail.com thebestsaturdaysofourlives.com Instagram: instagram.com/best_saturdays_of_our_lives Facebook: facebook.com/tbsool #tbsool Dan Klink Instagram: @dan_klink Twitter.com/TheRealDanKlink facebook.com/Dan.M.Klink Thunder Talk thundertalk.org FIND US ON Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @thundertalkpod JOIN THE THUNDER FAITHFUL @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/578372072758335/ Emaill thundertalkpodcast@gmail.com #thundertalk

The long awaited and I'm sure much anticipated sequel to Twins adds its third brother. Disney is rebooting an 80s kids sci-fi movie whilst Warner Bros. is remaking a classic 90s romance film. League of Super-Pets has it's Lex Luthor and two of The Lost Boys have been found! In TV news The Batman gets another HBO spinoff, She-Ra goes live-action, and Lara Croft heads to Netflix. And we check out and give our thoughts on the first trailers for The Matrix Resurrections and Hawkeye.

Nix goes in on racism in the video game consumer community before dropping the news on the Apple "California Streaming" event, a live-action She-Ra project, the new Hawkeye series trailer, and much more.

In this week's episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) is joined by Daniel Stalter (@danielstalter) as they discuss the first trailer for a reboot series of the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, the trailer for Hawkeye and celebrate Gwendoline Christie joining the cast of Wednesday for our Strong Female Character of the Week.  This Week's Topics Include: BIG OPENING:   KEVIN:  Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will both host Jeopardy this year DANIEL:  New trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer series   DOWN & NERDY:    KEVIN:  Love & Monsters, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Y the Last Man DANIEL:  The Twisted Ones, Hollow Heart, Clean Room, Tragedy Girls     STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER:  Gwendoline Christie joins Addams Family series Wednesday as Morticia's rival   THIS WEEK IN QUEER:  HBO Max cancels Genera+ion   CLIP OF THE WEEK: New trailer for Hawkeye   THE WEEK IN GEEK:  MOVIES New trailer for Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin Warner Bros. working on reboot of Lost Boys New trailer for Nightmare Alley   TV HBO Max/Cartoon Network announce new animated series Batwheels  New trailer for 4400 reboot Amazon developing She-Ra live action series New teaser for season 2 of Locke & Key New trailer for One of Us Is Lying  Hulu renews Only Murders in the Building for season 2 Hulu show first image from Marvel's Hit-Monkey   COMIC BOOKS Dan Parent launches Kickstarter for Kevin Keller omnibus DC announces new several new series including Batgirls   SHILF KEVIN:  Theodora (The Haunting) DANIEL:  Jesse Walsh (Nightmare on Elm Street 2)

December Solicits Comic Reviews: Rorschach 12 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Batman The World GN by Brian Azzarello, Benjamin Von Eckartsberg, Kirill Kutuzov, Egor Prutov, Mathieu Gabella, Alessandro Bilotta, Stepan Kopriva, Ertan Ergil, Tomasz Kolodziejczak, Alberto Chimal, Carlos Estefan, Inpyo Jeon, Xu Xiaodong, Lu Xiaotong, Okadaya Yuichi, Paco Roca, Piotr Kowalski, Nicola Mari, Pedra Maura, Junggi Kim, Qiu Kim, Lee Bermejo, Thomas Von Kummant, Natalia Zaidova, Thierry Martin, Michael Suchanek, Ethem Onur Bilgic, Rulo Valdes, Jaekwang Park, Brad Simpson, Giovanna Niro, Fabi Marques, Yi Nan Batman Urban Legends 7 I Am Batman 1 by John Ridley, Olivier Coipel, Alex Sinclair Titans United 1 by Cavan Scott, Jose Luis, Jonas Trindade, Rex Lokus Unearthed: A Jessica Cruz Story GN by Lilliam Rivera, Steph C. Eternals: Thanos Rises by Kieron Gillen, Dustin Weaver Extreme Carnage: Agony by Alyssa Wong, Danilo Beyruth,  Fran Galan, Jim Campbell Fantastic Four 35 by Dan Slott, John Romita Jr., Mark Waid, Jason Loo, Paul Renaud, Cam Smith, Mark Morales, Rafael Fonteriz, Scott Hanna, JP Mayer, Erick Arciniega, Marte Gracia Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters: Boushh by Alyssa Wong, David Baldeon It's Jeff Primordial 1 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart Godzilla Rivals vs. Mothra Maw 1 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, A.L. Kaplan Hellboy and the BPRD 1957: Family Ties by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Laurence Campbell, Dave Stewart Vampiverse 1 by Tom Sniegoski, Jeanine Acheson, Daniel Maine, Francesca Cittarelli Mullet Cop 1 by Tom Lintern Canopus by Dave Chisholm Beowulf 1 by Grant Lankard, Antonio Brandao The Biggest Bigfoot 1 by Monica Gallagher Nobody's Child 1 by Massimo Rosi, Ramiro Borrallo Tome of Reckoning 1 by Dionysios, Jewel Jones 99 Cent Theatre: Bang: The Ballad of The Tiger by Josh Greathouse Living in Nightmareland by Henry Simon on:LINE Magazine Comics Anthology by Naomi Reid, Claudio Ghirardo, Charles Hackbarth, Adam Reich, Marc Cohen, Jack Ruttan, Terence Cheng, Matthew Brown Solanaceae 1 by DarkChibiShadow Additional Reviews: What If Killmonger, Malignant, He-Man episodes 1 and 2, Best of Indie Comics 2019, Moonshadow News: JMS and Doctor Who, She-Ra reboot, Batwheels cartoon, Hayley Atwell as Lara Croft for Netflix animated series, Disney rejects Gravity Falls spinoff, Penguin HBO Max, Nolan to Universal, new Batman Beyond, three Snyderverse books in October from Comixology, Grendel show, Gwendolyn Christie joins Wednesday Addams show as new character, Archie and Webtoons, Department of Truth spinoff on substack, IDW partially breaks from Diamond, new Millarworld series, JM DeMatteis Ben Reilly, Sabretooth series Trailers: West Side Story, Hit Monkey, Picard s2, Finch, Beta Test, Hawkeye, Nightmare Alley Glenn is an Idiot Comics Countdown: Rorschach 12 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Primordial 1 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart Wynd 10 by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas Usagi Yojimbo 22 by Stan Sakai Joker 7 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Guillem March, Sweeney Boo, Arif Prianto Bermuda 3 by John Layman, Nick Bradshaw, Len O'Grady Seven Secrets 12 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo Time Before Time 5 by Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey, Chris O'Halloran, Joe Palmer Fantastic Four 35 by Dan Slott, John Romita Jr., Mark Waid, Jason Loo, Paul Renaud, Cam Smith, Mark Morales, Rafael Fonteriz, Scott Hanna, JP Mayer, Erick Arciniega, Marte Gracia Star Trek Year Five 24 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Silvia Califano, Elisabetta D'Amico, Charlie Kirchoff

Thank you very much to George for commissioning this episode! "Every time Calder saw Cheska Bennet, her hat got bigger." What a completely fantastic opening line. This whole section doesn't go the way that I expected, and I thought I would be more prepared for it all because of seeing from Shera's POV but there's just so much she doesn't know. Fucking Naberius. He's just SUCH a bad choice. I don't care about the rationalization, he's just...he's bad news. Thanks for listening!

(NSFW!) Hawkeye, Lost Boys, Twisted Metal, Lara Croft, Flight of the Navigator, She-Ra, Venom 2, Grendel, Batman, lots more

This week Torgo gets called out as we talk about Disney alcohol, Dungeons and Dragons, FTL Multiverse, Code 8, Hades, Cloverfield, Reminiscence, Surprise Vanish Kill, Triplets, Marvel Infinity Comics, Eraser: Reborn, Teddy Ruxpin, The Penguin, Live-action She-Ra, Norm Macdonald, Playstation Showcase 2021, Elvira, Christopher Nolan, and Red Light/Green Light featuring: Driver, Twisted Metal, Players, and Aware Wolves. So film your board game, it's time for a Geek Shock!

Wes is back with another episode of the The Comic Wrap. Wes runs down the biggest comic book and pop culture news and best conversations of the week. Wes lays out five easy ways to fix the comic book industry and why they can't happen. (00:00:00) Comics Aficionados co-host Dok joins Wes to talk about why they still read comic books despite rising prices and declining quality. If nobody shines a spotlight on the issues within comic books they can never return to their former glory (00:26:41) She-Ra fans loved talking smack when Netflix rebooted the character, ignoring past history in 2018. Now they are upset Amazon is producing a live-action series, all but ignoring the 2018 animated series, I love irony. (00:49:23) There are a host of rumored gender swaps on the big screen including; Indiana Jones, James Bond and Flight of the Navigator. Wes covers each rumor as Hollywood continues rebooting or replacing male heroes with female leads. (01:09:56) DC Comics announced 4 new comic coming in December including; World of Krypton, Batgirls and Swamp Thing: Green Hell. (01:30:54) Marvel Comics also announced new titles and clarified the future of events like Devil's Reign and a return to the Old Man Universe. (01:50:47) Drew from Comics Elite comic shop joins Wes to talk about the best comics to read right now. They name a few Marvel and DC favorites but mostly it's indie comics. (02:10:00) Finally, Wes talks about how you can't even escape modern strife and events in Batman '89. (02:37:38)   Support Thinking Critical at Ko-fi. Monthly subscriptions receive bonus content and early access to some channel content. Ko-fi.com/thinkingcritical Thank you for supporting the channel!

The crew is back to catch up on whats currently poppin in the culture. The Met Gala, Lexington Toy Convention, Lox versus Dipset, Drake vs Kanye, Met Gala, Snake Eyes, She-Ra , Matrix Resurrections, Shang-Chi, Dune, MCU, Substack and more intro song Song by H.E.R Songwriter(s) Gabriella Wilson,Tiara ThomasAnt Clemons,Carl McCormick,Jeff Gitelman,James Harris, Terry Lewis Producer(s) Cardiak, Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman

A adaptação de quadrinhos mais aguardada do ano desembarcou na Star+ e não decepcionou. Y: The Last Man consegue ser ainda mais sombria que as HQs. A segunda temporada de Noite Adentro trouxe um episódio que dividiu a opinião dos amiguinhos e Cenas de um Casamento promete ser a DR do ano. No mais, comam uma lasanha e assistam Kate, da Netflix, no domingão à tarde. DeriPockets e Fogo no Rabo da Semana: Superman: Red Son | Fogo no Rabo #13

The crew is back to catch up on whats currently poppin in the culture. The Met Gala, Lexington Toy Convention, Lox versus Dipset, Drake vs Kanye, Met Gala, Snake Eyes, She-Ra , Matrix Resurrections, Shang-Chi, Dune, MCU, Substack and more intro song Song by H.E.R Songwriter(s) Gabriella Wilson,Tiara ThomasAnt Clemons,Carl McCormick,Jeff Gitelman,James Harris, Terry Lewis Producer(s) Cardiak, Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman

This week we checked out the new Y the Last Man series. Talk Amazon Live-action SHE-RA plans, Mortal Kombat sequels and spin-off news plus a ton more

 It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! She-Ra moving to Amazon. Killing an Indiana Jones rumor. New Christopher Nolan movie breaks tradition. More trailers.All that and MORE!! Catch up on all the nerdy headlines in TV and Movies, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.     TV/StreamingShe-RaNew LIVE ACTION series in development at Amazon. This She-Ra won't be connected to the Netflix version of She-Ra.https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/she-ra-live-action-series-amazon-1235061288/ Only Murders in the BuildingRenewed for a second season. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selina Gomez.https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/only-murders-in-the-building-renewed-season-2-hulu-1235064239/ Norm MacdonaldComedian Norm Macdonald has passed at the age of 61. Macdonald had cancer, which he had chosen to keep from fans and friends for over a decade.https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/ MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsHalloween Kills - Now streaming on Peacock on Oct 15 the same day it hits theaters.Willy Wonka Prequel - The Willy Wonka Prequel has cast Keegan Michael Key in an undisclosed role alongside Timothee Chalamet's younger Wonka. https://deadline.com/2021/09/keegan-michael-key-joins-wonka-timothee-chalamet-1234832512/ Bob's Burgers - May 27 2022 https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-bobs-burgers-movie-2022-release-date-teaser-poster-disney-20th-century-studios/ TrailersLast Night in Soho - https://youtu.be/AcVnFrxjPjI Oct 29Hawkeye - https://youtu.be/5VYb3B1ETlk Nov 24Bright: Samurai Soul - https://youtu.be/CthU2bsh6Fs Oct 12 on NetflixChristopher NolanChristopher Nolan's next film will be about J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nolan will be making the movie for Universal Studios, which is the first time in about 2 decades that he hasn't made a movie for WB.https://variety.com/2021/film/news/christopher-nolan-j-robert-oppenheimer-development-of-atomic-bomb-universal-1235064286/ Rumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsWB GamesLeak? Nvidia Geforce NOW was hacked kinda… showing titles for a bunch of games. Some new ones that you would expect like Injustice 3: Gods will Fall and Mortal Kombat 12. As well as some old rumored titles like Batman: Arkham Insurgency. As well as some others not rumored before like Batman: Beyond Gotham, Batman: Arkham Underworld, AND Suicide Squad Metallica????Indiana JonesIndy to be replaced? Rumor is that Phoebe Waller-Bridge will replace Harrison Ford as the lead in the series… She IS in the movie…Penguin SeriesHBO Max will be getting a prequel series for the Penguin from the new Batman movie. The Batman villain's series is still early in development, and hasn't nailed down Collin Ferrell to play the Penguin yet.Mortal Kombat PrequelWB reportedly wants a Mortal Kombat animated prequel to the live-action movie.Harry PotterPrequel series headed to HBO Max based on Snape?You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

 It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! She-Ra moving to Amazon. Killing an Indiana Jones rumor. New Christopher Nolan movie breaks tradition. More trailers.All that and MORE!! Catch up on all the nerdy headlines in TV and Movies, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.     TV/StreamingShe-RaNew LIVE ACTION series in development at Amazon. This She-Ra won't be connected to the Netflix version of She-Ra.https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/she-ra-live-action-series-amazon-1235061288/ Only Murders in the BuildingRenewed for a second season. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selina Gomez.https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/only-murders-in-the-building-renewed-season-2-hulu-1235064239/ Norm MacdonaldComedian Norm Macdonald has passed at the age of 61. Macdonald had cancer, which he had chosen to keep from fans and friends for over a decade.https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/ MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsHalloween Kills - Now streaming on Peacock on Oct 15 the same day it hits theaters.Willy Wonka Prequel - The Willy Wonka Prequel has cast Keegan Michael Key in an undisclosed role alongside Timothee Chalamet's younger Wonka. https://deadline.com/2021/09/keegan-michael-key-joins-wonka-timothee-chalamet-1234832512/ Bob's Burgers - May 27 2022 https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-bobs-burgers-movie-2022-release-date-teaser-poster-disney-20th-century-studios/ TrailersLast Night in Soho - https://youtu.be/AcVnFrxjPjI Oct 29Hawkeye - https://youtu.be/5VYb3B1ETlk Nov 24Bright: Samurai Soul - https://youtu.be/CthU2bsh6Fs Oct 12 on NetflixChristopher NolanChristopher Nolan's next film will be about J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nolan will be making the movie for Universal Studios, which is the first time in about 2 decades that he hasn't made a movie for WB.https://variety.com/2021/film/news/christopher-nolan-j-robert-oppenheimer-development-of-atomic-bomb-universal-1235064286/ Rumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsWB GamesLeak? Nvidia Geforce NOW was hacked kinda… showing titles for a bunch of games. Some new ones that you would expect like Injustice 3: Gods will Fall and Mortal Kombat 12. As well as some old rumored titles like Batman: Arkham Insurgency. As well as some others not rumored before like Batman: Beyond Gotham, Batman: Arkham Underworld, AND Suicide Squad Metallica????Indiana JonesIndy to be replaced? Rumor is that Phoebe Waller-Bridge will replace Harrison Ford as the lead in the series… She IS in the movie…Penguin SeriesHBO Max will be getting a prequel series for the Penguin from the new Batman movie. The Batman villain's series is still early in development, and hasn't nailed down Collin Ferrell to play the Penguin yet.Mortal Kombat PrequelWB reportedly wants a Mortal Kombat animated prequel to the live-action movie.Harry PotterPrequel series headed to HBO Max based on Snape?You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

Corey is back and there's apparently a lot to talk about. We've had some smoke move back into the area plus Tropical Storm Nicholas reached hurricane status right toward the end of the podcast. This week's Weather School is about Warnings. Corey and Rando have a few "in other news" tidbits and Shera's got a bunch of fun facts. In fact, she also gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

How long would it take to cook a pizza outside on Venus? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss the physics of surface temperature, the size of ~wAvEs~, and the meaning of horsepower. Could horses get you to space? NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/things-you-thought-you-knew-venus-pizza/ Thanks to our Patrons Kyle W Odren, Frank Kotarski, John Pologruto, Corina Szabo, Shera, Bogdan Pop, Corey McKinney, Matthew Lichtenstein, and Richie Damiani for supporting us this week. Photo Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're officially in Meteorological Fall and 'twas a chilly morning in the Branson area. We discuss the Cold Front that went through and the little bit of rain we managed to squeeze out of the atmosphere. The tropics are rollin' along so focus is on Hurricane Larry in the Atlantic. This week's Weather School is all about fire rainbows. Rando has a couple of "in other news" tidbits and Shera has some fascinating Labor Day Fun Facts. She also gives us the Weather Word of the Week! ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our website at: stormdarweather.com Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/stormdarweather Follow us on Instagram at: instagram.com/stormdarweathermedia

Thanks so much to George for commissioning this episode! We're starting the companion book to Of Sea & Shadow and I'm really excited to see what the story looks like from Calder's perspective. We're starting off in a similar fashion to Shera's story, jumping back and forth in time between some key moments of Calder's childhood and present day. We're seeing him with his father, getting his initial training in breaking and entering, and I'm curious how that translates to his present circumstance. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to George for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we FINISH THE BOOK! And shit ends on a helluva cliffhanger. We've got Shera working with an Awakened weapon and apparently she's Soulbound now! Meanwhile, someone gets away with the Heart, and Calder says that they're going to have to team up together. Meia gets captured somehow (she was unconscious lol) and the cliffhanger ending is her essentially commandeering the ship for her own purposes. I love her so much. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with the start of Of Sea & Shadow!

This week on the Toy Power Podcast we are once again joined by Special Guest Scotty.  Scot dusts off a few skeletons from the closet, with an extended intro to this ep; & we acknowledge the unfortunate absence of Master Darren.  It's a full-on news centric episode & we take no time in acknowledging the rapid pace that McFarlane seems to be able to produce toys!  Batmobeast, Batman Year 2 and many other key callouts!  Xenomorph reveals from Mezco as well as a few Kenner Homage figures from Neca.  Street Sharks from Mattel Creations - do these make a splash with us?  THE BIGGEST HasLab to date - is fully funded & has a lot of extras to be excited about plus a true Victory for Transformers fans.  Neca licensing the Usagi Yojimbo Comic by Stan Sakai & Sponge Bob SquarePants - Ultimates by Super7.  The Star Wars expands the size of a non-vintage toy, plus Brandon Lee's The Crow - gets a deluxe release by Mezco.  We finally have a Teaser Shot of the 4HM Cosmic Legion figure too!  The hype is real!!   Then our 2nd exciting segment of this episode is a very generous package from Webstor.83 - tune in to find out what this turns out to be!! Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.