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0:00 The following is brought to you in part by MFC Studios. The views of the show's host and guests do not necessarily reflect those of the management owners or. Staff of this radio station. And now it came from the radio. Yeah, but toy and welcome once again to it came from the radio facility Back up Icon. This is your host, Mark Torres speaking with me in the studio. We have none other than Elle, man. Jenny Felding.

0:47 Good day. I think you're gonna have to move the mic closer to you. Like moving in. Good day. There you go. And we have a enemy inside. Hassan Godwin on the phone. Can you hear me? Holy crap, you're loud. Yes, we can hear you. Yes, we can hear you. On this week's show. We're going to have another Chris Woolsley's Chris Picks for Chicken Soup of the Soul. We have another Jay Burnley segment man on the inside. Hassan Godwin has this Comic Insider segment and our Senior Correspondent Charlie Saladino has this coverage of the Li Comic Fest. But before we do any of that, we have to take it away with the news. It's more than time the news is brought to empire by fine folks at Scifi dot Radio. That's Scifi for your Wi-Fi as all the fine folks of the Big Apple condo, which we are the official radio show of celebrating over 26 seven how many years it is pop culture in this and complex stuff.

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2:35 He's a mentalist. We will be at the East Meadow Public Library and Wednesday, August 9th at 7:00 PM, you can come on down. It's a free show. You'll be part of our live studio audience and you can get a chance to win a private Oneonone reading in our free raffle and also letting everybody know who's listening to the show right now. On our August the 13th show, we're going to be having some contests. We'll be giving away tickets to the Li Comic Fest, we'll be giving tickets away to the Route 110 Comic show, and we'll also be giving away tickets to the Long Island Doctor Who convention. All of them are on the weekend of the 19th, 20th and 18th, 19th and 20th of August, and we'll be giving tickets away on the 13th show, so make sure you guys tune in for that there. All right?

3:19 So now let's take away with these sad news. Let's see what we got here. Nicely done, Mark. That's that's that's a heck of a house cleaning. Yeah, I got, I got a paper and everything. It's so let's see sad news. WCBS is a meteorologist. Elise Finch died recently. As of this recording, which is July 23rd, 2023, no close death has been announced. Elise had been with CBS for 16 years. It's kind of weird. We had just mentioned, I believe last week's show, how Frank Field was also a CBS meteorologist, had passed away at the age of 100. And Elise? She has been there for 16 years and she was only 51 years old. CBS is doing a sweep. That's terrible. That's so terrible.

4:00 That's probably what's happening. I mean, just don't shoot the messenger. I quit. You're never hired. That's what makes it easy to quit So last bit of sad news. Actor Nick Benedict also died recently from complications from spinal surgery, which was performed on July 14th, 23, which was his 77th birthday. While Nick worked in a handful of TV shows, he is perhaps best known for his role of Curtis Reid on a daytime So Days of Our Lives or from 1993 to 2001. That was when he was there. You're familiar with soap opera and Jen is looking at no OK Hassan. No, but it just sounds terrible that he was having an operation to make his life better and he just died on his birthday.

4:44 Like Happy birthday. Avoid. Spying the triple whammy right there. So he was 77. So that's it for our sad news. So we're going to take a quick break and we're going to get back to the rest news. We'll be right back. We came from radio. Hi, you've heard my voice. Open and close the show. Now we want to hear your voice. If you have a business or product, you can record a commercial here. We offer 30 and 62nd spots. For more information contact Mark at mfc_studios@hotmail.com Hi, this is Tammy Stranak, best known for playing the Childlike Empress in the Never Ending Story and upcoming Man and which fantasy film you are listening to.

5:30 It came from the. Radio my neural net. Processor is linked to scifi dot radio. Sci-fi for my Wi-Fi. The more I listen, the more I learn. Now back to our show and welcome back to It came from Railly officially beg your condos, our host Mark Torres speaking with me in the live studio. We have our Elman, Jane Felby. Hello, and we have the man on the inside of Sangawin on the phone. We can help but feel there's like a hierarchy, like, you know, like people like actually with you in the studio, like get a higher reference. Yes, Brian D and in here also gets a higher reference than you. Yeah. All right. Thanks. So I'll be sure to incorporate that in my enthusiasm. So let us continue with the news from the one Strike and you're out follow department as the mostly celebrity list Sandy oh Comic Con is winding down.

6:25 It has been revealed that the striking actors what they can and cannot do and has to be not labeled A scab and denied future union approved work of which the negotiations are settled. Some of the highlights are all SAG workers will be prohibited from all principal on camera work such as acting, singing, dancing, performing stunts, piloting on camera aircraft, puppeteering, performance capture or motion capture work off camera work such as. ADR and breathing such as ADR looping TV trailers, theatrical trailers, voice acting, singing, narration, stunt coordination and related services. Stand in work, photo or body double work fittings, wardrobe tests, makeup tests, rehearsals, camera tests, scanning You can't even be scanned. Interviews and auditions including self tape. You can't do promotional work such as tours, personal appearances, interviews, conventions, fan Expos, festivals for your consideration events, panels, premiere screenings, award shows, junk kicks, podcast appearances, social media, but studio showcases also. Other than that, you can do whatever you want. Also they cannot perform covered at services in the future. They can't have any agreement related to merchandising connected to a covered project, the creation and use of digital replicas including through the Rias regions of private work. So what can they do?

7:55 Members may be may be allowed to work on projects produced by non alliance of the Motion Picture and Television producers related to product companies and if products qualifies for a Quote, UN quote interim agreement. A list of eligible products are posted on the website. They can do appearances, panels, fan meet and greet are all OK as long as they do not promote any work by the companies. They can do autographs which are headshots or similar photos, but photos should not depict themselves as a character from the work they can do. When they do panels, Q&A's, general topics are fine, such as about the process, why they want to be an actor, what they like, dislike about working in the industry, that's fine, but discussing characters on the work or work for companies?

8:40 That is not allowed. Of note, the previous actors strike lasted 95 days way back in 1980. As of this recording we are on day 83 of the writers strike and day nine of the actors strike. Elman Jenny Fellaby as a actress, writer, producer. But you mostly do non union work, right? My gut told me a long time ago, do not join SAG. People asked and I said never. I'm trying not to join and I'm so glad I'm not part of this gang. I mean, my heart goes out to everyone who's affected, who's part of the gang, but it's never been my thing. How crazy is this? Or is it justified? Should this be what they do? I'm not really surprised at all. I mean, it's the only way to have an effective strike and get what you want is for everyone to stand together. And I guess I'm not a team player or I'm just hyper independent.

9:29 But this doesn't appeal to me. I'd rather I'd rather be by myself in the ocean, flawing my arms or with you creating this independent show. And Brian, hello. Then in the gang. It's a gang. What about your son? What do you think about this whole thing? I agree. I mean, you do have to stand together in order for it's collective bargaining. You have to be a collective if you're going to do something like that. And I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think this is going to last a long time. I think it's going to go on and on for longer than anyone is anticipating and I. Look, I think that a I is an important thing to to have regulated. You know, I think it's important to to to nip this in the bud before it actually people actually seriously start losing money and jobs and and security over it. So I think that's important.

10:22 I think that I think it's important that the actors are on strike, even though it wasn't coordinated like that, because it may help the writers, you know, because nobody cares about the writers. But you can't do anything without the actors, so at least not yet, you know. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, that's the whole point, right? What most of this is about. Yeah. So, you know, I'm for it. I'm all for it. I think, you know, I think everybody who works and does their job should be paid. And I think that that should be a living wage, especially if you're, you know, if you're doing one of the most high profile, you know, kind of jobs in entertainment. So. So yeah, I'm all for it. I just hope it doesn't last super long for the sake of everyone. Mostly for the sake of the people who are doing it, because no one's getting paid while all this is going on, right? Well, the production's saying that they're gonna wait until the actors or the writers lose their homes. I've heard that.

11:17 I've heard that they're ready to put their foot in the ground and they're gonna stand strong. Yeah, if it all goes down. I mean, the system is broken. Almost every system we have since, like the 90s, it's. It's not really relevant anymore. So we're seeing a breakdown of systems in every realm of life right now, and people are trying to hang on and hang on and make it work, you know, with unions. But I think we're just seeing a total, a total crash and we have to rebuild. It's yeah. So if you look at this from the, as I was doing the Devil's Advocate last week, looking at this from the producers side for stockholders, should we like by by being on strike, They're essentially not spending money on making productions and products and they're still showing out products and stuff.

12:04 So right now for shareholders wise, at least in the short term, their, their money is good because they're not losing any money and they're still making in whatever's coming in after what the products they're putting out. Of course, when we hit that bubble, when they don't have anything else to put out or if it's all reality shows, that's a whole different story. But right now for the short term, a strike for the production companies may be a good thing if you think about it in that way. Yeah, I mean. Everybody, if anybody smart, anybody strategic and smart, can use something like this to their own advantage. Every time there's a there's a serious shake up where there's a lot of confusion, where there's, you know, there's a lot of emotions on the line. People who keep their heads and actually plan can can, you know, can profit mightily from a lot of this stuff, you know, But as it goes on, you know, the longer it lasts, the more desperate people become. That's when that's when a lot of the the the problems. Really start to spring up from something like this. Yeah, I wonder if people would be dropping out of the union. I wonder if that's an option and be like, no thanks, I'm dropping out and then I'm gonna do my own thing. Well, I think once you're out of the union, you can't do union work, and a lot of people want that union work. Yeah, yeah, they're still.

13:15 Breaking out's not gonna be a problem, but getting back in is gonna be a nightmare if everybody gets what they want or they manage to settle. And then you're going to want to try to get back in. There's going to be a lot of hell to pay well at that point. Well, that's why we were saying about all the list of things that they can't do. If they do that, they're out, they get kicked out and then they can't get back in because getting back in is the thing. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I just don't. I see more loss than value for me, right. But as other type of actors and actresses with different acting style like I feel like they kind of need it. So this is a really sad thing, you know, I sound very bitter, like I want Hollywood to crumble and part of me does cuz a lot of the things they've been doing is a little backwards and I've seen a lot of people have their lives poorly affected. So I say forget this whole system. Sorry.

14:04 So Speaking of moving on, Speaking of movies from the. That's a lot of nuts department. The new Mission Impossible sequel has taken the number one spot in the domestic box office, pulling in a quote UN quote disappointing $54,000,000 in ticket sales in its first week release for the Z Keeping track, the New Super Mario Brothers movie is still the highest grossing film of this year with $573.9 million and counting, followed by the new animated Spiderman sequel with $368.8 million. Mission Impossible comes in at 19. It's crazy when a disappointing film makes $54,000,000 in the opening weekend and we were talking about that. Before, it's disappointing because everybody keeps comparing it to to the most successful film. But if you compare it to other Mission Impossible films, it's pretty much right along, right in line with the what the others have been making.

15:00 Mission Impossible is never like a billion dollar franchise. It was very successful because they managed their budgets and they, you know, they make a, they make a very. They make a very respectable return on it, but it would, you know, like they they're comparing it to Top Gun, right, Which was a phenomenon. You know, they they really shouldn't. You know, with Top Gun was a phenomenon for a lot of reasons. Tom Cruise wasn't the only reason. So it doesn't, it doesn't stand the reason that every Tom Cruise movie from now on, it's going to be a billion dollar boondoggle. Whatever you want. To do you need a Val Kilmer? That's. Amazing. This should be possible because, I mean, this goes back to what Jim was saying about the system is messed up and what we were talking about in previous shows about for some reason, somewhere along the line, Studio said, hey, let's put in a bazillion dollars into making these movies and then the results are not coming back with what they thought. Well it worked like that, pre pandemic. Like they figure if I put in $100 million and I get a 300,000,000 movie, I put $300 million in, I should get a $600 million movie.

16:01 But it doesn't work like. It hasn't worked like that for the last three years. No one has remodeled their their, their business plan. So and I mean you have to also remember as as as Jen absolutely knows this is you know all this stuff is done well in advance like a couple years ago. So a lot of the troubles that these movies run into around a month to three months before opening was not anticipated The year and a half prior when all this these plans were being made. So it's going to take about a year for Hollywood to just catch up to the new status quo. A lot of these movies do do well eventually, right?

16:43 But nobody cares about eventually. In theaters long enough for them to make their money, you know. I think we're going to see a lot more lower budget coming out, including reality TV which is a lot lower budget. Stand up specials. So much so, so much less of a budget, Independent films, movies made by comedians that's going to become more popular and also the whole idea of disappointing 54,000,000. Well let's give up hope and then you won't be disappointed. So hope is the problem here. We should all be hopeless. Is that what? They should be hopeless. Yeah. Their standards are ridiculous. So speaking, so Speaking of hopeless, since I am a huge power. You have a segue for hopeless OK from the It's morphing time.

17:28 No more department. None other than Hasbro has announced that the Power Rangers will, after 20 years of filming in New Zealand, be moving production to yet another disclosed location. Executives say no close. We are committed to keeping, I thought. You were going to say that they were canceling Power Rangers and then? You're going to have a mini meltdown. Well, well, this is the the start of it. So execs say we are committed to keeping Power Rangers fresh by reimagining the brand how we are bringing entertainment to our life. For our consumers, we've been in communication with teams to ensure they are set up for success in their next adventures. We have had the pleasure of working with such incredible and talented teams in New Zealand and plan to keep close for any future projects that may be a fit for Power Rangers or across any of our future entertainment productions. According to reports, filming in New Zealand over the years has brought in about $340 million to local economy as well as quote a pathway for actors and local crew into the industry. UN quote As as I've been compilating the news, I've also found out that they are slowing down the toy line for Hasbro on the Power Rangers.

18:33 So they as of right now, they haven't announced where the new season is going to be. And then well, maybe. But the fact that there's a now a writer strike and an actor strike, this might kill the Power Rangers franchise. It might be over. The possibility. So the fact that they decided to stop production where they've been doing it for the past 20 years, and then all this stuff happens, and then now we're in a position where there's no new cast, there's no information coming out, and he's saying a Comic Con is happening right now. It's winding up right now. No new Power Rangers announcements really, except that the conflict is coming out, so it's very interesting. To require actors or studios or anything, right And. For the comic book, very interesting that this might be the male and the coffin.

19:19 Or a pause? Well, I mean, it's been going. The show's been going on for 30 years with one pause, and it was a very, very poor pause. If I remember correctly, what they did was they took the original season and then they added like really a $2.00 special graphics to it and they re aired that first season and it was horrible. And people just tend to forget that I ever, haven't ever happened. But excluding that, there's always been a continuous new Power Rangers season. Maybe they're like piggybacking and falling along the whole sag thing, so they don't stand out and seem like me, like standing out like a sore thumb. Maybe. Maybe they don't want to piss people off. Maybe. I mean. I can see that I it's just it's crazy how they has robot the Power Rangers from. Saban, They put it on Netflix, they made the 30th anniversary special.

20:07 And I was like, Nah, we're not going to do anything else. Yeah, maybe they're. Well, maybe. I mean, you don't know, right. So as of right now, it's very hesitant that there will be new products of the show many times. I mean if I'm in the company. You're not wrong for being skeptical, but we just we still don't know. So let's see, moving on from the Oh yes, it's Godzilla department. None other than Pluto TV has announced a brand new streaming channel solely dedicated to showing 24/7 of Godzilla material rangings from movies to TV shows, to quote Godzilla exclusives, executives say.

20:51 The King of the Monsters. I waited for my whole life. Has it been? Was that sarcasm? No. It's not. It wasn't sarcasm executive. Says the King of the Monsters has made landfall on Pluto TV. Emerging in 1954, Godzilla has become a Global Icon and a symbol that is transcended time and pop culture. After the viewing as a terror that the Senate upon Tokyo. Godzilla has fought numerous foes and gain new allies over several distinct errors. While each film stands alone in its own moment in time, the evolution of Godzilla followed by advancements and film technology all over cultural trends, yet always stay rooted in the origins from 1954. Today fans can celebrate one of the world's most renowned entertaining characters with Godzilla Channel collection and experience their favorite movie moments from the never ending class between Kaiju and humankind. Generally, you're a Godzilla fan. I I mean, I my whole thought on this is we're going to see it here, here.

21:47 A lot of people having similar stories to mine watching Godzilla on the Spanish channel, So you. Here in Japanese. You mentioned that, yeah. And then it was subtitled in Spanish. And I don't know Japanese and I no longer fluent Spanish. So I'm hearing the Japanese, I'm, I'm reading the Spanish. Nothing's in English. And I'm high as a kite and early in my 20s, and this is my Godzilla experience. So I think, you know, 24/7 we're going to have a lot of people with edibles being legal now. Hi is a kite with a lot of Godzilla experiences. There was a term a bilingual illiterate. You can't read or write in two different languages. And that's what's going on right there, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, kinda. Yeah, kinda. So I know, Hasan, you actually met the guy in the suit, right? The original guy in the suit.

22:33 So as we were just talking about what content producers are going to make, they're making a full on Godzilla channel of stuff that's already existing. Yeah, that's I think there's going to be a lot of that. I think we're going to get a lot of outer channels and and that kind of thing and that's going to probably be very popular. It's definitely going to be good, good content providers for you know whatever. We've been through this before like when when COVID started we we basically just ran out of material like towards the end of 2020. So it's just everything's just pretty much going to be like that now. A lot of people panic in 2020 and made a lot of weird business ideas and business decisions that hopefully everybody will just keep their cool and and wait and see what happens this time so that we don't have the day and date releases and whatever the the debacle the Warner Brothers did, that's costing them a heck of a lot. And you know, arguably is one of the things that has crippled the the box office right now.

23:33 So, you know, hopefully everybody just calms down and waits it out. And everybody argues in good faith, which we know it won't happen. It's not going to happen, not. Waiting for anyone you know? What? And then we'll get through it. So it's an odd thing if you think about that, because of the pandemic, we had the whole changes and the streaming and everything exploded. And because of that, now there's the strike. Had the pandemic and not happened, the reactions wouldn't happen and therefore the stream wouldn't happen. Therefore, the strike wouldn't have been such a thing. Or is it possible that AI just would have happened and we would still be on a strike now? AI would have happened a lot of a lot of other things would have never happened if there was no pandemic.

24:16 A lot of things. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think streaming still would have taken over, but probably not at the rate that it did. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean people were literally tricked into throwing cable away and and just getting into streaming or whatever. That business boomed. You know, and then and so did the Internet. Internet provider business boomed because, you know, people just got rid of, you know, they were, they were tricked into like streaming was the way that everything was going to go in the future. And obviously that is not the case. It's going to be some kind of hybrid. So no one figured, hey, how we're going to make money off of this. It's look, we're making money right now. The short, once again the short term solution. So the producers and the corporations are all focusing on the short term solutions where the actual workers are working and thinking about the longterm solutions. Always we have like.

25:12 Well, the workers are the ones who who need the money, so they always have to think about the the immediate future. Well, we're going to see more people with the Louis CKI mean, he has obviously a lot of means, but he has own website, so he streams his own show and stand up and Bobby Kelly does too. So other people are making their own platforms and I think we're going to see more and more of that because more creators are. Creating their own production studios. I mean, I have one on a lower level. That's what we're going to see. I think a lot more of that. Yeah baby, So we're almost out of time for a new segment. So I want, I want to throw out this final thought that you were just mentioning about Louis CK during the pandemic. One of my favorite comedians, Titus, he used to have a show on Fox called Titus and there was a hilarious show and the show got cancelled. And then during the pandemic, he just started showing episodes on his channel.

26:03 And then he decided that because there was such a huge following, he decided to make a new episode. Because he created the show, he didn't have the rights to hear the show, but he wrote an episode as like a sequel to that series. And then he did a live stream of the episode and he I bought it because I wanted to see what happened. Through his website, it threw his website right on. Yeah, we're going to see a lot more of that. So that's my thought of that. So Hassan, you have a final thought. Yeah. I'm not going to share. It with you. OK, OK. Jen, you had a final thought. That was it. More, more private production companies. Everyone, their mothers are going to become a producer. All right, So for those of you listening on WGBB, we'll see you next week. For everybody else, we'll be right back with more. It came from the radio.

26:52 Hi guys. This is Xenia Seberg, who plays Zeff on the show Lex and you're listening to It Came from the Radio. Now back to our show. This is Charlie Saladino at the Long Island Comic Fest. I'm here with JC Vaughn. JC Vaughn, could you tell us fans, And I'm saying US fans because I am a fan. What you are all about. Sure. My I work in the industry full time. My day job is I'm the president of Gemstone Publishing, which is the home of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. I've been there for 28 years. I work on picking out the cover artists and working on the editorial content of the book.

27:34 Bob Overstreet still does all the pricing with our advisors, and that's that's my day job. I would be a lot more known as a creator if I hated my day job. But I happen to love my day job so. As a creator, I created or cocreated Zombie Proof and Vampire PA, and Vampire PA has now spun on to Al Capone Vampire, which is the present series we're working on. And the second issue is crowdfunding right now, and it is basically what you would think it is. Al Capone. He's back. He's a vampire, and he's decided to take over Chicago again. I'm I'm looking at these covers and and they're hysterical. You're going to see some pictures on on our Facebook page, but how does how does one come up with this? The the great, the great.

28:19 It's a great question and always fair to ask a creator that question if where do where do your ideas come from? I don't know how not to do it. If you look at this one title over here, Bedtime Stories for Impressionable Children, I literally came up with that in high school and just it's stuck in my brain until I could actually do it. And and it really comes down to, you know, I don't know if I was dropped in my head as a child or, you know, perhaps radioactive nonspider or something. I I have no idea. I just. I get ideas and I sit down and I write. How? How are they? How are they doing on the market? They, you know, most of my stuff is crowdfunded and it's always and you wouldn't see it if it if it wasn't successful. And some of them are small and some of them are do do better.

29:01 I've also done a lot of licensed comics that have done, you know, normal higher level of sales where you see like 24 based on the Fox TV show, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, Battlestar Galactica, that kind of stuff. Well, JC Vaughn, I want to thank you for taking time out to talk to us. And before we go, tell everybody where we could see your product. OK, great. Nor my my normal stuff is listed under American mythology in the previous catalog. From Diamond Comic Distributors, you can also find it. I'm usually crowdfund two or three books a year. Right now we're doing Al Capone Vampire, which is both on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

29:44 I'm cracking up again, but JC Vaughn, thank you so much for taking time to talk to us and we hope to see you all over the place. Thanks a lot. See you soon. This is Charlie Saladino from Long Island Comic Fest. Back to you in the studio, Moth. Ever wanted to enter the world of comics but didn't know where to start? Worrying our true believers, We at the Comic Book School may just have the answer to your questions. Created by comics veteran Buddy Sclera, Comic Book School is a free online educational resource and helps rising creators learn the craft and business of making comics through resources like forums, interviews, publication opportunities, publisher guidelines, and stepbystep blog posts. For more info, please visit our site at www.comicbookschool.com. You should join our forums and follow us on social media while you're there.

30:29 We'll see you on the message forwards. Now back to our show. Hey, it came from the radio fans. It's Chris Woolsey, the king of streaming with another Chris's Pick segment for What is cooking on Chicken Soup for the Soul this month? Well, this month we've got a really fun grab bag of different kinds of genres for you. If you're looking for just something sweet to just kind of liven up your evening, I recommend checking out the Chicken Soup for the Soul Original, a slice of Chicago romance. So this is a chicken soup for the Soul Original. You can only watch it on Chicken Soup for the Soul streaming service, and it's about two Chicago pizza places.

31:16 Who are competing for business and what happens when a competitor 1/3 competitor moves into the market? Really cute, really fun. Just something light to brighten up your night with a slice of Chicago romance. I recommend it. Now, Speaking of bright things that are going to enliven your evening, I cannot recommend enough the documentary St. Gang How We Got to Sesame Street. Now, if you're like me, Sesame Street was basically the soundtrack of your youth. I think I watched it every day growing up.

31:56 I love that I'm still a fan. Every time I watch it, it just makes me smile. And this documentary is a deep dive into the behind the scenes, nuts and bolts of what it took to put on. You know what has really become an American classic? ATV classic? And one of the greatest kids series ever created. So you get to see interviews with cast members, with the puppeteers, the writers, the directors, the producers, the stars, everyone. It is a phenomenal documentary. St. Gang, how we got to Sesame Street. I cannot recommend enough.

32:38 Switching gears and Speaking of gear, this one stars Richard Gere. We have The Dinner, which is a dark drama starring Richard Gere obviously from Working Girl and Laura Linney from Ozarks, as well as Steve Coogan from 24 Hour Party People. And this is about two sets of parents that are coming together at over dinner to discuss what? Is going to be done about a rather grotesque act perpetrated by their two sons. Really dark. Some of the best performances of these actors careers and I am huge fans of everyone in this film, but it is a it is a dark, dark journey that you go on in this film.

33:30 If you're looking for something like that, I highly recommend The Dinner. Phenomenal performances. We also have a really great another really great documentary and this is called The Woman Who Wasn't There and this tells the story about a woman who was at Ground Zero, told the harrowing story of her escaping one of the towers just minutes before it fell. She tells of being on fire at one point and just barely getting out with her life. And then she was at Ground Zero helping out the whole time, eventually became the head of the 9/11 survivors group.

34:13 And then a number of years later, there was a journalist, I believe it was New York Times journalist, who was doing some research in preparation to interview this woman. And she found quite a few holes in her story. And come to find out, this woman wasn't exactly who she was portraying herself to be. If you like documentaries, and if you're interested in historical events and intrigue, the Woman Who Wasn't There is a really great watch. I highly recommend checking that one out. And then we also have The English Teacher with Julianne Moore. This is kind of a dramedy, but it's a star-studded cast. Julian Moore obviously from Boogie Nights. Greg Kinnear, As good as It Gets. Nathan Lane from The Birdcage.

35:07 I'm gigantic fans of all of them, but Julian Moore plays an English teacher who has her life turned upside down when a former student returns to town. I'm not gonna say anything more than that. It is a really fun watch, but check out the English teacher. As I said, star-studded cast. But you remember, you can always watch Chicken Soup for the Soul by downloading the app at your favorite App Store on your Samsung, your Visio, We just launched the Roku channel, your Fire TV or you can go to chickensouptv.com and you can either cast to any device or you can watch on your laptop or desktop. Again, this is Chris with another Chris's picks for what is cooking on Chicken Soup for the Soul. And have a fabulous night.

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36:43 This is Jolly Saladino from It came from the Radio I'm live the Long Island Comic Fest, A convention. For the fans, by the fans. And I'm here with one of my favorite artists of all time. I see him on the circus circuit constantly and I see his artwork and I'm always blown away. The one, the only Billy Tucci. Billy, how are you? I'm. Doing great my friend. How are you? I'm a little slight. Man, and I'm. Here at the Comic Con. Yeah. Probably little. Hands by the fans. A lot of fans listen, I'm looking at your artwork. You just get better and better. What's going, what's going on with you and and your your career here? You know, just I guess we're experiencing a creator on Renaissance.

37:32 We she's back. What made me in my first place? I brought it back for the first time in 15 years. Close to 20 years, actually. And next year's? Our 30th anniversary, but we've we've put out four new graphic novels since then. A bunch of special editions. And it via through Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowdfunding platforms first. And then we'll be back in comic shops at the end of this year, again with new She stories and what we did with the characters that we actually progressed her for. We progressed her 20 years, like in real time. So now my character Anna is now 45 years old. She's a single mother raising her teenage daughter. Her warrior days are far behind her. And then it all comes back.

38:15 How did you come up with this whole concept? Well, I, you know what I came up with she in 1990 originally and it was because I just fell in love with Japanese woodblock prints, believe it or not. And I always loved Japanese, you know, samurai films and things like that. But when I got into the Japanese woodblock prints, it was a lot of them are about, you know, Japanese mythology, Japanese historical things. And and I just started jumping into Japanese history. It just really spoke to me. And through that this, this story just developed, and the character actually originally started as a male character, and it's based on this shadow war that's existed between the descendants of the warrior monks of medieval Japan and samurai.

38:57 And it's it's now carried over to today, to modern times. Where instead of them doing battle in the shadow of Mount Fuji, you know, on the plains, you know of, of Japan, they now take place in boardrooms and in the arts and in the shadows and in in finance and all this stuff and and it's literally, she's a a soldier drafted into this war that she's totally not prepared for. This sounds totally amazing. And when? When are we looking for this? They're out now. I we, we again. We've just released a 500 page on the. Bus Edition, which collects the 1st 16 issues of She and We have the new series that people could find in billytucci.com.

39:38 There's three new issues out for that, which is she returned the Warrior. Then there's Shehaiko, and then there's She Sakura. And those are the that's the first story art, which is about 300 pages or so. So it's pretty pretty cool. Pretty cool. I'm I'm actually looking at it now it it looks, it looks very cool. The artwork is unbelievable as always. Thank you. Yeah, we've got a great our team, great, just great writing team. My friend Steven Perros, my friend and fellow Long Islander who I met the first day of school of junior high, and he's a screenwriter and he's he's taken over the scripting duties, the writing duties on it, so I can focus on the art. And we just get it.

40:23 He's always loved the character. He gets the character and we'll plot the story together and then he just goes with it and writes it and sends me scripts and I draw him. It's a it's an amazing it's an amazing book. Like I said, I'm looking at it now. I always, I have to tell everybody I always I'm at these conventions and when I walk past Billy's area, you got to stop dead and you got to like just stop dead and look at his artwork. It's unbelievable. I actually own a couple a couple of prints of of his artwork and you just, it's your artwork. I cannot say this enough. Is amazing. Now where can people see most of your artwork? You know I'm obviously I'm on Instagram on my Twitter, I'm on Facebook all at Billy Tucci but they can just go to Billy Tucci calm and and all my stuff saying all links to everything else is right there www.billytuccicalm.

41:21 Beautiful Billy, thank you so much time. Thank you so much for taking time to do the interview. And like I said, looking forward to seeing more and more of your work. Thank you, brother. Great seeing you, man. Thank you. This is Charlie Saladino at the Long Island Comic Fest with Billy Tucci, and I'm amazed to be here. I'm honored to be here with him. And we will see you again, Billy. Absolutely. You sure will, Charles. See you later, buddy. All right, you got it. Charlie Saladino at the new Long Island Comic Fest. Back to you, Mark. Nice. The Comic Book Depot has been in business since 1993. Go One Stop Comic Book Shop for comics, gaming and collectibles. The Comic Book Depot Club membership is $15 and gets you 15% off new comics, back issues, graphic models and 10% off comic book supply.

42:09 Located at 2847 Jerusalem Ave. in Wantagh, NY. Contact us on Facebook for curbside pickup because new comics are back. For more information, give out a call at 516-221-9337. The comic book depot. Now back to our show. Hey, this is David and Lee, and we're here to talk about movies, music, TV and what's going on in our part of the world. Today we're going to talk about my dad and brother's trip to Chicago. Soon to be part of the Boys of Summer Trip, right? Yep. Are you excited? All right. What are you excited about? Thick crust pizza. Deep dish. I mean thick crust pizza. Well, it kind of is a thick crust. Almost.

42:53 All right, so deep dish pizza. We are going away this summer for a few days. Chicago. We're going to do what we can. Chicago side, what do you What else did we talk about? What else are we going? Go and see a Cubs game. Who they playing, do you know? Red Sox. Yeah, the Boston Red Sox for Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. We are going to do this. It's going to be amazing. You know why? Because Wrigley Field is a whole area. There's a village as people going everywhere is a Boston Red Sox. The Boston Red Sox, I would assume is a big, big deal for this team to want to be a part of and watching this town. And what else do you think we should be doing? Think you guys should go on a major food tour? What do you think?

43:40 Sure, sure. Sure. Sure. What are you looking forward to? We should we try to get cheeseburgers from the Cheeseburger Cheeseburger SNL skit thing? Baby, I was more thinking, Isn't Chicago the home of the Blues? It is home of the Blues. Yeah, I think so. All right, so we should go there. We should go to the Blues to see something bluesy. Yeah, OK. There's also a country concert going on at the time. We're going to be there and it's like. Festival. Are you guys gonna go? I don't know. The tickets are so expensive. How much are they? I think it's like $200.00, but it's like days. I think days that there's like 20 bands. Oh, wow. Whole country. Which you would probably. Look, yeah, Riley would probably probably like that. He's a real country guy recently. So here's what else we can do in Chicago. What do you think about going on a boat and looking at the architecture of Chicago?

44:28 That sounds nice. Yeah, it does, right? Yeah, I can't believe you guys are doing that without me. Well, why? Would we do? It with you I did tell you I like. Architecture. Well, we could do that another time. We could always go back, you know, maybe we'll scout it out and then come back and be like, hey, you know, so this is your first time in Chicago. Yep. What do you what do you want to do? The Blues part. Right, What else? Cubs Thick. I mean, what's that? We just talked about the Cubs. How about going up to the Ferris wheel? It's 200 feet in the air. That's. Cool. Is that cool? Yeah. I feel like you just wanna go bowling. That's what I wasn't gonna say.

45:08 Why is mine? Do you wanna go bowling in Chicago? Yes. Do you think you'll beat your high score? No. What is your high score? 198. 198, yeah, that's. Two points shy at 200. Buddy, you look good. I choked when I had 191. That's Okay. Right, but you were fine, right? I'm happy with the 198, but seven points Terrible. So we that another 9. So we have to find a bowling alley in Chicago. Yep, I heard there was this place that you could get the best Cinnabon of all time. In Chicago. In Chicago. What's called Chinnabon Amazing I.

45:49 Don't just know. It's like, I don't know, it's a cinnamon roll, but the people just go there for the breakfast. I gotta. I don't remember the name of the place. I have to find out. Gotta go. Wasn't you? So there was this place that had like, what was it? What was it? I was like, I was like milkshakes, but I had all this cookie stuff. And Oh yeah, I think it's called JoJo Shakes and it's like a giant ice cream milkshake with anything you want. It could be like brownies, cookies. Cake in it. I don't think that's the full cake one. I don't think like you could put. I think there's a place that you could actually put a cake in. The milkshake and it blends the whole thing together, which is unbelievable, right?

46:30 So we're gonna be there in the heat in the summer. Any ideas to go swimming? You wanna go swimming? You wanna do like what would you wanna do? I don't know cuz I never went to Chicago so I don't really know what's in there. Well, like I'd have so much pizza. So much pizza. I heard it takes an hour to cook that. What's that pizza called? Deep dish? Deep dish. Deep dish, Yeah. It takes an hour to make, and some of these places make you wait an hour. Before you can even get in. But what you could do is you can order the pizza, wait that hour, and when you get in, hopefully your pizza will be ready to go. Really. Honestly, that's sort of smart. Yeah, and I think it's pretty good. So do what you guys are going to do probably. Will you get hot dogs? I think they have special hot dogs. They have this French dip.

47:13 And you say there's Philly cheese steaks? Well, it's well, it's Philadelphia, this is Chicago. They have a French dip where they kind of, it's kind of like they put. The beef in a in A roll. And then they dip it in this kind of like sauce and then it gets all soggy and gross on you. But you know, you gotta need, you need a lot of napkins. One guy said that he had to eat standing forward, like really far ahead of his mouth. He had to put the sandwich so far over his mouth so he didn't get like, yeah, stuff all over him anyway. Well, you guys are going to have fun this summer. Stay safe, stay healthy and stay connected. Bye. Hey guys, this is Christy from Custom Cakes by Christy, I want you to know that I'm here for you. I'm keeping my private kitchen open for any needs your family may have.

47:56 I've been focusing on bread soups, muffins, quiches, and other basics, but I'm still accepting dessert orders as well. Please follow my Facebook for immediate pick up items. Private message me for custom orders. Custom Cakes by Christy INCKRISTY. Text me at 631-606-8166. Now back to our show. What is up, everyone? It has been a week, which means only one thing. It is time for the comic insider to rip into yet another book and tell you everything that I found inside there. Today's book is Dark Ride Issue 7. This issue was written by creator writer Joshua Lucas.

48:37 It was illustrated by creator artist Andre Brussen. It was colored by colorist Adriana Lucas and lettered by Pat Russo. This issue was published by Sky Bound Comics. Our story begins with a flashback he recited by Sam as he reflects on the frailties of memory. He spins a story about sitting in a hospital room with his mother and his younger sister. His name is Halloween. Their mother recounts her affinity for 1980s horror movies. She tells them she got a job at the Devil Land Park so that she could eventually get into the entertainment department. But then she met their father. She recounts that she convinced him to allow them to marry on park grounds the first time that's ever happened, when Sam claims that their father hates him because he's always at the park.

49:17 And he's. Never around. The mother corrects them. She tells him that whereas his dad has its faults just like everybody else, everything he does is for the family. He does it all for love. Their mother tells them that she had an undiagnosed congenital heart condition and that it was only because of her relationship with their father that has kept her alive. It was her father that got her properly diagnosed and got her the medication that she needed. Sadly, at this point their mother appears to have particularly bad heart attack. It's unknown if this heart attack is fatal, as the flashback ends with Sam and his. Younger sister being ushered from the room by the medical staff so that they can attend to her. We flash forward. Sam and Halloween are adults. Now, somewhere in the interim, their mother has passed away. Tonight they're attending dinner at the Club 666, which seems to be located on the park grounds.

50:02 Sam brings Summer to dinner with them. Summer is a journalist investigating the apparent suicide of her younger brother who killed himself on the park grounds. Some are suspicious of a younger brother's death. She doesn't believe he killed himself. She feels Mr. Dante, Sam and Halloween's father and whatever malicious spirits inhabit the park itself, had something to do with the death of her family member. Mr. Dante is a grizzled looking older man, but he's undoubtedly the head of the family in the proprietor of the park and the restaurant establishment as everyone jumps at his every command. The guards, The restaurant hosts, the ushers, the waiters waste no time in attending them all, Dante orders for them and somewhat bypasses. With his children to speak directly to Summer, despite his professed efforts towards the contrary, Dante belittles his children as failures in life.

50:48 He claims he tried to give them purpose and make them contributors to the park, to his legacy, but they've done very little to make him proud. Unfazed by this, Summer confronts Mr. Dante about her brother, all but accusing him of being up to no good. But Mr. Dante is equally unfazed. He turns the tables on summer and brings up the death of her parents at sea. The comic here depicts her parents being devoured by sharks, as Mr. Dante goes on about the tragedy of it all and how hard a thing like that must be to live with. The comic then shows Summer on a raft with her younger brother. Here, Dante wonders how badly Summer must have wished to she had died along with her parents. Summer shakes off the psychological manipulation and claims you have seen her brother wandering the park as some sort of zombie after his supposed suicide. She said something is wrong with the park and even Dante's son Sam knows it.

51:39 Sam does wonder aloud if the park is haunted. Dante claims the answer is simple. When his first wife died, he went a long drive and left. His old life behind He claims he met someone in Vegas, a silent benefactor who understood his vision and invested in it. Believed in him when no one else would. Dante claims there's nothing supernatural about the park, that life is scarier than any nightmare that he could dream up on his own. He laments the losses that he suffered, accusing Summer of thinking that she's the only one who's ever known tragedy. He accuses her of turning his failure of a son against him when he claims it's a good thing. Their mother is no longer alive to see what her children have become.

52:22 It's the last straw for Sam. He breaks their wine bottle and attacks his father with it. You'll have to read the issue yourself to find out what happens next. I really enjoyed this book. It's a horror book which is not usually my Forte, but it gets the job done. The storyline is appropriately creepy. The artwork is really tight, really stylistic. I'm going to suggest that you read this comic dark ride. I suggest you read issues one to six first before. Reading this one, which is issue 7. So that about does it. From the comic book Inside the Archaeological Excavator of Funny Book magazine. I will be back next week with yet another book. Remember, books are great, movies are better, but comic books are perfect. Read a book, Watch a movie.

53:04 Share a comic book. All right, take it easy. This is Brian Downey, Stanley Tweedle from the TV series Lex. And you're listening to it. Came from radio. Now back to our show. This is Charlie Saladino at the Long Island Comic Fest, and I'm here with one of my favorite comic book artists of all times, Keith Williams. Keith, how are you doing today? Hi, doing great. Hi, guys. Hi everybody out there. How you doing? Good, good. Keith, what's going on with you these days? Well, it's basically traveling around.

53:46 It's like it's like being in the circus, going from town to town, doing doing conventions and getting commissions and just keep myself busy doing a small indie comic thing also for Halloween. That'll be coming up this year. So. Yeah, things like that. You know, I pass, I pass you booth all the time and I I see beautiful artwork. The thing that that gets me all the time is the Phantom. Oh yes, the Phantom. Well, Phantom. I worked on that for King Features for about 10 years from 1995 to 2005. Had a great time on it, Never thought that I would ever do it.

54:27 Actually Got to meet the creator Leaf Falk, which was, which was absolutely amazing. Met him a few times and really just enjoyed work working on the strip. Still to this day people coming up to me asking me for commissions and. And I even have a sketchbook now with Lou Mana, who was also a penciler on a Phantom. I inked it and was. We're selling those at the at the conventions also. I'm trying to get Lou actually to come out to a few shows. All right, here's a loaded question, Keith, out of all your artwork, any favorites? Any favorites? Oh my God. Any favorite? Oh yeah, it was a loaded question. You know, I got to tell you, got to tell you the truth. Okay.

55:12 Well, there's a few, but you know, like I got to say that we have a Spiderman, which I worked on for about 5 years with Alex Soviet. That's that's pretty high on the list, along with Quasar and of course the Phantom. You know, you can't leave out the Phantom that for 10 years. So yeah, you got to say that that was really very good for me. Oh, and also one a weird one, the mask. Which I worked on with Doug Monkey and John Akuti. I was the anchor on that, and I really enjoyed doing that. And there's a bunch of other stuff. My gosh, I I can't name all this. All the stuff that I'd love that I worked on. But yeah, Warlock, there's so many. Alright, Keith, so where can everybody? I see all this beautiful hour.

56:02 Well, you could see some of the stuff that I've done recently and commissions and maybe some pages from certain stories that I did in the past on Instagram at Keith Williams comic book art. Or you could take a look also on Facebook. That's Keith Williams. I'll be the guy that has the Phantom Ring. That'll be flashing. Yeah, you know, I got while I'm smiling, you know, like that. That'll be my page. Oh, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. Keith and everybody go out there and see this amazing artwork. And Kate, what's down the road for you? Excuse me? What's down the road for you? Oh, down the road for me? Well, I'm going to be going to a few more shows. Of course I have one that's coming up now in Arkansas. Then I'm going to be at next weekend for Free Comic Book Day. So yeah, come on down if you're around. I'm advertising it on Facebook and on Instagram so you'll know where I'll be.

56:59 Beautiful Keith, thank you so much for taking time out and talking to us here and we look forward to seeing you again and again and again. Well, thank you. I'll be around. Take care guys. And hopefully there's not a flood in the parking lot. We could get our cards. Oh, that would be. That would be nice, but I'm sure they have some rafts. And things out here, so we'll be able to. I'm thinking this is Charlie Saladino live at the Long Island Comic Fest. Back to you in the studio, Mom. You had any honor you would listen to Scifi dot radio, the Scifi for your Wi-Fi Kapla. Now back to our show.

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