TGMG 215: The Crimes of Biggenrish

Big and Rish talk about the newest "Wizarding World" installment, The Crimes of Grindelwald.  How does it measure up to other famous spin-off series?  See how many times they bring up the Prequels, just for a laugh.



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Rish and Big Talk With Marshal About Bounty Hunters

Over at the "Star Wars: Delusions of Grandeur" podcast, Big Anklevich joins Marshal Latham and Rish Outfield to talk about bounty hunters.  And, technically, Gino Moretto joins in too.

Podcasters . . . we don't need their scum.

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TGMG 214: Stan, The Man

It was with sadness that we heard about the passing of Stan Lee, the father of Marvel Comics. So, Big and I got together with fellow comics fan Marshal Latham, to talk about the late, great writer and creator.

Excelsior!

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Big's Voice on Graniville: Lurking Dusk

Listening to a recent episode of the Graniville audio drama, "The Thing in the Woods," I heard a very familiar voice.  It's a supernatural series presented as a radio show called "Lurking Dusk," hosted by Benny Paulsen, who recounts creepy stories about the town of Graniville.

Well, our own Big Anklevich voices Thomas, a town local with an unexplainable experience of his own.

You can listen to the show at this link. Or, just watch it on YouTube (kinda clever to offer it both places, don't you think?):

Rish and Marshal Talk the Monsters of Star Wars

Rish here.  So, instead of doing a Halloween episode of my solo podcast this year, I did a Halloween episode of the Dunesteef and one for Delusions of Grandeur.  In the latter, Marshal Latham and I talk about our favorite monsters of Star Wars (including the damned Prequels, for once).

(Ghost Hayden Christensen not included)

The show actually turned out much better than I thought it would, so I guess we'll blame Marshal for that.  Check it out RIGHT HERE!

Will I do a Christmas Outcast episode?  Right now, it looks like about 60/40 against.

Marshal And Rish Talk About The Warcraft Movie

Rish here.  A couple of months back, Marshal Latham and I did an episode of his podcast discussing Steven Spielberg's DUEL.  It was a sort of test run on a show we were considering where we talked about a movie, good or bad.  I preferred bad.

Well, the next episode is out now.  It's the first installment in a stand-alone podcast series called Outfield Excursions (in keeping with Marshal's traveling theme).  He's releasing it on the Journey Into... page in conjunction with a new Patreon he's starting.  The movie in question is 2006's WARCRAFT, directed by Duncan Jones.

These projects are pretty time-consuming, as I well know, and Marshal continues to do a bang-up job with the editing.  I encourage you to go to THIS LINK to listen to the episode, and if you enjoy it, journey on over to THIS LINK and support the guy on Patreon.

In the future, he'll allow the Patrons to vote on which movie we discuss next, and I've already got a couple ("I heard it was so bad I never actually saw it") films in mind.  Check it out sometime.

TGMG 213: I Shouldn't Have Said That

Warning: So (potentially) offensive we disclaim it twice!*

Rish and Big discuss the firing of James Gunn from the third GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY film over incendiary tweets he made years ago. Then their heads start turning...can everyone's past words come back to haunt them? Are jokes no longer fair game?



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*Or thrice, if that warning counts.

Rish Performs "Relationship Breakdown" On StarShip Sofa

Rish here.  Holy Handgrenade of Antioch, I've got another narration on Star Ship Sofa, the multiple award-winning story podcast. This time, it's "Breakdown of the Parasite/Host Relationship" by Paul R. Hardy. It's about the struggles between an alien symbiote and its human carrier onboard a spaceship, and is pretty amusing.
This was a bit of a challenge for me. I was given absolutely no direction on how to tackle the story* as far as accents, sound effects, transitions, or editing, and it was all pretty complicated when I thought about it.

Like my pieces "Outgoing Transmissions" and "Greetings From the Ninth Sector," this is a Sci-Fi story told in an epistolary format, except that this one was transcripts of chats between characters. I sort of had to translate that into audio format by presenting it as though these are voicemails we're hearing between characters, and that actually works way better (since some of the interactions beggar credibility when you imagine that people are TYPING all this stuff rather than saying it).

Check out the results of all my choices HERE.

Rish "Breakdown Of Any Relationship" Outfield

*On the contrary, I got an email asking if I would read the story and determine whether it would work in audio before the editor even decided whether to purchase it for the show. Certainly more power than I've ever wielded on a podcast that isn't mine.

Marshal & Rish Talk Spielberg's DUEL

Rish here.

Marshal Latham has a podcast called Strewn Along the Path, where he gets in a car and talks about stuff (I oughtta try that sometime, huh?), and often he talks about movies he's seen recently.  Well, he invited me to sit down and talk to him about a movie we were both a fan of, Steven Spielberg's 1971 TV movie DUEL.

Well, Marshal has edited that conversation and put it up on his website (AT THIS LINK), so everyone can hear us talk.  And by everyone, I mean the absolutely zero people who will ever listen to that podcast.

But hey, prove me wrong.  Prove me wrong and let Marshal know you'd like us to do this on a regular basis, and we'll switch off picking movies (Marshal is bound to pick good movies, whereas I, in my fashion, will force him to watch bad ones).  He even suggested making a list of potential views and letting his (actual, breathing?) listeners choose which one should be next.

I, for one, welcome our podcast overlords.

Rish Outfield, Movie Reviewer

That Gets My Goat 212: Wasps Are The Skinheads Of The Insect World

It's Marvel's last entry in the 2018 books, the sequel to 2015's improbable hit, Ant-Man. This time he's got a super heroic friend called the Wasp fighting at his side. In that spirit, Rish Outfield got together with his super heroic friend Big Anklevich to talk about the film, and how it made them feel deep inside in their special place.



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TGMG 211: Rock The Quote (Marvel Studios)

In honor of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's tenth anniversary, Rish brings Big (and you) another episode of nobody's favorite game show, "Rock The Quote."  Fake Arnold Schwarzenegger presents 33 quotes from Marvel Studios films . . . can Big identify them all?

Can you?



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Rish Performs "Water In The Desert" By Abigail Hilton

Rish here.  Sometimes I feel like one of those actors who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era, once riding promising careers, now professionally untouchable.  But Abigail Hilton is like Kirk Douglas to my Dalton Trumbo., keeping food on my table till this administration gets replaced.  Hopefully, like Douglas, she also lives to be a hundred and two.

The most recently-published Hilton piece I have narrated is called "Water in the Desert."

Set in the same universe as "Hunters Unlucky," WIND takes place seven years later, with the characters of Sauny and Valla now grown and having an adventure on their own.  Because I had voiced those characters as children, I pretty much got to come up with new voices for everyone in this story, which is fun.

Hopefully, the story (and my reading) is fun too.

Check it out, if you're of a mind to.  Here's the link, over on Audible.

That Gets My Goat 210: Solo, Sweet Chariot

So, way too soon for Big and Rish, the new STAR WARS movie has hit theaters. Here's their feelings, as well as a bit about its lackluster first weekend at the box office.



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Rish Narrates "Cram Time" On Starship Sofa

So, I got to perform a short story on a podcast, and I thought it turned out well.

Written by Konstantine Paradias, "Cram Time" is a very tongue-in-cheek tale of a couple of students at a school based on H.P. Lovecraft's worlds, and the hijinks they get up to trying to undo the damage that one misused Necronomicon spell causes.

Feel free to check it out over at the Hugo Award-winning StarShip Sofa.

I can heartily recommend the short story, though I admittedly have a bias.  One of the main characters hails from the sunken city of R'lyeh* (from ye olde Cthulhu Mythos), and I decided to give him a fun accent.  The performance was actually a lot harder than most of the stories I do for podcasts.  But if they were all easy, I guess I would never get better.

Check it out at THIS LINK!

Rish "Ingrate Old One" Outfield

*Hoo boy, it was no fun to figure out how to say that word, or worse, the language R'lyehian.  Luckily, my boy Norm Sherman used it in a song, so I appropriated that pronunciation.  Thanks, Norm.

That Gets My Goat 209: Infinity Snore

Rish and Big finally talk about AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR. Tons of spoilers, right out of the gate, as well as talk about the music, its surprises, what may follow, and plenty of tangents in between.

Note: Wow, sorry about the lateness on this one. The editing was bad enough I nearly called this episode "Infinity Chore."*

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*Then I was going to split it into two halves, and the second would be called "Infinity More." I'm still not quite pleased with the title (I considered calling it "Infinity Rapport," since we're in such agreement, and if we had been just a tiny bit more vulgar, maybe "Infinity Whore"). Ah well, better luck next show.

Rish, Marshal, and Renee Talk Han Solo on "Delusions"

Hey there, Rish here.  Marshal Latham has published another of our "Star Wars: Delusions of Grandeur" podcast episodes. This is one we recorded to discuss the character of Han Solo BEFORE he gets his own origin movie in a few days.

The editing on this particular episode was a real beast (for some reason, Renee's lines kept getting out of sync with our lines, despite us all starting at the same time), but I was buoyed up by the feeling that, if this isn't the best episode we've ever done, it's at least in the top two.

Check it out HERE?

That Gets My Goat 208: Nostalgia Player One

Big and Rish talk about a couple of trailers Rish saw, and what he deems "The Nostalgia Wave." Or maybe he didn't. Regardless, Big likens it to the recent READY PLAYER ONE movie adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, and directed at . . . ?

Also, murder was the case that she gave the Dunesteef boys.

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Rish Narrates "Free Balloons For All Good Children" On Pseudopod

"Free Balloons For All Good Children." What a title.  But that's the name of the story written by Dirck de Lint that I read over on Pseudopod, the Horror Podcast.

A father takes his toddler out to a park, and discovers a balloon there that threatens to do more than just pop with a startling sound.

I shared the story with Big Anklevich because it so reminded me of a story he wrote, where we took something that shouldn't be scary (a balloon, in his case), but tried to make it scary.

It's a very short piece, but effective nonetheless.  Link Right Here.

Rish "There Are No Good Children" Outfield

P.S.  Have you ever known anyone named "Dirck?"  Be honest now.

A Request For A Big Anniversary

Hey, y'all, Big here.

On July 1st, 2008, Rish and I posted our very first installment of the Dunestef Audio Fiction Magazine. We've been through an awful lot since those days. Lots of ups and downs. Sometimes ups outnumber the downs, but not in Nottingham.
 
This summer will mark the 10th anniversary of that first podcast. It's hard to believe that so much time has passed. We've hit various milestones over the years, like 100 episodes and the like, but for the most part, we haven't done anything celebratory for any of those big accomplishments (wait, I think that might not be the right word. Is there a word for not giving up even though you totally should have?). But Rish had an idea that for our 10th anniversary, we could do some kind of an AMA episode. If you're not hip with the jargon, that stands for Ask Me Anything.

So, if you've ever wondered something about Big and Rish, about the Dunesteef, about that time when Rish took his pants off in front of Ryan Reynolds, or any other subject, throw it in an email to editor at dunesteef dot com, or reply in the comments, or put it on the forum, and we'll coagulate all those comments...wait I think that's the wrong word again, but eff it, I'm going with it...and we'll answer them on our big anniversary show. Thanks in advance for participating.

Big & Renee Join Rish & Marshal on "Delusions"

Missing the Dunesteef boys?

Well, it's sort of another lost episode, over on the "Star Wars: Delusions of Grandeur" podcast.  Special guests Big Anklevich and Renee Chambliss join regular hosts Marshal Latham and Rish Outfield to talk about THE LAST JEDI, and what might come next.

Plus, Renee once again utters the phrase "Not to defend the Prequels, but . . . "  Some classics never go out of style.

Check it out HERE.

TGMG 207: Embarrassment of Riches (lost episode)

Oooh, look what the tide brought in: another lost episode of the show!

In this one, Big and Rish talk about all the many options of superhero/comic book films and television, and how there's really too much of it to take in.

Special thanks to Vincent Losacco, for discovering this episode floating just off the coast of Portland.



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TGMG 206: Writers Blockheads

So, not long ago, Big announced a mini-Broken Mirror story writing exercise between Rish and him. But it was mostly to get the boys to start writing again.

And what do writers do, children?



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TGMG 205: That Gets My (Black) Panther

So, the newest (number 18) film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is here, and both Big and Rish saw it.  After some tiptoeing, they give it two vibranium claws up!

Correction 1: The Black Panther character was created in 1966.

Correction 2: Ulysses Klaw is played by Andy Serkis, not Gollum.

Correction 4: Ulysses "Klaw" is spelled "Klau."

Correction 5: Stan Lee is alive, and sounds nothing like that.

Correction 6: This film takes place before SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING.

Correction 7: Wang Chung was not an Adult Film star.

Correction 8: Correction Four was actually Correction Three.



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Breaking A New Mirror

Hey, everybody, Big here.

Back in February of last year, I challenged myself to write 500 words a day for the whole month. I was successful at it, so I expanded the challenge to 1,000 words a day in March. I once again managed to kick some ass. April I continued doing the same thing, and on into May. By the time May came around, I was 95,000 words into a novel called Sunny & Gray, and I was feeling more like a writer than I ever had before.

But then I had to move to Houston. This was quite an involved process, and it kept me very busy for weeks on end. I've heard bullshit about how you only have to do something for 30 days in a row to develop it into a habit, and all I can gather from that statement is that if you want to make a bad habit, do it for 30 days. Good habits take much longer to develop, because all it took was one missed day, and my writing habit was dead.

After moving to Houston was finished, I never got back to writing, despite having absolutely no good reason not too. Hell, for the first thirty days or so that I lived there, I didn't even have a job to occupy my time, and I still never wrote a single word.

Being a writer has been a lifelong goal of mine, however, so something has to be done about it. The pressure in my head has been building. It's also gathered from outside as well. My nephew, who has listened to the show for years, was asking me about why I don't write. We texted back and forth, one thing led to another...not like that...and now he's texting me every morning telling me to write.

I talked to Rish the other day, and he was lamenting his inability to find motivation for writing as well. One thing led to another...again, not like that...and now I'm here to announce to you that Rish and I are challenging each other to write. It's going to be a sort of Broken Mirror challenge in which the two of us write stories based on a similar thing. This time around, it's Metallica song titles. Rish has always had a weird fascination with Metallica song titles, and has long had a desire to do a Broken Mirror event between the two of us in which we base our stories around a Metallica song title. So, we're going to do it.

We've given ourselves a deadline of March 9th to finish the story and deliver it to the other person to be read and edited by them. I'm going to be calling my story "Frayed Ends of Sanity" and Rish said that he might be calling his story "My Friend of Misery". When we're done, we'll produce both of our stories for the Dunesteef podcast, so you will get the opportunity to hear just how we did.

While this isn't an official contest for the Dunesteef like previous Broken Mirror events have been, you are certainly encouraged to also write. Write a story based on a Metallica song title and have it done by March 9th as well. Good on you if you do. The more people fulfilling their dreams of being writers, the better. That's what I say.

I just thought we needed to put this out there so that everyone knew, and could hold our lazy asses accountable.

Rish's Essay "Character Assassination Luke Skywalker" on Delusions of Grandeur

Back in January, Rish heard somebody refer to a LAST JEDI action figure as "Character Assassination Luke Skywalker," and wrote, recorded, and filmed an essay about it.  In case you've not heard it, Marshal Latham has kindly aired it as part of the Star Wars: Delusions of Grandeur podcast, along with his own observations and sound clips.

Check it out HERE.

Or, if you absolutely have to watch the video version, here it is on YouTube.

TGMG 204: The Last Porg

Here is the second half of Big and Rish's long-winded conversation about STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI.



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Oh, and here's that nasty picture (actually commissioned by LucasFilm) Rish mentioned:

TGMG 203: The Second-to-the-Last Jedi

Big and Rish saw the newest Star Wars movie and talk about it for a long time. Too long, it would seem, for a single episode.

Sorry?


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Rish Narrates "Single Parent" for Cast of Wonders...Again

This is a little strange.  Somebody picked my reading of Sarah Gailey's "Single Parent" (Show 283) as their favorite episode of 2017, so they're re-running it.  That means . . .

Well, nothing, really.  No residuals, no bump in my status quo, probably not any new fans.  But if you missed my performance of a single dad's experience with a monster in his kid's closet, well, here's a second chance.

We don't get many second chances in life, but you can find yours at THIS LINK.