Sinopsis
What's it like pitching a TV show? When should your failures start turning into successes? How do you take advantage of opportunities? Join hosts Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood as they talk about their experiences navigating creative arts and the media landscape.
Episodios
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Podcast: Brown Menace
07/03/2013Original three reunited again for this very special episode of the podcast! Andrew introduces a birthday question in honor of Justin’s 30th Name Day. A space pioneer wants to make a fly by around Mars but the price may be too high for some prospective adventurers. Or too low. Or too stank. ALSO! Get the first two chapters of Andrew’s new book Knight School read to you by Justin… for free! It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Knight School just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Andrew: Gremlins Justin: Django Unchained comic Brian: Sim City
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Podcast: Smoking Crater
22/02/2013Justin and Andrew are again two against the world. We discuss the Russian meteor and why it explains how terrible Russia’s music taste is. SpaceX is hinting at a new test launch that could leave a smoking crater in the ground. A law is passed leading to a culinary freedom that might turn your stomach AND FINALLY Florida Python Hunt Results! It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Sponsor: Child Beauty Pageant Tycoon Picks: Andrew: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Justin: House of Cards
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Podcast: Double O Heaven
13/02/2013Justin and Andrew are riding as a power duo in this episode of the Weird Things podcast. Who is going to be the next Pope? We thumb through many surprising possibilities including a few super spies who would take the head Vatican role on His Majesty In Heaven’s Secret Service. A space death missile will narrowly miss us, but what would happen if it didn’t? And why shouldn’t we be shooting at it? It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Andrew: House of Cards Justin: Star Wars Audio Drama
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Podcast: Thunderwell
09/02/2013OG Lineup Reunited! A mystery that could rewrite cultural, space and political history is revealed. What is the future of television? How about a technology that draws on your flipping eye balls! This triggers Brian to imagine a beautiful world where everyone is forced to wear glasses. Then Andrew and Justin disagree. Then the yelling begins. Oh, the yelling. Ask Thin Lizzy, the Weird Things podcast is back in town! BROUGHT TO YOU BY: – Flowers FLOWERS is the third feature film from writer/director Phil Stevens. An abstract, surreal horror film centering around six dead women waking up in the crawl space below their killer’s house only to discover that they are trapped in their own limbo and purgatory. A movie that tells it’s story in silence. Without any spoken dialog and surrounded in a cryptic and dark visual atmosphere, FLOWERS is a film that builds on the journey and not the destination. check out the site at flowersthefilm.com or help out by donating to the kickstarter at http://www.kickstarter.com/proj
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Podcast: Help! A Goblin Slept With My Wife!
22/01/2013Andrew is back. Brian is gone. And the one and only Veronica Belmont joins us. Goblins overrrun a Zimbabwe clinic, we take Veronica on quite a tour of our continuing goblin epidemic. We contemplate if a woman would have a neanderthal baby. An update on the Python Killin’ Contest in Florida. We try to sex up a SpaceX announcement. It’s all coming up on a new Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Veronica: Old Man’s War Andrew: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Justin: Game of Thrones
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Podcast: Unlimited Snake Murder
09/01/2013Tom Merritt is our substitute Mayne this week. A Brazilian prison is part of an elaborate escape plan with an unlikely partner in crime. A police department in Florida is ensconsed in a cloud of technological suffication to the detrimite of car owners. Can a brand new pair of detectives named Hobo McGillicutty and Timetraveler Jones solve the case? Also: Snake murder is the order of the day in South Florida! Python death up to your knees! It’s all coming up on a new Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Tom: Glympse.com Brian: Star Wars: Scoundrels Justin: Portlandia
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Podcast: Fuzzy Wonder Goat
02/01/2013ANDREW returns! We finally get our update on The Snuggery! Will our intrepid reporter unleash a b-dog on this poor woman? Mayne tells us of a hilarious run-in with a legendary magician. The boys peruse a vintage catalogue of hazing devices. We review our predictions of 2012 and make new ones for 2013. It’s a DOUBLE STUFFED edition of the Weird Things Podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Andrew: 1933 King Kong Brian: Doctor Who – The Snowmen Justin: Django Unchained
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Podcast: Cheating Doesn’t Count on Mars
30/11/2012We are joined by Jason Murphy of Loading Bar and Spill.com. The boys revisit the mysterious explosion in an Indiana suburb and finally get a deadly update. SpaceX has a plan to send 80,000 people to Mars but Brian has to make a horrifying choice that could ruin his marriage. A startling link between balding men and apes is discovered. It’s all coming up on yet another edition of Weird Things. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Jason: Daredevil by Mark Waid Brian: The Walking Dead video game Justin: Book of Basketball
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Podcast: Deadliest Flash Mob
24/11/2012Tom Merritt joins us as we discuss a massive natural event that happens to alert us to the opening of a new movie. Tom has to make a terrible decision that could leave him buried in Apple rumors or Sasquatch reports. Also, is belief a chief tenant of science? All this and more in an unfortunately Mayne-less episode of Weird Things. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Flying DVDs of Death Picks: Tom: NaNoWriMo Brian: Brandwashed Justin: Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 3: The Last Command
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Podcast: Do You Really Believe?
15/11/2012What would you do if you could live forever. Also, do we now know if the initials to SpaceX’s MCT project? What exploded a peaceful neighborhood in Indiana? We return to the Snuggery after a WTP listener offers to go investigate. Also, when will it be unethical to turn off a video game character? Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Valhalla Industries – Sidekick Foundation Picks: Andrew: Angry Birds: Star Wars Brian: Walking Dead Video Game Justin: East Bound and Down
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Podcast: Cuddle Bear Happy Hour
10/11/2012A woman has a strange job. It sparks a statistical argument between Brian and Justin to rival the Presidential Election. A new way to tell if Mars is housing a killer plague sets up a scenario involving precursor aliens and bears on a level you never before seen. The boys discuss the place the Water Bears have their picnic. Also. Star Wars TALK!!! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Joeseph Sernell – Forging Reverie Picks: Andrew: Going Postal Brian: Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina Justin: The Price of Politics
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Podcast: Gary and The Weasel
31/10/2012Gary and The Weasel make their podcast debut to solve a Polish crime. Who would win in a fight: a Neanderthal or a human? Andrew quizzes us on a mysterious man who witnessed something amazing. Can the boys figure out his identity? And what did he see? The results connect the very fabric of our history through a meld of technology and culture! Prepare friends, for yet another Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Midnight Switch Found – Dolls of Lisbon – Support Andy for Movember Picks: Andrew: My Mother is Nuts by Penny Marshall Brian: Thinking Fast and Slow Justin: Cloud Atlas
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Podcast: No Stop Space Drop
18/10/2012Felix Baumgartner is amazing, but seriously, what comes next? The boys make their guesses. Killjoy scientists try and kill our dinosaur dreams. Because they hate joy. And want to kill it. But fear not! Andrew has a plan that can not only make your dreams a reality, but make the argument it couldn’t have worked any other way anyhow. Hold on to your butts, it’s another Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Monster Madness Radio – Rascal Kings – Blind Gods Bluff Picks: Andrew: Argo Brian: Better Angels of our Nature Justin: Walking Dead
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Podcast: SpaceX Launch Live!
13/10/2012Andrew is live in Cape Canaveral to watch SpaceX launch their first supply mission to the International Space Station and he is joined by CBS’ Molly Wood! Justin is live at TWiT’s studio in Petaluma, CA and is joined by Tom Merritt. Brian is somewhere in Dallas and is joined by his ever buoyant enthusiasm. Listen to the sounds of the launch! Hear how NASA has taken their social media communication with new heights in an impromptu interview with one of the men who makes it happen! It’s Space! Space! Space! in this commercial free episode. Special thanks to NASA, TWiT, Leo Laporte, Lisa Kentzell, Tom Merritt and Molly Wood. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices.
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Podcast: Mind Control the Old Fashioned Way
05/10/2012Has mysterious device that has a major city in a panic fallen into the wrong hands? The infection that affects millions of people every day and replicates every second could be permanently changing the brain of someone you love! Can we decode the brain. Wait, is there water on Mars? Because I heard there was. Or wait. Was it not? Brian asks the age-old question: What’s got seasons? PLUS a WeirdThings LIVE EVENT THIS SUNDAY FOR THE SPACEX LAUNCH! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Rich Boy Cries for Momma – Minister of Chance Picks: Andrew: The Master Brian: Tears of Steel Justin: Looper
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Podcast: The 10-Hour Girlfriend
27/09/2012SpaceX tests revolutionary new tech but is NASA ready to send up another manned mission? Are we at the cusp of a new era of exploration? How many hours does it take to maintain a relationship according to Elon Musk? A massive shortage on a delicious crop panicks the boys. BF = PIMP. Wait, are we ALSO at the cusp of the Maker Age? Strap in for yet another edition of the Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – @thlowe – Kelly Picks: Andrew: Dredd 3D – take the #DreddPledge Today! Brian: The Long Earth Justin: Framerate
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Podcast: Oh Brother
21/09/2012Imagine you are an amazing actor, revered by your peers, honored for your dedication to your craft. Then… your idiot brother changes everything. Andrew tells us of the biggest case of sibling sabotage in American history. Brian maintains that the less we become human, the more we are preserving the human race. A heated argument breaks out over a scenario involving SkyNet, monkey foot soldiers and a chip that brings a massive intelligence upgrade. It’s a terrifying new episode of Weird Things! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Andrew: Terra Nova Brian: Redshirts Justin: Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
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Podcast: You Got Questions, We Got Weird
15/09/2012Instead of indulging Justin in his incessant need to make insipid comments, Brian and Andrew are free to take things in bold new directions as they take the reigns on the WTP as a POWER DUO! A podcast full of monkey sex, science, discussion of peak oil and yet more monkey sex. Bri Bri and AM answer questions submitted by the audience. Enjoy! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Spots: – Vote Richard – Big Bad Con Picks: Brian: One Second After Justin: DNP Andrew: The War Game
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Podcast: Running Over Bigfoot Live From DragonCon
14/09/2012The boys are united in front of a live audience at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA! This total surprise panel is enhanced by the ever elusive Amtrekker himself Brett Rounsaville, they ruminate on all things weird in a darkened room with several dozen of their closest friends. A mysterious beast seeks to tear Brian’s head off unless he thinks of something quickly. We are introduced to the darling English company of Mildred and friends when an inspector has to determine why she has a mysterious shaft in the middle of her house. Meanwhile, Andrew and Justin is horrified to learn how Brett and Brian would handle Bigfoot roadkill. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Andrew: Titanic Brian: H+ Justin: Turquoise Jeep
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Podcast: Resssscue Rangers
30/08/2012A man attempts to smuggle a mysterious creature on an airplane, before the the cops uncover his terrifying secret. A Playboy playmate is busted for moving some serious weight south of the border. A Kickstarter involving a favorite Weird Things topic is debated by Brian and Andrew. A murderous beast stalks in a public Los Angeles park. We offend all of the British Empire. Also, a brand new insurance policy against danger that’s sssssssssssssssssure to please. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Spots: All spots purchased by Gord McLeod and his site FictionImprobable.com Love Andrew Mayne’s books? Great! Keep reading them and supporting indie authors! Then, when you’re done that, check out Fiction Improbable at www.fictionimprobable.com Picks: Andrew: Breaking Bad Brian: Kill Decision Justin: Doctor Who