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Follow Kelsey Coffey, a multi-talented media personality and passionate Beyonce superfan, as she recounts her life-changing journey of discovering her dream career and discovering the power of representation in culture through the unstoppable legacy of Queen Bey."If Beyonce can be successful as a black woman, I can too." - Kelsey CoffeyKelsey Coffey is a Gulf Coast media personality and UGA alum. She is a passionate Beyonce fan, having grown up with her music and experienced the influence of her career first hand.Kelsey Coffey has a deep love for the legendary musician and businesswoman Beyonce. She recalls her childhood experiences listening to Destiny's Child and how seeing Beyonce in concert for the first time inspired her as a young black girl to chase her dreams. Her own experiences, combined with conversations about representation in our culture, led her to move to Pensacola to pursue a career in journalism. She shares fond memories of playing with Beyonce dolls at her grandfather's house and singing Crazy in Love with her college best friend on the day they met. Through it all, Kelsey has been inspired by Beyonce's multifaceted, multi-talented and multi-passionate nature.In this episode, you will learn the following:1. How Beyonce is an example of a multi-faceted, multi-talented, and multi-passionate woman2. How Beyonce has been a part of Kelsey Coffey's life since she was a young kid3. The story behind Kelsey Coffey's memorable karaoke performance of "Crazy in Love" as a freshman at the University of GeorgiaOther episodes you'll enjoy:https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/how-taylor-swift-and-doughnuts-are-related-with-samantha-eckiss-of-le-dough-food-truck-pensacola-fl/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/how-listening-to-world-music-shapes-a/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/how-a-musician-knew-hed/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/kendrick-lamar-with-colten-barnaby/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/stantastic-people-michael-cecil/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/the-greatest-love-songs-ever-written-angela-hayes/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/fantastic-people-charlie-hadley/https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/fantastic-people-ty-black/Connect with Kelsey Coffey:Twitter: https://twitter.com/KelseyPCoffeyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelseypcoffey/Connect with FANtastic People:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fantastic_peoplepod/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FANtasticPeoplepod/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/https://mobile.twitter.com/FANtasticPeoplWebsite: https://www.fantasticpeoplepod.com/Chapter Summaries:

[00:00:08]On this episode of Fantastic People, we talk with Kelsey Coffey. Kelsey is a Gulf Coast media personality. She talks about her love for the legendary musician, businesswoman, and mother that is Beyonce. This also spurs a conversation about representation in our culture.

[00:02:57]You were an anchor, reporter, producer of the 60th anniversary of the Desegregation of UGA documentary. And that is when you realized that you had to be a journalist. After graduating, you got a job in advertising and quit and moved to Pensacola.

[00:04:58]The documentary was all about the process of Charlene Hunter Gault and Hamilton Homes, who were the first two black students to ever go to UGA. I just knew that whenever I saw it on screen, that I had to be a storyteller.

[00:06:29]"I love it. I'm loving being by the beach, and of course, I grew up on the coast in Kingsland. Nothing beats the Gulf Coast. The water is just immaculate. The people here in Northwest Florida have been really kind to me "

[00:07:50]What is one of your favorite things about the Gulf Coast so far? The seafood is fantastic. How much love and support there are for our veterans. The fact that this is the home of the Blue Angels, that was an experience for me.

[00:08:40]We're here to talk about Queen Bee herself, period. Music has always been a big part of Reagan's life. What is it about Beyonce for you? What is the

Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest, Travis Hornsby, as they chat about his favorite football team: the Florida Gators. Travis is the founder and owner of Student Loan Planner, a student loan advice company. Today, he shares how the team gave him a sense of community and helped him in terms of decision-making. There’s a lot to take away from this episode, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

 

A Sense of Community

Sports have always been part of college culture because it unites students. In addition, the university spirit and solidarity bind everyone together despite differences. So Travis felt a sense of community when he started watching the Florida Gators football games. Everyone cheers in unison for their team, and there is belongingness. Having experienced these football games became a defining moment for Travis. One of the reasons he chose to take the path to corporate America was because he was taking a Real Analysis class. Yet, Travis realized he had no time for watching football – a thing he liked – and he was stuck doing math proofs since he had to. That made Travis pivot away from it and end up becoming a student loan consultant. The community he found within the Florida Gators, even only as a mere spectator, randomly touched his life in many ways.

 

Sports and College Applications

When a college team wins the championship, it brings pride to the university, even bragging rights. Besides, college is also a formative moment of youth that defines what would be in the adulthood stage. Travis says that from his experience on campus, it was happiness and excitement for him to see all the successful people around him. He was there at the time that Tim Tebow was the star player for the Florida Gators. Travis articulates that when a college football team is doing well, there is a surge of university applications. In contrast, it is the opposite when a college football team is in the dumps; university applications are low. It is one of the reasons why Travis thinks college football, in general, is interesting. There is the fun social benefit of higher education given the atmosphere and entertainment to the students.

 

About Travis Hornsby:

Travis Hornsby is a speaker and the founder of Student Loan Planner, which he launched after helping his physician wife navigate ridiculously complex student loan repayment decisions. To date, Student Loan Planner has consulted on over $1 billion in student debt. Travis is a chartered financial analyst and brings his background as a former bond trader trading billions of dollars. Trying to solve the student loan crisis brought him out of his first retirement at 25. Travis brings that same intensity to analyzing the best repayment paths for graduate degree professionals with six figures of student debt. To date, he’s consulted on over $595 million in student debt personally, more than anyone else in the country.

 

Outline of the Episode:

[02:44] How Travis retired from the corporate industry at 25

[07:29] Deceptive advertising of college and student loans

[08:46] What drove Travis to become a fan of the Florida Gators football team

[16:15] Impacts of the pandemic to sports

[20:23] The atmosphere on campus during the Tebow mania

[23:48] How Travis keeps up with the game scores while abroad

[26:56] When people have a disconnect for college football

[39:34] Dangers within the college football fandom

[44:08] What future Travis sees for the Florida Gators

[45:26] A brief outline of what Student Loan Planner is about

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest, Wally Phelps, as they chat about Ghostbusters, his influence when it comes to comedy. Wally is a stand-up comedian from Mississippi. Today, he dives into how the 1984 Ghostbusters film made an impact on his humor on stage. There’s a lot to take away from this episode, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

 

Who You Gonna Call?

Ghostbusters first came out in cinemas in 1984. As a child, Wally was at first terrified of the film due to the fact that A Nightmare on Elm Street was also released around that time. The Ghostbusters film did not appeal to Wally at first as he did not find it funny. Additionally, the cartoon series was not even comedic at all but deadly serious. It was a horror show, after all, similar to Are You Afraid of the Dark. Wally only realized the humor in Ghostbusters as a teenager. He hated it at first because his brother liked it, but it eventually grew on him when he watched the VHS his brother bought. Now, Wally credits Ghostbusters as his influence on comedy. Its humor is all situational and contextual. The comedy is natural and makes sense; that is why it works.

 

Old Versus New

An all-female cast reboot of the Ghostbusters film was released in 2016, and it received backlash. Wally says there are two groups of people from that film. The first group is those who do not want anything new, and the second group is those who expected Ghostbusters to be all the same. As a result, they regarded the 2016 movie as garbage because it was nothing like the original. But looking at the brighter side, Wally says it still brought people into it, that it introduced Ghostbusters to them, just not in a good way. The new version did not necessarily remove the old version. The original still exists, and it is good because those people who knew of the reboot can still go back to the roots.

 

About Wally Phelps:

Wally Phelps is an award-winning comedy writer of the 2016 short film Monsters Anonymous. It tells about the classic monsters in a group therapy session coming to terms with the fact that they aren’t scary anymore. Wally is also a stand-up comedian.

 

Outline of the Episode:

[02:28] How peer pressure got Wally into comedy

[06:33] The 1984 Ghostbusters film as Wally’s influence on comedy

[11:18] What is the importance of blending comedy and horror in film

[17:56] Wally’s Ghostbusters costume for his third grade Halloween

[21:00] How to sell Ghostbusters to someone who has not watched it

[26:21] Misunderstood things about the film and fandom

[33:11] Issues and critiques about Ghostbusters

[41:27] What the future holds for the Ghostbusters franchise

[44:08] Wally talks about Monsters Anonymous

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/biggestWALL/

 

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest Anna Dearmon Kornick. Anna is a Time Management Coach and host of It’s About Time, a podcast sharing stories and strategies to inspire professionals seeking better work, lifeand balance. Anna tells of about a concept called the "Reset Ritual" and how a song from the hit Musical Hamilton helps her reset when things get crazy. There is a lot to unpack in this episode so stay tuned! Get Raw, Unedited Episodes, from FANtastic People, Access To Our Discord Channel and Submit Questions for Upcoming Guests: https://fantasticpeoplepod.supercast.tech/

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Follow Anna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annadkornick/ Listen to her podcast: https://annadkornick.com/podcast/ 

 

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest Thaddeus Jones. To his Twitch followers Thaddeus is known as ThaiGuy. Famous for his positive attitude and determination to connect with everyone around him. Thaddeus began his journey from casual viewer to full time streamer over three years ago. During that time Thaddeus has experienced career changes, loss, and the growing challenges of a global pandemic. During which he dedicated himself to building a community that brings people together and builds people up. There is a lot to unpack in this episode so stay tuned!Get Raw, Unedited Episodes, from FANtastic People, Access To Our Discord Channel and Submit Questions for Upcoming Guests: https://fantasticpeoplepod.supercast.tech/

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Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thaiguy86Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThaiGuy86

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thaiguy86/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJj0s860Xx7jVoK9ApN-7Bw?sub_confirmation=1Discord: https://discord.gg/FpJa4mgDxhTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thaiguy86?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

 

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest, Samantha Eckiss, as they chat about her love for the queen of pop music, Taylor Swift. Samantha is the founder, owner, and operator of the Le Dough Doughnut truck along the Gulf Coast. Today, she shares how listening to Taylor Swift got her through many bad breakups, her dream to one day make doughnuts with Taylor Swift, and how every doughnut that has ben made in her truck has heard a Taylor Swift song. There’s a lot to take away from this episode, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!Get Raw, Unedited Episodes, from FANtastic People, Access To Our Discord Channel and Submit Questions for Upcoming Guests: https://fantasticpeoplepod.supercast.tech/

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Le Dough on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LedoughPensacola/

Le Dough on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helloledough/?hl=en 

Le Dough Website: https://www.helloledough.com/

 

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest, Tanner Stewart, as they chat about his love for John Grisham novels, specifically A Time To Kill. Tanner is a news anchor and reporter for WEAR Channel 3 News in Pensacola, Florida. Today, he shares why he gets himself lost in John Grisham novels when out of the newsroom. There’s a lot to take away from this episode, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

 

Hooked In

Tanner discovered A Time To Kill when he was 16. Although he was not an avid reader, he became fond of the book. For Tanner, the John Grisham novel appealed to him because of the same Southern culture he grew up with. The book reflected much of Tanner’s identity that he could not put it down. It felt as if he was at home. He spent so much time reading the first chapter, and the scene laid out in full detail was his favorite. Having read it twice, Tanner remembers how he envisioned himself becoming a lawyer because of the influence brought by Grisham’s novel. The book also became his escape at the time he faced trouble within the family. His parents divorced, and he was separated from his brother, who went to college. A Time To Kill immersed Tanner into a world where he forgot his problems at the moment.

 

About Tanner Stewart:

Tanner Stewart is a reporter and weekend morning anchor at WEAR Channel 3 News. Before moving to Florida, Tanner worked at WXXV News 25 in Gulfport, Mississippi as the evening news anchor. One of his first memories of working in television news came in 2017, covering Hurricane Nate on the Mississippi Coast.

 

Born in Memphis and raised in the Smoky Mountains, Tanner is proud to call Pensacola his home outside the Volunteer State. Tanner is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Journalism and a minor in Political Science.

 

When not in the newsroom, Tanner enjoys reading, training for his first marathon, and exploring new places along the Emerald Coast!

 

Outline of the Episode:

[03:01] From Tennessee to Mississippi, and finally to Pensacola, Florida

[05:03] Attraction to media – news, movies, broadcasting, and cameras

[06:09] A typical day of a news anchor, as told by Tanner

[08:13] When Tanner came as a reporter a few weeks earlier before COVID

[11:12] Tanner’s discovery of the book at 16

[14:32] Started with A Time To Kill and progressed to other John Grisham novels

[15:41] The problem with film adaptations based on books

[21:27] Differences between a book and a movie in terms of visualization

[23:42] How technology has affected people’s reading habits

[28:00] Tanner’s issues with A Time To Kill’s movie adaptation

[33:05] A bad experience of Tanner where the book played a role in it

[34:47] Tanner’s critique about books to mini-series instead of film adaptations

[39:39] Less interest in crime dramas due to existing ones that are formulaic

 

Resources:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGE3YQr9SlShtM9cLLORcTg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TannerTV

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest, Jacob Craig, as they chat about his love for the protector of Gotham City: Batman. Jacob is a comedian and one of the hosts of the Open Mic’ers podcast. Today, he shares how watching a Batman movie every day one summer created a bonding moment for him and his older brother. There’s a lot to take away from this episode, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

 

About Jacob Craig:

Jacob Craig started his Open Mic Comedy career on the same night as Jason Robbins in 2016. Since then, they have become great friends, comedy partners, & podcast hosts. Jacob and Jason are Mississippi Gulf Coast’s best comics and the hosts of the Open Mic’ers podcast, a weekly comedy podcast featuring comedians, musicians, artists, celebrities, and ranking lists.

 

Outline of the Episode:

[04:54] A little bit about Jacob’s podcast, Open Mic’ers, and his journey in comedy

[09:35] Jacob’s introduction to the Caped Crusader and the format on the big screen

[13:12] Other Batman adaptations Jacob has gone through over the years

[16:56] Views on Christopher Nolan’s version of the Batman movies

[20:23] Expanded interest from movies to animated series, comics, and video games

[23:31] Things that made Jacob stay true and keep coming back to Batman

[28:21] Jacob’s favorite Batman actor and iteration aside from the movies

[34:03] Constructive criticism on the Batman fandom and movies

[36:31] What Jacob hopes to see in the future regarding the Batman movies

 

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Open Mic’ers Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4IwSRlUs1idZCy3l1tkF9G

 

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Join Christian Jones and Regan Bell with their guest, Jared Miller, as they chat about the world of science fiction, particularly in film. Jared is a library assistant at a public library. In his free time, he watches science fiction movies of the 50s and 60s as a pastime. Today, he talks about his fascination with science fiction films in the 50s and 60s and events of that period which greatly influenced them. There’s a lot to take away from this episode, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

 

A Product of Its Time

Cheap effects, weird-looking, and plainly old – that is what most people would describe science fiction movies from the 50s and 60s. But for Jared, these come with the complete package. The social, cultural, and political motives that influenced these films made Jared fascinated with them. After World War 2, American science fiction films boomed their way into popularity which paved the way to the ones at present. The 1950s was the golden age of science fiction. Jared was also amazed at the art form applied to the movies. Practical effects were the only technology available at that time, yet the intention behind and the arduous production process fueled his obsession. The movies also reflect society and show a visual representation of what people thought of the future. An artist’s imagination of how the world would look and the technology they believe would be possible is what Jared loves about these movies. While there are issues represented in these films that are now unacceptable, Jared reminds us that these are products of the time. It only shows how the times have changed, including what people believe in.

 

About Jared Miller:

Jared Miller lived in Pensacola for 13 years, where he attended middle school and high school. Currently, he is a library assistant at a local downtown library in Casa Grande, Arizona. When Jared is not arranging the shelves at the library, he is time traveling 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and warring with the worlds on The Day the Earth Stood Still in the 1950s and 60s science fiction films.For Extended Show Notes Visit www.fantasticpeoplepod.com 

 

Outline of the Episode:

[02:44] What took Jared away from the old Gulf Coast, and what he does for a living

[06:42] Jared’s obsession with science fiction movies of the 50s and 60s

[08:02] UFOs as the subject that influenced the popularity of the genre in the 80s

[11:06] The connection between science fiction and the birth of cult films

[12:50] Appreciation despite its cheap-looking appearance due to lack of technology

[19:33] Mythic Quest episode that described science fiction’s influence on a person

[24:44] The comfort Jared found in the 50s and 60s sci-fi movies

[26:57] Fascination with artist interpretations of retro-futurism and space travel

[30:01] Look back to the originals and how CGI lost the magic of stop motion

[33:01] What makes Jared come back to these movies aside from the art form?

[37:10] Constructive criticisms for the fan community of the 50s and 60s sci-fi movies

[40:03] What the future holds for these films from a production and viewer standpoint

 

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