Hungry Trilobyte Podcast

Chris Byrne is a toy enthusiast and historian. He operates a blog called The Toy Guy and a podcast called The Playground Podcast. Noting how children use play and imagination to form how they see the world, Chris has some great insights into the roles that toys hold in our lives- both when we’re young and when we’re old. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Chris and I look at how toys have shifted in the eyes of our larger culture. The two of us look into the rise of the adult toy collector, and the weird ways the industry has settled in the wake of Toys R Us closing its doors.

Last seen in Episode 118, Larry Hankin returns to Hungry Trilobyte to move beyond our discussion of comedy and acting. He’s now ready to release his new book, ‘That Guy’ and we have a chat about the struggles of writing and of a new author dealing with the publishing industry. Larry also offers some insight into the homeless problem, having lived that life for a year.

Tiffanie Lovett is a figure skater based out of San Diego, CA.  A lifelong fan of science fiction, one day she felt the need to perform her ice dances to the music from Star Trek, and a new passion for fusing her art with scifi was born!  In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Tiffanie clues me in on the world of ice skating and the two of us compare notes on, not only Trek, but Babylon 5, Stargate, and the Olympics.

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Lorrisa and CJ Julianus are a married couple who founded Binary Star pictures.  Their first movie, The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater, is available now.  In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, we look at how the two made the call to create this film and how they set themselves and their project apart.

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Author of numerous books, Allison Church comes to Hungry Trilobyte as part of the #Fans4Healing project. In this episode, she and I will talk about how getting into Star Trek fandom helped her understand how to understand her value as a person, as well as how to adapt to her life as a transgender woman. When discussing Star Trek, she mentions how much she loves both Discovery and TOS, and I offer a fan project called Star Trek: Aurora that might offer her a different perspective on the series.

On the topic of her books, we have a great chat about Dark Passenger, a horror story set during the voyage of the Titanic. What I love about this novel is that it’s genre fiction, but has enough basis in fact to be plausible. Allison looks into the artifact rumors that have been documented, and I mention my love of the paranormal lore (including a One Step Beyond episode) that surrounds this ship.

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John Vorhaus first visited Hungry Trilobyte in Episode #92. Today, he returns to refocus his talk on writing comedy into a talk on specifically writing stand-up comedy. His new book, The Little Book of Stand-Up is available now. John and I compare and contrast it with his earlier work, The Comic Toolbox.

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Heather Antos is currently a senior editor at IDW, after having worked with several other comic publishers. She credits her work to a life passion for telling stories, and in this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, the two of us talk about what we look for in a story. Did being a voracious reader as a child give her the tools to create as an adult, or is there more to it?

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Anyone who has seen Home Alone, Billy Madison, Friends or Seinfeld will recognize Larry Hankin in a second. Diehard fans will also spot him in Star Trek and Married With Children. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Larry and I start off by discussing acting and finding creativity (we all have it!) and then move on to trying to understand if we have any hope for surviving as a people—on earth or in space. Turns out, Larry looks at life from an anthropological point of view, and has some insights about the book The Naked Ape.

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In addition to being a filmmaker and fellow podcaster, Ash Congiliando is the writer behind the Tales from the Toy Cave blog. In this episode, Ash and I have a frank talk about a possible end in the adult toy collector hobby, and how being film buffs for many years has given us different ways of looking at movies we might have (in another lifetime) trashed completely.

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Frank Conniff (known to MST3K fans as “TV’s Frank”) is now the star of a riffing show called The Mads Are Back. The two of us spend a lot of time talking about discovering movies, appreciating offbeat cinema, and how the movie culture has grown and changed over the years, particularly in our lifetimes. From silent films, to the studio system era, to Disney’s takeover of Marvel, there’s a lot to cover in this chat!

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