Hungry Trilobyte Podcast

Jeffrey Weissman is a veteran actor, known on screen for his roles in Twilight Zone: The Movie and Back to the Future, Part II. He comes to Hungry Trilobyte to discuss his journey through stage and screen, and I really enjoy hearing his insights on playing iconic figures such as Mark Twain and Larry Fine. Toward the end of the show, Jeffrey treats me to a choice sampling of his rare behind-the-scenes photos to go along with his stories.

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Val Narr is an artist who also has a concern for mental health and giving people the guidance they need to better their lives. Her Twitter series, Life Advice with Counselor Troi, illustrates principles of therapy through examples from Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Val and I discuss why this works so well, and how much wisdom can be found in the words of both Troi and Marina Sirtis.

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Jarrod Alberich comes back to Hungry Trilobyte (after discussing James Bond in another episode. Today he adds his perspective to our discussion of the connection between fandom and mental health. Jarrod has taught leadership courses in which the concept of Emotional Intelligence is a main topic. He and I take that and apply it to internet culture as a whole.

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Bekah George is a life coach and therapist. She comes to Hungry Trilobyte to share her experience with mental health care at Shear Visions Coaching. She and I get into the specifics of why it is so difficult to discuss mental health care in our culture, and how we can make it easier to approach care. We get into the specifics of what separates a therapist from a coach, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of taking a faith-based approach.

The chat I had with Bekah is the first part of a series I’m calling #Fans4Healing. This is a project that examines how living in a fandom has helped people with depression, anxiety, and other mental health struggles.

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Jason Pollock, host of the It's Me Jason podcast, gets together with me to swap stories of how fandom has built its own cultures. He has some great insights into stand-up, and even rolled one of his bits into a coloring book titled "The Fly That Refused to Die".

When we hit talk of MST3K, I recount to him the story of how Jackey Raye Neyman Jones rediscovered Manos (as she tells in her book) and I challenge Jason to watch Manos Returns, directed by Tonjia Atomic.

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Paige Feldman is a screenwriter, filmmaker, podcaster, and movie aficionado.  She has been making a promising effort to bring back the genre of romantic comedy.  In this episode, we get to talk about her podcast comedy How to Fall in Love the Hard Way, as well as her upcoming film!

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Megan Lloyd is an animation professional and a veteran of Season 2 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. She joins me for this episode of Hungry Trilobyte to talk about how much fun it was to work on Star Trek and how fandom has affected her throughout her life. She and I swap impressions of early seasons of Voyager as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Michael Lloyd is a fresh actor who loves podcasting and has a lot of great views on fandom. He schools me on why he loves horror (and I'm a horror dummy) and we get to compare it to Star Wars and Marvel fandoms. On a more critical note, we get to compare how different fandoms respond to an excess of sequels and reboots.

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Laura Banks is known to Trek fans as the Augment navigator in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, she and I discuss her experiences on set, what the fandom means to her, and how her character was developed in Trek fiction. We also venture into more real-world topics, Laura shares her experience as an improv and stand-up talent, as well as a podcaster with a specialty in astrology.

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Sam de la Rosa has been an artist with Marvel, DC, IDW, Dark Horse, and other publishers for four decades.  He and I got to talking at Dallas Fan Expo, and he was gracious enough to highlight how comic fans have grown into the new world that's obsessed with superheroes, but might not know the source material.

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