I Made This

Justin Robert Young is a comedic podcaster on the long-running podcast Night Attack, but his big personal passion is politics and political history. It's only natural that he's making a new podcast covering one of the biggest presidential elections ever. In the first season of "Raise The Dead,", Justin dives deep on the 1960 Presidential election between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, and how that election influenced Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016. We talk about the ins-and-outs of producing a researched podcast, and Justin reveals how his podcast broke new ground in soup-related political history. Yes, you read that right.

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Raise The Dead
Justin Robert Young
Night Attack

Cliff and Melissa Barackman built the North American Bigfoot Center in Boring, Oregon. You might know Cliff from the Animal Planet series Finding Bigfoot. He's been a dedicated sasquatch field researcher for more than two decades, and he brings all that experience to the North American Bigfoot Center. His wife Melissa is also great at making horrific replicas and props, skills she puts to use working for the museum.

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Hanging with Connor Ratliff in NYC
North American Bigfoot Center
Finding Bigfoot
Bigfoot and Beyond Podcast
Melissa’s Gym Funky Video
Expedition Bigfoot
Unit 70 Studios
Melissa’s Etsy Shop

Jason Usry has been writing screenplays for nearly twenty years. In 2019, his screenplay Dead Water was made into a movie starring The Breakfast Club's Judd Nelson and Starship Trooper's Casper Van Dien. We'll find out how he got his movie made, and hear some solid tips to break into showbiz while considering creative and financial requirements.

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Dead Water on IMDB
Jason Usry's IMDB Page

Rich Johnston has been reporting on comic book rumors since 1994. Currently, he's the Head Writer and Founder of BleedingCool.com, a site known for breaking comic book news long before DC or Marvel issues a press release. Bleeding Cool has quite a reputation among comic book professionals, and we dig in on how Rich feels about all that, as well as how he sources stories and the people who've helped him along the way.

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Bleeding Cool
Bill's Dragon Con Reporting For Bleeding Cool
The Billy West Interview

Laura Purdie, sole proprietor at Hey Sweetness Bakery in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (soon to be Florida) makes cookies for a living. Beautiful cookies, packed with detail and design. This "cookie savant" has been making sweet treats professionally for most of 2019, so we'll talk a lot about how she built her cookie business. If you don't make cookies, don't worry! Laura has a lot of solid advice for creatives of any discipline.

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Hey Sweetness Bakery Facebook
Hey Sweetness Instagram

Michael Dolce is an accomplished writer, graphic novelist, podcast and web guru. He’s currently in charge of Sire Studios, a multi-genre IP production company. He’s written for Image Comics, Zenoscope, and ran several successful Kickstarters to finance his passions. We talk about using Kickstarter to fund your passions, and Michael offers up some great advice for somebody leaving their job to start their own business (like me).

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Sire Studios
Descendant Volume 1 Trade Paperback Kickstarter

Aviva is just oozing with life and passion, and she writes great songs. She's also an activist. Aviva’s song “Cannabis Car” is part protest song, part groovy jam, that teaches the listener about the history of hemp in our country, and all the ways it can help the environment today. She didn’t stop at writing a song, though. She’s become a familiar face to Georgia legislatures, where she’s spent countless hours arguing for legal hemp. Plus, she was kind enough to play some songs while jumping on her trampoline!

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Support Aviva on Patreon!
Aviva's Bandcamp Site
Aviva's YouTube

Connor is best known for his work at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade improv school and theater in NYC, but you might have seen him on Last Week Tonight, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, or as a 35-year-old Presidential candidate on The Chris Gethard Show. Expertly staged and foolishly named, Connor's "Talk-A-Doodle-Doo" was broadcast on MNN earlier this year as part of Chris Gethard Presents. It's a real piece of theater that keeps you guessing for the whole hour. Plus, Connor sheds light on what he's moving towards, and its a limited series with familiar trappings.

Go see Talk-A-Doodle-Yule LIVE at UCB Hell's Kitchen!

Show Notes
Connor Ratliff on Twitter
Talk-A-Doodle-Doo On YouTube
Talk-A-Doodle-Doo on Twitter
Chris Gethard Presents
The Lone Cornmeal Machine
Police Squad

After talking with Brian Brushwood about Katy, Texas earlier this week, I decided to rebroadcast an interview I did with Karen Kay, the host of the Fox 26 Kids Club in Houston, Texas. The Fox Kids Club was a local broadcast in many cities that promoted the Fox Network’s early-90s cartoon lineup, Fox Kids. Karen Kay was my local host, and when I’m not fanboying out, she tells me what it was like to be a kid show host, and how much persistence it took to build a career in broadcasting. Plus, Karen makes a commitment to locate a relic from my past, if she can remember where she put it in her basement.

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Karen Kay on Hit Video USA
fox 26 kids club with karen kay fright fest
Karen Kay and the Belugas
The Fox Kids Club – History of Fox Kids
Original I Made This Episode
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Bill Meeks talks to passionate people executing their “Big Ideas” in realistic ways. From entrepreneurs to artists and everything in between, I Made This tells the stories of dreamers just like you.

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