We take the JMKast on the road again to Taco y Vino where we speak to the owner Jimmy Contreras about his Oak Cliff restaurant and some of his wonderful and tasty menu items and his vision sharing wine and tacos together. Hannah Davis also sits down and shares her story with us about starting out in TV and some of the antics between Ric, Greg and Hannah while all working at WFAA-TV together for several years. Hannah covers the art of the interview and we even nerd out a bit in front of Jimmy with TV talk and he calls us out and then we of course share another Word of the Day.

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson talk about tacos again on location at Public Taco in North Dallas at the intersection of Preston and Royal. We also talk a lot about sports in this episode about our favorite teams and current news about them. Then we venture off into the world of politics based off a recent meeting we had that included a political strategist and the idea of how do we navigate that conversation when not knowing what positions each have on the different parties. Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and even Dallas Cowboys news all included in this one. Go team! 

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson talk about the 2023 Academy Award nominations and then make our own picks for the Oscar winners. We also discuss tacos on location at Public Taco in North Dallas at the intersection of Preston and Royal. Who's your pick this year for Best Picture? 

We also talk about the North Dallas tornado that hit near Public Taco just a few years back and then briefly talk about some exciting upcoming JMK Creative Group happenings from recent meetings and events. Enjoy!

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Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson begin a new 2023 season of JMKast episodes starting with visiting Workspace Studios space in Garland, Texas where we learn all about the studio space and talk video production with Todd Stewart and Edd Solis from Workspace Studios. 

In this episode Edd Solis and Todd Stewart rejoin us with Richard Marshall to talk about how the studios came together and the early years of the spaces as the studios were built. Edgar talks about some cool car and truck chases when covering news because of the some of the early year stories. Richard shares a story about getting a lot of his musical equipment stolen and recommends to write down all your serial numbers in case that ever happens. We also find out from Richard about tall guy etiquette when around other tall guys, he’s 6’10” and it’s hilarious information.  He also shares about dressing up as Big Tex when he goes to the State Fair of Texas each year nd Edgar wants to be his corny dog agent for Fletcher’s. And as always, we bring you the Word of the Day. So settle in and enjoy another JMKast from Workspace Studios in Garland, TX. 

In this episode, Chris Palmer take the wheels of the JMKast and talks to Former Advertising Executive Helene Spivak about her career as an ad executive and one particular campaign that was well know with Sears, “The Softer Side of Sears”. She tells the story on how this campaign came to life and the career she made in advertising. Enjoy a softer side of the JMKast with Chris Palmer and Helene Spivak.

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson begin a new 2023 season of JMKast episodes starting with visiting Workspace Studios space in Garland, Texas where we learn all about the studio space and talk video production with Todd Stewart and Edd Solis from Workspace Studios. 

In this episode we talk about Ric’s buttons getting pushed. We decide if we are the guests or if they are the guests. Of course there’s another Word of the Day with new exciting words to find out about. Edd tells us more about himself in video production and Greg talks about working with him at CBS Dallas for awhile and Arnold Payne is brought up who worked with Greg and Ric at WFAA-TV. We discuss several stories he has done with Greg in the past, The Negro Motorist Green Book, The Jerry LeVias Story and Vanishing of the Black Caddies. We continue the Texas mascots thanks to our wonderful research department and then Todd tells us about the mysterious disappearing bathroom when Richard Marshall stops by to visit and tells us about turning the storage units into a recording studio. That’s how it all started folks. Enjoy another great episode of the JMKast.

The Negro Motorist Green Book can be found here. https://youtu.be/rjS-9h0aN14

Vanishing of the Black Caddies can be found here. https://youtu.be/h597MiFSFB4

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson talk with Lauren Brill from her website The Unsealed where she introduces people through her site to powerfully inspiring people from normal life and people who have made amazing accomplishments and tell their stories of where they’ve come from to get to where they are now and how that made them who they are today. You will hear some of the most amazing stories from people she finds and lets her subscribers talk directly to them on her livestreams. You have to hear and get to know Lauren Brill. She is one of those people you don’t know yet who you should know. Just wait.

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson begin a new 2023 season of JMKast episodes starting with visiting Workspace Studios space in Garland, Texas where we learn all about the studio space and talk video production with Todd Stewart and Edd Solis from Workspace Studios.    In this second episode at Workspace Studios, Todd tells us the difference between a rhythm guitarist and lead guitarist and Ric and him talk about old guitar riffs they played back when. We all talk about scenes from the movie The Jerk with Steve Martin and then we talk about this year’s Golden Globes and current movies and TV shows and how Greg hasn’t seen anything this year. Who will win the Best Actor friendly bet was made between Elvis’s Austin Butler and The Whale’s Brendan Fraser. Ric says Fraser will win.Greg shares the message he saw on a coffee mug which said, “Never let anyone treat you like a vosot, you are a package” which becomes a lesson for Todd on TVLingo 101. We find out more about the studio spaces and how events work when having them at Workspace Studios. And as always we have a “Word of the Day”. We talk about acoustics and building a room to sound the best for recording audio.  

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson talk about being back post their JFK Special Presentation and about going on the road with the show. Ric had just returned back from a vacation so we talked about the presents his pets left them. Also we discuss “L” editing and audio editing things we do. Note: we talk about a technique we learned we can use to modify clips to change to dual channels. We also talk about iPhone video and exposure issues when bringing in the video into Adobe Premiere. And if you didn’t get enough edit stuff in this one we discuss alpha channels and rendering them. And if you need instruction, we talk about being taught by 7 year olds on YouTube. And sorry, but all our cameras overheated. It was the 6th one of the day we recorded. Lol Have fun and enjoy!

Ric Mulligan and Greg T. Johnson begin a new 2023 season of JMKast episodes starting with visiting Workspace Studios space in Garland, Texas where we learn all about the studio space and talk video production with Todd Stewart and Edd Solis from Workspace Studios.