Something From Nothing

Author Matt Betts sits down with talented creators to discuss the background and inspirations behind the content that we all love.

Interview #1

Timestamp: 2 Minute Mark

Guest: Mac Gagne

Guest Website: https://adventuresandalgorithms.com

Ted Talk #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntS3o9eZHyQ

Ted Talk #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WVeHrrScQ

Guest Bio: Madeleine Gagné is a graduated senior at Duke University and a rising Operations Research PhD student at North Carolina State University. As of this year, she's been named a 2021 Brooke Owens Fellow, and will be working as a Space Systems and Operations Research intern at Northrop Grumman during the summer. She's also an aspiring pulp and science fiction author.

Description: Cryptids and Coffee - We'll drink coffee and talk about bigfoot. Movies, books, and some of cultural touchstones of the most famous cryptid.

Interview #2

Timestamp: 19 Minute Mark

Guest: Mercedes Yardley

Guest Website: https://mercedesmyardley.com

Guest Bio: Mercedes M. Yardley is a whimsical dark fantasist who wears stilettos, red lipstick, and poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of many diverse works, including Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy, Detritus in Love, and the BONE ANGEL trilogy. She recently won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for her story Little Dead Red. Mercedes lives and creates in Las Vegas with her family and menagerie of battle-scarred, rescued animal familiars.

Mercedes is a member of the Horror Writers Association and co-chair of the Las Vegas HWA Chapter.

Explain this To Me - Discussing a few strange headlines of the day with Mercedes Yardley.

Article Links

• Punching Octopus - https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639172/octopuses-punch-fish-silly
• Half Eaten Sausage - https://www.insider.com/german-police-solved-2012-case-using-dna-half-eaten-sausage-2021-3#:~:text=Police%20in%20a%20town%20in,to%20a%20man%20in%20France.&text=Schwelm%20police%20told%20the%20Guardian,consequence%20in%20the%20robbery%20case.
• Fried Pickle Corn Dog - https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/disney-fried-pickle-corn-dog/

Interview #3

Timestamp: 31 Minute Mark

Guest: Sarah Gormley

Guest Website: https://www.sarahgormleygallery.com

Guest Bio: Sarah Gormley Gallery operates from the belief that owning original art can be a source of joy for everyone.

Founded in Spring 2019, the gallery connects emerging and established artists with first-time art buyers and long-time collectors through a shared appreciation for original art…and its power to stir us from within.

Description: Sarah Gormley Gallery - art gallery, how she picks exhibits, how the pandemic affected shows.

Host Overview

Host website: http://www.mattbetts.com

Host Bio:

Matt went to college to study communications, specializing in broadcasting. He signed on with the campus radio station as a news anchor and reporter not long after he arrived at college – before he took his first communications class, in fact. After graduation, he worked for a number of radio stations as a DJ, a reporter

Author Matt Betts sits down with talented creators to discuss the background and inspirations behind the content that we all love.

Interview #1

Timestamp: 1 Minute Mark

Guest: Laura Bickle

Guest Website: https://www.authorlaurabickle.com

Guest Bio: Laura Bickle grew up in rural Ohio, reading entirely too many comic books out loud to her favorite Wonder Woman doll. She now dreams up stories about the monsters under the stairs and sometimes reads them to her cats. Her books have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. Laura’s work has also been included in the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Project 2013 reading list and the State Library of Ohio’s Choose to Read Ohio reading list for 2015-2016. She also writes contemporary fantasy under the name Alayna Williams.

Interview Description: We sit down with Laura Bickle to chat about hybrid writers that publish with big publishers, indie publisher and self publish. Also, we may discuss her collection of Wonder Woman memorabilia.

Interview #2

Timestamp: 37 Minute Mark

Guest: Liz Barrett Foster

Guest Website: https://www.eatlikeawriter.com

Guest Bio: Liz Barrett Foster, is the editor at Eat Like a Writer.

For 11 years, she was an editor with the nation's No. 1 pizza magazine (PMQ), where she became an expert in all things pizza.

Past and present publications include, but are not limited to, National Culinary Review, Restaurant Startup & Growth, Mashed.com, Stacker.com, FSR, QSR, Restaurant Hospitality, PMQ Pizza Magazine, Sapore, Costco Connection and EatingWell.

When creating Eat Like a Writer, I combined three of the things she's most interested in--writing, food, and researching what others do for a living.

Interview Description: Eat like a writer with Liz Barrett Foster.

Interview #3

Timestamp: 56 Minute Mark

Guest: Mac Gagne

Guest Website: https://adventuresandalgorithms.com

Ted Talk #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntS3o9eZHyQ

Ted Talk #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WVeHrrScQ

Guest Bio: Madeleine Gagné is a graduated senior at Duke University and a rising Operations Research PhD student at North Carolina State University. As of this year, she's been named a 2021 Brooke Owens Fellow, and will be working as a Space Systems and Operations Research intern at Northrop Grumman during the summer. She's also an aspiring pulp and science fiction author.

Description: We'll talk with Mac Gagne about her TEDx talk, mathematics, and how how stories, pulp and math all intersect.

Host Overview

Host website: http://www.mattbetts.com

Host Bio:

Matt went to college to study communications, specializing in broadcasting. He signed on with the campus radio station as a news anchor and reporter not long after he arrived at college – before he took his first communications class, in fact. After graduation, he worked for a number of radio stations as a DJ, a reporter and anchor. More than any other format, Matt worked at Oldies stations, which fed his love of Elvis, the Beatles and other great early rock icons.

Matt Betts was born and raised in Lima, Ohio and went to college in Toledo. He currently lives in Columbus with his wife Mackenzie, and their two wonderful boys....

Interview #1 (1 Minute Mark) - Joe Crowe, Owner of SFRevolutions, Director of the North American Classics Track of Dragon Con.

Interview #2 (38 Minute Mark) -We'll talk with Michael Arnzen about creativity in teaching, super gross out poetry, and his hometown of Amity.

Interview #1 (1 Minute Mark) - Interview with Author Tim Waggoner - Discussing his novelizations of popular fandoms like Resident Evil Supernatural.

Interview #2 ( 41 Minute Mark) - Nerd of the Rings with Mike Liddy - Discussing Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings series.

Interview #3 (56 Minute Mark) - Interview with Author Tiffany Mosher - Discussing her new book, Beauty Beyond the Threshold: How International Volunteering Saved My Life.

Interview #1 (1 Minute Mark) - Marc Bowker, Owner of Alter Ego Comics - Chatting about the state of the comics industry, new movies, and how they survived the pandemic.

Interview #2 (29 Minute Mark) - Explain this To Me - Discussing a few strange headlines of the day with Mercedes Yardley.

Interview #3 (41 Minute Mark) - Interview with Author Cynthia Pelayo - Discussing her new book, Children of Chicago.

Interview #1 (1 Minute Mark) - Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff on their latest livestream series, The Mads!

Interview #2 (35 Minute Mark) -KW Taylor from the PosPop Podcast reviews some of the latest MCU content coming out of Disney Plus.

Interview #3 (49 Minute Mark) - Mike Liddy from the Johnny Legs Boys group reviews the latest John Leguizamo Movie of the Month.