The ALL NEW Big Wakeup Call with Ryan Gatenby

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This week Bill McCormick and I discussed the latest goings-on with Star Wars, including Hatin' on Boba Fett, Disney's no blood no harm no naughty words policy, Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano, and why it's not in one's best interest to irk a Wookie.

This week's episode is brought to you by the maddening itch of wasted opportunity.

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On this week's episode, Bill McCormick and I took a deep dive into the SpiderVerse, including topics like:

• Why Ryan hasn't seen Spider-Man
• Bill's Inside Spider-Man Sony Sources
• Madame Web vs Dr. Strange
• Spider-Man, The Interrupter
• A Spider-Man & Kingpin Buddy Comedy
• She Hulk's series and potential purple pants
• News about Namor

This weeks' episode is brought to you by Fire.  Hulk says Fire bad.

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In this week's visit from the World News Center, Bill McCormick and I had another lively discussion about interesting items, including:

• Eating sugar packets
• Too many Eternal Universes
• A brief pivot to Pink Floyd
• Standard Policy of disappointing sequels
• Venom 2: Buddy Comedy?
• Spiderman & Venom: Buddy Comedy?
• Namor at Last!

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In another visit from the World News Center,  Bill McCormick called in for another fun-filled, action-packed chat about things, stuff, and whatnot.

Topics include:

• R.I.P. Meat Loaf
• Stepping on Jim Steinman
• Joss Wheeon digs himself in deeper
• Endless Robert Pattinson Batman
• Potential James Patterson Batman
• Way too much freakin' Batman

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In yet another visit from the World News Center, Bill McCormick called in to talk about the wonder of wildlife.  Topics included cloning ferrets, cloning wooly mammoths, cloning horses, 3-D printed squirrels, gorilla Karens, and chimps on bath salts. Plus, the usual discussion about things and stuff and whatnot.

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It's another journey into The Big Wakeup Call Vault, where we travel back through the mists of time to bring you some of our favorite chats.  On this episode, we're featuring interviews with The Sex Pistols!

From 4/29/15, John Lydon called our show to promote his new book "Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored." We talked about why fashion has always been important to him, how his songwriting process has stayed consistent over the years, and why he called Public Image “a hole I chuck money into.”

From 1/17/17, Steve Jones discussed his memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol.”  We talked about how he wrote the book through a series of Skype chats, growing up poor in London without a fridge or a bathtub, and things that are not rock and roll — like “meet and greets,” electronic drums, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

From 10/3/17, Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook called in to talk about a new album from his post-Pistols project The Professionals, "What In The World," featuring an all-star lineup of guests including Pistol and Professional Steve Jones, along with Mick Jones, Phil Collen, Billy Duffy and more.  Joining Paul was new Professionals lead singer Tom Spencer.

From 9/14/18, John Lydon returned to the show for chat about a new documentary, "The Public Image is Rotten," as well as his upcoming concert in Chicago.  John also shared his thoughts on music streaming, self-funding a band, and making sweater vests cool.

This episode is brought to by the feeling you've been cheated.

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To prove without a doubt these segments are recorded life and without rehearsal, Bill McCormick once again joined the show to talk about things, stuff and whatnot.  Topics include Bill's review of "No Way Home," dehumanizing humans, spoiling trailers, Eternals, and movies we haven't seen.

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The Big Wakeup Call says goodbye to 2021 with interviews from some of our favorite guests!


Scott Aukerman from Comedy Bang! Bang! makes his 17th appearance on our show, as we chat about Comedy Bang! Bang! World, an unlicensed CBB coloring book, an 8-hour documentary, and the show's original host.

Jill Twiss joins us for the 3rd time as we discuss her career as an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, best-selling author of children's books, and joke writer for the national spelling bee.

Dylan Brody breaks through into the 10-timers club with a special performance of his monologue "A Child's Christmas in  Brief," destined to be an annual holiday tradition on our show.

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the nation's top fashion bloggers from gofugyourself.com, call in for the 11th time.  We chat about the year in fashion, Jessica's appearance on Jeopardy, and trends for 2022, which may or may not include capes and velvet.

Dayna Isom Johnson, Etsy trend expert and a judge on NBC's "Making It" with Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler,  joins our 7-timers club as we discuss what's hip and happening in design for 2022.

And Bill McCormick calls in for what must be at least the 500th time as he makes another weekly appearance.

Thanks for listening all year long, and let's have a better 2022.

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In a charming, delightful, and heartwarming holiday episode, Bill McCormick shares the unusual nuclear origins of the "Santa Tracker."

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Like all of us, I was shocked and saddened to hear about the death of Mike Nesmith.  I just saw him perform as part of the Mike and Micky Monkees Farewell Tour just a little over a month ago.  I did think Mike looked a little frail, but he sounded great and the show was fantastic.

I was fortunate enough to have Mike as a guest on the show twice, first on April 19th 2017 when his memoir "Infinite Tuesday" had just come out.  He also called in about a year later on April 12, 2018, when the paperback version came out.

I'm happy  and honored I was able to spend time with him.