The Mandalorian. Westworld. Two books. Two features. Two documentaries. One band. Afterbuzz TV. Tens of thousands of hours of shows. James Marsden, Maria Manounos, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Bright, Maria Schriver, and Carl Weathers.

What do all of these people and things have in common? Our guests, Phil and Ed!

Host Mike Breidegam got to have a great chat with actor, stuntman, martial artist, and musician Ed Gage, and filmmaker, author, podcaster and 360 creative coach Phil Svitek. They talk about the explosive experience of stunt acting, the value of expanding your knowledge and experience and letting that fuel your creative career, and what it might have been that brought them the opportunities they've had.

Meet supervising director for animation Ashley J. Long and voice actor and coach Kirsten Day, two L.A. pros helping to bring to life animated shows and video games like American Dad!, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, and Paradise PD.

One of these statements about them is FALSE:

(1) They are both from the midwest.

(2) Both wanted to be cartoons growing up.

(3) Each followed a narrow, focused path to a successful creative career.

(4) One of them has been required to memorize Forrest Gump trivia.

(5) Neither one has ever experienced imposter syndrome in pursuit of her creative career.

(6) Neither one has ever had to turn down an unsolicited and unwanted job offer in foot porn production.

Listen to find out which! This episode is 87% insightful, 95% entertaining, and 41% ridiculous. We know that totals to 223%… but frankly that number sounds low to us.

Enjoy!

"Art of War" and dogs.

What in the world do Sun Tzu's book "The Art of War" and dogs have to do with the creative industries?

Find out in this interview with writer/director Jesse Terrell and producer/editor Eric Hirsch, who both started their own companies with some very unique names.

We have a great conversation with our guests and cover everything from skateboards to space stations and creepy lights to sports, and how sometimes you just need to do everything.

And of course no episode would be complete without some L.A. stuff. Listen to Eric and Jesse's thoughts on a place that gravity pulls so many creatives to.

Looks Like We Dropped Something.

Specifically... our first episode. And a whole bunch of names. Most of them pronounced correctly.

Meghan Trainor, Gwen Stefani, Jessia, Seal. So many names.

But names are kinda just the icing on this cake. The cake itself is a great conversation with producer / engineer / music director Dajaun Martineau and composer / educator Iran Garcia. It's full of insight on creativity, collaboration, music careers, Los Angeles, growth, and life.

And if your name happens to be "In-N-Out"... please know that Dajaun's views are clearly extremist and absurd and do NOT reflect those of the show.