Oct 6, 2020
In this episode, we welcome author and podcaster, Tom Taylor. Tom helped to create the Indiana Jones Minute and the Caddyshack Minute and has since been part of several additional shows. An editor of school textbooks by day, Tom puts his creative energies to work discussing the movies and music he loves. His first successful youth novel, "In Memory of Todd Woods," has been out for a few years. He is in the midst of shopping his newest book, "The Nearly Useless Power League," to see if he can find a publisher. While on a bit of a hiatus from their fourth season, discussing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull he has joined with three others for a new show. It's called ABCD:TOS, where they are going through all of the original star trek episodes in alphabetical order.
MOVIES/STREAMING:
Walt really enjoyed the documentary, Challenger: The Final
Flight, on Netflix. He has also been re-watching some of
the Bond movies recently available to stream, including
Casino Royale and Quantum of
Solace. He also caught American Assassin
on Netflix and thought it was okay, but not great. Finally, he has
been binging The Simpsons on Disney+. Tom has been
introducing his 13 year old son to The Simpsons,
30 Rock
and Parks and Rec. When the children are safely
tucked in bed, he and his wife are enjoying Lovecraft
Country, Perry Mason and
Insecure, all on HBO Max. Alan was back in the
movie theater, this time to see a new film, Tenet.
He could not praise the latest Christopher Nolan movie highly
enough. In his words, even the soundtrack was a character in the
film that was built around the concept of the palindrome.
READING:
Walt is awaiting the new Jerry Seinfeld book, "Is That Something?"
Tom is doing his homework for an upcoming episode of ABCD:TOS. He
is reading the original concept work and script for, "City on the
Edge of Forever," by Harlan Ellison.
LISTENING:
Walt started a new podcast called,
In Research Of, which looks at the old television show, "In
Search Of," hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Tom, in an effort to stay on
top of the current music scene has been playing some of the recent
hits, However, he also revisited the album, "Dirty Work," by Steely
Dan. Alan added a couple new shows while continuing a third. He
started
The Worst of the Best podcast as well as
Lour After Hours. Alan is also finishing
Wind of Change. His shout outs are for 60MW
Podcast,
The Real Queens of Queens,
The Bad Cop Bad Cop Show,
Geek to Me Radio, BK on the Air
Escape Pod Podcast, ABCD:TOS,
The Marine Corps Movie Minute,
The Indiana Jones Minute and The
Rocky Minute.
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