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We discuss quite a bit – fear of the future, fear of change, fear of the current politcal climate and fear of Godzilla.

Overview







Today we have a great special guest – Jim Beard from Flinch publishing and Becky books.







Since we had his partner – John Bruening on – Jim kept asking when we’d have him on. So here you go – get ready for a wonderful conversation.







Jim tells us about his plans and the upcoming books – both from Flinch publishing and his own Becky Books. We discuss pulp fiction in general and our favorite comic books.







If you’re a reader and you liked our previous podcast with John – get the whole set and listen to Jim!







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Transcript







Stephen: [00:00:00] Hey Alan. Hello. There we go. Oh, there you are. Hey, sorry, a couple minutes late. Been a busy day.







Alan: Turn that off. Am I getting enough light from my screen here? I need to yeah, wow. I’m usually doing this during the day instead of at dusk, during a slow storm here. I will let me get something better than the clutter of my office.







Let’s see, what’s Alpi?







Stephen: So you haven’t gotten sick from the boat?







Alan: Boy, I’m, and now my zoom is okay. Just a minute. Took a while downloading the visual effects package. Oh yeah. We want cows. Let’s see, like I said, what’s pulpy? Maybe lots of books?







Stephen: There you go, yeah. Good







Alan: thought.







Stephen: Let’s







Alan: see, maybe this kind of library. That looks, maybe that, okay. Or it could be a nice, like a castle.







How about this library?







I could go with the classic. As you can see, I have all [00:01:00] these things that I’ve accumulated. Let’s see.







No, switchboard. I know I’m burning tape here. Yeah. Yeah. The tape’s expensive, man. Exactly. All these bits that we’re wasting there. Let’s go with that. Okay. So I did I only talked to Jim Beer. Once, at the very first Comic Con, Pulp Fiction Con that I had met also Vernon at, and so you’ve met him a couple times now at various different author fairs and stuff like that.







Yeah,







Stephen: I ran into Jim before I ran into John, and it was down mid Ohio at the Pioneer Village. He was set up, and there was a cryptid festival. He was like one long guy with a folding table in a field. That’s







Jim: right.







Stephen: That’s how I met Jim, but I was excited because I saw his name was he was going to be there and then he did Star Wars comics and I looked and I had a Star Wars comic so he signed one of my Star Wars comics.







Alan: That’s cool. I’m [00:02:00] from having gone out to the Flint site and seeing the little bios and backgrounds for them and stuff like that. I didn’t like he did for decades weekly content for Marvel was that like, Hey, what’s coming up that kind of stuff. I really want to ask him. Yeah, I don’t remember his name being associated with that.







So that’ll be something that we’ll have to ask him about. And then of course, I re reacquainted myself with their anthologies and stuff like that. And we’ll see how he picks his favorites, if you will.

Overview







We talk about Al’s upcoming cruise which no longer involves Jamaica. Coincidently, Stephen just saw the Bob Marley movie. Then we discuss a couple different games including the new Star Wars unlimited.







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Stephen: [00:00:00] I thought you were today was a cruise day.







Alan: Actually, this is funny. I’m wearing a very bright green yellow shirt, but in this background, it looks boring. So I’m I did myself wrong. Anyway.







Stephen: Yeah. Can you hear me?







Alan: Yes, but soft. Okay. So if your volume is down, maybe mine is down. I don’t think so, but I have better.







That’s better. That’s better. Okay.







Stephen: Okay. So yeah, I thought you were cruising. I thought today was a cruise day.







Alan: It’s actually it’s tomorrow. We leave at a lift tomorrow at 3 in the morning to get to the airport by 3 30 for a flight at 5 30. So unfortunately, a bad way to start off, sleep deprived, but Without going into it a ton, sometimes things just don’t cooperate like time wise.







And we, my first flight that I had scheduled months ago down to Miami got canceled, like literally canceled. No, Hey, we’ll put you on this one instead. [00:01:00] So I had to not really scrabble, but it had fit things perfectly. As I kept looking, that flight just created this gap, but there were no flights that we wanted to do.







So we ended up flying a day early down to Fort Lauderdale. Then we’ll take a lift down to Miami and each place overnight, and then we’ll get on the boat on Friday morning. That’s actually when the cruise is. I never spent any time in Fort Lauderdale and only one time before in Miami. We’ll see what we find there.







There’s always Cubanos to have and little museums of marine life or whatever else it might be. I’m not sure how far the Miami Zoo is or things like that. We’ll take the water taxi. I know Fort Lauderdale has a water taxi that when I hadn’t mentioned we’re going to Fort Lauderdale.







A number of people really like it there. Timed in with favorite restaurants, favorite attractions and stuff like that.







Stephen: Good. I hope you have a good time. And I know you changed it because Jamaica is a little unsettled at the moment. And







Alan: that’s funny. I, another thing that happened was exactly that, that we were scheduled to go to Jamaica and the Grand Caymans.







And so I’d actually gotten excursions from the boat to go climb Dunn’s river falls [00:02:00] and to go out at the cool, a catamaran and go swim with stingrays. Who doesn’t want to do something cool like that? Because Jamaica is having some internal unrest, and for a while it was only in Kingston,

Overview







Alan and Stephen discuss their thoughts on various TV shows, movies, and comic books. They touch upon TV series like True Detective and American Horror Story, and movies like Drive Away Dolls and the Dune series. They also talk about experiences with comic books and the impact of ad saturation in comics. We discuss gaming with CCG like the new Lorcana and Star Wars Unlimited.







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Alan: [00:00:00] So I’m looking a little bit crisper than you, or at least what I’m seeing from you.