Author: Tony

BSP Special Episode 07: An Interview with Geoff Gerber – Savior of Super Heroes

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Post date November 20, 2008
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This is a very special interview that Tony and Adam (and Phil) conducted with Geoffrey Gerber. Geoff is an Intellectual Property Attorney who specializes in Comic Books.

The information here doesn’t specifically lend itself to film, but it’s such an amazing and interesting interview that does have ramifications in all of fiction and creators rights.

We hope you enjoy listening to this discussion as much as we enjoyed recording it.

Geoff contributes to a blog at: http://iplitigator.huschblackwell.com

Let us know what you think, and if you think we should try to get Geoff on the show again.

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BSP Episode 079: Horror Movies

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Post date November 13, 2008
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In this week’s show, Allen Sale of the Astral Audio Experience joins Tony and Adam for a discussion about Horror Movies.

We discuss the differences, as we seem theme between slasher, horror, and suspense.

We also discuss some thoughts send to us on the topic by Author Elizabeth Donald. Elizabeth knows a thing or two about the subject and gives us some great talking points and validation for the things we say.

Check out Elizabeth’s new book ABADDON.

Next Episode (in just a few days): 300 with special guest Darren. Also, we are going to featuring our new logo on that show.

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BSP Episode 078: The Sixth Sense

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Post date October 31, 2008
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Happy Halloween.

This is a special episode that we’ve been planning for a while. We’ve got a few other episodes recorded before this one, but we wanted to release this for Halloween.

This is a full commentary track for the movie The Sixth Sense.

There is a lot of dead air toward the end of the track, it’s because we got more into watching the movie than commenting on it.

Thanks for listening!

Lots, LOTS more coming very soon.

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BSP Episode 077: Count of Monte Cristo

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Post date October 20, 2008
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Yeah, so we talked about the Count of Monte Cristo. We probably talked almost as much about Man in the Iron Mask.

This episode also features a Booster Seat Producer review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Don’t forget to join us on Wednesday nights at about 9:00 PM Central on Ustream.tv (Follow BetterintheBack or TonyMast on Twitter to be updated when we go live.)

Sorry this one is late, It’s all my fault. If we crank things up we could see 2 or three more episodes drop by the end of the week.

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Events

Real Men Wear Pink

As a site and podcast that 98% managed and produced by men, it would be easy to say we are doing this to save boobies. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month not just something to snicker about though. Too many people are affected and afflicted by this disease.

Women are made aware of the disease and how to look for the signs from an early age. While not all of them heed the doctor’s advice, they are at least aware of their risks. Guys are at risk of this too.

Guys we need to be supportive of our women and we need to make sure that we are healthy too. It’s not enough that encourage our partners to do regular exams, but we should be checking out ourselves too.

Seriously, if you get breast cancer you could die. As in dead. As in six feet under. That is serious. So what if you get embarrassed having to admit why you have to go to the doctor, or take time off work, or have the scar. You are alive. You are alive AND you get to wear one of the special survivor shirts and walk arm in arm with some of the coolest, toughest, most bad-ass women you’ll ever meet and be fortunate enough to call yourself equal to them. Not a whole lot of men can do that.

We are going pink for the month of October. For our mothers, our girlfriends, our wives, our daughters and also for ourselves.

Further information from people who really know what they are talking about can be found at the links below:

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month http://nbcam.org/

American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Resources http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PAR/Content/PAR_2_3_Breast_Cancer_Resources.asp

National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast

Events

Event: Archon – October 3-5, 2008

Post author By Tony
Post date September 30, 2008
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Like Movies? Like Podcasts? Like Pool Parties?

Come join the Back Seat Producers at all their events!

Friday 2:40 – GC Illini B	Meet the pod people
Friday 3:50 – GC Illini B	Podcasting What’s In it For Me?
Saturday 10 – 1 – GC Illini B	Podcasting Workshop
Saturday 3:50 – GC Illini B	Using New Media to Build Your Community

And did I mention, POOL PARTY?

That’s right, Friday night at 11pm, the Back Seat Producers are hosting a pool party in the Hotel Collinsville pool. Games and prizes await!

For more information about Archon visit http://www.archonstl.org

Guests at Archon include:

Author, Laurell K. Hamilton
Cartoonist, John Kovalic
Cinematic Titanic – Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Coniff, and Joshua Weinstein – Former cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000

Contests

Contest: Take 20Q Star Trek to Warp Speed and Win Big!

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Post date September 30, 2008
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Take 20Q Star Trek to Warp Speed and Win Big!

20Q.net is putting its artificial intelligence (A.I.) into warp speed to bring players 20Q™ STAR TREK, the latest version of the hugely popular game that can “read your mind.” By choosing a person, place or thing from the Star Trek Universe, you use your wits to keep the system from figuring out your answer in twenty questions or less. If the system can’t figure it out, you win! But first, the game needs to bone up on Star Trek trivia to be a worthy opponent.

20Q™ needs your help to assist the game in “learning” the world of STAR TREK, and all you have to do to contribute is play! With each play of the game, the system gets “smarter” and more challenging. By simply testing your STAR TREK knowledge, you can help bring the game to life as a real 20Q™ home game!

Think you can stump the system and win big? Play 20Q™ STAR TREK now!

http://20Q.net/startrek

To be officially entered, let us know whether you stumped the game or not, and which Star Trek term you chose while playing. Remember, try your best to be creative with your choices!

Send your name, address, whether or not you stumped the game and the person, place or thing you tried to stump 20Q with to contest at backseatproducers dot com.

The winner will receive a prize pack that contains:

20Q T-shirt
Harry Potter handheld game
Simpsons handheld game
20Q Version 2.0 game

Contest Ends: October 28, 2008

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BSP Episode 076: A Few Good Men

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Post date September 25, 2008
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This one is horribly late. No excuses, but to make up for it we should have another episode dropping in the next few days.

In this one Adam and Tony display a man-crush for Jack Nicholson that rivals their man-crush for Tee Morris.

Next up in the queue is The Count of Monte Cristo. For good measure, you probably want to check out Man in the Iron Mask as well, we reference it liberally.

PROMO: Movie Mantras http://www.moviemantras.com/

We’ve started broadcasting our shows live on the internet when we record them. The details will be in the audio a few episodes from now, but if you want to join in on the fun and interactive way we are doing the show, either follow tonymast on Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/tonymast/ We drop a note out on Twitter when we start the feed.

Or just show up at Ustream TV on Wednesday Nights at around 9:00 PM Central to 9:30 PM. Occasionally, the show won’t start immediately, but we all meet up at 9:00 PM and the conversation can last an hour or two most weeks.

The direct link to our Ustream page is below:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/back-seat-producers