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As Told To

Daniel Paisner

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Everybody's got a story to tell. Sometimes they need a little bit of help. Veteran ghostwriter Daniel Paisner talks shop with his fellow collaborators and shines a light on what it means to pursue a writing life on the back of someone else’s story.
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The Sense8 After Show recaps, reviews and discusses episodes of Netflix's Sense8. Show Summary: Eight strangers around the globe find themselves connected — first by a violent vision, then by their shared ability to connect with one another's thoughts and actions, and finally by the urgent need to find out what happened and why. Their need to know goes beyond simple curiosity — as they pursue answers, a mysterious organization hunts them down, intent on destroying them. The intense thriller ...
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The Live Sense8 Podcast

Sheila Applegate, MSW, Best Selling Author, Conscious Life Coach and Creator of Consciously Awesome Coaching Program & Zac Hansen, Idea Machine & Co-founder of Consciously Awesome

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Live sense8, a podcast hosted by Sheila Applegate and Zac Hansen, is an episode by episode exploration of one of Netflix’s most beloved shows. (Anyone in the Global Cluster of Sensates will confirm how beloved Sense8 really is) Sense8 has surpassed the impact of entertainment to create a culture of connections among people from around the world. sense8, created by Unpronounceable Productions (The Wachowskis and J Michael Straczynski) explores the supernatural, telepathy, culture, sexuality a ...
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“The task of writing is to take a character and put him up a tree and start throwing rocks at him,” notes novelist, screenwriter, comic book writer, and television showrunner J. Michael Straczynski. The two-time Hugo Award-winning author is perhaps best known as the creator of the television series “Babylon 5”, and as the screenwriter for the 2008 …
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The comics version of Yelena Belova, aka the White Widow, goes full MCU, while Steve digs into something truly bizarre and uniquely Russian in Soldier X. And we continue our ongoing reading of Exiles! Will comics: Spider-Man 2099: Miguel O'Hara, Avengers by Jed MacKay vol 2: Twilight Dreaming, Thunderbolts: Worldstrike, White Widow: Welcome to Idyl…
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We're wrapping up all our sidequests before moving on to the main story in Fall of X and the end of the Krakoa era of X-Men! In this, we get the giant finales to two long series: X-Force and Wolverine! And they were better than expected! Will & Steve comics: Wolverine #39-50, Marvel’s Voices #95-100, Cable #1-4, X-Force #47-50, Invincible Iron Man …
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Spiky hair everywhere! In FFVII remake, that's delightful! In a Deadpool comic? Ehhh... Also, the summer's big crossover, Gang War... happened. Will comics: Daredevil: Gang War, Luke Cage: Gang War, Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar vol 3: Gang War, Amazing Spider-Man by Zeb Wells vol 9: Gang War, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Gang War, and Spide…
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Best-selling author, investigative journalist, political commentator and memoirist Nancy French is a storyteller at heart. She’s helped to write more than a dozen books, including five New York Times best-sellers, with a variety of collaborators from conservative politicians to Olympic athletes to reality television stars. Her latest memoir—Ghosted…
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We started this one with another draft, picking our first Avengers/X-Men "Uncanny Avengers" unity squad! Who do you think won? Will's team: Iron Man, Forge, Sue Storm, Emma Frost, Sleeper, Darwin Steve's team: Storm, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Kamala Khan, Hulk, Nightcrawler Oh, and we read comics! Will read: Fantastic Four by Ryan North vol 3:…
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Krakoa is still falling, X-Force battles a tragic Russian novelist, Nightcrawler is the new Spider-Man, Alpha Flight is responsible for a bunch of idiots, and Bishop and Cable show the Children of the Vault their final comeuppance. Oh, and Wolverine and Ghost Rider... you know what? Never mind about them. Will & Steve comics: Uncanny Avengers vol 4…
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Originally aired Dec. 6, 2022. Frank Santopadre is a veteran comedy writer and the longtime co-host of “Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast,” with the late, great Gilbert Gottfried. Prior to working with Gilbert, Frank helped to write jokes and supporting material for numerous awards shows (including the Daytime Emmys, the TV Land Awards, …
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Olympic insights, more Exiles, a new Punisher, and Chris Claremont just brazenly putting characters from every single other pop-culture property into his X-Treme X-Men stories. Will comics: Contest of Chaos, Black Panther by Eve L. Ewing: Reign at Dusk vol 2, Capwolf & the Howling Commandos, Punisher: The Bullet the Follows, and Exiles vol 1 #7-13.…
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Robert Downey Jr. is no man's second choice for Dr. Doom. Also, we saw Deadpool & Wolverine, and after a break to help you avoid spoilers, we talk about it! But first, Will's favorite comics writer returns to Marvel on a run of Captain America. How does it hold up? Will comics: Superior Spider-Man vol 1: Supernova, Captain America by J. Michael Str…
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Join podcast host Daniel Paisner as he moderates the keynote panel discussion at the inaugural “Gathering of the Ghosts” ghostwriting conference earlier this year—an event jointly sponsored by Gotham Ghostwriters and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Dan is joined by music journalist Holly Gleason and former As Told To guests Seth Da…
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More like Fell of X bc this country of Krakoa is done done. Let's talk, mourn, and see what's next. Covering: X-Force vol 6 #43, Invincible Iron Man vol 5 #8-10, X-Men vol 6 #25-26, Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1-4, Astonishing Iceman #1-2, Children of the Vault #1, Immortal X-Men #14-15, Marvel’s Voices: X-Men #1, Realm of X #1.…
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If your name was Emilio Helio, what would be the chances that you didn't suffer a tragic accident that forced you to only breathe helium, the public ridicule of your squeaky voice leading you to a life of wrath, revenge, and villainy. Oh, 0%? Cool, gotcha. Will comics: Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy, Spider-Boy vol. 1: The Web-less Wonder, Guardians…
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Hope Edelman is an author, ghostwriter, essayist, writing instructor and life coach. The through-line connecting much of her work, from the collaborations she’s helped to write to her own best-selling memoirs, is the theme of parent-loss. “Navigating motherhood without your mom is like assembling a complex puzzle without the picture on the box,” sh…
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Finally, an Avengers team who investigates wrongful deaths and actually, you know, avenges people. Plus, legendary Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano illustrates the western superheroes he loves for the first time, and a brief listener Q&A! Will comics: Daredevil by Saladin Ahmed vol 1: Hell Breaks Loose, Doctor Strange by Jed MacKay vol 2: The War-Ho…
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Lots of Moon Knight this week, and then Will and Steve join forces to catch up on the fan-favorite reality hopping series from the 00's, Exiles! And finally, a tragic turn in a silly comic where characters are constantly dying. Will comics: Spine-Tingling Spider-Man, Moon Knight: City of the Dead, Moon Knight vol 5: The Last Days of Moon Knight, Ex…
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Television director, filmmaker and author Adam Nimoy, the son of actor Leonard Nimoy, knows what it means to grow up in the chilling shadow of a famous father. He also knows what it means to tell a helluva story, and he does so in the pages of his new memoir The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy. The book explores the author’s c…
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Al Ewing might be the writer at Marvel with the most Will-friendly storytelling interests and sensibilities. So, with two of his books up this week, we decided to take some time and go deep on him as a creator. Plus, what makes Nightcrawler tick, and who is Amazing Spider-Man for in the 21st century? Will read: Deadpool: Badder Blood, Amazing Spide…
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Michael Franklin is the co-founder and executive director of Speechwriters of Color, a community of expert and aspiring communicators helping to give voice to leaders at every level of the public, private and non-profit sectors. As a proud partner of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, the organization has placed dozens of candidates …
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X-Corps! Goblins of all colors! Magical beanie friends! But first... what makes escape rooms so great? Will read Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando vol 2: Magnum Opus, Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest, Red Goblin vol 2: Nature/Nurture, Blade vol 1: Mother of Evil, and Strange Academy: The Deadly Field Trip. Steve read Uncanny X-Men vol 1 #399-407 and Annua…
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Anyone Comics and Everyone Comics owner Dimitrios Fragiskatos returns for the next installment of regularly scheduled Doom Patrol and New X-Men by Grant Morrison. But first, we do our long-awaited draft of the comic book character origin series we most want to see. Reading Doom Patrol vol 2 #27-34 and New X-Men #118-126.…
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Ellis Henican—New York Times best-selling collaborator, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist, and popular television news pundit—had perhaps the coolest side-gig of any of our podcast guests to date. He provided the voice of “Stormy” in the adult animated television series “SeaLab 2021,” which ran on the Cartoon Network for four seasons. This…
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The Hellfire Gala traditionally has been the big party for mutantkind and the nation of Krakoa to show off their power and innovations for the world. This year, Orchis takes over the agenda. We read X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023, Free Comic Book Day 2023: Avengers/X-Men, X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #100-105, and Invincible Iron Man vol 5 #8-9.…
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The boys bid us all a fond farewell... for now. Faith manages, etc. In the meantime follow us in our various other projects! Ben's twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ps_garak Ben & Steve's comic: https://www.instagram.com/philcomic/ Sean's comic: https://www.redring-nation.com/ Sean's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hornets-nes…
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2001's Origin told the definitive story of Wolverine's childhood, growing up as sickly rich boy James Howlett. But... were we better off without it? Will reads Spider-Man by Tom Taylor, Clobberin' Time, Fantastic Four by Ryan North vol 2: Four Stories About Hope, Avengers: Beyond, Avengers by Jed Mackay vol 1: The Impossible City. Steve reads Origi…
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Our final stop on the first season rewatches, we revisit our old friends Jinxo and Zathras. Maybe more frenemies? We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your friends: there's a New (old) Babylon 5 podcast in town!…
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“Celebrity memoirs have always been my favorite book genre,” reflects podcast guest Chelsea Devantez, the Emmy-nominated writer, comedian, director, and host of the celebrity book club podcast “Glamorous Trash.” “That is what happens when your nearest bookstore growing up is a Wal-Mart. That was my fate.” Chelsea is just out with a celebrity-adjace…
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In a huge week of reading, Will starts a brand new run on the Incredible Hulk that's a return to its roots, meditating on rage and self-sabotage, and we're both super in for it. Will read: Ghost Rider vol 3: Dragged Out of Hell, Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance, Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider - Blood and Vengeance, Black Panther by Eve L. Ewin…
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The boys revisit two old favorites, the long beloved Signs and Portents where a mysterious handsome stranger visits our friends on Babylon 5 and TKO where TWO handsome strangers visit our B5 friends!!!!! GET EMAILS IN BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE! WE'RE RECORDING A FINAL SHOW ON 6/2! LastBestB5 (at) Gmail!! We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/la…
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It's Fall in Krakoa, and double entendres abound. See, because it means Autumn, and it also means descent. Okay, but do you get it, though? Covering X-Men vol 6 #22-24, Before the Fall: Mutant First Strike #1, Before the Fall: Four Sinisters #1, and Immortal X-Men #12-13.โดย Will Freeland and Steve Stormoen
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Before we hang things up, we're dropping in one last time on some of our favorite season one episodes. GET EMAILS IN BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE! WE'RE RECORDING A FINAL SHOW ON 6/2! LastBestB5 (at) Gmail!! We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: L…
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“You gotta be the best on your worst day.” Words to live by from the mother of Ronda Rousey, the mixed-martial-artist-turned-professional wrestler known as “the baddest woman on the planet.” Rousey’s mother happens to be first American to win a gold medal at the World Judo Championships, and she also happens to be the mother of podcast guest Maria …
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Krakoa is about to fall, and the story starts out with the return of Apocalypse, who's a good guy now, and his horsemen. I mean kids. And his wife, who's not wearing a hat anymore, but she's carrying a staff, which is almost as bad. Listen, it's great — just listen, alright? Covering Immortal X-Men #11, Before the Fall: Sons of X #1, X-Men Red vol …
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Crossover time! Nathaniel Essex, aka Mr. Sinister, aka the undisputed #1 pick in the comedic villain draft, sure did sin a lot. There's a lot to like here and a lot that... didn't quite land. Which makes the whole thing even more fascinating to pick apart, so let's go! Covering Sins of Sinister #1, Immoral X-Men #1-3, Storm & The Brotherhood of Mut…
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We return to The Gathering, the original version with the different music, privacy mode, no list of acceptable partners, and more tiny differences. We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your friends: there's a Ne…
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We go deep today on Spider-Man's deep, deep supporting cast, including some regrettable romances. Then, Steve reads an old X-Men series with the tagline, "Revolution, not evolution." Sounds like it should be exactly up his ally. Isn't. Will comics: Amazing Spider-Man by Zeb Wells vol 7: Armed and Dangerous, Spider-Man vol 2: Who Is Spider-Boy?, Sil…
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Chip Zdarsky's Daredevil saga reaches its thrilling end and the horrifying Weapon X program returns! Will comics: Daredevil & Elektra by Chip Zdarsky vol 3: The Red Fist Saga Part 3, Warlock: Rebirth, Edge of Spider-Verse, and Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1: Grootfall. Steve comics: Wolverine vol 2 #162-169 and Annual 2001, Deadpool vol 3 #54-60.…
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You wanted more Lochley?? Well how about a weird short story about her dealing with a guy who smells bad because he's possessed by a demon. Is that what you wanted??? We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your fr…
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“Reading to me is like breathing,” notes Zibby Owens, the creator and host of the Webby Award- winning podcast “Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books,” who joins us on the podcast to discuss her lifelong love of reading and writing and her commitment to championing books and authors. Indeed, Zibby has built on the success of her podcast to become the …
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Finally, answers about Spider-Man's disastrous time gap! But first, bananas. Will reads Amazing Spider-Man by Wells and Romita Jr. vol 6: Dead Language Part 2, Hallows' Eve, She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell vol 3: Girl Can't Help It, Captain America: Cold War Aftermath, and Hellcat: Devil on My Shoulder. Steve finishes his volume of X-Force: New Beginnin…
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So it's come to this: we're watching the movie with that hilarious scene where fireballs shoot out of a screaming woman's hands. We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your friends: there's a New (old) Babylon 5 p…
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KAY EYE ESS ESS EYE EN GEE! Another excellent week for comics as Will reads Carnage Reigns, Thor by Donny Cates vol 6: Blood of the Fathers, Doctor Strange by Jed MacKay vol 1: The Life of Doctor Strange, and Extreme Venomverse. Steve reads two very different intersections of mutants and celebrity culture with Uncanny X-Men: Poptopia (#394-398) and…
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Ready for the most 2001 comic title of all time? Chris Claremont goes back to the well for X-Treme X-Men! As with all things Chris, we invited back The Claremont Run, aka Dr. J Andrew Deman, to help us figure out what the heck is going on here — both in the original 2001 volume (issues #1-9) and the 2023 revival miniseries. Then, Will adds in Spide…
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Nowadays one 13 episode season and a movie would be considered huge. Peter David's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/peter-david-fund We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your friends: there's a New (old) Bab…
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“This is an author who really has his finger on the way kids think,” The New York Times says of podcast guest Todd Strasser, the author of over 150 books, including the award-winning young adult and middle-grade novels The Wave, Give a Boy a Gun, and Fallout. He is also the author of the wildly popular Help! I’m Trapped series of books for young re…
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In 1989, Grant Morrison took over Doom Patrol with a mission: to break the genre of superhero team books out of the ironclad grasp established by Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. 12 years later, he took over those same X-Men. We invited our bud Dimitrios Fragiskatos — owner of Anyone Comics and Everyone Comics in NYC — back to the show to talk abou…
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A tough boy threatens Max's ex-wife in an extremely season 1/5 Babylon 5 episode that also takes place on Babylon 5. We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your friends: there's a New (old) Babylon 5 podcast in to…
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The Krakoa era is churning along to its inevitable conclusion — here's the last episode of the mini-era, Destiny of X! Also, Steve got a new cat! Books covered: Wolverine vol 7 #30-32, X-Force vol 6 #39, Immortal X-Men #9-10, X-Men Red vol 2 #10, Legion of X #8-10, Deadpool vol 9 #6-9, and Rogue and Gambit vol 2 #4-5.…
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Galen tricks Gideon into meeting some randy octopi on the way to a space graveyard. We're on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lastbestb5/ We gave Twitter less than five stars, so therefore it went in the toilet. We're on email: LastBestB5 (at) Gmail! Tell your friends: there's a New (old) Babylon 5 podcast in town!! They'll love you forever for…
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Veteran magazine journalist Genevieve Field joins us to discuss her mid-career pivot into ghostwriting, as she celebrates the success of her “Andy Award”-winning collaboration with Hollywood stuntwoman Kimberly Shannon Murphy. Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing, Murphy’s unflinchingly honest account of intergenerational familial abuse,…
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