FYIZ is a catch-all feed for podcasts produced by pop culture escapist John Walker, and home of two monthly hangout shows: RESPECT THE STACK, a book-oriented conversation co-hosted by Bekah Eaton, and NOT GREAT, BOB, an open-ended chat with filmmaker Bob Rose about whatever comes up.
Episodes
Dec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020
2 hr 10 min
Funtime nerds Bekah Eaton, Jonathan Eaton, and John Walker gather for the second meeting of Star Wars Support Group, a safe place to enthuse shamelessly and voice concerns about the most overhyped, overrated, overexposed and totally awesome film franchise ever. This time around, they talk about Solo, Rogue One, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Mandalorian! The episode turned out more jam-packed than we could imagine. (And we can imagine quite a bit.)
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Bekah is @bekaheaton!
Jonathan is @jonbrak!
John is at @giannidubya!
Dec 4, 2020
Dec 4, 2020
12 min
In the debut episode of TV Treasure Trove, we dig into The Randy Fellows, a once-beloved sitcom that has all but disappeared from the collective consciousness.
Oct 31, 2020
Oct 31, 2020
55 min
Sarah Read’s fiction is brutal, strange, and beguiling, so it’s a pleasure to have her on the season finale of SKEERT. And she exceeded already high expectations, affably breaking down the inspirations and intentions behind some stories from her disturbingly good collection, Out of Water. Add in some gorgeous ambient music from sonic wizard Daniel Farris, and this is the Halloween podcast that you need.
Follow Sarah on social media at @inkwellmonster!
Keep up with her blog at inkwellmonster.wordpress.com!
Find John on twit and insta @giannidubya!
Oct 22, 2020
Oct 22, 2020
50 min
A couple weeks ago we discussed Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and its 1961 film adaptation, The Innocents, with friends/podcasters Bekah Eaton and Kelly Fuller. Now the same gang is back to follow up with our thoughts on another adaptation of this material, Netflix's brand new horror/drama mini-series The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Follow Bekah and Kelly's erotic fiction podcast @seedyreads!
Follow John on Instagram and Twitter @giannidubya!
Oct 20, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
22 min
Last week on the show, Mtn_Dew69 and Gavin played excerpts of an NPR program called Looking Down Our Nose, hosted by Pledge Krackelbar and featuring an interview with indie director Marlicia Renji-Pirdoux. Mtn and Gavin's commentary was bizarrely if predictably emotional. They have yet to send us another completed podcast. So, while it might be considered piracy to do so, we've decided to post the full episode of Looking Down Our Nose on our feed, as this week's installment. You know, for context.
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Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
1 hr 20 min
In a particularly satisfying episode, filmmaker and author Polly Schattel joins the show to talk about her debut novel, The Occultists, a richly-detailed, propulsive, and sometime gruesome period piece/ adventure story available now from JournalStone Publishing. It's a wide-ranging conversation that includes Polly's early years in rural Alabama, the research that went into her book, and a lot more. Folks who have read The Occultists should stick around till the end for a spoiler-y discussion of a few key events and characters.
Find all things Polly at pollyschattel.com!
Find John on Instagram and Twitter @giannidubya!
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020
20 min
In the first episode of their strange new podcast here on the FYIZ feed, bickering super-fans Mtn_Dew69 and his pal Gavin celebrate the Moons of Gundahar books by doing a dramatic reading, expounding about their fandom, and catching up on movie news concerning the impending Gundahar film adaptation, to be directed by indie firebrand Marlicia Renji-Pirdoux.
Be among the first people to even notice our presence on Twitter @gundaharpodcast!!!
Oct 9, 2020
Oct 9, 2020
1 hr 13 min
Henry James's influential 1898 horror story The Turn of the Screw has been adapted multiple times, most famously into the 1961 film The Innocents, which still has the power to make your skin crawl. Devoted readers Bekah Eaton and Kelly Fuller stop by for this meeting of the SKEERT Book Club to discuss the novella and the movie, just as Netflix debuts a new mini-series version of the story. It's Bly Manor's world, we're just living in it.
Follow Bekah and Kelly's erotic fiction podcast @seedyreads!
Follow John on Instagram and Twitter @giannidubya!
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
7 min
FYIz is proud to announce PROTECTORS OF GUNDAHAR, a new podcast hosted by obsessed fans of a deeply obscure series of fantasy books, G. Ellison R. R. Sadler's MOONS OF GUNDAHAR series. It's about as niche as they come but, as struggling podcast impresarios, we're willing to try anything. In this episode, executive producers John Walker and Chris Garrison set the stage for show hosts Mtn_Dew69 and his friend Gavin to explain why you'd tune in for such trivial nonsense. (Hint: It might be the fun kind of train wreck!)
Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020
56 min
Acclaimed author Nathan Ballingrud is here to chat about his amazing short horror fiction collections, North American Lake Monsters (2013) and Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell (2019), and share thoughts on having his work interpreted by other artists for film and TV. (Monsterland, an anthology series inspired by Nathan’s stories, arrives on Hulu October 2nd.)
Follow Nathan on Twitter! - @NBallingrud
Follow John on Instagram or Twitter - @giannidubya