Guests

Christy isn’t really a guest but we’re putting her here just because we love it when she’s on the show and want to make sure everybody else knows she’s coming on too. You can find her full bio here.

Eric Drysdale is a writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.  He has also written for the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.  He is a collector of vintage 3D slides and shares them in a show called “Midcentury Stereopanorama” – go to www.midcenturystereopanorama.com for more info, including dates for shows in the New York city area this summer.

Film and TV Editor, The Verge. Former Senior Editor at The A.V. Club and Pitchfork’s film site The Dissolve. Co-host of The Next Picture Show, a biweekly podcast that compares a new film with an older one that inspired it or helped shape its story. Occasional book reviewer at NPRbooks.com. Twitter: @TashaRobinson, @NextPicturePod. Find us at: nextpictureshow.net.

John Ingle is a screenwriter, sometimes cartoonist, and the co-host of the Alien Minute Podcast.

 

Andrew Hawthorn is co-host of the No Time for Heroics podcast, a show about superhero movies and some not-so super hero movies, as well as the upcoming Monster Squad Minute, a show about the movie Monster Squad, and also some not-so the movie Monster Squad.

While recently vacationing with his No Time for Heroics co-host Ainsley, Andrew “chose wisely” and stayed at this old dude’s Airbnb.

Crystal Beth is a NYC based comedian and podcaster whose work has been featured on Funny or Die, College Humor, MTV and HuffPost. She hosts two podcasts, Unlimited Lives Radio and The Fifth Eleminute as well as guest hosting on The Fordcast: A Harrison Ford Podcast. Fun Fact: In 2017 year she guested on over 50 different podcasts which totaled around 300 hours.

Thor Ritz is geographer, historian and Indiana Jones enthusiast.

Christy isn’t really a guest but we’re putting her here just because we love it when she’s on the show and want to make sure everybody else knows she’s coming on too. You can find her full bio here.

George is one of the hosts of The Mogwai Minute. By day he gets paid to shoot things for money, and by night he may or may not be a freelance assassin.

Rick and Julia Ingham are a New Hampshire based husband-and-wife podcasting team who began the Mad Max Minute podcast in January 2017. Since that time, they have released over 200 episodes of content covering the main Mad Max series as well as other related movies through their hiatus content. Aside from hosting their own podcast, both Rick and Julia enjoy listening to podcasts, watching movies, and spending time playing games with friends.

CHRISTOPHER ELIOPOULOS (www.chriseliopoulos.com and www.miserylovessherman.com) began his illustration career as a letterer for Marvel, and has worked on literally thousands of comics. But along with that, he is also the author/artist of many comics, including the popular series Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers and Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, and Cow Boy for which he was nominated for multiple awards. He’s the illustrator of the Ordinary People Change the World books with author Brad Meltzer. He has an all-ages graphic novel called Cosmic Commandos out with a follow up, Monster Mayhem, due out in August. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their identical twin sons.

Heather Antos was born with secret aspirations to become the next James Bond. However since her lack of British heritage has pushed that dream aside she now spends her days as the girl who will never grow up. Having worked as an Editor at Marvel, primarily on the Star Wars universe titles, as well as being one of the creators of breakout character Gwenpool, she now spends her days as Editor-in-Chief of esports site Unikrn. She also likes tacos….a lot.

Jamie is an American archaeologist with a British PhD. She has done fieldwork in the US Southwest, the UK, Iceland, and once accompanied some friends while they checked up on some fieldwork in Lesotho (it was awesome!). Her favorite movie as a child was Temple of Doom, because she found it less scary than the other movie her parents owned, which was ET.

Tierney Elizabeth St. Joan of Arc Steele Callaghan is a third-generation librarian and first-generation pop culture junkie. She insisted on using the nickname Indy through most of high school. More recently, she’s overanalyzed Return to Oz and The NeverEnding Story and can’t wait to chopper in to the new podcast M*A*S*H Minute. You can find her on social media @onesteelesister which currently is a lot of (her) baby being cute and (other people’s) dogs being awesome.

A former Librarian, who may have “shushed” one person too many, Rachel grew up on both Star Wars and Indiana Jones. While she never learned how to use a bullwhip, or how to wear a fedora with the same panache as Indy, Rachel perfected the art of the R2-D2 scream. In addition to furthering her knowledge of all things Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and beyond, Rachel is an avid runner, having completed 3 half marathons and looking to one day completing a full marathon. She is also an avid reader of all subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Rachel resides in Ohio with her Husband Matthew, and has made the transition from Librarian to Banker. One of her life goals is to travel to Italy, if only to say, “Aah….Venice”!

Jamie Benning is a director, producer, editor residing in London, England. A huge fan of 80’s blockbusters, Jamie has produced numerous short videos on the subject as well as five feature length Filmumentaries.

He is also a coordinator and producer working in international outside broadcast and studio TV. Jamie predominantly works on TV coverage for Formula One Grands Prix around the globe.

You can find out more about Jamie’s Filmumentaries here.

Steven Kreuch, a Pisces, has devoured movies all his life. His father took him to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at least 20 times in the theater and it never got old. His first job out of college was as Irvin Kershner’s assistant but from there has varied wildly from being a prop master and set dresser for movies you’ll never see, building sets for Puff Daddy videos you have seen, working in advertising, and producing the suite of Solitaire games that launched with Windows 8. Despite all his this he has no idea what he wants to do with his life… except spend time with his wife Maria and two kids, Short Round and Marion.

Father David Mowry is a Roman Catholic priest serving in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois. Though he has been a priest for 5 years, he has been a nerd his entire life. He and his brother watched The Empire Strikes Back so much it broke the family VCR! While his first nerd-love will always be Star Wars, Indiana Jones has always held a certain fascination for him what with all the Yahweh rumpus. Fr. David currently serves as the parochial vicar at St. Mary Immaculate Parish and as Director of Ongoing Formation for Priests for the Diocese of Joliet. He is certainly not the chaplain to the local chapter of the Order of the Cruciform Sword.

Don’t blink…

In addition to co-hosting the podcasts STAR WARS MINUTE and Godfather Minute, Alex Robinson is the author of several graphic novels, including BOX OFFICE POISON, TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN and OUR EXPANDING UNIVERSE. He lives in Portland with his wife and their two cats, Tic Tac and Cookiepuss, and their dog Filbert.

Paul Francis Sullivan is a podcaster, filmmaker, TV producer and comedian. He directed the feature film “I’ll Believe You”, produced for TV shows like “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “The Bonnie Hunt Show” and “Ax Men.” He has appeared on HBO Sports, “Monk”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. As a podcaster, he is the creator and star of the show “Sully Baseball Daily” where he posts 365 baseball episodes a year every day since October 24, 2012 (1,300 straight days and counting.)

His podcast can be found here.

 

Eric Zala

Director, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

In 1982, Eric Zala, along with childhood friends, began a shared obsession—filming a shot-for-shot remake of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. They were only twelve years old and it would take seven years—the entirety of their teenage lives—to finish it. It has become one of the most talked-about and sought-after cult films in cinematic history.

Eric’s work was praised by the director of the original RAIDERS, Steven Spielberg, became the subject of a book, and now – a critically-acclaimed documentary currently viewable on Netflix. RAIDERS!: THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE covers the original ingenious DIY production and the reunion 25 years later to finish the final airplane scene. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION — the ultimate Do-It-Yourself success story—has deeply moved just about everyone who has seen it.

Eric and wife Cassie formed ZALA DETOURS to bring its story and lessons to schools and businesses.  As the educational world discovers Project-Based Learning… REMAKING RAIDERS gives PBL context, showcasing the kinds of skills many of today’s more innovative schools want students to learn:  Resourcefulness, perseverance, collaboration, solution seeking, creative thinking, goal setting, storyboarding, and the ability to prototype and iterate  (minus the need for open flames in a basement, of course).     www.zaladetours.com

John Brueggen is the Director of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park (www.alligatorfarm.com), an accredited zoo with the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums).  John and his wife, Jen, enjoy travel.  They both seek adrenaline filled adventures recently getting married in Borneo, releasing baby crocodiles in the Philippines, handling cobras in the wilds of India, and swimming with White Sharks in South Africa.   John has an impressive Indiana Jones collection and is confident that one day he will show it to someone that agrees.

Gordie Adams walks the streets of St.Helena delivering mail, sponging up both trivial and important facts, spreading cheer and gathering stories for his yet-to-be-written comics and stories. Podcasting on the side, playing music and cartooning when the ideas show up, he hopes to retire early and travel the world.

John Ingle is a screenwriter, sometimes cartoonist, and the co-host of the Alien Minute Podcast.

 

Daven Hayes is the General Manager and projectionist at the Historic Balboa Theater in San Francisco California, as well as host of the Balboa Theaters Night Skies series which showcases sci fi and other genre films of the late 70s and 80s. If, and when he’s not busy keeping the theater going, he is busy playing in bands around the city and making films.

Andre Julian is a first-generation American-born entrepreneur with a primary focus in the financial industry. Andre holds a Master’s Degree from the University of California, Irvine, and after graduate school started his career working for an independent investment firm. He eventually became a partner, owner and CFO of a private firm and came into the public eye for his commentary on television and radio. With years spent as a television analyst for the financial media, Andre’s opinions have reached a wide audience through his appearances on Bloomberg Television, CNBC, Fox News Channel, ABC News and other networks. Supplementary to his primary career, Andre is heavily involved in giving back through his work in education, mentoring and charity. He is both a perennial guest lecturer and executive mentor for the MBA Program at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, where he was awarded Mentor of the Year in 2016.

John Brueggen is the Director of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park (www.alligatorfarm.com), an accredited zoo with the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums).  John and his wife, Jen, enjoy travel.  They both seek adrenaline filled adventures recently getting married in Borneo, releasing baby crocodiles in the Philippines, handling cobras in the wilds of India, and swimming with White Sharks in South Africa.   John has an impressive Indiana Jones collection and is confident that one day he will show it to someone that agrees.

George is the other co-host of The Mogwai Minute. By day he gets paid to shoot things for money, and by night he may or may not be a freelance assassin.

Steve Lastoe’s earliest memory of The Princess Bride is watching it on HBO in the late 1980’s. In addition to being a fan of the Morgenstern, he is a huge Star Wars geek. a long time comic book reader, and a big fan of hard sci fi. When not being a dork, Steve resides in Brooklyn with his wife Stacey, and his dog Odie. He works in running and loves the New York Mets.

Jonathan Carlisle is an avid consumer of entertainment media, and always dreamed of joining the ranks of the productive members of the entertainment industry. So when the opportunity popped up to start The Princess Bride Minute podcast with Steve Lastoe, he jumped at the chance. He may even have future projects in store. Maybe. Sometime. But in the meantime, he enjoys being a husband to his lovely wife (brownie points!) and father to his three children (they’re pretty great!…no, really!) and living in the mitten state (the REAL one).

The owner and founder of Dueling Genre Productions, Scott Carelli is a writer, director, and podcaster. Since 2005, he has found himself talking into a mic about pop culture of all kinds on podcasts but is especially fond of the movies by minute format. He was the co-host of Back to the Future Minute which wrapped up its coverage of the Back to the Future trilogy with 340 episodes. Recently, he’s launched Spider-Man Minute which is covering every Spider-Man film beginning with Sam Raimi’s 2002 film starring Tobey Maguire. Since 2009, he’s been the host of The Doctor’s Companion, a Doctor Who podcast that covers every episode of the BBC series one Doctor at a time.

Cassandra Fredrickson is the co-host of Lord of the Rings Minute. When she’s not discussing high-fantasy, she’s writing, reading comics, or doing more podcasting at Dueling Genre Productions. When she’s not doing that, she’s crying about movies with her cat and husband, and wanting to learn how to bake like they do on the Great British Baking Show.

Matt Carson has written haiku about nearly 4000 notable dead people and counting, from Alvar Aalto to Vilmos Zsigmond. You can read them each day on Facebook at Haikubituaries. Matt is one of the world’s foremost experts on the life and career of Mr. T. He does yoyo tricks and Etch A Sketch art, and designs off-color cross-stitches you can buy from his wife’s Etsy shop at CarsonZickersham.etsy.com. He also has a day job doing design and production for glossy magazines, and he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. You know what a cautious fellow he is.

 

Christy was so taken with Raiders of the Lost Ark that she listened to the 33 1/3 record every day after school.  She’s known Ger since before (his) birth, and Tom and Pete from sometime after that. Nowadays, when she’s not humming the Mike Post TV theme song  from The Greatest American Hero, she can be found singing Juice Newton’s Queen of Heart in her car, and quizzing people on the video played on MTV after they played the Buggles.  Here’s a joke she just made up: Why did the Thai bookie chase the gambler? Baht Debts.

Christy’s first episode on the Indiana Jones Minute can be heard here.

Eric Zala

Director, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

In 1982, Eric Zala, along with childhood friends, began a shared obsession—filming a shot-for-shot remake of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. They were only twelve years old and it would take seven years—the entirety of their teenage lives—to finish it. It has become one of the most talked-about and sought-after cult films in cinematic history.

Eric’s work was praised by the director of the original RAIDERS, Steven Spielberg, became the subject of a book, and now – a critically-acclaimed documentary currently viewable on Netflix. RAIDERS!: THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE covers the original ingenious DIY production and the reunion 25 years later to finish the final airplane scene. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION — the ultimate Do-It-Yourself success story—has deeply moved just about everyone who has seen it.

Eric and wife Cassie formed ZALA DETOURS to bring its story and lessons to schools and businesses.  As the educational world discovers Project-Based Learning… REMAKING RAIDERS gives PBL context, showcasing the kinds of skills many of today’s more innovative schools want students to learn:  Resourcefulness, perseverance, collaboration, solution seeking, creative thinking, goal setting, storyboarding, and the ability to prototype and iterate  (minus the need for open flames in a basement, of course).     www.zaladetours.com

ALL UP is available for preorder now at jwrinzler.com, for the introductory price of only $2.99. Author of the The Making of Star Wars and The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, New York Times and London Times Bestsellers, J. W. Rinzler has also written for the Emmy award-winning animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. His adaptation of George Lucas’s rough draft of “The Star Wars” was awarded the Diamond Gem Award as Best Licensed Comic for 2013–and was a #1 NY Times Bestseller. He directed the animated short Riddle of the Black Cat, which was accepted into the Montreal World Film Festival, among others.
He can be found online at http://www.jwrinzler.com/ or on Twitter @jwrinzler

Justin Hopkins (b 1986) grew up in the small town of Mukilteo, Washington. Immersed in the arts early on, Justin began drawing at age six; garnering corporate advertising assignments by the age of fourteen.
After graduating from high school his talent caught the eye of legendary illustrator Charles White III, who hired Justin to work for his Architectural design company Olio Inc.
Upon relocating to Los Angeles, Justin began creating works for Google, REDBULL, Wired-Magazine, Pabst, and ESPN. These experiences allowed Justin to delve into various mediums, always refining his talent and pushing the boundaries of his creativity.
In late 2012, Justin began working almost exclusively with oils and currently juggles life between LA, Seattle and Brooklyn .

Jamie Benning is a director, producer, editor residing in London, England. A huge fan of 80’s blockbusters, Jamie has produced numerous short videos on the subject as well as five feature length Filmumentaries.

He is also a coordinator and producer working in international outside broadcast and studio TV. Jamie predominantly works on TV coverage for Formula One Grands Prix around the globe.

You can find out more about Jamie’s Filmumentaries here.

Ed is creator and host of the IndyCast, the world’s most popular Indiana Jones themed podcast, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in November this year. Outside of his love of Indiana Jones and Star Wars, Ed was most recently seen on stage in the award-winning Rumors as Ken Gorman and Richard Hannay The 39 Steps. Other notable productions include Les Misérables (1995, 2000, 2005 & 2013) and Boeing Boeing. Since 2014, he has appeared at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Comic Genius Productions’ successful Robin Hood and James Bond parodies. Off stage, Ed teaches Drama and Theatre Studies and regularly appears as Captain Jack Sparrow at various events.

ABOUT TASHA ROBINSON:

Verge Film Critic. Former Senior Editor at The A.V. Club and The Dissolve. General pop-culture writer. Podcaster with @NextPicturePod, which puts big new movies in the context of big old movies. Freelancer at NPR and other sites. Twitter: @TashaRobinson.

 

 

“When he’s not spanning the globe, looking for the best root beer, Brett Stillo can be heard with co-host Josh Horowitz on “5 Minutes of Trouble,” the one and only podcast on the Internet that discusses John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble In Little China”–5 minutes at a time!

http://5minutesoftrouble.com

You also hear Brett and Josh on “Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight,” a new audio drama anthology that pays tribute to radio suspense thrillers of the 1930’s and 40’s

https://www.facebook.com/twelvechimesradio/

You can also find Brett behind the camera.  “Swing Shift,” a  pulp-horror comedy short, has played at numerous film festivals across the USA.

https://vimeo.com/205064834

 

Andrew Hawthorn is co-host of the No Time for Heroics podcast, a show about superhero movies and some not-so super hero movies, as well as the upcoming Monster Squad Minute, a show about the movie Monster Squad, and also some not-so the movie Monster Squad.

He serves as the head of his local Temple of Doom youth group, which if you think about it would really be a full time job down there.

CHRISTOPHER ELIOPOULOS (www.chriseliopoulos.com and www.miserylovessherman.com) began his illustration career as a letterer for Marvel, and has worked on literally thousands of comics. But along with that, he is also the author/artist of many comics, including the popular series Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers and Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, for which he was nominated for multiple Eisner Awards and received a Harvey Award. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their identical twin sons.

Paul Francis Sullivan is a podcaster, filmmaker, TV producer and comedian. He directed the feature film “I’ll Believe You”, produced for TV shows like “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “The Bonnie Hunt Show” and “Ax Men.” He has appeared on HBO Sports, “Monk”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. As a podcaster, he is the creator and star of the show “Sully Baseball Daily” where he posts 365 baseball episodes a year every day since October 24, 2012 (1,300 straight days and counting.)

His podcast can be found here.

 

Ryan DiGiorgi makes video games (like Quiplash 2 and Tee K.O.) at Jackbox Games. He also writes fiction, co-produces the podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern, and plays a lot of video games. But it’s for research. More of his nonsense can be found on twitter: @rdigiorgi

 

Lila Higgins is a science educator and communicator with 16 years of experience connecting people and nature in museums. After graduating with a B.S. degree in entomology from UC Riverside she worked in a lab rearing parasitoid wasps for use as biological control agents. She soon realized she preferred talking to people about insects and the environment, rather than doing research (aka sucking hundreds of tiny wasps into plastic tubes every day). She ditched the aspirator (the aforementioned sucking tool) and followed her heart. She pursued a Master’s degree in Environmental Education, so she could share her knowledge and passion for insects with the world. In 2008 she began working at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where she is currently the Manager or Citizen Science. She often speaks about entomology and insect reproductive strategies, in programs such as “Horny Bugs, and other Insex Stories.”

Doris is a high school English and History teacher from Southern Germany who fell in love with Indiana Jones and Star Wars simultaneously in 1983 thanks to her cousin’s VHS tapes.
And she is not afraid of exotic critters either.

Reed Cavanah lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and their daughter Penny. He used to live in Atlanta, where he did standup comedy and was somehow allowed to open for the likes of Chris Hardwick, Rory Scovel, and Eric Andre. He doesn’t do standup anymore, but he’s been writing a novel for the past few years which might eventually come out.

The Intern’s Intern currently holds a BFA in Film/Video Production from NYU/Tisch Film School with a dual minor in Documentary Film and Diasporic Cinema. But it is her work as Gerald Christopher Marcus Porter’s Intern that is her true “life’s work.” She takes her job very seriously and considers it an honor. She lives with several cats and one dog in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California.

 

Paul Francis Sullivan is a podcaster, filmmaker, TV producer and comedian. He directed the feature film “I’ll Believe You”, produced for TV shows like “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “The Bonnie Hunt Show” and “Ax Men.” He has appeared on HBO Sports, “Monk”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. As a podcaster, he is the creator and star of the show “Sully Baseball Daily” where he posts 365 baseball episodes a year every day since October 24, 2012 (1,300 straight days and counting.)

His podcast can be found here.

Jay is a well-known Indian restaurateur in the Los Angeles and Mayapore areas.

Jamie is an American archaeologist with a British PhD. She has done fieldwork in the US Southwest, the UK, Iceland, and once accompanied some friends while they checked up on some fieldwork in Lesotho (it was awesome!). Her favorite movie as a child was Temple of Doom, because she found it less scary than the other movie her parents owned, which was ET.

When Sean German isn’t saving the human race one line of code at a time, he’s on tour with Spinal Tap Minute with co-host Heidi Bennett. He is also the voice behind the Five Minutes of Mime podcast which will debut (or has debuted depending on your point of view) in early 2017. Sean has never been to Lincoln International Airport but hears it’s nice this time of year.

Mark Gagliardi is best known for the Emmy-winning Comedy Central show Drunk History and as Croach the Tracker in The Thrilling Adventure Hour live show and hit podcast. He trained at Second City in LA, toured with National Lampoon Lemmings, appeared on dozens of TV shows (frequently as villains on Disney and Nickelodeon), played the Genie in Disney’s Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular, voiced Batman for the new D.C. Super Friends, and currently co-hosts We Got This with Mark & Hal on the Maximum Fun Network.

John Brueggen is the Director of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park (www.alligatorfarm.com), an accredited zoo with the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums).  John and his wife, Jen, enjoy travel.  They both seek adrenaline filled adventures recently getting married in Borneo, releasing baby crocodiles in the Philippines, handling cobras in the wilds of India, and swimming with White Sharks in South Africa.   John has an impressive Indiana Jones collection and is confident that one day he will show it to someone that agrees.

C.D. Di Guardia came into the “Movies by Minute” podcast world through the courtesy of a long commute from his home to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, like most, the Star Wars Minute podcast.

A listener of several shows but host of none; he has heretofore been satisfied with offering sassy comments on the various Listeners’ groups and is filled with horror to hear his own recorded voice.

C.D. has been onboard with Indiana Jones Minute since Raiders Minute #1. He has eaten a burrito with Gerry Porter, and is, as of press time, the only person in the world with an Otto von Bluto “BREATH” shirt. He believes in the Carbonite Dream and will fully agree with anyone who says “This some of the best work ever produced by John Williams,” about basically any cue from the entire Indiana Jones series.

In December 2017, he will join Indiana Jones Minute’s own Pete Mummert and Spinal Tap Minute’s Sean German in a Christmas special for the Movies by Minutes, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Days.

When not listening to people analyze, criticize and celebrate movies one minute at a time, he enjoys playing music with One Moe Time, playing ice hockey, and most of all, spending time at home with his wife and children. He can be found in the various Listener’s Societies wherever fine listeners gather, at imxmdb.com (the database he is working on that endeavors to tie this whole crazy Movies by Minutes community together) or at friendsofemilia.org, a charitable organization founded by Chris and his wife Danyelle in memory of their first child, Emilia.

 

Steven Kreuch, a Pisces, has devoured movies all his life. His father took him to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at least 20 times in the theater and it never got old. His first job out of college was as Irvin Kershner’s assistant but from there has varied wildly from being a prop master and set dresser for movies you’ll never see, building sets for Puff Daddy videos you have seen, working in advertising, and producing the suite of Solitaire games that launched with Windows 8. Despite all his this he has no idea what he wants to do with his life… except spend time with his wife Maria and two kids, Short Round and Marion.

Christy was so taken with Raiders of the Lost Ark that she listened to the 33 1/3 record every day after school.  She’s known Ger since before (his) birth, and Tom and Pete from sometime after that. Nowadays, when she’s not humming the Mike Post TV theme song  from The Greatest American Hero, she can be found singing Juice Newton’s Queen of Heart in her car, and quizzing people on the video played on MTV after they played the Buggles.  Here’s a joke she just made up: Why did the Thai bookie chase the gambler? Baht Debts.

Christy’s first episode on the Indiana Jones Minute can be heard here.

Heather Airgood can be found at Wanderlust Jewelers in Cleveland, Ohio.

Scott is a former sketch comedian and writer and is an editor on reality and unscripted TV series like “House Hunters International,” and documentaries like PBS’s “The Day the ’60s Died.” He’s still trying to figure out how to monetize knowing the name of the actor who played “Monkey Man” in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Crystal Beth is a NYC based comedian who is known by those who know her as the Queen of Movies by Minutes podcasts. She does not like to be called “Your Royal Highness” but she does request that you think about addressing her as such at both the beginning and the end of every sentence directed to her. You must do this even if you do not think that she is the Queen and you must do this with joy in your heart. “But how is she the Queen?”, you may wonder, “Is she from a royal bloodline? Is she very smart? Is she rich in wealth and friends and darkest chocolat??” No, no to all of these things. The reason she has been bestowed this title is that she has been a guest on almost every Movies by Minutes podcast in existence. She is not an actual queen. Crystal’s work has been featured on Funny or Die, College Humor, MTV and HuffPost and she is currently hosting a Movies by Minutes podcast of her own called The Fifth Eleminute and co-hosts Unlimited Lives Radio, a podcast about video games, both are available on iTunes. You are dismissed.

When he is not podcasting with his co-host Chris, he works as a Release Engineer at Standing Stone Games, watches movies, plays a lot of video games, has many, many, way too many Funko Pops!, cooks, and obsesses over his local sports teams.

As an award-winning writer/producer for HBO, Cerulli interviewed over 100 filmmakers and celebrities and did man on the street movie interviews all across the country.  He also produced the DVD documentaries on the Halloween series and the James Bond classics, Goldfinger and Thunderball.  Way back in the day, he wrote episodes of Hey Dude! and Clarissa Explains It All – for which he got some nice checks and a real Stetson hat. He and Jim O’Kane hosted The Airport Minute podcast. Mark is now working on another soon-to-be rejected screenplay!  His website is: www.iluminar.tv.

A real-life rocket scientist (who once found a missing Moon rock in a museum warehouse), Jim O’Kane spends too much of his time producing podcasts (such as The Airport Minute and The Rocketeer Minute) and making videos that would be a lot funnier if they were half as long. He lives deep in the heart of Texas with his wife Nancy, his cockatiel Flash, and his neurotic dog Rio.

In addition to co-hosting STAR WARS MINUTE, Alex Robinson is the author of several graphic novels, including BOX OFFICE POISON, TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN and OUR EXPANDING UNIVERSE. He lives in Portland with his wife and their two cats, Tic Tac and Cookie.

After spending over ten years as a Sci-Fi and Comic Book retailer, PTR is now the co-creator and co-host of Star Wars Minute and AlphaBeatical. Pete was once identified by the New York Post as NY’s ‘most hardcore’ Star Wars fan.

Author of the The Making of Star Wars and The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, New York Times and London Times Bestsellers, J. W. Rinzler has also written for the Emmy award-winning animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. His adaptation of George Lucas’s rough draft
of “The Star Wars” was awarded the Diamond Gem Award as Best Licensed Comic for 2013–and was a #1 NY Times Bestseller. He directed the animated short Riddle of the Black Cat, and is currently writing a novel. His children’s book, illustrated by Greg Knight, will be appearing soon.

He can be found online at http://www.jwrinzler.com/.

Christy was so taken with Raiders of the Lost Ark that she listened to the 33 1/3 record every day after school.  She’s known Ger since before (his) birth, and Tom and Pete from sometime after that. Nowadays, when she’s not humming the Mike Post TV theme song  from The Greatest American Hero, she can be found singing Juice Newton’s Queen of Heart in her car, and quizzing people on the video played on MTV after they played the Buggles.  Here’s a joke she just made up: Why did the Thai bookie chase the gambler? Baht Debts.

Christy’s first episode on the Indiana Jones Minute can be heard here.

Ryan DiGiorgi makes video games, but he just started doing it and it still feels like a weird thing to say out loud. Maybe when the games he’s been working on come out later this year as part of the Jackbox Party Pack 3, his job will seem more like a real thing. He also writes fiction, co-produces the podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern, and plays a lot of video games. But now it’s for research.

CHRISTOPHER ELIOPOULOS (www.chriseliopoulos.com and www.miserylovessherman.com) began his illustration career as a letterer for Marvel, and has worked on literally thousands of comics. But along with that, he is also the author/artist of many comics, including the popular series Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers and Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, for which he was nominated for multiple Eisner Awards and received a Harvey Award. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their identical twin sons.

Heather Antos was born with secret aspirations to become the next James Bond. However since her lack of British heritage has pushed that dream aside she now spends her days as the girl who will never grow up. Having worked as a Producer for web-series such as “Lagged Out” as well as a Comic Journalist for Geek Legacy, she now spends her days as an Assistant Editor at Marvel, working on books like the Star Wars universe titles, Deadpool, Gwenpool, & X-Men ’92. She also likes tacos….a lot.

Crystal Beth is a NYC based comedian and podcaster and has been watching movies since forever. Not only has she been on Indiana Jones Minute she has had the pleasure of being a guest on Star Wars Minute, Back to the Future Minute, Alien Minute, Wrath of Khan Minute (soon!), HuffPost, and is a host of the video game podcast Unlimited Lives on Cave Comedy Radio. Fact: She thinks she is better at watching movies than other people.

Sean Crespo is a comedian, writer and actor who studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

He’s the creator of the aborted meme Pina Colliding (look it up – it was great) and is writing on a new untitled pilot for Hearst in September. You can see him in the upcoming dark comedy “Me & Lizzie” opposite Rob Yang, Lucy Devito and OITNB’s Cathy Curtin, as well as the new season of Blue Bloods opposite Donnie Wahlberg, or last season’s Gotham, HAPPYish & Red Oaks. And you can find his face and/or voice in the latest campaigns from Samsung, E-*Trade, DELL, AT&T and Cree Lighting.

Also, Sean knows more about Dune than you do. Which is why he’s working on a one man stage version. You can thank him later.

Feel free to check out his inane web series “Life Hacks with David Strathairn” created entirely to showcase an impression for which there is 100% no demand.

Jamie Benning is a director, producer, editor residing in London, England. A huge fan of 80’s blockbusters, Jamie has produced numerous short videos on the subject as well as five feature length Filmumentaries.

He is also a coordinator and producer working in international outside broadcast and studio TV. Jamie predominantly works on TV coverage for Formula One Grand Prix around the globe.

You can find out more about Jamie’s Filmumentaries here.

Andrew Hawthorn is a writer and reporter living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He has written for Tales of the TMNT, On the Bounty and currently for VOCM News.

He is also co-host of the No Time for Heroics podcast, a show about superhero movies and some not-so super hero movies. He once met two of the legless lizards from Raiders of the Lost Ark and was totally star struck. True story.

 

Dr. Eric Wells is an Egyptologist and Historian at the University of California, Los Angeles. If you like ancient Egypt or history make sure to check out his fantastic podcast: Eric’s Guide to Ancient Egypt!

John Brueggen is the Director of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park (www.alligatorfarm.com), an accredited zoo with the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums).  John and his wife, Jen, enjoy travel.  They both seek adrenaline filled adventures recently getting married in Borneo, releasing baby crocodiles in the Philippines, handling cobras in the wilds of India, and swimming with White Sharks in South Africa.   John has an impressive Indiana Jones collection and is confident that one day he will show it to someone that agrees.

Jamie is an American archaeologist with a British PhD. She has done fieldwork in the US Southwest, the UK, Iceland, and once accompanied some friends while they checked up on some fieldwork in Lesotho (it was awesome!). Her favorite movie as a child was Temple of Doom, because she found it less scary than the other movie her parents owned, which was ET.

Doris is a high school English and History teacher from Southern Germany who fell in love with Indiana Jones and Star Wars simultaneously in 1983 thanks to her cousin’s VHS tapes.
And she is not afraid of exotic critters either.

Reed Cavanah lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and their daughter Penny. He used to live in Atlanta, where he did standup comedy and was somehow allowed to open for the likes of Chris Hardwick, Rory Scovel, and Eric Andre. He doesn’t do standup anymore, but he’s been writing a novel for the past few years which might eventually come out. In the meantime you can find him traveling to comic conventions all over the country with his wife, the beautiful and ethereal being known as Kelly McKernan (www.kellymckernan.com), helping her sell cosmic dreams (art).

We loved having Christy on the show so much that she has gone from being a guest to a member of the team.  Christy will be taking on the role of Visiting Professor.

She will be in her office Thursday but not Wednesday.  In other words, she’ll stop by periodically when she’s not busy checking out the antiquities market in Marrakesh or spelling out the meaning of Neolithic to yet another round of moon-eyed freshmen.

Mitch Brian is a screenwriter, filmmaker and educator. He co-created and wrote episodes for Batman: the Animated Series as well as screenplays for 20th Century Fox, New Line, Touchstone, and Universal Studios. He has been a contributing DVD Guru to NPR affiliate KCUR for more than a decade and teaches film studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he is an associate professor.

John Ingle is a cartoonist, screenwriter, and lifelong cinephile. He is the author of the graphic novel Dodd Skalle Investigations Vol. 1: The Simian Case as well as the comic strip Must be Nice. You can find his comics and film reviews at patreon.com/JohnIngle or visit offkiltercompositions.com.

Kevin Maher is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer whose short films have screened everywhere from MOMA to Troma. Tiger Beat called him “funny!” He produces Kevin Geeks Out a monthly video variety show in Brooklyn. For videos, podcasts and upcoming live shows visit KevinGeeksOut.com.

Paul Francis Sullivan is a podcaster, filmmaker, TV producer and comedian. He directed the feature film “I’ll Believe You”, produced for TV shows like “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “The Bonnie Hunt Show” and “Ax Men.” He has appeared on HBO Sports, “Monk”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. As a podcaster, he is the creator and star of the show “Sully Baseball Daily” where he posts 365 baseball episodes a year every day since October 24, 2012 (1,300 straight days and counting.)

His podcast can be found here.

Steven Kreuch, a Pisces, has devoured movies all his life. His father took him to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at least 20 times in the theater and it never got old. His first job out of college was as Irvin Kershner’s assistant but from there has varied wildly from being a prop master and set dresser for movies you’ll never see, building sets for Puff Daddy videos you have seen, working in advertising, and producing the suite of Solitaire games that launched with Windows 8. Despite all his this he has no idea what he wants to do with his life… except spend time with his wife Maria and two kids, Samson and Stella.

Scott is a former sketch comedian and writer and is an editor on reality and unscripted TV series like “House Hunters International,” and documentaries like PBS’s “The Day the ’60s Died.” He’s still trying to figure out how to monetize knowing the name of the actor who played “Monkey Man” in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Eric Drysdale is a writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.  He has also written for the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.  He is a collector of vintage 3D slides and shares them in a show called “Midcentury Stereopanorama” – go to www.midcenturystereopanorama.com for more info, including dates for shows in the New York city area this summer.

Christy was so taken with Raiders of the Lost Ark that she listened to the 33 1/3 record every day after school.  She’s known Ger since before (his) birth, and Tom and Pete from sometime after that. Nowadays, when she’s not humming the Mike Post TV theme song  from The Greatest American Hero, she can be found singing Juice Newton’s Queen of Heart in her car, and quizzing people on the video played on MTV after they played the Buggles.  Here’s a joke she just made up: Why did the Thai bookie chase the gambler? Baht Debts.

Christy’s first episode on the Indiana Jones Minute can be heard here.

We’re very excited to welcome Alex Robinson from the Star Wars Minute Podcast (the podcast that single-handedly invented this minute by minute format) for Minutes 16-20.  (Yes, that was a bad Star Wars pun.  No, we’re not sorry.)

In addition to co-hosting STAR WARS MINUTE, Alex Robinson is the author of several graphic novels, including BOX OFFICE POISON, TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN and OUR EXPANDING UNIVERSE. He lives in Portland with his wife and their two cats, Tic Tac and Cookie.

Alex’s first episode on the Indiana Jones Minute can be heard here.

We’re very excited to welcome Pete the Retailer from the Star Wars Minute Podcast (the podcast that single-handedly invented this minute by minute format) for Minutes 16-20.  (Yes, that was a bad Star Wars pun.  No, we’re not sorry.)

After spending over ten years as a Sci-Fi and Comic Book retailer, PTR is now the co-creator and co-host of Star Wars Minute and AlphaBeatical. Pete was once identified by the New York Post as NY’s ‘most hardcore’ Star Wars fan.

Pete’s first episode on the Indiana Jones Minute can be heard here.