New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Flop Goes the Joker" featuring Cesar Romero. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/KThnuqxnnxg

“I don’t think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.” RIP Tom Noonan (1951-2026)

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” “Keep hope alive!” RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)

“I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.” RIP Robert Duvall (1931-2026)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Pop Goes the Joker" featuring Cesar Romero. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/0dA9-tz0dQA

“The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you’re going to do.” RIP James Van Der Beek (1977-2026)

“Ever since Harold and Maude, people have generally regarded me as an arbiter of weirdness. So, I’ll tell you what I find weird: I find malice, violence and poverty weird.“ RIP Bud Cort (1948-2026)

“Treat each song as though it’s going to be the one song that represents you to people. But at the same time, not overthinking it. Just letting it be honest, I think is the most important thing. Sing what you feel. Sing honest.” RIP Brad Arnold (1979-2026)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of “The Girl Who Waited” featuring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/6jQQfFnnKw4

“I just love seeing the world through a child’s eyes, never questioning the possibility of success. ‘Why can’t it be done?’ is in my DNA. It’s my firm belief in myself and my inner circle that enables me to dream and do.” RIP Tiki Diablo aka Daniel Gallardo (1971-2026)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Caught in the Spider’s Den" featuring Miss Tallulah Bankhead. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/TqaCf8hvnQE

“I love to sing. It’s my - excuse the saying - but it’s my voice. It’s how I express myself - the very free part of me. I love it! I love to sing!” RIP Chuck Negron (1942-2026)

The Dragon Con Report 2026 Episode One In honor of Dragon Con’s 40th anniversary, Mike, Jen, and Channing are joined by longtime attendee Darin M. Bush, along with a bonus appearance from Marilyn Teague, to discuss the first show and how it has grown and evolved. www.youtube.com/live/poHwcwT...

“I never wanted people to laugh at me. I never wanted the tunny lines. I wanted the straight lines.” RIP Demond Wilson (1946-2026)

“There are actresses who want to stick to one certain way, and there are actors like me who want to do a bunch of different characters. Don’t fence me in! Don’t lock me down! I want to do different things! I don’t know who I am!” RIP Catherine O’Hara (1954-2026)

Join @malletsb4thought.bsky.social @newlegendmike.bsky.social & @pagebranson.bsky.social as we discuss how the #MCU takes its first steps with the #FantasticFour 42cast.com/index.php/20... #scifi #filmsky #moviesky

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Black Widow Strikes Again" featuring Miss Tallulah Bankhead. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/JOKirS7LJfw

“Inking is a blast. I could do it in my sleep. There’s a little hyperbole there, but that’s the way I look at it. Inking is just a lot of fun and that’s why I enjoy it so much, because to me it’s really not work.” RIP Sal Buscema (1936-2026)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Batman’s Waterloo" featuring Victor Buono and Lee Meriwether. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/EvykH8SRW3o

“As long as I can get angry and irritated by what’s going on in the world but still try to put it in a form where there’s hope for the future. It’s been a bleak time, here and internationally, but if you dwell on that, you forget the beauty of the everyday.” RIP Rob Hirst (1955-2026)

“What’s most important to me is having an environment of mutually respectful, creative energy with my co-creators/artists.” RIP Roger Allers (1949-2026)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of The Paternoster Gang: The Casebook of Paternoster Row from Big Finish. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/rltdp_BKgZ8

Join Dave and his guest Mike Gordon for a more serious conversation about ethics, morality, separating the art from the artist, artificial intelligence, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-53626...

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "King Tit’s Coup" featuring Victor Buono and Lee Meriwether. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/a0LR7duxWag

“What I like best about music is when time goes away.” RIP Bob Weir (1947-2026)

“You should be trained, cuz we trained. Pay your dues and stay strong and I’ll tell you something right now, talent will win out.” RIP TK Carter (1956-2026)

“There was certainly talk at the time of resurrecting D84 and having him travel with the Doctor…I don’t know why he didn’t return…they got in that wretched metal dog instead, so that was the end of D84; crawling along the floor calling out, ‘Goodbye, my friend.’” RIP Gregory de Polnay (1943-2026)

“It was just something I did in a movie just as a choice and then it just kept going and going and going and then The Wire just kind of blew it up.” Isiah Whitlock Jr. on his catchphrase, “Sheeeeee-it!” RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. (1954-2025)

“I wanted to be myself. Only myself.” RIP Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)

“Today you want entertainment to be one of the greatest things in the world. To be a great entertainer takes a lot of work and I got the heart and I got the soul.” RIP Carl Carlton (1952-2025)

“Love is a many-splendored thing and I’ve got mine, and I know what it is. I know. We’ve been together 45 years…If you’ve got that love and just hang on to it, it’ll work. And that’s kind of the way I write. I see situations and try to put them to music.” RIP Don Bryant (1942-2025)

“Playing music with other people is much more fun and more productive. All the aspects of being in a band are ok if the band is good - meaning they make good music but also they are decent people.” RIP Perry Bamonte (1960-2025)

Holy Season's Greetings, BatChums! Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday and all the best in the new year.

“But the blues is one of the biggest examples of evolution. It’s in constant change. You can’t document it and say ‘stop’. It should be free…That’s what blues should be: something you haven’t heard before.” RIP Chris Rea (1951-2025)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the Fifth Doctor adventure, The Awakening, with guest Dave West @needlessthings.bsky.social Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/Uck2M-s81Kg

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” RIP Gil Gerard (1943-2025)

“l’ve always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.” RIP Anthony Geary (1947-2025)

“A lot of times I’ll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like > to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.” RIP Rob Reiner (1947-2025)

“What I like about indie [films] is you get things done quick because you have to. And that helps me because if I’m sitting around too long it’s not good…from point A to Z everybody is committed to the project and you feel that and don’t want to let them down.” RIP Peter Greene (1965-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Joker's Epitaph" featuring Cesar Romero. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/RhsC4o6DIe4

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Joker’s Last Laugh" featuring Cesar Romero. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/HCpsRtDlpeI

“I never felt silly. I was focused on trying to be a superhero. I think before they cast me they saw some musclemen, but they couldn’t move. I had to be a little bit campy for the whole thing. I really enjoyed doing it. I always looked forward to the shooting days.” RIP Daniel Seagren (1943-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "A Riddling Controversy" featuring John Astin as the Riddler. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/0BN-2jsi_Gs

“I love it when you just come heart to heart. That’s the way I knew it coming up, so that’s the way I like it.” RIP Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the first two Ninth Doctor and Rose adventures from Big Finish. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/I8CW4zNrHzk

“I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don’t care if it’s a success financially. That’s what I like.” RIP Udo Kier (1944-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Batman’s Anniversary” featuring John Astin as the Riddler. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/uoUtaHP_hYc?...

Join @newlegendmike.bsky.social @natebob.bsky.social & Ashley as we talk about the legendary film #spartacus starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Stanley Kubrick. We discuss the plot, acting, dialog, direction, themes, behind-the-scenes and more. Check it out! 42cast.com/index.php/20... #epic #film

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Penguin’s Disastrous End" featuring Burgess Meredith and Carolyn Jones. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/Vypd8wjL-zQ

“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm, and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.” RIP Sally Kirkland (1941-2025)