I spent about seven years of my life hosting top fan podcasts for shows like Once Upon A Time on ABC and Gotham on Fox (Greetings From Storybrooke and Legends of Gotham, respectively) with my wife Anne Marie. Our Universe Box podcasts/project was a lot of fun, and it brought us closer together as a team in life, as you can see in the album art for one of our podcasts below.
This week’s podcaster rom-com is a tribute to our podcasts, our love, and the Dogboy character I created as a series of novels ten years ago this year. It also co-stars my longtime podcasting pal Rebecca from Supergirl Radio as theater worker Clara Danvers, who appeared in last year’s Everly Heights Tale The Play’s the Thing (That Traps You).
In the podcast studio deep inside the Franklin W. Dixon Memorial Library, Jeremy Hahn is recording the latest episode of his Dogboy Adventures fan podcast “Greetings from Colta City.” He’s invited his theater buddy Clara Danvers on to dissect Dogboy’s “subversive” violence, but he didn’t plan for the chemistry crackling across the studio in his meticulous show doc. While Jeremy hides behind his fandom, Clara derails the recording with a plot twist he never saw coming. A romantic story about the roles we play to protect ourselves and the courage it takes to make a move.
In the aftershow, creator Bill Meeks chats with Rebecca Johnson (voice of Clara Danvers, host of Supergirl Radio, and the voice of LeAnne Snyder on The Fakist) about their long history as creative collaborators, starting as rival Once Upon a Time podcasters before launching sister podcasts based on DC Comics TV properties.. They look back on their history of “bringing the heat” to each other’s projects, including the time Bill voiced the spectral Deadman for Rebecca’s Supergirl Radio holiday special. A celebration of the community hiding in the “clerical work” of fan podcasting and the joys of a creative partnership that spans a dozen projects and more than a decade.
NEXT TIME: A thrilling action tale set in the TV studios of local TV station WART-TV.
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Speaking of Rebecca Johnson from Supergirl Radio, I appeared LIVE AND WIRED on their stream last night to talk about a wacky 90s Supergirl annual and promote the podcast. A good time was had by all, as per usual! Watch it here.
That does it for this week. To leave you wanting more, I offer this: I have some big plans for a video episode coming up…
See ya’ next week!