Author: thewellpod

Posted on

Danny Trejo – “A Book of Miracles” – TWP071

Loading

One day in 1968, Danny Trejo had hit rock bottom: solitary confinement at the Correction Training Facility, otherwise known as Soledad Prison. From that moment, he decided to change his life completely. During a live interview at DragonCon 2024, Danny tells Anson about the redemptive power in helping others.

Music in this episode was provided by John Bartmann under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal License.

Link to John Bartmann’s Patron: https://www.patreon.com/johnbartmann Link to CC

License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

https://youtu.be/2DUEVQs-RMs
Posted on

Adam Savage – Part 3 – “Art and Science” – TWP070

Loading

How does Adam see himself, his life and his role as an inventor, artist and educator? Adam reflects on his unique career path, work/life balance, what to do when feeling overwhelmed, investing in your own world-building, how meditating on the origins of things connects him to creators of the past, the miracle of sentience and zombie Richard Feynman.

https://youtu.be/wg5laIYBkcA

Posted on

Adam Savage – Part 1 – “Hands-on Thinking” – TWP068

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:15 — 52.6MB) | Embed

Loading

We covered Isaac Newton’s monstrous nature, the inevitability of calculus, pottery, Clive Owen’s need for a foil, aesthetics as a point of view, lessons from Steven Soderbergh, following the story’s lead, relinquishing control, Sir Anthony Hopkins’ need for George C. Scott’s tension, and how audience feedback improves creators.

Posted on

The Drop – Part 25: In Memoriam, David Lynch

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:26 — 47.5MB) | Embed

Loading

We’re tremendously saddened by the loss of a great artist, humanitarian and beautiful human being. David Lynch meant a lot to many people and we were lucky to have shared time and space with him. Branan and Anson shares recollections and Branan breaks out his Lynch impression and a remastered fan film.

Mentioned in this episode:

Room to Dream is a wonderful biography / autobiography hybrid by Kristine McKenna and David Lynch. We recommend the audiobook version so you can Lynch tell his story in his inimitable “Great Plaines Honk” *according to Kyle MacLachlan*


Lumière and Company(1995) which is not streaming anywhere but there is a playlist on YouTube that anthologizes all the entries.
David Lynch’s entry Premonitions Following an Evil Deed by David Lynch is there.

Branan’s David Lynch fan film David Lynch: Signature Coffee has been remastered and uploaded to YouTube

https://youtu.be/gl2LX3XifLw

Posted on

The Drop – Part 24 “Everything is Rhythm”

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:33 — 52.1MB) | Embed

Loading

After a very busy fall season of Anson moving to a new town and Branan moving everywhere they finally find time to make contact. This episode feature a bit of Branan’s travelogues. Recommendations include ‘The Penguin’, Werner Herzog’s ‘Every Man for Himself and God Against All’, ‘Wild Robot’, ‘Anora’ by Sean Baker, The Apprentice, ‘The Name of the Wind’ by Patrick Rothfuss, and a new book called Don Quixote.

Full performance by Sean Ryan, proprietor and wizard of Leap Castle, Ireland.

Posted on

The Drop – Part 22

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:50 — 50.8MB) | Embed

Loading

Branan and Anson broadcast from a rooftop in Toronto accompanied by the soothing sounds of a nearby house renovation. In this Drop: Star Trek set tour, Moondog, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut,  THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds, Emergence Magazine’s “Winds of Awe and Fear” by Nick Hunt and Ethernal Damnation’s INDXcoin. 

https://youtu.be/H7Lonjt2CrM

And here, as read by Branan, the original apology video posted by Eli Regalado regarding his crypto currency investigation.

Posted on

Rod Lurie – “My Blood & Bones” – TWP065

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:11 — 42.8MB) | Embed

Loading

Film Director Rod Lurie was in Bulgaria, deep into pre-production for his film “The Outpost” when he got the call that his son Hunter had suffered a sudden cardiac event. What you are about to hear is a story of loss, but also one of victory through the very decision to keep going.

Special thanks to Rod Lurie for sharing his story with us. Happy Father’s Day.

Extra music provided by Poddington Bear under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 International license.

Proudly powered by WordPress