{"id":9339,"date":"2019-05-11T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2019-05-10T20:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T00:07:23","slug":"talkcast-413-just-another-day-in-plastic-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9339","title":{"rendered":"TalkCast 413 &#8211; Just Another Day in Plastic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9343\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9343\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9343\" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joule-210x300.png\" alt=\"Not Keith Gleason\" width=\"128\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joule-210x300.png 210w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joule.png 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not Keith Gleason<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our guest is Keith Gleason, a man with many hats. Keith is the driving force behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticcitycomiccon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Plastic City Comic Con<\/a>, a one-day micro-con with delusions of huge (Dome, please see the editor about this sentence). He also runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroenvy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Reckless Sidekick Productions<\/a> and is also the producer of<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RecklessGleason\" target=\"_blank\"> Mighty Mascots<\/a>, which just got picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternacomics.com\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\">Alterna Comics<\/a>, and we somehow tricked him into talking about it under the guise of wanting more information about the conventions<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of more information about the Plastic City event, we got to talk about the two guests of honor, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Hama\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Hama<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Category:Barbara_Friedlander\/Writer\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Friedlander<\/a>. We also<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9344\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9344\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9344\" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/594566_orig-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"Also Not Keith Gleason\" width=\"223\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/594566_orig-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/594566_orig-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/594566_orig.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Also Not Keith Gleason<\/p><\/div>\n<p>talked about the concept of a small intimate convention in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallace_Civic_Center\" target=\"_blank\">Wallace Civic Center<\/a> and how the two ideas merge into a wonderful Family Friendly event with free parking and an entrance fee of $ 5.00 with kids 12 and under free. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticcitycomiccon.com\/guests.html\" target=\"_blank\">The guest list is impressive <\/a>with a wide array of artists, writers and vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Micro Cons come and go but this one is going to be around for years because they have a very clear mission statement:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keep costs low for both the vendors and the attendees so that everyone comes out a winner!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the chaos!<\/p>\n<span id=\"pod_audio_1\">&nbsp;<\/span><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9339-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast413.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast413.mp3\">http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast413.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><a href='http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast413.mp3'>Download<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/castplayer?castfile=http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast413.mp3&id=9339\" rel=\"0\" class=\"newPlayerWindow\" >Open Player in New Window<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9340\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticcitycomiccon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9340\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9340\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9340\" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/plastic-con-logo-300x160.gif\" alt=\"Plastic City Comic Con\" width=\"455\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic City Comic Con<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9339\" data-text=\"TalkCast 413 - Just Another Day in Plastic City\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9339\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2F%3Fp%3D9339&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F05%2F594566_orig-297x300.jpg&#038;description=TalkCast%20413%20-%20Just%20Another%20Day%20in%20Plastic%20City\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest is Keith Gleason, a man with many hats. 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He also runs Reckless Sidekick Productions and is also the producer of Mighty Mascots, which just got picked up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9339\" data-text=\"TalkCast 413 - Just Another Day in Plastic City\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9339\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2F%3Fp%3D9339&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F05%2F594566_orig-297x300.jpg&#038;description=TalkCast%20413%20-%20Just%20Another%20Day%20in%20Plastic%20City\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9346,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions\/9346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}