Passions Personified

SUSPIRIA VILCHEZ is one of the most talented artists in the comic book industry right now and without question one of my absolute favorites. She has worked on numerous titles including The Crow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampirella, Red Sonja, Elvira, plus she did the cover art for the LINKIN PARK comic book I wrote for publisher 10 Ton Press. She also does art for the Marvel trading cards with Upper Deck and she recently did the o...

RON WASSERMAN is the composer of some of the greatest and most memorable theme songs of all time. From X-Men: The Animated Series to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Mummies Alive, Ron has made his mark on the television shows we grew up loving. He even scored the music in Dragonball Z the show! It was an honor talking to him about the behind the stories to how many of these hit theme songs came to be. This is an episode you do not...

AL MEGA is the CEO of the "Undercover Capes" podcasting network and the long running "Comic Crusaders" podcast and YouTube channel which is 474+ episodes and going strong with over 22,000 subscribers. Al is a pioneer in the comic book and pop culture industry and in this episode we get to flip the table and interview the man who is always doing the interviewing himself. Such a great conversation and great insigh...

SAMUEL GEORGE LONDON is the writer of "Alpha Guard" a sci-fi thriller novel most easily described as Jack Reacher in space! Samuel is from Hampshire in the United Kingdom and is also well known for his long running podcast called "Comics for the Apocalypse" which I was a guest on at one point. It was great having him on the show today and you can listen to the audio version of his book "Alpha Guard" co...

Voice actor IAN JAMES CORLETT is well respected and known as the original voice of "Goku" from the first ever english dubs of the world famous anime Dragonball Z.  He is also the voice of "Mega Man" and my all time favorite Transformers character "Cheetor" from the hit show Beast Wars: Transformers. Even with the characters listed above it barely scratches the surface of all the amazing voice work he h...

Musician BLAKE LEWIS is a longtime friend of mine and it is great to finally have him on the show. A talented beatboxer, singer, producer,  and all around musical artist Blake can do it all. Many of you know him from the 6th season of the hit show "American Idol" or from one of his many hit music albums released through the years including "Audio Day Dream" , "Heartbreak On Vinyl". "Portrait Of A ...

C.E.O. of Critical Entertainment CHRISTOPHER REDA is on todays episode of Passions Personified. Chris is also the writer for the comic books "Zombie Zero", "The Cowboy With Many Hats" , and on top of this also published the comic for "Prisoners of the Ghostland" starring actor Nicolas Cage. 

As we embark upon a new year I just want to thank all of my listeners both new and old. I appreciate ev...

MATT and JOHN YUAN, also known collectively as The Yuan Twins, are twin actors, writers and comic book artists.  Their list of titles for 1First comics include "Serving Supes", "Inspector Oh" and their latest release "Love Town". The Yuans are also known for their roles in well known films like "Observe and Report" with Seth Rogan or their more recent appearance on the Marvel show "Agent...

WWE professional wrestling hall of famer Roy Wayne Farris aka "The Honky Tonk Man" joins me on this episode of Passions Personified.  The Honky Tonk Man is an icon and one of my earliest memories of watching Roy wrestle date back to his legendary moments in the World Wrestling Federation where he had epic battles against Macho Man Randy Savage, Jake the Snake, and the one and only Hulk Hogan, The Honky Tonk Man's rei...

FIlmmaker RYAN PEREZ joins me on a new episode of Passions Personified during the middle of a hurricane! Amidst power outages and monsoons we made it through the crazy weather and got this episode done. I got to play the role of "Monte" a villain on one of Ryans past films "The Devils Dive Bar" which we did not get the chance to talk about in this episode due to the power outage however we did touch base on his ...

Professional skateboarder VINCENT LUEVANOS rolls up to todays episode of Passions Personified. We talk about him growing up in South Central Los Angeles and getting into skateboarding at an early age. We also breakdown the ups and downs of skating and the blood, sweat, and tears that go into accomplishing some of the amazing things he has done on the board through the years. Without question skateboarding has built character into b...

Imperial County Film Commissioner CHARLA TEETERS joins me on the show to talk all things in relation to the vast history of cinema in all forms that has used Imperial Valley as its backdrop throughout the years. From Star Wars to Jumanji and beyond my hometown has been a host to many memorable movie moments. As film commissioner Charla has many duties but by far the coolest in my opinion is location scouting. Some of hollywoods big...

News reporter BILLY KHANG is my guest on this long overdue and very informative episode of Passions Personified. When I started the show Billy was on the list of guests  I wanted to have originally on and now here we are. If you are from Imperial Valley or Yuma county you have without question seen Billy on your television reporting the news on site where the action was happening. He was also a sportscaster and a full on multi medi...

Director JOSE HO-GUANIPA got his start directing music videos for rappers like TYGA and YG. And now directs amazing commercials for brands like New Balance and Nike. In our conversation today we talk about what it takes to be a director in todays world. We revisit memories of a documentary we worked on together called "The Gift and the Curse" and Jose deep dives into the behind the scenes responsibilities  of being a Dire...

Producing, casting, directing, acting, and just being a valuable part of a film or television production crew MICHELE SEIDMAN has done it all. On todays show we talk about the amazing behind the scenes set stories on everything from Empire Records to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 where Michele was responsible for the Tokka costume in the film. Once again join me on Passions Personified for an awesome conversation that I hope leave...

Professional harp player Guillermo “Willie” Acuña of the world famous band
Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández
is on todays show alongside musician Roman Flores of the mariachi band 
Mariachi Aurora de Calexico
Roman is also an editor and writer at the Imperial Valley Press newspaper.
Both join me on todays show as my first ever double guest! Both Willie and Roman were in high school band with me and we g...

Special Makeup Effects Artist JEFF GOODWIN is on todays episode!
Jeff worked on numerous films including:
The Last of the Mohicans, Rambo 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super Mario Brothers the Movie, and Blue Velvet from director David Lynch just to name a few.

Jeff has a long list of credits in some of hollywoods biggest blockbusters and we deep dive into some behind the scene stories as well as talk about the impact of...

Actress PAIGE TURCO who starred as April O 'Neil in TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2 : The Secret of the Ooze as well as TMNT lll joins me on this totally awesome episode of Passions Personified! Paige is also well known for her role as Abigail Griffin in the post-apocalyptic drama series "The 100".  You may also recognize her from many other hit television shows such as The Agency, NYPD Blue, Party of Five, All My Chi...

COMICTOM101 (Tom Garcia) is a comic book content creating superstar and he is on todays show! If there was a Mount Rushmore of Youtube Creators in the comics, Tom is without question on there. 56,000+ subscribers tune in weekly to hear Tom and his cast of friends join on in and cover the Top Ten hottest comics in the world for that week. On top of loads of other comic book related content. 

In this show we get into the origin and 1s...