Genuine Chit-Chat
A weekly podcast hosted by Mike Burton where he searches for interesting guests across the world, having ”Honest Conversations With Interesting People”! With every podcast being something different, there’s no reason not to tune in, with guests, ranging from filmmakers, authors, musicians & travellers, to fellow podcasters, actors, creatives, experts in a variety of fields and everyone in-between! No subject is off limits, so take your pick at the huge back catalogue and dig in to some Genuine Chit-Chat!
Episodes
Disney Discussions is back with a comparison between 1959’s Sleeping Beauty & 2014’s Maleficent!
Sleeping Beauty may be a classic but it’s a movie Mike had never seen; tune in to hear his thoughts as well as the other’s on this 65 year old movie and the 11 year old prequel/retelling from the villain’s perspective. Dan, Megan, Mike & Ria also talk about the transition from animation to live-action, Angelina Jolie’s perfor...
Gaming & fatherhood are the main topics this week with the amazing Dan Belgrave!
Dan & Mike have collaborated in the past on GCC, the podcast Superheroes For Dummies and more, but this week they’re honing-in on two incredibly important aspects of Dan’s life; being a dad and video games! In their discussion, they talk about the challenges of fatherhood and the balancing of time one must adhere to, while also talking abou...
For his eighth appearance on GCC, Tony talks about his published adaptation of Sense & Sensibility!
In more detail, Mike & Tony talk about the second instalment in The Austen Chronicles; That Other Dashwood Girl. The duo talk about why Tony focused on a little-known character, how writing this differed to writing Welcome To Mansfield, his love of Jane Austen, the emotional beats of the novel, the narrator’s role, his res...
Author & podcaster Seth Singleton joins Mike to dive deep into the question; why do we write?
Video version here: https://youtu.be/vuWAZK6iypY
Although Seth & Mike have many mutual friends, this is their first podcast together! In more detail; Seth & Mike talk about getting in one’s own way and “the cost of failure”, tying into how introspection helped Seth get through certain failures, before talking about what sta...
Author, filmmaker, poet, podcaster and truly inspirational person Alyson Shelton returns to GCC to discuss the 200th episode of Where I’m From!
In more detail; Alyson joins Mike on GCC for the fourth time to talk about her four year journey through her poetry-inspired show Where I’m From, where she has a different guest on each week to perform their own version of George Ella Lyon’s Where I’m From poem! Plus, Alyson & Mike t...
Cocktail-creating entrepreneur Sam Espensen speaks about her love of Young Sherlock Holmes and film at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, and more!
Video version here: https://youtu.be/ep9-7v_D0zQ
Espensen Spirit’s social media is all @EspensenSpirit
Espensen Spirit has been making exceptional spirits in East Bristol for a decade, and also has a mobile bar & events company, doing everything from weddings to silent reading ...
Veteran volunteer Kinza Drewett speaks about her time volunteering at The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, favourite Disney movies, musicals and more!
Video version here: https://youtu.be/CWaYWf-6k0A
Kinza’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/kinzaleah
Find more questions to Kinza on Spider-Dan’s podcast feed very soon: https://spiderdanandthesecretbores.com
Make sure you check out Dan & Mike’s other coverage at FWFF inclu...
Legendary producer Gale Anne Hurd answers our questions at The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival!
Video version here: https://youtu.be/IqpzoUBZXsE
In more detail, a group of press each ask Gale Anne Hurd questions during FWFF and this is the first half of the roundtable! Questions are varied and come from several creators, talking about Gale’s mentors & inspirations, her early and later film & TV production work, why she ...
Faith Roswell at The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival talks about her favourite movies and book!
In the first of Mike & Dan’s FWFF interviews, they had the pleasure of speaking with Faith Roswell about her book; Movie Monsters Of The Deep, who her Film Festival legend would be, a deep see movie few people have seen, her love of Alex Garland, why she wrote her novel and more!
The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival reviews conclude with 1962’s Japanese Moby Dick adaptation; The Whale God
Mike & Spider-Dan delve into the 1962 kaiju/Moby Dick movie The Whale God, which Mike was hugely looking forward to watching but it has some controversial topics within – although it’s not gratuitous, note the sexual assault trigger warning.
Neither Mike or Dan had seen or heard of this movie before, due to its non-...
The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival coverage continues with their secret movie reveal; 2001’s She Creature!
Mike & Spider-Dan delve into Sebastian Gutierrez’s 2001 mermaid movie; She Creature (also known as Mermaid Chronicles Part 1), starring Carla Gugino, Rufus Sewell and Rya Kihlstedt! They discuss the movie, as well as comparing elements to The Little Mermaid and The Shape Of Water, while discussing the movie’s unknown st...
The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival coverage continues with a review of Orca: The Killer Whale!
Mike & Spider-Dan continue their coverage of the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2025 with Michael Anderson’s 1977’s (JAWS rip-off) killer whale movie called Orca! They discuss it in-depth and talk about the festival!
Make sure you check out their review of Battle Beyond The Stars on this feed and check out Spider-Dan’s feed for t...
The Forbidden Worlds Film Festival continues with a Battle Beyond The Stars review!
Mike & Spider-Dan continue their coverage of the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2025 with Roger Corman’s 1980 sci-fi (Star Wars rip-off) Battle Beyond The Stars; they discuss it in-depth and talk about the festival! Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/e4XXMJil4WI
Make sure you check out their The Big Picture documentary review a...
It’s the first day of the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival and we review The Big Picture Documentary!
In this special episode, Mike & Spider-Dan talk about their first day at the film festival, where a documentary about Bristol’s Megascreen premiered, made by Arthur Cauty, called The Big Picture! The documentary showed the history of Bristol’s cinema, the life, death & rebirth of the IMAX screen where FWFF is held, the inv...
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is this week’s guest, to talk about his latest book, Black Panther: The Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda, African authors, science fiction and more!
In more detail; Mike & Suyi first talk about Suyi incorporates “twoness” in his writing and his implementation of it in the Black Panther novel and how it’s similar, and different, to the comic run by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The duo also talk about Suyi’s relation...
In this special episode Mike talks about the next three interviews he will be releasing on GCC as well as the huge amount of content he’ll be releasing at the end of May for the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival!
From 28th May to 1st June, Mike & Spider-Dan will be at the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival to cover all 5 days of the event and hopefully interview some attendees! They talk about some of the films they’ll be reviewing...
Mike has been busy releasing review & discussions of Star Wars: Andor Season 2, but has taken a quick break to review the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus!
In more detail, it’s the 40th Anniversary of the movie and as Mike is attending the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, where a special showing (& cast Q&A) is happening, he wanted to give the movie a go before...
All of Mike's future Star Wars content will be released on the feed of Star Wars Chit-Chat (formerly Comics In Canon), found here: https://podfollow.com/starwarschitchat or watch the YouTube videos here: https://youtube.com/@starwarschitchat
There's already two new episodes on there right now; the Andor 3 episode premiere review/breakdown with things you may have missed AND a full Revenge Of The Sith commentary (to listen to while...
WE'RE BACK! In the fifth episode of Mike & Megan’s show, they talk about Ice Cream & Desserts (submitted by Tonya)! They talk about favourite flavours of ice cream, Italian gelato and stracciatella, before talking about desserts, with plenty of Megan's baking stories.
Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/1gFZifD-bsU
Let us know what you think and please submit your topics for future episodes!
Paul McGuigan’s second appearance this month is all about his journey to find out more in his Irish ancestry and ends in a place about an unexpected book!
Video version here: https://youtu.be/r1zW5Heyv6s
In more detail, this episode is the second half of Mike & Paul’s recorded conversation, where they talk about Paul’s journey to discover more of his Irish ancestry & heritage and discuss the strangest book you’ve never ...
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