Please, introduce yourself. When did Love Ghost get started? Why the name Love Ghost?

Finnegan Bell – singer/Guitar Player, Ryan Stevens – Singer/Bass Player, Daniel Alcala – Guitar Player, Corey Batchler – Keyboards, Samson Young – Drums. Love Ghost has been a band since 2013, a few members have come and gone through this journey, but this line up has been the same for half a year. We are called Love Ghost because at the time I was obsessed with both Love and Death, but Love Death did not sound right, so we decided on Love Ghost.

How would you describe the kind of music you play?

It is a combination of many genres, but we like to call it Trap Rock. Honestly, it is a mixture of Grunge, Emo, acoustic/singer-songwriter, R&B, Punk, Trap and Hip Hop.

Your new single “ll Be Fine” just came out and even if there are some dark themes in the song, there is a message of hope for the listener.

Can you tell us more about the creation of this song and its message? What does it represent to you?

The song was made fast, like in a day. It’s really an acoustic song with trap production. I know what it’s like to have no one there or to feel like everyone hates you. I’ll be “Fine” is about depression and I hope it’s helping people that struggle with depression and people that feel ostracized. What “I’ll be Fine” really represents to me is having an internal voice that tells you that you will be fine, even when no one else does.

How is the pandemic impacting your music?

It sucks that there are no live shows, but we are making lots of music on our own, so that is good. We also do have a live stream coming up on the streaming platform sessions live on Saturday September 12th at 7:00p.m., and we are really excited about that.

What are some future projects and dreams for the future?

We have tons of unreleased music, and we want to have hella collabs in the future. As a band we are writing all the time.

Who/what has influenced your music individually and as a group?

We try to take inspiration from everywhere. A few people who inspire us are Kurt Cobain, Lil Peep, Tupac, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Machine Gun Kelly, Juice Wrld, Alice in Chains, City Morgue and Lil Bo Weep. We also listen to a lot of underground music on
Soundcloud- so it is always changing and growing.

Apart from the group, do any of you have individual projects that you are working on?

We are all song writers in this band. Daniel has Qing and Corey has Little Trauma.

Could you describe the creative process you have when developing a song?

Sometimes one of us comes in with a fully formed song, and the others give feedback and fill-in their parts. Sometimes all of us meet to write together, and we start with nothing, and by the end of the session we usually have the start of a cool song.

Has there been a performance that you each particularly remember that stands out from the rest? And why is that?

Yes, the festival we played in Ecuador. The love we received there was insane and made it very memorable.

What do you do for refreshment when you are not performing?

We write music, watch cartoons (shout out Scooby Doo, Disenchantment and Seis Manos), Ryan, Daniel and Samson also play video games.

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SEGMENT EPISODE! This is a loose form chat surrounding a trailer and the Annie nominations but we get into interesting conversations regarding the difference between trailers and the final film and the nature of some artists’ oversupport of stop-motion to spite CG. There’s also an “Ax by Fax” audience question on sourcing audio for Indie projects and talking about the RubberOnion Podcast Drinking Game being formed on the forum!

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FORUM EPISODE! Don’t know if this is going to be an ongoing thing but in honor of the BRAND NEW RubberOnion Forum going up on the BRAND NEW website we decided to go through the topics posted there and chat about them. Join the community and enjoy the show!

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(6:41) How you doin?
(21:01) Introducing… the RubberOnion Forum!
(26:00) Incredibles 2 date change
(32:16) Trolls directors on “happiness”
(39:59) Moonbot layoffs
(45:04) Frederator sells to Rainmaker Studios
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Happy Halloween week! This is not only the biggest of the special “Freelance Horror Stories” episodes but also the biggest RubberOnion Animation Podcast of all time!

You get stories of animation jobs gone wrong from all of the following guests as well as from your two illustrious hosts (plus an audience question)!

• Tomm Moore
• Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano
• Adam Phillips
• Don Bluth
• Robert Valley
• Peter “Pikapetey” Casey
• Martin Bell

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(15:18)  Tomm Moore
(22:36)  Adam Phillips
(33:17)  Audience Question from Chris McEwan
(37:18)  Peter J Casey “Pikapetey”
(1:01:42)  Vivienne Medrando “VivziePop”
(1:32:03)  Robert Valley
(1:42:14)  Rob Yulfo
(1:51:54)  Don Bluth
(1:56:31)  Stephen Brooks
(2:17:03)  Martin Bell

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SEGMENT EPISODE! The “Boss Baby” teaser trailer dropped this week and we talk about that which is immediately followed by a question about whether or not to take a freelance job if it conflicts with your ethics… so you know, a normal RubberOnion Animation Podcast transition. We also cover the rumors that Disney might buy Netflix among other things – which really, my mind is on next week’s live show, Freelance Horror Stories 3, and a special episode which will drop on Patreon so enjoy this one before the awesomeness that is next week leading to Halloween!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! We’re back to normal (well as ‘normal’ as we get) on this episode of the podcast where we talk about “The Red Turtle” trailer, Nerdland getting picked up for distribution, and hypothesize on what Pixar’s new short “Lou” could be about. We also bring back the Slow Burn segment to discuss the possibility that creators may have more control over their own shows on networks than we previously thought. Enjoy!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! In the middle of our 5 episode marathon leading up to #PodcastDay on Sept 30th, we have our classic style variety show with trailers from Moana and Smurfs, discussion about Mondo Media merging with 6 Point Harness, and an “Ax by Fax” audience question about working with NDAs (non disclosure agreements). Enjoy the show and please let us know what you think of this and the other shows this week!

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This week we we have another full BATTLE TALK episode based on August’s #RubberOnionBattle! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite and submit your cartoon for September’s Battle (topic is “Unqualified Substitute Teacher”).

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SEGMENT EPISODE! In this week’s unedited episode we talk about what LAIKA means for animation, Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newman (sp?! I know it’s Newmar, it’ll make sense in the show) coming back to Batman, The Tick and Rocko’s Modern Life are coming back to TV and more. But we start the whole thing off with a discussion about Rick & Morty and why Stephen doesn’t get it.

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SEGMENT EPISODE! We have two interviews, a discussion about the uncredited animator pushback on “Sausage Party” and one epic story. Enjoy this show, you won’t be forgetting it anytime soon… I know I won’t

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This week we we have another full BATTLE TALK episode based on July’s #RubberOnionBattle! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite and submit your cartoon for August’s Battle (topic is “Exciting Trailers for Boring Subjects”).

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INTERVIEW! This week we talk with illustrator and animator Robert Valley who just released an amazing Indie Animated Film “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” on Vimeo. We discussed the Kickstarter back in episode 109 and in it we said that we’d love to get him on the show… fast forward 6 months TO THE DAY (that episode was released Feb 10th and this is August 10th) and here he is! We talk the impact of music, the importance of editing, animating in photoshop, superhero oversaturation, using Kickstarter, loops, black frames, creaking doors, and coughing into your mouth (it’ll make sense).

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SEGMENT SHOW! This week we talk all sorts of news from last weekend’s SDCC and beyond

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INTERVIEW! This week we talk with animator Joel Furtado who most recently created the “X-Men: Danger Room Protocols” animated series which was unceremoniously pulled from YouTube, Vimeo and other destinations due to Marvel copyright claims. We discussed that situation back in episode 109 and now we get to discuss it all with the man himself. He was very open about it and it led into very interesting discussion about fanart vs parody (which we touched on before), the technical aspects of creating CGI Pixel Animation, working in the video game industry and the state of western Canadian animation work.

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SEGMENT SHOW! This week the world was talking about the “Brexit,” so we talk with Steve Henderson of Skwigly about what possible impact it could have on animation production. We have a creator spotlight interview with Paul “Otaking” Johnson who did that excellent TIE Fighter fanimation. There’s an audience question which might have spawned a brand new segment and of course Rapid Fire!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! This is an all media week: trailers, clips, music videos… and we talk all about them! We finally get to see the first trailer for Disney’s MOANA and the last trailer and clip for FINDING DORY and its Animated Short PIPER. But we also saw three trailers for films that kind of snuck up on us. But that’s not all, TOP 5 is back and this time we’re listing off our favorite animated music videos!

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MOVIE REVIEW! Back in 2014 we did a full review and side-by-side comparison of TMNT (2014) with TMNT (1990)… now we’re taking on the modern sequel “TMNT: Out of the Shadows” (2016). We discuss the sequel in the original TMNT trilogy, “Secret of the Ooze” and compare it with this modern sequel. Does it hold up? What does Stephen think about how the Turtles were treated? What happened to April O’Neil? Did Bebop & Rocksteady fit the tone? Was Krang really necessary? Listen to find out what we think!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! Nintendo announced that they’re finally getting into the film-making business, the animators on the “Warcraft” movie were told not to change anything about the mo-cap performance, and Paul Johnson (otaking) is back with another awesome fanimation!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! We got clips, we got news stories, we got skits, we got jokes… plenty to enjoy! There’s a new clip for Dreamworks’ TROLL movie – does it hold up? How about the full trailer for VOLTRON – is it what we wanted? There’s a new TV-series from Lord & Miller called “Son of Zorn,” Amazon gets into the user streamed video with Amazon Video Direct, and Disney will lay off up to 300 employees when they close down Disney Infinity production. There were more stories and trailers and we address those in the listener submitted Rapid Fire segment!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we also have a ‘special’ feature being that this episode is mostly UNEDITED; I mean I put in music and stuff but awkward pauses?… totally intact. We talk about studios skipping Comic-Con, Eric Goldberg’s awesome couch gag for “The Simpsons” and of course the fact that Comcast just bought Dreamworks Animation for $3.8bil! Taylor Armstrong, festival manager for Animation Block Party in Brooklyn, comes on to remind you all to submit your films to their awesome event, we talk about ALL your RubberOnionBattle submissions for April and cap it all off with your favorite segment… Rapid Fire! Enjoy the show!

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