Welcome to the official podcast of EverythingAction.com! Join movie aficionados Zach & Chris weekly as they dive into beloved classics, the latest releases, hidden gems, and everything else. Plus, don’t miss our monthly Everything Action Commentary track, where you can watch a movie alongside the Everything Action crew.
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Writers, Ink: Your backstage pass to the world's most prolific authors
J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle
What does it take to succeed as a writer? Join host J.D. Barker and a panel of industry experts as they pull back the curtain and offer rare insights from the household names found on bookshelves worldwide.
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Twice a week on the KX 96.9 morning show, JP, Lauren & Husker Nick try to help a listener solve the mystery of why their date didn't work out as expected. Was it just a misunderstanding or something much more sinister? The truth is often surprising and hilarious.
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#DateEmOrDumpEm The One with the AsskickerBy KX 96.9
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris bike into the wasteland and discuss 2015's Turbo Kid, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary. Initially starting as a potential segment in The ABCs of Death, T is for Turbo, the directing team of Roadkill Superstars, turned the short into a full-length feature. Munro Chambers stars as The …
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Everything Action Commentary: The Principal (1987)
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2:00:32For the latest Everything Action Commentary, as summer winds down and the back-to-school season begins, Zach and Chris watched the 1987 action comedy The Principal. Jim Belushi stars as Rick Latimer, who gets sent to be the principal of the crime-ridden Brandel High after an arrest for fighting at a local bar. Working with the school's head guard, …
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Redefining what you know with retired Special Agent turned author, Jeffrey James Higgins.
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1:04:54Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about $100,000 memoirs, Focus Friend, and Anthropic. Then, stick around for a chat with Jeffrey James Higgins! Jeffrey James Higgins is a retired supervisory special agent who writes thrillers, short stories, cr…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris battle for Earthrealm and discuss 1995's Mortal Kombat, which just turned 30. One of the best video game adaptations ever made, Mortal Kombat finds Liu Kang (Robin Shou), Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby), and Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson) in the Mortal Kombat tournament hosted by the sorcerer Shang …
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Series potential with bestselling thriller author, Lisa Gardner.
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57:14Join hosts Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, Kevin Tumlinson, and JP Rindfleisch as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about Associated Press, book banning, and AI. Then, stick around for a chat with Lisa Gardner! Lisa Gardner, a #1 New York Times bestselling thriller novelist, began her career in food service, but after catc…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are blowing stuff up with Bob Odenkirk and discussing 2021's Nobody as Nobody 2 arrives in theaters this weekend. Odenkirk plays Hutch Mansell, a former "auditor" for various government agencies who retired and lives a mundane, boring life in the suburbs. After a home invasion, he lets his old …
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Worldbuilding with #1 NYT Bestseller Karin Slaughter.
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56:10Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about Bookshop.org, Read Dating, and Stephen King. Then, stick around for a chat with Karin Slaughter! Karin Slaughter is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed storytellers. She is the author of more tha…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enroll at Pacific Tech and talk about 1985's Real Genius for its 40th anniversary. Val Kilmer stars as Chris Knight, a senior who takes physics prodigy Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret) under his wing as the pair work as part of a team developing a powerful laser. The team is unaware that their pro…
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8.07.25 Jake, Taylor & the Terrible Compliment
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Putting your greatest fears on paper with horror author Ania Ahlborn.
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1:02:43Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about BookTok, Publishers Marketplace, and Briet. Then, stick around for a chat with Ania Ahlborn! Ania Ahlborn is a Polish-American author known for her work in the horror and thriller genres. Born in Ciechanów…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pull the ripcord on 1994's Drop Zone, starring Wesley Snipes, which just released on 4K. Snipes plays US Marshal Pete Nessip, who is escorting a computer hacker, Leedy (Michael Jeter), on a plane with his brother and fellow Marshal, Terry (Malcolm Jamal Warner). The aircraft is hijacked, with t…
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Writers, Ink Podcast: Episode 305 - From social media to plotting - what it takes to be a modern author with bestseller, JT Ellison.
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1:03:12Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about Reese Witherspoon, the AI Protection Act, and audiobook walking clubs. Then, stick around for a chat with J.T. Ellison! J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 30 p…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get Fantastic and talk about the 2005 version of Fantastic Four as the new movie featuring Marvel's First Family, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, opens in theaters. Opening in July 2005, Fantastic Four was part of the Fox side of Marvel movies, which also included the X-Men movies, Daredevil, …
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7.24.24 Lindsey & Brett and the Venmo Mozzo Request
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Everything Action Commentary: The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
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1:57:11For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris are joined by special guest Addam to watch the 2012 martial arts movie The Man with the Iron Fists. Directed, written by, and starring RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA is The Blacksmith aka Thaddeus Henry Smith. Working in "Jungle Village" making fantastical weapons for whoever pays, he's tr…
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Writers, Ink Podcast: Episode 304 - How to crash a wedding with LOVE YOU TO DEATH author, Christina Dotson.
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58:12Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about a scam, a $100,000 prize, and Anthropic. Then, stick around for a chat with Christina Dotson! Christina Dotson: Thriller author of LOVE YOU TO DEATH (7/22/2025) from Bantam/@randomhouse, lover of carbs & p…
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7.17.25 Zach & Jessie and the Repeat Vacationer
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
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1:14:19This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head back to Southport and discuss the 1997 slasher movie I Know What You Did Last Summer as the legacy sequel hits theaters. When four friends (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe) hit someone with their car after a night of partying on July 4th,…
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Writers, Ink Podcast: Episode 303 - No Body No Crime with NYT Bestseller Tess Sharpe.
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49:10Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about TikTok, must-read magazines, and AI translation. Then, stick around for a chat with Tess Sharpe! Tess Sharpe: Born in a mountain cabin to a punk-rocker mother, Tess Sharpe grew up in rural northern Califor…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get seduced by 1995's Species, which came out 30 years ago this week. When SETI receives a transmission from an alien race with instructions for how to create a human/alien hybrid, an experiment is conducted that creates "Sil" (Natasha Henstridge), who escapes the lab she's contained in and dis…
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Discovering literary gold with the managing editor of the Strand, Andrew Gulli.
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1:00:36Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, JP Rindfleisch, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about influencers, AI, and BookBub. Then, stick around for a chat with Andrew Gulli! Andrew Gulli's The Strand Magazine: The Strand Mystery Magazine is a quarterly which offers the best of both worlds—publis…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Isla Sorna and discuss the 2001 film Jurassic Park III. The first movie in the series not to be based on a Michael Crichton novel and not directed by Steven Spielberg, with Joe Johnston stepping behind the camera and bringing back Sam Neill's Alan Grant. Needing cash to keep his fossil …
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Ewan Morrison explains how to make a simple story modern.
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1:11:16Join hosts Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about TikTok, Booktrovert, Meta, and training AI on copyright books. Then, stick around for a chat with Ewan Morrison! Ewan Morrison: Described as the ‘most fluent and intelligent Scottish writer of his generation’ by Booker…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris revisit M3GAN's original rampage from 2022 as she returns to theaters this weekend in M3GAN 2.0. One of the biggest recent hits for Blumhouse, M3GAN stars Allison Williams as Gemma, a robotics engineer and toy designer who gains custody of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after Cady's parents a…
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Everything Action Commentary: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
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1:48:23For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris call the Ninjazords and watch 1995's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, which came out 30 years ago this month. Released between the second and third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the movie finds Tommy (Jason David Frank), Kimberly (Amy Jo Johnson), Billy (David Yost), Adam…
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Cracking the children’s market with NYT Bestselling author of THE WILD ROBOT, Peter Brown
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1:01:16Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about printing cost changes, the vicious cycle of book publishing, and BookCon's return. Then, stick around for a chat with Peter Brown! Peter Brown has always loved telling stories. Growing up in New Jersey, he…
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6.19.25 Kelly, Craig, her kid & a Horror Flick
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to avoid getting infected by the Rage Virus and discuss 2002's 28 Days Later as the third entry in the series, 28 Years Later, opens in theaters. Cillian Murphy stars as Jim, a bike courier who awakens from a coma to find the world gone to hell. An experimental virus, dubbed the Rage Virus,…
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Genre, literary, and weaving messages into your books with NYT Bestseller, Laura Lippman.
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1:01:50Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about poisonous books, The Late Show, Oprah, and James Frey. Then, stick around for a chat with Laura Lippman! Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She be…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the jungle and discuss 1995's Congo for its 30th anniversary. Based on the 1979 novel by Michael Crichton, an expedition heads deep into the jungles of the Congo. Peter Elliott (Dylan Walsh) wants to bring his research gorilla, Amy, whom he has taught to communicate in sign language, …
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Why you need to stand out with NYT Bestseller, Riley Sager.
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56:31Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, JP Rindfleisch, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about Pizza Hut, Business Insider, and Meta. Then, stick around for a chat with Riley Sager! Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, most recently Middle of the Night and The Onl…
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get their asses to Mars and discuss 1990's Total Recall, which just turned 35. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and based on the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Douglas Quaid, a construction worker who visits a company called Rekall, w…
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6.03.25 Maggie Drew & the Meddling Bragger
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A FATE FORGED IN FIRE - From fan fiction to published author with Hazel McBride.
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53:51Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about ethical concerns with AI, libraries, and an AI prompt left in a fantasy novel. Then, stick around for a chat with Hazel McBride! My name is Hazel McBride and I grew up in a very small village in Scotland. …
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris go undercover with Fletch as the movie turns 40, releasing on May 31st, 1985. Based on the first book in the Fletch series by Gregory Mcdonald, Chevy Chase is Irwin P. Fletcher aka Fletch. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times who writes under the pseudonym "Jane Doe", Fletch goes undercover and…
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Everything Action Commentary: The Karate Kid (1984)
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2:14:33For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris return to 1984 to watch The Karate Kid, just in time for Karate Kid: Legends hitting theaters. The movie that kicked off the entire "Miyagi-verse," which includes Cobra Kai and the original sequels, The Karate Kid, stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who travels from Newark, New Jersey,…
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5.29.25 Julie & Heath and the Missing Diamonds
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5.22.25 Nate & Emily and the Tight Pants Guy
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Your house wants to kill you. NYT Bestseller Heather Graham explains why.
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1:01:09Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about fake summer reading lists, Dani Francis, and Taylor Jenkins Reid. Then, stick around for a chat with Heather Graham! New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Heather Graham, majored in theater arts…
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