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Siraj Zaidi - Producer, Writer, Actor & Film Festival Director S3E05 “In the Room” with Garvin and George is Sarij Zaidi, producer, writer, actor, and film festival director for the Indian Film Festival of Ireland. The 2021 online film festival has recently been launched. Siraj shares his insight on how he is producing his latest production, raising funds for film production, and marketing the pro...

Karl King (Location Manager) is "In The Room" with 52 Jokers Wild S3E04 Joining Garvin and me in this episode is Karl King, location manager, who has moved over from England to live in Kerry where his wife is from. Having worked on such television productions as ‘The Crown’ and various feature films, he has recently sourced 42 locations for an Irish film called ‘Joyride’ starring Olivia Colman. Ou...

Frenzy Films Talk Funding Opportunities "In The Room" with 52 Jokers Wild S3E03 In this week's episode, we all get into a frenzy with our guests Sean McConville and Stéphanie Joalland, as we get into the nitty-gritty of raising funds, how to make films in Ireland, a discussion on whether it is Garvin or George that is the freak or the sci-fi geek, and much more. For George, it felt more link he wa...

Donna Phillips (International Film Producers' Network) "In The Room" with 52 Jokers Wild S3E02 This week our guest is Donna Phillips who runs the International Film Producers Network with over 20,000 members. Garvin wonders if rain falls mainly on the plain or planes, picturing a few jets amidst some showers, but Donna is in Spain where it was 24˚C, which is normally quite hot for us in Ireland. H...

Johnathan Brownlee (Award Winning Director/Producer/Writer) is "In The Room" with 52 Jokers Wild. S3E01 So there we were, minding our own business, sitting and having a pint, and this dude sits beside us, who we thought was American and he turns out to be Canadian, from the part where they all have Northern Irish accents, and I ended up being the odd one out with the English accent. Small world bu...

Butterflies & Hurricanes S2E32 It's time to re-baseline ourselves, to make friends and influence people in the pub, without telling us anything about what you do. Instead, we want to talk about who you are and not the job. We even talk about the importance of taking breaks for coffee as these are the times when you can really solve problems by talking them through with others. Garvin wants to danc...

Let Your Garvin Grow S2E31 Our Guest this Week Wayne Denner Online Safety | Cybersecurity | Trainer | Speaker and the one and only fan of the show 52 Jokers Wild, we have actually found our first customer that will openly admit to listening to the show and what's more watches it on YouTube, now if we can only clone him a couple of million times. Wayne's Parents were a Fan of The Duke or Good Old J...

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon S2E30 Are we alone in the Universe or however number of Universes and Multiverses there are out there? Garvin is never alone as he has his split personality to keep him company at the best of times, George is never alone as Garvin will not stop hounding him to edit more shows for social media. Doreen Ritchie Published Author | Speaker | Queens University Tutor | Ment...

I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter! S2E29 I'm a Lover! Not a Fighter? Danielle Serpico graces the Jokers with her presence this week, not often we have a real-life superhero on the show, Kick-Ass Champion Black Belt and a Hypnotist all rolled into one, that is just two of her Super Powers and according to Garvin she has loads more in her proverbial handbag, Garvin checks his own virtual man bag for his ow...

Don't Cry For Me Argentina! S2E28 This week Garvin and George reach out to Argentina, where our special guest, Cecilia R. Kancepolsky, shares how Argentinean women are developing a platform to promote their skills to a global market. Cecilia lived in Ireland and was able to learn so much from what she found in storytelling, especially when it comes to telling The Story of You. She goes on to share...

We Are The Champions S2E27 We share a conversation with Billy Schwer, a world champion boxer who fought his way to the top and found himself struggling when the limelight fade. And yet he was able to turn it all around, face his fears and become a champion helping others, especially middle-aged men, find new meaning in their lives. Providing encouragement against the feeling of impostor syndrome....

Mixing Cocktails S2E26 Our special guest this week is Lori Gatsi-Barnett, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, and Founder of JoinHer.com. Garvin confesses that he is tool-less, but when it comes to handiwork, he is adamant that that’s someone else’s problem. Meanwhile, George has all the tools and know-how to use them, most of them, while Lori argues that more women know how to use the tools than...

Thank God It’s Friday S2E25 We've been talking about The Boomtown Rats and found ourselves being connected with the actual song proving the algorithms are working away. What further amazed me? Because we had not listened to the song, I Don’t Like Mondays before we did the show, all the way through this show we were talking about the issues discussed in the song. The very girl who had a Silicon chi...

Don’t Like Mondays S2E24 What keeps on seeping through is there is only time! So that negativity has to go, and we have to accept the little wins. Garvin reminisces on a video clip of a Marathon ad from 1987 when he had hair and saw himself as a Boomtown Rat. He considered himself to be a bit of a Bob Geldof avatar with his hair and accent in London. So here we are. Back on a Monday morning in 202...

8 out of 10 Cast prefer … This week we have our guest, Rian Lanigan from Sandler Training, and he is a podcast host. We talk about creating podcasts and how to find audiences. The topics diverge from what we believe to what’s beyond belief and just fantastical. Diversity of conversation leads to how important critical thinking is and understanding the process so that everyone has a voice, includin...

Electric Sheep Nightmare. S2E22 Garvin and I invited Dylan Hogan, one of our Interns, onto the show. Which was a bit daunting for him. Especially, as we started off with Art Masking Fluid. This led us onto green screen effects and into sci-fi. We did try to bring it right back again to some kind of normality but that was short-lived. We moved on to androids and electric sheep. At one point Star Tr...

Can Do! Will Do! S2E21 Don't let things that you don't know stop you from moving forward when there's something easier that you could do just keep on moving. That’s something Garvin and I have found. You know we have had blocks in developing certain projects at the moment, and it's just that there are things we don't know at the moment and they are blocking or stopping our way forward. But that ha...

Take Stock S2E20 This week, we have come to the end of a slight journey that we've been working through and that part of the journey is that we've had a couple of interns with us. We still have one of them with us, but the other two interns fulfilled their obligations to us last Friday. So, we found ourselves coming to the end of that chapter, which is really good because they produced some amazin...

“I don’t know. I really don’t know”. S2E19 This was the quandary Garvin and I found ourselves in when we started this show. We were flummoxed. It was totally beyond us. We had started to question ourselves about everything. Were we going in the right direction? I don’t know. Could this be the wrong path? I don’t know. Do we care? No, I don’t…. Probably not. We were on the journey and open to… Hang...

The Passion Project S2E18 An Uncontrollable Beast, or something we should simply put to rest? With the Elephant in the Room, we have to look at the burning questions. In the bull ring, are the elephants competing with each other? Or collaborating with each other to focus on the audience and performance? If we just hold onto the seed of our passion nothing will happen but if we bury it in the groun...

Lead Beyond The Edge S2E17 This is a special episode as for the first time we have a guest involved in the podcast, and we have reached the milestone of 70 episodes. Frederique Murphy is launching her first book, 'Lead Beyond The Edge', to be released on 30th March 2021. We chat about her career, love of cooking and music, and above all we all have a good old laugh, then discuss the importance of...

Make Your Garden Grow. S2E16 Are we architects or gardeners? Do we plan our next step or just go blindly on? This week, Garvin and I ponder on various aspects of storytelling, relating our experiences of our garden to the concepts of being architects designing within the limitations of space and budget or just plough on without any ideas of how things will turn out, going on what nature shapes our...

Life On Mars S2E15 Our memories of recent sci-fi shows on Mars had us recalling that it took 20 minutes for a radio signal to travel, at the speed of light, between Earth and Mars. Yet, as the new Mars rover landed, mission-control talked about a heartbeat signal from the rover, traveling between the two planets was in real-time. Did it? Or is the whole scenario playing out in the Nevada desert so...

Yes… No! But … Maybe? S2E14 We need to be more concise. Well, if not concise, more meaningful. Yes, that’s it. Value the time to give yourself permission to go and do those things that are really creative, because you never know when that very thing may suddenly inspire others. But if you go in reverse you may suddenly realise all that everyone is really interested in, is “Show with the money!” Th...

Resistance is futile S2E13 In this episode of ‘In The Room’, we discuss the Ox, which is the year of the Ox for the Chinese. The moon comes up, connecting us to the Germans, through the movie ‘Iron Sky’. The South Pole appears where we find out whether there are reptiles inside the Earth. We eventually get led into the likes of how we all need to be organised. Or be the Borg – Be Org.  We then sta...