Experimentally ILL Radio 106 with Michael O’Toole 11/28/2020: Guests: LA Indie Filmmaker Lawrence Hollie, Allston, MA Artist/Writer D.L. Polonsky & Newburyport, MA Musician Raleigh Stein via phone.

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Experimentally ILL Radio 106 with Michael O’Toole 11/28/2020: Guests: LA Indie Filmmaker Lawrence Hollie, Allston, MA Artist/Writer D.L. Polonsky & Newburyport, MA Musician Raleigh Stein via phone.

Ring in the new year by thrilling to the unceremonious return of our illustrious long-running #ExperimentallyILL #podcast.
Enjoy consuming this lowfi recording of Experimentally ILL Radio 106 with your cackling host @MichaelPOToole, captured  on 11/28/2020. This edition features regular guests the hilarious and insightful pop culture aficionado LA Indie Filmmaker @LawrenceHollie73 & quirky pun master and political satirist Allston, MA Artist/Writer @D.L.Polonsky via the magic of telephone. 
Post-Thanksgiving weekend, our heroes reflect on past Turkey Days together (like at #DennysDiner in #california seen here), indie film and radio show production and more, including the state of the movie industry and life at large amidst a global pandemic. 
Lawrence gets into a Curb Your Enthusiasm-like conflict regarding using his single dumbbell with beach security. 
D.L. talks Trump, his political art and movie career. Anti-internet Newburyport musician Raleigh Stein calls in and commiserates with him about life in “the digital prison.”

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Experimentally ILL Radio with @MikeOToole #105 2/23/2019 Guest: Guitarist/Songwriter of Boston punk bands The Welch Boys & The Blue Bloods/Producer & Host of “Sonic Lobotomy” rock band TV show TJ Welch

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Experimentally ILL Radio with @MikeOToole #104 Date: 8/25/2018 Guest: “Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir” Animated TV Series Writer/”The Wheal” Goth Industrial Musician/Indie Filmmaker Frederic Lenoir

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Experimentally ILL Radio 103 with @MikeOToole Air Date: 5/17/2018 Guest: Actor/Producer/Director Eric R. Eastman

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Experimentally ILL Radio 103 with @MikeOToole Air Date: 5/17/2018 Guest: Actor/Producer/Director Eric R. Eastman talks acting in John Hartman’s Ghost Bridge, debuting as director of the award-winning romantic-comedy Spin The Plate, its themes of overcoming sexual abuse, appearing in Reel Groovy Films’ Quest For The Indie Tube, Brina’s Transexuals From Space, Richard Griffin’s Atomic Brain Invasion, shooting the El Terrifico grind house trailer at presidential candidate Vermin Supreme’s place, experimenting with cross-dressing as “Erica” and more – recorded at the historic Somerville Theatre!

Experimentally ILL Radio 102 (Part 2 of #100’s LA reunion special) with @MikeOToole Air Date: 3/26/2017 Guest: Filmmaker/original ILL Co-host/producer @LawrenceHollie & Mike continue their reunion live on the road in West Hollywood after visiting the legendary Sunset strip’s rock bar The Rainbow Bar and Grill featuring a statue of Motorhead frontman Lemmy, rock clubs Whiskey A Go Go, The Roxy and retro video game barcade Button Mash, talk of the legend and nostalgia of the punk rock scene and video games at large, the overly sensitive media and social climate, being extras in Kevin Smith’s 2008 comedy film Zack and Miri Make A Porno, shot in the Monroeville, PA mall as seen in the 1978 film Dawn Of The Dead, Goth Robot 2.0 making out with pole dancers when not making music or attending @skarletto_and_the_apocalypse shows, New England entertainer Quincy Brisco and more walks down memory lane!

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Experimentally ILL Radio 100 special with @MikeOToole Air Date: 3/25/2017 Guest: Filmmaker/original ILL Co-host/producer @LawrenceHollie reunited live in LA, talking friendship & ILL Radio & film fest history, showbiz & new media, YouTubers like Angry Video Game Nerd & Red Letter Media, pop culture topics like Tommy Wiseau & The Disaster Artist, a Justice League movie review, actors and other artists trying to make it in Hollywood, coping with obstacles like depression and more! Includes a new 3/27/2018 Intro with Mike’s personal thoughts on what’s been learned over the course of the podcast, mental health, creativity and the artist’s quest for perfection, and more, with a closing bonus 30 minute audio version of 1/2017’s ILL TV #1 with long-time ILL Radio personalities & supporters alternative model @xmissmarymackx & artist/writer/filmmaker @DLPolonsky, talking philosophy & theology and their creative pursuits, including a spirited reading from DL’s book The Letter Bandits and more – video directed by ILL’s I.T. genius Chris Kimball

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DIRECT LINK TO EPISODE: https://experimentallyill.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/experimentally-ill-radio-100-special-with-mikeotoole-air-date-3-25-2017-guest-filmmaker-original-ill-co-host-producer-lawrencehollie-reunited-live-in-la-talking-friendship-ill-radio-f/ #ExperimentallyILL #Radio 100 special with #MikeOToole Ait Date: 3/25/2017 Guest: #Filmmaker/original ILL Co-host/producer @lawrencehollie73 reunited live in #LA, talking friendship & ILL Radio & film fest history, showbiz & newmedia, Youtubers like Angry Video Game Nerd & Red Letter Media, #popculture topics like #TommyWiseau & TheDisasterArtist, a Justice League movie review, actors and other #artists trying to make it in #Hollywood, coping with obstacles like depression and more! Includes a new 3/27/18 Intro with Mike's personal thoughts on what's been learned over the course of the #podcast, #mentalhealth, creativity and the artist's quest for perfection, and more, with a closing bonus 30 minute audio version of 1/2017's ILL TV # 1 with long-time ILL Radio personalities & supporters #alternative model @xmissmarymackx & artist/writer/filmmaker DL Polonsky, talking philosophy & theology and their creative pursuits, including a spirited reading from DL's book The Letter Bandits and more – video directed by ILL's I.T. Genius Chris Kimball. Visit http://experimentallyill.com for more. #venicebeach #california #allblackeverything #punk #goth #episode100 # #butfirstletmetakeaselfie #selfienation #arts #entertainment #fitness #fitspiration #kevinsmith #motivation #inspiration

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Experimentally ILL Radio 101 with @MikeOToole Air Date: 9/30/2017 Guest: Rhode Island Spirit Medium/Holistic Healer/Artist/Belly Dancer/Raver Kelly AKA ‘The Purple Aura Love Goddess’

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Direct Link: https://experimentallyill.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/experimentally-ill-radio-101-with-mikeotoole-experimentallyill-com-air-date-9-30-2017-guest-rhode-island-spirit-medium-holistic-healer-painter-belly-dancer-kelly-aka-the-purple-aura-love-goddess/ Experimentally ILL Radio 101 with #MikeOToole Air Date: 9/30/2017 Guest: Rhode Island Spirit Medium/Holistic Healer/Painter/Belly Dancer/Raver Kelly AKA 'The Purple Aura Love Goddess' gives tarot readings to Mike and phone callers and talks 'the strange and unusual,' New Age and alternative culture, communicating with spirits including her deceased parents, counseling clients as a medium, coping with death, reiki crystals and their supposed healing properties, working and training at Wild Witches, attending raves and making her own clothes, being a teenage goth, overcoming obstacles and following one's creative path, art at large and pursuing painting and cartooning, media saturation and the falsehood of 'reality' television, the all-inclusiveness and cathartic nature of her belly dancing experience, spirit mediums in popular culture and more! Find her at http://facebook.com/purpleauralovegoddess! #podcast #newage #spiritmedium #ghosts #radio #audio #media #experimentallyill #headphones #microphones #onair #artist #butfirstletmetakeaselfie #alternative #punk #goth #newwave #purplehair

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Experimentally ILL Radio 99 with @MikeOToole ExperimentallyILL.com AIR DATE 11/10/2016 Guest: Avant-Garde Filmmaker/World Traveler/Actor John Hartman of @ReelGroovyFilms (http://ReelGroovyFilms.com) returns for a funny and informative follow-up long-form chat covering more of his life story since episode 83, including talk of his late 1980’s Hollywood pursuits as a commercial actor, appearing as the lead in the SVHS feature film White Trash as a 19-year-old prostitute, doing a test shoot for PlayGirl Magazine and nearly getting into porn movies after being propositioned by a children’s party clown who also worked in the adult film industry, running into porn legend Ron Jeremy at a party, later discovering a photo-realistic ‘Ron Jeremy’ mask worth thousands, living in a Scientology house as the one non-Scientologist, Scientology at large, third-eye approach to indie filmmaking as a writer/director today, appeal of the GoPro camera, current shoots for his VHS feature The Shackling & it’s message of media’s misguided focus on celebrity & violence, the counter-culture community, being a hippie/biker & working with actors in the alternative club scene, seeing Black Sabbath & Twisted Sister in concert, his struggle with ADHD, being addicted to shooting new movie footage, addiction at large & how to overcome differences, light VS dark & the responsibility to inspire in a positive way, showing restraint with fetish elements in films, his ongoing Retro Tube VHS webseries TV vignettes like Planet Dystopia, featuring Mike, Dawn Nightshade & satirist US presidential candidate Vermin Supreme, video journals of strange & abandoned places like the oldest mental institution in New England & it’s supposed hauntings & visits by gothic teens, Bulgaria travels where he met his late best friend who introduced him to Buddhism, launching a YouTube page of Bulgaria documentaries, being interviewed on Bulgarian TV, having a sense of purpose in adult make-believe, the relationship between art, chanting & meditation for physical & mental health, & more! Stories, quips, bad singing, arts & farts! Trump & trumpets! Grab ’em by the podcast, while you can! 

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Experimentally ILL Radio 98 with @MikeOToole ExperimentallyILL.com AIR DATE 6/23/2016 Guest: Spoken Word Poet/Musician/Actor and expert comic book fan Joseph James Bellamy via phone talks how he got hooked on comics as a child, comic book and geek culture becoming pop culture, current technology based off Star Trek premises, Marvel and DC comics history, his superhero-themes tattoos, superhero film and TV properties like Batman V Superman, Teen Titans, Fantastic 4 and the Johnny Storm “race swapping” controversy and how he hooked up with a bunch of aliens, The Flash, the Blade films helping kicking off the superhero film boom, Martian Manhunter VS Cyborg and the Justice League movie, Wonder Wonder and the lasso of truth’s BDSM origins, Jurassic Park and dinosaurs, killer whales, his distaste for cats and love of sharks, his own acting pursuits, how to approach differences in opinion and more!

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Experimentally ILL Radio 98 with @MikeOToole ExperimentallyILL.com AIR DATE 6/23/2016 Guest: Spoken Word Poet/Musician/Actor and expert comic book fan Joseph James Bellamy via phone talks how he got hooked on comics as a child, comic book and geek culture becoming pop culture, current technology based off Star Trek premises, Marvel and DC comics history, his superhero-themes tattoos, superhero film and TV properties like Batman V Superman, Teen Titans, Fantastic 4 and the Johnny Storm “race swapping” controversy and how he hooked up with a bunch of aliens, The Flash, the Blade films helping kicking off the superhero film boom, Martian Manhunter VS Cyborg and the Justice League movie, Wonder Wonder and the lasso of truth’s BDSM origins, Jurassic Park and dinosaurs, killer whales, his distaste for cats and love of sharks, his own acting pursuits, how to approach differences in opinion and more!