David James Keaton has been a friend and a peer since the waning days of 2011. Back then, I was starting a podcast and didn’t really know what I was doing. He was promoting a book about zombies at a bed and breakfast and podcast were kinda brand new.
Since then I’ve read a ton of his books, he’s been on a ton of my podcasts, and we’ve even gone to a baseball game. But this is a first! Finally, the tables have turned and David has had me as a guest host on his podcast - Almost Good.
Almost Good is a podcast where David and a revolving door of guests talk about mostly recent movies - specifically movies that are “Almost good”. But maybe it’s just a way to give Dave license to be overly critical? Nah.
There’s a lot of wit and insight in his episodes, and it’s obvious that before he was a respected professor, or an established author, Dave spent a lot of time in video stores (as a customer and an employee) and had built not only a huge body of experience with movies, but also fine tuned his thoughts on what works and what doesn’t.
Usually I disagree with him (lay person that I am), but on this occasion, when Guillermo del Toro drops a Frankenstein, we managed to feel pretty similar about it. While I did have my gripes with the film, the conversation was great, and he even tricked me into talking about like 30 other movies he recently watched.
I hope you enjoy this conversation, and that you’re inspired to check out more of David’s podcast.
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