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Emmy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker and star of Dawn of the Dead (1978) Gaylen Ross was generous enough to sit and converse with me about her brief acting career and her turn as one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers. The majority of this conversation was recorded on July 19, 2026 at the Days of the Dead horror convention in Indianapolis, IN. A follow-up conversation was recorded over Zoom on August 3, 2026. Special thank you to Audery Lane for coordinating the interview and to Brittany Reyes for providing photography during it. The Brandon Peters Show is available on Apple Podca
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. CONCLUSION: In this last installment, we discuss the Disney theme park experience CAPTAIN EO which debuted in September 1986 as well as reflect on the summer just
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. For the final music video of 1986, we are jumping ahead to September of 1986 so we can talk about The Bangles and their seismic hit “Walk Like An Egyptian”. As is tradition, series composer Pres Maxson is the guest and he’ll also announce the subject of our Holiday episode this year! Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new i
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. August 22-24, 1986: THIS IS IT! A 5 movie banger to send us off! And it’s a good one, too. Leatherface, Farrah Fawcett, Stephen King, “It’s Miller Time” and Michae
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. Chris Johnson takes on another one hit wonder. Timex Social Club blasted onto the scene with “Rumors” and then was quickly disbanded a year after it hit big. This video is quite fascinating and there’s a lot to say about it. Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is available on Apple Po
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. August 15-17, 1986: The first of two back to back 5 movie bangers to cap off Summer 1986 starts with this week that features floundering comedies, an autism is mag
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. Jacob Givens wraps up his residence here on The Summer of 86 at 40 with a weird music video by Heart for “Nothin’ At All” Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher and anywhere podcasts are found. Follow the Facebook page or @br
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. August 8-10, 1986: Is Transformers: The Movie some childhood nostalgia or genuinely landmark film? Can the Better Off Dead crew deliver magic again? How’s Spike Le
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. In Summer of 93 at 40, we looked at a more fully formed Janet Jackson. Now we got back to her more breakout roots in her pop career. Troy Brownfield joins me for the Paul Abdul award winning choreographed “Nasty”. Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spo
On July 30, 1966, 20th Century Fox released Batman: The Movie, based on the phenom television series from the previous season. As promised, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth are joining me for an audio commentary in celebration of it turning 60. You don’t have to sync up or watch along to enjoy, it’ll play just as good as a natural podcast. Follow Aaron on social media @aaronsps4. Follow Scott on social media @scottmendelson -Brandon The Brandon Peters Show will return with another Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion Series episode tomorrow! TECHNICAL INFORMATION Vocals Brandon – Shure S
This entry brings us our first sequel, The Curse of the Cat People. While indeed a sequel, it carries nothing aside from Magnificent Amberson sets and characters that link it thematically to the first one. We have a great conversation about it and definitely check out how high of esteem Steven holds it in! When next this retrospective picks up, we’ll be talking about The Body Snatcher from 1945. -Brandon The Brandon Peters Show will return tomorrow with the Commentary for Batman: The Movie (1966). TECHNICAL INFORMATION Vocals Brandon – Shure SM58-LC Steven – Unknown Mic (recorded with ZOOM) Po
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. August 1-3, 1986: This week, Jason Voorhees returns for this 3rd set of kills in a Summer Of series! George Lucas drops a notorious bomb, Tom Hanks & Jackie Gleaso
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. Miami Sound Machine’s “Bad Boy” has 2 music videos, but Taylor Deatheridge and I hyper focus on the one that leads to a grand discussion about the musical Cats! Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher and anywhere podcasts are
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. July 25-27, 1986: Now THIS is quite the week! We’ve got Jack Nicholson & Meryl Streep’s first team up! Gene Wilder & Gilda Radner teaming up again! Stephen King di
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. A mesmerizing and haunted love ballad from Top Gun, “Take My Breath Away” resulted in the greatest hit of Berlin’s career and also broke them up a year later. Jennifer Wreyford wraps up her Summer of 86 journey as she joins me on this one. Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is availa
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. July 18-20, 1986: A rather rough week has us all perplexed at one of the worst movies we’ve ever had to sit through in this series that should be a more historical
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. Now we have talked Phil Collins, but at the exact time he’s banging out hits with Genesis. Matt Pelsor is back again to give his thoughts on Collins and dig deeper into his time with Genesis. We also talk this music video that felt like screwing around between shooting another music video. Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. July 11-13, 1986: Here comes a week that has movies where the cast and crew sound well enough, but the movies…don’t pan out. We’ve got Prince, werewolves, Teri Gar
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. SURPRISE! Jessica Alsman is back and part of The Summer of 86 at 40! Like Aaron, this is her birth year. And she landed the biggest music video of the decade – Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” with stop motion & claymation done by Aardman Studios. For this episode, you better call the SLEDGE-HAMMER! Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday wit
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. July 4-6, 1986: Another pretty awesome weekend is delivered over the “Liberty Weekend” celebration. Hit or miss doesn’t matter – a weekend with About Last Night, B
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. A song that goes hard from the jump, “Your Love” has stood the test of time and endurance for The Outfield. Jacob Givens joins me to discuss the song as well as the video. Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher and anywhere p
Our last feature in the 1943 run, The Ghost Ship, features a ship but no real ghosts. Steven Warren Hill and I dissect this tense thriller about a man losing control of his mind and another who struggles to be believed. A film that was crafted out of necessity to get mileage out of an expensive set built for another film! When next this retrospective picks up, we’ll be talking about The Curse of the Cat People from 1944. -Brandon The Brandon Peters Show will return Friday with The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion Series. TECHNICAL INFORMATION Vocals Brandon – Shure SM58-LC Steven – Unk
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. June 27-29, 1986: As this month and episode finishes, we are halfway through our journey with quite possibly the best week yet. After a gymnastics drama, we are tr
The Summer of 86 at 40 Music Video Companion series will post every Friday, featuring a discussion of an artist, song & music video from a song featured in the top 10 of the Casey Kasem American Top 40. Chris Johnson takes a break from reacting on The Normies to share with us his reactions to some 1986 music videos on another Summer Of series for him. He starts out this summer with the one hit wonder Nu Shooz and “I Can’t Wait”. Thank you for listening to The Summer of 86 at 40 series! Brandon, Scott & Aaron return Monday with an all new installment! The Brandon Peters Show is available on App
The Summer of 86 at 40 is a weekly retrospective journey through United States pop culture surrounding the films released in May, June, July and August of 1986. Brandon Peters, Scott Mendelson and Aaron Neuwirth take a weekend by weekend look at the films released as well as the news stories, commercials, television and music that rounded out the general public’s lives as they lined the pockets of the box office to see these movies. June 20-22, 1986: The Karate Kid has a second adventure as we dive into the world of Debra Winger and Legal Eagles. Mona Lisa finds itself an instant gem among the
