{"podcast":{"title":"Beginnings","slug":"beginnings-712871","podcast_index_feed_id":712871,"rss_url":"https://beginnings.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://beginningspod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/7/a/9/77a9ce61a5a84663e55e3c100dce7605/Beginnings_Logo_Perfect_Square_for_Libsyn.jpg","author":"Andy Beckerman","episode_count":500,"summary":"We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T16:17:50.333758+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 723: Ron Regé Jr.","slug":"episode-723-ron-reg-jr","published_at":"2026-05-29T07:28:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871/episode-723-ron-reg-jr","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871","url":"https://beginnings.libsyn.com/episode-723-ron-reg-jr","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beginnings/Beginnings_-_Ron_Rege_Jr..mp3?dest-id=73019","summary":"On today's episode, I talk to cartoonist Ron Regé Jr. Raised in Plymouth, MA, Ron began making minicomics in the late 1980s, and about a decade later, his first book Skibber Bee Bye was published by Highwater Books. For the next decade, he released comics and graphic novels through Drawn & Quarterly, but a frustration with comics changed his aesthetic focus, and starting with his next book The Cartoon Utopia, Ron began to be published by Fantagraphics. His most recent comic It's Over came out late last year on Parsifal Press. This is the website for Beginnings , subscribe on Apple Podcasts , follow me on Twitter . Check out my free philosophy Substack where I write essays every couple months here and my old casiopop band's lost album here ! And the comedy podcast I do with my wife Naomi Couples Therapy can be found here ! Theme song by the fantastic Savoir Adore ! Second theme by the brilliant Mike Pace ! Closing theme by the delightful Gregory Brothers ! Podcast art by the inimitable Beano Gee !","meta_description":"On today's episode, I talk to cartoonist Ron Regé Jr. Raised in Plymouth, MA, Ron began making minicomics in the late 1980s, and about a decade later, his…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3884,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beginnings-712871/episodes/episode-723-ron-reg-jr/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beginnings-712871/episode-723-ron-reg-jr.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}