{"podcast":{"title":"Catching Up With Comedians","slug":"catching-up-with-comedians-7071369","podcast_index_feed_id":7071369,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/richscomedy/feed.xml","website_url":"https://richscomedy.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18297050/CUWC.jpg","author":"Rich Stein","episode_count":66,"summary":"Rich Stein, a long time standup comic, took a few years off the road to teach high school, get married, and have a kid. Now, retired from teaching, he is back on stages and reconnecting with old friends and trying to Catch up with Comedians. Plenty of funny stories, anecdotes and tributes to the greats both famous and infamous!","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T06:18:54.878489+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catching-up-with-comedians-7071369"},"episode":{"title":"Filmmaker and Animator Gene Hamm joins host Rich Stein","slug":"filmmaker-and-animator-gene-hamm-joins-host-rich-stein","published_at":"2026-06-08T04:27:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catching-up-with-comedians-7071369/filmmaker-and-animator-gene-hamm-joins-host-rich-stein","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catching-up-with-comedians-7071369","url":"https://richscomedy.podbean.com/e/filmmaker-and-animator-gene-hamm-joins-host-rich-stein/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/kief2pievabeficm/ep_62_Gene_Hamm_als8z.mp3","summary":"This is Gene Hamm‘s third visit to my show. He brings a lifetime of art and animation to his third feature film Entitled: \"Don’t Call Us, We’ll Kill You!\" It will be on the Roku channel. In addition to his work for Disney, Hanna Barbera, and many others, he has also taught animation for over 25 years at the Art Institute in Marin County. He is also promoting his new online course where he will teach animation from conception to completion. In this class, Gene will take you through all the components of animation, voices, special effects, storyboards and you will be able to learn by the end of this course everything that it takes to complete your animated film. The course will be available very soon on Animation A2Z.com Please welcome the always busy and very animated Gene Hamm.","meta_description":"This is Gene Hamm‘s third visit to my show. He brings a lifetime of art and animation to his third feature film Entitled: \"Don’t Call Us, We’ll Kill You!\"…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1695,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catching-up-with-comedians-7071369/episodes/filmmaker-and-animator-gene-hamm-joins-host-rich-stein/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catching-up-with-comedians-7071369/filmmaker-and-animator-gene-hamm-joins-host-rich-stein.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}