{"podcast":{"title":"Ian Talks Comedy","slug":"ian-talks-comedy-140290","podcast_index_feed_id":140290,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/5576385/5576385-1589847499688-96aa14b6ccf94.jpg","author":"Ian Fermaglich","episode_count":330,"summary":"Join NYC teacher and former stand up comedian Ian Fermaglich as he talks comedy with some of comedy's best.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T12:18:37.346010+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290"},"episode":{"title":"George Arthur Bloom (writer, Transformers & My Little Pony cartoons)","slug":"george-arthur-bloom-writer-transformers-my-little-pony-cartoons","published_at":"2026-02-28T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/george-arthur-bloom-writer-transformers-my-little-pony-cartoons","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich/episodes/George-Arthur-Bloom-writer--Transformers--My-Little-Pony-cartoons-e3fihbn","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/play/115999543/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-24%2F2665c03f-36ac-7755-5f05-eb51c5d81a8c.mp3","summary":"George Arthur Bloom joined me to talk about watching Beanie and Cecil; wanting to be a pro baseball player; joining the Coast Guard; getting a job in the mail room at MCA; working his way up to Lew Wasserman's assistant; going to Universal with Wasserman; asking to learn how to be a producer; working on late 60's TV shows; optioned what would become Blade Runner after he lost the option; American International; experience like the show The Studio; producing the Abominable Dr. Phibes; Roger Corman; Little Shop of Horrors; writing Knife for the Ladies starring Jack Elam; write after school specials; writing the first 4 episodes of 1984 Transformers cartoon; setting up good guys and bad guys; writing original My Little Pony with a darker tone; writing songs and the movie; creating the after network executives; Potato Head Kids; helping to fix and then write Magic School Bus; creating the character of Digit (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried) for Cyber chase; not liking writers' room, prefers to work one on one with writers; writing on The Nancy Walker Show for Norman Lear; seeing his episode done on another series; playing tennis with Robert Duvall; writing a screenplay, Any Day Now about a homosexual who wants to adopt a kid with Down Syndrome in 1982; having it pass through many leads including Tommy Lee Jones, Dom DeLuise, and Sylvester Stallone; his son is friends with director Travis Fine, who is looking for a script; finally made 30 years later with Alan Cumming in the lead; became a stage play in Japan","meta_description":"George Arthur Bloom joined me to talk about watching Beanie and Cecil; wanting to be a pro baseball player; joining the Coast Guard; getting a job in the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2811,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/george-arthur-bloom-writer-transformers-my-little-pony-cartoons/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/george-arthur-bloom-writer-transformers-my-little-pony-cartoons.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}