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Sammie Cassell

Sammie is a filmmaker, actor, improv and sketch comedian, podcaster, haunt actor, and comic book reader. His acting credits include bits in Halloween Kills, Righteous Gemstones, Uncle Otto’s Truck, and Spirit of the Cinema. He and his production partner Dan Sellers have made many films including Hank vs the Undead, Midnight Shift, and the upcoming Boogeyman of Black Mountain. They also have the Wreak Havoc Film Buffs Podcast and the Carolina Haints podcast and book. Sammie also performs comedy at the Idiot Box in Greensboro, NC.

Carol Cowles

Carol has long been a fixture of geek culture in Charlotte, NC. She has served for several years as the Programming Director for ConCarolinas and worked at the Carolina and Arizona Renaissance Festivals for 15 years. She also podcasts—she is The Cinemistress on Geek Radio Daily, Carol the Cat on Guardians of the Geekery, and one-half of Refried Scenes on The Poprika Network. She is also on Terrible Movies with Wonderful People—a Sunday night Twitch watch party hosted by O_Hai_Mark. When she is not podcasting she is reading, writing, or crafting. If you have trouble locating her, check your local cineplex, as movie theatres are her second home. Her fandoms include all things Tolkien, Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, horror, and lots and lots of tea.

You can find her on the interwebs at geekradiodaily.com, guardiansofthegeekery.com, poprikareviews.com, and purplehairedpixie.com.

Billy Flynn

The Wonderful Billy Flynn brings the funny every day on Geek Radio Daily! His daytime alter ego is a mild-mannered (well, that part is a stretch) radio station personality at Rejoice! Richmond in Virginia. He actually gets paid to sit on his butt and run his mouth! His edumacation is from UNC-Wilmington, the Columbia School of Broadcasting, and the University of Phoenix. When he is not gracing the podcasting airways with his comedic stylings, you can find Billy Flynn on Nintendo Switch (Friend Code: 4621 8841 4224), hosting Trivia Nights around the Richmond area, watching movies, reading comics, or just relaxing.

Flynnstress

The Flynnstress brings a sultry, feminine voice to Mondays on the Geek Radio Daily show. Flynnstress is originally from Maryland, and went to school at George Mason University and the University of Phoenix. The Richmond, VA area is now her home. She helps teachers integrate #LifeReady skills in the classroom with inspiring ed tech. Flynnstress was not always a geek; husband, Billy Flynn, got her hooked on favorites like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and Firefly. Former Derby Girl, Thistle Hurt, now spends most of her time geeking out the next generation (her daughter MJ) or snuggled up with a book. Flynnstress also loves to travel, watches too much TV, admits to being addicted to Facebook, and is trying to save the earth, one recycled bottle of Coke at a time.

Sean Gleeson

Sean is one of the hosts of the podcast Doctor Who’s That?, wherein he takes a friend who has never seen Doctor Who through the show, starting from the very beginning. He’s proud to claim that the podcast is now listened to by tens of people! Other than Doctor Who, Sean is a big fan of horror movies, regularly hosting horror movie marathons.

Ashley R. Hall

Ashley works in international and domestic film, television, and politics.

As a working screenwriter, she has several packaged pilots, features, and award-winning specs, and received many accolades for her horror feature screenplay, The Cure. She was also hired to write short narrative films for the Something Wicked and Something Wonderful Music Festival. These films were released both to a live audience of more than 200,000 and on YouTube where they received over 150,000 views.

Working in television as a post-production coordinator for shows like Psych, Castle, and Complications, Ashley worked with established directors and forged ties at major studios and networks like ABC Disney, Universal, Fox, and USA. On all three of these shows, she worked closely with managers, agents, and actors to manage ADR and had the opportunity to direct ADR for two television episodes.

Ashley’s range of experience includes writing and producing an international, serialized, non-fiction podcast, Square Peg, (squarepegpodcast.com), independent films (Sympathetic Details starring the cast of HBO’s The Wire), live sports (The Golf Channel), and comedy. For five years, she performed stand-up, making regular appearances at Westside Theater and the Comedy Store in LA.

Ashley wrote an Op/Ed that was chosen as Correspondent of the Day for Nov. 1, 2018, Richmond Times–Dispatch, and she currently sits as the Head of Political Strategy for the Hanover Democratic Committee of Virginia where she regularly addresses audiences of 300-500 people and the head of the Political Committee for the Hanover NAACP and twice appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition.

In her political work, she specializes in rural Democratic campaigns in Virginia and has worked as a campaign manager and deputy field director for state senate, presidential primary, House of Delegates, and Congressional campaigns.

Ashley’s originally from Hanover, VA, and received her B.A. in Communications and Film at Virginia Tech. She loves her dog and her family, cooking, traveling, and going to Gwarbar.

Morgan Hazelwood

Morgan Hazelwood (she/her) writes from her lair in Northern Virginia. She’s been sharing “Writing Tips & Writerly Musings” since 2015, first as a blogger, and now as a vlogger and podcaster as well. An actively querying fantasy author, her short story, “Just a Hike In The Woods” was published by the Dark Recesses webzine in January of 2022.

When not writing, you can find her devouring book series on her kindle, learning to scroll saw, or feeding her webcomic addiction. A volunteer for her local science fiction and fantasy convention: Balticon, she is also a voice actor for Anansi Storytelling—a fairytale audio drama podcast.

O. Hai Mark

O. Hai Mark is an old-school geek, software engineer by day and voracious pop culture consumer by night. He is a shadowcaster, sometime actor and blogger, contributor to Geek Radio Daily, a regular streamer, and an online social activities director. Currently, he hosts weekly online game nights, monthly online karaoke nights, and DJs for GRD’s monthly poker nights. O. Hai hosts a weekly movie stream called Terrible Movies with Wonderful People where he and a panel of regular guests watch and discuss the oft-maligned but still fun movies that are the mainstay of late-night cable, creature features, and riffers.

Alex Matsuo

Alex Matsuo is a paranormal researcher, social media influencer, and author. She is the founder of the Association of Paranormal Study and runs The Spooky Stuff. If it’s weird, spooky, unusual, scary, macabre, or haunted, she wants to write and talk about it! Currently, she has over 140,000 followers on TikTok. Alex is known for her approach to the paranormal with a skeptical mind and for studying ghost lore through the lens of sociological context.

Alex was recently seen on the third season of Haunted Hospitals (Episode 12, “It Followed Me Home”). The episode can be seen on Discovery Plus!. She has also been seen on Travel Channel’s Most Terrifying Places in America. In addition, she is the host of the podcast, The Spooky Stuff. Alex has written several books about the paranormal including, The Hamptonville Hauntings: Ghosts of the Trivette Clinic, One Bed Over: A Hospital Haunting, The Brave Mortal’s Guide to Ghost Hunting, The Haunting of the Tenth Avenue Theatre, More than Ghosts: A Guide to Working Residential Cases in the Paranormal Field, and The Haunted Actor. Her story “The Bakemono” will appear in CORVID-19: The Second Wave.

Alex holds an MA in theatre from San Diego State University and currently resides in Arlington, VA. She has been featured on KPBS – San Diego, Fox News, and The Washington Post for her various endeavors. Finally, Alex is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through her ancestor, Joseph Toler.

Cass Morris

Cass Morris is a writer and research editor living in central Virginia. Her debut series, The Aven Cycle, is Roman-flavored historical fantasy. She is also one-third of the team behind the Hugo Award Finalist podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists. Her story “Corvus Monitus” can be found in CORVID-19: A RavenCon Anthology. Her novel, From Unseen Fire, was the 2019 winner of RavenCon’s Webster Award.

She currently holds the position of Research Editor and Worldbuilding Specialist at Plato Learning, a company that runs mythology-themed summer camps and other educational programming. From 2010 to 2017, she worked as Academic Resources Manager at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. She holds a Master of Letters from Mary Baldwin University and a BA in English and History from the College of William and Mary. She reads voraciously, wears corsets voluntarily, and will beat you at Mario Kart.

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