Swords up and spellbooks open! This week’s Fave Five From Fans is all about heroes from epic fantasy films. We’re joined by the creative team behind C.M. Willows: Caroline, Marie, and Will. Together we go through your favourite sword-and-sorcery heroes from movies, anime, TV, and books. Which barbarians, rogues, warriors, and wizards made the fans’ list? Who holds up after all these years, and who deserves a comeback?

C.M. Willows also tell us about their new book, Betrothed to the Blade, out now. We talk about how three creators work as one author, where the story came from, and what readers can expect from this sword-and-sorcery adventure.

Grab your blade and join the quest!

📖 Betrothed to the Blade is out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback. You can get the audiobook anywhere audiobooks are sold.

🔗 Get your copy: books.cmwillows.com/universalbooklink

Connect with C.M. Willows

🌐 Website: www.cmwillows.com

📸 Instagram: @cmwillowsfantasy

🎵 TikTok: @cmwillows

▶️ YouTube: cmwillows

✉️ Email: cmwillowsfantasy@gmail.com

Find out more about C.M. Willows aka Caroline, Marie, and Will by visiting their website www.cmwillows.com. Also be sure to visit their social media accounts like Instagram ( @cmwillowsfantasy ), TikTok ( @cmwillows ), and YouTube ( cmwillows ).

You can contact them at cmwillowsfantasy@gmail.com

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audiobooks are sold.

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Returning guest Dame Judy D is back at Plastic Microphone Studios for another round, and it’s Spooky Tober, so the porch light stays on. The challenge is to count down the songs that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, with one rule: “Thriller” stays in the grave. Along the way there are werewolves with takeout menus, haunted hotels, swamp legends, dancing skeletons and a few theme songs you can’t help snapping along to. Jamie and Judy trade honorable mentions, then count down their five favorites, with a few detours into movie trivia and Halloween traditions.That’s our Fave 5! Drop yours in the comments — not the best, not the most popular — just the ones YOU love. Let’s talk about it.Links can be found on our profile page and at www.linktr.ee/hulkboy. Visit & interact on Instagram (www.instagram.com/FaveFiveFromFans), X.com/Fave5FromFans, Facebook (FaveFiveFromFans), and our website (www.FaveFiveFromFans.com). Also, check out Plastic Microphone Studios’ X and Instagram (www.instagram.com/PMStudiosPod) and the great stuff on X from Complete Disarray With Jamie Ray (X.com/DisarrayPodcast), The Average Home Theater Reviews (www.instagram.com/tk_gonzo1), Red Dog Terrain (www.instagram.com/reddogterrain), Sequel House (www.instagram.com/SequelHousePod), and more!Fave Five From Fans (www.youtube.com/@favefivefromfans)The Average Home Theater Reviews (www.youtube.com/@averagehometheater4901)Red Dog Terrain (www.youtube.com/@reddogterrain)Sequel House (www.youtube.com/@SequelHousePod)

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Halloween Kickoff LIVE Replay 🎃🧙‍♀️

Missed the live show? We kicked off the Halloween season on Friday, October 2, 2026, with a spellbinding episode of Fave Five From Fans, recorded LIVE at Plastic Microphone Studios with special guest Dani Mystic!

Together we counted down our Fave Five Witches and Warlocks: the spellcasters, sorcerers, and magical menaces we love most. Plus, we got to see which favorites you brought to the chat.

Hit play, grab your cauldron, and let the spooky season begin!

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Grab a seat, loosen the belt, and hold on to your souvenir cup! Fave 5 alum Leroy A., last seen digging into Fave Five Conspiracies, returns to Plastic Microphone Studios for a trip through the concession stands. This time the only cover-up is the cheese sauce on your nachos. From ballpark classics and loaded hot dogs to regional specialties you can only get in one city, plus a few game-day eats from stadiums around the world, we're scoring the food that makes the ticket price worth it, whoever wins on the field. Jamie and Leroy count down their five favorite stadium foods, the ones they'd happily miss a play for.

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T-Jen, a Fave Five alum returning to Plastic Microphone Studios, joins Jamie this week for a deep dive into The Bionic Woman. They're counting down favorite episodes, digging into the toys that came out of the show, revisiting the TV movies that kept Jaime Sommers bionic long after the series ended, and untangling the franchise's infamous "three Rudy solution" — yes, Dr. Rudy Wells got quietly recast twice, and the show never once acknowledged it. Jamie and T-Jen count down their five favorite Bionic Woman picks, bionic sound effects included.

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This week Jamie welcomes first-time guest Matt (@SerpyMatt) to the Plastic Microphone Studios for a deep dive into Marvel Comics' What If? series, exploring the wildest alternate-universe "what if" scenarios the Marvel multiverse has to offer. From game-changing twists to gut-punch tragedies, Jamie and Serpy Matt count down the issues that stuck with them long after they closed the book. That's our Fave 5! Drop yours in the comments — not the best, not the most popular — just the ones YOU love. Let's talk about it.

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Jenna Lyn Wright, screenwriter, comics writer, and author, joins Fave 5 for the first time at Plastic Microphone Studios! Jenna's the mind behind the screenplay Ambition, the comics Cult of Ikarus and Lady Mayhem, and the Hellion series of novels — and she grew up on a steady diet of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe. So who better to talk fictional writers with? Jamie and Jenna count down their Fave Five Fictional Writers, celebrating the storytellers-within-stories who made us fall in love with the craft in the first place.

Jenna Lyn Wright is a screenwriter (Ambition), comics writer (Cult of Ikarus, Lady Mayhem), and author (the Hellion series). When she's not writing, she can be found watching horror films of dubious quality or singing songs to her cat. She grew up reading Grimm's Fairy Tales, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe, digs black coffee and ass-kicking heroines, and is pretty sure she's haunted.

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Alex Grass, author of Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird & Terror, joins Fave 5 for the first time at Plastic Microphone Studios! This episode dives deep into the golden age of pulp magazines — the two-fisted heroes, the shadow-drenched villains, and the deliciously purple prose that defined an entire era of storytelling. Jamie and Alex count down their Fave Five Golden Age Pulp Stories, from genre-defining classics to under-the-radar gems every pulp fan needs to track down.

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Website: https://www.infernaltramps.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infernaltramps/

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