Episode 40 (!) has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

In this installment I’m going to take you all the way back to 44 BC in ancient Rome and then to DIC Entertainment in 1986, the times, as you’ll learn, in a curious and troubling way similar.  Something’s definitely up at DIC and none of us writers are sure exactly what it is.

For me, I’m confused by the shift in The Force and it’s causing me to make a few tactical career mistakes.

I think this is an episode you’ll enjoy…

Episode 41 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Be warned, this episode starts out – and most of it is – pretty dark.  Keeping my promise to show you all sides of my career and my industry isn’t always easy, especially when I run into or ran into tough times.  But a promise is a promise.

Hang in there.  As with my favorite kind of dramatic stories, this one’s got a happy ending…

Episode 42, my dark years, has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Kim and I have an event tonight so I’m dropping Episode 43 now.

Moving on from DIC and, after a few tough years, I’m starting an exciting new chapter in animation which begins with a phone call from Mark Taylor, DIC’s former Chief Financial Officer.  Drum roll, please!

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Episode 44 has now dropped and I'm into creating and writing the series bible and 37 episodes of The New Adventures of He-man. For all you MOTU fans here, this and coming episodes will take you behind the scenes on this controversial series. Lots of insight and observations from the guy who was there. I hope you enjoy it at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Episode 45 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Wherein I continue The New Adventures He-man journey, one of my and Jean Chalopin’s few flops after an incredible amount of work because loyal MOTU fans in the pre-internet days didn’t know He-man would return to Eternia after he took care of business on Primus. 

Don’t feel sorry for me. Script fees for the series bible and my writing thirty-seven episodes got me back on top with new cars and a sprawling home in Palm Springs.

But as the series neared wrapping, Jean had another surprise for me -- one that would take me, like He-man in New Adventures, far, far away…

Hi everyone.  Episode 46 as dropped and with it a HUGE announcement about Kim and my life.  And no, Kim’s NOT pregnant.  We’ve got three wonderful grown children.  Enough is enough.    You’ve just have to check out the video to learn the news in our present life and also how I’m off to Paris to work on a new series during the Golden Age of Television Animation for a toy line everyone in the world knows about.

Check it all out at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Good morning, everyone.  Did I say “Morning?!”  Yep.  Eight A.M. and I’m actually awake – which is rare for me, considering  I usually write until one or two and night and have trouble blinking before ten or eleven.

But my Kim is hosting yet another event for the chamber of commerce she serves as president and CEO.  This one is a business expo with close to a thousand visitors registered so far and who knows how many will show up unregistered.  It’s an all-day event with an upscale mix-and-mingle when it’s over.  Lots of business people and politicians and I know it’s going to be amazing, so I’m going to arrive around ten to be supporting and hand with visitors.

What this means is that Kim and I recorded and dropped our latest Vlog episode last night at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

It’s a different kind of episode with some personal observations.  I think you’ll enjoy it.

Ok, I’m off to Kim’s business expo. 

Episode 49 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

 and I’ve completed Heroes on Hot Wheels and am returning from Paris to begin my next great animation adventure – a whole slew of direct-to-DVD movie videos.

Get on board and enjoy! 

Wow!  Episode 50!  What a milestone!

Thanks to everyone who’s been following my Vlog.  I hope it’s been interesting so far.  I’d say we’re about three-quarters the way through my journey, but there’s a lot of fun stuff still to come.

This installment is bit of a departure as I look back on what’s changed since the Golden Age of Television Animation as I prepare to serve on a panel at the Lake County Public Library’s Comicfest in Lake County, Indiana on Sunday.  Check out the episode to get an idea of what I’ll be covering at the fest.  

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Episode 51 has just dropped, wherein I reveal my amazing adventure in how I came to create the original development work and series bible for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for my dear friend Haim Saban.

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