The Letterhack & “Mondo Hollywoodland” | Matt Strackbein & Janek Ambros | TMR

Then, they’re joined by Matt Strackbein, also known as The Letterhack, and filmmaker Janek Ambros to discuss Matt’s comic book adaptation of Janek’s 2019 film “Mondo Hollywoodland”. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news #progressive #leftist #democrats #liberal SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download TMR's FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com TMR MERCH: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ Janek Ambrose is the filmmaker of Mondo Hollywoodland. You can see an ad for it right there. Whoa. And Matt Strackbein the Letterhack who actually created this entire comic based upon the film. All right, let's just get right down to the burning question. Matt, we'll start with you. What is the letterhack? Oh, good question. The Letterhack is a prolific letter writer and particularly with comic books. What little Fame I have is from being a huge nerd and getting a lot of letters published that I would write to comic book editors. So in the back of the book they have a letter column and I was in there weekly for years. oh, that's interesting. I yeah find it hard to believe that anybody who's making comic books is really not getting their Fame from being a huge nerd. but leaving that aside all right. Let Jane, let's start with you. The film comes out in 2019. Tell us a little bit about the film. It looks and I haven't seen the film yet but I'm inspired now by the comic book to go watch it. It looks insane. yeah, it's totally insane. Yeah oh perfect. Yeah, elaborate just a little bit more than that. It's about a politically confused The Groovy mushrooms dealer who traverses through Hollywood and kind of encounters all these goofy characters to find the meaning of the word Mondo. So it kind of has this like you know kind of inspired by like John Waters Robert Downey Senior kind of you know experimental psychedelic film. Yeah, there was like a quality of like Putney Swope in some of them that I saw in the previews, and when I see Mondo for whatever reason I always think of Michael O'Donoghue. Who was a Saturday Night Live writer, maybe you don't know him I guess. I mean this I'm dating myself. He was in the 70s. His film you can find it I think I think it's probably on YouTube but it was Mr. Mike's Mondo video. And it's nuts. But it's worth checking out. all right but all right so Matt what inspired you to make a comic book? I mean usually, it goes the other way. Yeah yeah well in this case so you guys remember over Halloween I did all of those spoofs of you guys as the Scooby-Doo gang. Yes. Well, he saw those reached out to me, and said that would be great for the adaptation of my movie. Are you in? I couldn't accept the job right away because I had to know their obligations. So I watched the trailer for it and I was immediately hooked. So I came up with some test Pages. Sent them off. The rest is history. I made the comic. I don't know what it was like four or five weeks later. Yeah, I got really lucky because Twitter scares me. I don't like Twitter. I usually just like you know look at hockey highlights.