Hot Seat: Media Monday S2:E33 Pete Colter, Summer Movies, AAPI Celebration & Free Comic Book Day
“Honor our past while also forging a better future for the future generations.”
This week’s Hot Seat: Media Monday with Ron Klopfanstein on 95.5 FM The Heat 🔥 is about the power of stories — the stories we inherit, the stories we share, and the stories we create.
We begin at the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration at Parkway Recreation Center, hosted by the Midtown Utica Community Center. Families, dancers, organizers, and young people talked about food, music, tradition, survival, and why keeping culture alive matters in the Mohawk Valley.
Performance videos from the AAPI celebration are courtesy of Brian Lazore and Lazore Photography, who captured some beautiful moments from the event.
Then Nabil Khan, 95.5 FM Entertainment Correspondent, joins me to talk summer movies, big franchises, horror films, streaming, IMAX, nostalgia, and what audiences are looking for now.
We also head to Ravenswood Comics for Free Comic Book Day, where fans, families, collectors, and new readers celebrated comics, art, imagination, and storytelling.
Then I sit down with one of my favorite returning guests, Pete Colter, author and multimedia content creator. Pete talks about his new novel, his Barnes & Noble momentum, his upcoming horror anthology series, working with an agent, pitching projects, supporting other artists, and how he keeps creating while building a bigger career.
Culture. Comics. Movies. Horror. Creativity. Community.
This one covers a lot — but it all comes back to storytelling.
