Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle

A show that's is unique and one of TV's most controversial hits, a millennial opus in six seasons, it's HBO's GIRLS! Joining us for another round robin episode are two stellar guests with very important perspectives: first, Richard Brighi, who, like many, did not appreciate GIRLS' merits upon a college-aged viewing but, now later in his 20s, understands its wisdom and has converted to devotee, and second, she's singer at The Q but more importantly a Real Life Millennial White Girl, Hayley Moir! Welcome to the pod, friends! 

This next podcast goes out to all the agoraphobic alcoholics who couldn't be here tonight. Top off your glass and join us at Julius' as we discuss one of the ultimate films about queer writing and queer drinking as we're joined by drag artist Just June to talk about class, writing, performance, and coping in Can You Ever Forgive Me? This round is on us!

Culinary community builder JB Douglas comes on the pod to discuss food as capital and appreciation in "A Bug's Life," whose take on food sustainability was years ahead of its time.

This episode of Lasagna Time comes to you confidentially, For Your Ears Only. We have GQ UK's Jack King on to talk martinis, girls, and guns. From the iconography of James Bond's Vesper martini to how the Daniel Craig cycle tackles Bond's alcoholism as a real, human component of world famous spy's character, join us as we discuss 007's legacy and, yes, how a little vodka might contribute to the secret agent's role as a foot soldier of the British Empire. And we also talk who of us has had Bond's famous martini!

In celebration of the female buddy comedy B.A.P.S, theater critic Ayanna Prescod comes on the pod to honor this films' black girl joy, nourishing soul food, and numerous cameos. 

Dust off your whiskers and grab a dish that will remind you of childhood! On this episode of Lasagna Time, we talk with theatremaker and food lover Nick Auer about creative authorship, artistic collaboration, food as aesthetic expression, criticism as creativity, that 11 Madison Park review in the Times, and what Pixar's Ratatouille has to say about art and personal experience. 

Pull up an ornate chair and straighten your posture: today we're having us a regal meal! As classy and spunky as Mia Thermopolis, guest Sam Goober calls in from royal Londontown to chat all things corndogs, tea, and mint sorbet in "The Princess Diaries," now 20 years young.

A bitter sweet adaptation of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY calls for the sweetest guest and the most scrumptious conversation with theatre director and producer Charles Quittner. We dive into Charles' abiding love for the Tim Burton confection, as well as a look into the theatrical set design, the cynical look at labor, and how the film fits within Burton's study of capitalism and industrialism. Join the Lasagna Time folks for a taste of a subversive take on a classic children's tale!

Be our guest? Celebrity evolutionary scientist Jeremy Yoder joins us for a talk about the sumptuous food and drink in the 1991 Oscar winner "Beauty and the Beast," though sadly, despite his Ph.D., offers no insight into how a castle's servants devolved into anthropomorphized objects. But! Join us for an engaging chat about food-centric, Busby Berkeley-inspired numbers from the film and how Disney musicals endure as a gateway drug for gays.

In a love-letter of a round table discussion, urbane queers Sam Myers and Zamin Husain join our hosts for a discussion about "Please Like Me," a show as culinary as it is biting and tender, monstrous and millenial. With each episode named after a dish prepared or consumed, this queer Aussie dramedy shows how food operates as a form of care when its selfish but alluring characters have few other ways of expressing it.

Pull up a bowl of noodles and join your hosts and guest Joe Brady for a discussion on one of cinema's essential delights and love letters to food, Juzo Itami's TAMPOPO! We talk about the beauty of populist art, food and cinema's inextricable link as a form of nourishment, and the simple beauty of egoless effort into refining one's craft. 

Sausages are snipped, peaches are picked, and cake is catapulted! Film writer Marya E. Gates comes on the pod to evangelize Věra Chytilová's DAISIES, a gem of the Czech New Wave and an amazing (and highly underrated) food film. In DAISIES, meals are key to sugar babying, class deconstruction, and women's pursuit of pleasure. Come for the subversive feminist romp, stay for the astounding food fight.

On "Mare of Easttown," food is comfort, food is a weapon, and food is even in Fruit Ninja. (God bless Jean Smart.) On this episode, Easttownologist Lexi McMenamin (no relation to the show's fictional Erin, we think?) discusses how this hit HBO show reveals how food plays into the silence, violence, and coping that is emblematic of a kind of whiteness not often seen in media.

It took us 23 episodes, but we're finally basking in the shimmering Italian summer heat of Call Me By Your Name. Vanity Fair's incredibly charming and witty Richard Lawson joins Billy and Kyle talk about the class implications of the food and how it shapes Elio and Oliver's perspectives about pleasure and work, the ecosystem of labor in the film, the soft boiled eggs, the fish, and, yes, we talk about the peach. And the hosts explore how the film, which Kyle famously dislikes, interrogates how food and the body is a central part of our conceptions of desire, while capping off this week's episode with a game of Sounds Like a Gay Food to Me.  

With an outstanding guest like The Washington Post's Anying Guo, we certainly indulged in this episode — and fortunately were not turned into pigs. The same cannot be said for Chihiro's parents in Miyazaki's masterpiece SPIRITED AWAY. With Anying, hosts Billy and Kyle dive into food as temptation, love, and a remembrance of things past and then play some She Anim-ated What? in this week's episode

Whether dining at Luke's, ordering takeout, or getting gussied up for some debutante dinner, we're always ready to eat up what GILMORE GIRLS has to offer. Guest Vox's Constance Grady joins Lasagna Time to discuss the class implications of how the Gilmores eat, the frustrating fatphobia, and how the show weaves intimacy and complicated familial relationships in with its cooked goods.

This week, we have fun Binging with Babish! Comedian Jay Jurden joins the pod to dive into the detailed culinary world of Babish's YouTube empire, where foods from beloved films and TV shows are recreated. Following a shared ode to Babish, Jay, Kyle, and Billy reflect on the improvisational elements of cooking and comedy before playing a meta game and sharing Lasagna Time Feels.

We board the USS Enterprise and explore a galaxy unfamiliar to the hosts with a special guest, mixologist and writer‬ John deBary, diving into the starry, complex universe of food on STAR TREK. From Klingon food to alliterative, color changing cocktails, we talk about memory, technique, and STAR TREK's history of blending politics with carefully rendered in-universe details, and also give a shout out to a Top Chef queen.

The New Yorker's Rachel Syme joins "Lasagna Time" for the podcast's most food-forward episode yet: a savoring of Nora Ephron's JULIE & JULIA. Alongside hosts Kyle and Billy, Rachel dives into Julia Childs' mastering the art of French cooking, Julie Powell's era-defining blog, and the culinary bridges that unite and divide their stories.

On this week’s episode of Lasagna Time, we’re ready to pick a food fight, or just trauma bond with film and TV critic Roxana Hadadi, as we talk being the right kind of depressed, accessing your pain, and the daddy issues of Steven Spielberg’s “Hook”. Maybe ‘90s kids are right about this one.  You can find Roxana Hadadi on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

Food in film? Groundbreaking. Cultural critic Naveen Kumar comes on the pod to discuss “The Devil Wears Prada” and how it mirrored his mid-aughts experience in New York. Steaks are tossed and critiques are thrown throughout the film, but who’s the real villain of this biting comedy? The hosts and guests hash it out while uniting on a shared love of Meryl Streep’s last good performance. (Yes, we said it.)You can find Naveen Kumar on Twitter and follow  “Lasagna Time” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle”, the hosts are joined by food writer for The Infatuation Hannah Albertine, to talk about community, tension, pubes, and walnut chocolate cakes in an Ari Aster Double Feature of Midsommar and Hereditary. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Hannah Albertine on Instagram and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by theatre critic and editor Diep Tran to talk about pies, feminist politics and theatre, adaptation, and the double serving of Adrienne Shelly’s film Waitress and the Sara Bareilles penned musical adaptation Waitress. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Diep Tran on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by writer, photographer, and Criterion Collection audience manager Maya Cade to talk about intimacy, restaurants as social space, knowing your desires, and the iconic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Maya Cade on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by writer and comedian Chris Murphy to talk about if the end really justifies the beans, all the vegetables in the trespassed garden, and why Megan Thee Stallion should play the Witch in Into the Woods. We also play a game of Sounds Like a Meat to Me and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Chris Murphy on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by writer and comedian George Civeris to talk about humiliation, coming of age, college, and the erotic cannibalism of Julia Ducournau’s Raw. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find George Civeris on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by writer and comedian Jourdain Searles to talk about grief, emotional eating, death, and the time Rooney Mara went HAM on some pie in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story. We also play a game of Sounds Like a Dessert to Me and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Jourdain Searles on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by Elle columnist, playwright, and author R. Eric Thomas to talk about joy, prop food, and the delirious fun of the chicken scene in Hello, Dolly! We also play a game of Sounds Like a Kitchen Appliance to Me and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find R. Eric Thomas on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by film scholar and writer Phuong Le to talk about group sex, “binge-watching”, disgusting pasta, and the deadly decadence of plays of La Grande Bouffe. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Phuong Le on Twitter and follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

They’re the worst pies in London, but at what cost? This week on “Lasagna Time” hosts Billy McEntee (@wjmcentee) and Kyle Turner (@tylekurner) go all the way to Fleet Street, looking at the gritty, bloody world of “Sweeney Todd” and the role (human) meat pies play in the Stephen Sondheim musical. Comedian and special guest Ellington Berg (@ellingtonberg) joins to give a first-person account of his experience in the musical where he, a gay, was typecast as flamboyant Pirelli. God, that’s good!-- 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle”, we dig into mukbangs, melodrama, and media theory! Brooklyn-based media company Fake Friends (Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Cat Rodríguez) join the hosts to explore food, aesthetics, and ideology in their livestream theatrical production Circle Jerk and unpack the meals, cocktails, and restaurants of the Real Housewives series. We play a game of She Ate What? and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time Feels.You can find the Fake Friends on Twitter, as well as Michael, Patrick, and Cat, and  Follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts are joined by NBC Page and hungry boy Kenny Rodriguez to talk about poisonous mushrooms, buttered asparagus, and the kinky power plays of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. We also play a game of Sounds Like a Kitchen Spice or Herb to Me and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels.You can find Kenny and follow him on Instagram. Follow  “LasagnaTime” and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” Miami New Times critic Juan Barquin joins the hosts to talk about cheese, anchovies, Connecticut autumns, and our second Julia Roberts movie, Mystic Pizza, and its musical parody on 30 Rock. We also play a game of She Ate What? and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels. You can find Juan’s work at the Miami New Times and elsewhere, and follow them on Twitter. You can follow Lasagna Time and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter.

Eat Pray Lydia! On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts talk food porn, finding your white lady self in Italy, and the basicness of Julia Roberts’ tastes in the two-and-a-half hour-long film Eat, Pray, Love with none other than cookbook expert and Assistant Editor at Clarkson Potter, Lydia O’Brien. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels. You can find Lydia and follow her on Instagram. You can follow Lasagna Time,” as well as hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner, on Twitter. 

 On this week’s “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the hosts speak with actor and comedian Bayne Gibby about craft services, cringe comedy, and the food of HBO’s The Comeback, on which Bayne starred as the show-within-a-show’s staff writer Gigi! We also play a game of Sounds Like a Fruit or Vegetable to Me and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels. You can follow Bayne, our podcast, and hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner on Twitter. 

Welcome to “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” the podcast where we watch our feelings and eat our favorite movies, TV, books, and more! On our first episode, we host Pulitzer Prize finalist and cultural critic for The Undefeated Soraya Nadia McDonald to discuss the moment she linked food to storytelling and how food operates as lack in Miranda July’s Kajillionaire. We also play a game of Salad Bowl and talk about what’s giving us Lasagna Time feels. You can find Soraya’s work at The Undefeated and follow her on Twitter. You can also follow “Lasagna Time” on Twitter, as well as hosts Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner. 

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