Snap Sessions! Podcast

SnapSessions! presents Episode 59, featuring an interview with British comedian and character actor, Andy Linden and a SnapSessions! Environmental Report Card for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, just in time for the November 2024 election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 58—a special podcast for us. We take a look at a bizarre night in Mendocino's history, an evening we are calling “Night of the Mendo UFOs”. SnapSessions! presents an in depth exposé of a time in the Fall of 1978 when the Mendocino Coast was haunted by a series of UFO sightings remembered by 9 Northcoast citizens including me, Doug Nunn. In addition, SnapSessions! places this in the history of UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), recent US congressional hearings with Navy and Air Force pilots, as well a look at the place of UFOs in the history of Science Fiction since that big surge of flying saucer sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 57 featuring a muckraking exposé of the indoor marijuana growing industry with environmental scientist, Evan Mills, as well as a look at the origins of Shakespeare Unscripted, a long form improvised play developed by Dan O'Connor and Brian Lohmann in Hollywood back in 1999. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 56, featuring an interview with Environmental activist and futurist, Dar-Lon Chang, President of Geo-Solar Technologies. In addition, we talk to a group of young Climate activists from Mendocino High School regarding their thoughts on recent Climate trials that have occurred in Montana and across the nation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a short hiatus where SnapSessions!' Techmeister Marshall Brown first got married and then went down with Covid, SnapSessions is back with Episode 55 featuring “Deutsche Brotbacken” including an interview with German master bread baker, Martin Siemann and a look at the bakeries of Central Europe. Also featured this month is another of our environmental reports—“The Hottest Summer on Record” where we investigate our ongoing Climate Crisis, COP 28, and our past horrific summer of world-wide fires. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! is back with Episode 54 featuring an interview with Ecologist, Botanist, and Environmental Science teacher Teresa Sholars. Also featured this month is an article—“The Saga of the Oakland As”, the story of the past 55 years of Oakland As' baseball and the sad likelihood that they may soon be moving to Las Vegas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! returns with Episode 53 featuring an interview with long-time Hollywood Art & Production Designer, Aaron Haye, as well as an article, “SnapSessions! Looks at the Future of Space Flight”, where our podcast wonders where Earthlings might be headed in the next years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! reboots with Episode 52 featuring an interview with British Comic/Poet/Musician, John Hegley and an article, Coopting Cop 27, a report on the disappointing United Nations annual Conference of the Parties on Climate Change this past fall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mendocino's SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 51, Part II of their “The History of Hit & Run Theater”, premiering Sunday, March 5 on their podcast website—thesnapsessions.com. Part I debuted on January 29. Whereas SnapSessions! Episode 50 (Part I) focused mostly on Hit & Run Theater's epic comedy revues of the 1980s, Episode 51 (Part II) catalogues the group's work as an improvisational theater team. We start with the ensemble's first improv work in the 80s and follow up over the past decade of improv comedy shows. Episode 51 will showcase more interviews of group members, producers, light techies, as well as musical improviser, Joshua Raoul Brody. It will also feature highlights from the group's improvisational work from the past few years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mendocino's SnapSessions! podcast presents Part I of the two-episode documentary podcast “The History of Hit & Run Theater”.Encompassing the first chapter of SnapSessions! two-part historical documentary of comedy/improv group Hit & Run Theater, Episode 50 features over two hours of interviews, old skits and songs, and a variety of surprises from Hit & Run Theater's beginnings as a skit writing group in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Long time Hit & Runner Doug Nunn interviewed 18 present and former members of the local troupe and watched over 60 hours of old shows from 1981's Improviganza through various comedy revues like Oh Velveeta, National Velveeta (both 1982), Democracy in Traction (1984), and Fiat Yux (1986), including the epic Arnold Vicious Punk Opera (1983) and its sequel, Rockalypse in 1984See a more detailed summary over at https://www.thesnapsessions.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! podcast for December 2022 presents an encore of a holiday treasure: “Tchickclucksky's The Nutclucker & Other Chicken Holiday Treats”, a production of Rothman's HenHouse in association with Large Child Productions. The Nutclucker was the inspiration of Harry “Henny Bockman” Rothman, a player and director of Mendocino's Hit & Run Theater. Harry was an accomplished chicken imitator and starred in many of Hit & Run's skits over time, especially any of them involving poultry. In 1995 he approached Doug Nunn to help him produce a chicken-cluckin' version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and to combine that with chicken-cluckin' versions of various Christmas carols. Thus was spawned “The Nutclucker”, which included singers Marilou “Bockbird Broiler”, Jim “Hard Broiler” Brewer, Sandy “Cluckfeld” Glickfeld, Ana “Henna” Lucas, Harry “Poutriotti” Rothman, and Doug “Cluck” Nunn, was engineered by Jim Rote-Tisserie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For November, SnapSessions! podcast Episode 49 features an interview with filmmaker and environmental activist Mischa Hedges and Abort the Court, an exploration of the history of abortion since ancient times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 48, featuring an interview with Mendocino singer/songwriter Gwyneth Moreland, and Doug Nunn's Avenue of the Stars, a memoir of his time working on The Simpsons Movie as an animator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 47, featuring an interview with musician and inventor Gene Parsons. We also include the premiere of Copzilla, a SnapSessions! audio comedy about a giant policeman who attacks idyllic Donut Town. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 46, featuring an interview with video editor and Reality TV Producer Sax Eno. We also present an analysis and appreciation of Nicole Hannah Jones 1619 Project and take a look at the reactionary response to her book as well as “Critical Race Theory”. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Otiz Cannelloni, as well as “SCOTUS vs. Mother Earth”, a look at a US Supreme Court case which threatens to upend all Climate legislation. 

SnapSessions! presents Episode 43, with our artist of the show—comedian and comedy/song writer, Dave Cohen, as well as a consideration of Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction novel The Ministry of the Future, speculating on where our planet might be headed in the years to come.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 40, featuring an interview with our artist of the show–drummer, percussion teacher, and activist Claudia Paige, as well as a “Tribute to The Twilight Zone”, the extraordinary boundary breaking science fiction TV show of the late 1950s and 1960s.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 39, featuring a holiday interview with our artist of the show—Red Barn Productions event producer and one of the originators of the Great Dickens Christmas Faire, Kevin Patterson. In addition to our interview, SnapSessions! also presents the commentary “The Story of Human Population in My Lifetime—a Rollercoaster Ride for our Species!”

SnapSessions! presents Episode 38, featuring an interview with our artist of the show-- electronics whiz, musician, linguist and fix it man extraordinaire—Francis Rutherford. 

SnapSessions! presents Episode 37, featuring an interview with our artist of the show--chef, culinary director author, and entrepreneur, Margaret Fox, as well as an article called “The Worst Day in America” comparing a negative day in this country with other possible days in other countries on our planet.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 36, a special tribute to legendary Mendocino artist and musician John Chamberlin, who would have turned 80 in September 2021. John Chamberlin was a unique character, from his arrival in Mendocino in the late 1960s until his passing in 2013. His posters, signs, and musical contributions to numerous bands were a huge influence on North Coast culture.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 35, featuring an interview with our artist/activist of the show, Vice Media Group investigative journalist Gabriel Geiger, as well as another SnapSessions! look at American voter suppression, this time in comparison to other democracies.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 34, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White, as well as a salute to the storied 1980s Canadian comedy troupe SCTV--”The Power of Silly, a Tribute to SCTV”.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 33, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, actor/writer/director Dan O'Connor of Impro Theatre of LA, as well as an audio exposé--“The Strange History of Vaccination--from Medieval India to QAnon Misinformation”.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 32, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, actor/singer/director Velina Brown of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, as well as a sardonic look at the history of the senate filibuster--”Filibusters, Budget Reconciliations and Gasbags”.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 31, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, writer/actor/director Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, as well as a satirical analysis of the Texas energy crisis featuring Tex Shitter, the Texan from Exxon, and an article “Jamie Raskin and the House Impeachment Managers Present Their Case”. 

SnapSessions! presents Episode 30, featuring an interview with actress/writer/improviser, Edi Patterson as well as Doug Nunn’s Road to Publication (the story of his journey to publish his book--Jolly Old Elf--the Art of Santa H. Claus), and a salute to the classic science fiction film--The Day the Earth Stood Still.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 29, featuring an interview with artist/writer/teacher Caitlin Berrigan, a look at the fabulous life of scientist/explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and a tribute to 1930s cartoon starlet, Betty Boop!

SnapSessions! presents Episode 28, featuring an interview with environmental scientist and member of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Evan Mills, as well as a salute to Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, just maybe the greatest Whistleblower of all time!

SnapSessions! presents Episode 27, a special episode, where SnapSessions shares a recent discovery, a vanished piece of folk music history, a newly unearthed documentary featuring folk music historian, Cairn Krust and his late 1980s uncovering of a lost Irish traditional and very political band—The Irish Persons.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 26—Election 2020, Voices of Mendocino, a special installment of our podcast, featuring interviews with ten politically engaged people in California’s Mendocino County.

Episode 25 is 85 minutes long and includes an intro, the “Tribute to Weird Al Yankovic” (starts at 1:15), the article “Recycling Recycled” (starts at 19:00), as well as our interview with landscape architect, Steve Jowers (starts at 30:36).

SnapSessions! presents Episode 24, featuring an interview with British journalist and writer, Peter Chapman as well as “A Tribute to British character comic, Felix Dexter, and an article “Armchair Environmentalist” on the Climatic observations of SnapSessions! own Doug Nunn.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 23, featuring an interview with artist Bill Stoneham, as well as articles “The Doomsday Machine” and “A Tribute to Satirist Stan Freberg”.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 22, featuring an interview with caricaturist (Schnellzeichner)/Improviser/Filmmaker Daniel Stieglitz, as well as articles “An Ode to Python’s The Life of Brian” and “Voter Suppression in the USA”.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 21, devoting a full chapter to the Mendocino Film Festival of 2019! This year’s 2020 festival has been cancelled due to the Corona Crisis so we bring out our tribute, a full length look at last year’s festival, to the filmmakers, the administrators, the workers, and the fans that have made 14 years of the Mendocino Film Festival one of the premier little film shows around. 

SnapSessions! presents Episode 20, featuring an interview with organic farmers and land pioneers, Peter & Sheila Jowers, as well as articles “Corona and the Black Plague” and  “A Tribute to John Prine”. Corona and the Black Plague: 1:00 A Tribute to John Prine: 16:30 Peter and Shelia Jowers Interview: 27:47

SnapSessions presents a special Covid-19 episode, highlighting scary plague, disease, and related Zombie movies to watch during this period of “sheltering in place”. We know you, like the SnapSessions’ Bros., are looking for things to read, watch, and listen to. We hope to add our collection of scary movies to your list of things to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or wherever you go to be spooked.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 19, featuring an interview with maestro drummer/music teacher Ralph Humphrey as well as articles “Sometimes a Protester” and “Tom Lehrer, Satirist Extraordinaire”.  Humphrey talks about his long and storied musical career, starting as a clarinetist in a Dixieland Band called “The Derbies”, when he was still in high school and then his transition to percussion with a variety of jazz bands. Humphreys talks about his exposure to Indian rhythms and odd meters with Don Ellis and Cuban percussionist Chino Valdez, before he became a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention in the early 1970s. We learn about his career with Zappa and as a sessions musician in LA including working on cartoon shows like the Simpsons, The Animaniacs, and King of the Hill, and his days on “Dancing with the Stars” and “American Idol”. Finally Ralph tells us about his move into music education with the Los Angeles Music Academy and other schools where Ralph learned and then revamped the percussion curriculum. Episode 19 is 88 minutes long and includes an intro, Doug Nunn’s personal narrative in “My Life as a Protestor” (starts at 58 seconds), the tribute “Tom Lehrer, Satirist Extraordinaire”(starts at 16:45), as well as the interview with percussion star, Ralph Humphrey (starts at 29:37).  SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz. Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.  Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

SnapSessions! presents Episode 18, featuring an interview with the founders of Mendocino’s popular new vegetarian restaurant, The Fog Eater Café--Haley Samas Berry, Erica Schneider and Nathan Maxwell Cann, as well as a feature on mythical Baby Standup comic--”Schecky Infante”, and an article on “Drawdown” technologies to eliminate carbon and fossil fuels from our future.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 17, a special installment devoted entirely to an interview and selected comedy riffs from British comic and political activist, Mark Thomas. Thomas has been active as a comedian, satirist, and muck-raking journalist since the mid-1980s in the UK and beyond.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 16 featuring a holiday reboot of “Tchickclucksky’s The Nutclucker & Other Chicken Holiday Treats”, a 1995 production of Rothman’s HenHouse in association with Large Child Productions. 

SnapSessions! presents Episode 15, featuring an interview with textile & pattern designer/Fort Bragg City Councilwoman, Jessica Morsell-Haye, as well as the premiere of our audio play--”7 Days in the Mesozoic”, a dramatic representation of the last week of the Dinosaur imperium. 7 Days in the Mesozoic Segment: 1:00 Jessica Morsell-Haye Interview: 29:40

SnapSessions! presents Episode 14, featuring an interview with Brazilian novelist and short story writer, Carol Bensimon, as well as articles “Guns in the USA” and “Boyan Slat, Eco Warrior”. Guns in the USA Segment: 1:00 Boyan Slat, Eco Warrior Segment: 11:15 Carol Bensimon Interview: 21:43

SnapSessions! presents Episode 13, featuring an interview with multi-talented visual artist, James Maxwell, as well as an epic story—In the Shadow of the Mountain, chronicling a long drive from Cologne, Germany to Teheran, Iran in August 1974. Roger Miller Segment - :57 Isolde Fischer Segment - 15:00

SnapSessions! presents Episode 12 featuring an interview with German actress/improviser Isolde Fischer, as well as an ode to 1960s’ country music star, Roger Miller and an article on French Enlightenment writer, Denis Diderot. Roger Miller Segment - 1:00 Denis Diderot Segment - 9:55 Isolde Fischer Segment - 24:10

Written and Directed by: Doug Nunn Voice overs by: Doug Nunn, Ken Krauss. Executive Producer: Marshall Brown Original Music by: Marshall Brown iTunes:  itunes.apple.com/us/album/sit-and…onder/1454146529  Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1JGr2MJW4s…blQJiRSknRIuB1RA -------------------------------------- SnapSessions! presents Episode 11 featuring an interview with German filmmaker/improviser Stefan Hillebrand, a director and innovator in film improvisation, as well as segments on Climate Denialism and an ode to the “Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band”. Hillebrand talks about his childhood love of film, his introduction to improvisational theater and development as a performer, and then his work as a film director with Swiss director/editor Oliver Paulus. His long-time collaboration with the improv group, Dramalight and with his wife, German actress, Isolde Fischer is explored in detail. Don’t miss this fascinating look at contemporary German filmmaking, and at improvisation as a cinematic tool. Episode 11 is 63:45 minutes long and includes an intro, an article on Climate Denialism(starts 1:00), an homage to the British band—"The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band”(starts 12:38) and the interview with Stefan Hillebrand(starts 24:50) Transcript of Interview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9YUY-CPkDz1feEeRKbTbVl7nVgRNlUt/view?usp=sharing -------------------------------------- SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. The English overdub is done by Dan Sullivan. Here below are links to our SnapSessions! podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud, as well our Patreon link to support SnapSessions! SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn.  Here below are links to our SnapSessions! podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud, as well our Patreon link to support SnapSessions! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-sessions-podcast/id1448557553  https://open.spotify.com/show/3O4lxzoSM8mXtKKApJFR2U?si=YczNhJsJRnGM-NiC-bKplw  www.patreon.com/snapsessions Enjoy what you hear? Click here to become a patron! Contact Info: Website: thesnapsessions.com E-Mail: doug@thesnapsessions.com | marshall@thesnapsessions.com