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We welcome the author of the Charles Schulz biography Good Grief, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, to the show. Rheta discusses working on the book, discovering the real Little Red-Haired Girl, and watching Schulz create the strip. Then, the gang analyses Rheta's favorite Peanuts strips. Plus: She tells the harrowing story of the attempted kidnapping of Jeannie Schulz! Rheta's books are available at the University of Georgia Press - ugapress.org Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz is available on Amazon Transcript available at UnpackingPeanuts.com Unpacking Peanuts is copyright Jimmy Gownley, Michael Cohen, Harold Buchholz, and Liz Sumner. Produced and edited by Liz Sumner. Music by Michael Cohen. Additional voiceover by Aziza Shukralla Clark. For more from the show follow @unpackpeanuts on Instagram and Threads, and @unpackingpeanuts on Facebook, Blue Sky, and YouTube. For more about Jimmy, Michael, and Harold, visit unpackingpeanuts.com. Thanks for listening.
With his amazing new book, FEH: A Memoir (Riverside Books), Shalom Auslander explores how the judgmental disgust of FEH infected his life, and what it meant to get sick & tired of the disgust and outrage FEH-stival and look for a way out. We talk about the sense of shame, disgust and self-loathing at the core of our common story, why every bookstore should be called, 'You Suck', his friendship with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and how they bonded over FEH, and how hard he's worked to find the un-FEH for his kids. We get into how story is our operating system (but what happens when there are bugs in the OS?), how the FEH machine came after his psychiatrist, the notion of misotheism, and his video series UNGODLY where he reads the Bible and asks, 'What if God is the antagonist?'. We also discuss his ultra-orthodox upbringing, how "Jewish heritage" has been subsumed by Holocaust memorials, his antipathy toward the pop-culture Anne Frank and how he rewrote her for HOPE: A Tragedy, his time in the advertising industry and how it led to his TV show Happyish, his bleak Peanuts parody strip that got Jeannie Schulz's approval, the neurological condition where blind people believe they can see and how it parallels our existential state of FEH, the realization that cynicism doesn't mean you're smart (just lazy), and a lot more. Subscribe to Shalom's Substack • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter
Unpacking Peanuts has been blessed with a plethora (a plethora, I say!) of amazing guests. Hop into the Unpacking Peanuts Time Machine as we revisit our time with Jeannie Schulz, William Pepper, Joel Hodgson, Benjamin Clark, Alexis Fajardo, Ivan Brunetti, Will and Kevin Hines and more! Plus: Remember that one Family Ties when… Original Episodes released: Alexis Fajardo from 4/12/22 William Pepper from 7/12/22 Todd Webb from 8/23/22 Duncan Watson & Melanie Kohn 9/27/22 Will and Kevin Hines from 11/29/22 Stephen Lind from 12/6/22 Benjamin Clark from 1/17/23 Joel Hodgson from 4/18/23 Mark Crilley from 5/23/23 Ivan Brunetti from 8/15/23 Jean Schulz from 1/9/24 Gary Groth from 2/6/24 Unpacking Peanuts is copyright Jimmy Gownley, Michael Cohen, and Harold Buchholz. Produced and edited by Liz Sumner. Music by Michael Cohen. Additional voiceover by Aziza Shukralla Clark. For more from the show follow @unpackpeanuts on Instagram and Threads, and @unpackingpeanuts on Facebook, Blue Sky, and YouTube. For more about Jimmy, Michael, and Harold, visit unpackingpeanuts.com. Thanks for listening.
We are thrilled to have as our special guest, Jeannie Schulz! Joining her is Schulz Museum Curator Benjamin Clark. Mrs. Schulz shares with us memories of her husband including the origin of “Sweet Babboo,” and we read some strips that Jeannie says give insight into Schulz's personal sense of humor. PLUS: I was “just” the co-pilot. Transcript available at UnpackingPeanuts.com Unpacking Peanuts is copyright Jimmy Gownley, Michael Cohen, and Harold Buchholz. Produced and edited by Liz Sumner. Music by Michael Cohen. Additional voiceover by Aziza Shukralla Clark. For more from the show follow @unpackpeanuts on Instagram and Threads, and @unpackingpeanuts on Facebook, Blue Sky, and YouTube. For more about Jimmy, Michael, and Harold, visit unpackingpeanuts.com. Thanks for listening.
Mark welcomes in Jeannie Schulz, widow of Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts cartoon. They discuss the tradition that is with the annual airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and the surrounding sense of wholesomeness that seems somewhat lost in today's world. Also, Scott McEwen opines on Martha McSally being appointed to finish out John McCain's Senate term, Michael Flynn's sentence postponement, and the allegations/investigations into now former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.
Mark welcomes Jeannie Schulz - widow of Charles Schulz - to promote the Charlie Brown Christmas television special and how it's still running strong. Also, AM 760 Business Editor Bill Holland provides some analysis on the DOW hitting 24,000 and still going strong. Finally, Bill Gertz from the Washington Times and Washigton Free Beacon discusses the latest updates involving North Korea and its latest missile tests.
HIGHLIGHTS of the hour - Jeannie Schulz and Mark's mom for The Mark Larson Show Christmas Eve-Eve Extravaganza! - Mark and producer Noah continue their Christmas Eve-Eve Extravaganza! They play a few Christmas classics and get ready for the big day this weekend. – Mark calls Inga his mom, and sees what’s going on back in Illinois! - Mark visits once more an interview he gave to widow Jeannie Schulz from years past.
"Charlie Brown Christmas: Behind the Scenes"....with Jeannie Schulz and Lee Mendelson!
HIGHLIGHT of the hour - "Charlie Brown Christmas: Behind the Scenes".... Guests this hour include - Marty Schneider (The Retirement Professor), and Ken Blanchard (Leadership expert). - Janet Napolitano is now the head of the University of California system. – Mark talks about the need for law and order, and border security (from Napolitano comments). – Marty Schneider talks with Mark about the DOW being WAY UP after the election of Donald Trump as President. Also, the social security debate, and withdrawing early – what are the penalties, while still working. – Mark talks with Jeannie Schulz and Lee Mendelson "Charlie Brown Christmas: Behind the Scenes" . – Mark talks with Ken Blanchard about certain people having bad days, and not parking everything on that bad day. Mark and Ken talk about giving to needs of others on a regular basis. The Mark Larson Show - mornings 6-9 on AM 1170 "The Answer".
Today's Guest: Hilary Price, cartoonist, "Rhymes with Orange" "Rhymes With Orange" daily comic strip by Hilary Price (MARCH 2010) Things I learned about “Rhymes With Orange” syndicated cartoonist Hilary Price by reading her blog: • She wears a size 40 shoe—by Euro measures. • She went to Cuba with several cartoonists recently. The trip was organized by Jeannie Schulz, widow of “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles Schulz. • While she was gone that week, rather than work ahead on her daily strip, she asked Mo Willems to fill in. • She has a fluffy white cat named Seltzer. • Every November, she opens her Florence, Massachusetts studio to the public. HILARY PRICE AUDIO EXCERPT: "Plush toys! You can have a plush toy of Snoopy. There's going to be no 'Rhymes With Orange' plush toy unless I come up with a character. So darn it!" What I didn’t need her blog to tell me about Price: she is a huge favorite of professional cartoonists and is probably better known among them than the general public. She is esteemed for her humor and style. Hilary Price Daily Comic • Blog • Wikipedia • Twitter • Order Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy: Eleven Rhymes With Orange Books in One from Amazon.com Order 'Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy: Eleven Rhymes with Orange Books in One' by Hilary Price, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Order Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (2nd Edition) by Bob Andelman, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!
Guest this hour - Jeannie Schulz (wife of Charles *Chuck* Schulz) Today we mourn--er...celebrate the passing very shortly of the Norv Turner LEGACY with the San Diego Chargers. Also from years past, Mark sits down with Jeannie Schulz, to talk *Peanuts* and jolly well done for her husband *Chuck* who brought these delightful characters and stories to animated life. Plus the fiscal cliff is drawing nearer - Is there a looming deal, or is America going over? Who's to blame? CLICK and LISTEN to The Friday edition of The Mark Larson Show to find out!
GOP caves into President Obama on a payroll tax deal. Mark is joined by Jeannie Schulz; widow of Peanuts creator Chuck Schulz, to talk about the history of Peanuts.
This hour Congressman Brian Bilbray pulls up a seat at the Larson Show and Obama's Speech to the children - MORE ANALYSIS! And what a treat to have Widow of "Charles" Schulz, Jeannie Schulz on the show to hype the event for the Schulz museum/ with the Air and Space Museum! Get your pianos ready and click to LIVE and LOCAL San Diego radio with Mark Larson on KCBQ!