Podcast appearances and mentions of kevin cookman

On this week's episode I'm joined by co-host Kevin Cookman and guest Madi Parsley to talk about the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley outside of Vitello's restaurant in Studio City in 2001.  ROBERT BLAKE DID THAT SHIT   follow us on social media: @allvalleypod on twitter, @allvalleyeverything on Instagram and email us at allvalleyeverything@gmail.com

This week were joined by return guest Kevin Cookman to talk about the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society, aka the Onion Church in North Hills!

ok wait wait, before you scroll past: this is somehow still a fun episode.i know, that sounds bad, and it might actually be bad, but it's true lmao ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

AMADEUS AMADEUS, ROCK ME ROCK ME ROCK ME

ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

THE HOTTIE MASTER-LIST: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PUQapFNDyczMEcxMW-H1MWYC0l6zqpuOfjU-y8Bx66w/edit?usp=sharing ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your jewelry purchase! Gorgeous! Beautiful! Antsy! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com

The best films of 2021, the hottest hotties of the year, and a personal grading of how we did last year. Wow! Self-reflection! THE HOTTIE MASTER-LIST: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PUQapFNDyczMEcxMW-H1MWYC0l6zqpuOfjU-y8Bx66w/edit?usp=sharing ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your jewelry purchase! Gorgeous! Beautiful! Antsy! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

PIZZZAAAAA ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Andrew Warren: https://twitter.com/ventura_blvd818s & Heartbreak: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/818s-and-heartbreak/id1549805653 Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya and Kev from Aya vs the Big Boys enter the pod to talk the biggest pop act in the world right now and a lil film by one of Noah's favorite guys ;)) Aya vs the big boys: https://aya-vs-the-big-boys.simplecast.com It's on the Links: https://linktr.ee/itsonthelist

IIIIII SHOULDA KNOWN BETTA WIT A GURL LIKE UUUUUUU

The episode all about Wes Anderson.... deep breath in ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

WOW

ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm  

ay ay ayy !!!ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm  

Sidney Lumet, prolific American cinema master whose catalogue spans the Golden Era to the 2000's auteur revitalization... And Aya has only ever seen THE WIZ.  The duo is joined by Film Twitter magnate Robert Franco to discuss all things Al Pacino, the masculinity of bank robbing, and the ethics of making Hollywood movies about real-life deadbeat losers. Also Rob casts himself as Spider-Man. ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Robert Franco: https://twitter.com/responsiblerob Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Join us as we solve gentrification!!! ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/ Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase!   Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmn Kevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman Contact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com   A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/ Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

ANTSY PRODUCTS: https://antsyproducts.com/Use code "BIGBOY" for 10% off your purchase! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

You know what it is, only the hippest Latinx film podcast on the Internet – Órale guey !!! Hot cheetos!! Ok, onto the show. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Hayley Bensmiller: https://hayleybensmiller.wixsite.com/media Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya and her friend Maddie hash out the latest in the MCU with LOKI (2021). Kevin is also occasionally present.

Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

This week we're joined by Kevin Cookman,(Merry-Go-Round Magazine, Aya Vs. the Big Boys podcast!)  to talk about one of the Valley's finest eating establishments, Nat's Early Bite! Also, Albert doesn't understand how a snake draft works. Classic.  Email the show 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @818heartbreak   

25 years of INDEPENDENCE DAY, 25 years of movies being ruined

Every single FAST AND FURIOUS movie. Every single one. Enjoy. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

AYA VS. THE BIG BOYS vs. MOMMY.... How Freudian! Closing out June's Pride programming double feature is Xavier Dolan's explosive, Tumblr-friendly MOMMY, one of the most discussed & adored films of the 2010s.... Until it suddenly became one of the decade's forgotten smash hits. Huh? How'd that happen? Young men making movies in their 20s, MOMMY's huge year amongst film bros and subsequent burial from the critical consciousness, and Dolan's bizarre choice to inject dystopian sci-fi in a domestic drama. Also, the duo answers once and for all: why is Xavier Dolan in IT: CHAPTER TWO?Your speakers are fine, Aya has just become an NPR Andy. Who is Aya hiding from? Is there someone in the house? Aya?..... AYA??? Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm  

Camp. CRUELLA. Crap. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Kevin asks his mom about raising a boy in a world designed to break their brains, and instead she reviews DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR, Guy Ritchie's WRATH OF MAN, MEET JOE BLACK, John Waters' CRY BABY & NOMADLAND. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman Contact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Steps toward being productive! https://tinyurl.com/unhousedla/https://www.waterdropla.org/The Oscars Regain Their Goodwill, And Then Immediately Squander All of It: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/the-oscars-regain-their-goodwill-and-then-immediately-squander-all-of-it/CheapRVliving: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAj7O3LCDbkIR54hAn6Zz7A Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Steps toward being productive! https://tinyurl.com/unhousedla/https://www.waterdropla.org/ This is it.... The end of A(24)PRIL, and a deep dive into one of the looming cult classics of the coming decade, David Robert Mitchell's polarizing UNDER THE SILVER LAKE. Comedian, writer, and New York Times minted journalist Maddie Connors joins the show to talk INHERENT VICE, neoliberal monocultures, Andrew Garfield's queerbaiting, and working through having crushes on skater boys with your therapist: there's a full spectrum of hate, light enjoyment, and  pure love in this episode. We told you it's a polarizing movie. Maddie Connors: https://twitter.com/personallyrich Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

A.E. Hodge: https://twitter.com/ae_hodge Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Pop back a blackpill with a short glass of Pepto, it's FIRST REFORMED time. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Aya follows her lust for Ben Affleck and dips her toes into her very first Kevin Smith film with CHASING AMY, a truly demented combo of warped queer theory, Miramax leveraging, and a director telling you he's learned his lesson while very clearly not learning anything. Kevin Smith got GOOD WILL HUNTING made? This movie is about WHO?? Jason Lee is a Scientologist???plus reactions to FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER and an end-of-episode announcement for our next mini-series.... Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Look, just.... It's the Snyder Cut episode. Aya didn't even finish ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE! Flame her!! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Kevin and Aya watched a 6-hour long Marvel movie, and, yknow what: Scorsese's being too nice lmao. American authoritarianism in the MCU ("You see, the difference between you and me is that you did this on purpose" jesus christ), appointment television, grief as window-dressing, and the logic of Scarlet Witch and The Vision settling down in... NEW JERSEY??? please stop turning Marvel movies into Big Boys so we can stop watching them. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookmanContact/Mailbag: ayavsthebigboys@gmail.com A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

To wash down the icky sticky sentimentality of Valentine's Day, the dynamic duo dances the tango with an all-timer 80s action duo: Murtaugh and Riggs. It's your estranged uncle's all-time favorite movie, and probably airing somewhere on cable as we speak, it's Richard Donner and Shane Black's LETHAL WEAPON. That's right.... It's an episode where Mr. Mel Gibson is discussed. Instantly cursed! The truth is, LETHAL WEAPON is just not that interesting of a movie: it gets the job done, but its most intriguing aspects are sanded down to their most sellable features. Instead, Aya & Kevin talk about Martin Scorsese's latest essay on art vs. content, Tina Fey's abominable whiteness, Shane Black's career, and if watching movies by cancelled filmmakers should make you feel icky. Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there! On this special, extra isolated fake holiday, Aya and Kevin are joined by Merry-Go-Round Magazine contributor Amanda Ball to discuss one of the most highly esteemed film trilogies ever made: THE BEFORE TRILOGY.  Three feature-length films of some of the purest love ever depicted in cinema – and probably what inspired that one weirdo on the Metro to try and ask you about what book you were reading. It's the most films ever discussed on a mainline episode, and, as it turns out, these movies that can be distilled down into "two people talk for like 90 minutes" are actually some of the densest films the duo has ever faced off against. Just how annoying is Jesse in BEFORE SUNRISE? Is BEFORE SUNSET like TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN? At the end of almost two decades of projecting onto them, do we really want Celine and Jesse to fight BEFORE MIDNIGHT? Most importantly, why do the French suck ass? Amanda Ball: https://twitter.com/aamanda_bee Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

On this mega-cursed Super B*wl weekend, we don't care about no stinkin' big game, we want the biggest freakin' boy you got, and folks... We got him: James Cameron's 1991 epic, perhaps the greatest sequel of all time, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, discussed alongside Los Angeles activist Albert Corado.Is TERMINATOR 2 the greatest action film ever made? Is it one of the best L.A. films ever made? Is James Cameron toying with anti-cop sentiments for the aesthetic, or is homeboy legitimately ACAB? Albert Corado: https://twitter.com/digitalurnAL FOR LA: https://www.alforla.com/818s & Heartbreak: a san fernando valley show: https://twitter.com/818heartbreak Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Sundance 2021 is dominating their lives, so, yes,  Aya and Kevin are fashionably late with a look back on one of the most fabled Sundance premieres in recent memory, Rick Alverson's THE COMEDY, one of the most booed and walked-out-of movies in the event's history.Joined by Jackie Quinn,  the team discusses anti-comedy & disillusionment in the 2010s, how much it sucks that Lena Dunham made a great TV show, and sweet Park City memories from Sundances' pasts. Jackie Quinn:  https://twitter.com/llcooljackie Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

We'll be honest: we 100% expected the United States to be in complete flames post-Inauguration (reality: it was super boring), so in anticipation of massive bloodshed, Aya and Kevin decided to spend their final moments alive pounding beers and watching ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. And why not dude, it's a Power Hour, too, sure, welcome to the BATTLE ANGEL POWER HOUR. Aya and Kevin get plowed to smithereens by the secretly perfect 2019 cult classic, exploring the coziness & perversions of anime, Rosa Salazar's incredible earnestness, and the surprising similarities to Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE. ALITA HIVE RISE UP !!! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

As far as years go, we can collectively agree that 2020 was the ugliest piece of shit of them all. Not only did everything go poorly, but the movies? Not even good! Kevin & Aya waded through the muck to present their top 3 films of 2020, the rare gems in a field of shit, handing out trophies for their esteemed Bronze Boy, sacred Silver Boy, and the coveted Golden Boy: the best film of the year. The duo vibe checks the past 8 months of AYA VS. THE BIG BOYS, determine the hottest of the 30 flicks they've covered so far, and set their sights on what they think is the definitive Big Boy of 2020. Merry-Go-Round Magazine's 20 Films For 2020: https://bit.ly/38ODxk3 Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmn Kevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman   A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast:https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/ Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!:https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Ladies, germs, and enbies, the day is upon us: sweet, sweet MANK day. Have you MANK'd? Aya and Kevin MANK'd their MANKs so hard.Aya's favorite director dropped a new big boy, a biopic of a B-tier Hollywood director's screenwriter brother written by Fincher's late father decades ago, so the duo dives head-first into The Great Depression to figure out exactly why David Fincher made this weirdo, pain-stakingly crafted exploration of the purpose of cinema beyond held-over sentimental feelings. Or, maybe, that's all the reason you need to make a movie.There's discussion of William Randolph Hearst's sinister wealth, the uselessness of Gary Oldman, the modern function of D.W. Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION, and nonstop adulating praise for Miss Amanda Seyfried.Should you MANK your MANK? You'll have to listen to find out! Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Alright, alright.... Wait for it... Alright. In the wake of the 60-years-long 2020 election, Aya and Kevin retreat to an all-timer big boy comfort watch in Richard Linklater's seminal 1993 cult classic, DAZED AND CONFUSED. Kevin finds this humanist masterpiece way more melancholic than he remembered, while Aya couldn't stop clawing her eyes out as a Texan baseball jock directed a self-indulgent auto-biographical circle jerk about the other uninteresting men he went to high school with.Do "hangout movies" still work if you actually have friends?  Have men ever made a story worth sharing? What ever happened to Michelle Burke? Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/ Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Say it together now: MY WIFE!! Tackling one of the most influential comedies of the 21st century (and its Amazon Prime sequel), Aya and Kevin decided to format this episode to be as personally excruciating as possible: a discussion of BORAT pre-election and a review of BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM recorded post-election. What a colossally dumb idea.The duo face down the fall of Rome and invite special guest Julia [LAST NAME REDACTED] to discuss her sexual attraction to Borat. Look, it's 2020, lay off.Did BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM's aims to fix America work? Is Sacha Baron Cohen just an enabled theater kid? 14 years later, is this character still even funny?? Aya Lehman: https://twitter.com/ayalhmnKevin Cookman: https://twitter.com/KevinCookman A Merry-Go-Round Magazine Podcast: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/ Support Merry-Go-Round Magazine!: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm 

Resident Rom-Com queen Aya Lehman goes through the heavy-hitters of "bro cinema" with our very own Big Boy, Kevin Cookman. This week, we present the pilot episode, a discussion on 1999's FIGHT CLUB. 

In our new podcast series, resident Rom-Com queen Aya Lehman goes through the heavy-hitters of "bro cinema" with our very own Big Boy, Kevin Cookman. This week, we present the first episode, a discussion on 1999's FIGHT CLUB. All subsequent episodes will be available exclusively on the Merry-Go-Round Patreon, be sure to subscribe for more content. https://www.patreon.com/mgrm The song at the end of this episode was recorded and performed by our editor in chief, Thomas Seraydarian.

In a surprising and historic Oscars, Merry-Go-Round darling Bong Joon-ho swept the ceremony in ways none of us were really prepared for. Sergio Zaciu and Kevin Cookman break down how Bong managed to crush the awards this year, and highlight how strange it was to have so many exciting wins at such a lackluster awards show.

As movie theaters become more and more expensive, it's difficult for the average person to even make it out more than once or twice a year. Even for devoted fans, it's becoming increasingly difficult to justify turning out to the theater as often as we like, or maybe more importantly as often as we think we should. In this winding conversation, Carter goes deep into what film culture might look like in our uncertain future with Kevin Cookman and Chris Bell. The Vulture article on Disney's practices clamping down on their newly acquired Fox properties can be found here: https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html Check out Chris' own movie podcast: Facebook.com/indiebeatmovies Kevin can be found on Twitter @KevinCookman You can also read his excellent review of Jojo Rabbit here: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/jojo-rabbit-sure-loves-nazis/ You can support Merry-Go-Round on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm

Carter is joined by Aya Lehman, Kevin Cookman, and Joseph Simpson to dissect everyone's favorite rollicking summer romp reinterpreting Stephenie Meyer, MIDSOMMAR! They attempt to breakdown why the film has been so polarizing and what we can expect next from Aster. Read Kevin's review of MIDSOMMAR here: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/gud-music-cruel-sommar-midsommar-rips/ Read Sergio's fun interpretation of the movie here: https://letterboxd.com/immigrantfilm/film/midsommar/ Like Aya's tweet comparing Midsommar to a Nancy Meyer story: https://twitter.com/ayalhmn/status/1147917000422723590

This week, it's time for something a little different: The show takes on a power hour! That's right, Kate and CJ are recklessly joined by contributors Adam Cash and Kevin Cookman to do a shot of PBR every minute for an hour while discussing the new fall lineups for The CW, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox! What is up with that Batwoman mask! Is Walton Goggins a conventionally hot middle aged man? HOW MANY RIPOFFS OF SCHITT'S CREEK DO WE NEED!? Tune in to find out how many of these questions are answered as the gang gets increasingly drunker discussing a whopping 22(!) TV previews! YouTube Playlist of All 22 Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNiCqaeSrx4&list=PLLX_XDzmpmKbMTXbOIQYUwCzg5gT2KmoL

It finally happened, for better or for worse, Game of Thrones has lived out its final days. With much groaning and yelling, TV editor Kate Brogden, contributors Kevin Cookman and Dan Blomquist, and Carter all attempt to answer the fundamental questions about this staggering television phenomenon: Was it all worth it? Was it good? You can read Sergio Zaciu's personal take on Game of Thrones here: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/game-of-thrones-an-obituary/ Dan's Game of Thrones podcast can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Bm5v0gxVEj7HvSJEYpR2w?si=cvHDJXe0SaGikzGgDdpCJQ&fbclid=IwAR1wdXPsm-anr3PPnYeka_guk1erV7EyUrzV_Te6FP2VF5RLZw9JIn-w4qk Support us on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mgrm

We were lucky enough to be granted press passes to South by Southwest this year and sent our contributors Kevin Cookman and Alec Larios to provide on-the-ground coverage! They've watched a ton of movies together, turned in some great reviews, and very clearly had an excellent time. Kevin's review of US: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/jordan-peele-points-fingers-us/ Alec's review of BEACH BUM: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/the-beach-bum-surfs-over-viewers-heads/

This year we were lucky enough to send two of our contributors, Aya Lehman and Kevin Cookman, to Sundance 2019! They go over what they loved and hated from the festival: we've got VELVET BUZZSAW, we've got THE FAREWELL, we've got Zac Effron's gap-tooth, we've got Armie Hammer really going for it, everything you could ask for.

Lessons from Those Experiencing Homelessness with Kevin Cookman – 10-17-15 | Mind Body Spirit Living We have all seen or walked past individuals who are homeless or living on the streets.  It is common to feel compassion for their situation, and to wonder what life circumstances brought them to this place.  But have you ever considered what there might be for us to learn about ourselves from the homeless?  Our guest this week works closely with the homeless population in his town and will share what he has learned about himself, and what there is for us to learn, from these individuals. Kevin Cookman is currently living and working in Racine, WI USA where he is the Executive Director of the Homeless Assistance Leadership Organization (HALO) a program to help individuals and families experiencing homelessness resolve the issues that lead to their becoming homeless.  Kevin is also the President of A Full Life, Inc. and a Trustee for A Full Life (UK Trust) an organization creating financially self-sustaining transition homes for adult orphans in developing countries. Kevin ‘s past career adventures include being the Managing Director of The Chalfont Project, and the Regional Director of the Knowledge and Innovation Management Professional Society (KMPro) in Europe, based in London.  Before that Kevin spent two years as the Vice-President of Program Management for marchFIRST Europe, based in their London office. From 1992 to 2000 Kevin was based in Shanghai, PR China.  In 1992 he founded and became General Manager of the Shanghai In Dex Computer Company.  The company was sold in 1998 with three offices in Shanghai, Bejing and Guangzhou and 250 employees.  The buyer, Zhaodaola Internet services required Kevin to stay on for two years as their Chief Operating Officer as part of the transfer. Previous to his overseas adventures Kevin had worked for Intel as their technical liaison to GE Medical Systems, Marquette Electronics and Quad Graphics in Wisconsin. Kevin has an MBA from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. For more information about HALO (Homeless Assistance Leadership Organization), go to www.haloinc.org.