Podcast appearances and mentions of sammy tamimi

This week, James and Rob are joined by CIN moderator Sammy Tamimi! They talk about the new landscape of Chicago comedy, the power of improv, the SC Directing Program, coaching, team work, and tornado sirens.    Follow Sammy on instagram @ sammytamimi and on twitter @ IAmChicagoSam   As always, please rate, review, and subscribe. 

This visitor to the confessional looks to complete the seven…Confessor: Sammy TamimiPriest: Padraic Connelly

Bobby, Geoff, and guest Sammy Tamimi discuss the pleasant surprise of a superhero movie that is "Logan." They also talk about other aging superheroes they'd like to see on film and the similarities between "Logan" and "Josh and S.A.M." Credits: Producers: Geoff George & Bobby Evers Intro music: "Elk Mountain," by Melkbelly

Last episode, SAMMY TAMIMI thought his week from hell was over...then spent 3 days in the Illinois Mason Intensive Care Unit over New Year's weekend. He shares everything that went down that weekend.   Ambulance ride for 1/6 of a mile!   ICU: What lovely pale cheeks I have!   ICU: the corner toilet taunts me   Fancy new wheel chairs! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! You can also listen to PopFury on Google Play Music!

The Conjuring can be rented on Amazon Prime or VUDU The Conjuring 2, however, is streaming freaking everywhere. We only talk about the first Conjuring this episode.

MMORPGs are a thing. A big thing. A thing big enough to give them their own episode with guest Sammy Tamimi, who shares with us his passion for all things World of Warcraft, except maybe the panda expansion. That was kind of silly. Thanks so much to our sponsors for the episode, Cards Against Humanity, and thanks of course to the Chicago Podcast Coop for making it all happen! And hey, check out the Nerds on Patreon!

PopFury host Sammy Tamimi and favorite guest Daniel Strauss tackle reader questions on the PopFury podcast finale. As always, thanks for listening. SHOW NOTES 0:00 Last INTRO ever 1:35 This is the last episode of PopFury. Sammy shares his download numbers. The most downloaded episode was the Steve Harvey episode with 2,343 downloads. The least downloaded was 33. Daniel “treats” Sammy with a Billy Corgin impression. 9:00 Daniel wonders why he’s here if none of the listener questions are for him 9:35 Listener Samuel Tyler asks why the show is ending. 11:15 DJ ENRG Erica Reid and actor Rebecca Hanson hope the show is ending for bigger and better reasons. Daniel did a podcast for, like, 10 minutes. 14:30 Talking Games co-host Kellen Terrett pitches a new podcast featuring Sammy. 16:20 Author and comedian Claire Linic wonders if it was something she said. 17:50 Ryan Ben, “owner” of the PopFury Podcast, asks what would Sammy’s ideal podcast be and if he’s grown closer with anyone.  22:20 Mary Beth Smith, host of the MBSing podcast, wants to know Sammy's thoughts on producing a podcast. 24:45 L.A. improvisor John Anderson asks what it's like to do a show in your boxers with him. Sammy uses the old-timey term, "toke up" 26:20 Remake Podcast host Rob Grabowski inquires what podcast would Sammy want to be on. 27:30 L.A. transplant Tim de la Motte thinks some guests were characters.  Sammy plugs Auphonic. 29:55 L.A. actor Lisa Linke asks if Sammy would do anything differently. Daniel plugs geocities.com/pcastfury 31:40 Tim Dunn, co-host of Talking Games, requests a preemptive review of Daredevil Season Three. Daniel delivers...and ruins it with a two-year old callback from the first episode. 37:35 Soon-to-be-L.A. improvisor Rich Sohn thinks he would have been a guest if the show had continued. 40:30 Alan Linic, coincidentally a co-author with his wife Claire Linic, wonders if Sammy has any advice for new podcasters. (Alan, here's a link with longer answers from a Reddit thread.)  Daniel quotes Kid Rock. 42:50 CHIRP radio DJ Bobby Evers wonders if he's the reason the show is ending. 43:25 Retiring Chicago improvisor Matt DiMarco asks about the Trump campaign possibly ending reality TV. 46:45 L.A. improvisor Molly Wilbanks Anderson, recently married improvisor Andy Junk, and Josiah Jenkins former host of the Remake Podcast do a bit. 48:00 Ashley Nicole Black, writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, wants to know if Sammy will marry her. Sammy gives her a brutally honest answer. 52:35 Please listen to our podcast friends at Rabbit Hole, Remake, An Hour with your Ex, Marty & Sarah Love Wrestling, MBSing, Pilot Co-Pilots, Scareblast, Space Lincoln & Talking Games. Sammy thanks listeners Adam Marier and Stephen Garvey.  55:00 The final outro 57:10 The PopFury theme song, Julandrew's "Get Back In Line" in full BONUS: I accidentally skipped a reader question during the episode, so here it is online: Q: Stand up comedian and writer Stephanie Weber, improvisor and podcaster Mel Evans, and Kyna Lenhof, co-host of comedy live-lit variety showcase This One Woman, all want to know: What is your next project? A: Honestly, while I have a few projects percolating in my noggin, I'm just gonna take it easy for a few months, do a few little low key improv shows and basically recharge my creative batteries. Whatever my next project is, I want to do it right and taking a break and just chilling out until I get that uncontrollable urge to create and produce again. I'm not sitting back and waiting for inspiration, I'm taking a step back until I have the wherewithal to properly follow through on previous inspirations. As always, thanks for listening. -Sammy

(Programming Note: Ryan Dolan wanted not only to guest on PopFury but to interview Sammy as well. In the spirit of Yes And, Sammy turned the entire podcast over to Ryan to do with as he wanted...and Ryan proudly presents, The GOAT Show)     The Greatest of All Time Podcast Hosts, RYAN DOLAN, interviews the Greatest of All Time Guests, SAMMY TAMIMI, on the Greatest of All Time Podcasts, The GOAT Show! THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME PODCAST HOST QUOTES: “Sammy, why did you waste your life on improv?” “We are the tellers of secrets. So you told no secrets, is that why your life is a failure?” “I’ve never cried on a Chicago bus before, let alone the 36 bus.” “Anyway, so back to your failure of an improv life...” “We’ll get to your career trajectory here in a little bit and see if you have a future or if maybe you need to move to a small town in Utah...” "If you’re not self-loathing and wondering about your existential place in this world...I don’t think you have the depth to be an artist.” “It’s a great book, it’ll make you feel better about yourself reading about all these people who committed suicide.” “So when was the first time you were thrown off a team at iO?” “A lot of big fat guys have succeeded in improv. What happened?” “You have done 150 of these podcasts. Why PopFury, why pop culture and why Chicago improvisors? I mean, seriously, why the last one?”   GREATEST OF ALL TIME SHOW NOTES, IMAGES AND LINKS: Greatest of All Time Hosts, Ryan Dolan Full quote from Ray Carney, a Boston University film teacher, in an article in MOVIEMAKER magazine called "The Path of the Artist." He wrote: "Never forget that to be an artist, above everything else, to be a truth-teller, one of the few left in a culture seized in a death grip by media-induced fictions and journalistic clichés. You speak secrets no one else dares to whisper. You exist to share your most private feelings and personal observations with others. They are where truth lies. Don’t be afraid of being too personal, too private. Your most secret fears, your private doubts and uncertainties are everyone’s … My teachers told me that filmmaking was about telling gripping stories. It took me years to realize that that’s not an ambitious enough goal. You can do much more than that. You can give viewers new eyes and ears. You can change their states of awareness so that they see, hear, care, and feel differently. Your work exists to express things too delicate, too fluttering, too multivalent to be said in any other way. You’re doing something much more radical than telling a story. You’re rewiring people’s nervous systems. You’re doing brain surgery. Art gives us more than new facts and ideas; it gives us new powers of perception. … You speak the most subtle language ever created—the language of art—a form of expression more nuanced than verbal language, more complex than a theorem in physics, truer than anything in the newspaper."   Website for the mercilessly maligned Chicago City Limits in NYC   Second City Detroit (Downtown)   iO Harold schedule from July 2000 iO Harold roster from July 2000...you found out if you made a team or were cut when you got a physical copy of the schedule.   A chintzy poster for the Garbage Hounds Harold team Ryan recommended Kay Redfield Jamison's book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament Archived Second City interview with the improv ensemble KOKO  Sammy refers to Abby Sher's book Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things) Please check the podcasts of Mark Colomb. You can find the archive of Poor Choices Podcasts HERE and his most recent show, An Hour With Your Ex, HERE. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this special episode of the PopFury Podcast AKA THE GOAT, please feel free to listen to our regular episodes! You can subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! You can also listen to PopFury on Google Play Music!

KAT GOTSICK and TIM CHIDESTER pull out their canes when we stroll down the memory lane of gosh-darned torknology like  VCRs, CDs & cassettes. We also talk about Kat's apartment fire, Whole Foods marketing to millenials and the Super Bowl half time show. SHOW NOTES 0:00 Intro 1:10 Kat thinks I record on tape. Kat and Tim rave Heat Vision and Jack and Lookwell. We fondly recall the days of VHS, CDs and cassingles. "Welcome to Sammy Tamimi's old timey podcast: TALKING 'BOUT TORKNOLOGY" 8:55 Samsung warning not to say personal information around their Smart TVs. 14:10 Sammy reveals a classic VHS tape he found in his building's basement. "Actually, in retrospect, I was pretty stupid--it was a big fire." 19:00 Kat Gotsick shares the story of her apartment fire and her current housing status. 34:30 The Wrigleyville McDonald's is closing. 38:35 Whole Foods is trying to appeal to millenials. "I need a quarter pound of basil..and a tramp stamp." 42:20 Sammy was confused by Coldplay's inclusion in the Super Bowl Halftime show. Kat and Tim fantasy book their ideal halftime shows. 51:15 We fantasize about our own Peyton Manning-like final career performances. 53:45 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Host of Popfury podcast, Sammy Tamimi, drops by to fill in the void that Josiah left and to talk about FRED CLAUS. Rob pitches a Soprano's episode, Sammy has a fun holiday mystery, and we both agree that the movie is not bad but could be better (Remakes begin at 38mins).   Check out PopFury Podcast (http://popfurypodcast.com/) on iTunes and Twitter @ popfurypodcast. And follow Sammy on twitter @ SammyTamimi

LOVABLE(?) LISA BURTON and MOLLY JONES take over the podcast and turn the hosting tables on Sammy! We talk about Sammy's improv past, the genesis of the PopFury podcast, the Twilight series, Jessica Jones, Hamilton, crying and Team Awful/Team Awesome. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Winter has arrived in Chicago. “You have to catch the snowflakes on your tongue. Are you an idiot? Do you not know how to Snow? C'mon!” 2:25 Lovable(?) Lisa Burton and Molly take over the podcast and interview Sammy. They ask about blowing his knee out onstage, test his rapping skills, his move to Chicago in 2000 and his improv origins. 12:15 We discuss the philosophy of “Other people's successes are not my failures.” Sammy discusses the origins, format and guests of PopFury Podcast. Sammy thanks Mark Colomb for pushing him to create it and Daniel Strauss for being his first guest. 21:44 Sammy was one of the names thanked in the book GURU by Jeff Griggs. He was forced to read the TWILIGHT books. Lovable(?) Lisa Burton thinks Sammy and Mel Evans met Robert Pattinson. “Not all of us are weak women like Sammy Tamimi.” 27:00 Sammy and Lovable(?) Lisa Burton are watching Netflix's JESSICA JONES. We analyze the appeal of the HAMILTON musical & Adele's new album 25. 36:25 Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are now dating. We reveal the last songs we cried to and our go to things when we're sad. Sammy recommends seeing the movie BROOKLYN. 43:45 Sammy admits it used to feel good to vent and be petty. Lovable(?) Lisa Burton explains the Team Awful/Team Awesome philosophy. We explore how relationships may change someone. 48:15 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher!

If there were an honor for "the last video game podcast to talk about E3," we'd claim that proudly. After last week's live episode, we're back to the regular schedule today with special guests Sean Rose and Sammy Tamimi to dissect all the E3 news we missed a couple weeks ago. Metal Gear! Final Fantasy! More!! Thanks to Basecamp for sponsoring today's episode and, as always, thanks to the Chicago Podcast Coop for being the very best. 

This week on An Hour With Your Ex we head north of uptown Chicago to lair of Arnie Niekamp and Sarah Maher to talk about Game of Thrones. We recorded hours before "Hardhome" and I promise you'll still have a good time. Since so much happened just a few hours later we had to bring someone on to follow up on "Hardhome." Sammy Tamimi from The Pop Fury Podcast stopped by to fill us in on White Walkers, Others, and Ice Dragons? A ton of Game of Thrones talk for you.Arnie is the host of "Hello from the Magic Tavern!" and a member of The Chicago Podcast Cooperative. If you like Piers Anthony or Terry Brooks you'll love his show. Our sponsor this week is Maxistentialism a new zine from Max Temkin one of the creators of Cards Against Humanity. Game of Thrones is on HBO which isn't TV. The Warriors are in overtime right now. Harrison Barnes drops a three! Hey guys thanks for listening. Please support our sponsor and our fellow podcasts. Rate us on iTunes. Sorry about all the selling.  

Sammy Tamimi from PopFury Podcast drops by to talk about the mystery comedy with multiple endings, Clue. Josiah is inspired by the board game, Rob is inspired by the film, and Sammy is inspired by the Go-Go's. Remakes begin at 47:00. Follow Sammy @SammyTamimi and PopFury @PopFuryPodcast on Twitter. And check out PopFury at http://popfury.libsyn.com

Every once in a while, dear listeners, it's fun to get nostalgic. This week, Tim, Clayton, and guest Sammy Tamimi take a serious look backwards to the things that got them into gaming way back when. From the Atari 2600 to... surprise... SNES RPGs, this episode contains some sweet SECRET ORIGINS. 

Sammy Tamimi stops by to talk about all things nerdy.  Have a great 4th of July everyone.

Arnie learns about the insanely popular on-line roleplaying game 'World of Warcraft' from his guests Sammy Tamimi and Chip Aucion.